| Learning the Disturbing Facts about Credit Card Debt |
| When I received my first credit card in the mail at age 18 I was ecstatic, I said to myself, wow now I’m getting somewhere in li... |
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| Lesson Learned |
| Direct Answers - Column for the week of December 9, 2002
I was involved with a man separated from his wife. We connected on ... |
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| Life Is Not Always Fair |
| I once heard the story of a grown bear that lived in a cage and traveled with a circus ever since he was a small cub. The bear s... |
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| Life Issues Pt. 3 - An Attitude of Gratitude |
| Special Requirements For Reprint: Article may be freely reprinted in your ezine, in your e-book and/or on your web site with the... |
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| Life After Life ... Death Is Merely a Changing Room |
| Since I awoke from my three month coma in August of 2004, I have been asked many times about what I remembered and experienced. ... |
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| Life Can Seem Unfair......Until We Change Our Perspective! See How! |
| Empty, Hollow, Nothing….those words shout the sound of disappointment and disillusionment of life for many people; the experienc... |
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| Lessons in Love for the Shy at Heart |
| One of the biggest regrets of my life is that I was cursed with the shyness gene. Shyness is an often misunderstood condition th... |
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| Life After Debt Strategies for Dealing with Problem Debt |
| Honorably and ethically rid yourself of burdensome debts using the little known Negotiation |
| Life’s an Illusion… |
| I’ll get right to the point. Life is not necessarily what we think it is. And no, I’m not going to extrapolate this to the extre... |
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| LIFE'S PURPOSE |
| To every life, there is a purpose; a purpose of will and a purpose of choice. A choice to make the right or wrong decisions and ... |
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| Life's Curveballs |
| Do you realize how good you have it? Yes, everyone has problems, but it could be worse than what it is now. Yes, everyone has a ... |
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| Isn’t it Time for You? |
| Does it seem like there is never enough time in the day? Why is there plenty of time for everyone and everything but ourselves? ... |
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| Let’s Say You’re a Dog. Are You So Competitive You’d Eat a Carrot? |
| Seems like a gal always learns something out on the farm! Yes, it’s a farm tale and I’m going to change the names of the animals... |
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| Just Listen. Please! |
| When did you last do that? When did you last listen to yourself? Is there a small voice inside you calling out “Just listen to m... |
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| Life Issues Pt 1 Success |
| Hello everybody and a good day (or night !) to you all.My name is Nicholas Dixon and I am in my early twenties and I reside on t... |
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| Intuition |
| I. The Three Intuitions
IA. Eidetic Intuitions
Intuition is supposed to be a form of direct access. Yet, direct access t... |
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| It's a Quantum Thing |
| We don't need to understand quantum physics entirely in order to appreciate it. Even those who have devoted their lives to the s... |
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| Is Your Soul Breathing? |
| God made humans in his image but these days very few of them lead a God fearing life. Environment is the main cause of changes i... |
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| Is Your Passion Fizzling Out? |
| Starting a business or project is one thing, keeping it running successfully is another issue.
Do you recall the initial ent... |
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| “Is Your Career Your Calling or Just a 9 to 5?” |
| Do you remember your parents asking you what you want to be when you grow up? By the time I was in the 9th grade, my mother star... |
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| Is Timing the Secret of Success? |
| success is often viewed as a magic potion. Market demand h... |
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| Is She Cheating? - Many Unsuspecting Husbands Find Out Too Late |
| Couples therapists report a 50% increase in female infidelity. The cover story in the current issue of Newsweek magazine is all ... |
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| Is Setting Personal Goals REALLY Necessary? |
| What is your reason for setting a goal
This is the first, and important question you need to ask yourself. Why? If your reas... |
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| Is A Career a Calling or Choice? |
| How much of our career path is destiny and how much is free will? In my opinion, it is 50/50. We are given a life map at the beg... |
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| Let Your Subconscious Be Your Guide. Oh Really? Not! |
| Do you ever feel sorry for yourself? Do you ever feel like just sitting down and having an old fashioned pity party? Have you ev... |
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| Knowledge is Power ... So, Keep Your Mouth Closed To Keep It From Getting Away! |
| Did you ever wonder why it sometimes seems that communications is lacking within an organization or corporate culture? It is one... |
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| Learning From Life |
| Do you ever find yourself thinking, "Life has taught me some tough lessons, and the scars do not heal easily."? This article can... |
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| Lego Laws for Life |
| Just about everybody owns or has owned a bucket of Legos in their time. There’s no denying the fun they provide for a child or e... |
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| Leading In The Face Of Disaster |
| The date was Saturday, April 11, 1970, the time 13:13 CST. The event to take place was to be one of NASA's finest hours; the lau... |
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| Leading To A Preferred Future |
| February 01, 2004
Footprints and Monuments
"Leading to a preferred future"
By Jeff Earlywine
Last month's editio... |
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| Learning How To Fall ... You Have To Learn To Fall Before You Can Ride With Confidence! |
| About a month ago, I was hit by a car while riding my motorcycle. The car side-swiped me and took off. My bike bounced off the c... |
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| Learn A Life Skill TODAY! |
| Did you ever watch your grandma knitting?
Wasn't it boring? Didn't it seem to take forever?
Most of us live life in the ... |
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| Learn How to Solve Problems With a Feng Shui Mirror |
| A mirror, when becoming a feng shui mirror, can be used to many more things than allowing us to see how we look. Feng shui teach... |
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| Leaving The Tribe |
| One of my favorite authors, Wayne Dyer, uses this metaphor, "Leaving the tribe," when referring to how we, as people, seek the a... |
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| Leave Your Dead End Job…For Good. |
| So here you are…stuck in a dead end job. Are you hitting the glass ceiling in a job you once loved, but now can’t stand? Maybe t... |
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| Leadership Is Power: Test Your Ethics |
| “The payoff for the ethical person is a reputation for honesty. It’s a payoff that makes every undertaking easier and attracts u... |
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| Life, The Greatest Ride of All |
| Life is the greatest roller coaster ride we will ever take. The ups and downs, the unexpected changes, the twists and turns, are... |
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| Kokoro no Kaze: Does Your Soul Have a Cold? |
| Feeling sad? Have you lost interest in things you used to enjoy? Perhaps you're suffering from a cold of the soul.
That's th... |
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| Life - Is It Just An Illusion? |
| It's a well-known fact that electrons and atoms move at the speed of light, technically flickering in and out of existence. In o... |
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| Key Things I've Learned From Studying The Lives of Great Achievers |
| I've long been a student of those who have achieved high levels of |
| Keep Your Goals Clearly In Mind |
| Keep Your Goals Fresh In Your Mind - Most of us have goals, the question is how many of us actually follow-up and work those goa... |
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| Keep That Focus |
| One of the things most critical to home business success i... |
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| Lessons From the Creek |
| Everything is in flow here in Northern Michigan. Buckets of water have flowed off the snow-covered roof. That water, along with ... |
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| Keeping the Dream Alive |
| Like the song by Linda Ronstadt, “a dream is a wish that your heart makes." To lose a dream is to die a little yourself. It mean... |
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| Life Issues Pt.2 - Against All Odds |
| Against all odds. I think that should be the motto of every person that is striving to be successful.The "odds" can be almost be... |
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| Keep on Keeping on! |
| Whenever we are working on our dreams we are going to run into some road blocks or obstacles. The important thing for us to reme... |
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| Keeping Faith |
| Direct Answers - Column for the week of June 30, 2003
Please bear with me. I desperately need advice. I dated this girl for ... |
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| Like A One-Eyed Cat Peeping In A Seafood Store |
| Want to be successful in whatever it is you choose to do? Then you need to be focused--just "like a one-eyed cat peeping in a se... |
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| Life Management Skills for Greater Happiness |
| “Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”
--Samuel Lover
One of the most com... |
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| Law and Order of the Spiritual Kind |
| There is no such thing as a coincidence. Albert Einstein reasoned that, “God simply does not play dice.” While we may not fully ... |
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| I Am My Sunshine |
| "You Are My Sunshine
My Only Sunshine You Make Me
Happy When Skies Are Gray"
(I remember this song from my childhood... |
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| Job Search "Blurts" |
| I coined this word to draw attention to the nervous and apprehensive way of saying something in the job search that makes you fe... |
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| I Am Really Worried About The Future |
| I am really worried about the future. I am 54 years of age, my daughter, who I have brought up on my own since she was two, is a... |
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| It's Not Your Fault |
| Well, worry no more. It's not your fault. The latest research of the most advanced information on the human brain and its effect... |
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| Joy Is Sexy |
| Joy is sexy because in embracing our joy, we embrace our positive energy and power. Joy is always there, waiting to be reclaimed... |
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| Is America Losing Its Religion? |
| Has America known its finest hour? Are we losing our religion and sanity as well? What is wrong with our society anyway? These a... |
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| Justice Delayed |
| Direct Answers - Column for the week of September 22, 2003
I have three grown children. My elderly father, six younger broth... |
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| Just a Typical Teenage Boy |
| Judge not, lest ye be judged. –Matthew 7:1
The call was controversial—just as all really close calls in baseball are. Full s... |
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| Just Let ‘Em Go! |
| I remember when I was just a little guy probably about 4 or 5 years old, I was fascinated by snakes. Not any particular type of ... |
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| Like Father |
| Direct Answers - Column for the week of July 5, 2004
I was married for 21 years to a man who enjoyed strip clubs, drinking, ... |
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| Journey to Haypress Creek |
| It was the end of my first year as a graduate student, and my personal stock had risen somewhat due to long hours of hard work. ... |
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| Jobseekers! Look For Smoke, Not Fire... |
| "If you always do what you've always done, you will always get what you've always received,” said some wise person. This is cert... |
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| Jump-starting your home business |
| For a quick boost to your home business success, conscious... |
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| It's The Ride That Counts |
| Having goals is a good thing. It means that you're willing to take the first step to achieving those goals. When you write down ... |
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| It's Story Time! - Find the Power Within, or The Truth About Dogs |
| I heard a story recently, and wanted to share it with you. It goes something like this:
Once upon a time...
The chief wa... |
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| It's Time to Get Out of the Box |
| “It is never too late to be what you might have been. “(George Eliot)
I have found that truly successful people surround the... |
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| It’s All To Do With The Way You Wake Up |
| Do you start your day with anger, frustration and annoyance at the alarm and the need to get up? Do you wake up hoping the day w... |
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| It’s a Gut Feeling – Finding love |
| Most single guys are settled in their life. Their mornings, afternoons and evenings have a routine they are comfortable with and... |
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| It’s Good to be Goofy |
| To paraphrase a saying my mother liked to use occasionally, “The whole world is goofy – except you and me. And sometimes I’m not... |
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| It Only Takes a Spark Pass It On |
| Great inspiring people have influenced people in every area of life throughout centuries. Henry David Thoreau, the great 19th ce... |
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| I Am… |
| …you are, he is, she is, they are… But you knew that already, didn’t you? Or have you really stopped to think about it recently ... |
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| Irreversible |
| Direct Answers - Column for the week of November 15, 2004
My husband had two affairs last year. I am pretty confident he is ... |
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| It Takes A Lot Of A Little To See The Good Times Roll |
| Have you ever wondered why some people are just naturally successful? Why |
| Life Writing, One Facet of Living an Enchanted Life |
| I started life writing in the fifth grade. My mother bought me my own Girl Shout diary! Are you wondering what a Girl Shout diar... |
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| It's Your Life Take Control |
| If you seem to spend much of your life doing things for other people, if being ordered about from dawn till dusk is a normal com... |
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| In Tall Grass |
| Direct Answers - Column for the week of September 13, 2004
My best friend, Ryan, told me last night he got his girlfriend, R... |
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| It’s My Blankey and I’m Keeping It! |
| “Blankey” – as in Security Blankey. OK? All parents know what this is. Sometimes it’s an actual “blankey”, or it may be a pillow... |
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| Jeopardy: For Entertainment and Education |
| Just about everyone has had to take a pop quiz at school to test one's knowledge in science or in another subject. But why would... |
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| In The Midst Of A Storm There's Something More |
| Have you truly tried and still failed? Have you pushed on a piece of string so long that you think Methuselah would be proud of ... |
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| It's Not My Job to Free Tibet |
| I hate saying that. It feels so very wrong. It's not that I wouldn't like to help them. It's not that I am not appalled at what ... |
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| In a Slump Rejoice I Say Rejoice |
| Yea, I know........I hear you saying "that's easy for you to say".! Well......why don't you just pout about it then? You know, I... |
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| Is Plastic Making You Happier? |
| If you’re like most people, you probably own at least one.
And like most people, you’ve maybe never thought what it’s really... |
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| Interview Quicksand |
| How will you respond when you’re asked the following two questions?
1.What type of boss do you like to work for?
2.What ... |
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| Internships: Bonkers or Brilliant? |
| I have something to say that’s driving me batty. It’s regarding graduates who fuss about not getting a job they like or not gett... |
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| Internet Is Not Just For Techies |
| This is a smaller secondary headline - White Rock mother of four stays home and prospers on the Net with websites for Babies and... |
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| Integrity: Doing What is Right BECAUSE It is the Right Thing to Do |
| Integrity is: Doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do.
Integrity is NOT: simply standing by your own ideal... |
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| Instant Willpower |
| We’ve all heard people say “I have a system”. Ever since I was a little girl and watched my mother put together a grocery list, ... |
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| Instant Relaxation Anytime Anywhere |
| If there was a way of relaxing quickly and easily in any situation would you want to know what it is?
Ancient cultures knew ... |
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| Joy Of The Lord |
| The word means different things to different people. Is it simply an emotion or feeling? Do we only feel joy when life seems to ... |
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| Irresistible |
| Direct Answers - Column for the week of December 29, 2003
I'm attracted to my manager. He was the one who showed his interes... |
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| Inheritance |
| Direct Answers - Column for the week of June 21, 2004
I have a mother who is constantly yelling at me for the smallest thing... |
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| I Give Up!....... How to NOT Say Those Words! |
| Boy, I tell you....it seems the world is just going crazy these days! The economy is going haywire, the war is started, and thin... |
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| Jekyll vs Hyde 2 Faces of Immortality |
| Meet the most important person you will ever meet in your life. You better! For sometime during your life you will meet him. He ... |
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| In between Luck & Effort |
| I have one magical thought, lets see it more closely. Just look around & try to find out peoples who are successful, in sense of... |
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| Improve Your Relationships Through Vastu |
| Do you want be in a relationship that brings you deep fulfillment and love? Or perhaps you want a more satisfying connection wit... |
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| Improving Your Self Esteem |
| Often in our society, we are bombarded with the lives of celebrities. We can end up feeling that if we are not part of the rich ... |
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| I’m Not Depressed; I’ve Just Been Having A Lousy Conversation With Myself |
| Not long ago, I attended a mastermind group. During the meeting, one of the women went into a litany about how terrible things h... |
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| Increase Your Score Factor |
| So, you had an interesting night last night. You were out with the boys, hung around, visited a few places of popularity, met so... |
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| Individualistic Sucess Models |
| In individualistic success models, |
| I Know I Can, I Know I Can |
| I'm sure most of you remember the children's book about The Little Train That Could. I have to admit that at my age, I don't rem... |
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