Do you absolutely love and cherish your digital scale? Me neither! I have thrown away so many of them in disgust only to replace them later down the line. My stomach cramps when I have to get up on one.

Most of the articles I see that discuss motivation talk about sports. But we average Joes and Jills are not playing sports. We just have to get out of bed everyday, go to work, and try to live.

In today's workforce Corporations and Small Business Owners are looking for more ways to cut expenses rather than increase them. You know things are bad when the nation loses 11,000 jobs in November.

Health, wellness, vitality, opportunity, joyfulness, energy, fulfillment, power for living. success. These are all qualities people need, and genuinely want. How can you come to experience them? Through exercise? Diet? Personal coaching?

Copyright (c) 2009 Healthy Bodies, Happy Minds We moms have a tough path to walk as we help our daughters navigate the sometimes choppy waters of growing up girl. It's our job to protect our children and do our best to keep them safe and healthy, yet we also have to allow them to grow, stretch and learn from their own mistakes.

As a feng shui consultant who's job it is to pay extreme attention to people and their living environments, I have been particularly intrigued by the more recent US pattern of collecting, storing, and hoarding things in storage units and how it relates to the rising statistics of American obesity.

Copyright (c) 2009 Bryan Beckstead Productivity is all about getting the maximum amount of production from the minimum amount of activity. That's why two people doing the same job destroys any pretense of getting value from either person's involvement.

Two days ago my daughter Elsa (3 1/2) announced that she'd like to cycle herself to school - a local Chinese kindergarten just round the corner from where we live. Her bike was last year's birthday present from her ayi (like a Chinese nanny).

Did you know that the way you project yourself through clothes actually makes a genuine difference to whether you succeed or fail? Don't be surprised, but most of us overlook this, so if you didn't know, you are not among the minority.

If there are certain areas in your life where you are not consistently getting the desired results, it can almost always be traced back to a values conflict. Here are a few examples I have come across.