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Saving for Retirement
If your employer offers a matching contribution to your retirement plan, the cardinal rule is: contribute whatever the employer is willing to match-even if it is only a percentage of your contribution and not a dollar for dollar match. Imagine depositing $1,000 of...
Are You Satisfied?
Within each of us exists a burning desire to achieve our full potential. Self-improvement is a discipline, a habit, a skill that can be learned. I utilize one question that automatically leads to greater results in every endeavor I pursue. This past weekend I...
Time Management Training
What lessons you can learn from small children! One day I was watching two youngsters, ages 3 and 5, playing with bricks constructed out of heavy cardboard. The brick blocks came in three sizes: a 10 x 16 rectangle, a 10 square, and the standard 3 x 10 brick size. ...
Beneath a Vedic Sun
For me, there is nothing worse than being in a career for which you feel no passion. I know many people who are stuck in a work (or no work) situation where they feel like their life has really just stopped moving. One of the great things I like about William Levacy's...
Barbara DeAngelis – Emotional Courage: The Courage to Live Passionately
Harold Whitman described why passion is so important to all of us when he said, "Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go and do that, because what the world needs are people who have come alive."...
Places to Stay in India
I first met Vinita Rashinkar at an Ayurvedic Spa in Mysore. We immediately became good friends and would share with one another all of the latest goings on in our lives. At the time of our first meeting, Vinita took me into her confidence and told me that she had been...
Keeping the Love Alive – Part 2
When your world is filled with many wonderful opportunities, it can feel difficult if you feel you must choose between them, and it's equally rough if you have a hard time saying no to people. Yet saying yes to everything can lead to both over-commitment and...
10 Questions to Ask Before You Start Day One of Your Diet
So you've decided to go on a diet. Maybe you've told yourself "I can do it this time. It just takes willpower." What you may not be aware of is that ongoing willpower requires many different things. Willpower is fueled by commitment, belief in yourself,...
High Probability Selling and Telephone Prospecting: Turn Cold Calling into Warm Sales Leads
Like most sales lead consultants, I do not advocate cold calling. However, I acknowledge that cold calling is necessary at times. You need prospective clients and customers. Cold-calling to a highly targeted list can be the fastest route to finding high probability...
How to Balance Your Work and Your Life With EASE
Too often we become caught up in the 'doing' of every day life and we forget that it is meant to be enjoyed. Establishing a system for ease will help you to put the fun back into your life. The following are six systems will help you identify and create your...
Junk Food Juveniles
Obesity is such a major issue with children that some researchers predict that today's children will be the first generation of Americans whose life expectancy will actually be shorter than that of their parents. What can you do to change this? 1. Offer your children...
The Four Pillars of Health
Optimal health involves nurturing all facets of your life. This includes your physical, mental, and spiritual health. These components are woven into the fiber of your being and your well being. Neglecting one causes problems in another. Conditions such as heart...
4 Things Paypal Users Should Know To Improve Their Online Safety
Online ecommerce is growing rapidly, and with that is the growing opportunity for fraud and scams. As Internet users, it is our responsibility to take some precautions that will make our online transactions safer. One area we need to take responsibility for is...
What You are Marketing is Yourself
"Call us today and change your life," proclaimed the hot pink flyer on the bulletin board. It was signed "Sunrise Hypnotherapy" with a phone number and a blind email address. No practitioner's name appeared anywhere on the flyer. Posted near it were numerous other...
Exercising Safely in Heat
Summer is officially here. Finally you can pack away your jackets and get outside. Summer offers extras hours of daylight and with it the opportunity to spend even more time enjoying outdoor activities. For many, this means more time doing physical activities and...
