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One Little Thing That Can Save Your Marriage
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email to a friend Ads by Google Marriages are sometimes lost on just one issue: Failing to show empathy. Sympathy and empathy are similar terms that use the same emotion which is feeling a deep concern for what someone else is going through. There is one difference in the two terms: Sympathy is a feeling of concern based on similar experiences while empathy is a feeling of concern without having experienced the same issues. Being able to read your spouse’s emotions can tell you what they are experiencing when they…
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Three simple ways to improve your writing
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email to a friend- Abraham Lincoln was a master writer who had the ability to get to the point in the fewest of words, and that is the primary meaning of excellent writing. A seven word document immortalizes Lincoln’s decision to spare a soldier’s life. In 1862 Michael Delaney deserted one Colorado regiment, but had joined another and was fighting with it when he was arrested. Since the man had re-enlisted, Lincoln overturned the death sentence, writing with dazzling and unusual succinctness, he said, “Let him fight instead of being…
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Success is Determined by the Way You Think
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs – Email or share this article with a friend at the bottom of the page. “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:” Proverbs 23:7 Can you think your way to health and riches, and does it work the opposite: can you think your way to poverty, illness and death? I intend to show that there is an element of truth for both of those concepts. Is success determined by the way a person thinks? Does the way a person thinks determine their life for good or bad,…