advice and inspiration to help you improve your life | October 2009

IN THIS MONTH'S ISSUE:
· How to Achieve Lasting Happiness
· Trying to Lose Weight? Change Your Relationship with Food
· Cancer Prevention: The Best and Worst Foods to Eat
· Teenage Girls: How to Connect With Your Daughter
· Dream Big and Find Success
self-help
How to Achieve Lasting Happiness
Advice from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Dr. Howard Cutler

You can be happier. You can even help your friends, community, and country increase their levels of happiness. Follow the advice below and catch the happiness bug.

[P]ositive emotions are contagious. Though some may need to make a concerted effort to change their basic outlook and increase their positive emotions or everyday happiness, others’ level of happiness can be increased to some degree merely by contact with happy people.

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healthy eating
Trying to Lose Weight? Change Your Relationship with Food
Advice from Chantel Hobbs

Take it from Chantel Hobbs, who lost more than 200 pounds by making small “bite-size” changes: food is not your friend, food is fuel.

The problem with most people who struggle with food addiction or weight fluctuations is the stress of what to eat and when. For some reason many people feel they need constant variety to ward off boredom. They believe, wrongly, that food is meant for entertainment,

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health
Cancer Prevention: The Best and Worst Foods to Eat
Advice from Suzanne Somers

There’s new hope—and alternative treatments—for people diagnosed with cancer, as well as new methods to prevent the disease in the first place. For her new book, Suzanne Somers interviewed many doctors, including Dr. Russell Blaylock, an oncologist, brain surgeon, and neuroscientist who believes that nutrition is the key component to preventing cancer. Below are Dr. Blaylock’s comments, as well as the tips Ms. Somers culled from their discussion:

RB: If I had to pick just one vitamin that would be the most powerful cancer preventer and inhibitor of established cancers, it would be vitamin D3.

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parenting
Teenage Girls: How to Connect With Your Daughter
Advice from Rosalind Wiseman

Has your daughter stopped talking to you about her life? Is she dealing with friendship drama, cliques, and boys? Read on for advice on how to connect with your daughter and help her survive these challenging years of adolescence.

The key to maintaining your relationship with your daughter is understanding how and why she’s turning away from you and toward her friends, and being there for her anyway.

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inspiration
Dream Big and Find Success
Advice from Bill Strickland

Find inspiration to go against conventional wisdom and achieve your dreams from someone who did just that—Bill Strickland, president of Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild and the Bidwell Training Center and recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.” Strickland was an aimless kid growing up in a rough neighborhood in Pittsburgh when he met a public school art teacher who transformed his life by opening his eyes to the world of art and education. Now, he shares the lessons he learned along the way:

[A] good life isn’t something you wait for, or chase after, or try to possess; it’s something you must create, moment by moment, on the foundation of your dreams.

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