I want you to think about something for a few moments. Do you have any perception about what sort of image you are projecting? I’m talking about the personal or professional image that you are presenting to the rest of the world.

When we perceive others we do it through four of our five senses: continue reading »

Eliminating good carbs from your diet depletes the body’s sources of natural vitamins and minerals required for essential bodily functions and to fight disease. Low carb diets often lead to ketosis, lack of energy, headaches and in severe cases sickness and even death. They put undue strain on your body and leave it in an unhealthy environment for disease to flourish.

Learn how the body can actually lose weight in a carb rich environment. Carbs are not the enemy. Carbs are not bad for you if you eat the right types of carbs. Generally, the ones produced by mother’ nature are in fact good carbs that help weight loss and proper body functioning. Carbs created by man are generally poor (bad) carbs for you that actually promote weight gaining, not weight loss.

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Creativity is like a muscle. If we want to improve our creative writing, the only way to do it is to give our creative writing muscles a regular thorough workout.

I don’t mean literally the muscles you use to write, the ones in your fingers and arms. What we’re looking at here are your creativity muscles.

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You may be familiar with the Eagle, Peacock, Dove and Owl from the program that identifies your behavioral social style. This isn’t about any of those birds. It’s about being a Canary - or not!

From the early 1900’s to the mid 1980’s, coal miners around the world used canaries deep in the mines to alert them to dangerous levels of carbon monoxide gas. If the birds stopped singing, it was time to get out of the mine … fast.

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Manage more, supervise less.”
- Bryce’s LawWhen I got into the work force back in the mid-1970’s it seemed
everyone dressed in a suit and tie, drank black coffee, smoked
their brains out, and worked their butts off. Today, golf shirts
have replaced suits, herbal tea and bottled water have replaced
coffee, nobody is allowed to smoke, and rarely does anyone work
beyond 5:00pm. More importantly, we used to care about the work we
produced; there was a sense of craftsmanship, regardless of the job.

My Brother-in-law in Cincinnati conducted me on a tour of his company’s
machine-tool shop years ago and showed me how he could take a block of
aluminum and convert it into a high-precision machine tool. It was a
pleasure to watch him work, as it is to watch anyone who knows
what they are doing, be it a waitress, a programmer, a laborer or
a clerk.

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Are you having a hard time growing that thick, lush, green yard that all your neighbors seem to have? Is the weather where you live so inhospitable that every year no matter what you try your grass always seems to be brown by summer’s end? Well, you don’t have to be doomed to having lackluster grass. There are alternatives out there for you, and one of them is the use of artificial grass.

When people hear of artificial grass, they almost immediately think of the bland, flat, green carpet they often saw in indoor sports stadiums in the 1980s and 1990s. Artificial Turf has made leaps and bounds in recent years, and now is so close to the real product that people can almost never tell the difference.

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David Tyree may have been the star of the Super Bowl, helping the New York Giants beat the previously undefeated New England Patriots, but in my eyes, Kansas City Chiefs tight-end Tony Gonzalez is the biggest NFL champion. His team may not have made the Super Bowl, but as The Wall Street Journal recently reported, Gonzalez proved that a football player can be powerful without eating heaping helpings of meat, eggs, and dairy products. Gonzalez has acknowledged that the meat-heavy diet typically eaten by football players can lead to serious health problems, including heart disease and cancer, and is promoting plant-based foods.

A number of other professional athletes and Olympic superstars have touted the benefits of vegetarian and vegan diets. Four-time Mr. Universe Bill Pearl, powerlifting champion Bill Mannetti, 1951 Mr. America Roy Hilligenn, Stan Price, the world-record holder in bench press, and football player and Heisman Trophy-winner Desmond Howard all reportedly did not eat meat. These powerhouses aren’t alone-some of the strongest animals, such as apes, elephants, and giraffes, are herbivores.

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