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- Why Hiring is Paradoxically Harder in a Downturn - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsHiring is always hard. The hardest thing to do at a company is the recruiting and hiring. It was really hard when the economy was doing well. Paradoxically, for certain industries (especially those reliant on innovation such as those in the tech space), it's even harder when times are ...
Views: 934 - The Nature of God - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: You speak of a consciousness that is at the basis of all things, that is shared by all people and plants and objects. Sometimes you mention God. What do you mean when you mention God, do refer to Him as something that is outside of us, outside of this all encompassing consciousness? ...
Views: 738(1 vote) - Relationships and Sustainability - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThere is an old saying that says: “Make new friends, and keep the old. One is silver, the other is gold.” Life is all about relationships. We have a relationship with the environment, with our work, with our home, and especially with the people in our lives. Earth Month gives us an ...
Views: 535 - What's in Your Dehydrator? - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsMaking your own crackers, biscuits, foods and treats in a dehydrator may not seem so “Green” but you actually avoid a lot of packaging waste. You also control what goes into or more importantly what does not go into your food. Dehydrators are so easy to use and if you dry your food goodies at ...
Views: 1421 - President Obama: Keep Your Enemies Closer Than Your Friends - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsPresident Obama has faced many difficult challenges in the first 100 days of office, including thinly disguised racial attacks at home, bitter opposition at his attempts to put the country on the right track after eight years of fiscal irresponsibility, as well as the proverbial 3am phone call ...
Views: 913 - Humanity at Work - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOne of my principal interests and intentions relates to the issue of how we can cultivate and express our humanity in and though our work. By humanity, I refer to the essential human attributes of love, compassion, forgiveness, empathy, and other qualities that foster flow, connection, and ...
Views: 917 - Starting My Path to Green - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsInspired by Intent.com's "30 Days to A Greener You" I am going to embark on a path to greening my life. I took the How Eco-Savvy Are You? quiz by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg and didn't really do so well. Thus, I will be taking small steps in my life and I hope you enjoy my journey and I can inspire ...
Views: 597 - Be a Fake Vegetarian - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI became a vegetarian out of pure coincidence. Several years ago, I had a friend who was giving up meat for Lent. He loved meat. This was a true sacrifice for this Catholic man. By pure happenstance, a day or two later I came across a news story in my college newspaper about the rising trend ...
Views: 709 - Why Meat from Mammals is Risky - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA study of more than 500,000 Americans over 40 shows that those who consume the equivalent of at least a hamburger a day have a 30 percent increased chance of dying during the next 10 years, mostly from heart disease and cancer. Cold cuts, sausage and other processed meats also increased the ...
Views: 594 - Learning to Let Go - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe more you want something, the more you need to let it go. This can seem counter-intuitive. I mean, it's important to feel passionate about something, right? Well, yes and no. Feeling passionate about something, wanting to make a difference, wanting to make an impact - these are all good ...
Views: 832 - Shouldn't Every Day Be Earth Day? - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSince 1970 when the first Earth Day was observed, we may have become more environmentally aware, but have we really accomplished much in the way of affecting significant change in the way we relate to our Mother? Seems like we've gone on trashing her just as badly, if not more, as we did before ...
Views: 509 - Spring Cleaning for Earth Day - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSometimes we underestimate the power of spring cleaning. After all it’s just one more thing to do along with taxes, trying to stay on an exercise regimen or plan of healthy eating or dealing with economic concerns or rising stress levels, there may be more seemingly important things to get done. ...
Views: 594 - Ai Weiwei, Artist & Lightning Rod - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsAi Weiwei. Chinese digital dissident, is featured in the May/June issue of Utne Reader. His artwork and his story captivated me. The interview originally appeared in Index on Censorship and was conducted by Simon Kirby. He participated in creating The Bird’s Nest Stadium we witnessed nightly ...
Views: 935 - Leverage More Coping Out of Emotional Eating: Make It More Mindful - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsYou have two options in regard to emotional eating: you can try to eliminate it altogether or you can try to make better use of it by making emotional eating more conscious. The latter would be consistent with the goals of harm reduction, a humanistic form of psychotherapy that offers a ...
Views: 559 - Relationships and Sustainability - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThere is an old saying that says: “Make new friends, and keep the old. One is silver, the other is gold.” Life is all about relationships. We have a relationship with the environment, with our work, with our home, and especially with the people in our lives. Earth Month gives us an ...
Views: 435 - 3 Steps to Ending Homelessness - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIt is possible to end homelessness. How? There are three steps to ending homelessness. These steps can be approached individually or at the same time. Step One: Open public toilets 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with showers and laundry facilities. Having worked with people in the streets ...
Views: 1689(1 vote) - 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 - Healthy Family: How to Make Your Children Flu-Resistant - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsJust when you thought cold and flu season was over... Two Christmases ago, we were unhappy participants in the rampaging outbreak of Norovirus. My older son picked it up in Orlando, presumably among the masses at Disney World. As he proceeded to “share” it with me, his brother, my parents and a ...
Views: 555(1 vote) - Working for Good Principle: Arriving - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com Authors“We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” ~ T.S. Eliot Today is my 51st birthday, another pause for reflection. One way of looking at it, is as the first day of the second half of my life. ...
Views: 647 - Self Confidence vs. Shame - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDan Jones has written a beautiful poem called "Shameless" which has a few lines which I think are priceless. He is talking about the nature of being shameless as well as what self-confidence is, and isn't. It's absolutely beautiful... Vanity and conceit have nothing to do with this, and not ...
Views: 1502(2 votes) - A World of Favorites in 30 Days - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsYou’re my faaaaaaavorite,” I whispered to Sadie this morning as she rested her head on my knee after breakfast. She thumped her tail as if in collusion. She knows my world rises and sets with her. While I was reveling how much I love this girl I remembered how just last night I shared in a ...
Views: 670 - Why Celiacs (Those with Celiac Disease) & Those with Gluten Sensitivity Need Healthy Probiotic Liquids - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsEverywhere you turn these days, it seems like more and more products are available in gluten free versions. Indeed, it is one of the fastest growing categories in the health food market. Many people cannot digest gluten (a protein found in many whole grains and cereals), and at least 2 million ...
Views: 2252 - Humanity of Motive Behind the Inhumanity of Action (movie review) - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsKudos to Bodrov! What a movie: piercing and breathtaking as an invasion of mongols itself! Having grown up as a Russian, furthermore, in Moscow in the Arbat neighborhood literally a two lane street from Mongol Embassy (on what used to be called Voevodin Lane, across school #69), I have always ...
Views: 1205 - 'Are You a Bookie?' The Path to Deeper Wisdom... - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA bookie, in this case, means anyone who loves books and book-clubs - not the kind of bookie who takes bets at a racetrack. I imagine one can be both, so we’ll exclude no one, especially as the event is designed to encourage those who have book clubs or are thinking of starting one to talk about ...
Views: 664 - Happy Surprises: Unclaimed Money Means You Might Be Rich - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe Dateline NBC show “You Might Be Rich” helps people find money they didn’t know they had, and you too can quickly search state databases to see if any of your money is lying unclaimed in a government coffer somewhere. How much unclaimed money are we talking about? Billions of dollars! To find ...
Views: 839 - Ending the Meltdown Melodrama - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA new poll has brought some welcome news. When asked, "Do you think the country is headed in the right direction?" more responders say yes than no. This is in stark contrast to the latter stages of the Bush administration, when the no's were mounting to unheard-of levels, past 80%. The headline ...
Views: 1087 - You Are Who You Are, Not What You Do - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOur perception of the traits and characteristics that make us who we are is often tightly intertwined with how we live our life. We define ourselves in terms of the roles we adopt, our actions and inactions, our triumphs, and what we think are failures. As a result it is easy to identify so ...
Views: 638 - Swine Flu Survival: The Science of a Single Sneeze (and Three Simple Ways to Protect Yourself) - by Submitted on May 31, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsA single sneeze propels 100,000 droplets into the air at around 90 mph, landing on door knobs, ATM keypads, elevator buttons, escalator railings, and grocery cart handles. In a subway station at rush hour, according to British researchers, as many as 10 percent of all commuters can come in ...
Views: 561 - Introducing the Importance of Self -Worth - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhat is your personal currency? What do you feel you have to offer to the world at large, and is that offering given the value, validity and respect it deserves? Are you happy to be a girl? When you judge yourself as we all do, how do you measure up? Are you an equally treasured part of society? ...
Views: 852 - The Energy of The Financial Meltdown - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWe are in a time of financial crisis. People are anxious. People are seeking solutions. People are scared. With all of this activity, tremendous bursts of energy are being expended, some positive but mostly negative. But the energy that we project into the cosmos is not an isolated event. Your ...
Views: 819 - Karma & The Law of Attraction - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsInherent within life, and its great mystery, there is a mechanism to facilitate the expansion of consciousness. This we will call the Law of Sympathetic Attraction or as it is more popularly know now the 'Law of Attraction'. We commonly know the law of sympathetic attraction as 'like attracts ...
Views: 1123 - 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 - How to Pick a Breakfast Cereal - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsThe most healthful breakfast is whole grain cereal. If you're trying to lose weight, control cholesterol or diabetes, or just need a lot of energy, your best bet is a hot cooked cereal of whole grains, such as oatmeal; or barley, brown rice or wheat berries cooked and served like oatmeal. Flavor ...
Views: 1042 - To Boldly Gonzo - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsRemember diagramming sentences? I never liked the clinical way grammar teachers used to hack off parts and slash lines though thoughts, turning them into something eerily similar to algebraic equations. I recall even then a physical urge to run up and rescue bold adverbs from the discomfiture of ...
Views: 609 - Psychic Manifestations - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsQuestion: We have all heard of, or maybe even known someone who is referred to as psychic. Some of these people have premonitions about things that are about to happen. My question is, are they manifesting their premonitions? Or are they able to see the universe organizing to fulfill someone ...
Views: 714 - 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 - From Fast-food to Finance, Cause Marketing is on the Rise - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDoes it seem counter-intuitive that cause marketing programs are continuing to prosper in a pinched economy? I talked with David Hessekiel, president and founder of Cause Marketing Forum, about why cause-related marketing campaigns have a current advantage, best practices for starting a cause ...
Views: 1091 - Organic Pot Planting for Your Space! - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI know, I could of used the word Container instead of Pot, but pot planting seems so much happier! It can be expensive to reduce pesticides in your food consumption by eating organic vegetables. I want to share Organic Pot Planting with you. Pot planting is a fun, easy, low cost and delicious ...
Views: 1249(1 vote) - The Imagination of Enough - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI'm sure you've heard of voluntary simplicity, but have you ever thought about it in relation to your own life? Probably. I know I have. In those evaluation questionnaires about my carbon footprint, and various other ways of thrift, I come out passably. But then I caught myself ordering drug ...
Views: 1048(1 vote) - 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 - Dismissing Disinterest - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIn my last blog post I discussed how a lack of interest can cause procrastination. So what can we do about it? Well, we could kick ourselves in the butt and just start doing, but that sort of attitude and behaviour can backlash. It can create a rebellious-teenager response within us. We don't ...
Views: 627 - Restoring Hope When All Hope is Lost - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIt's a hard thing to observe in a person: the loss of hope when her doctor has informed her she has an "incurable" disease; yet on a surprisingly regular basis I see someone who has cured the incurable, who has held fast to hope in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Perhaps it's ...
Views: 1343(1 vote) - Dealing with Shades of Black - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsTragedy comes unannounced. At any given moment, or turn in our lives, we may face upheaval, be that a family tragedy, a distressing piece of information, a health scare, or any situation that may lead one to feel a sense of loss and despair. Nobody is immune to those twists that life may take ...
Views: 780 - 10 Tips for Being the Best You Can Be - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsWhat do Susan Boyle, Paul Potts and J K Rowling all have in common - apart from they happen to be British? Their success did not come about overnight, or easily. Not for any of them came instant fame, and recognition in the spotlight. "The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and ...
Views: 823 - Can I Eat That? How to Break Out of The Virtue Trap - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsI’m a Nutrition Professional, not a Food Saint. Although it’s probably frowned upon in my field, I eat white rice—and I like it! White pasta, buttered sourdough bread. I also eat every vegetable, sushi, pasta, love avocados. For decades, I’ve been practicing what I teach: eat when hungry, eat ...
Views: 625 - Save the Planet, Wage Peace - One Car at a Time - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsSave the Planet, Wage Peace - one car at a time Last night on TV I came across a road test for a Honda Clarity, available only in California as yet. It’s an electric car with a difference. It fills up on hydrogen and has a converter that changes hydrogen into fuel for the electric motor. So you ...
Views: 753 - How to Help the Helpless - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIt is very important and yet difficult to help those who are not able to help themselves. First of all, we need to understand in the specific case of a helpless person, what is the best kind of help to be given. If there are a group of people who are starving, then the answer may be to give ...
Views: 7049 - 11 Tips: Transform Your Home into a Safe Haven - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsIn these times of economic upheaval, it’s tough to keep stress levels down. Most of us know some ways to keep stress in control; eat right, get plenty of sleep, exercise, meditate. But, did you know that making your home a safe haven can also be extremely beneficial? The other day, Oprah had ...
Views: 775 - Will the Planet Be Saved in 10 Easy Steps? - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com Authors"We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond." Dave Lowenstein and Gwendolyn Brooks hooked me. Just over two years ago, I was contemplating my stay in Lawrence, Kansas and sorting out future plans. The circumstances that brought me there ...
Views: 755 - A Question of Balance: One-Sided Relationships - by Submitted on May 28, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsOne of the most beautiful qualities of an intimate relationship is the give and take of energy that occurs between two people. In the best-case scenario, both people share the talking and listening, and the giving and receiving of support, equally. Occasionally, within any relationship, the ...
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