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May 27th, 2009 Improved Prostate Function the Natural Way

The healthcare profession call an enlarged prostate benign prostate hyperplasia, or BPH. Put simply this entails that the prostate, a mass which envelops the urethra and lies under the bladder, swells and this may impair or even stop urinary flow. The prostate gland enlarges as the years go by and can result in complaints for example difficulties with passing water, a weak flow, and even urinary retention. Frequent night time urination and inflammation of the urinary pathway may also be brought about by prostate gland swelling.

Swollen Prostate Gland - What Does that Mean? Males over 60 commonly have an enlarged prostate gland. Current recommendations are that males over the age of 50 are tested by their physicians on an annual basis, even if no problems look to be occuring, to help maintain improved prostate gland health. Inability to urinate or blood during urination should result in seeking medical treatment immediately.

Surgery and medicines are frequent interventions for benign prostate hyperplasia. However, erectile troubles or incontinence can be observed as a result of surgery. High blood pressure treatments or medicines that reduce the prostate gland can also be suggested to improve prostate gland health, but medication will often lead to undesirable side effects. What options are available?

Prostatic Enlargment Problems? A Herbal Way to Achieve Improved Prostate Gland Fitness: — To encourage improved prostatic health and in addition reduce the problems brought about by prostate enlargement, some natural remedies may help. Inflammation may be alleviated by Afican pygeum, easing many of any symptoms. A product of the fruit of an African evergreen tree, African pygeum has been prescribed extensively by the Europeans for a number of years as a therapy for improved prostatic health. Cutting Back the fat in the diet may help, and in addition increasing exercise, the pressure in the prostate gland should also be relieved thru ejaculating more regularly, and avoiding sitting for a long time. Consumption of over the counter anti-histamines and decongestants may increase any symptoms of a swollen prostate, so please use these sparingly. Additional suggestions include not drinking within a couple of hours of retiring for the night to cut down frequent urination overnight, and keeping down alcoholic drinks and drinking less coffee and tea may also prove useful.

Prostatic health may be additionally respond to other natural remedies specifically saw palmetto, Borago officinalis oil capsules, the chemical element selenium, and lycopene, a molecule extracted from tomatoes. But do make sure to check with your medical care professional before commencing any alternative treatment of a swollen prostate gland.

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May 26th, 2009 Branding Is Not Selling Out: IT’S SELLING IN

Ever see an amazing band perform and wonder why you’ve never heard of them
before? Ever see an astonishing artist on the street and wonder why isn’t their work
isnt in a gallery? Ever see an astounding independent film and wonder why people
all over the world don’t know about it?

Me too!

It breaks my heart to know that there are musicians, painters, sculptors, and
filmmakers everywhere starving. Starving… for their art.

Why is a branding expert like me, who mostly deals with entrepreneurs and small
business owners, addressing musicians, artists, and filmmakers? It’s simple. Artists
are the ultimate entrepreneurs.

Think about it. Some create products and look for a market; others look at a market
and create products. Every entrepreneur starts the same way! It’s the notion of
business that often trips artists up.

Creating any piece of music, art, or film, is like creating a product. I’m not
suggesting that all products, art-based or otherwise, are equal. We all know a good
product, or painting, or film or vacuum cleaner when we experience it. Its just with
some artists, imaginary barriers get created. These illusive barriers can keep them
from creating the very success they want.

All creators have the same goals: to make a good product that is useful or
meaningful, have it well liked by many people and to be paid portionally to the
market they reach. Who doesn’t want that? Making music, paintings, sculptures,
photography or film should be addressed like any business with the same attention
to the big picture, IF you want to make a great living from it. But something often
holds artistic creators back from making a great living from their art.

As usual fear is the culprit.

Artists sometimes fear that if they develop the recognition and financial success that
comes from branding from them ’selves’, their peers will think that they’ve ’sold-out’
if they ‘make it’. Fellow starving artists might say that on the surface, but what they
are really saying is that they are envious of the success that you have created. It’s
far easier to put down someone else’s success than to make it them self. What’s
more important: what your peers think OR having your ‘art’ enjoyed by as many
people as possible and having the financial freedom that comes along with it?

Another fear that may prevent artists from taking their craft mainstream is that they
think that they will lose control of it by becoming a business and, heaven forbid, a
BIG business at that. Just like the art you make, what your business becomes is in
your control. If you develop your brand based on your vision of it from the start, you
protect it from becoming something else. Business is not bad -people that run
them can make bad decisions. The power of your business is always in your hands.

The largest fear for some artists is that the very nature of getting paid, and paid
well, for their art will change it. This will then set in motion the loss of creative
connection with the ‘art’ itself. I would argue that those that get lost were not very
centered on their purpose and passion in
the first place.

It’s odd to think that financial freedom, the freedom to do whatever you want, could
cause one to lose their way. In one of our workshops, we were fortunate to have a
successful artist who was ready to take his brand to the next level. When I asked
him what does he do, he answered, ‘Whatever I want.’ Who doesn’t want that?!

With the money you get from branding your craft, you can set up systems so that it
doesn’t interfere with your focus; donate to causes, invest in real estate, create
other products/partnerships. You can even hire the people to manage it all.
Leaving you free to… create.

The bottom line is simple, everyone has control over what they do and what they
manifest, it’s just that most people haven’t been shown how. Commitment to your
‘art’ does not preclude your ability to make money from it. In fact, the more
financial freedom you create for yourself, the more art you can create. A branding
mindset is taking that control into your own hands and owning the future. And it
must truly start from the inside -from your innate talent and your grand vision for
your art. Branding your art comes down to your commitment to yourself and to the
art itself. Branding is not only slogans and TV ads; it’s the power to be who you are
and communicating it to everyone proudly.

The definition of artist:

1. somebody who creates art

2. somebody who does something with great skill and creativity

3. somebody who is very good at doing something

Nowhere does it say you have to starve to make good art or good products.
Remember that the next time a musician, or painter, or sculptor, or filmmaker you
know breaks through to success. Ask yourself, what are you really committed to?
Don’t cheat the world of your gift. Developing a
brand mindset with integrity from the inside out is guaranteed to reach more
people. Period.

If you do something that you really love, you’re really good at it, and people pay you
to keep doing it, then branding it is not selling out, it’s selling in… to you!

Written by Kim Castle, the Co-founder of BrandU the home of only step-by-
step process for developing your business as a brand from the inside out!

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May 25th, 2009 Therapy Can Improve Tons of Conditions for Phenomenal Results

Every now and then people know that they can frequently work out their own problems with some amazing advisement from a mate. I have to admit, this can often sometimes work and you can feel hugely better. But, there are some conditions like self esteem that require professional help from a life style coach.

A therapist has been trained to benefit you frequently work through your big problems either using CBT, hypnosis or a talking therapy. One of the most attractive therapists on tv right now is Richard Bandler. He has been well known in Great Britain for a many number of years, he has roughly eight books out and they are regularly in the top 10 top sellers list in book stores.

The very most incredible therapy known to man is NLP, it was launched back in 1980 and is known as the rapid intervention technique. The therapy techniques have been made famous by Richard Bandler. The ethos of the talking therapy is that the human brain comes in two parts, the subconscious and conscious. The subconscious brain is similar to a sponge and it can often soak up therapy suggestions pretty easily for astonishing results. NLP takes rapid intervention and can sometimes use hypnosis to gain access to your subconscious brain for a behavioural change to occur. The very best thing about London is it has the best Tarot Readings from Anne Jirsch. Use hypnotherapy with Easily Achieve and make the changes today.

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May 24th, 2009 Providing ATT Uverse Reviews for the USA

ATT Uverse is the highest quality value in the US when it comes to Internet and TV service and is accepted as one of the highest value service suppliers around. Thousands of homes have already switched to ATT Uverse to receive better quality cable and net service at a low price, and you can too.

One of the ways that Uverse helps you save money is that you have the ability to receive the services that you desire bundled up in one at a lower price. So rather than paying alternate companies for tv and internet you can get both of them from ATT costing less. If you have a landline telephone you can save even more by rolling up all three options. Bundling your service will save you cash every bill and it will also make it a lot better for you to keep order of your statements because there’ll only be one. If you have ATT wireless cell telephone as your provider you can even combine your mobile phone invoice and your ATT Uverse bill each month so that you can pay all with one check. Comfort and a low cost make the ATT Uverse package the best value.. or so AT&T Uverse Reviews say.

There are a lot of ways that you can decrease your monthly bills but ceasing your Television and Web services isn’t most like the advisable way to cut back. ATT can give your family a ton of hours of pretty inexpensive amusement when weighed against the price of eating out or going out on average. You can also friends and family over for boxing, your favorite shows, and more.

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May 22nd, 2009 Image Hosting For Online Auctions

Use eBay picture service or host your own photos?

If you use the eBay picture service, your first photo is free. But each additional picture will cost you $0.15 and the supersize picture will be another $0.75.

This can cut into your auction profits if you need, let’s say, 3 or 4 pictures showing different angles, and one supersize picture for the “WOW” effect!

So I found a way to have as many pictures I want in my listings without having to pay all these fees to eBay: I do my own image hosting!

They are a lot of image hosting services to choose from online. Some are free, and others charge a small monthly or yearly fee.

Currently I use Photobucket image hosting. They have a free starter package (which gives you 25 MB of disc space) or a premium package (unlimited disc space) to store your pictures. You can subscribe to the premium package for 3 months ($9.00) or one year ($25.00).

Now, how to load your pictures on your photo-hosting service?

First, you have to resize your images. One reason for resizing your photos is that Photobucket limits the size of the pictures you can load - 250 KB for the free package and 1 MB for the premium package.

The second reason is that you don’t want to slow down your eBay listings with huge images! Big pictures take forever to load, and potential customers will hit the back button instead of waiting.

So I recommend limiting each picture to a size of 500 pixels maximum. I use the free Irfanview image optimizer to resize my pictures.

Once your photos are resized, you can upload them to your image hosting service, which is very simple.

For Photobucket, you have to log in into your account. Once you are in, there is a white window on top of the page marked “picture”, with a “browse” button on the right. Click on “browse”, and a new “choose file” window will appear. That window shows the files in your computer. From that window, select the file containing the picture you want to upload to the Internet.

Once you have found the right picture, highlight it with your mouse and then in the “choose file window”, click the “open” button. The name and location of your picture will then appear on the Photobucket screen.

Now click the “submit” button, and voila! Your selected picture is on Photobucket. You can even load several pictures at the same time by using the “submit multiple pictures” feature.

All right, your picture is now on Photobucket. But how do you insert that picture in your eBay listing?

Once your image is hosted on Photobucket, you will have to copy the URL of that photo (which is directly under it) and paste it into your eBay listing. Use the following html code to display the picture correctly in your listing (don’t forget to inverse the quotation marks at the beginning and at the end of this code!); paste your Photobucket image URL where it says “the URL of your picture”:

>img src=”the URL of your picture”<

You can even add a border around your picture, by adding a border code to the above, making it:

>img src=”the URL of your picture” border=8<

By changing the number of your border, you can make it larger or thinner.

Another great advantage of choosing online image hosting is that the quality of your pictures in your auction listings will be much better than with eBay picture services!

So you can have as many auction pictures as you need, with higher image definition, for less money. You can’t beat that.

Good luck!

Author Sophie Van Tiggelen of Bagatelle Jewelry (http://www.bagatelle-jewelry.com) creates original handmade beaded jewelry in lampwork glass, freshwater pearls, Swarovski crystals, semi-precious gemstones and sterling silver. Sophie’s designs are natural, beautiful and sophisticated, and she specializes in turquoise, coral and chalcedony.

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May 21st, 2009 The 7 C’s of Personal Branding Success

Everything you do is linked directly to your Personal Brand. As entrepreneurs
and small business owners, we have a distinct advantage that larger companies
do not. When it comes to our brands, we have the ability to get very
personal.

Larger companies strive to establish a relationship with their target audience
by making their brand feel more personal or relatable. This is one of the
reasons why spokespeople are such a commodity - larger companies piggy
back off of the relationship an audience has with that spokesperson. Those
experiences are then tied directly to their product or service thanks to the
Personal Brand draw of their spokesperson.

Take Tiger Woods for example. W hen he is hired by Nike to represent their
latest ad campaign, the mere image of him stands for perseverance,
determination and overall excellence. Nike benefits from those perceptions
simply by having Tigers brand lined up with theirs.

You don’t have to take such expensive measures, as a small business owner,
because you have the ideal spokesperson to represent your brand - YOU!

With that said, there are 7 keys (the 7 C’s) your brand must possesses to
establish that personal touch, and ultimate loyal following, with your target
audience. They are:

Character: Everything begins and ends with you. Your character is
at the heart of your brand. As you develop your Personal Brand, if you discover
that your character shows up in a less than favorable way, use this as an
opportunity to grow. Without a strong character, the remaining six success
principles won’t matter to anyone.

Commitment: Not surprisingly, when others see that you are a
committed individual, they will join in helping you achieve your goals. We are
attracted to people that follow-through on their word and have a “no matter
what” attitude. When you are committed, you deliver on your promise and
show the value of your Personal Brand. Great brands are built on this C - make
yours one of those brands.

Confidence: You’ll find confidence at the backbone of self-esteem.
It is our confidence that makes us unstoppable and drives us forward. Let’s
not confuse confidence with arrogance, which is a sign of insecurity or poor
social skills. True confidence knows no limitations and strives for solutions.
How are you acting on this key in your every day life?

Competence: Being competent is more than just knowing a skill.
True competence comes from having failed, dusted yourself off and tried
again. Competence is what separates the amateurs from the professionals.
The more competent you become, the more competence you will project
through your Personal Brand and the more loyal your brand following.

Consistency: We respect those that show us consistency through
their actions. A great idea not followed through on is fleeting. Consistency
takes continuous effort. Without consistency, your efforts are diluted over time
and ineffective. If you are inconsistent in how you communicate your Personal
Brand, your brand will confuse and eventually loose interest in the eyes of your
target audience.

Creativity: Life doesn’t offer us a blueprint for success, which means
we must ignite our creativity to achieve. Those that are creative live out of
their imaginations. As life evolves, and thankfully it does, the creative are in
great demand because they are always seeking out solutions to new
challenges. How about you? Are you seeking out new solutions or are you
stuck in what was?

Courage:
Courage looks fear in the eye and laughs. It sees only what is possible.
Getting clear on your brand attributes means revealing yourself - flaws and all.
It takes courage to recognize that sometimes, you must let go of who you were
in order to become who you were meant to be. Personal power and courage go
hand in hand - I believe they are one in the same.

© 2006 - Liz Pabon. All rights reserved.

About the author: Liz Pabon is a Personal Brand and Image
Management Strategist. Liz publishes a monthly eZine entitled Keys to
Success
providing personal brand success strategies that work! Register
for your subscription at http://www.head2toeconsulting.com.

If you’d like to learn how to have a breakthrough in your business by
developing your unique personal brand, contact Liz at 916-788-2962 or email
her at lizp@head2toeconsulting.com.

When not coaching her clients or presenting Small Business Branding
Intensives, Liz enjoys family time with her husband and four “fur kids” in
Rocklin, California.

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May 20th, 2009 Acting Lessons Available at a Top-Notch Denver Acting School

Gone with the Wind and Casablanca - are there two better examples of classic filmmaking and outstanding acting? Most ardent fans of these movies would argue that there isn’t. Classic films such as Casablanca with tremendous acting performances and popularly recounted lines top best movie lists and set a high standard for aspiring actors and filmmakers. Casablanca fans undoubtedly have a love for theater and performance, as this iconic film has inspired more than one person to consider taking acting lessons.

Contrary to popular belief, it’s possible to pursue a career in acting without living in New York or Los Angeles. Even if you were inclined to head for the bright lights of New York or L.A., you must first hone your acting skills and technique through acting lessons, some of the greatest of which can be found in Denver, Colorado. The Acting Studio, opened and operated by Bill Smith, offers an intensive study of the arts and theater for serious actors only.

With a vast repertoire of available classes and workshops, The Acting Studio offers an excellent forum through which aspiring actors can learn from the best in the business and perfect their own skills before heading off to Broadway or Hollywood. Some of the courses offered at The Acting Studio include film and TV acting, acting for the stage, audition monologue, classical and verse acting, voice-over techniques, stage dialects and the mysterious “ear” technique.

Casablanca fans and theater enthusiasts with a burning desire to emulate their heroes should check out The Acting Studio for some seriously intensive acting lessons. And after just a few classes one may not be surprised to find themselves landing the role of Rick or Ilsa in the next community stage production of the acclaimed film.

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