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Dealing With Low Energy And "Burnout"

Jim Selman | Posted 12.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Energy, Positive Thinking, Responsibility, Attitude, Work, Workloads, Mood, Burnout, Fatigue, Illness, Choice, The Balanced Life, Living News
Jim Selman

Our moods originate in how we relate to our circumstances and our workload. When we assume responsibility for how we relate to our circumstances, we are no longer victims.

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Are You Better Off Accepting Or Resisting What's Going On?

Russell Bishop | Posted 12.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Acceptance, Intelligence, Positive Thinking, Responsibility, Resistance, The Inner Life, Choice, Response-Ability, Living News
Russell Bishop

Some are stuck in downright blame while others are doing their best to make lemonade out of the lemons. The latter approach is one I call "acceptance" while the former is one I call "resistance."

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Abortion Rights Groups Scramble In Stupak Amendment's Wake

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Abortion, Women's Rights, Congress, Naral, Public Option, Roe v Wade, Nancy Pelosi, Hyde Amendment, Pelosi, Obama, Roe Wade, Choice, Planned Parenthood, House, Senate, Rahm Emanuel, Center for Reproductive Rights, Health Insurance, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Bart Stupak, Anti-Choice, Medicine, Pro-Choice, House Health Care Bill, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Abortion rights groups, outflanked and outnumbered in the health debate, are scrambling to regain lost ground after the House passe...

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Aging: Giving Up 'Giving Up'

Jim Selman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Habits, Aging, Fear, Wisdom, Relationship, Values, Retirement, Transformation, Freedom, Future, Prejudice, Resentment, Growing Older, Choice, Eldering, Happiness, Living News
Jim Selman

What if wisdom has more to do with 'giving up' our beliefs and attachments than 'getting' more insights or having 'more, better and different' of whatever we think is important?

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The Assault on Choice

Rep. Carolyn Maloney | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Obama, Stupak, Abortion Rights, Choice, Bart Stupak, Stupak Amendment, Politics News
Rep. Carolyn Maloney

The historic passage of a health care bill came with an inescapably cruel irony. There is an amendment in the bill that threatens the health of millions of American women.

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Life Sucks And It's Society's Fault

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Blame, Personal Responsibility, Responsibility, The Inner Life, Choice, Quality of Life, Living News
Russell Bishop

Sure, you can blame the advertisements, the TV shows and the greedy bankers if you want, but it still comes down to who drank the Kool-Aid, not who made the Kool-Aid.

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The Future Habit

Jim Selman | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Relationship, Force, Transformation, Future, Past, Commitment, Prediction, Possibility, Choice, Happiness, Habit, Control, Living News
Jim Selman

Our media commentary is rarely about what is happening now - mostly it's about what happened in the past or what someone thinks is going to happen in the future.

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Do You Have To Accept Being A Victim?

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Victims, The Late Show, Inspiration, W Mitchell, Mitchell, The Inner Life, Choice, Aspiration, Happiness, Living News
Russell Bishop

Anyone who has ever worked with victims of various tragedies will know that there is a great deal of difference between what happened and how the person responds to what happened.

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Selling Simplicity -- Not Just Marketing It

Ron Ashkenas | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Cisco, Marketing, Simplicity, Aeron Chairs, Technology, Consumer Spending, Choice, Business News
Ron Ashkenas

People want uncomplicated products, straightforward guidance, and things that work quickly and simply the first time, without lots of extra effort.

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Men Aren't All That Happy Either

Russell Bishop | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Fulfillment, Responsibility, Marcus Buckingham, Men Women Happiness, The Inner Life, Women Happiness, Choice, Happiness, Living News
Russell Bishop

To me, the root cause of dissatisfaction and unhappiness often lies in the areas of focus we choose for ourselves.

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Living in Paradox: Intention or Surrender?

Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Manifestation, Fundamentalism, Tele-Seminars, Paradox, Synchronicity, Personal Development, Philosophical Beliefs, Characteristics of Awakening, Baumann Institute, Collective Awakening, State of Consciousness, Peter Baumann, Choice, Fundamentalists, Opposites, Predetermination, Reality, Urgyen Tulku, Tangerine Dream, The Truth, Intention, Creating, Poonja, Living News
Arjuna Ardagh

The reality of our life, whether we like it or not, includes both ends of this spectrum. Everything is happening on its own and everything is flowing through intention.

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Health Care Reform: It Boils Down to Four Words

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 11.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Competition, Accessibility, Health Care Reform, Affordability, Antitrust-Exemption, Choice, Politics News
Miles J. Zaremski

Regardless of the outcome, health care reform today comes down to four simple, words: accessibility, affordability, choice, and competition. For good measure, there is also perhaps a fifth word: right,

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Health Care Reform Needs More Innovating and Less Politicking

Zack Cooper | Posted 11.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Competition, Choice, Senator Baucus, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, President Obama, Senate Finance Committee, Baucus Public Option, Health Care, Politics News
Zack Cooper

Three misconceptions have driven the health care debate off course and have given rise to some of the problems in the Baucus proposal. These misconceptions need to be corrected so we can get back on track.

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Pray for Glenn Beck

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birth, Debate, Stories, Family, Children, Media, Campaign, Bureaucrats, Miracle, Reform, Pray, Prayer, Legislation, America, Government, Miracles, Abortion, Cerebral Palsy, Government Takeover, Personal Story, Health Care, Pro-Life, Fears, Pregnancies, System, Fear, Families, Healthcare, Choice, Insurance Coverage, Reform Proposals, Anger, Mother, Unborn Baby, Glenn Beck, Rhetoric, Quality of Life, Politics News
Jim Wallis

Beck's predictions that health care reform would lead to government bureaucrats euthanizing people like his daughter are dead wrong, but we at Sojournors agree with Glenn on this point: God is the giver of life.

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The Truth About the Capps Amendment

Rep. Lois Capps | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hyde Amendment, Abortion, Health Care Reform, Women's Health, Health Care, H. R. 3200, Lois Capps, Capps Abortion, Abortion Rights, Rep. Lois Capps, Capps Abortion Amendment, Pro-Choice, Choice, Health Care Reform Abortion, Politics News
Rep. Lois Capps

My amendment offers a common ground solution to a very challenging policy question -- namely how do we deal with abortion services in health reform legislation.

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You Can Never Get Enough Of What You Don't Really Want

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Personal Responsibility, Positive Outlook, Positive Thinking, Responsibility, Positive Focus, The Inner Life, Choice, Russell Bishop, Living News
Russell Bishop

As difficult as things may be, there's almost always something we can do to improve...Fundamentally, the most important choice any of us can make when confronted with life challenges is how we respond.

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I Used to Be a Fatalist! Perhaps I Have a Choice?

Lisa Guest | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Conspiracy Theories, Bull Market, Edward Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Three Days of the Condor, Woodstock, Economy, Kennedy, Bear Market, Stock Market, Fatalism, Self-Improvement, Nixon, Choice, Living News
Lisa Guest

I'm beginning to see the error in my ways and how a dark overview has robbed my life of much joy and possible adventure.

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Are You Doomed By Your Circumstances?

Russell Bishop | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: The Inspired Life, Inspiration, The Inner Life, Choice, Aspirational Goal, Aspiration, Circumstance, Life Advice, Russell Bishop, Living News
Russell Bishop

Many people feel trapped by their circumstances. The main problem we need to address when feeling trapped, is the feeling of being trapped - not the circumstances, per se, but what we tell ourselves when we find ourselves in that trapped set of feelings.

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Mind Your Motives!

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Choice Awareness, Mindfulness, Motivation, Choice, Living News
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

Enjoy the consequences of the choices you make: un-mask a "have to" to find a "want."

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Am I Doing This Parenting Thing Right?

Jeana Lee Tahnk | Posted 09.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Motherhood, Parenting, Moms, Parenting Tips, Confidence, Choice, Living News
Jeana Lee Tahnk

It's an age-old question that moms ask themselves on a daily basis -- am I doing this right? Motherhood to most is a type of training-in-progress, we learn as we go along.

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Anti-Choice Groups Raking in Dough by Promoting Civil Rights of Zygotes

Megan Carpentier | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Life League, Colorado Right to Life, Abortion, Leroy Carhart, Human Life International, Reproductive Choice, Money, Students for Life, Life Legal Defense Fund, Personhood Amendments, Anti-Choice, Choice, Operation Rescue, Politics News
Megan Carpentier

If the anti-choice movement has its way, the moment one sperm eats its way through an egg's outer shell would be the last moment in human development that wouldn't be covered by the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, it's a rather lucrative racket.

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What Does Your Life Teach?

Gangaji | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Awareness, Storytelling, Imagination, Teaching, The Inner Life, Choice, Lucid Dreaming, Living News
Gangaji

You discover your story by noticing what you are telling yourself, over and over. Notice what you tell yourself about your past, your present, and your future.

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Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

Jim Selman | Posted 09.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Age of Aquarius, Rock Music, Vietnam, Woodstock, Watergate, Peace, Choice, Peace Movement, Togetherness, CBS Sunday Morning, Rock Concert, Human Nature, Determination, Living News
Jim Selman

We somehow looked beyond color, religion, education, class, income and all the other things we've used to separate us from each other.

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Finding Happiness in Whatever We Do

John Morton | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Success, John Morton, Spirit, Work, Choosing, Blessing, Spiritual Practice, Choice, Happiness, Living News
John Morton

So if you are not happy with what you are doing, it may be a sign that you have a bad attitude. Just correct your attitude.

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Misleading Attacks on Women's Health

Cecile Richards | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Birth Control, Reproductive Health, Health Care Reform, Women's Health, Cecile Richards, Family Research Council, Health Care, Choice, Planned Parenthood, Politics News
Cecile Richards

It was only a matter of time before the right-wing campaign against health care reform began to focus on abortion, and last week the Family Research Council pulled out all the stops.

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