However far the stream flows, it never forgets its source. (Stratton)

Need A Change? How To Know For Sure!

April12Y

You snap at your friends and family. Stress fills your days and when your day is over, and you re exhausted, you can t sleep. Nothing feels quite right. Your zest for life diminishes, and your desire to DO disappears. You know you re not depressed but emotionally you re not feeling your best. Your perpetual bad day has you thinking a change is in order. But even though you know a change is needed, figuring out what needs changing is a little harder to pinpoint. With so many demands on your energy and time you feel as though you can t even begin to figure out what should stay and what should go. And that will continue to be the case UNLESS you pay attention to --- your emotions. Your emotions play an important role in helping you know whether something in your life is working or not working. Every emotion you experience is a GIFT your body gives you to tell you whether you re on track or off track. Your emotions express how you re feeling about the world around you based on your beliefs, values, goals and even your higher...

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: When A Brain Aneurysm Bleeds

February20Y

Spontaneous subarachnoid pronounced sub-uh-RACK-noid hemorrhage is rightfully the most feared cause of sudden headache. Usually due to rupture of aneurysms abnormal, balloon-like outpouchings of arteries located near the base of the brain, subarachnoid hemorrhages involve bleeding into the space between the brain and its surrounding membrane, known as the meninges. A traumatic blow to the head can also cause subarachnoid hemorrhage, but this is a completely unrelated process and is not the subject of this essay. About 10 of people with spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhages die before they even get to a hospital and over a third die within the first four weeks following the bleed. Survivors can have significant impairments due to brain damage. And while the effects of the initial bleed are bad enough, in the following few weeks individuals with subarachnoid hemorrhage can suffer additional, serious complications. One complication is that the aneurysm responsible for the initial hemorrhage can bleed a second time and cause even...

Modeling A Successful Model

December23Y

Successful people have followed certain strategies or models to achieve successes. Whether they are athletes, who always perform at the highest level, or businessmen who own titan companies, or salesmen who always exceed their sales targets every month, what make them achieve all these successes. For every outcome that is produced, it is a result of an action. To achieve success, one may need to take a lot of different actions so as to find out what is the best action that will produce the best outcome. Everyone can achieve what they want if they find out what are the exact strategies or actions that successful role models of their desired industry did. By finding out what they did, and applying the same action, you will be able to produce similar results. It will save you the most precious asset of your life, which is time. You will not need to spend the time on trial and error to find out the right action to take, if you model somebody who has already found it. We have been subconsciously modeling people since we were young...

The One Decision A Man Could Make For His Wedding

October30Y

If the future wife makes all of the important decisions when planning the wedding, she will MOST likely wear the pants in the family. The problem is most men do not care about many of the decisions that are needed when planning a wedding. The wedding colors, the flowers, the location are decisions that most men do not care about. So what decision does a man make. I found the caterer. Finding the caterer was a big enough decision to keep the respect of my future wife and gain the respect of all her friends. I did not choose the menu the caterer did. I found a true professional. My caterer has restaurant experience on three continents on his way to earning the title of Executive Chef. If you want to find the best restaurants in the Washington, DC area, go to the restaurants he lists on his resume. When I choose my caterer, I choose a world class chef. My caterer supplied a menu that was so far above the usual wedding menu of boiled chicken and baked fish, it was like eating at a four star restaurant. So how did I find my caterer...

Improving Your Self-image Helps Improve Your Life

August24Y

Your self-image is what you think of yourself. It defines hoe you feel others see you and no matter how rich or famous you are, there is always something about your self-image that you want to improve. Everyone strives to be better, not better than other people, but just to be a better person. When you have a poor self-image, you have negative thoughts about yourself. Although the best advice is to try to change your thinking to positive thoughts, this is easier said than done. Take a look at your life and if you are really serious about making a change to your self-image, have a pen and paper so you can jot down your thoughts. Make a list of all the things you like about yourself and then a list of all the things that you don t like. In your negative list, choose the one thing you feel is most important - the one thing that you really feel you will have to change. Then you can start plotting the course to achieve this. Focus on one thing at a time and chances are you will find that other changes occur as a result. Give yourself...