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  We almost all think we are masters of our own fate.  While it is true that we all make our own choices there are many things that influence what we choose.  Ask yourself: Why do some people choose professions that help only themselves while others of us choose professions that help those in need? Health and wellness professionals all share the desire to help others.  Our work is commendable and very important, but why do we choose the profession weíre in? Professionals in the "caring jobs" share some unique qualities.  We're almost always creative, sensitive and nurturing.  We also almost all share a willingness to help others in every way possible and suffer pangs of guilt if we say "no."  Our willingness to help sometimes comes with a price.  It leaves us vulnerable to burn out. Some clients can be draining to even the most enthusiastic wellness professional. Burnout is often the result of a professional feeling overwhelmed with his or her job...

There isn't a universal definition of dating, and specially of dating again. For most people, dating means a process leading up to a deep and permanent relationship. The problem with such definition is that we are placing the ultimate result of our dating in another person. We may be depending on someone else to create meaning within the dating process.  Define dating again as The Joy Of Dating Again. It is all about rediscovering ourselves, and then sharing with others our growth and realizations.  Right now, take a moment and think about what the joy of dating again means to you.  Here are some definitions as examples: The joy of dating again is a reflection of your evolution from pain to joy. The joy of dating again is a self-growth process, and we share ourselves through interacting with others.   The joy of again is a method of discovering your new sense of self and developing your instinct. The joy of dating again is a trip into the unknown, expecting t...

Do you have a goal? A focus in life? Have you invested a great deal of time, effort, money to achieve and yet feel you haven't made it yet? For all your effort do you still feel that there is something missing in your life? It is obviously very important to set goals in your life. It gives you a focus a way forward a mechanism for making decisions when faced with a number of options. However, it can also be a prison cell. How can making goals and having a focus be a prison cell we hear you ask. It becomes a prison cell when you create goals based on your past experiences. You look back at your skills and capabilities and then decide what you ought to focus on. In other words you set the future on the past. It creates the illusion that you are going forward when all the time you are stuck within the boundary of your past capabilities. It's like driving your car by looking in the rear view mirror all the time. You have a great vision of what happened in the past but haven't a...

What is a recession?  This happens when there is a significant decline in the economy which usually lasts for a short period of time. You can tell there is one when consumers don't spend that much, a lot of people are unemployed, companies have to make job cuts, industrial production is down and lately, there is a housing crisis as people have to foreclose their homes.  The technical indicator which tells you that the country is in a recession is when there has been 2 consecutive quarters of negative growth which is measured by the country's GDP or gross domestic product.  Experts say that this is bound to happen because it is part of the business cycle and things usually improve within 16 to 18 months. What is a business cycle? It is considered to be a periodic but irregular up and down movement in a country's economic activity which can be measured by fluctuations in the GDP as well as other macroeconomic variables.  Things are going up when the economy recovers an...

 Are You Trying To Slim Down  Give These A Try Losing weight is a challenge for most, but it doesn't have to be an insurmountable one. There are many ways to make your weight loss goal more obtainable. If one method doesn't work for you, you can always try something else. The important thing is to keep at it. Read through this article to learn lots of great ideas and suggestions to help you lose weight. Eating protein with each meal will definitely, bring about weight loss. Filling up on lean protein will be more satisfying to you then carbs or fats will. It will fill you up faster and keep you full for longer periods of time. If you fill up on carbs, you will find that about an hour or two later, you will be hungry again. Make sure to get the proper amount of water every day. When your body is dehydrated, it tends to hold on to fat stores because water is necessary to flush out your system. Drinking enough water every day, especially if you haven't been, helps to flush you...

 How To Generate Traffic Using Only Free Methods Putting up a company would of course require a lot of things, to get straight to the point, you need  capital. To make money requires money as well. But of course, with the versatility the internet offers, there are many ways you could find that could help optimize the potential of your site or business in generating traffic. While there are ways to jumpstart your traffic flows, many sites don't have the resources that others have to generate more traffic for your site. Well, you don't have to spend a cent; all you need is the proper mindset and a lot of eagerness. You also must have the drive and perseverance to do hard work and research to generate more traffic for your site. How sweet it is to have more traffic for your site without spending a single cent.  Now it's a sure thing that many sites have articles that offer tips and guidelines in how to generate traffic using only free methods. Because it is possible, you don...

 Benefits of a Recession Would you believe that there are benefits to a recession? Yes there are and by knowing what they are, you can take advantage of them.  First, when the economy is in recession, you will soon get a fat check from the Internal Revenue Service or HMRC amounting to £300 or £1,200. Why does the government issue it? This is the government's way to help the economy. If you have not received yours yet, you will probably get it next year.  As a result of the recession, majority of the bonds and stocks are undervalued. This means you can buy these at reasonable prices. Just make sure you do some research first because you only want to buy those that have a good return when the economy recovers. You should also look into buying some property given that their value is also low.  Since you are a consumer, you will also get tax breaks. What happens here is that you don't have to pay that much income tax this year as a direct result of a deduction for privat...

 A Recession Is a Fact of Life Believe it or not, a recession is a fact of life. Why? Because it is part of the business cycle and this is bound to happen when the economy expands, slows down until it hits rocks bottom and then recover once again.  The only difference between a recession and the four seasons we experience in a year is that this problem does not happen often. It may take years before this happens again and in our country's history, the last time we had a recession in 2000.  When it does happen, experts won't admit that it is there even if everyone around knows that it is. How? By looking at various factors which include consumer spending, the unemployment rate, industrial production, real income and wholesale trade.  One solution to help stimulate the economy is to lower the interest rate. But since this is not enough to make the problem go away, we have to our share until this is over. Companies have to make job cuts but the bad news is that you put ...

 Unique Valentine's Day Gifts Gifts such as flowers, candy, lingerie, jewellery and other romantic items are pretty common on Valentine's Day. In fact they are so common that many who have been with the same partner for several years may be worried that their partner is growing bored with these typical gifts. However, there are other options for gift ideas on Valentine's Day. It is important to remember that Valentine's Day gifts can be anything you choose. You can give the same types of gifts you would give your partner for Christmas or a birthday. Just because it is Valentine's Day does not mean you have to limit your imagination when it comes to selecting gifts for your partner. Whether you are running out of ideas for Valentine's Day or simply looking for gift ideas that are truly unique this article will provide some useful tips.  Dinner and a movie is one of the most common date ideas for any night of the year and is particularly popular on Valentine's...

 Plan B for Valentines Day Each year men and women spend a great deal of time and energy planning Valentine's Day surprises for their loved ones. However, unfortunately, each year a lot of these plans are often ruined each year due to circumstances beyond their control. They may find that all of their advance planning seems to go to waste but in most cases Valentine's Day may still turn out to be a great day just because they are getting to spend the day together. However, this article will provide some information on how you can not only plan a great Valentine's Day surprise for your loved one but also plan a backup plan in case anything goes wrong.  One example of a Valentine's Day surprise which can be ruined by circumstances beyond your control is a simple picnic in the park. It is a very simple and romantic idea but it is also one which is dependent on the weather. Rain, snow, or incredibly cold weather can put a damper on your Valentine's Day plan to have a ro...

 Jackie Robinson There are a lot of "firsts" in the long history of African Americans in this country.  And with each one, a new plateau of equality and acceptance was achieved.  But it can also be said without exception that each one came at a price for the brave people who fought hard to improve the lives of their people and achieve that great breakthrough in their chosen field. These principles are certainly true in the arena of sports and especially baseball.  Baseball has long been considered the great American pastime.  So on April 15th, 1947 when Jackie Robinson walked out onto the field to be the first black to shatter the color barrier in professional baseball in a game between his team, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Braves, he was making a dramatic statement. But this was no day of parades and celebration for Robinson.  As is the case in so many great events in black history, that was time of tremendous racism, prejudice and discrimination a...

 Harriet Tubman Sometimes when we think of legionary outlaws who gave their life efforts to help a downtrodden and oppressed people, figures like Robin Hood or some other dashing male hero springs to mind.  In black history, we have just such a character but this champion of her people did not ride the forests with merry men.  Harriet Tubman, a humble and diminutive black woman truly qualifies as such a profoundly legendary figure that her exploits would rival Robin Hood's or any other hero of cultural legend.  Small wonder she was often referred to as "Moses of her People." Harriett Tubman was born in 1822 in Dorchester County, Maryland to a slave family of the estate of Anthony Thompson.  During her slave years, she endured many hardships and harsh treatment which left her with scars and even as susceptibility to epileptic seizures that resulted from a head injury.  It was common for slaves to change hands and that was part of Harriet's life as well. ...

 George Washington Carver There is leadership that talks and there is leadership that works and in the hall of fame of great black leaders over the decades, George Washington Carver was a leader that worked.  His leadership was not the kind that tried to capture publicity or make great fame for himself.  He didn't try to start a movement or achieve change through violence or confrontation, although those things are sometimes necessary. Instead George Washington Carver showed leadership by making contributions to the welfare of his people that would last a lifetime.  His selfless spirit is an inspiration to all peoples of any race, creed or colour.  George Washington Carver is probably best known for his discoveries in the use of the peanut.  And while it's true that Carver was credited with over 300 discoveries to find new uses for the common peanut, his innovations did not end there.  He continued his research to find important uses for other common a...

 Brown versus the Board of Education In 1951, thirteen families in the small community of Topeka, Kansas got together to do something about an unjust situation.  The board of education of their community was allowing racial segregation in the school system based on an out of date 1879 law.  The leader of this group of concerned parents was Oliver J. Brown and the outcome of what started out as a few parents trying to make life better for their children became one of the most infamous and influential supreme court cases in history known as Brown versus the Board of Education. The practice of school segregation had become a common and accepted practice in American society despite many movements in the history of civil rights to stop the separation of black society from white.  The justification that segregation provided a ìseparate but equalî setting which benefited education, the truth was it was a thinly veiled attempt to deprive African American children of the qual...

 Booker T. Washington As you travel the United States, it is no accident you will see a lot of schools given the name of Booker T. Washington.  That is because this great black educator and leader set the standard and carved out a new path in the years right after the fall of slavery to lead his people to a better way.  He showed his people a way of education, accomplishment, achievement and the prosperity that naturally comes with those goals. In 1901, the biography of Booker T. Washington was published with the fitting title Up From Slavery.  Washington's struggle to rise up from the limitations of a slave's life to be come one of the most respected black leaders in America is one of the reasons he is revered in black history as one of the greats who really made a difference for his people. When Booker T. Washington's family was freed from slavery in Virginia, young Booker immediately began pursuing the path where he would make his mark, in education.  Achievi...

 Black Power In the history of African Americans in the United States, there have been some tremendous movements and images that seem to capture the mood of the country and the black community at that time.  And this one phrase "black power" is without a doubt one of the most simple and elegant statements of pride and unity in the black community.  But it was also a phrase that came to represent the more violent and objectionable side of the struggle for equality in the black community.  And that makes it a controversial phrase then and now. Probably the greatest image of black power is the strong hand of a black man, clenched in a black glove and raised in the air in defiance and pride.  Never has that salute been used so perfectly as it was at the 1968 Olympics when Tommy Smith and John Carlos raised the black power fist complete with black glove as they received their medals for their performances at those Olympic Games. The phrase "black power" was not coine...

 Affirmative Action The history of the growth of equality for African Americans in America has been one of great accomplishments followed by many small gains and many set backs as well.  The outlawing of slavery did not instantly make all blacks equal with whites in America.  It took many subsequent legal actions as well as hundreds of social efforts, big and small, to slowly make the progress we have seen today.  But even in this day and age, in a new century, there is an ongoing battle against racism.  It seems we need leadership to guide society to true equality as much now as ever in our history. The abolition of slavery only began the long hard struggle for African American culture to become a true part of what it means to be an American.  That is because even though the legal definition of slavery had been thrown down, the attitudes and cultural systems in place to keep the races separate and to deny black people rights equal with whites had to be add...

 A Troubled Time From 1955 to 1965 there was a war right in the middle of America.  No, it wasn't a war like World War II or the Revolutionary War.  It was a war for the heart and soul of this country to determine once and for all if America was really going to be a land of equal opportunity for all.   It is a war that eventually took on the name of The Civil Rights Movement. We must make no mistake, this was not just a shouting match.  Some of the events that we even remember today became quite brutal and deadly.  Those who fought in this war on both sides were deadly serious about the causes they represented and willing to fight and even die to see their cause succeed.  The war waged for years and steady progress was made but not without tremendous sacrifice by the leaders of the movement who were committed to a giving a new meaning to the phrase set my people free.                 Subscribe to my You...