You've heard the advice: if you make your workers happy, then they'll be productive. It's nonsense. For years, soft-headed types have looked at highly productive work groups and noticed something. Workers in the top performing groups also had higher morale than workers in other groups. "Aha!" thought the soft-heads, "happiness causes productivity." Never mind that there's no good research to support that. Never mind that the fields of business are littered with the dead...

While we often worry about stress, not all stress is bad. We need a certain amount of stress to make our lives interesting. And since there is no way to eliminate every commitment or deadline in our lives, we should try to control our stress levels in the best ways we can. It would be nice if someone created a mathematical formula for stress that would measure how much stress an individual could take without become overwhelmed. Optimal stress levels vary from individual to...

Mental health, not the sort of thing most people choose to talk about seriously. We've all heard the comments about 'Sad Sack', 'Mr Grumpy' or phrases like 'Smile, I'll pay for the stitches' or 'Stop moping around'. It saddens me every time I hear a remark like that, something insensitive or said out of plain ignorance, usually by people who have little or no contact with people who suffer from depression, and most certainly do not have a loved one or family member that suffe...

I used to have too many goals that I was highly motivated and enthusiastic to achieve. But I found myself working very hard in the first one or two weeks then everything returns back as it was. I was quickly losing motivation, enthusiasm and persistence to achieve my goals. I even felt distracted due to the too many goals I set for myself and felt disappointed when I found myself achieved nothing of them! **Do you have similar problems? One day I discovered a secr...

Direct marketing is, perhaps, one of the most important aspects of running any business where goods or services are being sold. If you are offering products or services, you want to see results. If done correctly, direct marketing will help you achieve that goal. When you implement direct marketing, you are directly communicating with carefully targeted individuals. These are the people to whom you want to buy your products or services, and from whom you will receive the m...

What does it mean to manifest a desire? Lets look at the words manifest and desire. Manifest means to offer proof, attest to or to display clearly. So when we say manifest a desire, we say to display it as having been fulfilled or to offer proof of something. For example, if your desire is to have a house and you eventually have gotten the house you wanted then, it's safe to say that your desire has been manifested. Now, I have first explained what it means to manife...

Whether headache is the cause of tension or the tension is the cause of headache? Think over?if their origin is due to the common cause? Well, the dividing line between tension and headache is thin. The tension headache is the unique and generous gift of high paced life style of the modern world. Most of the people caught in the grip of this civilization are out to run an endless marathon that has no end. Many of these crazy run ups end on stretchers, ambulances and ICU...

These days, many Americans are working from home. They?ve started their own home businesses and are enjoying the freedom from a boss, the flexibility of the hours, and the savings on gas costs. Having a home business definitely has its perks; however, having a home business means that you are in charge ? of everything. You are in charge of payroll (even if you?re the only one getting paid, you still have to make sure your clients are paying you!), you are in charge of product...

Many companies literally have assets accounting to thousands within the firm that requires tracking; this is because if a business does not correctly track their assets, this results to substantial financial losses. Whereas traditional inventory provide you with information particularly on the number of assets your company has, generally it does not address those essential information attached to that particular asset, like location, maintenance, cost and utilization. A...

Every dreamer has asked questions about why we dream, and what those dreams mean. While every dream is unique to the person who dreams it, the world of dream interpretation is a rich, fascinating and exciting one. We have included here some of the most commonly asked questions about dreams and their analysis. What is the significance of dreams? Yes. Dreams to have significance in the real world. Dreams are told in a symbolic language, and the images in dreams tend to cont...