acknowledge power of thoughts

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Acknowledge The Power of Your Thoughts: Where your mind goes, your actions follow

There is a saying: “No individual raindrop takes responsibility but still the flood happens.” Similarly, the daily cascade of your idle thoughts

oscillating narrative

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The Resilient Power of Creating an Oscillating Narrative with an Upward Trend

We all have a “life story” we tell ourselves, a way we interpret the world around us. It is part self-concept, part

deep learning

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Deep Learning

A major challenge in life is to do as well as we know. To know and not do is to not know.

happiness advantage

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The Happiness Advantage

What if EVERYTHING you thought you knew about how to be happy was flat out wrong? We tend to assume that our

mindfulness

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Mindfulness

Mindfulness is being fully present in the present moment in a peaceful manner. “Mindfulness is also clearing the mind, stilling the mind,

four way test

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Four-Way Test

Recently The Collier Companies’ Senior Team reviewed the final draft of TCC’s Team Member Policy Manual, which contains standards of conduct to

power of neg thinking

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“The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results,” by Bobby Knight

Bobby Knight defines negative thinking as “recognizing, addressing, and removing obstacles to winning” and goes on to say that victory tends to

happy people

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16 Things Happy People Do Differently

1. Practice an “Attitude of Gratitude”: Happy people don’t have the best of everything rather, they make the best of everything. 2.

complaining-explaining

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Skip the Complaining, Go Straight to the Explaining

Even the best intended (or most needed) constructive criticism is often not accepted constructively. Most of us could benefit from being more

fundamental attribution error

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Beware Fundamental Attribution Error

Humans tend to explain outcomes in terms of internal factors such as personality abilities as opposed to the external situation. When one

stories that bond us

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The Stories That Bond Us, Strengthen Us

We all tell ourselves stories to help us understand life and the events that happened to us. Developing a strong, positive narrative

faith based spending

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Faith-Based Spending

“Faith-based spending” is when you spend your money without really knowing if you are getting any benefit from it. In a business