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Author :: Susan Dunn, MA  |
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| Article Title :: What's Your Aging in American IQ? Take the Quiz an |
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What's Your Aging in American IQ? Take the Quiz and Find Out.
by: Susan Dunn, MA
Curious how long you may live? Use the Life Expectancy Calculator: http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/interactivearea/living_100.shtml. (Be prepared to know your weight in stones!)
TRUE or FALSE
1. Older adults have more mental health problems than younger adults.
FALSE. Overall prevalence of mental disorder in older adults is less than in any other age group, and general life satisfaction is as good as, if not better than, any other age group. (APA)
2. People become more difficult and rigid with advancing years.
FALSE Personality remains relatively consistent throughout the lifespan. (APA)
3. Sight declin (read full article) |
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| Category :: Self Improvement Articles |
Author :: Susan Dunn, MA |
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| Article Title :: Let’s Say You’re a Dog. Are You So Competitive Yo |
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Let’s Say You’re a Dog. Are You So Competitive You’d Eat a Carrot?
by: Susan Dunn, MA
Seems like a gal always learns something out on the farm! Yes, it’s a farm tale and I’m going to change the names of the animals to protect the guilty!
I spent last weekend down in Lower Alabama where my friend from high school owns a farm. On the neighboring property there lives a donkey we’ll call “Jake.” On my friend’s property there lives a dog – his dog – we’ll call “Spot.”
Okay, not too original, but it serves the purpose.
So as night falls, the evening ritual is to go out and feed the animals.
Out we go, 3 large carrots in hand – well, his hand. His wife (read full article) |
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| Category :: Self Improvement Articles |
Author :: Susan Dunn, MA |
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| Article Title :: Are You Thinking About Moving to a Small Town? |
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Are You Thinking About Moving to a Small Town?
by: Susan Dunn, MA
One of the fun things about midlife is we often have the opportunity to move for the first time in a long time. Maybe the kids have finally left home, or you’re retiring from a job or career, or planning to start your own Internet business so can finally live ‘anywhere.’
Whatever your reasons for longing for a small town, here are some assumptions to check out before you make the big move:
IT'S CHEAPER TO LIVE IN A SMALL TOWN. Well if it’s Daphne, Alabama, yes, but if it’s Grapevine, Keller, or Fredericksburg, Texas, no. Go here to check out house prices all over the country:
http://houseandhome.msn.co (read full article) |
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| Category :: Self Improvement Articles |
Author :: Adeyemi Adetosoye |
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| Article Title :: True Love - Part 2 |
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True Love - Part 2
by: Adeyemi Adetosoye
Okay, so why would one person feel strongly about the other and the other hardly misses a beat? In my last article, I said that one of the reasons is that the ‘despised’ one probably isn’t the one in the first place. But let’s leave the ‘despiser’ for now and focus on the ‘despisee’. What is the ‘despisee’ feeling? Why does he/she care so, almost to the point of ridicule?
Again, a myriad of reasons. He/she may just be a nuisance stalker or maybe has a nut loose. But what about the real honest injuns? Those with impeccable backgrounds, well schooled, polished, suave types who have got it all together? What about those types? (read full article) |
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| Category :: Self Improvement Articles |
Author :: Beth Dargis |
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| Article Title :: 24 Time Management Tips |
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24 Time Management Tips
by: Beth Dargis
Where does your time go? We all know we are busy, yet we feel behind and don’t get to do the things we really want to do.
Planning is the best time saver there is. At the beginning of the week jot down your goals that you want to accomplish, fun things you want to do, work that needs to be done, and appointments to keep. Then write out a loose schedule for the week ahead, balancing it out between work, family, home, self and your other roles.
You can choose to put your action items on daily to do lists or schedule them on a calendar like appointments. How you keep track of your things to do for the week, depends on how much structure you per (read full article) |
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| Category :: Self Improvement Articles |
Author :: Wayne and Tamara |
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| Article Title :: Pride Goeth… |
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Pride Goeth…
by: Wayne and Tamara
Direct Answers - Column for the week of November 25, 2002
My boyfriend's daughter (I'll call her Mary) got married six months ago. She is 19 and pregnant. My boyfriend (I'll call him John) didn't go to the wedding because he disapproved of her husband and the marriage.
The reason he gave for not attending was it would make him a hypocrite in front of his other children if he went. This caused a huge rift between John and Mary, and they have not spoken since the wedding. Before this they were very close, talking almost every day.
Mary's baby is due any day now. I told Mary it would be a shame not to allow her baby a chance to know its grandfat (read full article) |
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| Category :: Self Improvement Articles |
Author :: Beth Dargis |
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| Article Title :: Making Excuses |
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Making Excuses
by: Beth Dargis
I edited and re-edited my article. I had to make sure it was just so. Then I procrastinated on writing the query letter to get my article published. The house needed cleaning, I ran out of stamps, the letter wasn't quite right. Delivering the query letter to the mailbox took another week what with family, meetings and such. I had good excuses why I wasn't actively trying to get published. But, the real reason was that I was afraid I wasn't going to be good enough.
So many times our excuses are just a cover-up for being afraid. Unfortunately since the fear is being covered up we have no way against it. We just go merrily along making more excuses and wond (read full article) |
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| Category :: Self Improvement Articles |
Author :: Bill Lampton Ph.D. |
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| Article Title :: How To Make A Strong First Impression: Seven Tips |
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How To Make A Strong First Impression: Seven Tips That Really Work
by: Bill Lampton Ph.D.
We have all heard this warning: You never get a second chance to make a good first impression. Also, human behavior specialists caution that we only have from seven to seventeen seconds of interacting with strangers before they form an opinion of us.
With this widely acknowledged pressure to make our case instantly, here are my seven tips for making your first impression strongly positive.
ONE: The greatest way to make a positive first impression is to demonstrate immediately that the other person--not you--is the center of action and conversation.
Illustrate that the spotlight is on you onl (read full article) |
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| Category :: Self Improvement Articles |
Author :: David Leonhardt |
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| Article Title :: By Now, I'm a Expert at Memory Loss |
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By Now, I'm a Expert at Memory Loss
by: David Leonhardt
I sat down to write my weekly humor column, but I just could not remember what I wanted to write about. This seems to be an increasingly more common affliction, ever since I turned 40. For instance, like most people over 40, I often can't remember my age.
In fact, I am quite certain I am not yet 40. How do I know? Well, I can't remember turning 40, for starters.
But memory loss is nothing new for me. It began when I was born. Try as I might, I just cannot remember being born. This strikes me as strange. Birth is arguably the most momentous and triumphant event in a person's life. It is the reason I am alive. It is my (read full article) |
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| Category :: Self Improvement Articles |
Author :: Geela |
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| Article Title :: Is America Losing Its Religion? |
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Is America Losing Its Religion?
by: Geela
Has America known its finest hour? Are we losing our religion and sanity as well? What is wrong with our society anyway? These are baffling questions that are frequently being asked by more and more people, even the media.
>From environmental pollution to spiritual pollution, from artificial food to artificial joy - these are the side effects of the pursuit of materialism (a by-product of the American Dream, as we know it). Today, everything is fair game in the pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain and personal responsibility, not to mention the absence of morality and a wholesome values system.
Is America at risk of reaching a point of (read full article) |
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