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Health & Fitness > Healthy Living & Wellness Daily habits to keep your life in balance: 1 of 12

Wholeness of body, mind and spirit is the sum-total of a balanced life achieved through a long practice of disciplined habits. Just what is a balanced life? And why do we want to achieve it? In Eastern thought, life is composed of two opposing elements, the Yin and the Yang, which in their duality appears contradictory but i...
Religion & Spirituality > Religious Concepts (Other) Are the Freemasons a religion?: 1 of 11

It is not necessary for a person to become a freemason in order to know if freemasonry is a religion or not. Volumes of reading materials abound describing how masons work. One can take the first step of entering the portals of Freemasonry by filling up A Petition Form for Degrees, which contains personal questions about the...
Business > Management Ethics What are the social responsibilities of business?: 2 of 12

Businesses, particularly the big ones, are considered the prime resource-holders in society. They accumulate, grow or spread over fertile areas of opportunities the return of their investments after fulfilling their basic obligations to employees, creditors, suppliers and the government and as such serve as pillars to the gr...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: The environment: 16 of 53

There's a hopper dead in the grass Coeval with my bursting mind to smithereens last That I spread freely among the elements to trace What unsung history lies in the gossamer grass. Lucky, a hopper has no genesis of wounds That speaks of Father or Son or Spirit Or arms that blight its lair, the turf With stains eternal of gun...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Betrayal: 5 of 14

Betrayal is a non-virtue that has stood the test of time similar to the parallel virtue of Trust. It lives everywhere, lurking behind all walls, its sharp claws ready to clutch and pierce the necks of the confident, the trusting and the gullible. If it is omnipresent, so is Trust. It's nature is as timeless and eternal as Lo...
Business > Management (Other) Management tips: How to negotiate with unions: 1 of 1

Collective Bargaining is a process whereby organized labor negotiates with management for new terms and conditions of employment with special focus on increases in salaries and benefits of employees within the bargaining unit. Experience shows that the process of negotiations itself, with the unraveling of character, traits ...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Don't pity me: 133 of 168

Now I choose lunacy As another urgency in my blood. Don't pity me. This rose, for instance, that I pluck Shall bleed And suffer the censorship of God. How shall I see the sun? Once cold upon that solitary day Leave behind the poetry of my conscience? By images: the glitter on stones? By movements: the upturned tide ashore? D...
Business > Human Resources The Peter Principle explained: 4 of 4

I came to know of the Peter Principle when I attended one of our company seminars. Like any other management concept being adopted by the company, it became a buzz-word and oftentimes used to ridicule managers who aspired for promotion or those who had been on the executive seats for a long time. Just what is the Peter Princ...