So What’s Wrong With The Education I Got?

March 2nd, 2010

I’m confused. So many changes have been made to school curriculum in an effort to accomplish what really? I seem to remember when schools focused on reading, writing, arithmetic and they included classes like gym, health, art and music. Schools opened and closed about the same time that they do today and we managed to somehow squeeze in all the classes and activities needed to turn out some fairly well educated folks. I mean, look at what has been accomplished and some of the people who were educated in that “outdated” school curriculum.

 

If the curriculum was so “ineffective” then how did we get a Barack Obama? A Bill Gates and Steve Jobs? You know them, right? Microsoft and Apple ring a bell? What about the scientist who developed the space program during the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s? These folks are responsible for the technology and gadgets that we are “educating” our children to keep up with in today’s school environment. So why such a drastic shift in school curriculum? What is this emphasis on teaching to “pass a test” that is supposed to validate whether or not our children are getting an education? What is the difference today from when we went through school?

 

When you look at the people who were educated in that “old school curriculum” you should begin to wonder how they ever had the ability to do what they have done. If the curriculum needed such an overhaul, what happened with us? What made us intelligent, driven, motivated to achieve what we have? If the curriculum was so suspect that folks feel compelled to overhaul it, then maybe it was the way we were taught or better yet, WHO taught us. Dare I say, it was the teachers that made the difference.

 

 

Teachers who were in the profession to teach, not so much to earn a paycheck. It couldn’t have been the paycheck because teachers have notoriously been underpaid for DECADES, yet there they were each and everyday standing in front of the classroom pouring out all of their knowledge so that we could soak it up. They worked hard to impart the education and experience they had gained on us. They had time to answer questions and review tests. I don’t remember them ever “leaving any child behind” when I was in school. They would tutor at recess and even stay after school to help IF you asked.

 

I believe that it was the teachers that made all of the difference. Oh, I’m not saying there aren’t good teachers today. On the contrary, there are some excellent teachers out there but there’s also a group of teachers that chose teaching as a JOB not a profession. They are in it for the paycheck and it was the path of least resistance. Teachers in our day communicated with parents. They didn’t take any gruff in the classroom. They gave and demanded respect. Dropout rates weren’t near as high as they are today and students had many teachers they looked up to with respect and even wanted to become a teacher like them. So, is it the curriculum or the way the curriculum has been imparted onto the students?

 

I guess this is all my opinion and since I have a right to an opinion, I felt like writing it down. I just can’t help but wonder about the old Mi-Ne proverb: if the leaves on the tree are sickly, look at the roots.

 

V.Holland

http://www.realisticallycorrect.wetpaint.com

http://PainCornerStore.com

Describing Multi-Modal Pain Treatments

July 28th, 2009

Finding support groups and other people who can understand what you are experiencing and relate to the impact your pain has on your lifestyle and the interactions with family, spouses, friends, children and co-workers. I have been working on ways to share the ideas and methods I use to tolerate my chronic pains and the process that helps ease my chronic pain flareups. I haven’t found a way to be pain free but I have been fortunate enough to break through some of my flareups and start living a healthier, happier, less pain filled lifestyle daily. After gathering shared experiences and my own experiences, I discovered that the only way to really start to fight back against chronic pains is by using multi-modal processes. That’s just my fancy way of saying that we have to address many different areas and methods to effectively begin to tolerate our chronic pains better. Taking medicine alone doesn’t work. Talking to a psychiatrist alone doesn’t work. More surgery isn’t the answer. No, addressing our life for the valuable and wonderful gift it is can lead to our tolerating our pain better. I included a few links for you to review at our leisure. They can be found on one of my websites.

http://www.chronicpainhero.4t.com/fibro_1.html  

https://gethealthy.infusionsoft.com/go/Fibfix/vinhol/

 https://gethealthy.infusionsoft.com/go/SucStories/vinhol/

The jist of the matter is, and please note, I AM NOT A DOCTOR- I AM A PERSON WHO SUFFERS WITH CHRONIC PAINS AND WANTS TO GET MY LIFE BACK. That has been my driving force, my motivation. To return to being the father, husband, brother, son, friend and co-worker I once was. To do that, to re-capture our life we must address the following: Depression, ours and our significant others, our spouses, our childrens, friends and co-workers as we are all affected by the pain taking me/you away from them. Medicinal, using meds that can take the edge off but not render us comatose and un-alert, forgetful and totally dependent. Yes, we are addicted but not in a negative way as our bodies are actually using the meds to fight the pain but we will need to be walked through withdrawal to get off the meds. Physically, we need to use ice, heat, massage, exercise and rest. I use an ice recirculator that helps me control the cost on ice purchases/wear and tear on my ice maker. There is a recirculator that allows for cryotherapy and thermal therapy

http://www.healiohealth.com/tek9.asp?pg=products&specific=jooopnr0

 We need massages, using massage pads and pillows takes the place of people massaging us because massage therapy is expensive and you can’t always get a massuese at 3A.M. There are various massage products on the market that work well for all parts of the body. I have the ones I like on my site

http://www.chronicpainhero.4t.com/provenproducts_1.html

if you want to see what I use.

Then we need to begin a simple exercise routine to help our body regenerate and fight back against the ravaging pains. And of course getting rest when we can and not just the drug induced rest that comes in 2 or 3 hours spans. Then we need support forums, people we can talk to about our pains that won’t judge us and won’t look at us like we are making it up, like it’s all in our heads. We need to be confident that we can say what we are feeling and what is on our minds without alienating people because they don’t get it. We need support groups for our families and friends. Teach them how to be understanding and that our pains are real. Help them understand that our lives are affected too. When they miss us doing things with them, we miss us doing things with them too. They have to learn to understand that we didn’t choose to be in pain and we can’t just choose to not be in pain. That we have to work on all fronts to ease the pains enough so that we can have some form of a life. When we say no, I can’t make it today, we aren’t trying to avoid them or get out of doing something, we are saying no because we really can’t make it today.

Until we are in a position to treat our chronic pains from all fronts, we will not effectively be able to ease the pains or tolerate the flareups. It is necessary that all facets of the multi-modal pain treatment system are being utilized if we want to begin to get our life back from the grasp of chronic pains such as Fibromyalgia, Sciatica, RSD, Neuropathy, Arthritis, Migraines, Back Pains and others. I hope you are able to wean some helpful information from this. I wish you a strong and successful fight against your Fibromyalgia. Just know that you have another person who truly understands what you are going thru and the many obstacles that you have to navigate just to deal with your pain let alone tolerate it better or ease it all together. I will be looking forward to more of your video journals. Sharing your story is helping many people find the courage to continue the fight against their own chronic pain. Thank you for being willing to show the world a brave face as you endure your pain and suffering.

Respectfully

V. Holland aka CHRONIC PAIN HERO

*please note that I am not a licensed doctor or a practitioner of medicine. all advice I offer is based on my own personal experience and is not meant or intended to replace the advice of competent medical personell. Do not alter or stop any regimens or therapies that your doctor has place you on without consulting your doctor first. Use of any of the information I provide in this letter is at your own risk and I am not advising you to use this information. I am simply sharing what I do in my own personal life for my own personal experience. This is not to be construed as permission to use the programs that I use for myself nor to say that these programs have been shown to benefit anybody medically or practically, they are just for me and my benefit. This disclaimer relieves VinHol Global Enterprises and associated brands along with me personally, of any responsibility for anything you choose to do on your own free will and accord. I do not have the authority or medical license to develop a program to treat or cure any illness or condition. This is for your interest and entertainment only.

V. Holland aka CHRONIC PAIN HERO

VinHol Global Enterprises LLC

Chronic Pain Hero 

Pain CornerStore 

VinHol Global

Social Media In SEO Programs

July 25th, 2009

We spend a lot of our times and energy creating profiles on the various “Social Sites” because the search engines love the content on Social Sites.  But what about the people who aren’t using social sites as part of an SEO program?  The people who setup a profile just to network with their friends and co-workers in a purely “let’s stay intouch” kind of mode?  How do they feel about everybody who sets up business profiles to market their websites and programs and increase their exposure to the search engines?  I’m sure most users of social sites like FACEBOOK, LinkedIN, Squidoo, MySpace, Digg and others, don’t really have a clue as to what internet marketers are doing when they setup a profile on the sites.

So what happens if and when an internet marketer metaphorically runs into a simple social site user?  Has anybody experienced that phenomenom?  Was your experience pleasant or unsettling?  Were you welcomed or attacked as an unwanted visitor?  Does having a social site for a business bode well for internet users?  Is the comparison of a business social site to a unwanted “TV commercial“ fair?  EVen still, is it accurate?  Could businesses on social sites such as FACEBOOK and MySpace actually be the equivalent of  tv commercials?  Or do businesses have as much right to create a social profile as any other person using the internet?  

That  raises alot of questions.  I recently was attacked by a fellow group member on LinkedIN because I posted a thread in a discussion, mind you it was where I was instructed to post that type of thread, and the member accused me of “spamming“.  Go figure.  I followed the posted instructions for “posting your personal business or hobby” in a manner that avoided the main discussion threads but still allowed you to share your information with the group IF THEY SO CHOSE TO READ YOUR INFORMATION.  See, that’s the part in ALL of this that I don’t get.  People are FREE to CHOOSE whether or not they read your post no matter where you put it.  Really folks, if you don’t want to read the post, just delete it or ignore.  I can’t believe that people are just so frickin compelled to read every post that is made online.  Of course, that’s just MY take on things and like everything else, we all have opinions and as far as we are concerned ours is right and everybody else’s is just whatever.  

Well, not actually whatever, I’m sure most of us have heard the accepted description of opinions; their like a**holes, everybody has one and they all stink.  Okay, okay, so, let’s see what was I talking about.  Oh, yeah.  Social sites.  A great way to get to get search engines to give you credit for content on your site and your site could gain viral growth legs.  As internet marketers we all know the value of exposure and definitely exposure that we don’t have to pay per click to get.  Every free advertising medium we can use is a friend to the online business person.  And therein lies the creation of a conflict waiting to happen.

Free advertising is like manna from heaven.  Any business person would love free advertising, well let me restate that because some free advertising can be in a negative manner.  So, free advertising that’s positive and allows potential costumers to see what it is that we have to offer.  For the social mediate who is in it just to show their friends they have a MySpace or a FB account and say whoo whee, look at all of the pictures of  the events in my life.  Then there’s those who have their social page to let the world know that, “hey, I’m better than you, I’m more important than you because look at all my stuff”.  Oh my do I miss Georgle Carlin.  It took him to really tell us about “our stuff“.  We all have stuff and we think our stuff is better than everybody else’s stuff and if it’s not then we want to get some of their stuff so we can have the best stuff.  ( I bow in honor to the late George Carlin, MISS YOU MAN, RIP!!)

So, we have people who are online on the social sites to let everybody see their stuff.  They aren’t selling anything, they’re just trying to validate their existence and let the world see their stuff.  Then we have the social butterflies.  We are going to stay in touch with anybody who wants to stay in touch with us.  We like this new technology and we are going to use it to reach out and connect with anybody who will connect with us.  The opposite side of that is the folks who go on a “social” site and then make their profile PRIVATE.  HELLLLURRRRR, IT’S A SOCIAL SITE.  Get the hell off of a social site and go to a private site and keep your profile private.  If you don’t want to be “social” why the hell are you on a SOCIAL SITE?  Maybe I got that all wrong but isn’t social different than private?  I’m not saying people don’t have a right to be private by why in the world would you join a social site to be private?  Their are PRIVATE ways to connect privately and to have your information remain private ON PRIVATE SITES you self important diggits.  Uh, oh.  Stepped on some toes there didn’t I?  Well, that’s MY OPINION and I have a right to have one and that’s mine.  If you want to use a social site to be private then so be it.  Just don’t look at me when I decide to use gasoline to put out the fire on your ass.  It’s my opinion that gasoline would work just fine to put out a fire on YOUR ass.  I don’t think it would work on mine but I think it might work on yours……well, if it’s okay to setup a private profile on a social site then why can’t I think it’s okay to put your fire out with gasoline.   Okay, I won’t really try to put out the fire with gasoline………no, really I won’t.

So, I have gone around the block and back to get to what point?  What is the point I am trying to make?  What is it I want to know?  I want to know if anybody who is using a social site has setup a profile for the business side of their life or mentions the business side of their life has ever been attacked verbally by somebody who doesn’t think you have the right to promote your business on your social site?  Somebody who thinks it’s a sin, a terrible terrible wrong for you to use a profile on a social site to share your business venture and invite anybody who wants to view it to do so.  You can’t make anybody visit your site.  You can’t make anybody buy something from you.  Heaven forbid if you did have that kind of control over people, what would you do with it?  NO, don’t answer that question, I don’t want to be frightened.  Advertise as you might, people still have free choice over whether or not they respond to your advertising or if they even visit your website.  So what, you are in business?  So what, you are trying to make some money talking about things that you are familiar with.  Me, I have a website based around chronic pains.  I suffer with chronic pains so I have a vested interest in finding ways to ease chronic pains and products to help tolerate pain flareups.  I also post products for sale on my site, that can help people tolerate pains better. 

So, I have a social site profile, well actually I have a profile on quite a few social sites and on some sites I have two, heaven forbid, profiles.  One profile is my personal profile and the other profile is my business profile.  I talk about my business on my personal profile sometimes and I talk about myself on my business profile sometimes too.  I find it hard to actually separate the two as I have a vested interest in my business and of course in my life.  That doesn’t make me an evil person because I have a business profile that sells things.  It doesn’t make me evil because I sell things that can help people in pain.  I’m not taking advantage of anybody’s suffering.  My sites are open access, free in other words, to anybody and everybody who want to visit them.  I offer to brainstorm with anybody who suffers pains so that we might discover something that could help one or both of us or maybe even others who are suffering in silence and don’t know where to turn.  Just because I use a social profile to do that, mind you on each site it is within standard practice and most sites posting guidelines, that I make these profiles and post the information that I do. 

If we create a social profile on a social site and we are within the guidelines of that sites posting and usage policy then we are not at fault nor should we be viewed as evil or taking advantage of people.  Perhaps people on social sites need to become more aware of all of the nuances of social sites and not be so quick to assume that businesses aren’t allowed to have “free” profiles just because the site also sells advertising space.  Ignorance of all of the ins and outs of internet marketing would perhaps earn most people a “pass” on the first time they put their foot in their mouths and try to tell a person with a business profile on the social site that they shouldn’t be using free methods to advertise.  Shame on you for using a free method.  You’re in business.  Just raise your prices to cover the extra expense you pay in advertising.  Oh, there I go again being a smart ass.  Or as some would say, a charlatan. 

I am still rolling on the floor laughing my ass off over that one……but I will tell you about that later.

Until next time.

V. Holland   aka  CHRONIC PAIN HERO

http://www.chronicpainhero.4t.com                      http://mrchronicpainhero.ws/inc
http://greensmoke.com/1727.html/page-2/
http://www.movie.ws/mrchronicpainhero  

http://stores.ebay.com/hollandemporium              http://www.allxclubpro.com/2040801
http://painstopper.ourtoolbar.com/                      http://cph.experienceadvertising.com
http://cphkid.experienceadvertising.com                http://www.squidoo.com/chronicpainhero
http://www.chronicpainhero.wordpress.com           GET HEALTHY GET FIT FIGHT PAIN

there he goes again, advertising on a blog of all places……..   : - )

But Some People Just Don’t Get It

July 18th, 2009

Facebook is a nice Social Media source that allows people to post information about themselves and the things they are doing in their lives.  Sometimes its about sports or hobbies and other times its about business.  Either way, what you post is your perogative as long as FB has said it’s within their rules of editing.

But Some People Just Don’t Get It

Whether you are online just to be online or you’re online to promote a product or sell products or services or ideas and information doesn’t matter.  What matters is that you are within your right to do so and by doing so that doesn’t make you the devil’s handiman.  It makes you a person who is doing what is within your right to do because, truth be told, nobody has to look at the stuff you post anyway.

But Some People Just Don’t Get it

Take me for instance.  I suffer with chronic pains and over the course of time I have used the internet to search for different ways to ease the pains and to help tolerate the flareups.  I ran into a lot of sites that had good information but a lot of them, as is their right, required you to become a member and or to pay for the information you wanted.  So I decided that I would share MY experiences and the information that I found with anybody who wanted to read it.  I can’t make anybody visit my site.  If I figure that one out, watch out guru’s I’d be coming out with the next best thing. But i digress.  I also sell products and other stuff on my site.  Again, nobody has to buy anything to get the information that I WRITE FROM MY OWN EXPERIENCES AND RESEARCH. I share the various ways that I use to ease my pains and the different products that I have used to help tolerate my chronic pains too.  That information is FREE for anybody to read and use but YES I do sell some other stuff on my website.  Which is within my right to do and is not a call for the minions of sa’tan to come carry me away.

But Some People Just Don’t Get It

Anyway, I said all of that to say to the other sa’tan worshippers, hee hee hee, that having a site online and selling stuf from your site is WRONG.  That’s right, it’s wrong.  Shame on you for wanting to sell stuff and make some money.  Shame on you for making people come to your site and shell out there hard earned cash.  Shame on you for going into their homes and turning on their computers and logging them onto your site and taking their credit card out of their wallets and purses and making them buy something from your site.  Shame on…..wait a minute….You don’t do any of that.  NO, people buy stuff of their own free will.  Oh, you may think your advertising is so slick that it compells people to visit your site but let me say this, if your advertising was so darn good, why doesn’t everybody on the internet visit your site?  Ain’t that good afterall is it?  So it’s not your fault that people visit your site.  It’s not wrong that you sell stuf on your site.  It’s not wrong that you’re online to make some money.  You’re not wrong for sharing information with people online.  You can’t make somebody go to your website.  You can’t make somebody buy anything from you.  Next thing you know, people will be blaming fastfood restaurants for making people fat…..

But Some People Just Don’t Get It.

 

V.Holland  aka  CHRONIC PAIN HERO

The Pain CornerStore.Com

 

 

Growing A Brand; Marketing And A Diversity Of Products

June 17th, 2009

Growing A Brand; The Diversity Of Products

http://www.chronicpainhero.4t.com                      http://mrchronicpainhero.ws/inc
http://ezyourpainfast.webwizard.com                   http://greensmoke.com/1727.html/page-2/
http://www.movie.ws/mrchronicpainhero              http://www.vinicent-d-holland.4t.com
http://stores.ebay.com/hollandemporium              http://www.allxclubpro.com/2040801
http://painstopper.ourtoolbar.com/                      http://cph.experienceadvertising.com
http://cphkid.experienceadvertising.com                http://www.squidoo.com/chronicpainhero
http://www.chronicpainhero.wordpress.com           GET HEALTHY GET FIT FIGHT PAIN

Those are a few of the companies/websites that are under the VinHol Global Enterprises LLC umbrella and here are some of my thoughts on marketing in the online world I work in today:
Marketing a brand in development has posed a lot of challenges for me. Creating the LLC with the vision of it being the “umbrella” and then securing products, information and services to fill in under the umbrella was fairly easy for me as I know what niche I am looking to fill a place in. The hard part comes when it is time to market my idea. I have found that even in the online world, doing offline marketing is necessary to produce the attention and visits to your online creations. I’m busy utilizing as many ways financially feasible, to market my companies. Financially feasible being the optimum word here. I think that I have hit the wall that many new companies on or offline run into; finances.    

When there are limited finances, I think being able to dig further into the list of ways to market becomes a skill that has to be acquired and then mastered quickly. As with any mastery though, that takes time and in today’s online world, time isn’t always on the side of the developer. Filling a niche or rather capturing a niche before it becomes saturated requires being one of the first movers just as being a first mover on a new launch will give you the best Return On Investment. If you’re not in the first mover group when capturing a niche then you need a significantly different yet relevant product or products to introduce to that niche to even be noticed. The other obstacle with a niche that is established before you get there is the entrenched companies, the ones who broke ground in niche, so to speak. They have garnered the respect of potential customers and many have a loyal following which allows them to reduce some of their marketing expenditures but forces you to increase your spending to gain the attention of customers whose focus is on the longtime companies.

That doesn’t mean breaking into an established niche isn’t possible. I have found that putting a new spin on solid, reputable established ideas helps garner a measure of respect for the new company on the block. Then I work to capitilize on that momentary respect by offering information that customers can use. I offer enough information to start building brand respect and recognition but not so much that it doesn’t leave anything for me to market and sell. Using free information as a means to market products and services available has proven to get good results in online business ventures. I believe that many online customers have come to expect that you will have something they can use and get from you at not cost to them. The online customer is also a savy one and they know that there is no free lunch so for every free slice of information you give them, they will be expecting you to sooner or later, move your product, information or service that you have for sale, into their view. The key with free stuff marketing is being able to give them enough free stuff, to make enough deposits if you will, into their emotional bank accounts so that they come to trust, like and feel as though they know you. If you can achieve that, then you have a chance of gaining a new customer and a piece of an established niche.

Another discovery I have made is that being able to market yourself as a one stop for everything online portal doesn’t really go over that well and in fact can turn potential customers away. I hold firmly to the belief that because online shopping has become so easy and consumers are sharper than ever, the ability to use a search engine and find others who have the same products or similiar products as you, has created a need for customers to shop around before they settle on which company they will buy from. So even if you do sell everything, they are going to want to go to other sites and see what they are doing to market the product being searched for and to compare pricing. They may still buy an item or two from you but rarely does a one stop shop get the total shopping list of items from a customer. So trying to sell everything only creates more of a financial drain when marketing your company and products you sell. If you can find a selection of items that all fall within the niche you are marketing to, you will have a greater chance of success and be able to reduce your marketing costs.

Some of the ways I market my companies are from the traditional school. I use flyers posted in local business that might have consumers who would have an interest in my products, services and information. I also contact local groups and offer to information days for free. Then you have flyers in your neighborhood as well as using your vehicle to market with nice signage on one of more of the vehicles windows. Of course, word of mouth and the business card handshake are still on the marketing tool table as far as offline methods of marketing go. Online, I use blogs, articles, directory submissions, link exchanges, webrings and most of the social media sites like MySpace, FaceBook, LinkedIN, Squidoo, Delicious, Digg, StumbleOn, High5, Zion. Then there are the sites that encourage you to build a downline and attack the internet for opportunities as a group instead of individually. Traffic exchanges are a dime a dozen and serve as a fair way to market your company. I say fair because Traffic Exchanges are basically another persons way of building their list. Everybody touts the power of having a list when it comes to making money on the internet. I have to say that parts of me beg to differ but I’m still relatively new, well, less than 4 years online, in this online industry so I am withholding all of my judgement for now.

As you can see, there are many ways to market and these are just some of the ones that I use. Anybody have any others? I am open to new methods and look forward to seeing them so that I can try them out to help grow my business.

Vinicent Holland aka CHRONIC PAIN HERO

How You Can Benefit From Infrared Saunas

June 17th, 2009

Most people do not consider sweating a good thing, but experts tell us that sweating does play a huge part in keeping the body healthy. Far infrared saunas are ideal when it comes to helping detoxify your body and staying healthy. When you sweat your body rids itself of waste material and unhealthy toxins, as well as helping to regulate your temperature. Skin is an eliminative organ but normally your skin is not very active and continuous sessions in the sauna may help you to gradually restore this function. Most of the toxic cells and viruses are normally weaker than your normal cells, which mean they have very little tolerance for heat. In order to help your body recover from infections, this sauna begins by heating the tissues much more quickly. Those of you that laud the benefits of hypothermia, also known as fever therapy, claim that it helps in the fight against cancer and helps to fight infections.

The far infrared saunas improve blood circulation, oxygenate your tissues and open nasal passages to make draining the sinuses easier. Your body naturally develops a fever when you are sick so that your metabolism may be enhanced while helping to destroy viruses. With continued sessions in the sauna, many people believe that it will remove metals and toxic chemicals from your body. The more traditional steam saunas may be powered by gas, electric or wood heated and can be enjoyed in a spa sauna setting, a sauna jacuzzi or a home room sauna. Pre-heat the sauna to 175 to 250 degrees, which is needed in order to result in excessive sweating. This type of intense heat is not tolerated by all people and this is especially true for older people and those who are sick. All types, from the steam sauna to the infrared sauna are excellent for ridding the body of toxins. This particular type of sauna heats your body while the air surrounding you remains cool. Sweating begins quickly and helps to remove the unwanted chemicals and toxins that you are exposed to on a daily basis. Far infrared saunas are said to be more cleansing than a more traditional steam sauna, as the deep penetrating infrared energy allows for better elimination of toxins.
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routine, there are safety guidelines. Spend no more than 30 minutes at a time in a sauna and afterwards try to lie down or sit still for about 10 minutes. For more information about far infrared, visit Promolifenews. About the Author Visit Mike Selvon portal to learn more about far infrared saunas. Your feedback is much appreciated at our sauna heater blog where a free gift awaits you.

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The True Power Of Meditation: Mind Over What Matters

April 22nd, 2009

Yeah, that’s my feeble attempt at wordplay.  Most of us know that phrase as “Mind Over Matter” but it’s just a blog so I can take some liberties.  ha ha ha.  No, really, in dealing with my chronic pains, I explore as many options as I can to make life less pain filled.  The option of being painless or having painless days doesn’t exist at this point in time but I believe that medicine makes new discoveries everyday and being able to maintain a positive mindset will one day yield me control over the pain to the point that it is pain LESS.  The latter point, maintaining a positive mindset, is what has compelled me to make this entry.  I’d like to pretend and say that I have a positive mindset everyday and that I am oh so in control of my chronic pains but I can’t .  What I can say is that I work closely with my pain management doctor, I take the recommended meds when I need to and I constantly seek out methods, products and ideas that can help me tolerate my chronic pains. 

Make May 1 2009 Count For Something More

April 22nd, 2009

Asking all BLOGGERS across the internet to help. With our concerted effort we may just WILL our way to stopping so many people from choosing to use murder-suicide as a way to solve their problems. Killing the spouse and children when somebody has issues has become almost commonplace and everytime I hear a report about it, I am almost brought to me knees with grief over the loss of the lives, especially the children. Children who could hold the cure to some disease or the answer to some problem that will benefit the world. Not that just the children are the concern, anybody losing their life in what seems senseless decision making is one person too many. This issue is important so I am compelled to ask everybody who has a blog, everybody who can blog and everybody who wants to make a difference to stand up and say ENOUGH! Choose to get help, not to harm.

There is already enough pain and suffering in the world without troubled and disillusioned people taking the lives of their spouses and children. I’m a chronic pain sufferer and I understand depression but I’m not going to choose to harm my family because I’m having a jerked up life. They didn’t do it. IT’s not their fault and I’m just glad they choose to stay by my side while I fight thru this all. I know we all handle stress and depression differently and me not choosing to off my spouse and kids don’t make me something special. But I’m just saying, it seems like there has to be a better choice in this great land we call AMERICA.

By the way, if you can’t tell, this is something near to my heart. So again, I would like to ask ALL BLOGGERS to do something on MAY 1, 2009. Please blog to stop murder-suicides. We want to encourage people TO NOT commit murder-suicides. We want them to get the help they need. To leave their spouses and especially the little innocent children alone. Allow the children to have a chance to reach their potential in life. STOP KILLING THE FAMILY WHEN YOU ARE THE ONE WHO NEEDS HELP. GO GET HELP.. So, BLOGGERS EVERYWHERE, get your blogging hats on and let’s make MAY 1, 2009 a day of influence. We might just save somebody and with any kind of luck we might just save a whole lot of somebodies.

Thanks in advance for your attention and cooperation to this matter.

V. Holland aka CHRONIC PAIN HERO
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Reviewing A Top Website Traffic Generator

April 11th, 2009

So you have finally stepped into the world of making money online. You too, like the others, have decided to start with the affiliate programs. Also, you must have heard that it’s not a big deal to make good money with affiliate marketing, provided you choose the right programs and do some strategic planning while promoting your affiliate products. So far so good.

Whether you are promoting other people’s products or promoting your own products - that doesn’t matter because after all it is nothing but your own business and your means to earn good money. So whichever be your case, I am sure you would not want to leave money on the table and invite others to steal your share of profit.

Even though the industry of affiliate marketing is pretty competitive but if you are cautious and are strategic in your marketing techniques then, it could be very profitable for you.
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Take a close look at the industry, you will see that not every one who gets into affiliate marketing is successful. People who are doing well leave no room for failure and take all security measures and understand its importance.

Yes! Security is one of the key factors in affiliate marketing. If you do not adopt proper security measures, then your business will be at high risk. One of the most important way to restore security is to protect your affiliate links. Do not take them for granted. A bit of carelessness on your part in regards to affiliate links may cost you a lot of dollars.

Do you know the long complicated links that you send to your prospective customers not only look convoluted but they can create a lot of problems too! If you send such an affiliate link to your customers, then the smart ones will definitely figure out that you are promoting someone else’s product and they would rather visit the parent company. Also, if your link does not function then your customers have to type a really long URL into the browser, which will definitely put him or her off.

You could be a victim of even a worse situation. What if some devious Internet pirates steal your affiliate links and replace them with theirs. If they do that, then you get no commission at all.

Did I scare you off with all of the above possibilities? Well, that certainly wasn’t my intention. I just wanted to open your eyes and state facts that actually happen in the world of Internet. It happened with me until I came across ViralURL , that brought a revolution to my online ventures.

So, if you are not getting the desired results out of your affiliate marketing,don’t lose hope. There’s definitely a remedy to this problem and that is ViralURL.com

Do I hear you asking, what is it and how can it help in averting any adverse situation for an affiliate marketer like me?
Be patient and read on, if you love your business.

ViralURL is a link cloaker that protects you in the truest sense. There may be many unethical people lurking around, who might play with your affiliate links by cutting them off or replacing them with their own etc. How much effort you put in towards building your business and advertising your business, if your links are tampered with, then all your hard work will be rendered useless.

In order to avoid such a rip off, ViralURL gives you full protection and sees to it that your affiliate links never get exposed to others.

So save yourself from getting ripped. Get all the commissions to your account that you rightfully deserve. All this is made possible by ViralURL.com

It is a blessing for every affiliate marketer like you and me, who wants to achieve success in their endeavor.

Is ViralURL limited to only link protection?

NO!

It does much much more than that. Let’s see what ViralURL can do for us:

*ViralURL helps us in protecting commission.
*ViralURL helps in building mailing lists.
*ViralURL helps in tracking statistics.
*ViralURL helps in earning extra ad credits.

In short, ViralURL allows us to create massive business leverage.
I don’t see any negative aspect associated with ViralURL. All you have to do is join it for free, then cloak your links, promote them and see your business soaring higher and higher.

You can get all detailed information about the program from the site www.ViralURL.com . There, you can find several unsolicited testimonials from various users of ViralURL. So if you want to protect your business and see your earnings grow, try ViralURL. You have nothing to lose with it.

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3 A.M. This Time I’m Gonna Win Over Pain

April 11th, 2009

Three O’clock in the morning. Aren’t most sane people asleep if they aren’t one of the midnight oil burners who are at work? Anybody else up at three a.m. just because they want to be? Or are you like me and you’re up because your body is fighting thru the pain flareup and you can’t get to sleep? Whatever the reason you’re up doesn’t really matter because in the end, WE’RE FLIPPIN AWAKE AT THREE A.M.!!! Go figure eh?

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So, I’m sitting here trying to fill my head with pictures of things that I enjoy, as a heterosexual man, looking at.  Yes, let the mind wander. Try to meditate as I wait on the medication to kick in realizing that it has kicked in but as usual is short-lived and I have to find other ways to get past this damned flareup.

WebUndies.comSo, I take to the blog and see what I can write that somebody might find interesting enough to want to read. I’m not a super blogger by any stretch of the imaginiation. I’m not even a half-assed blogger. I just blog because I have a website and I like to be able to help people find ways to deal with their pains like fibromyalgia, sciatica, arthritis, back pain, neck pain, leg pain, arm pain, wrist pain, foot pain, hand pain, migraines and just about any other kind of pain that your body might decide to let you experience at some point in time, there I go obsessing with time again, or another. I think I got all the great “keywords” in there this time…ha ha ha ha. Yeah, for those of you who are into this internet thing you’ll get the “keywords” reference and realize the joke that fell flat for the rest of the folks who are up at three a.m.

WebUndies - It's not just underwear!Now, back to living through this moment in time at three a.m. in the morning. Wouldn’t it be great if a football game came on right about now? We could flip on the tellie and watch us a great game of two titanic teams battling it out smashing into each other causing pains that their youth won’t allow them to feel until sometime in the next twenty to twenty five years. Oh yeah, you can bet your sweet booty, wonder if I could have said bootyliscious booty there, that even though they play through the pains today, their bodies will remember and will come around in a few years to collect that toll for the level of play it allowed them to have today.

Funny thing how our body doesn’t forget what we do to it. For some folks putting the body through drugs, smoking, drinking, sports excessive partying and late nights when they were younger was the choice of their generation. The folly of youth and the ever quickly to rejuvenate cells made those years go by easily and we moved on into our middle years. A few aches and pains showed up but we just pushed past those and started our mid-twenty workout regimen. Mountain biking, archery, more swimming, tennis, racquetball, rough touch football and other sports replaced the partying, drinking and recreational “stuff” for most. Yep, we had found a new way to keep ourselves going and feeling young. Take a few Aleve and you’ll be as good as new in the morning.

Fast forward to the mid-thirties and we’re taking the newest vitamin supplement on the market. You do know that every day it seems like a new vitamin supplement that we “just gotta have” comes on the market promising to keep us going like we did when we were seventeen but add the subtle hints that Father Time is throwing in here and ther and we keep on chugga-luggin through our thirties into our early forties.

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The forties see us being “successful” with our great desk job in our great office overlooking that great golf course that we just can’t wait to get out on a play a few rounds. We spend a lot of time sitting on our keisters in our high back Italian leather chair that every mid level up and coming exec must have to cradle our fattening butts and tender lumbar regions. Then of course there’s our nice new or fairly new sports car with the hand-tooled seats and the flash and gleam to keep heads turning when we go thru the yellow light in a hurry to get nowhere in particular because it’s three a.m. and we already called our wife to tell her we’re on our way home after having a few drinks with our college classmate who decided it was time to pay us a visit. Wow, what an evening. I don’t remember the last time I drank and ate like that. I’ll have to hit the gym extra hard tomorrow to make up for it but it was worth it seeing old “Greg” again. Boy, it was great seeing “Greg” but he looked kinda old for forty-five. I dont’ look like that do I? Nah, I’m in shape. I workout and I feel fine, ah, unh, enh, just let me bend over here to get off my shoes….aaa eeee ouch…my back. What the devil? Where’s my Aleve? I gotta get this pain to stop so I can get to work in the morning. It’s three a.m. I got about four hours sleep. Maybe I’ll see how I feel when my alarm goes off and I might call in and go in a few hours later today since I don’t have any appointments.

Tip Your Hat to Graduates at CafePress.comSo, welcome to the mid-forties. Your first sign that your body is coming around to collect for all of those years of dashing and dancing, spinning and winning. What? You thought you were going to be special and YOUR body wasn’t going to let you down and start to have some breakdowns. Get a grip because reality is that sooner or later we all have to pay the piper. Some more than others but we all have to pay. Maybe old “Greg” didn’t look so old after all. Maybe it was the lighting in the place or the number of beers. Maybe this back pain isn’t really a pain I’m just thinking it’s a pain since it is three a.m. and I’m really tired from the last four holes of golf I finished today after work.

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What is that noise? Oh, my alarm clock. It’s time to get up already? Wow, I’m still hyped from seeing “Greg”. Let me get in the shower and get ready for …..aaaaaah shit, that hurts. Honey! Honey! I can’t stand up straight. My back is locked up and the pain. Oh my GOD this hurts like hell honey. Call the doctor. I gotta get something for this pain. I can’t take it, it’s killing me. Aaah, oooo, eeee, unnnn. What did I do to myself doc? All I did was try to take off my shoes at three a.m. and my back just pinched me. I took some medicine and thought it would be better in the morning but when I went to get out of bed it hit me again like a ton of bricks. Why does it hurt so bad? How can my body do me like this?

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Well, that brings me to about where I am today. Awake at three a.m. trying to figure out how my body can do me like this. How can my body generate so much pain over and over everyday for the last twelve years? It seems almost unbelievable that I’ve been in this kind of pain cycle for almost twelve years. The flareups are totally disabling. Can’t function. Can barely get through each breath let alone move around to go to the bathroom or do anything that a normal, mid-life, married father should be doing with his wonderfully supportive and loving family. Of course there’s the good side, after the flareups have subsided and the pain returns to a more manageable level where you can breath and you can sit up for a little while and talk to your wife and kids. Just don’t get overexcited and try to do to much as you can easily create a flareup and squash the good time you are in the middle of.

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On the good days it’s like a backache that makes you take some medicine and get off your feet looking for the ice pack and heat packs to begin alternating them to relieve the pain. Your appetite comes and goes and doing things with the family is a touchy subject. There are few windows of opportunity to work on maintaining the happy family and when one of those windows opens up you have to be ready to do all you can to create more windows. Exercise, meditate, rest, relax and read up on ways to ease the pains faster, quicker and at home without more medications should be at the top of your list of things to do.

Tip Your Hat to Graduates at CafePress.comThat’s why I’m up at three a.m. To keep sharing ways to do just that. My websites have the information that I use to make mine a healthier, happier, less pain-filled lifestyle. http://www.vinicent-d-holland.4t.com  is a lifestyle look at pains and ways to enjoy living rather than give in to the painshttp://www.ChronicPainHero.4t.com is the more “serious” site as I include links for products that make exercising easier and accessible at home and also products that the whole family can use to stay in the mainstream of society and education. You will find Games, computers, music downloads, fitness equipment, electronics, housewares, you name I give access to it. Also, I have listed some job opportunities for stay at home moms and dads at well for those who might be disabled by their chronic pains and need to make money to continue to support their families budgets.

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http://www.vge-llc.4t.com is a lighter look at my chronic pain experiences. Then there’s http://www.realisticallycorrect.wetpaint.com just an all around wiki site that you can leave your side of the story while reading what I’ve left along with some of my fellow pain sufferers. So, I hope that I’ve bored yo enough to fall asleep, after all it is three a.m.

Goodnight until next time.

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