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- Cats Always Go To The One With The Nasal Spray - by Are you allergic? If so, doesn’t it seem like cats always go to the one with the nasal spray? When you say to yourself, I hope so-and-so’s cat doesn’t come near me, guess what? Here comes the cat. Why?
Because your brain glosses right over the *not* in your sentence and heads for the real ...
Views: 820 - Green-Clean Your Home - by Many commercial household cleaners contain ingredients that are toxic, corrosive, or flammable. Get rid of them and substitute safe cleaners you can make with five common ingredients.
From NATURAL HEALTH, SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 1994
I've been cleaning my home for years with commercial products ...
Views: 820 - How to Achieve Your Goals with EASE - by The change in seasons will traditionally bring with it new creation. Change brings about new life, growth and development all with it the possibility of creating new opportunities for ourselves. Any time of change (whether it be a change of season, career, relationship, living situation or even ...
Views: 820 - How to Make New Year's Resolutions to Meet and Date More Women in 2004 - by A very important time for making beneficial changes in your
love life and relationships with single women is coming up. And it will be a golden opportunity to turn your love life around.
What is this special time? It's the upcoming New Year 2004.
This is the perfect time to make resolutions ...
Views: 820 - How to Make Yourself a Successful One-of-a-Kind Resource in Your Industry - by A touch of background first: A successful, journeyman level speaker, serving associations and corporations, I routinely received fees of $3000 to $5000-6000 for 1 to 3 hours of programs. I got 1 or 2 bookings a week.
What does this mean to you: Start by being truly outstanding at what you do. ...
Views: 820 - How You Can Avoid Summertime Injuries - by Most sports-related injuries occur in the summer months as we begin to involve ourselves in a variety of outdoor activities. Unfortunately, many of us did not keep our bodies in shape over the winter and thus are susceptible to a variety of injuries during the summer. Activities such as ...
Views: 820 - Mistakes Are Important Teachers - by Mistakes are important teachers - All around us life is offering opportunity after opportunity. The problem is that in many cases these little jewels are hidden. In order for us to be aware of them we have to be willing to look for them in many cases. So then the question is how do we do this? ...
Views: 820 - Stumbling Block or Blessing? - by I've often seen the world as black and white. Either you are part of the problem or part of the solution.
Which one are YOU?
Do you genuinely give of yourself to others, or do you get in their way, as well as block your own success?
Taking a Black or White approach in business and in ...
Views: 820 - Suffering for Christs Sake - by “For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.” (1 Peter 2:19)
The Divine voice of an unseen face has helped to guide many of my ancestors through the perilous oppressions they have faced.
If a man’s success is determined by the impediments ...
Views: 820 - 10 Things to consider when choosing a Health Care Plan - by You have decided it¡¦s time to buy health insurance and it can be a very daunting task to figure out everything. Here are 10 of important factors you should consider when you choose your next health care plan.
Learning about things is what we are living here for now. So try to get to know as ...
Views: 819 - 25 Opening Lines to Use to Meet and Attract Sexy Topless - by Do you go to topless clubs and get tongue-tied when you try to talk to the topless dancers? Well, here's 25 proven opening lines to use on topless dancers:
"What is your real name?" (If she tells you her real name instead of her stage name, this could indicate that she's interested in ...
Views: 819 - BODY CHAT! - by Ever wonder why there are times you experience body pain and other times you don’t? Ever wonder why there are mornings you wake up feeling tight all over and other mornings you feel free and flexible? Then there are those times when you’re in conversation with someone and suddenly the topic ...
Views: 819 - Feeling Your feelings in Relationships - by Most people go to great lengths to hide or deny their feelings about their lives, their work, their relationships and most things that matter to them.
Psychiatrist Dr. David Viscott in his tape series "Emotional Resilience" says, "If we were to live honestly, our lives would heal themselves." ...
Views: 819 - Impress Yourself! - by Do you find feeling good about yourself difficult? You may have learned to talk badly to yourself, or you may have let criticism stop you from trying anything new. So you find yourself in a rut, doing nothing, wishing for something better.
But there is one sure fire way to lift your spirits ...
Views: 819 - Mistakes we should all avoid - by They do it for the love of it. That’s what every successful salesperson will tell you – they love it!
"It" isn't the thing they sell, the personal toiletries at a department store, a new rose at the garden centre, advertising on your favourite radio station, life insurance, or your membership ...
Views: 819 - Life at the Margins - by As many of you know, in recent months my husband and I bought a new home, built an addition on it, and moved our household and my business. Any one of these is a significant undertaking, and in experiencing them all within a few months' time, I've learned again about the importance living with ...
Views: 818 - Little Things - by What a week this is going to be, right?
Opportunities, ideas, new ways of looking at things...
You create your Spiritual Success today!
Spiritual Success? This is the success you achieve from following spiritual principles to happiness that lead to your worldly and spiritual success. ...
Views: 818 - Living a Balanced Life in an Unbalanced Time - by As a personal coach and a personal trainer, I see a similar theme that runs through most of my clients’ lives. That theme is a feeling of being unbalanced, a feeling of being overly stressed most of the time, a feeling of being pulled in too many directions and not having much control. It is a ...
Views: 818 - Living In Wholeness - by A warm breeze blows across an open field. The tall blades of green grass and brightly colored wildflowers that fill this open space bow their heads gingerly, allowing the heated air to rush by. Then as if orchestrated, these precious gems one by one return to their original position, standing ...
Views: 818 - Meditation as a Special Tool in Bio-Energy Healing - by There is a special tool which may promote the development and mastery of a special mind state and bio-energetic ability to feel and assess human energy - meditation.
Healers achieve a special state of consciousness, spiritual knowledge, and self-realization through meditation. Eastern mystics ...
Views: 818 - Recession Protection: Learn To Brand Yourself For Better Job Search Success - by After the feverish storm of abundant jobs and wealth, corporate America has started seeing and feeling the negative sense of what almost always follows “boom times??a recession. Companies of all sizes are laying people off. So how do you make yourself more appealing to recruiters when everyone ...
Views: 818 - Secrets of Highly Successful Companies - by Why do some companies seem to always be at the top of the performance charts? No matter how you measure them, they always seem to excel. What secret do they have that others don't? When we decided to search for the secret of their success we were surprised at how simple the answer was. ...
Views: 818 - Time Management Tips - by Everyone is given exactly the same amount of time each day. It is up to us to manage this time as we would any other precious, nonrenewable asset. In the world of commission sales, time is indeed money! Time management is at the very core of being a successful salesperson. Effective salespeople ...
Views: 818 - Business Writing in Plain English - by American businesses produce over 30 billion original pieces of writing yearly. Much of it is unnecessary, and much of it is poorly written. Everything you write puts both your thinking and your writing skills on display. To make your e-mail messages, memos, letters, reports, or any other ...
Views: 817 - Finding a Partner - by If you are like most singles who want a relationship, you are probably "beating the bushes" in search of a partner. You may tell your friends you are looking for people to date, place or answer singles ads, search the Internet, and attend social events in hopes of meeting someone. Many singles ...
Views: 817 - Scientific Success (What You Say) - by Scientifically, Observation has an effect on the results of an experiment.
Similarly, a Self-Fulfilling prophecy is when "a false definition of the situation evokes a new behavior which makes the original false conception come true."
What we say to others and how we articulate our thoughts ...
Views: 817 - A Change Of Place Would Do You Good - by Place has such tremendous power over your life. Each of us is shaped to almost a frightening extent by the company we keep and the places we frequent. Often, places hold their subconscious hold upon us long after the events that occurred there have faded into the distant past.
If your thought ...
Views: 816 - Are You Having Fun? - by I remember, when I was a child, I never thought about fun I just had it. It was everywhere. An empty can and a stick became a toy, chasing butterflies was a blast, and just sitting on the porch with a Popsicle was a stitch. Somewhere in between then and now life became serious. I can't put my ...
Views: 816 - Botox: Reducing fine lines and wrinkles, and now curing migraines? - by Most people are familiar with Botox. Many of us have seen the footage on television showing a doctor injecting this clear wonder solution into the facial skin of some patient searching for the lost fountain of youth. But did you know that Botox has also moved into the arena of helping people ...
Views: 816 - Don't Give Up Just Shy Of Your Dreams - by Don't give up short of your dreams - A necessary skill for achieving that which you desire in your life is the ability to give the task at hand that one last go around... Often it is a matter of looking near defeat in the face, and just plain moving forward in spite of all the difficulties ...
Views: 816 - My First Date - by Theresa was a cheerleader and the school Social convenor.
One afternoon, around lunchtime, I was at my locker and Theresa approached me, wide-eyed and smiling and said, "You’re Art Nefsky, aren’t you?". I nodded, and she introduced herself. She said she recognized me from the school plays. We ...
Views: 816 - The Inside - Out Approach - by No lasting change will occur in our lives unless and until we first change ourselves from the inside - out. Nothing about our job, our friends, our marriage, our finances or any other aspect our lives will change. Nothing in our physical, mental, spiritual, social or emotional life will ...
Views: 816 - The most precious thing in the world - by Time is the most precious of all our resources. Every tick of a clock, each passing wave on the sands, the movement of the stars and the sun and moon across the sky all hint at it's passing. It's the most limited of resources we have on this earth. We could mine distant planets and dredge the ...
Views: 816 - Wealth Is In The Details - by My husband Theo always takes the change out of his pockets and puts it in a big jug in the corner. It used to be that I'd look at that jug longingly any time I had to do laundry or needed change for some other reason, and I'd get tempted to take some money out. "Just some quarters," I'd tell ...
Views: 816 - Work That Works for You - by About 25% of my clients are working on career change issues. Some know what they want to do, but don't know how to get there. Others are faced with the difficult realization that (at 20, 30, 40 or 50 years of age) they still don't know what they want to do when they grow up.
This excerpt ...
Views: 816 - Cereal Mom - by I recently heard a woman say that being called a "work at home mom" was professionally demeaning. Being one myself, my initial reaction was to agree with her. "That’s right, I’m a professional, I’m not just a bored housewife dabbling with a hobby here," I said to myself.
Upon reflection ...
Views: 815 - Creating a Baby - by Is being chosen as a channel
For the expression of divinity into materiality
Although ovulation is a law of nature,
Conception is a law of God.
—Edgar Cayce
The following is excerpted from Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives: A Holistic Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth. Click on ...
Views: 815 - Energy, The River of Life - by We are each filled with universal life force energy. It is the essence of our being, our consciousness, our soul. As the flow of life force energy moves through the physical, emotional, and spiritual bodies, it can become imbalanced, stagnant, or blocked. We experience what is called dis-ease. ...
Views: 815 - Goals - by Because the New Year and goal-setting time is approaching, we will take this opportunity to spend some with you time thinking about what it is that you want to achieve, and set some goals around that for the new year!
To either start (or to continue) achieving what you want out of your life, ...
Views: 815 - Health Insurance for the Self-Employed - Protecting Your Business's Greatest Asset - by © 2002 Elena Fawkner
"I've been considering quitting my full-time job and getting a part-time job that would pay the bills [so I can start a home business] ... The one biggie my full-time job provides me now is health insurance. If I was to get a part-time job, I'd probably have to pay for my ...
Views: 815 - LIFE LINES - by "But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day."--Benjamin Disraeli
What's the most determinative influence on anything that exists? The sun? air? heat? gravity?
It's time. Existence is bracketed in this not-understood phenomenon. Arguably, the key ...
Views: 815 - Listening - by For most of us our daily lives are a continuous array of things to do. There are work commitments, family commitments, friends, social activities, and whatever else we choose to spend our time in and on.
Many people don't make the choice to make time for themselves. They don't choose to honour ...
Views: 815 - Listening to the Soul - by Listening to the soul is the fourth and final component of what I call, Working it Out, Within. Listening to the soul is mainly about spirituality. I believe that we each have a spiritual side. It is that component that drives us to find meaning for our lives and to live as fully as we possibly ...
Views: 815 - Making Your Sales Copy Sell… Even In A Recession - by I was talking with a group of business associates the other day and one question popped up that was of particular interest. “Is everyone finding that sales come MUCH slower these days?” The answer from all on the call was a resounding yes! The next question won’t surprise you… “What do we do ...
Views: 815 - The Lost Treasure Returns - by About fifteen years ago I had the pleasure of teaching a young woman who was one of the most gifted high school seniors I have ever met. Not only was she brilliant in Math and Science, but she was also extremely talented in the visual arts. She could draw and paint beautifully. When Audrey ...
Views: 815 - Brand Your Brilliance™ - by Most people think nothing of putting on their T-shirt with the distinctive "swoosh" on the sleeve, grabbing their "Starbucks" travel mug or jumping in their car with the "see-I've made-it" icon on the trunk. Yet, few have ever considered using the power of "brand think" to build their ...
Views: 814 - Getting Complete with Your Parents to Attract a Great Relationship - by Not all you learned about relationships came from your parents - your learning has continued throughout your life. But, what you saw your parents do in relationships, how you interpreted what you saw and how you felt about it, is the foundation of your adult relationships.
That is not to say ...
Views: 814 - Getting Down in the Dirt - by Have you ever had a house built? If not, surely you've watched one go up.
For a long time, it seems that nothing's happening. The site preparation, excavation and foundation-building seem to take a long time with little noticeable progress.
Then the framing starts--and things take on a ...
Views: 814 - IS LOVE A FOREIGN LANGUAGE? - by If you can't answer YES to all of the following questions....then love just might be a foreign language to you.
1. Do you know how to recognize when you are loved totally and unconditionally?
2. Do you know why it is important to love and be loved?
3. Are you aware of the ways you can ...
Views: 814 - Just a Little Willingness to Love - by What is love? A ticklish sensation around the heart that can't be scratched? Something I earn when I do things right? Something I give to get something back? My definition is that love is a willingness to choose to see and respond to the best in another person, even when they are not ...
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