Thursday, March 8, 2012

quotess

"I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world."
— Mahandas Gandhi

"We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have "crossed bridges" in their imagination far ahead of the crowd. "
— Speakers Library

"The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go."
— John Morgan and Ewing Webb

"'We sure shook that bridge,' the mouse said to the elephant after they had crossed the bridge. "
— Anonymous

"When evil men plot, good men must plan."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.

"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."
— John F. Kennedy

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
— Robert F. Kennedy

"Each player must accept the cards that life deals him or her. But once in hand one must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. "
— Voltaire

"He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide."
— Salvador De Madariaga

"Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well. "
— Kenneth Hildebrand

"We have petitioned and our petitions have been disregarded, we have entreated and our entreaties have been scorned. We beg no more, we petition no longer, we now defy. "
— William Jennings Bryan

"What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. "
— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

"Aim for success not perfection. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person."
— Dr. David Burns

"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. "
— Jack and Garry Kinder

"Thus to be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great."
— G. W. F. Hegel

"A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements."
— Orison Swett Marden

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. "
— Mary Pickford

"Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts. "
— George F. Tiltonood

"Once you have a clear picture of your priorities- that is values, goals, and high leverage activities- organize around them."
— Stephen Covey

"When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply means to follow through."
— F. W. Nichol

"Nothing happens unless first a dream."
— Carl Sandburg

"What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
— Napoleon Hill

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
— Albert Einstein

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
— Erma Bombeck

"Every really new idea looks crazy at first."
— Abraham H. Maslow

"A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing."
— Charles M. Schwab

"I dream my painting and then paint my dream."
— Vincent Van Gogh

"Vision is the art of seeing the invisible."
— Jonathan Swift

"It’s always fun to do the impossible. "
— Walt Disney

"Let us become the change we seek in this world. "
— Mohandas Gandhi

"All glory comes from daring to begin. "
— William Shakespeare

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. "
— Chinese Proverb

"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. "
— Lee Iacocca

"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. "
— Jack London

"If you don’t set goals for yourself, you are doomed to work to achieve the goals of someone else."
— Brian Tracy

"Control your destiny or somebody else will."
— Jack Welch

"You miss a 100 percent of the shots you don’t take."
— Wayne Gretzky

"The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done. "
— Arnold Palmer

"Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
— William Faulkner

"I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have."
— Abraham Lincoln

"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Plan for the future, because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life."
— Mark Twain

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."
— Washington Irving

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly know how far one can go."
— T.S. Elliot

"Make no small plans for they have not the power to stir men’s blood."
— Niccolo Machiavelli

"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love to do, there is only scarcity of resolve to make it happen."
— Wayne Dyer

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creative."
— Charles Mingus

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
— Henry Ford

"You must have courage to bet on your ideals, to take calculated risk, and act.. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness."
— Maxwell Maltz

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
— Bob Dylan

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning
from failure."
— Colin Powell

Quotes

"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."
— Mary Kay Ash

"When nobody around you measures up, it's time to check your yardstick."
— Bill Lemly

"It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed."
— Harvey S. Firestone

"The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. "
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. "
— Henry David Thoreau

"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! "
— Andrew Carnegie

"All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means. "
— Robert Collier

"You don't need an explanation for everything. Recognize that there are such things as miracles, events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily. "
— Harry Browne

"Success...My nomination for the single most important ingredient is energy well directed. "
— Louis Lundborg

"In the end, we do battle only with ourselves. Once we understand this and focus our energy on what we can do to control our lives... we begin to gain important insights into how life works. "
— J. Stanley Judd

"I found that I could find the energy... that I could find the determination to keep on going. I learned that your mind can amaze your body, if you just keep telling yourself, I can do it...I can do it...I can do it! "
— Jon Erickson

"Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed-there's so little competition. "
— Elbert Hubbard

"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. "
— Napoleon Hill

"Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. "
— Norman Vincent Peale

"No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it. "
— Raymond Holliwell

"You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. "
— Andrew Jackson

"Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything. "
— Harry Browne

"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. "
— Chief Seattle

"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'the universe.' Our tasks must be to widen our circle of compassion. To embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. "
— Albert Einstein

"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. "
— John Wooden

"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
— Benjamin Franklin

"When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first. "
— Josiah Quincy

"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose."
— E.M. Gray

"Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. "
— Theodore Roosevelt

"Climb high; climb far. Your goal is the sky; your aim is the star. "
— Inscription at Williams College

"Set the course of your lives by the three stars- sincerity, courage, unselfishness. From these flow a host of other virtues... He who follows them and does not seek success, will attain the highest type of success. that which lies in the esteem of those among whom he dwells. "
— Dr. Monroe E. Deutsch

"It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle. "
— Richard M. DeVos

"My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces. "
— Wilma Rudolph, Winner of 3 Gold Medals in running events 1960 Summer Olympics

"Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities. "
— Ralph Waldo Trine

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. "
— Arthur C. Clarke

"Reduce your plan to writing... The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire."
— Napoleon Hill

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has. "
— Margaret Mead

"THE PROBLEMS OF THIS WORLD cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. "
— John F. Kennedy

"There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces... (such as tornados, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain.) What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control. "
— Leo Buscaglia

"Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either."
— Golda Meir

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Do what you fear most and you control fear."
— Tom Hopkins

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it... You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. "
— Vince Lombardi

"One cannot get through life without pain... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us."
— Bernie Siegel

"You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again."
— Henry Ford

"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched."
— George Jean Nathan

"Anyone can become angry--that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way-- that is not easy."
— Aristotle

Daily Quotes

“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

by William Shakespeare

"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."
— Napoleon Hill

"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love to do, there is only scarcity of resolve to make it happen."
— Wayne Dyer

"The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them."
— Denis Waitley

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
— Richard M. DeVos

"The first step to becoming is to will it."
— Mother Teresa

"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going... It's as simple as that."
— Earl Nightingale

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."
— Tom Blandi

"The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimist lends encouragement."
— William Arthur Ward

"You become what you think about."
— Earl Nightingale

"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going... It's as simple as that."
— Earl Nightingale

"You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. "
— W. Clement Stone

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. "
— Ben Stein

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."
— Tom Blandi

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success."
— Henry David Thoreau

"The most important thing about goals is having one."
— Geoffry F. Abert

"This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything. "
— Scott Reed

"The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them. "
— Denis Waitley

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. "
— Napoleon Hill

"Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin. "
— Robert Collier

"Concentrate: put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket. "
— Andrew Carnegie

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
— John Quincy Adams

"The first step to becoming is to will it."
— Mother Teresa

"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. "
— John D. Rockefeller

"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. "
— Richard M. DeVos

"What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims. "
— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. "
— Orison Swett Marden

"Aim for success not perfection... Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. "
— Dr. David Burns

"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
— John Milton

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh--at yourself. "
— Ethel Barrymore

"The first thing I remember liking that liked me back was food. "
— Rhoda Morgenstern

"The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again. "
— Erma Bombeck

"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it."
— Jim Rohn

"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little."
— Plutarch

"Forewarned, forearmed, is to be prepared is half the victory."
— Miguel de Cervantes

"The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. "
— Confucius

"Only in growth, reform and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. "
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes."
— Marcel Proust

"A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve. "
— John Maxwell

"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. "
— Rabindranath Tagore

"In the power to change yourself is the power to change the world around you. "
— Anwar Sadat

"Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing. "
— Abraham Lincoln

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts....take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."
— Marcus Aurelius

"He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down."
— Mary Pickford

"Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience. "
— Harold Ruopp

"Success is never final and failure never fatal. It is courage that counts. "
— George F. Tilton

"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience had brought it home."
— John Stuart Mill

"Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round – remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped."
— James Corbett

"A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must...be undaunted when the going gets tough."
— Ronald Reagan

"Big goals get big results. No goals get no results or somebody else's results.."
— Mark Victor Hansen

"Do a little more each day than you think you can."
— Lowell Thomas

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory. "
— Mohandas Gandhi

"I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. "
— Harry S. Truman

"When you believe you can-you can!"
— Maxwell Maltz

"Once you have a clear picture of your priorities- that is values, goals, and high leverage activities- organize around them. "
— Stephen Covey

"When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed,' you find that it simply means to follow through."
— F. W. Nichol

"I am an irresistible magnet, with the power to attract unto myself everything that I divinely desire, according to the thoughts, feelings and mental pictures I constantly entertain and radiate. I am the center of my universe! I have the power to create whatever I wish. I attract whatever I radiate. I attract whatever I mentally choose and accept. I begin choosing and mentally accepting the highest and best in life. I now choose and accept health, success and happiness. I now choose lavish abundance for myself and for all mankind. This is a rich, friendly universe and I dare to accept its riches, its hospitality, and to enjoy them now!"
— Catherine Ponde

"Our very business in life is not to get ahead of others... but to get ahead of ourselves."
— Thomas L. Monson

"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. "
— Jacob A. Riis

"If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us ... we would all be millionaires. "
— Abigail Van Buren

"The obstacles that others put in our path can be pushed aside in any number of ways. The obstacles that you put in your own way can be removed only by the same hands. "
— Sophia Bedford-Pierce

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles... but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. "
— Buddha

"Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can."
— The Dalai Lama

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. "
— Louisa May Alcott

"Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results. "
— Denis Waitley

"The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him... and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too. "
— Samuel Butler

"If you decide to go for it, do it with spirit: Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal. "
— Charles Buxton

"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling... but in rising every time we fall. "
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Movement without direction will create a hole in the ground. "
— Sophia Bedford-Pierce

"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."
— Madeline L'Engle

"One's ships come in over a calm sea. "
— Florence Scovill Shinn

"Everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional, and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person. "
— Rumer Godden

"We've collected the most common service complaints.... and every one of them is rooted in a lack of respect for the customer."
— Leonard Berry

"Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort. "
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it. "
— Mae West

"When employees come to you with suggestions or ideas about how they might approach something differently, do you move immediately to no? Do you kill an idea before it is even off the tongue? (Tell the truth.) We hear that employees feel put down and turned down far more than their managers are aware. And that makes leaving easier. Instead try listening to the entire idea, try playing with it as a "what if." Ask for more information. Sleep on it, mull it over. Think, "Isn't that interesting" before you think, "It will never work. "
— Beverly Kay and Sharon Jordan-Evans

"The mere word kindness is grateful to our ears; so much good is implied in it, so much lightening of loads, so much brightening of dark lives. It is compounded of so many warm, noble things: once it is a manifestation of pity, once of sympathy, once of love, once of justice -- it can flow from so many springs in our soul. "
— Ruhiyyah Rabbani

"Business is a great teacher: It makes you take risks, go for your dreams, face fears, handle your emotions, deal with difficult people, and learn balance. You don't have to do any weird workshops or sign up for any therapy sessions. Go into business and you'll be enrolled in the greatest seminar of all time. And it happens every day, every where, to every one. You can't avoid it. "
— Joe Vitale

"The best things in life have little to do with money or success. They are based on heart, compassion, and allowing others to express their passions."
— Declan Dunn

"Learn to pause.... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you."
— Doug King

"Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution."
— Raymond E. Feist

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
— Bill Cosby

"The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours."
— Jules Jusseran

"There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children... one is roots, the other wings."
— Stephen Covey

"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck. "
— Anthony Robbins

"The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don’t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations -- they don’t, but those things are easy enough to learn -- but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren’t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more."
— Michael Gerber

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Most people live their entire life without writing a personal mission statement. And the large majority of them never reach their ideal career success.

Today many people have learned the value of building a mission statement. Unfortunately, because their mission statements may lack key personal qualities, a specific and measurable goal, or a concrete deadline, they may have inadvertently pushed themselves further away from their goals.

It seems too simple, but writing a great personal mission statement is an advantage you must experience in order to appreciate. Nowhere else can 7 free minutes of your time pay you back with significant achievements, an impressive income, and a complete feeling of accomplishment.

Can you increase your salary by $20,000 OR double your productivity in a year?
If it's in your Mission Statement -- Emphatically, YES!

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What to include when writing a great Personal Mission Statement?
When writing a Mission Statement you should:
draft a hand-written or typed out paragraph
describe your best characteristics and how you express them
have specific, measurable outcomes
have a deadline -- for example, December 31st. Perhaps the best example of a public Mission Statement was made back in 1960, when John F. Kennedy, referring to the U.S. space program, said that we would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade — a clear goal with a specific timeline for its achievement. And, despite enormous challenges, by mid-1969, Neil Armstrong had taken that "one large step for mankind."

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Q: Why is it so important to have a Personal Mission Statement?
A: The highest achievers in any field view themselves as self-employed. They have the attitude that they run their own business, even if they are affiliated with a major corporation. And so they develop a sense of “mission” about their career, taking a proactive approach to create the results they want. And their Mission Statement guides them.

This is in contrast with "average" people, who view themselves as employees and react to the ups and downs of the economy. Top producers take charge. They take full responsibility for fulfilling their mission, regardless of market conditions. They realize that they can't wait until external factors, like the marketplace, get better ... but that THEY must get better if they intend to achieve their goals.

Which group do you want to be in -- the top 3% of achievers or the 97% of "average" people? Your Personal Mission Statement and clearly defined goals with timelines attached are the difference. Start now by creating your Mission Statement online using Nightingale.com's free online Build My Mission Statement process.

Q: What are some simple steps to goal setting after creating
a Mission Statement?
A: You must base your goals upon your Mission Statement. If you've created your Mission Statement according to the process above, you'll now have "big" goals to achieve by one year from today. From there, you'll need to break them down into quarterly, monthly and even weekly goals. Stephen Covey has a great quote in his book, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. In it, he says: "If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG BUILDING." Amen!

Now, start today, by creating your Personal Mission Statement and set your quarterly, monthly, and weekly goals accordingly.

Acetaminophen linked to asthma in new report - USATODAY.com

Taken in the proper dose, acetaminophen has long been considered one of the safest over-the-counter medications. It's approved for use in children, and many obstetricians are even OK with its use during pregnancy.

But an Ohio pediatrician thinks it's time to rein in use of acetaminophen -- more popularly known as Tylenol -- particularly in people with asthma.

"The fundamental issue is that there's an epidemiological problem associated with acetaminophen and asthma," explained Dr. John McBride, vice chair of the department of pediatrics and director of the Robert T. Stone Respiratory Center at Akron Children's Hospital.

"Is that because acetaminophen contributes to asthma, or is it just because people with asthma tend to take acetaminophen?" he said.

Until a large-scale study definitively answers that question, McBride said, "I think we owe it to our patients and their parents to make it clear that maybe acetaminophen is bad. And, if there are alternatives, people might want to use those alternatives until they know acetaminophen is safe."

McBride reviewed the available evidence linking the pain reliever/fever reducer and asthma for an article published in the December issue of Pediatrics.

One source was the International Study of Allergy and Asthma in Childhood, which included more than half a million children at 122 centers in 54 countries. About 200,000 kids were 6 to 7 years old, and 320,000 were between 13 and 14 years old.

Almost one in three of the older children reported taking acetaminophen at least once a month.

In children who took acetaminophen more than once a year, but less than once a month, the researcher found the risk of current asthma was 61 percent higher in the 6 to 7 year olds. For these young children who took acetaminophen more than once a month, the risk of having asthma was more than tripled.

The older children fared slightly better with an increased risk of 43 percent in those who took the drug more than once a year, but less than once a month. For those who took acetaminophen more than once a month, the risk of having asthma increased by 2.5 times, according to the report.

McBride calculated that if acetaminophen exposure was eliminated in that teen group, the rate of severe asthma symptoms would decline by 43 percent.

He also reviewed a meta-analysis of six studies involving almost 90,000 adults in total. Weekly use of acetaminophen was linked to a 1.74 times higher risk of asthma in adults, McBride found.

In addition, the researcher looked at two prospective studies done on acetaminophen and asthma in the early 1990s. These studies, which followed a group of individuals for a period of time, also found a strong link between asthma and acetaminophen.

McBride said the evidence is stronger that acetaminophen exacerbates current asthma, but that there's also evidence that it may be a cause of asthma, too.

How this occurs remains subject to debate, but some researchers believe acetaminophen increases airway inflammation in people with asthma or a predisposition to the breathing disorder, he said.

Dr. Len Horovitz, an internist and pulmonary specialist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, said, "This information suggests that we have to be cautious about acetaminophen in children with asthma or a family history of asthma. The alternative is ibuprofen, which a lot of parents seem to prefer anyway."

"I do think further research is needed," Horovitz added.

He cautioned that a small group of people with asthma are sensitive to aspirin, and said there are some others who have nasal polyps who shouldn't take ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin).

Not everyone is convinced that the association seen in the new study leads to cause and effect.

"Asthma is such a complex disease, and people all over the world are trying to figure out what causes it," said Dr. Jennifer Appleyard, chief of allergy and immunology at St. John Hospital and Medical Center in Detroit. She said that the asthma likely has a number of causes, not just one.

"I don't feel strongly swayed enough to tell my patients they shouldn't take acetaminophen. In anyone with a fever, it's good to minimize the amount of medications and give them just when they're needed." But, she said, an untreated fever can also be dangerous, and parents want to make their children comfortable when they're sick. But until there's good evidence that acetaminophen is safe, McBride is telling his patients to avoid it.

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http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/story/2011-11-07/Acetaminophen-linked-to-asthma-in-new-report/51110320/1

Jane Brody on Narcolepsy - NYTimes.com

Too Often, Doctors Overlook Narcolepsy

By JANE E. BRODY

Yvetta Fedorova

Personal Health

Jane E. Brody writes about consumer health.

Clea Howard is hardly a tuned-out, uninterested high school student. She likes to be busy: In addition to maintaining an excellent scholastic record at a demanding high school an hour from her Brooklyn home, she studies art, takes dance classes and plays soccer.
Yet during her freshman and sophomore years, she was always tired, no matter how much she slept at night. She often fell asleep in class, on the subway, while doing homework or talking to her boyfriend.
Even on vacation, when she logged 10 or 11 hours of sleep at night, Clea said, “I was still very tired during the day. I made excuses for myself — maybe I just need more sleep than other teenagers, or maybe I don’t feel any more tired than other people.”
Her pediatrician unearthed no medical reason or aberrant sleep habits to explain her extreme fatigue and tendency to doze off at the drop of a hat. An endocrinologist could not find any hormonal or diet-related abnormality. Perhaps, her pediatrician said, a sleep study might show if Clea was getting the kind of rest at night that restores body and mind.

At the Sleep Disorders Institute in New York, Clea met with a sleep specialist. It did not take long for Dr. Maha Ahmad to zero in on a possible diagnosis: narcolepsy.
“She asked me so many questions — 6 to 10 pages of probing questions — and showed me a brochure about narcolepsy that listed the symptoms,” Clea recalled. “I had them all.”
In addition to an uncontrollable tendency to nod off at inopportune times, Clea’s knees would buckle whenever she laughed or got very excited or stressed. If a minor disturbance occurred while she slept, like a paper dropping on her or her mother adjusting her covers, she woke up screaming and terrified, as if she were being attacked. And sometimes, as she was falling asleep or waking up, she would feel paralyzed, unable to move or speak.
Clea was relieved to know there could be an explanation for her inordinate sleepiness. But a definitive diagnosis depended on the results of a sleep study. Two were administered: a polysomnogram, an overnight test that monitors everything from heart and breathing rates to brain waves; and a multiple sleep latency test, a daytime exam of scheduled naps that checks for abnormalities in the sleep cycle.

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In someone without a sleep disorder, it typically takes about 12 minutes to fall asleep; the rapid eye movement stage of sleep, so-called dream sleep, occurs after more than an hour of non-R.E.M. sleep. Clea’s test showed that she fell asleep almost immediately and quickly lapsed into R.E.M. sleep.
In normal R.E.M. sleep, muscles become paralyzed in a sense to prevent people from acting out their dreams. In someone with narcolepsy, the R.E.M. stage is often accompanied by muscle movements that result in restlessness and frequent awakenings.
The disordered nights are reflected in excessive daytime sleepiness, which in turn can cause mental fogginess, difficulty concentrating, lack of energy, depression, extreme exhaustion and sometimes memory lapses.
After their unavoidable naps, people with narcolepsy are only briefly refreshed. Within an hour or two, the uncontrollable sleepiness recurs.
Many Missed Diagnoses
Studies suggest that narcolepsy is far more common than most doctors realize. The Center for Narcolepsy at Stanford University estimates that the condition affects one person in 2,000. Most cases are undiagnosed and untreated. Misdiagnosis is very common, as well, with narcolepsy mistaken for laziness, depression, schizophrenia or an attention disorder.
“It usually takes about 10 years from the start of the disorder” for a case to be correctly diagnosed, Dr. Ahmad said. “Clea was very lucky — she was diagnosed rather quickly, in about two and a half years.”
Symptoms generally first appear, as they did for Clea, in adolescence or early adulthood, often following an environmental event, like a viral infection. Scientists have traced narcolepsy’s underpinnings to the autoimmune destruction of about 70,000 brain cells that normally produce a neurotransmitter called hypocretin.
With insufficient hypocretin, the brain is unable to properly regulate sleep, and the stages of sleep become disorganized. Instead of starting the night with 80 to 100 minutes of non-R.E.M. sleep, R.E.M. sleep begins within few minutes.
In one of the more bizarre manifestations of narcolepsy, during their mini-sleeps patients may continue to perform the activities they were doing while awake, albeit haphazardly, and they don’t remember doing them.
“I would fall asleep while I was writing and continue to write, but when I woke up, what I wrote while I was asleep was gibberish,” Clea said.
A Lifelong Disorder
Genetic variants, particularly in a gene involved in immune function, have been linked to narcolepsy. But while this variant occurs in a vast majority of people with narcolepsy, it also is carried by many others without the disorder.
The loss of hypocretin is irreversible, and narcolepsy is thus a lifelong ailment. Treatments have been developed that minimize the symptoms, but they require patients to stick to rather strict medication schedules and sleep behaviors.
Clea, for example, takes a long-acting amphetaminelike drug called Nuvigil during the day, which usually enables her to stay awake at school. She takes a second drug, a strong sedative called Xyrem, before bed and again four hours later to improve sleep quality and reduce daytime symptoms.
Most patients are told to also schedule one or more naps of 10 to 20 minutes during the day, something Clea finds challenging to fit in until she gets home after school or dance class. This may become easier, she said, when she starts college next fall, if she can create a schedule with down time between some classes.
Even though she has an incurable condition that she will have to deal with for the rest of her life, Clea considers herself lucky to be among those who receive a proper diagnosis and treatment.
She does wish “that more people would understand that I have a biological condition that requires medical treatment and stop giving me advice to try different diets, alternative remedies and what-have-you.”
Some even tell her she should just force herself to stay awake.
If only she could.

Getting Fat but Staying Fit? - NYTimes.com

Does being physically fit counteract some of the undesirable health consequences of being overweight? That question, of pressing interest to those of us who exercise while carrying a few extra pounds, prompted an important new study that focused on aerobic fitness and weight swings.
The study, which was published last month in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology, examined health information about more than 3,100 adults who’d visited the Cooper Clinic in Dallas for medical checkups. During the exams, physicians gathered information about each person’s cardiovascular health, including blood pressure, cholesterol profile, abdominal girth and body fat percentage. They also measured the patients’ aerobic fitness using treadmill tests.

Phys Ed

Gretchen Reynolds writes about the science of fitness.

For years, scientists and the news media have been debating the relative risks of being fat but fit. While it might seem as if aerobic fitness could ameliorate many of the health problems associated with extra body fat, studies on the topic have produced mixed results. Some have suggested that being in shape virtually eliminates the health risks of extra pounds, especially in terms of heart health. But others have come to the opposite conclusion, finding that excess fat contributes to heart disease and premature death, even if someone is physically active.
Many of these studies, though, have compared people’s fitness and fatness at only one point in time, which is an artificial measure because, as we all know from experience, bodies change.
So, for the new study, scientists from the University of South Carolina and other institutions turned to Cooper Clinic data that covered the same patients over the course of at least six years and three checkups.
They chose 3,148 adult men and women, most in their 40s at the start of the study and all normally active but not athletes. None at first had any indications of heart disease or other risk factors, like high blood pressure or cholesterol.
The researchers then compared the patients’ body fat and aerobic fitness during their second checkup, usually two or three years after the first. A majority of the people had, by that time, gained body fat. Paradoxically, many also had become more fit, a surprising statistic, unless you consider that these were men and women who were dutifully showing up for medical checkups and receiving repeated admonitions to exercise.
None during that second visit yet showed discernible risk factors for heart disease.
But by the time they showed up for their third checkup several years later, almost a quarter had developed high blood pressure, unhealthy cholesterol levels or a combination of risk factors called metabolic syndrome.
Those at greatest risk for these health problems were, unsurprisingly, those who’d both lost fitness and gained fat. If someone had grown less fit over the years while adding fat, he now had a 71 percent greater chance of suffering from metabolic syndrome than those who’d lost fat.
But fitness offered some protection to those who gained fat. A person who had improved fitness but added girth had a 22 percent lower risk than someone who was both fat and unfit.
Not surprisingly, dropping fat mass also reduced people’s risks of suffering from metabolic syndrome and the other health problems, but very few people in the study lost fat.
The bottom line: Exercise by itself won’t erase the heart risks of extra body fat, but it may blunt them.
“What this tells us is that both fitness and fatness matter, separately and together, for heart health,” says Duck-Chul Lee, a research fellow at the University of South Carolina who led the study.
More encouragingly, simply maintaining fitness may be all that is required to protect your heart. “We did not see a great deal of added benefit from improving fitness,” Dr. Lee says, “compared to maintaining it.”
People who had bettered their aerobic fitness had 28 percent less risk of developing high blood pressure than people who’d let their fitness slide. But those who’d merely kept up their baseline fitness throughout the study, adjusted for age (aerobic capacity declines with age, even among people who exercise regularly) had 26 percent less risk of the condition, a barely discernible difference.
“The message is simple,” Dr. Lee concludes. “So much attention gets focused on weight reduction, but reducing body fat is very difficult for most people. Our study suggests that,” in terms of heart health, “maintaining your fitness over your lifetime is just as important, and for most people is probably more achievable.”

Monday, March 5, 2012

9 New Lessons We've Learned About Sleep And Health

If you've ever been afraid of getting sick when your sleep patterns are off, you might be on to something.

A study in mice published just last month in the journal Immunity shows that the circadian clock -- which determines when we are tired, hungry or alert -- is also in charge of controlling an immune system gene, HuffPost's Catherine Pearson reported.

"People intuitively know that when their sleep patterns are disturbed, they are more likely to get sick," study author Erol Fikrig, professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine, said in a statement. "It does appear that disruptions of the circadian clock influence our susceptibility to pathogens."

1.Circadian Rhythms Influence Immunity

2. Insomnia Is Still A Big Problem

Multiple studies have shown that not getting enough sleep each night is linked with poor mental performance, a bad mood, and even an increased risk of health conditions like heart disease and high blood pressure, according to the National Institutes of Health.
For most adults, seven to eight hours is the prime amount of sleep to get a night, while kids and newborns require even more sleep. As the NIH puts it, "how well rested you are and how well you function the next day depend on your total sleep time and how much of the various stages of sleep you get each night."
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3. What Happens When Teens Don't Get Enough Sleep? Blood Sugar problems.

A recent study in the journal Sleep showed just how important it is for teens -- particularly those with Type 1 diabetes -- to get a good night's rest.

The study showed that kids and teens with Type 1 diabetes may have trouble getting a good night's sleep, and that sleeplessness could be linked with their ability to control their blood sugar levels and their behavior and performance at school.

"We found that it could be due to abnormalities in sleep, such as daytime sleepiness, lighter sleep and sleep apnea. All of these make it more difficult to have good blood sugar control," study researcher Michelle Perfect, Ph.D., of the University of Arizona, said in a statement.

4. We Boost Our Learning Capacity As We Sleep

A study published lasts year in the journal Current Biology shows that during the dreamless parts of our sleep, our brain is amping up its learning capacity, University of California, Berkeley researchers reported.

Electrical bursts called "sleep spindles" occur in the brain as we sleep, and scientists have found that these actually work to move information from the hippocampus (a part of the brain that has only limited space to store memories) to another part of the brain, which functions as a sort of brain "hard drive," according to a university press release.

The researchers found that this process most likely occurs during shallow sleep before we reach our dream stage of sleep (called REM sleep).

"These findings further highlight the importance of sleep in our educational populations, where the need for learning is great, yet late bedtimes and early school start times prevent adequate sleep amounts," study researcher Bryce Mander, a post-doctoral fellow in psychology at UC Berkeley, said in a statement.

5. Sleep Gets Better With Age

Older people may sleep better than us all, suggests a new study in the journal SLEEP.

Dr. Michael Grandner, a research associate at the Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, said the finding "flies in the face of popular belief," and compels us to think about how we think about older people and sleep.

The study, which included 155,000 adults, showed that the oldest (people age 80 and older) were the least likely to report sleep disturbances and tiredness.

The researchers also found that as people got older, they reported fewer and fewer of these sleep issues (with the exception of people between ages 40 and 59 -- especially women -- who reported a small uptick in sleep problems, though the problems then appeared to decrease afterward).

6. Sleeping Pills Linked With Increased Death Risk

A new study in the journal BMJ Open shows that there could be a link between taking sleeping pills and an increased risk of death.

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, found that taking 18 or fewer sleeping pills a year is linked with having a 3.5 times higher risk of death. And the effect seems to be even higher with the more pills you take -- CBS News reported that people who take 132 or more sleeping pills a year have a five-times higher risk of death, as well as a 35 percent increased risk of developing cancer.

However, ABC News pointed out that the study makes no mention of whether the people in the study were also being simultaneously treated for other health conditions, or the reasons for why they were given sleeping pills -- all factors that could also have played a part in upping death risk.

7. Disrupted Sleep Linked With Alzheimer's

Having trouble staying asleep at night could also be linked with build-up of amyloid plaques -- linked with Alzheimer's disease -- in the brain, according to research that will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology.

Researchers found that the more "efficient" sleepers in the study -- that is, the people who spent more than 85 percent of time in their beds actually sleeping -- were less likely to have the amyloid plaques than the "inefficient" sleepers -- defined as people who spent less than 85 percent of time in their beds actually sleeping.

"Further research is needed to determine why this is happening and whether sleep changes may predict cognitive decline," study researcher Yo-El Ju, MD, of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, said in a statement.

8. Kids Haven't Gotten Enough Sleep In A Long Time

A recent review of studies from University of South Australia researchers shows that for the last 100 years, kids have consistently not gotten enough sleep at night.

The researchers looked at 300 studies on kids' sleep, dating back from 1897 all the way to 2009, TIME reported. They found that in total, kids generally got 37 minutes less sleep than they should have gotten.

For a full look a the findings, click over to TIME's story.

9. Being A Lark Is Healthier For Kids Than Being A Night Owl

Australian researchers found last year that kids who go to bed late and wake up late have a 1.5 times higher risk of being obese, compared with kids who go to bed early and then wake up early.

Plus: The kids who slept late and the kids who slept early got the same amounts of shut-eye, meaning that the "timing of the sleep is even more important," said study researcher Carol Maher, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow with the University of South Australia, said in a statement.

The early-to-bed, early-to-risers went to bed 70 to 90 minutes earlier and woke up 60 to 80 minutes earlier than their late-sleeping counterparts, as well as exercised 27 more minutes a day than the late risers, according to the SLEEP study. The late risers also played video games or watched TV for 48 more minutes a day than the early risers.

That's because mornings might be better for physical activity, while late nights are more conducive to activities like TV-watching, researchers said.

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