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Read more: What makes you feel fulfilled?Most women say that, while their husbands and children make them happy, their primary sense of fulfillment comes from being personally satisfied and independent. That’s…
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Read more: May you grow in peace and wisdomMy two college students are getting ready to start classes at the end of August. I was remembering recently how I used to wake them,…
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Read more: Rosa Parks, senior citizenRosa Parks is remembered as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement” because she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man.…
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Read more: Remember Rosa ParksI just finished listening to the audio book Rosa Parks—A Life by Douglas Brinkley. I knew that Rosa Parks was “the prim, bespectacled, 42-year-old mulatto…
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Read more: Are you kind to yourself?Many of us need to treat ourselves with a little more kindness. According to an article in The New York Times, February 28, 2011, a…
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Read more: Are you compassionate toward others?In her book Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, Karen Armstrong remembers six kind words that were spoken to her when she was 20 and…
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Read more: Are you compassionate toward yourself?Karen Armstrong, former nun and author of 20 books, thinks the world needs more compassion. When she was awarded the 2008 TED prize, she decided…
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Read more: Can you eat just one potato chip?If you can stop after eating one chip, you deserve an award for your self-discipline. A study by Harvard University scientists indicates that potato chips…
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Read more: What’s driving you?Most of us are familiar with the inner critics we talked about in our last blog post—the perfectionist critic, the do-it-all driver, the fake and…
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Read more: How can you quiet your inner critic?Almost all of us have an inner critic—or inner critics, says Stacey Sargent, a professional coach and speaker. Who is your inner critic? During a…