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Self-Expression & self control

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Constant Complaining: Does It Serve Us?

One of the major sources of dissatisfaction and stress in our lives is our ongoing desire to control what happens to us—to get what we want and get rid of what we don't want. I refer to this type of desire as the state of “want, don’t-want.

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Rachel Naomi Remen: The Life Force (Excerpt)—from Thinking Allowed w/ Jeffrey Mishlove

Rachel Naomi Remen describes the awe and power of the life force-that enables thin blades of grass to grow up through concrete sidewalks. She emphasizes that we cut ourselves off from the power of the life force when we edit ourselves in accordance with the approval and disapproval of others.

Rachel Naomi Remen

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Power Money Fame Sex: A User’s Guide

Learn from Michael Jordan, Robert Moses, Machiavelli, and Madonna—here, at last, is the guide for using power, money, fame, and sex that describes what actually works, rather than what ought to work.

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FindCenter If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Marcus Aurelius

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Don’t Share Your Goals! Why Sharing Your Goals is a Bad Idea?

Do you find yourself always setting goals but then struggling to actually achieve them? Have you been embarrassed that you shared your goals with your friends and family, only to never make any real progress? Do you find yourself starting over again and again? What if I told you that sharing your...

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Why Can’t We Think Straight When We Get Defensive?

Defensiveness lives in our bodies; It’s not just a matter of controlling ourselves; the minute we feel any kind of threat it takes over. So how to we get rid of it?

Sharon Strand Ellison

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FindCenter Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

William Shakespeare

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FindCenter Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

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FindCenter If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

Marcus Aurelius

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FindCenter My hesitancy in speech, which was once an annoyance, is now a pleasure. Its greatest benefit has been that it has taught me the economy of words. I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts.

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