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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

There's a Hole in my Sidewalk. Part 1 in the Portia Nelson series

Portia Nelson is an amazing woman; a singer, songwriter, actress, and author who passed on in 2001. Her brilliant poem entitled: Autobiography in Five Short Chapters, is published in her book: There's a Hole in My Sidewalk. Copyright © 1993 Portia Nelson, Beyond Words Publishing, Hillsboro, OR, USA. Used with permission. Autobiography in Five Short Chapters Chapter One. I walk down the street. There's a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost, I am helpless, it isn't my fault and it takes me forever to find a way out.

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How Stress Changes during the Four Stages of Learning, part 1

You don't need me to tell you how stressful life can be. You experience stressful situations while attempting to navigate new relationships and learn new routines at home and work. It helps to understand how to reduce stress in the four stages of becoming competent as change your life by learning anything new. Let's look at the stress you experience as you learn to drive a car. Unconscious Incompetence

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Stress Management

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Experience - the crucial difference betwee Real Knowledge and just Understanding

Are you gullible - do you just believe what other people tell you? Or do you appreciate the vital difference between understanding something and real knowledge? My Brother's Shiny New Red Bicycle Many years ago, I was just five, my older brother was given a bicycle, a deep red bicycle. I was so jealous, I wanted one myself. But I had to wait until he outgrew it before I inherited his red one. At that tender age, two years is a long time! One early spring day, my father took us down to the park, next to the library. It was time to learn to ride.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

Wolves - the Cherokee Indian viewpoint on the Enemy Within

Cherokee Indians have an interesting insight on your internal motivation which can change your life. They say two wolves live inside everybody : a black wolf and a white wolf! The black wolf feeds on negativity, it lives to bring you undesirable experiences. It's the enemy within, also known as your self-sabotage mechanism. The white wolf is on your side, it feeds when you're positive, realize your dreams, and enjoy desirable consequences. The Black Wolf

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

How to Respond rather tha React, the basis is Responsibility!

Respond and responsible have the same Latin root [re 'again', spondere 'to promise']. You can respond when you take responsibility. This is a decision that you are accountable for your circumstances, which doesn't mean you're to blame. Be Responsible Without taking responsibility, you pretend your contribution has had no effect, and such self sabotage makes you unable to respond. Yet no matter what you have or haven't done, it has affected the situation!

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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Tips to Help You Follow Through on Your Promises. Part 3 in the Commitment series

If you're wary of making commitments, see that making and keeping promises strengthens your personal power, which helps you realize your dreams. This implies that dislike of commitments is pure self sabotage. So to become more effective in keeping your promises, enjoy these tips to change your life. Note that fulfilling a promise always presumes that your life continues as normal. Barring life-changing accidents, there should be no reason why giving your word does not always mea It Will Be Done, 100% guaranteed. Increase your Personal Power

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

A Surprisingly Novel Idea - Doing What Works! Part 1 in the Do What Works series

You want success in whatever you choose to do, and the secret of success is to adopt principles which enable you to be successful. The old adage says that all roads lead to Rome, and it's indeed true. But it's generally not explained that some roads are more direct than others, they'll get you there faster. If you are short of time, stop wasting time on the tortuous route. You'll change your life by becoming more effective. How to Change your Life

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

Your Answer to What Am I? is Fundamental to your Success. Part 5 in the Secret of Success series

The secret of success, as you saw in the previous articles in this series, is neither what you have, nor what you do. To use this secret and change your life you first need to authentically know what you are. Have you spend enough time contemplating the crucial question asked earlier: What Am I?

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

Authentic Knowing comes with Experience. Part 4 of the 5 Steps to Mastery

There's a great divide between theory and practice. You get information from outside, and mental investigation enables you to understand it. But authentic knowing is far more than just understanding. The next step to mastery is to get your own experience, the energy you put into practice makes your knowing authentic.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

Do you have the Right to Defend Yourself? Part 3 in the Right to Protect Yourself

Self-defense is a basic right.* If someone attacks you, you have the right to defend yourself. Yet strict gun control regulations interfere with that right because ordinary citizens abide by the law while criminals acquire guns illegally. That leaves honest people at a distinct disadvantage - how can the police be immediately at every scene whenever desperately needed?

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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The Second Amendment Exists for a Very Good Reason. Why? Part 9 in The Right Response?

Following the War of Independence against the arbitrary and unjust policies of England's King George III, the USA needed a new legal framework. All American citizens had learned to distrust oppressive taxes imposed by the legal British government.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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Why do US Politicians Support the UN's Global Gun Grab? Part 12 in The Right Response?

Is the Sandy Hook tragedy being used by the administration to implement the United Nation's Arms Trade Treaty - the global gun grab? Many other shooting sprees have resulted in equally cynical gun ban attempts across the world. Are gun laws to control guns, or to control people? The British Gun Grab

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Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

Consensual Sex or Rape? Part 1 of the Truth on Assange

Has America declared War on Assange and WikiLeaks? The disclosures by Australian jou alist Julian Assange and WikiLeaks have clearly upset America. Yet the right to expose shameful US government secrets is protected by the First Amendment's rights to free speech and press freedom. As Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black ruled in the 1971 Pentagon Papers Daniel Ellsberg whistle-blower trial:

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

Be Trustworthy, follow the Golden Rule - its Context can Change Your Life!

Disappointed is not the word for it! Not at what his email contained, but at what it didn’t say. Charles was a new friend, we'd met on a personal development course. He was American, I'm English Canadian, and we’d connected. He told me he was a real estate investor. “I do it both for myself and for clients who enjoy amazing returns, but don’t have the time or expertise to manage their investments themselves.”

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

The power in Skepticism, the weakness of Cynics and the Gullible. Part 3 in the Self-Sabotage Series

Are you gullible? When somebody says something do you automatically believe them? Or do you automatically disbelieve, assume they have a hidden agenda, and discount everything they say? Both are reactions, yet a reaction, to re-act, to act again as you did last time, has little personal power. You simply defend what you already think, and put no energy into changing your life. Change Your Life Yes, but how? Evaluate another person's perspective and their evidence. The extra power comes when you invest your time, energy, and willingness to explore their position.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

How Effective are Gun Bans Overseas? Part 7 in the Right to Protect Yourself

The USA is not alone in facing this problem of mentally deranged individuals and criminals. Both Britain and Australia suffered mass shootings in the 1980s and 1990s, despite their already stringent gun laws. Both countries nevertheless decided that even stricter gun control was the most effective answer. Their experiences are enlightening. British Experiences with Banning Gun Ownership

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Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

How to Defend Yourself and Best Protect your Children. Part 16 in The Right Response?

Government Failure? Or Government Oppression? Citizens all across the world are increasingly recognizing the problem of government failure. Many governments are increasingly incompetent at that most fundamental of tasks: protecting their citizens from harm. From Tunisia in North Africa to Syria in the middle East, from Britain to America, ordinary citizens are gaining increasing clarity about government failure as well as government oppression.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

Are you Being Right - even though you're Wrong? Part 4 in the Self-Sabotage Series

Stop Confusing the Issue with the Facts "It doesn't matter what you say, I've made up my mind and I'm not going to change it." Such self-sabotage is widespread, you've probably seen it often. Everybody likes to be right. But when the need to be right is exacerbated by the dislike of change, then you get the hilarious comedian's line: I've made up my mind, stop trying to confuse me with the facts!

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

Improve Your Life, Give up what Doesn't Work for You! Part 4 in the Change My Life series

If you insist you are right, and someone else is wrong, this stops you looking at their perspective. Why would you waste time looking at something that you already know is wrong? When you know you are right, this prevents you learning anything new, which halts progress. Yet real progress can be seen as an improvement in your capacity to deal with the world and its vagaries. The secret of success is to enhance your abilities and become wiser. Increase your Understanding

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

Do Guns or People kill People? Part 5 in the Right to Protect Yourself

The simplistic answer to the Sandy Hook massacre is obvious: Just make all guns illegal. But is any law 100% effective? Criminals don't obey the law. The UK experience from banning guns - the UK is now the violent crime capital of Europe according to the European Commission (see previous article) - demonstrates that simplistic answers to complex problems don't work. In contrast, Switzerland has automatic guns above every fireplace, yet is one of the safest (and most prosperous) countries in the world. People kill Other People

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

You'll Face the Consequences, so Beware of Believing Others. Part 7 in the Change My Life series

Achieving anything needs personal power which comes by increasing your awareness, as we saw previously in this Change my Life series #6. So how do you become more aware? Start Noticing Start by noticing more. The more you notice, the more you realize there is to notice. As the brilliant Nobelist Albert Einstein observed, "the more we know, the more existence turns out to be mysterious. The more we know, the less we know and the more we become aware of the vastness."

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

Increase your Chances of Success, how to Avoid Self Sabotage! Part 4 in the Commitment series

How can you improve at following through on your commitments? Explore your Chances of Success Look at the commitments you've made in your life. What percentage were completed by the deadline - write down your answer between 0% and 100%. If it's not 100%, then what's the difference between those you kept and those you failed to keep? Your answer to this crucial question can change your life: When do you find it easier to break a commitment? What's the Common Denominator?

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

You're Unique, so why try to Duplicate Another? Part 2 in the Secret of Success series

You do all kinds of things which are necessary in your life. Yet one thing remains common and that is your consciousness, a golden thread running through all your actions. Your body changes and your actions change, but you're there unchanged. When you change your context by increasing your awareness, improving your knowledge, and investigating your beliefs, your actions change yet your consciousness remains. Mistakes

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

Are You Willing to Pay the Price? Part 3 in the Most Important Question series

Having chosen your most important question, see the previous articles in this series, there are some crucial related questions for you to answer. Actions have Consequences Are you prepared to pay the price? Your actions will provide the answer in due course, yet to ensure your future has some resemblance to your goals and dreams, the secret of success is to answer it now - in advance.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

An Inspiring Take on What Influences You! Part 1 in the Inner Motivation series

Are you internally motivated? The Cherokee Indians say that everybody is, not just the self-motivated! They know that you have both a black wolf and a white wolf giving you internal motivation. Are you Self-Motivated? The self-motivated decide on their own goals and then pursue them. They see the black wolf's manipulations, its insistence on self-destructive actions and negative behaviours; they also hear to the white wolf quietly suggesting positive actions with beneficial results. Their secret of success is to make up their own minds, they listen and then choose their own path.r

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

Why does President Obama want to Attack Syria? Part 1

Why has President Obama Threatened War on Syria? Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, has been murdering his own countrymen for years. A couple of years ago, some Syrians citizens objected and started the civil war in Syria. This has claimed a lot of innocent lives, yet al-Assad is clinging to power and has no intention of resigning. He's definitely a nasty piece of work.

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

Is He Really a Master, or is She Just Pretending? Part 7 of the 5 Steps to Mastery

Are they really a Master? Have they been through all the five steps to mastery themselves? Or are they just pretending? Do They Have the Wisdom of Experience? An author who has no experience lacks credibility, his articles have no authenticity. Yet his pretense of expertise is not necessarily very obvious; just like politicians, he may even seem convincing. Teenagers, the young just out of college, even university professors without any practical experience are in this category. The blind teaching the blind...

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Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

If You don't Know Where You're Going, Any Road will do! Part 5 in the Change My Life series

"To change my life, I have to make a change in my life." This made so much sense to me when I first came across it! One of my goals was to change my life and, since you're reading this article, I guess it's one of yours too. My list was rather long, how about yours? You want life to become more desirable. Yet to change your life, you need to see change as a good thing! What do you want to change? Write down your List of Desirable Changes

Primary topic: Stress Management

Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

Don't Throw Out the Baby with the Bath-Water. Part 2 in the Right to Protect Yourself

The citizens of the USA - and of every country - need the Second Amendment's rights to protect themselves from rape and pillage by both government agents and common criminals. But who do you need more protection against? Which can inflict the most damage? Lone individuals or an out-of-control dictator or government?

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Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

What Are You, since You're Not what you Have nor what you Do? Part 4 in the Secret of Success series

The key to real success, as we saw in the previous article in this series, is neither what you have, nor what you do. So what is it? How much time have you invested in contemplating this crucial question? First Reflect on Your Answer If you haven't already come up with your answer then please do so, it could change your life. Your successful implementation of this secret of success can only be achieved once you have come up with your own answer. Read that article, and spend as much time as you need.

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Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

Can You Both Be Right? How? Part 2 in the Disagreements series

You disagree. Yet this exploration has found that there's nothing wrong in disagreeing with others, disagreement is entirely natural as well as very common. Although disagreements may be inevitable, understanding that they are not inherently irresolvable will change your life. The good news is that you can do lots to resolve each one. Willingness is the secret of success

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Stress Management

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Will Dictating One Single Policy to Each State Solve the Problem? Part 10 in The Right Response?

The Problem of Prescriptive Solutions Management theory is clear, prescriptive solutions do not work. Why not? A solution imposed from outside stops you creating your own solution tailored to your circumstances. Since you are unique, different to everybody else, how can one size fit you and everybody else? Anyone suggesting they know the one and only best solution for a country the size of a continent with a quarter of a billion people and the world's largest GDP therefore makes no sense (often written as one word: nonsense).

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Stress Management

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What will You Be This Time? You Have a Choice! Part 6 in the Secret of Success series

The fundamental secret of success, as you saw in the previous article in this Secret of Success series, is your choice of what to be. Every time is different. There's no one answer or even a right answer to this crucial question. It's always: What am I this time? (I am, you are and he is form part of the verb: to be.) Another Secret of Success

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How and Why Democrats and Liberals can Believe Gun Bans Work. Part 4 in The Right Response?

Along with other liberals, President Obama believes that more stringent gun laws will make it more difficult for criminals to obtain firearms. Although banning guns does make it more difficult for law-abiding citizens to own them, their beliefs just ignore reality: Criminals don't get their guns by following the law. Let's explore some of the more common misunderstandings held by gun ban advocates. Gun Bans would Stop Criminals obtaining Guns

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Are They Even Listening? Part 1 of the 5 Steps to Mastery

Dinner with a New Date Without being too obvious, I'd successfully checked out my suspicions. My brand new strategy had worked and my inner smile was vast! I was enjoying dinner with a new date and she seemed to be listening politely. But was she more interested in talking rather than hearing what I was saying? It wouldn't change my life, but I was excited, this was my first opportunity to use a new technique that I'd only just read about. So I said, "But enough of me talking about me, why don't you talk about me for a change."

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The Government Response to the Previous School Massacre. Part 1 in The Right Response?

The 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook, Connecticut has disturbing similarities to the 1999 Columbine High School mass shooting where two angry young men slaughtered a teacher and twelve students. Since all actions have both seen and unseen consequences, an effective response to reduce the incidence as well as mitigate the effects of such massacres needs careful consideration. Unseen repercussions can often make a situation drastically worse. Economists now know lots about moral hazard, for example. The Response to such Massacres

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A Master Knows it from All Angles. But How do You Get There? Part 5 of the 5 Steps to Mastery

Great, you want to be a Master. But how do you achieve mastery? There's a big difference between authentic knowing and mastery, what is that difference, how do you bridge the gap? As with all the other steps, willingness to invest yet more effort is one secret of success in this last step to mastery.

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Stress Management

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By Cris BakerRecently published1 topic

Three Swedish Prosecutors Dismiss All Charges. Part 2 of the Truth on Assange

WikiLeaks, headed by Julian Assange, has released a whole bunch of American government emails showing how America deceives the world. Is he really being hunted by the American oligarchy, with the active cooperation of British and Swedish authorities? Or are the allegations of sexual assault against him real?

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Would Armed Security Guards at Every School Solve the Problem? Part 8 in The Right Response?

Lawmakers in a number of states realize that disarming responsible citizens is an ineffective way of stopping shooting sprees by criminals and deranged individuals. They are now considering a far more intelligent response to massacres of the unarmed: How to terminate ineffective laws and regulations eliminating a teacher's right to protect his or her students. Harrold School District

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Are you responsible? Totally responsible for your life? Part 1 in the Choice Series

As an adult, are you responsible for the circumstances of your life? Or someone else? It's comforting to believe that someone else is responsible, but is it true? Other people and situations have had some influence, large or small, but you are responsible. Why? Because you did whatever you did to get to your current situation, and you could have done something else. You're responsible! Furthermore, this is good news! In fact, it's outstandingly good news! Huh, I hear you ask, how come? Actions have Consequences

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The Sandy Hook School Massacre, Why Did it Happen? Part 1 in the Right to Protect Yourself

The Sandy Hook School Massacre The tragedy at Sandy Hook school in Newtown, Connecticut, where a lone gunman slaughtered 20 children and 7 adults, demands action - effective action. The burning question is how to prevent such slaughter in the future, without the law of unintended consequences making things worse.

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How do you Know What Does Work? Part 3 in the Do What Works series

Do What Works, and Don't Do what Doesn't Work is easily comprehended and provides enormous guidance. But it doesn't tell you what to do, that's where you come in. You need to make that decision. Your job is to ascertain what works, and what doesn't work for you. Which means the secret of success is to know what you're aiming to achieve. Only with the end in mind can you determine what works to get there. Without a goal, if you don't know where you're going, then any road will do! Should you Listen to Others?

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Inspiring Examples to Motivate You. Part 3 in the Portia Nelson series

The previous articles in this series explained how Portia Nelson's awesome poem, Autobiography in Five Short Chapters, identifies some of the difficulties in overcoming challenges in life, which she calls holes in the sidewalk. Illustrations can be very helpful, so let's look at some conduct in the various chapters. Chapter One The primitive revenge cycle of killings by what can only be called socially unaware although often educated individuals. There are numerous ongoing cases in many societies, fortunately less prevalent in the West.

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How the Power of Context can Supercharge your Results. Part 1 in the Secret of Success series

Why are their Results so Different? "What makes the difference in the results they achieve?" asked the instructor. She'd told us to assume two identically trained and equally capable lawyers have set up shop in opposite corners of the same town's main intersection. The woman lawyer has a thriving business, whereas the man barely makes a living.

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The Drawbacks to Being Cynical. Part 4 in the Approach to Life series

Is being cynical the best approach to life? Does it beat being either skeptical or gullible? Being cynical is a very negative way to approach your life. A cynic focuses on the problems rather than the benefits, sees what could go wrong and says no. He tends to reject things and experiences he doesn't know about in advance. You can change your life by seeing that, until you've experienced something, how can you know anything about it? So cynicism will steer you clear of what's new and exciting.

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Does Your Word have any Power? Part 1 in the Commitment series

Is your word to be trusted? How much of the time can your promises be relied on? Perhaps your answer depend on who you make the promise to. For many people, giving your word to another person is more important than a commitment they make to themselves. They value the way other people see them, so they prefer not to let someone else down. Yet they don't mind letting themselves down! Let's look at the enormous value, the immense benefits you gain by keeping your word. Respect

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Your Inner World is Very Different. Part 4 in the Personal Power series

Be Logical Our society teaches that it's right to be logical and, when dealing with the outside world, being logical is indeed very valuable. There's always at least one opposite, and logic deals very well with the opposite. You can change your life by investigating the possibilities and choosing the one that makes the most sense.

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How to Change Bad Habits! What Works - rather than what doesn't - in Breaking a Habit

Breaking bad habits is simple but not easy. Just do what works! But you need to avoid the common mistake that gets most people doing what doesn't work to break a habit instead. Explore the difference as you find out why I kept stopping smoking, and see how to increase your personal power and change your life with this crucial distinction.

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If Only is a Very Common Thought - Does It Do any Good? Part 3 in the Inner Motivation series

As you saw previously in this Inner Motivation series, everybody has both a negative and a positive side to their character. The Cherokee Indians say you have a black wolf strenuously promoting the negative, and your white wolf gently advocating the positive. Following the black wolf has arduous consequences, while the white wolf brings you more desirable circumstances. If Only ... In the past, how much time have you spent saying: "If only..."? As in: "If only this had happened," or: "If only I had done that?"

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If it Isn't Your Fault, Why are You in the Hole? Part 2 in the Portia Nelson series

The first article explained how Portia Nelson's outstanding poem, Autobiography in Five Short Chapters, identifies some of the difficulties to overcoming challenges in life, which she calls holes in the sidewalk. Each situation you encounter can help you gain the inner power to overcome future challenges. The secret of success is to realize that life doesn't just give you personal power without effort, instead it brings you situations in which you can develop the personal power you need. And you can also decline and stay where you are.

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