Be Happy! Home is the Happiest Place to Live In

"The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family."--Thomas Jefferson.

The world may be a dreary, dreadful, and dangerous place to venture into. There may be cut-throat competition in which survival of the mean, cunning, and bully only is possible. It may not be a place for gentle, honest, and kind person like you. It is full of murderers, criminals, rapists, and swindlers. They are ready to snatch away the loaf of bread from your hand. You need a sanctuary from them. You need a place where there is love and care, understanding and compassion, give and take. You need somebody who could guide and protect you. You need somebody who could be equal partner in your joys and sorrows. You need somebody upon whom you could shower your love and care. You need a home and a family.

Parents sacrifice a lot and endure great hardships in up-bringing their children. They are selfless in their love and can even lay their lives for the protection of their children. A spouse is a life time partner in your days of sunshine and rain. Brothers and sisters are your friends and supporters. Your children are your life time fans who love you unconditionally. The love, care, and support of family is a great happiness. Blessed is the person who has got a family. And who amongst us has not got one? But we take family for granted. We don't recognize it as a great source of happiness. The more happiness you give to your family the more you extract out of it.

You are born into a family and grow up within a family. A family not only provides comfort, enjoyment, and security, but it also gives emotional and spiritual bliss. In fact, one may find so much happiness within family that he or she may not need to search it outside it. The love and care of mother and father, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters, wife or husband sustain us. Though love is one and the same yet the love of each is so different too. A family may extend beyond these immediate relations and may include grand parents, grand children, in-laws, uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, and other relatives.

Can all the money of the world buy the love and affection of one's parents? Can one be happy without them? How much enjoyment and happiness they add to our life? Similar is the case with brothers and sisters. At a later stage of life husband or wife becomes practically the sole arbiter of our happiness. Man or woman's happiness nearly entirely depends on his or her spouse. At a still later stage sons and daughters become a great source of happiness. Bertrand Russell said, 'I have found the happiness of parenthood greater than any other that I have experienced.' Family relations give happiness, but at the same time to be a relation also gives happiness. It is happiness unlimited to be a son, a brother, a sister, a father, a mother, a husband, and a wife.

When you kiss your child, don't you get a kiss in return?

When you hug your sister, don't you get a hug in return?

When you love your spouse, don't you get love in return?

Be Happy! You have your family which loves you!

BE HAPPY!

Buying Land in the UK - A Good Investment? Use Care and Beware

With today's boom in the UK land prices, one could think it's a sure-fire way to make a lot of money. Think again! You need to use care and beware when buying land in the UK.

If you are astute in your research, and find the correct situation, you can make a great profit.

Many people have found the opposite to be true and have been stuck with massive losses.

The reasons for the losses are classic of any scam, so use care and beware.

What the land promotion companies will tell you is that you buy land that is scheduled for planning permission (but not yet granted), and you can buy before the great price appreciation happens. Sounds logical, but...

Is the word of a land sales company enough for you to make an investment? Certainly not!

A salesman will obviously say anything to make his sale, and that includes misleading the customer as to the real state of affairs. In land planning and permission, nothing any salesman says should be taken for face value.

Think about it.

If a land sales company knew some property was about to be granted, they would be buyers themselves, and not promoting it to you.

The land sales company will sell you unplanned and non-granted land at prices above the market for such property.

If the permission and granting does come, you have done well, but if not, you are stuck with an expensive asset that will never realize even its own value.

Regardless of the fact that land sales companies are reputable or not, you must take care and beware when buying land in Britain.

Here are some reminders and tips to follow:

o Planning permission can be discovered on your own. Make an investigation aside from the information you are given by the land sales agents.

o Do your own survey on prices for similar tracts of land in the area.

o Demand from the land sales agent to see records of their previous success stories. If there are none, go elsewhere.

There are reputable land sales companies in the UK, and they will be very glad to prove to you their good intentions and previous track records.

Alternative Investments?

If you have in mind to invest in land, there are other locations offering similar advantages to the UK market.

These are all within the UK, but if you are cautious in the UK, you must be more than careful in the new EU states. These are the areas of Bulgaria, Romania and the Baltic States.

For pure investment prposes the countries of central america such as Costa Rica and Panama are excellent and offer many investors triple digit gains

One could envision large annual gains in areas where planning permission is easier to obtain and where the markets are still in their growth period (easy sell and buy scenarios) and big profits can be made by selecting the right location.

Wherever you plan to buy, use care and beware, do your own research, and as the old saying advises, "measure the cloth many times before you cut" and always visit the area before you buy and make your own mind up.

Weight Control Through Diet and Conditioning

Controlling weight is one of the most important aspects of wrestling. Placing one's self in the proper weight class is very important. Maintaining the control of your weight is even more important. This is true because weight fluctuation is not good for the body.

When a wrestler goes through period of excessive weight loss and weight gain he may create problems for himself in the future. Because of the continual opening and closing of fat cells, which exists during weight fluctuation, we find that fat cells become larger, stronger, and more resistant to closing. This makes them more receptive to fat deposits. Weight control, then becomes much more difficult. The constant fluctuation also contributes to an unstable metabolism and creates a greater chance of fouling up the body's complex metabolic mechanism, and possibly leading to other serious problems. Therefore, it is essential that wrestlers learn to control their weight not only for competitive reasons but for health reasons as well.

Of course it's no fun watching other people eat anything and everything they want while you sit back and starve yourself. Well, the diet program that is being suggested in this program allows you to be filled and yet lose your weight at the same time. You ask how can that be true? Well, it is and here's how.

The body, when in use, burns up carbohydrates or sugar. The carbohydrates are used before the fat tissue which is stored up in your body and is used. When you begin vigorous exercise as you do in wrestling, you tend to burn up the carbohydrates and some of the fat tissues as a result of increasing your body's need for an energy supply. If you increase your exercise and not your sugar intake, then you will begin to lose some of your body fat because you are using your reserves. The result is loss of weight.

The whole process is very easy. All you have to remember is to decrease your sugar or carbohydrate intake and increase your activity level and burn up your fat reserves.

Remember, this concept is like a car with a gas tank. The faster you drive (more work you do) the faster and more gas you will burn in the tank. If you increase your workout and decrease the amount of fuel you will have to rely on your reserve fuels. This will cause you to lose weight.

The benefit for the wrestler is that if he/she eats fewer carbohydrates for a short period of time they will generate the need for the body to switch over to excess weight and not have to starve to lose weight for competition.

In my next article I will discuss the actual weight loss plan that has been used by my wrestlers for years.

Coach Hatfield

Make Money by Hosting Your Own Fantasy Sports League

Generally, most people flourish on their business because it is based on something they love and enjoy, like their interests or favorite hobbies. If you are into some kind of sport, you ought to make money by hosting your own fantasy sports league.

Many of us are into a certain sport, maybe basketball, or football, or baseball. Some sports are more popular than others, such as football. Football is the most popular sport in fantasy sports leagues. The general idea here is that you charge people a certain fee to pick their own team. You offer prizes and rewards, such as if the player scores the most points or goals in a season.

There are plenty of professional websites that run fantasy sports league, although you as an individual can also make money by hosting your own league. Make use of your social connections, such as your family, friends, and co-workers. This business offers a lot of fun, and at the same time, it rakes in a good amount of income, as well.

Of course, it is essential that you are particularly knowledgeable on the sport you have chosen, for it to run smoothly and properly. When hosting a fantasy sports league it is important to manage the sports league in every aspect and step of the way. If not, it will be difficult and time-consuming to catch up again.

This endeavor will surely be a money making machine. Remember, you can make money by hosting your own fantasy sports league, on a sport that you truly love and enjoy.

Old House Remodeling - Removing Old Tile and Glue

When you live in old house like I do, remodeling is always a challenge and a surprise. I am currently involved in a major kitchen remodel. Our kitchen like many kitchens, has seen better days. It was installed in the house was built back in 1945 and I'm sure it's has served its previous owners well. However, modern kitchens are large and open. This kitchen, like most kitchens of its era, a small enclosed off. We decided to open the kitchen out by removing part of the wall, removing old tile from the walls, and updating the entire kitchen with new cabinets and appliances.

Our first surprise came when we moved the refrigerator from its current location. The refrigerator sat up on a platform about 1 inch off the kitchen floor. We never gave it much thought and assumed that it had always been like that. When I move the refrigerator and lifted up the old flooring, I discovered why. Plumbing from the sink did not go through the floor to join a drain pipe in the basement. It did, however, run across the floor and under the refrigerator. This required some major engineering to move the drain line for the new sink and dishwasher.

Surprise number two was the ceramic tile on the walls. The ceramic tile wound up not being ceramic tile at all! It was tin tile that was glued to a masonite backing board. The backing board was itself glued to the plaster walls and nailed every eight to 10 inches. So while the tiles came down very easily using just a screwdriver, getting they masonite backing board off the plaster was a nightmare. Not only were the plaster walls full of holes from the nails, big globs of glue was smeared all over the walls. At first I tried sanding. All that did was create a cloud of dust. After two hours of creating dust clouds I had only managed in clearing off a 2' x 2' square area. I talked to a number of contractors who only shook their heads and offered me luck in removing the glue from the walls. Someone suggested I use glue remover but I didn't want the fumes in the house. Someone else suggested a strong scraper but I wasn't strong enough to remove this glue. Finally, someone suggested a heat gun. I was skeptical. How would a little heat gun remove 60 years of hard and glue? Much to my surprise, it worked! Now it didn't work easily. It was still a lot of hard work, but by working slowly, and steadily, I was able to remove all remnants of glue in about four days.

I hope this tip and technique helps you if you ever encounter a similar situation. I know what I first started removing the glue from the wall, I would get discouraged thinking it would never end. However, by working slowly and steadily, I managed to get a little bit done each and every hour. I took frequent breaks, and went outside for a breather every couple of hours. It didn't help that I was doing this in the middle of summer when the temperature was in the 90s. However with perseverance, this task can be finished easily. And if you do it yourself, you'll save all the money that you would pay contractor to do the exact same thing.

Using an Instant Home Drug Test to Help Fight the Addiction

The Fight Against Addiction

Every year, thousands of families struggle to help one of their family members fight a serious drug addiction and many look toward an instant home drug test to help monitor that individual's drug using activity. Without the use of these drug-testing devices, deception by the drug abuser can ruin a family's hopes of curing their addiction.

Although an instant home drug test helps monitor whether an individual is using drugs or not, it is by no means a cure for an addiction itself. To treat an addiction the family needs to address the problem directly by seeking professional help. Depending on the severity of this person's addiction, the family will find that they cannot keep their loved one from continuing the use of drugs by using non-confrontational methods and relying on love alone is unfortunately non-confrontational.

The problem that addicts have is they seek the use of a drug as the solution for their addiction itself! They believe they can change from one day to the next and one last "small" dose of their drug will allow them to move ahead. In other words, everyday is their last day using the drug.

Addicts can be, and in most occasions are, very manipulative of their own families. They convince their families that they are in control of their situation and that they are not the problem, the problem is everyone and everything else. Addicts dislike any intervention solution. They convince everyone, including themselves, that the shortest and nearest program is the best solution because they are searching for instant gratification that does not exist. Their family pays for it all and the addiction is ongoing. Although an instant drug test may help families check to see if their loved one is making progress on their own, it would be best if they seek the help of a professional institution for intervention.

As a family it is important to keep their hopes high and no matter how long or severe or hopeless the addiction may seem, there is always a cure. For those families that have successfully surpassed their loved one's addiction, an instant drug test that can be performed in their own home is a great way to make sure that the troubled individual stays on track.

What Is Addiction?

Any drug addiction is described to be a chronic relapse brain disease because it changes and at times even destroys the normal functionality and structure of the brain. The good news is that, like heart disease, it is preventable and treatable through the use of intervention methods and continued drug monitoring using instant drug tests by an institution or at home. Ignoring the problem, as many do, will only lead to long-term consequences.

Here is a simplified list of reasons why individuals decide to begin or continue to abuse drugs:

1. Intense pleasure: Although the feelings that one gains from doing drugs begins with the initial high, the feelings associated with each drug is different. For example, cocaine leaves individuals with an urging sense of power, self-confidence and energy while heroin is known to have more relaxing qualities.

2. Stress relief: The stress, anxiety and depression of everyday living becomes overbearing for some and drugs are a quick and easy means of dealing with these feelings.

3. Performance: Some drugs allow an individual to reach levels of chemically enhanced and improved physical and cognitive performance, or so they think, which in turn causes them to continuously seek it in order to reach higher levels of superiority.

4. Curiosity: Peer pressure is the most common reason adolescent individual begin and continue using drugs because they are so vulnerable at a young age.

No matter the reasons, using an instant home drug test can help prevent these individuals from abusing drugs if they see the consequences of not passing these drug tests to be greater than continuing to use them. Otherwise failing test after test will be expected and therefore ineffective.