April 2009
Are You a Southpaw? You Could Find Assistance Funding Advanced Education
Determining a way in funding a college degree can be problematic and may need time. These scholarships are different from a student loan because these are a grant for your education, so it doesn’t have to be paid back. While searching methods of funding a degree, bear in mind that funds are available in truly unusual spots, for instance scholarships for southpaw students.
Left-Handed Scholarships: — It may seem crazy to extend a bursary based on a predominant hand, however it’s worth looking at this: Bill Gates is left-handed, as is President Barack Obama. Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Bob Dylan not to mention Winston Churchill were left-handed as well. Close to eleven percent of the population are left handed. Although in the past lefthanders have gone through discrimination, today they are considered to be gifted intellectually and more artistic. Today, lefties are no longer stigmatised or thought of as odd, as a matter of fact they are often associated with the many great people noted above.
Should you be left-handed and looking for grants for left-handed students, many left handed scholarships exist which you could obtain. The Frederick and Mary F. Beckley Scholarship for up to $1,000 is presently available at Juniata College stuated in Huntington, PA. Awarded to pupils attending Juniata College and it was established in 1979, this unique scholarship assists many left handed students in their pursuit for a college degree.
When you are looking for scholarships, be mindful that some scholarships may have requirements or limitations. This can include grades or financial needs. Multiple program applications may increase the prospects of graduating with a negligible amount of debt. Look At community organizations, clubs and groups related to your hobbies. Lefthanded programs are not the only case; money is also available if you’re the child of a from a armed forces family or have a handicap, to offer some examples.
Exploring college scholarships may take some work, however the return will always be worthwhile. The debt accrued by a college education may be reduced by these scholarships utilised alongside normal lending. Leave no stone unturned in searching every last scholarship. Left-handed scholarships are only one of many options — and do be imaginative! If you believe you might be suitable, then apply, you may keep any debt to a an absolute minimum, and you’ll be looking at a better financial future after graduation.
New Drug Alli Promotes Weight Loss
The newest weight loss drug is now available in the pharmaceutical market. Alli (read as “ally”) is a drug based from Orlistat, a special non-prescription medication created to treat the obese and overweight.
Alli works by inhibiting gastrointestinal lipase, which is an enzyme that reduces and eliminates triglycerides in the intestine. The triglycerides are the main ingredients of vegetable oil and animal fats that mostly come from the food we eat.
The triglycerides that result from the diet go through hydrolysis and turn into absorbable free fatty acids and are excreted through digestion.
Only trace amounts of Alli are absorbed consistently. After taking such drug, the local lipase is restricted within the gastrointestinal tract after a dose of the pill. The elimination route of the free fatty acids is basically through the feces.
Alli works best when taken with a reduced-calorie diet and proper weight maintenance. Taken this way, Alli may successfully solve obesity problems, especially people with particular risk factors like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes.
Graduation Diplomas For All
Graduation Diploma
A graduation diploma is essentially a certificate that one is given upon graduation from a particular institution such as a high school, college or university. The diploma is usually handed to a student amid color and the clicking of cameras in an elaborate graduation ceremony attended by friends and family. For one to be awarded with a graduation diploma they must fulfill all requirements of the institution which include passing in the disciplines and having a good record of extra curricular activities.
Graduation diploma A graduation diploma can be personalized to suit the institution or students needs. This can be done using the official colors of the institution, the name of the student and the discipline that the student studied at the institution. It is possible to get a designer to personalize a diploma both on the internet and off the internet but one needs to conduct a thorough research to get one. To prevent one’s diploma from getting damaged, one can use diploma holders that come in different forms to preserve them. The forms are like frames, leatherette coverings which can be personalized as well. Just like the designers, diploma covers for graduation diplomas can be found offline and online as well.
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Success -Ten Winning Traits!
No surprise - winning traits are common among high achievers.
Are you tired of schlepping to the beat of someone else’s drum? Does the idea of being your own boss appeal to you?
Are you entrepreneur material?
There are ten common traits among winners and the most successful entrepreneurs.
Ten Winning Traits!
An Eye For Opportunity: Many entrepreneurs start by identifying a common need and using some basic elbow grease and imagination to deliver a solution.
Independence: Even though most entrepreneurs know how to work within a framework for the sake of profits, they enjoy being their own boss.
An Appetite For Hard Work: Most entrepreneurs start out working long, hard hours with little pay. They are driven by their vision so “hard work” to them is also just a matter of doing what they love and following their dream.
Self-Confidence: Entrepreneurs must demonstrate the winning trait of self-confidence in order to cope with all the risks of operating their own business. They are empowered with the knowledge that each barrier is placed in front of them for the purpose finding a way to knock it down and move forward.
Discipline: Successful entrepreneurs resist the temptation to do what is unimportant or the easiest but have the ability to think through to what is the most essential.
Judgment: Successful entrepreneurs have the ability to think quickly and make a wise decision. They possess the common sense and good judgement of asking others opinions, but after gathering all available information, they make their own decision.
Ability To Accept Change: Change occurs frequently when you own your own business. This is one of the most important traits as it provides freedom to the entrepreneur who thrives on change - they understand that change is opens the door to new opportuntity and growth.
Makes Stress Work For Them: On the roller coaster to business success the entrepreneur often copes by focusing on the end result and not so much the process of getting there. To be sure, this is one of the more difficult but necessary winning traits.
Need To Achieve: Although they keep an “eye” on profits, this is often secondary to the drive toward personal success.
Focus On Profits: Successful entrepreneurs always have the profit margin in sight. They know that their business success is measured by profits and their business survival is dependent on good cash flow.
How many of our ten winning traits do you possess? Do you belong to this entrepreneurial profile or would you rather maintain a more regular 9 to 5 job, pick up your paycheck every other week and leave the headaches to someone else? Most people, quite easily, choose the latter. They do NOT possess the winning traits of entrepreneurs.
Richard Gorham is the founder and President of Leadership-Tools, Inc. His web site, http://www.leadership-tools.com is dedicated to providing free tools and resources for today’s aspiring leaders. Offering high-quality tools in the areas of Business Planning, Leadership Development, Customer Service, Sales Management and Team Building.
Reach Your Goals - Clown Around
Clown around
Among the Plains Indians, heyoka, or sacred clowns, often purposely behave in strange or counter-intuitive ways, such as living their lives “backward” (riding facing the rear of the horse, drying off before bathing, etc.). They also tell tales of sadness and woe during good times and spin gleeful tales during times of want. This is done to teach the tribe’s members not to take life too seriously, to remind them that all ups and downs are transient, and, on a more metaphysical level, to maintain the appropriate mental and spiritual balance of the tribe as a unit in relationship to the spirit world. Heyoka are held in very high esteem and thought to possess very strong medicine (spiritual/magical power) to keep the tribe healthy and safe through these actions.
You can integrate this “crazy wisdom” into your goal-reaching process by reminding yourself to invest money when times are good, prepare for unexpected emergencies and by remembering to have fun and go a little nuts in times of need to keep yourself from being sucked into a spiraling depression.
Even when times are tight, eating a dinner out or taking in a movie may make the difference between going completely bonkers and having the necessary mental calm and stability to make good choices. A proper balance in life is essential to reaching your goals and to using those achievements wisely - plus, even a little sip of tomfoolery has an impressive feel-good “kick” to it. So pull out that clown nose or those Groucho Marx glasses, slap them on your face and head downtown to see who smiles!
(c) Soni Pitts
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Soni Pitts is the Chief Visionary Butt-Kicker of SoniPitts.Com. She specializes in helping others reclaim “soul proprietorship” in their lives and to begin living the life their Creator always intended for them.
She is the author of the free e-book “50 Ways To Reach Your Goals” and over 100 self-help and inspirational articles, as well as other products and resources designed to facilitate this process of personal growth and spiritual development.
Early Versus Late Potty Training
Early Versus Late Potty Training
Many doctors and psychologists will tell you that you do not want to potty train your child early. They think that it is not conducive to helping the child when it comes to doing potty training early. As a matter of fact, they feel that potty training your child early takes longer than potty training your child at a later stage of the game.
In other words, what they mean is a child potty trained at the age of four might take a day to do while a child potty trained at the age three, might take three days to do and so on.
Now, I do not know how true these numbers are or what their statistics are, but let us look at the facts in reality versus how many days it takes to potty train.
Let’s assume that at the age four it takes you two days to potty train your child versus at the age three it takes ten days to potty train your child, which is an extreme difference. Psychologists will have you believe it is better to potty train your child at four because it takes less work. Well, as a parent, wouldn’t an extra ten days a year earlier make more sense to you than waiting a year to save three days worth of work.
Psychologists do not understand the work that is involved when it comes to having to change diapers and underwear and cleaning soil-filled clothes on a daily basis.
I do not know about you, but I would rather spend 15 days at the age of 2 and get potty training out of the way than wait 2 years and spend 3 days at the age of 4.
Now when you mention early potty training, most people really are thinking about potty training starting as early as one year or younger. Some cultures start potty training as six weeks.
In my opinion, it is not a bad idea to introduce your child to the potty as early as possible, even if that is six or seven months, do not be afraid to introduce your child to the potty.
Now, that does not mean taking your child and saying they have to do potty inside the toilet, but it is saying letting them sit on the potty, letting them get used to being on the potty.
What this does is, when you are ready to start potty training, you will essentially be able to get rid of the resistance that the child will have to the potty. See, the problem most parents have with potty training is they are introducing too many variables into the equation. Variable one is the toilet, or the potty. Variable two is no diapers. Variable three is potty training. So, there are a lot of things that you are asking the child to do at one shot.
What you want to do is start a little bit early. Start only by introducing your child to the potty so they can sit down, even if it is for five minutes a few times a day. Just sit down on the potty so that they can get used to being on it.
This sets the stage for when your expectations are for them to do potty in the toilet. There will be less resistance that other will go through.
So in my opinion, early potty training is not something you do, but early introduction to potty training or to the potty is a very good step to take.
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The History of Teddy Bears
Teddy bears have been around since 1902. The teddy bear came to being when President Theodore Roosevelt refused to shot a black bear held captive by his hunting party. Also worth noting is that President Roosevelt’s refusal to shoot this captive bear became a very popular political cartoon by Cliff Barryman.
A Brooklyn shopkeeper was inspired by the cartoon. The shopkeeper then asked President Rosevelt his permission to name a toy bear “Teddy”. Thus became the creation of the teddy bear.
It is also worth noting that the teddy bear was born in Germany between 1902 and 1903.
The first teddy bears did not have cuddly faces or smiles, in fact, the first teddy bears had expressions which could best be described as stoic. Teddy bears were also quite stiff, the bendable arms and legs and soft, plush bodies came much later.
Now teddy bears are still the number one item to give babies as their first toy, the prize to win your girl on your first date, and most importantly, the toy of choice for law enforcement to give to children in sad, unsafe situations to help them calm down and feel safe.
The market for collectible teddy bears has seen significant growth in the last several years. A collectible teddy bear is very different than the typical store bought teddy that you might give a child. The industry defines collectible teddy bears as hard, not floppy, and fully jointed (meaning arms, legs, and head are moveable). The artists however, also determine collectibles. Steiff teddy bears and others have a very high collectible value.
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Trees that Turn Green
In the spring the trees turn green. It can be a harsh winter, freezing and frigid air blowing in on a constant basis from the north with snow blowing all around. The house can be turned into a mini cuddle area with a nice hot fire place roaring. Now that that is over, the trees turn green, the grass grows, and the flowers become colorful, what a great time of year.
The spring is a time when things come out of hibernation. It is not like everything and everyone goes into hibernation, but we all have to spend more time indoors and less time outdoors, so in a way we hibernate, and the trees and nature hibernates. This time of year is when the tennis courts fill up with people, the baseball fields are full, and more and more people go outside. When the trees turn green it is time to get back into shape and lose some of that unhealthy fat from the winter time, time to take something natural and healthy each day and eat nutritious foods. Since the trees and nature are coming out and blooming, you might as well too. Being outside feels good when the spring is here, especially after a nice rain shower and when the sun comes out, so much fun.
Choosing Debt Negotiation
You would perhaps be shocked what number of families that go through monetary set backs in their lives. Because of this, unpaid commitments will likely be encountered. Individuals can sometimes deal with these challenges because of employment loss, legal separation, bereavement or just plain bad personal money management. Small companies typically confront shortfall inside the first 2 years of business. To blame for a business shutting down can range from greater competition, accidents, loss of big accounts to name a couple. No matter the origin, bad debt can lead to insolvency. Still, there are bankruptcy alternatives that might minimize damage to your individual credit report or your business credit.
Financial insolvency is often described as a lack of ability of a person or a corporation to bear monies owed to credit granters. When you file, the debtor is made to to surrender all non-exempt assets and real property for elimination. While private possessions are protected, you must also promise a pre-specified part of your gained income to the creditors based on a decided repayment program. Your FICO scores will be very low for years, which implies that you will not be able to receive financing for any personal or business for a extended time.
Problems such as these may stimulate incredible trouble. Dissolution judicial proceedings are highly abrasive and may lead to unhappy ideas and deeds. Looking for constructive paths out of a lousy position prior to going to insolvency lawcourt is advisable. Debt settlement could be the choice for you.
If you are wondering why a creditor would want to work with you to resolve the debt think of that negotiation is an substitute for them too. In particular insolvancy judgments a bank carrying non-securitized paper might receive nothing at all. Nevertheless, when a account bearer makes out a resolution the lending institution can at least get back part, if perhaps not all, of the debt the banks possess. Remember too that when added the accrual that you sent in already along with the late penalties and over the limit charges the banks may have billed, the financier might be money ahead even prior to the debt liquidation program.
Debt resolution is a decent option for individuals looking for assistance with debt problems. When just a solitary monthly payment is lost in the mail, most credit cards receive an extremely enormous interest rate increase that then weighs on the current total due. This interest rate hike will make it a degree more challenging to pay off the amount due in the following months which may likely put your debt spinning out of control. Debt settlement will permit you to pay off your debt with simply a fraction of what you owe without crushing your FICO rating for a decade.
The Power of Attention: It’s Story Time!
I heard a story recently, and wanted to share it with you. It goes something like this:
Once upon a time…
The chief was sitting at the edge of the village, obviously deep in thought. He sat there for hours and hours, seemingly unmoving. The tribe was beginning to get worried and restless, but nobody wanted to disturb him. An elder eventually got up his courage and walked over. “Chief,” he asked, “what’s going on? You look so troubled!” The chief just sat there, and the elder thought that he had not heard. Finally the chief spoke.
And he said:
“You know, it’s like there are two dogs fighting inside of me all the time - a white dog and a black dog. The black dog is mean and angry. The white dog is good and kind. And the black dog is constantly fighting the white dog.”
The elder looked at the chief and said quietly, “Chief, so which dog wins?” The chief sat quietly for a moment, and then replied: “the one I feed the most.”
The black dog
All of us have some version of that story going on inside us all the time, on some level. Our “black dog self” is mean, irritable, and angry. It is driven by fear, and has us look at the world through the lens of shortage, struggle, and judgment. This is how we are when we’re feeling small, anxious, and spiritually disconnected.
We act from this place when we honk at someone in traffic, worry constantly about money, snap at our families, friends, or coworkers, or respond in a way that is defensive, irritable, or anxious. Unfortunately, it is all too common for many of us to choose to relate with the world from this part of ourselves.
And the white dog
Yet we, each of us, also have another part of ourselves, at our core, underneath the loud yappings of the “black dog self”. This is, to continue with the metaphor, our “white dog self”, and it is guided by love and kindness. This is the part of us that longs to live with purpose and to have an impact on the world. It is our authentic self, our essence. Our creativity lives here, as do our intuition, faith, and sense of connection and compassion.
There’s a sense of ease and joy in our life when we approach things from this “white dog self”. We are honoring this part of us when we indulge our creativity, do something nice for someone else, act from a place of compassion, or sit in quiet meditation. The more we learn to recognize, honor, and use this part of ourselves, the more joy and fulfillment we’ll feel in our daily lives.
It’s feeding time
There’s a lot of wisdom in the chief’s answer. “Feeding the dogs” is a metaphor for how we direct our thoughts, what we choose to focus on. Have you ever found yourself re-hashing an angry conversation in your head? Or dwelling on a mishap? Yup, that’s feeding the “black dog”.
And what about times when you felt at ease, said “hi” to and smiled at people on the street, connected with a vision of where you want to be, or sat in quiet meditation to clear the clutter out of your head? Those are some possible ways to feed the “white dog”.
You have the power
The best part of this story, the “happily ever after” bit, is that you have complete choice of which of these aspects of your self you want to bring to the forefront. They are both a part of you, and you get to decide, moment by moment, how you want to react, and where you want to direct your thoughts and energy.
Plant the Seeds:
Now it’s your turn. Take a couple of minutes and try these exercises. Really. Try it now. You never know - hey, what’s next…?
1. Take a minute and connect with your “black dog self” - the one that’s fearful and irritable. See what it feels like - what are the sensations in your body? What are the messages you’re telling yourself - and projecting into the world - when you’re in this state? Write these down.
2. Now, shake off that black dog, and connect with your “white dog self” - that kind, loving place. Breathe into it - what are the sensations in your body from this place?
3. In your daily life, what proportion of the time do you live from each of these parts of yourself? Start noticing. Play a game with yourself - carry a little card in your wallet, and make two columns on it. Each time you notice you’re acting from “black dog self”, place a check in the “black dog” column. Ditto for “white dog”. Soon you’ll gain a richer awareness of your automatic responses, and be able to more actively choose how you react.
4. What does “feeding the dog” mean to you? How do you feed your black and white dog selves?
5. Think about a recent situation where you acted from your “black dog self” - a fight, altercation, or other unpleasant situation. Really put yourself back there, into how you were feeling at that time. Now ask yourself - what could be different in that situation if you chose instead to come from love and kindness?
Inna Nirenburg is a powerful life coach and workshop leader. She uses her deep wisdom and intuition, as well as a concrete actionable process, to help you answer the question “What’s Next?” in all areas of your life. See http://www.heyWhatsNext.com for more information.