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Last night I received an email telling me that one of my favorite people in the world had passed on that morning. Now this isn’t my  first time dealing with death. I’ve lost a friend in high school, my grandpa Larry, my uncle Ben, and now Jean Airoldi. The best way I know how to handle death is to take your favorite parts of someone and add them to yourself, that way you make sure that the best parts of someone will always live on. Jean had no shortage of life lessons to choose from. She had lived intelligently, successfully and dynamically. There is not a person I can think of that did not love being around Jean. So how did she become dear to so many people, and what lessons can we all learn from her? (more…)

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Everyone hates failing. We go through great pains to avoid falling flat on our face. No one wants to do the wrong thing. But there is one mistake in particular that is worse than all other mistakes combined. They are the surest way to make sure that all your potential accomplishments fail. These mistakes will hold you back more than any prejudice or financial problem. So what two mistakes could be so great that they could do so much damage? (more…)

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No matter who you are, no matter how hard you try there will be times that you fail. Every successful person on the planet is intimately familiar with failure, but how do you know when its time to try again, or whether it is time to move on to a new project? How do you know when you’ve done enough, and what does that even mean? Enough for what?

There is a trap that people commonly fall into where none of the results they get are enough for them. When stuck in this trap you can become afraid of disappointing people or that you are not enough. This thought pattern is one of the surest ways to keep yourself from moving forward. So what mindset should be taken to get out of this trap, and how do you keep from falling in? (more…)

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Have you ever been frozen where you don’t know what to do next because there is just so much to do? You might of felt sad and not known why. Or have you ever just stopped doing something that you wanted to achieve and not picked it up again. What about good habits. Have you let them slip, have you kept your New Year Resolutions? Doesn’t it drive you nuts when you don’t know how to start again? This is something that I have been going through for almost a month, and I’ve been trying to find a way out of it. The good news is that  it  is a lot simpler to get out of than I thought it would be. (more…)

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We frequently hear about the rising divorce rate, and unhappy marriages, but people still want familes. There is nothing wrong with this, but these stories can be quite discouraging. The hope of marriage lasting seems all but gone. Does this mean that there is nothing we could do to make a marriage more likely to last? Not at all.

In my story, I make it clear that it was the idea of kids like me that really motivated me to delve into self improvement. One of the factors that I really wanted to take care of was a happy marriage. Its not fun or wholesome to grow up in a family where the mother and father do not get along, and if there is no example of what proper love is for a child growing up what standard will they have to measure love by when they are adults? So I started asking anyone who I saw that appeared to have a happy marriage, and I still read everything I can find on relationships and marriage. This is what I’ve found so far. (more…)