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Is Compassion the Missing Virtue in Your Life?
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email to a friend Is compassion the missing virtue in your life? If so you are missing many powerful benefits. It is certainly one of the greatest tenants of personal development. According to scientific studies, there are physical benefits — people who practice compassion produce 100 percent more DHEA, the hormone that slows the aging process, and 23 percent less cortisol, the “stress hormone.” Wow, that alone is worth learning more about compassion. The Bible has much to say about the power of compassion; the following is just one example: “Praise…
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How to Build Rapport in Three Steps
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs – Email to a friend One of the greatest techniques of making friends and influencing people is knowing how to build rapport. Rapport is the feeling of trusting someone and being comfortable around them. Building rapport in everyday life can help with sales, persuading others to see your point of view, in developing better teamwork, getting dates, receiving raises or getting larger tips. If those things are important to you, here are three primary things that work: Make others feel comfortable in your presence Make others feel appreciated Make…
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Life as we have know it can’t be sustained in the 21 century
Website DIVISIONS (Over 600 articles to help you to grow in every facet of your life) Written by Jimmie Burroughs Email to a friend Researchers at J, W. Forrester’s institute at MIT presented a new study that says that the world could suffer from “global economic collapse” and “precipitous population decline” if there is a continued consumption of the world’s resources at the current rate. An article from Smithsonian Magazine quotes Australian physicist Graham Turner, “the world is on track for disaster. There is a very clear warning bell being rung here,” Turner said. “We are not on a sustainable trajectory.” There is little doubt that the present world is…