Having sex for the first time with a new partner is always an exercise in silent negotiation.
Issues such as who will take the dominant role or when the undressing will begin abound and are often worked out using body language, eye contact, and other non-verbal communication cues.
Although ... Views: 7115
The media spotlight the past few days has been on Eliot Spitzer, the Governor of New York, and his link to the Emperor's Club VIP prostitution ring. Whether his damaging behavior is related to an inflated sense of entitlement, the dark side of his self righteous attitude, a feeling that he's ... Views: 1198
I'm going to share two sales closing tips that will help you close more sales. One will show you how to eliminate the fear of closing. The other, how allowing your fear to prevent you from closing is costing you sales.
Sales Closing Tip #1: Write Down and Practice What You're Going to ... Views: 1008
Any one who cares for the environment is busy changing life-long habits. Thinking twice before driving, getting a Prius or other hybrid, changing all the light bulbs, maybe rethinking their own energy use and going for solar, and buying organic. I totally applaud their commitment. The bad news ... Views: 2148
Do you think it is possible that all thought has an intelligent design? This intelligence like the programming of a computer chip becomes activated and begins directing the body and the imagination to produce consistent and predictable results.
Imagine that there are hundreds of thoughts all ... Views: 917
Back when I was a financial journalist, no one asked me if I had ever traded derivatives or shorted a stock. But in my new incarnation as a chronicler of global infidelity, my own experience with the subject seems to be my chief credential. Reviewers of my book, Lust in Translation, have ... Views: 1025
Francesca is a business consultant working out of her home. She loves her work, she has acquired a good client base and she is past the “survival” stage in her business. Six months ago she decided to take her company to the next level by introducing new informational products and expanding her ... Views: 874
Among the parents I coach, I find that that one near-universal issue arises at some point in the coaching process: How do we take the pain out of bedtime? Here are some real solutions to this often-frustrating everyday issue.
Set up a family meeting. Using the same approach that you would with ... Views: 1605
The morning after François Mitterrand's funeral, a photo showed the late president's mistress and illegitimate daughter standing by his grave alongside his wife and sons. That tableau has become famous internationally as proof that the French are uniquely tolerant of extramarital affairs.
In ... Views: 1548
Modern clinical hypnotherapy is a natural, holistic way of helping people to heal themselves. It uses no medicines or tablets, simply utilising the power of the subconscious mind to bring about the positive changes a person wishes to see in their lives, freeing them to be the person they are ... Views: 1112
Is menopause to be blamed for female sexual dysfunction or frigidity? What role does it play in this common problem?
First of all, it’s important to understand that frigidity is caused by a lot of things that both the woman and the man may not be aware of. To improve their sex lives, the ... Views: 1713
A Biblical passage that seeks to explain man's sinful nature reads, "For the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak."
That same passage may well apply to the elderly who wish to remain sexually active during their advanced years but who now have to curb that and the other pleasures of life ... Views: 985
One day, I and my two friends were going on our evening walks. As usual, we were busy talking and laughing. Suddenly one of my friends, an architect student, bent down and picked up a small fused bulb lying on the side of the road.
“Ah, I am going to need this,” she exclaimed.
“What will you ... Views: 911
When we talk of self help, it usually brings the image of a grown up person trying to improve himself. But self help is not limited to grown ups. Even teens need self-help training. Why? Because of 2 important reasons.
Here are two crucial reasons why your teenage son or daughter should start ... Views: 1451
Meditation is an ancient practice that has been used by people for ages. No one can really say when people started to meditate, but most scholars say that it started probably about 5,000 years ago. I personally think it is just a speculation and that meditation is as old as mankind.
People ... Views: 831
We all want to save money on our taxes. If you are self-employed here’s a strategy to increase your deductions:
If you drive only one car for business then you can only get up to 100% of those costs as a deduction HOWEVER, if you drive two cars for business you can take advantage of a higher ... Views: 1288
Resilience can be achieved in at least two ways.
Event-based resilience is when we respond to each event that occurs in a successful manner to resolve tensions in the space. This approach is the way some of us achieve resilience during parts of our lives or particular events. We each have ... Views: 1372
If you’ve been sitting by your computer for days, weeks, months, or even years wringing your hands and wondering what’s stopping the words in your head from landing on the page, the following tips may provide some food for thought and quite possibly end your writer’s block: ... Views: 1462
This is a powerful time for you to set your intentions for your year, especially in the areas of career and money.
For many of us, last year may have felt “subprime” (the Word of the Year for 2007).
But, to quote my 16-year-old friend, Andrew Jordan, who passed away last October, ... Views: 1355
Are you working a day job while building your home based dream business? Do you find it difficult to manage your time? Follow these seven tips to get more done growing your business, and have more time for other important things in your life, too.
1) Make And Use A To Do List Daily.
It's ... Views: 614
Recently, I have been on a "start-the-new-year-off-right" saving spree. Now, I know it's March already - but it still feels like the beginning of the year, doesn't it? And, these activities have received an impetus from the new buds of spring!
I've been successfully saying no to small ... Views: 882
Have you ever looked in the mirror to find a very tired woman? This morning, perhaps? Me too. When I looked into the mirror this morning, I found a happy woman with a full life, a great job, wonderful people to share it all with and bags as big as watermelons, under my eyes.
It's not that I ... Views: 955
You came to the internet world by creating a website but how you will survive in global market or online marketing in UK? How internet users will find you from millions of websites across the globe? These questions arise in the mind of every new webie after creating a fresh website.
Best way to ... Views: 639
Potential - Noun
1) the inherent ability or capacity for growth, development, or coming into being.
2) something possessing the capacity for growth and development.
“He has so much potential”, his teacher expressed with deep concern. “He’s a really great kid and everyone loves him”, he ... Views: 1340
The first hundred times my various teachers uttered the words, “You must have gratitude for all that comes into your life”, I rolled my eyes and thought to myself, Yea, right.
And how am I supposed to have gratitude when my father is in the hospital about to have critical surgery. The tension ... Views: 1332
An old man with shaking hands counts out some crumpled bills to a receptionist in a doctor's office. The sign above the cashier's window says:
"If you are a Medicare customer you will be required to pay your $135 deductable before service is rendered."
But the old man only comes up with ... Views: 971
A boy in my daughter’s grade died in a car crash just down the street from my home this August. It was a beautiful late summer morning and I was peacefully meditating on my porch when he swerved to avoid a squirrel. His truck ran into a tree, but the tree didn’t budge. The tree was stronger than ... Views: 1234
Dating chat rooms are web-based dating place for people to find friends or even life-partners and even communicate with other individuals. They are a great way to meet other single people who are interested in getting together and allow you to consider people for a long-term relationship. Dating ... Views: 1489
Kidney stones are made of salts and minerals in the urine that stick together to form small "pebbles." They are usually painless while they remain in the kidney, but they can cause severe pain as they break loose and travel through narrow tubes (ureters) to exit the body during urination. The ... Views: 771
Fasting demands the fat cells be used as fuel. As soon as the body needs calories the process or catabolism (tearing down) starts. Each pound of fat has approximately 3,500 calories, which becomes fuel for the body. As each day passes, you get thinner and thinner. Excess fat is nothing more than ... Views: 622
For unknown reasons, the number of people in the United States with kidney stones has been increasing over the past 30 years. In the late 1970s, less than 4 percent of the population had stone-forming disease. By the early 1990s, the portion of the population with the disease had increased to ... Views: 749
Kidney stones are solid accumulations of material that form in the tubal system of the kidney. Kidney stones cause problems when they block the flow of urine through or out of the kidney. When the stones move along the ureter, they cause severe pain.
Kidney stones probably aren’t caused ... Views: 1341
The brain is the body’s most complex organ, so it’s no overstatement that treatment for brain tumors requires the latest technology skillfully used by a highly experienced medical team. Brain tumors typically are categorized as either primary or secondary. Primary brain tumors ... Views: 1306
There are many terms that are used in the Internet marketing world. Some are confusing, and some are simple. Some are simple but made to sound confusing. Name squeeze page how to information is a relatively new term, but it’s a technique that has been around for quite some time. Name squeeze ... Views: 1401
Here is a simple business anyone with a van or SUV can perform: haul stuff for other people who don't have a way to do it themselves.
You could move lawn mowers, bags of garden soil, playground equipment, Christmas trees, musical instruments, furniture, big dogs from the groomers-you get the ... Views: 1309
Terminology / Acronyms
ABC figures: This is the independently audited sales figure for all recognized publications in the UK. By using the ABC figure, you can quickly establish how much the advertising will cost per 1,000 readers.
Account Managers: These are sales people who have great skills ... Views: 816
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), also known as winter depression or winter blues, is a subtype of mood disorder consisting of recurrent major depressive episodes of varying severity, which occur with a seasonal pattern. The most common type of SAD is winter depression with symptoms beginning ... Views: 832
The SAD season is upon us again - depression (sometimes to the point of mania), lethargy, fatigue, cravings for sweets and carbohydrate in general, headaches, sleep problems and irritability – sounds familiar doesn’t it? As daylight hours gradually decrease, these symptoms become apparent and ... Views: 996
Psoriasis is a common chronic, relapsing, non-contagious skin disorder characterised by red patchy lesions, with grey or silvery-white, dry scales, which are frequently painful, itchy and may bleed. Lesions are typically distributed symmetrically on the scalp, elbows, knees and essentially any ... Views: 1502
The Dead Sea is the lowest inhabited place on earth (about 400 m below sea level). Lying in the southern part of Israel, and part of the Great Rift Valley which extends from Western Syria to the East African Lakes, it is the most saline lake (with salinity reaching 290g/L compared to that of the ... Views: 1106
Derived from the Latin word balneum meaning bath, balneotherapy (sometimes referred to as water therapy or spa therapy) involves the immersion of patients in thermal or mineral waters for the treatment of various illnesses (psoriasis being one of the major illnesses). This form of therapy goes ... Views: 1483
Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin produced by the human skin in response to exposure to ultraviolet radiation from natural sunlight and can be found in food. It exists in several forms and each form has a different level of activity. The most active form of vitamin D is Calciferol. It exists in ... Views: 1413
Before you even think about online dating, you must know about dating scams.
This is serious: if you get too deeply involved, a dating scam can significantly hurt not only your heart, but your finances, too.
Make sure you know how to protect yourself from fraud when using dating sites! ... Views: 1073
One of our favorite spiritual teachers, Abraham-Hicks, is fond of saying that genius is nothing more than continued attention to the same topic. In other words, anyone can be a genius at anything given the right focused attention over a long enough period of time.
Now, at the beginning of the ... Views: 526
This magic tip is so simple you're going to say, "Duh!" after you've read it. In fact, it's so simple that you might even be tempted to think it won't work. But don't be fooled … most magic follows the principle of Occam's Razor, where the simplest solution often turns out to be the best ... Views: 566
“Where is the G spot exactly?” You often hear this question asked and because not everyone is successful in explaining how to locate it and use it to bring about a G spot orgasm, the G spot is almost reaching ‘mythical’ proportions. But make no mistake about it, it does ... Views: 1137
The various Home Improvement Centers show sites for do-it-yourself jobs. They give tips covering all aspects of residential home repair, remodeling, home improvement and renovation projects of the house. The sites generally give you advice and tips on how to maintain your home, so that its value ... Views: 1362
Why did you start your own network marketing internet business?
Most people immediately respond, “for the money!” However, this
is not the real reason.
No one subjects them to the hard work of building a business
just for little pieces of paper with the faces of dead
presidents. The truth ... Views: 678
A point of sale (POS) system can have a dramatic impact on the way you run your business -- and on your bottom line. Choosing the right one requires careful planning.
Here are some of the things you need to think through to make a good decision when selecting POS equipment and systems for your ... Views: 717
A traditional success program is any product, program or system designed to show you "how to do something." As we've already seen, this is a good idea – after all, if you want to do something, like drive a car, tie your shoes, or make a million dollars, it makes sense to learn "how" to do ... Views: 1076