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After being laid off, 20-something Kael Robinson took $40 worth of gifts for friends into a thriving business that is rapidly expanding.

Messages, messages, everywhere messages--but not a single one to consume. The media’s misrepresentation of women has led to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence--and it's up to parents to take a stand to fight these stereotypes. 

If you’re not interested in being a better person, or going within to understand your own behavior, don’t bother tuning in to Oprah’s Lifeclass.

By making the time to take in others’ creativity or expression of their gifts, you are enhancing your own life's value.You just can’t underestimate the value of that to your own life. This is especially true if you spend most of your time at a job that doesn’t tap your gifts or passions.

By making the time to take in others’ creativity or expression of their gifts, you are enhancing your own life's value.You just can’t underestimate the value of that to your own life. This is especially true if you spend most of your time at a job that doesn’t tap your gifts or passions.

A lot of attention has been focused on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's weight. Here's how he should handle it.

We're often told to 'think big', but sometimes that can stop us from doing anything at all. Often progress, from personal to global, is simply about small shifts in thinking or small-scale ideas. Small shifts, situation by situation, are sometimes the effective means to changing the behavior that is hanging us up.    

Businesses--no matter their size or scope--need to evolve and improve. Innovation is good. But no matter how big your business or bank account grows, that doesn't give you the permission to be dismissive. 

We've all had moments when we have recognized that we have been taking some things in life for granted. But it's what we do with those moments that really matters. 

Seeing real-life stories like a Marine putting his own life on the line multiple times to save others should spark gratitude and renewed energy in us. What is heroic to us in our everyday lives? Do we have a child in our lives who sees us as a hero? 

Everyone has choices to make and conflicts to resolve, but along the way there is sweet music if we stop to listen and don't let others' opinions drown it out.    

When it comes to living a full life, it is about not leaving anything on the table, the paths we have taken and not taken and the instincts we are smart enough to follow. 

Before you spread yourself thin, its worth learning to say no or at least hanging back and seeing what happens.

As we enter a new school year, a time where even non-students like to get a fresh start, its worth examining what's important in your life. Here are a few exercises to help.

There is so much we can learn about ourselves and the people around us when we're in  the often helpless position of waiting for potential disaster.

Every day the news is filled with stories that have the potential to jar us from our stagnation, things like people dying at a Sugarland concert or in the jaws of a shark while on their honeymoon.

Yes, a rare 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit the East Coast on Tuesday, but there's other real earth-shaking news this week. 

Sometimes we imagine that the most famous or most successful people among us just woke up one day and fearlessly took on the world or invented something genius and life went swimmingly from there. That's not the case. 

Sometimes we imagine that the most famous or most successful people among us just woke up one day and fearlessly took on the world or invented something genius and life went swimmingly from there. That's not the case. 

We dont need Bert and Ernie to get married to show tolerance; we need Mommy and Daddy to have more tolerance.