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Are You Ready To Stop Feeding Those Toxic Relationships

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The people we are in relationship with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs. Back in the day I had more weird, awful, miserable relationship experiences and dodgy boyfriends than you’ve probably had hot dinners. I’ve been involved with abusers, liars and demanders, controllers…sometimes one and the same. I’ve been cheated and mistreated and that’s not counting dealing with jealousy, insecurities and all the other foibles that come with those relationships from hell. I just used to think I was unlucky in love! Every now and then ‘luck’ smiled on me and somebody wonderful showed up. But mostly I kissed my fair share of frogs and they never turned into a handsome prince. Why is that? Eventually I began to believe it was all my fault. Seems like we have a built in fault finding system. Things go wrong again and again and so we’re…

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Encouragement

How To Move Beyond Wanting To Having

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[success]Live out of your imagination, not your history. ~ Steven Covey.[/success] Today is encouragement day, and let’s face it we all need a little encouragement every now and then. This month my friend Victor Schueller, otherwise known as the Professor of Positivity and Possibility is leading the way so without further ado over to you Victor: Sometimes people are amazed that in as few as five minutes of work they can turn around a relationship problem that has existed for years. Unfortunately for some, amazement is not the word used to describe their experience. Sometimes people describe it politely as a frustration over many unnecessary years spent in anguish and suffering. Does it really take only five minutes? In some cases, yes. In some cases it takes longer. It’s hard to say (and as they say in the commercials…results may vary.) But, my question in response is, “Why does it have…

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Happiness

The Fabulous Fix Of Friendship

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Today my friend Fran Sorin of FranSorin.com is our Encourager for the month of July.  Our true friends are those who manage to inspire us to be what we know we can be, which makes Fran an inspirer as well as an encourager and I’m grateful for her presence here today. [success]Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead.  Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow.  Just walk beside me and be my friend. ~ Albert Camus[/success] Friendships are gifts. We live in a daily gift exchange, between us and life between us and others and sharing the gift of friendship is one of the creative acts we perform, one of the blessings of the universe.  Our willingness to share our love, our joy, our ups, our downs with others is a means to living and expressing life fully. Friendships through circumstances Throughout your lifetime, you develop…

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Lifestyle

How To Be Happy Right Now.

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“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstances but by our disposition.” So said Martha Washington.” Everyone wants to be happy. Right? Preferably right now. Who wants to wait….not me for sure. Some years ago I was in Russia with my husband as part of a business delegation. We partners were given amazing guided tours, visiting all the usual places and some that were less than usual. We received preferential treatment everywhere we went, since we were guests of the government, even given glasses of champagne on a flight from Moscow to Keiv, much to the amazement, or even amusement of our fellow passengers. I never did quite work it out. I tried to always sit next to our guides to chat – not…

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General

Can You Change Your Destiny

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[success] It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. ~ William Shakespeare[/success] You all know by now that I’m prone to having exceptionally wonderfully thoughts…yes, yes, I know, some might call them weird but wonderful can be weird.  Can’t it? This morning was no different.  I’m poodling along, happily on my way to the dentist…honest to goodness ever since I released my fear (mostly, anyway) of dental visits, I seem to live in their office.  Wassupwiththat? Anyhoo, there I was meandering through the early morning traffic, whilst wondering how I’d manage without a steering wheel. Yes my friends, that was my wonderfully weird thought of the day. I supposed I’d be prone to all kinds of problems, given that if I didn’t have a steering wheel, nor presumably would anyone else.  Sounds like a recipe for disaster wouldn’t you say? I’d certainly wind up somewhere, but it’s…

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