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72 Reasons You Should Never Get A Job

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Before you get all bent out of shape from the headline, let me point out that I do not deny the validity of reasons to getting a job. Heavens no, so relax. There are good reasons to working for an establishment and earning a paycheck. I have had plenty of jobs and at least one really cushy job and one day, I may write about The Worst and Best Jobs I Ever Had, and we can swap fun stories over comments and coffee.

But that’s not the agenda for today. [Read more…] about 72 Reasons You Should Never Get A Job

You Can Heal Your Life (and Survive Your Family) with Louise Hay

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“Every thought we think is creating our future”
~ Louise Hay

So many of us are just suffering quietly inside, and pretending that the world is just fine and peachy. So many of us would never utter a word about our inner tumult to anyone and in fact, I am certain that Louise Hay wrote her book “You Can Heal Your Life” for the silently misguided souls among us much more so than the ones that are openly unhappy and miserable and in dire need of help. [Read more…] about You Can Heal Your Life (and Survive Your Family) with Louise Hay

The Inner Conflict between Luxury and Simplicity

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I desperately want a Prada bag.

A genuine, $5000, brand spanking new Prada bag, and I want to buy it in Tokyo and Tokyo alone.

In Japan, every woman (at least, every woman that I saw during my 4 separate trips and incalculable hours walking the streets of Tokyo and Kyoto) carries either a Prada, a Gucci or a Louis Vuitton. [Read more…] about The Inner Conflict between Luxury and Simplicity

Discover Your Higher Self: Get Your 21-Step Confidence Building Series

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Spring is here. The mornings are crisp. The breeze is intoxicating. The trees show off a lushness and richness that is a feast to the eyes, even if you have seen it a thousand times before.

And life is good, very good indeed, despite anything and everything that you may have going on. All it takes is you believing it to be so. A little trick of nature, a little game of the universe, a little irony for our own good. Life is Good if you just believe it to be good.

That’s just it, isn’t it? What things we believe, what thoughts we think, what stories we tell ourselves. That becomes our very reality. In theory, it is so simple that we must all be fools to think a single negative thought at any instant in time – and yet, human nature has endowed us with endless challenges. [Read more…] about Discover Your Higher Self: Get Your 21-Step Confidence Building Series

The Power of Positive Thinking: 22 Thoughts to Change Your Life

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The Power of Positive Thinking

In my lovely Iranian culture, where the power of positive thinking and inner peace hardly makes an appearance, I grew up seeing the terrible impact of this mindset around me all the time: Some people were apparently born lucky and others, well, not so lucky.

“We are each responsible for all of our experiences.”
Louise Hay

I would hear grown ups talk about how “lucky” this person is and how sadly this other person’s life turned out. How someone ended up with their own company or rich by marriage and oh how it was always about “luck”!

It was really scary to think of myself tossed into the well of life and swished around uncontrollably as I waited with baited breath to see if life spits me out as lucky or unlucky. “Oh God, please let me be the “lucky” kind.” I would beg in my childhood prayers, “I don’t like the stuff they say about the “unlucky” ones!” [Read more…] about The Power of Positive Thinking: 22 Thoughts to Change Your Life