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5 Facts You Need To Know About Depression
Chris Green

Around 18 million US citizens suffer from stress, depression and anxiety every year and for many of them, understanding why they endure the torment is difficult to establish. This is because of the many “magic bullet myths” associated with these problems. Here are five such myths along with the root cause as to why stress, anxiety and depression arise.

How Fear Is Grinding Your Face Into The Dirt
Chris Green

Without doubt, the worst enemy you will face in your entire life lies within you. Fear, the most powerful and destructive of our emotions, will do its level best to spoil each and every opportunity that comes your way.

Fear does this to every human being. It is a part of human nature. If you’re like most people, you will be influenced by fear and you will be unaware of the consequences. Because unlike your monthly paycheck, the wages of fear are paid much, much later.

How To Play to Your Strengths
Peter Murphy

There is a common mistake many people make when they want to improve their people skills. You may even make the same mistake
at times without noticing.

This mistake involves focusing so much on your apparent weaknesses that you neglect your strengths and disempower yourself even further. Self improvement then becomes a painful introspective experience that never improves your life.

How to know if you make this mistake...

The Art Of Remarkable Leadership
Gail Solish

Leadership is defined as the capacity or ability to guide others to accomplish an objective. To provide leadership, one needs to be a leader.

The following is a quote that captures the essence of a great leader:

* The six most important words: "I admit I made a mistake."
* The five most important words: "You did a good job."
* The four most important words: "What is your opinion?"
* The three most important words: "If you please."
* The two most important words: "Thank you."
* The one most important word: "We."

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How To Deal With Rude People
Peter Murphy

Where I live there seems to be a a growing population of rude and vulgar people. And no matter how hard I wish for things to change it is not going to happen. It is up to me to change how I think and feel about these people. The same applies for you.

1 What Does It Mean When Someone Is Rude?

Your initial angry reaction may be to think the person is a moron but that only makes matters worse as it will comes across in the way you talk.

10 Key Strategies for Maintaining a Positive Attitude at Work and Home
Kate Smalley

Having a positive attitude is an important component of business productivity. When we view ourselves positively, we accept who we
are and enable ourselves to soar to the greatest heights. But oftentimes, professionals may have the skills and expertise they need to work effectively but negative attitudes undermine their efforts and diminish their results. Here are 10 essential strategies for maintaining a positive attitude at work and home.

A Simple Secret For Making More Friends
Royane Real

Are you open to liking the people that you meet?

When you meet new people for the first time, do you usually like most of the new people that you meet?

Or do you find that you usually dislike new people, unless they can eventually prove after a long time that they deserve your friendship?

Perhaps you have never thought about this before. And you may even wonder if it's really important. Does it really matter very much if you like most people when you first meet them, or if you decide to like them later on, after you get to know them better?

Every Failure Is An Opportunity In Disguise
Richard Saldan

As much as we would all love to live an easy life with endless resources and finances, most people might admit that life would be pretty monotonous if there were no obstacles or failures. Evidence of this might be seen by watching the celebrity gossip television programs, where the rich and famous of Hollywood seem to bounce from one crisis to another, seemingly bored of living the good life. How many times have you watch such stories in the news, and thought what you would do to benefit humanity if you could have their vast resources of wealth, power and influence.

Take Me "As Is"
Steve Goodier

On her 50th wedding anniversary, a woman revealed the secret of her long and happy marriage. She said, "On my wedding day, I decided to make a list of ten of my husband's faults which, for the sake of the marriage, I would overlook."

One of her guests asked her what some of the faults she chose to overlook were. "To tell you the truth," she replied, "I never did get around to making that list. But whenever my husband did something that made me hopping mad, I would say to myself, 'Lucky for him that's one of the ten!'"

10 Ways to Kick the Procrastination Habit!
Julie Plenty

I recently read about a survey (by the University of Chicago) which suggested that those who relish challenge are more likely to live up to 10 years longer than those who spend their lives inhibited by timidity.

Trying to realise our ambitions, even if we don’t always meet them, is preferable to not having the courage or motivation to take the risk. So not making any resolutions because we fear that we’ll break them is having a defeatist attitude, as we allow procrastination to become an insidious habit which stops us from leading more fulfilling lives.