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If you want to be emotionally independent you have to train your thoughts just like you workout to loose weight, read to learn more and practice things to get better. If you keep thinking about the same negative or unprosperous thoughts then you will never be able to mentally be free. When you want to loose weight you get up and work out, you eat right and you focus on being the size you want to be. Vice versa in gaining weight. You eat certain foods and lift weights and trai

When you sit back and think about it, what do the people that occupy your time bring to the table? Do you gain knowledge, comfort, happiness, stress, misfortune, money or power? When you really stop and break down your relationships with people, you tend to see what they bring or take from your life. Take some time to define your relationships with others and see what they bring to your life. Here are 5 ways to define your relationships with others. 1) Determine if you are ha

Most of my love and relationship blog posts are about building relationships between yourself and others. This blog is going to dig a little deeper and discuss loving yourself enough to change, which will discuss depression. There are more people in the world with depression than you may even understand. Rich, famous, single, married, popular, un-popular, etc. All people deal with it. One of the people that always stick in my mind is Kate Spade. One reason being we both went

In all relationships we can only give what we already have. I am not talking about physical things like money, cars or houses. I am talking about a sense of self, honest consciousness of needs and respect. When you love yourself you expect to receive love. Many people try to find a replacement for what they are missing by looking for it in someone else and you will never find it. What you put out is what you receive. Have you ever wondered why you are always attracting the sa

We all have the friend that is looking for that perfect someone. They are going to every singles event in town and still can't seem to find that "perfect" someone. It could be you and not a friend that is soul searching for the mate that will be the picture perfect person in your life. Where are they? Why haven't they come running to your aid and sweeping you off your feet? Have you taken a look in the mirror and asked yourself, would I marry you? Here's the thing. Perfect is

Everyone enjoys that great love story that ends in a fairytale, but they rarely talk about the story after the big wedding and fairytale meeting. In order to maintain that fairytale you have to remember that life doesn't just stop after marriage. You have to keep things spicy and interesting for each other. Here are 6 things to remember after marriage to help keep things fairytale like. 1) Always say please, thank you and you're welcome. Remember when you first met everything

People come into our lives for a season, a reason or a lifetime. We've heard it many times, but we hardly know which level a person will be in our lives when we first meet them. When we are young we think our high school loves will be our husband and we will live happily ever after. We know all too well that is not usually the case. Life is full of lessons and we need all these people in our lives at one point or another to build and grow. Here's what to do and know about eac

While on the plane headed to Fresno, I watched a movie called All My Life. At first I was intrigued by the title, then I was intrigued by the intro and by the end of the movie I was intrigued by life. The movie is about a young couple that fall in love instantly and decide to get married. Then they find out he has cancer and doesn't have long to live. I'm not going to tell you the movie, however; what I am going to give you are 6 very important tips to follow EVERYDAY based o