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Newsletter #85 Wellness and Communication-Pt.1

 "So, you would like to communicate better with your partner?"
The person across from me answers "yes!"

"You would like to have more energy to better be able to do more things and enjoy them more fully, with your partner?" "Yes!"

"You would like to be more up, more enthusiastic about the house, your kids, your neighbourhood, your in-laws?" "Yes!"

# 84 Get A Life!

 This was a speech made by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Anna Quindlen at the graduation ceremony of an American university where she was awarded an Honorary PhD.

# 83 A New Model For An Old Problem

     Canadian society hasn't done well by our aboriginal population in Canada! So many skeletons are getting discovered, the system - treaties, reserves, schools - as they were originally set up were terribly flawed and have created more problems then what could have ever been imagined for all participants. There is the sense of having been "stuck" for the last century.

#82 What I Learned

It's been a busy couple of months - getting the book published, then the launch, all of the marketing stuff (television, radio interviews, multiple newsletters, special invitations), doing the launch and the "bluelight" Launch Concert - has left me little time to send out my weekly newsletter. I missed my Sunday deadline last weekend but now enter the post-book launch era.

In hind-site I did a lot of work after the writing and editing of the book I would not do again. "One learns by doing!" What I am referring mainly to is the marketing aspect of launching a new book.

#80 Lets Get Serious About Our Health

     Here is an idea I have been "talking up" for years - the province of Alberta is considering a tax break for those who practice fitness. "The incentive is a tax break up to $500 on fees for things like gym memberships, ski passes, and hockey registration" (Tom Henheffer, MacLeans, 2010).
     I personally like any plan that is an incentive to get fit! I would love to
see this incentive idea be attached to the medical department of Federal
government instead of just a small tax deduction. I would like to see this

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