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Your 7 days program to self-improvement

March 20th, 2011 Jan Tallent

There are many ways to lose your sense of self-esteem.

Whatever happens, we should try not to lose our own sense of self.

So what does it take to be a cut above the rest?

Here are some of the things you can think and improve on that should take you through a week.

1. Know your purpose

Are you wandering through life with little direction – hoping that you’ll find happiness,
health and prosperity? Identify your life purpose or mission statement and you will
have your own unique compass that will lead you to your truth north every time.

This may seem tricky at first when you see yourself to be in a tight or even dead end.
But there’s always that little loophole to turn things around and you can make
a big difference to yourself.

2. Know your values

What do you value most? Make a list of your top 5 values.

Some examples are security, freedom, family, spiritual development, learning.
Check your goals against your values. If the goal doesn’t align with any of your
top five values – you may want to reconsider it or revise it.

The number shouldn’t discourage you, instead it should motivate you to do more
than you have ever dreamed of.

3. Know your needs

Unmet needs can keep you from living authentically. Take care of yourself.
Do you have a need to be acknowledged, to be right, to be in control, to be loved?
There are so many people who lived their lives without realizing their dreams
and most of them end up being stressed or even depressed.
List your top four needs and get them met before it’s too late!

4. Know your passions

You know who you are and what you truly enjoy in life.
Obstacles like doubt and lack of enthusiasm will only hinder you.
Don’t let them derail your chance to become the person you ought to be.
Express yourself and honor the people who have inspired you to become
the very person you wanted to be.

5. Live from the inside out

Increase your awareness of your inner wisdom by regularly reflecting in silence.
Commune with nature. Breathe deeply to quiet your distracted mind.
For some, it is enough to just sit in a dimly lit room and play some classical music.
There’s sound, yes, but music does soothe the savage beast.

6. Honor your strengths

What are your positive traits? What special talents do you have?

List three – if you get stuck, ask those closest to you to help identify them.
Are you imaginative, witty, good with your hands? Find ways to express
your authentic self through your strengths.

You can increase your self-confidence when you can share what you know with others.

7. Serve others

When you live authentically, you may find that you develop an interconnected sense of being.
When you are true to who you are, living your purpose and giving of your talents to the world
around you, you give back in service what you came to share with others -your spirit – your essence.
The rewards for sharing your gift with those close to you is indeed rewarding.

Self-improvement is indeed one type of work that is worth it.
The difference lies within ourselves and how much we want to change for the better.

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Your 5 minutes daily program to Stress management

February 4th, 2011 Jan Tallent

Since stress is unavoidable in life, it is important to find ways to decrease or even, when possible,
prevent stressful incidents and decrease negative reactions to stress.

Here are some of the things that can be done to help ease your stressful life …

Managing time

Time management skills can allow you more time with your family and friends
and possibly increase your performance and productivity.
This will help reduce your stress.

To improve your time management:

· Save time by focusing and concentrating, delegating and making sure to schedule some time for yourself.
· Keep a record of how you spend your time, including work, family and leisure time.
· Prioritize your time by rating tasks by importance and urgency. Redirect your time to those activities
that are important and meaningful to you.
· Manage your commitments by not over- or under-committing.
Don’t commit to what is not important to you.
· Deal with procrastination by using a day planner, breaking large projects into smaller ones
and setting short-term deadlines.
· Examine your beliefs to reduce conflict between what you believe and what your life is like.

Build healthy coping strategies

It is important that you identify your coping strategies. One way to do this is by recording the stressful event, your reaction and how you cope in a stress journal. With this information, you can work to change unhealthy coping strategies into healthy ones-those that help you focus on the positive and what you can change or control in your life.

Lifestyle

Some behaviors and lifestyle choices affect your stress level. They may not cause stress directly,
but they can interfere with the ways your body seeks relief from stress. Try to:

· Balance personal, work, and family needs and obligations.
· Have a sense of purpose in life.
· Get enough sleep, since your body recovers from the stresses of the day while you are sleeping.
· Eat a balanced diet for a nutritional defense against stress.
· Get moderate exercise throughout the week.
· Limit your consumption of alcohol.
· Don’t smoke.

Social support

Social support is a major factor in how we experience stress. Social support is the positive support you receive from family, friends, and the community. It is the knowledge that you are cared for, loved, esteemed and valued. More and more research indicates a strong relationship between social support and better mental and physical health.

Changing thinking

When an event triggers negative thoughts, you may experience fear, insecurity, anxiety, depression, rage, guilt and a sense of worthlessness or powerlessness. These emotions trigger the body’s stress, just as an actual threat does. Dealing with your negative thoughts and how you see things can help reduce stress.

· Thought-stopping helps you stop a negative thought to help eliminate stress.
· Disproving irrational thoughts helps you to avoid exaggerating the negative thought, anticipating the worst and interpreting an event incorrectly.
· Problem solving helps you identify all aspects of a stressful event and find ways to deal with it.
· Changing your communication style helps you communicate in a way that makes your views known without making others feel put down, hostile or intimidated. This reduces the stress that comes from poor communication. Use the assertiveness ladder to improve your communication style.

Whether you’re the mail guy, the CEO or the average working parent, stress is one unwanted visitor you would love to boot out of your life.

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It’s time to start a Healthy life!

January 30th, 2011 Jan Tallent

First off, let me admit that I am NOT a health professional. I am, however, a very healthy person.

I read a lot of health related articles and have some clients in the health services profession.

I do a lot of health and weight loss transcriptions and also proofread and edit quite a few medical documents.

I take the best of the advice I can find and work it into my own “health” regimen.

This said, I also am a big fan of PLR content, or Private Label Rights articles that I buy with the rights
to use as my own.

Here is one that I think is really very good. Let me know what you think in the comments
if you have an opinion or some tips you want to share.

“The Way to Wellness” – It’s time to start a Healthy life: your 7 day program

How many times have you gone to sleep at night, swearing you’ll go to the gym in the morning
and then changing your mind just eight hours later because when you get up, you don’t feel
like exercising?

While this can happen to the best of us, it doesn’t mean you should drop the ball altogether
when it comes to staying fit.

What people need to realize is that staying active and eating right are critical for long-term health
and wellness — and that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

The more you know about how your body responds to your lifestyle choices, the better you can customize
a nutrition and exercise plan that is right for you. When you eat well, increase your level of physical activity, and exercise at the proper intensity, you are informing your body that you want to burn a substantial amount of fuel. This translates to burning fat more efficiently for energy.

In other words, proper eating habits plus exercise equals fast metabolism, which, in turn gives you
more energy throughout the day and allows you to do more physical work with less effort.

The true purpose of exercise is to send a repetitive message to the body asking for improvement
in metabolism, strength, aerobic capacity and overall fitness and health. Each time you exercise,
your body responds by upgrading its capabilities to burn fat throughout the day and night.
Exercise doesn’t have to be intense to work for you, but it does need to be consistent.

I recommend engaging in regular cardiovascular exercise four times per week
for 20 to 30 minutes per session, and resistance training four times per week
for 20 to 25 minutes per session.

This balanced approach provides a one-two punch, incorporating aerobic exercise to burn fat
and deliver more oxygen, and resistance training to increase lean body mass and burn more
calories around the block.

Here’s a sample exercise program that may work for you:

* Warm Up — seven to eight minutes of light aerobic activity intended to increase blood flow
and lubricate and warm-up your tendons and joints.

* Resistance Training — Train all major muscle groups.
One to two sets of each exercise. Rest 45 seconds between sets.

* Aerobic Exercise — Pick two favorite activities -jogging, rowing, biking, cross-country skiing
or whatever fits your lifestyle. Perform 12 to 15 minutes of the first activity and continue with
10 minutes of the second activity. Cool down during the last five minutes.

* Stretching — Wrap up your exercise session by stretching, breathing deeply, relaxing and meditating.

When starting an exercise program, it is important to have realistic expectations.
Depending on your initial fitness level, you should expect the following changes early on.

* From one to eight weeks — Feel better and have more energy.

* From two to six months — Lose size and inches while becoming leaner.
Clothes begin to fit more loosely. You are gaining muscle and losing fat.

* After six months — Start losing weight quite rapidly.

Once you make the commitment to exercise several times a week, don’t stop there.

You should also change your diet and/or eating habits,’ says Zwiefel.
Counting calories or calculating grams and percentages for certain nutrients is impractical.
Instead, I suggest these easy-to-follow guidelines:

* Eat several small meals (optimally four) and a couple of small snacks throughout the day.

* Make sure every meal is balanced — incorporate palm-sized proteins like lean meats, fish, egg whites
and dairy products, fist-sized portions of complex carbohydrates like whole-wheat bread and pasta,
wild rice, multigrain cereal and potatoes, and fist-sized portions of vegetable and fruits.

* Limit your fat intake to only what’s necessary for adequate flavor.

* Drink at least eight 8-oz. glasses of water throughout the day.

* I also recommend that you take a multi-vitamin each day to ensure you are getting
all the vitamins and minerals your body needs.

None of these are drastic or hard to achieve.

We only live once and we deserve to enjoy it!

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