Top 10 Strategies For Weight Loss

1. Exercise
2. Pump Iron
3. Keep a Food Diary
4. Stay Focused on Healthy, Not Thin
5. Find Out What’s Eating You Psychologically
6. Get Support and Encouragement from Others
7. Watch Your Portions Sizes
8. Lose Weight Slowly With Small Changes
9. Slow Down while Eating
10. Eat Less Fat, But Do It Wisely

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(Found at Lifehacker)

Pool of Siloam

It’s there, right where John said it was.

Spiritual Formation in the Church

What is spiritual formation? And how does a church do it? A professor and pastor discuss the new language of making disciples.

Willard: Pastors need to redefine success. The popular model of success involves the ABCs—attendance, buildings, and cash. Instead of counting Christians, we need to weigh them. We weigh them by focusing on the most important kind of growth—love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, kindness, and so on—fruit in keeping with the gospel and the kingdom.

Zander: Spiritual formation needs to connect with what people are dealing with in their daily lives. For example, you tell the congregation, “We’re going to learn how to live without anxiety and fear; is anybody interested?” Most of the folks won’t believe it’s possible. You start by teaching what Jesus said about anxiety. Then begin practicing the simple disciplines that help reshape our minds. And share stories about how you’re doing through the process. We don’t start with the disciplines; we start with the real life issue.

Improve Your Podcasts

10 tips for improving your podcasts

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Ten Dot-Com Failures

I think I spent some Flooz once.

(found at Guardian Unlimited: Online Blog)

50 Cool Websites

From Time.com

30 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do on the Internet

Dan Tynan
From the July 2005 issue of PC World magazine

So you think you have the Web all figured out? Well, think again.

Did you know that you could charter a private jet online, star in your own reality TV show, or download songs as you drive your car? That’s just the beginning. You can tell your boss a few unpleasant truths without revealing your identity and sniff out trends before your oh-so-hip friends get wind of them. Using the right sites, you can give Google a face-lift, promote your products or bloviate about your blog, publish a novel, write a business plan, scan your PC for spies, and get free tech help. You can even use the Web to uncover government secrets and to predict your own demise. (Those last two activities will be unrelated, we hope.) Best of all, most of these sites won’t charge you a dime.

Here are some of the more surprising things the Web can do for you.

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