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ARTArticlePregnancy is not your license to eat everythingOn an average, women gain around 20 lbs during pregnancy. It is recommended and healthy to gain weight while you are conceiving but some women take this notion as their license to eat and often over indulge.
Being overweight makes it difficult for women to conceive in the first place and if you were already heavier before pregnancy, you really need to keep a tab on your weight through all your trimesters.ARTArticleQuitting Pot: 16 Steps to Help You Quit and Stay QuitOk, so you have decided that your life needs a little help and to accomplish this, you have decided to quit smoking pot. You have flushed or given away your stash. You have gotten rid of the paraphe
alia. It has been a couple of days since you smoked pot and you're feeling cranky. You are not sleeping well. You feel anxious and jittery. You're sweaty; you're experiencing shakiness and you're sick at your stomach. You just don't feel good and you keep thinking that just a couple of hits from a joint will take the edge off.
Those detox symptoms will go away if you don't use.ARTArticleRelatinnship Alert! Don't Miss the Warning SignsJust as your automobile needs regular care and maintenance, so does your relationship. Many couples ignore warning lights and other signs that their relationship is falling apart and is in need of a service call. They know something’s wrong, but ignore the problem(s) thinking it will go away. ...ARTArticleRelationship MarketingMany firms have established relationship marketing programs (sometimes called loyalty programs) to fostet usage loyalty and a commitment to their company'sproducts and services. Relationship marketing is exceedingly logical when we realize credit card research has shown that "75 Percent of college students keep their first card for 15 years, and 60 percent keep that card for life.ARTArticleReleasing Your Greatness"No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe." Harry Gray
When we think of releasing--oftentimes it is about releasing the past, releasing limiting beliefs--essentially letting go of something negative.
But what about releasing something inside of us that needs to be brought forward and expressed? One definition of "releasing" is to 'set free from confinement or bondage'.ARTArticleRemaining Healthy, Happy and Positive During Testing TimesWhat do we mean by the phrase “testing times”? There are periods in the life of every person, when certain events and situations demand greater inner strength, courage, faith, stamina, energy, understanding, optimism, inner security and self-confidence. These times may be personal, familial, social or even planetary. It could be a personal illness or the illness of a loved one. We might lose our job or other source of income. The loss of a loved one is the most intense for all of us. We may need to work many more hours just to survive.ARTArticleRestructuring, Redundancy and Serious FunWhat on earth has redundancy got to do with pyjamas? And more importantly, how can the notion serve your business operation ? Well, let me explain. With the advent of the industrial revolution came radical change which continues today. Business’s are restructuring, and with that, the job you had 3 weeks ago…is gone ! Any of you who have been through that process will know of the shock and the isolation. Any of you who have had to orchestrate it will know how difficult it is for everybody on staff.ARTArticleRitual AbuseRitual abuse exists all over the world. There have been reports, journal articles[1][2][3], web pages[4][5][6][7][8][9] and criminal convictions of crimes against children and adults [10][11][12].
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Ritual abuse has been defined as:
a brutal form of abuse of children, adolescents, and adults, consisting of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, and involving the use of rituals. Ritual does not necessarily mean satanic.ARTArticleSelf Esteem: On Matters of Trust and Faith to Create What You Want Out of LifeWith this article I am mindful of running the risk of opening a cosmic can of spiritual worms. So, I will stubbornly stay above the fray and opt out on debating the righteousness of any one set of spiritual beliefs versus another. I write this article hopeful it may engage your curiosity about ...ARTArticleSelf-help Tips to Curb AnxietyThe most anyone can help a person who is suffering from an anxiety disorder is the person himself. A lot of times, people take their therapist’s word as the Holy Grail and forget the fact that it all boils down to their own perspective and will power in the end.
Here are a few self-help tips to help manage and curb stress and anxiety._
Backtrack and review your food journal
Most people have no inkling about the co-relation between food and anxiety. A lot of times, eating ‘mood’ food suchrARTArticleSeller Oriented Theories of Selling1. AIDAS Theory Of Selling
The term AIDAS includes the five words used to express it : attention, interest, desired action and satisfaction. These provide the basis for many sales and advertising. It is the skeleton around which many sales training programs are organised. The psychological writings of William James support this theory. Its construct is based upon experimental knowledge. It was in existance as early as 1898.ARTArticleSexual Addiction: A Brief Description, Part 1If you see yourself in this brief description of sexual addiction, it can be the beginning of achieving recovery and getting your life back. The hope is that there is recovery, that it is possible. "The journey of a thousand miles begins by taking the initial step". The good news is that you ...ARTArticleSexual Addiction: Are You a Sex Addict? Part 2Sexual addiction is a dysfunctional pattern of compulsive sexual behavior that continues even after the addict knows that it is causing major problems in their life. The sex addicts has a compulsion to engage in the problem behavior despite the fact that it has become emotionally dissatisfying ...ARTArticleSexual Addiction: Defining Recovery From Sexual AddictionRecovery from sexual addiction is slightly different than recovery from alcohol and other (AOD) addiction. With chemical dependency recovery, the goal is to abstain from all mood altering drugs. The primary goal from sexual addiction is not abstinence from sex, but the development of the ability ...ARTArticleSharing and ListeningHave you ever had the experience of sharing your life challenges or problems with an empathic listener who gave you his or her undivided attention? A kind of listener who did not judge you and really cared about what you had to say. Someone who was not quick to give you advice and solutions but was interested to hear how you felt about your life challenges. When I recall my experiences of feeling heard and deeply understood by someone I know how much the experience helped me to cope with whatever I was dealing with at the time.ARTArticleSmall business start up - are you an entrepreneur ?Many people have a real desire and inclination to start up and run their own business either as a sole trader, or as a small or potentially large company. Often they are put off even before they start by a number of sometimes well-meaning and sometimes not so well-meaning people who advise them that you need to be a special type of person to be an entrepreneur or to run the risk of setting up and running your own business. Sometimes this advice is touted by people who like to see themselves as somewhat of an icon in the business community, rather than anything that is actually based in fact.rARTArticleSmall business start up - how to choose the best location for your businessEven when you are starting up or thinking about starting up a business there are a number of practical considerations both short-term and long-term that are worth having in mind. They may not be hugely relevant when drawing plans up or making plans for the business, but they are issues that will very quickly develop and which some forethought will help you prepare for.ARTArticleSmall business start up - how to motivate yourselfOne of the first questions you want to ask yourself is why am I starting a business, or why do I want to set up my own business. The value of asking yourself any question you get it helps to focus your mind and clarify thinking around a sense of reality, rather than simply a fantasy bubble that feels more comfortable than the drudgery of working for someone else or not working at all. That is not to say there is not some value in using the motivation of a situation that you do not want to be in as a way of pushing yourself to do something else.ARTArticleSmall business start up - starting a green businessStarting a business that is deemed to be environmentally friendly is a big call for people nowadays and one that receives a lot of attention both in terms of support by state and government authorities as well as by consumers. A so-called green business may literally be a business that is in the work of the environment or doing something that will help the environment. It may also be any type of business where consumers or users of the product of the business want to know that the owners are doing all they can to be eco-friendly or green friendly.ARTArticleSmall business start up - what are your obligations to employees ?As a business start-up you will need to consider whether and at what point you will be wanting to employ people. It may not be in the immediate future, but having a plan will help hugely in the event that your business takes off and you need extra hands. It may be that you want to take on a trainee or an apprentice, permanent staff or contract staff, freelancers or simply voluntary help. Any or all of these are fine but you need to know what your obligations are to them in advance so they can be in place as and when you need to employ staff.ARTArticleSmall business start-up – how much money do you need ?Money is the big question runs through all the other ones. At the outset of setting up your own business the question tends to revolve around how much money you need to start the business up, both in terms of the funding that the business itself will need, and any money that you or your family needs to survive on whilst the business is being set up and before it starts to make any money in its own right. Again this is an area that is a big reality check that a lot of people, but it comes down to planning and foresight.ARTArticleSmall business start-up – How to choose a business locationLocation is perhaps the most important decision you make conce
ing a business start-up. Surprisingly or unsurprisingly it is also one of the decisions that people give least attention to. Its importance lies in a number of factors and is a decision that needs to be taken after much careful planning and consideration. The nature of the location will to an extent depend on the type of business and premises that you need in order to start up your business.ARTArticleSmall business start-up – how to start a home-based businessThe idea of starting up a home-based business has become a significant reality for many people in today's world and is likely to increasingly become the norm in many people. This is because the term home-based business means a variety of things. It can literally be a business that starts and runs from your home, or it can equally apply to people who do any type of freelance contract work and are based at home rather than from an office.ARTArticleSmall business start-up – Who is your competition ?As a small business you need to know who your competition is. This is one of the first questions you need to ask yourself. Realistically who am I likely to be competing against for custom of my service or product. Many people think of this question and say to themselves that either there is no competition, or the competition is so bad that they don't really need to worry about it. Either of those assumptions could be true, but quite often they mask a reluctance to actually assess real levels of competition and where it is coming from. This is a real mistake.ARTArticleSmall business start-up – Why you need a business planAnyone who is starting up a business or plans to set up and run their own business needs to have a business plan. Many people think they only need to have a plan if they are going to be seeking funding either from a bank or an institution or an investor, and as such they either leave it to the last minute or just put on paper a few ideas that they think will impress an investor or figures that they think the bank or institution would like to hear or see.ARTArticleSocial Marketing by Moses IsaacAbout the concept of social marketing, Kotler, known as the father of modern marketing says, "The social marketing concept holds that the organisation's task is to determine the needs and wants and interests of target markets and to deliver the desired satisfaction more effectively and efficiently than competitors in a way that preserves or enhances the consumer's and society's well being".
The social or societal marketing is thus related to the determination of social needs and wants vis - a - vis subserving their interests which is possible when marketers make possible a fair blending ofARTArticleSteps in Prospecting CustomersThe steps in Prospecting are:
1. Formulating prospect definition.
2. Searching out potential accounts.
3. Qualifying prospects and determining probable requirements and.
4. Relating company products to each prospect's requirements.
1. Formulating Prospect Definition.
Prospective customers must have the willingness. The financial capacity, and the authority to buy. They must be available to the sales person. Sales persons only waste time in attending to sell to individuals who have neither need for the product nor money to pay for it.ARTArticleSuccessWhat makes you a success? Is it the size of your house? The type of car that you drive? Is it the success that your children have? Is it how long you have been married? Is it the amount in your bank account?
There are no right or wrong answers. There are answers that society encourages us to choose. In order to be a success, we need to be super thin, very rich and no older than 25. Okay, that is one definition of success.
For some people the definition may be the amount of time that they can devote to their spirituality. Or to exercising. Or to eating.ARTArticleTake the Leap...and FLY!“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. “ --Anais Ni
What would you do if you were not afraid? What risks would you take in your life? What would it look like ...ARTArticleTechnological Changes, Challenges and Opportunities by Moses IsaacMore organizations are now evaluating their human resources and labor costs in the context of available technologies, based on the theory that products and services can be delivered more effectively(and efficiently) through an optimal combination should increase productivity. Most of us are familiar with examples of this combination. Instead of speaking to customer service the representative at Bank Of America to discuss your account, you can interact with an automated system via the Internet or an automated teller machine (ATM) or through an 800 number.