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What do you Think?

Mark Twain wrote: “A man’s private thought can never be a lie.  What he thinks is, to him, the truth, always.” When we are dealing with another person it is important to remember this quote.  Other than with the person who is a pathological liar, we can begin to break down barriers between us when

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Words have power

“I have a 9:00 meeting with the staff and I am going to have to battle to get their attention” If this is how you go into your 9:00 meeting, guess what, even if everyone is on your side, even if everyone agrees with you, your impression is going to be that you had to

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The Sun Also Rises

365 days a year the sun rises, but never twice in the exact same place. 365 times in the past year the sun has found a way to do things from a new place, but what about you?  Are you stuck doing exactly the same thing exactly the same way each and every day simply because it

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Stand in your own Power

What does it mean to stand in your own power?  It means: 1) being aware of what you are doing 2) knowing why you are doing it, and 3) doing it in a manner which supports your goals, and the best in everyone concerned. This is being In-powered. At Choiceful Living Seminars, through the In-powerment program, what we want

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I don’t need to be loved

That’s right, I do not need to be loved.  Is this counter to everything you have learned over your years?  How can someone not need to be loved? The key to this statement is in the word need. When we go about our day needing to be loved, we make choices which do not necessarily

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Thank you, Good job

Most of us are pretty good at saying “thank you” when someone does something for us.  Sometimes we even say “Good job!” when something is done for us which makes us happy.  Yea for us, this is the way it should be, still there is one person to whom we too often neglect to recognize

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Nothing Truly Exists

Nothing truly exists. Can you embrace this idea?  We have walked up to this idea step by step.  If you have yet to read the two previous blogs, please do so now so we can be on the same page. If nothing truly exists except where we give our attention, then how truly real is whatever

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You Don’t Exist

Sometime in my past I was told a common Native American belief was that when we die, everything and everybody else ceases to exist. Maybe this is a common Native American concept, maybe not, but if we follow the premise and add my previous blog to the equation, the idea does not seem all that

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I Don’t Exist

Don’t stop to think about it, just answer these questions: how tall am I?  Am I 6′ tall or 5’2″.  Do I weigh 325 pounds or 98 pounds?  Do I have a high voice or a bass voice?  The answer to these questions: I am all of them, and dozens of more things depending upon

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