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Because I believe diet and exercise are so important, I’m often frustrated with the recommendations I receive. Nutrition and natural health ideas are often so negative (don’t eat this, watch out for that) or so rigorous (be sure to eat some raw, natural, organically grown vegetable I’ve never heard of) or so complicated, I end up ignoring them. And yet, I know diet is critical to my health and well-being, so I made up my own rules. My objective was simplicity, so all of you with greater will-power and more discipline, cut me some slack, OK? For the rest of us, I hope you find them useful.

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Attending the wedding of sister can be a lot of fun because you just get to sit back and let her soak up all the attention and love on her big day. Even if you have always been competitive, her wedding is one day where you want her to shine. Many sisters are so busy sitting back watching all of the planning for the big day that they forget that they also have something important to plan for: a sister of the bride speech. If you happen to be the maid or matron of honor you have probably thought about this, but it is also customary for the sister of the bride to give a speech and

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Most of us get nervous about making a speech, whether it’s to 2000 convention delegates or a PTA meeting at our child’s school. Often, though, people find that’s the worst part of the whole process - the anticipation. The reality is often a lot easier to handle and can even be quite enjoyable, provided that you take the necessary precaution of doing your homework beforehand - preparation.

There are very, very few people who can get up at a moment’s notice and give a good speech totally impromptu and on the spur of the moment. There are plenty of people who think they can and/or who will tell you they can, but the truth is most

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When your career is on the line, your presentation skills must be at the same high level as your business skills. Following are some tips that will help you be perceived as a confident and effective presenter when it matters:

1. Relate to your AUDIENCE, not to your handouts or visuals.

Maintain steady eye contact. It connects you to your audience and personalizes your presentation. Think of S-T-O-P or Single Thought One Person (3-6 seconds per look)

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Holiday Retirement Corp. is the biggest proprietor and operator of retirement housing in the globe. The corporation and its affiliates runs more than two-hundred sixty retirement facilities located in thirty-nine states in the US, six provinces in Canada, and properties in France and the United Kingdom.

Founded in 1971 as Holiday Management Company with a general partnership made up of three current company shareholders, the Holiday Retirement Corp. was formed in 1987 and presently employs seven thousand five hundred people with about two hundred located in its company headquarters in Salem, Oregon.

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