If I could, I would be more than happy to give you a psychological breakdown linking your traveling techniques to your psychological profile, but actually I don’t know that it would be so easy to analyze the methods and motives behind anyone’s travel style. My husband is a great example: Most of the time he is messy, disorganized and a bit of a scatter brain, but when it comes to traveling he’s cool, calm and collected. He packs the night before, manages to get to the airport on time without leaving hours too early and never stresses out about flying.

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As I listened to Obama’s speech I was intrigued how so much of it resonated as not just a plan for the country, but a potential plan for personal change as well. You and I can’t wait for change to happen outside of ourselves, as that encourages us to be victims to external circumstances. Change must start from within each and every one of us, every day, in our own lives. Here are 5 ways in which words from Obama’s speech can resonate on a personal level.

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I decided to write this article while I was watching the Vice Presidential Debate as it really struck me that Sarah Palin continuously uses war metaphors. “We will fight,” she kept saying. “We will attack” etc. Like McCain, she obviously sees life as a battle and every encounter is a competition or a struggle, in which she is either winning or losing.

Now, we all use metaphors in our every day language and the metaphors that we use will govern whether we see life as exciting or frightening. If, like Sarah Palin, you go through life as if it’s a struggle and each day you wake up to ‘battle a new day’ how stressful do you think that would be on your body?

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This article is about letting go of habits and behaviors that cause us to waste a lot of precious energy. You might recognize that you have a habit of doing one of these things or all five, but all of them subtly drain our internal resources. My intention in giving you these tips this week is to help you release that self imposed, extra weight that we carry around on our shoulders.

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One thing you can be sure of in life is change and that is IT! Full stop. Period. The end. … Ok, not quite the end, as I want to write this article, but you get what I’m saying!

Regardless of our situation, whether we are in a relationship or single many of us feel that we have an emptiness inside that, something outside of ourselves has the incredible power to fill up. We find ourselves thinking ‘When I have a job, a relationship, a child… (Whatever it is for you.) well, then I’ll really be happy’.

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