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More Tips For Surviving The Financial Shakeup

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Investing Advice, Happiness, Wall Street Crisis, Choice, Keys to Life, Accountability, Huffington Post, Awareness, Living, Awareness, Investing Advice, Wall Street Crisis, Living, Keys to Life, Huffington Post, Accountability, Choice, Happiness, Living News
Russell Bishop

People don't tend to create constantly rising expectations in their relationships and the value they get from them in quite the same way they do around rising financial circumstances.

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Sacred Sex and Common Ground: How Obama Won Abortion Part of the Debate

Steven Waldman | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Obama, Pro-Life, Born Alive, Presidential Debates, Pro-Choice, Choice, John McCain Supreme Court, McCain Abortion, Obama Catholics, Obama Abortion, Politics News
Steven Waldman

McCain won the battle to most thrill the activists but Obama got the bigger prize: he defined himself as a reasonable seeker of the common ground.

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McCain Repeats Debunked 'Born Alive' Attacks in Debate

Emily Douglas | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Women's Rights, Debate, Kathleen Sebelius, Mccain, Health, Roe vs. Wade, Partial Birth Abortion, Born Alive Infant Protection Act, Late Term Abortion, Obama, Illinois, Roe, Born Alive, Choice, Politics News
Emily Douglas

In the debate, McCain repeated long debunked lies about Obama's record on the Illinois Born Alive Protection Act, lies that have been repeated and promoted since Alan Keyes lost to Obama in the

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Keys To Life: How To Be Clear In Your Communications

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.13.2008 | Living

Read More: Communication, Choice, Relationship Advice, Accountability, Huffington Post, Keys to Life, Living, Responsibility, Living News
Russell Bishop

The first challenge in communication is that most people don't know what the word means! Now, of course you know what the word means in once sense; ...

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How To Escape Meltdown Mania

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Awareness, Well Being, Wall Street Crisis, Responsibility, Living, Russell Bishop, Keys to Life, Accountability, Choice, The Inner Life, Personal Health, Self Help, Living News
Russell Bishop

If you find yourself freaking out over the current financial situation, stressed to the max and otherwise emotionally drained, this post is for you! ...

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How Are You Responding To The Financial Train Wreck?

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Wall Street Crisis, Desired Outcome, Awareness, Lessons in the Key of Life, Life Lessons, Russell Bishop, Balance, Keys to Life, The Inner Life, Accountability, Choice, Self-Help, Happiness, Living News
Russell Bishop

There are some things you and I can do that will help us through the coming months. In simple terms: it doesn't matter what happens to you, as much as it matters how you respond.

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Keys To Life: Why You Don't Have What You Want

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.06.2008 | Living

Read More: Desired Outcome, Awareness, Lessons in the Key of Life, Life Lessons, Russell Bishop, Balance, Keys to Life, The Inner Life, Accountability, Choice, Self-Help, Happiness, Living News
Russell Bishop

In the last week's article on beliefs, we talked about how your beliefs can prevent you from having money. I'd like to look at that question in anoth...

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Women's Health: Yet Another Issue Sarah Palin is Out of Touch On

Cecile Richards | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Roe v. Wade, Debate, John McCain, Reproductive Health, Cecile Richards, Sarah Palin, Choice, Planned Parenthood, Sarah Palin Women's Issues, Politics News
Cecile Richards

Palin's answers on reproductive health issues, such as criminalizing abortion, were a rambling mix of contradictions and platitudes, much like her answers the bailout, health care, and the economy.

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Keys To Life: Do Your Beliefs Prevent You From Having Money?

Russell Bishop | Posted 10.30.2008 | Living

Read More: Desired Outcome, Awareness, Lessons in the Key of Life, Life Lessons, Russell Bishop, Balance, Keys to Life, The Inner Life, Accountability, Choice, Happiness, Self-Help, Living News
Russell Bishop

Last week we began the conversation about beliefs and how they can impact your experience of life. Today, we want to dig a bit deeper, using money as...

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How To Turn Back After A Bad Decision

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 10.26.2008 | Living

Read More: Decisions, The Inner Life, Choice, Living News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

The other day I drove my daughter to college in northern California. At one point in the drive, I made a wrong turn and found myself having to drive ...

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Keys to Life: How Beliefs Can Limit Your Experience of Life

Russell Bishop | Posted 10.23.2008 | Living

Read More: Desired Outcome, Awareness, The Balanced Life, Personal Health, Lessons in the Key of Life, Life Lessons, Work-Life Balance, Self-Improvement, Russell Bishop, Balance, Keys to Life, The Inner Life, Accountability, Choice, Happiness, Living News
Russell Bishop

Do you hold any beliefs that aren't true? What a dumb question! "Of course not! If I believe it, it must be true. After all, who do you think I am...

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Keys To Life: What If It's Only Up to You?

Russell Bishop | Posted 10.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Desired Outcome, Awareness, Lessons in the Key of Life, Life Lessons, Work-Life Balance, Self-Improvement, Russell Bishop, Balance, Keys to Life, The Inner Life, Accountability, Choice, Happiness, Personal Health, The Balanced Life, Living News
Russell Bishop

In order to find the greatest value in the distinction between "Have to" and "Choose to," and "Victim Accountable" that we discussed previously, you...

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Open Letter to Governor Sarah Palin -- How Your Position on Abortion Hurts All Pregnant Women

Lynn M. Paltrow | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Vice President, Human Rights, Pregnant Women, Pregnancy, Anti-Choice, Pro-Choice, Choice, Politics News
Lynn M. Paltrow

We hope you know though that your freedom relies on exactly the same legal principles that guarantee that American women can choose to have an abortion when they need and want one.

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Plain Food, Please

Amy Ephron | Posted 10.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Mt. Misery, Key Lime Cafe, John McCain, Creationism, The Inn at Perry Cabin, Soft-Shelled Crab, Maryland, Chesapeake Bay, Sara Palin, Donald Rumsfeld, Food, St Michael's, Frederick Douglass, Barack Obama, Choice, Living News
Amy Ephron

We'd walked past it a couple of times, a simple storefront set back from the street with a small porch, a glimpse of tables inside, unassuming. The Key Lime Cafe. Full at lunch-time, we assumed it was a Maryland version of a diner.

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Keys To Life: How to Stop Doing Things You Don't Like

Russell Bishop | Posted 10.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Desired Outcome, Awareness, Lessons in the Key of Life, Life Lessons, Work-Life Balance, Self-Improvement, Russell Bishop, Balance, Keys to Life, The Inner Life, Accountability, Choice, Happiness, Personal Health, Self Help, Living News
Russell Bishop

Do you have to do things in life that you don't really want to do? Most people will say there are many such things. I want you to consider that yo...

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How a Pro-Life VP Will Make You Feel Fat

Leslie Goldman | Posted 10.04.2008 | Living

Read More: Abortion, Bristol, Equality, Women's Rights, Love Your Body Day, Eating Disorders, Mccain, Planned Prenthood, Choice, Sex Education, Weighting Game, Thin, Halle Berry, Jennifer Lopez, Bump, Nicole Kidman, Palin, Sarah Palin, Brown University, Body Image, Food, Locker Room Diaries, Celebrity, Pro-Choice, Blogging, Trig, Living News
Leslie Goldman

Isn't there a strong parallel between other people dictating my right to reproduce and other people dictating what I should look like?

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Keys to Life: Are You Choosing or Just Complaining?

Russell Bishop | Posted 10.02.2008 | Living

Read More: Desired Outcome, Awareness, Lessons in the Key of Life, Life Lessons, Work-Life Balance, Self-Improvement, Russell Bishop, Balance, Keys to Life, The Inner Life, Accountability, Choice, Happiness, Living News
Russell Bishop

Do you know anyone who seems to complain all the time about their job, or relationship, or just about anything? And, despite all the complaints, n...

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Keys To Life: How To Move From Victim To Accountable

Russell Bishop | Posted 09.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Desired Outcome, Awareness, Lessons in the Key of Life, Life Lessons, Work-Life Balance, Self-Improvement, Russell Bishop, Balance, Keys to Life, The Inner Life, Accountability, Choice, Happiness, Living News
Russell Bishop

Do you know anyone who seems to live in near constant complaint? Nothing ever seems right, good enough or fair? Most of us do know someone like ...

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Keys to Life: How To Be Decisive Without Being Divisive

Russell Bishop | Posted 09.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Desired Outcome, Awareness, Lessons in the Key of Life, Life Lessons, Work-Life Balance, Self-Improvement, Balance, Russell Bishop, Keys to Life, The Inner Life, Choice, Happiness, Living News
Russell Bishop

Why do decisions seem so hard to make? Even simple decisions can be difficult, like which restaurant? Or what movie to see. Perhaps it has to do ...

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Lessons In The Key Of Life: The Power Of Awareness

Russell Bishop | Posted 08.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Desired Outcome, Awareness, Lessons in the Key of Life, Life Lessons, Balance, Self-Improvement, Work-Life Balance, The Inner Life, Choice, Happiness, Living News
Russell Bishop

Last week, I gave an overview of the Cycle of Improvement, touching briefly on each of the elements. Over the next few articles we will explore the...

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Lessons in the Key of Life: Putting Together the Jigsaw Puzzle of Life

Russell Bishop | Posted 08.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Desired Outcome, Life Lessons, Choice, Work-Life Balance, Self-Improvement, Awareness, Balance, The Inner Life, Happiness, Living News
Russell Bishop

Many years ago, a friend and mentor of mine watching me struggle with various life choices, offered an old country cliché for me to consider: "if you don't know where you are going, any road will do."

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Lessons In The Key Of Life: Are You Reading Or Applying?

Russell Bishop | Posted 07.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Choice, Self Help, The Inner Life, Life Purpose, Fulfillment, Awareness, Living News
Russell Bishop

Can reading these self improvement posts actually help? How about "no, not likely" for an answer? First of all, let me underscore the idea that ther...

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Proposed Bush Rule Undermines Women's Access to Health Care

Cecile Richards | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Birth Control, Health Care, Choice, Bush, Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, Health, Politics News
Cecile Richards

Access to contraception is essential and smart public policy. In its waning days, the Bush administration has shown it will stop at nothing to attack women's health care.

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Selling Out Sometimes? Okay. Selling Out All The Time? Not.

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Taxes, Walter Mondale, John McCain, Ronald Reagan, Sister Souljah Moments, Eveangelical Christian, Fisa, Iraq, Liberal, George Bushtheists, Media, Choice, Barack Obama, Massachusetts Liberal, $500 Million, Mike Huckabee, Faith-Based Initiatives, Jimmy Carter, 1984 Democratic Convention, Gays, Left-Wing, Centrist Voters, Senate, Politics News
Jonathan Leigh Solomon

Barack Obama dealt a bit in platitudes during the primaries so that he'd have less to disassociate himself from once he had the nomination in hand. But he held back on a few whoppers, too.

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