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Romance & Happy Marriage Myths

ROMANCE AND HAPPY MARRIAGE MYTHS

This is such a nice little article. What goes around comes around!
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The institution of marriage is surrounded by a number of myths,stories and advice freely offered by people on a daily basis.

Unfortunately, many people listen to and believe these pieces of so-called wisdom to the point where it doesn't help their marriage and it only hinders its growth.

Many of the myths regarding relationships are incredibly damaging and it is unfortunate that they are such common beliefs. Once you understand why certain bits of advice or information can be regarded as myths, you can break through what could be blocking the growth of your marriage.

In fact, you may actually learn to appreciate your spouse and your role in your marriage even more.

Sensationalist television, magazines and talk radio have been key players when it comes to fueling any belief that there is a battle between the sexes happening.

While there are definitively some physical and psychological differences, they are not enough to earn the term 'battle' as a description.

When you allow yourself to consider any kind of battle between the sexes, you risk grouping all men or all women into a certain category and that leads to Stereotyping.

Once you recognize that your partner is a unique individual with a number of positive attributes, you can shed the thought that there should be any type of conflict between the two of you.

Any thought of battle or conflict only leads to lack of communication, misunderstandings and discourages growth in any relationship.

Nice guys finish last is one of the worst possible sayings floating around today.

Whoever thought of that and actually uttered those words must have been feeling truly low and full of self-pity because there simply cannot be any other explanation. Nice guys never finish last.

They may have a longer and harder road sometimes, but it isn't often that you see the bullies and jerks finishing first. If they aren't, who is? It's the nice guys, but they are so nice and gracious you don't hear them bragging about it.

It is also important to note that the word 'nice' doesn't mean 'weak' or ' effeminate' in any way. Nice means socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous and not at all negative in any way.

Nice is not another word for push over or spineless. Nice is as close to a 'perfect' man as you can come and they always end up first in line.

Romance is all you need in order to save your relationship is a wonderfully optimistic thought, but not quite accurate.

If simple romance were enough to save a marriage, it would be running wonderfully rampant throughout the world today. Unfortunately, it takes more than simple romance.

If you truly feel love for your spouse and you are expressing it through romance, then it will save your marriage. If you are trying to use romance to buy some time or to placate your spouse, then you are only buying time or placating your spouse.

Your time as a married couple is most likely limited and should be attended to immediately by a professional.

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TREAT AGING AND DRY SKIN

The pace of modern life takes its toll on our bodies and our skin in myriad ways. More and more we find that we are succumbing to the effects that our polluted atmosphere is having on our skin. Dirt, smoke, grime, and excessive exposure to the
sun all have a serious impact on the health of our skin.

Health and beauty experts the world over, understand the need for effective treatments for aging and dry skin. The treatment of aging and dry skin is not limited to those of us who have reached middle age, when the signs of aging skin are most apparent, but in fact, the treatment of aging and dry skin should be a regular part of everyone's health & beauty regime.

Everyone wants to be healthy and strong; as we age, our continued health and strength is closely related to how we treat our bodies as well as the foods that we eat. Adopting a healthy lifestyle and fitness regime while we are young is easier than trying to switch to healthy living later in life.

Young people are not always aware that their early food choices may affect their health for their entire life. Many American teens live on a steady diet of junk foods; like pizza, ice cream, hash browns, cheeseburgers, candy, sodas and other
unhealthy food. These foods appeal to the taste buds but slowly deplete the body of nutrients and vitamins.

Foods like pizza and soda are harmful to the body because they have a tendency to increase the quantity of fat in the body, but they are also harmful to the overall health of the skin. Sodas in particular and foods with large quantities of fat induce acne, pimples, and patchy skin.

Pimples can seem to a teenager like their worse nightmare. Apart from how they affect the appearance, pimples also increase the likelihood of permanent scarring to the skin. The treatment for aging and dry skin should effectively begin while you are still in your 20's. If viewed from a preventative perspective, the early treatment of aging and dry skin can save one years of anguish later. [See full line of acne products HERE. Used as a system, the effect is synergistic.]

The major reasons for aging of the skin are both internal, as in the genes we inherit from our parents as well as external, from exposure to the sun and other environmental causes. Aging from internal factors begins when we are still in our mid 20's. The signs are not obvious then, but they are present.

As the collagen in our skin starts to deplete, the skin loses elastin, the substance that allows the skin to spring back into place. Dead skin is also not as quickly replaced and new skin cell turnover declines. All of these factors are genetically controlled and must be considered when deciding a treatment method for aging and dry skin.

External factors, such as exposure to the sun leaves the skin vulnerable to heat, radiation and ultraviolet rays. Ultraviolet rays harm the skin and may also be a factor in the development of skin cancer. Over the years, just a few minutes' worth of exposure to the sun daily without protection can result in wrinkles, age spots, freckles, and patchy, rough skin.

Prevention is key in treating aging and dry skin. Although you cannot erase the process of aging and turn it around, you can protect your skin and help it stay younger by following a few simple rules:

- Avoid going into the sun between 10:00am to 4:00pm when the sun is at its strongest.
- Wear a hat to protect your eyes, face and hair from the sun's rays.
- Eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables.
- Drink plenty of water

All of these measures are beneficial for the skin. However if you feel that your skin needs more comprehensive treatment you should consider consulting a professional dermatologist who will advise you about the various skin treatments available. Some options may include lasers, radio frequency, chemical fillers,
botox injections, and microdermabrasion.

There are also consumer products on the market that are extremely effective in combating the signs of aging. Skin care specialists are making use of emerging scientific information about how to keep skin looking its best.

A product called RejuvinolT from www.BODeStore.com can be a powerful weapon in the fight against aging says its makers. RejuvinolT is enhanced with advanced anti-oxidants and vitamins, which reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, and leaves skin firmer, younger-looking, more vibrant and healthier. Hyaluronic Acid, is included in the formula. It is a naturally occurring substance in the body, and one of the most effective moisturizing agents available.

RESOURCE BOX: Visit http://www.HealthandFitnessVitality.com for the latest in Timeless Health and Fitness Tips for 2006. Discover the newest trends at the Fit After Forty Blog. Find them at... Http://www.healthandfitnessvitality.com/blogs/fitnessblog.htm Article courtesy of Kamau Austin, © Copyright 2006

This article is for general information purposes only. Before undertaking any exercise or treatment program always check first with your doctor and health professionals.

Why Become a Coach

WHY YOU SHOULD BECOME A CERTIFIED COACH (think about it!!)

KEYWORDS: network marketing, marketing, Arbonne, health, coach, coach certification, EQ coach, wellness, wellness coach, certified coach, success, entrepreneur, music, stress, mobbing, bullying, changing beliefs, psychology, money, internet marketing, nutraceuticals, wellness products, business

SUMMARY: It isn’t as easy to make money at network marketing as they’d like you to believe. You need to position yourself uniquely, and build a marketing strategy around a synergistic package as a certified Wellness/EQ coach. From this platform, you can launch!

“Network Marketing Business Going Down the Tubes?”
by Susan Dunn, MA, The EQ & Wellness Coach

Let’s face it, building an Internet business isn’t easy. How do you get customers? How do you keep them? What’s the hook besides just being another person selling another something, like everyone else trying to get rich quick on the Internet.

The trick it to position your product around something greater and more sustaining, and there’s a field specifically designed to make this possible. It’s called coaching! It adds the synergy that can get you launched.

Become a certified professional coach and you immediately stand out from the crowd. You give yourself credibility with your customers, and hugely increase your influence-base. You immediately operationalize your product. The person can see it as part of their life. You become someone who meets needs, not someone who just sells a widget.

Coaching developed because it was needed. It’s a source for people who want to make positive changes in their lives. The typical profile of a coaching client is someone motivated, educated, above the mean in income. Coaching is Internet-driven, conducted mostly by phone, so you have people already Internet savvy, ready and willing to buy.

Becoming a certified Wellness/EQ Coach is a simple process. It’s fresh, it’s new, and EQ is so hot. It’s an investment in your business that will allow you to get more customers and clients, keep them longer, and recruit more sellers under you. The major goals are getting your clients on auto-ship and getting others to sell for you. Being a coach attracts more qualified people your way. You can swing a much wider net.

As a certified Health Coach and EQ Coach you become a person who can meet many needs that are inter-related in ways that makes sense to your clients and customers and have a powerful synergy.

Here’s an example. We know that emotions effect the immune system, and that the immune system is, quite literally our health. We have antibiotics for infections, but there is nothing for a virus like flu or Bird flu. Your immune system is your FIRST line of defense against a bacteria, and your ONLY line of defense against a virus. But don’t take my word for it, I’m not a doctor, ask your own doctor about viruses.

Now here’s how it works.

If I’m coaching someone who’s stressed, or looking for a more balanced lifestyle, of course they are going to need to look at all the parts of their life – emotional, mental, physical and spiritual. (These folks trying to get on the bandwagon with “SQ” and things like that are missing the boat – it’s all in EQ.) Once I assess their situation, I can recommend many things. I can offer coaching on EQ after they take The EQ-Map and we find out where the deficits are. My ebook, “About Changing Beliefs, Self-limiting Thoughts and What to Accept,”. A good dietary supplement like DefenseBuilder from Arbonne. Club Vivo Per Lei / I Live for Music, for stress relief. I think we all intuitively know that one answer, like “get a daytimer” or “exercise more” isn’t going to do it. You want to have a smorgasbord for your potential customers and clients.

If they’re stressed at work or want to advance, they might need EQ coaching, my ebook, “How to Build Your Career with Emotional Intelligence", or “Mobbing and Bullying”, new cosmetics and a makeover, and the StrengthsFinder Profile from “Now Discover Your Strengths”.

Or let’s say they’re single and looking for a great guy. I can offer “Midlife Dating Survival Manual for Women,” membership in MillionaireMatch or eHarmony, individual coaching, cosmetics and a makeover, and individual coaching in EQ, because that’s what drives successful relationships.

You can see how when you’re a certified Wellness/EQ Coach, you’re positioned uniquely, and you’re a one-stop shopping center. You can plan a strategy of quality services and products, offering your clients and customers what they intuitively know works.

The formula for successful network marketing: Take a look at your product. Get certified as a coach. Then father other passive revenue streams around it, and promote it all, as a synergistic package, from your website, articles on the Internet, and blog. Don’t forget to ping your blog.

Susan Dunn. I train and certify coaches, provide individual coaching and business programs, ebooks, Internet courses, and am an Arbonne consultant. Visit my website to learn more.

Become a certified EQ/Wellness coach and watch your network marketing take off.

Become an Arbonne consultant and affiliate with the best. I screen every affiliate, as my reputation depends upon it. I choose only the best. Arbonne products include baby products, weight loss, anti-aging skincare, hormone replacement, shaving cream, and nutraceuticals.

Let me help you build a synergistic package as a certified coach that positions you uniquely and adds many strategies for promoting your products and services and adding more passive revenue streams that strengthen your credibility and selling power. Everyone wants to be financially independent. Let me help you reach your dream.

Humiliation

HUMILIATION

Yes, they say you choose being angry or not, and you can choose who can embarass you, and who can demean or humilitate you. It's true, but it's also an ideal. It's the reaction you can choose, with age, and with practice. The emotions are what they are. Part of living in a society is having a conscience, and along with this comes "shame". It's also part of learning ... at first you can't do it, then you start learning and get it right some of the time. For some people, making a mistake, or doing it wrong, or having egg on your face is very shaming, and for others not so much, for we all have our moments.

I heard one story today about a boy who humiliated by a teacher in front of his middle school class, and then observed another situation where a middle-aged employee was humiliated in front of her co-workers.

I don't like it. For them -- for you -- for all of us --


"The horror of that moment," the King went on,
"I shall never, never forget!"
"You will, though," the Queen said,
"if you don't make a memorandum of it."
~ Lewis Carroll

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To all the bullies out there: Hey Mister Bigshot. Learn some EQ and quit picking on other people because you feel so inadequate yourself!

Read Susan's latest ebook, "Mobbing and Bullying: What It Is, What You Can Do About It"

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Ray Garrett, Jr., former chairman of the SEC

IN MEMORIAM: RAY GARRETT, JR., FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
August 1920 - February 1980

The 26th Annual Ray Garrett Jr. Corporate and Securities Law Institute will take place May 4-5, 2006, in Chicago.

The Institute was established in memory of Ray Garrett Jr., Chairman of the SEC, member of the faculty of Northwestern University School of Law, and partner in the Chicago office of Gardner Carton & Douglas LLP.

A graduate of Yale, and Harvard Law School, Garrett served as an artillery officer in World War II, taking part in the Battle of the Bulge, and in the 50s worked for the SEC as the head of the Corporate Regulation Division. He was the beloved father of four. He died of cancer in February, 1980.

The Ray Garrett Jr. Corporate and Securities Law Institute is "designed to provide private practitioners and corporate counsel with a timely analysis of current and critical securities and corporate law issues, and developments confronting publicly and privately held corporations."

Known for his charisma and genius, solid understanding of the law, and ability to build consensus, he took the reins of the SEC at a difficult time, overseeing the deregulation of stock commissions. In his short lifetime he achieved much and his legacy continues.

Bullying in the UK? In the Office of the Deputy PM??

BULLYING IS SUCH AN UGLY THING.

Le mobbing est un poison lent
Mobbing ist ein leises Gift Zuletzt geändert
The Germans and the French call it "the slow poison."

“Mobbing can be understood as the stressor to beat all stressors,” says Dr. Kenneth Westhaus, U. of Waterloo, author of “Eliminating Professors.” According to him, the typical mob victim is a good-to-high achiever personally invested in a formally secure job who somehow threatens or shames co--workers or managers who then decide to get rid of him or her.

However, bullying is complex, and there are other reasons.

I coach clients on mobbing and bullying, both the abused, and the managers who are trying to identify it early and get rid of it. In my experience, it is often the best workers, serious people, introverts, just plain nice people. When it rears its ugly head, it upsets other workers, demoralizes, demeans, lowers productivity, causes lack of focus, raises stress, and causes increased illness, absenteeism and "presenteeism."

At the human level, it's wrong, wrong to treat people that way. At the corporate level, it can lead to exposure, and if the reputation is established cause current good employees to leave (wouldn't you?) and drive good applicants away. Word gets around, you know. As I was explaining to an HR manager the other day, "No, it is not a 'just get over it' kind of thing."

Has it happened to you? Is it happening to you now? Why does it happen? Read my article, Mobbing & Bullying in the Workplace: Has This Happened to You?

We believe, along with bullying.org that "Everyone has the right to be respected and the responsiblity to respect others."

Read my ebook: "Mobbing, Bullying and What to Do About It"

Today from BBC -- MPs on the committee which covers the work of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (OPDM) in the UK are demanding action after Deputy PM John Prescott's department was accused of bullying, with one in 10 workers claiming to have been victimised in the past year. We are shocked and saddened.

22% say they've witness unfair behavior.

FROM THE ARTICLE:

"The survey results were revealed in the annual report and accounts of the ODPM, which covers housing, planning, local government and the regions.

"The department should take steps immediately to reinforce the message that bullying and intimidation is unacceptable

"ODPM COMMITTEE REPORT

"The survey found 10% of staff felt they had been bullied in the past year, 8% had experienced discrimination and 6% reported harassment.

"Some 22% of staff had witnessed unfair treatment and a larger proportion of black or black British staff (14%) had experienced discrimination than other staff.

"The survey also found disabled people were more likely to have suffered discrimination and revealed that a third of staff did not know how to report unfair treatment."

The UK and European Union are definitely ahead in the area of bullying and mobbing. There is even a clinic in German that deals exclusively with victims of mobbing and bullying.

To read the whole article go here.

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If this is happening to you and you would like some coaching, please give me a call at 210-496-0678 or email me at sdunn@susandunn.cc . When someone's being mobbed or bullied, you can't think straight - that's part of the strategy. It helps to have an objective person to help give clarification and strategy, someone who's in your corner.

Resources & Information:

jfo.org.uk

Stop Bullying Now
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It's About Your Health

ARE YOU WEARING BLINDERS??

ARBONNE & EQ - It's all about your health.

A balanced life includes mental, physical and emotional nutrition.
Now you can shop with me safely online for nutraceuticals, anti-aging skincare, cosmetics, natural hormone replacements, shaving cream. All pure, natural ingredients that don't add more toxins to your environment. Viruses (like flu, and bird flu) can't be treated with antibiotics; your health depends on the health of your immune system. Take a look at Arbonne's DefenseBuilder and Get Well Soon Dietary Supplement.

These are the laws of the natural universe:

Law of Mechanical Repair: After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.

Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

Law of the Telephone: When you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal.

Law of the Alibi: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire.

Variation Law: If you change lines (or traffic lanes), the one you were in will start to move faster than the one you are in now. (works every time)

Bath Theorem: When the body is fully immersed in water, the telephone rings.

Law of Close Encounters: The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.

Law of the Result: When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will.

Law of Biomechanics: The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the
reach.

Theatre Rule: At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last

Law of Coffee: As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

Murphy's Law of Lockers: If there are only two people in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.

Law of Dirty Rugs/Carpets: The chances of an open-faced jelly sandwich landing face down on a floor covering are directly correlated to the newness and cost of the carpet/rug.

Law of Location: No matter where you go, there you are.

Law of Logical Argument: Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.

Brown's Law: If the shoe fits, it's ugly.

Oliver's Law: A closed mouth gathers no feet