The Importance of Creating the Right Environment for Your Business Success

What kind of environment is the right environment for your business success? Are you someone who likes to work in a relaxed, calm, quiet environment, or someone who likes a more interactive, invigorating, exciting environment?

There is probably a range of environments you can put up with and get by in. But, have you ever thought about what kind of environment is optimal if you want to create success? Most of us haven't thought about how our environment affects our business success. Instead, we've learned to adapt to less-than-favorable conditions, blaming our sagging energy, increased body aches, and decreased productivity on other factors.

The Effects of a Negative Environment

Psychologists and industrial engineers have long reported that a negative work environment adversely affects our health, sleep habits, interactions with people, sex life, tolerance levels, ability to cope, and ability to process new information.

The longer we are exposed to a negative environment, the more our productivity and success decrease. It also takes its toll on our psychological, emotional, and physiological well-being.

The problem is that researchers have not been able to come up with a single work environment that is best for everyone. Human beings are such a complex, multifaceted group. It is impossible to take into account everyone's changing needs to create a work environment that is ideal for every individual.

Whether you work from the comfort of your home as a solo preneur or go to work in an office building, it's up to you to create the perfect environment for your business success. If not, you will find yourself gulping for air.

Are You Gulping For Air?

I have a small pond in my back yard. It's a modest pond, home to five gold fish, two shubunkins, and two koi, Jack and Casper. It's a peaceful little pond where birds and deer come to drink and neighborhood cats come with high hopes. There are benches nearby for quiet reflection, and the beauty of nature surrounds.

Not too long ago, the pond wasn't so peaceful. We were in the middle of a heat wave when I went out to feed my fish. Much to my surprise and alarm, all the fish were at the surface of the pond bunched together and gulping for air. I could see they were in distress, though I didn't know why. Until . . . I dipped my hand into the pond and felt the temperature of the water. It was very warm.

I immediately flew into action and began pumping warm water out of the top of the pond while simultaneously adding cold water to it. Within a couple of hours the water temperature had stabilized and my fish were back to swimming tranquilly around the pond.

When you are working in an environment that is detrimental to you, you soon end up like my fish on that hot day. You end up gulping for air. Gulping for air leaves us exhausted, depleted, and in desperate need of relief. We've all had times when we have felt as if we were just barely making it, scarcely holding it all together, and stressed beyond our limit.

By Susan L Reid

College Students Need Health Care Too!

A major fallback that all financial institutions, and government agencies have had, in regards to student aid, student financing, student loan and even student jobs is the total lack of attention that has occurred with student health care. Do you realize that the largest population of uninsured Americans are people aged 18 to 24.

Today there are more than 48 million Americans that have little or no health insurance, and those numbers are expected to go up by 20% in the next 10 years. Of those people that are uninsured over 10% are college students.

Now, that I have you thinking! Lets think about why this happens? If we know that this is true, and we also know that health insurance insurance is our biggest problem, then why don't we do something to solve the problem of the largest population of uninsured?

What causes this Age Group to be Uninsured?
The main reason that young college students are not covered by insurance, is because they are too old for their parents coverage, or in some cases their parents don't have insurance.
Another reason is because people in this age group are going to school, and can only afford to work part time, and a part time job does not cover health insurance needs.

What are the Current Health Insurance Options for This Population?

There sure are not a lot of options out there. The student could purchase an independent insurance policy, but with independent insurance policies costing well into the thousands of dollars a year, this is not really a viable option.
The other option is for parents to continue covering the young adult, and many insurance companies refuse to do that. The parents could also purchase an independent health insurance policy for their child that is if they can afford it.

Many Argue that People in that Age Group Don't Really Need Insurance

Does that truly make sense? So, if a student has an accident, it is alright if he becomes financially indebted for many years to come, because he was young. Most students would probably choose to have health insurance, if the option were available to them.

Many of these uninsured students have chronic diseases like asthma, diabetes, heart conditions, and HIV that go untreated because of a lack of health insurance.
Students need treatment with depression issues, eating disorders and even drug and alcohol abuse, and in most cases they cant get it because of a lack of health insurance.

How Can We Solve the Problem of a Lack of Health Care in Young Adults?
It is a subject that is on the politicians table and should be paid attention to carefully. We could support candidates that look for a solution to the problem. It would be great if in some way we as a nation could come up with some form of universal coverage.
Another option that you as a student can check into is the availability of a health insurance plan that is carried by the University or College you attend.

Many of today's colleges offer student health insurance plans for students that are enrolled in their University. In fact, this should be something you look at when you are choosing the college you will attend.

Have Your Parents Ask Their Insurance carrier if they can keep you on their plan. Some insurance carriers will let students remain on a plan until they are 22.

In conclusion, this is still somewhat of a difficult problem to deal with, and there still aren't any easy answers. But there are some solutions, if you look for them.

By Jim Power

Simple Way to Take Care of Your Health

With many illness such as cancer or other disease for the body which spreading almost every where, more people try now to be aware of their body and what they eat every day.
It is necessary to pay attention to our health and fitness and try to have a healthier lifestyle. Here are some of the ways that are important for your health and you should use to start to achieve a healthier lifestyle.
Do not smoke: smoking can lead to serious health problems and diseases, if you do not have the habit of smoking, good for you.Do not try to start as you will only get addicted with the cigarettes and it will be harder to quit when that happens.
It is not true that you can smoke and quit when you want to. Once you become addicted to it, there is hard and more difficult to quit.

If you are already part of those people who damage their lungs everyday, the best way is to make a commitment to quit. By doing this, you are already half a way to recovery.
Make sure that you are serious with your plans and you are not just doing it for any other reason than your health. Healthy eating: The best way you can help keep your body healthy is to eat foods that are more natural and with less chemical content.
Avoid eating junk foods like those huge packs of potato chips or binge on candies. Eat fruits instead of cookies or candy or fat cakes. You should also make it a point to eat more fruits, salad and vegetables with your intake of meats. Try to eat more starchy foods such as rice, bread, pasta, potatoes. This does not mean that you should forget to eat meat.
You should still eat meat, just remember fish and chicken meat is better than red meat. The protein inside meat is important for some of the basic processes of the body. You can also take your protein needs with eating beans with dark bread, or grain rice.
These kind of foods will help you with your health and fitness. Physical Activity: Try to make an exercise routine every day. You can schedule it every day when you wake up in the morning or do it in afternoon when you are free from your job. Whichever schedule you choose, make sure that you keep it to 30 minutes or longer about an hour.
That way, you exercise your muscles and avoid muscle pains. Exercise will also strengthen your bones and your body, promote better breathing and cellular activities, clear the brain and of course keep those extra calories out of the body and you will help your health and fitness more. Thus, even if you eat a lot, you are not storing those fats and carbohydrates. You are expending them through your workout routine. You can also do these activities 2-3 times a week: Cycling, Football, Gym, Running/Jogging, Racket Sports, Swimming, Walking/Rambling and Yoga. Remember to drink lots of water, Skip the soda and even the iced tea as much as you can, drink water which is the safest and healthiest drink you can find. Sodas even the diet ones, are carbonated and contain high amounts of sugar and carbohydrates which can later be translated into fats.
With use of the recommendation above, will you soon get better condition, your body become healthier, and you will be happier.

By Delmondo Sorell

Health Habitravels

Enriching travel programs for moderate to very fit adults who would like the option of yoga/pilates while on holiday. These are informative, active holidays that run tha gamut from ecotours to cultural tours. Lodgings are at boutique hotels, private villas, private yachts, and green ecolodges. Some programs include short retreats at renovated monastaries, temples, or upscale tent camps. Groups are sized from 10-24 max. Emphasis is on concious travel, but creature comforts are available. This is a great way to be healthy and see the world. Founder Tannis Kobrinsky, a 30 year veteran movement educator conducts the classes, and is at times joined by other experts. Expert guides lead tours and excursions. Local tour operators handle

logistics. These programs are fun, invigorating, and life changing.

Schedules

Fitness Pilates, tone and sculpt, stretching, hiking, swimming, water aerobics.Massage Extra fee for massage treatments offered at spas and resort, and/or in room massages.Pilates 1-2 Pilates mat classes daily, unless excursions require too much time on a particular day . Pilates focuses on strengthening the core muscles, increasing flexibility and balance. Practice adjustable to students individual needs.Spa Treatments Depends on the facility, but everything from facials, to wat-su, spas, steam etc...availableYoga Hatha - gentle Hatha yoga. Gyrokinesis (r) combination of Kundalini yoga and Qi Gong, flowing, restorative movements.

Our impact on the Environment

Our impact on the environment

As one of the largest food companies in Asia Pacific, Arnott's has an environmental policy in place that reflects its commitment to conduct business in a manner that respects and protects the quality of the environment, striving towards limiting emissions to the water, air and land, and the efficient use of resources.

That's why we work closely with water authorities, like Sydney Water, to identify opportunities for reducing water consumption. Back in 2001, our Smithfield facility, which produces around 360 different types of savoury snack products, was using 850,000 litres of water per day. By 2004, we'd cut total water usage by nearly half to less than 500,000 litres per day.

And Arnott's Marleston bakery has made significant progress in the past 18 months in reducing waste and water consumption by installing, among other things, a $390,000 waste-water treatment plant.

As well as helping to protect water, Arnott’s is also focused on reducing its energy consumption and has a number of programs in place at all sites.

The Company is a signatory to the National Packaging Covenant. Our action plans contain specific objectives to minimise the use of packaging material, where possible; use recyclable materials, where possible; and ensure the environmental impacts of consumer packaging waste are managed and minimised.

So far, Arnott's has:

* Converted more than 1,000 tonnes per annum of biscuit trays from unrecyclable polystyrene to recyclable PET
* Switched to making more than 5,000 tonnes of carton board (eg. for use on boxed products like Shapes and Cheezels) per annum from 100% recycled board. Naturally, these cartons are also recyclable
* Reduced tinplate usage per annum by more than 40 tonnes as a result of a reduction in steel can gauge