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A recent study found that smoking hampers physical fitness (even in young, fit people) and smokers seem to have lower physical endurance than nonsmokers1. Even when smokers want to get fit, the task isnt always easy. Cigarettes push blood pressure up, increase the heart rate and make coughing and choking a real problem.

In essence, youre poisoning your body with the cigarettes yet expect the same stressed organs to work hard during exercise. This puts a double strain on your heart, blood vessels, pulse, and blood pressure, as well as diminishes the oxygen levels in the blood.

Both exercise and smoking affect the same organ systems, but in opposite ways. While smoking decreases lung capacity, exercise increases it. In addition, as smoking increases your risk of having a heart attack, exercise decreases it. And then theres the issue of phlegmsmoking produces phlegm (which congests the lungs), while exercise breaks it up and rebuilds the lungs.

For more information on the effect of smoking when working out see the following article from TheDietChannel: Cigarettes: Will a couple per week affect your workout?

If youre a smoker who is ready to start exercising but not quite ready to quit smoking, think about some of the following health benefits of quitting2:

So, the good news is that you can start reaping health benefits the moment you take that last puff. Think about you can gainbeing able to breath fully again; enjoying the taste and smells around you, having a vibrant skin tone; and having more fun with your exercise program. Once you feel the difference, youll wonder why you didnt stop sooner. Do it today, its a choice you wont regret.

For more information on quitting smoking and avoiding weight gain see the following article from TheDietChannel: Smoking Cessation and Weight Gain: How to Quit Smoking and Avoid Gaining Weight.

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PERSONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

Your momentum is power. Where your focus goes your energy flows.

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For three decades, Anthony Robbins has passionately pursued answers to the question of why people do what they do and what holds them back from living life on their own terms. What he has discovered in working with more than three million people from 80 countries is that no matter what the obstacles, every human being holds within them power to change anything. Whatever area of your life you want to focus on your career, your relationships, your body, your finances or your time the tools and strategies found in the Anthony Robbins Personal Coaching Collection will help you achieve and experience more fulfillment than you ever thought possible.

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An Individual Development Plan (IDP) can help you stay on course toward achieving your career development goals. But where and how do you begin? With these tips, you will learn to identify and describe your goals, choose activities that will help you meet them, set key milestones, and create a timeline for the completion of your goals.

To start the IDP process, first spend some time thinking about your career. As you do, ask yourself these questions:

As you consider these questions, write down your thoughts and note the areas with which you might need help. Be open and honest about your developmental needs. Finally, write down any career goals that emerge as a part of this brainstorm.

Once you finish brainstorming, you should have some initial ideas for goals and relevant developmental opportunities. Now, begin to organize these ideas. Depending on where you work at VA, you may have access to an IDP form. Your supervisor or HR specialist should be able to provide you with a form or another option if your organization does not participate in a formalized IDP process.

Generally, your IDP should include the following:

Dont be afraid to set tough, but realistic, goals for yourself. Good career goals will help you to identify and focus your developmental efforts, bringing you closer to where you want to be in your career. By capturing both long-term (3-5 years) and short-term (1-2 years) goals, you can make sure your current efforts are supporting your future ambitions. Try to capture at least one long-term career goal and three to six short-term career goals in your IDP.

As you develop your IDP, make sure all of your goals:

Explain how you will measure your progress

Include a deadline for achieving your goals

Finally, for each goal you set, identify one to three developmental activities that will help you achieve that goal. Continue reading for specific ideas about developmental activities you can include in your plan.

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Life Coaching has experienced explosive growth over recent years in Australia and around the world. This growth is due to the amazing results achieved by people and corporations through the application of life coaching principles.

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From his earliest childhood in India, Osho was a rebellious and independent spirit, challenging all accepted religious, social and political traditions and insisting on experiencing the truth for himself rather than acquiring knowledge and beliefs given by others.

At the age of twenty-one, on March 21, 1953, Osho realized his enlightenment. He says about Himself, I am no longer seeking, searching for anything. Existence has opened all its doors to me. I cannot even say that I belong to existence, because I am just a part of it. When a flower blossoms, I blossom with it. When the sun rises, I rise with it. The ego in me, which keeps people separate, is no longer there. My body is part of nature, my being is part of the whole. I am not a separate entity.

He graduated from the University of Sagar with First Class Honors in philosophy. While a student he was All-India Debating Champion and the Gold Medal winner. After a nine-year stint as professor of philosophy at the University of Jabalpur, he left to travel around the country giving talks, challenging orthodox religious leaders in public debate, upsetting traditional beliefs, and shocking the status quo.

In the course of his work, Osho has spoken on virtually every aspect of the development of human consciousness. From Sigmund Freud to Chuang Tzu, from George Gurdjieff to Gautam Buddha from Jesus Christ to Rabindranath Tagore. He has distilled from each the essence of all that is significant to the spiritual quest of contemporary man, based not on intellectual understanding but tested against his own existential experience.

He belongs to no traditionI am the beginning of a totally new religious consciousness, he says. Please dont connect me with the pastit is not even worth remembering.

His talks to disciples and other seekers from all over the world have been published in more than six hundred and fifty volumes, and translated into over thirty languages. He says, My message is not a doctrine, not a philosophy. My message is a certain alchemy, a science of transformation, so only those willing to die as they are and be born again into something so new that they cannot even imagine it right nowonly those few courageous people will be ready to listen, because listening is going to be risky. Listening, you have taken the first step towards being reborn. So it is not a philosophy that you can just make an overcoat of and go bragging about. It is not a doctrine when you can find consolation for harassing questions. No, my message is not some verbal communication. It is far more risky. It is nothing less than death and rebirth.

Osho left his body on January 19, 1990. Just a few weeks before, he was asked what would happen to his work when he was gone. He said: My trust in existence is absolute. If there is any truth in what I am saying, it will survive. The people who remain interested in my work will be simply carrying the torch, but not imposing anything on anyone.

I will remain a source of inspiration to my people. And thats what most sannyasins will feel. I want them to grow on their own qualities like love, around which no church can be created; like awareness, which is nobodys monopoly; like celebration, rejoicing, and maintain fresh, childlike eyes.

I want people to know themselves, not to be according to someone else. And the way is in.

In accordance with his guidance, the commune which grew up around him still thrives in Pune, India, where thousands of disciples and seekers gather throughout the year to participate in the unique meditations and other personal growth and creative programs offered there.

About Osho was published in Tantra: The Supreme Understanding, Third Edition, Rebel Publishing House, Cologne, Germany.

Many of Oshos books are available from Amazon.com and in the U.S. books are available online from OshoStore-Sedona and Osho Here and Now.

One of the unique contributions of Osho are the active meditations created specifically for modern man. Here is a link to a page that offers instructions, music that was designed for each of the meditations and video demonstrations.

Here is an excellent biographical site with lots of resources.

Osho shares his vision of the ultimate meditation in 5 minutes on this video.

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Goals are the blueprint to the life that you want to create and experience for yourself. There will of course be a lot of times that creating the goal that you want will not create the outcome of the goal right-a-way. This means you will live in a world that is at times less than []

Why the 6 mental skills are so important to your teenagers success and happiness! In life there are at least three major educations. There is school education and the grades achieved there. There is life education and knowing how it works. There is the inner-education and knowing how to control and manage yourself. When it []

The Time For You To Do Is Right Now, Where You Stand, And With Your Imperfect Plan of Action! (Dont wait for the perfect moment, for all moments are perfect for you to begin.) Most people sacrifice their future because they are waiting for the perfect time to start. Most think they have to have []

Another Viewpoint on Addiction. These are my personal thoughts, not the words of a doctor or professional. I am a person, like most of you that has had addiction personally touch their life. I have had addiction touch my life from three generations of my family. I have seen drug and alcohol addiction first hand []

I am willing to fight with everything Ive got to make this work. Have you heard people say that? I have. I have also thought that way myself. I think we all think that way from time to time. I would like to introduce a different way of thinking about this. When you say you []

There are those people that have great interpersonal skills and can walk into a room full of people they do not know, yet they look and feel as comfortable as they are at home around their family. Then there are those same people that can walk into that same room of strangers and seem very []

Stress and pressure go hand in hand with work and life. Its a package deal. Sometimes, the stress likes to take over and create a huge mess that we have to clean up. Its kind of like having grandchildren. You get to play with them and give them sugar, and then when the sugar kicks []

The one thing that will ruin a couple is mismanaged expectations. Are long term marriages and relationships a thing of the past? The relationships of the past generations are the ones we all secretly want to have. You meet in your late teens or early twenties and you get married, have children, have great grandchildren []

Abusive relationships are not limited to children and lower income adults. Relationships that are rooted in abuse are more common than one might think. They are in places where no one would even think to look. There are signs, but if you are not expecting any signs of abuse to be there, you will miss []

If you are like most people then you have probably thought at some point in your life that you would like to reinvent yourself. You might have said it any number of ways, such as I need to get my life together, or It is time to make some changes. Essentially, any way you put []

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Personal development is a form of coaching that focuses entirely on the self. This style of coaching aims to evaluate and assess your current strengths and weaknesses in order to improve a certain aspect of life.

Just as an athlete would have a coach to push and support them, a personal development coach is there to make you feel at ease and confident in your life. You deserve to be happy and proud of where you are; a coach will help you achieve that happiness and develop any skills you wish to improve.

This fact-sheet will explain what you may expect from a personal development coaching session. You will discover how this form of coaching can help improve your life, assess your own skills and what needs to be improved.

Life coaching for developing the self can cover a range of issues and concerns you may have. This could include money management, confidence building, public speaking and any other skill you believe would promote personal growth.

For a personal development plan to help you, you have to feel ready to start making these changes and be willing to put the effort in to achieve them. To discover whether personal development coaching is for you, consider these questions:

The way you approach or deal with a situation will determine the way it turns out. For example if you are having problems at work, you may need to develop or improve certain skills. Maybe you need to build self-confidence, be more motivated, control your temper or develop the ability to say yes or no.

A life coach for personal growth may be useful for many reasons. Whether you have one skill you wish to target, or there are several issues contributing to your concern, a personal development plan may help. The various issues could include the following:

Do you approach life negatively or positively? Do you wake up dreading the day or are you able to have a spring in your step and feel ready for what's ahead? Often, the way we feel about the events or changes that are happening can affect the way we cope. In order to promote personal growth, a coach will ask you to place emphasis on your thoughts and meanings of things. For example, if you wish for success, you will need to ask yourself what that success means to you. What makes you successful? How do you know when you have reached 'success'?

Understanding your mental and emotional state is the first step in reaching your goals. Having the confidence, motivation and drive to achieve what you desire is important in personal growth. Recognising your ability to do this will help you progress further, but this can be difficult. To build self-esteem you can:

Personal development coaching can often help you address any social concerns you may have, such as lacking the confidence to meet new people or make friends. A life coach will be able to help you recognise and overcome certain anxieties by teaching you to examine your feelings. These anxieties could include arguments, coping in relationships or dealing with anger.

Your coach may ask what your social life is like. They will question whether you need lots of people around you to feel safe and happy, or whether you are the independent type that enjoys being alone. Recognising your social needs can help you to understand what has caused certain issues and how you can find a healthy balance.

We spend more time at work than we do at home or with loved ones. For many of us, work dominates our social life and if you are not enjoying your job, it can lead to many problems.

Stress at work, feeling undervalued or feeling like you are not reaching your full potential can have a negative impact on the other aspects of life if not dealt with. Not maintaining a balanced routine can affect relationships, productivity, happiness and well-being. Considering personal development coaching can help you to recognise the problems and build your personal goals. A life coach will be able to guide you in your journey of personal growth and help you face the workplace issues you are experiencing.

Money is the source of many problems and one of the main causes of stress for people in the UK. If you find yourself in debt, you will often think of nothing else. The debt can cast a shadow over every aspect of your life, eating away at your positivity and overall health. If you are experiencing financial problems, life coaching can help you identify your strengths in money management and where you may have gone wrong. Are you spending more than you earn? Do you have any expensive hobbies or habits?

As well identifying your financial strengths and weaknesses, personal development coaching can help you to devise a money managing-plan that will in time, regain control of your finances.

Your happiness can be greatly affected by the status of your love life. It doesnt matter if you are in a relationship or single, but take a moment to consider if you are happy. Recognising the state of your happiness is the first step towards making positive changes. Maybe you are single and find it hard to maintain relationships, or maybe you are in an unsatisfying, long-term relationship and you just need the confidence to confront the issues. It is important to learn what you want and happy you are in the current situation to understand what improvements can be made.

Personal development coaching can help you address your relationship concerns, build your confidence and find the satisfaction you deserve.

More people are seeking personal development coaching to help address their spiritual needs. The need to explore ideas and understand life can be an integral part of life for some, therefore a tailored plan will look to address all aspects of the self, including spirituality.

Personal development is about increasing your self-awareness. Life coaches aim to pull out your strengths and weaknesses in order to identify the potential that already exists within you. This is often accomplished through a series of questions designed to help you recognise, accept and build upon your strengths and weaknesses.

In a sense, developing the self is like a spring clean. When cleaning your home, you will often go through each room, examining old memories and belongings, deciding whether you need them or not. Similarly, personal development is a way of improving ones life by evaluating aspects of the self and putting them in order.

A life coach may not necessarily offer direct advice and they will not tell you exactly what to do. What they will do is offer guidance and support through personal development plans and strategies, in order for you to practise effective self-help at home.

These personalised plans will help you to begin the journey towards success and happiness. A personal development coach will also:

Identifying your strengths and weaknesses - The first step in personal growth and development is identifying the strengths and weaknesses in each area of your life. If you wish to develop yourself personally, then the first thing you need to know is what you want to develop.

Goal setting and skill development - Developing yourself and building confidence is all about recognising your achievements, however big or small. Day-to-day challenges can sometimes make us feel unsuccessful, but recognising and praising yourself for the small things will help this. Try to view life as a series of small challenges where each journey you make has its own achievements. Recognise these and you will start to develop a more positive perspective.

Setting personal goals is a great way to start growing. Make a list once a month, or once a week and try to tick off most of the goals you have given yourself. They dont have to be big, start with simple goals such as donating to charity or organising your home - just remember to applaud yourself when you have achieved each goal.

Tracking your achievements - As mentioned above, recognising your successes will build your confidence and self-worth. You may find your life coach suggests you keep a personal development diary. This will be for you to record your thoughts and feelings about each journey you make in life. Having a record of your feelings toward different events will help you to evaluate your behaviour and how to improve it.

If you are considering a personal development coaching session, you should expect to be given the opportunity to assess your emotional well-being and how you are progressing in life. You will consider whether you are happy, whether you are reaching your goals, your state of mind and your relationships.

This process of self-assessment is to help you learn and recognise where you want to be in life and how you can get there. With the help of the coach you will devise a plan, set a goal strategy and determine the best ways for you to achieve them. A coach will not be there to judge you or make your decisions, they will use clever and careful questions to help you raise your awareness and recognise what issues may need to be focused on.

Time seems to get in the way when considering making lifestyle changes. When are you going to develop all these new skills or hobbies if you spend all your time at work? How can you spend more time with your family?

Whatever the reason, you need to evaluate how you currently spend your time. Knowing how you manage your time will encourage you to make changes and find the process less stressful.

Tips to manage your time more effectively can include:

Enhancing your current skills, or learning new ones can empower you as a person and increase the opportunities available to you. However, we all have things that can prevent us from doing so, these barriers could include:

Economic situation If you feel your financial situation is holding you back, try looking online for free courses and information. There may be courses in local schools or colleges that are free or at a reduced rate for people in the lower income bracket.

Lacking time If you dont have time to complete a course alongside work or your other commitments, find out if your work offers any skill development courses. Many companies will fund a training scheme if they feel it will improve your skillset and be beneficial to them.

Low self-confidence or self-esteem This can be a barrier many people face when wanting to develop their skills. Your confidence levels will grow in time, but ask yourself if there is anyone to join you on your journey or offer support along the way. Voicing what you are doing will often promote encouragement from others, or maybe even help you make a new friend.

During this time, keep a journal or a diary, or even a sketchbook. Keep a record of your journey; write down any key events, developments or achievements as they happen so you can reflect on these later. Having a record of these achievements may even encourage you to learn more skills in the future!

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