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* Issue # 455, Week of May 29-30, 2007
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In this issue:
-- Quotes of the Week
-- Personal Growth Products and Services
-- Article: How to Attract Positive People and Situations - By Judith Orloff,
M.D.
-- Article: How to Quantify Your Goals - By Brian Hazelgren
-- Book Review: The Cellulite Cure - By Dr. Lionel Bissoon
-- Brief News of the World
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*** Quotes of the Week ***
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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. -
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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man
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*** Article: How to Attract Positive People and Situations - By Judith Orloff,
M.D. ***
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As a psychiatrist who specializes in intuition, I know that a very powerful life
lesson is learning how to attract positive relationships and situations toward
us. Our relationships aren't random. We must begin to use our intuition to
actively draw what's positive our way, a people skill most of our parents didn't
know or teach us. We've learned to draw conclusions from surface data: how nice
someone seems, looks, education.
But attraction goes deeper; to make it work for you, other ingredients must be
considered.
Here is a general guideline of body-based intuitions. Use this checklist at a
first meeting, to troubleshoot problems if you're already involved, or to access
opportunities. A signature energy always accompanies situations or people.
Remember the Lil' Abner jinxed cartoon character who always had a black cloud
hanging over his head? Not a vibe that bodes well for positive outcomes.
Instead, you must learn to gravitate toward brightness, a positive intuition
your body will affirm. When tuning into vibes, take a few quiet moments to go
into sensing mode, not intellectual analysis. Look for these signs.
Positive Intuitions About Relationships or Situations
* a feeling of comforting familiarity or brightness; you may sense you've known
the person before, as with the experience of deja-vu
* you breathe easier, chest and shoulders are relaxed, gut is calm
* you find yourself leaning forward, not defensively crossing your arms or
edging away to keep a distance
* your heart opens; you feel safe, peaceful, energized, expansive, or alive
* you're at ease with a person's touch, whether a hand shake, hug, or during
intimacy
Negative Intuitions About Relationships or Situations
* a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach or increased stomach acid, which may
prompt an unpalatable deja-vu
* your skin starts crawling, you're jumpy, instinctively withdraw if touched
* shoulder muscles are in knots, chest area or throat constricts; you notice
aggravated aches or pains
* the hair on the back of your neck creepily stands on end
* a sense of malaise, darkness, pressure, agitation, or being drained
These signs provide a no-nonsense appraisal of your body's comfort zone.
(The more positive intuitions, the better; even one can be definitive, but
nagging negatives often mean "watch out and go slow.") They'll lead you to
friends, lovers, and work milieus with positive energy. Plus, you'll know when
to cool it or exit in the face of blatant warnings.
Listen to these signs, and your choices in relationships will become smarter and
more intuitively informed.
About the Author:
Judith Orloff, M.D. is a psychiatrist and author of the bestseller "Positive
Energy: Ten Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and
Fear Into Vibrance, Strength, and Love" (Three Rivers Press), upon which this
article is based. She is also author of the bestsellers "Guide to Intuitive
Healing" and "Second Sight." She is an Assistant Clinical Professor of
Psychiatry at UCLA, has a private practice in Los Angeles, and leads workshops
on intuition, energy, and medicine. For more information about Dr. Orloff's
workshops and books, visit
http://www.drjudithorloff.com
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*** Article: How to Quantify Your Goals - By Brian Hazelgren ***
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Quantifying your goals can be a long process. You'll have to gather a lot more
information before you're ready to set specific targets.
Eventually, you'll probably want to put those goals together in the form of a
business plan.
But before we move on to the process of getting that information, let's take a
look at some of the guidelines you should follow when quantifying your goals:
* Be specific -- Establish targets that can be easily measured, and use numbers
as targets whenever possible. For example, you may set a goal of selling your
goods or services across a particular number of counties or states, having a
certain number of employees, or reaching a particular level of sales. Tie those
numbers to specific time frames (within six months, within two years, within 10
years, etc.).
* Be realistic -- Having high expectations is great, but make sure that you
establish targets that are reasonable and potentially achievable. If you're
opening a fast-food restaurant, to say that you want to be bigger than
McDonald's within six months is not realistic.
* Be aggressive -- You can be realistic and still aim high. Don't set goals that
are too easily achieved; also, set both short-term and long-term goals. If,
after six months in business, you accomplish all of your goals, then what? Don't
sell yourself short; if you want to be bigger than McDonald's within 20 years,
go for it.
* Be consistent -- Beware of inadvertently setting inconsistent goals.
For example, a goal of growing fast enough to have three employees within two
years might be inconsistent with a goal of earning a particular amount of money
if the cost of adding the employees ends up temporarily reducing your income
below the target level. There is nothing wrong with having both goals. Just be
aware that the potential conflict exists, and establish priorities among your
goals so that you'll know which ones are most important to you.
In developing your goals and objectives, you should be specific where
achievements can be measured. Normally you would have a numbered list of a few
selected objectives. Keep your list to about ten because long lists make it hard
to focus.
Making your goals concrete is the best way, possibly the only way, to tell when
you've achieved them. Your chance of implementation depends on your being able
to track progress toward goals and measure results, and implementation is
critical. Set measurable objectives such as sales or sales growth, profits or
profitability, market share as published by an objective and accessible source,
gross margin as percent of sales, for example.
Avoid listing vague goals that can't be tracked. Where general or intangible
goals are important to your business, find a way to make them specific. For
example, if customer satisfaction is a priority, put your objectives in terms of
percent of returns, specific numbers of complaints, or letters of praise, or
some other measure related to satisfaction. If image or awareness is a priority,
include a survey to measure the change in percentages in your plan. You can
build a customer satisfaction survey into your plan, set the sample size and
satisfaction scores you want to achieve, then carry out the survey to check on
success.
If you deal with products, you might watch gross margin or unit sales, so you
should set objectives for these key factors. If you are a distribution company,
for example, then you will also want to focus on tight management of logistics,
working capital, and personnel costs. If you are a publisher, then you might
focus on product quality, titles, or marketing. This obviously depends on your
type of business.
About the Author:
Brian Hazelgren is a globally recognized expert in business planning, strategic
planning, infrastructure development, training, sales, and operations.
He has written seven books; three of them are course textbooks in several
colleges and have received many awards, and have been translated into four
languages. Brian is also a frequent guest on radio talk shows and conventions
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*** Book Review: The Cellulite Cure - By Dr. Lionel Bissoon ***
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In this highly illustrated and entertaining book, Dr. Bissoon explains
cellulite's true causes, and explains the only proven treatment options for this
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In the book, Dr. Bissoon discusses the genesis of Mesotherapy, the only
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