Have Free Radicals Taken Over Your Body?

Imagine a music venue, darkly lit, foggy with smoke. The opening band sloppily takes the stage. You and the crowd suffer through the sound check before, finally, the lead singer shouts, “We’re The Free Radicals!” and they launch into the first song—an eardrum-slaughtering massacre of sound. There’s tension on stage when the head banging singer bumps into the guitarist, who pushes back. Singer throws mic. Guitarist throws punch. It’s a disaster. The Free Radicals are unstable, destructive, and are going to owe the venue a lot of money after tonight.

With a name like free radicals, it’s hard to resist a garage band analogy to explain just how damaging the things can be. If left to their own devices, they will run amok within your body, but how? And what can you do to stop them?

Why You Should Worry about Your Gut Health

As more and more research results come to light, one thing is becoming clear: your gut has far more to do with your overall physical and emotional health than any of us previously realized. When your gut is not healthy, you can experience all kinds of problems.

A Quick Overview of Your Digestive System

How to Meet Your Business Goals

Goal setting isn’t just something you do once a year. If you have your own business or are thinking about starting one, now is the time to set business goals. Before you plan on where you want to go, take a look at where you’ve been.

Here are some things to consider:

• List activities that worked to help achieve your business goals over the last six months.
• List activities that didn’t work.
• Consider the activities that didn’t work and how they can be improved upon.
• Are there goals that weren’t met? Sometimes a goal may need to be pushed back and held for another time. Or perhaps it could be simplified to help bring it to fruition. Separate activities that helped you get new clients from those that helped advertise your business. Which of these helped improve your bottom line?

Depending if you keep the same goals or develop new ones, once you determine what worked or could work to help grow your business and what doesn’t, then you can strategize for 2015 and develop vision and mission statements.

How to Think, Work and Live as an Entrepreneur

Nuggets of wisdom by Tom Barrett

Tom Barrett is the president of Business/Life Management, a co-founder of Tightrope Communications, a faculty member at the Lockheed Martin Center for Leadership Excellence, and a leading authority in the marketing industry. He is also the best-selling author of Dare to Dream and Work to Win and Success Happens. Tom practiced clinical psychology for 20 years, coaching individuals and maintaining awareness of what it means to “live in the real world.” Tom shared with our National Convention audience several key principles about success, dreams and prosperity. Here we offer a few notes from his highly dynamic presentation.

FOCUS ON JUST TWO GOALS:
1. CHANGE YOUR BUSINESS.
2. CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

12 Habits of Heart Healthy People

There might not be anything more important than taking care of your heart. And doing so can be simple.

At least simple in theory.

It takes dedication and consistent habits to keep your heart healthy throughout your life. Here are some of the habits of those living a heart healthy life: