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- Healthy Mindset: Psychology Today Talks with Our Lady of Weight Loss - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsChewing the Fat: Susan K. Perry, Ph.D., Creating In Flow blogger for Psychology Today and Janice Taylor, author, blogger, weight loss coach dish the dirt, chew the fat, and talk 'creative weight loss.'! THE INTERVIEW: Get Creative, Lose Weight, Find Flow & Happiness At first, I couldn't find ...
Views: 643 - Hello, Friendly Neighbor Atheist! - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI read with much interest on The New York Times today about atheists and agnostics coming out of the closet and proudly proclaiming their non-religion more publicly more than ever. This is not to say that I have anything against religion. I do, however, feel strongly that there is an unfair ...
Views: 603 - Help free Aung San Suu Kyi for peace! - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsBlessed Intent Family, I received this email from Avaaz today, and signed the petition. Won’t you join me to help free Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi from her many years of house arrest? Burmese pro-democracy leader and Nobel peace prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, has spent 13 years ...
Views: 679 - Help Me Bring Down the Healing Rain - by Submitted on Jul 26, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsPost written by Alex Blackwell. Connect with me on Facebook or follow me on Twitter. Kansas City is in a drought. There has only been 0.05” of precipitation recorded this year. My hands and face are as dry and cracked as the hard winter ground. It’s rare to go so long without any type of ...
Views: 622 - Help Yourself to a Wonderful Summer! - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLife is wonderful! When we are able to ~give and take~ we experience the balance that comes from doing for others while we also take care of our own needs. This summer, let's focus on the ways we can give to our loved ones, our community and our world and still take the time we need for ...
Views: 641 - Help Yourself to Happiness - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLast Monday, I met a sincerely happy young mother who had recently been laid off a well-paid job in the computer industry. She shared that after losing the position her sleep had vastly improved and she was elated to have time to pursue her dreams. She called herself “The Upside of a Down ...
Views: 758 - Hiking: A Sport for the Times - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe time-honored virtues of hiking have never been more apparent than during these challenging economic and social times. This activity delivers a targeted stimulus to each department of life: Commerce. Hiking is affordable in that it can be practiced close to home, saving thousands of ...
Views: 870 - Hip Fracture Usually Requires Hip Replacement - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe most-feared injury among serious bicyclists is a broken hip. The femur hip bone is shaped like a shepherd's crook. The blood supply to the ball at the top of the hip bone comes in through the neck just below the ball. If the neck or ball are broken, the blood supply is usually shut off and ...
Views: 635 - Hogwash Alert: How to Survive the Pandemic of Swine Flu Scams and Swindles - by Submitted on May 21, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsLong before you'll ever come down with swine flu, you'll be exposed to another kind of virus sweeping the world: A global outbreak of online scams and swindles preying on your fears of the so-called aporkalypse. In coming days when you receive emails offering a variety of ways to ward off swine ...
Views: 822 - Hold Fast: The 5 Survival Lessons of Capt. Richard Phillips - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWith three perfect sniper shots, Navy SEALs saved Capt. Richard Phillips, the 53-year-old hostage being held by Somali pirates for $2 million in ransom. "I share the country's admiration for the bravery of Captain Phillips and his selfless concern for his crew," President Obama said in a White ...
Views: 892 - Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Remarkable Strength (and Success) of the Survivors - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsNine million Jews lived in Europe in 1939 as World War II erupted. By 1945, six million had been slaughtered. In the most basic arithmetic, three million European Jews managed to escape the Nazi Final Solution. They fled. They hid. They resisted. The survival rate varied greatly from nation to ...
Views: 2160 - Homeless, But Not Hopeless. - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsFor a country we call the land of prosperity, the United States has staggering numbers of homeless people. So why do we still have a growing number of people living under bridges, cars, shelters and on the streets? Homelessness has as many different causes as it has victims. Every person's ...
Views: 1110 - Homelessness By the Numbers - by Submitted on Jun 14, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsRaise your hand if you've ever seen a person who you thought was homeless. I can see that all hands are up! I'll be 61 years old this week and when I was young, the situation was not as it is now. In my youth, the vast majority of people who were homeless were men. There were very few women ...
Views: 1013 - Hope Survives - by Submitted on Jul 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAs a journalist and communications consultant, I equate getting a story on the CBS News show, 60 Minutes, to hitting the jackpot (except that luck rarely plays more than a very small role). So when I saw a story last spring about a side effect-free cancer treatment and possible cure in ...
Views: 645 - Hope, Humor, and Oprah - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2009 from Intent.com Authors“I felt guilt, shame, I was crying...I mean when you can’t provide for your family anymore…” Those were the words of Michael, a 50-something man on today’s Oprah show who, with his wife, had to move out of their home and into what used to be their office, after their business crashed. That ...
Views: 593 - Hot Potato Guidance - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI’m pretty uncomfortable about it at this point, and I know too that I’m doing the right thing. As you know, I function as a Chief Spiritual Officer for several businesses. It’s hard to explain what a CSO does. The basic job is to look at business scenarios of all kinds and listen for guidance ...
Views: 747 - How Can a Soulmate Cause So Much Pain? - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDear Arielle and Brian: Three years ago I met someone who I strongly believe in my heart is my soulmate. We are engaged and have lived together for the past three years. I discovered he cheated on me and I told him to leave the house. He has groveled, begged for me to take him back and ...
Views: 1110 - How Can I Help? Stepping into Service and Discovering Joy - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2009 from Intent.com Authors“Teach the young about service as they will then live a life of caring.” This is the wonderful advice we heard at a volunteers meeting. We also heard the importance of following our passion: that whatever area of life turns us on, that is where we should put our time and energy as we will not ...
Views: 751 - How Can I Stop Thinking (and Dreaming!) About the Ex? Find Your Inner Sumo Wrestler - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI just read your article “Hoping You Will Get Back Together after the Breakup?” I love your theory; I think all the advice you have to give is wonderful. So as someone who has recently gotten her heart crushed, I find the part I struggle with the most is the continuing thinking of the ex and ...
Views: 655 - How Can I Trust Myself in Dating Ever Again? - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDear Ms. Ruth, Sorry, I am not one for formalities; but the heading just sounded right! LOL. I am actually wondering if/when I will be able to actually “see” the guys I’m interested in for who they are? I dated a guy for three years when I found out that he was a porn addict. As you could ...
Views: 626 - How Can We Can Avoid Home Foreclosures - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI believe that in the current housing and economic environment (with declining home values nationwide) it never makes economic sense for a Bank/Servicer to foreclosure on an owner occupied home. As a result, I believe we can successfully and rightfully place a temporary nationwide foreclosure ...
Views: 661 - How Can We Help the Helpless? - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAs a mother, I read with horror a news article from CNN.com last week about Masika Bermudez, a mother who found her dead eleven-year-old son Jaheem Herrera hanging from a belt in a closet. In the article, Masika said she believes that Jaheem could no longer cope with the bullying that was ...
Views: 1280 - How Can We Help the Helpless? See Them - by Submitted on May 27, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsNamaste is one of the most beautiful terms I have ever heard. I love the sound and the flow of the greeting but it is the meaning behind it and the sacred feeling of saying Namaste that touches me deeply each time I use it in my life when addressing people. The loose meaning of Namaste is “the ...
Views: 738 - How Do Women Measure Self Worth? - by Submitted on May 25, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDoes someone else need to acknowledge your worth to make it real? Do you crave outside affirmation of your value? Did we get a disproportionate amount of so-called worth from the "powers that be" because we're females, or are we generally insecure by nature about this issue? If we're basically ...
Views: 738 - How Do You Get Back Up? A Counterintuitive Approach to Thriving in Challenging Times - by Submitted on Jul 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA while back, I received a distressed email from Ken, a young manager at a high-tech company. Ken and I had never met, but he had read my first two books and had done his best to apply the ideas and practices of Extreme Leadership to the way he'd led his team. To their culture, their work ...
Views: 536 - How Do You Learn to Enjoy All Foods Without Overeating? Practice, Practice, Practice. - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMarci called Thursday morning. “Can I bring a fear food tonight and practice eating it mindfully?” She’d been learning--to eat when hungry, choose exactly the food she wanted, stop eating when satiated. And, she was becoming more aware of which foods were triggers and which were simply foods she ...
Views: 691 - How Do You Overcome Fear in Your Daily Life? - by Submitted on Jun 15, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhen I heard the high-pitched cry outside the window, I felt some alarm, so stepped outdoors to listen again. To me, the cry sounded like the raspy voice of a woman in distress. Because I live on the side of a mountain that has road and a lookout view point high above the house, I worried that ...
Views: 811 - How Exercise Preserves Brain Function - by Submitted on May 21, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDr. Yu-Min Kuo, of the National Cheng Kung University Medical College in Taiwan, has shown how exercise helps to preserve brain function as you age (The Journal of Applied Physiology, November 2008). Dr Kuo trained mice to run daily for five weeks on wheels at 70 percent of their capacity. They ...
Views: 871 - How Happy Are You with Your Sex Life? (A Quiz) - by Submitted on May 24, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSharing your deepest darkest secrets isn’t easy; it takes courage and a promise of confidentiality and can leave you at your most vulnerable. Truly intimate relationships require a high level of trust in order to sustain. Please take a moment to write your answers to the following questions to ...
Views: 1569 - How in Control Are You of Your Finances and What Does Financial Independence Mean to You? (Quiz) - by Submitted on May 21, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA discussion about finances in a book celebrating a woman’s worth may appear to put so much emphasis on monetary solvency that one could argue in favor of the money-equals-worth equation. But I sincerely hope you don’t reach this conclusion, because that is not the intent. Money doesn’t buy you ...
Views: 571 - How Much is a Life Worth? - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHow much is a life worth? For Peter Singer, this isn't a rhetorical question or dorm room–style thought experiment. In his provocative new book, "The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty," Singer, a professor of philosophy at Princeton University, argues that we have a moral ...
Views: 721 - How Multi-Goaling Beats Multi-Tasking Every Time - by Submitted on Jun 23, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOf course you have multiple things to do. That's a good thing. In fact, if you didn't have multiple things to do you might be coming near the end of an active life. Even if you've lost your job, and I know what that one's like, you still have multiple things to do. More accurately stated, you ...
Views: 695 - How My Dog Chloe Helped Me Heal - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhether it is her sweet little face that excitedly looks through the glass window as I walk up the driveway or when she peeks at me with her big brown eyes up from under the blanket or how she looks over her shoulder as she runs away from me diving under the couch, (usually with a sock in her ...
Views: 776 - How My Dog Licked Cancer - by Submitted on Jun 15, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsYou may have heard about the research, still in its early stages, about dogs’ ability to sniff out cancer in people. Pretty remarkable. Talk about being human’s best friend – what a solid to save someone’s life! A dog may have saved my life when I had cancer, at least in a way. The ...
Views: 1076 - How My Dog Trained Me - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsRecently, I stood up close and personal to a hawk which swooped down to attack the plastic heron standing guard over my fish pond. He saw me, obviously embarrassed by his mistake, and flew back up into the expansive blue sky. I could have been on the Discovery Channel! That Hawk got me thinking ...
Views: 770 - How often should you check in with a sick friend? - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA colleague recently shared a dilemma with me. One of his friends has been battling leukemia for several months, and he’s not sure how often or even how to contact her. “It’s always been a ‘who’s gonna call whom?’ kind of friendship anyway,” Dwight explained, “and Amy’s never liked to share a ...
Views: 3062 - How Self-fulfilling Prophecies Can Unlock Your Energy - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI have been reading a fascinating book about “self-fulfilling prophecies” – these are simply predictions that, by being made, cause their eventual realization. For example, when the media erroneously reported that there would be a gas shortage in California year ago, people began flocking to gas ...
Views: 612 - How the Credit Card Companies Are Taking Your Credit Away - by Submitted on May 24, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDid you know that the credit card companies are now reviewing credit lines and if your income is down, they can reduce your credit. You may think you are secure, but then get a letter in the mail telling you that the amount of credit available to you has been reduced. Or if you apply for ...
Views: 589 - How to Apologize - by Submitted on Jul 28, 2009 from Intent.com Authors“I demand an apology!” If you have to demand it, is it really worth receiving? Forced apologies are kind of like nice plastic. Shiny, maybe even useful, but ultimately, just trash. For a long time, I wanted an official kind of apology from my husband for some jerk-like tendencies he was ...
Views: 818 - How to Avoid Hurt Feelings - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHas anyone ever said this to you: “Don’t be so sensitive. I was only kidding.” If so, did it change the way you felt? Chances are it didn’t because you had already taken the matter to heart,and it had already hurt your feelings. Needless to say, not every hurt feeling can be avoided, but some ...
Views: 2492 - How to Avoid The Great Depression - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWe would all rather not see a second coming of The Great Depression which followed the stock market crash of 1929. Central bankers across the globe have been rushing to reduce interest rates drastically in 2008/9 and some of them are resorting to Quantitative Easing (QE) at present with some ...
Views: 1680 - How to Be a Man - by Submitted on May 17, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhat does it mean to be a man? Strong and brave? Sensitive and sweet? Unfortunately, this is a question that gets little attention in the public sphere today, leaving so many of us gentlemen unenlightened. In my experience, growing up in a solidly progressive area of the US (the Pacific ...
Views: 1323 - How to Be A Modern Goddess -- According to a Man - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOne question arises whenever I pronounce the distinctly un-pithy title of my book for women - ‘The Tao of Dating: The Smart Woman's Guide to Embracing Your Inner Goddess and Finding the Fulfillment You Deserve': "What qualifies you to write this book?" Well, nothing really. See, I actually ...
Views: 618 - How to Be Happier - Living Our Fairytales - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2009 from Intent.com Authors“I move from wish to wish in my life“ I realized, while in a shower, a couple of days ago. "I wish to do something, to be something, and my life moves in that direction. I wished to become a psychologist for a while, then I wished to become a designer, then I wished to become a freelance ...
Views: 514 - How To Be Happy - by Submitted on Sep 08, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThis morning I woke up, looking forward to hearing the beautiful sound of birds chirping outside my window. And instead I hear a down-right obnoxious, really loud beeping sound. It is occurring at 30 second intervals, like a high-pitched metronome that you can't turn off. (BTW, I recently ...
Views: 637 - How To Be Happy, And Let Go - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWell, this week's article is (again) related to happiness. Yes, I am going to be talking about how to let go of intentions so that they have maximum organizing power. Interestingly, this has quite a lot to do with happiness, as I will explain. The more happiness we can cultivate in the present ...
Views: 1980 - How to Be Just Like Me - by Submitted on May 21, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAfter my last brutally honest note to the Tribe, I received A LOT of emails asking about how I could be so open and vulnerable in these letters to you while still remaining strong in my self..... and the answer to that question is one of my greatest secrets. Want to hear it? Cool, here's my ...
Views: 651 - How to Bring Order to Your Chaos - by Submitted on May 25, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIt is probably not an exaggeration to say that if a man came into my house and vacuumed all my carpets, he could have his way with me. I love an orderly household. I crave clear, uncluttered surfaces and color-coded closet shelves. Truth be told, my conscious parenting efforts – and my ...
Views: 1410 - How to Buy Furniture the Green Way - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsPrior to the Industrial Revolution, replacing furniture to keep up with trends, or because one was bored with some item, was unthinkable. Since the rise of the Industrial Revolution, however, Americans have been coached to regularly replace old items with new. Advertisements lure us with ...
Views: 731 - How to Celebrate a Lily Day - by Submitted on Jun 15, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsConsider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he ...
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