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- Don't Blame Yourself For The Shortcomings of Self-Help Programs - by With the start of the New Year and a new millennium, you may consider embarking on a self-help program in a quest to improve the quality of your life.
If you strictly adhere to a "proven" program that has succeeded for others, however, and fail to produce the results you want, you may become ...
Views: 1428 - Harness Your Personal Power - by Being in control of your life is more than simply feeling in control. After all, while you may believe you are consciously making controlled decisions, your actions may actually be sabotaging your life.
To harness your personal power is to become more assertive, to act in your own best ...
Views: 1427 - Is cheap cigarette the cause of flight attendant’s sinus? - by Cheap cigarettes
Here’s an unbelievable, but true news story making the rounds of websites on cigarette. Ever wonder what causes sinus? An American Airlines flight attendant thinks it is secondhand tobacco smoke.
Cheap Cigarettes and common cold
Secondhand cheap cigarette smoke! Geez, be ...
Views: 1427 - It's True, God Wants You To Have Money - by People yearn to be rich, yes even people on the spiritual path yearn to be rich but many of you on the spiritual path deny this yearning. In fact, many people on the spiritual path, secretly want nothing to do with money because it has been a painful or stressful part of their lives. Spiritual ...
Views: 1427 - Work as a Spiritual Experience - by I don’t know about you, but when many people hear the word spirituality, they conjure images of monks, candles, religion, and perhaps even incense. Few picture a day in their work life, completely enjoying what they do, feeling totally fulfilled and as if they are making a difference in the ...
Views: 1427(2 votes) - How to Choose The Right Sports Camp - by Recreational - Beginner
If your child is just starting out in a sport, it is important to make sure that they are having fun. If their budding interest is not immediately associated with a good time, that enthusiasm will quickly subside. It is also important to let the child determine the sport ...
Views: 1426 - Punctuation Tips - by Punctuation Tips
Commonly Used and Misused Punctuation Marks
Comma (,)
1.Use commas to separate items in a series.
Example: Our itinerary included Rome, London, and Madrid.
2.Use a comma before and, but, or, nor, for, so, and yet, when they join independent clauses (unless the clauses are ...
Views: 1426 - Breast Cancer Risk Assessment - by STATISTICAL FACTORS
1. AGE - 75% occurs in women over 50
2. LIFETIME EXPOSURE TO ESTROGEN - risk increases with early menarche, no pregnancies, late menopause, birth control pills, estrogen therapy.
3. FAMILY HISTORY - two close relatives with premenopausal breast cancer increases risk.
4. ...
Views: 1423 - Defeating the Fear of Flying - by Fear of flying has entered a new era. This is the post-WTC era. Unfortunately, because of that horrible terrorist act against innocent civilians in the air and on the ground, some individuals may see flying as dangerous. Our emotions have changed, but the odds have not, it is still much safer to ...
Views: 1423 - PAENTING TEENAGERS AND STAYING SANE - by There is no doubt about it, parenting teenagers is frustrating and stressful at its worst. At its best it is fun, exciting and fulfilling. The problem is that frustration and stress seems to predominate for such a long time. So how do we cope with the years of turmoil between 12 and 20 so that ...
Views: 1423 - Don't Block the Flow - by It is a child-like state that results in having one’s self-worth dependent on external validation. It’s about living from the outside in, molding oneself to fit around others’ lives instead of directing the course of one’s life from internal clues, hopes, dreams, wisdom, and power. . . The ...
Views: 1420 - The Abundance Course - by A sneak peek into The Abundance Course:
My name is Larry Crane. I am a self-made millionaire businessman, author and teacher. I have been featured in hundreds of articles in newspapers and magazines (including Time and TV Guide), and on T.V. throughout the world. I’ve had the limousines, the ...
Views: 1418(1 vote) - Tachyon Energy: A New Paradigm in Science and Health - by This piece may be freely published, provided it is published in its entirety, including the byline, copyright information, and author's bio. If you wish to publish this piece, kindly notify me telling me where you've placed it. mailto:rcziegler@planet-tachyon.com
Tachyon Energy: A New Paradigm ...
Views: 1417 - Honor Everyone Everyday - by Wow! What does Honor MEAN anyway? Yes, honor your Mother on Mother's Day and everyone (including yourself) everyday. Understanding Honor will help you in life, today and in your future.
I remember back when I was going through a four-month qualification to be a Naval Officer, how I felt the ...
Views: 1413(1 vote) - How Do You See Things? - by Most of us see circumstances through our own biased perceptions. We see them based on our beliefs and experiences. No two people will see the same event in the same manner.
Proof of this lies in the fact you can take statements concerning an accident from 20 people and none of the versions ...
Views: 1412 - Life and Work: Balancing or Juggling? - by I value the concept of balance in life. But what we value and believe we do is often different than what we actually do. Instead of balancing the many commitments and interests in my life, I have found that I'm actually a juggler, always hoping I don't drop anything.
Juggling conjures the ...
Views: 1410 - Tracking Intimacy: Getting Close to Your Partner - by Do your relationships feel stale? Are you wondering where "intimacy" is hibernating? Are you experiencing the "blahs" when you should feel engaged, engrossed and connected? The sparkle may have fizzled or been stillborn. Now, your feelings of closeness may be hitchhiking towards the hills. ...
Views: 1410 - Whatever You Want, You Can Have - by When you are aligned with the invincible forces of Natural Law, desired goals materialize extremely quickly. But if you have contradictory desire streams - desires for two opposing things at the same time - it becomes much more difficult for Nature to fulfill your desires.
Whatever you want, ...
Views: 1409 - Dream Interpretation for Healing: An Exercise In Patience and Self-Love - by "The greatest book of study is that of your own, written by the soul upon time and space - that of your dreams."
~ From the book Season of Changes, Ways of Response
Using your dreams for healing and soulful direction is a process in patience and self-love that is well worth the time and ...
Views: 1408 - Get Smart! About Modern Love - by Let me stress this point very clearly. There are no set “rules” for love in the 21st century. Love is not a game which requires you to abide by rules. When you are dealing with human emotions, you are dealing with deep, heartfelt, unpredictable feelings. But one thing that has changed the way ...
Views: 1407 - Awakening Your Inner Beauty - by The crisp fall weather always seems to bring with it a relaxed kind of energy, making us feel a little like bears anticipating their upcoming hibernation. It's the perfect season for meditation and self-nurturing. Yet many of us feel a sense of guilt when we indulge in activities that make us ...
Views: 1406 - Listening Skills For Sales Professionals - by Communication skills are the defining attribute of a top sales person. There are five parts to great communication skills. Listening, Questioning, Body Language, Speaking, and Interpreting. In the next few issues of the Executive Sales Tips Newsletter, we will explore each of these topics. This ...
Views: 1405 - Not Making A Choice Is A Choice - by Not making a choice is a choice. Letting things happen by default is a choice. If we choose to give up our right to make a choice - we have made a choice. We always have choices, even if we do not like the ones available. Not liking a choice does not mean we do not have a choice. We are ...
Views: 1405 - ***The Missing Piece to Overeating and Why Diets Fail (Book Excerpt) - by (Excerpted from Positive Energy: Ten Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear Into Vibrance, Strength, and Love by Judith Orloff, MD. Harmony Books, April, 2004)
As a psychiatrist and intuitive, I know that there is more to overeating and obesity that meets the ...
Views: 1403 - Balancing Your Life to Your Personality - by Given that I produce an ezine called "The Balanced Woman" I probably spend more time than most thinking about how to create a life of balance. I have searched and searched for that one magic formula that will work for everybody all the time. What I have found instead is that the basic core of a ...
Views: 1403 - The Most Destructive Illusion about Success - by Have you ever put your heart and soul into a project, just to see your very first attempts to make it succeed miserably fail?
If you have, you are no different than me and most other successful people.
Despite that we all are attracted to the "overnight success stories" we see on television ...
Views: 1402 - Enhancing Self-Love in Your Daily Life - by Rituals have always played an important role in society. Many cultures use rituals to feel more in-tune with their Higher Self, and also help them understand their own inner sacredness. Perpetuating rituals at home on a daily basis will help you bring harmony, balance and serenity into your ...
Views: 1401 - WHAT I WISH SOMEONE HAD TAUGHT ME LONG AGO - by I used to believe in black and white. Right and wrong. True and false. Then I opened to my spirituality, and discovered metaphysics (the world beyond the physical). And I realized appearances are deceiving. All that I thought was true and solid in my world suddenly wasn’t.
And the most ...
Views: 1400 - The Fitter, Fresher, All Fruit Wake Up Call - by Do you sometimes wake up in the morning feeling as tired as you did when you went to bed? And even if you do wake up with a bounce do you sometimes find that your energy begins to lag by mid morning? Fortunately help is at hand, in the form of an apple or an orange, a banana or a pear. It's that ...
Views: 1399 - COMMUNICATION 101 - by As a congressional staffer, I read hundreds if not thousands of letters and I answered hundreds of phone calls from constiuents. It was quite evident that people "sound off" to their elected officials. It was equally evident that every topic imaginable was fair game, whether it was related to ...
Views: 1396 - Loving Our Soul - by Love is the most powerful emotion in existence. With it, one can capture the world. Without it, one can conquer the world. People who made history through their evil deeds have been known to have had a lack of love in their childhood. The truth is that without knowing how to love ourselves, we ...
Views: 1396 - Music For Tragic Times: Tuning In to Recovery - by I was fortunate to be with family, though far from my home in Los Angeles, when tragedy struck last week. An old friend pulled me aside at the end of that long day when we were raw with terror. "Do you know what I did this morning, after I saw the news, to cope?" asked Bonnie. "I turned off the ...
Views: 1395 - The Nanny Diaries: Lessons for the Small Business Owner - by Nanny Diaries has achieved the dazzling height of Number One in book sales on amazon.com. The authors serve up delicious pseudo-gossipy scenes of a dysfunctional Park Avenue family, "Mr. and Mrs. X."
From the perspective of a career coach, Nanny is an independent contractor -- a very small ...
Views: 1395 - CHANGE YOUR CAREER IN FIVE SIMPLE STEPS - by Are you happy with your career? I wasn’t happy with mine. But I stayed in it for many years because I had a powerful disabling belief that I could not find a comparable position. I didn’t realize that I could change my career and my life at any time by following five simple steps. The first and ...
Views: 1393 - PERSISTENCE - by I believe there are three kinds of people. There are winners, who know what they want and understand their potential and the possibilities. They take life on. Next are losers, who don't have a clue as to who they are. They allow circumstances to shape their lives and their self-image.
I ...
Views: 1391 - Ten Keys for Reaching Your Goals - by There has never been a shortage of good advice. We all know what we need to do. We have been told to lose weight, or stop smoking, or to eat more healthy foods, to exercise more, to worry less, or to relax and “chill out”, or to see the Doctor, to stop complaining and to look on the “bright ...
Views: 1391(1 vote) - Want Affiliate Riches? -- Here YOU Go... - by What if I could show you a clear roadmap toaffiliate riches in 6 simple steps - would YOUbe excited?
If you are ready to put in some efforts,patience, passion, persistency and determination,I guarantee your success.
Follow these 6 simple steps to create multiplestreams of autopilot income. All ...
Views: 1389 - Self-doubt: An Obstacle to Success - by =================================================================
Self-doubt: An Obstacle to Success
Whether you are starting a business, changing careers, or heading off on an adventure, it is natural for a little self-doubt to creep in. Do I really have what it takes to do this? Will ...
Views: 1388 - HANDLING STRESS - by Stress is a natural and unavoidable feature of modern life. When the pressures of life become too much and we can't cope, stress operates like a screw gradually turning tighter and tighter. Often we don't realise that we are under stress until the pressure becomes too much and the lid starts ...
Views: 1386 - *** Getting Into Action - by There are four great ways to apply the Law of Attraction in your life:
1) Letting go of the negative with The Sedona Method
2) Giving without wanting something back in return
3) Getting Into Action
4) Following your heart.
This article is the second in the series on applying the Law of ...
Views: 1385 - Delivering Bad News for Good Results - by "Your job is changing"
"There will be no bonuses this year"
"We will be implementing a new software system"
"We are merging… with a former competitor"
Sound familiar? The truth is, managers dread having to deliver bad news or news about a major change. However, as we all have experienced, ...
Views: 1383 - Happy Families - by ¡°Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family...in another city!¡± George Burns
Many people rate work as their main source of stress, but for some, the routine of work is actually relief from the stress and chaos of their home life. This is especially tragic because the home ...
Views: 1381 - Facing Fibromyalgia - by Facing Fibromyalgia
So you have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. Bummer, because this is a painful and obnoxious disease. Eighty percent of the fibromyalgia patients are female. It has been classified only in the past 10 years as a disease and still somewhat of a mystery to science. I would ...
Views: 1380 - Life Cycles And Saturn - by Astrology: Life Cycles & Saturn -- The First Seven Years (BABYHOOD/CHILDHOOD)
Throughout life, right from our earliest years, we come under the influence of the planetary cycles, particularly the challenging seven-year-cycles of Saturn; these cycles influence our physical, mental and emotional ...
Views: 1380 - The Path to Resilience - by Resilience can be achieved in at least two ways.
Event-based resilience is when we respond to each event that occurs in a successful manner to resolve tensions in the space. This approach is the way some of us achieve resilience during parts of our lives or particular events. We each have ...
Views: 1379 - Marital Wellness: A View from the Ledger - by A magazine article I read a few days ago provided advice to the married and those about to be wed. I recognized the author as a well-known psychologist and specialist in the field. The article that went on for five pages touched on numerous topics including the importance of compatibility, ...
Views: 1378 - TO LOVE OR NOT TO LOVE - by When I was a child, and living in Portugal, my father took me to see a movie about the life of Jesus Christ. Sometime, during the movie, I started to think that I did not like those bad guys. I realized that they were going to hurt Jesus. So, I start to yell.
"Run away, Jesus. Run! Run!" I ...
Views: 1378(1 vote) - "It Was Just Like In The Movies....." (Sept 11th 2001) - by One of the things that struck me forcibly about the events of September 11th 2001 was the terrible resemblance the attacks bore to a Hollywood blockbuster disaster movie. It was quite uncanny......
Desperate terrorists seize passenger airline planes and plunge them into the WTC towers. The ...
Views: 1376 - Body/Mind Fitness - by Chapter 1 Traditional Mind/body
1.1 Being Attentive Reduces Stress
Most Americans do not take the debilitating effects of stress seriously. You know that it is important to quit smoking and exercise, but do you take the time to regularly relax? When you finally take the time to relax, do you ...
Views: 1376 - An Exponential Idea In Giving - by Here's an exponential idea for our time. What if, each time someone did a good deed for someone else, the good deed was paid back by paying it forward to three additional people? In turn, each day, each person, having received a good deed, did a good deed for three more people.
According to ...
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