How Full Is Your Bucket? by Tom Rath and Donald Clifton
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How Full Is Your Bucket? is a little book (about 100 pages) about positive reinforcement. It’s a great book for us all as it reminds us of the power of recognition and appreciation using the metaphor of bucket filling – positive words and deeds, and bucket dipping – when your negativity towards others drains their buckets, as well as your …

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Vernon Luchies
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If we get everything we want, we will soon want nothing that we get.

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Mindful Appreciation
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Dear Girlfriends, The economy stinks; our grocery and gas prices are up, and our stocks are down. The world is at war; children are starving; our ice caps are melting. Things have gotten so bad I feel like I need an antidepressant just to turn on the world news. But allowing myself to be negatively influenced by what’s wrong in …

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Arlene Raven
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The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us.

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Family Traditions
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Dear Girlfriends, I knew I belonged to the public and to the world not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else. – Marilyn Monroe Belonging. Some of us read that word and feel connected and safe. We know we are a member of a tribe – either family or …

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