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Where is Your Sense of Humor?

Where is your sense of humor? For the record, my husband says I don’t have one – I think I do, it’s just hiding sometimes. I tend to be a very serious, focused person and levity does not come easily to me. My trigger is when I hear myself say, “You’ve got to be kidding [...]

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Beware of Emotional Parasites

We all have them; you know who they are; those people that we encounter that just leave us feeling drained and empty. They may be family, neighbors or co-workers (worse even if it’s a supervisor.) You may cringe when they come into view or let their calls go to voicemail. They are always complaining, whining [...]

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Do You Want to be Right or Happy?

Do you want to win or be happy? You may not be able to have both! There is only one real question you must face in an argument: do you want to win by demonstrating that you are right, or do you want to cooperatively come to a resolution with your partner?  You can win [...]

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It’s Only Temporary

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them.  The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.  ~Voltaire Ongoing research on optimists and pessimists has discovered the fact that pessimists believe that whatever negative thing is happening is unchangeable [...]

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