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- WHEN ARE WOMEN THE HAPPIEST? - by Women Don't Lie - Men Don't Listen
Dear Doc Love,
I just discovered your Internet column in Askmen.com; the one entitled "A Dose of Male Perspective on this Romantic Love Stuff." As a babyboomer single (divorced) woman, I disagree on one aspect: "The woman is happiest when she does the ...
Views: 2346 - When are Women the Most Happy? - by Women Don't Lie - Men Don't Listen
Dear Doc Love,
I just discovered your Internet column in Askmen.com; the one entitled "A Dose of Male Perspective on this Romantic Love Stuff." As a babyboomer single (divorced) woman, I disagree on one aspect: "The woman is happiest when she does the ...
Views: 827 - When Change Isn't Welcome - by Resistance to change has several causes. Some are simply accustomed to their routine and see no reason to change it. They have no personal reason to want to stretch. People stuck in a routine need to see the consequences of making and not making the change and what each means to them personally. ...
Views: 754 - When Coaching is working - by Ten ways to tell coaching is working:
© Cathy Goodwin, Ph.D. www.movinglady.com
1. You find yourself saying, "I can't wait to share this [book, story, experience] with my coach."
2. You feel more energized.
3. You feel as though you're listening to your own intuition, not following ...
Views: 785 - When Laughter Beats the Stress - by One the most effective ways to fight stress is laughter. Humor, jokes, or a good laugh make you forget or reevaluate the most gloomy and stressful moments. It has been scientifically proven that laughter helps to alleviate physical and emotional pain. Even doctors tell us to keep our spirits ...
Views: 769 - When Perfect Isn't Good Enough - by Being a perfectionist can do you in. Excellence is good enough; don't saddle yourself with perfectionism.
If there's one thing that can really hamper a person, it's perfectionism. it's like a wolf in sheep's clothing, because it seems to be heading in the right direction, but it's actually way ...
Views: 1580 - When Positive Thinking Doesn't Work - by We’ve all heard it said, “Think positive, think positive, think positive!” The fact of the matter is that forcing ourselves to think positive has very little value when it comes to making any permanent changes in our lives. Sure, we can force ourselves to think positive for a few minutes or a ...
Views: 1103 - When the Chips Are Down, That's When You Know - by I have long thought that when the chips are down and things are not going my way is the perfect time to see who I really am. Recently, I had an incredible opportunity to find that out and to take a huge leap in evolution at the same time.
I completed a project, for which I was partially paid, ...
Views: 836 - When Worlds Collide - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
For many people, working from home sounds like an ideal arrangement. You don't have to waste time commuting to and from the office, you can be home for your children when they come home from school, you don't have to answer to anyone but yourself and you can work the hours ...
Views: 939 - When you come to the fork in the road, take it! - by This quote by the great New York Yankees catcher and manager, Yogi Berra, about choice, is a great summary of part of my life philosophy. Life is a journey molded by the choices we make and the paths we follow.
We all make numerous choices every day. Our choices are one of the few things that ...
Views: 904 - When You Know What You Want, You Get What You Want - by You know what you want out of life, right? You may quickly answer, “Of course!” but take a moment to really think about this. Can you write down exactly what it is you want? Most of us think we know, but when we sit down and try to write it down, we draw a blank. Others may know what they want ...
Views: 750 - When You Wish Upon A Star! - by I recently overheard a group of four young golf pros talking about what it takes to be a champion. As it happens, the discussion was not limited to golf. They were talking in more general terms. Who are the people destined to make it to the top in golf, in business or in life? What is it, these ...
Views: 1811 - When you're really, truly stuck - by When you are really, truly stuck
Every so often I get an email like this: "Cathy, I will be calling to book an appointment. I am miserable. I hate my job. I hate where I'm living." Signed:
"Gloria".
I send what I hope is a gracious response, attaching my "get ready" worksheet and a list of ...
Views: 925 - When You're Sick, But the Tests Show "Normal" - by Have you ever been to the doctor with a set of symptoms that concerned you and after completing the evaluation been frustrated and perhaps a little embarrassed when the doctor looks at you blankly and says all your tests are normal? “How could they be normal!??you think to yourself. You begin ...
Views: 2469 - When Your To-Do List is Longer than Your Day - by Time management is not about managing time. Time is a constant, it does not change. The only thing we can change is the management of ourselves. So, if it’s the end of the day and you’re only halfway through your To-Do list, it is time to upgrade your self-management skills.
Are you being ...
Views: 692 - Where art thou my Romeo? - by The idea of "TRUE LOVE" is by nature romantic. Everybody hoped, dreamed, desired and aspired for it to happen in their life. Some have been so lucky to find it earlier in life, others are struggling to keep it, and the rest are still in their relentless quest to find MR. RIGHT.
Our definition ...
Views: 948 - Where Can I Buy Endurance? - by When I joined the network marketing business, I didn't realize that I had signed up to run a marathon, did you?! And now I'm realizing that this marathon will probably take a few years to finish! Huh? Say what?
I'm in a big hurry to cross that finish line and claim my prizes, aren't you? I'm ...
Views: 705 - WHERE DO YOU GO FOR YOUR INTELLECTUAL FEAST? - by Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind!
Why would this be? Have you heard about the accelerated learning curve? From birth, up until the time we are about ...
Views: 805 - Where Ever You Are, Be There - by At my daughter’s softball banquet a couple months ago, the coach was continuously interrupted by numerous cell phone calls to members of the team.
My wife, Patti, went to a farewell dinner with a friend who was moving away. She spent most of the dinner answering and talking on her cell phone. ...
Views: 1246 - Where God was - by Why did so many people have to die? I hear this so much and must clarify it. They did not! God does not interfere with our freewill but his angels send us impulses, feelings, urges and all kinds of notifications of impending problems but we do not heed these gentle urgings. We are too busy doing ...
Views: 975 - Where is he when you need him...and why does it hurt so badly?Where is he when you need him...and why does it hurt so badly?
By John Gray, author of Men are from Mars Women are from Venus
Has this scenario ever played out in your relationship?
You and your partner are getting along just fine, and with no notice something changes. He’s no longer ...
Views: 1107 - Where to Find the Most Profitable Residential Real Estate Properties - by In my 20 years of investing in real estate, I've met a lot of determined people who told me they had made the decision to be successful as real estate investors. Recently I asked one such person what progress they were making; the response was "I feel I'm really close to discovering just the ...
Views: 2298 - Where's The Map, I Think I'm Lost!! - by How many times have you begun the year with grand ideas of things you needed to do? The calendar changes a little bit, and we have this sense of a new beginning. You know what I'm talking about, those silly things we call "New Year's Resolutions".
"New Years Resolutions", okay I confess I've ...
Views: 850 - Which comes first Success or Happiness? - by Which comes first Success or Happiness?
Tim Connor, CSP
Everyone is searching for success, happiness, fulfillment and a sense of purpose and meaning in their lives. Many people unfortunately have not learned that putting the cart before the horse does not answer their dream of lasting ...
Views: 777 - Whispering Souls - by I have often wondered about the idea that war serves a purpose. It is true that humankind cannot escape aggression. The measure of our cultural legacy is measured in history and accomplishment. Many wars have been fought and won – for many varying reasons. Freedom, religion, economy and race ...
Views: 918 - Whispers From Beyond - by THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN
And the jewel in the crown shown brightly from the young man's head. And he walked with the golden light of heaven shining around him even on the darkest days, and his feet were guided by his feet. And he walked the path of luxury, paved with golden stones.
Before long ...
Views: 1296 - Who Do You Think You Are - by Who do you think you are?
This is a question that philosophers have been asking for millenniums. How and why did this whole universe begin? Why are human beings here? What is their purpose? We could get very broad and deep about the answers, or we could just probe our own selves and say that we ...
Views: 2086 - Who Else Wants To Burn Fat? - by When you eat food, the food is broken down and suppliesenergy to different parts of the body. It's the ratethat this happens that's called metabolism.
How you eat and what you do, CAN make a difference on thespeed that your body burns calories. By using these 7 Super Techniques you'll have ...
Views: 868 - Who Else Wants To Burn Fat? - by When you eat food, the food is broken down and suppliesenergy to different parts of the body. It's the ratethat this happens that's called metabolism.
How you eat and what you do, CAN make a difference on thespeed that your body burns calories. By using these 7 Super Techniques you'll have ...
Views: 799 - Who Else Wants To Burn Fat? - by When you eat food, the food is broken down and suppliesenergy to different parts of the body. It's the ratethat this happens that's called metabolism.
How you eat and what you do, CAN make a difference on thespeed that your body burns calories. By using these 7 Super Techniques you'll have ...
Views: 715 - Who Else Wants To Burn Fat? - by When you eat food, the food is broken down and suppliesenergy to different parts of the body. It's the ratethat this happens that's called metabolism.
How you eat and what you do, CAN make a difference on thespeed that your body burns calories. By using these 7 Super Techniques you'll have ...
Views: 1005 - WHO IS JESUS - by Who Is Jesus - This is for All the Victims of the Recent Tradegy.
In Genesis, He is God the Creator.
In Exodus, He is the Redeemer.
In Leviticus, He is your sanctification.
In Numbers, He is your guide.
In Deuteronomy, He is your teacher.
In Joshua, He is the mighty conqueror.
In Judges, He ...
Views: 1038 - Who Is The "Ultimate Expert" In Your Life? - by In truth, right now, you are the ultimate expert in your life. If you don't recognize that you are it is only because you have allowed the so called experts outside yourself to take control of your life. You have allowed them to baffle you with their "bull dung" when they couldn't dazzle you ...
Views: 1072 - Who Listens? - by Here is something ALL of us can do to help our world's situation. ~ Steve
__________
WHO LISTENS?
Two psychiatrists met at their 20th college reunion. One is vibrant, while the other looks withered and worried. "So what's your secret?" the older looking psychiatrist asked. "Listening to ...
Views: 859 - Who Really Cares? 4 Groups who Absolutely Must! - by Who really cares about your business? Sometimes it might feel like you are the only person in the world who really cares about it. But that's not true and your business couldn't survive if nobody cared. In fact, people care so much about your business that it is actually they, and not you, who ...
Views: 769 - Who You Are: An Excerpt from <i>Jack Canfield's Key to Living the Law of Attraction</i> - by Thoughts are things.
Your thoughts are not just wispy little clouds drifting through your head. Your thoughts are *things.* They are actually *measurable units of energy.* Thoughts are biochemical electrical impulses. They are waves of energy that, as far as we can tell, penetrate all time and ...
Views: 2432 - Whose Standards? - by By whose standards do we live our lives? Much depends on the circumstances in which we find ourselves.
One who is drowning has no use for water, whereas another dying of thirst in the desert would give everything and anything for a sip of water.
A wealthy individual has no need to find a few ...
Views: 1086 - Whose Thought Is It Anyway - by Winter is finally yielding to spring in the New England town I live in. I woke up this morning excited to go outside for a walk to feel the warming air and sunshine on my face. As I walked briskly throughout my neighborhood I was grateful for my life and all my blessings.
As I was breathing in ...
Views: 698 - Why Affirmations Don't Work (And What Does) - by Naturally, given a choice, it is more beneficial to one¡¯s peace of mind and well-being to recite and think, ¡°I am a worthy, deserving person,¡± than to dwell on its opposite. But, and let¡¯s be honest, haven¡¯t you read ad nauseam about the power of positive thinking and the glorious benefits ...
Views: 678 - Why am I like I am? - by Who among us has not at some point in their lives raised
their arms to the heavens and asked-"WHY, WHY ME?" When ever change or adversity crosses our paths we instinctively want to know WHY. Getting your answer may take you on a quest through a myriad or resources-
physicians, psychiatrists, ...
Views: 1000 - Why am I still so fond of Mrs. Mann, and how can you benefit from her wisdom? - by At the moment, the bits and pieces that are coming to me are about 15 other kids and myself sitting in a circle playing "Doggy, doggy, where's your bone?", making make-believe boats out of card-board brick blocks, and taking naps on the sailboat blanket mom had hand-stitched my name on with ...
Views: 1554 - Why Are Affirmations Important? - by Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.
- Victor Frankl
As you read this on the screen of a computer, compare the way the computer utilises information to the way the ...
Views: 2994 - WHY ARE THE SMARTEST PEOPLE THE SLOWEST READERS? - by I am a learning freak, can't get enough of it. All day - numbers are my game, but tied for first place is information processing. Lifetime-learning is my lodestar, recreation and mind-expander. I used to keep silent about it, my clients (I'm a CPA and partner in a Miami firm),expected me to ...
Views: 5979 - Why Bother Training People? - by People love to make a contribution to us. If given a chance to do the right thing for us, or to please us, they usually will. Unfortunately, they don't always know what we want, or their attention is elsewhere. OR, in the past when they've done something for us, they haven't "won" from the ...
Views: 1138 - Why Create Your Yearly Theme? - by Did you have a theme this past year? Will you have one for next year? Themes can make your life fun and focused. Have you ever given a birthday party and asked people to bring gifts with a "garden" or "fishing" theme? I know someone who asked people to bring something they made themselves! What ...
Views: 1032 - WHY DOES GOD LET BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE? - by One of the most often-quoted difficulties people encounter when approaching Unification, or even Recognition, is "How can I believe in, or trust, a God who lets bad things happen to good people?" This question is phrased in all sorts of ways appropriate to the evidence-for-doubt that people ...
Views: 2779 - WHY DOES SHE ALWAYS BRING HER KID ON THE DATE? - by Hi Doc,
I am smitten with a beautiful redhead who has a three year-old daughter. She told me from the beginning that she wasn't looking for anyone because she didn't want anyone telling her how to raise her little girl. Apparently, she had had a bad relationship with her daughter's father, ...
Views: 734 - Why Eat Chiles? - by “Each one of us is an individual with an individual palate. What is stimulating to one person may just barely be spicy to another. Since chiles are addictive, the more you eat them, the more you will want to eat them, and the hotter you will desire them to be. Those of us who have been ...
Views: 802 - WHY GO AGAINST THE VERY THING THAT MADE YOU SUCCESSFUL? - by Hey Doc,
I'm a freelance designer in my thirties who has been working for a company off and on for about six months. At this company, there is one girl in particular that I've grown very fond of.
Lately, I've been a little flirtier with her and she's responded with smiles. I haven't ...
Views: 709 - WHY GOOD THINGS 'DON'T' COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT - by Now before you send me an e-mail to correct the above statement, I want to assure you that I was fully alert and awake when I wrote it.
The fact is: I disagree with the statement that 'good things come to those who wait.' Let me explain why:
Here are seven reasons why I believe that 'good ...
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