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Increase Your Happiness by Increasing Your Gratitude

Did you know there is a direct correlation between your level of happiness and your level of gratitude? A study done by Robert A. Emmons and Michael E. McCullough in 2003 shows that individuals who think about gratitude report being 10% happier than those who don’t focus on gratitude. In the study, the participants were divided into […]

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Kindness Begins With Me

Did you ever notice that sometimes the simplest of questions don’t have simple answers? The question was asked in a conversation talking about some really serious recent happenings in the world. Why can’t people just be kind to each other? Could it be that easy? I think so. Then, what prevents us from being kind

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Your Glass is Always Full of What You Need Most

Is your glass half empty or half full? What if I told you that no matter how much liquid is in your glass, it is always full? In fact, it is overflowing. I touch on this in my book, Pathological Positivity. Your glass is full, all the time. The part that is not liquid is air.

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Ready, Set, Dump

Have you ever gotten an error message from one of your devices that it can’t save your image or document because there isn’t enough memory storage? Recently, this is what is happening in my brain. Thoughts are swirling around my head like sugarplums (or something like that).If you ever feel this way a good hack

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All it Takes is 7 Seconds

There is a Tedx Talk called 7 Seconds of Courage, Choice, Not Chance by Charlene Wheeless. There have been 7 Seconds of Courage Challenges circulating among different social media platforms.  Basically, take 7 seconds to get into a task you have been avoiding or need to get done. Using those 7 seconds to focus and begin the

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Is Your Calendar Controlling Your Life?

I don’t know about you, but my calendar is getting full.  Opportunities that were closed to me a year ago are starting to open up. Part of me says, “Yes!” I have missed this and it feels good to be able to do this again. Part of me thinks, “There were things about a less

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