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Junior Youth

Junior-youth.com is  an informative blog, originally motivated by the desire to teach moral and spiritual development programs to those youth aged 12-15 years, but now extends its interest to “where youth, education, and technology come together”.

Some of the articles include:

How to Learn from Your Parents, Even if They Weren’t The Greatest

I want to tell you a story about my father. The story is sad, but hopeful.

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Forgiveness

Forgiveness is very hard to do, it is right up there with I’m sorry.

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7 Tips to Live a More Spontaneous Life

A few months ago I got a chance to try improv comedy.

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How much are memories worth?

I get a particular negative jolt when I review a credit card bill and find a charge for  something that’s already over and done

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Peaceful Virtues: Conclusion

This is a road-map that I’ve found that has led me to my first true inner success. This is only the first of many successes that I’m sure to accomplish in my life,

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The 7 habits of wealth

So often we define our lives by the big events. Graduation, marriage, children, a big promotion and retirement

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Not Knowing What We Need

One of the challenges with complex systems is that understanding of the problem and solution co-evolve

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Secret of “why sufis don’t grow old”

it was only last 17th February at Berkeley during Global Oneness Project event i had the honored chance to see him for the first time face to face.

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4 Fundamentals to Overcome the Fear of Change

Two things about change are well known: As a rule, people hate change, and Change is inevitable

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Who Are You a Hero To?

How much of being a hero is personal choice, and how much is externally controlled by the world we live in? I bring this up after reading this article and Gordon stating that he did not think of himself as a hero, only as doing what he had to do.

Along with that, how much of heroism is the perception of other people? Can I be a hero even if I don’t believe that I am?

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10 / 10 / 10

A mentor of his told him to think in terms of “10, 10, and 10″ when making decisions in life:

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Action is the Bridge between Knowledge and Results

Have you ever wondered why so many people are overweight when there are hundreds of diets and thousands of books on how to be healthy?

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Walk Your Talk… One Step at a Time

Do you claim health is important to you–then skip the gym for 6 weeks? Do you believe being productive is important, but work only on the night before a deadline?

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12 Tips On How To Be Happy

How to be happy, may sound pretty much common sense, but it is not as easy as it sounds. If it is, there will be not so many desperate cases out there.

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Twelve days - twelve ways to explore yourself

n the December 2007 issue of Ode magazine, there is a short article riffing off the twelve days of Christmas tradition that suggests twelve daily topics of reflection.

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One Year On. How Fatherhood Has Changed My Life.

It is hard to believe that a year has passed since the most nerve-wracking, yet exciting and wonderful, moment in my life.

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Fear

Sometimes the answers to our problems are not nearly as complex or elusive as many of us seem to believe they are. Or as difficult as some of us make them.

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5 Ways To Help Your Children Turn Their Dreams Into Reality

I love working with children. Unlike adults, their dreams have no ceiling. It’s inspiring to listen to their goals and ideas.

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How to Cope with Low Energy Levels

Sometimes we go through periods in life when our body just doesn’t seem to be able to keep pace with all the things we want to squeeze out of life.

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How To Infect Yourself with the Personal Development Virus

You can’t turn left or right these days without someone telling you how to improve your life.

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20 Things I Wish I Had Known When Starting Out in Life

I’m nearly 35 years old, and I’ve made my share of mistakes in my life. I’m not a big believer in regrets … and I have learned tremendously from every single mistake …

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The Kindest Friend

My husband died in 1998 and the following year found me incredibly depressed, desperately lonely and totally overwhelmed.

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3 Sure-Fire Tips to Turn Off Your Negative Mental Chatter

One of the biggest complaints I hear people say is that they can’t seem to turn off their thoughts especially when their self-talk is negative or punishing.

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Nine Techniques for Developing Patience

The single greatest challenge I’ve faced since learning how to turn my financial life around is patience. I want to be debt free now.

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How To Stop Worrying

“What happens if we get sued?”, “What happens if I have a terminal illness?”, “What would people think of me if I do this?”

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My 7 Most Significant Life Lessons of 2007

Why does this post seem like a confession? Maybe because it catalogs the major events of my life over the last 12 months in an effort to capture everything I learned during that time.What follows are some of the most important life lessons I’ve ever learned, and if you want to learn them too, all you have to do is keep reading.

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Be Outrageous, It’s the Only Place That’s Not Crowded

Mikki is the master at standing out in a crowd. But it is not a tactic; it just comes naturally. Here is a brief excerpt from the book.

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A Secret to Happiness

It seems that there is one constant in the lives of Human beings.  We all want to be happy. 

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Are you investing in your personal leadership?

Personal leadership which is.. “the desire of an individual to take charge of his or her own life. Personal leaders realize that leadership is not a position or title, but an outlook on life and their role in the world

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Coffee With A Professor

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups

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8 Ways to Return to the Present Moment

We spend much time thinking about what was and what could have been. And we spend much time projecting into the future and wondering about what may happen.

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Substantially Increase Your Chances for Self Improvement

In trying to improve our lives, attain greater success, and reach our goals, we try to find ways to improve ourselves. We try to become smarter, more efficient,

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Doing without is often better than making do

You can buy the best; you can buy some crappy imitation of the best; or you can buy nothing at all. People argue a lot about the parameters of the first two choices.

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Understand the Five Love Languages

Valentine’s Day is tomorrow and it’s a day when many men and women will spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on gifts, activities, and other acts of lavishness in the name of love and affection.

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Quote of the Week: Commitment

“The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well,

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Requesting A Comment For Sara

The kindness story I am about to tell is a collaborative project, and it will hopefully involve you!  

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You Are WHO You Hang With and WHAT Hangs Around You

It’s much easier to change our environments than it is to change our behavior. The first step to improving our environments is be aware of their existence and how they influence us.

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Chun-Ning Chu & 7 Stages of spiritual grounding

As a child, Chun-Ning Chu saw herself becoming a saint, but insight into balance and applying Asian wisdom guided her instead to redefine entrepreneurship.

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The Best Things in Life are Free

In a world that seems crazily hungering for things, possessions, and stuff, I thought I would list some of the best things in life… the things that are free!

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