http://www.a1articles.com en-us editorial@a1articles.com What Stresses You? Part 3 In earlier parts of, What Stresses You, we saw what many people say are two of the main stresses in their lives. Now we are going to look at some of the other stressors. Money is a very big stressor for young married people... http://www.a1articles.com/article_521002_24.html 24th April 2008 What Stresses You? Part 2 One thing that you can’t do anything about is the relationship you have with your parents and family, but you can try to keep the stress as little as possible. Don’t try to have a storybook or television family because t... http://www.a1articles.com/article_520999_24.html 24th April 2008 What Stresses You? Part 1 Stress is one of the biggest problems of the modern day. Rather than talking about how stress causes all kinds of diseases and creates a hell in life, let us find out how to analyze our stressors. After that we can probably d... http://www.a1articles.com/article_520998_24.html 24th April 2008 Making Choices to Be Happy-2 Many times we are happy when we are around people who are positive and happy themselves. Those kinds of people were not born with a different set of values or even an obvious funny bone. Somehow they have learned to e... http://www.a1articles.com/article_520997_24.html 24th April 2008 Making Choices to Be Happy-1 My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. -Thornton Wilder Life gives us many things on our plate. Some of us are plain lucky while others miss many ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_520996_24.html 24th April 2008 Forced Into Marriage – Part 2 In part one of this article, we discussed about how some marriages are forced because of circumstances and what chances are there for their survial. With a full time job and working to support a new family, he found t... http://www.a1articles.com/article_520995_35.html 24th April 2008 Forced Into Marriage – Part1 Have you ever found yourself in a relationship and then wondered how and why you got into it? There are many types of relationships and each kind is built upon a different set of ideas. For example, I have been marri... http://www.a1articles.com/article_520994_35.html 24th April 2008 Collections Become Clutter-2 The scattered items that have been collected includes everything that has caught my eye when I was in different stores, touched my sentimental journey of my family and children’s past and been collected but is now mix... http://www.a1articles.com/article_520993_24.html 24th April 2008 Collections Become Clutter- 1 I am making a study of clutter in homes. In this connection I had a very interesting talk with my neighbor. She had lot to say about how collections become clutter. Th following is the summary of all she told me. I ha... http://www.a1articles.com/article_520991_24.html 24th April 2008 How to Start A Compost? Composting is difficult. The wonderful truth is you couldn't stop stuff from decomposing if you tried. A good compost bin or pile will decompose items quickly. A poor one will still decompose items, but slowly. Consider you... http://www.a1articles.com/article_518412_27.html 16th April 2008 How Do I Treat A Cast Iron Skillet? FACTORY NEW: Cast iron pans fresh from the factory usually are treated with a coating to prevent them from rusting before they sell. This coating is not good to eat and it may contain plastic or wax, so it’s a goo... http://www.a1articles.com/article_518409_27.html 16th April 2008 How Can I Start My Life Completely Over? Life sometimes surprises us with a lot of change. After a divorce, the death of someone near to us, the loss of a job, or financial trouble, we may find that our lives are getting a complete redesign whether w... http://www.a1articles.com/article_518407_24.html 16th April 2008 How Can I Improve My Study Habits? The best foundation for good grades is to schedule regular study time five or six days a week, and to use that time for school whether you have a specific assignment due or not. For high school a good rule of th... http://www.a1articles.com/article_518406_24.html 16th April 2008 If Every Couple Had Only One Child, Would Global Warming Cease to Be a Problem? No. It would help the earth a lot to lower the population, but the problem of global warming is complex. Even if there were suddenly no people on earth, global warming wou... http://www.a1articles.com/article_515384_22.html 11th April 2008 My Room Is A Mess, Where Do I Even Begin to Start Organizing It? College student? Teenager? Living in one room? Rooms can get very messy when you do so much living in one room, and when it’s messy it can be nearly impossible to find anything and jus... http://www.a1articles.com/article_515383_24.html 11th April 2008 Does Eating Healthy Have to Be So Expensive? With the cost of food rising, it’s hard not to notice that some of the healthier choices we can make with food, cost more than their unhealthy counterparts. Organic foods cost more than inorganic. Lean me... http://www.a1articles.com/article_515381_26.html 11th April 2008 Do You Feel Like Your Only Friends Are On The Computer? Do you go to work and have your "public face" but then come home to an empty place? Do you find the only friends you have are on the computer? Do you feel lonely and wish you could change that? ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_515379_24.html 11th April 2008 A Good Life Just As It Is We may not have the love we want. We may be worried about our health or someone else’s health. We may not have enough money to do what we want to do. We may have irritations or stress at work or in our family. We may wish w... http://www.a1articles.com/article_515376_24.html 11th April 2008 How Can Loneliness and Idleness Affect You? A time of loneliness and idleness might happen after a divorce, the loss of a loved one, the loss of a job, after children have left the home, or following trauma. Prolonged isolation and idleness usually de... http://www.a1articles.com/article_515374_24.html 11th April 2008 Some Old Fashioned Ways to Stay Warm A few weeks ago a friend of mine mentioned that she and her husband try each year to make it until Thanksgiving before turning on the heat in their home for the first time. She said, "It gives us yet another thing t... http://www.a1articles.com/article_515372_27.html 11th April 2008 How Do I Treat A Cast Iron Skillet? FACTORY NEW: Cast iron pans fresh from the factory usually are treated with a coating to prevent them from rusting before they sell. This coating is not good to eat and it may contain plastic or wax, so it’s a goo... http://www.a1articles.com/article_511992_27.html 07th April 2008 How to Start A Compost? Composting is difficult. The wonderful truth is you couldn't stop stuff from decomposing if you tried. A good compost bin or pile will decompose items quickly. A poor one will still decompose items, but slowly. Consider you... http://www.a1articles.com/article_511987_27.html 07th April 2008 What Stresses You? Part 3 In earlier parts of, What Stresses You, we saw what many people say are two of the main stresses in their lives. Now we are going to look at some of the other stressors. Money is a very big stressor for young married people... http://www.a1articles.com/article_511985_24.html 07th April 2008 What Stresses You? Part 2 One thing that you can’t do anything about is the relationship you have with your parents and family, but you can try to keep the stress as little as possible. Don’t try to have a storybook or television family because t... http://www.a1articles.com/article_511984_24.html 07th April 2008 What Stresses You? Part 1 Stress is one of the biggest problems of the modern day. Rather than talking about how stress causes all kinds of diseases and creates a hell in life, let us find out how to analyze our stressors. After that we can probably d... http://www.a1articles.com/article_511983_24.html 07th April 2008 What To Do When You Feel Blue -2 When you do outside activities you get the added benefits of the sun and the beauty of nature. Both aspects add to the healthy benefits you get from walking or biking, but if the weather is bad, you can always use a st... http://www.a1articles.com/article_511982_24.html 07th April 2008 What To Do When You Feel Blue -1 Have you ever heard the saying, “Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone”? That is exactly how it feels when you are sad or depressed. It is as though there is nobody around to help you get away... http://www.a1articles.com/article_511980_24.html 07th April 2008 What Would You Change? If you could change one thing about your self or your life this week, what would it be? Funny thing is, more often than not we can change our lives forever by making decisions, trying something completely new, following previousl... http://www.a1articles.com/article_490410_24.html 14th March 2008 What’s Weighing on You? Sometimes we get in a funk because there are a number of problems or unfinished things bugging us. And at times we feel like certain problems just won’t go away. It’s amazing what getting a few of these things off your doc... http://www.a1articles.com/article_490408_24.html 14th March 2008 Family Secrets and Other Difficult Family Dynamics In some families, even loving ones, there are secrets being kept and things left unsaid. There may be regrets for things done and not done, but no one speaks of it. You or other family members may feel... http://www.a1articles.com/article_490406_27.html 14th March 2008 Lower Stress with Better Time Management Why is it so stressful to have an irregular schedule? I don’t know, but it’s certainly the case. Perhaps it is because it gives us mental clutter. If you are feeling a lot of stress these days, here is one t... http://www.a1articles.com/article_490405_24.html 14th March 2008 Tips on Encouraging Forum Conversation There are many effective little techniques that encourage forum posting. One of the tricks that helps to encourage forum conversation is to end some of your posts with leading questions. "What do you think?" "How ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_490404_81.html 14th March 2008 Preparing Your Home to Sell Make all necessary visible repairs, particularly the small ones. This includes things like finishing unfinished projects, repairing broken screens, cracked windows, leaks, shaky railings, and damaged flooring. Freshen wa... http://www.a1articles.com/article_490402_27.html 14th March 2008 Tips for Writers Block Often when we get blocked it is because we need to write on a particular subject or for a particular assignment, and we may be feeling stressed about doing a good job. Try writing about anything else continuously for ten minutes ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_490401_50.html 14th March 2008 I Accept Myself Take a few deep breaths and release the tension from your shoulders. Sit straight and close your eyes for a minute and just relax and breathe. Then, when you feel more relaxed, open your eyes and read the following to yourself slowly: ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_477272_24.html 20th February 2008 1. Be a safe driver. Car accidents take so many lives each year. Use a seatbelt. Consider taking a defensive driving course which may also reduce your car insurance costs. Choose a car with safety considerations and maintain the brakes and other features.... http://www.a1articles.com/article_477270_24.html 20th February 2008 Affirmations Help Us Attract Good Things Most of the time we go about our lives thinking we have the one and only true take on reality. However, our personal reality is not the world, but rather how we view the world. Our experiences are not only how w... http://www.a1articles.com/article_477268_24.html 20th February 2008 Often we think of happiness as coming from falling in love with a wonderful person, having a successful career, or being able to live a luxurious life. We think, "I will be happy once I lose weight," or get your own house, or get a new job, or once you ha... http://www.a1articles.com/article_477266_24.html 20th February 2008 How to Improve Membership in a Crafts Group Guilds and craft clubs are a wonderful way to share information about your craft and is an enjoyable social time. To get a group started or to help generate more interest in an existing group, prepare a small... http://www.a1articles.com/article_477265_80.html 20th February 2008 Dealing with Difficult Family Members Many of us come from families with one or more difficult family members and it is not uncommon to look forward to family gatherings with dread. It doesn’t have to be that way. Though there is no miracle cure for ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_477264_27.html 20th February 2008 Do you ever feel like you can’t achieve the goals you make for yourself? Often when we dream, we want to lose weight, become wealthy, win the person of our dreams, and so on. Just a slight shift in the way you approach your dreams can bring you much gre... http://www.a1articles.com/article_477263_24.html 20th February 2008 Caring Less About What Other People Think of You Sometimes we care too much what other people think of us. Our feelings of self worth go up and down like an elevator in a skyscraper. We lose sense of who we are and often make poor decisions about who t... http://www.a1articles.com/article_471078_24.html 10th February 2008 Confidence Today Is there anything you can do in one day to improve your confidence? Yes, there is. In fact, there are a lot of things you can do in one day. Transformation can happen almost instantly, if you are willing to play the game. Over the n... http://www.a1articles.com/article_471076_24.html 10th February 2008 Dealing With Your Own Anger Anger is not a very enjoyable emotion and it can cause many problems. We often feel helpless in our anger, but there are some simple techniques we can learn to help us reduce or eliminate our anger and direct it in more heal... http://www.a1articles.com/article_471074_24.html 10th February 2008 Finding Calm When You’re Feeling Stress There are two types of stressful situations: situations you can’t control, and ones you can at least do something about to improve the situation. First figure out what is causing you to feel agitated and if i... http://www.a1articles.com/article_471072_24.html 10th February 2008 How to Stick Up for Yourself Do you have trouble sticking up for yourself? Do you feel pushed around or walked over? Here are a few things you can practice to make things better. Sometimes it’s tough to let go of a relationship, but you should kee... http://www.a1articles.com/article_471071_24.html 10th February 2008 Improve Your Relationships Relationships are complex things, but following these basics will help you make your relationships healthy and strong. When in doubt, listen first and check to see if you have understood the other person by asking them que... http://www.a1articles.com/article_471070_35.html 10th February 2008 The Road from Trauma I used to visit a support forum online for people recovering from various types of trauma. It felt like a wonderful place, and I know it does a lot of good for people. But after I was there for a while I started to wonder, "why don... http://www.a1articles.com/article_471069_24.html 10th February 2008 Today I Will Take Care of Myself Each day I will take care of myself, but today I will think just of this day. When I wake up I will think of the work I hope to get done to make my life better, but I will also think of things I can look forward to and ... http://www.a1articles.com/article_471068_24.html 10th February 2008 Have You Been to a Museum Lately? If you didn’t go to an art museum when you were a child, you may not know how fun they can be. You may feel like you don’t belong. But art museums are for everyone including you! Art exhibits and museum collections... http://www.a1articles.com/article_471064_24.html 10th February 2008