Start the Conversation: National Healthcare Decisions Day 2012
Posted by admin on Apr 17, 2012 in Hospice | 0 comments
By Denise Stahl, Executive Director, UPMC Palliative and Supportive Institute
Families are often given the difficult job of making critical decisions about the care of their loved ones who have become seriously ill and are unable to speak for themselves. But all too often, families are making those decisions without knowing exactly what their loved ones would have wanted. That’s why UPMC is joining with healthcare leaders across the country to encourage families to start the conversation about advance care planning for National Healthcare Decisions Day on April 16.
Advance care planning is the process of planning ahead for future medical care should you become unable to make your own decisions due to a life-limiting illness or injury. The best time to think about advance care planning is before you are sick so that you understand what your options are and can communicate them to your loved ones and your doctor. An advance directive, or living will, is a written document stating your wishes that guides the decisions of the health care team and provides comfort to your family.
Hearts, Flowers…and Power Questions? Ten Relationship-Building Questions to Ask Someone You Love
Posted by admin on Apr 13, 2012 in Related Relationship Articles | 0 comments
You’re all dressed up and sitting across from your sweetie at a fancy restaurant. The flowers have been given, the wine uncorked, the entrees ordered, the pleasantries exchanged. Now what? Unless you’re in the “can’t stop talking and gazing into each other’s eyes” throes of new love, right about now is when the awkward silence descends. So why can’t you think of anything meaningful to say?
It’s true. When you’ve just met “the one,” conversation seems to flow effortlessly. Add ten years and a couple of kids and the proverbial cat gets your tongue.
“Maybe laundry undone and bills unpaid have crowded out topics like childhood dreams and the meaning of life,” notes Andrew Sobel, author (along with coauthor Jerold Panas) of Power Questions: Build Relationships, Win New Business, and Influence Others (Wiley, February 2012, ISBN: 978-11181196-3-1, $22.95). “Or maybe you’ve just gotten lazy. But nine times out of ten the spark can be revived—and you don’t have to wow your partner with your insights or intellect. You just have to ask the right questions.”
The Fine Line of Money and Success
Posted by admin on Apr 10, 2012 in Related Financial Articles | 0 comments
By Jeff Gitterman
Most classic success stories go something like this: “I had nothing, then discovered a new way of thinking, turned my life around and got everything I ever wanted…” I could tell you one such story. I really did go from debt and depression to everything I’d ever wanted—in the space of just two years. I started my own company, rose to the top of my profession and increased my income many times over from what I had been making. I got the money, the house, the car: the life of my dreams. But that’s not really what this is about.
I started working in the financial field in 1990. I knew that I wanted to help people, and I also wanted to make money. That year, I made about $22,000. Ten years later I had clawed and climbed my way up to about $26,000, while also trying to support a wife and two kids, falling months behind with the mortgage payments, scared and unsure of my future. I had credit card debt, mortgage debt, and I would hide my car every day because the finance company told me they were coming to repossess it. Things looked pretty bleak.
One day, I was getting out of my car and about to walk into a prospect’s house to try and sell a term life policy. I was way behind on my bills, and my mind was going on and on about how much I needed the sale. Desperation poured out of me as I caught my reflection in the car window. I stopped, looked hard at that reflection and said to myself, “Who would want to buy anything from you? Look at how desperate you look!”
It Is OK That You Are Out Of Work
Posted by admin on Apr 6, 2012 in Related Self-Improvement Articles | 0 comments
By Deborah Brown-Volkman, PCC
Most people are embarrassed if they are unemployed. They feel like they failed and are ashamed to talk about their current status. Or, they are back to work after a long stretch of not working, but are worried it might not last. Thus, their fears prevent them from performing as well as they could.
Bad things happen to the best of us. Maybe you had a job you loved and were let go. Maybe you knew your employment was going to end, or maybe it was a surprise. Maybe you are not sure who you are these days anymore because your previous job defined you. Maybe you wish things would just go back to the way they were. Maybe you hope the uncertainty will end already.
The biggest fear my clients have is how do they talk about what happened in a positive way. Especially, when they are not feeling very positive about their situation. They worry they will be judged and no one will listen to their story.
You don’t have to dread the question: “Why have you been unemployed for so long?” Rather expect it, embrace it, and have an answer ready that makes both you and the interviewer, (Or anyone you are networking with), feel good about themselves.
The Bookworm Sez: “Death of the Cheating Man: What Every Woman Must Know About Men Who Stray” by Maxwell Billieon and Ray J
Posted by admin on Apr 3, 2012 in Book Review | 0 comments
c.2012, Strebor Books $24.00 / $27.99 Canada 247 pages
You almost can’t believe it.
It began when your man started staying late after work. Said he had extra projects, but when you called him, he didn’t answer the phone. Then he started disappearing on weekends and taking long showers when he came home. Now you’ve discovered pictures of other women on his phone and mysterious numbers in his address book.
You don’t want to believe that he’s cheating on you but he might be and, according to authors Maxwell Billieon and Ray J, there may be a simple reason why he’s doing it. In the new book “Death of the Cheating Man,” they explain.
The world is filled with temptation.
Maxwell Billieon says that’s the reason why he wrote this book: because both men and women need to know how to beat infidelity to save their relationships and families. Cheating, he says, is everywhere and it’s because of two things: men like to conquer and they’ve never learned how not to cheat.
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