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Help! Life Isn’t What It Should Be...

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Are your outcomes intentionally created? Or are you more often reacting to things as they happen to you?

People are each so very different. In the same family, we have different standards of clean, different tolerances of pain, and too many others to count.

So how can we live peacefully together...

Goal Setting 101

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Think about your day...

How many of your actions were directly related to outcomes you are planning for?

Do you find that life is a result of what happens to you more than it being a strategically planned for experience?

Is your live more reactive than proactive?

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What To Do When Couples Differ...

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As couples, many of our biggest struggles come from areas where we think or value things differently.

When we are first attracted to this person it is often these qualities that we most admire. Why? Because we don't have them ourselves and admire someone who does so easily what comes more...

How To Discover Who You Are?

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Who are you?

Not what do you do. Not what is your name. Not who are you related to... No. Who are YOU?

What makes you happy? What makes you grateful? What makes you angry? What makes you feel overwhelmed?

What makes you want to run away and hide? What makes you...

Why Failure Is Something To Strive For

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Do you love failure as much as you should?

Failure is how we learn and how we see clearly where to make changes to better benefit us.

Is this how you use failure? Do you fail forward?

Why do you suppose failure got such a stigma for being a bad thing that we want to...

The Purpose Of Fear

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What are the limits of your comfort zone?

Why are those limits there in your life? What instigated those limits?

How do you feel when your comfort zone is challenged or you are pushed past those limits?

Fear keeps us stuck inside of what we know to be our safe...

Which type of person are you?

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Are you a giver or are you a taker?

Givers often like to think that they have the higher ground, are better people than takers, and that everyone should be givers as a basic human decency.

Only, takers bring a great value to the world too. It is not that takers are not givers...

Two Words To Change Your Life

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Did you know that the first step to any real change is acceptance?

In order to smartly change course, in order to decide the best way to get to where you want to be, you must accept and understand where you are currently at.

So your life feels like crap. It is... What now?

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Are Your Frustrations Self-Imposed?

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Did you know adults still throw fits? They do!

They look a little different from the toddler who throws his whole body on the ground screaming and kicking but they are very much the same kind of thing.

We excuse toddlers for loosing it when things get out of their control...

The Terrible Side Of Perfection

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Okay, okay...

So maybe this isn't the attitude you want from your surgeon or your lawyer. However, there is a very important logic in this for YOU!

Perfect is a moving target. There is almost always a MORE perfect version that you could shoot for.

The great thing about...

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Renee Lowry

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Renee Lowry is a Certified Transitional Coach and Relationship Expert in New York, NY. This mother of two beautiful girls and wife of twenty plus years has been called Emotions Public Relations Representative. She embraces this title because her passion is helping people understand that emotions are valuable tools, given to enable us to receive the best life has to offer.

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