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daily life

How to Increase Your Courage: 7 Tips

By Mary Jaksch How’s your courage? When did you last use it? The thing is that courage is like a muscle. If you don’t use it, it withers away. I’m not talking about huge acts of courage. It’s about the little moments. After all, if you want to become fit, it’s the small regular moments [...]

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5 steps to a 5 star relationship

A guest post from Christopher Foster of The Happy Seeker. Need a few tips (guaranteed based in personal experience) to help take your relationship to the next level? You’ve come to the right place. Please keep reading. 1. Do something unexpected for your partner This is such time-tested, invaluable advice I thought I should put [...]

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How to Turn Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance – Jonathan Field

Uncertainty must be present in the quest to create anything deeply meaningful. From Jonathan Fields new book Uncertainty By Mary Jaksch Do you have creative ideas – but find it hard to make them happen? All human beings are born creative. We all have good ideas. But on the path from idea to creation we [...]

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Are You in Touch With Your Wild Side?

By Mary Jaksch Are you in touch with your wild side? I mean the hidden part of you that is raw and powerful. It’s easy to lose touch with that wellspring of creativity, passion, and power. When we lose touch with our wild side, we lose something precious. Something that turns our life from ordinary [...]

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Turning Straw Into Gold: 7 Ways to Discover the Positive Side of Suffering

A guest post by Elana Miller of The Psychosphere A few years ago I had the painful (but universal) experience of getting dumped by a man I loved. Actually, to say it was painful is a gross understatement – not only did I feel rejected and alone, but I blamed myself for not being “good [...]

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The Secrets of Pleasure

By Mary Jaksch What gives you pleasure? Maybe that’s easy to answer. But why does it give you pleasure? That’s more difficult to say exactly. Watch the TED video by Paul Bloom about the origines of pleasure. You’ll find it below. (If you’re reading this in an email, click here to watch it). What are [...]

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The Good Karma Path to Online Income

By Mary Jaksch The world is changing faster and faster. Jobs that were secure yesterday are shaky or gone today. The strange thing is that in all the economic gloom, there is unexpected light. The Internet has become a new opportunity to make a decent living. Little more than three years ago I was a [...]

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