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Create Your Own Compass

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The intent of this post is to get you to do something… To create your own compass. Sometimes even very intelligent people confuse knowing how to do something, or reading about something, with actually doing it. I count myself in the ranks of this group from time to time…

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15 Tips for Adding Beauty to Your Life

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Here are my 15 tips for adding a little beauty to your life inexpensively. Enjoy!

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Make Goal Setting More Fun

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The traditional approach to goal setting can be a little bit of a downer since it often focuses on the least favorable aspects of one’s life and includes imperatives like “lose 15 pounds,” exercise more,” or “get a better job,” which are not particularly inspiring!

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How Do You Spend Your Leisure Time?

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“Having leisure at one’s disposal does not improve the quality of life unless one knows how to use it effectively,” which is NOT an innate skill. Without this skill, leisure can actually be potentially dangerous to mental and physical health!

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Setting Year-End Goals

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Maybe it’s the end of summer and coming of fall or memories of a clean slate with a new school year, but I’ve been thinking a lot lately about setting goals for the end of 2009 to continue the momentum of changes I’ve been making in my life.

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Being Still: A Prerequisite for Good Change

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In this modern world, activity and movement are the default modes, if not with our bodies then at least with our minds, with our attention. We rush around all day, doing things, talking, emailing, sending and reading messages, clicking from browser tab to the next, one link to the next. We are always on, always connected, always thinking, always talking.

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