Health Tip - Take Naps

Napping is a day extender. Winston Churchill took naps and he lived to be eighty-nine years old. Short sleep periods refresh your body and help the brain to sift material, so when you awaken you are clearheaded and revitalized. (Churchill also said, "Vacations are where you work, just in another place.")

An interesting piece of information about morbidly obese people (morbidly obese is defined as being one hundred pounds overweight) relates to a condition called the Pickwickian Syndrome. The syndrome is singular to obese people who nod off to sleep while sitting. They fall into a soporific state because the heavy weight of fat on the rib cage and the pressure of the abdominal fat pushing up against the diaphragm prevents the person from ventilating their lungs. That lack of ventilation leads to a build-up of CO2 in the blood. Co2 is a soporific and cause the person to nod off to sleep while they are sitting. (The name Pickwickian come from Pickwick, a morbidly obese character in a Charles Dickens novel.)

Back to naps as a day extender. There are many nice things in this life, and naps are one of them. Just fifteen minutes of sleep gives you a fresh start to the second part of your day. As a result of that fresh start, you are able to stay up longer, and your work performance gets a shot of rejuvenation gas.

A nap is one of many on the list of the Best Things in Life Are Free. Also on the list: a good night's sleep; a dining experience; a good sweat from exercising; a good belly laugh; a stretch; a kiss; sexual relations and orgasms; and, of course, a nap. Snooze on!

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Hammer Home The Difference

This tip on becoming a success is worth entry into your bag of sales anchors. G. Worthington Hipple, a renowned motivational speaker, tells sales novices that people buy a product because of the difference. To hammer home his point, he tells of when he went to three stores and talked to three sales clerks asking for a hammer. The conversations went like this:

At the first store
Worthington: "Do you have a hammer?"
First clerk: "Yes."
Worthington: "How much is it?"
First clerk: "$1.98."
Worthington: "Do you have another, and how much is it?"
First clerk: "Yes, $3.98."
Worthington: "What's the difference?"
First clerk: "Two dollars."

At the second store
Worthington:"Do you have a hammer?"
Second clerk: "Yes."
Worthington: "How much is it?"
Second clerk: "$1.98."
"How much is it?"
Worthington: "Do you have another, and how much is it?"
Second clerk: "Yes, $3.98."
Worthington: "What's the difference?"
Second clerk: "Two dollars."

At the third store
Worthington: "Do you have a hammer?"
Third clerk: "Do I have a hammer. Put this two-pound piece of American craftsmanship in your hand. Do you feel that smooth, non-splintering hickory handle fit into your hand as if it was made for it? Do you see the flute-edged claw that will pull out any sized nail? Do you see that double drop-forged head that will hammer the strongest case hardened nail and break granite? Indeed, I have a hammer."
Worthington: "How much is it?"
Third clerk: $5.98
Worthington: "Do you have another?"
Third clerk: "Sure do. Here it is, but don't drop it; the head could break if it falls wrong. And don't mind the handle; it only has to be sanded once in a while to keep from getting splinters."
Worthington: "How much is it?"
Third clerk: "$1.98."
Worthington: "I'll take the first on for $5.98."

Moral of the story: People buy a product because of the difference! So if you are in sales, take G. Worthington Hipple's advice: Hammer Home the Difference!


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Good Health Tip - Learn how to drink alcohol

Learn How to Drink Alcohol without Harming Your Body

Alcohol can be a good accompaniment to your life but too much can damage the liver. If you are going to drink alcohol (beer, wine, or hard liquor), it is imperative that you:

1. Drink lots of water before and during the drinking period. Ask for a large glass of water when you order your drinks.

2. Eat and consume protein during your drinking period.

3. Drink olive oil and eat something before drinking. Food or oil coats the stomach to prevent rapid absorption of alcohol.

4. Working men who sweat during the day and are dehydrated from not drinking enough water should not quench their thirst with beer at a tavern on the way home. Instead drink sixteen ounces of water when you get to the tavern before you start drinking beer. This will avoid you becoming drunk and getting a DUI on the way home. The police love to do surveillance outside pubs on Friday nights, so drink smart and drink lots of water and eat something while you are drinking.

5. Teenage girls and women remember this: females metabolize alcohol slower than men and the female brain is more sensitive to the effects of alcohol. It takes much less alcohol for the female to get intoxicated than the male. Intoxicated women are easy prey for men up-to-no-good, as attested by the Natalee Holloway case in Aruba. Friends should do everything possible to block an intoxicated girl (or boy) from getting into a car with strangers. Poor judgment resulting from intoxication by men and women can lead to fatal outcomes from vehicular and non-vehicular accidents and foul play. Don't be victims of alcohol.

For those of you who take medicines, alcohol and medicines may potentate each other, resulting in a compounding of the effects of both. That exponentiation can cause clouding of your mental clarity. The liver detoxifies both alcohol and medicines, causing a competition that can result in the medicine or the alcohol reaching abnormally high levels. Be very careful to ask your doctor if it is okay to drink while on your medicines.

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Learn as much as possible

Fact: Executives who know the most buzzwords climb the corporate ladder fastest. It behooves you to become a master of quick repartee using buzzwards. Learn the art of one-upping your competition with brilliantly used words and phrases. Be a phrase dropper extraordinaire. Scoop people with the morning news from the Internet or newspaper and use big words when meeting at the water fountain or at lunch.

Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States, was a giant with words, and he captured the essence of quintessence of their value when he said, "The pen is mightier than the sword." Mark Twain, the humorist, loved wods and gave us: "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and lightning bug."

Words are our most valuable tools. We hear thirty million words by the time we are three years old, and that bombardment of words is how we learn our Mother Tongue. If you are executive and leadership bound, one-up with buzzwords.

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Executive Brain

Human beings have an executive brain that allows them to think and gives them facility to plan, strategize, discern, nullify, modify, anticipate, monitor, devise, thought process, and develop a concept of self. Our exectutive brain, which sits in the frontal and pre-frontal cortex (frontal lobes) of the brain, allows us to plan, analyze, and effectuate complex programs. Animals do not have that capacity.

The executive brain is able to take advantage of tipping moments--a critical event that fortuitously arrives and sets you in a new directions. A tipping moment is when a new disruptive technology arrives on the scene, like when the automobile replaced the horse and buggy. Some took advantage of the sea change and made money and rode the crest of the new technology. Some executive brains are more facile at recognizing tipping moments.

The purpose of todays blog is to exercise your executive brain so you will be sharp at recognizing tipping moments and can get wealthier than yesterday by seizing on one. Here is suggestion on one to think about now. Scientists project global warming from climatic change and greenhouse gases will cause the ocean waters to rise 15 to 30 feet in the next eighty-five years. Huge populations will be moving inland to higher elevation. They won't wait the eighty-five years, they will start soon. I suggest young people move away from coastal areas and purchase land 30 miles from cities at elevations of 600 feet or more. That is a tipping point suggestion.

Some tipping moments are simple and routine, like going to the bathroom upon awakening and evacuating, shaving, showering, brushing your teeth, dressing, applying makeup, and then exiting the bathroom to go to the kitchen.

On the other hand, there are big tipping-moment decisions like falling in love and deciding to get married; or deciding to leave the snow of New York and moving to the sunny south; finding a job and starting the next era of your life in new environs. Every decision and every drill represents a tipping moment of sorts, but it is the big ones that make a difference between a life of mistakes or a life of successes.

Use your executive brain to get you the "furthest with the mostest," as Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest would advise.

Here is something the executive brain can grasp even if it looks bizarre:

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On the job tips {Part 2}

This next set of tips is Advice to High School Students on How to Achieve Success

Tip #12 - Life is not fair; get used to it.

Tip #13 - The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.

Tip #14 - You will not make $60,000 a year right out of high school; you won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Tip #15 - If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss.

Tip #16 - Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. your Grandparents had a different word for burger-flipping-they called it opportunity.

Tip #17 - If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes; learn from them.

Tip #18 - Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes, and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents generating, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Tip #19 - Your school may have done away with winner and losers, but life has not. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades, and they give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.

Tip #20 - Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off, and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.

Tip #21 - Television is not real life. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Tip #22 - Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.


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