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- The Power of Small - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesRoutinely, I rise out of bed before the birds and watch the sunlight flood my office every morning. See, I love this time of day, but what I don’t love is being rudely rousted out of a deep sleep before my normal rise-and-shine time, and every day, for the past few months, I have been. I sleep ...
Views: 1056 - ***First Jobs – High School Students Who Are Working First Jobs Are Setting a Work Ethic for Life - by Submitted on May 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesYoung people often find that they experience many “firsts” during their high school years. Among them are the first car, the first prom and the first job. High school students see all of these things as a way to access more freedom. The car gives then an opportunity to go where they need to go, ...
Views: 1055 - Synergizing Your Hormones for Weight Loss - by Submitted on Mar 02, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesThe world of fitness and weight loss can be extremely confusing and frustrating. Who are you to believe? Low fat. Low carb. High protein. High fat. Zone, Atkins, South Beach. The list seems to go on and on. Then there are the workouts: Pilates, Curves, Cuts, cross-training, cardio, weight ...
Views: 1048 - How to Live in the “Performance Zone”: The Secret to Being and Feeling Your Best all the Time! - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesHow do you get what you want, when you want it, from your life? The answer is shocking: force yourself to be uncomfortable. Yes, that’s right—only by pushing yourself outside of situations where you feel completely comfortable can you ever achieve your true potential. Try the following ...
Views: 1047 - ***Stop Managing and Start Leading - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesAsk any group of managers if they view themselves as an elite within their organization and you can be sure they will deny it. You'll hear comments such as: "I have an open-door policy" and "I take pride in always being accessible and approachable." And in most cases, these managers will ...
Views: 1040(1 vote) - ***After the Interview: The What and Why of the Cover Thank You Letter - by Submitted on May 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesMany people who are going through a career change assume that their job is done after the interview. After that final hand shake, it’s not up to them anymore. After that final goodbye, it’s up to the hiring manager to make contact and determine if another interview or an offering is necessary. ...
Views: 1035 - ***Why You Should Do a Career Assessment - by Submitted on May 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesHave you recently gotten out of high school and you feel like you have no direction or idea what you want your main career to be? Or maybe you are a victim of the recent recession and you have been laid off or lost your job altogether. Or perhaps you are just bored with your current career and ...
Views: 1035 - Laugh, Don’t Laugh - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesWhen was the last time you really laughed? I am not referring to a giggle or a chuckle. What I am talking about is side-splitting, jaw-aching, tears-running-down-your-face, all-out, roll-on-the-floor laughing. If you are like most of us, it has been longer than you can remember. The truth ...
Views: 1034 - ***General Guidelines for Acing that Job Interview - by Submitted on May 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesThe job interview is one of the main things holding you back from changing careers and moving into a new job. You need to ace your job interview and put that career transition fear on hold. After all, if you know what to do before the interview, then you are one step closer to getting that job. ...
Views: 1025 - Simple Solutions for Recovering Your Health and Extending Your Life Span - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesFood is perhaps the most important cornerstone of health recovery and longevity, with an amazing power to nourish, protect, and heal your body. Improper nutrition, however, will promote the acceleration of disease and aging in many ways, including calcification, acidosis, oxidation, insulin ...
Views: 1023 - ***New Year, New Career: Dealing with Career Transition Over the Holidays - by Submitted on Jun 22, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesThe "holiday season" defines the time that extends from Thanksgiving to New Year's, where all we seem to do is eat, drink and be merry. Just what is it that makes the holiday season so special? It's a combination of things, really. The concept of giving is but one reason. What other time of ...
Views: 1021(1 vote) - How to Build Your Self-Confidence and Live a Better Life! - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesIt’s no secret that self-confidence is very important to achieving success in any area of life. The thing about self-confidence is that it’s very sensitive to our personal experience and is inherently unstable, which means that low self-confidence tends to get lower and high self-confidence ...
Views: 1021 - Eye Care If You Care: Proven Methods to Improve Your Vision - by Submitted on Mar 02, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesDo you want to have clear and comfortable vision for many years? Whether you are a student, a computer user, middle-aged, or a senior, the following information will help you maintain the good eyesight that you presently enjoy. Healthy Body, Healthy Eyes The most basic and easiest advice is ...
Views: 1017 - Go Ahead and Prove All the Naysayers Wrong! - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesThe strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Are the people who are close to you—your friends and family—preventing you from going after your dream of starting your own business? If so, you have a problem that is more common than you might ...
Views: 1017 - Myths and Misconceptions That Keep Us Chained - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesIn today’s world of self-help gurus, celebrity help shows, and spiritual masters, we are inundated with all kinds of advice and preaching about how we should be in this world. We should be fearless. We should be authentic. We should be ethical. We should never be angry. We should always be ...
Views: 1015 - ***Things to Avoid When Writing a Resume - by Submitted on May 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesA resume is meant to be the link between you and the potential employer in a way that every party purposes to meet his or her objective; for you it is the job search and for the employer it is the employee search. As a result, writing a resume to be used in an effective career transition ...
Views: 1002 - Going Organic: Why the Big Fuss? - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesSomeone once said, “I don’t believe that paying extra for organic food will benefit anybody but those who sell it.” There are a lot of people out there who are opposed to buying or eating organic food. I do not know why, but it is possible that the main reason is that it is hard to change; ...
Views: 992 - Do You Remember How to Play? - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesDo you still “go out to play”? Do your friends still knock on your door and invite you out to play? I hope so, and I hope you go. This world seems to send strong messages that play is frivolous, time-wasting, and useful only to procrastinators and slackers—unless, of course, you can find a ...
Views: 991 - ***How Positives Changes for the New Year Can Help You Rebuild After Divorce - by Submitted on Jun 22, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesWhy do we make New Year’s resolutions? Because we desire change for the better. But, for those dealing with divorce, resolutions may offer much-needed hope for the future. Resolutions are meant to give us a boost and promote positive change. However, if you think back to your past resolutions, ...
Views: 990(2 votes) - Living Foods: The Next Evolutionary Step - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesThe power of live foods for healing is being more and more supported by traditional research. On the basis of recent journal articles, a calorie-restricted diet and upgraded gene expression (which come automatically with live foods) have become keys to understanding the clinical effectiveness of ...
Views: 990 - Creating Better Health from the Inside Out with Gratitude - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesMost of us become anxious when we are not feeling well. Our stability and security are threatened, and we become fearful. “What if I have to take off from work again?” or “How will I manage if I get sick?” are questions we may ask ourselves while feeling our anxiety build. Whether we are dealing ...
Views: 988 - Listen to the Teachers around You - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesThe snow was still falling, but for the most part the storm was over. It would take many days, however, before life in our small community would return to normal. Blizzards weren’t something that happened in Ohio, but there it was, a thick blanket of snow that had been whipped into incredible ...
Views: 985 - ***Senior Back to Work Advice – Dealing with the passages in your life - by Submitted on May 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesAre you a senior who is thinking about going back to work? If you are, then you are joining many others looking into entering the work world again. But how do you go about it? The first thing you need to do is deal with the different passages in your life. Not until you deal with those aspects ...
Views: 978 - My Experience with Mercury Toxicity - by Submitted on Mar 02, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesAfter dissolving into tears of frustration, pain, and perplexity, I went to a local emergency room (ER) in March 2002. Approximately six months prior to my ER visit, I had begun feeling slowly progressing lower leg pain and discomfort that grew to searing pain on standing still for more than a ...
Views: 978 - Your Passion and Your Dreams Can Make You Money - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesA lot of people talk about owning their own businesses, working for themselves, or “going out on their own” in the small business world. Few people actually take action to establish a business, and an even smaller number of people sustain a small business past five years. As I talk with ...
Views: 972 - What’s the Matter with Mind over Matter? - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesI truly believe that your thoughts create your life, but I don’t think that your thoughts are easy to change, at least, not by your own will. What you truly think about yourself, you perceive nonverbally before you are three years old. Trying, as an adult, to think positively when your gut feels ...
Views: 969 - How to Cultivate Invisible Ecology in Your Business - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesHave you ever walked into a store and instantly felt a pleasing warmth and friendliness that made your shopping experience wonderful? Did you notice that something special was going on, but you couldn’t quite put your finger on it? I call this “something special feeling” the invisible ecology of ...
Views: 962 - Dr. Len’s Advanced Self-Improvement Method - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesTwo years ago, I heard about a therapist in Hawaii who cured a complete ward of criminally insane patients—without ever seeing any of them. The psychologist would study an inmate’s chart and then look within himself to see how he created that person’s illness. As he improved himself, the patient ...
Views: 961 - ***Helpful Job Search Tips - by Submitted on May 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesSearching for a good job can be one of the most stressful things that you will ever do. This is especially true if you have recently lost your job because, by that point, you are worried about how you will be able to take care of your family and yourself. You are wondering where the next ...
Views: 952 - 14 Creativity Tips to Get You Unstuck, Unblocked, Newly Focused, and Passionate About Your Creative Process or Project - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesYou know that you are a creative being. We all have the ability to do original work and to make new connections between ideas, which is the key dynamic of the creative process. Yet, we are also well aware that sometimes, our creativity stalls, plays tricks on us, or appears to have vanished ...
Views: 947 - Qualifying Natural Health - by Submitted on Mar 02, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesWhen the topic of natural health is brought up in conversation, some individuals have preconceived notions and associate it with what they know about modern medicine. Thus they consider it to be the taking of a supplement instead of a drug. Others immediately think of vegetarianism with hippie ...
Views: 947 - Your Most Powerful Tool for Change - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesAh, today is a wonderful day. It’s a great day to be alive—to learn, to give, to grow, and to achieve your dreams. Did you notice that? Those statements? They are statements of belief and of conviction—of affirmation. I also call them self-instructions because that describes what they do: they ...
Views: 943 - ***Great Job Hunting Tips In a Recession - by Submitted on May 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesOk, let’s say that despite what we’ve said up until this point; that the recession really isn’t that bad and that not everyone is going to lose their jobs or become a desperately poor vagrant on the streets, some people may still lose their jobs. While it is a fact of life; bad economy or good ...
Views: 938 - Getting Off the Treadmill and Getting On with Life - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesI’ve been wondering why so many of us are so busy; after all, we’re not being forced to labor against our will. What gives? I hate to put the blame directly on the busy person, but I believe that we are too busy because we choose to be. We like to think that it’s the boss who is piling on all ...
Views: 938 - What Does Feeling Have to Do with Healing? - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesBeliefs, Payoffs, and Effects As a society, we reward illness. Think back to when you were a child. When you were sick, you undoubtedly received special treatment from Mom and Dad. You got to lay in a warm bed while you should have been standing outside waiting for the bus on a cold morning. ...
Views: 934 - ***Interviewing: Top Ten Questions and Answers - by Submitted on May 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesWhen going through a career change, it’s important to know what you can expect every step of the way. This includes the interview process. Below we’ve outlined top of the most common interview questions and how to best answer them. 1. "Tell me about yourself..." Although technically not a ...
Views: 929 - ***Interviewing No’s: What Not to Do on your Next Job Interview - by Submitted on May 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesA job interview may seem pretty standard- you go, you shake hands, you smile, you answer questions and you leave. However, there are so many different mistakes you can make in that short period of time that can cost you a second interview or a position. When you are going through a career ...
Views: 927 - How to Treat Your Colds and Viral Sore Throats - by Submitted on Mar 02, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesHow Do I Catch a Cold? The humble cold is the most common infectious disease in the United States. It accounts for more absences from school and work than any other illness. It is the leading cause of patient visits to physicians. It is not easy to catch a cold. Your body’s natural defenses ...
Views: 924 - ***Dream Job - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesWhat is a dream job? The answer to that question depends on who you are. For some people a dream job is working in the outdoors with animals. For people with allergies to pollen and animal dander that may be a nightmare career. To understand how to get your dream job you need to understand ...
Views: 917 - Wholeness - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesSpiritual consciousness means that when the intellect affirms the Divine Presence the whole consciousness feels the meaning of what the intellect has affirmed. –Ernest Holmes Spiritual consciousness often sits on the sidelines of our lives, waiting for us to come to it in our moments of ...
Views: 917 - Expect to Get! A Fail-Safe Formula - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesIn school we learn a variety of math formulas. We learn how to convert temperatures from Fahrenheit to Celsius, we learn how to calculate the area of a triangle, and many more. The beauty of these formulas is the certainty that they provide. We know that if we know the formula and have the ...
Views: 912 - ***The Recession: It doesn’t necessary mean job hunting and career changes! - by Submitted on May 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesThe odds are extremely high that if you watch TV, listen to the radio, or simply just converse with your peers, that by now you know that our country is currently in a recession. Unfortunately, the news of this recession has sent hundreds of thousands; perhaps even millions of people into a ...
Views: 910 - Power of Thanks - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesGracias. Danke. Merci. Thanks. Simple words with the power to bind, to build, and to behold. If you’ve ever gotten thanked or given thanks, then you know its power. Just the fact that you say it can be enough to make a difference, just as not saying it can make a difference in a negative ...
Views: 908 - ***Links to Online Resume Samples - by Submitted on May 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesThere are a very many links to resume samples that are available for people who want to venture into career testing. However, not all resumes fit every individual and there is a specific format of resume as per the individual’s intention and the kind of job being sought for. Online resume ...
Views: 895 - ***Basics of a Resume Sample - by Submitted on May 20, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesA resume serves the sole purpose of marketing an individual to the potential employers. It should therefore be written in the best way possible for you to achieve that dream job. There are basics that you need to consider when writing any kind of resume. Writing something appealing to the ...
Views: 891 - Being Alive - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesWhere would you rate your aliveness this minute on a scale of one to ten (one being “I am surprised I still have a pulse” and ten being “I am so excited to be alive that I can hardly wait to take my next breath”)? Do you remember a time when most of your days were lived at a nine or ten? For ...
Views: 889 - ***Off The Wall Tips for Changing Careers and Getting a Job - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesDon't write a resume Instead of sending out a resume, talk about who you are. Don't post a resume online but do post to blogs and other websites in your field. When a friend promises to send your resume to a contact instead of agreeing ask to speak to the contact instead. WHY not write a ...
Views: 885 - Two Negatives Must Always Make a Positive! - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesLearned life experiences move us forward rather than back. As you grow forward, you become a more rounded individual, and even with ups and downs, good events begin to happen. It’s the things you learn as you move forward that help to shape your future for good. Since I’ve experienced the move ...
Views: 885 - Life Goes On - by Submitted on May 03, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesAnother day at the court house downtown to bail my father out of jail. His drug addiction has been getting him into trouble for too many years now. For a guy who has two ex-wives and three children, he sure does have his priorities a little mixed up. Of course he always has been like this, he ...
Views: 874 - Protect Your Cells with Antioxidants - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesGood health starts at the cellular level. For the body to be healthy, cells must be healthy, and to be healthy, cells need nourishment and protection. Nourishment is provided by nutrients, and protection is dependent on a variety of factors such as your immune system, the nutrients that make up ...
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