Self Help: Think Like A Kid

Think Like A Kid

Written by Jennifer Ottolino

I was taking a walk around my neighborhood recently and was befriended by a six-year-old girl. This charming child decided to impart her life wisdom on me. Here are repparttar

lessons I learned:

1. It's natural to feel good about yourself. I told my new friend that she had pretty eyes. She looked up at me and said, "I know". There was no question for her, no debate, and no dismissal. She accepted repparttar 131272 comment because, to her, it was natural to feel good about herself. I began to wonder; at what point in repparttar 131273 development of our children do we teach them not to appreciate their finer qualities. At what point do we teach children to feel badly about themselves? Appreciate yourself every day. Feel good about yourself --, it's natural.

2. Promote your strengths. At one point during our conversation, my new friend looked at me and said, "You know, I can run really fast." She was good at things, and she wanted to make sure that I knew it. I wonder, why do we tell ourselves that it is not good to promote what we're good at? At what point do we change from being proud of our strengths, to hiding our best qualities? Can you remember repparttar 131274 last time you gave someone a compliment and they did not just dismiss repparttar 131275 comment? I can't. The next time someone thanks you or acknowledges an accomplishment, say thank you and pat yourself on repparttar 131276 back. Feel good about your strengths and they will serve you well.

Get lean, Mean and Green This Summer

Written by Susan Dunn

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special summer needs of our consumers/clients.

Get lean--eat light. Get mean--watch your focus and intentionality, and be optimisitc, and don't let repparttar 131271 high temperatures make you 'mean' in that other sense of repparttar 131272 word. Get green--use special marketing strategies in repparttar 131273 summer to grow your practice/business/nonprofit like a head of lettuce!

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1. The only way to lose weight is to consume less calories than you burn. Find out how many calories your activities burn with this handy calorie calculator: http://womencentral.msn.com/fitnesshealth ools/caloriecalc.asp

2. Calculate your daily calorie needs. Go here: http://www.bhg.com/cgi-bin/dailycalorie.cgi

3. Refresh your memory about repparttar 131274 calorie count in food you eat. Here's a plan for 1500-1800 calories a day: http://www.bhg.com/bhg/pdf/1500calories.pdf

4. Add soy to your diet to protect your heart and arteries. According to a study done at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina [cited on www.msn.com], you could lower your cholesterol by 11% in 6 weeks and reduce your diastolic blood pressure by 6 points in repparttar 131275 same time period by adding soy to your diet. Just 2T of soy powder daily, or 1/2 c. tofu, a scoop of soy protein powder, or a handful of roasted soybeans. [Gregory Burke, M.D., of Wake Forest's Department of Public Health Sciences]

5. Find out what types of food work best for your blood type. According to Dr. D'Adamo, author of "Eat Right for Your Type," our blood type determines what foods act like medicine, food, or poison for us. Type Os, for instance, need lots of vigorous physical exercise and need to eat meat. Type Bs are repparttar 131276 only type that tolerate dairy well, and their best exercise is moderate and non-competitive.

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