AFVOA Newletters of Year 2005

Page 58 of 75 cheerfully greet the staff. Your boss comments on how good a day you are having. Notice the difference. Two different scenarios. Both started the same. Both ended different. Why? Because of how you REACTED. 56. Here are some ways to apply the 90/10 secret. If someone says something negative about you, do not be a sponge. Let the attack roll off like water on glass. React properly and it will not ruin your day. A wrong action could result in losing a friend being filed, getting stressed out, etc. How do you react if someone cuts you off in traffic? Do you lose your temper? Pound the steering wheel? Do you curse? Does your blood pressure skyrocket? Do you try and bump them? WHO CARES if you arrive 10 seconds later at work? Why let the blue car ruin your drive? Remember the 90/10 principle, and do not worry about-it! You are told you lost your job. Why lose sleep or get irritated? It will work out. Use your “worrying” energy into finding another job. 57. To give another example the plane is late. It is going to mangle your schedule for the day. Why take out your frustration on the flight attendant? She has no control over what is going on. Use your time to study get to know the other passenger, etc. Why get stressed out? It will just make things worse. You now know the 90-10 secret. Apply it and you will be amazed at the results. ~Source: The Speaking Tree from http://spirituality.indiatimes.com Big Hips can protect women from Heart Attacks. - An interesting medical study . 58. Washington:- Women with curves are healthier than the others who have a skinny shape, says a study in the ‘ Sun ’. Researchers have found that those with hips measuring less than 40” were more exposed to heart attacks and other illness. 59. Dr. Berit Heitmann, a Professor from the Institute for Preventive Medicine in Copenhagen, Denmark, said that the fat and muscle on the hips have a protective effect. It contains Adiponectin, which has anti inflammatory properties. Heitmann carried out a study of 50,000 men and women and followed it up years later to see what illness they suffered. “Fat on the hips is different from fat on the abdomen. If you do not have enough of this fat you may risk heart attacks”, informed Heitmann. 60. This study dismisses the traditional belief that overweight people have more health problems and shows it is where the fat lies that is important ~ ANI. Source – Tribune Jun 5, 2005 . Miscellany 61. Did You Know The Origins of Everyday Things? The English Language is a complex tapestry. Over the centuries it has been richly interwoven with strands from many tongues, including Greek, Latin, Old Norse, French, Dutch, German, Spanish, and, particularly since the advent of the television age, North American English. The language reflects not only the history of English-speaking peoples but also the daily lives of our ancestors of the distant and recent pasts. It speaks of the food they ate, the clothes they wore and the homes they inhabited. It mirrors, too, their customs, festivals and celebrations, the rhythms of their working year and the activities, sports and pastimes that filled and informed their existence. 62. Because the origins of our language long predate the printed word and mass communications, the sources of many words and phrases remain speculative. Like tracing a family tree, searching for the history of our linguistic inheritance is as frustrating as it is fascinating, and many modern expressions have more than one possible derivation. Given in the succeeding paragraphs are a few words and phrases whose origins are described for your reading pleasure. 63. ‘Galaxy’ - Our galaxy is the Milky Way, a name reflecting the milky appearance of the star system against a black sky. The Greek word galaxies draws on the same image, based on