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News from Joan (right)

10 Habits for Quality Self Care (below)

Quotes for the Month

Job Seeking Tips: How to maximize networking opportunities

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Michael Hoffman, Hoffman Marketing

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10 Habits for Quality Self Care

Quality Self Care is a maintenance program for your body, mind, emotions and sprit. It will balance your life and give you a perspective that keeps you on a smooth and even track. Considering the busy life that we all lead, I would like to encourage you to adopt ten daily or weekly habits for superior living. Below are my ten daily habits; you may want to include some of them in your list.

My Ten Daily Habits for Quality Self Care
1. Get 7 to 8 hours of sleep a night and a 30-minute nap almost every day.
2. Spend time with my plants, flowers, and fish.
3. Practice Tai Chi, paint or some creative activity.
4. Take vitamins, put on sunscreen, floss teeth.
5. Talk to at least one friend.
6. Clean out one thing I don’t want or need.
7. Eat well and try one new recipe a week.
8. Listen to great music while I work.
9. Read something inspiring.
10. Walk and play with my dog.

Mechanical Check Up
Have you had your yearly physical exam, including vision, hearing, teeth, skin, and flu shot? Do you have a daily health routine?

Sleep
The Ford Sleep Institute found that people who get 7 to 8 hours of sleep a night have 25% higher productivity and better mental, emotional, and physical well being than those who get less sleep. The U.S. is considered one of the most sleep-deprived nations in the world. Are you getting enough high quality sleep?

Let go of the day’s bad news and drama by reading something uplifting before sleep. Do you have a good get ready to sleep ritual?

Friends, Family and Pets
Whether in good times or bad, we all need unconditional love, support, warmth of spirit, play time, laughter, hugs, companionship, appreciation, a place to give and the willingness to receive graciously. Family, friends, and pets are treasure chests of opportunity to receive and give all of these gifts in abundance.

My dog is a wonderful companion, protector, and cuddler. He lets me know when I have spent too much time at the computer and he welcomes me home every day with unbridled joy.

Think of ways to cultivate joy and love daily with your friends, family, and pets. They will stand by you in sickness and health, whether your bank account is full or empty.

Nutrition
When you look at the nutritional content printed on a food or vitamin package, you see a Percent Daily Value column. This column gives the percent of the minimum amount required, not the amount that you may need for optimal health and vitality. A one-a-day vitamin pill is certainly better that no vitamin supplementation at all, but it may not be sufficient for your needs. Read the many books available on nutrition and seek professional guidance on what you may need to feel and perform at your very best.

Re-Creation time
Although I was an art major in college, I spent 30 years without drawing or painting anything. Then three years ago, I started taking a painting class. What a joy it was to do something completely different, “new,” and yet somehow still familiar. No grades, expectations, or pressure; just exploration and fun. What specific choices are you making to refresh and re-create yourself daily and weekly?

Contribution and Purpose
Contributions are the things we do and say that support or help individuals or an organization to meet their needs and goals. Contribution, whether given for free, such as in friendship and volunteering, or in the form of paid work, allows you to feel your connection to the divine plan of the universe. Your feeling of contributing to others or the greater good gives your life color, vibrancy and purpose. It enriches your mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual well being.

Clean Out and Simplify
It is amazing how much stuff you can accumulate in a short time: books, catalogs, papers, clothes, empty jars, pens, files, and CD’s, not to mention the stuff in closets you have forgotten you have. This useless clutter crowds your mind and your home, compromising the beauty and harmony of your environment. Start a campaign to clean out one thing each day. What can you clean out today to enhance and simplify your life?

Permission to Stop and Say No
As I get older, I notice that many of my desires and priorities have changed. This change does not discount the passions, goals and desires of my youth, but it thankfully empowers me to stop wishing for and seeking what I have out grown. What will you stop or say no to today to improve the quality of your life?

If you want to have something of value to share and give to the ones you love, then your first obligation is to nurture and care for yourself in a high quality way so that your cup can overflow with health, joy, energy, love, and vitality. Your vibrant presence on the planet makes a difference. Make your own list of 10 daily habits for quality self care!

Quotes for the Month

“Self-Caring. While true self-caring comes from the visible things we do for ourselves, it also comes from the compassionate, life-affirming, invisible thoughts we think about ourselves. Ask yourself what kindly thoughts you could think about yourself today?”

From Gail Van Kleeck's book, Simple Wisdom for Challenging Times http://www.simplewisdom.com

“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.”

Hippocrates, Regimen in Health Greek physician (460 BC - 377 BC)

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of US (1809 - 1865)

“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”

Edward De Bono

“So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832)

Job Seeking Tips:
How to Maximize Networking Opportunities

Staff Writer, The Career News

LOS ANGELES, CA -- Some guidelines should be followed in order to guarantee a successful networking event. First, DO NOT BE SHY! Don't wait for people to come to you. Introduce yourself, strike up a conversation, and get the ball rolling.

Make sure you keep your meetings short. Although you're looking for quality, you can only do that by talking to as many people as possible. Keep a smile on your face, always be courteous, and keep your conversations short, sweet, and on point.

What should you talk about at these events? Logic tells you that you should pitch yourself and tell everybody you meet everything about the kind of work you're looking for. We caution you not to do this. Networking events are the time to give "potentials" a small taste of who you are, not the full meal. Spend more time asking the people you meet about themselves. Be someone they enjoy talking to, then exchange business cards so you can contact them at a later date to discuss business opportunities. By doing this, you'll see a large increase in the success of your follow-ups.

If you want to power up your resume, job search and interview skills, give me a call at 281-293-8864 or email me at joan@bolmer.com for a free consultation.

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