So, this month as my first book, Nothing But the Truth So Help Me God: 51 Women Reveal the Power of Positive Female Connection, the first in a series of anthologies, launches on Amazon and Barnes and Noble in both print and ebook versions, I hope to learn from the mistakes I watched Borders make.

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Psychologist Albert Bandura of Stanford University has written extensively about the connection between positive thoughts and better sports performance, demonstrating that belief in oneself improves motor skills.

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The connection between the positive battery cable and the fuse box could degrade over time.

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Based on employee logs, the connection between mood and negative events is about five times stronger than the connection between mood and positive events.

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And I like to think that we share a connection that is bound to have a positive impact on our relationships, our work, our communities: in our own ways, we are all striving to Lead with our Hearts.

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On the positive side, a day later police announced that two men had been charged in connection with the gunfire.

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Groopman observed that hope does not just involve a mind-to-body connection, but also a body-to-mind connection, where neural input about one's physical condition serves as a moderator of positive and negative emotions.

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