Time Management: Do you have good listening skills

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In today’s issue:
Time Management – do you have good listening skills
Healthy – Soy products: Good or Bad?
Parenting – Tips for travelling with young children

Time Management: Do you have good listening skills?

Would you believe that good listening skills save time? Wouldn’t it be great if you could fully understand what someone meant the first time and didn’t have to ring them again for a second conversation to clarify?

Now you can. Simply follow the steps below and you will be come a listening expert.

Look at the speaker
Ask questions
Summarise frequently
Give the speaker time to articulate their thoughts
Remain poised
Respond with nods and ‘uh-hums’
Look alert and interested
Let the other person finish
Finally: Check understanding and that you are both on the same track.

Health – Should you consume soy products?

Soy products have been getting a lot of good press lately, as a healthy alternative to dairy products. However, if you read between the lines, and do a little research, there are no substantive benefits to using soy.

In fact soy products, through tests over the last 20 years, are believed to be linked to the following problems:

Malnutrition
Digestive distress
Thyroid disfunction
Heart disease
Cancer

It’s best to avoid Soy products wherever you can.

Parenting – Tips for Travelling with Young Children

You have probably been there before. You have a four hour drive ahead of you. The car is packed, and you are ready to start the journey.

10 minutes down the road, your car is completely trashed, food is everywhere, your kids are fighting and you can’t hear the radio over the screaming. On top of that, your chair gets systematically kicked very 7 seconds. What do you do.

Below we have some simple techniques that can help.
Bring games (ones that are safe for the car). This will distract the kids for at least 20 minutes.
Play eye spy or other games that don’t need any equipment.
Bring music that the kids like
Talk to your kids.
If there are two adults in the car – and room in the back seat – sit next to them.
If you have a portable DVD player, bring that.
Plan breaks ever one and a half hours – your kids will thank you for it.
Bring appropriate food and drinks.
When you stop, try and find playgrounds etc, or encourage your children to exercise.

So there we have it – some simple techniques that will help make your next long car trip a bit more enjoyable.


In other views…

Your editor was watching cable TV the other night and saw a documentary on, an obese 17 year old in the United States named John. What was unique was that this boy weight over 400 pounds and was close to having a heart attack and a stroke.

The poor boy needed to have a gastric bypass to help lose weight. Because everything else had failed. When looking at what the family ate for dinner every night your editor thinks he knows why.

In the whole documentary, the family didn’t appear to eat fruit or vegetables once – most nights they had pizza and coke for dinner!!!

And finally, out cat’s kitten is now four weeks old. If there is any reader who is interested in having the kitten for free please tell us!!! If you live outside of Australia we can even arrange transport. Please send an email to enquiry@goals-4-life.com


Cheers

Andrew Collings


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