Recently my husband & I moved to a different city within the state we live in. My husband has attended alcoholics meetings intermittently for quite a few years. The alcoholics meetings not only provide great support but it is essential to find the one that will meet your particular needs. If you attend the meetings out of convenience of time or location you will probably not get your needs met. In our new community we discovered that they had a number of different meeting tim...

Whatever it is you want, get ready for it. Make a place for it in your life. Get comfortable with the idea of having it. With preparation it is summoned to come to be. We can wish all we want for what we want. We can dream, we can hope, we can pray. Anyone can do that, we all do that, so what? It won't just work like that unless you show that you are serious. You've got to prepare. Preparation turns the uncertain into the inevitable. Believe in magic, it happens all the...

Welcome to the third and final article of this series. I had a tough time deciding which of the many free advertising options to cover. In the end I went to the search engines and ran a series of searches for pizza and restaurants. From these, I selected two items which typically showed up in the top ten search results. The Open Public Directory Project The Open Public Directory project is a group of volunteers who strive mightily, without compensation or reward, to fin...

Are you like many people who put off what you know you should do in your daily life? We all delay doing some chores, but if you are finding yourself with more and more undone projects, maybe you are a victim of "procrastination". This gets to be a really demoralizing situation. If you accept the challenges that life provides, then you are more likely to live many years longer than those who spend their lives stressing about "getting things done" and never making the necessary...

'We need to think differently to shift our paradigms to a new, deeper, "inside-out" level'; Stephen R. Covey In the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey describes habits as "consistent, often unconscious patterns which constantly, daily express our character and produce our effectiveness, or ineffectiveness". Who we are and what we become is a direct result of our habits. It is in the realm of habits that our character is born, nurtured and outward...

Each of us has an inner critic. There is no way to grow up in our society without having developed this inner critical voice ? which comes from parents, teachers, peers, the media, and from our own conclusions. The problem is that this inner critic sounds like a voice of authority when in reality it doesn?t know what it is talking about. It is a voice based on beliefs that have been handed down through generations but that have no basis in fact. How often has this voice...

Since the beginning of my blog, I have tried to let my readers into my private life a little at a time, without giving too much away (I really don?t want psychos showing up at my door). For instance, through the blog, you have learned, among other things, that I am a recovering drug addict, that I was homeless less than 10 years ago, that my wife is expecting, and that I live near an extremely small town in Utah (population is less than 400). All of that aside, the one que...

1 - Force yourself to separate work and personal life: Social psychologists support that your ability to do a good job while at work depends on whether or not you have a home life that refreshes and restores you. If you cannot stop thinking about the projects you have to complete after leaving the office, try to create a mental filing cabinet. It would act as your actual project cabinet since you will allow yourself to sit down, open it and deal with your work worries. Then f...

Financing a small business does not have to be complicated, as there are a number of resources that can help you along the way, as well as numerous financial and government institutions that cater to those wishing to finance a small business. In terms of financing there are several things that need to be examined; do you need working capital or can you use existing cash flow for the small business? How urgent is your need for financing and what are your risks? What will th...

Nowadays, you can do almost everything online including shopping. For people who don?t enjoy the crowds that are found in a traditional mall than shopping online is a wonderful alternative. One of the things that concerns people about shopping online is how they will make payment and if that payment method is secure. Typing your credit card information into an online payment form can be a daunting thing, especially considering all the stories in the news recently about ide...