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John Wooden on True Success and Winning

By on Monday, October 12th, 2009 | No Comments

Success and winning are two misunderstood subjects.  Many people are striving for success and want to “win”, yet their understanding of what that means gets all muddled up with competition and being better than someone else. John Wooden has been called the “best coach of all time”.  His record is unmatched by any other. Wouldn’t [...]

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How Do I Practice Postive Parenting? Tip 4 – Discipline

By on Thursday, October 8th, 2009 | 2 Comments

I remember, when I was young and single, how seeing a unruly child’s behavior swore to myself that “I will never have a child that acts like that!”  Be careful of that kind of statements.  It seems whenever we make those kind of statements, the world will conspire against us.  When we do have children, [...]

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How Do I Practice Postive Parenting? Tip 3

By on Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 | No Comments

Are you a manipulator?  Most of us would love to say emphatically,  “heck no!”.  Is that true? Many people use a very manipulative tactic that gets passed down from generation to generation like grandma’s china in the china cabinet.  It is a family tradition.  This tool is one of the biggest failing in our quest [...]

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How Do I Practice Positive Parenting? Tip 2

By on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 | No Comments

It is a very busy world today.  We have more modern conveniences and less time.  How did that happen?  The world is moving so fast.  Families are caught up in whirl winds of activities.  Quite a few families have both parents working. Then, there are after school activities such as dance and sports.  It becomes [...]

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How Do I Practice Positive Parenting? Tip 1

By on Monday, October 5th, 2009 | No Comments

Are you raising children right now? Do you ever have days when you wonder if you will survive it? If either question rings true, I have some positive parenting tips for you. I am not a professional child psychologist, social worker, or have any degree in child development. The only parenting education degree I hold [...]

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How Can I Keep My Jar Full Of Joy, Happiness and Fulfillment?

By on Friday, October 2nd, 2009 | 5 Comments

The best gifts we give ourselves are the gifts we give to others. That sounds like a paradox doesn’t it? In  the dictionary, a paradox is described as “a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.” Does that really pertain to joy, happiness and fulfillment? I have [...]

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Tony Robbins – What Motivates Us and Why Do We Do What We Do?

By on Thursday, October 1st, 2009 | 2 Comments

Have you ever wondered why, with so many things that make us alike, we have so many differences that pull us apart?  We are emotional human beings.  We have basic human needs that motivate us.  But, could it be that we each have a different set of priorities which we use for motivation? I know what I wrote [...]

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