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How to Have Healthy Relationships

September 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment

By Eduard Ezeanu – Your relationships can be a very fulfilling part of your life. This is however, only the pure potential. It doesn’t mean that they necessarily will be. I believe the degree to which your relationships are fulfilling depends on the degree to which they are psychologically healthy. In my experience as a communication coach, healthy relationships don’t usually happen accidentally. They require active work and following a set of principles in order to exist. It is by putting in the work and applying these principles that you get to have psychologically mature relationships. I... [Read the full story]

Happiness

Relationships – What’s Love Got to Do With It?

July 11, 2010 · 1 Comment

By Irene Conlan - Forming relationships has complexities that we rarely stop to think about especially relationships of the romantic kind. We meet someone. We form our first impressions. It may or not be a mutual attraction. Whether it is or is not, the next step is to get better acquainted and we do that with with all our senses – seeing what we like is generally the first block of input. We hear and make judgments based on the voice – tone, quality, volume – is it pleasant or unpleasant? We touch, and yes, we even taste when those delicious kisses come into play. We notice... [Read the full story]

Self Improvement

Daily Quote – Relationships

September 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something. They’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. - Anthony Robbins Read More →

Stress

Slow down

July 16, 2010 · 1 Comment

By Irene Conlan - I woke up early this morning feeling pressured even before I got out of bed. So much to do. Let me think. What’s the schedule like for today? How many appointments? Who’s on my schedule? Gotta meet someone at the airport. Yikes! The computer was waiting for me as if it knew I was in a rush before I even sat down. I never turn it off although I do put it to sleep at night. But it’s always ready. I sat down to begin the daily blogs and a song began to play in my head. It’s an old one – actually a very old one – and some of you reading... [Read the full story]

Habits

Breaking Bad Habits – 5 Simple Steps for Changing a Habit

January 16, 2010 · 5 Comments

By T Mcdonald - “Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with” and “Bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with”, according to Brian Tracey, a well-known motivational teacher. You may recognize that to successfully manage habit changes, breaking bad habits may be required in order to develop new ones. Breaking bad habits takes at least 21 days. Of course, in difficult cases, it can take as long as a year. Here’s an example of the process of how to change an unhealthy habit to a healthy habit. Suppose you’ve decided that coffee is not good for you and... [Read the full story]

Success

What’s Your Expertise?

May 2, 2010 · 1 Comment

By Lin Schreiber - As you begin to evaluate your encore career, it is important to establish your core values as a tool for discovering your encore career. The next step is to determine what skills or expertise you have that align with what you define as your personal values. In order to do this, you must look back over your experiences to find those things that you’re not only good at, but you really enjoy doing. Face it. There are lots of things you’re good at that you dread doing. But, what’s the sense of creating an encore career that has you doing anything... [Read the full story]

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Daily Quote – Relationships

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September Is Self-Awareness Month

By Lynn Banis - Do you really know how you show up in the world? How do other people really experience you? None of us has a mirror that show us exactly how we are with other people so we do not truly know how we are perceived all of the time. Some of us are good at reading the reactions of others and some of us go...

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Do you remember “Pay it Forward?”

By Irene Conlan - A video found me this morning as I was sitting here trying to decide what to write about. And once I found it, it seemed imperative that we talk about helping others – again. The video is snippets from the movie “Pay it Forward” which hit the screen in 2000 and has impacted lives...

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Mind Body Spirit and the Power to Achieve Happiness and Success

By Willie Horton - Very often I find it difficult to explore some of the key concepts in what might loosely be described as personal development or self improvement, given that ordinary language and words prove wholly inadequate. For example, do the words ‘universal energy’ adequately capture the reality...

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What Really Matters?

Yesterday I had an interesting conversation with a dear friend while we visited a beautiful spot called Fish Point. The conversation turned to things that are important to people – and it started a life review for me – and an evaluation of what is really important to me now. I have done this before and...

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