9 Plus Natural Ways to Prevent the Cold and Flu and Stay Healthy

By Marla D Gates

1. The number one way to get the cold or flu is through direct contact. If you know some one who is sick it is wise to avoid direct contact them such as touching or kissing them.

2. Cover you your coughs and sneezes with a tissue and then throw it in the trash immediately. If you don't have a tissue handy cough or sneeze into the inside of your elbow and whatever you do - do not sneeze or cough into your hands. The germs cling to your hands like a magnet.

3. Wash your hand often and regularly for at least 15 seconds with mild soap and water. Don't touch your mucous membranes such as your eyes, nose, and mouth after touching people or objects that many others have contact with. According to the CDC washing your hands if the best way to prevent sickness and spreading disease.

4. Avoid stress as much as possible because it wears our body down and negatively affects our immune system. When our immune system is weaken it opens up our body to be attacked by germs, viruses and disease. Try getting a massage to help lower your stress, listen to music, try meditation and deep breathing, yoga, or have yourself a good laugh with some friends. Laughter is a wonderful way to reduce stress.

5. Exercise regularly because this helps release endorphins into our body that naturally help our immune system stay strong and healthy.

6. Get plenty of sleep and rest. Sleep is also a major factor to having a strong and healthy immune system. According to experts 7-9 hours of sleep is required for the average person. To help you get enough sleep - try having a regular routine of going to bed and getting about the same time every day. Avoid caffeinated drinks, unhealthy snacks and spicy foods near bedtime in fact avoid unhealthy and processed at any time or meal. Stay off of electronic devices at least an hour before bed and that also means your smartphones or checking your e-mails. It will be there tomorrow.

7. Drink at least 8 glasses of water and fluids every day. you need to flush out the toxins in your body and water is great for cleansing your whole body. Organic fruit juices are a good choice to supply your body with extra vitamins and minerals. Try some peppermint water of peppermint tea. It works wonders on clearing congestion and helps you breathe. Try taking a little dab of peppermint essential oil and put it on your temples of under your nose.

8. Make sure you are eating a healthy balanced diet free from processed foods, sugary, fatty, high-calorie, or junk food. Eat plenty of lean protein and organic or local harvest fruits and vegetables to make sure you are getting the proper nutrition for a healthy and strong immune system. Make sure you are eating plenty of citrus fruits that are high in vitamin C.

Try so homemade bone broth. It is loaded with so many essential vitamins and minerals - it is one of the healthiest foods you can consume.

Eat fish that is high in Omega-3 and plenty of leafy greens. Garlic and onions are known to fight off bacteria and viruses that can help prevent the common cold and flu. They also make many foods taste wonderfully delicious - so add all the garlic and onions you can..

Studies have shown that eating real organic or homemade yogurt with live probiotics can reduce your susceptibility to colds by 25 percent. The beneficial bacteria can help the immune system fight off disease.

9. Make sure you get plenty of antioxidants,vitamins and minerals. Taking a supplements of Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin E can be very helpful and let's not forget about that mighty mineral zinc, It is so important in keeping the cold and flu at bay because it is so good at fighting infections. If you do get sick it can shorten the duration of your illness and because It helps destroy the virus at the back of the throat, therefore you recovery time is greatly shorten.

With these 9 plus tips you can stop the cold and flu and keep yourself and your family healthy by living a healthy lifestyle and make it through the cold and flu season without worrying and feeling miserable.

My name is Marla Gates and my mission is to help your live a healthy and green lifestyle, live naturally, organically.and help make this world be safer place. Come join me in my venture and I promise you wouldn't be disappointed in the many tips and ideas on my blog @   https://www.organic4greenlivings.com

Contract Management Software and Its Benefits

By Md Idris Sohel

The contracts are considered as old as the businesses in this world. They are written to make an agreement between both parties. Many times they become the product of many weeks of negotiations. Or they are the pillar of many years of business relationships.

Management of service contracts is an application that facilitates the contracts that you have with your customers.

It is a management information system that integrates and manages many of the aspects which are necessary for the management of service contracts agreed with its clients. It allows controlling the entire process in contract management.

However, a managing contract usually decreases costs, and save time and resources. And it facilitates the commercial relationship inside and outside of the company.

This is the reason why a technological solution for managing the contract is a key tool to automate the process of creation, execution and management of this important asset for your company.

Why a company needs contract management software

--Writing on papers, handling the agreements requires a lot of attention from the entire organization. In fact, there are complete departments to handle the clauses, situations, costs, renewals, expirations, obligations, guarantees, rights, court orders and compensation.

On average, large companies can have more than 50,000 agreements in force at any given time.

--With the passage of time, intelligent file systems are implemented using technology where they instantly indicate the place where the required physical contract was filed.

--It's normal the contracts, even today, are filed somewhere and forgotten. And they are only reborn when a legal dispute arises.

--Now the global appeal for products and services is growing rapidly, the need for efficient contract management and the benefits of implementing technology are getting a topmost priority.

--Fortunately,    contract management software has a solution that offers many options covering the need for the companies what they are badly seeking for.

--Many companies benefited with this software solution. They have concentrated entering their company into a centralized contract management system or a powerful search tools.

--The system is so finely synchronized that various notifications and alerts arrive in each person's inbox. They will indicate that it is necessary to take another action. Or notification will say a contractual protocol is not being followed.

--The alerts usually ensure compliance of all the participants of the organization that have some impact on a particular contract. This entrepreneurial dream is now a reality.

--Now, every company is based on this process. Highly efficient companies create total transparency throughout the process.

--However, this becomes a great challenge when a company works with paper documents which can only be available in one person's hand.

--The implementation of zero paper systems allows important documents to be shared, viewed and stored with a single click. Besides, the criteria such as accounts debit and credit and payroll contract approval will no longer demands times.

--On the contrary, shared access to the documents provided by these systems entails instant communication and transparency.

Theme for Leadership Training - Back to Basics

By Stephanie Harbin

This article advocates back to basics as a leadership training theme. Why back to basics? Sometimes we stray from what matters most and fall off course. Consequently, momentum is lost. Back to basics, nevertheless, accentuates the core. You're challenged to revisit and acknowledge what matters most.

At length, the relevance of the theme in various settings is discussed along with strategies to employ it. You're bound to walk away with fresh ideas on how to use a common but noteworthy subject.

Back to Basics in Education

What an appropriate topic for school leaders. Even though we have advanced technologically, we've produced a generation of youth who lack critical thinking and problem solving skills. They've been trained to push buttons and use calculators.

When I was a youngster, my teachers hammered math and reading. They taught reading lessons around subjects like science or social studies. By the way, we did math drills at the blackboard, without calculators. The girls competed against the boys.

Equally important, vocational education deserves more attention. The reality is that all kids are not going to college. Despite the urge to steer youth in this direction, it is the wrong move. The trades, however, equip youth with valuable skills that command pay that often exceeds what a college graduate earns.

Along with the trades, school leaders have got to increase programs geared towards business. Stir up the creative juices of youth. Untapped potential will spill over into prosperous enterprises. As a country, we have gotten away from what made us great - inventing, building businesses, producing.

Back to Basics in the Family

Conversely, families have lost their way. In many cases, the blind are leading the blind. As leaders of the family, parents benefit from going back to the basics. Well, what are the basics in a family? How about respect, love, discipline, responsibility, faith, and self-control to name a few?

Parents are raising future leaders. What they deposit into youth is what's going to come out. Help them to give kids the right stuff (values, a sense of responsibility, a work ethic, respect for self and others)- not just material things that lose value.

Back to Basics in Religion

It is paramount that the church returns to the basics. A concerted effort must be mounted to go back to the teachings of Jesus and to reach the lost. In short, the thrust must be the B.I.B.L.E. Although the Word directs us to carry the message to the ends of the earth, I think we need to carry it next door, down the street, and around the corner.

Back to Basics in the Workplace

Like the aforementioned, the workplace is prime for Back to Basics Leadership Training. It will revive people and organizations. Leaders in many instances have lowered their standards and expectations. As a result, mediocrity has flourished.

Even getting workers to respect each other has fallen by the wayside. For instance, a woman was in her office and a co-worker was blasting music causing a disruption. The former requested that her supervisor ask the person to turn the music down. Instead the supervisor told the person making the complaint to close her door.

Back to Basics in Government

Finally, government has much to gain by going back to the basics. Sometimes I think our leaders have lost their way. What happened to teamwork? More time seems to be spent fighting and attacking. By the way, it sets a tone for the country. And, a country divided cannot stand.

You're invited to visit    https://www.everythingleadership.store to receive a FREE special report on resources for parents, educators, facilitators, and trainers. Stephanie Harbin, a motivational speaker and training specialist has developed and presented a wide range of programs for business, government, educational institutions, and nonprofits. Her focus is on leadership, strategy, training, career and personal development.

Stop Smoking Unconsciously

By William T Batten

There are those who smoke and are happy. Hey, we all have our vices. Then there are people who don't want to smoke but can't manage to quit. They walk around with bad odours, empty wallets, crippled lungs and an aura of failure.

All of which is unnecessary.

If you smoke and want to quit, you've probably tried patches or gum. Or maybe you kept it simple and quit cold turkey. Both strategies have similar succeed rates, which is a polite way of saying they don't work. Nicotine supplements assume the problem is chemical. It's not.

As for relying on willpower...

Well, what makes quitting cold turkey so hard? If you don't want to smoke, then stop. If you have cravings, ignore them. It's not this easy - otherwise you would have quit years ago. But why isn't it this easy?

What makes it so hard to stop doing something?

Smoking is an unconscious problem. This is why hypnosis will help you to stop smoking. Knowing that you should quit is a conscious solution. In other words, they don't match. And what happens when the conscious and unconscious minds disagree?

It's the same as any dieter who promises to skip dessert, but caves at the sight of cake. Or the person who swears to get on better with the mother-in-law but rises to her challenge. Or the entrepreneur who can't switch off the TV and get to work.

You can't fight your unconscious.

But you can reason with it.

If your unconscious mind wants you to smoke, then there's nothing you can do about that. Here's the good news: that's not what your unconscious wants. It knows as well as you do that smoking kills your wallet, body and attractiveness. It gives you the urge to smoke anyway because it wants something else.

Your unconscious mind thinks that smoking adds value. What that supposed value is varies from person to person, but you can find the answer with a little introspection. Think back to when you started smoking and you'll probably find the answer.

For example, maybe you smoked as a teenager because you thought it made you cool. Hey, maybe it did, maybe it didn't. As an adult, it doesn't make you cool. People think you reek and have poor self-control. Your unconscious is working off old information. It wants you to be popular. A noble goal, terribly executed.

Or maybe your unconscious thinks cigarettes help you relax. Again, it's working with wrong information.

You never smoked for smoking's sake. There was always a reason behind it, a benefit that you thought it gave you. Bringing that into your consciousness makes it so much easier to quit.

If you're serious about quitting, then prove it. Invest in your health and success now. Forget fighting your own mind or replacing one nicotine habit for another. Hypnosis lets you move past all the hassle and get you back to breathing fully.

Don't bother looking if you aren't serious. When I say this is an investment, I mean it - even though it's cheaper than your smoking habit. This link is only worth following if you're serious about living smoke-free:

  https://guided-thought.com/downloads/breathe-freely/

Being A Human Whisperer

By Shamala Tan

We have the Ghost Whisperer, Dog Whisperer, Cat Whisperer, Horse Whisperer, but have we thought about being the Mother of all whisperers? The Human Whisperer? I know this sounds funny but it is the most basic life skill set we all must strive to possess. And we think that as humans, we know how to do this?

Nope.

The number ONE challenge that almost all of my clients have is to be able to communicate effectively. Whether it is with their family, loved ones, colleagues, clients or subordinates, this is ONE BIG CHALLENGE.

Over the course of the last two to three weeks, it made me realise that most of the work that I have been doing is really about teaching people how to communicate effectively. It is not about speaking well or having good diction. It is about communicating with each individual or group in such a way that they get what I am saying. Sometimes, I am required to be tough/stern, others times I am required to be soft and loving, and other times, it is important to be humorous. TIMING to do what and when is really the key.

Some of the key challenges that most people face include:

communicating with self? Is there effective self talk that one has clarity in the direction they are heading?
communicating with others - Are your needs understood? Are you being heard?
is using voice better than touch? Or vice versa?
how to communicate effectively with a crowd so that you are rallying them towards something positive
does being a leader automatically make you an effective communicator? Or is it the other way around?

If our communication skills are effective, then we will certainly have less of a challenge in our relationship with others. It is a fundamental skill that we must have. However, it is also one of the most challenging to learn, and a skillset that is challenging to impart.

To effectively learn this skill, attending a workshop for the masses on tactics, techniques etc is not sufficient. Simply because we are all different. One must learn to adapt these skills to different life situations and with different people.

I have found that certain communication skills I have coached one client on, will not work on another as effectively. As the facilitator, I am required to adapt to each of the needs of my clients. Now, keep in mind that as a coach, it is necessary for me to have this skill set. But the reality is, everyone should have these skill sets too. We need one another, that goes without saying, so our need for one another requires us to communicate. If this skill is missing, not only are our own needs not being met, you will not be able to meet the needs of others as well, whether it is in an intimate relationship, social relationship or work relationship.

I just googled "how to communicate your sexual needs to your partner". And there are over 7 million results. This just goes to show that even the most basic human need is not being met. Couples are having real difficulties communicating their basic needs to their partners. If this is a challenge, what about other needs?

If you want to learn to be a more effective human whisperer, drop me a message  info@shamalatan.com

My clients call me the chiropractor for the soul because it is what I do best. I align my clients with their body, mind and soul. The end game - to live more purposeful lives. I have a deep love for psychology, all things spiritual and non-religious. Join me and over 250k followers on my Facebook: http://www.Facebook.com/BeSpiritualandrich and visit my website http://www.ShamalaTan.com