Do you balance work, rest, and play?

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Ever find yourself dwelling on “what is going wrong …?” Thinking about the bad stuff, what we did wrong, the mistakes that we made…

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From the early pioneers like Napoleon Hill to today’s monumental giants like Tony Robbins it’s been said that we arrive on this planet without an instruction manual.

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Laughter really is the best medicine, isn’t it? Real honest to goodness happy laughter.
Joel has another killer post at Fearless Dreams:
Laughter and jokes and play are undervalued in our serious adult world.
We think of all of these as entertainment, just a way to escape the stress and burdens of a threatening world which weighs us [...]

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What’s it take to be an Olympic Athlete? Here are some thoughts on that subject.

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From the PsychSense blog – Here’s a good article on just what our stress costs us. Doctors and Shrinks have been telling us for a very long time that excessive stress is damaging to our health, and the Alternative Healers tell us the same thing.
Stress also comes with a lot of costs that aren’t obvious. [...]

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This is a guest article from Denise Landers, about some techniques to use to combat absentmindedness. Now, my mind is frequently absent, but I have used these techniques and they work for me when my mind is actually in attendance.
“I can’t remember… where I put that report… the name of their contact person… where my [...]

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There’s a very interesting post on FearlessDreams that you might want to look at. Here’s a clip:
Out of Control?
Are you in control of your life?
Life is wonderful, and dangerous and unpredictable.
Sure, you pretend that you have everything under control.
But you know that’s not true.
Pretending to be in control makes you feel safe.
And everyone wants to [...]

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Lots of motivational quotes say something along the lines of Think Positive Thoughts. Stop Think Negative Thoughts. Ok, fair enough. Now we have this question: How do we think positive and not think negative thoughts?

The short answer is this: concentrate on thinking the thoughts you want to think, all the time, every time. Catch yourself [...]

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I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.
It covers:

The best blogging techniques.
How to get traffic to your blog.
How to turn your blog into money.

I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve [...]

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