"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."
- Paul Boese
"When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, putting faith into action, big things happen."
- Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman
"No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things."
- Channing Pollock
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
- T.S. Eliot
"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open."
- Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
"You promote yourself every time you take on a new responsibility."
- William Gore, executive
"Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom."
- Socrates
"I believe in me more than anything in this world."
- Wilma Rudolph, Olympic runner
"The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later."
- William Jennings Bryan, attorney
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
- Bill Cosby, Comedian
"The value decade is upon us. If you can't sell a top-quality product at the world's lowest price, you're going to be out of the game."
- Jack Welch, Executive
"Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities."
- Sugar Ray Leonard, boxer
"Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve."
- Benjamin Franklin, statesman
"I never won anything without hard labor and the exercise of my best judgment."
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president
"The most important thing about goals is... having one."
- Geoffry F. Abert
"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity."
- John D. Rockefeller, Industrialist
"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."
- Calvin Coolidge, 30th U.S. president
"When I thought I couldn't go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck. "
- Estee Lauder, entrepreneur
"If you're not making mistakes, your'e not trying hard enough."
- Vince Lombardi, football coach
"What holds so many employees back is an unwillingness to pay the price, to make the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort."
- Orison Marden, writer
"You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities."
- Barbara Bush, first lady
"Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within."
- Thomas Paine, statesman
"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged and increased constantly, or it vanishes."
- Peter Drucker, management expert
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Moderate Drinking Helps Heart
One or two alcoholic drinks a day can help healthy people — and heart patients — live longer, new research confirms.
But the two new studies — one of nearly 250,000 U.S. adults, the other an analysis of eight previous studies of more than 16,000 people with heart disease and other problems related to clogged arteries — also show that drinkers who exceeded recommended limits for alcohol consumption saw no heart health benefits.
"No question, heavy or binge drinking can have adverse health outcomes," Dr. Simona Costanzo and colleagues from Catholic University in Campobasso, Italy, warn in their report.
However, they add, doctors should tell their patients with heart disease and other clogged artery-related problems, together known as cardiovascular disease, that moderate alcohol consumption — a drink a day for women, two for men — "should not be harmful to their health."
There is considerable evidence that moderate drinking helps reduce the risk of heart disease and death from heart-related causes, likely due to the fact that drinking alcohol is linked to higher levels of "good" cholesterol.
However, questions have been raised about how research on alcohol and health is done, Dr. Kenneth J. Mukamal of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and his team, the authors of the other study, write.
To address these issues, Mukamal and his colleagues looked at nine years' worth of data from the National Health Interview Survey from 1987 to 2000, including 245,207 people in all. Census bureau employees perform the survey in person every year, sampling a representative group of around 20,000 to 40,000 U.S. citizens.
The researchers correlated the information on alcohol consumption with data from the National Death Index up until 2002, identifying 10,670 deaths from cardiovascular causes among survey participants.
The risk of dying due to heart disease or stroke was about the same for people who had never drunk, meaning they had less than 12 drinks in their lifetime; people who drank infrequently, meaning they had more than 12 drinks in their life, but never drank more than 12 drinks in a given year; and ex-drinkers, who had more than 12 drinks in their lives and had consumed more than 12 drinks per year in the past, the researchers found.
But for light drinkers, defined as men or women who had three drinks a week or less, risk was 31 percent lower than for non-drinkers.
Among moderate drinkers (women who had three to seven drinks each week and men who had three to 14 drinks a week), risk was 38 percent lower than it was for abstainers.
Heavy drinkers, meaning women who had more than seven drinks a week and men who downed more than 14 drinks weekly, had the same cardiovascular death risk as non-drinkers.
Mukamal and his team also found that people who had two drinks on days when they consumed alcohol were "consistently" at lower risk than people who had three or more drinks per drinking day.
The study's strengths include its size, the fact that it included a broad sample of the U.S. population, and its ability to separate people who had never drunk or only rarely drank from those who had drunk previously but quit, Mukamal noted in an e-mail interview.
"Our results suggest that even in this well-designed study, the lower risk linked to moderate drinking remains," he told Reuters Health. "However, it also clearly confirms that the benefit is lost for excessive drinking."
People with cardiovascular disease get mixed messages on whether moderate drinking is OK. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration advises people with heart disease who drink alcohol to quit, but guidelines from the American Heart Association say they can drink in moderation, Costanzo and her colleagues point out in their report.
To better understand the risks and potential benefits of alcohol for cardiovascular patients, the researchers identified eight studies including 16,351 patients with cardiovascular disease. They analyzed the relationship between alcohol consumption and death due to cardiovascular disease among study participants, as well as the association between drinking and overall mortality.
The Italian team found a similar benefit pattern to the one Mukamal and his colleagues identified: Heart patients who drank were less likely to die than abstainers, and the maximum benefit was seen for those who consumed between 5 to 10 grams of alcohol a day. A standard drink — 12 ounces of beer or 5 ounces of wine, for example — contains about 14 grams of alcohol, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But people who drank more than about 25 grams of alcohol daily had overall mortality and cardiovascular death risks exceeding those of abstainers, and the more they drank, the higher the risk.
"Cardiovascular patients should be informed that low-to-moderate alcohol consumption (1 drink/day for women or up to 2 drinks/day for men) should not be harmful to their health," Costanzo and her team say. However, patients who don't drink regularly shouldn't be encouraged to start, they add, and those who drink heavily should be encouraged to quit or at least sharply reduce their alcohol intake.
"The risks of moderate drinking differ by sex, age, personal history, and family history," Dr. Arthur L. Klatsky of Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland, California, notes in an editorial accompanying the studies. While the case for alcohol's heart benefits is "compelling," he adds, "as is often the case in medical practice, advice about lifestyle must be based on something less than certainty."
He concludes: "What is required is a synthesis of common sense and the best available facts."
Courtesy: NewsMax Health Newsletter
But the two new studies — one of nearly 250,000 U.S. adults, the other an analysis of eight previous studies of more than 16,000 people with heart disease and other problems related to clogged arteries — also show that drinkers who exceeded recommended limits for alcohol consumption saw no heart health benefits.
"No question, heavy or binge drinking can have adverse health outcomes," Dr. Simona Costanzo and colleagues from Catholic University in Campobasso, Italy, warn in their report.
However, they add, doctors should tell their patients with heart disease and other clogged artery-related problems, together known as cardiovascular disease, that moderate alcohol consumption — a drink a day for women, two for men — "should not be harmful to their health."
There is considerable evidence that moderate drinking helps reduce the risk of heart disease and death from heart-related causes, likely due to the fact that drinking alcohol is linked to higher levels of "good" cholesterol.
However, questions have been raised about how research on alcohol and health is done, Dr. Kenneth J. Mukamal of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and his team, the authors of the other study, write.
To address these issues, Mukamal and his colleagues looked at nine years' worth of data from the National Health Interview Survey from 1987 to 2000, including 245,207 people in all. Census bureau employees perform the survey in person every year, sampling a representative group of around 20,000 to 40,000 U.S. citizens.
The researchers correlated the information on alcohol consumption with data from the National Death Index up until 2002, identifying 10,670 deaths from cardiovascular causes among survey participants.
The risk of dying due to heart disease or stroke was about the same for people who had never drunk, meaning they had less than 12 drinks in their lifetime; people who drank infrequently, meaning they had more than 12 drinks in their life, but never drank more than 12 drinks in a given year; and ex-drinkers, who had more than 12 drinks in their lives and had consumed more than 12 drinks per year in the past, the researchers found.
But for light drinkers, defined as men or women who had three drinks a week or less, risk was 31 percent lower than for non-drinkers.
Among moderate drinkers (women who had three to seven drinks each week and men who had three to 14 drinks a week), risk was 38 percent lower than it was for abstainers.
Heavy drinkers, meaning women who had more than seven drinks a week and men who downed more than 14 drinks weekly, had the same cardiovascular death risk as non-drinkers.
Mukamal and his team also found that people who had two drinks on days when they consumed alcohol were "consistently" at lower risk than people who had three or more drinks per drinking day.
The study's strengths include its size, the fact that it included a broad sample of the U.S. population, and its ability to separate people who had never drunk or only rarely drank from those who had drunk previously but quit, Mukamal noted in an e-mail interview.
"Our results suggest that even in this well-designed study, the lower risk linked to moderate drinking remains," he told Reuters Health. "However, it also clearly confirms that the benefit is lost for excessive drinking."
People with cardiovascular disease get mixed messages on whether moderate drinking is OK. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration advises people with heart disease who drink alcohol to quit, but guidelines from the American Heart Association say they can drink in moderation, Costanzo and her colleagues point out in their report.
To better understand the risks and potential benefits of alcohol for cardiovascular patients, the researchers identified eight studies including 16,351 patients with cardiovascular disease. They analyzed the relationship between alcohol consumption and death due to cardiovascular disease among study participants, as well as the association between drinking and overall mortality.
The Italian team found a similar benefit pattern to the one Mukamal and his colleagues identified: Heart patients who drank were less likely to die than abstainers, and the maximum benefit was seen for those who consumed between 5 to 10 grams of alcohol a day. A standard drink — 12 ounces of beer or 5 ounces of wine, for example — contains about 14 grams of alcohol, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But people who drank more than about 25 grams of alcohol daily had overall mortality and cardiovascular death risks exceeding those of abstainers, and the more they drank, the higher the risk.
"Cardiovascular patients should be informed that low-to-moderate alcohol consumption (1 drink/day for women or up to 2 drinks/day for men) should not be harmful to their health," Costanzo and her team say. However, patients who don't drink regularly shouldn't be encouraged to start, they add, and those who drink heavily should be encouraged to quit or at least sharply reduce their alcohol intake.
"The risks of moderate drinking differ by sex, age, personal history, and family history," Dr. Arthur L. Klatsky of Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland, California, notes in an editorial accompanying the studies. While the case for alcohol's heart benefits is "compelling," he adds, "as is often the case in medical practice, advice about lifestyle must be based on something less than certainty."
He concludes: "What is required is a synthesis of common sense and the best available facts."
Courtesy: NewsMax Health Newsletter
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Make Your Life a Masterpiece
March 21, 2010
By Brian Tracy
This is the age of achievement. Never have more people accomplished more things in more different fields than they are accomplishing today. More people are becoming successful at a faster rate than at any other time in history. There have never been more opportunities for you to turn your dreams into realities than there are right now.
The Seven Ingredients of Success
Your ideal life is a blending these seven ingredients in exactly the combination that makes you the happiest at any particular moment. By defining your success and happiness in terms of one or more of these seven ingredients, you create a clear target to aim it. You can then measure how well you're doing. You can identify the areas where you need to make changes if you want your life to improve.
Peace of Mind
The first of these seven ingredients of success, and easily the most important, is peace of mind. It is the highest human good. Without it, nothing else has much value. In corporations, peace of mind can be measured in terms of the amount of harmony that exists among coworkers. The wonderful truth about peace of mind is that it is your normal natural condition. It is the basic precondition for enjoying everything else.
Health and Energy
The second ingredient of success is health and energy. Just as peace of mind is your normal and natural mental state, health and energy is your normal and natural physical state. If you achieve all kinds of things in the material world, but lose your health then you will get little or no pleasure from your other accomplishments. So imagine yourself enjoying perfect health, and think of how you would be if you were your ideal image of physical fitness. Then strive for your mental goal of fitness and health.
Loving Relationships
The third ingredient of success is loving relationships. These are relationships with the people you love and care about, and the people who love and care about you. They are the real measure of how well you are doing as a human being. At almost any time, you can measure how well you are doing in your relationship by one simple test: laughter. This is true for companies as well. High-performance, high profit organizations are those in which people laugh and joke together. Examine your relationships, one by one, and develop a plan to make each of them enjoyable and satisfying.
Financial Freedom
The fourth ingredient of success is financial freedom. Achieving your financial freedom is one of the most important goals and responsibilities of your life. A feeling of freedom is essential to the achievement of any other important goal, and you cannot be free until and unless you have enough money so that you are no longer preoccupied with it. When you decide exactly what you want your financial picture to look like, you will be able to use this system to achieve your goals faster than you might have imagined possible.
Worthy Goals and Ideals
The fifth ingredient of success is worthy goals and ideals. To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world.
Self Knowledge and Self-Awareness
The sixth ingredient of success is self-knowledge and self-awareness. To perform at your best you need to know who you are and why you think and feel the way you do. It is only when you understand and accept yourself that you can begin moving forward in other areas of your life.
Personal Fulfillment
The seventh ingredient of success is personal fulfillment. This is the feeling that you are becoming everything that you are capable of becoming. It is the sure knowledge that you are moving toward the realization of your full potential as a human being.
Action Exercise
Take the brush of your imagination and begin painting a masterpiece on the canvas of your life. It is for you to decide clearly what would make you the happiest in everything you are doing.
Courtesy: Brian Tracy Newsletter
By Brian Tracy
This is the age of achievement. Never have more people accomplished more things in more different fields than they are accomplishing today. More people are becoming successful at a faster rate than at any other time in history. There have never been more opportunities for you to turn your dreams into realities than there are right now.
The Seven Ingredients of Success
Your ideal life is a blending these seven ingredients in exactly the combination that makes you the happiest at any particular moment. By defining your success and happiness in terms of one or more of these seven ingredients, you create a clear target to aim it. You can then measure how well you're doing. You can identify the areas where you need to make changes if you want your life to improve.
Peace of Mind
The first of these seven ingredients of success, and easily the most important, is peace of mind. It is the highest human good. Without it, nothing else has much value. In corporations, peace of mind can be measured in terms of the amount of harmony that exists among coworkers. The wonderful truth about peace of mind is that it is your normal natural condition. It is the basic precondition for enjoying everything else.
Health and Energy
The second ingredient of success is health and energy. Just as peace of mind is your normal and natural mental state, health and energy is your normal and natural physical state. If you achieve all kinds of things in the material world, but lose your health then you will get little or no pleasure from your other accomplishments. So imagine yourself enjoying perfect health, and think of how you would be if you were your ideal image of physical fitness. Then strive for your mental goal of fitness and health.
Loving Relationships
The third ingredient of success is loving relationships. These are relationships with the people you love and care about, and the people who love and care about you. They are the real measure of how well you are doing as a human being. At almost any time, you can measure how well you are doing in your relationship by one simple test: laughter. This is true for companies as well. High-performance, high profit organizations are those in which people laugh and joke together. Examine your relationships, one by one, and develop a plan to make each of them enjoyable and satisfying.
Financial Freedom
The fourth ingredient of success is financial freedom. Achieving your financial freedom is one of the most important goals and responsibilities of your life. A feeling of freedom is essential to the achievement of any other important goal, and you cannot be free until and unless you have enough money so that you are no longer preoccupied with it. When you decide exactly what you want your financial picture to look like, you will be able to use this system to achieve your goals faster than you might have imagined possible.
Worthy Goals and Ideals
The fifth ingredient of success is worthy goals and ideals. To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world.
Self Knowledge and Self-Awareness
The sixth ingredient of success is self-knowledge and self-awareness. To perform at your best you need to know who you are and why you think and feel the way you do. It is only when you understand and accept yourself that you can begin moving forward in other areas of your life.
Personal Fulfillment
The seventh ingredient of success is personal fulfillment. This is the feeling that you are becoming everything that you are capable of becoming. It is the sure knowledge that you are moving toward the realization of your full potential as a human being.
Action Exercise
Take the brush of your imagination and begin painting a masterpiece on the canvas of your life. It is for you to decide clearly what would make you the happiest in everything you are doing.
Courtesy: Brian Tracy Newsletter
Saturday, March 6, 2010
In What Direction Are You Moving?
(By popular request)---more potent Quotes to light our Way...Enjoy and Benefit!
Jacques
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'The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Supreme Court justice
"Be awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down."
-- Jimmy Durante, Singer/ Comedian
"The most common cause of executive failure is inability or unwillingness to change with the demands of a new position. The executive who keeps on doing what he has done successfully before is almost bound to fail."
- Peter Drucker, management expert
"Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator."
- Yogi Berra
"The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery, and tenacity."
- Mahatma Gandhi, Statesman
"Careful planning helps us maintain a sense of perspective, purpose and ordered priorities."
- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker
"The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman
"Success is 99 percent failure."
- Soichire Honda
"Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs."
- Joan Didion
"All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties."
- William Bradford
"Never let yesterday use up too much of today."
- Will Rogers, humorist
"In calm water every ship has a good captain."
- Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th U.S. President
"You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world."
- Charlie Chaplin, Actor
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark."
- Michelangelo, Artist
"In business, words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality."
- Harold Geneen, industrialist
"What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet
"Everything you reprove in another, you must carefully avoid in yourself."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman
"To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job."
- Chin-Ning Chu
"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner."
- English proverb
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."
- Benjamin Disraeli, British prime minister
Jacques
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'The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Supreme Court justice
"Be awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down."
-- Jimmy Durante, Singer/ Comedian
"The most common cause of executive failure is inability or unwillingness to change with the demands of a new position. The executive who keeps on doing what he has done successfully before is almost bound to fail."
- Peter Drucker, management expert
"Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator."
- Yogi Berra
"The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery, and tenacity."
- Mahatma Gandhi, Statesman
"Careful planning helps us maintain a sense of perspective, purpose and ordered priorities."
- Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker
"The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman
"Success is 99 percent failure."
- Soichire Honda
"Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs."
- Joan Didion
"All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties."
- William Bradford
"Never let yesterday use up too much of today."
- Will Rogers, humorist
"In calm water every ship has a good captain."
- Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th U.S. President
"You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world."
- Charlie Chaplin, Actor
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark."
- Michelangelo, Artist
"In business, words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality."
- Harold Geneen, industrialist
"What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet
"Everything you reprove in another, you must carefully avoid in yourself."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman
"To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job."
- Chin-Ning Chu
"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner."
- English proverb
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."
- Benjamin Disraeli, British prime minister
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