If your financial situation doesn’t change, you know you won’t be able to retire with enough money. You then start to wonder if you’d ever be debt free. Being in debt is one of the worst places you can be, but you’re not alone. I and thousands of others have been there. Those who were lucky managed to pay off their entire balances. You can too. But, you need to take action fast....

Standing tall, even when you don’t feel confident, projects confidence. Those who project confidence often receive more praise, promotions and other positive reactions than those who look meek or low. 1. Know your audience. When dressing for the day, understand who you will be speaking to and create daily dressing ritual that includes the question: “Who am I speaking with today?” Headed to a board meeting? Dress conservatively, wearing clean lines and traditional business attire....

Write About What You Love & Know My primary website covers a multitude of topics and I have a quota I try to reach everyday in terms of what topics to cover. I don’t always meet the goal, but I try to. There are some days when I cannot for the life of me do a post on the latest health news, but I could easily whip out an entertainment piece....

Resume writing is not difficult. We all know many tricks to writing a resume worth checking and reading. Many blogs and websites share the secrets of building a good resume. HR managers are happy to share various tricks on resume writing and teach you some hooks for making your resume look professional. But none of them works when you haven’t got anything to put on your resume! How could you come to be in this situation?...

Such claims may sound fantastic, if not outright absurd, but research has shown that this is real. The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center has discovered that cancer patients who were treated with Jin Shin Jyutsu “received statistically significant improvement” in regards to their stress, pain, and nausea. Furthermore, the Center found that those patients whose pain and nausea scores improved the most were patients who underwent this holistic therapy the longest....

By learning a few tips on how to present bad work-related news to your boss, you can save your work relationships rather than damage them. Giving someone bad news is never easy, but there are better and worse ways to do it. Here are some ways to approach your boss with bad news. 1. Prepare yourself emotionally. Bad news can be stressful for anyone who is involved in the conversation....

Relationships, work, loss and physical illness can pile on and make our hearts hurt. But all of us know someone who seems happy even when they’re experiencing difficulty in some part of their life. Their secret? They’ve learned to control their thought lives. If you’re wondering how to find happiness even when life is hard, you might need brain surgery. Not One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest brain surgery, but sometimes a few tweaks in how you you think can make a huge difference in your happiness....

Fatigue shows up in many ways in daily life, including pure exhaustion, the inability to concentrate, anger, frustration, behavioral issues, weight loss (or gain), memory problems, decreased work performance, and slower reaction times. Chronic fatigue has also been linked to medical problems, including obesity, hypertension, depression, diabetes, as well as increased automobile accidents. We attempt to combat fatigue with coffee, sugar, energy drinks, vitamins, and a variety of other products that claim to increase our energy and stamina, but what if your exhaustion is trying to tell you something?...

I guess such a representation is supposed to make us women feel proud and powerful. Frankly, the image just leaves me feeling distinctly uncomfortable and inadequate. For that matter, any time anyone starts off giving an “ode to a woman,” she is a daughter, a wife, a mother, a friend, a teacher, a professional, and fifty other lofty roles that I struggle to keep count of, I feel like rolling my eyes and well, climbing into bed to sleep off the exhaustion of just hearing it....

I’d heard of productivity books being helpful, so I decided to give it a try. I was hoping that the books would teach me how to get more done in less time. Not only did they help me achieve that goal, but other aspects of my performance as well. After reading 100 productivity books, I have found that there are 15 key elements to staying productive and being efficient. I have compiled a list of my findings to help you to be as productive as you can be....

Just by performing (Even if his stage is the streets), he teaches life lessons we can all learn from. Creativity is a huge factor that can make you world class. His creativity shines in this performance. Since he is alone, he uses technology–he enlists the help of a loop gadget to record and play his accompaniment in real time as he performs–to compliment his act. The accompaniment was not prerecorded either and he uses the gadget as a musical instrument....

How can I live in alignment with my values and beliefs in life today? Living in alignment with your deepest values and beliefs will ultimately make you happy. Human beings are most happy when they are living their life with how they imagine their life being. Imagine what your life will consist of if you live in alignment with your values and beliefs. Will you be a happier individual? It’s about taking action with what you believe in and making the commitment every single day of living out your values....

If you want to be prepared to work from home you will have to be prepared to lose the crowd. Prepare to be isolated and to be out of the social life of the workplace (for at least 5-8 straight hours a day). However, everyone has their own working time and different personal experience, but what I’ve learned is that some things steal our full potential. They are so small that we don’t notice them, and yet they take a lot of our time....

But with the everyday stresses and strains, tensions and turbulences – we make our lives complicated, unproductive and tend to lose sight of the little big things along the way. Life is supposed to be about the journey but often, we end up making it just about the goals. Try these apps that we have collected for you – that make life easier, simpler and all that more joyful....

Early Research Says Yes Before researchers ever began to look at any relationship between humor and intelligence, many educational psychologists and sociologists had already identified what came to be known as emotional and social intelligence. They continue to believe that people with a good sense of humor are extroverted and able to function in society more successfully. In the 1970’s, William Hauck and John Thomas, two researchers at Bucknell University, tested 80 elementary children to determine any correlation between intelligence and humor and creativity....

Here, finally, is a film that depicts the unexplained and unexplained realities of life of a young, single and unlearned mother of today. Meet Sherry Graham, a young, desperate blonde who works as makeup saleswoman by the day and a sexy, ruthless alcoholic who sleeps with strangers by night. Sherry, the protagonist in Adam Keleman’s movie “Easy Living,” is optimistic a loving man and a venture will soon arrive and hold her hand for a fresh start....

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Are you looking for new ways to stop smoking? Nicotine patches don’t work, they leave you feeling dizzy. Chewing gum is a great alternative but doesn’t really do anything for the mental cravings. What if there was a way to monitor your smoking habits, in real-time? At the moment, there’s no app for that. But there is Quitbit. Depending on how you look at it, the gadget can either be your best friend or your worst nightmare (in a good way)....