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A Dog, a Gutter, and 2 Thank Yous
During a recent trip to India, I introduced my cousin to smile cards and left a deck of smile cards that he has now integrated into his office routine :). Every morning, after a circle of prayers with his employees, one person chooses a smile card from the deck. The next morning, that person shares the ripples of the smile card. Here is one of the beautiful stories...

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How To Trick Your Brain for Happiness
In recent years, we have started to better understand the neural bases of states like happiness, gratitude, resilience, love, compassion, and so forth. And better understanding them means we can skillfully stimulate the neural substrates of those states -- which, in turn, means we can strengthen them." In this article, Rick Hanson describes how to skillfully use the mind to ...

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The Monkey Lives On!
Coming home after a works evening out I lost my purse. I guessed it had fallen out my bag as I was being dropped off. While it was probably very close to my house I couldnt find it and had to cancel my debit cards, etc.

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9 Reasons Why You Should No Longer Care About Peoples Approval
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep. Vernon HowardApproval Seeking Behavior If you ask me, this is where many of our challenges start. When you are too concerned with what other people think of you, you start sabotaging your life, and you start moving forward but with the breaks on.

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I Wish You Enough
At an airport I overheard a father and daughter in their last moments together. They had announced her planes departure and standing near the door, he said to his daughter, "I love you, I wish you enough."

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