Are you in an LDR (long distance relationship) or at least open to being in one? Do you and your sweetheart live too far apart to spend time in each other's presence whenever you desire?
If so, then know that it will require creativity and commitment to sustain and deepen such a relationship. ... Views: 4911
Getting your business processes online is not an easy job! According to Gartner Group, a renowned research firm, a full 75 percent of all e-business projects fail due to poor planning and unrealistic expectations of new technology. The productivity gains and cost savings promised by e-business ... Views: 1301
Whether you are a newbie to Internet or a proud owner of
a website, affiliate programs are great opportunities for
you to make money online. It is an interesting concept
that allows affiliates to develop a source of income and
the program owners to sell their products more effectively.
As ... Views: 858
In this holiday season online shopping is hotter than ever!
According to US Commerce Department online sales continue to
grow with a robust 25-27 percent this year over 1992. Online
holiday shopping at a rate of 10 percent is also considerably
outpacing the 5.7 percent growth of overall ... Views: 915
Increase Company Productivity
After years of hard work, finally your business started to pick
up. You are selling more products then ever! You have lined up a
good number of suppliers and buyers. Things have never been better
than now. Except one thing! With rising sales your overhead and ... Views: 938
Were you once a successful, professional woman who had a significant status level and received adequate remuneration for your work?
Have you re-located to a new country where the educational degree you worked so hard to achieve is neither recognized nor considered valid?
As a result, have ... Views: 1206
I registered with a B2B site but what’s next?
This is a question many first time users of B2Bmarketplaces ask themselves. A few expect that the registration itself will bring them a number of new customers. In some cases this might by true! Especially, if you are a seller of some much coveted ... Views: 1220
"Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art." - Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616) Spanish novelist.
Growing up I often heard my best friend's father Nick say, "Show me who your friends are and I'll tell you what you are!"
Well, that was usually followed by a long ... Views: 1039
How many of us are guilty of “Putting the cart before the horse?”
Much is written on HOW to manage your time (the load in the cart) while little mentions the first step (the horse that pulls the load) of time management, asking WHY before we do the HOW.
Millions of people have read Napoleon ... Views: 1093
Priorities: Don't Dry Your Dishes
By David Leonhardt
Do your dishes really need to be dried, or could you just let the water evaporate? If you spend just 5 minutes per meal drying dishes, that equals a quarter of an hour per day, or 91 hours each year.
Imagine spending almost four days in a ... Views: 1367
Longing To Be Heard
A Formula For Successful Communication
The essence of personal happiness lies in the experience of being heard, understood and accepted. Very few of us are ever listened to in the purest sense of “being heard”. Our lives become a struggle. Human beings have a deep-seated ... Views: 821
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Book Excerpt: Reversing Osteopenia - by Harris H. McIlwain, M.D., and Debra Fulghum Bruce, Ph.D., with Laura McIlwain Cruse, M.D., and Kimberly Lynn McIlwain, M.D.
12 Signs Your Bones Need Attention
The best way to approach your personal risk of osteopenia is to get a piece of paper and write down any of the following 12 signs (risk factors) that mean your bones might need attention. After you've made your personal risk factor list, check off those that ... Views: 2960
Getting your business processes online is not an easy job! According to Gartner Group, a renowned research firm, a full 75 percent of all e-business projects fail due to poor planning and unrealistic expectations of new technology. The productivity gains and cost savings promised by e-business ... Views: 1302
I stumbled into the eBook writing business when I self-published Powerfully Recovered! and an eBook came with the package. Much to my surprise, the eBook makes up about 20% of my sales and seems to lead maybe 3% of the eBook buyers into buying the hard cover version.
But I really didn't expect ... Views: 953
Bringing the Lessons Home
Play is a central component in children's mental growth. Play helps children make meaning in their world, it helps them learn about themselves, and equally crucially, it helps them to learn how to get along with others. Yet it can be difficult to resist the trends of ... Views: 7422
EXPLANATIONS? . . . OR EXCUSES?
Which of the following "explanations" have you heard (or used!) in the past few weeks?
* I need to reward myself for being so good.
* The boss hates me.
* It's been too hot (too cold, too rainy) to exercise
* Of course I have problems. I'm a middle ... Views: 2447
What are the lies we believe?
They are usually hidden and because they are hidden, they are unseen enemies that flourish unchecked.
They come from early experiences we have had and have been formed as a way to protect us from hurt. And they lie just under the radar of our awareness. So they ... Views: 2405
What are the lies we believe?
They are usually hidden and because they are hidden, they are unseen enemies that flourish unchecked.
They come from early experiences we have had and have been formed as a way to protect us from hurt. And they lie just under the radar of our awareness. So they ... Views: 2405
When making a divorce decision, there are quite a few things that you should consider. Too often people find themselves unable to clearly identify what they need to think about when making a divorce decision which leads to further indecision and frustration. When making a serious divorce ... Views: 22851
Union City, California (BUZZFON) July 8, 2004 – A small but emerging Filipino VoIP company, Bonusfon, answers to the clamor of the market today by launching, BuzzfonP2P, a free, compact and convenient soft phone that allow users makes clear pc to pc calls possible without the choppiness, echoes ... Views: 1273
What are you going to do for someone else today?
Do you remember how it feels when a complete stranger does something nice FOR YOU? It might be something simple like holding a door open, or letting you out of a side road into the heavy traffic in front of them.
Have you ever been in a ... Views: 1042
I remember a friend in college who would blush, sweat, and tremble when required by a teacher to speak in class. A few weeks before the presentation, he’d be anxious, agitated, and couldn’t sleep. Because I was still a student then, I didn’t have any clue what he was going through. But I knew ... Views: 1633
I remember a friend in college who would blush, sweat, and tremble when required by a teacher to speak in class. A few weeks before the presentation, he’d be anxious, agitated, and couldn’t sleep. Because I was still a student then, I didn’t have any clue what he was going through. But I knew ... Views: 1633
I remember a friend in college who would blush, sweat, and tremble when required by a teacher to speak in class. A few weeks before the presentation, he’d be anxious, agitated, and couldn’t sleep. Because I was still a student then, I didn’t have any clue what he was going through. But I knew ... Views: 1633
Scene: the Head Office. The Vulcan and the Engineer sit at small desks. The Canter and the Shudoff sit properly erect in straight-backed chairs. Others lounge in comfortable chairs.
Vulcan: We were mulling about self-growth.
Engineer: We found some parts of the head that might help people ... Views: 982
Our bodies have great healing wisdom but do we listen?
There was a great true story I read where a lady who had breast cancer and the doctors gave her 6 months to live. They said they could do nothing for her and sent her away to die. She as a last resort went to see an intuitive healer the ... Views: 1262
Your job as an event planner doesn’t stop with the meeting in the company boardroom. You may be call upon to organize an employee appreciation event, an awards dinner, a product launch, the celebration of a company milestone, a gala recognizing a longtime employee’s retirement, an incentive ... Views: 2294
How did Hotmail gain over 12 million subscribers in 18 months? How did the very low budget movie “The Blair Witch Project” become such an incredibly successful phenomenon? The answer lies in the power of “buzz.”
Buzz or word-of-mouth marketing influences more people to buy, or not to buy ... Views: 1070
“Expectation sends an exciting message to our neural system. While it lasts we are alert and most likely to be rewarded.” --Max Gunther, The Luck Factor
Ever feel like you’re banging your head against a wall trying to figure out the game of life and how to play it?
An ancient Sufi story ... Views: 6838
"You are here to find your true place in life, and to give of your talents to the world. You are here to expand and unfold in a wonderful way, according to your God-given potential, and to bring forth spiritual, mental and material riches that will bless humanity in many ways. Learn how to ... Views: 984
The attitude one has when paying for services rendered is a subject that few people acknowledge or even consider, yet the impact on the recipient goes far beyond simply writing a check or depositing money into someone's account.
I recently had the good fortune of working with a client who ... Views: 1216
Hack, hack, cough, gasp, wheeze, snort… where’s the tissue? Wheeze, snork, gasp…
I really hate to be the bearer of sad tidings however, guess what season is just around the corner? Correctamundo! ‘Tis almost that time of year to welcome our frequent visitors, Carol Cold and Freddy Flu. ... Views: 1364
Have you ever encountered an experience when someone told you how fat you've become? Maybe your boss have commented on how bad your work turned out to be. Maybe you've heard from other folks how people view you as cold and unapproachable.
Hurts, doesn't it?
Believe it or not, some people ... Views: 1720
You’re not alone. Most people are uncomfortable walking into a roomful of strangers. But networking at business events can help you grow your business, as well as allow you to do hands-on marketing research. Learning to mingle and to follow-up with business networking contacts is crucial to ... Views: 1042
"Companies are increasingly falling into two categories - those that are innovative and those who go out of business" Dan Branda
CEO HP Canada
A company should never be satisfied with its products and services. You must always be innovating. Hewlett Packard began with $500 in cash and ... Views: 1880
Surveying the havoc wreaked on a Florida island by Hurricane Frances, a landscapist assessed the damage and began to start restoring the foliage on this island paradise for her clients. She also used the opportunity to note what plants do well in a hurricane and what plants don’t.
Her ... Views: 970
Humour at workplace - A Quest
Madan Mohan Tripathy
It happened about 30 years back when I was a school going kid. On a visit to my maternal uncle, an agriculturist, in a remote village, during winter, I became interested to get a firsthand experience of rice harvesting. I accompanied his ... Views: 2052
If you are like most service professionals and smallbusiness owners one of your primary concerns is generatingas many leads as possible. And that may be your biggestmistake, resulting in wasting time on unqualified prospectsand working with too many clients you wish you didn't haveto.
Bill is a ... Views: 1328
Men are such wonderful creatures and most of the time everyone underappreciates them. Personally, I love men and everything about them. Since my whole theory of relationship is based upon the fact that men and women are different, it seemed time to elaborate on who men are and how did they get ... Views: 5500
This week I want to talk about guys who are "Sports Potatoes." I know you're thinking, "What in the hell is a Sports Potato?"
Let me explain. I'm sure that you have heard of a "Couch Potato," which is a person that spends most of his time sitting on the couch watching TV. Well, a "Sports ... Views: 1671
There was once a church that decided to bring their absentee members back into the fold. The preacher went to see one member for that purpose. His visit took him so far out in the country that you’d have to walk five miles back toward town just to start picking up firewood.
When he finally ... Views: 2505
The gallbladder is a small pear-shaped organ that sits on the right side of our bodies just beneath the liver. Its primary function is to store and secrete bile. Bile is a yellow-brown fluid produced by the liver, which helps us digest fats. Our liver produces up to three cups of bile a day. ... Views: 6690
The Meaning of Life
Some people believe that I'm always a positive thinker. Well, I have "not-so-positive" thoughts just like anybody else. For example, on the date of the DECIDE anniversary show (an inspirational urban musical), I started having disempowering thoughts. I found out that we ... Views: 1177
Everyone wants to be rich. A lot of people want to besuccessful. Yet, only a few people are willing to pay theprice. There is a price to success as there is a price tofailure. Here are 5 reasons that keep people fromaccomplishing their dreams.
A lack of motivation.
Success comes from loving ... Views: 1306
The following is an excerpt of our free e-book:
EVERY (Sun) SIGN NEEDS A HOME — GEMINI IMAGINES A HOME, OR TWO
KARMA volunteers: “GEMINI needs a home in the city with a good variety of things to do and see — things that only take a short time to get to.”
KEISHIN chimes in: “GEMINI prefers a ... Views: 1495
To paraphrase a saying my mother liked to use occasionally, “The whole world is goofy – except you and me. And sometimes I’m not too sure about you!”
Rest assured that no matter who we are or what we do, there is at least a handful of people somewhere in this world who are convinced that ... Views: 1326
Beware of Incompetent Tai Chi Chuan Teachers!
Exercise Classes Such as T'ai-Chi Ch'uan Should be Taught by Competent Teachers.
By Harvey Kurland, MSc, MFS, CSCS, Certified T'ai Chi Ch'uan Chief Instructor CTCCA
T'ai-Chi Ch'uan Chief Instructor for University of California ... Views: 3665
The answers to so many of the problems that surround us in society are as close to you as your local Scientology Volunteer Minister, who has been called upon time and again to bring effective help and practical solutions to their fellow man, whether it be for a national crisis or a personal ... Views: 1637
I was reading "A Modern Infant Armada", a humor column in Maclean's Magazine written by a fellow humor columnist. Writing about it now is a bit like a painter painting another painter or a singer singing about another singer (but it not like a cook cooking another cook.).
David Russell (yes, ... Views: 1510
A few months ago, I set out to lose 22.6 pounds, then to put back on at least half of it.
Huh? Anybody who's ever found herself stuck on a yo-yo diet is probably thinking that I am either crazy or planning way too hard for the inevitable yo-yo heartaches. However, my plan is more sneaky than ... Views: 2487
Suddenly your site's traffic multiplies.
You get "Money Waiting" emails from your
Payment Processor; more sales than you
can handle. Your downline increases radically
- potential entrepreneurs join your sales force.
Your leads-list inflates ... Views: 1159