Cutting Costs can significantly increase your income

Written by Lori Redfield


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To use a coupon code, simply visit a website that carries them such as http://www.promotionhub.com and locaterepparttar store that you plan to shop at. If there is a code noted, make sure to copy it down in case you are asked for it when you go to pay for your order. Generally though,repparttar 110912 coupon code is embedded inrepparttar 110913 link you click and you will receiverepparttar 110914 discount simply by arriving atrepparttar 110915 website through that link.

Another tremendous source of savings… gasoline! My husband had been commuting two hours a day, five days a week. The gas tank was filled on a weekly basis. Since he has been working from home, we fillrepparttar 110916 tank only on very rare occasions. Our trips are short and infrequent.

We also became acutely aware of our energy usage. Turning off lights became religion. Warm clothes is mandatory before even considering turning on heat.

Cutting expenses is an extremely viable way to help make your real dreams a reality. For us, it was that both of us could be ‘work-at-home parents’. To me, that isrepparttar 110917 ultimate American Dream. To you it may mean saving money for a vacation you never thought that you could afford, or paying off debt that could otherwise have taken years.

Find ways to cut your expenses and you have instantly increased your income! Happy Savings!

Lori Redfield is a freelance Internet entrepreneur. She and her husband work solely from home and support their family of five comfortably – with plenty of time for play!

You can obtain more information by visiting her websites, http://www.freelancemom.com and http://www.associatehub.com.


Are You A Sleep Walking Zombie?

Written by Royane Real


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How can you tell if you are getting enough sleep? The ideal amount varies from person to person, and it is not alwaysrepparttar same.

Ask yourself: When you wake up, do you feel refreshed, or is your body longing for more sleep? Do you rely on a lot of coffee to get you throughrepparttar 110911 day?

There are steps you can take to improverepparttar 110912 quantity and quality of your sleep. The first step for most of us is to examine how much caffeine we consume in a day. Caffeine is a stimulant found in coffee, tea, and many types of cola. It is also present in many over-the-counter medications. Caffeine entersrepparttar 110913 bloodstream very quickly and its stimulative effect lasts several hours. If you are have a hard time getting settled down at night, it could be due at least in part to an excess of caffeine throughoutrepparttar 110914 day.

If you are not getting enough good quality sleep, makerepparttar 110915 effort to cut your consumption of caffeinated beverages to just one or two cups a day, or stop drinking caffeine all together. In order to have a more restful evening, don’t drink anything caffeinated after lunch. There are plenty of beverages without caffeine that you can substitute. For most people, a cup of warm milk before bedtime will promote sleepiness. Some of us are physically addicted to caffeine and will actually go through withdrawal symptoms if we try to cut back, or quit using it altogether. You may find that when you stop ingesting caffeine, it takes up to two weeks to get over your physical craving for it. Inrepparttar 110916 meantime you may experience headaches, dizziness and insomnia.

Another factor that can disrupt your sleep patterns isrepparttar 110917 consumption of alcohol. Although alcohol initially can make you drowsy, it suppressesrepparttar 110918 REM stage of sleep, which appears to be essential in restoring a sense of wellbeing.

There are many other possible causes of poor sleep. If poor quality sleep is a problem for you, it will be worthrepparttar 110919 effort to become a detective and track downrepparttar 110920 cause. Oftenrepparttar 110921 problems of poor sleep can easily be fixed.

A poor quality mattress will lead to poor quality sleep. So will poor ventilation in your bedroom. Or too much light. Or too much noise. Or a television set.

Are you getting enough exercise? Most of us today do not move our bodies nearly as much as our bodies were designed to move. If we have an office job we are often so mentally fatigued byrepparttar 110922 time we get home that we don’t want to get offrepparttar 110923 couch. Our brains may be exhausted, but our body still needs exercise. Have you ever gone to an exercise class, thinking atrepparttar 110924 beginning, “I don’t really want to be here”, but once you got moving you felt great? A lack of sufficient physical exercise will lead to poor quality sleep. However, vigorous exercise too close to bedtime can leave you too stimulated to sleep.

Sleep experts advise:

·Keep a regular schedule for sleeping. ·Maintain a comfortable, restful bedroom. ·Don’t use your bed for anything other than sex and sleep. ·Don’t haverepparttar 110925 television in your bedroom. ·Get at least half an hour of physical exercise a day, preferably outdoors. ·Slow down your physical and mental activities as bedtime approaches. ·Cultivate a relaxed, calm state of mind at all times, but particularly before bedtime. ·Avoid shift work. ·Avoid stimulants or alcohol before bedtime.

If you try all these recommendations and you still feel that you are not sleeping well, you may have a medical condition that interferes withrepparttar 110926 quality of sleep you are getting, or you may be taking medication that interferes with your sleep.

For example, if you always wake up feeling exhausted, you may be suffering from a medical condition such as fibromyalgia, or sleep apnea. If you find yourself waking up inrepparttar 110927 middle ofrepparttar 110928 night, anxious and unable to sleep again, this can be caused by depression or stress.

These are conditions that should be discussed with your doctor.

Royane Real is an educator and author of the new downloadable book "How to Be Smarter - Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember More, and Be More Creative" available at http://www.royanereal.com


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