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SOFTWARE REVIEW:
By Anna D. Banks
If you are committed to achieving big things in life, this amazing tool could keep you inspired for your goals and in a positive mindset… helping you to manifest the prosperity you deserve!
Review: Vision Board by OrangePeel Ltd
This company OrangePeel Ltd has come up with a way of visualizing your goals and dreams by displaying your dream images, affirmations and power words on your computer screen and other digital devices like your iPod. I though it was an interesting idea and decided to get a copy. Now that I have been using “Vision Board” for a couple of weeks, I thought I should share some of my impressions with you about whether or not it lives up to the promises that OrangePeel Ltd makes about it on their web site.
Is it really that easy to use? Would it really be that flexible and fun to create a personalized Vision Board? And what it comes down to: would it really keep me in a positive mindset and inspired to reach my goals and dreams?
The first thing that impressed me was how easy it was to order the product and get the download. I think I was actually putting pictures into the system after less than 10 minutes of ordering and I straight away received a stack of bonus products as well with my download. So that was a great start. Another thing I thought was really excellent was the simplicity of the system. It is simple to follow, yet powerful.
I played around a little, and got more and more excited as I discovered how easy it was to put my Vision Board together. I am always relieved when things actually work right the first time, and when the system is fool proof for people like me who are no computer geniuses. You can’t go wrong with the three simple steps they take you through. Even a 9 year old could easily create his or her own Vision Board.
So then I really got captivated by it and found myself searching for inspiring images in my own photo gallery to include in the tool. I also checked out the online image library that is included in the software, they had some cool pictures for me to use. I also found a fantastic picture on the Internet of my dream car, my dream house, and dream vacation. Really exciting to see that moving around on my screen all the time, talking about inspiration!
I started to come up with powerful affirmations to add to the pictures. The features that really impressed me were the libraries that come with the software. If you don’t know how to formulate an affirmation or power word, or just need some inspiration just use the library packed with great affirmations and power words.
You even get to choose the font and color of the affirmations that come up and you can decide whether to use colors or an image as your Vision Board background. I chose a picture I made on one of my travels of a beautiful ocean outlook, which inspires me to travel more with my family and friends.
Once I put my Vision Board together with my images, affirmations, power words, favorite music and my chosen background I thought “right, let’s see if this really works..”. So I clicked on “Preview” and pop there was my Vision Board showing on the screen! Wow, I felt as excited as a little child. I decided I wanted to change one of the affirmations, which was so easy to do. I like that a lot, as my dreams change from time to time so I can just adjust my Vision Board accordingly.
The software also includes a Poster Creation Module and their newest edition Vision Board. By focusing on your Vision Board at least twice a day, you are applying The Law of Attraction in a most powerful way. By constantly feeding your subconscious mind with positive affirmations and images of your dreams, feeling as if you have already achieved them, and taking inspired action you will attract your goals into your reality.
OrangePeel has recently released their latest edition Vision Board. Apart from all the powerful existing features, such as the audio module allowing you to incorporate mp3 music and voice recordings into your Vision Board, this “next generation Vision Board includes some very excited extra modules. It includes a set of new presentation themes and a revolutionary MovieRecorder! This fantastic addition allows you to create a movie of your Vision Board and display it on websites, iPod, iPhone, digital photo frames, etc. It also features a fantastic new Poster Creation Program, enabling you to freely copy and paste images and text on a Poster on your screen, which then can be taken to a print shop. So I purchased a copy of this newest edition right away, and I just LOVE it. To be honest, I didn’t think they could do a better job than they already had, but this really is a step up once again from their previous version. I believe these extra features make Vision Board truly the most complete manifestation tool available anywhere!
I am equally amazed how inspired I actually am by this Vision Board. Sometimes I just bring it up on my screen to have a look and get focused again. I lean back and look at the dream images on my screen, listen to my favorite song and really feel what it would be like to have that car, or to go on those travels. This truly inspires me to take massive action and I know by feeling as if I have already achieved it, I will attract it to my reality. This is what I have learned about The Law of Attraction: the more positive energy you give to your goals, the faster you will manifest it. When I turn on my computer in the morning my Vision Board shows as the wall paper. When I come back into my office after lunch or a meeting, my Vision Board is right there showing as the screensaver, so it makes me get right back to business. Vision Board even features a little pop up balloon displaying your affirmations and power words, which increases the exposure to these affirmations and power words and helps adjusting your belief system.
Oh, I almost forgot another amazing feature. After a while I discovered the “export” function in the software. Wow, I realized I could actually send my own Vision Board to my family and business partners! What a cool way to inspire them as well. So I sent one to my partner who called me after half an hour saying “wow, what a cool way of keeping focused, where did you get this? I want to create my own”. Oh, did I mention that you can also print your Vision Board. I have printed a couple of copies and hung them everywhere around the house. It drives some people, but hey I know it works! I even have been able to display my Vision Board on my PDA, thanks to this amazing “export to mobile devices feature”.
I guess you know by now how impressed I am with this tool. I could go on and on about it…. But here’s the bottom line: this software does absolutely everything it claims to and is a MUST for anyone serious about attracting huge success and abundance and wanting to keep inspired. It is just so complete and it makes so much sense to own one. I give this product my absolute highest recommendation.
Oh, I almost forgot: this is a very good time to check out this product as they offer an amazing set of free bonuses. So make sure to not miss out on their mind blowing bonus package valued at over $1000, including bonuses from Eva Gregory, Ruben Gonzalez, Jim Driscoll, Vic Johnson, Lee Brower and Jim Bunch, to name a few. I actually think this bonus package in itself already more than worth the investment!
CLICK HERE to read more about this powerful visualization tool, and how it can help YOU to attract the prosperity you deserve!
Live Fearlessly,
Anna
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The 78 million-strong population of Baby Boomers currently represents as much as 40% of the American workforce. All, or most of these boomers are unlikely to look at complete retirement at the age of 65 and as many as seven in ten of the boomers who are eligible for retirement actually plan to work far past age of retirement or never retire at all. However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says, that the total rate of growth of the workforce is on the decline. It will go from 12%, which is the current growth rate, to a mere 4% in the decade leading to 2020. In the very near future, employers will find that it has become crucial to hire, and keep mature workers happy within the organizations and the workforce.
However, it would astound the prospective employee to know that in spite of all this highly publicized research and the available statistics, 80% of companies have failed to make any changes in the organizational structure or work atmosphere to make special provisions available for older workers. This state of affairs needs to undergo a rapid sea change if these companies want to retain their competitive edge, minimize the impact of the declining workforce growth on their businesses, and if they wish to be seen as employers who are friendly to the increasing number of older workers.
By the same token, the over-50 candidate who is looking for a new job can improve his/her chances of landing the job they want by becoming more knowledgeable about the coming labor shortage, making sure they are the right choice, and demonstrating to prospective employers the fact that they can match and support the evolving needs of the company.
Now, the question is what the mature worker wants and how he/she can achieve these goals over the ten years or so. Some of the goals for a 50 plus worker may be:
1. Financial Stability: This is one of the main reasons that influence the decision of baby boomers to continue working after 60.
• The answer: Mature workers will have to look for jobs that will enable them to cover all their obligations. It is a good idea to speak to colleagues, various professional organizations, and recruiters, and research online about their current market value.
2. Different Employment Packages: Companies will find it necessary to recruit qualified candidates and create new strategies to retain baby boomers. Boomers want flexibility in their work arrangements, more meaningful and satisfying work, better and more comprehensive benefits, as well as opportunities for training and development.
• The answer: Boomers must find out about companies actively showing commitment to an older, more mature workforce through AARP surveys and magazines, newsletters, networking, especially in age-related discussion groups.
3. Age Bias: whether real or perceived, it is seen that hiring managers and even some decision makers have certain preconceptions about older workers.
• The answer: Older candidates ought to interact and work around changes, training, and relationships, and break the stereotypes.
4. Benefits and Pension Plans: Internal Revenue Code regulations prohibit any defined benefit pension plans from making payments or disbursements until employment ends
• The answer: If receiving a pension is important, working for an organization, including their old employer, as a consultant, may be a better idea so that the pension benefits are unaffected.
The labor situation is changing rapidly, and will continue to change in the near future. Keeping themselves informed about these changes and finding ways to better market their accomplishments will enable mature professionals to improve their future career paths.
Plan Ahead To Enjoy a Healthy Life Post Retirement
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By Anna D. Banks, GCDF
If you picture yourself at sixty-five years of age, what do you imagine? Like most Americans, the most probable image will be of a person who has retired from both a job along with any routine of fitness you may have been following.
Visualize it: A podgy middle with a spare tire or two; knees that hurt; feeling worn out by a mere 30-minute walk; your sense of balance getting so poor that you need to navigate carefully over the most minor of obstacles that you may have to get across; and never mind being able to touch your toes, feeling lucky if you can get past your knees!
However, advancing age does not automatically have to mean diminishing health and fitness. And in fact, with age you have the ability of actually having a better body. Sure there are physiological changes that do occur as the years go by, but you need not sit back watching your vitality and health deteriorating with time. By planning ahead you can enjoy a healthy life even after retirement.
Regardless of what age you are now or the condition your body is in, proper attention and care can help you to get back and retain exceptional fitness levels. Incorporating the correct combination of healthy nutrition and intensive, regular exercise now can help you look and feel fitter and healthier even after you retire. The important thing is starting at whatever fitness level you are at currently, and never giving up.
Most medical experts in sports agree that remaining healthy involves sweating it out regularly. They opine that exercise should be treated like medicine. A regimen of regular exercise is one of the most powerful prescriptions that you can give yourself. Various types of activities can help you to prevent or ameliorate most age-related ailments such as cardiovascular problems, arthritis, osteoporosis, and type-2 diabetes, excessive fat in the abdomen, hypertension, and high blood pressure.
However, if you are like most people, you probably think that it is already too late to begin an exercise regimen. But the best news is that it is never too late to start exercising. And if you make a commitment immediately for exercising about 4 to 5 hours in a week, you will be surprised how fast you will begin to see and feel the benefits. The human body being very resilient, it responds to whatever demands you put on it, irrespective of what age you may be.
You can get back your muscular strength in as short a time as fourteen weeks by doing resistance workouts on strength-training machines. And according to a study conducted on men in their fifties, it was found that it took a mere six months for them to improve their cardiovascular fitness by indulging in aerobic exercises such as walking, cycling, jogging, running, and so on.
Arthritis afflicts many in this age group. Even though arthritis can be prevented or ameliorated by exercise, if you had injured yourself seriously while participating in sports at a younger age, it may lead to you getting arthritis earlier. Therefore, in order not to allow arthritis hinder your efforts at getting healthy and fit, you need to warm-up thoroughly before plunging into your workout session.
© 2008 Anna D. Banks, GCDF
ANNA D. BANKS, GCDF is an adjunct professor at Essex County College, career development and marketing coach, speaker, and author. Anna helps individuals design a game plan for an extraordinary career or business. Since 1996, Anna has helped hundreds of job-seekers, managers, business owners, and sales professionals achieve career success. For more information send an email to Anna@AnnaBanks.com.
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Author’s Note:
Do you have any questions about career development or lifestyle changes for Baby Boomers, which you think others, like you, would want to know the answers? Post a comment on this website or email your questions to me at Anna@AnnaBanks.com.
WASHINGTON – Today U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Herb Kohl (D-WI) held a hearing on the federal government’s efforts to hire and retain older workers and what policy changes would help them do it better. Over the next five years, more than half a million permanent full-time federal employees—or about one-third of the full-time federal workforce—will be eligible to retire. In ten years, more than 60 percent of the federal workforce will be retirement-eligible. Panelists at today’s hearing recommended removing obstacles to working past retirement age and providing incentives, such as flexible working options, to enable the federal government to maintain the valuable skills and experience of older workers. Improving the federal government’s hiring and retention of older workers will also make it a model the private sector could follow, a concept that was highlighted in the Interagency Taskforce on the Aging Workforce’s recent report.
“With the retirement wave upon us, we must encourage employers to adopt policies now to attract and retain older workers. Nowhere is the foreseen labor shortage more pronounced than within the workforce of the nation’s largest employer: the federal government,” said Chairman Kohl. “Our commonsense policy would create a win-win situation for both older workers and the companies that employ them.”
Yesterday, Chairman Kohl, Ranking Member Gordon H. Smith (R-OR), and Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) introduced S. 2933, the Incentives for Older Workers Act, comprised of a number of provisions to increase the participation of older workers in the workforce. One provision would remove the penalty under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) for part-time services, correcting a disincentive for employees nearing the end of their careers who would like to phase into retirement by working part-time. Kohl and Smith are also expected to introduce a second piece of legislation to promote the retention and hiring of older workers specific to the federal government later this spring.
Barbara Bovbjerg and Robert Goldenkoff, Directors from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), discussed the initial findings of a report Chairman Kohl requested on older workers and the federal government, to be released later this year. They offered an overview of the looming wave of retirement-eligible workers, and discussed some government-wide obstacles and incentives to hiring and retaining older workers. Finally, they highlighted a few select agency practices. Nancy Kichak, Associate Director of Strategic Human Resources Policy for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), shed some light on their hiring and retention policies, including the flexible workforce options currently available to agencies. Thomas M. Dowd, Administrator for the Office of Policy and Development and Research within the Employment and Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), testified about the DOL’s role as the lead agency for the Taskforce on the Aging of the American Workforce, created at the request of Kohl and Smith in 2005.
On the second panel, Max Stier, President and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, talked about their FedExperience initiative, as well as their innovative partnership with IBM to place the company’s retirees into positions within the federal government. Lastly, Chai Feldblum, Co-Director of Workplace Flexibility 2010 at Georgetown University, offered testimony on the history of flexible work options in the federal government and how they can be better utilized to maintain a skilled and experienced federal workforce.
It’s Time to Celebrate ~ Next Step Program: Class of Spring 2008
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Today, the EOF’s Next Step Program (NSP) celebrated Six (6) semesters of making a difference. NSP is a program targeting individuals who have a history of incarceration and/or substance abuse issues. The primary goal of NSP is to assist individuals with their transition from the New Jersey Department of Corrections and/or recovery back to a productive role in their communities. Successful completion of their academic coursework and/or job placement for the participants is a primary goal for the first year of this program. NSP officially began operations September 13, 2005 when all prospective participants from various community correctional facilities were invited to ECC’s EOF Department for a planning session.
In addition to a full academic course load, the Next Step Program offers life skills workshops, seminars, academic support and counseling on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. The support of the EOF Program and the resources of the Learning Center, Cooperative Education Department, Career Resource Center, Counseling Center, Training, Inc and WISE Women’s Center are integrated into NSP to address reentry issues in a holistic fashion.
The halfway houses that are participating in the Next Step Program include Logan Hall, Tully House and Kintock Group, Integrity House, CURA and Harbor House in Hoboken.
The Next Step program received funding this year from the Nicholson Foundation.
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CONGRATULATIONS
Education make a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive, easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
- Lord Brougham
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.- Eleanor Roosevelt
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
- Shakespeare
Congratulations to Mellissa Morgan who Successfully Satisfied the Requirements for the Education is the best provision for old age.
- Aristotle
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry J. Kaiser
Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclin’d.
- Alexander Pope
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Earl of Beaconsfield
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Success is never final and failure never fatal. It’s courage that counts.
- George F. Tilton