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The Healing Power of Your Smile

A smile carries the ability to transform one's own health, ignite a smile in others, and ultimately transform the world for good. With anecdotes, science and a sprinkling of history, the new book, Smile!, unfolds the story of decades of research of the potential effect of this one simple facial gesture.

Is Success a Given in 2009?

How do we deal with the incoming changes if we are leaving a job, wanting a new career, getting married or divorced, moving, retiring, or losing weight? A new book, Success is a Given: Reading the Signs While Re-inventing Your Life, can answer your questions about transition and change and how to find success and claim it.

Disability Kept Him From Soccer Stardom, But His Own Animated Super Hero Turns Disease into Strength

Aaron D'Errico always wanted to play soccer like his superstar dad who led the USA Men's National soccer team, but since birth, his leg muscles have been damaged by disease. His determination to overcome, however, blossomed in his imagination where he visualized his victories through a comic soccer superhero named Ammon. The hero, Ammon, is a medical student with cerebral palsy who secretly dreams of being a soccer star – like his father – but during his search for a cure, he gains superpowers through a blend of science and spirit. Aaron himself has become an inspiring hero to Marvel comics icon Stan Lee, and may become a mentor to an upcoming artist thanks to his online contest offering $2,000 to an aspiring illustrator.

Ex-Baseball Pitcher Becomes the New Gratitude Guru

After pitcher Mike Robbins left behind professional baseball -- and his self-pity -- after an injury, he embarked on a new path of self-discovery where appreciation and gratitude became his new pitch, and life coaching, his new game. His first book, Focus on the Good Stuff: The Power of Appreciation reached No. 4 on Amazon.com and has been praised as fresh and powerful.

Stopping Your Drama: Eight Principles to Calm the Workplace or Home

Are you getting caught in the middle of relationship squabbles? Do you feel anxiety or fear around the economy, your job, or your personal level of success? Such drama always drains your energy and impacts your personal effectiveness. To put an end to the negativity and energy drain, a good friend of mine, Marlene Chism has a new book that helps you Stop The Drama.

Whale Film "Big Miracle" is a Charmer - And, True

In this delightful family movie based on a true story, a family of gray whales, stranded beneath the ice near the northern-most Alaskan town of Barrow, brings together old foes in an inspiring rescue operation that catches the attention of the whole world.

What Cancer Patients Want Most - To Laugh (Help Them do it)

It's not just an "old adage" that tells us laughter is the best medicine these days. Scientists, doctors, mental health professionals, and patients themselves call humor a remedy for any ailment -- at least temporarily. In the book, 20 Things People with Cancer Want You to Know, the #1 statement in a recent survey of more than 600 survivors is, "I need to laugh – or just forget about cancer for a while." Now there is a resource and you can contribute to the funny file.

New Muppet on Sesame Street Struggles With Hunger

Not since the cute, yellow HIV-positive Muppet premiered in 2009 on Sesame Street in South Africa has a new character from the Workshop taken such a lead role in educating kids about a societal woe. The furry 7-year-old girl named Lily, will appear first tonight on an hour-long PBS special to raise awareness of the issue of hunger in America.

Tom Hanks Wants to Spread Optimism With his New Movie 'Larry Crowne'

Optimism is something Hanks has never been shy about bringing to his movies, whether it is Forrest Gump's naïve faith in people or the dogged determination to survive in Cast Away, In his new film, Larry Crowne, opening Friday, he goes back to Community College after losing his job. Searching for something positive, that is what he finds.