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Joy Bauer’s Food Cures ~ review

Tamara Wilson — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:02:00 +0000

Joy Bauer’s Food Cures
Where to buy: Amazon.com

Joy Bauer’s Food Cures is a book on how to eat to fight off certain conditions. Joy Bauer is a well-known nutrition consultant who has been working with gold-medal winning athletes, celebrities and actors. In her book she teaches the reader how the food that we eat affects our health. The right foods can be used to lower cholesterol, enhance your memory, get better skin, treat arthritis, manage diabetes, lose weight and treat other health conditions.

The individual chapters in her book provide the reader with information on one health condition, such as PMS, migraines, cholesterol etc. The author then recommends certain foods to eat and which to avoid. All information given is scientifically researched. Each chapter also includes grocery lists, meal plans, recipes and supplement recommendations.

Experience the power of food and fight off certain conditions and sometimes even reverse symptoms. Joy Bauer’s Food Cures is a book that you will find to be a great reference for health and nutritional food choices.

For more information on this fantastic must-have book, go to www.amazon.com.

How to Teach Children Internet Etiquette

Tamara Wilson — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:02:00 +0000

At any time of the day or night you can find people communicating through the internet. Unfortunately, not all of that communication is properly understood. To avoid problems when young ones use computers, it’s important to teach children internet etiquette.

So many people use email these days. It is for this reason the Postal Service claims they’re struggling and will have to make changes to the services they offer. When anyone uses email, they’ll want to understand that tone can come across differently than it may have been meant. This is especially important for children to understand. The potential for misunderstanding is something to consider. Here are some useful tips to help avoid this problem.

1. Ensure your child is sending the message to the person they intended to sent it to. This is a problem for adults, so it’s easy to understand how a child might send an email to the wrong person. How do you keep this from happening? Confirm the spelling of the contact person or address, make certain they save email addresses when they receive a message, and check the screen name to verify it’s the right person.

2. Update email addresses from time to time. There are occasions where people will change their internet provider so their email address may change. If an address is changed, be careful to change it in your address book.

3. Instruct your children to avoid sending spam or junk email. Some jokes, urban legends, or chain letters have been making their way around the World Wide Web for years. There’s no reason to keep them moving along. Teach your child that if they’re sending an email, it should have information they would tell someone in person. If they wouldn’t share it face-to-face, they probably don’t want to send it through email.

4. Explain the importance of not sending attachments. If there is something your child would like to forward to a friend as an attachment, they would do well to send an email first asking if it would be alright to send. They can also use the text of the document to include the photo, or cut and paste a document. If they must send an attachment, suggest they name the document something specific rather than ‘document.’

5. If your child is writing on forums or social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn, help your child realize the wisdom of keeping religious, political, or racial opinions to themselves. This is important particularly when there could be people from other cultures participating.

6. Help your child understand that whatever is said on the internet can be there for the whole world to see. If they would be embarrassed for something to be repeated at school, they probably don’t want to broadcast it all over the internet.

7. Expect your child to apologize immediately if they have said something inappropriate or insensitive. This will ease any problems that may have been caused. The same holds true if someone has hurt them; ask your child to politely explain why they were hurt by what was said. Most people will apologize and make things right.

When thinking about how to teach children internet etiquette, you want to remember that the way they intend something isn’t necessarily the way someone reads it. If they follow the tips given above, they are more likely to avoid problems and enjoy their experience online.

Weekly Round Up 10-16-09

Tamara Wilson — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:54:30 +0000

Life has been a tad bit crazy here in the Wilson household as the cold weather has hit. The colds and flu has been rotating around the house for the last two weeks hitting everyone hard. which has made everything hard to get a whole lot done. We have made it through and I believe everyone is over it and the sickies have decided to move out of the house finally. We shall see if this is the case for sure soon. I am sure this is one of those things we will be visited by a few times again as the winter season comes and goes since young Brendan and Alin seem to get everything that goes around. My poor guys.

If your new here Welcome, It’s great to have you here. I invite you to participate on your blog just drop a line in the comments and let us know you played, or simply leave a comment with your answers.

List 2 accomplishments this week
Did you over come something this week? If so share this with us.
What is something that happened unexpectedly.
What was the highlight of your week?

List 2 accomplishments this week Cleaned out the craft area in the dinning room, worked out 3 days this week
Did you over come something this week? If so share this with us. Managed to take things less seriously this week and enjoy things more, and have more fun with the kids.
What is something that happened unexpectedly. A few things came up that I didn’t exactly expect however I took them and figured they are things that I can’t control they happened and since I can’t change the past to just accept them and move on and try to change the future.
What was the highlight of your week? This week would probably have to be when I was helping Brendan study for his spelling test and he knew how to spell all the words. Or having a fun time at dinner with my Mother-in-Law and her friend with the family.

Stress, Depression, and Exercise

Tamara Wilson — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:19:24 +0000

As I have mentioned before that I am Bi-polar more on the depressed side then manic. I went to the Dr yesterday for a check up and all was the same as it has been she did give me something to help me sleep since I haven’t been sleeping. I haven’t been sleeping because of stress from my son. Something that is not much discussed he is also bi-polar and it seems that he has been stuck in a manic/rage state the last few months. We was evaluated and found that he possibly has aspergers syndrome we are looking more in to that with his Dr. So yea things have been stressful here with him and the other kiddos driving me crazy but it will be ok.

Her prescription was get more sleep and exercise. Both something I knew I had to do to both help me mentally but also help me physically, I am starting to get fluffy again. For me depression turns in to eating snacks usually salty and/or chocolaty snacks at that, I know not a good thing. I guess it is a step knowing this problem I have. Just taking all of this one day at a time.

So I broke out the Wii Fit again to start there. I am taking it slowly and not overly pushing myself. Did a work out today and felt better afterward, just got to keep it up. Talked to Alin’s girlfriend and she said that if I want to we can be workout buddies, Something I am going to think about doing. I think it will help.

Ned and I also discussed getting a bike to help with the exercise but also with getting out of the house and getting fresh air. Because seriously I will sit in the house for days if not weeks if he don’t force me to go out. So this can help at least get me outside. I am glad he is here on my side supporting me.

Since Jeff has been in this mood, that he has been in, it has been even harder for me to do anything for myself so yesterday I went and got my hair cut I like it so far its nice and short yet long enough to still pull back. It felt good to go out and do something for myself. I am going to work on myself more especially now that the kids are all in school. I am going to exercise, and try to get out of the house more.

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Weekly Round Up 9-25

Tamara Wilson — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:08:31 +0000

Hello and welcome to another week of Weekly Round Up. If this is your first visit welcome. I hope you find this meme a fun one and join in the fun. This is my way of finishing the week with a quick glance at what happened.

It is hard to see that September is almost over dang time is just flying by. My little princess has been in school almost a month and I am here just trying to stay busy and healthy. Sons keep bringing head colds in to the house and I always end up with it this season. Ok On with the round up.

Did you learn anything new this week?
Share something that you accomplished
Did anything happen that you didn’t expect?
What did you do this week just for You?

Did you learn anything new this week?I learned more about how to use using Facebook and Twitter as a marketing tool by reading and listening to Mari Smith Lots of interesting stuff.
Share something that you accomplished This week I accomplished not a whole lot being sick and all I did manage to work on a couple blogs to get them up to date.
Did anything happen that you didn’t expect? Lets see, something unexpected probably have to say finding out the Dentist owes us money instead of us owing them.
What did you do this week just for You? This week just for me I went to get my hair cut just a little ‘me time’. I also hid and vegged a bit in bed to just relax.

Organize Your Way to Success

Tamara Wilson — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:45:33 +0000

How do you create a successful business? Through change, that’s how. One way to make a change is by getting organized. Streamline your way to bigger profits with a little business tidying up.

A Necessary Evil

Organization is not a fun thing to do, but it is necessary to keep your business ship running smoothly. Some view it as grunt work – shuffling papers, creating databases, setting up calendars. It is all the reason why some businesses fail while others succeed.

When business is riding high, there is very little time to attend to the organization of things. You say that you will get to it, but never do. There are simply not enough hours in the day. So, you manage with the organizational structure (or the lack thereof) that you have until you can do better.

Even if you aren’t organized now and are going through a high in your business and can’t find the time to get that way, don’t give up. You can still put your business in tip top shape. Here’s one way. Periods of slow sales are the perfect time to get a workable organization going within your business. Think of it this way: You can find several ways to save and make money through this process. So, instead of feeling sorry for yourself or fretting about the drop in sales, get up and get moving.

Maintaining a positive attitude helps you to see this time in your business career as an opportunity. People are more cautious about buying. If they buy, there needs to be a compelling argument behind the product. Getting all your ducks in a row, so to speak, can help you meet that need.

Find the Hidden Money

Businesses often find a black hole in the area of supplies and man hours. This is because of a lack of streamlining business processes. If five people are doing one process, then you are paying four for nothing. Find ways to revamp the flow of your business so that your staff can be better utilized. Who says that each person has to do only one job?

An employee with multiple skills has job security. They can function in several areas in a pinch. That is saving you money.

You will save on paper products when you turn over many of the day-to-day tasks to software programs. Calendars on your computer keep you current with projects. Sharing them through programs like Google Docs, gives the right people access to them so they can do their jobs accordingly.

How about time tracking? Using time tracking software can show you where you are losing money on projects. This gives you the opportunity to examine the why behind it.

Hire a virtual assistant. If you are an army of one, it is hard to tend to the marketing tasks and the office duties all at once. Plain and simple, you’ll never catch up and you’re losing money. A virtual assistant will only bill for hours worked (not time at the water cooler) and you get to spend more time making money instead of losing it.

Organization is important to any business. When you have slow periods stay positive and proactive by streamlining your business for greater success.

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