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I am, the way I am

2013-01-20T09:20:00.000-08:00

I am the way I am.
How many times have you heard some one say that?, this kind of saying they are not going to change and everything else has to change to please them. You know that won't happen, but they still won't give in to change. You might have heard it said (For things to change, You must change) so what do they mean by this?. I heard this recently as well, and I started to think about it, if you don't want to make any changes how are you going to get anything that you want. We all get to that comfort spot in our lives where we like to be.
Some of us except it the way things are and we don't look at improving our situation what ever it might be, we don't know how. Most of us fear change, its stepping in to a different area of our lives where we are uncomfortable.

So for that very reason we don't try anything new, we have a fear of failing if we try something different so we don't. We have heard stories when we where young of things that might be bad if that was done so as we grow up the stories become real in our minds. we are not aware of them because they are in our subconscious and they keep us from doing certain things. This effects us and we don't even know it, our subconscious mind takes care of this for us. Let say that we have heard, money is the root of all evil now we are going to stay away from getting to much, we don't want to be evil. This way of thinking repels us from getting ahead, there for we stay where we are and don't strive for better. But there is a way you can change this.

You need to give yourself positive points that your are doing or will do to improve your self, let me explain.
Lets say your Budgeting so you tell yourself your budgeting, not that you want to budget but that you are budgeting and do this three to five times everyday even if it's slow at first. The more you tell yourself this the more you will believe it and therefore you will start to see the change in your income. Once you believe it then it starts to work. Here is an other one, tell your self you will have a great day today (I'm having a good day today) the first thing when you get up in the morning. Even when your day isn't starting out that way,
(I've tried it and it works) better then you may think. Depending how bad the day starts out you may have to repeat this many times, but at the end of the day your in a pretty good mood.

What you are doing is changing the subconscious mind to think positive and this will start you to do more positive things. The saying is: For thing to change, You must change, this holds true for many things in your life, as well. The main part is that your giving the I AM THE WAY I AM the heave ho, and change things you want to change. Do this with thing with in reason to start with, you can shoot higher later. Don't tell yourself that your a Millionaire on minimum wage, this just doesn't add up ( hasn't worked for me yet) you get the point.

The shiny Objects

2011-09-16T07:29:00.001-07:00

Shiny Objects

why the shiny objects hold you back?
All to often we are trying to get some where, and there's shiny object in our way. This shiny object can be a number of things. If your not happy with your job the next shiny object could be the lure of higher pay at a new company or perhaps a new position. This not all ways the right choice to make, many times this is the wrong choice, and we have had it happen at least once.

In online marketing this happens all the time where we find a new offer or the next shiny thing, most of the time this slows us down from what are doing or what we could do. But every time this shiny object slows down our success that might have been forth coming. All to often, this is just keeps us from our focus on the task at hand. We tell ourselves that we are going to stay on track, then ooh whats that? the next shiny object. How do we keep away from this Mentality? one way is to not to sign up for anything new unless it's going to help us get ahead. Delete your emails, yes I said DELETE your emails now stop checking them every few minutes, stay off you social sites that you have.After all do you see C E O's in coffee shops all day? chances are you don't.

Small business owners are at their jobs, sometimes for12 - 16 hours per day, this is the mindset you need to build for your self. For the first 6 month to a year you need to learn some new skills that you may need, but keep in mind that there are going to be times when you will need to learn more skills.
Once you understand this then it will become easier to focus on your tasks that you need to complete.
Where I live there are many contractors, you will see them in the coffee shops till around 9 am then they are gone and sometimes you may see them again at 4-6 pm. when you see them often they have finished the contract or they are working close by.

So to make this simpler, start setting a time for you project and stick to it for the allowed time. This will speed up you production a lot and of course get much more done. It may take a while to set up a schedule and stick to it but once you have it in place you will be happy you did. keep in mind in every schedule there are (what I call bombs) they are the untimely things that happen when you're busy. If you are a mom working at home then you know that one of the kids comes crying because they fell and you have to care for them. But this is good (inconvenient but good) it takes your mind off what your doing. It gives you few minutes to rethink or re-read what you already did. Sometimes this will give you the time to correct mistakes and to change somethings that you might have missed.

These bombs can screw up your day as well, they have a way of distracting you when you are in the most productive. So how do you keep this from happening? there really is no way to stop them but there is a way you can limit them. If you know that there is a potential for this to happen then deal with it first if you can. A few minutes in the morning or when you are about to start, make any calls that you might have to make so now they are done (keep them short). Some phone calls have a way of dragging on and on, try to keep them 5 minutes or less if possible. As for you children there is now time limit all you can do is get them interested in something that will keep them busy for some time.

Set aside time when you have finished any house hold chores, many people are busy with their lives and can't find the time. If this is you make the time, make time for your family as well as your own time. Remember that you are working to a goal that will allow you the freedom to have more time later. Being a single parent can be stress full and you don't have much time to juggle a job and home life. You can always try to log your daily activities, this way you can find where you could get more time from tasks. You can set aside the things that can be done later and set them up on a schedule (like a day planner) for later in the week.
When I was a kid, all the dusting was done on Saturday for Sunday, sometimes it took most of the day till it was done.

With the electronic age, we don't take the time to do things on the weekend, as we are busy during the week so we do things asap this way they are done.

Sun,Wind and power

2010-11-30T03:39:00.000-08:00

From the beginning people have used the sun, mainly for growing crop's but there are new uses that some people have found.
I just began to look at solar energy and the list is endless what you can do.

Consumer Reports

2010-10-30T04:27:00.000-07:00

Giving gift Cards this year?

Fed allows continued sale of mislabeled holiday gift cards

If you find a gift card tucked in your stocking this year, don’t assume that the information printed on the back of it is correct. In fact, there’s a reasonable chance that the expiration date and fee rules are wrong.
This latest snafu is the result of a little-noticed change to the gift-card rules of the Credit CARD Act of 2009. The act requires that gift-card funds remain valid for at least five years and limits when and how often card issuers can charge certain fees. For the details, see the summary posted on Defend Your Dollars, a Consumers Union advocacy website.
The new rules are good for consumers, but only if they know about them. So the CARD Act also requires that the new expiration dates and fee rules be printed on the cards, along with a toll-free number for cardholders who have any questions. And that’s where things got tripped up.

The CARD Act’s gift-card provisions took effect Aug. 22. But less than a month before that, Congress passed an amendment giving card issuers more time—until Jan. 31, 2011—to get noncompliant gift cards off the shelves. All the new gift-card rules contained in the CARD Act still hold, but information printed on the cards doesn’t have to be correct until after the holidays. Suzanne Martindale, an attorney at Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, says that financial institutions were behind the amendment because they had the most at stake. “These are the issuers that sell multiple-use cards with a major network logo like American Express, Discover, or Visa. Those types of cards are more likely to come with fees and expiration dates printed on the cards that are now obsolete under the new law,” she says. “Single-retailer gift cards usually don’t expire and are less likely to deduct fees, so the disclosure requirements are less likely to affect them.”
A press release issued July 14 by the Network Branded Prepaid Card Association praised the amendment for preventing “the needless destruction of over 100 million plastic cards” manufactured before the new rules took effect. Extending the deadline also made sure plenty of gift cards would be available to shoppers during the holiday season, when 90 percent of all gift cards are purchased, according to the trade group.
The amendment includes a provision that’s supposed to help consumers avoid confusion about the mislabeled cards. Notice of the new rules must be prominently displayed on store signs or advertisements where gift cards are sold. Compliance was spotty when we did an informal check in late October at a dozen stores in California, Missouri, and New York. Three of the stores had large signs on or near the card displays, as required. But three other stores had only small, hard-to-read notices of the new rules affixed to the card kiosks, and six stores had no signs at all.
Yet even if every store selling gift cards continuously announced the new rules over the intercom, that would only help inform card buyers. It’s card recipients who need the information so they can make sure they use the cards before their value is whittled away by fees or they expire.
Complicating things further, many states have stronger laws for single-retailer gift cards that provide protections in addition to the federal rules. For example, in Connecticut, single-retailer gift cards cannot have any fees or expirations dates, period. To see if your state has a gift card law, check the fact sheet on state gift-card protections posted on Defend Your Dollars.
Martindale says consumer confusion will peak this holiday season, while cards with the wrong information are still being sold. But that won’t end the problem. “If this year is like any other, a sizeable number of people who get gift cards will let them sit in their wallets for months or years before they decide to redeem them,” she says. “That means it could be some time before all the mislabeled cards are out of circulation.”
To avoid this confusion altogether, Martindale recommends that you consider giving cash or a check to your loved ones this holiday season. But if you still plan to buy gift cards, include a note warning your recipient that the card could contain incorrect information. The recipient can also request a new card with the correct information printed on it. As always, we encourage anyone who receives gift cards to spend them right away to dodge their many other gotchas.—Jean Pietrobono

Beware of risky herb-drug combos

2010-01-12T08:37:00.000-08:00

Herbs are very help full in many areas of our health but one should consult your doctor if you are on prescription drugs .
Just in case they may inter act with each other.
Below is a web site you can check some of the herbs verses prescription drugs.
I hope you find this help full.

Beware of risky herb-drug combos

tweeting

2009-12-30T03:39:00.001-08:00

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in reference to:

"This is good news about tweeting RT This is exciting! A New fun way to tweet! http://tweetglide.com/32fatcats"
- Twitter / Your Favorites (view on Google Sidewiki)

Who Is At Risk for a Heart Attack?

2009-12-14T19:01:00.001-08:00

Who Is At Risk for a Heart Attack?

Certain risk factors make it more likely that you will develop coronary artery disease (CAD) and have a heart attack. Some risk factors for heart attack can be controlled, while others can't.

Major risk factors for heart attack that you can control include:

* Smoking
* High blood pressure
* High blood cholesterol
* Overweight and obesity
* Physical inactivity
* Diabetes (high blood sugar)

Risk factors that you can't change include:

* Age. Risk increases for men older than 45 years and for women older than 55 years (or after menopause).
* Family history of early CAD. Your risk increases if your father or a brother was diagnosed with CAD before 55 years of age, or if your mother or a sister was diagnosed with CAD before 65 years of age.

Certain CAD risk factors tend to occur together. When they do, it’s called metabolic syndrome. In general, a person with metabolic syndrome is twice as likely to develop heart disease and five times as likely to develop diabetes as someone without metabolic syndrome.

in reference to:

"Who Is At Risk for a Heart Attack? Certain risk factors make it more likely that you will develop coronary artery disease (CAD) and have a heart attack. Some risk factors for heart attack can be controlled, while others can't. Major risk factors for heart attack that you can control include: Smoking High blood pressure High blood cholesterol Overweight and obesity Physical inactivity Diabetes (high blood sugar) Risk factors that you can't change include: Age. Risk increases for men older than 45 years and for women older than 55 years (or after menopause). Family history of early CAD. Your risk increases if your father or a brother was diagnosed with CAD before 55 years of age, or if your mother or a sister was diagnosed with CAD before 65 years of age. Certain CAD risk factors tend to occur together. When they do, it’s called metabolic syndrome. In general, a person with metabolic syndrome is twice as likely to develop heart disease and five times as likely to develop diabetes as someone without metabolic syndrome."
- Who Is At Risk for a Heart Attack? (view on Google Sidewiki)

What is Cholesterol?

2009-12-14T18:55:00.001-08:00

What Is Cholesterol?

To understand high blood cholesterol (ko-LES-ter-ol), it is important to know more about cholesterol.

* Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance that is found in all cells of the body. Your body needs some cholesterol to work the right way. Your body makes all the cholesterol it needs.
* Cholesterol is also found in some of the foods you eat.
* Your body uses cholesterol to make hormones, vitamin D, and substances that help you digest foods.

Blood is watery, and cholesterol is fatty. Just like oil and water, the two do not mix. To travel in the bloodstream, cholesterol is carried in small packages called lipoproteins (lip-o-PRO-teens). The small packages are made of fat (lipid) on the inside and proteins on the outside. Two kinds of lipoproteins carry cholesterol throughout your body. It is important to have healthy levels of both:

* Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is sometimes called bad cholesterol.
o High LDL cholesterol leads to a buildup of cholesterol in arteries. The higher the LDL level in your blood, the greater chance you have of getting heart disease.
* High-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol is sometimes called good cholesterol.
o HDL carries cholesterol from other parts of your body back to your liver. The liver removes the cholesterol from your body. The higher your HDL cholesterol level, the lower your chance of getting heart disease.

What Is High Blood Cholesterol?

Too much cholesterol in the blood, or high blood cholesterol, can be serious. People with high blood cholesterol have a greater chance of getting heart disease. High blood cholesterol on its own does not cause symptoms, so many people are unaware that their cholesterol level is too high.

Cholesterol can build up in the walls of your arteries (blood vessels that carry blood from the heart to other parts of the body). This buildup of cholesterol is called plaque (plak). Over time, plaque can cause narrowing of the arteries. This is called atherosclerosis (ath-er-o-skler-O-sis), or hardening of the arteries.

Illustration of an artery showing normal blood flow through the artery and also showing narrowing of the artery with abnormal blood flow.

The illustration shows a normal artery with normal blood flow (figure A) and an artery containing plaque buildup (figure B).

Special arteries, called coronary arteries, bring blood to the heart. Narrowing of your coronary arteries due to plaque can stop or slow down the flow of blood to your heart. When the arteries narrow, the amount of oxygen-rich blood is decreased. This is called coronary heart disease (CHD). Large plaque areas can lead to chest pain called angina (an-JI-nuh or AN-juh-nuh). Angina happens when the heart does not receive enough oxygen-rich blood. Angina is a common symptom of CHD.

Some plaques have a thin covering and can burst (rupture), releasing cholesterol and fat into the bloodstream. The release of cholesterol and fat may cause your blood to clot. A clot can block the flow of blood. This blockage can cause angina or a heart attack.

Lowering your cholesterol level decreases your chance for having a plaque burst and cause a heart attack. Lowering cholesterol may also slow down, reduce, or even stop plaque from building up.

Plaque and resulting health problems can also occur in arteries elsewhere in the body.

in reference to:

"What Is Cholesterol? To understand high blood cholesterol (ko-LES-ter-ol), it is important to know more about cholesterol. Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance that is found in all cells of the body. Your body needs some cholesterol to work the right way. Your body makes all the cholesterol it needs. Cholesterol is also found in some of the foods you eat. Your body uses cholesterol to make hormones, vitamin D, and substances that help you digest foods. Blood is watery, and cholesterol is fatty. Just like oil and water, the two do not mix. To travel in the bloodstream, cholesterol is carried in small packages called lipoproteins (lip-o-PRO-teens). The small packages are made of fat (lipid) on the inside and proteins on the outside. Two kinds of lipoproteins carry cholesterol throughout your body. It is important to have healthy levels of both: Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is sometimes called bad cholesterol. High LDL cholesterol leads to a buildup of cholesterol in arteries. The higher the LDL level in your blood, the greater chance you have of getting heart disease. High-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol is sometimes called good cholesterol. HDL carries cholesterol from other parts of your body back to your liver. The liver removes the cholesterol from your body. The higher your HDL cholesterol level, the lower your chance of getting heart disease. What Is High Blood Cholesterol? Too much cholesterol in the blood, or high blood cholesterol, can be serious. People with high blood cholesterol have a greater chance of getting heart disease. High blood cholesterol on its own does not cause symptoms, so many people are unaware that their cholesterol level is too high. Cholesterol can build up in the walls of your arteries (blood vessels that carry blood from the heart to other parts of the body). This buildup of cholesterol is called plaque (plak). Over time, plaque can cause narrowing of the arteries. This is called atherosclerosis (ath-er-o-skler-O-sis), or hardening of the arteries. The illustration shows a normal artery with normal blood flow (figure A) and an artery containing plaque buildup (figure B). Special arteries, called coronary arteries, bring blood to the heart. Narrowing of your coronary arteries due to plaque can stop or slow down the flow of blood to your heart. When the arteries narrow, the amount of oxygen-rich blood is decreased. This is called coronary heart disease (CHD). Large plaque areas can lead to chest pain called angina (an-JI-nuh or AN-juh-nuh). Angina happens when the heart does not receive enough oxygen-rich blood. Angina is a common symptom of CHD. Some plaques have a thin covering and can burst (rupture), releasing cholesterol and fat into the bloodstream. The release of cholesterol and fat may cause your blood to clot. A clot can block the flow of blood. This blockage can cause angina or a heart attack. Lowering your cholesterol level decreases your chance for having a plaque burst and cause a heart attack. Lowering cholesterol may also slow down, reduce, or even stop plaque from building up. Plaque and resulting health problems can also occur in arteries elsewhere in the body."
- High Blood Cholesterol, What Is (view on Google Sidewiki)

Heart-Healthy Tips

2009-12-01T19:49:00.000-08:00

Heart-Healthy Tips

Dr. Miller is Director, Center for Preventive Cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center and Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine.

As we approach the final weeks of the year with family gatherings, office parties and New Year's celebrations, we can still enjoy ourselves while practicing a healthy lifestyle. Listed below are 10 tips to maintain heart health during this holiday season.

1. Hors d'oeuvres anyone? Among the most heart healthy starters are raw vegetables, particularly broccoli and cauliflower because of their high fiber content. Among the most heart healthy dips are hummus, which contains good monounsaturated fats.

2. Carbs beget carbs. Eating simple carbohydrates doesn't make us feel as full as eating fat, so if you are overzealous in avoiding fats you may overindulge in total calories. When snacking, stick with carbs that contain vitamins and fiber (e.g., apples) rather than those without nutritional value (e.g., pretzels). Consider healthy fat sources including avocados, walnuts and almonds.

3. Choose fish over red meat. Include fish in your year-end celebration menus. Cold-water fish contain protective omega- 3s, which have been shown to reduce the risk of sudden cardiac death. Among your best choices are wild salmon, sardines and herring (without the cream sauce). Whatever meat you choose, have the gravy or sauce served on the side and limit table salt.

4. Color is everything. The more colorful the vegetable, the more heart-protective antioxidants contained within. Steaming is better than using the microwave for preserving nutrients. However, over-steaming or boiling will remove many of these heart healthy elements.

5. Hold the bagels. The average bagel will cost you more than 200 calories, even before the dousing of an additional 50-100 calories of butter or cream cheese. If you like lox, keep in mind that about 75% of the protective omega-3 fats in salmon are lost when converted into lox by the smoking process.

6. I'll drink to that. Red wine and dark beer contain more protective antioxidants or flavonoids than other alcoholic beverages. You can get maximum heart protection with up to 1 ounce of alcohol daily, the equivalent of two, 4 ounce glasses of wine, a 12 ounce bottle of beer, or 2 shots of spirits.

7. Don't come to the party starving. You'll overindulge. Eating one meal a day slows down the rate at which we burn calories. That is especially important to keep in mind as we age, because our metabolic requirements are reduced by an average of 5 calories daily. Therefore, eat frequently throughout the day but in small to moderate quantities.

8. You can have your chocolate and eat it too! That is, if it's dark. Pure dark chocolate contains a very high amount of catechins (a heart healthy antioxidant). Enjoy it with black grapes and wash it down with a beverage containing natural cocoa powder or tea, additional excellent sources of these heart healthy compounds.

9. Get in your exercise. Try to work off those extra holiday-season calories. While aerobic activity has been emphasized for maintaining cardiovascular health, recent studies show that walking is also quite effective. One fun way to keep track of your daily activity is to purchase a pedometer. There are about 2,000 steps per mile. Take 6,000-10,000 steps daily to maintain heart health.

10. Have a hearty laugh. Very few things in life are better than a good laugh and it turns out that laughing heartily is good for the heart. One recent study even demonstrated that laughing during mealtime reduces the surge in blood sugar levels. May you enjoy the lighter side of life with family and friends this holiday season.

To our health

2009-09-15T17:02:00.000-07:00

We are living in a fast pace world today , every thing most go faster.
We have no time for any thing we used to make time for family and friends.
Today's world is all about getting things done in a hurry, and it shows with every thing we do.
Our company's want more from us and in turn we want more and better, there is nothing wrong with that.
We just want it now not in a week or a month but now. And if we don't get what we want then we go else where.
And this is one of the causes that we face to bring down our health, with the stress that we are under we have no time.
This causes us to hurry and eat fast food or not at all, Both aren't good for you,But we have no time to worry about that now.
We are late from morning to night that dead line has to be kept, but at what cost?.

Blogger Buzz: Tweet Your Blog

2009-08-08T20:47:00.000-07:00

Blogger Buzz: Tweet Your Blog

Found extra pounds

2009-08-08T04:33:00.000-07:00

If you found extra pounds, then you know how hard it is to loose them.
Here are some tips.
# 1)Go out and go for a walk, the fresh air will do you good. You may see things that you never noticed before.
# 2)Stop with the junk food and the soft drinks.
# 3)On hot days drink plenty of water it helps to keep you cool,and it flushes out your system.
# 4) Watch what you eat, Try to make healthy choices.
If your are over weight and out of shape then take it slow,Try short walks but often.
The will take some time. Remember the weight you gained, didn't happen over night and you won't loose it over night.
If you stay with it then you will succeed.

pictures from your vacation

2009-04-10T03:50:00.000-07:00

Hello how are you?

You like to take pictures about all kinds of things, but don't know what to do with them now that you have them.
I may have the answer for you.You can make a nice little profit from your miss takes. That tree that was a bird before or that patch of grass with deer leg that staid long enough to wait for the shutter to click. You know the ones.

Then check out the web site below.

www.splintersweb.net