• How Dr. David Hunnicutt, President of WELCOA, left me speechless. (Or, why I wrote a book about Stress.)

    Updated: 2012-08-31 22:26:42
    I first met David Hunnicutt, the President of WELCOA at the American Journal of Health Promotion Conference in Hilton Head South Carolina. Dr. Hunnicutt was giving the keynote address and I was really impressed by it. I happened to bump into him the next day, and I introduced myself, told him a little about what I did, and I told him how much I liked his speech. A year later when I ran into him again at another conference, he surprised me by saying that he remembered meeting me the year before and that he planned on stopping by my booth the next day.

  • Are You Stress Sensitive?

    Updated: 2012-08-31 22:26:42
    Do you ever wonder if stress affects you more than the average person? Are you easily annoyed or frustrated by minor inconveniences?

  • Tend and Befriend Meets Fight or Flight

    Updated: 2012-08-31 22:26:42
    When I was growing up my parents constantly stressed the importance of going to college. That idea was pretty much drilled into my head from the day I started kindergarten. "You're not going to get into a good college with grades like that, Jimmy!" My mother would always say, even on some of my earliest report cards. So you can imagine the stress I put them under when, approximately eleven years later, it looked like I wasn't even going to graduate from high school.

  • Ten Tips for Stress Free Travel

    Updated: 2012-08-31 22:26:42
    Home Products Stress Tips Webinars Blog Blog Home Past Entries Authors Stop Stress This Minute From Jim Porter and WELCOA Learn More StressStop Blog Ten Tips for Stress Free Travel Jim Porter M.A.L.S . President , StressStop.com Friday , July 1st , 2011 Tweet Last summer , my niece invited us to her wedding in the tiny town of Bradninch , England which is about three hours south of London in the county of Devon . I decided to turn this wedding invitation into an epic 17-day family vacation with stops in Rome , Florence , Venice , Paris , London and of course , Bradninch . It was an amazing vacation , but a real logistical challenge which included one 12-hour period where we woke up in a Paris hotel , took a high-speed train that morning from Paris to London , met up with my 21 year old son

  • How To Use Your Whole Brain: Redefining The Notion Of Who YOU Are

    Updated: 2012-08-31 22:26:42
    I learned something very interesting about the difference between my conscious mind and my unconscious mind while taking my 16-year old daughter to her first driver's education class. In order to sign her in and pay for the course, I needed to show her learner's permit, which my daughter had handed me moments before. When I saw her a few minutes later, naturally she asked for it back. I looked in my pockets and then in my wallet and it wasn't there. I asked the person at the registration desk and she didn't have it either.

  • Yoga and Chronic Pain

    Updated: 2012-08-31 22:26:42
    When I miss yoga for more than a week, a long running bout with chronic pain (which may have to do with an old case of Lyme disease) rears its ugly head. When this chronic pain first hits me I feel a low level ache that runs up and down the backs of my legs. Sometimes, if I let things go long enough, it radiates out into other areas of my body, like my hips. It's hard to describe exactly, except to say, that if I bend down with my legs straight and try to touch my toes the pain is often excruciating.

  • Stress, Multitasking and Attention Span

    Updated: 2012-08-31 22:26:42
    I've never been a fan of multitasking from a stress management perspective and as the result of reading an interesting article in Scientific American Mind Magazine on multitasking a few weeks ago, I've decided that my feeling about multitasking have been confirmed. "Effective multitasking is a myth. So, too, is the idea that members of the 'multitasking generation,' who grew up with video games, smart phones and e-readers, can somehow concentrate on several things at once. In fact, research indicates that frequent multitaskers are often the worst at it."

  • You Teach What You Most Need To Learn

    Updated: 2012-08-31 22:26:42
    Home Products Stress Tips Webinars Blog Blog Home Past Entries Authors Stop Stress This Minute From Jim Porter and WELCOA Learn More StressStop Blog You Teach What You Most Need To Learn Jim Porter M.A.L.S . President , StressStop.com Monday , June 18th , 2012 Tweet When I first got into the stress management business over twenty five years ago , I was stress sensitive see my previous blog entitled : Are You Stress Sensitive and I didn't even know it . Over the first ten years in this business I would occasionally suffer from stress-related health problems and not even fully appreciate the irony , or even care . And that's one of the enduring mysteries of stress : why we don't always see how stress affects us Why we don't see how grumpy we've become , or how easily upset we've become , or

  • A Quick Note About What Else You Need on Your Desk

    Updated: 2012-08-31 03:51:00
    Internal Auditor Login A Quick Note About What Else You Need on Your Desk I've talked before about the books that should sit on every auditor's desk . nbsp This includes such things as Strunk White's Element of Style some kind of grammar reference I use Margaret Shertzer's Elements of Grammar William Zinsser's On Writing Well The Red Book a real-live , honest-to-goodness , paper dictionary yes , I look a lot of it up on line , but the paper ones come in pretty handy also and a similarly constructed thesaurus . nbsp I also keep a copy of E . E . Cummings' poems , but the less said about that the better . Add one more essential , must-have , don't-leave-home-without-it book to that list a style . guide After my son graduated with his journalism degree , he gave me an out-of-date copy of the

  • Getting Social – Do You Remember What You Write?

    Updated: 2012-08-31 00:17:43
    Do You Remember What You Write? I read a post at the International Bipolar Foundation’s blog today and thought, “WOW, this guy is talking to me.  He knows precisely how I feel!” What I overlooked is the fact that I wrote the article a few weeks back!  I just plum forgot. That happens to me [...]

  • Mental Health Humor Caption Contest: Pick Your Favorite

    Updated: 2012-08-30 01:57:26
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  • Shades FnS Interview by Slutty but Funny (Natalie Wall)

    Updated: 2012-08-29 23:56:43
    Let’s get real, women of America. You want a book that will make all your lady-parts tingle in unexplainable ways? Oh wait… You actually do want a book that makes your lady-parts tingle in unexplainable ways? I thought that’s why they invented Youporn.com. People still read porn? Gross. Anywho, I was lucky enough to sit (in front of [...]The post Shades FnS Interview by Slutty but Funny (Natalie Wall) appeared first on FunnynotSlutty.

  • We Are Controlling Transmission

    Updated: 2012-08-29 05:46:00
    Internal Auditor Login We Are Controlling Transmission Today , I want to talk about risk and control . nbsp Now , I know such discussions can sometimes get a little dry it is a subject on which we often think we are already experts . nbsp But this is the meat and potatoes of Internal Audit , and there is nothing wrong with spending a little extra time revisiting the subject . nbsp It all starts with . Are you there risk . nbsp Without risk there is can you hear no reward . nbsp And without reward I think we are getting and risk is just a read this Contact is just like control works to . Can you hear without which the formulations breakthrough . nbsp Focus . nbsp Please focus on what I'm saying . nbsp This And so risk and control are the foundation of it all . nbsp Please Let's spend some

  • “Target Audience Magazine” Reviews “Hellfire & Damnation II”

    Updated: 2012-08-28 01:47:31
    Review of Hellfire & Damnation II by Target Audience Magazine on August 27, 2012 with 0 Comments in Book Reviews Wilson has written a book of short stories that will not only keep you up late nights reading, but might also keep you up long after you have stopped reading. By Evelyn Smith, author of [...]

  • No Nuts Allowed — Just Mental Health Peers

    Updated: 2012-08-28 00:15:35
    Are you living with Anxiety Disorders, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD/ADD), Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Eating Disorders, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder, Schizophrenia or Social Phobia?  Or a host of other mood disorders or brain “dis-ease”? If so, then you are a peer. In my world, you are more than a peer. [...]

  • Héléne Bouffant, World-renowned Fashion Stylist – Back to School!

    Updated: 2012-08-28 00:02:35
    Congratulations, Funny Not Slutty readers. I am Héléne Bouffant, world-renowned fashion stylist. Welcome to my first column for FNS. Most likely, you have not heard my name before. That is because I – like Voldemort – am She-Who-Cannot-Be-Named in the fashion community. It is whispered that if you say my name three times, I shall [...]The post Héléne Bouffant, World-renowned Fashion Stylist – Back to School! appeared first on FunnynotSlutty.

  • Moodivational Moment: Win the Day …

    Updated: 2012-08-27 12:43:24
    Enjoy today’s 60 seconds of something to think about … Moodivational Moment: Win the Day …

  • The Calm Before The Storm

    Updated: 2012-08-26 17:18:03
    To my fellow peers in the path of the tropical storm/hurricane, I wish you a safe ride through this beast of a storm off our coast.  We’re currently experiencing the calm before the storm with Isaac on our doorstep. It’s starting to rain and the wind has picked up. The clouds are wildly whipping around [...]

  • it's your birthday

    Updated: 2012-08-26 08:00:00
    : look up anything , like your city word of the day dictionary thesaurus names media store add edit blog random A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z new favorites tv most popular fishscale Master Chief cock tease notice me e-mail shyPod trance Vivian DeFranco Nation alphabetical it's whatevs it's what i do It's when you fuck someone in the . clit it's white party time it's winken Its Woodstock It's worth the ninety-nine Itsy its ya boy itsy-bitsy Itsy Bitsy Itsy Bitsy Wopsy it's you It's you It's you , McMuffin it's your birthday its your birthday It's your dime it's your duty to shake your booty it's your funeral It's your ISP It's Yurn itt itta ittai it takes a lickin' and it keeps on ti . it takes a village It takes two to tango it tastes like jesus it tastes like ow

  • Something Important is Happening in a Closet You Never Noticed

    Updated: 2012-08-24 15:35:00
    Internal Auditor Login Something Important is Happening in a Closet You Never Noticed A couple of days ago I got the chance to talk to one of our newer executives . nbsp He is in charge of among other things research activities with our customers . nbsp Among his roles will be acting as liaison with other departments to use the data we gather to help focus company-wide decisions on customer's expectations . nbsp Did I mention he's brand new to the company One of the first things he said . nbsp I've never been approached by internal audit before . nbsp This is refreshing . rdquo Pause for a . beat Pause for another beat to soak that one in just a little bit . more What high-level person charged with significant responsibilities in your company has never heard from you Posted on Aug 24, 2012

  • Virtual Tour Dates for “Hellfire & Damnation II in October

    Updated: 2012-08-24 05:14:36
    Hellfire & Damnation II: Virtual Tour Hellfire & Damnation II will begin an E-book tour on October 11th, which will run through Halloween. There will also be an official “launch” party at a Book Rack location in the IA/IL Quad Cities on Halloween weekend (Saturday, October 27th and, potentially, Sunday, October 28th. Watch the author’s [...]

  • The Most Interesting Auditor in the World - Part 2

    Updated: 2012-08-22 04:35:00
    Internal Auditor Login The Most Interesting Auditor in the World Part 2 When he writes the first draft of a report , it is the final . draft His copy of the red book includes his corrections and they make it . better He has done original . work He once perfectly balanced risk and . control His samples are always statistically . valid His organ donor card includes his analytical . ability His business cards contain only one line You have agreed to the findings . rdquo His tick marks are . self-explanatory He went to the chief risk officer to warn . him He has memorized his IIA member . number His audit schedule goes up to the end of the Mayan calendar . nbsp And then he has additional . plans His meetings always end five minutes . early He receives over 1,000 e-mails an hour and his in-bin

  • Infographic: Why Are Jamaicans So Amazing at Running?

    Updated: 2012-08-21 16:27:16
    Usain Bolt blew us away at the London 2012 Summer Olympics. To celebrate team Jamaica’s big Track & Field wins, we put together a fun infographic about the country some refer to as the “sprint factory.”

  • Memoirs of My America – Death at the Hand of a Skeleton Key

    Updated: 2012-08-21 02:48:15
    Growing up in a small house as part of a large family means one thing: never any time alone. There is always some sibling in your business, some person taking you on for that last fish stick. Solitude and silence become the things you pray for at night, forget world peace in your whispered requests [...]The post Memoirs of My America – Death at the Hand of a Skeleton Key appeared first on FunnynotSlutty.

  • You Are Too Oversensitive

    Updated: 2012-08-21 00:15:19
    I admit, YES! It’s true. I can take things WAY too personally. Am I paranoid or just oversensitive?  Between you and me, I think it’s both! Being sensitive is not a bad thing, right???  As with MOST peers living with Bipolar Disorder, SOME OF US tend to “take things to the extreme.” My wife Joan [...]

  • RIP Milton Hill: Police Shoot 46 Times, Killing Mentally Ill Man

    Updated: 2012-08-18 06:38:23
    RIP- Milton Hill -  Police Shoot 46 Times, Killing Mentally Ill Man in Saginaw, Michigan. This story has a video connected to it, but I don’t recommend watching it… MAJOR TRIGGER!  I can’t write about it; it’s too emotionally disturbing and I’m just way too upset to talk about it.  All I could do was [...]

  • Neil Young Was Right

    Updated: 2012-08-17 05:46:00
    Internal Auditor Login Neil Young Was Right No one really has time on a Friday . nbsp We are all striving for one thing get through the day and get to the weekend . nbsp Accordingly , I am going to strive to devote Fridays to quick hits shorter pieces that won't take that long to get through . nbsp If you follow this blog with any regularity , that's what you can look forward to . nbsp We'll . see Thirty-plus years later , and I suddenly realize there is something more profound to the name of a Neil Young album than I first . thought Rust Never Sleeps No , it doesn't . nbsp It is insidious . nbsp It is out there constantly working away at metal eating away , corroding , destroying . nbsp It is only through diligence diligence in cleaning , in polishing , in protecting that rust is held at

  • “Hellfire & Damnation II” Book Trailer is B=Now “Live” on Yahoo

    Updated: 2012-08-17 02:01:11
    http://youtu.be/o99OC1EWgs0 Here is a link to the new trailer for “Hellfire & Damnation II.’” Hopefully, it will be posted to the dedicated site, www.HellfireAndDamnationTheBook.com by the weekend. The old book’s trailer will remain behind it. Who knows how many books there will be? Only the Shadow knows, for sure.

  • Are You Looney?

    Updated: 2012-08-16 23:18:49
    Taz is an animated cartoon character featured in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes series of cartoons. Mr. Potato Head is a PlaysKool toy by Hasbro. The cartoon speaks for itself.    Mr. Potato Head: So, You’re a Looney Tune…I see nothing LOONEY about you… Hey, why are You salivating… Taz: <<<< licking his lips and [...]

  • President Obama & Michelle Obama to Visit Village of East Davenport on Aug. 15th, 2012

    Updated: 2012-08-15 09:01:50
    President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are visiting the Village of East Davenport (in Davenport, IA) tomorrow (Aug. 15, 2012) for a speech as he swings through the state on his custom-made black bus. It is President Obama’s 13th visit to Iowa. Those who weren’t paying close attention to the seating chart within the 2008 [...]

  • Getting Action from the Auditee

    Updated: 2012-08-15 05:27:00
    Internal Auditor Login Getting Action from the Auditee I just received another excellent suggestion from an audit shop that wishes to remain nameless . nbsp The humility of some of our profession's greatest thinkers sometimes amazes me . They were faced with two problems . nbsp First , they seemed to be spending countless hours negotiating findings with the auditees hours they felt could be better served conducting more audits . nbsp Second they felt they were also wasting those precious hours following up on findings that were really the responsibility of the . auditee Their solution was deceptively simple . nbsp They developed a simple complaint form to be attached to the front of every audit report . nbsp This form lets the auditee decide how best they want to settle the issue . nbsp

  • And Then Again...

    Updated: 2012-08-13 06:23:00
    Internal Auditor Login And Then Again . A wise man changes his mind , a fool never will Spanish proverb In the past , I have mentioned that every auditor should visit Seth Godin's blog Yes , it is about marketing . nbsp But it is also an idea blog . nbsp And there are two points that should be kept in mind as you read it : nbsp 1 Seth's blog brings up innovative ideas that apply to everyone , even auditors , and 2 If auditors do not recognize that they are marketers , then we have already lost one of our most important . battles Recently , I was looking at the list of books he has written to see if any looked interesting . nbsp Among the books was one titled Free Prize . Inside Upon seeing this I was quite concerned because I remembered this as a book that a group of us were force-fed

  • Romney Obamaloney Baloney with Miss Holly Hope For President

    Updated: 2012-08-13 02:31:03
    As I am sure you remember, Miss Holly Hope is runnin’ for President. Hope believes in runnin’ a clean campaign. Here is a video with her advice on runnin’ a clean campaign in light of Mitt Romney’s recently makin’ up a not-so-nice word “Obamaloney”.The post Romney Obamaloney Baloney with Miss Holly Hope For President appeared first on FunnynotSlutty.

  • Stopping Medication – A Near-Death Experience

    Updated: 2012-08-13 01:55:39
    Did Stopping Medication Cause you to Have A Near-Death Experience?

  • DBSA Positive 6: New Connections Challenge – Blog Hopping

    Updated: 2012-08-09 02:07:34
    I am excited about this month’s DBSA Positive 6 cartoon. I really like this cartoon and I think it’s the funniest cartoon to date. If you’re not sure what the +6 is, please read over The DBSA “Positive Six Campaign” blog post. Then check out JUNE: Positive Change Challenge and the JULY – Give It [...]

  • Hazmat was Called in to Stop the Infection

    Updated: 2012-08-08 04:58:18
    “Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.”~ Mark Twain What is the most contagious thing you can catch that is good for your health?  Laughter!  We’ve all heard the expression that laughter is the best medicine.  That is being backed up by more and more research.  A few things that are coming to the forefront on the [...]

  • MAKE IT like The Girlfriend Mom: Sex with My Manicurist

    Updated: 2012-08-07 15:39:37
    I’m not gay (as far as I know) but I would like to get it on with my manicurist. Is that wrong? I’ve always wanted to ‘experiment’ but the opportunity has yet to present itself. Of course it might help if I leave the house once in awhile, but my agoraphobia is a whole other [...]The post MAKE IT like The Girlfriend Mom: Sex with My Manicurist appeared first on FunnynotSlutty.

  • Ummmm. I Forget

    Updated: 2012-08-03 22:47:00
    Internal Auditor Login Ummmm . I Forget Last week , for your dining and dancing pleasure , I provided part one of a two-part discussion regarding communication about how the simple act of answering a question can have so much more behind it than just the words that are spoken . nbsp For part two I promised to continue the discussion by delving into the boredom of answering the question that is actually asked . nbsp I had some very interesting insights about the subject . nbsp A funny thing happened on the way to writing part two . nbsp It was all right there in my mind it lay there in a logical pattern waiting to be transferred from thought to reality . nbsp It was so fresh , so precise , so perfect I knew there was no harm in waiting a day or two to accomplish that transfer . nbsp However

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