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How Much Do You Truly Value Your Time? Answer 5 Questions to Find Out.

How Much Do You Truly Value Your Time? Answer 5 Questions to Find Out.

Please Note:

This article, which contains a brief questionnaire,  was previously posted under the title, "Connecting: Some Questions to Ask Yourself...Seriously."

The previous title was posted in error. This mini-survey (refer to it as Survey TNNW5Q), as you will see, has to do with the presence in each of us, of opposing objectives.

On the one hand, we are taught to be thrifty and independent; this is reinforced with aphorisms like, "I'd save the money and do it myself," "keep an eye on the bottom line (which invariably causes most of us to turn to the default setting of "don't spend money, it detracts from profits.")," "Waste not, want not," and the like. The underlying and unifying rationale is that any money spent is "cost" or "loss," and that it is never actually an "investment in the production of greater revenues and greater profits." It is rather like wanting to grow a large crop without investing money on planting quality seeds. Even better (as terrible analogies go), it can be about as reasonable as heating your house by tearing down your walls and throwing them into the fireplace. After a time, the heating problem becomes a non-issue.

On the other hand, we are told that "time is money," and "don't waste your valuable time."

How you think about money (spending, saving, earning and investing), speaks volumes about your belief in yourself and your own abilities. Fear of poverty is generally a much more powerful motivator than the drive for success and achievement.

A poverty mentality might be a success repellant. Are you frugal? Or simply fearful?

Please bear this in mind as Douglas Castle (I refer to myself in the third person frequently --it makes me feel strangely powerful. You might try it sometime, too) presents Survey TNNW5Q:

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Dear Friends:

All other things being equal, and without reading into the questions (simple choices, actually), which of these two alternatives would you prefer in each of the cases below:


FIRST
1. Free social media access to all platforms and free passes to large group networking events, or;
2. Personal third-party introductions (with endorsements) to five pre-qualified, motivated prospective clients or partners per month at a fee of $50/month to $150/month?

SECOND
1. An email subscriber list of 100,000 people (acquired for free), or;
2. A group of 5 individuals who knew you, your product, and were aggressively talking to people to pre-qualify prospective clients to refer to you at a fee of $50/month to $150/month (total) plus a small commission on each closed sale?

THIRD
1. Spending time on the telephone and in virtual or actual meetings with prospective clients, or;
2. Spending time on the internet and working with your social media, with vigorous postings and email correspondence?

FOURTH
1. Spending time exploring and implementing cost-saving measures, or;
2. Spending time exploring and implementing revenue-generating measures?

FIFTH
1. Being the most well-regarded and liked person among your network of contacts, or;
2. Being the person among your contacts who has the most needed product or service?


Please put all of your choices (anonymously) on the form which follows as soon as you can, and then hit the SEND button. No explanations, rationalizations, qualifications or excuses are permitted. Be decisive, without hedging or apologies. There are five questions, and the answer to each one is either 1 or 2.


Please click HERE for a pop-up form.

Thank you for your time, consideration, input and honesty. Anonymous statistical results and their possible implications will be posted shortly. We'll keep you posted.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle


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Connecting: Some Questions to Ask Yourself...Seriously

Connecting: Some Questions to Ask Yourself...Seriously

Dear Friends:

All other things being equal, and without reading into the questions (simple choices, actually), which of these two alternatives would you prefer in each of the cases below:


FIRST
1. Free social media access to all platforms and free passes to large group networking events, or;
2. Personal third-party introductions (with endorsements) to five pre-qualified, motivated prospective clients or partners per month at a fee of $50/month to $150/month?

SECOND
1. An email subscriber list of 100,000 people (acquired for free), or;
2. A group of 5 individuals who knew you, your product, and were aggressively talking to people to pre-qualify prospective clients to refer to you at a fee of $50/month to $150/month (total) plus a small commission on each closed sale?

THIRD
1. Spending time on the telephone and in virtual or actual meetings with prospective clients, or;
2. Spending time on the internet and working with your social media, with vigorous postings and email correspondence?

FOURTH
1. Spending time exploring and implementing cost-saving measures, or;
2. Spending time exploring and implementing revenue-generating measures?

FIFTH
1. Being the most well-regarded and liked person among your network of contacts, or;
2. Being the person among your contacts who has the most needed product or service?


Please put all of your choices (anonymously) on the form which follows as soon as you can, and then hit the SEND button. No explanations, rationalizations, qualifications or excuses are permitted. Be decisive, without hedging or apologies. There are five questions, and the answer to each one is either 1 or 2.


Please click HERE for a pop-up form.

Thank you for your time, consideration, input and honesty. Anonymous statistical results and their possible implications will be posted shortly. We'll keep you posted.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle




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Alert: Deadline EXTENDED to 4/22 on Self-Evaluation Survey! JOB 1 = Know Yourself. Click on http://bit.ly/Introspect6

Deadline EXTENDED to 4/22 on Self-Evaluation Survey! Job 1 = Know Yourself. Click on http://bit.ly/Introspect6  #TNNW_BUZZWORKS

Commentary: Take an anonymous survey to find out more about who you truly are; your affinities and dislikes; your strengths and weaknesses; your personal and professional style; your areas of greatest potential. Self-evaluation is one of the most powerful success tools available, yet so few of us take advantage of it's enormous, transformative, revelatory potential. We must study who we are within to be able to address the world outside of us, and to interrelate with others. -- Douglas Castle [ http://aboutdouglascastle.blogspot.com/ ].


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Prevention and Treatment of High Blood Pressure - Various Conventional and Alternative Approaches

Prevention and Treatment of High Blood Pressure - Various Conventional and Alternative Approaches.

Note: This article is does not offer medical, health or fitness advice, and is provided for acadmentic and interest purposes only. All information is made availab elt o you for you consideration in conjunction with the advice of your healthcare professional. This article was written by Douglas Castle http://aboutDouglascastle.blogspot.com  (Featured Columnist for the National Networker Weekly Newsletter) and the author of The Global Futurist and a host of other publications, media and blogs.

High blood pressure (hypertension) is  a condition which can rapidly develop and actually cause death with a minimum of telltale symptoms. Hypertension is becoming increasingly common, incresingly severe, and is invariably diagnosed and treated. It can be caused by emotional stress, physical stess, poor diet, a lack of exercise, overweight and genetic factors. Ahough it might not preventable, it can be kept under control.

According to the American Heart Association nearly 1/3 of the adults (people over 18) have high blood pressure but nearly 1/3 of those don't know they are sick. This is because high blood pressure is a silent killer, with little to no symptoms.

Current guidelines for blood pressure are: normal is below 120/80, prehypertension is between 120/80 and 139/89 and hypertension is 140/80 or greater. A further distinction is made for those who have blood pressure greater than 160/100 as stage 2 hypertension.
Although doctors can't identify a definitive cause in 95% of people diagnosed with hypertension, they do know there are some lifestyle choices that can be modified and which will cause a decrease in the measurements. These lifestyle modifications are the first in a line of alternative treatments for hypertension. The first lifestyle choice is weight. The greater the body mass the more pressure exerted on the arterial walls and more oxygen that is required to feed the tissues of the body. By reducing your weight to normal limits you'll be able to effect a significant change in your blood pressure.

Some of the basics follow:

1. minimize your salt (and sodium) intake;

2. drink plendy of water and dilute fruit juices;

3. reduce caffeine intake;

4. avoid excessive use of decongenstant or stimulant formulas;

5. maintain a healthy, light bodyweight;

6. meditate and de-stress as often as possible;

7. get constant cardio-vascular exercise;

8. Take time to breathe slowly, deeply and deliberately;

9  Use positive mental visualization to the greatest extent possible;

10.See your health care provider frequently in order to monitor your pressure - You may also be helped with prescription drugs

Some Alternative Therapies and Substances which may indeed be worth your investigation:

1. Take significant effective doses of L-Arginine, a natural amino acid which helps to increase the amount of Nitric Oxide in the Bloodstream;

2. Take reasonable does of Foic Acid along with vitamin B12 (this combination reduces blood homosysteine as well);

3. Take reasonable amounts of Hawthorne supplements;

4. Taking garlic in a small medicinal dose is thought to be helpful in aiding arterial and veinous health;

5. Taking small amounts of flush-free Niacin is a cholesterol clearing agent, and a de facto widener of the arteries as plaque is kept from forming;

6. Taking small amounts of Coenzyme Q10 might also have a favorable effect on vessel wall health, plasticity and longevity.

Here are some Hypertension Resources for Your Use:

Heart Health Organizations

American College of Cardiology
Heart House
9111 Old Georgetown Road
Bethesda, MD 20814-1699
1-800-253-4636, ext. 694 or (301) 897-5400
Fax: (301) 897-9745
www.acc.org

American Heart Association
National Center
7272 Greenville Avenue
Dallas, TX 75231
1-800-242-8721
www.americanheart.org

Food and Drug Administration
Department of Health and Human Services
5600 Fishers Lane, (HFI-40)
Rockville, MD 20857
www.fda.gov

National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Health Information Center
P.O. Box 30105
Bethesda, MD 20824-0105
Phone: (301) 592-8573
Fax: (301) 592-8563
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov

The Cleveland Clinic Heart Center
9500 Euclid Avenue, F25
Cleveland, Ohio 44195
Appointments (216) 444-6697 or 1-800-223-2273 ext. 46697
website: www.clevelandclinic.org/heartcenter

Heart Health Websites

Cardiology Channel
www.cardiologychannel.com
Cut to the Heart
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/heart/
HeartCenterOnline
www.heartcenteronline.com
Cardiology Online
www.heartinfo.org
The Heart Preview Gallery
www.fi.edu/biosci/preview/heartpreview.html
Med Help Heart Forum
www.medhelp.org/forums/cardio/wwwboard.html
PediHeart Organization
http://www.pediheart.org/

In closing, know that hypertension is truly a killer an that it must be dignosed, rated, with intervention rapidly undertaken. Remember: The systems can be silent!

Faitlfully,

Douglas Castle

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Thank you. From all of us, and from every man, woman and child who needs these resources.

--DC

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Dedication to The Winning Women's Vortex - The WWV

Dedication to The Winning Women's Vortex - The WWV

Dear Friends, Colleagues, Members and those nosy persons who are sneaking a peek over the shoulders of the aforementioned three categories of legitimate readers because you've not bothered to get your own free subscription to The National Networker business publications by simply clicking on http://bit.ly/JoinTNNW - For Shame! :

The Winning Women's Vortex, an amazing site which is being sponsored by The National Networker Companies and which will be moderated by Author, Featured TNNW Columnist and Connectrix Ann Barczay Sloan is going to be opened for a brief preview on April 14th, at http://thewinningwomensvortex.blogspot.com/.

It should be noted that the site will feature multiple interactive communities featuring topics of interest to women of ambition - these topics will include, but will not be limited to the chartering of a credit union, a venture capital and business bootstrapping fund, a collective bargaining/ lobbying unit and other new institutions and programs to be established by women and for women.

The site's Founder and Moderator, Connectrix Ann Barczay Sloan, is also the author of the soon-to-be-released book, "THE POWER OF PASSION: Winning Women Reveal Their Secrets," which will contain Ann's interviews with 17 of the most promising female thought leaders and entrepreneurs standing at the leading edge of the movement for Women's Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Empowerment.

These women will also be involved as advisors, pundits and futurists on the WWV site, and they will be accessible to the public.

TNNWC has recently been reporting on the activities and achievements of several of these truly outstanding women, including:

 Bonnie Ross-Parker (America's Connection Diva and the Founder of The Joy Of Connecting, at http://www.thejoyofconnecting.com/ and The Latina Joy Of Connecting) creator of the world's most revolutionary system for in-home women's networking and relationship-building;

 Sandra Levitin, the Founder, Publisher and Editor of Kalön Women, and of Kalön Women’s Magazine at http://kalön-women.com/, two of the fastest-growing sensational resources for women 40 and over in the United States; and

Paula Fellingham, a media champion and Founder of The Women's Information Network (The "WIN") at http://www.thewinonline.com/ - a broadcasting machine which reaches an audience in the millions of women.

Gentlemen (myself, an others similarly equipped)...these women are breaking down all barriers...we can either learn to surf, or be crushed by the coming Tidal Wave.  Personally, I'm learning to be very nice, and to treat these amazing females with great respect - I would insist that you do the same, fellows, or risk the consequences.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle, http://aboutDouglasCastle.blogspot.com
Vice-Chairman
THE NATIONAL NETWORKER COMPANIES

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p.s. Ann Barczay Sloan sent me these terrific and clever insults in an attempt to keep me in good spirits (perhaps my mother has been paying her -- I am always suspicious when a woman is nice to me). Adam J. Kovitz (TNNWC's Founder who tries to push me around ) and I decided to share these beauties with you. Thanks again, Ann -- our favorite Connectrix:

When Insults Had Class 

These glorious insults are from an era before the English
language got boiled down to 4-letter words (and people
still used their brains, if they had any!).
-- The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor:
She said, "If you were my husband I'd poison your tea."
He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."

-- A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die
on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
"That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your
policies or your mistress."

-- "He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr

-- "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."  -
Winston Churchill

-- "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries
with great pleasure." Clarence Darrow

-- "He has never been known to use a word that might send a
reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest
Hemingway).

-- "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no
time reading it." - Moses Hadas

-- "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I
approved of it." - Mark Twain

-- "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.."
-  Oscar Wilde

-- "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a
friend.... if you have one." - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one."
- Winston Churchill, in response.

-- "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
- Stephen Bishop

-- "He is a self-made man and worships his creator." - John Bright

-- "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing  trivial."
- Irvin S. Cobb

-- "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
- Samuel Johnson

-- "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." - Paul Keating

-- "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
- Charles, Count Talleyrand

-- "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker

-- "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any
address on it?" - Mark Twain

-- "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
-  Mae West

-- "Some  cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever
they go." - Oscar Wilde

-- "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support 
rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

-- "He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder

-- "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
-  Groucho Marx

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SHARP OBJECTS - Communicate with Precision

SHARP OBJECTS. You have less than 5 seconds and no more than 140 characters. Make your point. Can you? How?
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The Key...

"The key is to find where your happiness and your livelihood meet." - Douglas Castle [with congratulations to my younger brother, Adam!]


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You Need A Distraction - Yes, You Do!

You Need A Distraction - Yes, You Do!

Dear Friends, Colleagues and Jan:

I pride myself on being serious about providing priceless (I don't always charge) information to my faithful [I use broad parameters in my definition of the term "faithful" here] readers. Sometimes we get so serious, so immersed, so obsessed, so eye-in-the-microscope, that we lose all perspective of why we are living. Say what you may, our lives are, at their highest purpose, journeys toward our happiness -  toward finding our Bliss.

Yet, at times, it seems a futile pursuit to "stop and smell the roses" when you feel as if you are busily climbing a mountain of manure in little blue hospital slippers and without a walking stick. Well...permit yourself to pause (be careful where you sit) and be distracted for a few brief moments. 

You have my permission to feel enjoyment, to save this article and view it in installments, and to forward the whole thing to every friend you know (and some whom you aren't quite sure of) who may be in need. Advise them that Douglas Castle, the undercompensated Vice-Chairman of The National Networker Companies will write them a note if they need one.
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1.) Firstly, we have a crucial video (about the Copped Clapper Caper - if that rings a bell) contributed by Daniel J. Benor, MD, ABHM.

For more web items of humor, beauty and wonderment from David, visitMonthly E-Zines and frequent Newsletters of the IJHC and the WHR sites at http://wholistichealingresearch.com/CurrentIssue.html .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4RIBhQIkII&feature=related, or

        

2.) Secondly, we have a bit of true wisdom gleaned from the never-ending "Battle of the Sexes" and forwarded to us by author, speaker and Featured TNNW Newsletter Columnist Ann Barczay Sloan. This Artful Piece _  _________ (you may fill in any word couplet that you'd like) is titled "Geography of a Woman." [cue throat-clearing noise in the background]

GEOGRAPHY OF A WOMAN 

~Between 18 and 22, a woman is like Africa. Half discovered, half wild, fertile and naturally beautiful! 
~Between 23 and 30, a woman is like Europe. Well developed and open to trade, especially for someone of real value. 
~Between 31 and 35, a woman is like Spain, very hot, relaxed and convinced of her own beauty. 
~Between 36 and 40, a woman is like  Greece, gently aging but still a warm and desirable place to visit. 
~Between 41 and 50, a woman is like Great Britain, with a glorious and all conquering past. 
~Between 51 and 60, a woman is like Israel, has been through war, doesn't make the same mistakes twice, takes care of business. 
~Between 61 and 70, a woman is like Canada, self-preserving, but open to meeting new people. 
~After 70, she becomes Tibet ...  Wildly beautiful, with a  mysterious past and the wisdom of the ages......An adventurous spirit and a thirst for spiritual knowledge. 

THE GEOGRAPHY OF A MAN

~Between 1 and 80, a man is like Iran ... ruled by nuts. 
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3.) Thirdly, we have a very significant ground-breaking and wind-breaking sociological treatise regarding men, auto-suggestion and expectation management provided by Professor (Emeritus) Rick Itzkowich, Co-Founder of QuoteActions ... a program designed to keep you in touch with your clients and prospective clients -- to be certain that you will be in the right place at the right time when your client needs what you have to offer. [By this is an unsolicited and unpaid endorsement. I truly don't really care for Rick that much, but I have to pretend to like him because we are forced to work together].


Please click here for a delightful download: http://www.mediafire.com/?myd0otujztm



4.) Fourthly, we have TNNW Survey #6: A SELF-EVALUATION. Take the survey (it's anonymous) and learn a great deal about yourself just by taking it!  Just click on http://www.surveymonkey.com/TNNWsurvey6 . The interesting element here is the little-used learning tool of Introspective Feedback.


5.) Lastly, please scamper over to http://braintenance.blogspot.com/, and scroll way down to the videos on Meditation and Relaxation. Pick any one, click and enjoy it.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle



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