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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

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There, we’d spend the holidays together, as a family, without the overgifting and overdecorating and overeating of a typical Christmas. This trip was part birthday gift, part Christmas escape, part Florida homecoming. On Christmas Eve, she’d cook pigs in a blanket and we’d head over to the neighborhood holiday party.

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What I Learned from Keeping a Gratitude Journal

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Two days later, the sleepy, snappy malaise that hovered over our house like some gray beast was gone, and holiday joy had returned. Gratitude log 24: While the journaling exercise eventually made my heart grow a few sizes and gave me a greater appreciation for my many gifts, it apparently did so with about the same power as caffeine.

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Leading with Kindness: 14 Most Charitable Celebrities

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Shaquille O’Neal learns from listening Shaq doesn’t see himself as a celeb: ‘Celebrities are all crazy.’ “I’m Every single employee, whether you’re an intern, part-time, holiday help or C-level, should have the same level of love and respect and care,” Scott told SUCCESS in 2016. How you treat people is what you get back.”

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

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In the predawn hours of a Saturday morning in January 2017, an arsonist set fire to the Victoria Islamic Center, a mosque in Victoria, Texas. In March 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s Modern Love column, “ You May Want to Marry My Husband ,” appeared in print and online in The New York Times. Neighborly Love. Jamie Friedlander.

2017 276
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How Happy Are You?

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I’d spent most of the holiday scrubbing the cabinets of a rental home, fixing a crack in the ceiling and painting the living room. That’s barely halfway satisfied, and I was on a holiday vacation for most of it. In 2017, I left my job as the editor of a magazine to freelance and spend time with my dad in his final years.

2019 263
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The 10 Best Books I Read In 2016

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I’ve also placed Blinkist links to these books where applicable if you would like to learn more about the book without dedicating time and money to the full text. I read 53 books in total during the year and I learned a couple of things during that process: I really like reading books more than anything else, especially print books.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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Leigh Burgess is a creative strategist who uses her gifts to help others. In the process, he learned a lot about what the community needed and the role which digital ignorance played, and made it his business to understand the problems, know what resources were available and find solutions. Leigh Burgess. Paul Epstein.

Mentoring 310