I love my snooze button, in fact, I am sure most of us do. But is it good for us to hit that buzzer every ten minutes in the morning? According to a recent study the snooze button may be doing us more harm than good. At best you’re using a psychological crutch without any […]
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Lately I have been getting some emails from people wondering how I write my blog and if I am willing to be a guest blogger for them, which I would be happy to do, if anyone ever comes up with a concrete offer. I don’t know how one writes a blog. I am very
It’s amazing what we can learn from monkeys, just like it’s amazing what children learn from us. Think about what you are teaching, think about the lessons you are passing on to those who come after. After all, we don’t have the excuse,”they’re wild animals, what do you expect?” We are supposed to be a
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Whether you like the way it looks or not, so much of our identity is tied up in our faces, we study them, pick at them, put makeup on them, sometimes have surgery on them if our ears stick out or our nose looks too much like grandpa’s, most of us cannot even imagine having
[Last Updated: November 12th 2012] This adorable pit bull cross, named Harper, was born with a deformity known as “swimmer puppy syndrome.” The front legs are splayed out stiffly preventing them from walking. Harper was found in a garbage bag on the side of the road, abandoned by a dog breeder. She was taken to
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I remember as a teen my mom telling me that however I thought of myself would determine what others thought of me, what she didn’t say was that if I truly loved myself, what others thought would really not matter. Self love did not come easy for me, I have two disastrous marriages and two
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Fear and ignorance. Everyone of us been there. Never more so than in the face of AIDS. Accurate knowledge will simplify decision making and dispel fears. About 20 years ago, I had completed an AIDS volunteer course then enrolled in a Hot Rap Safer Sex course with the AIDS Committee of London. I wouldn’t say
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It’s rather funny, I have worked hard my whole life, I was never rich, but I had enough. It’s amazing how many little luxuries you have that you don’t even realize are luxuries, but in most countries they are. Even when I felt my budget was stretched to the limit I had enough money to
Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
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A little girl and her father were crossing a bridge. The father was kind of scared so he asked his little daughter: ”Sweetheart, please hold my hand so that you don’t fall into the river.” The little girl said: “No, Dad. You hold my hand.” ”What’s the difference?” Asked the puzzled father. ”There’s a big
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By Daniel Chidiac “Sometimes people take the great things you are doing as a personal attack on their own life. Do not let their insecurities dishearten you.” -Daniel Chidiac- I was shopping for a pet fish for my nephew, and I explained to the attendant that I couldn’t have one that grew too large as
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I used to get tired of always being the strong woman, of carrying so much weight on my shoulders, and then I realized I am the Warrior Princess and it is my destiny to carry the problems of others. Once I realized I was fulfilling my own destiny the weight became much easier to bear.
To obtain personal growth and satisfaction with yourself and your body at any size we must first learn to stop labeling our food, “good food” and “bad food,” do not blame your size issues on the poor innocent food! The food was delicious, granted, but we wanted it to be, so therefore it was meeting
“It takes a simple-minded man to linger around those who are praised, yet a courageous man to pick up those who have fallen.”¯Daniel Chidiac Walking through Bourke Street Mall, the main street in the heart of Melbourne, Australia, I passed a distressed man sitting against a shop front. Near him lay a beanie, a cup,
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A while back, at the entrance of a gym, there was a picture of a very thin and beautiful woman. The caption was “This summer, do you want to be a mermaid or a whale?” The story goes, a woman (of clothing size unknown) answered the following way: “Dear people, whales are always surrounded by
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