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How To Stay Healthy This Holiday Season – Life Skills

November 23, 2009

To help you have a healthy as well as happy holiday season, I offer you the following recommendations, along with my best wishes to you and yours for an enjoyable season filled with love and gratitude.

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What To Do With Your Bottled Up Feelings – Life Skills

November 16, 2009

Today’s post is about dealing with your bottled up feelings, and how to develop your emotional intelligence. It is in response to a comment I received on my blog a little while back, in which a reader wrote:

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Paved With Good Intentions – Why You Do What You Do, What You Can Do About It

November 9, 2009

When your problems surface in your awareness as problems, I think you’ll find it instructive and constructive to interpret your awareness of problems as signals from your subconscious that you’re ready for a change and able to make new choices. If your conscious mind sets the direction, then your subconscious is likely to follow.

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How Do We Resolve Conflict With Others? – Reply To A Reader

November 2, 2009

I love the idea of resolving conflict instead of suffering it and making it worse. I frequently do this kind of work with my coaching clients and organizational clients. Effective communication is the key, and breaking the chains of reaction in yourself and then others is the beginning of it.

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Bonus Post! Vitamin D and Elderberry for Influenza (H1N1 Infection)

October 30, 2009

I hope this post helps calm you about the H1N1 virus that has so many people frightened these days, and that you can use this information for your own health and peace of mind. The post is a little technical, but worth it for you. Without further ado, here’s Sylvia!

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Dealing With Your Reaction To Criticism – Response to A Reader

October 26, 2009

By identifying a good internal response ahead of time and then rehearsing it a bit in the privacy of your own mind, you can give yourself the advantage of being prepared, and the other person the benefit of your verbal gratitude.

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Motivating A Team During Downsizing – Persuasive Communication

October 19, 2009

All the vision and goals stuff in the world won’t speak to the away motivation of a person afraid. Indeed, it may have the opposite effect. No, you can’t motivate anyone but yourself, but you can speak to the interests of people so they find their motivation. To me, that is the art of motivation.

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How To Brainstorm Successfully – Life Skills

October 12, 2009

What matters is that whenever you have an outcome, it’s useful to come at it in a lot of different ways before settling on the best way, in order to keep tunnel vision from narrowing your range of powerful possibilities.

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