Could you lose your job? The credit crunch is hitting everywhere. Which means that firms are downsizing and cutting jobs.

If you’ve been selected as one of those who will no longer have a job, what can you do to help you cope with your job loss?

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Let’s face it, everywhere you turn there are opportunities to spend more money so maybe you need to check out this money management tip.

Most stores are great at getting you to spend more cash than you originally intended. They call this “impulse buying” – where you look at something and think “yes, I’d like to buy that now”.

Which is kind of OK when times are good. But when money is tight, it pays to cut down your impulse buying and keep the cash in your wallet.

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Back at school you were probably told by your teacher to “sit up straight” and stop slouching in your chair – in other words, they were telling you to correct your posture. And you probably did, at least until their back was turned.

Now you realize that they were almost certainly right to nag you.

But what can you do to correct your posture?

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If you’re in a room full of strangers, it can be difficult to start up a conversation or begin making conversation. You stand there, clutching your coffee, hoping someone else will make the first move and start talking to you.

Or, even worse, you’re sat opposite your dream partner and the conversation either never starts or just stops. Leaving an awkward silence hanging in the air.

So how can you learn the art of conversation? Ideally without resorting to those cheesy lines you’ve always hated when other people use them with you.

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How to stop nightmares? We all have nightmares occasionally. In fact, it’s thought that as many as one in five adults have a nightmare at least once a week. That’s a lot of scary dreams.

So what can be done to stop nightmares in adults?

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There are lots of different hypnotic inductions including the hypnosis crystal ball induction. These range from the spectacular ones, often used in hypnosis stage shows, where people drop into a hypnotic trance almost instantly, through inductions where your arm gradually drops and as it drops, you also drop deeper into trance.

The crystal ball induction doesn’t fall into the “spectacular” description. Instead, it’s designed to take you into a deep state of relaxation.

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Have you noticed how some people are luckier than others and wondered if it’s possible to make your own luck?

They are the ones who win prizes, get the raise at work and generally seem to get all the luck that’s around.

Other people seem to be almost permanently unlucky.

If you fall into this second group, or if you just want to increase the amount of luck in your life, the good news is that it’s more in your control than you might first think.

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Some people are never on time and have just never figured out how to be punctual.

If you’re someone who finds it next to impossible to be punctual, even if you hate other people being late by even a millisecond, is there hope for you?

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You’ve been through teacher training college and passed your teaching degree but nothing in your training said how to be a confident teacher.

Or maybe you’ve been teaching for a while but have a new class or you’re in a new school or you’ve been asked to teach a new subject or you’ve changed the age range you teach.

Whatever the reason, your confidence level isn’t as high as it could be…

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Go on, admit it, you occasionally get the urge to pick your nose but you usually stop nose picking just in time.

But what happens if the urge changes from something you can control to a habit? One where you seem to be constantly picking your nose, much to the disgust of everyone within eyesight of you.

As you’d expect with any habit, it’s been given a name: Rhinotillexomania. But it’s a lot easier to call it nose picking…

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