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Doctors have many restrictions on their earnings. For example, insurance companies will pay for only so much. Many patients are being provided reduced or free healthcare, courtesy of the state or federal government. They have to hire employees who understand nursing, medical terminology, and billing. These employees don’t come cheap. Often, primary care physicians see their patients once a year. Equipment is expensive to buy and maintain. Overhead costs can be high....

Let me ask you a question: could you disappear? If you didn’t show up at work tomorrow, if you weren’t home at 6:00 for dinner, if nobody ever heard from or saw you again, would it matter? OK, these are depressing things to think about, but that’s exactly how many people feel, day in and day out, in their jobs and even at home. They feel unappreciated, unchallenged, ineffective, and in the end, completely irrelevant....

Parameters set by others do not define the worth of your aspirations. You are the one who gets to decide how much something means to you and the value it brings to your life. Thinking otherwise is nothing but a disservice to your dreams and efforts. You are the key to making yourself prosperous, and nothing can change that. Manifesting Abundance: Do We Imagine Things That Don’t Exist? The presence of something that you desire defines abundance, and manifesting it pertains to living by your standards of “sufficient” until it becomes true....

The echoes of what someone else has said about you keeps repeating over and over in your head. You can’t seem to shut it out. “You’re ugly.” “Is that the best you can do?” “You suck.” The worst part is, it has made you upset or extremely angered by that person who said those mean things about you. That’s all you feel and think about all day. Your day is ruined....

To stay on top of things, regroup and start picking up your notes one at a time to start organizing. The famous author, Anne Lamott[1], in her book about writing, teaches writers to do it bird-by-bird; in other words, do it step-by-step. What could you achieve if you learned how to organize your notes in a neat package so that, whenever you needed them, you could snatch them out and use them, pronto?...

Smart first time home buyers (and second-time buyers for that matter) can get started with a mortgage pre-approval. Pre-approvals are important for several reasons: You’ll save time by visiting/viewing homes that you can afford. Real estate agents and sellers typically only want to work with pre-approved buyers. Sellers will take your offer more seriously – any offer coming from you is viewed as legitimate. One of the key questions that you will need to answer is: How long do you want to take to pay back the home loan?...

There are some myths (which will be debunked below) that plague mindfulness as an overwhelming, “fake” attitude toward the typical and harsh realities of life; but mindfulness is simply a turning of attention to the direction in which our mind goes, without judgement. It’s not wishing we were more positive or happy or friendly with others; instead, it’s a silent and objective observation of your own reactions, which surprisingly, you’re very much in control of!...

Having the ability to decide at each moment what merits your attention is to me one of the secrets of success. It’s been proven time and again by sports stars and high achievers If there is something you want, fearlessly focusing on it will give you a much higher probability of achieving it. Can we focus too much? But what happens if we focus too much on our destination, when the object of our focus becomes our waking thoughts, our daily deliberations and our midnight meditations?...

While it may have seemed easier back then, there were still challenges. War, violence, inequalities, and bullying existed back then, too. Everything always seems easier looking back, and we often forget the difficult parts. Raising kids in a world of uncertainty presents new challenges that require thoughtful planning but also provides a unique opportunity to bring families back together and make your home a safe haven for your loved ones....

Here are three easy steps I’ve learned for how to remember names and details about people you meet. 1. Care About People I shouldn’t even have to write this, but if you don’t care about the people around you, you’ll never be good at remembering their names. People easily forget about things they attach no importance to. You can learn to care more about people by losing yourself in the service of others, but that’s a topic for another time....

It’s difficult to think clearly and find solutions easily when you’re overloaded with complex and contradicting information. A puzzle with just too many pieces is quite confusing. I believe there are three levels of thinking… Regular thinking is just you thinking in silence. This is the baseline – it only gets better from here on. Thinking out loud brings a few benefits. Expressing your thoughts verbally forces you to clarify them....

Do you sometimes wish you were fitter? And maybe slimmer? I do. In fact, I’m determined to lose 7 kg in four weeks and get really fit. But how to get fit in a hurry – without spending hours at the gym? One of the fastest ways to get fit is to start running. It can be daunting if you’ve never run before. Especially if you have friends, colleagues or family members who talk casually about how they run 7 miles each morning before breakfast....

One of the key tool that engtech uses is ScheduleWorld, which is a online PIM system that has great synchronization support (yes, it supports Google Calendar syncing). Check this how-to if you are looking for syncing these services and applications with your personal information. The Holy Grail of Synchronization: How to synchronize Microsoft Outlook (multiple locations), Google Calendar, Gmail, iPod, and mobile phone with Funambol / ScheduleWorld – [engtech]

As the saying goes, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Instead of trying to deal with all of your parents’ seemingly endless issues over the phone for the next couple of decades, it’s just better to teach them a thing or two. Here are some of the easiest ways to do just that....

Here are the smartphone apps that can help you with web design. View Web Source Finding the source of a web page is easy for all browsers, but it’s not a built-in function on smartphones. This is where the View Web Source app becomes useful: It’s an app that lets you view sources just like on a desktop. Just enter the URL and the app will show you its source code, and you can copy this code to your clipboard if you want to use it later on....

As virtually every productivity guru says, somewhere near the front of every one of their books, the main reason most people fail, get overwhelmed, or drive themselves to the cardiologist with worry and stress is that they don’t have a good grip on what they need to be doing. So they wake up in the middle of the night (if they can sleep at all) in a panic over whether they did everything the needed to do that day, or they look over the piles of clutter around them and wonder how they’ll ever reach the bottom....

In school, all the other kids who hadn’t started their assignments would freak out the night before it was due. Not me. Not because I’d planned it out weeks in advance and gotten things done the smart way. Heck no! I was just as unprepared as everybody else. I had tried the “smart way” once. It was stupid, because I’d already refined my last-minute technique and was getting good grades, but I decided that I would be “responsible” and plan and research several weeks in advance and write the piece in responsible little chunks....

Did you know that Word remembers the spots you’ve recently edited in a large document and can allow you to cycle through them with a quick keyboard shortcut? Did you know that you can quickly change the case of an entire sentence with a two buttons? Did you know that you can strip formatting from a selection and convert it to plain text without touching a menu? If you can answer no to any of those questions, you should check out an article on Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal....

I love that social media allows us to stay in contact with people we care about, no matter where we live or what time zone we are in. But I don’t love the fake connection it can sometimes create. Just because I know someone went on a family vacation last week doesn’t mean I would have cared about it if I hadn’t seen their pictures in my timeline. It felt good to purge my friend list of people I didn’t truly have relationships with, but then it got a little weird…a few friends texted me asking why my friend list number had dropped....

During this time, your baby is about 3 1/2 inches long from head to toes. He is about the size of a lemon and is about 1 1/2 ounces in weight. Your baby can do many new things this week. He can squint, frown, grimace, pee, and suck his thumb. There will also be a lot of developments in your baby’s physical structure that are expected to occur at 14 weeks....