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As car insurance rates keep increasing, intelligent people are looking for lower auto insurance quotes. There are several different types of discounts available and if you can save some money, then why not? Below is a list of general deductions that may be available to you. Check with your insurance agent to see if you’re eligible.

Individual Automobile Insurance Discounts

These deductions are usually given based on your performance as a driver and insurance policy holder. The other deductions are given based on your present status in life.

Vehicle Based Insurance Deductions

Your car is a huge factor in shaping how much you’ll be paying for auto insurance. Depending on the overall safety and other features of your car, you can be eligible for certain insurance discounts.

1. Car Air Bags. There are many types of airbags: front, rear, side-curtain, etc. The greater you’re protected, the bigger the discount you may be able to receive.
2. Anti-Lock Brakes System (ABS). Many automobiles on the road today are equipped with ABS. Many insurers offer deductions if your car is stocked with these types of brakes and many states even require the insurance underwriter to do so.

Anti-Theft Devices. Installation of anti-theft devices like alarm systems is a way to get cheaper insurance rates. There may be an added bonus if the alarm automatically turns on when the car’s turned off.

If you are a long-time smoker and wish to stop smoking, the following guidelines may be of use in quitting the habit. Smoking has long-term health hazards, as reported in news clips and reports. The habit however is a personal decision, and it all depends on how determined a person is, and what level of abstinence can be practiced in order to stop smoking.

People take to smoking for various reasons. It could be the sheer charm of smoking, joining a group, beating stress, soothing and calming nerves, and so on. The reasons for quitting are commonly health related.

There does not seem to be a trick in quitting a habit. It is easy to fall back and start all over again. Perhaps a slow and steady approach can do the trick when more severe methods have failed.

Here are a few words to guide and reaffirm your determination to quit smoking if you wish to do so:
1. If you keep failing, have faith in yourself. You can do it, if others have done it before.
2. It is important to remind yourself of the reasons you want to quit smoking. Write them down and read them regularly.
3. Seek help from others around, the ones you trust, in talking to you about quitting. When others persuade us, it may work better for some.
4. There are medical substitutes available that help people climb down on the amounts.
5. Setting a deadline by the end of which one must quit can help in some cases.
6. Find out which plan works best for you – an immediate stop, a gradual pulling out, or some combination.
7. Knowing and talking to people who have quit smoking can boost your morale.
8. Smoking could be related to poor health and regimen. Change your regimen and see if it can substitute for the need to smoke.
9. Visualize the lifestyle of a non-smoker, and find out why it is positive and good. This will increase the attraction toward the goal.

For more information on quitting smoking, visit: stop smoking

The author is a freelance writer and associated with www.stop-smoking-guide.info

The dictionary defines hope as “a looking out for something good; a belief that what we wish for will come.” Are you hoping for the positive outcome of your dream, a sickness, or finances? Do you see the desired end result in your mind’s eye so vividly that you can almost touch it? What is your hope based on? Were you very excited yesterday when the stock market jumped or the doctor gave an optimistic prognosis? How about today, when the market had a sudden drop and the hospital reported further complications in your condition?

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Heb. 11:1). Now, what does that mean? You mean that no matter how hard it gets and when everything points to disaster you still have to hope against all hope? So, if you clench your teeth, purse your lips and scrunch your eyes together in faith trusting your dilemma will pass, it should go, right?

Well, let’s have a look how the Bible puts it. In the fifth book of Romans it tells us to even go so far as to glory in tribulation! As you delve into it you will discover that this is true because hardships are a time of testing. The more you learn to rely on hope, and by faith wait in expectation for the desired result, the more patience will develop. Patience will result in small breakthroughs which, in turn, provide you with the experience that no one can take away from you. When you experience a miracle, however small, you have the confidence that the next time you can believe for something even bigger and better!

This whole process produces character. It generates a whole new you! Yes, one who has been hurt maybe, sick, depressed or beaten down emotionally, physically or spiritually. BUT… at the end of it you will have gained something. It may be wisdom of what not to do, a certain peace and strength you would never have realized you had, and a greater realization of who you really are. You did come out of it and now, having “been there and done that” you are in a position to help someone else through their struggles.

“Hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” Do you know the love of God? Jesus Christ, the author and finisher of our faith, for the joy set before him, endured the cross. (Heb. 12:2) He is Emmanuel, which means: “God with us.” Even though he was God, he took on a human body, whereby he was subject to all the physical and emotional circumstances as you and me. But… he endured and is now seated at the right hand of the Father, where he has prepared a place for you! What’s more, with Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you have the same Holy Spirit living in you. You’re not alone. Inside of you there is an awesome power to persevere!

Ann is author of With Wings As Eagles. www.lifealteringwords.com/with-wings-as-eagles
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It may seem like a silly way to spend an afternoon, but recently I was interested in discovering what was going on “behind the scenes” at my local corner store. It’s not a chain, just an independent convenience store, but there is always a steady flow of customers as there is nothing else like it in our neighborhood. I wanted to investigate what goes into running a shop like this, not to try and find anything specifically, but just to see what it’s like. I learned from the shop owner, John, that he acquired a license bond from his state department of finance in order to give his customers a bit more trust in his shop. It ensures that he will abide by all state laws and rules. I also learned that he has run the shop for 30 years, and hopes that no big chain corporations will set up anywhere near here in the future. His prices are low, but there is always room for competition. His only employees are his two sons, who have been working part-time in the shop since they were 13 years old. He knocked on wood as he told me he had never once had his store robbed or vandalized, and enjoys seeing his regular customers daily for coffee, newspapers, or, unfortunately, a pack of cigarettes.

Do you find yourself in this situation also? Noticing that your belly is extending or just pointing due south. Is buttoning those trousers getting more difficult? Are you understanding that the wasted, horizontal TV time, consuming snacks and chugging six packs has finally done you in, and you are sporting love handles? Would you like to get a six pack(get-a-sixpack.net)? You’re certainly not alone and we’ve got good news for you.

If you want to remove the ab fat to display the muscle you should start some ab workouts (http://ab-workouts.net). It matters not if you are a man or a woman, you can do better from a stronger back. When you tone up one you fortify the other. There are easy workouts to get rid of the love handles, such as sit ups and crunches.

With a focus on the lower back try lying on your stomach. Raising your feet and knees off of the floor and lightly kicking your legs as if you were swimming. Do this for 15 seconds and rest for 30 and repeat.

It is likely a good idea to cut the sodium in your diet. We tend to link up sodium and salt rich foods with heart problems and stroke. Sodium also leads to water retention which can make a fat stomach look even bigger. Don’t add extra salt to foods and avoid processed foods. A fat tummy can also be reduced by drinking water. Water aids in breaking down stored fat, creating energy and also hydrating the body.

A great idea would be to give up the alcohol drinking to reduce caloric intake. Most of us are foiled that we can not use alcohol to replace water. Alcoholic drinks contain a lot of empty calories which have a tendency to get situated around the middle area creating spare tires. No need to eliminate alcohol totally, just keep in mind how much you booze and reduce it; same strategy as reducing the quantity you eat.

“If I’m not going to earn money from it, I shouldn’t do it!” Is
this your inner voice stopping you from pursuing something you
would enjoy, like a creative endeavor, a sport, or an
exploration? Many people blindly obey this inner naysayer. They
decide they’re already not “good enough” at something to justify
spending time on the very thing they feel compelled to explore.
If this is a script you use to sabotage your dreams, it’s time
to stop!

The truth is, your wanting to play the flute again, or write
short stories, or learn tennis, or whatever you are called to
do, is reason enough to do just that. The potential benefit to
you lies in the DOING of the activity, not in your reaching some
external performance standard. Enormous value awaits you in your
pursuit of what you are called to do. Wherever you are on the
continuum of talent and skill, you are good enough to merit
participating in the activity.

You say you won’t be performing to sold-out concert halls? So
don’t quit your day job . . . but play your flute! Chances are
you can find other people at your level to play with. If
performing is important to you, then you will also find
appropriate venues and audiences.

You say roller-blading looks fun, but it’s “too late” for you to
learn? Wrong! You may have to endure the humbling indignities of
learning new physical skills, but don’t kid yourself – it’s not
too late. Just because you are used to feeling “on top of your
game” in many arenas – work, relationship, aerobics – don’t let
yourself be turned off by the prospect of feeling clumsy and
unskilled. You may never be a remarkable roller-blader, but
don’t rob yourself of having roller-blading in your life. You
can’t afford to disregard your desire to do it! You don’t have
to be “good” at it in order to enjoy it. And if it’s important
to you, you can always get better at it.

When I first started my cycling training, I felt like the
slowest person on the road. It took a lot of hard work to get
myself literally up to speed to finish the endurance event I had
chosen. I had to learn to disregard and replace the recurrent
internal voice that said, “You’re too slow! You shouldn’t be
doing this!” I learned to talk back to that voice by saying
things like, “It’s not a race” and “I’m getting faster.”

You know what? For all my work and effort, I’m still not a
remarkable athlete (surprise!). No scout from the Women’s
Over-50 U.S. Olympic Cycling Team discovered me as someone to
groom for the team. I only lost twelve pounds – I still have
eight to go. I was not approached by “Midlife Muscle Magazine”
for an interview. But I didn’t need THOSE outcomes to justify my
participation. The DOING was its own justification. I cannot
begin to tell you how much I learned from the process, and what
a great thrill it was to finish that ride!

I strongly, even zealously encourage you to honor what you are
longing to do. Allow yourself to engage in the pursuits that
compel you. Let yourself be ” . . . quietly drawn by the deeper
pull of what you truly love,” as the 13th century mystic poet
Rumi said.

COACHING TIPS:

1. Where do YOU “feel yourself quietly drawn by the deeper pull
of what you truly love” or might love?

2. Do you have resistance to doing what you are drawn to?

3. If so, give it voice and write down what it sounds like. This
voice might sound something like:

a) You’re not good enough at it (to merit spending time, money
or focus on it)

b) There’s no point to that activity.

c) Excuse me? You want to do WHAT?

d) You already have too many interests and dreams.

4. Write down responses to the objections you gave voice to in
3, above. They might sounds like this:

a) I’d like to get better at it.

b) The value is in the doing of it, not in the result.

c) Yes, I want to…

d) Let’s be creative about how this might be possible.

5. Get support from yourself and others to do it.

If you’re considering hiring a coach to help you pursue your
endeavors, contact me at sharon@stcoach.com for an initial
consultation at no charge.

Copyright 2003 Sharon Teitelbaum. All rights reserved.

Diabetes is no joke; the body’s inability to control its blood sugar levels has its list of serious complications – the inability to heal quickly, tissue degeneration, loss of sight and limbs, and death.

Juvenile diabetes, as Type 1 diabetes is more commonly known, is a disorder of the immune system in which the said system attacks the cells that produce insulin to regulate sugar levels in one’s body. So far, the only non-surgical cure for juvenile diabetes is artificial insulin intake, which can be administered through injections and insulin pumps. Though such medications have brought casualties down, they are expensive and somewhat traumatic to very young patients. The search to find a better, non-insulin based cure goes on.

In 2001, a breakthrough has been made that might finally lead to the total eradication of juvenile diabetes. Dr. Denise Faustman, PhD, Director of the Immunobiology Laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital, made a huge discovery: the utilization of cell suicide to destroy cells that cause the condition.

In the Journal of Clinical Investigation July 2001 issue, Dr. Faustman wrote that autoreactive T-cells, white blood cells that attack insulin-producing beta cells, are susceptible to the effects of a protein strain called TNFalpha – a substance that initiates apoptosis, otherwise known as cell suicide. Medical tests on diabetic mice show that a drug called Complete Freund’s Adjuvant that increases the body’s TNFalpha levels eliminated the presence of bad T-cells. Dr. Denise Faustman and colleagues ventured further with TNFalpha and found that the protein also prevents the redevelopment of autoreactive T-cells and promoted the production of beta cells, thus eliminating the need for artificial insulin.

Dr. Faustman proposed that such discovery would usher the permanent reversal of diabetes. In January 2008, Dr. Faustman and her colleagues began their clinical trials on human subjects.

Ken Mehlman, Head of Global Public Affairs, is leading environmental initiatives for Kravis, Kohlberg, and Roberts.

Ken Mehlman is a senior partner of KKR.

The Jewish Virtual Library has a profile of Ken Mehlman.

Perseverance is about as important to achievement as gasoline is to driving a car. Sure, there will be times when you feel like you’re spinning your wheels, but you’ll always get out of the rut with genuine perseverance. Without it, you won’t even be able to start your engine.

The opposite of perseverance is procrastination. Perseverance means you never quit. Procrastination usually means you never get started, although the inability to finish something is also a form of procrastination.

Ask people why they procrastinate and you’ll often hear something like this, I’m a perfectionist. Everything has to be just right before I can get down to work. No distractions, not too much noise, no telephone calls interrupting me, and of course I have to be feeling well physically, too. I can’t work when I have a headache.” The other end of procrastination – being unable to finish – also has a perfectionist explanation: “I’m just never satisfied. I’m my own harshest critic. If all the i’s aren’t dotted and all the t’s aren’t crossed, I just can’t consider that I’m done. That’s just the way I am, and I’ll probably never change.”

Do you see what’s going on here? A fault is being turned into a virtue. The perfectionist is saying that his standards are just too high for this world. This fault-into-virtue syndrome is a common defense when people are called upon to discuss their weaknesses, but in the end it’s just a very pious kind of excuse making. It certainly doesn’t have anything to do with what’s really behind procrastination.

Remember, the basis of procrastination could be fear of failure. That’s what perfectionism really is, once you take a hard look at it. What’s the difference whether you’re afraid of being less than perfect or afraid of anything else? You’re still paralyzed by fear. What’s the difference whether you never start or never finish? You’re still stuck. You’re still going nowhere. You’re still overwhelmed by whatever task is before you. You’re still allowing yourself to be dominated by a negative vision of the future in which you see yourself being criticized, laughed at, punished, or ridden out of town on a rail. Of course, this negative vision of the future is really a mechanism that allows you to do nothing. It’s a very convenient mental tool.

I’m going to tell you how to overcome procrastination. I’m going to show you how to turn procrastination into perseverance, and if you do what I suggest, the process will be virtually painless. It involves using two very powerful principles that foster productivity and perseverance instead of passivity and procrastination.

The first principle is: break it down.

No matter what you’re trying to accomplish, whether it’s writing a book, climbing a mountain, or painting a house the key to achievement is your ability to break down the task into manageable pieces and knock them off one at one time. Focus on accomplishing what’s right in front of you at this moment. Ignore what’s off in the distance someplace. Substitute real-time positive thinking for negative future visualization. That’s the first all- important technique for bringing an end to procrastination.

Suppose I were to ask you if you could write a four hundred-page novel. If you’re like most people, that would sound like an impossible task. But suppose I ask you a different question. Suppose I ask if you can write a page and a quarter a day for one year. Do you think you could do it? Now the task is starting to seem more manageable. We’re breaking down the four-hundred-page book into bite-size pieces. Even so, I suspect many people would still find the prospect intimidating. Do you know why? Writing a page and a quarter may not seem so bad, but you’re being asked to look ahead one whole year. When people start to do look that far ahead, many of them automatically go into a negative mode. So let me formulate the idea of writing a book in yet another way. Let me break it down even more.

Suppose I was to ask you: can you fill up a page and a quarter with words-not for a year, not for a month, not even for a week, but just today? Don’t look any further ahead than that. I believe most people would confidently declare that they could accomplish that. Of course, these would be the same people who feel totally incapable of writing a whole book.

If I said the same thing to those people tomorrow – if I told them, I don’t want you to look back, and I don’t want you to look ahead, I just want you to fill up a page and a quarter this very day – do you think they could do it?

One day at a time. We’ve all heard that phrase. That’s what we’re doing here. We’re breaking down the time required for a major task into one-day segments, and we’re breaking down the work involved in writing a four hundred-page book into page-and-a-quarter increments.

Keep this up for one year, and you’ll write the book. Discipline yourself to look neither forward nor backward, and you can accomplish things you never thought you could possibly do. And it all begins with those three words: break it down.

My second technique for defeating procrastination is also only three words long. The three words are: write it down. We know how important writing is to goal setting. The writing you’ll do for beating procrastination is very similar. Instead of focusing on the future, however, you’re now going to be writing about the present just as you experience it every day. Instead of describing the things you want to do or the places you want to go, you’re going to describe what you actually do with your time, and you’re going to keep a written record of the places you actually go.

In other words, you’re going to keep a diary of your activities. And you’re going to be surprised by the distractions, detours, and downright wastes of time you engage in during the course of a day. All of these get in the way of achieving your goals. For many people, it’s almost like they planned it that way, and maybe at some unconscious level they did. The great thing about keeping a time diary is that it brings all this out in the open. It forces you to see what you’re actually doing… and what you’re not doing.

The time diary doesn’t have to be anything elaborate. Just buy a little spiral notebook that you can easily carry in your pocket. When you go to lunch, when you drive across town, when you go to the dry cleaners, when you spend some time shooting the breeze at the copying machine, make a quick note of the time you began the activity and the time it ends. Try to make this notation as soon as possible; if it’s inconvenient to do it immediately, you can do it later. But you should make an entry in your time diary at least once every thirty minutes, and you should keep this up for at least a week.

Break it down. Write it down. These two techniques are very straightforward. But don’t let that fool you: these are powerful and effective productivity techniques that allow you put an end to procrastination and help you get started to achieving your goals.

To Your Success,
Jim Rohn

Reproduced with permission from Jim Rohn’s Weekly E-zine.
Copyright 2005 Jim Rohn International. All rights reserved
worldwide. To subscribe to Jim Rohn’s Weekly E-zine, go to
http://Jim-Rohn.InspiresYOU.com

Famous movie stars and other luminaries have made an interesting journey, when you think about it.

They’ve worked their you-know-what’s off to go from obscurity to universal recognizability, and then, once they have reached such visibility, they try to hide themselves away again behind dark sunglasses, tinted limousines, high gates, and live the most obscure lives possible.

Wanting to fall off the grid, to be untraceable, unrecognized is not only a desire of the rich and famous, but of others like so many Boulder, Colorado and Berkeley, California hippies that are keeping their VW micro-buses on life support in out of the way backyards and garages that no one will ever find on a map.

A few weeks ago, I was combing my local library’s shelves for books on the subject of “Freedom,” which by the way, is a search that I commend to you, when I found a provocative title:

HOW TO BE INVISIBLE.

Written by a European fellow who claims to be unreachable, it outlines how the average person, with a lot of sweat and effort I might add, can cover his tracks and seemingly, leave the world as you and I know it, behind.

Using dummy addresses that forward mail, along with cash payments for everything and tight lips, you can retain your privacy, according to this Sultan of Stealth.

Why would you want to do this?

Well, for one thing, if you’re paranoid about an abusive ex-lover or potential stalkers tracking you down, a low profile, or better yet, no profile can be a big plus.

I suppose the same tactics can be used to dodge pesky bill collectors and to cover your tracks if you’re a desperado, though this is not the author’s stated intent.

Anyway, the book was written prior to 9-11, before phone tapping became ubiquitous, and being invisible came to seem less patriotic and less possible.

After I read this tome, and I navigated it carefully from cover to cover, I was exhausted.

If invisibility takes so much exertion it may not be worth it.

And it makes you wonder whatever happened to hiding in plain sight?

Isn’t that an even better trick?

The most common variety of baldness is a systematic hair thinning state called androgenic alopecia more distinguished as male pattern hair loss that comes about in fully developed male individuals and other types of wild life.

Besides, pattern hair loss is also inherited, and the genetic material is given to an infant from either mum or dad, and not just the female, as had been previously believed. Pattern hair loss in gentlemen is the most universal variety of hair loss, and usually means a thinning hairline & baldness on the peak of the skull. The root cause of baldness in guys is dihydrotestosterone, or DHT, a derivative of the male hormone testosterone. An additional explanation of baldness in men is hairstyle.

Baldness is not simply a human being trait. Hair loss is a state of play where there is no hair present in the spot where it forms, typically this is on the cranium and happens in both humans and wildlife. Baldness in blokes is normal because each & guy carries hair loss causing factor in his body’s makeup.

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