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The power of repetition
The tapes inside your head are powerful. If you repeat a negative remark enough times, it will load itself into the permanent memory on your personal internal hard drive. I don’t believe you have the...
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What the negativity does
Don’t be so skeptical of the value of positive self-talk until you really look at the wonders of all the negative self-talk with which you’ve filled your brain. Yes, isn’t it a wonder how some of us...
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The Slump
I am about to admit something embarrassing. It goes back a couple of decades, to my first years as a reporter out of college. My old boss at The Florida Times-Union got himself one of those Commodore...
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Stop hating your body and hating yourself!
And when it comes to body image? Hey, in my books, I interviewed world renown leaders who acknowledged their horrible self-esteem problems that were rooted in what they weighed or how they looked. Few...
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Labor Pains
My 70-year-old chosen sister-in-life is about to deliver a baby, and the labor pains are a killer. Her “baby” is her first book and the labor pains are especially horrid because she has to upload...
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Achieving the big reward
I just had a meeting with a woman who is starting her own business — slowly. She saved money, then quit her job to start her own company. She’s distracted by her freedom, making time to do errands,...
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The power of affirmations
Countless studies have proven the connection between positive affirmations (either through self-talk or hypnosis) and positive results. The concept is this: If you tell yourself you are attractive and...
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Why make waves?
I just got an e-mail from a reader who wonders why it is even worth it to stick her neck out there if the pushback is so forceful. If you are a mustang, you are a mustang. I spent half of my career...
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Self-intervention and leaving the negative behind
generic xl toprol It’s time for an intervention with yourself. If you want a better life, you must take the easiest of baby steps to make it happen. All you have to do is figure out a few good things...
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Moving Along
The concept of “moving along” varies by individual and situation. You define what is right for yourself, but approach that decision with strength and power, rather than fear and weakness. Choose the...
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Enjoy the Moment
I often think of a story told to me by Kathryn Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space. Her mission was to deploy the Hubble Telescope, and it entailed complicated, intricate steps that all...
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The negative tapes in your head
colchicine and nitrosoguanidine plants free rookie the We are always talking to ourselves. We wake up in the morning and get ready for the day and decide quickly if it is a good hair day or a bad hair...
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Don’t look for ease, look for strength
I went to a concert last night with a friend who has been having one of those year-from-hell-good-God-I-can’t-take-it-anymore moments. With good reason, too, because it really has been the year when...
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Recommit to your vision and your success
If you are going to do something hard, you will encounter moments when you wonder why you are bothering. Why choose a difficult path when you can choose an easier route? That less stressful approach...
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New Thoughts
I’ve been gone for two weeks, even though my automatically-updating blog made it look like I was really cranking out the copy. It started with an event in Dallas, then Anchorage. Then, I went on a...
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It all comes down to you…
If you aren’t doing what you really want to be doing, it’s because you really don’t want to do it. Okay, stop. I know that about half of you out there are about to slide into the big snooze because...
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Get the Job Done
People don’t invest their support or money in people who will let them down, so if you lose confidence in yourself, others will lose confidence in you. Do you invest in someone who isn’t sure he or she...
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Persevere — regardless.
hyzaar One of my closest friends is a former welfare mother who drove a cab to put herself through law school while caring for her two small children as a single parent. She eventually became a...
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Make up your mind
Whether you are going on a diet, training for a marathon, heading back for your MBA or changing jobs, the most wrenching part of a challenge is making the decision to really do it. I don’t mean the...
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Put on your shoes, take two steps and change your life.
A few years ago, I interviewed Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon. Her story became legend because she registered with her initials and race officials did not know...
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