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Take cues from animals for longevity, contentment
Sam the springer spaniel is a happy boy. The world’s oldest person (116 years young woman) the other day said the keys to her longevity are avoiding junk food and minding her own business. Most of you...
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Where’s your comfort level?
Are you on a roll? Do you feel lucky? Is everything coming up roses? I find that having no expectations for greatness suits me well. Goals achieved are simply measurements reached. I don’t like...
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Failing your way to happiness and health
Want real success? Let yourself fail…often…and stop worrying how bad that might sound on the surface and look on your resume. Some of us feel disappointed by 2012 and are ready for it to be drawing to...
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Nothing else right when relationships wrong
The one constant in business is cultivating and more importantly, nurturing, the relationships we have with our customers. How do we get better at building relationships? It begins at home my friends....
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We do it to ourselves
Automobile (Photo credit: A*A*R*O*N) Athletes who smoked, chewed, drank and did drugs from the 30s through the 60s–before science came up with what it has regarding how bad these things are for you,...
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End your rut with ordered living
You’re worth it. We all are. Class 92 hauled container-freight train on the West Coast Main Line near Nuneaton, Warwickshire (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Before beginning to bear down on a project like a...
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Are you ready, sir?
Leopold (far right) watches in horror as Curly Howard gets a hair cut in the film In the Sweet Pie and Pie. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I have to get a haircut. That, in and of itself, is not so bad. In...
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Business as usual: Insurance companies still dictate health care
Friday was a particularly frustrating day for Jim as he sought to conduct some long overdue business with the eye doctor and orthodontist. Jim has been carrying COBRA these last several months as he...
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The Mother Of All Snor’easters
English: View north along Little Snoring Road Towards Great Snoring. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) One’s own snoring, if it wakes you more than once, should not necessarily prompt you to have yourself...
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Why grits are part of my active lifestyle
Grits. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I finally got on the scale in my Psych class today–the second to last day of actual class before finals next week. Amazingly enough, as much as I thought I was in good...
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Let only the coffee be bitter
Bitter-Man, Chippewa chief, by Martin’s Art Gallery (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The master craftsman sits down and contemplates what the blank canvas before him will hold. He often thinks about creative...
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When Sleep Won’t Come
Chocolate brownie in detail. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The chocolate brownie had no effect on his energy level. It was the end of the day and his body was letting him know in no uncertain terms it was...
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The fine art of butt smoking
Cover of Pretty Woman [Blu-ray]Greasing the skids. Sucking up. Kissing ass. Butt smoking. Stroking (someone’s ego?)… However you describe it, whatever you want to call it, does sucking up in any shape,...
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Eat right, exercise, get plenty of rest and…
English: Histopathogic image of senile plaques seen in the cerebral cortex in a patient with Alzheimer disease of presenile onset. Silver impregnation. The same case as shown in a file...
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You never know who you’re talking to
English: Ear. Good for listening. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Or who’s listening to what you’re saying. This is because the biggest breaks that we get in life are often by accident. Timing is...
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Things to consider (just in case)…
Yummy Canine Scramble – Glucosamine (Photo credit: Kimberly Gauthier | Keep the Tail Wagging) So glucosamine is snake oil. Or so the evidence from recent studies suggest. Glucosamine was one of those...
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Get paid, get yours: The greater good as afterthought
My LinkedIn network, visualized (Photo credit: For Inspiration Only) You still have a better chance of becoming rich in the United States than you do, say, in Russia. This is because, although the...
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Go your own way
No one has a perfect life. No one even comes close for there are only perfect moments within lifetimes. No one has a monopoly on happiness. We sometimes seem to have it all together at times—everything...
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Napping is the next workplace revolution
Many of us are obsessed with all things sleep. We need our rest in order to do great things. I think we can do pretty great things when we are not so rested, but no one ever says things like, “I...
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Increasing your chances of receiving the kindness of strangers
This piece is about bad. And good. Mostly bad, though. And how people you don’t even know may get you through all changes good and bad provided your heart is not closed off. If you say you don’t like...
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