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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

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My suitcase was packed, my traveling clothes all laid out. My mom tried to help by encouraging me to like stuff that other girls my age liked: clothes, boy bands, teen magazines. I bucked her attempts to put me in stylish clothes and instead opted for baggy T-shirts. Mortified, I tried to hide behind a clothing rack.

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Local Women’s Shelters Wouldn’t Respond, So These Two Friends Decided to Build Their Own

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Even though this finally gave them a stable home, different forms of abuse persisted. She learned about her challenges and her abusive past. In addition to raising money via traditional methods, they’ve also opened a for-profit boutique called Janice Vaincre Boutique to raise money via the sale of clothes and other items.

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Why Traveling the World Is the Best Investment in Yourself

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I’ve learned something different every day—sometimes every hour, and sometimes even more frequently than that. There are experiences and lessons you learn on the road that can be directly applied to business and investment. There are experiences and lessons you learn on the road that can be directly applied to business and investment.

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How 30 Days of Kindness Made Me a Better Person

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It’s a warm September day in New York, but he’s sitting under a mountain of ragged bits of clothing, towels and blankets. I set out to see whether I could learn to give without the promise of getting. Admittedly I experienced some form of generosity fatigue around the second week of my challenge. Tit for tat.

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Feeling stuck? Guilty? Overwhelmed? Try clearing these feelings out of your home

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It comes in the form of a notebook I purchased to capture my baby’s first months. And we’re not acting on it or learning from it — it’s just sapping our energy and our joy. Ditto the opera albums, the heady documentaries, the pile of New Yorker magazines and the chunky non-fiction reads: If you love these things, wonderful!

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16 planet-friendly gift ideas, recommended by TED speakers

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[Editor’s note: One of the greatest gifts you can give is the gift of lifelong learning. Learn more here. ]. Here are three: 1) An annual gift subscription to Duolingo (Plus or Family), because learning another language is a beautiful gift to ourselves and to the world. Digital subscriptions for the mind, body and soul.

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10 Trailblazing Women Paving the Way for a Better Future

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Read on to learn more about these trailblazing women and the work they’re doing to pave the way for a better future. her mother Laura Hendricks, cancer survivor and nonprofit co-founder of Luminaries Photo courtesy of Laura Hendricks Hendricks survived acute myeloid leukemia, an aggressive form of blood cancer.

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