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You pull in your driveway, turn off the engine and just sit there. It's happened again. Three glorious days in the wilderness. You're hot, tired, dirty and disgruntled.You glance in the rear view mirror at the mound of brand new fishing and camping gear piled in the back of the SUV....

Failure to Plan is Planning to FailDid that headline shock you just a little bit? Do you feel outrage? After all, no one "plans to fail" right?Wrong! It may even be a subconscious choice, but people do fail at business. They do it every day. As soon as things get a bit rocky, they quit....

Please allow me to introduce you to Harry. Harry is in his early thirties, married and a new father. Sadly, he was laid off from his job and faces the enormous hurdle of finding himself a new one soon. Like thousands of others, Harry has been tossed into the bottomless pit of unemployment through...

Let me ask you a simple question. Do you treat the people you love as well as you do complete strangers? Come on now, that isn't a trick question. If you have to spend too long thinking about it before you answer, you need to read on. There is a ton of information available to teach you how...

When we think about bullies, we usually conjure up a mental picture of a bigger kid stealing lunch money from a smaller kid. Or maybe the "jocks" yanking a wedgie on a freshman. If you're a woman, the picture will change a bit to portray the "popular" girls laughing at another...

Carol was frantic. She had searched high and low for the brown envelope. She was 100% certain that she had put the envelope on the stack of bills that had taken up permanent residence on the island in her kitchen. That simple little brown envelope that everyone would recognize if they saw it....

Well, I'm sure Will was not referring to insomnia when he penned those famous lines from Hamlet. But it's also a sure bet that at some point he, too, suffered from this common contemporary malady. Millions of people suffer from the inability to get a good nights sleep. Sleep can be likened...

Have you ever smelled the aroma of a home made batch of spaghetti or marinara sauce? That aroma that wafts through the entire house, luring your family into the kitchen with the age old question, "What's for dinner?"Of course the next step is everyone has to have a taste. That careful...

If you are reading this, it's a pretty good bet that the "Gotcha" grabbed your attention. If it did, great! If you arrived here by some other means, you made a wise decision. Find out why as you read on.The Internet is a wonderful thing. It connects the citizens of the world in ways never...

Have you ever gone camping? Yes? No? Maybe?We aren't talking about those endless trips you took as a child where you slept in the back seat of your parents car from destination to destination with your brothers smelly feet digging into your shoulder.We are talking about real camping....

Have you ever been here? Hands shaking, Joe mops his face with an already saturated handkerchief. Just as fast as he swipes the sweat away, his forehead is gushing again like Niagara Falls. He stares at his empty cup and considers yet another dose of coffee. No, he decides, his hands...

Everyone knows that song from the Disney classic "Cinderella." Unfortunately many people confuse dreams with reality. They really do believe that "if you dream it, it will come." It worked for Cinderella, didn't it? Well, so much for fairy tales.The time comes when one has to set aside...

Do you find yourself putting off important tasks? Do you avoid meetings and other face-to-face encounters? Do you feel like you are under constant pressure to succeed but are falling short of your expectations?There may be some deep underlying psychological basis for your feelings. However,...

Are you a good conversationalist? Do you often speak in a public forum or shudder at the thought of giving a speech? Many of us fall somewhere in between. It may seem strange but there are some folks who make great conversationalists but are rendered a mass of fright if asked to just say a...