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What I Learned from Keeping a Gratitude Journal

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Two days later, the sleepy, snappy malaise that hovered over our house like some gray beast was gone, and holiday joy had returned. This article originally appeared in the April 2017 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated. The post What I Learned from Keeping a Gratitude Journal appeared first on SUCCESS.

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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

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There, we’d spend the holidays together, as a family, without the overgifting and overdecorating and overeating of a typical Christmas. On Christmas Eve, she’d cook pigs in a blanket and we’d head over to the neighborhood holiday party. I learned that even the smallest, latest developers grow up eventually.

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Use This Writing Exercise to Uncover Your Ideal Self

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Realizing that helped me stay longer in places—three or four years rather than six to 10 months—as I learned to understand the constant flight urge. I resisted the urge to uproot myself after 10 months in a new country to take a working holiday visa on the other side of the world. I stayed put for another two years.

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How Happy Are You?

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I’d spent most of the holiday scrubbing the cabinets of a rental home, fixing a crack in the ceiling and painting the living room. That’s barely halfway satisfied, and I was on a holiday vacation for most of it. In 2017, I left my job as the editor of a magazine to freelance and spend time with my dad in his final years.

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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 Every single employee, whether you’re an intern, part-time, holiday help or C-level, should have the same level of love and respect and care,” Scott told SUCCESS in 2016. How you treat people is what you get back.”

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

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In the predawn hours of a Saturday morning in January 2017, an arsonist set fire to the Victoria Islamic Center, a mosque in Victoria, Texas. In March 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s Modern Love column, “ You May Want to Marry My Husband ,” appeared in print and online in The New York Times. Neighborly Love. Jamie Friedlander.

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