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How Many Times Do We Have To Be Told?
As in many activities, dance is something that is practiced over and over again. The ballet bar is a perfect example of using repetition to achieve perfection. No matter where in the world a ballet class is being taught, it is taught in basically the same way. As a...
This New Year, Pledge to be a Better Parent
While having breakfast with friends at a restaurant one Saturday morning, I noticed a thirty-something father sharing a meal with his son, about three years old. As he waited for his food, the boy became restless and moved around on his side of the booth. Then he slid...
Nineteen Foods to Prevent Breast Cancer!
Recent research suggests that adding these foods to your diet could significantly lower your risk of breast cancer. 1. Yellow orange vegetables -- Eating foods high in beta- carotene has been linked in many studies to lower rates of breast cancer. Tip: The...
Not Too Soft, Not Too Strict: A Balanced Approach to Parenting
There is little less trouble in governing a family than a whole kingdom. - Montaigne Stephen and Paula, very caring and involved parents, brought their five-year-old son, Charlie, in for help with his behavior problems. Charlie had been kicked out of preschool and...
Setting Priorities
In 1970, sociologist Dr. Edward Banfield of Harvard University wrote a book entitled The Unheavenly City. He described one of the most profound studies on success and priority setting ever conducted. Banfield's goal was to find out how and why some people became...
Working Together as Team Us
It is natural for relationships to have an ebb and flow, to grow more or less intimate as circumstances shift. Relationships need care and nurturing, and often it's hard to know what to do. A problem-free relationship exists only in fantasy. When a discussion with...
The 10 Immutable Laws Of Sales Success
Law #1: Keep your mouth shut and your ears open. This is important; for the first few minutes of any sales interaction: Don't talk about yourself. Don't talk about your products. Don't talk about your services. And above all, don't recite your sales pitch! Obviously,...
The Art of Breathing – a Key to Good Health and Happiness
"She no longer needed the pills . . ." Rose was plagued with lifelong allergies, asthma, recurring bronchitis and pneumonia, and healed her symptoms through Full Wave Breathing. There are other success stories using this lifestyle management approach taught by Tom and...
The Major Key to Your Better Future is You
Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth. It's really the open door to it all. In...
The Truth about Stretching
A three year old study about stretching is getting cited in many articles today. And the conclusions reached by some writers may be harmful to your health! Is stretching before exercise harmful? Some recent articles have made stretching before exercise...
Transformation in the New Year:
An Alternative to Making Resolutions – Again
New Year's resolutions are things we promise ourselves we are going to do in the future. They usually spring from the idea that we need to improve some aspect of our body, way of being or personal habits with the expectation that when we improve, we will...
Use the Snowball Effect To Get Delightfully Buried With Positive–and Positively Free — Publicity
Okay, so you've been sending out press releases and WOW! One of them connected! You landed your first radio interview on a local station or a reporter from a nearby newspaper has called. You might be so excited about this initial success that you forget the...
Which Foods Should We Choose?
Some foods are wonderfully life promoting: "the Goods". Some foods are distinctly death producing: "The Bads". With so many opinions running here and there, it is very possible to become confused in food choices. This report will help you to clarify just who's who,...
7 Laws for Helping You Create Balance and Abundance
Imagine landing on just one solution that catapults you to the life you always wished you'd have, one that's abundantly rich and rewarding in every facet. That solution exists. In fact, it exists today, this very moment - in your own mind! Every person walking this...
12 Tips for Having a Great Relationship
Great relationships are not made in heaven. They do NOT require a soul mate, do not need to end when you fall out of love, are not always exciting, and are not limited to a few lucky people. Great relationships do require information, attention, time and...
