Category: Self-Help
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MAKING MY PEACE … with transport noise
Making My Peace … with transport noise Noise generates costs to individuals – costs incurred to reduce noise and costs incurred to treat health conditions caused by excessive and debilitating noise. Noise, in this context, is defined as the perception of unpleasant, unwanted, unintentional or harmful sounds that cause disturbances. Noise, including ambient…
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MAKING MY PEACE … with screamers at sporting events
Making My Peace … with screamers at sporting events While volunteering at the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, I heard a lot of screamers. Screaming, yelling athletes. No, not in rage, and not yelling at someone else, but to psych themselves up to achieve their best, to scream in exhilaration at scoring a…
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MAKING MY PEACE … with learning life’s lessons while watching the Olympics
Making My Peace … with learning life’s lessons while watching the Olympics The Paris 2024 Olympic Games is not only about sport – it’s about life’s lessons. Observe what a winner does. Observe what a loser does. But not everything in sport is about winning and losing. I observed handball players fight tough…
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MAKING MY PEACE … with optimism and pessimism in athletic performance
Making My Peace … with optimism and pessimism in athletic performance The Paris 2024 Olympics is about to commence, and athletes are either ready or not. Can they do anything now to improve their athletic performance? Sports psychologists say yes! Researchers of a 2018 study at four universities in Spain maintain that optimism…
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MAKING MY PEACE … with missing Louie
Making My Peace … with missing Louie There are many times that I miss my best friend, Louie. Reliable, loyal, intelligent, friendly, funny, playful Louie – a companion who travelled with me on road journeys, ran with me on track and cross country, waited outside stores for me on shopping trips, haggled with…
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MAKING MY PEACE … with less, more, and more or less
Making My Peace … with less, more, and more or less Less is more, says the adage, more or less. What does this mean? “Less is more” is a proverb and a principle that means that fewer things or fewer actions are better and more effective, and less complicated, than having a greater…
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MAKING MY PEACE … with enthusiasm
Making My Peace … with enthusiasm Creative energy gushes from my sudden bout of enthusiasm. It’s like an explosion of music and movement in my brain, the tempo so fast that I trip over myself to keep up. That’s what’s happening in my head, but my enthusiasm is really guided by my heart.…
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MAKING MY PEACE … with the third person
Making My Peace … with the third person I’m looking for ways not to make life’s ups and downs, especially the downs, so personal. You know … not everything is happening to me, just around me. The guy who bumped into me, knocking my shopping to the ground, doesn’t know me, never met…