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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

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This trip was part birthday gift, part Christmas escape, part Florida homecoming. She thought that doing something different, something lighter on gifts and heavier on togetherness, would be good for us. Now we had an afternoon to do the thoughtful gift-selecting that my mom normally takes months to do. This is Texas, after all.

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What I Learned from Keeping a Gratitude Journal

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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. This article originally appeared in the April 2017 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated. And that part worked for me.

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Meet the 2022 Women of Influence

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She also hosts the Pretty Big Deal podcast and published her book A New Model in 2017. She’s also an activist and an entrepreneur with her Saysh brand of lifestyle sneakers designed for and by women. The short was released in February 2022, a week prior to women’s history month, as a discussion of the gender norms that challenge women.

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How Happy Are You?

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In 2017, I left my job as the editor of a magazine to freelance and spend time with my dad in his final years. We had a few last-minute gifts to buy. What I learned by tracking my moods. But maybe tracking subjective well-being is more about the learning process than the final grade. Dinner was at 5; church at 8.

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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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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 Katie Couric wants to be kind with the time we’re given Don’t let it be a lesson you learn too late. Jay Shetty finds kindness all around us To this monk-turned-motivator, kindness is a gift we give.

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9 Battle-Tested Tips to Turn Stress Into Success

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Only when we believe high-stress situations are a gift are we able to seek and find that gift. — When in a high-stress situation, I’ve learned to try to take a step back and evaluate whether, in the grand scheme of life, this is something worthy of getting all worked up about. Tom Shieh , CEO of Crimcheck.

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