Let’s see… Your deadline for that essay is tomorrow but you still can’t get a word out of you. You’re suffering from a writing deficiency beginner writers have. Some people think writing is easy and trivial. But that’s cheap talk. An articulate person can have all year to write a bestseller and still end up [...]

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We all have our priorities and we all strive to meet our expectations. Our priorities and expectations are our batteries in life – they are what gets us going. Coincidentally, these two are also the things which give us the inevitable feeling of anxiety. Being anxious is not so bad, if you can live through [...]

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Each one of us has a guilty pleasure. Admit that you are either a chocolate addict, a chain smoker, a junkie, a couch potato or an alcoholic. Whichever you are, you are in grave danger – a danger to yourself because of your inability to discipline yourself. Your big problem can be blamed to a [...]

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Your job should make your life comfortable. I say this at the very beginning because even though the very essence of a job is to earn a living, some people actually have jobs which pay less than what they need. Are you scraping for a decent budget every paycheck but you can’t leave your job [...]

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When someone is successful, it’s said that that person is going places. If you’re based in New York, but you have a business meeting in Tokyo next week, and a presentation in Berlin two days after, how do you cope with the long hours of flying?

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Kids find happiness at the smallest of things: new toy, slides, balloons, and candy canes. You try your best to give your kids the best and it just breaks your heart to see them cry. Yes, being a parent includes all these: but at the end of each night the question you should ask yourself [...]

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People get sad for so many reasons; and sometimes, for no reason at all. It’s the nature of the human emotion to go through bouts of depression sometimes. But the problem is when you take these bouts for granted. We don’t recommend that you hastily go to a therapist, but you should nonetheless definitely treat [...]

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Most of the things in your life that went wrong last year were due to your lack of organization. You didn’t get the promotion because you failed to meet some deadlines, you didn’t close the deal because you lost your documents, and you got dumped because you forgot her birthday. This time, you’re a new [...]

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Every year, a large number of families move from one place to another. Migration is not always as easy or exciting. Sometimes migration is more than moving on to greener pastures. It also means leaving behind the place you’ve called home, the people you grew up with, and the entire neighborhood where you’ve had most [...]

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The year is young and you’ve got a lot to live for this year. It’s quite normal for people to have some. But perhaps before you really delve deeper into 2008, you might want to resolve some unfinished business so you can really set off to a new start. Indeed one truly appreciates the need [...]

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That’s the way it is. The New Year means a new pile of all the good stuff: more opportunities to further career, another chance at love, and maybe even a new outlook in life. If you’ve been in the dumps, failed at your every attempt at promotion, or just plain depressed, then you better get [...]

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Planning a perfect family Christmas dinner is exciting. So is preparing the house for the guests, sending out greeting cards, and making that fruitcake everyone loves. But after you close the door to your last guest, what comes next is a big snowballing reality of stress that may bog you down even before the New [...]

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You still don’t have a gift for your kids, friends and loved ones? Don’t worry, there are a lot of us out there. I mean who has time to actually try to figure out a gift list for people, right? Yes, and we always have excuses. Anyway, here are a few gift ideas that might [...]

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Every year, at least one of our family members turns into a Grinch – mean, green, and irritable. And also every year we avoid this person, fearing that his dark cloud will not eat up your holiday spirit.

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So you forgot that 3 PM meeting with the boss? Forgot to buy dog food again? Lights are off because you forgot to pay the bills? Getting older isn’t too kind for one who’s born forgetful. Here are a few things that can help you keep track of things that you often forget.

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