Insights Into Cultural Understanding

I have a great friend, Kay Kallendar (a Vice President of ABHOW - American Baptist Homes of the West), who has a wealth of knowledge about how to take care of the elderly and given that there are so many of us baby boomers doing this I asked her, why she doesn’t write a book. Well she like most of us is incredibly busy. So for her and for all of you who have abundant skills, knowledge, and gifts to share, here is an email chock full of info so you can get going with your books. We don’t want to take it with us!

I’ve also included some excellent resources for inspiration and personal services. Let me know if this is useful. Make your 2008 great.

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Disclaimer: I haven’t worked with everyone here. There are more resources available and my searches are intended to get you started and to add fuel to the engine of your creativity.

Write your book:

• Want self publishing tips? - Click Here
• Authors On The Net: Promotion, tutorials and more Click Here
• Don’t want to write it yourself? Hire a writer Click Here
• Or get a ghost writer! Click Here
• What about the cover design? Here’s a resource Click Here
• Want an editor to word smith your book? I liked this site. Click Here
• Interested in an online newsletter by a pro for regular tips and a writer’s community? Check out Dan Poynter I’ve read his book “The Self-Publishing Manual” and found it to be a great guide to being your own publisher. You can get a copy used for as little as $11. Click Here
• If you’re an artist, and/or have photographs and paintings you want to include, go to this site Blurb.com.

Get inspired and be inspiring:

• Check Out HPs Branding Videos And Add Yours Click Here
• See TED - Click Here
• Get The Answer DVD ($24.95)and also the year-round program of monthly DVDs and inspirational newsletters. A bargain for as much as you probably spend on coffee per month You’ll see me in the Fire Side Chat DVD that accompanies this program. Click Here
• I really enjoy and get inspiration from the Today’s Word daily emailed messages from Joel & Victoria Osteen. Click here to register for them. They are free. Check out their use of technology: podcasts, live speeches, etc. a great marketing and enrollment model.

Read and view:

• For your personalized copy of How To Be A Positively Powerful Person, Click Here
• The newest book by George Fraser CLICK is available for pre-orders and here is a video of him introducing his latest and greatest: CLICK, the book. Click here for video.

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This is our dog Vincent Van Gogh, a very long name for a very small dog. When not entertaining and feeding Dr. Van Gogh, you will find me leading teams, consulting, training, speaking, and otherwise motivating people and their organizations to do the right and smart thing because the complexion, landscape, and generational characteristics of America are changing quicker than it takes to upload new software.

I delight in speaking about the untapped potential, the power, and the purchasing dollars of the people who make up diversity’s dimensions. What does Dr. Vincent have to do with diversity? Part of my conversation about the men and women who have disabilities and over $1 trillion in purchasing power includes service animals. These furry mainly 4-legged folk are a gift. They guide, protect, and are indispensable to those they serve. Being the happy owner of the soccer playing Pom, I know first hand the curative properties of pets. This goes far beyond the enthusiastically wagging tall, welcome home yelps, and eager playfulness.

One Japanese study found pet owners made 30 percent fewer visits to doctors. A Melbourne study of 6,000 people showed that owners of dogs and other pets had lower cholesterol, blood pressure and heart attack risk compared with people who didn’t have pets…

Dogs, in particular, also have been shown to do remarkable things to improve the health of their owners. There are stories of dogs warning their owners of imminent health threats. In 2003, University of Florida researchers published a report in the journal Seizure noting that some dogs seem to have an innate ability to detect impending seizures. A 2000 report in the British Medical Journal examined case studies of dogs alerting people with diabetes of a coming hypoglycemic episode.

More recently, some studies have suggested dogs can be cancer detectors. In 2006, the medical journal Integrative Cancer Therapies reported how ordinary house dogs could identify breast and lung cancer patients by smelling their breath. A University of Maine study is testing whether dogs can sniff out ovarian cancer.

The role dogs play in medicine is celebrated in a new book, “Paws & Effect: The Healing Power of Dogs’’ (Alyson Books, 2007), which chronicles the numerous ways dogs contribute to our health.

Therapy Dogs International, among others, speak about how dogs are wonderful therapy for seniors and that dogs will love you forever. I’ve found this to be the absolute truth and am seriously thinking about getting another doggie doctor for our home.

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Once upon a time, having a home-based business was declasse’…a very long time ago. Today with the advent of click product offerings, eBay, the use of technology - social networking, blogs, etc., multi-level marketing, affiliate programs of all sorts, and astute professionals now consultants, there are many CHBO (Chief Homebased Business Operators) running dynasties that began at the kitchen table who choose to stay there. Compiling the attraction of “firing your boss” and/or being your own boss, the fall out from down sizings, the restlessness of baby boomers who want to stay active rather than go quietly into the sunset and we have a reshaping of American business.

This from Inc.com: The home-based business is more than just the multi-level marketing that can be done off the kitchen table,” says Gene Fairbrother, lead small-business consultant for the National Association for the Self-Employed. “More people are starting to look to the home-based business as their primary business.” This is especially true in the professional services sector.

For those of you interested in some really great entrepreneurial advice, check out the Entrepreneurial Mind blog. Recent entries are on bootstraping your business for wealth and why entrepreneurial CHBOs need a business plan.

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