Life Insurance Options for Disabled People, Weight Control and MORE!

B'SD

24 Av, 5778

WHEW! Proctoring season ended and I'm back to my regularly scheduled programming. Let's share some information, OK?

People with a disability too often struggle with efforts to secure life insurance. USNews&WorldReport recently reported on potential solutions for Americans. Please read Can You Get Life Insurance While Disabled?

Ever wonder how some people stay slim despite the passing years and all those luscious-looking items on buffet tables inside restaurants or at private parties, and at the mall (mall muffins are loaded with MILLIONS, perhaps BAZILLIONS of unnecessary calories, BTW) and even inside your local refrigerator? 

There's a technique called intermittent fasting that helps them to preserve a pleasant profile in the mirror. Read about that in Intermittent Fasting Benefits.

You've surely heard about doctors who withheld information or considered their patients to be hopeless cases with medical or mental health problems that couldn't be solved, correct? 

And you've heard of astounding recoveries despite the professional pessimism.

One of things that frequent readers of this blog might not know is that I'd been written off as "within 6 months..." and didn't learn of the diagnosis until I ended up in an emergency room, close to dying.

I describe what happened next in the first few pages of the EMPOWER Yourself book. Then I write about what I knew as a Health Information Management professional that helped me to survive, then to thrive. That information can help many, many people in dire medical circumstances.

I wrote the book to share the insights with laymen who couldn't possibly guess that those solutions exist. Why? Because YOU need someone who's willing to share that information. 

Read the book to feel, perhaps to BE better!

Know somebody (including yourself) written off as someone with a hopelessly incurable medical problem? Buy them a motivational and informational gift that can help them to rise above the doomy, gloomy forecast. Click HERE.

Buy the E-book or print edition of EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. It can help people with many types of diagnoses.





Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.

Fill your menu of options with can-do solutions.

About that 43% Rise in the Rates of Liver Cancer in ONE Year...

B'SD

11 Av, 5778

Dieting can be quite the opposite of a picnic. But, there's a upside to keeping a diet that promotes your health. It prevents the need for medications, being unnecessarily sick, and unable to do what you want to do.

Here's some scary news to ponder:

A 43% rise in liver in liver cancer in Just ONE Year.

WOW.

YOU can prevent the  obesity, smoking, and excess alcohol consumption that cause liver cancer. 

Focus on the need to do so, make a hobby of avoiding  obesity, smoking, and excess alcohol consumption and keep praising yourself for doing so.

Need to develop the motivation to meet the goals? I gotcha covered!

Read Lacking Motivation and What to do

Need more motivation, with a can-do attitude?

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Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.

Fill your plate with health-promoting flavor.

How to Gain Mental/Emotional Strength Just Because YOU Want to!

B'SD

4 Kislev, 5778

The skies and soil of Israel are filled with blessed rains. Somehow, rainy days let me ponder heartwarming thoughts better than on clear days.

When a person needs to change the way they respond to setbacks or unhappiness, so that they can go forward, they need to pretend that they are feeling more positively than they do feel.

Repeated practice lets a person gain insight into the emotions and insights of purposely positive behavior.

Eventually those upbeat ideas become part of their thinking process.

Go ahead, earn some Oscars. Act as if you're the person you want to meet. Be heroic, kind, patient. Do that until the traits become your automatic responses to stress.

Need a motivational thought to get you going? Try: 

"I am not what happened to me, 

I am what I choose to become." 

- Carl Jung

Life Learned Feelings 

Keep trying. 

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Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.

Fill your efforts with productive purpose. The payoff is wonderful!

When Someone Belittles Your Efforts and Challenges...

B'SD

12 Iyar, 5777

As someone who knows from the very cells of her being what it is like to face a world unaware of the subtleties of my efforts to cope with limited vision, plus other sequelae of the neurological damage from an emergency surgery to save my life, I appreciate your unhappiness at having your medical and/or mental health efforts trivialized by other people, too.

I know and fully appreciate the agony of hearing my realities, and yours, belittled by someone who claims to know instant solutions for any of them. And so, I share the following message with you.

OMIGAWD I sympathize with your anger, 

frustration and unhappiness!

Over the years I've noticed some alleged motivational speakers and writers who give me pause. They claim that everything is - or soon can be - FINE, despite the wide range of devastating problems for the people suffering through them. Worse, the motivational speaker/writer praises one person for talking about how they finessed their way through some personal hell of a specific challenge, claiming that "SEE? ALL PROBLEMS CAN BE OVERCOME!"

The oversimplification is a betrayal of people 

in desperate need of solutions, 

not feel-good talk. 

People facing life-altering problems need 

tools, 

coping skills, 

social acceptance 

and inner strength 

to face their issues, not superficial comments..

NONE of them are discovered in a day, barring unforeseen miracles.

I highly doubt that this message will change/improve people who boast of oversimplified solutions for complicated problems. 

However, I'm hopeful that I can soothe people left feeling more wounded after reading or hearing unrealistic "Motivational" remarks.

Some days it's better to stay off the keyboard. Keep the video recorder in its case and let humanity seek realistic solutions to vexing problems... 

As for the rest of us, we can take a vacation from the monitor that someone uses to insult you or me... sigh...

EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 

PS - I appreciate the readers who wondered why I had not posted updates last week. The answer is that I was mourning the loss of lives throughout Israel's history on Israel's Memorial Day, enjoying Israel's Independence Day celebrations, and sharing quality time with loved ones.

Now I'm back to my regularly scheduled programming :^ D




Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.

Fill your heart and mind with strength. Don't allow it to be stolen or belittled.

B'SD 

 11 Tevet, 5776 


I've been quiet on this blog because I've been looking around for some motivational message to share with you. 

I bet this will do. 

    

What do you think now of YOUR possibilities???

  

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Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.

Fill your heart with the wonder and power of imagination. Let them clear your mind and focus your priorities.

How Do YOU Want to Spend Eternity?

B'SD

6 Av, 5775

I'm busy finessing the start of new employment, my social life and my thoughts about a very sad day on the calendar, Tisha B'Av, aka the 9th of Av, which begins in a few days.

Headlines are enough to give any sensible person nightmares. And summertime heat seems to provoke more bickering than usual about that. 

So, rather than share medical news or other thoughts, I want to share two thought-provoking and calming posters I've found online:

Spirituality is about becoming a more refined,

better person than you were before;

A person who helps to build the world,

not destroy it.

Please let me know what you think of the ideas above in the comments section below.





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Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.

Fill your life with meaning. As the book advises, the alternative to coping is worse.

Grateful to be Blessed

B'SD

27 Sivan, 5775

I've been busy with personal projects, friends who arrived from overseas, and life in general. This blog has been silent while I've been occupied with that. 

Let's break the silence together. I'd like to share a sweet thought with you about how to keep achievements, failures, disappointments and blessings in perspective:

 I dreamed that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around. We walked  side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with angels. My angel guide  stopped in front of the first section and said, "This is the Receiving  Section. Here, all petitions to G - d said in prayer are received."

   I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper sheets and scraps from  people all over the world.

   Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section.

   The angel then said to me, "This is the Packaging and Delivery Section. Here, the blessings the people asked for are processed and delivered to the persons who asked for them."

   I noticed again how busy it was there. There were many angels working hard at that station, since so many blessings had been requested and were being  packaged for delivery to Earth.

   Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a very small station. To my great surprise, only one angel was seated there, idly doing nothing. "This is the Acknowledgment Section," my angel  friend quietly admitted to me. He seemed embarrassed.

  "How is it that there is no work going on here?" I asked.

   "So sad," the angel sighed. "After people receive the  blessings that they asked for, very few send back acknowledgments."

  "How does one acknowledge G - d's blessings?" I asked.

  "Simple," the angel answered. Just say, "Thank you . .."
  "What blessings should they acknowledge?" I asked.

   "If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy."

   "And if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity."

   "If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the many who will not even survive this day."

   "If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead  of 700 million people in the world."

   "If you can attend a church/synagogue without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death, you are envied by and more blessed than three billion people in the world."

   "If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm. You're unique to all those in doubt and despair."

  "Okay. What now? How can I start?'

   If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you as very special, and you are more blessed than  over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.

   Have a good day. Count your blessings. And if you care to, pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are.

  ATTN: Acknowledge Dept.

   "Thank you G - d  for giving me the ability to share this message and for giving me so many wonderful people with whom to share it."

   If you have read this far, and are thankful for all that you have been blessed with, how can you not send it on? I thank G - d for everything, especially all my family and friends.

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Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism.

Find your motivation. Seek it out with self compassion.

How to Find the Motivational Answers YOU Need

B'SD

12 Heshvan, 5775


Several people have confided to me that they're feeling down. Scarily "down."

Normal stuff for most people, but it never seems that way when we experience the sensation. 

Listen to the user-friendly point that author Elizabeth Gilbert makes about how to reset your focus and restore your inner happiness.


 





Now listen to Curly make the same point, his way.

Need more inspiration to face your issues? You're gonna LUV the Refining Silver story in

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Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism. 

Find out the answers you need by focusing on what your heart says to you.

 

How a Calming Conversation Can Improve Your Health

B'SD

14 Elul, 5774

What a conversation! Someone called me this afternoon, my time. 

The caller related her several severe medical issues and that a friend in another country calmed her with the words "You need to get a book written by this Israeli lady, Golani is her name. It motivates you to take the actions you need and even tells you how to take those actions! I know someone who has it. It changed their life."

So, the counseled caller looks up my contact info and asks, "How do I get the book?"

"Easily," I told her. "Go online and order it from the publisher, Booklocker, which sends it faster than any book shop, even faster than the online book outlets."

She breathed a sigh of relief and mentioned that she felt better already.

I'm always impressed at how far word travels, and so grateful that my efforts help people. I have no idea who the people mentioned above may be. It's an exciting feeling to know that I've helped people I might never meet.

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Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity. Face Your Future with Optimism. 

Find out how to help yourself as your friends might recommend.

 

Here's How to Tame that Too Much To-Do List

B'SD


24 Tevet 5772


The key to finishing multiple tasks, or even one task, is to start working on them!


Illness, disabilities, and all the tedious tasks of managing with them can leave you feeling sleepy, foul tempered and/or defeated. Insurance regulations and blizzards of associated paperwork are monsters. Appointment schedules can drive you nutz as you try to schedule conflicting dates. Scheduling hard-to-get rides causes BIG headaches. So do other "little" details such as remembering how to combine medications or even when to take them, to prevent new health problems. And what about your inefficient personal funding for those medical costs looming all around you? 

YOU JUST WANT TO SCREAM, right?

You need to Tame that Too Much To-Do List.

And yourself.

Now, imagine yourself  dashing across a red ribbon finish line. Your mind and heart swell with pleasure and relief at the successful moment.

Ready to cross the starting line?

Find out why so many medical and mental health professionals agree that EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge can help you to get the right things done first, second, and third.


The writing is full of good humor and funny stories from famous people who teach all of us how to achieve a victory and how to avoid too many distractions.

If you hear yourself or someone you care about
saying things like:

Someday . . .

I’m going to try . . .

As soon as I have some time . . .

Right now it’s on my back burner . . .

You just know that there are too many things
that aren't getting done.

Find out how to put your priorities in order. Succeed with managing your medical, emotional and/or disability life.


Yes, it's payback time for all that unnecessary suffering that procrastination or confusion added to your life.


Achieve your goals. Reach your finish line. How? Cross the starting line.

I thank my online friend businessman Harry Burstyn for sharing ideas I could translate into medical mindsets.

Buy the E-book or print edition today for a brighter day, life and holiday season: Click on the words EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. 

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.
Start TODAY.

Here's How to Cure Cramps, Blocked Sinuses and Hiccups!

B'SD


27 Cheshvan 5772




Triple-header today. Let's solve some of those mysterious maladies with one click on this Alternatively Speaking article.


Okay, that was easy enough. But what if you follow the above suggestions and still experience those late-night Charlie-horses/leg cramps? A-g-o-n-y, right?


If you suffer leg cramps and you're not pregnant (but even if you are), see the Coping with Pain chapter (it begins on page 32) of

There's a lot more problem-solving between the covers of the E-book and print edition. Order yours at

http://booklocker.com/books/3067.html TODAY.

One more thought before I sign off today. I was at a meeting yesterday, in which psychologist Eli Shine informed business women about techniques for having more success in life. I was startled to hear him announce that a specific idea/premise he'd mentioned is found in EMPOWER Yourself! What an endorsement! We'd never met before.


I chatted with Eli after the meeting to let him know that there's one dynamite sentence for success in a forthcoming article I've written for MISHPACHA magazine's December 7 edition. He agreed with a BIG smile. Read it and let me know your thoughts about that ;^ D




EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.

Need Motivation? Move on It!

B'SD

18 Sivan 5771


Some days we limit ourselves but don't know it. Watch this and reveal your strength.

EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge. Read it today!

Face Your Medical Problems with Dignity.
Face Your Future with Optimism.

Have FUN with Motivation! (Just Like B-Ball Star Tamir Goodman)

B'SD

Here's a mid-day break to make you smile inside and out. Basketball star Tamir Goodman used to visit my home when I briefly lived in Baltimore. He's a quite a nice guy.

Check out Tamir's Just Fly video.

Now create a fun scenario for YOUR motivational needs. Go on. Have FUN! I dare ya to EMPOWER Yourself to Cope with a Medical Challenge.

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