The Journey From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
July 6, 2007
The Journey From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
by: Cheryl Vallejos, CPBA, CPVA
After the beginning of the New Year has come and gone, how do you keep the momentum going? Hopefully, you set your New Year’s goals and now you’re ready to see them begin to manifest. Your goals may include the areas of health, relationships, finances, business, family, and creative pursuits. You may want to build a thriving business and create a balanced life. But how do you get from where you are to where you want to be? So glad you asked. The quickest answer is: plan your work and work your plan. Every journey needs a strategy to get to where you want to go, whether it’s a map, a marketing plan, or working with a coach or mentor.
There are proven methods used by highly successful people that help them achieve what they want in life. The most successful people-those who achieve the goals they set out to achieve and live fulfilling lives-demonstrate certain traits and actions. They are organized, disciplined, curious, open to learning and growing, fearless (or willing to act in spite of fear), positive-minded, and persistent. They take action, measure their results, and change course when necessary. Here is a 7-step winning formula for YOU to have a successful journey this year.
Animal Spirits: Power Animals and Guides
July 5, 2007
We shamans are a strange breed…..often we tend to isolate ourselves from those around us. However, this does not mean we don’t have relationships……….in fact we often have too many to handle at any one time. You see, we are connecting to many levels of reality and inter-relating with all of them at the very same time. So while we are in a group of people….we are also talking to the spirit world and often the animal guides all at once. It’s a difficult balancing act..to say the least. Often we must decide which is the most important communication at that point in time. Sometimes the animal spirit guides are giving us very critical data, so we choose to stay focused on that for the moment.
Each animal comes to us with it’s unique spirit focus and usually shows up when we need their perspective. They may appear in spirit form, in a dream, vision …or in the flesh!
While surfing the internet I found a site with helpful information about many animal forms. You can get to this site by clicking on this link. http://www.geocities.com/~animalspirits/
Jerry is a professional shaman. He publishes an online magazine and newsletter dealing with shamanism and holism as they apply to life and business. You can reach the magazine at this address: http://www.jeremiahhuck.workzsites.com
Action Plan to Take the Weight Off This Year
July 4, 2007
Addicted to Restaurants
Are you addicted to restaurants? So are lots of Americans. What used to be a “treat,” going out for dinner, has become more common that cooking at home, and we think we’re better off? Think again. Restaurant eating, fast foods and highly processed foods are turning us into a nation of tubby’s. It’s time to take back control of our waistlines.
You choose where you eat, and you choose what you eat. Here are some suggestions to begin to make better choices.
Restaurants Exist to Make a Profit
The bottom line is restaurants exist to make a profit. They pile on the extra butter and rich cream sauces, carmelized sugar toppings, cheese sauce, double-deluxe, new improved, and whatever they can do to make the food so enticing, so delicious, we just cannot resist. Fine for an occasional splurge, but not everyday fare, and herein lies the problem.
Extra Value Meals
McDonalds started the trend by offering slightly larger portions for a bit more money, and every other food establishment quickly followed suit. Extra value they called it. Who wouldn’t order a bit more for only pennies? Today nearly every restaurant, fast food or sit down dining, serves gigantic quantities that boggle the mind. There is usually enough food served for two, sometimes three meals.
The Patients Guide to Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Depression
July 4, 2007
INTRODUCTION
A Guide To Self Improvement Techniques.
July 3, 2007
A Guide To Self Improvement Techniques.
by: Lavinia Snider
An ordered life is one of the most assured methods of self-improvement. The saying “tidy desk - tidy mind” is also certainly true but only a small part of it. It is important that you order your life in such a manner that allows you to do everything you need to, when you need to do it. You should also be able to effectively ensure that you become happier and more content as well as progress with your career, make new friends and anything else you want in life.
While work is important, you should always make time to spend with your family and a little personal time. This personal time could be an excellent opportunity to take up a physical hobby. Exercising helps to clear the mind and produce chemicals in your body that are essential and often lacking. Modern living involves greater working hours and less personal time. Inevitably this has led to less interactivity.
Hot Yoga - Bikrams Twenty Six
July 2, 2007
Even though the world population has shifted from mainly rural to mainly urban in the last decade, there are still lots of folks like me who live in the sticks. Doing things like taking a yoga class becomes a different thing in our case from driving to the neighborhood gym. Since I live 40 miles from the nearest town large enough for yoga studios, when I decided to take a class, I was more interested in the schedule than I was the type of yoga. I couldn’t afford to be picky if I preferred not to wait around for a couple hours after getting off work. So I looked in the phone book, and didn’t pay attention to anything but the schedule. There it was: M-W-F at 4:00. Perfect. I don’t know what rock I’d been living under, but the word “Bikram” writ large across the ad in the yellow pages didn’t trigger the term ‘hot yoga’ in my mind, and that left me in for a big surprise.
13 Stress Reducers & Profit Boosters
July 1, 2007
The United Nations declares workplace stress to be a worldwide epidemic. In the United States alone, forty-six percent of workers report that their job is very stressful. This adds up to a million stress related workplace absences each day.
Individual stress control techniques are important. Meditation, soothing music, biofeedback, and other techniques work well to help people cope with the stress of our modern workplace.
The real solution, however, is to recognize that stress control is a leadership responsibility. Leaders and managers can do more to control stress than all of the individual stress relief techniques combined. Leaders who implement stress control strategies see the results in reduced absenteeism, medical costs, health care insurance expenses, workers comp payments, accidents, complaints, and so on.
The following 13 stress control strategies minimize costs such as these and productivity soars. The workplace is improved. Employees and their families are happier. Business owners make more money.
Management can control stress by:
++ Eliminating unreasonable expectations
++ Positioning people in jobs that use their
skills and abilities
++ Adjusting pay for the level of responsibility
assigned to individuals
++ Correcting vague and arbitrary promotion
policies
