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- The World of Work - by Submitted on Nov 21, 2008 from FSB AuthorsThe world of business and employment can be a cutthroat one, which is why it helps to be ahead of the game and gain an advantage over competitors whether individuals or entire companies. Business Internet Domain Names As with all aspects of selling yourself, choosing a name for your website is ...
Views: 884 - There Are Times When You Should Move On - by Submitted on Mar 18, 2009 from FSB AuthorsSometimes we have to be patient and sometimes we have to get moving. Wisdom is knowing which time is which and when to do what. I know, easier said than done. But we all know when we've exhausted certain possibilities -- and quite possibly ourselves -- in the course of finding out. Wouldn't it ...
Views: 921 - This Land is Their Land - by Submitted on Mar 29, 2009 from FSB AuthorsMy fourteen-year-old son and his friends travel the streets of the city like Oliver Twist and the Artful Dodger and co. -- not ripping off people's wallets and purses, but just hanging out in an excitable, ragged crowd, thrilled to be together and thrilled to be wandering, and certainly in no ...
Views: 1045 - Tips for Healthier Eating for Stuck-in-Their-Ways Adults - by Submitted on Mar 17, 2009 from FSB AuthorsAre you stuck in a food rut and having a hard time changing to healthier eating habits? If you want to make lasting changes to the way you eat, you need a plan. Follow these steps for changing an unhealthy behavior into a healthy one: 1. List your behaviors that you think are unhealthy. For ...
Views: 1024 - Tips for Helping Children Eat Healthy - by Submitted on Mar 16, 2009 from FSB AuthorsHelping kids eat a healthy diet doesn't have to be difficult. Here are 12 tips: 1. Make it fun. Serve broccoli and other veggies with a favorite fat-free dip or sauce. Cut foods into various shapes with cookie cutters. 2. Recruit your child's help. At the grocery store, ask your child to help ...
Views: 1146 - Top 10 List of Tips for Making Your Ideas Stick - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2009 from FSB AuthorsTip 1: Break expectations. Your audience will walk in with certain assumptions about your message. If you believe those assumptions are mistaken, you've got to confront them directly. Effective teachers do this well. Imagine an eight-grade science class: "The earth feels pretty solid, ...
Views: 972 - Traits Of The Perfect Salesforce - by Submitted on Dec 06, 2007 from FSB AuthorsWant to hire a top producing salesperson for your company? Sure, everyone does. In all my management and consulting years I’ve never been mandated to hire average salespeople. But hiring top producing salespeople on a regular basis—those individuals who consistently sell at least four times ...
Views: 1045 - True Stories of False Memories - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2007 from FSB AuthorsBy Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson, authors of Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) False memories allow us to forgive ourselves and justify our mistakes, but sometimes at a high price: an inability to take responsibility for our lives. An appreciation of the distortions of memory, a realization ...
Views: 1201 - Tuesday, September 13, 2005 (Wife In The North Excerpt) - by Submitted on Sep 27, 2008 from FSB AuthorsAbsent with Leave My husband left for London for two weeks. Let me see, how long have we lived here. Oh yes, three weeks. How pregnant am I? Seven months. How many children do I have? Two and a bit. Do I want to be here? No. Excellent. He has a deadline, he always seems to have a deadline. He ...
Views: 776 - Turn Selling Around - by Submitted on Nov 29, 2007 from FSB AuthorsThe heart of the new approach to selling is an intense focus on the prosperity of your customers. This is a radical departure from what most salespeople and selling organizations do. The entire psychological orientation is shifted 180 degrees. No longer do you measure your own success first. ...
Views: 654 - Tweet Etiquette - by Submitted on Mar 02, 2009 from FSB AuthorsEvery conversation has rules. We know not to interrupt someone when they're talking. We know not to use bad language when we talk. We know not to talk too loudly. And we know too how and when to break all of the rules. Exactly the same is true for a Twitter conversation. The site hasn't been ...
Views: 1250 - Understand Why - by Submitted on Oct 21, 2008 from FSB AuthorsMany years ago my great grandfather told me of the persecution he experienced in Russia which led him to come to this country. He said the Cossacks would pursue him at night, when he was out teaching, and slash him with their sabers. One night he was on the hill above his village with his rabbi, ...
Views: 972 - Unsticking an Idea - by Submitted on Mar 25, 2009 from FSB AuthorsSince Made to Stick came out, many anxious people have asked us, "How do I unstick a sticky idea?" They want to unstick a rumor about their company or a false perception of a particular product. They want to unstick whispered mistruths about political candidates. Once, we were even asked, "How ...
Views: 967 - Walk The Talk - by Submitted on Nov 12, 2007 from FSB AuthorsPractice 9: Be Authentic and Transparent Today's Customers have good reason to be skeptical. The marketplace is filled with products that don't work; businesses flood media with campaigns to improve their image without the good business practices to back them up; and politicians and governments ...
Views: 659 - Wall Street Won't Tell You It's a Bear Market - by Submitted on May 12, 2008 from FSB AuthorsWe are in a bear market, but Wall Street will never admit it. It is so emphatic in a bull market, but loath to address bad times. I know the market is only off 10-15% from its October 2007 peak, but just wait. I spent 32 years as a securities analyst on Wall Street, and unlike the current ...
Views: 1040 - What Do Your Children Need To Know To Succeed in Today's World? And What Can You Do to Help Them At School And At Home? - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2008 from FSB AuthorsThe world is changing at an extraordinary pace. Twenty-five years ago, most young people who mastered the "3 r's" of reading, writing, and arithmetic and had a high school diploma were likely to be able to get and keep a decent job. Not so today. In research for my new book, I've come to ...
Views: 786 - What If We Took Care Of Our Backs Like We Do Our Teeth? - by Submitted on Apr 07, 2008 from FSB AuthorsThe dentists got it right -- an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Dentists don’t sit back and wait until a patient needs a root canal before they take action. Instead, they continually monitor, preventatively treat, and educate their patients on ways to take care of their teeth. ...
Views: 509 - What is This Pain? - by Submitted on Apr 26, 2009 from FSB AuthorsIt starts as tightness in the upper solar plexus. Then it starts to droop like the top of an ice cream cone on a hundred-degree day, eventually melting over everything to form a vague coating of ambivalence. Sometimes it matures into hopelessness and, for some, even depression. The "it" is the ...
Views: 914 - What Makes A M.I.L.F.? - by Submitted on Oct 01, 2008 from FSB AuthorsThere's a term that young, single guys use for sexy moms: M.I.L.F. It's an acronym for Mother I'd Like to #$%@. Don't be insulted; it's the highest compliment a stupid man can pay you. (And don't be frightened. It's always muttered behind your back. No man would ever be so bold as to tell ...
Views: 1570 - When Church Autonomy Is Tyranny - by Submitted on May 08, 2008 from FSB AuthorsIgnorance is the enemy of liberty. That truth has never been so forcefully made as it has been with the rescue of the hundreds of children from the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints compound in Eldorado, Texas. As the clergy abuse crisis within the Roman Catholic Church has proved, Americans are ...
Views: 896 - When the Wheels Come Off - by Submitted on Apr 08, 2009 from FSB AuthorsI grew up in the 70's and 80's when parents still told their kids to go outside and play. My friends and I would spend all day in the yard and when we got hot and sweaty enough we'd run to the back patio, open the water spigot on the side of the house and get down on our hands and knees so we ...
Views: 814 - When What You Want Is Stalking You - by Submitted on Dec 06, 2007 from FSB AuthorsWhen What You Want Is Stalking You You know that advice people give then you're dying to buy something, "Go home, and if you're still thinking about it in a few days, go back to the store and revisit it." Frequently one you get home you realize you don't really want the item over which you ...
Views: 696 - Why Do You Feel Fat After Losing Weight? -- Book Excerpt - by Submitted on Oct 16, 2007 from FSB AuthorsWhy do you still feel fat after losing weight? Why is yo-yo dieting so prevalent? Are anorexics really being honest in their heart of hearts when they gaze in a mirror at their scrawny, starving bodies and insist they are grossly fat? You've heard all the standard-issue answers to these ...
Views: 2253 - Why Mnemonics Are So Effective - by Submitted on Dec 05, 2008 from FSB AuthorsWhere would we be without mnemonics? We use them all the time, probably without realizing. Doctors and dentists invent funny phrases for vital workings of the body. Taxi drivers have signposts all over town to remind them how to get from A to B. Actors learn their lines with the rhymes and ...
Views: 3176 - Why Small Businesses Should Care - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2009 from FSB AuthorsWhat about small businesses? Can they sit this one out? In a word, no. Here are six reasons why: 1. Laws that once applied only to big business are encroaching on smaller enterprises. Even bakeries and gas stations must now comply with clean air regulations. 2. Small companies often have an ...
Views: 660 - Why They Talked, and What They Want - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2008 from FSB AuthorsA great gulf exists between American military and civilian societies. But paradoxically, it can be hard to tell young veterans of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from their peers who haven't served. As I wrote a book about West Point recently, I would visit with vets who had left the Army and ...
Views: 678 - Women: How To Stop Starving Yourself Of Success - by Submitted on Nov 07, 2008 from FSB AuthorsWhen we talk about starvation, or eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia, we’re normally referring to behavior relating to food. For example, when someone is said to have the condition called anorexia, we are typically describing a behavior pattern marked by an aversion to or pushing ...
Views: 771 - World History - by Submitted on Nov 18, 2008 from FSB AuthorsThe Greek Philosophers The names of the three most important Greek philosophers, in order of their dates of birth and also their influence, are: Socrates (469-399 BC) Plato (c. 429-c. 347 BC) Aristotle (384-322 BC) Socrates taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle. Together they created the ...
Views: 1213 - You've Got Males - by Submitted on Mar 29, 2009 from FSB AuthorsThe mother of boys can't help but think, once in a while, of those female characters in children's literature who find themselves in all-male households: Snow White, looming large over the irrepressible dwarfs, or Wendy Darling, placed in a freakishly early state of pseudo-motherhood. I was ...
Views: 1068 - Your Divorce: It’s About Time! (And Children) (And Money) - by Submitted on Mar 25, 2008 from FSB AuthorsTo have a better divorce, you need to take some time to read, think about and act on the advice in my book, Make Any Divorce Better, and the specific steps you can take. No matter what your situation, if you follow my advice, things will soon get better. As a family law attorney for over 35 ...
Views: 739 - Your Sexy Self - by Submitted on Oct 06, 2008 from FSB AuthorsHere are a few tips for dealing with your post-pregnancy body and keeping the spark alive: • Review your expectations. If you were under the impression that you'd slip right back into your hippest pair of jeans right after the baby was born, you may need to accept that for most women, ...
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