The Lessons We Learn From Operating Our Own Business, Just When We Thought We New It All!

Great isn’t it, when as a business owner for 20 odd years we think we have seen and dealt with everything that is thrown at us and then something else comes up around the corner.

I’m sure they are just little tests to keep us on our toes, but seriously, we have enough tests in business as it is without generating more.

I’m sure anyone out there in there current business knows exactly where I am coming from and will be thinking, yep you’re not wrong there.

What tests do you get thrown at you from out of the blue when you just thought wow, things are finally cruising along nicely must be a good time to sneak off for a break…. yeah right.

However even when these issues sneak up and grab you, if you are not refreshed and in total control of the situation, it can be beneficial to at least slip out of town for the day and go have a cuppa with a non-business minded friend and enjoy there world of stress related incidents that you wouldn’t even probably think twice about.

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Kriya Yoga

Kriya yoga is a mix of Karma, Jnana and Bhakti yoga styles combined in a very complex form. The word kriya means to make an effort or to transform. Kriya yoga was introduced to the modern world by master Lahiri Mahasaya during the 19th century. Nevertheless, Kriya yoga is, according to some scriptures, much older than that.

It is said to appear in the Bhagavad-Gita which is considered to be more than 3000 years old. The practice of Kriya yoga demands a daily program of self-discipline of the mind and the body, and, most important than everything, a devotion to God. In order for a student to learn how to do this technique, a very well prepared trainer, an initiated Guru is needed.

Kriya yoga has changed the lives of some people looking for a deeper, more spiritual relationship with their selves. This style of yoga is kundalini oriented, and it is a meditation technique which teaches a series of esoteric principles.

Nevertheless, it also preaches the fact that one’s power lies outside of oneself, that one needs a guru, or master, to access this innate spiritual life. There are several aims in Kriya yoga, among which the elimination of the barriers between mind and body.

The three yoga styles at the base of Kriya yoga are very important for its understanding. Thus, karma yoga focuses on the movement of the soul between inside and outside of the mind; jnana yoga stresses the wisdom, allowing the mind to be free; bhakti yoga centers on love, and how it allows one to come to terms with everything around oneself.

The combination of these three principles aims at purifying the mind and the soul. As a result, Kriya yoga practitioners believe they can achieve self-fulfillment this way rather than follow other disciplines.

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Jenny Craig Diet

The Jenny Craig diet was begun by Genevieve Guidroz, an American weight-loss guru. The Jenny Craig company began in Australia, began offering its diet program in America in 1985, and was purchased by Nestlé in 2006.

Today the company has over 550 weight-loss centers in the United States and other countries. Read on For more information.

Jenny Craig calls itself one of the largest weight management companies in the entire world. It has a simple formula for weight loss — good nutrition and basic activities. It’s a well-known formula for weight loss and healthy living used throughout the fitness world. The Jenny Craig diet doesn’t only seek to help people lose weight, it seeks to establish a long term lifestyle for healthy living. In this sense it’s much more than a fad diet.

The Jenny Craig diet has had a number of celebrity spokespeople. One of the most famous was Kristie Alley, former star of Cheers, who also appeared in some Star Trek movies.

She became the spokesperson in 2005, and people were startled to see how much weight she gained since her days on Cheers.

Her work for Jenny Craig came after she had ballooned to over 200 pounds, and appeared in a comedy documentary called Fat Actress. As of November of 2006 she claimed to have lost 75 pounds in the Jenny Craig diet. A number of people questioned whether Kristie really lost weight while on the diet.

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Cookie Diet

In the world of fad diets almost nothing can be more absurd than the cookie diet. This diet is based on a mixture of amino acids baked into a cookie designed to control a patient’s hunger.

Fad diets seem to be everywhere these days. In general a fad diet is a diet which is designed to last for short periods of time, during which large amounts of weight can supposedly be lost.

Often times, like the cookie diet, these diets rely on one miracle food with amazing properties for weight loss. In this sense they are something like the old traveling medicine shows, in which a slick talking salesman would expound on the virtues of some magical formula created by a Guru of some type.

The cookie diet was created by a physician named Sanford Siegel in 1975 while he was researching a book on the effect of natural foods on hunger. This cookie diet consisted of patients eating six cookies each day in place of meals, then eating a reasonable dinner.

There were about 500 calories combined in the cookies, and the dinner could be 300 calories in the evening. Very quickly the cookie diet became a huge success, with 14 clinics in Florida and 10 in Latin America expounding this amazing weight loss formula. In the middle 1980s over 200 doctors were prescribing Dr. Siegel’s cookie diet in their own practices.

It was at this time that shakes and soups were added to the mix, these also containing the amino acids that control hunger.

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Atkins Grapefruit Diet

The Atkins Grapefruit diet is a diet plan, not endorsed by the estate of Dr. Atkins, that plays on the popularity of the grapefruit diet and the Atkins diet name.

A closer look into this diet shows that it may not be all it claims to be.

First of all it’s pretty difficult to find information on the Atkins grapefruit diet plan. Smart people know that when someone is perpetrating a deception, or a con, they will often gloss over facts. This is what the Atkins grapefruit diet seems to do in an attempt to get people to associate it with two supposedly effective diets.

Is the Atkins Grapefruit Diet part of the Atkins Diet or endorsed by the estate of the late Dr. Atkins? The answer is no, not only is there no mention of the Atkins Grapefruit Diet on the Atkins web site, but there is no fruit of any kind mentioned in the list of allowed foods in the Atkins diet Induction phase.

The induction phase includes the following foods:

Fish of all kinds
All fowl such as turkey and chicken
Any shellfish
Any meat such as beef or pork
Eggs cooked in any style including fried
Cheese
Vegetables
Herbs and Spices
Fats and Oils
Low carbohydrate beverages including diet soft drinks

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