All posts tagged "experience life"
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What 21 Highly Successful People Were Doing Right Out of College
The first few years after college can be the launching pad for the rest of your career — it’s...
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Top 7 End of Year Gift Ideas
The gift of giving is all in the detail of knowing what moves your team, friend or loved...
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The Missing Piece Meets the Big O
The best children’s books, as Tolkien asserted and Sendak agreed, aren’t written for children; they are enjoyed by...
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Brain Magic
Keith shows us how our brains can fool our bodies – in a trick that works via podcast...
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The Power of Tears
“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out...
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Me and You and No Baby Makes Two
Picture this: I’m thirty-four years old. I’ve been married four and a half years. I don’t have any...
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The Art of Life
The Art of Life — an excerpt from A Minute for Me. My son Jon brought home a...
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Nothing Can Stop Her
On today’s episode of Women Rocking Wall Street, I have the pleasure of chatting with Michelle Duval, founder...
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Give it up for happiness
Giving up doesn’t always mean you’re weak; sometimes it simply means you are strong enough and smart enough...
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Deatheningly Silent
As grief emerges from within and how I learned to be present to it’s unfolding. In February 2014...
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Grief at Christmas
We already know that Christmas can suck like a Dyson if you don’t have the family portrait peddled...
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Transforming Communities
Artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn create community art by painting entire neighborhoods, and involving those who live...
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Problem Solving Strategies
We’re used to living in an either-or world—but when it comes to yes-or-no dilemmas, says Martha Beck, the...
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Let Me Take a Selfie
As a member of Generation X, I find selfies to be, well, almost comical. It’s photography taken by...
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Doorway to Wonder
Childhood is surreal. Why shouldn’t children’s books be? In this whimsical talk, award-winning author Mac Barnett speaks about...
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HeForShe
UN Women Global Goodwill Ambassador, Emma Watson, delivers her moving remarks during the HeForShe Special Event at United...
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Dear Children…
Dear Boys, Do you remember the day we went to the drugstore and the lady said, “Wow, you...
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Resilience for Life
Resilience, as you probably know, is the ability to ‘bounce back’, to recover from difficulties. Resilience is something...
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Parenting Goals
The parenting section of the bookstore is overwhelming—it’s “a giant, candy-colored monument to our collective panic,” as writer...
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Embracing the Near Win
At her first museum job, art historian Sarah Lewis noticed something important about an artist she was studying:...
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Promise of a Pencil
It all started in the club. The music was thumping, the strobe lights were popping and this guy...
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21 Day No Complaint!
“This $@#&ing Mac will be the death of me. Intuitive, my ass.” It just slipped out, and I...
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Parenting for the Future
Best Parenting Ideas for 2014 Everyone wants to be the best parent they can be, and a new...
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Beyond Leaning In
Sheryl Sandberg admits she was terrified to step onto the TED stage in 2010 — because she was...
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Family New Year’s Resolutions
(for lyrics of the song click here) “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering...
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End of Year Reflection
Year End Review Questions 365 days are about to come to pass. Before moving into the New Year...
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Intellectual & New Age Nightmares
On Intellectuals and Other New-Age Nightmares The entire New Age movement–using that term in its broadest and most...
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Living on the Edge of Everything
Last December, I went to the grand finale concert of the Rolling Stones’ highly acclaimed 50th anniversary tour...
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Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions
New Year’s Eve has always been a time for looking back to the past, and more importantly, forward...
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Child of the State
At TED – Literature has long been fascinated with fostered, adopted and orphaned children, from Moses to Cinderella...
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Peaceful Parent
There is no such thing as stress-free parenting. A reader requested that I share my thoughts on stress-free...
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9/11 Mothers
At TEDxSiliconValley – Phyllis Rodriguez and Aicha el-Wafi have a powerful friendship born of unthinkable loss. Rodriguez’ son...
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Eckhart Tolle & Cesar Millan
Eckhart Tolle talks with Cesar Millan about his trust in animals, living in the present and what dogs...
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The Path From “No” to “Yes”
The Walk From “No” to “Yes” William Ury, author of “Getting to Yes,” offers an elegant, simple (but...
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How To Live Before You Die
At his Stanford University commencement speech, Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple and Pixar, urges us to...
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Measuring What Makes Life Worthwhile
What do you count? It’s common to count numbers and/or count on people. But is that what is...
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Erogenous Zones
How to make love with all three bodies! No, we aren’t talking about a threeway (though that’s not...
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Avoiding the Tiger Woods Trap!
We are at the time of year where many of us are thinking about our goals and aspirations...
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The Unique Self
What do you think of when you hear the words “Unique Self”? Childhood memories of gold stars and...
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With Love from Shirlaws
Some countries are currently experiencing recessionary times; this is not necessarily a bad thing – it can be...
