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Happiness And Success Is In Your Hands

Your future happiness and success can rest on your handshake.

How do people get a simple thing like a handshake so wrong? It is surprising fact that we remember bad handshakes, sometimes for a long while. This just goes to show how important we regard them.

Handshaking, as a greeting, has been around for a long time. Humans are social animals and a warm tactile touch is essential for social interaction. Handshaking is common but not universal. In some cultures a hug is prefered to handshaking, in others a short bow is a more polite greeting. Middle Eastern woman must … Read the full article

Grow To A Million Dollars

The nice thing about working on your personal growth is that when you make a concerted, dedicated effort to improve some part of your life, there’s an excellent chance that you will succeed in the long run. You may have a lot of gunk to clear out in terms of limiting beliefs, and you may be starting from a disadvantaged position, but given enough time, it’s entirely possible to completely rework some part of your life for the better.

For example, you have the potential to go from rags to riches, from shy to socially confident, or from unhealthy to

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Banish Frustration

If you’re feeling frustrated, it means you’re holding a vibe that aligns with a reality that you don’t want.

How do you create the vibe of frustration? It’s pretty easy. Simply observe your reality, and then resist or reject some aspect of it. Look at your financial situation, and resist it. Look at your job, and resist it. Look at your relationship (or lack thereof), and resist it.

Once you’re holding the frustration vibe, you’ve locked in your resistance. So reality responds accordingly. It says, “Oh… you’re holding a vibe that aligns with what you don’t want. So here’s plenty

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Clarity

If a lack of clarity prevents you from taking action, then find or develop a process to gain sufficient clarity to act. Stop acting like this is an unsolvable problem. yout isn’t.

One basic method begins with writing a mission statement that encapsulates the core purpose of your life.

Mission Statement

Your mission statement is your proposed contract with life. your basically answers two questions:

What do you want to contribute?
What do you want to receive?

For example your business mission statement could be:

to explore, clarify, and elegantly codify conscious growth
to challenge the status quo, to take

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Grab Your Inspiration Out Of The Air Waves

Ask yourself, “What is the inspiration of this moment? What am I inspired to do now? What is the next wave of energy?”

Pause and listen for a moment, but not with your ears. Listen like a radio antenna listens for a radio signal. When you catch the edge of the signal, tune into its frequency. Let it become stronger, louder, clearer, just as you might manually tune an analog radio dial.

Recognize that you’re an analog being too. You don’t simply press a button and lock into inspiration immediately. You have to tune into the signal.

You may perceive

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Let Your Old World Collapse

Are you contemplating a major career or lifestyle transition. Your story have many variations, but they typically have these elements in common:

dissatisfaction with their current work or lifestyle (or lack of meaningful work)
feeling that they’re on the wrong path (possibly for years)
feeling of being on a treadmill that goes nowhere
feeling of stress linked to their situation (sometimes dreading going to work)
feeling that something needs to change and that the clock is ticking
feeling of pressure to get something going
desire to contribute in a way that that feels inspired, meaningful, and fulfilling
desire to make

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The Power Of Eleven Eleven Again and Again

11:11 tends to be discussed mainly in private, among people who are already familiar with it or those who are just awakening to it. A few people, including Uri Geller, have spoken about it, but most of the material on 11:11 tends to be fairly obscure.

What Is 11:11?

There are many levels on which to explain 11:11. I’ll start with the most basic physically observable level and move up from there. This will take a bit of explaining.

11 is a number of course, and 11:11 is a time on a clock. Some very small percentage of people will

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Stamp On Complaining Now

Perhaps the most important step in quitting the habit of complaining is to disconnect the undesirable behavior from your identity. A common mistake chronic complainers make is to self-identify with the negative thoughts running through their minds. Such a person might admit, “I know I’m responsible for my thoughts, but I don’t know how to stop myself from thinking negatively so often.” That seems like a step in the right direction, and to a certain degree it is, but it’s also a trap. It’s good to take responsibility for your thoughts, but you don’t want to identify with those thoughts

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What Are You Doing Here?

How do you discover your real purpose in life? This is not talking about your job, your daily responsibilities, or even your long-term goals. This mean the real reason why you’re here at all — the very reason you exist.

Perhaps you’re a rather nihilistic person who doesn’t believe you have a purpose and that life has no meaning. Doesn’t matter. Not believing that you have a purpose won’t prevent you from discovering it, just as a lack of belief in gravity won’t prevent you from tripping. All that a lack of belief will do is make it take longer.

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