The days are long and the Sun is going down, as an employee who shall remain nameless, driving a Rough Terrain Fork Lift, in rough terrain. Returning to the yard for the evening, at to high rate of speed, the folks bouncing, and as the road dipped, the forks caught in the ground. At about 13 MPH the machine comes to a sudden stop as one of the folks is bent at 30 degrees below horizontal and the right side fork rolls up in circle.  Some good comes of this in that as the safety lap belt is in place and on, the operators is saved from more than embarrassment.

As he called me on the raido I heard him say to some one in the background" I know better than that" " How could I be so stuipd?" Any time we take our mind off  Right Now we establish a zone of accident.

In the root cause investigation the employee stated, that he was tired beone belief, and was just thinking about getting home, to the hotel. The rough ter

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Studies have shown that we burn more calories on the treadmill than most other machines.  I like the treadmill because it puts us in an upright position and focuses on hip flexion and extension more than knee flexion and extension.  Why is that a good thing?  I believe we sit too much!  Technological evolution and our "rat race" lifestyles put us at a desk, in a car, or on a couch for great lengths of time-and no matter where you are, you can always walk!   Here are some tips to get you started or to maximize your use of time on the treadmill.

• Always start with your feet off the moving track incase the machine has a glitch or you hit the wrong button! Start out at a slow pace when you get on and gradually increase the speed and adjust the incline if your program dictates
• Start in a upright, neutral spine posture. Do not lean on the machine with your arms or slouch while doing this. Your work effort is less and you may encounter bad habits that lead to injury. This would include reading-if you can avoid it, you will have a better workout and avoid the back, neck or shoulder pain that may occur from leaning forward.
• Have a plan! Are you there to burn calories or are you preparing for a 5k race? Are you there for general health? Know what you want to get out of it before you get on. My recommendation is if you want to burn calories or just increase your general fitness level, get a heart rate monitor so you can track where you start and see your progress. You will also see if you are burning calories efficiently.
• F.I.T.T. principle (Frequency, Intensity, Time, Type) This is your equation for success. Type= treadmill. Now to build your program, you decide how many days you do it and for how long. That takes care of Frequency and Time. Intensity is driven by 1. Your goal and 2. Your current fitness level. Getting a Heart Rate Monitor is critical for tracking this accurately. If you are just starting to work out, you want to start slow. You may want to do a longer duration say 30-45 min and a lower heart rate that is still in your target zone so there is less impact but you are still burning calories efficiently. If you have already been in that program and have seen results and now hit a plateau, it's time to increase the intensity with or without decreasing the time. Did you know that working in a lower heart rate zone for 1 hour can be the same caloric expenditure as working half the time but twice as hard? You have choice on how to create the program. But you need the tools.
• Interval Training- is when you "zig zag" in your heart rate zone by peaking it and then slowing down. You do 5 min in the bottom range and then you run for 2 min at the top of the range. This is one example of an interval. Some believe that interval training is more effective than steady state. I say have a plan, try them both and track it to see what works for you!

For more information on how to improve your fitness and exercise program, find J.J. Flizanes at www.mvpseminars.com

 

Leadership is a lost art in my book. It is one of the most wrote about topics imaginable. Go on Amazon and there is a ton of books written about leadership. I could write one maybe ‘Everything I know about leadership I learned in the Marine Corp'. It's true, and I know a few things that have worked and a few that don't in my thirty plus years leading people. The one thing I know for sure is that you have to engage the ‘whole' person. Each one of us brings three things to the party, our hands, our head and our heart. Let me explain. 

For starters each one of us brings our hands; that is our skills to the job. If we work at McDonalds they have pretty much idiot proofed their processes and the skill required is to show up. If you're a builder you hire people with carpentry skills, a trucker then you hire truck driver skills and so on. For many leaders and organizations this is where their engagement of their workers stops. They hire skills and they get skills and that is that.

The next part of the person a leader can engage is the head. The head represents a person's intellect, their engagement to think and bring more to the job than skills. When I worked at Compaq Computer in the mid-nineties they hired a lot of intellectual people who brought their heads to work. But as leaders, do we engage their heads in their work or allow them to just be involved to the minimum?

The third and most important element a leader can engage is a person's heart, their passion. This can't be bought, it must be led. In the early days of Compaq, or any start up for that matter, the hearts of the people are engaged from the excitement of the start up. Great leaders keep the engagement of the hearts because of their leadership, not because of the start up.

The three parts of the whole person must be engaged to get the most out of your organization. Think about Gandhi for instance. He inspired an entire country with his leadership although he never held an elected position. Gandhi's leadership brought down the British Empire and he never held an official position. Why, because he engaged the whole person, not just one or two of the parts. He led by example and people knew they were important to him.

In my days as a Marine sniper, two consecutive years in the Vietnam War, I found the very foundation of this concept. We were highly trained in marksmanship and that was our skill. We were highly trained in tactics, given incredible support troops and trusted to complete our missions. We were allowed and expected to use our intellect. Then we were part of an outfit with a strong and proud history, with outstanding leadership above us and while our country wasn't behind us, our Corp was ... we had passion.

Why did fifty percent of us volunteer for more time in country than required? It sure wasn't because of the money; I think they paid me $290.00 a month with hazardous duty pay. No, it was because of our passion to serve the man next to us, our Corp and to be the best at what we did. Leaders engage the passion in their follows while engaging the whole person.

Ed Kugler

Yes, that's right, you read that correctly. I am wishing you a happy tax season! If you can't fathom why, here is a little bit of prosperity wisdom to take the stress and worry out of this annual occasion!

In this season of giving ... to our government, I like to say that your bank account - whether it be personal or business - is like a living, breathing organism - what goes in must come back out. This keeps it healthy, cycling naturally and functioning properly.

However, instead of seeing it as a natural flow, most of us, after paying our taxes, have a tendency to contract and withhold - financially as well as physically. In other words, we see the big tax bill, feel the fear, anxiety or concern and then decide to pull back, watch our spending or limit ourselves and others over the next few months to make up for it. We lose all sense of trust or connection to the knowing that there will be more where that came from - more money, I mean!

All of this comes from a scarcity mentality driven by fear. You may perceive it as something else - "reality," responsibility, circumstances. It isn't. It is simply fear. And let's really get down to it. Your reality is what you make it. So, do you want your reality to be a relationship with money driven by fear? If your reality is what you make it, what might you make it instead?

Remember, your bank account is like a living organism - what you take in must also cycle back out, just like breathing. So, you can shift your current money reality right now by looking at it this way - the more you cycled out - exhaled, the more room you are making to take in a bigger breath the next time.

So this tax season ... if you owed, you earned. If you owed big, you earned bigger!

Just take a moment to let that idea really sink in.

Now, regardless of your opinion about taxes, having to pay them and how our government chooses to spend these funds, money is simply an energy, an energy that responds to how we feel about it.

If you grumble or feel fear or experience lack or scarcity, that is the vibration you are creating around money and that is what you will attract. What would you prefer to attract? I know what I prefer and, in that spirit, I always write "Thank You!" on every check I write to the state and the federal government each year. (I will always wonder what the reaction is to this little expression of appreciation on the other end!)

You see, I choose to relate to my taxes as a privilege for receiving so much prosperity rather than a necessary evil or consequence for having earned money. I choose to come from and focus on gratitude. Your reality is what you make it and what you put your focus
on E - X - P - A - N - D - S!

So don't fret the taxes. They are a part of life, a part of the bigger picture and natural cycle of things. See this time of year as a celebration of what you've accomplished, a financial Spring cleaning of sorts and a preparation - a making room for - the arrival of the ever-increasing prosperity and abundance that is now coming your way!

So, Happy Tax Season!

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Hillary Harris is a Prosperity Coach, Intuitive Strategist and Transformational Speaker with over 10 years as a catalyst for inspiring people toward their dreams, illuminating their passions and purpose, and a model for attracting and achieving abundance and success ... effortlessly! 

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