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The Importance of Motivation

June 28, 2010
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This is a guest post by Dia Thabet.
Dia Thabet has been studying personal development for over 10 years.  He coaches people on how to achieve their goals, think positively, and have healthy relationships.  For further information, please visit 2achieveyourgoals.
Don’t you agree that motivation is one of the best tools to success?  Don’t you agree with me that without being motivated, we won’t accomplish much?
When you are motivated, you have more energy.  When you are not motivated, you don’t feel like doing anything.  You energy will be low, your performance will be poor, and you won’t be able to concentrate on [...]

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The Life Skills Challenge (Win A …….)

June 23, 2010
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This is the second round of The Life Skills Challenge.
The Life Skills Challenge is run once a month and it involves leaving a simple comment stating why you deserve to win the book of the month.  The last round was successful and there were 9 winners (3 are yet to confirm receipt of their books)
The books for this month are as follows:
7 Habits Of Highly Effective People By Stephen Covey (2 copies)
Everyone Communicates Few Connect By John Maxwell (2 copies)
***Important Information: If you are a blogger or an author and would like to contribute to the challenge by giving out your ebook or [...]

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40 Ways To Feel Good About Yourself

June 17, 2010
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Some strange facts emerged today:
‘Feeling Grumpy Is Good For You’. A research carried out by Professor Joe Forgas of The University of New South Wales suggests grumpy people cope with more demanding situations than happy people because of the way the brain “promotes information processing strategies”. His experiments showed in contrast to those annoying happy types, miserable people are better at decision-making and less gullible. (Culled From The BBC Website).
Did anyone sigh? Now, I understood the concept of the article but felt it should have drawn a parallel with moderate optimism hmmh!!!(I may be wrong)
I also stumbled on this headline [...]

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Why It Is Foolish To Feel Bad When People Judge You

June 14, 2010
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This is a guest post by M.Farouk Radwan .
M.Farouk Radwan is the writer of 2knowmyself.com. He is a full time blogger and his work has received coverage on several middle eastern TV channels and popular newspapers such as OTV, MBC, El Youm TV, Cairo today, International Herald Tribune,  el Ahram newspaper and monowa3at TV.
One of the most popular causes for lack of self confidence is becoming one hundred percent dependent on others to feel confident and worthy.
The problem with that approach is if people judged you in a negative way; you will feel bad and sometimes worthless. 
There is no doubt that in order to become really confident; you shouldn’t really [...]

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The Fifth Edition Of The Life Skills Magazine Is Out Now!!

June 8, 2010
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It’s that time of the month again and ………
I am pleased to inform every reader and subscriber to this blog, the fifth edition of The Life Skills Magazine is out now!!!
It contains a Bumper Edition which is dedicated to anyone living with Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS).
It’s been a hectic 7/10days putting all this together, spending money, collating articles despite coming down with hay fever but WE did it.
A big thank you to everyone who contributed to this months edition and a big shout out to Dominique who inspired the bumper edition.
A TEASER TO WHET YOUR APPETITE
Open publication – Free publishing – More [...]

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