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Today's mail included three new catalogs and several important looking envelopes. Several trees wasted. With the exception of bills that we all must deal with, nothing much arrives by snail mail anymore except glossy marketing materials designed to convince me that I need a newer or bigger or better something or other. Some catalogs are full of things I never even imagined existed. Gadgets to do things for me that I never thought of doing for myself. Gadgets to free more of my time and...Read Full Story

From the Desk Of B. Robert “This cultural convergence into Digital media requires the knowledge and understanding to use or operate the medium. A large number of consumers, professionals, students, and teachers currently, do not possess the education that professionals require to be competitive in the digital arena.” Digital Information is in fact binary digital data presenting itself as text, images or moving images. As noted in the Wikipedia, the sequence of digital code “0100 0001...Read Full Story

We are composed of body, mind and spirit. We are Baby Boomers. We’ve worked hard our whole life, juggling careers, kids, relationships and personal time. Perhaps you are a master of organization, teleconferencing while cooking, mowing the lawn, or bouncing a baby. Now it’s time for you, a senior, to rearrange priorities and dedicate some of that time and energy to work on you. A recent study shows that exercise slows down the aging process, actually keeping the cells young. Young cells...Read Full Story

I just received this email from one of my suppliers…  Price Increases $100+ /barrel oil, the declining value of the U.S. dollar, $6/bushel corn, etc. – these and various other factors all have put pressure on costs. xxxxxxxx (company name blocked out for privacy reasons) attempts to minimize price increases thru improved sourcing and manufacturing efficiencies. However, we are not able to avoid all of the increases and are forced to pass some of them along in order to maintain our...Read Full Story

Seize Every Day!   Seize Every Day, Every Day That You Can! Here is a little gift for you.  It’s an essay on life.  Dr. Napolean Hill is the author.  It is short and sweet.  Definitely, you can Seize Every Day by simply incorporating Napolean Hill’s little slogan, profound mantra.  Here it is: Life – you can’t subdue me because I refuse to take your discipline too seriously.  When you try to hurt me, I laugh-and the laughter knows no pain.  I appreciate your joys wherever I find them...Read Full Story

Hoodia is being vigorously marketed now for weight loss.  Many people claim to have amazing results.  Others claim that all they lost was the money they spent on it.  So what are we to believe?  First, you need to know exactly what product you are getting.  Is it really Hoodia Gorgonii?  What is the formulation?  Is it standardized?  Is there enough hoodia gorgonii do have any effect upon your appetite at all?  Is it the low quality Chinese grown product?  Is it made from the INSIDE of this...Read Full Story

The art of procrastination - or, the type C personality. We all know the "type A" folks who are always overbooked and under pressure. Most of the pressure is of their own making, but don't try to tell them that. They have to get to the airport way early so they can be the first to know that their flight will be delayed. They get angry because the car wash has no passing lane. Then we have the "type B" person who might be heard to say, "Well, I meant to get that done today, but I just didn't...Read Full Story

The leading edge of what the US government has referred to as the Silver Tsunami will begin to be eligible for retirement beginning next January. Baby boomers are beginning to reach retirement age and nearly 80 million people retiring over the next 20 years will totally wreck our economy. OR NOT! You see, the generation right before ours was sold on the idea of working to 62 or 65 and then retiring and living a life of leisure. The baby boomer generation is not necessarily buying into that...Read Full Story

Baby boomers are not all in this condition, but a surprising number are financially strapped and ill-prepared for retirement. Many failed to plan very far ahead, while others just never expected to face some of the financial stresses they now must deal with. And of course, many have always placed an inordinate faith in Social Security to provide their retirement funding. Well, we should by now all realize that in the United States at least, social security is not all that secure. There is a...Read Full Story

I have been asked several times now about safe but lasting weight loss. This seems to be a very common thread that runs through many of the e-mails I receive. The problem for so many of us is that we have become an "instant" society. We want results, and we want them NOW!!! But weight loss generally can only be accomplished in much the same way that weight gain happens - gradually, over time. If you want to risk your long-term health using risky and often totally unproven over the counter...Read Full Story