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- How to realise your wildest dreams (and stay a little bit sane) - by Article courtesy of MediaPeak, http://mediapeak.com
According to Bill Gates there are 3 keys to success in any new venture:
1) Being in the right place at the right time! (You could well be already there!)
2) Have a vision of where the industry/business you're working in is going!
3) Taking ...
Views: 1235 - PACE: A Group Exercise Program for Every Body - by It is no secret in the fitness industry that group exercise programs are a hot trend. Although the term "group exercise" however, is a fairly new buzzword; the concept has been around for many years under other names (dance aerobics, step bench classes, etc.). In efforts to attract more men into ...
Views: 1235 - Your Monthly Aromatic Horoscope: July, 2001 - by Create your own special aromatherapy blend developed especially around your monthly horoscope. Use these recipes to enjoy more energy, more laughter, and less stress this month.
Each recipe should be made by pouring the oil essences into a 10-ml bottle, and then adding vegetable oil to fill. ...
Views: 1234 - Midlife Career Transition: Do you jump or hold on? - by During midlife career change, do you jump or hold on?
Over the years, I have identified two kinds of midlife career changers: Jumpers and Clingers. Jumpers thrive on energy, enthusiasm and improbable luck. The last three times they leaped, a net appeared. They see no reason why the next jump ...
Views: 1233 - The Giving Zone (How to Use the Power of Giving To Make Your Professional and Personal Dreams Come True) - by The key to success in sales is that you have a "Giving Mindset." This excerpt pinpoints what separates out those who win in sales from those who struggle. How strong is your "Giving Intelligence?"
A major reason I wrote this book was to help people learn to use the power of giving to make their ...
Views: 1233 - Menopause Management - by As little as fifty years ago, this title would have been useless. Nobody needed menopause management! The "why" is crucial for today's women to understand.
As an example: My grandmother died in her sleep the month before I was born, in 1945. She was forty-three years old! Now, I can look at ...
Views: 1231 - A Path by the River - by As a journalist and reviewer in the field of contemporary spirituality I receive an almost daily deluge of books and other media that promise me accelerated enlightenment, total wellness, and sure-fire, karmically sanitized methods to achieve personal wealth and power. If even a fraction of ...
Views: 1230 - Training Lesson: Using Your Mistakes To Springboard To Success Adapted From Success For Dummies - by Each of us at one time or another has thought about how wonderful it would be to have as much foresight as hindsight. Then we could avoid making mistakes! Not only is that hope unrealistic, it's also unwise. Mistakes are often the springboard for major accomplishments. Here's a good example: ...
Views: 1230(1 vote) - Transforming Scarcity into Abundance - by Financial abundance is an extension of our thoughts, emotions and beliefs. Are you struggling in your career or relationships? Do you complain rather than take action? Are you pessimistic and doubtful that life is full of possibilities and opportunities? If you are not fully satisfied or not ...
Views: 1230 - *** Fitness And Exercise: How To Stop Battling Frustration To Lose Weight - by Women who battle frustration and silently scream from failed weight loss attempts, poor health, and lack of will power are not alone. It's not all about exercise and diet. If your spirit isn't with the program, even the best discipline might just lead to injury or worse yet feeling you failed ...
Views: 1229 - God Grant Me the Serenity To . . . - by We all have our ways of dealing with the terrible tragedy that befell America on September 11,2001. As an author and motivational speaker, I felt compelled to say something to try to help others through this time. During the days of processing my own grief, I found myself going back to an old ...
Views: 1228 - Take Control - by In today's world, having a stress-filled daily schedule is normal to most people. It seems that we have a million things to do and only a short rime in which to do them. Most people want to improve their health, relationship, financial state, and quality of life, but fail to realize that the ...
Views: 1228 - Top Dog Sales Secrets - by Salesmanship is an art, a science, and a true profession. A "natural talent" for sales is not enough. People who achieve the highest level of professional success are willing to put in the time to acquire the skills needed to succeed.
The savvy sales professional reads books, attends ...
Views: 1228 - Your Aromatic Horoscope: April, 2001 - by Create your own special aromatherapy blend developed especially around your monthly horoscope. Use these recipes to enjoy more energy, more laughter, and less stress this month.
Each recipe should be made by pouring the oil essences into a 10ml bottle, and adding vegetable oil to fill. ...
Views: 1225 - Buddha and Reiki - by The Buddha and Reiki are in a beautiful way related in my life. Perhaps not so amazing, since the man who discovered reiki, Mikao Usui, was a Japanese buddhist.
About three years ago I bought a bronze with gold plated buddha statue in Ladakh. It sits on my altar on a heavy marble socle, ...
Views: 1224 - EUREKA! SCIENTISTS BREAK SPEED OF LIGHT - by Is there anything new under the sun? Those of us in the spiritual quest know that there isn't. Indeed, we are learning by repetition to remember what we forgot: we are all part of something beyond words, unlimited, indivisible and instantaneous.
Plato wrote, " there is no such thing as ...
Views: 1224 - in your midst (zephaniah 3:14?20; luke 3:7?18) - by do you ever notice how the last pew is the most full? it is a physical reminder of how uncomfortable we are with people looking at our backs, that is, what is behind us, our past or our history. it is more comfortable, or self-calming, to sit in judgment in the back row, knowing no one can see ...
Views: 1224 - Help! I'm disorganized! - by "My boss says I'm the most disorganized person he ever saw. It took me three weeks to recover."
"My chaotic style is great when I'm cooking or painting, but disastrous to a smooth-running office."
"I keep forgetting appointments and losing memos. If this keeps up, I'll be history."
Sound ...
Views: 1223 - INTEGRATIVE VISION CARE AND NUTRITION - by Mind/Body medicine is based on the fact that our health and well-being depends on all the individual parts to work together effectively. The integrative approach evaluates the person’s lifestyle, habits, diet, exercise routine, stress management along with the family history in determining the ...
Views: 1223 - Secrets to Sound Sleep - by Feeling drowsy? You may not be getting enough sleep.
Sleep deprivation can lead to a loss of strength and a compromised immune system as well as a decrease in concentration, memory, and learning ability. Perhaps most noticeably, sleep loss often results in a downright rotten mood and the ...
Views: 1222(1 vote) - The Compounding Effect of Selfishness - by Five-year-old Katie asked for a coin for her to throw into a fountain at a local shopping centre. She was given one, and duly walked over to the fountain, stopped for a few seconds, and threw it into the water, and came back to us, smiling.
“What did you wish for, Katie?” I asked, expecting ...
Views: 1222 - Do You Get Nervous? - by Do you get nervous? How does that feel in your body?
Does it feel like bubbly little gases in your stomach?
Can you visualize those bubbly little gases?
TIP: Your brain needs to see what it is that is causing your nervous reaction in your body. When it can see it, it can do something about ...
Views: 1221 - Eating Disorders and Personality Disorders (Part 1) - by Patients suffering from eating disorders either refrain from food intake or binge on food. Some of them are both Anorectic and Bulimic. Food binging is an impulsive behaviour. Impulsive behaviors - which cannot be controlled or restrained by the individual - also serve a DSM criterion in the ...
Views: 1221 - Should you return to school for that degree? - by Q. I hate my job as a computer consultant. The aptitude tests say I should be a recreation specialist. I like the idea but I dread returning to school for a new degree.
A. Before you invest in a degree, take a test drive. Find two or three people who are doing what you want to do and ask to ...
Views: 1221 - The Pied-Piper of Employee Retention - by Businesses feel the increasing threat of the Pied Piper who, with just the sound of his flute can steal away valuable employee! What happens to a company when long-term employees quit? The loss of an integral part of any organization is disruptive at best, so what are the successful strategies ...
Views: 1220 - 10 Passion Principles to Creating the Rest of Your Life - by 1. Take passionate action towards living your life by design. Talk is cheap. Action = deposits in the bank of a passionately authentic future. Without it, passion is void.
2. Commit to yourself as well as those you love to create powerfully a life you can love. Instead of reacting, commit to ...
Views: 1219 - Authenticity in the Midst of Chaos: Assisting the Anxious Class - by Just look at all the downsizing, right-sizing, loss of productivity, layoffs, severance packages, re-organizations, information overload, neglected families, stress, and workplace violence - it's CHAOS! But, wait. There's also re-direction, re-born family values, educational access, easy to find ...
Views: 1219 - Beyond Startup - Are You Stunting the Growth of Your Home-Based Business? - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
If you’ve left the corporate world to strike out on your own in your own home-based business, you'll be acutely aware that your financial success is up to you and you alone, perhaps for the first time in your life. For obvious reasons, therefore, your home-based business ...
Views: 1219 - Cheers for Diversity! - by Being one to seek insight in ordinary (and extraordinary) experiences, I have to tell you what happened the other day. I was driving in my car when I heard an advertisement for McDonald's. They were seeking new employees and at the end of the commercial, the announcer enthusiastically stated, ...
Views: 1219 - Design Your Perfect Lifestyle - by Following is an extract of the 'Perfect Lifestyle' Program. (Better still, you can currently download the full Program free of charge at www.life-coaching-resource.com. Look for the "Design Your Life" option.)
Instructions: Print out the following, and create a picture of your ideal lifestyle ...
Views: 1219 - God shall supply all your needs... - by Life is really a game you know. Its not supposed to always be easy, or we wouldn’t learn anything. I’ve been playing the game the best I know how. I’ll bet you have too. Like any game there are rules. So what are the rules? Are they universal principles we’re all supposed to know by now? Things ...
Views: 1219(1 vote) - The Car Analogy - Or What You See Is Not What You Get! - by Cars are very predictable really. They all operate in pretty much the same way, from a Rolls Royce to a Mini, or a Cadillac to a compact.
What you see on the surface - the size, the shape, the colour, the sleek lines of the convertible to the strictly functional box on wheels - appears to be ...
Views: 1219 - The Five Conversations to Have with Your Spouse Before the Holidays - by Many people experience stress during the holiday season. Some get the blues, others find that the holidays don't turn out quite they way they had hoped. To make sure your holiday season creates more joy and less stress, have these five conversations with your spouse soon:
Conversation One: ...
Views: 1218 - Nutrition - by The biochemical and energetic nutrients which we digest, absorb, and metabolize from foodstuffs are the foundation of all cellular activity in the body, including growth, repair, reproduction, resistance to disease, and maintenance. Good nutrition is critically important to every form of life we ...
Views: 1217 - What Makes a Leader? - by How come a leader becomes a leader? In this article, we are not interested in the historical process but in the answer to the twin questions: what qualifies one to be a leader and why do people elect someone specific to be a leader. The immediately evident response would be that the leader ...
Views: 1217 - Creating Sales Letter Lists That Make Your Customer’s Drool - by You’ve seen them a hundred times. Those lists that copywriters use within their sales letters that tell you what the product or service offers. They might say something like:
· THE most important (and most overlooked) aspect of copywriting
· The 4 personalities of your customer and how to get ...
Views: 1215 - Free Tips For Your Child's Success - by Getting free tips for a child's success is something most parents/guardians are interested in. Most want their child's academic growth to improve every school year. Most sincerely care. Unfortunately some don't, but that's a completely different article. For now, I want to focus on improving the ...
Views: 1215 - The Lion Doesn't Sleep Tonight - A Very Roman Holiday - by © 2001 Laura Fink / All Rights Reserved
Episode One - The Lion Doesn't Sleep Tonight
The sculpted bushes and phosphorous fountains of Shiver Tower Gardens began to fade, and Tock felt a strange buzzing in his head. He saw his hand reach in slow motion for his mouse, but before he could touch ...
Views: 1215 - InnerPeace.Org Releases New Free Self-Help Chatterbot Program - by Imagine your life with more inner peace.
What would that be like?
Imagine a free chatting computer program helping you get there.
Find out what that would be like at http://innerpeace.org.
InnerPeace is totally confidential and nonjudgmental.
Tell InnerPeace your deepest issue that ...
Views: 1214 - The Spirit of Giving - Thanksgiving Day - by "The more gratitude I feel for my life, the better my life becomes."
On November 24, people in the USA will be celebrating Thanksgiving Day.Canadians celebrated Thanksgiving Day on October 10. Though you maylive in another country, the concept of "giving thanks" is universal.
But how do we ...
Views: 1213(2 votes) - CONQUERING THE PEAK - by One by one, the great peaks of the world are being conquered. Modern climbers are no more physically adept than early climbers, but they have taken advantage of new methods and technologies. If we are to be successful climbing the mountain of life, we must do the same thing.
Many of you will ...
Views: 1212 - Aromatherapy - by Aromatherapy is a modern name for the ancient knowledge of healing and improving health using fragrant, natural ingredients. These ingredients, called essential oils, are found in herbs, plants, flowers, fruits and the bark, roots or resins of some trees.
Essential oils give the aroma to the ...
Views: 1211 - Bringing Watsu to Austin - by Watsu is a relatively new form of bodywork (since 1980) that has been available in the Austin area since 1994. Watsu combines working with Shiatsu pressure points in the medium of a warm (93-98 degrees) water pool. This practitioner also utilizes the ancient healing energy of Reiki during a ...
Views: 1211 - Recovered or Recovering? - by No matter what 12 Step Program you're in, you've probably heard that you're always recovering, never recovered. It's one of those ideas that is repeated over and over again.
It's a myth! A myth that probably got started in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and has spread to the other organizations ...
Views: 1211 - Synchronicity - by We all know what it's like to be in the "flow". Your favorite song plays on the radio, you hit the traffic lights just right, you think of someone and they call, you run into a friend you haven't seen but were thinking of, everyone wants to give you money for your services....the list could go ...
Views: 1211 - Alone for the Holidays? - by Being alone is a challenge for many people. This challenge may loom especially large during the holidays if you are single or newly divorced and without family around you. Holidays are a time to share love, and many people end up feeling depressed when they do not have people around with whom to ...
Views: 1210 - Exceed Your Goals - by Do you have a goal to succeed at a certain endeavor? If so, then look in the mirror. What do you look like? Are your shoulders slumped? Is your breathing normal? Are you, in effect, just sitting around waiting for it to happen?
Well, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but if you aren't ...
Views: 1210 - What is Flow and How Do You Get Some? - by A good place to look for a definition of flow is in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's book called Flow. He describes flow as "the way people describe their state of mind when consciousness is harmoniously ordered and they want to pursue whatever they are doing for its own sake." Flow is an optimal ...
Views: 1210 - Chess Jocks - by As I was a chess Jock in highschool, I found myself beating girls off with a stick that my football play¡¯n friend¡¯s should have (stereotypically) had a legal right too. Besides the enormous popularity one develops once they begin playing with plastic bishops in their spare time, I¡¯ve found ...
Views: 1209 - Don't Quit Too Soon! - by Some years back, Newsweek magazine ran a full-page ad that I thought was very good. The headline of the ad read, "Before You Quit, Read This," and the body of the ad went on to report:
"The first strategy of many who are faced with a problem is to quit. But a man who suffered such severe burns ...
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