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The Secret to Keeping Your New Year’s Health Resolution

Michael Lee Stallard

Some programs, such as Weight Watchers, recognize this and tap into the power of human connection, encouragement, support and accountability to increase participants’ likelihood of achieving their goals. Most diet and exercise resolutions fail because people try to do them alone. Connection also is a contributing factor to health in general.

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What are the Best Green Business Ideas?

Strategy Driven

However, many people are looking for ways to travel in an eco-friendly way and participate in sustainable activities, from hiking to kayaking. This includes taking tourists to participate in conservation-projects or creating eco-friendly accommodation, such as hotels that have solar-powered electricity.

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Why Leaders Don’t Brag About Successfully Managing Stress

Harvard Business Review

The longer the body is exposed to these chemicals, the greater their toll. Of course, stress can sometimes be a positive force, focusing a person’s attention, boosting determination, and energizing action. They need to educate managers not only about the dangers of stress but also about the need for activities that reduce it.

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Guest Post: Tim Sanders

Ron Edmondson

I’m honored to participate in Tim’s ministry with this guest post. Women participating in a study by the Institute For The Advancement Of Health reported that after volunteering time to help others, they had a physical experience similar to meditation or a vigorous workout. Tim is a speaker, author, and change-agent.

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Take It, Leave It, or Change It

The Recovering Engineer

After telling the story, one of the workshop participants shared a variation of the thought that she had read elsewhere. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering and he served as a Nuclear Engineering officer in the U.S. Attempt to exert positive influence on those things that I couldn’t directly change.

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Stress Can Be a Good Thing If You Know How to Use It

Harvard Business Review

With all the media and medical attention on stress and its negative health impacts, it is easy to reach the conclusion that stress is irredeemably bad—something to be avoided as much as possible. We are willing to bet that those times invariably involved some stress or struggle. Stress has many wonderful attributes.

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Women Need Mindfulness Even More than Men Do

Harvard Business Review

It is associated with increased levels of the stress hormone cortisol in our bodies. Stress results from tasks not being completed or done well. This can become a vicious cycle because increased levels of cortisol further impede our cognitive functioning, leading to even greater stress.

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