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Get Ready for a Great Day

Get Ready for a Great Day

Today could be the best day of your life! By simply altering your thinking and changing certain habits, you can create an impact on your day ahead. Ready for a successful day? These five simple habits can set you up for a productive day. 1. Waking Early Early risers...

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5 Simple Habits for a Great Day

5 Simple Habits for a Great Day

Today could be the best day of your life! By simply altering your thinking and changing certain habits, you can create an impact on your day ahead. Ready for a successful day? These five simple habits can set you up for a great day. 1.Waking Early Early risers enjoy...

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9 Steps to Forgiveness

9 Steps to Forgiveness

Excerpts from the book, "Forgive for Good" by a Stanford University professor: "Anger during a situation, or anger at a situation is fine; hanging on to that anger after the situation is long over, isn't." The thing about long-term or unresolved anger, is we've seen...

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Slow Down and See God

Slow Down and See God

In the 1970s, inspired by the Good Samaritan parable, two Princeton University Behavioral Scientists, Professor John Darley, and Dr. Daniel Batson, experimented on prosocial behaviors. They embarked on a study of 40 students at the Princeton Theological Seminary....

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The Importance of Self-care

The Importance of Self-care

In the inaugural conference of the International Center for Self-Care Research held in Rome, Italy, they concluded that people with chronic conditions need to assume responsibility for their own health and be actively involved in self-care. Many other similar research...

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Reliving Isn’t Living. Live. Free. Now.

Reliving Isn’t Living. Live. Free. Now.

Living our lives freed from our past can be refreshing. We can embrace an identity liberated from any cynicism, pride, fear, distrust, self-doubt, anxieties, etc. While self-reflection is necessary, reliving our past can be disturbing. Dwelling and magnifying our past...

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There is Light in Every Plight

There is Light in Every Plight

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." — Aristotle Having a negativity bias often has a more significant impact on how we feel than positive or neutral ones. Numerous studies have shown that people who cultivate negative energy...

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Hope: What Captures Your Mind, Masters You

Hope: What Captures Your Mind, Masters You

"Researchers are learning that a change in mindset has the power to alter neurochemistry. Belief and expectation—the key elements of hope—can block pain by releasing the brain's endorphins and enkephalins, mimicking the effects of morphine. This is a vicious cycle....

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