The beauty of expertise

Manuel Ramos is a global treasure, a violinist who has played around the world and has been a treasure in the St Louis Symphony Orchestra for many years. Lucky us here in Missouri; I love going to performances where I get to witness expertise taken to a new height. I felt additionally fortunate when the
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Fabulous ways to spend your time

I love adventure and love risk — calculated risk, that is. Growing up in Chicago, I am a lifelong lover of Lake Michigan and everything related the water. A walk on the beach or just sitting and looking at the water always calms me and give me an opportunity for a fresh perspective. Sailing has
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The body responds to tension

When you investigate the literature about stress, you will read about how there is good and not so good stress but that life itself has stress, it is a natural. The changing environment, even if we love the seasons in the Midwestern region in the U.S., show clearly that those changes are still stressful and
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Building your inner strength

Each and every day we are presented with challenges. The quality of our life is not contingent upon what comes to us but it is based upon how we handle what we are dealt to deal with. Stop and think about what you have the ability to do — you have a strong mind, you

Your Brain Power: Important Steps To Take Today

Build The Strength Within — the idea came to me as I witnessed my own struggle with tragedy and dramatic sorrow and knew that I had to find a way to take hold of my mind and salvage my own sanity and spirit. Every single day there are events that take us off on a

You want your best life?

I do. I begin by giving thanks every single day for what I have and it includes: the ability to see; to hear; to smell; to feel; to move; and to do so without assistance of machinery or paid helpers or loved ones who have elected to pitch in as care providers. Although I am
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Help, I have fallen…

Famous lines from a commercial that most of us have heard. Right? The strangeness of it is that we have been falling down our entire life — we began as toddlers, it is something we have learned to manage so that we don’t get hurt. However, as we move through the decades of our life,
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Happiness and Success

It takes courage to execute your vision and it takes stamina alongside a belief in your vision in order to make something happen. When efforts meets with success, happiness enters the picture.

Successful

Google the word and there are 433,000,000 results for you to review. The opening one defines the concept for us as follows — thank you Google. suc·cess·ful /səkˈsesfəl/ Adjective Accomplishing an aim or purpose: “a successful attack on the town”. Having achieved popularity, profit, or distinction. Synonyms prosperous – lucky – fortunateThe questions is however

People who model success — are you one?

I did an informal poll of people I encountered last week, asking them —                                                  Do you expect success in your life? The results are as mixed as people’s beliefs. 65% told me that they do indeed expect success in everything they
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