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Ten Life Lessons From Doctor Who

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I bought a new pair of shoes a couple weeks ago. They’ve been a tremendous help to my sanity. They’re just a pair of plain Converse sneakers to most people, but to me and a few of you, there is a special significance to this brand of shoes. Because Converse sneakers, like a bow tie, [...]

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5 Ways to Deal with Setbacks

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Setbacks are an important part of life. They are especially a part of trying anything new, a part of our growth as human beings, a part of the human condition. If there is any skill most worthwhile, it is learning from setbacks. Setbacks are not Failures The difference between a setback and failure is just [...]

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No Such Thing as an Empty Hand

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We all meander through points in our lives when the world seems to be taking from us more than it gives. If a steady income is not coming in, for example, that seems to be when the car breaks down, a child suddenly needs expensive medicine, the furnace dies, the fridge starts making strange noises, [...]

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20 Surprising Facts About Happiness

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A lot of research has been done on the psychology of happiness in the past fifty years. Understanding what makes most people happier in their lives is an important step to making your own life happier. Here are 20 facts about happiness you may find surprising. 1. Your  genes and family upbringing account for only [...]

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Values to Live By

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Nowhere is the constancy of change as visible or as memorable than a Canadian autumn. We are surrounded by changes in our environment, in our relationships and in the workplace. Our thoughts, our hearts, and our bodies change with each passing second, transforming us from what we are to what we are going to become. [...]

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7 Leadership Lessons from Captain Kirk

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I grew up with Star Trek, beginning at the age of three, watching reruns every weekend on Channel 50 Detroit with my father. In 2009, I took my own son to see the film in the theatre. In between those years, it has always been there, in one form or another and, in many ways, [...]

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Lessons from a Pocket Knife

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I had the great pleasure of escaping to the woods for a few days with my son this week. It’s a beautiful old cabin nestled between the base of a tree-covered mountain and a deep isolated lake. Before heading out, we stopped at Canadian Tire and picked up his first pocket knife. Its a stainless [...]

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Get Out of Your Head

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Listen. Can you hear it? It is the sound of your brain growing, stretching, just by reading these words. Your brain is becoming something more than it was just moments ago. There are approximately 100 billion neurons in the human brain. That is more than ten times the number of stars in the galaxy. It [...]

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Finding Time

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Why is finding time to do the things we want or need to do so difficult for some, and so easy for others? Once in a while I get a comment from clients asking how it is I always seem to be so well organized: having information seemingly at my fingertips, accessible within moments of [...]

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Downshifting or Minimal Living

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Downshifting, or minimal living, is a lifestyle trend based on one question: is more necessarily better? The reasons for asking this question have a variety of sources: concern for the environment; job losses; retirement plans running askew with drops in the stock market; or even questioning capitalism itself which seems to dictate keep growing, or [...]

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