November 18, 2024

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Your Other 8 Hours: Fear of Failure? Three Tips to Guarantee Success

Rina Risper06 mins

 By Robert Pagliarini, Tribune Media Services

 
It takes guts and determination to invest the other eight hours into improving yourself or starting a business. If you’ve taken night classes, started a blog or have participated at Toastmasters, you know you are putting yourself on the line. It’s hard work and there is ample room for disappointment, rejection and, yes, dare I say, failure?

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Retire Smart: Economist’s Report Points to Best Job Opportunities for 50-plus Americans

Rina Risper07 mins

By Mark Miller
Tribune Media Services
 
 The debate over the future of Social Security will heat up this month when Washington policymakers convene for two major events focused on reducing the federal deficit. 
 
Deficit hawks will be peddling the argument that Social Security is careening toward insolvency, and that benefits should be cut because the government can’t afford its obligations to the program.
 
So, is Social Security headed for insolvency? And, is it causing our budget deficit?

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Your Other 8 Hours: Discover Your Passion: What’s Your Highest and Best Use?

Rina Risper07 mins

By Robert Pagliarini, Tribune Media Services

 
Live your passion. Do what you love and the money will follow. If you love what you do, it doesn’t feel like work. You’ve heard this cute advice a hundred times, but what if you have no idea what your passion is? It’s time you find out …
 

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Interpersonal EDGE: Change Boss from Superchicken to Superman!

Rina Risper05 mins

By Dr. Daneen Skube

Tribune Media Services
 
Q: My boss is a chicken and allows this one employee to walk all over him. Should I step in and tell my coworker to shape up?

 

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Retire Smart: Economist’s Report Points to Best Job Opportunities for 50-plus Americans

Rina Risper08 mins

 By Mark Miller

Tribune Media Services
 
If you train for it, the jobs will come.
 
That’s the upshot of a new economic study that attempts to answer one of the toughest questions facing mid-life Americans: Will training for a new career pay off in a recession-wracked economy?
 

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A Young Woman’s Fight for “Life”

Rina Risper07 mins

By Deana M. Newman, M.A., C.C.P.

Summers are generally celebrated as a time of outdoor fun, gatherings and basking in the sun.  However, the summer of 2008 was an eventful season which changed the normal course for one Lansing, Michigan family leading to a tragic end. 

 

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PET WORLD

Rina Risper08 mins

There’s a Good Reason Why ‘We’re All Stupid in Love with Our Pets’
 
By Steve Dale,Tribune Media Services
 
Just look at a puppy or kitten and you probably feel good. There’s a reason for that.

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Naturally Savvy.com: Nutrition May Be Key to Helping Control ADHD

Rina Risper08 mins

  By Lilian Presti

 

By working with a child’s diet first, parents can attempt to find the cause of their child’s behavioral issues without 

taking the drastic step of medicating them.

 

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Interpersonal EDGE: Breathe Life into Your Old Career!

Rina Risper05 mins

By Dr. Daneen Skube

Tribune Media Services
 
Q: When I started out in my career, I guess I was idealistic. Now I just feel tired and burnt out. After what happened to the stock market, I’m now stuck with working longer. How do I breathe new life into an old career? 
 

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