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Go Deep

Mike Robbins | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Awareness, Personal Growth, Honesty, Mike Robbins, Authenticity, The Inner Life, Spirituality, Self-Help, Living News

It's much easier for me to stay busy, keep things on the surface, and pretend to live my life with a real sense of depth, than it is for me to actually go deep myself.

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Let's Get Real About Money: Tips for Financial Sobriety

Mike Robbins | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Authenticity, Appreciation, Money, Personal Growth, Honesty, Personal Finance, Self-Help, Living News

Here are a few things you can do to challenge yourself to get rreal about money, and in the process liberate yourself with more freedom, less stress and increased peace about your finances.

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The Hamlet Secret: Joyful Living!

James M. Lynch | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Personal Responsibility, Personal Transformation, The Hamlet Secret, Responsibility, Personal Growth, Hamlet, The-Hamlet-Secret, Personal Development, Shakespeare, Mahatma Gandhi, Tikkun Olam, James M. Lynch, Gandhi, Happiness, Living News

Whatever the result, whatever happened, it is all your "fault" (read "responsibility"). By adopting this stance, you become empowered to take on any situation no matter what.

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Speak Your Truth - Three Tips for Communicating Authentically

Mike Robbins | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Relationships, Conflict Resolution, Personal Growth, Honesty, Spirituality, Communication, Speak Your Truth, Living News

Speaking your truth is an essential aspect of living a life of passion, fulfillment, and authenticity. However, for many of us, myself included, it is much easier to talk about speaking our truth than it is to actually do it.

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The Magic of Death

Mike Robbins | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Awareness, Personal Growth, Spirituality, Self-Help, Death, Living News

Death can be one of the greatest teachers for us in life - but not if we spend most of our time avoiding it because it can be painful, scary and uncomfortable.

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Yin/Yang: An Intersexed South African Runner As Symbol Of The Universal

Suzie Heumann | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Caster Semenya, Shiva, Suzie Heumann, Personal Growth, Gender, Transgendered, Tantra, Intersexed, Yin/Yang, Shakti, Living News

In some cultures, over the millennia, inter-sexed people have even been revered as shamans and holy people - they are closer to the ideal of a balanced, universal soul. Think of the Yin/Yang symbol. We all know it. It means 'balance' - male/female balance.

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The Overhuman

Sebastian Siegel | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Joseph Campbell, Philosophy, Wasteland, Personal Growth, Personal Health, Fulfillment, Psychology, Drive, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hero, Motivation, Spirituality, Overhuman, Living News

You can create happiness in moments, but fulfillment only comes from challenging yourself to rise to your potential

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Divorce Is Forever

Lissa Coffey | Posted 09.10.2009 | Style

Read More: Marriage, Challenges, Lifestyle, Relationships, Divorce, Personal Growth, Risks, Growth, Couples, Style News

Marriage is a big risk. Divorce is another. Both take a commitment. It's a commitment to living life to its fullest, to being true to yourself, to doing what you feel is best, and to honoring the wisdom that you have gained through your experiences.

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What Are Your Joy Cravings?

Carolyn Rubenstein | Posted 09.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Creativity, Carolyn Rubenstein, Inspiration, Personal Growth, Learning, Perseverance, Cravings, Joy, Living News

I crave joy and guess that many others do as well. But these cravings aren't usually translated into an objective form. Instead, they remain shapeless; they never quite materialize.

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Today's the Day

James M. Lynch | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Hamlet, Declare Yourself, Self-Improvement, Personal Growth, Determination, Self-Help, Living News

Believe anything you want about life, but right here and now, today, and in this present "act," choose the life you have and get on with it.

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Complaining About Complaining

James M. Lynch | Posted 08.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Change, Living, Complaints, Healthy Lifestyle, Personal Growth, Complaining, Culture, Living News

A Complaint Free World provides purple bracelets which you wear and switch to the other wrist anytime you find yourself complaining, gossiping or criticizing.

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The Anti-Affirmation

Tabby Biddle | Posted 08.03.2009 | Living

Read More: The Dark Side, Shadow, Coming Into Our Potential, Personal Growth, Caroline Myss, Louise Hay, Chopra Center, Debbie Ford, Anodea Judith, Affirmations, Deepak Chopra, Living News

Debbie Ford, author and faculty at the Chopra Center: "If you want to manifest your full potential you have to reclaim the parts of yourself that you've denied, hidden or given away to others."

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What's Your Story?

James M. Lynch | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Self-Improvement, Self-Esteem, Journaling, Personal Growth, Self-Realization, Self-Help, Living News

Write out the story of you as you are and don't be afraid to complain a bit. Think about it as a narrator at the beginning of story bringing the audience up to speed so that we can begin the movie.

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The One Secret to Making the Most of Unwanted Downtime

Jay Michaelson | Posted 07.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Yoga, Economic Downturn, Personal Growth, Personal Health, Discipline, Meditation, Diet, Buddhism, Recession, Spirituality, Spiritual Practice, Living News

The secret to spiritual practice is doing it precisely when you don't feel like doing it. When such thoughts matter most is when they are the hardest to summon up.

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How Happy Is... 5 Tips If You're Graduating

Sophie Keller | Posted 06.26.2009 | Living

Read More: University, Jobs, Graduation, Career, Personal Growth, College, The Balanced Life, Living News

Graduating is about change and moving on, and in the same breath it can be frightening, as well as exciting. Being frightened and excited often have ...

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True Success in Times of Change

Tom Morris | Posted 06.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Setting Goals, Philosophy, Wisdom, Emotion, Focus, Planning, Intellect, Commitment, Self-Help, Success, Concentration, Change, Harmony, Character, Enjoyment, Personal Growth, Confidence, Goals, Constistency, Home News

The wisest people who have ever thought about positive achievement have left us bits and pieces of powerful advice for attaining true success in anything we do.

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Star of Your Own Life

James M. Lynch | Posted 06.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Purpose Driven Life, Self Help, Star of Your Own Life, Passion, Purpose, Personal Growth, Life Coaching, Living News

Playwrights, directors and actors create whole worlds with words, some lights and a few pieces of cloth. Everyone can be a star in their own lives!

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The Power of Slipping

Soren Gordhamer | Posted 06.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Parenting, Personal Growth, Children, Life Lessons, Living News

It is less about trying to force change and more about showing up, being present, and knowing that when the time is ready -- the universe will help make it happen.

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Avoiding the Wrong Goals

Tom Morris | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Leadership, Strategy, Corporate Responsibility, Goals, Recession, Economic Plans, Decisions, Targets, Management Decisions, Bush Administration, Values, Personal Growth, Mea Culpa, Self-Deception, Corporate Greed, Sin, Banks, Scandals, Living News

Self-deception is such a powerful force in our lives that we cannot guarantee, even if we do spot it in action, that we'll be able to resist its subtle lure.

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What Are You Working on? Part 3

Hillary Rubin | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Michelangelo's David, Hillary, Yoga, Multiple Sclerosis, The Balanced Life, Personal Health, Disease, Inner Life, Life Challenges, Personal Growth, Michelangelo, The Inner Life, Living News

How many of you are looking for the work to stop? Do you want to just breathe and erase all your problems? Are you ready to learn a tool that will shi...

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Willpower Doesn't Exist: The New Way to Get Stuff Done

Dr. Alex Benzer | Posted 05.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Getting Things Done, Alex Benzer, Potential, Odysseus Protocol, Personal Growth, Positivity, Willpower, Living News

In a passage from Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus and his ship are about to pass through the Siren-infested waters. On the one hand, he knows that hearing ...

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Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken: Transform Your Life With The Power of Authenticity

Mike Robbins | Posted 05.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress Management, Authenticity at Work, Authenticity, Relationships, Authentic Power, Personal Growth, Stress Reduction, Living News

Authenticity is about enjoying a new sense of freedom to be who we really are -- ourselves, natural and without a mask in our relationships, our work, and our life.

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Letting Go of Worry

Mike Robbins | Posted 05.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Dealing With Stress, Stress Management, The Balanced Life, Keeping Things in Perspective, Personal Growth, Appreciation, Stress Reduction, Living News

When I was a kid my mom used to say to me, "95% of what we worry about never happens." She recognized that I was the "worrying type" and was trying to help ease my mind.

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How Happy Is... Is Ignorance Really Bliss?

Sophie Keller | Posted 03.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Ignorance, Survival, Personal Growth, Happiness, Featured Contributor, Living News

here is a difference in not knowing about something because you are genuinely uninterested and not knowing because you are scared to know.

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Making Our Own Mistakes

Michelle Renee | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Single Mom, Parenting Magazine, Parenting Tips, Personal Growth, Single Parents, Personal Development, Inner Life, Healing, Parenting, Teen Magazine, Inner Child Healing, Teen Life, Living News