Wrap your mind around it

The phrase is so descriptive — wrap your mind around it. We do indeed need to completely embrace something if we are to deal with it effectively. If we do not, it is impossible, like a fruit fly you are trying to swat, it just moves away swiftly. The mind and the heart must work

Manage your stress and spread happiness

Wringing your hands won’t do you much in the way of anything productive, we all actually know this. I think it is an old habit someone started when they wanted to hold the hand of a loved one but no one was there. It might have started as a way to provide a bit of
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Think nothing?

Can you take time off from your brain being in high gear and allow it time to relax a bit or do you need to be running and engaged at every moment? There is a risk in believing that you need to maintain a high gear consistently — exhaustion. Our brain is just like every

Build upon your inner strength

Happiness comes in all sorts of packages but there is one package that never changes — YOU. The real trick is to be primed for happiness and to be intentional about it. How does that happen? It is not about smiling all the time and denying your feelings — quite the opposite. It is about
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Labor Day 2013

What an interesting concept — to honor the labor of others. Straight from Wikipedia, here is what we learn: “In the United States, Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute
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That moment of sheer terror

It was not quite dawn, still dark outside and also dark within my house. I was awake enough to know I wanted to get rid of that morning mouth feeling so I ambled over to the toothbrush and paste. Innocently proceeding, I somehow rubbed bristles the wrong way and splashed toothpaste into my eye. Oh
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Dealing with difficult people

When it comes to the topic of stress and daily hassles, there is always a focus on difficult people with the question being — how can I deal effectively with these awful individuals? People can drive you nuts, right? Rarely does anyone request assistance with becoming less of a difficult person. Where are these difficult
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The reach for excellence

What is it, that thing referred to as excellence? Is it when you simply do your best, regardless of the outcome? Is it an unreachable completely out of the realm goal that we cannot ever achieve? How you answer these questions is revealing. Our mind never lies, the first instinctive thought that runs through our
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When Kids Go Wrong

Whenever a story hits the news about some kid, some adolescent, some young adult who has gone on a killing spree, there is a crowd of people asking — how is this possible? People talk about how that individual was so quiet and reserved and never seemed to bother anybody. These statements are made as
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