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- Book Review: Eating for Energy: Transforming your life through living plant-based whole foods - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2008 from Laura MonzoThis book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Fat Loss. Fat Loss involves shedding excess body fat or adipose tissue, with an eye toward losing weight and increasing overall physical fitness. Yuri Elkaim is the Official Guide to Fat Loss. Eating for Energy: Transforming your ...
Views: 1926(1 vote) - Definition: Fat Loss - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2008 from Laura MonzoWeight loss typically involves the loss of fat, water and muscle. A dieter can lose weight without losing much fat. Ideally, overweight people should seek to lose fat and preserve muscle, since muscle burns more calories than fat. Generally, the more muscle mass one has, the higher one's ...
Views: 4432(1 vote) - Definition: Tantra - by Submitted on Apr 30, 2008 from Laura MonzoTantra (Sanskrit: तन्त्र "weave" denoting continuity), tantricism or tantrism is any of several esoteric traditions rooted in the religions of India. It exists in Hindu, Bönpo, Buddhist, and Jain forms. Tantra in its various forms has existed in South ...
Views: 2465(1 vote) - How to Warm Up Prospecting Calls by Using “Social Engineering” - by Submitted on Mar 25, 2010 from Laura MonzoOne reason that most “cold” calls fail and result in rejection is that sales reps start their pitch the same way to everyone they speaking with, sounding like a talking junk mail piece. A much better approach, one that stimulates interest, attention, and engagement, is to use personalized, ...
Views: 2504(2 votes) - New York Times Best-Selling Author Creates Her Own Destiny Following the Messages She Preaches - by Submitted on Apr 09, 2010 from Laura MonzoThe books were everywhere: on the floor, piled up in huge stacks, underneath the dining room table, snaking out into the hallway. In my eagerness to express my ideas to the world, I had written my very first book, On Being the Creator of Your Destiny, had it self-published, printed, and bound, ...
Views: 1364(3 votes) - How to Prevent Your Self-Talk From Interfering With Your Conversations - by Submitted on Mar 10, 2010 from Laura MonzoMany of the conflicts and misunderstandings that occur between individuals and groups could be eliminated if all of us learned good communications skills. These skills include being present during each interaction, staying in the here-and-now and not getting lost in our own heads by ...
Views: 1860(6 votes) - Saved by the Laundry: From Hamper to Happiness in 8 Steps - by Submitted on Apr 27, 2010 from Laura MonzoWhen I was thirty-five, I looked up one day and realized that I hadn't had a life. I'd had a lot of things. I had a husband and a marriage. We had two late-model cars, two high-speed careers, and a two-story house on an oak-lined street. I had everything I ever thought I wanted, and much more ...
Views: 1833(8 votes) - *** We'll See - by Submitted on Dec 18, 2008 from Laura MonzoThere is a Taoist story of an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. “Such bad luck,” they said sympathetically. “We’ll see,” the farmer replied. The next ...
Views: 2669(4 votes) - 12 Tips to getting a job in any economy - by Submitted on Oct 20, 2009 from Laura MonzoWith almost 16 million people out of work, more and more people are finding themselves having to figure out how to land a job in a market where more jobs are being lost. This is the toughest environment in 50 years to get a job in and you better have your best game on to do so. While the ...
Views: 1429(5 votes) - BrainEv - Brainwave Entrainment Revealed! - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2009 from Laura MonzoIt promises to help you think FASTER and SHARPER. It says it can grant you LIMITLESS ENERGY, help you to think like a GENIUS, and enable you to RELEASE all stresses and tension. I'm talking, naturally, about the latest self-development tool to hit the shelves. It's called the Brain Evolution ...
Views: 3182(2 votes) - Emotional Wisdom - by Submitted on Oct 29, 2009 from Laura MonzoWhy do we have emotions in the first place? Many of us experience them as a disturbance, something out of our control. But they’re not simply a thorn in our side. They are natural energy responses to what we experience through our senses. They’re vital messages from our Soul, our higher self, to ...
Views: 1424(4 votes) - How to Design the Perfect Business Card - by Submitted on Apr 28, 2010 from Laura MonzoA business card is your printed handshake for potential clients and customers. It is the ultimate networking tool and a form of miniature advertising for your business. A business card is how you are remembered, how you are contacted and how you appear to the business world. Creating the perfect ...
Views: 2341(7 votes) - Should I be concerned about sea vegetables being contaminated? - by Submitted on Aug 28, 2009 from Laura MonzoSea vegetables have been a topic of ongoing debate and research concerning their potential to be contaminated by heavy metals found in the waters in which they grow. In the world of marine biology and marine ecology, sea vegetables are widely recognized as plants with an excellent ability to ...
Views: 1187(5 votes) - How Changing Your Beliefs Can Help You Become More Assertive - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2009 from Laura MonzoHave you always wanted to become more assertive - to speak up for yourself, express your feelings freely, say no when you want to and stop being a people-pleaser? If so, what has prevented you from doing so? One obstacle many people have to behaving assertively is their beliefs about the ...
Views: 2877(16 votes) - STAYING GROUNDED IN CHALLENGING TIMES - by Submitted on Oct 29, 2009 from Laura MonzoThese are challenging times, with vast economic, environmental, and spiritual changes. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed with stress, worry, or depression – to feel out of control, ungrounded. Staying grounded is our safest and most effective strategy for coping with today’s challenges and finding ...
Views: 1877(6 votes) - Your Constant Companion - by Submitted on Feb 03, 2010 from Laura MonzoYou have a companion. One that never, ever leaves you. It sticks with you, staying even closer than your shadow. It is like a leech sucking your blood, and you cannot shake it loose. This constant companion is your mental chatter. Another name for it is your internal monologue. It begins ...
Views: 1203(5 votes) - Happiness - by Submitted on Feb 03, 2010 from Laura MonzoWe seek it here, we seek it there. We seek happiness everywhere. Yet it eludes us. All of our activities — our pursuit of fame and fortune, our quest for meaningful relationships, our drive to build or change things — are directed searches for this ephemeral state. We get there, but we can ...
Views: 1860(7 votes) - Listen to Your Anger and Use It Effectively - by Submitted on Aug 18, 2009 from Laura MonzoDo you ever get tired of New Age gurus preaching that you shouldn’t be angry. If you’re anything like me, sometimes you are angry. I’ll bet you’re angry when people you trust betray you. I’ll bet you’re angry when people make promises they don’t keep. Anger is a wonderful messenger. It is ...
Views: 1341(7 votes) - Seven Secrets to Forecasting a Rock Solid Cash Flow - by Submitted on Nov 10, 2009 from Laura MonzoCashflow is the oxygen that brings your business to life. As surely as you cannot live without air, a business will grind to a halt if starved for cash. A cashflow forecast will include estimates of sales and expenses, and enable you to clarify how much money you need to operate your ...
Views: 1176(8 votes) - All About "You Can Attract It" and the Law of Attraction - by Submitted on Nov 30, 2009 from Laura MonzoWe are pleased to announce the release of our new book You Can Attract It. This book is all about the Law of Attraction and how you can attract anything you want into your life. We started writing the book about 1 year ago. We have both been living our lives based on specific Law of Attraction ...
Views: 2384(18 votes) - Five Ways to Use Your Business Plan - by Submitted on Nov 10, 2009 from Laura MonzoIt takes guts to defy chaos and predict the future of your business, and yet that's precisely what an entrepreneur does when writing a business plan. Considering it's a written roadmap that can be used at any point in the future to measure whether the business succeeded or failed, most people ...
Views: 1369(6 votes) - ***Activate Your Intuition: Creating Sacred Space to Unleash Your Inner Wisdom - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2008 from Laura MonzoIt can be said that wisdom is a combination of knowledge, experience, and understanding of life as you know it. Within this wisdom you can access striations of compassion, patience, appreciation, and grace. You naturally feel compassion if a friend’s pet dies if you have experienced that ...
Views: 1590(1 vote) - Book Review: Make Myspace Your Space - by Submitted on May 02, 2008 from Laura MonzoThis book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Public Relations. Public relations (PR) is the managing of and organization's outside communication to create and maintain a positive image. Public relations typically involves popularizing successes, downplaying failures, and ...
Views: 1155(2 votes) - Definition: Human Resources - by Submitted on May 14, 2008 from Laura MonzoHuman resources is a term with which many organizations describe the combination of traditionally administrative personnel functions with performance management, Employee Relations and resource planning. The field draws upon concepts developed in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Human ...
Views: 3029(1 vote) - Definition: Public Relations - by Submitted on May 02, 2008 from Laura MonzoWith the advent of social networking and the world of Web 2.0, how we define public relations is ever changing. With a focus on how the outside world views a company, public relations is closely linked to other activities that keep a company visible and on the radar screens of prospective ...
Views: 3000(1 vote) - Definition: QiGong - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2008 from Laura MonzoQigong (or ch'i kung) refers to a wide variety of traditional “cultivation” practices that involve movement and/or regulated breathing designed to be therapeutic. Qigong is practiced for health maintenance purposes, as a therapeutic intervention, as a medical profession, a spiritual ...
Views: 1209(1 vote) - What To Do When The Funding Gatekeeper Says No - by Submitted on Nov 10, 2009 from Laura MonzoWhat do you do when a loan or grant fund gatekeeper doesn't share your enthusiasm for your business idea? After agonizing your way through an application process, it never feels good to be turned down. Applicants hate to hear that dreaded "no" and the feeling of rejection that follows can be ...
Views: 1035(2 votes) - Five Tricks for Finding Hot New Business Ideas Fast - by Submitted on Nov 10, 2009 from Laura MonzoEmerging businesses, quite deservedly, occupy a special place in the mind of onlookers. Entrepreneurs somehow manage to get ahead of the curve and create profit where previously there was none. Great enterprises begin as mere ideas. Here are five inexpensive and easy ways to find hot new ...
Views: 1245(2 votes) - Book Review: Intuitive Wellness: Using Your Body's Inner Wisdom to Heal - by Submitted on Jul 23, 2008 from Laura MonzoThis book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Wisdom. Wisdom refers to the accumulated knowledge, erudition or enlightenment that allows one to judge what is true, right, and lasting. Laura Alden Kamm is the Official Guide to Wisdom. Intuitive Wellness: Using Your Body's Inner ...
Views: 1591(1 vote) - Book Review: The Art of Being in the Flow (Qi Dao - Tibetan Shamanic Qigong) - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2008 from Laura MonzoThis book review is part of a series that covers the topic of QiGong. Qigong is a form of traditional Chinese medicine that involves the coordination of different breathing patterns with various physical postures and motions of the body. Lama Tantrapa is the Official Guide to QiGong. The Art of ...
Views: 1838(1 vote) - Definition: Wisdom - by Submitted on Jul 23, 2008 from Laura MonzoWisdom is having gained knowledge, understanding, experience, discretion, and intuitive understanding, along with a capacity to apply these qualities well. It is the judicious application of knowledge. To some extent the terms wisdom and intelligence have similar and overlapping meanings. The ...
Views: 1310(1 vote) - Definition: Teenagers and Parenting - by Submitted on May 23, 2008 from Laura MonzoAdolescence is a transitional stage of physical and mental human development that occurs between childhood and adulthood. This transition involves biological (i.e. pubertal), social, and psychological changes, though the biological or physiological ones are the easiest to measure objectively. ...
Views: 5125(1 vote) - ***5 New Year's Resolutions to Make Your Family Stronger! - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2009 from Laura MonzoMany of us make New Year’s resolutions every year. We set goals for exercising, loosing weight, staying organized. But how many of us take the time to size up our family? Are you conscious of how your time is spent together? How many meals are you eating together as a family? How much ...
Views: 966 - ***Attitude: Are You Eating Lemons or Enjoying Lemonade? - by Submitted on Dec 16, 2008 from Laura MonzoIs your life full of lemons or lemonade? Expressing your Inner Wizard is about seeing lemonade instead of lemons rather than making lemonade out of lemons. If you believe that your self, your environment and the world is made up of lemons then most of what you see will be - lemons! Your mind ...
Views: 951 - ***Fear: What is it really? - by Submitted on Dec 23, 2008 from Laura Monzo"He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear." - Michel de Montaigne (1553 - 1592) Fear is a sneaky emotion. Fear causes us to stop taking action. When we stop taking action we reinforce the fear. This way of being becomes an endless loop to get caught up in. Fear is the ...
Views: 3422 - ***How Love Grows (Practical Steps To Keeping Love Alive In Your Relationships) - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2008 from Laura MonzoWe are meant to live a life of love. However, no matter how successful some are in other aspects of their lives, they don't feel it's possible to have the same success in love. They tell themselves to “be realistic.” Being realistic about relationships” is considered natural as ...
Views: 1608 - ***I'm Fired : Woo-Hoo! - by Submitted on Dec 16, 2008 from Laura MonzoTV’s "The Donald" seems to have patented the line "You're fired!" but unfortunately, many people get fired from jobs and aren’t launched into national celebrity, and you might be next. You might get: • Canned • A Pink Slip • Shown the ...
Views: 1075 - ***Let Go Of Being a Past-a-holic! - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2008 from Laura MonzoI recently met a client to discuss their dreams for greater success. Within moments a mouse ran by the table. It triggered old feelings in her that seemed to emerge from out of nowhere. Within seconds an old mental state of mind superimposed itself on the present moment. I witnessed the ...
Views: 1239 - ***Personal Finance Do's and Don'ts - by Submitted on Mar 07, 2008 from Laura MonzoEvery single one of us—no matter our location, age, gender, hair color, family background or race—has to manage our personal finances. For some, it’s an exciting passion, a never-ending game of “how much can I accumulate in one lifetime”. For others, it’s ...
Views: 793 - ***Purpose: Are You Living Your True North? - by Submitted on Dec 16, 2008 from Laura Monzo"This above all: To thine own self be true; and it must follow as the night the day, that thou canst not then be false to any man." - Shakespeare Have you ever known anyone who is seemingly doing well and expresses that there is something missing in for them in life? Even with a good job, a ...
Views: 1124 - ***Responsibility - What it is and what it's not - by Submitted on Dec 23, 2008 from Laura MonzoA client of mine, let’s call her Susan, called last week and was very excited! She was absolutely jubilant! I asked her what happened that she was so thrilled about. Her response was surprising at first. But, the Universe does work in miraculous ways. You'll see how as you read this ...
Views: 1430 - ***Should I Take Out A Home Equity Loan To Consolidate Credit Cards? - by Submitted on Mar 06, 2008 from Laura MonzoIf you’re like most Americans, you have some sort of credit card debt. If you’re paying upwards of 10% and even 20% on those credit cards, then chances are you aren’t making much headway when it comes to paying them off. Turn on any TV or pick up any newspaper and you’ll ...
Views: 937 - ***Success Coaching: Instant Success - by Submitted on Mar 12, 2008 from Laura MonzoAs a success coach, I have a lot of fun working with energetic, motivated individuals who are eager to turn their dreams into reality. They’ve made that important step from talking about success to actually creating it. In helping these “doers” create the necessary ...
Views: 2861 - ***Success: The Empowered Inner Wizard Formula - by Submitted on Dec 23, 2008 from Laura Monzo"When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously." -Shakti Gawain According to Sherry Buffington, co-developer of the CORE Multidimensional Personality Profile and the author of the book, “The Law of ...
Views: 1133 - ***The ABC's of Breathing - by Submitted on Dec 30, 2008 from Laura MonzoBreathing is our most important act – we do it every moment of our lives, some 20,000 times each day. Breathing incorrectly can produce tension, exhaustion and vocal strain, and can interfere with athletic activity and encourage aches and illnesses. Breathing correctly, however, ...
Views: 2439 - ***The Benefit of Distance in Distance Healing - by Submitted on Jan 20, 2009 from Laura MonzoYour pains, physical and emotional, are like alarms. They are there to tell you something. They may just be the loudest sirens in your inner guidance system and they get your attention every time. In fact, they can get you to slow down, maybe even stop, and review your life. And as you ...
Views: 1111 - A Vacation with a Purpose - by Submitted on Oct 17, 2008 from Laura MonzoA Vacation with a Purpose: Spa 101 When you think of spa, you may visualize healing waters and mineral springs. Your image would be on target, however nowadays ‘spa’ is much more than that. Consider going to a Day Spa and pampering yourself for a day, add in Yoga or a Pilates class ...
Views: 4575 - Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted - by Submitted on Oct 30, 2008 from Laura MonzoBlessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. By Curt Doll After a great deal of physical, mental, emotional and most significant – spiritual suffering, my ego became deflated to a human level. Actually, on an inner level, my ego was already nonexistent due to a severe ...
Views: 1223 - Book Review: Alan Oken's Complete Astrology: The Classic Guide to Modern Astrology - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2008 from Laura MonzoThis book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Astrology. Astrology is the study of the positions and relationships of the sun, moon, stars, and planets in order to judge their influence on human actions and events. Dr. Russ Durocher is the Official Guide to Astrology. Alan ...
Views: 2598 - Book Review: Body Knowledge SystemR: An Awesome Intelligence - By Stephanie Wood - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2010 from Laura MonzoThe Body Knowledge System® opens the doorway to a different kind of intelligence- one that includes intuition, physical well-being, emotional intelligence and enhanced spirituality-by reuniting us with our bodies. The result is better choices and better lives. Practice the dance, dance the ...
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