Carnival of Life, Happiness & Meaning #14

Greetings! Welcome to the 14th edition of the Carnival of Life, Happiness & Meaning. We have selected 22 posts for this edition. I request all carnival participants to give a link back to this carnival at their earliest convenience. Without further ado, here are the posts in the order they were received.

Warren Wong presents Stop Waiting For The Phone To Ring posted at INTJ Personal Development. Are you waiting for him / her to call you? Here’s why you should stop thinking about it and do something productive.

Charles H. Green presents Don’t Believe What They Say About Listening and Sales posted at Trust Matters. Too often we listen and hear what a person says they need, without realizing that really listening would tell us what they actually want.

James presents Overcoming Shyness: Tips for making effective eye contact posted at you shy devil you. Eye contact is one of the most fundamental forms of body language. Here are 5 1/2 tips on making more effective eye contact.

Cindy Posey presents Reinventing the Before Shot | Go Workout Mom posted at Go Workout Mom. Creating a happy image of the before shot in fitness is an opportunity to see all the good things about yourself while striving for healthy improvements in your life.

Paula presents What if Money is Just Like Water? posted at Queercents. How does it feel when you allow money to flow in and out of your life effortlessly? Empowering? Energizing? Don’t you just feel at ease with it all? Now, imagine when times are tight. You grab, hoard, and hold onto any penny you can. How does that feel? Toxic? Scary?

Warren Wong presents How To Pick A Good Stock posted at INTJ Personal Development. Do you know how to pick a good stock? Here’s how to find a good long term investment!

Ellesse presents Want To be More Productive? Play More posted at Goal Setting College. If you want to be more effective and produce quality work for your major projects, spend more of your time on leisure and recreation activities.

Vahid Chaychi presents For Robust Emotional Health Read This! posted at Healthoma.com. The more you have or possess in terms of materialistic possessions and luxuries, the more happy will you be, is not how it actually works.

Karen Halls presents Drug & Alcohol Addiction Treatment posted at Addiction Recovery Blog. Different rehab centers have different drug rehabilitation services, facilities, costs and credentials. Many of us have no idea as what are the things that we are suppose to look for in a rehab center.

Millionaire Mommy Next Door presents Memories are made of the things we DO, not the things we BUY posted at Millionaire Mommy Next Door. Should we buy a boat? Or would we rather go fishing?

Edithyeung presents The Money Series – How to Manage and Maintain your Bank Account? posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act.. Edith says, “When I pay for something I would use this ATM card. Or if I use a credit card, I would review my statement every month and sum up which spending belongs to which account. I then pay my credit card company using online bill pay through the 5 accounts.”

Craig Harper presents Weight-Loss Bullshit. posted at Renovate your life with Craig. While exercise, food, lifestyle and education are indeed important variables in the process, without doubt, the biggest determinant of weight loss (or gain) is what’s going on in that nine pound (four kilo) thing sitting on the top of our shoulders.

Chris presents Essential Tips For Self-Sustainable or Permanent Travel posted at nomad4ever. It’s best to have several sources/streams of passive income (rent, dividends, interest) besides the option of your labour. This is what can make sustainability very easy!

Marc and Angel presents Force of Character: Taking Ownership of Your Actions posted at Marc and Angel. It’s easy for someone to take ownership of success, but when the headlines read “failure” only those possessing “force of character” have the influential capacity to shine.

Tupelo Kenyon presents Take Time for You posted at Tupelo Kenyon. Don’t put yourself at the end of the list. You deserve to be first, at least some of the time. Don’t let your entire life slip by with everything else (and everyone else) getting preferential treatment over your most important priorities. Their needs are important, but yours are important too. Celebrate life by taking time for YOU!

Warren Wong presents Make People Comfortable By Greeting Them Right posted at INTJ Personal Development. Do you know how to make people comfortable when you meet them? Here’s a couple of tips to make them feel right at home.

Phil presents Five Motivational Tips « Phil for Humanity posted at Phil for Humanity. On a daily basis, I struggle with motivation issues. Heck, I am even struggling right now for a reason to write this article. I think this is because laziness is a fundamental cornerstone of the human mind, yet I believe I figured out five sure fire ways to quickly become motivated.

John Wesley presents 8 Moves to Make When the Chips Are Down posted at Pick the Brain. Taking the easy road is nice for a while, but for talented, motivated people it isn’t enough. To find satisfaction you’ll need to set ambitious goals, solve challenging problems, and develop strengths you may not know you have.

FitBuff presents Lose Belly Flab, Earn Cash: Would you drop 10 pounds for $350? posted at FitBuff.com’s Total Mind and Body Fitness Blog. Here’s an interesting experiment that an Italian mayor is using to get his town’s population in tip-top shape. Would you drop a few pounds for a cool $350? Check out the article for the details on exactly what you would have to do to score your payday.

Dave presents Miss(ed) Manners: The Merry-Go-Round « Miss(ed) Manners posted at Miss(ed) Manners. It’s cyclical, this life thing. As people pass on from this world, smaller people pass into it. I’ve always thought it was funny that babies are often just as wrinkly as old people. Like God saying, “just in case you had any doubt about Buddhism, here’s a reminder: you’re pruny at both ends.”

Alvaro Fernandez presents Brain Training Games and “Games” posted at SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution. Explaining how to navigate through the growing number of “brain training” claims.

Tyler Lloyd presents 2 Essential Ingredients to Accomplishing Anything Worthwhile posted at Tyler Lloyd.com. A bit on the two ingredients that must be there if you want to accomplish anything worthwhile.

That concludes the 14th edition of the Carnival of Life, Happiness & Meaning. Next edition of this carnival will be hosted here on 25 August 2007. You can submit your posts using the Blog Carnival Submission Form.


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