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Burning Stubborn Chest Fat
Chest fat is an unsightly problem that plagues both men and women. Unfortunately, it is one of the main trouble spots on the body, making it a tough feat to conquer.No one wants flabby pecs or floppy boobs and, after some patience and work, chest fat will melt off your body.There's really no one way to target and burn chest fat. Overall, cardio exercise is the best way to achieve success. The problem is, we live in a "fast food" society.With computer technology, fast food restaurants, instant make-overs, quick fix pills and plastic surgeries, it is hard to accept the fact that some things take time, not to mention dedication.Chest fat is not something that will disappear over night. The healthiest, and best way, to rid your body of the flab is to stay active and decrease your calorie intake.There are some specific exercises that can be done to speed up the chest fat burning process. One of the best forms of exercise is walking. Walking has multiple benefits for the body. Now, don't get me wrong, I am not talking about an evening stroll. I am talking about a brisk, sweat inducing power walk for at least twenty minutes on a regular basis.Another option for decreasing the flab is an aerobic class. Variety is the spice of life! An aerobic class will have your body moving in all different directions. You'll be burning fat in more places than one and might even have a little fun while you're at it! The more variety you put into your work out, the less likely y

onstant. And the message is a much better description of my true career than the media that I currently use to express it.

Changing Perspectives

Chances are that you currently think of your career primarily in terms of the medium (i.e. your particular job) rather than the message (i.e. the unique value you bring to your work). I want to dive a little deeper into this distinction with you and show you some perhaps unexpected benefits that may arise when you shift your focus and begin thinking of your career primarily in terms of the message.

There are two significant risks that come from defining your career in terms of your primary medium (i.e. "I'm an attorney" or "I'm a programmer")

Work From Home Beats Unemployment
Whether you are a victim of corporate downsizing, suffering from a disability or you got fired, there are opportunities online that can change your life. With Corporate mergers, acquisitions and layoffs on the rise, many employees are looking at sudden unemployment as an opportunity to work from home by starting their own business.Starting a home based business may serve as the modern day alternative to sudden unemployment. This is a bold strategy that can provide a financial bridge across the chasm of limited funds. Some families suffer financially because of the small payments from unemployment.However, the savvy displaced worker may choose to work for home for themselves. Self employment eliminates the constant fear of not having a job. When corporations change ownership, or the company stock prices drop, the employees of the corporate entity are considered expensive baggage. In may instances, laying off a large number of workers is seen as a positive strategy by shareholders and Wall Street.The company is designed to produce value for the shareholders first. Employees are sometimes viewed as a disposable commodity. The major consideration of corporations is the bottom line profit margins that are critical to the future of the company.When individuals are forced into unemployment, they can take two roads. Some individuals view this unfortunate state of affairs as temporary and begin sending out resume trying to find the next company that may also dump

This article is designed to get you thinking about your life from a new perspective. For the sake of clarity, we'll focus primarily on your career, but by the time you're done reading, you should be able to apply these ideas to other areas of your life as well.

Consider a physical recording medium like a CD or DVD. By itself it's an empty vessel. The "message" is the information contained within that medium, whether it be music, a film, software, or some other information. The message is what provides the value -- the actual recording medium is often inconsequential. You may pay $20 for a CD that contains music, or you may pay $300 for a CD that contains certain software. But the physical CDs are essentially identical except for the information they contain. This price difference isn't due to a difference in the medium but rather due to a difference in the message.

Now let's extend this concept of the medium vs. the message and apply it to your career (or any other part of your life for that matter). For example, in most cases your job title represents the medium of your career. Career media include being an attorney, a salesperson, or a computer programmer. Think of your career medium as the vessel through which you work.

Much like a recordable CD, your career medium is an empty container waiting to be filled. If you identify yourself as an attorney or a salesperson or a computer programmer, that doesn't give you any sense of the value your work provides. Those professions are conduits for providing value, but they contain very little value in and of themselves. Some attorneys earn $100/hour while others charge $1000/hour. And you'll find tremendous pay differences in other fields as well, even among people who appear to have the same job title, whether it be secretary or CEO. The medium of the career (i.e. the job title) cannot account for these differences.

It isn't hard to recognize that the primary value comes not from the medium of your career (i.e. your particular job) but rather from the message of your career. The message is what you bring to your career. It's what fills the otherwise empty container.

For example, I can identify my career as being a writer, blogger, speaker, web developer, entrepreneur, computer programmer, etc. Or I can more broadly say that I'm a communicator. But that would mean defining my career as a medium -- an empty container. It's like saying that I'm a microphone.

The message, as opposed to the medium, is what specific information I communicate through these various vessels. What am I saying? What information is traveling through the microphone?

In my case the message is that I'm here to grow and to help other people to grow. The media I use to convey this message will change and evolve over time, but the message is a constant. And the message is a much better description of my true career than the media that I currently use to express it.

Changing Perspectives

There are two significant risks that come from defining your career in terms of your primary medium (i.e. "I'm an attorney" or "I'm a programmer").

The Squirrel Effect
An industrious black-tailed ground squirrel has his home beneath a stump not far from my office window. I’ve been watching him squirrel away provisions for winter. He reminds me of people I’ve worked with.Starting his journey by standing tall on the stump, the squirrel hurriedly looks side to side. When he’s certain it is safe he leaps into the grass, jumping then running to a group of nuts nestled beneath a medium-size pine. There he briefly pauses to make his choice. Selecting one pine nut in his teeth, he darts back to the stump with a run-jump motion. Once again standing tall, he looks for competitors or predators before quickly popping his prized provision into his nest and beginning the process all over again.Like that squirrel, people often hide what they consider important to their personal survival in the corporate world. It’s called information. Hoarding bits and pieces, they act as if information alone is a work-life sustaining nutrient. The more information nuggets they have, the safer or more powerful they think they’ll be. And while those nuggets might help someone survive in a corporate culture where information is a bartered commodity, long term it won’t help them thrive. Here’s why.They’re locked in old thinking about power and success, seeing them as the ability to render authority or influence over someone or something. They think information gives them control. But rules are changing. People don’t trust people who want to control them, who want to hoard wha

essentially identical except for the information they contain. This price difference isn't due to a difference in the medium but rather due to a difference in the message.

The message, as opposed to the medium, is what specific information I communicate through these various vessels. What am I saying? What information is traveling through the microphone?

Changing Perspectives

There are two significant risks that come from defining your career in terms of your primary medium (i.e. "I'm an attorney" or "I'm a programmer")

Have A Hissy Fit and Get An Xbox 360
There is a way of getting an Xbox 360 before Christmas, provided you are prepared to dig deepOver the last few days we have discussed the Xbox 360 shortage extensively. We have told you that EB Games will not be caught up to pre-orders until the new year, that Future Shop has Xbox 360s left in expensive “bundles” and we have talked about how eBay sellers are making a killing online. Well there is another way of getting an Xbox 360 before Christmas, provided you are prepared to work for it.Today while perusing through my local Best Buy, I came upon a performance almost good enough for the big screen. A woman was standing in the middle of the electronics section, growing increasing agitated to the point where she actually started crying. At first I couldn’t tell what she was gong on about, but then I realized the source of the drama.The woman had come to Best Buy wanting to purchase a new Xbox 360 as a gift for her kid. But of course, the store was sold out days ago. Instead of accepting defeat and leafing, the lady told the electronics employee that she wanted the one on display. In a calm voice he explained to her that the display console was not for sale. That’s about when the “water works” started. I’m not just talking simple sobs; no, this lady was balling her eyes out and crying like a new born.After about 5 minutes of this, and the inevitable involvement of the store manager, the display was unlocked and the Xbox 360<

rogrammer, that doesn't give you any sense of the value your work provides. Those professions are conduits for providing value, but they contain very little value in and of themselves. Some attorneys earn $100/hour while others charge $1000/hour. And you'll find tremendous pay differences in other fields as well, even among people who appear to have the same job title, whether it be secretary or CEO. The medium of the career (i.e. the job title) cannot account for these differences.

The message, as opposed to the medium, is what specific information I communicate through these various vessels. What am I saying? What information is traveling through the microphone?

Changing Perspectives

There are two significant risks that come from defining your career in terms of your primary medium (i.e. "I'm an attorney" or "I'm a programmer")

Increase Your Response Rate With This Killer Promotional Gift Tactic
You've been around the block a time or two. When it comes to choosing promotional gifts for your clients, you know your stuff. Why, you always get the nicest phone calls, notes and emails from your clients, thanking you for their gifts.The question is: do those people call and write again with new orders for your company's product or service? Which, when all is said and done, is what giving clients promotional gifts is all about. Right?Of course! And most of the time after those polite thank you calls and notes, you hear nothing, at least not right away and certainly not in the way of increased orders and sales.That's why you need to know this secret to giving the perfect promotional gifts to your clients-and guarantee results your accountant will notice.The secret is personalization. No, no, not as in giving gifts with names and such engraved on them, though those can be quite, quite nice.No, this is individualized personalization. That's a mouthful, isn't it? What it means is that when you're giving your clients promotional gifts, you need to think of each and every one of them as individuals-and give them gifts that speak to their tastes and interests.This isn't as difficult as you might think. In the course of doing business with people, we learn a great deal about them. Things like if they're dog lovers, wine enthusiasts, proud parents, gadget freaks, that sort of thing.So when it comes time to do promotional gift-giving, take those t

fills the otherwise empty container.

The message, as opposed to the medium, is what specific information I communicate through these various vessels. What am I saying? What information is traveling through the microphone?

Changing Perspectives

There are two significant risks that come from defining your career in terms of your primary medium (i.e. "I'm an attorney" or "I'm a programmer")

He Is The Vine And We Are The Branches - Fruit Of The Spirit
The church that is in the Father's heart is like the vine. The Lord Jesus is that vine, He is the church. For in Him are all things. He is the Life of the vine and without His life the vine would not have life, the life imparted by the Holy Spirit. We are the branches that spring forth out of the Vine and only have life insofar as we are joined to the Vine. The life that we have comes from the very life of the Vine. And, the fruit that we bear is the fruit that comes from Him, for that fruit is His very nature that He imparts to us. This is the fruit of the Holy Spirit that we read about in Galatians.So to is the church that has been in the Father’s heart since eternity past. The Lord Jesus Christ, and He alone is the Head of the Church His body. We are the members of that body, placed there by the Holy Spirit at the moment of rebirth. And there baptized, submerged, into His Body we are to bear fruit as we are joined to the Head, Jesus.More than just being the Head, Jesus is also the Chief Cornerstone or foundation and in Him the whole body is built up to be a dwelling place for the Father. There is no place for man-made institutions here. This is the work of the Holy Spirit as He continuously points us to Jesus and not to traditions of man.The fruit that we are to bear can only be produced in one place, and that place is the Body of Christ – the church that Jesus is building. And that fruit dear fellow believer is: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith

onstant. And the message is a much better description of my true career than the media that I currently use to express it.

Changing Perspectives

There are two significant risks that come from defining your career in terms of your primary medium (i.e. "I'm an attorney" or "I'm a programmer"). The first risk is that you'll unnecessarily limit yourself. You will only recognize opportunities that present themselves in the form of a nail because you've defined yourself as a hammer and nothing more. You'll fall into the trap of thinking, "Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!" As a human being, there are many ways for you to express and deliver value to others. The current medium of your career is only one of them. When you think of your career as being greater than any single medium, you'll open yourself to new opportunities that lie outside your current primary medium.

The second risk is that by focusing too heavily on a single medium, you're likely to lose sight of your message. Your message is far more important that any one medium, so by putting the medium first, you're likely to suffer from a gradual decline in motivation regarding your work. You begin a new job, and it's very exciting at first, but the longer you work at it, the less enthusiastic you become. Does this seem familiar at all?

For example, today you'll find people who define their careers as professional bloggers (the medium), and so they blog about anything and everything. But after several months or perhaps a year of this type of work, it isn't uncommon to see them becoming apathetic and even depressed about their work. Why? Because the medium (in this case, a blog) is hollow by its very nature, and something hollow cannot provide lasting motivation.

Defining your career in terms of some arbitrary medium, like being a professional blogger, is like a garage band saying, "Yeah, man, it's all about the CDs."

So what happens when you put the medium before the message? You define your life in terms of the container instead of what fills that container. You put emptiness before fullness. And this can lead to procrastination, lack of motivation, and low energy. How motivating is it to define your career as being a professional blogger (or any other arbitrary job title)? On a scale of 1-10, maybe it would start at around an 8-9 the first few weeks, but where will it be after five years? Probably a 4 or 5 at best. But by defining your career as the message instead of the medium, you're probably in the range of 8-10, and five years later you can still be up there. In my case the message of personal development is indeed a 10 for me. My level of enthusiasm for writing, speaking, blogging, or programming waxes and wanes over time, but my interest in personal development remains perpetually high.

The feeling of being driven comes from the message of your work, not the medium.

When you wake up each morning, how do think about your work? Do you say to yourself, "Today I'm going to write something (medium)?" Or are you thinking, "Today I'm going to improve the human condition in some small

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