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Secret Sauce of Success

Jen Groover | Posted 02.06.2012 | Business

Read More: Success, Women's Leadership, Women Entrepreneurs, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Living News, Business News, Business, Entrepreneurs, Wellness, Motivational-Success, Small Business, Business News

Becoming an author was a dream of mine for over a decade. The interesting part of that dream was when the desire first came to me, I had no idea what...

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Is There More to Love Than Sex and Romance?

Isha Judd | Posted 11.02.2011 | Style

Read More: Meditation, Living News, Consciousness, Enlightenment, Spirituality, Style News

For most of us, the search for the ideal partner has become an obsession: the principle goal in our quest for love. Yet our relationships often peter ...

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Rediscovering the Road to the Sustainable City

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 10.16.2011 | Green

Read More: Photography, Green Urban Planning, Walking, Living News, Puglia, Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Green, Sustainability, Urban Design, Real Estate, Green Living, Pedestrians, Urbanism, Cities, Culture, Architecture, Green News

Those of us who write about cities should be students of history and experience, and with some humility listen to scholars and the legacy of urban development from from around the world.

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Uncovering Embedded Patterns of Place in the City

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 09.30.2011 | Green

Read More: Green Urban Planning, Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Sustainability, Real Estate, Urbanism, Cities, Culture, Photography, Living News, Green Living, Parks, Green, Pedestrians, Bicycling, Walking, Seattle, Green News

Amid the roads, sidewalks and places that you have visited before, there are often embedded patterns to uncover, read and reinterpret.

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Pondering Artifacts of Displacement in the Sustainable City

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 09.04.2011 | Green

Read More: U.S. Cities, Photography, Green Urban Planning, Living News, World, Urban Policy, Neighborhoods, Urban Planning, Rome, Architecture, Green, Travel, Urban Design, Real Estate, Sidewalks, Green Urban Design, Urbanism, World News, Transportation, Culture, Streets, Density, Travel News, Green News, Sustainability, Living, Pedestrians, Cities, Green News

If our cities must be dense to be competitive and sustainable, we must also look with care to the potential displacement of uses, institutions or traditions -- not to mention the artifacts we will leave behind.

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Investing in Your Kids for Financial Sake

Lori Mackey | Posted 08.28.2011 | Business

Read More: Teaching Kids About Money, Kids Money, Parenting, Children Money, Living News, Teaching Children About Money, Business News

Teaching children the power of investing should be mandatory in kindergarten. Why? Because kids have the greatest asset of all... time

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Exploring the Immediacy of the In-Between Place

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 08.27.2011 | Arts

The archaeology of today's urban regions need not be excavation-based. One trick allows the illusion of memory through photographic tools.

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Corners as the Baseline for Urbanism

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 08.12.2011 | Green

More so than public squares -- which require a conscious set-aside of assembled space -- corners naturally result from crossroads, the elemental feature of travel between places.

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Creating the Urban Diary

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 08.07.2011 | Green

Cities are hubs of human interaction, and the urban experience can be enhanced by authentic participation in the dynamics of a place and transitions to nearby venues.

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Exploring Simple Urban Amenities at the Public Edge

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 08.02.2011 | Green

What if American cities legislated brighter color amid windows, balconies planted green and encouraged flags and hanging laundry? What if homeowner associations and rental contracts required vegetation and decoration?

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Love, Shamanism And Safe Meditation

Stacey Nemour | Posted 07.26.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Healing, Living News, Relationships, Meditation, Spirituality, Wellness, Shamanism, Healthy Living Spirit, Spiritual Development, Healthy Living News

There are countless benefits that come from meditation. Scientific studies show meditation activates the part of the brain that helps one make better ...

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Your Reality Is An Illusion

Natasha Dern | Posted 07.22.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Spiritual Development, Is Reality an Illusion, Illusions, Living News, Life Is an Illusion, Illusion vs. Reality, Your Reality Is an Illusion, Living, The Inner Life, Healthy Living Spirit, Spirituality, Healthy Living News

If everything is an illusion, why bother trying, improving or aspiring? Since none of what you experience, see or feel is real anyway, then who or what exists?

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Coloring the Urban Experience

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 07.11.2011 | Green

Read More: U.S. Cities, Walking, Living News, Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Green, Green News, Sustainability, Living, Pedestrians, Sidewalks, Urbanism, Cities, Architecture, Photography, Green News

How can we marshal the potential of urban color while retaining a legally appropriate balance between public regulation of the private realm?

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Inspiring the Redefinition of Urban Public Space

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 07.06.2011 | Green

Read More: U.S. Cities, Walking, Economics, Urban Policy, Urban Planning, Green, Green News, Sustainability, Pedestrians, Sidewalks, Urbanism, Cities, Living, Living News, Business News, Business, Green News

Here, from afar, is more evidence that street and square, beach and byway all have a greater and unrealized multipurpose capacity, ripe for recalibration in ever-evolving America.

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The Tao Of Love, Sex And Anti-Aging: Part 8

Stacey Nemour | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Meditation, Living News, Self Help, Relationships, Love, Anti-Aging, Wellness, Spirtuality, Spirituality, Conscious Relationships, Healthy Living News

Just because someone is psychic, can move energy and do seemingly other-worldly feats does not necessarily mean they are truly spiritual, have integri...

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Growing Bolder: Wanting to Want

Marc Middleton | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

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Telling the world (or telling anyone) about your goal too soon delivers an instant ego boost that can actually derail the process before it even gets started.

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How's Your Life Partner Doing These Days?

Jinny Ditzler | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Meditation, Marriage, Living News, Courage, Life-Partner, Relationships, Buddhism, Enlightenment, Love, Anger Management, Self-Help, Healthy Living News

Hold on tight to one of your complaints about your partner and repeat it to yourself over the course of a day. Get really stirred up about it. Then ask yourself: How closely does his or her behavior match your story?

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When a friend who dumped you suddenly pops back in your life

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Friendship, Friend, Invitation, Couple Friends, Living News, Weddings, Friendship Advice, Boyfriend, Relationships, Best Friend, Husband, Living, Healthy Living News

QUESTION Dear Irene, Recently discovered your column (it's awesome) and hope you can help me gain some perspective. I was introduced to my husband ...

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Redefining What It Means To Win

Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

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What if our most important endeavors, those that determine the direction of our country, dictate the quality of our relationships and define us as human beings, could be structured in such a way that everybody wins?

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Japan's Disaster: A Spiritual Perspective

Isha Judd | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Natural Disasters, Catastrophe, Living News, Japan Earthquake, Enlightenment, Consciousness, Spirituality, Healthy Living News

When tsunami alerts reached the coasts of so many different countries, it inevitably triggered a feeling that challenged everything that was known, as we collectively faced the uncertainty of the future.

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Updating "Make No Little Plans": Urbanism, Social Network-Style

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

Read More: Green News, Green, Sustainability, Green Business, Twitter, Social Networking, Urban Planning, Living News, Living, Urbanism, Technology News

Surely every self-styled urban visionary, and quotation-centric student of prose, knows the magic words attributed to monumental, "city beautiful" Chi...

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How To Turn A Potential Friend Into A Real Friend

Shasta Nelson, M.Div. | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Friendship, Friendship Advice, Adult Friends, Living News, Women Friends, Friendship Adulthood, Finding Adult Friends, Adult Friendships, Female Friendship, Making Friends, Finding Female Friends, Forming Female Friendships, Finding Friends, Relationships, Women Friendship, Friendships, Healthy Living News

You have never met a friend. But you have most certainly met amazing people you have turned into friends. And you can do it again.

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How To Transform From Victim To Creator

Isha Judd | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Awareness, Living News, Enlightenment, Consciousness, Spirituality, Victim Playing, Self-Victimizing, Self-Victimization, Victimization, Playing the Victim, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News

Ultimately there are two attitudes we can take in life: the attitude of a victim, or of a creator. A creator praises their creation; a victim criticizes. A creator lives in appreciation; a victim in complaint, not taking responsibility.

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Musically, The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same

Maggie Lamond Simone | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Living News, Teens, Lyrics, Living, Tweens, Parenting, Music, Maggie Lamond Simone, Teenagers, Healthy Living News

I couldn't help wondering what the heck my daughter is listening to these days and why it is even allowed on the radio. Things have changed so much since I was a kid, it seems.

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What Is Spiritual Transformation?

Natasha Dern | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Living News, Personal Transformation, Spiritual Journey, Emotional Transformation, Transformation, Spirituality, The Path of Transformation, The Inner Life, Living, Healthy Living News

If transformation is to become truly spiritual, then the realm of emotion is what awaits you.

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