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i hope all of you watch this, not to help me, but to see something truly beautiful and amazing. Warning, if your like me you will cry so don't watch this at work. I'm one of those that beleive all the great faiths have two things in common, Karma and positive thinking. The videos in this article I wrote for examiner.com ...

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Whether you’re an ad executive who's busy negotiating and closing deals all day, or a paralegal helping your firm prepare for a huge case, your professional responsibilities can be overwhelming and stressful. Learning how to manage stress and channel it through positive means is vital, not just for a successful career, but for your happiness and well-being too. If you ...

By Marc and Angel Hack Life | Divine Caroline Staying awake is easy … five shots of espresso and a can of red bull is all you need. You’ll certainly be wide awake and wired, but you may also die from a heart attack a few hours later. In all seriousness, conquering drowsiness before it overwhelms your mind can be quite ...

While women are securing greater power in the workplace, they are also growing less satisfied with their lives as they age Kathy Caprino's life seemed the stuff of glossy-magazine perfection. The big deal marketing job, complete with roomy office, upbeat assistant, and lunchtime indulgences in retail therapy. The cool contemporary spread in Connecticut. The emotionally aware jazz percussionist husband frolicking with ...

And so Ladies, I just couldn't resist standing on my head and demonstrating how my thoughts whirl around and literally feel like this sometimes. However, with the walking challenge this week, I've brushed away the cobwebs, grown taller, taken a walk with the birds and on the wild side and I'm almost back to my vibrant self again. How about you? ...

Hi Everyone, How did you get on with your walk? Have you been able to pick up your pace to 45 minutes today? In this blog, I discuss how walking can improve stress levels and how my personal experience with this and the choices I made for my life had an impact with a walk on a beach in Brighton, UK. ...

I used to teach freshmen at the big southern California university currently ranked third among the nation’s party schools, awarded extra points for its exceptionally high “bikini factor.”  I  tried to introduce them to literature, which from my point of view, meant empowering them ultimately to create a literature of their own.  Of course, like every self-respecting English professor who ...

As a psychologist and author who specializes in stress management, I regularly work with high-achieving women, helping them understand and cope with the unique stressors in their lives. By far, one of the hottest topics for today’s high-achieving women is work-life balance. Recently, however, I’ve been hearing from more and more women who are struggling with the whole work/life balance thing ...

Student loan defaults are on the rise, but your continuing education does not always require borrowing big bucks. There are plenty of skills you can learn right now, free of charge. MainStreet uncovered five free things to learn that won’t impact your limited budget, but will do wonders for keeping your mind busy and happy. And who knows, maybe you’ll ...

Some of us are night owls. Others, early birds. Apparently, based on your chronotype, you will be more naturally alert earlier or later in the day. And your type may dictate when and for how long you sleep. But while a natural variance in sleep patterns is natural, it appears that the early bird is indeed the more coveted of ...

During the few weeks prior to launching my latest website, my developer’s apathetic attitude began to seriously test my highly cultivated sense of patience. As the launch date drew nearer, each missed deadline reminded me why the ability to quickly calm the demons inside yourself is sometimes the only thing standing between you and emergency open heart surgery. We all have ...

If you struggle with stress you aren't alone. Sixty percent of people say they experience stress at work on a regular basis. Two thirds say they have concern about the amount of stress in their life. More than half of people worry about the impact of stress on their health. The good news is that even though you can't rid stress ...

Online dating. Yes. We said it. And, as it so happens, we've done it, too. The once super taboo, let's-come-up-with-another-story-about-how-we-met form of meeting people is becoming ever more popular in a culture that has less and less free time and fewer real opportunities to be introduced to the right people. We do everything else online — so why not meet ...

Admit it. Who among us wasn’t psyched when we first heard Michelle Obama commit to make work/life balance issues a national priority? I mean, who couldn’t benefit from a little more national attention on achieving balance in our insanely hectic and overscheduled lives? So after the inauguration, I gave her a few weeks to get settled into her new home on ...

Who hasn’t seen one of the old classic movies wherein the main character or someone with him ends up stepping down into quicksand? What’s the one thing they tend to do first? They panic. Most of us have a visceral reaction to a sudden or unexpected encounter with an unknown experience. Geologists tell us that quicksand rarely claims the life of ...

  If you look at tracking polls before your first cup of coffee, you're not alone. How political-news junkies are preparing for campaign withdrawal.

It's interesting to me how many facets a person has. There is the Work Me, Mommy Me, Wife Me, Daughter Me, Friend Me, Sales Rep Me, then there is the me that the world sees. That Me is a face in the crowd. The world's only opinion of that Me is squarely grounded on what kind of experience they have with ...

Until about a year ago, my husband and I worked opposite shifts and traded off with the kids in the middle of the day (usually in the parking lot of our company, where we both work, but sometimes at a nearby park). A lot of times I felt like I was going straight from one full-time job to another, since I ...