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Joint Mechanix to Demo Shoulder Rehab Tool in Indianapolis
2008-05-27 02:53:00 (photo courtesy of saschapohflepp) Our Shoulder Rehab Device will be at the ACSM Annual Conference The Rotater and I will be in Indianapolis this week (May 28?31) at the American College of Sports Medicine?s annual conference. The ACSM is the world?s premier sports medicine and exercise science organization. The ACSM mission statement: The American College of ... More About: Tool , Demo , Mechanix
Advertisers: Please interupt me so I can actively ignore you!
2008-05-19 11:18:00 Have you ever run into an acquaintance at a grocery store or restuarant and while trying to have a conversation with them, either their child or your child is constantly tugging at your hand while repeating ?Daddy, Daddy, Daddy? as a way to get your attention? It?s frustrating, but something that you have to ... More About: Advertisers
Two phrases for improved customer service
2008-05-07 16:04:00 Poor customer service sucks! What happened to great (or even good) customer service? I?m tired of getting my order screwed-up whenever I go through a drive-thru lane I?m tired of dealing with any customer service representative who cannot (or will not) take the time to smile at me I?m tired of waiting for the ?bug? guy or the ?cable? ... More About: Customer Service , Service , Customer , Phrases
Sharing for personal growth and development
2008-04-30 03:19:00 Didn?t your Mama teach you to share? (photo courtesy of andrew mc d) Sharing is easy while we?re children because we want everyone to enjoy the pleasures that we enjoy. Somewhere along about junior high school, that all changes. We start to exclude others while someone else sees fit to exclude us. We start to form ... More About: Personal , Development , Growth
The Master Key to Success
2008-04-18 03:36:00 I am what I will to be Charles Hannell wrote The Master Key System almost 100 years ago, but his thoughts, teaching and philosophy are timeless. Recently, while studying his work, I came across the statement, ?I can be whatever I will to be? and it became stuck in my mind. Kind of like ... More About: Success , The Master
Is your reality real?
2008-04-12 03:08:00 The inspiring account of living through a stroke as seen through the eyes of a “brain scientist” as she experiences the stroke first-hand Jill Bolte Taylor’s first-person telling of awakening and then slowly realizing that she has had and is having a stroke. What makes this telling so unique is that Jill is uniquely qualified to articulate ... More About: Reality , Real
Surviving cancer ignites passion for helping others
2008-04-07 04:19:00 Passion: feeling very strongly about a subject or person, usually referring to feelings of intense desire and attraction (source: Wikipedia) Passion can be stirred by a number of different things: your beliefs your desires your dreams your experiences This post is about three women that I?ve had the privilege to come to know since starting this blog. Women ... More About: Cancer , Passion
Productivity begins with a plan
2008-03-29 21:24:00 ?I?m going to be more productive? It sounds so easy ? just kinda rolls off the tongue. In fact it?s so easy to say that we?ve all parrotted this phrase hundreds of times. The problem is that saying is not doing. This is just another one of those ?little details? that often gets ... More About: Productivity , Plan
Success is the reward of persistence - a video demonstration
2008-03-24 10:57:00 Are you successful? If you have to ask the question, then the answer is NO! If you have the ability to do more than you are currently doing, then the answer is NO! If no one is asking you for your advice on being successful, then the answer is NO! Millionaire Mommy currently boasts a subscribership of ... More About: Video , Success , Persistence , Demonstration , Reward
How to increase your blog or website effectiveness with Websitegrader.com
2008-03-21 01:04:00 If you have a blog, then you probably spend a lot of time thinking about: your next post how to best convey your message where you will find sources for visual images how you can get more traffic How to get more traffic Okay, I’m not going to give you a list of things that you can do to increase your exposure or tell you how to get other people to link to your blog or web-site. I’m going to tell you to visit Website grader. Simply input your url (or any url), scroll down to the bottom and click on the “generate report” button. Websitegrader.com will run a series of diagnostics that analyze your blog/website for: On-page SEO – which includes things like number of keywords (and why you don’t need more than ten), header summary, image summary, interior page analysis and readability level Off-page SEO – domain info, google page rank, google indexed pages, date google last crawled your site, links much more – you’ll be a... More About: Blog
Three reasons why we never reach our potential level of success
2008-03-13 11:02:00 1. We deny that we have any potential (photo by LabGP & SigOther?s) No one expects you to do anything that you are not capable of. Right? Just convince everyone that you are currently performing at your maximum level of ability. After you?ve done that, you just coast. The problem is that maintaining this ... More About: Success , Reasons , Reach
How to be happy - four principles that help me stay focused
2008-03-05 16:08:00 1. Count your blessings Can you walk? Can you talk? Can you see and hear? Did you sleep in a bed last night? Are you hungry? Do you have a job? (photo by PJFurlong06) We all have so much to be thankful for. Perhaps it is because of this that we tend to focus on what we don?t have. It?s ... More About: Happy , Stay , Principles
Success is in the little details
2008-03-01 12:14:00 I am a detail guy ? they are important to me. Maybe it?s because I used to restore, build and paint custom cars. People (especially relatives) would see the car that I happened to be working on at the time and ask me how much I would charge them to paint their cars. ... More About: Success , Details
Don’t allow negative thinking to stop you
2008-02-23 18:17:00 (photo courtesy of Madeira) NO! It’s a word that we all hate to hear. In fact we hate it so much that we will usually avoid putting ourselves into a position of having to hear this negative response. The result? We don’t ask for a raise. We don’t ask the pretty girl for a date. We don’t close the sale. We don’t ask a possible mentor for his/her help. We don’t get what we want. The Problem of “No” We are in the habit of taking a negative response (“NO”) personally and therefore, we tend to imagine all the the possible motivations behind the respondent’s answer. For example: 1. We didn’t get the raise, so we immediately begin to imagine all the possible causes: The Boss doesn’t like me. The Boss is a jerk. The Boss thinks that I am inept. The Boss doesn’t respect me nor my efforts. Please notice that I wrote “imagine” all the possible causes. Our minds go to work trying to explain why we did not get what we want. The reality may be, and... More About: Stop , Negative , Thinking
Develop your mental muscle for increased quality of life now and in the fut
2008-02-17 16:43:00 You are unique and you possess unique traits and abilities. One of those traits is the capacity to learn ? right up the the point of death. This is wonderful - if you take advantage and harness your ability to learn. Though your capacity to learn does not diminish, for most, the desire ... More About: Life , Mental , Quality of Life , Muscle , Quality
The Good Stuff, The Bad Stuff and Other Stuff
2008-02-14 11:51:00 To all the soupornuts.com subscribers, I apologize for my lack of posting for the past week. I hope that after you read this article you will understand why. The Good Stuff 1. Daddy ? Daughter Date Night My two girls and I attended Daddy ? Daughter Date Night sponsored and hosted by a local church this ... More About: The Good , Good Stuff
Meme: 7 random or weird facts about me
2008-02-08 11:23:00 I have been tagged by Island Wench to participate in a meme entitled ?Seven random or weird facts about me?. This is very similar to another meme that I participated in some time ago ? Seven random things that you may not know about me. 1. My grandparents were sharecroppers. Consequently, when my father was ... More About: Weird , Meme , Facts , Random
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it also creates millionaires
2008-02-03 14:17:00 I’d like to take credit for finding the video below, but I can’t. I was reading Michael Werner’s article entitled The Riskiest Thing That You Can Ever Do Is Play-It-Safe and he had a link to this video of Seth Godin, the marketing guru. If you have never heard of Seth, then it will be worth ... More About: Killed , Curiosity
soupornuts’ reasons to click - #9
2008-02-03 05:37:00 This series of articles started out strong, but I seemed to have lost my way. In reality, life is very busy for me right now: my wife and I are expecting out third child – any day now my two daughters got a pony for Christmas and they want to ride all the time the Rotater has become a locomotive barreling down the track – sometimes it’s all I can do to hang on Excuses, excuses, excuses Those are only excuses and I’m not big on passing blame. My plan was to become more regular in my posting schedule this year and I would like to post a new article at least every other day – so far, I am a little behind on my agenda. Reasons to click series This series of posts that featured great stuff (articles, posts, sites, etc. that I liked) was shaping up to be very popular. Many readers wrote and told me how much they enjoyed the info, so I am resuming it today. 1. Awaken the Giant Procratinator Within! Al has written an enlightening article endorsing the idea that procrastinat... More About: Click
Today Matters
2008-01-31 11:01:00 Today matters. It is important. Why? 1. You are alive vs. the alternative You are a living, functioning and vital part of the world. You are needed and necessary. No one can do the things that you do in the unique way that you do them. 2. Today provides new opportunities ? ... More About: Today , Matters
What?s on your life?s ?to-do? list?
2008-01-28 11:54:00 Most people are wondering, “what is a life to-do list?” Basically, you sit down and make a list of all the things that you would like to do or accomplish before you die. climb a mountain become president jump out of an airplane make a million dollars There is a recent movie that takes a hard look at the advantages of creating ... More About: Life , List
Marketing is easy when your product is good
2008-01-25 07:19:00 I am back. I spent most of last week in Orlando at the PGA merchandise expo, where we were: demonstrating the Rotater giving interviews discussing possible distributorships (both local and foreign) answering questions networking and making lots of sales Marketing the Rotater is easy when you have guys who are willing to step up and tell you how much they believe ... More About: Golf , Product , Good , Easy
Underdogs and entrepreneurs have ?great hearts?
2008-01-23 04:22:00 We all love stories about underdogs. This is how you can explain why movies like ?Rocky?, ?Rudy?, and ?Hoosiers? do so well at the box office. There is something very inspiring about watching the ?little guy? overcome adversity and go on to make a great showing of himself or herself. It is pure motivation! I am ... More About: Great , Entrepreneurs , Hearts
High income potential in a field in which you are already an expert - SALES
2008-01-19 00:10:00 High Income Potential Have you ever thought of trying to make your living by selling? If you are very good, your income potential is unlimited. But, you must have thick skin. That means that you must have little or no fear of failure and you must be able to absorb rejection without taking it personally. Everyone is a salesman Few realize it, but everyone is a salesperson. That’s right. Everybody is selling something. Does that sound like a broad statement to you? It is a fact that is so obvious we tend to overlook it. Want proof? Consider these examples: A suitor tries to sell himself and his attributes to his potential bride. A wife sells her husband on the idea of taking a Disney vacation before the children become too old and are no longer impressed by the magic. A teen tries to sell his/her parents on the idea of going to a party that “all the kids are going to.” A teacher sells his/her students on the need to and the joys of learning. Bosses sell increased production, hi... More About: Sales , High , Expert , Field
Mama’s commonsense approach to excellent interpersonal skills
2008-01-15 23:40:00 Life is about interaction. With rare exception, everyone interacts on a daily basis. You deal with your family, bosses, subordinates, customers (clients, patients, readers, etc), coworkers, friends, enemies, strangers and more everyday. How would you characterize these exchanges? Do you enjoy interacting with others? Do they enjoy interacting with you? Here are a few ideas that I feel (and my Mama taught) are common sense solutions for many of the problems that we face when dealing with others. 1. Smile at everyone. This is easy enough to do physically, but we have problems with the mental part. Why should I smile? I don’t feel like smiling. Smiling causes others to relax. In a potentially tense situation, your smile may lower everyones blood pressure enough so that problems can be handled rationally. Your smile may even allow your message to be more easily received. Think of how you brace yourself when someone approaches you with a scowl on their face. Are you relaxed or are you... More About: Skills , Interpersonal , Excellent , Mons
Keep your blog?s readers coming back with a little commentluv
2008-01-11 17:44:00 I recently discovered a Word Press plugin that I really like ? so far. It?s called commentluv. A brief description of commentluv. Basically, it works like this: A person, (who has their own blog) reads on of your blog articles. That blogger then leaves a comment on your site. The commentluv plugin then goes to the other bloggers blog and ... More About: Readers , Blog , Back
The Greatest Success Story?that You?ve Never Heard!
2008-01-09 17:23:00 DIRECTOR OF MARKETING CONTACTS SOUPORNUTS.COM On Nov. 30, 2007, I received an email from an associate director of marketing with Doubleday. She asked me if I would be interested in reading and reviewing a book entitled Make the Impossible Possible by Bill Strickland. Due to the high volume of orders that we had been ... More About: Story , Success , Success Story , Greatest
Six barriers to successful living
2008-01-05 22:23:00 Why haven?t you achieved your potential? Why are others achieving more and better results than you? What?s holding you back? Simple questions ? not so simple answers. Here?s a short list of obstacles that prevent you from achieving greatness: 1. You are scapegoating through life. You have convinced yourself and everyone who will listen that ... More About: Living
Great Bloggers, Great Friends and Great Support
2008-01-02 16:22:00 On June 23, 2007 I published my first article on soupornuts.com. It was titled ?Change your priorities - create a plan for living?. Since then, I have learned quite a bit about blogging. My Alexa ranking started at over 9 million and is currently a respectable 265,975. This is due to ... More About: Friends , Great , Support , Bloggers
Are you a ?great? thinker?
More articles from this author:2007-12-29 01:13:00 There is a constant conversation within our minds, yet we seldom take the time to consider how great an impact it has on our lives. Some of history?s great thinkers realized that our outward life is an expression of our inward conversations and made statements like: ?You are what you think about all day long.? ?You ... More About: Great , Thinker 1, 2, 3 |
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