PEOPLE SKILLS
“I’ve had a wonderful evening,” Groucho Marx once said after a very dull party, “but this wasn’t it.”
Are you comfortable walking into a room full of people you don’t know? Breaking into a new circle, club or group isn’t always easy but here are a few ideas you might want to ... Views:976
Weight Loss by Telephone? It Works and Here’s Why.
If you are looking for a weight loss program that costs less and is more convenient than a traditional clinic-based approach, then you may want to investigate weight loss over the telephone. In a major study, researchers found that ... Views:610
What’s Your Ideal Weight Range? I’ll Bet Ours Is the Same.
What is your healthy weight range? Most people reading this may not have any idea. The fact is that each person is likely to have his or her own idea about what a healthy weight range is. This is fueled, in part, by the constant ... Views:978
The claim that most weight loss programs are scams and why virtually all diets are is a strong one and not proclaimed casually. However, it is a firm belief rooted in the facts and supported by my direct experience.
It is almost counter-intuitive but most people who pay to join a diet or ... Views:759
All Weight Loss is Not Equal
Dick and Jane begin a weight loss program at the same time. Each loses about 80 pounds to reach their respective goal. However, there is a dramatic difference in how each looks, which in turn will greatly affect how each feels. This feeling, good or bad or ... Views:765
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Any Plans- byThomas Chalmers and Michael Imani, Ph.D.
Any Plans?
Would you build a house without a plan? Would you book a vacation without some idea of your destination? Ever done a jig-saw puzzle without a picture?
This is your life - do you have any plans? What? You haven’t given it much thought? Just taking it as it comes and seeing ... Views:873
Are You Searching for the Summit?
If life is pushing you in the wrong direction, a good way to get back on track is to have a close look at your values. Wandering around in a fog of confusion can be frustrating until you take a compass bearing to re-orient your direction. Such a bearing is ... Views:734
Are You Waking Up to Tiredness?
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. - Joan Klempner
A lack of zzz’s can zombie-fy us! There is no substitute for sleep. Like healthy eating and exercise, sleep is an essential part of our total well-being. To quote Thomas ... Views:1250
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Black Holes- byThomas Chalmers and Michael Imani, Ph.D.
Black Holes
Ever experienced a downward spiral? You know - one of those days or weeks or months when absolutely nothing went you way? A time when the odds were stacked against you? When everything you touched fell apart? When you wondered if you would ever be able to prove yourself to the ... Views:717
Breakfast and Weight Loss
How many times did your mother employ you with the following, “You’re not leaving this house without eating your breakfast Mr.” Well, she was right about that also. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day if you are interested in not only losing weight but ... Views:612
Burning question
In life you need either inspiration or desperation. - Anthony Robbins
Have you lost your spark? Music always inspires me and not only that, I’ve often found solace in music. When my grandmother died a few years ago I listened to two pieces of music almost ... Views:695
Close Encounters
This very moment of your life is where opportunity knocks. Not later this year or next month or come the weekend or tomorrow morning or 10 o’clock tonight.
Opportunity is in the present. Perhaps you haven’t noticed that she is in line behind you at the bank almost every ... Views:715
Coincidence or what?
Coincidences happen for a reason. You might not fully understand the rationale behind a coincidence until you have the benefit of hindsight. At the point of coincidence, you might wonder why?
Why did I bump into that person this morning? What made me turn down this ... Views:808
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Come Dancing- byThomas Chalmers and Michael Imani, Ph.D.
Come Dancing
Have you been tripping yourself up lately? You know - falling over your own feet? Were your going in the wrong direction, blinded by a lack of self-awareness? Or trying too hard for all the wrong reasons?
Then you stumbled - maybe it was your health or someone you let down ... Views:741
Come Fly wit Me.
I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change. - Jim Rohn
If you have reached a point in your life where having a break to get away from it all is your only ... Views:768
Considering Weight Loss Surgery? Consider this first.
Morbid obesity or clinically severe obesity is a serious condition affecting over 13 million Americans. An individual is considered morbidly obese when weighing either twice his or her ideal weight or is 100 pounds over that ideal. ... Views:640
Driving Ambition
The road to success runs uphill. - Willie Davis
Success = Abundance + Fulfillment + Spiritual Nourishment
Success = Career + Money + Car + House
Success = Love + Family + Health + Financial security
Is it possible to create the ultimate equation for success - a Formula ... Views:702
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Dwarfing Walls- byThomas Chalmers and Michael Imani, Ph.D.
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. - Dr. Laura Schlessinger
I have an admission to make. Quite often I know exactly what I am going to write about and then something happens during the week that throws me off at a complete tangent.
In the beginning, the ... Views:693
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Fine Line- byThomas Chalmers and Michael Imani, Ph.D.
Fine Line
Perhaps the reason we Scots lack a bit of confidence at times is because we shun arrogance.
Confidence can often take you where qualifications can’t and for that reason every child in every school is encouraged to speak out and exude confidence. Negative self-talk is a ... Views:713
Flagging Standards
When you have high standards, you are likely to feel extremely good about yourself. Indeed the higher your standards, the better your life. Choosing to raise standards is a great way of bolstering your self-esteem and making yourself irresistibly attractive to other high ... Views:779
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Fool Marks- byThomas Chalmers and Michael Imani, Ph.D.
Fool Marks
I used to be a ‘perfektionistt’. But, I’m alright now. I still have momentary lapses and get things absolutely perfect, but on the whole I’m not quite as pedantic as I once was.
The problem with perfectionism is that dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s can be bad for your ... Views:737
Got a big but?
What is preventing you from doing what you need to do?
What is stopping you from saying what you need to say?
What needs to happen before you can summon up the courage or find the mindset to do it or say it so that you can be done with it.
The problem is that we know what ... Views:668
Got Any Reserves?
Louis Armstrong sang, “We have all the time in the world.” Are you someone or do you know someone who has all the time in the world? What makes them tick?
Maybe they’re always punctual. Maybe they’re good at forward planning. Maybe they’ve accepted that everything ... Views:730
Jam-side Downers
Life is often full of jam-side-downers. You know the idea: You sleep-in, you’re running late, you can’t find the car keys, you’re eating breakfast on the run, you drop your toast, and it lands jam-side-down!
In order to take the stress out of jam-side-downers, sometimes ... Views:1057
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Know Need- byThomas Chalmers and Michael Imani, Ph.D.
Know Need
The sixties pop group, The Hollies, sang, “Sometimes, all I need is the air that I breath and to love you.”
What do you need? Oxygen, water, sleep and the obligatory nine portions of fruit and vegetables per day? Yes. But what else do you - the person reading these words - ... Views:699
Cast your mind back: When was the last time someone really listened to you and how did that make you feel? Satisfied? Delighted? Euphoric? You might not have to think too far back for this one: When was the last time someone didn’t listen to you? How did that make you feel? Annoyed? ... Views:698
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Mammoth Task- byThomas Chalmers and Michael Imani, Ph.D.
MAMMOTH TASK
Do you have too much on your plate at the moment?
Are you facing a huge task or a daunting challenge or a crushing, unavoidable workload - something so demanding that you don’t know where to begin? Perhaps your starting a new job or setting up a business, moving house or ... Views:875
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New Hoizons- byThomas Chalmers and Michael Imani, Ph.D.
What do you need to break down, so that you can follow through? A demolition company advertises itself as follows: “Hunter Demolition - Creating New Horizons”
In demolishing the eyesore they create another landscape, a broader expanse, a fresh vision. What is blocking your view or standing ... Views:742
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No Go Area- byThomas Chalmers and Michael Imani, Ph.D.
No Go Area
When your self-esteem is low, you become your own worst enemy. Your shoulders cave in and you feel lifeless and defeated. You have entered a “No Go Area.” Your spark is missing. And when you have a low opinion of yourself, life bombards you with obstacles and ... Views:696
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No Messing- byThomas Chalmers and Michael Imani, Ph.D.
No Messing.
Bulging cupboards, disheveled drawers, viral to-do lists, and untidy rooms make for a cluttered life. And when you live in confusion, it can be difficult to find clarity. Raking through drawers or rummaging in cupboards is frustrating and draining.
Granted, it’s not always easy ... Views:734
NOW
“.... to be or not to be: that is the question.” - William Shakespear, “Hamlet,” Act: 3
Be all you want to be: that is the answer! Thomas Chalmers, on life, act: Now
Whatever your stage in life it is never too late to change direction and create that life that you really want. To think ... Views:705
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Number One- byThomas Chalmers and Michael Imani, Ph.D.
Number One
Only you know if you are looking after yourself or letting yourself go? Are you sleeping peacefully, eating healthily, exercising diligently, spending thoughtfully or living dangerously?
Taking care of number one is often the last item on our ‘To Do List.’ When we fail to look ... Views:713
Passion lives here
“Inside of a ring or out, there ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.” - Muhammad Ali
If you followed the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, you may have noticed that the motto was ‘Passion Lives Here’. What better slogan to reflect the ... Views:708
Paws for Thought
A rabbit darted out in front of me last week as I was driving home in the dark and I jammed on my brakes to avoid hitting it. If I had taken time to think about my reaction, the rabbit would have been stew for sure.
Reacting is a necessary, life saving mechanism of every ... Views:701
You can get everything you want in life by helping other people get what they want. - Zig Ziglar
My dad once observed that ‘Everyone’s problems are significant to themselves.’ He was just making a passing comment with an off-the-cuff remark, but, like a lot of things that my dad has imparted ... Views:786
Between the late 1800s and the beginning of the twentieth century, the U.S. and Britian shared the dubious distinction of the world's "most constipated nation." Well, we a bit more enlightened today as we know that being constipated can lead to dangerous toxins being released back into the ... Views:885
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Single Minded- byThomas Chalmers and Michael Imani, Ph.D.
Single Minded
True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. - Jason Jordan
I heard a story about two friends, both women in their early thirties, each one single but desperate to find a partner, get married, settle down and ... Views:697
Sleeping with the Enemy
Success is often sabotaged by a lack of self-care: a loss of self-awareness. In the dash for success and accomplishment we can often forget to remember ourselves. We can forget that if we fail to look after those areas of our life that are fundamental to our ... Views:744
SOUND RELATIONSHIPS
Whether you’re the Chief Executive of a corporation or the Chief Cook and Bottle Washer at home, communication is vital.
Talking is the lifeblood of sound relationships. Communication needs to flow from the top down so that everyone knows what, when, where, why and how ... Views:788
Sow far. So good.
A seed falls from a tree and lands on a park bench. It isn’t dead but it lies dormant. Someone sits on the bench and brushes the seed onto a gravel path. It still isn’t dead but it still lies dormant.
The wind eases the seed from the gravel path onto a nearby flower bed. ... Views:777
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Spend Thrift- byThomas Chalmers and Michael Imani, Ph.D.
Spend Thrift
Who wants to be a millionaire? You could do so much with all that cash. Take care of the family, buy a mansion in Monaco, park a Lambroghini in the garage, cruise the Caribbean and have caviar with your couscous for the rest of your natural days. Or could you?
Perhaps not. ... Views:747
Tackle Your Tolerations
The buck stops here. - Harry S. Truman
Are you tolerating the intolerable? There are situations in life which we knowingly or unknowingly tolerate and these tolerations are likely to drain us of positive energy over a period of time.
A few months ago our kitchen ... Views:788
TALKING TO YOURSELF AGAIN?
Life Coach. A What Coach? Don’t know what a Life Coach is. Don’t know what a Life Coach does. Never needed one.
Then again nobody listens to me any more. Sometimes I feel as though I’m banging my head off a brick wall. Stuck in a rut. Confidence and ... Views:768
THE GIFT OF THE PRESENT
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift - that is why we call it the present.
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How much of your life is lost either dwelling on the past or worrying about the future? When your thoughts are imprisoned by the past or fearful of the ... Views:1402
The Importance of Being ... Not Too Earnest
Seven days without laughter makes one weak! - Joel Goodman
Have you been getting enough fun lately! If you need to think about it, then maybe you haven’t. Injecting fun and humor into your everyday life is like carrying the sun around in your ... Views:902
THE MASK OF SORROW
I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific. - Lily Tomlin
Are you wearing a mask today? The Legend of Zorro is now available on dvd. As you might imagine, with three sons in our house, and a dad who doesn’t mind a bit of swashbuckling himself, ... Views:790
The Point of No Returns
When you are in the throes of changing your life, you will eventually reach the ‘point of no return’: a critical juncture after which there is no way back to the way things were.
The point of no return will mean different things to different people but essentially, ... Views:755
The Real Costs of Obesity
Global obesity has been described as the ‘time bomb’ that threatens to have serious consequences for world health. The generally accepted definition of obesity relates to an assessment known as body mass index (BMI), which is calculated by dividing a person’s weight ... Views:642
The Source of Success
Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest. - Ashleigh Brilliant
What does success mean for you and what is robbing you of that success? Success itself might be subjective but the route to success is objective. Regardless of ... Views:669
The Tomorrow People
Are you a professional procrastinator? Do you like putting things off until tomorrow?
The distance between thinking about doing something and actually doing it is sometimes enormous. We have the desires but somehow we lack the motivation. We want to watch what we eat ... Views:725