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Teasing, as either a teaser or target is a universal experience that all persons participate in, or are exposed to at some level. The childhood rhyme says “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never harm me”. This is probably one of the biggest lies we try to convince ourselves, and our children.
No matter how much you love your work, your play activities, your friends, family and even pets, you need to take a break from them. There’s a behavior researched by psychologists called “habituation”. Essentially it means that with repeated exposure to any stimuli, you “learn”,whether consciously or unconsciously, to ignore it. In life, that can result as boredom, procrastination and even cessation of the behavior. To bring passion back into your life, to make your life more interesting, your work more productive, you need a break. Change is good! Relationships need a breakr
How Do You React to Stress?
Can your thoughts, either positive or negative affect your health? It may sound like science fiction, but there is plenty of scientific evidence that shows this to be true.
Do you know the symptoms of work burnout? If you are having new aches and pains or sleep disturbances, have you considered that your job may be the cause of this stress? You may have your own business, or work for a company, corporation or non-profit, or even do volunteer work. It doesn't matter. If you are the type of person who is not satisfied until the job is done properly to YOUR high standards in your time frame, you may be putting yourself in jeopardy of burnout.
Mind/Body Medicine, the relationship between what you think (and feel) and how your body reacts is an accepted concept nowadays even with most traditional doctors. When you see your doctor with high blood pressure, besides a pill, they will tell you to “de-stress”. But although many doctors see the relationship in other areas of medicine, it’s primarily ignored by doctors who tell you, "to lose weight all you have to do is eat less and exercise more".
Trying to lose weight during the holidays can be very stressful and difficult at best! Christmas and Winter Holidays are the season of over-eating, over-indulging and generalized gluttony! And we have that built-in excuse to over-eat: It's the holiday! However, there's a payback in the form of weight gain, discomfort and disappointment with yourself for over eating, yet again. Why do you have to eat PAST your comfort level? Sure the food is good, but is it BETTER when you eat copious amounts of it? Is too much better than enough?
Negative self talk is destructive of our self-esteem, confidence, and potentially harmful to your health. Imagine having a friend who constantly criticized you. “You look terrible”, “why did you say that?” “They probably will hate you”, “You know you can’t do that! No one is able to accomplish that, why would you think you can?”
RECHARGING YOUR BATTERIES Entrepreneurs often choose to work at their own business because of the freedom to determine when and how hard they are going to work. Most solo entrepreneurs who make the decision to go into business, get to the point where they realize that the only “security” in work is in their own ability to make money with their skills and confidence!
Are You in Danger of Burnout? If you are a business owner or an employee, the holidays can be overly busy times. You feel the responsibility to your customers and clients. Added personal responsibilities for extra time needed to get gifts, attend social events can make you feel like you are burning the candle at both ends. Where is the time going to come from? This added pressure can bring you to the point of burnout.r
Millions of people have been trying to use the Law Of Attraction. Many have tried to use the Law Of Attraction to lose weight. But many people complain it hasn’t worked for them. Many people don’t understand that the Law Of Attraction is always working, and that it is actually the science of how your brain works! The things your mind focuses on are the things you see. Believing is seeing – NOT the other way around!
Busy, Busy... Are you a Type A Entrepreneur feeling overwhelmed? If someone asks you how you are, do you answer: Busy! It's the word many of us use to describe our lives. It's almost a boast disguised as a complaint.
Parents want to help and protect their child, but sometimes the best help is by allowing them to learn from their mistakes. Helping your child to understand that there are natural consequences to their choices is a way to prepare them for the future. Asking them how they will handle the situation, is a wonderful way to show them that you trust them to learn from their mistake.
We all make mistakes. If you plan to be successful in business, you are going to have to stretch and try different approaches to the old business paradigm. Some people are so afraid of making a mistake they limit the things they will try because of fear. I believe mistakes are good things IF you pay attention and learn from them. So here’s my story.
Do you secretly hate your work? Are you in a job where you are unfulfilled, or even worse? Are you working your precious time and life away wondering: Is this all there is? Are you in a position where you are making good, or a lot of money, but you realize that the money doesn’t bring you the happiness you thought you’d feel? In some ways, it’s even harder to leave a well-paid job when you don’t know how you are going to make as much money in a new job as you will need to pay the bills!
As an entrepreneur, you are meeting with the public, and always making an impression upon others. The most immediate way, and the strongest impact is through the way you communicate. For entrepreneurs, it is important to give an impression of intelligence, competence, warmth and self-confidence. That combination makes you the kind of person potential clients will want to know, like and trust!
Many people feel great optimism when they start a diet. “This time, it’s going to work”, you may believe. And you are motivated, and excited as you feel the weight leaving. Many people are able to lose weight, especially if you haven’t dieted before. But after a while, the weight loss slows, or even stops. If you are getting on a scale (not something I encourage), watching it as it stops moving gets you really frustrated.
Losing weight is the hardest work you may ever do in your life. That’s why 95 – 98% of all diet plans fail. (Including Jenny Craig, Lap-band surgery, diet pills, exercise and whatever other plan you think is the “best”!)
Anxiety attacks, also known as panic attacks and panic disorder are different from "normal" stress. Stress and stressful events seem to happen to some people more than others. If you are a calm person, or someone who has learned to manage stress, life is easier for you. But sometimes an event happens in your life that frightens you. Nature designed your body to protect you from danger and is equipped with an automatic response to aid in your survival. You have undoubtedly heard about the common response to fright as being “fight or flight”.
Dieting to lose weight can be the most frustrating thing a person can do. 95-98% of all dieters fail to either lose weight, or to keep it off! Diets don’t work, and doctors who insist the only way to lose weight is to eat less and exercise more, are actually giving their patients WRONG and CONTRADITORY information.
Trying to lose weight is stressful! It’s stressful that you got overweight. Stress actually had most of the effect (not the food) of getting you overweight in the first place. Dieting and starving yourself to lose weight is stressful. And, over-exercise, and certain types of commonly done exercise to get the weight off, can also be one of the contributing factors to stress. Add to the fact that most people want to lose weight fast and get back to their “normal” life, losing weight fast is very stressful to your body.
For many people, losing weight isn’t a big problem. They simply cut out all the “fattening” foods that they are eating and drinking. Unfortunately, those are probably the foods that you love the most. But a frustrating thing happens to 95% of all people who diet. They gain the weight back, PLUS additional punishment pounds within a few months to a couple of years! Yes, all that deprivation, working out, starvation, only to gain the weight back. The worst part is, you actually gain back additional weight over where you started.
Have you ever noticed, that no matter what holiday it is, there’s food associated with the celebration? Even for religious holidays where you “fast” there’s an ending of the fast meal that become part of the celebration. It's finally becoming apparent that dieting doesn't work. Sooner, rather than later, the weight you lost is regained. 95% of all dieters regain their hard fought lost weight within a couple of month to two years. And, unfortunately, most people still blame themselves for getting overweight in the first place, and secondly for failing at dieting.
Entrepreneurs often choose to work at their own business because of the freedom to determine when and how hard they are going to work. Most solo entrepreneurs who make the decision to go into business, get to the point where they realize that the only “security” in work is in their own ability to make money with their skills and confidence!
Losing weight is one problem, but keeping yourself from regaining the weight you lost, is yet another, but related problem. And they are actually completely related!