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		<title>The Travel Phenomenon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The key to budget travel is to plan ahead. When it comes to family trips, globetrotting, well-deserved vacations and/or going to see new places we have never been before, the reality of cost and budgeting is always in the back of our minds. Planning and spending our travel dollar wisely is a priority for most [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://inspirationstationva.com/wp-content/uploads/travel-europe-300x300.jpg" align="left" alt="" title="travel-europe" width="300" height="300" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-177" />The key to budget travel is to plan ahead. When it comes to family trips, globetrotting, well-deserved vacations and/or going to see new places we have never been before, the reality of cost and budgeting is always in the back of our minds. Planning and spending our travel dollar wisely is a priority for most families. Curbing spending and costs, while still enjoying your vacation to its fullest, is the key to guaranteed success and fiscal responsibility. Your pocketbook and family will thank you! </p>
<p>The reasoning behind saving money while traveling is simple: Even if your personal budget is extremely tight, you can still take a break and enjoy life! Simply put, life is just too short to never step out of the door or leaving the homestead! Also remembering that while traveling, whether on a budget or not, even the smallest of things can all add op to a large vacation or travel bill! </p>
<p>For example, all those hotel extra’s, cab-fares, tips, restaurants, car rentals, gas for your own vehicle if on a road trip, tickets for special attractions or events, beach-and-pool-side drinks (if not at an all-inclusive resort or cruise) and more, adds on and piles up! </p>
<p>This brings us to the some of the rhyme and reason behind budgeting for travel and planning well. This also applies monetarily, to ensure your trip is a success, enjoyable and memorable. Your outlook could be a balance between replenishing your resources and not breaking the bank in the process!</p>
<p>‘101 Tips for Traveling on a budget’ is a quick-guide meant to assist you with this task. Its handy, easy-reference format provides you with topical information regarding all aspects of your planned trip. Find relevant tips in these pages meant to assist you in any travel undertaking in the near or foreseeable future. It is all about saving you money on your travel endeavors. </p>
<p>When choosing to travel, most of us are normally doing so with our families, opting for destination travel and taking that well-deserved vacation of a lifetime or all of the above. </p>
<p>This guide will offer tips and insights on how to customize, optimize, maximize and personalize your travel experience every step of the way. Through this process, travelers attend pro-actively to the impact of decisions. </p>
<p>There are many un-seized opportunities to save some cash in the process. We will briefly uncover less known and obvious financial detail, affordability, aftermath and fiscal strategy as it pertains to travel locally, domestically or abroad. </p>
<p>Here’s to finding some savings and cash tips as you explore these pages and the world!</p>
<p>Maybe you are in the early phases of planning or booking your trip, shopping around online or checking some websites or travel magazines. Some of us might even be thinking of calling some travel agents to do our homework upfront. </p>
<p>Perhaps you have not taken a trip in a very long time and find yourself in desperate need of a good breakaway vacation to remember. Maybe you are a young student backpacking and exploring some corners of this wonderful world we live in, or a retired couple enjoying the travel scene together. </p>
<p>Whatever your situation and reason for travel, we trust you will potentially find something in these pages that will inspire you and save you some money in the process. To get us started, here is the first tip for all the procrastinators, impulse travel buyers, discount bargain hunters and vacation shoppers amongst us.   </p>
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		<title>Managing time</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time management skills can allow you more time with your family and friends and possibly increase your performance and productivity. This will help reduce your stress. To improve your time management: · Save time by focusing and concentrating, delegating, and scheduling time for yourself. · Keep a record of how you spend your time, including [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Time management skills can allow you more time with your family and friends and possibly increase your performance and productivity. This will help reduce your stress.<br />
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<strong>To improve your time management:</strong></p>
<p>· Save time by focusing and concentrating, delegating, and scheduling time for yourself.<br />
· Keep a record of how you spend your time, including work, family, and leisure time.<br />
· Prioritize your time by rating tasks by importance and urgency. Redirect your time to those activities that are important and meaningful to you.<br />
· Manage your commitments by not over- or undercommitting. Don&#8217;t commit to what is not important to you.<br />
· Deal with procrastination by using a day planner, breaking large projects into smaller ones, and setting short-term deadlines.<br />
· Examine your beliefs to reduce conflict between what you believe and what your life is like.<br />
Build healthy coping strategies</p>
<p>It is important that you identify your coping strategies. One way to do this is by recording the stressful event, your reaction, and how you cope in a stress journal. With this information, you can work to change unhealthy coping strategies into healthy ones-those that help you focus on the positive and what you can change or control in your life.</p>
<p><strong>Lifestyle</strong></p>
<p>Some behaviors and lifestyle choices affect your stress level. They may not cause stress directly, but they can interfere with the ways your body seeks relief from stress. Try to:</p>
<p>· Balance personal, work, and family needs and obligations.<br />
· Have a sense of purpose in life.<br />
· Get enough sleep, since your body recovers from the stresses of the day while you are sleeping.<br />
· Eat a balanced diet for a nutritional defense against stress.<br />
· Get moderate exercise throughout the week.<br />
· Limit your consumption of alcohol.<br />
· Don&#8217;t smoke. </p>
<p><strong>Social support</strong></p>
<p>Social support is a major factor in how we experience stress. Social support is the positive support you receive from family, friends, and the community. It is the knowledge that you are cared for, loved, esteemed, and valued. More and more research indicates a strong relationship between social support and better mental and physical health.</p>
<p><strong>Changing thinking</strong></p>
<p>When an event triggers negative thoughts, you may experience fear, insecurity, anxiety, depression, rage, guilt, and a sense of worthlessness or powerlessness. These emotions trigger the body&#8217;s stress, just as an actual threat does. Dealing with your negative thoughts and how you see things can help reduce stress.</p>
<p>· Thought-stopping helps you stop a negative thought to help eliminate stress.<br />
· Disproving irrational thoughts helps you to avoid exaggerating the negative thought, anticipating the worst, and interpreting an event incorrectly.<br />
· Problem solving helps you identify all aspects of a stressful event and find ways to deal with it.<br />
· Changing your communication style helps you communicate in a way that makes your views known without making others feel put down, hostile, or intimidated. This reduces the stress that comes from poor communication. Use the assertiveness ladder to improve your communication style. </p>
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		<title>Revealing Internet Scams</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A scam is defined, as a “fraudulent business scheme” or a “swindle”, but sometimes it can be hard to work out whether the business opportunity you are looking at is scam, until you have actually lost money in it. This site reveals internet scams and gives very honest reviews on onilne business oppotunities. As reference, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A scam is defined, as a “fraudulent business scheme” or a “swindle”, but sometimes it can be hard to work out whether the business opportunity you are looking at is scam, until you have actually lost money in it. This site reveals internet scams and gives very honest reviews on onilne business oppotunities. As reference, it also include the owner&#8217;s personal experience.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.missgullible.com">MissGullible.com</a> reveals some of many types of internet scams so you can consider some offers from the internet and comparing it with the data she have.</p>
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		<title>Cellular phone wallpapers, shows your phone personality</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the modern society we live in, cellular phone is already a necessity; no longer valid is the notion that this is merely a luxurious toy. For minors, however, cellular phone usage is very popular as a dress up gadget. Although, the parents think of it is a necessary communication for them to be able [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://inspirationstationva.com/wp-content/uploads/sony-ericsson-w900i.jpg" alt="" title="sony-ericsson-w900i" align="right" width="296" height="300" class="alignright size-full wp-image-172" />In the modern society we live in, cellular phone is already a necessity; no longer valid is the notion that this is merely a luxurious toy. For minors, however, cellular phone usage is very popular as a dress up gadget. Although, the parents think of it is a necessary communication for them to be able to check their children wherever there are. Although they never foresee this boom some years back, manufacturers are quick to flood the marketplace with functional and high-tech cellular phones. Various beneficial features of cellular phones are not available in a landline telephone; this is what can make cellular phones outpace landline telephony. For those who want to dress up their cellular phones, you may also find cellular phone useful. Manufacturers and computer experts introduce the possibility of giving your phone personality by introducing cellular phone wallpapers.</p>
<p>If you want cellular phone wallpapers, getting one from the internet is very easy. You may also transfer images as cellular phone wallpaper from Cellular phone to another cellular phone. Even the pictures shot from your own cellular phone can be your cellular phone wallpaper. Additionally, this modern technology also allows a picture taken from a digital camera to function as your cellular wallpaper you may just need to upload the image to your phone. You may even add texts to the pictures to add distinctness to your cellular phone wallpaper. Cellular phone wallpapers are merely to add beauty and personality to your cellular phone. However, if your cellular phone does not support uploading cellular phone wallpapers, do not despair, this does not mean you will not get the benefits of owning a cellular phone. Additionally, cellular phones even without cellular phone wallpapers may have its own personality; personalized ring tones may do the job of giving your phone personality as well. Having no cellular phone wallpaper does not say you have an inferior cellular phone. Anyway, the basic features of cellular phone like sending and receiving calls do not require personality or cellular phone wallpapers. Even sending and receiving text messages do not require cellular phone wallpapers. Functionality does not necessitate cellular phone wallpapers; their use is only to dress up your phone and for the purpose of flaunting your cellular phones high technology features, nothing more.</p>
<p>Finally, keep in mind that intelligent cellular phone usage include keeping in mind cellular phone etiquette. Cellular phone etiquette do not just give your cellular phone personality, cellular phone etiquette exhibits your personality, the users personality is more important that your phone having personality. Even if your phone do not include such high technology and innovative features, if you can turn off your phone during meetings and avoid having to annoy the other person in front of you, you are exhibiting a personally that is intrinsic in you.</p>
<p>If you exhibit cellular phone etiquette, even without cellular phone wallpapers, you will get all the benefits of this modern day gadget. You may even get the respect from other users, if you respect them they will not use their phone unethically that may annoy you. It is a two-way traffic, if you exhibit telephone etiquette, the people around you will do the same. Moreover, you do not need cellular phone wallpapers to gain respect from exhibiting telephone etiquette.</p>
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		<title>Start your own coaching: 7 days program</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever been a coach to a neighborhood team? I know how it feels the first time I&#8217;ve coached a team of seven-year-old soccer kids and how much they can really test my patience, not to mention sanity as they run around kicking the ball like ants to a huge, white crumb. It feels [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever been a coach to a neighborhood team? I know how it feels the first time I&#8217;ve coached a team of seven-year-old soccer kids and how much they can really test my patience, not to mention sanity as they run around kicking the ball like ants to a huge, white crumb. It feels strange at first, having to be stared at by a bunch of kids who they will know that I&#8217;m not the one in the field. Sounds wrong in a sense, right? But what is the dead about coaching?</p>
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<p>Coaching is all about being a, well, &#8216;coach&#8217; in the corporate world of handlers, front-liners and even a couple of benchwarmers biding their time to be given a chance to perform. I know how that feels when I go back to my regular day job. Some players are just MVP material, and some of them are just to support the MVP&#8217;s so why bother sticking around? It sounds ironic when they say &#8216;there is no I in team&#8217;, but even the underachievers can be sore losers as well.</p>
<p>These are steps that can be done within the day, and no matter what, it takes determination to be a coach.</p>
<p>1. There is a WHOLE lot of talk these days about Corporate Team Building. There are many, many options: vacation packages, rope courses, on-going office games, ice-breakers, etc. Management can also purchase videos, books, and seminar packages to assist them in building up their organization into a team worthy of belonging. A little later I will give you some ideas of where you can go for information on these team-building tools.</p>
<p>2. The truth about motivation is waiting to be grasped! It is ripe and ready for you to put into action today. Don&#8217;t settle for mind-numbing gibberish. Get practical in 3 small ways to begin looking forward to your alarm clock sounding off each morning before you huddle with the team.</p>
<p>3. Experience is the best thing despite of what course you graduated in. There is something about being a people person who knows how to stir the energetic side of one individual, and more so when you mix it up with an entire team.</p>
<p>4. To question a person by his or her performance is sometimes required, but never question their knowledge or their intelligence. Sadly, I have seen a few mistakes from past coaches who never seem to understand what a player has to go through to get the job right. It will lead to further aggravation and maybe even hostility. If you want the job done right, then go do it yourself. You&#8217;ll see how it is to be at the receiving end and it will help your set a much better course for improvement.</p>
<p>5. Sending a player to the bench is probably the worse experience a coach has to go through, especially if your player is the top performer. In dealing with this kind of person, see to it that he spills his guts voluntarily. Egotism in a performer tends to make them lose their focus on even the smallest mistakes, then you can catch him or her red handed. Be firm, but understanding about it.</p>
<p>6. Don&#8217;t allow your position to blind you from what you are supposed to do. Even coaches are human enough to think that they are far more superior, but only by rank. Even if you have been in their shoes when you were their age, it&#8217;s better to dole out a piece of wisdom in order for them to realize that this will be for their own benefit.</p>
<p>7. Lastly, you should learn to trust yourself and your team. Decisions and performance are primarily your goals, and there are many of them to see if they could perform the task much more efficiently. So before you think about sending one member to the bench, have a good chat with him or her and see if they have any problems. If it&#8217;s too personal, then just encourage them to do their best and it also helps to give them a good, encouraging slap on the back.</p>
<p>I guess there&#8217;s all there is to it. Being a corporate drone myself, I know how important it is for a company to be successful, and we&#8217;re all part of that success. Coaches are there not to make your work a little difficult just because you have either an attitude problem or not much a performer, but they&#8217;re the guides who will help you perform as hard as you can possibly can. You&#8217;ll do them proud one of these days, as well as you.</p>
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