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  Lesson from Life, Remote Control and Mistakes!

So many times I have seen people self destruct and I am guilty of being one myself in the past too. I drank, smoke, slept late and never gave my body adequate rest. I never cared about my body because I felt that I was young, strong and nothing bad will happen to my body but I was wrong and it was a big mistake. I got a huge lesson from life. Life wanted to teach me a lesson. It wanted to teach a strong young man to take charge of his own life or else others will, and this time round, life wanted to take charge and be my teacher. I started to live more consciously and chose to live a healthier lifestyle by exercising regularly and picking carefully the food I ate. I am putting in more effort in taking care of my body because I know what are the consequences of not doing it and I want my body to last to a ripe old age. Are you watching over your lifestyle and taking care of your body? What are the things you are doing wrong now and how are you going to change it? How about the things you are doing right now?

Sometimes willpower is a lot like the television remote control, hard to find just when you want it most. Whether you’re trying to lose weight, stop smoking, get to the gym regularly, win a promotion or pay off some debts, developing your sense of willpower is an important part of changing any behavior. We all know that breaking a bad habit or establishing a new, healthy one can be difficult, but persistence pays off. Researchers at the University of Washington found that 63 percent of those who made New Year’s resolutions were still keeping their resolution two months later. It’s not going to be easy, but there are ways to increase your willpower, stay resolved and achieve your goals. Establish one clear, specific goal and formulate a realistic strategy for achieving it. Extra willpower sometimes requires extra energy, so don’t stretch yourself too thin.

Risk is important in child development. Allowing children to test their limits in unstructured play. Develop their imagination, dexterity, and physical, cognitive, and emotional strength. The harmful effects of our national safety obsession ripple outward into society. One in six children in America is obese, and many of them will face a lifetime of chronic illness. According to the Center for Disease Control, this problem would basically cure itself if children engaged in the informal outdoor activities that used to be normal. Overprotecting kids, giving them too much stuff and making too many decisions for kids gives them the Ph.D. they don’t need: P (passive), H (helpless) and D (dependent). Helicopter parents are well meaning but systematically deny their kids the opportunity to make mistakes, get hurt (small injuries), learn from mistakes, become savvy and build real self-esteem, the kind that can only come from attacking life’s challenges without mommy and daddy making every decision for them.

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  Keynesian Reflexes, Sun and Strawberries!

This is not a one time thing but current events are forcing us to consider what role government has in markets and businesses. Accounting regulations are similarly damaging American businesses without providing the clarity that is necessary to understand the financial conditions of the companies in question. It will be very difficult for the new Congress and the new administration to avoid simply throwing more money at the problems but given the magnitude of the crisis we have just experienced I would hope that more of the same and outdated Keynesian reflexes about building roads and bridges would be put aside to deal with the more substantive issues.

2008 is the age where even the smallest individual can change the course of the future. Epoch shaking change comes now. Not in the year 2012, when it is said the Mayan Calendar of the Ancient Mesoamerican time keepers ends its 63 million year long count. Wait and you will be looking late. The death and rebirth of ages begins right now. There are many great prophetic time clocks. Chief among them is one far older than the Mayan Calendar. It starts its count with the annual Vernal Equinox, the moment believed by most ancient people to be the true moment of New Year's birth with the blossoming of spring. Every new year begins with the Sun moving from one Vernal Equinox to the next ending the year in a new position slightly farther west in the sky. Each year dies and is reborn on a new westward position along the ecliptic compared to the fixed stars on the celestial sphere--where the twelve constellations of the Zodiac reside.

Coal will not be used for heating or cooking. It will be scarce, but not entirely exhausted. The earth’s hard coal will last until the year 2050 or 2100; its soft-coal mines until 2200 or 2300. Meanwhile both kinds of coal will have become more and more expensive. Man will have found electricity manufactured by waterpower to be much cheaper. Every river or creek with any suitable fall will be equipped with water-motors, turning dynamos, making electricity. Along the seacoast will be numerous reservoirs continually filled by waves and tides washing in. Out of these the water will be constantly falling over revolving wheels. All of our restless waters, fresh and salt, will thus be harnessed to do the work which Niagara is doing today: making electricity for heat, light and fuel. Strawberries as Large as Apples will be eaten by our great-great-grandchildren for their Christmas dinners a hundred years hence. Raspberries and blackberries will be as large. One will suffice for the fruit course of each person. Strawberries and cranberries will be grown upon tall bushes. Cranberries, gooseberries and currants will be as large as oranges. One cantaloupe will supply an entire family. Melons, cherries, grapes, plums, apples, pears, peaches and all berries will be seedless.

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  Psyche, Home Remedy, Honey and Milk!

Winter is upon us and winter skin care is probably on your mind. This time of year not only brings us some of the most beautiful scenes on postcards or paintings, but it also brings us a need for dry skin treatment. Skin tends to dry and flake in the winter. When the days shorten and the temperature dips, your psyche and your skin may both rebel against the changes. Seasonal changes are normal, and one way to boost your psyche is to pamper and nurture your skin back into its natural healthful, glowing state. Protect your skin from the elements. If you spend time outdoors, particularly skiing, add a sunscreen to your regimen. In the winter, brisk winds add to the damage from the elements. Your body may not feel warm, but you can still get a sunburn. Studies show that we receive more ultraviolet rays in the winter than was previously thought. Nourish your skin from the inside. Eat right, take proper vitamin and mineral supplementation, exercise regularly, and sleep right. It's winter for heaven's sake-nature hibernates.

Home remedies have become increasingly popular as the expense and hassle of conventional medicine continues to rise. Beyond the convenience, home remedies have found favor with a public that wants to take a more holistic approach to its ailments. The home remedies that we have collected aren't risky alternative therapies practiced against your doctor's objections. Rather they are safe, practical actions that you can utilize to help treat more than 100 common health problems, ranging from the minor ailments like ingrown hairs and athlete's foot to serious diseases like asthma and diabetes.

Honey and milk were routinely prescribed by physicians for the treatment of the respiratory system, and throat irritations. Herbal Remedies among them all types of plants, herbs, animal parts and mineral compounds. The use of these compounds led to an extensive compendium of curative recipes, some still available today. Head injuries were very often successfully treated by trepanning, this procedure involves the opening of an area of the skull in order to relieve pressure. Yeast was applied to leg ulcers and swellings. Yeast's were also taken internally for digestive disorders and were an effective cure for ulcers. The dung of the crocodile was used in preventing conception. Ashoma, a disease of the eye, was cured using an animal liver, to this day extracts of liver are used to treat this and modern doctors discovered its effectiveness in treating certain forms of cataracts.

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  Face-to-Face, Navbar and Content!

If you want to make your website better at turning visitors into customers (or subscribers), you need to understand why most of your visitors are leaving! But those people come and go without trace! How do you know what they wanted? How do you know what would have persuaded them to take action? If you owned a real-life bricks-and-mortar store, this would be easy: You’d hear their objections. You’d be able to ask questions. You’d hear what they muttered as they headed for the door. Your customers know the answers to a surprising number of your marketing problems. Why not ask them? Use your ears and mouth. If you can’t sell it face-to-face, how can you expect to sell it online? Strictly speaking, Using your ears and mouth isn’t a tool—it’s something you do. No one has packaged up this activity into a neat little subscription service, which is perhaps why so few people do it.

I have posted many essential tricks and hacks less or more essential for good functionality and aesthetic blogging experience. Now, I am writing about popular or most wanted tips and tricks for blogger or blogspot blogs. Let’s have a look at them one by one and I am sure they will prove to be useful for improving aspect of Blogger platform. The Navbar seems to be of less importance because it doesn’t look cool at the top and take an extra space in your design. It doesn’t have enough resources or tools for the reader so better vanish it from your blog. It’s easy to remove it

Web design usually starts with graphic design, but really it should start with the content and proceed from there. If you start with the visuals, it’s all too easy to fixate on why things don’t look right, and from there it’s slippery slope to using non-semantic elements and inline styles. Start with the content; use appropriate elements without regard for style; and only once you’ve done that should you move on to writing an appropriate stylesheet. A corollary of this point is that tables should only be used for tabular data - there’s no usual need to use them for layout.

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  Social Networks, Networking and Brand Awareness!

There are things that merit your time and things that don’t. The companies behind social networks need your attention for advertising dollars, but you use social networks to maintain relationships. With a few tweaks to a website’s settings, you can make Facebook, LinkedIn, Plaxo, and Twitter keep you in touch without flooding your inboxes with unnecessary notifications. How to tweak your Facebook, LinkedIn, Plaxo, and Twitter settings for the sake of your email sanity. Here’s how, with a few super quick screencasts.

Twitter, according to the Tweet counter at GigaTweet, is well passed the one-billion Tweet mark.Twitter launched in July, 2006 and is fast becoming the most popular micro-blogging platform on the web…if it isn’t all ready. I enjoy using Twitter because it is so simple, it is a 140 characters about anyone, any topic, anything. Twitter compliments my other social networking sites as well as my blog, I bring all of my sites together under this one little bird. I share useful links, stories, updates from my other sites, I chat, and I use it to find people and information. I spend more time on Twitter now then just about anywhere else, which is wonderful but at the same time it can be a little overwhelming. Like the Soge Shirts T-shirt.

Barack Obama used social media to get himself into the White House and thousands of companies are using social media to create brand awareness and an online buzz. However, social media can also be used for many other purposes as well. If you work in Human Resources, you may be thinking, I just want to recruit some employees. Social networks are an amazing channel for finding potential employees and increasingly becoming an even expected way of finding them. When you recruit in social networks your company will reap the added benefit of spreading brand awareness and increasing the desire of others to work at your company.

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  Burnout, Waiting Room and Slow-Wave Sleep!

When nurses don’t feel they have the time to take an extra moment to listen, to make eye contact, to touch a hand with compassion, it hurts at a deep level. Both nurse and patient satisfaction suffer. You can prevent burnout by knowing what is truly important to you in the human connection with your patients. Then, creating and taking the time to be present, to notice those moments when you made that connection. Nurses, while technically competent, also have strong values for human life, caring, support, love, comfort, listening, connecting and more. Acting on these values is what makes nurses come alive. Take time to notice the moments you are connecting and living your value for meeting human need.

20 year old female with right lower quadrant abdominal pain arrives at 0852. She thinks she has a urinary tract infection. She is afebrile, denies nausea or vomiting, has normal BM's. Her other vital signs are normal and she rates her pain 5/10. MD sees the patient one hour after she is put in the room, the urine results have been on the chart for 30 minutes showing blood and leukocytes in the urine. The pregnancy test is negative. Ultimately the patient is discharged home after spending most of a twelve-hour shift in the ER. Diagnosis? Pyelonephritis, which is what she thought she had when she arrived. Multiply this by 31 rooms and add in a waiting room full of angry, sick people who have been waiting for hours for a room - stir into that a couple traumas, a few mental health patients as well as angry patients and their family members and you can see why we get burned out.

People who have stressful jobs, especially those in the caring professions, are more susceptible to the condition. For instance, lawyers, teachers, counsellors, paramedics and taxi drivers are more likely to suffer. Also, those who are particularly committed to their jobs have a higher likelihood of burnout. Reasons for a person to submit to burnout are varied: lack of control, unclear job expectations, dysfunctional workplace dynamics, poor job fit or extremes of activity. A Swedish study whose conclusions were published in the New Scientist in Nov. 2004 found that disrupted sleep was at the root of burnout rather than stress per se. The research team at Karolinska Institute in Sweden tested 35 patients who had been off work for a minimum of three months. They found that there was a 40 percent reduction in slow-wave sleep compared with healthy people, with patients surviving on four or five hours sleep a night.

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  Digestive System, Sardines and Flaxseed!

Let's work on the identical journey as our solid food makes, which is through the digestive system, and understand where we re losing the greatest it has to offer us ,and what we can do to set out the most for our cash. In order for our body to utilise what we eat it must be broken down into minor molecules so the cells can apply it to offer energy. This is the task of the digestive system. This starts the second you put food in your mouth. Do your part - by chewing your food thoroughly, you take those few extra seconds to grant the saliva do its job. Following point is the stomach after the food travels down through the throat. The stomach will churn the solid food, liquids and digestive juices totally unitedly and then it will slowly drained these wholly blended substances into the small intestine.

Nutritionist and author Jonny Bowden has created several lists of healthful foods people should be eating but aren’t. But some of his favorites, like purslane, guava and goji berries, aren’t always available at regular grocery stores. I asked Dr. Bowden to update his list with some favorite foods that are easy to find but don’t always find their way into our shopping carts. Here’s his advice. Dr. Bowden calls sardines health food in a can. They are high in omega-3’s, contain virtually no mercury and are loaded with calcium. They also contain iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, copper and manganese as well as a full complement of B vitamins. Choose sardines packed in olive or sardine oil. Eat plain, mixed with salad, on toast, or mashed with dijon mustard and onions as a spread.

Adding more fiber to your diet can lower blood sugar and cholesterol levels, reducing the risk for heart disease and stroke. The combination of oil and fiber in flaxseed make it an excellent laxative and an effective remedy for sluggish bowels and chronic constipation. Flaxseed contains plant estrogens called lignans. These natural compounds have been found to possess anti-tumor properties and appear to be especially beneficial in reducing the risk of breast and colon cancer. In the body, lignans act as weak estrogens. Because their chemical structure is similar to the structure of the hormone estrogen produced by the female body, they're capable of binding to the same cellular receptors.

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