Practice Appreciation.
Studies have shown that feeling appreciated is the single greatest motivator in the workplace, ahead of higher wages. "When you show people that you appreciate them, you not only make them feel better, you make yourself more successful. People are more likely to help you achieve your goals if they believe that you appreciate their efforts," says Canfield. "There's no downside - appreciation costs nothing, and no one has ever complained about being overappreciated.

One technique that Canfield has used in the past is to carry an index card with 10 circles on it. Whenever he lets someone know that he appreciated them, he filled in one of the circles. If he didn't fill in all the circles by the end of the day, he would send out appreciative emails. After a few months, showing appreciation became second nature to him, and he didn't need the index cards. Whatever method you wish to use to remind yourself, the value of appreciation is never lost on anyone.

HEY, PARENTS, AND ADULTS WHO HAVEN'T GROWN UP, there is a new product for all you sedentary video game players, and it's called The Kilowatt Sport. You can now use strength and force instead of your thumbs to control the joystick on your favorite video games. The Kilowatt Sport has adaptors that allows you to use both Windows and Macintosh games, and has handles with force sensors that are adjustable to the amount and direction of your force. If you would like more information, log onto www.powergridfitness.com

Stretch Of The Week
Many people don't realize that they have 6 muscles that control the eyes, and like every other muscle in your body, they can be strained from overuse. A great way to "stretch" and actually relax these 6 muscles is to do this set of stretches. With your eyes not focused on anything, look up and look down 3 times; then look side to side 3 times; next look to the upper left and the lower right 3 times; and finally look to the upper right and the lower left 3 times. Repeat the whole set a second time. If you feel an achiness behind your eyes, do the exercise slower. When you do the exercise regularly, like once a day, you will notice the achiness go away.

How To Survive A Heart Attack When Alone
Let's say it's 6:15 PM. and you're driving home (alone), after an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset, and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far. You have been trained in CPR, but the person that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.

The person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, (like it would if you were coughing up a hairball) :) A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without letup until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get themselves to a hospital, and increase their chance for survival.

Joke Of The Week: How to tell the sex of a fly.

A woman walked into the kitchen to find her husband stalking around with a fly swatter.
"What are you doing?" She asked.
"Hunting Flies" He responded.
"Oh. Killing any?" She asked.
"Yep, 3 males, 2 Females," he replied.
Intrigued, she asked. "How can you tell?"
He responded, "3 were on a beer can, 2 were on the phone."

Thoughts For the Week

"He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy or demon who possesses such power as that." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Some days you tame the tiger. And some days the tiger has you for lunch." Tug McGraw

Possessions dwindle: I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more, for anyone can save his purse, but none can win back lost time. Latin proverb

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