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Saturday
Dec212013

On Vacation? Teach Your Children Well

http://blog.bestvacationsever.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Family-beach-summer-vacation-0412.jpgIf you give a child a fish, you feed them for a day;
if you teach a child to fish, you feed them for a lifetime;
but if you teach a child to learn, you feed them for a lifetime
and they don’t have to just eat fish.
- Tim Gallwey, creator of the Inner Game series

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Wednesday
Dec112013

Overcoming Holiday Shyness

http://journeyagainstshyness.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/shybaby.jpg"How did you FEEL?"

"What did you THINK?"

"What did you DO?"

I am a Role Specific Extrovert. That means that when the occasion calls for me to be “out there” I strap on some courage and give it my best shot, but it doesn’t come naturally.

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Sunday
Dec082013

How to Ask for a Raise

http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/images/i/000/002/779/i235/pay-raise-main.jpgShow Me the Money

How to Ask for a Raise

(click twice slowly on image below for enlarged view)

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Thursday
Nov282013

How to Turn Disappointment into Giving Thanks

http://takingtheworldonwithasmile.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/thankful.jpg?w=595&h=595Disappointment is merely an unmet expectation,
it’s only when you imbue it with negative meanings that it becomes painful

World English Dictionary

dys-

-        prefix

  1. diseased, abnormal, or faulty: dysentery; dyslexia
  2. difficult or painful: dysuria, dysthymia
  3. unfavorable or bad: dylogistic

[via Latin from Greek dus- ]

How many people do you know that handle disappointment well?

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Tuesday
Nov262013

Stuff Your Turkey With Giving Thanks

http://blogs.law.nyu.edu/docket/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Thanksgiving-Dinner-2013.jpgWhy settle for giving a "thank you" when you can give a POWER THANK YOU*?

Make giving thanks the center piece of your Thanksgiving by having each person give a Power Thank You. It has 3 parts:

Part 1: Thank someone for something specific they did for you (it can also be something they refrained from doing that would have hurt you).

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Saturday
Nov232013

Entrepreneur vs. Homemaker - Pillow Talk

Pillow Talk

Entrepreneur Spouse: What’s wrong now?

Homemaker Spouse: Nothing.

ES: Why are you in such a sh-ty mood?

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Tuesday
Nov122013

Human Cooling, Global Warming and Childhood Obesity

http://wellness.nysbs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Obesity-in-Children-childhood-obesity-problems.jpgBring back that lovin' feeling! - The Righteous Brothers

Are we getting even with an unloving world by taking from Mother Nature and then eating poorly?

Tell me I'm wrong about these twenty two observations:

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Saturday
Nov092013

Making Affordable Care Doable

Preventing Obama’s Bay of Pigs – Part 1 - From Resistant to Doing to Listening

JFK: What did we do wrong? How did we screw up?
Eisenhower: What you wanted to do wasn’t wrong, but you didn’t have a process.

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