You Are an Extraordinary Survivor

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We often underestimate our strength to survive difficult and even life-threatening situations.

We are all survivors.  We all face challenges and threats that we live to tell about.  Some situations are more extreme than others, but we all have skills that enable us to fight to stay alive and thrive.

You may not be aware of your capacity, but trust me, it is there.  You

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How We Underestimate Our Financial Strength

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I think we often underestimate our financial power.  We dismiss what is possible simply because we don’t believe we are capable of more.

For example, I think most people think it is next to impossible to pay cash for a nice automobile.  Cars are undoubtedly expensive, but it is possible to buy one without borrowing money.  I’m a regular guy and I recently paid

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Grade School Still Holding You Back? – Part Two

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Learning to cope with the hand that life deals us isn’t always easy.  Sometimes we can go through some pretty tough ordeals very early in life.  These experiences can affect our attitudes and beliefs well into adulthood.  Yesterday, in Part One, I told the story of how a series of events occurred in my life and the impact they had on me.  Is something that happened to you in …

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Grade School Still Holding You Back? – Part One

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It is amazing that a series of negative events that happened so long ago can still have such an impact on our lives.  When I was in middle school, I had a series of what I would call incidents happen to me that I believe still have a profound impact on my level of confidence to this day.  I think that as a result, I developed certain habits of behavior …

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