With the holiday season upon us, it’s important to keep focused on healthy eating habits despite the multitude of temptations. Adhering to a healthy diet can be especially tricky at this time of year. Holiday festivities traditionally revolve around food and the pressure to overindulge can be a real issue for those watching the scale.

An ancient proverb states “the eyes are the windows of the soul.” As ophthalmologists, the eyes are our window to the body’s circulation system. We see changes in the blood vessels of the retina that reflect what is occurring throughout the body. The retina is a thin sheet of nerve tissue in the very back of the eye. It has its own distinct blood supply and is one of the most metabolically active tissues in the body

We make sure that our children and ourselves brush our teeth everyday and get dental checkups twice a year, but what about our geriatric parents living in nursing homes? Senior citizens living in a nursing home setting have traditionally been an underserved segment of our population in terms of oral health care. We would like to use this opportunity to highlight some of the challenges that our seniors are facing and some possible solutions.

I tend to work a bit differently than most other life coaches. Actually, I am more of a life strategist. Most life coaching is about assessing where you are, where you want to go, and the goals needed to get there. All those things are important, but the setting of goals is never our problem. Heck, most people set goals every year on New Year’s Eve, and then break them the next day. Our challenge is to become the type of person who will consistently do what it takes to achieve their goals.

If you’ve been watching the economic news, you’ve probably noticed that market experts and traders have been keeping a close eye on the Commerce Department’s Personal Spending and Personal Income reports. Obviously, those reports provide insight into the health of our economy, but did you know they also influence home loan rates? That’s right, personal spending can actually influence the interest rates that are available when you purchase or refinance a home.

Suddenly single women may face a daunting task. If you are recently widowed or divorced, the loss of the mate who “handled everything” can leave you feeling very vulnerable. Some well intentioned folks might suggest you “do nothing for a year” fearing that you might do something rash. That advice maybe ok, but unless those folks are well informed about your financial situation, that advice may be completely wrong!

Usually when we hear the word “investment”, we immediately think about Wall Street, 401K plans and other things that relate to investing in stocks, bonds and most recently, gold. However, we should also understand that an investment can be described as something we own or something we do that generates a return. Let’s look at three different types of investments…

Swedish Massage – Uses a system of long gliding strokes, kneading, and friction techniques on the more superficial layers of muscles. Swedish can be a relatively vigorous form of massage, sometimes with a great deal of joint movement included.
Deep Tissue Massage – Used to release chronic patterns of muscular tension using slow strokes, direct pressure, or friction, on a focused problem area. This is applied with greater pressure and at deeper layers of the muscle than Swedish massage. Deep doesn’t necessarily mean “hard.” With the proper technique, muscles deep in the body can be reached with a minimum of pressure…

The world is changing politically, socially and certainly economically at a rapidly increasing rate. Yet there are still businesses out there that believe they can operate as they always have and continue to be successful. More and more common are those businesses that recognize change is needed and even plan for it, but never act upon their plans.
Why would anyone go through the process of setting and planning goals and then not follow through?

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