Yesterday I received an email from my friend Linda and in the subject line it read, Handbook 2010. Linda is one of those friends that thrives on encouraging and energizing people so I knew that this handbook would be of some value. Generally I don't engage in forwarding emails simply because most people are just like me, either too busy or not interested. But this email was valid and instead of playing the forwarding game, I decided to post it here, with of course, some mino...
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