Breaking Your Relationship Pattern, Part 2 The first step toward being able to attract and create your ideal relationship is to clear the way for it by eliminating baggage from your past This baggage refers to any resentments, hurts, or fears you have toward anyone who either was a role model or whoparticipated directly in a relationship with youLots of people carry such baggage for a long time, some even for a lifetime The sooner you can truly let go ...

Breaking Your Relationship Pattern, Part 4 Finally, after all of the hard work you have done completing your past, here is a way to break your relationship patternRelationship choices are often based on patterns created in our childhood These patterns are automatic and subliminal We believe ours is the way relationships ought to beThere is no problem having a pattern that leads you to loving, satisfying, long-term relationships However, many people have patterns that cause them nothing but the heartache ...

Book Summary: What Is The Emperor Wearing? This article is based on the following book:What Is The Emperor Wearing?Truth-Telling In Business RelationshipsButterworth-HeinnemanISBN 0-7506-9872-1217 pagesThis book is inspired by the popular tale “The Emperor’sNew Clothes” It provides stories of ordinaryindividuals in the workplace who are in the predicamentof confronting the unlikely benefits of “deception” andsteering away from the risks and dangers of“truth-telling”Unfortunately, “truth-telling” is justifiably perceivedto be difficult, risky, and unrewarding More often thannot, others will try to invalidate your truth ...

Black professional, educated, and self-reliant woman - why a Won’t Be Denied: a suspense novel -- a portrait of an obsessed, single African American femaleAtlanta, GA, October 13, 2004: Today there are many single women over the age of thirty The 2000 Census Bureau recorded that 2,219,489 women between the ages of 30 and 34 have never marriedThe vast majority of single black women make up 60 percent of all unmarried women By the age of 30, a mere 45 ...

Why Get Angry? If there’s any emotion that gives us trouble it’s anger Experiencing it is hard on bodies It raises our blood pressure, causes our hearts and heads to pound, makes us sweat and shake, and separates us from reasonWe don’t need medical studies to tell us this We know it makes us feel bad All that adrenalin rushing around with no outlet for release It’s a call to action, and often there’s no outlet We just have to ...

Best Way to End a Relationship Ending a relationship is never easy When you feel you must end a relationship most people find it challenging as they have feelings towards their partner and do not wish to hurt themMore often than not, breaking up is as hard on the person ending the relationship as it is on the person being broken up with Realize that a person is breaking up has nothing to do with caring about another person Caring ...

Being Unhappy with Yourself PERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided to the author, and it appears with the included copyright, resource box and live web site link Email notice of intent to publish is appreciated but not required Mail to: eagibbs@ureachcomI am always bothered whenever I see someone criticizing another person in a loud, angry, and boisterous manner It bothers me because, although it may have been meant ...

Be an Effective Communicator Humans are not the only species to have some form of communication Yet we do have the most complex forms of communication extant Hundreds of differing spoken languages and dialects, several visual languages, and several different alphabets, not to mention the various codes based on tones, beats etc, exist all of which are there for the purpose of communicating with other people Human beings are social creatures - communication amongst ourselves is part and parcel of ...

Ask Right and You May Receive How easily do you get what you want from others? And how easy is it for you to ask for what you want or need?Perhaps you haven't worked up the courage to actually make the request you want to make Or perhaps you've made several requests, but still find your needs unmet If you're frustrated because you seem to be unable to get what you want and what you ask for, you're not aloneThis ...

Argue With Yourself and Improve Your Health Even as a child, James was described by teachers and his parents as a happy optimist As the story goes, one day his parents decided to play a joke on him and test his attitude by requiring him to spend an afternoon cleaning deserted stables at what had been a local racetrackReturning after two hours, James’ parents observed him singing while happily shoveling manure Astounded, they walked closer, only to hear him saying ...