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Success

7 Undeniable Reasons Why Some People Fail Where Others Succeed

“Success happens not by chance, but because you were given a chance and took advantage of it.” – Kevin Geary To most people, being born in a free country is the greatest gift. To others, it’s a fleeting thought. For … Continue reading

Friendly and Approachable

Rock the Party: How to Appear Friendly and Approachable

The purpose of open body language is to encourage people to converse with you. This is where you become the life of the party, the person everyone wants to talk to.

Conversation is a subtle art, and this deserves an entire post, but the most important thing I’ve learned can be conveyed in a paragraph: Continue reading

Mental Superpowers: How to Unleash the Full Potential of Your Mind

You have superpowers – it is absolutely true! You have the power to do things so far beyond what you can even imagine right now. In fact, you are capable of things that you would probably consider bizarre or even … Continue reading

Anxiety Tips

Stop Worrying: 7 Effective Strategies for Dealing With Anxiety

We all spend too much time worrying about things that will never materialize. And this worry only makes our lives unnecessarily complicated and painful. However there is hope. By implementing the strategies in this article, each of us can diminish our worries and anxieties, and thereby be free to enjoy life to its full potential. Continue reading

Bully

Courage Under Fire: Facing Up to the School Bully

Note: this is a follow-up the last week’s article, 3 Words That Forever Changed a Deaf Boy’s Life. After hearing those three words, life as I knew it was never the same. It put me directly in the path of … Continue reading

mechanical thinking

A Guide to Awakening a Robotic Mind

There seems to be an increasing trend towards what I call “robotic” (or “mechanical”) thinking. This is a type of thinking that leads people to jump to conclusions, make claims to universal truth, and depend upon simplistic explanations of complex realities.
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