Redefining the Impossible

The disciples were right to be stunned by Jesus. He had just told them, "Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God” (Mark 10:24-25). You can hear the shock in their voice when they ask, “Who then can be saved?” You can imagine their surprise when he replied, “With man this is impossible.”

Various attempts to soften Jesus’ words have been made, but the disciple’s reaction shows that they understood the full force of what he meant. Some have tried to shift his attention solely upon “the rich”, believing they are then unaffected by the brunt of what he said, but Jesus never qualifies his statement. Indeed, any attempts by most people living within the United States to distance themselves from being among the rich prove unconvincing. With almost half the population of the world living on less than $2 a day, if his words

How To Effectively Manage Work Stress

The American Institute of Stress acknowledges there is no single definition for stress. Stress affects almost everyone differently and what stresses one person might not another. One thing experts do agree upon, however, is the fact that stress can have some very serious implications. One of the most common places for people to experience stress is in their daily working lives. When managing work stress and its effects becomes important, learning effective stress management techniques can help.

Techniques to manage work stress can be very important for helping people stay focused and in control on difficult days. While most people would love to say they enjoy their jobs and derive no stress from them whatsoever, this simply is often not the case. When stress builds up in the office, releasing it effectively is not only good for the mind and body, but could preserve or even advance a career.

How Breast Reduction Can Help Women Physically and Emotionally

Women head out to a New York breast clinic for breast augmentation and a lot of other procedures. There are now many different breast cosmetic surgeries that New York breast clinics offer to women who are looking into addressing their issues with their bodies, especially their breasts.

It no longer takes one by surprise to hear that breast augmentation surgery is among the most performed cosmetic procedure in the United States today, with an average of 200,000 patients every year. However, there are also a significant number of women who come in for other breast cosmetic surgical procedures such as breast reduction.

Often seen as the opposite of breast augmentation, breast reduction or reduction mammoplasty is a surgical

Tips for Great Friendship Fun

When you decide to have close friends in your life, you are looking for many things. Apart from the all important social support and love, you are looking for friendship fun; which is very essential in a relationship. Friendship fun is about enjoying everyday life and ensuring that you open your mind to all forms of excitement together with your dear friends. If you have friends who are not fun, chances are that you are just like them. You need to inject some life into your relationship and make sure that you are enjoying yourself. The following are tips for great fun that will see your mundane relationships transformed into adventurous and fun ones. First, it is probably wise to consider whether you have friends who are just like you. Friends should compliment you so that you can find different things that you can enjoy together. You do not have to have friends who are predictable. You can easily have a variety of friends who are really in the relationship for a mutual reason. The bottom line is that your friends need to respect you and appreciate you.

Plugging Into the Cosmic Neural Net

Every now and then we all have experiences that we can’t quite explain. For example: we know something is going to happen, and then it does, we have a dream, and then it comes true, or out of the blue, we go somewhere we usually wouldn’t, and we meet our future partner.

When this happens we’ve plugged into the cosmic neural net: an all knowing, cosmic intelligent consciousness. For most of us, it is not a conscious act. But with some understanding, time, patience and practice, you can develop your ability to plug in more frequently and consciously.

Some have a seemingly natural ability to do this, such as shamans, visionaries, gifted clairvoyants and the like. But the fact is, their gift, like all gifts, are born of mental habits, mental habits that can be learned by anyone.

What's Your Potential

It's not hard to count the seeds in an apple, but how can we count the apples that can come from a single seed? It's like that with our potential. We can't truly know what our full potential is.

When Roger Bannister ran the first four-minute mile, it was thought to have been impossible. Within weeks of him breaking this invisible barrier, dozens of others did it, too. Since then, thousands have run a sub four-minute mile.

Virtually every sales team has a few star salespeople who consistently outsell others by two, three and often ten times. You are unique, just like everyone else. This statement is actually true. Everyone IS unique. Of the
over 90 billion people who have lived or are living on the planet, there have never been two people identically