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If you died today, what are you leaving behind? What will the emotional and incidental ripple effects be when you pass from this life? What will be the lingering questions? Are you OK with whatever the answer is? If not, how do you change it?

Sometimes people need a little interference in order to get on the right track and unwrap their talents. 

Everyone goes through adjustment periods in their life which makes exploring if the 'grass is greener' a good way to gauge our lives.

Everyone goes through adjustment periods in their life which makes exploring if the 'grass is greener' a good way to gauge our lives.

We might not all have the six-pack abs on display in Magic Mike, but we all have the inner struggles of having a dream and not knowing how to push through and make it a reality. 

Every day there are situations where our confidence level comes into play, and while taken separately they may seem inconsequential, they are building upon one another to create our quality of life.

Every day there are situations where our confidence level comes into play, and while taken separately they may seem inconsequential, they are building upon one another to create our quality of life.

We all had good intentions when we created our litany of resolutions at the start of the year. But 2012 is half way over, where do you stand on your goals and pledges? If life has sidelined your plans and adventures, remember what it means to keep living.

In order to have a sense of balance in your life, you have to be confident not only your choices, but in the knowledge that those choices aren’t necessarily permanent.

If the Survivor's Tree can withstand two fallen skyscrapers, two moves and a hurricane, surely we can stand tall in our own lives.

Who said starting a business had to be all about suites and stuffiness? Sometimes you gotta show a little leg...

At some point in our lives we are all striving to use gifts that are dangerously dormant. But it's time for a wake-up call. 

Life coaches aren't Pollyanna cheerleaders who just throw caution to the wind and advise people to recklessly pursue their passion. 

A message for the sometimes obsessively ordered person: Go with it.

Unquestionably there is immense satisfaction in hard work and there is even something to be said for those who can suck it up, collect the paycheck and feel good about all it allows them to do in their non-work time. But the argument that people should stay in the area where they’re working hard because they’ll eventually become an expert at it and love it ignores other possibilities.

One woman rewrote her legacy after 9/11. You can, too. 

Many adults practice yoga for its calming effects, but for youth, the benefits can go much, much deeper.

When it comes to powerful life advice, Obi-Wan Kenobi said it best: ‘If you strike me down I’ll become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.’

While it's priceless to have people in your life who love you unconditionally, there is another category of people who understand you because they share your beliefs and much of how you see the world. 

We can't all be superheroes all the time. And it's in these moments that we truly portray what we are made of.