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		<title>Carnival of Positive Thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Farmery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How are you today? How are you feeling? If you need some help to start thinking more positively about the future, then here is this weeks Carnival of Positive Thinking

GP presents Home is Where the Heart is posted at Innstyle Montana- Come on Inn, saying, &#8220;Home is where the heart is&#8230; tips for good ol&#8217; fashion hospitality&#8221;

Fruitpunch presents Winners make things happen, Losers let things happen posted at Fruit Punch Diary.

HL Grove presents Making Your Dreams Come True posted at Hennie Grove.

Taylor Coburn presents Getting Things Done posted at Internet Business at ProcessToProfits, saying, &#8220;How to end procrastination, that nasty [...]<p>Post from: <a href="http://www.blisstree.com/widowsquest">Widows Quest</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How are you today? How are you feeling? If you need some help to start thinking more positively about the future, then here is this weeks Carnival of Positive Thinking<br />
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<p><strong>GP</strong> presents <a href="http://fvclassic.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/home-is-where-the-heart-is/">Home is Where the Heart is</a> posted at <a href="http://fvclassic.wordpress.com">Innstyle Montana- Come on Inn</a>, saying, &#8220;Home is where the heart is&#8230; tips for good ol&#8217; fashion hospitality&#8221;</p>
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<p><strong>Fruitpunch</strong> presents <a href="http://www.fruit-punch-diary.com/the-way-i-see-it/winners-make-things-happen-losers-let-things-happen-238/">Winners make things happen, Losers let things happen</a> posted at <a href="http://www.fruit-punch-diary.com">Fruit Punch Diary</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>HL Grove</strong> presents <a href="http://henniegrove.blogspot.com/2008/03/making-your-dreams-come-true.html">Making Your Dreams Come True</a> posted at <a href="http://henniegrove.blogspot.com/">Hennie Grove</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Taylor Coburn</strong> presents <a href="http://www.processtoprofits.com/getting-things-done/">Getting Things Done</a> posted at <a href="http://www.processtoprofits.com">Internet Business at ProcessToProfits</a>, saying, &#8220;How to end procrastination, that nasty habit that keeps freedom and dreams at bay.&#8221;</p>
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<p><strong>GreatManagement</strong> presents <a href="http://www.greatmanagement.org/blogs/100/How-You-Can-Use-Storytelling-To-Inspire-Success.html">How You Can Use Storytelling To Inspire Success</a> posted at <a href="http://www.greatmanagement.org/blogs">The GreatManagement Blog</a>, saying, &#8220;Remember the times you have been a member of an audience. It could be on a course, at a team meeting or on a night out. Which ones do you remember? The really great ones and, maybe the really bad ones.<br />
Why is that?&#8221;</p>
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<p><strong>Joel Chue</strong> presents <a href="http://www.myselfhypnosis.net/blog/self-hypnosis-experience-relax-and-get-hypnotized">relax and get hypnotized!</a> posted at <a href="http://www.myselfhypnosis.net">SELF HYPNOSIS: Weight Loss, Quit Smoking Self Hypnosis!</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Joel Chue</strong> presents <a href="http://www.mindpowerspecialreport.com/subconsciousmindpower/mind-power/mind-power-life-is-a-mind-game-learn-how-to-play-it-well">Mind Power: Life is a Mind Game &#8211; Learn How to Play it Well</a> posted at <a href="http://www.mindpowerspecialreport.com/subconsciousmindpower">Mind Power Hacks: Tap The Subconscious Mind Power</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Joel Chue</strong> presents <a href="http://www.mindpowerspecialreport.com/blog/quantum-physics-applied-to-mind-power-part-1-of-10">Quantum Physics applied to Mind Power &#8211; Part 1 of 10</a> posted at <a href="http://www.mindpowerspecialreport.com">Mind Power: Unlock The Subconscious Mind Power Secrets</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Avani</strong> presents <a href="http://foodformind.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/how-to-get-clarity-in-thoughts/">How to get clarity in thoughts</a> posted at <a href="http://foodformind.wordpress.com">Food For Mind</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>JC</strong> presents <a href="http://www.ajourneyofdreams.com/2008/04/strange-thing-about-worry.html">The Strange Thing About Worry</a> posted at <a href="http://www.ajourneyofdreams.com/">A Journey Of Dreams</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Gabriella Kortsch, Ph.D.</strong> presents <a href="http://psychologytransformationfreedompapers.blogspot.com/2008/03/our-joys.html">Our Joys</a> posted at <a href="http://psychologytransformationfreedompapers.blogspot.com/">Psychology, Transformation &amp; Freedom Papers</a>, saying, &#8220;Grieve not for what is past &#8230; our joys as winged dreams do fly &#8230; doesn&#8217;t it make sense that we behave the same way with our grief as we do with our joy? As the poet &#8211; Thomas Percy &#8211; says, are joys tend to leave us very quickly. And yet we dwell on our sorrows.&#8221;</p>
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<p><strong>Lorraine Cohen</strong> presents <a href="http://www.powerfull-living.biz/blog/2008/04/01/letting-go-of-the-guilt-when-you-need-to-change-priorities/">Letting Go Of the Guilt When You Need to Change Priorities</a> posted at <a href="http://www.powerfull-living.biz/blog">Powerfull Living</a>, saying, &#8220;Giving yourself permission to change priorities is an important key to living a happier and prosperous life!&#8221;</p>
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<p><strong>Elizabeth</strong> presents <a href="http://xquisitlife.blogspot.com/2008/03/small-steps-that-ignite-flame-of.html">Small steps that ignite the flame of passion!</a> posted at <a href="http://xquisitlife.blogspot.com/">The best is yet to come!</a>, saying, &#8220;This blog discusses how to have success and passion when reaching for your dreams!&#8221;</p>
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<p><strong>Raymond</strong> presents <a href="http://www.moneybluebook.com/working-at-home-to-build-passive-blog-income-and-giving-up-full-time-job-pay/"><br />
Work At Home To Build A Blog Business</a> posted at <a href="http://www.moneybluebook.com">Money Blue Book</a>.</p>
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		<title>Guidance to Happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 07:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Farmery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at the Pyschology Blog I was interested to reat that practicing gratitude can increase happiness by 25% . Here are Dr Robert Emmons&#8217; top 10 tips for actually becoming more grateful, and consequently more happy.
1. Keep a gratitude journal
Sit down, daily, and write about the things for which you are grateful. Start with whatever springs to mind and work from there. Try not to write the same thing every day but explore your gratefulness.
2. Remember the bad
The way things are now may seem better in the light of bad memories. Don&#8217;t forget the bad things that have happened, the [...]<p>Post from: <a href="http://www.blisstree.com/widowsquest">Widows Quest</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over at the <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PsychologyBlog/~3/156161176/10-grateful-steps-to-happiness.php">Pyschology Blog </a>I was interested to reat that <a href="http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/09/practicing-gratitude-can-increase.php" target="_blank">practicing gratitude can increase happiness by 25%</a> . Here are Dr Robert Emmons&#8217; top 10 tips for actually becoming more grateful, and consequently more happy.<span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold">1. Keep a gratitude journal</span><br />
Sit down, daily, and write about the things for which you are grateful. Start with whatever springs to mind and work from there. Try not to write the same thing every day but explore your gratefulness.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold">2. Remember the bad</span><br />
The way things are now may seem better in the light of bad memories. Don&#8217;t forget the bad things that have happened, the contrast may encourage gratefulness.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold">3. Ask yourself three questions</span><br />
Choose someone you know, then first consider what you have received from them, second what you have given to them and thirdly what trouble you have caused them. This may lead to discovering you owe others more than you thought.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold">4. Pray</span><br />
Whether you are Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim or atheist, a ritualised form of giving thanks may help increase gratitude.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold">5. Use your senses</span><br />
80% of people say they are thankful for their health. If so, then get back in touch with the simple human fact of being able to sense what is out there: use your vision, touch, taste and smell to experience the world, and be thankful you can.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold">6. Use visual reminders</span><br />
Two big obstacles to being grateful are simply forgetting and failing to be mindful. So leave a note of some kind reminding you to be grateful. It could be a post-it, an object in your home or another person to nudge you occasionally.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold">7. Swear an oath to be more grateful</span><br />
Promise on whatever you hold holy that you&#8217;ll be more grateful. Sounds crazy? There&#8217;s a study to show it works.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold">8. Think grateful thoughts</span><br />
Called &#8216;automatic thoughts&#8217; or self-talk in cognitive therapy, these are the habitual things we say to ourselves all day long. What if you said to yourself: &#8220;My life is a gift&#8221; all day long? Too cheesy? OK, what about: &#8220;Every day is a surprise&#8221;.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold">9. Acting grateful is being grateful</span><br />
Say thank you, become more grateful. It&#8217;s that simple.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold">10. Be grateful to your enemies?</span><br />
It&#8217;ll take a big creative leap to be thankful to the people who you most despise. But big creative leaps are just the kind of things likely to set off a change in yourself. Give it a try.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know about you but I will try anything to try and ease the pain of grief, to overcome the pain of losing the person you love.  I suppose my blog is part of the process, part of my journal. Feel free to use the comments to talk positively about your day.</p>
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