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DAVID B. BOHL

Relinquishee, Adoptee, MPE
Author, Speaker.

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A Charlie Brown Christmas

Would it surprise you to know that Charles Schultz, the creator of the extremely successful and enduring Peanuts cartoon, battled many of the same disenchantments and struggled with self-confidence as did his comic-strip characters? He did.

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December 22, 2007

Positive Thinking: Do You Carry Storm Clouds with You?

I’m always bothered when I hear people focusing on what went wrong in their lives, day after day after day. These people are suffering from a chronic bad day, and I hate this for them, because it is absolutely unnecessary. It’s not raining five feet away, but they’re carrying their own clouds around everywhere they go.

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December 21, 2007

Goals: Know When to Fold ‘Em

Sometimes in life you just have to give up. That may seem like a pretty absurd statement from a professional coach and lifestyle mentor, but I think it’s the most important advice I ever got, and the most important thing I can share with a client who’s facing something that is just not humanly possible.

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December 20, 2007

Make Your Own Choices

Do you make your own choices or are you constantly letting what other do dictates how you decide?  There is a post at Dumb Little

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December 19, 2007

Our Overpacked, Overburdened, and Overwhelmed Lives

The irony is that the more we try to cram into our already overpacked lives, the morescattered and fragmented our lives become. And when that happens, we lose sight of what’s most important to us. We are let down, disappointed, confused, unfulfilled.

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December 19, 2007

Happiness: It’s What One Emphasizes That Counts

One of my favorite quotes is Carlos Castaneda’s:

“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”

I love this quote because it reminds me of how hard I used to work, just because I believed that working that hard would make me happy. It didn’t, and I think that if work was going to make me happy, eighty to one hundred hours a week should have done it.

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December 18, 2007

Awareness: How You Live is Who You Are

I’m always amazed at what people say about themselves sometimes, and how that really contrasts with what they do. What’s the quote? Something about what you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say.

That sentiment means so much to me, because I know that in spite of wanting to be generous, patient, compassionate, and thoughtful, I am often selfish, impatient, intolerant and closed-minded.

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December 17, 2007
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