Success Secret # 1 How to Double Your Income

Take the average of what five people you spend the most time with make in a year, and you’ll get your annual income. Ninety percent of success is determined by who you hang around with. Why? Because successful people think differently than unsuccessful people and you become like the people you associate with. If you want to double your income, start hanging around people who make twice what you do and let them teach you how to win more. Remember, successful people like to talk about success.

Source: Ruben Gonzalez

“You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Are the people and things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?”

Source: W. Clement Stone

Sports-Related Injuries in Children

Inside the Numbers

It is estimated that 3.5 million children under the age of 14 receive medical treatment for sports injuries each year and that almost one-third of all injuries incurred during childhood are related to sports activities, with the most common injuries being strains and sprains. Here are the estimated number of children injured each year by sport:

· Football: 350,000+
· Basketball: 300,000+
· Soccer: 140,000+
· Baseball: 120,000+
· Swimming: 43,000+
· Wrestling: 33,500+
· Gymnastics: 26,500+
· Hockey: 21,000+
· Track and Field: 17,000+

In addition to the health consequences, the financial costs for treating injuries are estimated to be between $3 billion and $4 billion a year. In addition, the impact of childhood sports injuries on the number of school days missed can be significant. The Institute for Preventative Sports Medicine estimates that each year, there are almost 212 million school days missed by students attributable to musculoskeletal injuries, the vast majority of which are sports-related injuries.

Source: Claudia Annig D.C.

Show Policy-Makers Chiropractic Counts

With health care reform looming, what better time to contact legislators and policy-makers and share the rationale for giving more patients more access to the services you provide? To that end, the Government Relations Working Group of the Chiropractic Summit has created a 28-page policy document that outlines how chiropractic can best be utilized in a reformed health care system and documents how chiropractic’s clinical and cost-effectiveness can relieve pressure on the “current failing system.”

Available online from state and national chiropractic organizations, the paper can be printed and downloaded for lobbying purposes at no charge.

Source: Dynamic Chiropractic

Chiropractic Research You’ve Been Waiting For?

· Just – released pilot study: chiropractic reduces health care costs, need for surgery.

Findings from the Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield 2008 Physical Medicine Pilot on Quality, a one-year pilot program designed to measure patient quality of care, suggest significant clinical outcomes and health care cost reductions attributable to the use of chiropractic and other physical medicine services. Patients who received chiropractic or physical therapy had lower total health care costs and were less likely to have surgery than demographically similar Wellmark members who did not receive services.

Source: Dynamic Chiropractic

How to Deal with Fear and Anxiety

· When fear and anxiety come up – try to recall the thought you were just having.

· Write it down so that you remember the thought.

· Analyze the thought – is it a valid thought or is it simply based on wrong perception or not being prepared?

· Change the thoughts – create thoughts of the opposite and turn them into affirmations. “I don’t know how” – becomes “ I know how.” “I might make a mistake” becomes “I’m doing everything right.”

· Prepare yourself – make sure you are well prepared for every situation.

· Change your actions – break the pattern that leads to anxiety. If you get anxious when you walk in front of a hospital – take a different route, or walk with a friend to break your concentration on the hospital.

· Focus on what you want.

· Acknowledge your success and pat yourself on the back for achieving goals.

· Talk to a Doctor – anxiety can be a medical problem so you should speak with a doctor.

Source: Karim Hajee

Keys to Creating Wealth

• Stay focused on your financial goals.

• Remember the plan to achieve your financial goals.

• Be realistic with your time frame.

• Do 3 things everyday to accumulate wealth.

• Accept and Understand that having wealth is a good thing.

• The more money you have the more people you will be able to help.

• Remove negative thoughts about money.

• Create wealth building affirmations.

• Plant the feeling of having wealth.

• Expand possibilities with wealth – think of all the possible ways there are to make more money.

• Visualize your wealth – see yourself being wealthy.

Source: Karim Hajee

5 SIGNS OF A HEALTHY BABY

If you’re a parent, whether a new or seasoned one, you’ve undoubtedly heard of the APGAR score, but chances are you have little or no idea what it really means beyond the fact that a high score is good news for your newly delivered baby, while a low score suggests your newborn may require more than standard medical attention in their first moments of life. Here’s what each letter stands for and what different scores indicate:

Appearance refers primarily to skin color.

Pink body and extremities scores 2; blue all over scores 0

(not a good sign of health).

Pulse rate of at least 100 beats per minute scores a 2;

pulse that is absent (another very bad sign) scores a 0.

Grimace is an evaluation of reflex irritability; if the newborn

Coughs, sneezes or pulls away when stimulated, that’s a

2. No response to stimulation scores a 0.

Activity is assessed by muscle tone – active movement scores 2,while none scores 0.

Respiration (breathing) considered strong is awarded a

score of 2; no breath scores a 0.

The APGAR test is performed one and five minutes after birth, and may be repeated thereafter if initial scores are low. In general, a total combined score of 7-10 is considered normal, 4-6 is fairly low, while any score below 3 is critically low. Bear in mind that a low score at one minute which improves at five minutes may not be indicative of a health issue, but a consistently low score definitely requires medical attention.

Source: To Your Health