Self OVERHAUL

Benefits of juice...  Eating raw foods is a way to give your body some of the nutrition it desperately needs. Many of us are at least slightly overweight, and even the morbidly obese are starving for essential proteins and amino acids. All the processed, cooked foods we eat give us only a small percentage of what we need. Consequently, we eat and eat and yet we’re still not nourished. Psychologists try to tell us we’re eating to make up for an emptiness in our souls. Wrong! Our bodies are empty and trying to tell us so.  Eating raw foods is good for us on so many levels. It’s satisfying to eat them. They take more time to chew and swallow, so we don’t eat as fast. And we’re getting so much more in the way of nutrition by consuming fruits, vegetables, nuts and sprouts.  It can take time to prepare raw foods, however. Which is why a juicer is an important addition to your kitchen once you start to be serious about raw foods. A good juicer can process an entire apple – seeds...

TIPS FOR A POLITE E-MAIL....  Be concise Less definitely means more. When you are answering and email you don’t have to include the original message as well. The person that sent it to definitely has a copy of the message, and if you are planning to say just “so do I”, it really wouldn’t make sense. Experts say any message of more than 100 lines is considered long and it will probably end up not read. Some companies are taxed for every second of internet connection, so they will not gladly accept messages that are too long. Be careful with attachments They are a great invention, but they should be used carefully. If you send a short message as attachment, you will certainly annoy the reader. He will open your email, wait for another program to open the attached document, and find out that you only wrote in the attachment that you will all meat at 20 at some restaurant. if an attachment is required, let the recipient know what it contains. Attachment with strange extensions can cont...

Wasted Opportunities....  “I regret not having to study well enough to enter the science stream with my friends”  “I should have auditioned for that part in the play but I was afraid and now it is just too late”. We have all heard such statements before; perhaps from ourselves. These are statements about wasted opportunities.  Everyday, life presents us with opportunities, mainly little opportunities but sometimes big ones too. These opportunities can be either positive or negative. Someone invites us to try smoking. That is a negative opportunity. A new student joins school and we have an opportunity to make a new friend. That is a positive opportunity. A negative opportunity lessens one’s ability to be a better person. A positive opportunity brings personal enrichment in one’s life. Many positive opportunities are presented to us daily but we hardly ever take them up. Failure to respond could be due to our internal makeup; that is our attitudes, beliefs, values, percept...

Work At Home Parent....  How can we define a Work At Home Parent? Almost everyone is a parent, and everyone works, maybe from home…! A Work At Home Parent is a businessman or businesswoman takes care of children while working from home. A businessman or businesswoman who conducts business at home may do so for a lot of reasons, despite reasons it gives one the flexibility to plan their time between business and family. The reasons could be numerous, but which parent would forego the opportunity of working their own hours all the while spending time with their children and family at the same time fulfilling social obligations. This class of entrepreneurs, the Work At Home Parents, also saves a lot in terms of time and money. The main objective of a Work At Home Parent would be to integrate their business time with parenting responsibilities without a loss in income or opportunity. This article deals with integrating entrepreneurship with parenting to the best possible effect and his...

Is winning or losing really important? Winners and losers    A casual look at the world reveals that there is competition everywhere. This is evident in every area of life – ranging from games to work, there seem to be one mad rush everywhere when we try to ‘succeed’. Often it does not matter to us who perishes while we succeed or ‘win’. It does not matter who ‘loses’ as long as it is not we who lose. This mad rush in every area of life divides the world into winners and losers. Almost everyone is categorized as one or the other; to be admired or despised; to be befriended or to be ostracised; and to be emulated or avoided. One is prompted to ask: Is winning and losing really important? Is being a winner or a loser all that there is to life?  If we listen to stories of successful people, we see that not all of them consider themselves as ‘winners’. Frequently, there have been cases where people who have been labelled successful businessmen have lost their families th...