Thank You

You may notice that I use the words Thank You a lot.  I sign a lot of my correspondence using that salutation.  I do that because it causes me to pause and think before I sign off.  Do I always mean it when I use it?  No!  But there is never a time I am not striving to mean it.  For me part of the Don't Die spirit is never missing an opportunity to transform a relationship.  For me that means never miss an opportunity to make a good relationship better, or a not so good relationship better.  Watch this short clip from TED.com 

Thank you!
Andrea Goeglein, PhD
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Teaching What I Needed to Learn

I started the day receiving the following message from someone I consider my teacher. I met the author of this piece 25 years ago when I was first studying the DiSC behavioral model. I did not know anything about the self-help industry. I did not know anything about personal development. I knew even less about how my life was going to change because I met this teacher and the subject she taught.

Last year we were having our annual phone conversation and I was sharing how difficult the last few business years had been. That experience became the book Don't Die With Vacation Time on the Books.  One of the chapters is You Teach What You Need to Learn.  That is exactly what was happening when this conversation took place.  Here is part of the review she posted about my book:
"Andrea (aka Dr. Success) is doing a great job of carrying an important message of hope and practicality with her website, blogs, social network posting, writing, speaking etc.. I value her for being such a great role model in putting the success principles we've studied for years (40 years for me)into practice. I remember a very important phone conversation with her last year just as everything was falling apart. Her candid appraisal of her business and her life gave me the impetus to face some hard decisions in my personal and professional life. I think at the moment I spoke with her what I really needed to hear was the experience of someone I respected because I knew she was "walking the talk". Thanks for continuing to share your journey with us."

Whether you are teaching or learning today keep your spirit alive by living with the Don't Die Spirit.

Thank you,
Andrea T. Goeglein, PhD
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Self-Help Hogwash

I do not believe the cliche "all things happen for a reason" as many use it...when something bad happens there is some 'reason' why it happened and your job is to find out what that reason is and learn from it.

Hogwash.

There is only one reason anything happens and that is because the purpose of life is the transformation of the spirit from one level of connection to our spirit to hopefully more complex levels of connection to our spirit and our spiritual source. That is the reason we live and take each breathe. What shows up in our lives are just opportunities to continue to transform -- the kickin and screaming down the road of transformation is just the noise we make!

So, how is your Monday starting out?  Peace,

Andrea T. Goeglein, PhD

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Do You Want to be a Lap Dancer?

What is the price you are willing to pay to have financial success?

During a business strategy call this morning I found myself using a personal example of a low water mark for financial success.  Lap dancers.

Let me explain.  In the community I live, lap dancers out earn me by about 10 to 1.  Some might success that at 55 year old becoming a lap dancer is really not an occupational choice.  However, if you live in my community you would soon learn that is not the case.  So go with me for the moment -- let's assume I could choose to become a lap dancer and earn 10x more than I earn today per hour.

Would I do it?  It's legal.  This is not a question of 'am I choosing to do something illegal to achieve financial success?'  This is a question of 'exactly what am I willing to do to achieve fiancial success.' 

We all have to answer that question at some point in our business careers.  I found myself answering it a lot lately.  A few weeks ago someone mentioned the names of two highly intelligent men who happen to host talk shows that I think represent the 'no water mark' meaning the quality of the material and topics presented is so low that it does not even raise to the point of being a low standard of acceptable.  Since hosting a show is one of my many objectives, I could see clearly what I was not willing to do for success -- financial or otherwise. 

Which brings me back to lap dancers.  There comes a point in striving to be successful that you must face your 'lapdancer' question.  Your 'lapdancer' maybe a rude boss, late paying clients, publicly demeaning co-workers -- whatever and whoever you are ignoring just to keep earning money -- and do what is right for your spirit regardless of how it effects your financial success. 

Just thoughts.  Please share yours with me.  Thank you. 
Andrea T. Goeglein, PhD
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Long time no write

Have you ever noticed that sometimes life requires you to stop doing things that you actually enjoy in order to do something you do not enjoy nearly as much?  Well, that is what has happened to me.  I actually enjoy writing a blog each week, sharing the blog posts of some noted and content-rich contributors, and just plain staying connected in a virtual way. 

However...you notice I did not say "here is my excuse"...sometimes life requires you to forfeit in the short term to achieve a potentially greater long term goal.  Choices, choices, choices!  Just like my cats:  Where you put your attention is where you get your results.

Here was my choice:  Continue to write my weekly blog or lay the groundwork for my newest venture The Crooked Road of Success inspirational media company.  The new venture won out.  My first book in the Don't Die series is out, many events are on the calendar -- well booked but not yet up on my public event calendar -- and trademarks and copyrights are filed. 

I've missed you even if you have not missed me.  Forty-six days into 2011 and a book is out, a TV segment has been filmed, a website built, the first Amazon sales completed and one fundraiser and four events booked.  Tired, yes.  Happy, yes.  Want to make me happier?  Buy the book!  Thank you.

Thrive

There is a short list on which I keep the names of people whose work I admire in any given field.  I find keeping such a list stops me from wondering in the 'woods' of an Internet search on any given topic.  When it comes to those I trust in the field of applied positive psychology, Robert Biswas-Diener, is not only on that list, but on the top!  I have never met him, but can tell from his thoughtful and useful newsletters that if I still owned hotels, he would be the consult I would hire.  The following review of the new book, Thrive, was written by Robert Biswas-Diener.  Since I loved The Blue Zones, I can't wait to pick up a copy of Thrive.
People familiar with positive psychology are often unfamiliar with Dan Buettner. This is because Dan is an explorer, journalist, world-record holder, and expert on a topic often overlooked by positive psychologists: health. In his first book-- The Blue Zones-- Dan identified geographic anomalies: places where a disproportionate percentage of the population lived to be 100 or more. He investigated the health and social habits of people in Okinawa and other places. His reasoning is as follows: it makes sense to look at the habits of people who are successful. In his newest effort, Thrive, Dan extends this strategy to happiness.


Thrive is another topocentric book; this time Buettner shifts his attention from the healthiest places on the planet to the happiest. One of the things I love best about Dan's take on happiness is that he gets out into the field. Scientific findings are great-- and Buettner certainly makes the most of his relationship to Gallup and access to Gallup survey data-- but it is often just as fruitful to get out of the laboratory and talk to people on the street who illustrate academic points on a more day to day level. It is because of this journalistic impulse that Thrive doesn't read like "just another happiness book" but appears to offer something new.... newer data, new stories, and new ideas.


On a final note I should also mention that I love Dan's take on the science of happiness. Rather than present his own model of happiness-- as if we need another one of those!-- Dan interviews Ed Diener, Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ruut Veenhoven and other experts, reprinting their quotes in full and letting small points of difference hang in the air between them. Ultimately, I suspect Dan agrees with Sonja on the meaning of happiness when she says "Most of us don't need a definition of happiness because instinctively we know whether we are happy or not." Thrive is like this: supported on a foundation of science but, ultimately, a book about people.

Robert's company publishes various workbooks in the field of positive psychology.  Check him and them out:  Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener, Positive Psychology Services, LLC, www.intentionalhappiness.com

Thriving, Thanksgiving, and The Thanks in giving, Andrea
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Turning My Stumbling Blocks Into Stepping Stones

Dr. Success Challenge:  Look at an unpleasant part of your business life.  Maybe you are without a job because of a corporate layoff.  Maybe you lost your business because of economic conditions.  Maybe your whole industry is in flux and you have no idea where you will land.  Whatever the situation, think of it as an opportunity.  It is not a 'problem'.  It is not a 'trouble'. It is an OPPORTUNITY.

Let me share a story of how one person handled a life-altering career layoff as an opportunity and created a whole new career. 

John is a college educated accountant.  He had invested his career energy in one major corporation in his hometown.  He enjoyed his work and the company he got to work with.  In the recession of the early 2000's, John's entire division was to be eliminated.  He and his coworkers were devastated for all the normal reasons.  Here is how John turned that devastation into manifestation. 

After getting word of the pending layoff, John took stock of why he liked working with the company, what he had contributed, and what he felt he still had to contribute.  He then wrote a letter to the CEO -- who he had never met -- and from whom he really did not expect a reply.  Not only did the CEO reply, he invited John into the headquarter office.  Once there, the CEO handed John a job description, and said he would return in a little bit. 

During the CEO's absence, John reviewed the three page job description, counted up the years of experience that would be needed to successfully do the job from the company's view, and sank in his chair.  If John was correct, he needed about 125 years of experience.  John was not yet 40 years old.  Then a thought came to him.  He may not have the experience the job description said was required, but neither did anyone else.  When the CEO returned he asked John if John thought he could do that job -- the CEO did not ask if John had the experience -- and John said yes!  Over the next few months the company figured out a way to put John in that new position.  The company saved its long-time investment in a terrific employee.  The employee took an action none of his other coworkers even thought of, and continued his long-term employment.

Epilogue:  John successfully performed in the new position for over 5 years.  Then, as a result of the work he was doing, another, better opportunity presented itself.  Today, he is a highly sought after consultant in a field that he never thought to enter.  Another part of the epilogue is that many of John's former co-workers were angry at John.  Strange, instead of using their energy to follow a successful alternative action, they used their energy to get angry.  When the opportunity presents itself, please learn from the productive examples. 

What opportunities are you missing today? What career stumbling blocks can you turn into stepping stones?

I am thankful for all the lives that enter my story and create the opportunity for me to share. 
Thank you, Andrea

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A forever Hero

Why do books matter?  Because they continue to impact the reader long after the book is read!

August 2009 Be The Hero was released.  January 30, 2010 master coach and author Noah Blumenthal presented his book at a fundraising event for Stillpoint Center for Spiritual Development.  October 2010 -- ten months later -- someone who attended the presentation and read the book commented that book and presentation marked a positive turning point in their personal development. 

The same week I sat in a board meeting for Stillpoint.  Board members asked if the author we had the year before Noah -- Steve Donahue of Shifting Sands -- had another book out yet.  They wanted him to come back!
AM AZ Shifting Sands
Time passes but good books live on in the hearts of their readers.  Read on. 

Thank you,
Andrea Goeglein, PhD
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Football and Success

What better way to be reminded about success on a Sunday than from a legendary coach.  John Wooden left his mark not only on the game of football but on lives, organizations and communities.  I thought this was a good way to start the week.  Hope you agree.  Thank you.

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Facebook

I have been uber busy since returning from our daughter's magical wedding.  I apologize for not writing more yet I needed to stop and make a request. 
I have been enthralled with the $100 million donation Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, made to the Newark, NJ school district.  His action is a perfect example of impacting institutions greater than yourself -- a hallmark contributing to well being as noted in the positive psychology literature. 

Here is what has also struck me.  I seem to be challenged to come up with a 20-something female who has used their young wealth and fame to do an extraordinary act of generosity.  My mind keeps going to the marketing genius of the likes of Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, or the life choices of young women like Lindsey Lohan.  I see a lot of getting but not so much giving.  So I need your help. 

Please send me the names of young women who are using their economic power to impact institutions greater than themselves. 

I look foward to a very long list.  Thank you.

Andrea T. Goeglein, PhD
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Love

In the spirit of enjoying the moment, I will be off line until September 25, 2010.

Our daughter, Dana, and her honey, Kevin Courtney, will be married on Saturday, September 18 at 3 p.m. EST. 

We are off to celebrate with our families and regardless of what my ego tries to tell me, the only thing that truly requires my attention is that celebration. 

Moment by moment is all we have...we intent to fill each one with love.  I invite you to do the same.

Thank you, Andrea

Success You Can Bank On

Come join me this Wednesday for a free webinar discussing tools and technicques that get results if what you are saving is your ability to create a successful life.

Just as Stew Gibbon's photo -- even the darkest of skies has rays of sun behind them. 

Please pass this link around. It's free, it's Wednesday 9/8 and it's live.

Success You Can Bank On

Thank you, Andrea

Which hunger do you feed?

I was sent an incredible article about a community kitchen in India housed in a Sikh temple that feeds 80,000 people per day for free.  At first I was overwhelmed at the thought of so many hungry people in one place.  Then I read the article more closely.  I realized that many who came were hungry -- but they were not looking to feed their bodies as much as nourish their spirits.

I was then taken with the possibility of what such a community kitchen would look like in the United States...or for the real fun of it...Las Vegas! 

What would it look like if our concept of 'soup kitchens' which have their roots in the great depression evolved to community kitchens which feed the soul while it nourished the body?  What would it look like if people of all economic strata came together to join in the effort -- from washing the dishes to scrubbing the floors.  I am reminded of a Wayne Dyer book title, There Is A Spiritual Solution to Every Problem.

Think I found an additional meaning for ServingSuccess.  Thank you Div for bringing the article to my attention. 

Peace,
Andrea Goeglein, PhD
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Superstition and Happiness

Today I was engaged in an interesting conversation with a client about superstition -- holding them and what that means relative to your belief in God and Einstein's proposition that there are two kinds of people in the world -- those who believe the world is a friendly place and those who believe the world is a hostile place. 

I went looking to my to my favorite source for all content wonderful -- TED.COM -- and typed in the word "superstition".  What came up was the speech by designer Stefan Sagmeister.  His opening story about a job in Hong Kong and his closing piece about his list of things he likes about his job still have me smiling. 

Hope it does the same for you.  Happy thinking...Thank you, Andrea
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Small Person Big Impact

My last post was about Tipping Points and Positive Psychology. That theme continues with a message of hope that the high school students of today will be able to transform their ‘contagious power’ into the power that fuels contagious compassion.

Leaving a legacy has never been high on my list of things to be concerned about. For many years I was rather antagonistic toward the entire concept. Being concerned about leaving a legacy felt like the ultimate head-trip. Wanting to control how people thought about me and my life’s contributions after I was dead just seemed like taking ‘controlling from the grave’ to all new heights.

Then I was introduced to the concept in positive psychology of ‘using your strengths to impact organizations greater than yourself.’ Honestly, I like and was striving for creating a continual flow state, the second phase in the evolution of development within the positive psychology framework. Having a larger impact seemed – well – too large! Here comes the ‘however’…

On Friday, August 20, I will feature two books on this installment of AM Arizona's Books That Matter,      Journey Through Heartsongs by Mattie J. T. Stepanek and Messenger by Jeni Stepanek. One book starts the journey of creating a legacy of compassion and the other attempts to grow the legacy by creating an army of compassion powered by the hearts of today’s high school students. Not exactly the picture one usually gets when thinking about high school students!

Author and peacemaker, Mattie Stepanek lived only 14 years. Focusing the legacy of his work on the eternal age group of his peers seems to be pure inspiration. In 14 years, Mattie succeed in living with a terminal disease and found a way to touch the world with a message of meaning and hope. He succeed in setting and achieving goals even as his body fought to take him out of the game. He succeed in creating so much love that his message is being kept alive not just in a book but as a program of compassion in action.

In the next week I will focus individual posts about each of these books.

For now I want you to imagine what your life could contribute if you:

Overcame your l challenges by devoting your life to a message of meaning. You don’t need to know your life purpose. You only need to know you have the strength to live a life on purpose.

Set goals and achieve them. Once again, you can make excuses or you can achieve your goals, but you can’t do both.

Lastly, firstly, and only – take action moment-by-moment to connect through love, create love, and be love.

Maybe now I understand why I created a personal guiding motto of Love * Learn * Prosper

Thank you for reading.  And remember the force is with you.
Andrea T. Goeglein, PhD
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Time Vampires

It's summer and I know I could possibily have found a more joyful way to invest a Sunday afternoon, yet the level of satisfaction I got from filing a pile of papers that dated back as far as 2008 really did give me a lot of satisfaction.  I know, yet again another sign that what makes me happy would never make someone else happy.  And yet again, more proof that it's important to invest the time to know what does make you happy.  Happiness will be a topic for another blog.  For today, I want to share a questionnaire I developed a few years ago -- that I found amongst the piles of paper!

You can change 'email' to Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, texting, or any other host of possible time vampires.  You decide.  You can reach your goals or you can have vampire marks on you lifetime, but you can't do both! 

Dr. Success Challenge:  Take the following quiz.  If you don't like the answers, at one action to change one area.  Happy quiz taking.

Are you working for email or is email working for you?

Date: Time begin: Time end:

Use this form for 7 days to track the time you are spending reading or writing email. For each period of time you have devoted to email during a given day answer the following questions:

Did you feel as though you spent your time effectively? 0 1 2 3 4 5
Did you create a new client? 0 1 2 3 4 5
Did you create additional income? 0 1 2 3 4 5
Did you discover information that positively impacted your life? 0 1 2 3 4 5
Did you discover information that positively (or may positively) impact your business? 0 1 2 3 4 5
Did you develop or strengthen a relationship in your personal life? 0 1 2 3 4 5
Did you develop or strengthen a relationship in your business life? 0 1 2 3 4 5
If the time you just spent on email were your last, would you be satisfied? 0 1 2 3 4 5

0 = If it was my last moments on this earth, I would be disappointed.
1= I admit I have wasted my time.
2 = I wish I did not have to, but it was necessary.
3 = I got brought up to date on an important subject even if I don’t know if it’s necessary.
4 = I have built or strengthened a relationship.
5 = I have positively impacted my life in the present moment.

Thank you,


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How Consistent is the DiSC Profile? Part 2

In my last post I told of my surprise and delight of finding a child’s DiSC Behavioral Profile from 7 31 89 completed by my daughter. The self-report gave a list of statements that were supposedly true of her 21 years ago at age 5. I then wrote and asked her to let me know how many of the statements she would consider true of herself as an adult.

Here is the original list of statement:
I make others see that my way is best.
I like each day to be different.
Sometimes I hold back what I really think.
I have been afraid to try new things.
I believe a person must give in once and a while.
I like others to help me when I am in trouble.
I want to be popular.
I think I make friends easily.
I can explain well how something works.
I enjoy bringing new friends together.
I think I am quite charming.
I like very much to be around others.
I like to be loyal to my friends.
I help my friends to do their best.
I think I might make a good teacher.
I like others to tell me when I am doing well.
I try hard to see the good in everyone.
I take pride in being cheerful and pleasant.
I like to prove to others how nice I am.
I enjoy pointing out what I know.
When someone does me wrong, I might take a long time to forgive them.
I like my day to be trouble free.
I am good at guessing what is going to happen next.
I do not like others to force me to hurry.
I force myself to do some things I do not like.
I do not mind telling someone that I think they are wrong.

Now for her response when asked to review the 21 year old list and let me know how accurate she perceived it described her today…. “That's crazy. The only thing that has changed is that I don't think I take a long time to forgive. Everything else is pretty dead on.”

If you would like to experience a how ‘crazy’ a DiSC Behavioral Profile can describe you go to www.ServingSuccess.com and purchase through the link. You can check out a sample here.

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How Consistent is the DiSC Profile? Part 1

I like unexpected surprises especially when they are happy and remind me of something from my past that I had long forgotten.

During a discussion about horoscopes – yes, horoscopes – and when I was first exposed to them, how valid I found them and such, I got up and went to a file cabinet and pulled a file containing the first – and many, many subsequent astrological reports – I had obviously saved over the years. The first was done by some Hindi priest in India I never met. A business associate of my husband had requested his family ‘advisor’ do charts for us. I could hardly read what they wrote and understood even less, but it was fun to see the detailed diagrams that came with the handwritten reports.

In the same file I found some on DiSC Behavioral Profiles dating back to when I was first trained in 1985 and 1986. They were of family members. Then I found a child’s profile dated 7/31/89…21 years ago taken by my daughter when she was 5 years old.

The report showed her primary behaviors to be i (influencing) and S (steadiness). Twenty four years later she took another version of the Disc Behavioral Profile and it showed her primary style to be i (influencing) with a bit of D (directive). Although not identical, there was a consistency in the reports that transcended the development from a child to an adult. For me, although not statistically proving anything, it lends tremendous support to the applicable nature of the report over time.

If you are interested in completing a report for yourself, please go to www.ServingSuccess.com Contact me if you have any questions.

Now here is the really fun part that goes far beyond just where a dot is placed on a graph at some point in time. The child’s report gave sentences – just as the adult reports do – that explains how the behavior reported might look like in day-to-day life. I sent the list to my daughter and asked her to let me know how many of the statements are true 21 years later. I will let you know what she tells me in my next post. As I write this I don’t even know her response!

Thank you,
Andrea Goeglein, PhD
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BeThe Change

I have been doing a lot of writing which requires I search old files.  I came across this story which I know I have used in public presentations, yet don't have any recollection where it originally came from. 

A newly promoted manager was out to change the world of business.

After being in the job for a while, she noticed she wasn’t making much progress, so she decided to narrow her focus and just change the corporation she was with.

But that turned out to be too much for her so she tried to change just her department.

When she failed, she tried to change only her family.

Even that was easier said than done, so she finally focused on changing only herself.

When she successfully changed herself, her family also changed.

And when her family changed, her department changed.

When her department changed, her corporation changed.

And when her corporation changed, the world of business changed.

Start the change you want to see with the one person you have the greatest influence on. Yourself.

It may be simple and it is not easy.

And always remember, change your language, change your life.

And I also found this quote attributed to Pope John XXIII

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. Pope John XXIII

Happy changing.  Thank you,
Andrea T. Goeglein, Ph.D.
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You Must Come First

One of the loudest debates within the personal development and self-help communities is whether or not devoting time to your development is a selfish, self-centered activity. I have addressed this in other posts over the last few years, yet I was recently drawn into conversations with several different people on several different topics, so I decided it was time – yet again – to share my thoughts.

I have written that I devote a lot of uncompensated business time to promoting the use of books to aid and continue an individual’s personal development. You will notice I wrote ‘uncompensated’ business time. That is because at the core of my teachings is not some new profound learning, but the insistence that I and everyone around me move from realizing something about ourselves to making the learning real in our lives.

Two of the easiest areas for others to notice whether or not you are taking care of yourself is weight management and drinking.

At the base of personal development and self-help is the assumption that you care for your body and mind in a way that only helps to bring your spirit alive and keep it connected to your values and beliefs. How you take care of your body is a direct reflection of how you are taking care of yourself. Just think about what you said the last time you saw a friend who had put on a lot of excess body weight or who was drunk when everyone else was just enjoying their alcohol. I would put money that you whispered something like:

“Something must be wrong. He’s not taking care of himself.”
“She has ‘let herself go.’
“That is ‘not like her’ to get drunk when we go out.”

These statements are not moral condemnations but vocal recognitions of something to be concerned about.

Of course, just because you realize a friend or loved one is not taking care of themselves, or you know it about yourself, does not mean they or you are ready to make real the awareness so healing can begin.

That is where the debate about needing to put yourself first before you can begin to take care of anyone else comes full circle. If I don’t care for myself, how can I care for you? If I don’t care for myself and insist that you take better care of yourself, can you really trust my judgment? And if you can’t trust my judgment on something so supposedly unimportant will you every be able to trust me as a life partner, or business partner, or community leader?

Dr. Success Challenge: On a scale of 1 – 10 (10 being the best), rate how well you tend to your personal development. For the next 7 days put your mind, body and spirit first on your daily list of things to do. At the end of the 7 day period, using the same scale of 1 – 10, rate how well you tended to your personal development. Which score was higher? Which one make you feel better about yourself as a person?

Thank you,

Andrea T. Goeglein, PhD
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A special note of thanks to author Katherine Saux for her July 12, 2010 daily guide which seeded this blog content.