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- Innovation: Ideas Are Cheap--But Extremely Valuable - by At the turn of the last century there was serious discussion about disbanding the US Patent Office because many believed there were few inventions left to be patented. The common wisdom was that all the great inventions had already been taken. No doubt there are people today who feel the same ...
Views: 1092 - The 7 Deadly Sins Of Progressive Leaders - by Thousands of years ago and miles away in Ancient Greece, Heraclites, a wise man known in the west as “Heraclites the Dark”, said, “Although this truth [self-awareness] is eternally valid, men are unable to understand it. Not only before hearing it but even after they have heard it.” His words ...
Views: 1092 - Community after Tragedy - by One Friday in November, I began a journey from New Jersey to downtown New York City to visit old work friends. It was my first visit since the tragic September 11th attack. Although I've traveled this same route--the commuter train to the Hoboken station from 1996-2000--there were now, of ...
Views: 1091 - Do you enjoy the sweetness of life? - by Do you enjoy the sweetness of Life?
Quick ways to ground yourself or your kids from the effects of sugar 'n spice
Sugar is powerful stuff. The right amount of it supports our self-awareness and strength of personality. Taken in excess, your moods swing like a pendulum. A crying jag from ...
Views: 1091 - Eggs, Baskets and Multiple Streams of Income - by One of the legacies of 9/11 is that that large sections of the U.S. and world economy have taken a body blow.
Every day we hear of more and more companies who plan to lay off large numbers of workers (or have already) as they strive to reposition themselves to ride out what the doomsayers ...
Views: 1091 - Internal Competition Can Kill Your Organization - by Competition is believed to be the driver of the Western Economy. Most Western countries believe that competition produces innovation, stimulates thinking, and it is simply characterized by many as the engine of capitalism. In a similar fashion, “internal competition drives business results” has ...
Views: 1091 - It's all about your love language, Part 2 - by Last week, we promised to identify your love language, and that of your partner. Gary Chapman, the author of The Five Love Languages - How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate identifies five basic love languages - words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, and ...
Views: 1091 - *** The Enlightened Marketing Strategy Missionaries Use - by My fiancé Christopher and I were hanging out Saturday afternoon when the doorbell rang. I wasn't expecting anyone but was pleasantly surprised to see two Mormon missionaries there.
I say "pleasantly" because, although it's not my faith tradition, I've always found the missionaries to be ...
Views: 1090 - Aromatherapy to Overcome Your Financial Fears - by For many people, the menacing and overpowering awareness of their financial state is enough to keep them awake at night. And it's no wonder, since we spend so much of our daily lives doing mental accounting of our finances, paying bills, and watching our paperwork pile up. This financial anxiety ...
Views: 1090 - Drugs Effects on Nutritional Status - by Loop Diuretics (furosemide):
-Excretion of sodium, chloride, potassium, hydrogen ion, calcium, magnesium, ammonium, bicarbonate and possibly phosphate is enhanced.
-After 4 weeks of furosemide use, thiamin concentrations and transketolase activity was significantly reduced.
Thiazide Diuretics ...
Views: 1090 - How to Care for Laminate Flooring - by It's hard to damage and easy to care for laminate floors. Here are some tips on how to properly maintain them:
1. Carefully read the warranty and care instructions provided for your flooring. Follow them as much as you can and refer to them if a problem develops.
2. Ask for post-installation ...
Views: 1090 - May I Join You? - by “Each friend represents a world in us, a world of possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” Anais Nin
I’ve been thinking about some of my clients who have expressed concerns about being authentic and connecting with people. One client lives ...
Views: 1090 - Running in Panic Mode ... Slow down and focus to succeed! - by Sometimes we all end up in a situation that seems out of control. All we appear to do is run in circles, fixing things, and holding on to anything that we can. We try to "keep our options open" at all times to ensure that we have a way out. But, as we trudge through the muck and mire, we find ...
Views: 1090 - You can, move from feeling stuck to achieving success - by After 20 years of study, we've discovered what we believe to be the real secret to "happiness and achievement," but it cannot be described in a headline so please read this letter carefully
I have to teach you something in this letter. Once you understand it, you have a key that Paul Scheele ...
Views: 1090 - Getting Organized With Index Cards - by Index cards are wonderful for helping you get organized in so many different areas of your life. And the best thing is, they're so inexpensive! Here are just a few ideas:
1. GOAL SETTING:
Perhaps you've always wanted to take a cruise, or learn a new language, or plant a garden. Goal setting ...
Views: 1089 - Acupuncture and Children - by How many people realize how much acupuncture treatments can help children rid themselves of unwanted illness? Rearing children without overuse of antibiotics, ear tubes, allergy shots, and excessive use of OTC and prescription medications can be a daunting task. If western society understood how ...
Views: 1088 - The Inner Reality of Selfhood - by When man comes to see himself as he is rather than how he supposedly thinks he should be to please others, he will enter into the psychic space of his subconscious mind and exercise the power necessary to become himself like no other. Until then, he will suffer greatly because he continues to ...
Views: 1088 - Think about thoughts... - by Think about thoughts.. meditation allows you to notice your thoughts and just let them go by.. they have little significance to the meditator.. there seem to be different types of thoughts.. ranging from crystal clear ideas (knowing) to plain dull thinking (repetitive ? been there, done that) to ...
Views: 1088 - Encouraging The Elderly To Journal - by As a caregiver, you can encourage your loved one to express themselves through writing and drawing. Both writing and drawing increases their sense of purpose. Through another form of writing, which can be storytelling, you can support your loved one to write about their lives so that children ...
Views: 1087 - Take Charge of Your Destiny with an Extraordinary Self-Care Day - by When was the last time you took a day just for yourself? If you're asmall business owner or anyone else for that matter, your answer isprobably never. Essentially an Extraordinary Self-care Day is taking one24-hour period where you take "extraordinary" care of yourself. You dono work at all. I ...
Views: 1087 - The Vacuum Law of Prosperity - by The universe cannot put good into your hand, until you let go ofwhat you are holding in it.
If you walk down the beach, you leave footprints in the sand.But give the wind and the waves a few minutes, and those trackswill be filled in. Just as vegetation will cover a field and anagenda expands ...
Views: 1087 - Global Love Feast Day - 22nd November 2001 - by Here is a date for your diary for THE event of the year :
GLOBAL LOVE FEAST DAY - 22nd November 2001
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THIS IS A DAY dedicated to LOVE -- be love, give love, share love, make love!
THIS IS THE DAY to tell your family that you love them - go on, blow ...
Views: 1086 - The Secret to Heal the Suffering of the World - by Have you ever noticed that whenever a secret is circulating among your close friends you will do almost anything to learn its undisclosed nature? Or, if you think someone knows something that you don’t, you won’t rest until you too are "in the know"? All of this is to say we seem to love ...
Views: 1086 - What is best for you now? - by The terrible events of September 11 have left an unbelievable scar on this planet of ours. The family and friends of those who perished last week have not yet been able to recover their loved ones. Because of the destruction involved in the attacks, most will most likely not be able to recover ...
Views: 1086 - Facing Cancer on My Own - by Facing Cancer on My Own by Jill Ayn Schneider (561) 638-8873
In February of 1975, at the young age of 29, I was diagnosed with malignant cervical cancer. I had no pain or other symptoms. Young and seemingly healthy, I listened to my doctor describe something hidden within my own body that had ...
Views: 1085 - How Big Are Your Questions? - by How Big Are Your Questions? It doesn't get any simpler than that. Aswith most real wisdom this idea, expressed so beautifully by Mark VictorHansen, co-author of "Chicken Soup for the Soul," is very simple to understand and even simpler to implement. If you want a bigger outcome ask a bigger ...
Views: 1085 - Seven Tips for Taking Charge of Your Financial Destiny - by When you change your mind about something, you change your experience of it. If there is any room for growth in your finances right now or you have a desire to grow your business, then it is time to “grow your mind” by expanding your thinking. By creating a mindset for wealth, you begin a ...
Views: 1085 - THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.EINSTEIN MUST BE TURNING IN HIS GRAVE - 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: 1085 - Transcendending through Meditation - by In 1980 John Pronchik, who graduated from Penn State in 1978, was a stressed out electronic engineer burdened with work pressure and health problems stemming from a back injury as a result of a motor cycle accident. "I felt I was losing my grip," he says, "and found myself drinking more in order ...
Views: 1085 - Harry Potter Has Nothing On Us © - by Have you noticed how hard we strive to look better, to make more money, and to get ahead? Who decided we had fallen behind? No wonder millions of people are on Prozac, 50% of our marriages fail, and road rage has become a common phenomenon. We push so hard to “be somebody,” we forget the ...
Views: 1084(1 vote) - How to Create Positive Mind Whispers - by It's difficult to heal when negative thoughts control you. Here's what you can do to turn them around.
Mind whispers. Do you have them? Most of us do. You know--that little voice in your mind that whispers praise, encouragement and satisfaction, or criticism, self-doubt and fear. You can learn ...
Views: 1084 - Complementary Therapy for Dogs - by We sip on chamomile tea to soothe our nerves or brew a refreshing peppermint tea to ease our upset stomach and than sink into the oceans of dreams. In the kitchen we add rosemary, thyme, oregano, ginger, mint (and much more) to enhance the taste of our meals and herbal infusions, botanicals, ...
Views: 1083 - Fall of Memories - by Jason died in the summer. Six years have come and gone and still the waves roll in, knocking me to my knees.
This morning, autumn has returned. I can see my breath as it slowly leaves my body. Leaves crackle under my feet and the smell of burning wood fills the air. I don't know why this ...
Views: 1083 - The 5 Stages of Life Transformation - by September 11, 2001 was the world’s wake up call. After the chaos and confusion, we awoke to the realization that life is a precious gift and that it is our responsibility as a citizen and human being to lead and live our best life.
For most of us, that meant looking at our current state of ...
Views: 1083 - Vitamin and Mineral Sources from Herbs - by Tip: These herbs are the highest and most common sources, certainly not the only ones. Do a word search in a major search engine on the nutrient and the herb to find more specific information, or follow links from Naturodoc to more nutritional sites!
Vitamin K: Alfalfa, Plantain, Shepherd's ...
Views: 1083 - Is your child developing the same way as his or her peers? - by A good friend of mine, a first time mom, raised an interesting point. Parents, when comparing children, often see one child being able to do something that their own child (of a similar age) cannot do. This natural method of comparison sometimes gives rise to anxiety. Parents often wonder in ...
Views: 1082 - Living Life on Life's Terms - by Hello! My name is Denise Cooney for those of you who do not know me, I am blessed with the gifts that include being a medical intuitive and reader. I write books, teach classes but more importantly I live life.
Part of what we all miss on this great journey in life is that we only live in the ...
Views: 1082 - Panic Attacks - How to Help Yourself - by Sometimes our bodies can make a mistake, so we get this response when there is no threat there. To make matters worse, once this has happened we may be anxious about it happening again, which in itself may trigger another attack. We may eventually become nervous about any change in the way we ...
Views: 1082 - Soul-Full Eating Nourishing Ourselves from the Inside-Out! - by At any given time about one in three American adults is trying to lose weight, and while their track record for trying is good, their track record for succeeding is not. Why is that? It’s because the typical diet approach is one based on lack, deprivation and limitation… there is a much easier, ...
Views: 1082 - Surviving Work: Are You Listening? - by What do we mean by "listening"? Listening is so much more than just registering sound received by the ear and relaying it to the brain. Listening involves three important parts; interpreting, evaluating and reacting or responding.
We interpret what we hear and this could lead to ...
Views: 1082 - Disease or Not? Does It Matter - by Questions about the disease theory of alcoholism and addiction surface quite regularly, and usually it's forgotten that it was the American Medical Association who attached the label to drunkards in the first place. AA, while certainly open to the notion has, for the most part, preferred to ...
Views: 1081 - Dying to Fit In- Learning to Love our Bodies and Ourselves - by Today in America you can be whatever you want to be - any dream can be accomplished as long as you pursue it. We have economic security and we live in a peaceful and prosperous nation! We live in the land of opportunity, rich with culture and diversity, the land of the free! The question I pose ...
Views: 1081 - Just Say No - by I used to put everyone else’s requests and needs first and if there was any time left over at the end of the day for what I needed and wanted to do, that was acceptable. That is until I began to realize that if you and I are going to be effective time managers, we have to stay away from ...
Views: 1081 - Mind Mapping: Recall and Creativity Naturally! - by Mind mapping (or mindmapping) is a system of recall and idea creation that has proven very effective and has been adopted by many in the accelerated learning and business communities due to its ease and effectiveness.
It works with kids and adults of all levels and with materials from all ...
Views: 1081 - The Doctor Should Have Kept Quiet - by I spend a great deal of time speaking and writing about the value of a positive attitude. Here is a story about a very old man, his positive attitude and a doctor who should have kept quiet.
Frank, a 90 year old, was being examined by his doctor. When the physical was over they had a little ...
Views: 1081 - The Movies - by When I was a small child, I watched many movies in the Shawmut Theater in Roxbury. It was located close to Eagleton Square, which was bustling with activity and safe years ago. Today you don’t venture there if you value your life. The Shawmut was more than a movie house. It was a community ...
Views: 1081(1 vote) - The Self-Hypnosis Diet: The Essential Ingredients - by You control the essential ingredients that make self-hypnosis work for you. Actually, these are the same ingredients that create your experience of success in any goal you choose. Let us look at each element and how you may use them to perform for you.
Motivation is the energy of your desire, ...
Views: 1081 - *** Letting Go and Moving Forward - by Let's face it. Many of us choose to hang on to things that at some point have hurt us, angered us, made us feel sad, or depressed us. If we choose to hang on to them, we will never move forward and we could even create physical or medical damage to our bodies. To prevent this from happening we ...
Views: 1080 - Meaning - by "What is the point of prolonging a life that apathy has turned into premature death."
Francis Bacon
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"I pledge allegiance¡¦"
Squatting on the floor, in a dimly lit corner of his barracks, Lieutenant Mike Christian quietly sewed an American flag ...
Views: 1080 - Worried about your Health?/Tips for immune system health - by Why should you be worried about your health?
One of the greatest threats to good health is stress. As each decade passes the levels of stress faced by the next generation increases. In a fast-paced world, it is easy to overwork yourself, and extend yourself to the point of exhaustion. This ...
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