Remember when you were in school and the world was laid out before you and you thought you could do anything you set your mind to?

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You can truly do whatever you set your mind to, even if it takes a few years of toiling away and being frugal to build up the resources to get there.

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The key, however, is to shift your mind-set from all of the problems in the current economic environment to all of the opportunities that these problems might be generating.

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"It's really important to take into consideration your partner's mind-set and their readiness to change, " she says.

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So if you were just too groggy to set out at 4:00AM in search of door-buster deals, your next chance to snag a mind-boggling deal get mauled to save a few Benjamins is just about 11 months away.

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But to answer your first question, I would say, yes, it is possible to love yourself on a day-to-day basis, no matter what your size, no matter what your height, no matter what your body shape is, and I really do think that's a mind-set that we need to focus on, you know, attaining.

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