Five self-help books that actually helped

There?s something about self-help that is fundamentally uncool. Being into coin-collecting or Dungeons & Dragons is an order of magnitude more socially acceptable than having titles like ?How to Get People to Like You? and ?You Can Be Happy No Matter What!? staring out from your bookshelf.

Somehow it isn?t yet obvious that a persistent interest in self-improvement is probably the defining trait of the interesting and accomplished person.?Self-help literature, though, is a particular kind of self-improvement. Turning to self-help is admitting you don?t quite know how to drive a regular human life. It?s like designating yourself with a voluntary ?special needs? status.

I don?t think the need for some intentional re-balancing is special though. None of us are born knowing how to drive. It?s probably not unusual to feel like you?ve never been taught quite how to steer a human life competently, but it may be unusual to admit.

I think what makes us most suspicious of self-help is that we?ve all seen people who are constantly absorbing it and not changing a thing. There are self-help junkies out there ? people who get high on the feeling that their life is improving simply by reading the book, yet never actually address their habits in everyday life. They get high on the feeling of possibility, and when the feeling fades they buy another.

Their mistake is simple: they?re missing the ?self? part of self-help. Insights by themselves are useless without action, which is what changes lives. But you can get the self-help high just by reading, and that high is enough to make you feel (for the moment) that nothing needs fixing.

The self-help junkie habit is obvious and ugly to everyone else, and so the whole genre is reviled for its empty promises, rather than the reader for his total lack of responsibility. Consequently, self-help remains so uncool that even hipsters won?t touch it.?

Another reason these books are uncool is that most of them are crap. They tend to be written by psychologists who know a lot about what?s wrong with the reader but don?t have much in the way of charisma or writing chops, which makes the reading experience dry and kind of embarrassing. Their examples are cheesy and long-winded. Aside from being boring and clinical, they?re often just dorks.

There are gems though. Some of them, for me, were pivotal in developing in me a much freer and lighter way of moving through the world. Incorporating the bits that moved me and ignoring the rest, they helped me form a worldview that actually suits the world the way it is, and lets me live in it in a way where joy is normal and angst is the exception. So they should be read without shame.

The big ones:

1) Don?t Sweat the Small Stuff (?and it?s all small stuff) ? Richard Carlson

I was nearing my own rock bottom around ten years ago when a family member lent me this book. I was struggling in college. I had no self-esteem, a small and shrinking circle of friends, and couldn?t imagine how things could get better. I read it in a couple of bus commutes, and I could feel things lightening.

The whole book is 100 short strategies for dealing with day-to-day stresses and downers. Each one is about a page.

#22: Repeat to yourself, ?Life isn?t an emergency.? #4: Be aware of the snowball effect of your thinking. #40: When in doubt about whose turn it is to take out the trash, go ahead and take it out. #76: Get comfortable not knowing.

It was my first exposure to the incredible leverage a person has by learning how to let life happen and respond calmly, rather than trying desperately to control what happens.

Since then I?ve noticed that that?s the basic difference between happy people and sad people: the happy people concern themselves with what they can do on their end. Sad people concern themselves with everything else.

Anyone could benefit from this book.

2) Wherever You Go There You Are ? Jon Kabat-Zinn

Jon Kabat-Zinn is a stress management expert who has found that the most powerful tool for dealing with daily stress is mindfulness.

Wherever You Go There You Are amounts to an elegant introduction to informal meditation, but a person could get a lot out of it even if they have no intention of ever sitting cross-legged with closed eyes. You can feel your mind slowing down as you read the rough-cut recycled pages, its short passages intercut with Kabir and Rumi verses. Kabat-Zinn keeps it non-denominational and fluff-free.

If you spend a decade reading different people?s accounts of how to be happy, you discover that almost all of them can be boiled down to a few principles, and the primary one by far is to keep your attention in the present moment. That?s what mindfulness is. It is an art, and there may not be a gentler and more readable introduction to it than this book.

If you do check it out, and you like the tree he?s barking up, his later (and much larger) book Coming To Our Senses takes an even deeper look at mindfulness in real life.

3) The Four Agreements ? Don Miguel Ruiz

In The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz characterizes personal beliefs as agreements, which is right on the mark; nothing is true to you unless you agree that it is. If, in your eyes, you?re no good, you have agreed at some point that you are no good. You will live this truth until you stop agreeing. We typically don?t realize we?re constantly making these agreements, yet they define your personal world, which is the only world you?ll ever live in.

Ruiz advocates identifying and challenging all the agreements you?ve accumulated, and toss them out in favor of agreeing to four commitments:

Be impeccable with your word, don?t take anything personally, don?t make assumptions, and always do your best.

If you make those agreements it?s almost impossible to let yourself down, feel guilt or give in to fear. They short-circuit virtually all self-defeating human behaviors.

These days, rather than trying to be perfect each day with each agreement, I work the agreements backwards when things seem to be going wrong. Any time I feel stuck, it takes about five seconds to identify which of the four agreements I broke to get there. Either I?ve been untruthful in some way, I?m making assumptions, I?m taking something personally, or I?m cutting corners. I don?t know if I?ve ever gotten myself into trouble in any way other than those.

4) The Power of Now ? Eckhart Tolle

Oprah made him simultaneously popular and uncool in most demographics when she did a whole webseries on A New Earth the follow-up to The Power of Now. He was attacked by the religious housewife contingent of Oprah?s audience for his ?false religion?, which is all nonsense if you read A New Earth or its predecessor ? they?re both nonreligious and straightforward. And he?s an extremely nice man.

The Power of Now is an exceptional book. It?s easy to recognize the primacy of living in the moment as an ingredient to happiness, and Eckhart Tolle is by no means the first to focus on it. But he goes further by articulating that it is not only the only path to happiness, but the entirety of the path ? there?s nothing else you need to do, because all of our suffering comes from living in thoughts about a badly-remembered past or an imaginary future.

The concept is ancient, and Tolle credits the ancients for it, but he?s one of the first to deliver it in plain language with no religious coloring or mythological allegories. He just tells you how to do it.

5) This is How ? Augusten Burroughs

If you still can?t get over your self-help gag reflex, then this is the one for you. Augusten Borroughs set out to write a self-helpful book derides certain self-help standards ? particularly the catch-all prescription of positive thinking to everyone, when many help-seekers are people who are experiencing extreme suffering and suicidal thoughts.

A lot of self-help is rather generalized, for people who feel troubled but not quite maimed by serious instances of loss or abuse. Burroughs has had a difficult life, which he shares candidly in This is How, addressing his fellow sufferers of the worst baggage imaginable. The subtitle of the book is Help for the self: proven aid in overcoming shyness, grief, molestation, disease, fatness, lushery, spinsterhood, decrepitude and more, for young and old alike.

He really digs into the ugliness of personal suffering and tells you how to deal. Some of the chapter titles give a clue: How to Feel Like Shit, How to Be Fat, How to Get Over Your Addiction to the Past, How to End Your Life, How to Lose Someone You Love, How to Let a Child Die.

The tone is very different from traditional self-help. There?s no smileyness or pandering. Burroughs is blunt and a bit foul-mouthed, and tells you what?s going to work and what isn?t, if you really do want to get better. The result is refreshing. You feel like you?re being slapped and told how it is, rather than being hugged and told to think happy thoughts.

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The way self-help works is by the adding up of poignant bits over time. Reading a great book like one of these can give you the feeling of breaking through in real-time, and it may even leave you different forever. But there are no cures ? the rest of your life will always remain ahead of you, so it?s a matter of becoming better equipped to manage it.

Your natural skepticism and fluff-detector will dismiss a lot of what you read, and this is good, but certain aphorisms and skills will stick. Once in a while one will appear in your mind at exactly the right time, and you feel yourself doing something differently. And now a window is open where you didn?t know there was one. Your world has gotten a bit bigger, and a bit lighter.

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Legendary NYC mayor Koch dies; Monday funeral set

NEW YORK (AP) ? In 1977, New York City was deep into its worst fiscal crisis ever. Riots erupted that summer during a blackout. And a fire in one of the most blighted, bombed-out parts of town that fall led Howard Cosell to announce during a World Series game at Yankee Stadium: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning."

Into that mess stepped Ed Koch as the city's newly elected mayor. Within a few years, New York was back on firmer financial footing and the fears that the city was sliding into anarchy had given way to a new sense of energy and optimism.

Koch didn't do it all by himself, but is credited with hectoring, cajoling and noodging the city to make the hard decisions on its road back.

"The whole city was crumbling, and then we elected Ed Koch," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday during a ceremony marking the centennial of Grand Central Terminal, a once-crumbling edifice Koch helped save from the wrecking ball.

"When we were down, Ed Koch picked us up. When we were worried, he gave us confidence," Bloomberg said. "When someone needed a good kick in the rear, he gave it to them ? and, if you remember, he enjoyed it."

The brash, opinionated Koch, who led the city in the late 1970s and '80s with a combination of determination, chutzpah and humor, died Friday of congestive heart failure at age 88.

A funeral was set for Monday in Manhattan as tributes poured in from presidents, political allies and adversaries, some of whom were no doubt thinking more of his earlier years in City Hall, before many black leaders and liberals became fed up with what they felt were racially insensitive and needlessly combative remarks.

The Rev. Al Sharpton said that although they disagreed on many things, Koch "was never a phony or a hypocrite. ... He said what he meant. He meant what he said. He fought for what he believed."

President Barack Obama said in a statement that Koch's energy, force of personality and sense of commitment "always informed and enlivened the public discourse." Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton praised him as a leader who "stood up for the underprivileged and underrepresented in every corner of every borough."

During Koch's three terms from 1978 to 1989, he helped New York climb out of its financial crisis through tough fiscal policies and razor-sharp budget cuts.

To much of the rest of America, the bald, paunchy figure became the embodiment of New York City's brash, irrepressible character ? the mayor who raced around town asking average New Yorkers, "How'm I doing," and usually being in too much of a hurry to wait for an answer.

Quick with a quip or a putdown, Koch dismissed his critics as "wackos," feuded with Donald Trump ("piggy") and fellow former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ("nasty man"). He lambasted the Rev. Jesse Jackson and once reduced the head of the City Council to tears.

"You punch me, I punch back," Koch once observed. "I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag." Or as he put it in his best-selling autobiography "Mayor": "I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them."

Koch's favorite moment as mayor, fittingly, was a loud one. During a 1980 transit strike, he strode down to the Brooklyn Bridge to boost the spirits of commuters who had to walk to work.

"I began to yell, 'Walk over the bridge! Walk over the bridge! We're not going to let these bastards bring us to our knees!' And people began to applaud," he recalled last year.

But New Yorkers eventually tired of Koch. Homelessness and AIDS soared in the 1980s, and critics charged that City Hall's response was too little, too late. Koch's latter years in office were also marked by scandals involving those around him and rising racial tension.

In 1989, he lost a bid for a fourth term to David Dinkins, who became the city's first black mayor.

A lifelong bachelor who lived in Greenwich Village, Koch championed gay rights, taking on the Roman Catholic Church and scores of political leaders. His own sexual orientation was the subject of speculation and rumors. During his 1977 mayoral campaign against Mario Cuomo, posters that read "Vote for Cuomo, Not the Homo" mysteriously appeared in some neighborhoods.

Koch offered a typically blunt response to inquiries about his sexuality: "My answer to questions on this subject is simply, 'F--- off.' There have to be some private matters left."

Describing himself as "a liberal with sanity," Koch supported President George W. Bush for re-election in 2004 and spoke at the GOP convention. He also endorsed Bloomberg's re-election at a time when Bloomberg was a Republican.

Proudly Jewish, Koch was an outspoken supporter of Israel.

After leaving office, he worked as a lawyer and continued to offer his opinions as a political pundit, movie reviewer, food critic and judge on "The People's Court." He wrote 10 nonfiction books, four mystery novels and three children's books, played himself in the movies "The Muppets Take Manhattan" and "The First Wives Club" and hosted "Saturday Night Live."

Edward Irving Koch was born in the Bronx on Dec. 12, 1924, the second of three children of Polish immigrants. During the Depression, the family lived in Newark, N.J.

After serving as a combat infantryman in Europe during World War II, he got a law degree and began his political career in Greenwich Village by winning a district leader race as a liberal Democratic reformer. Koch was elected to the City Council and then to Congress, serving from 1969 to 1977.

With New York in dire financial condition in 1977, Koch defeated Mayor Abe Beame and Cuomo in the Democratic primary to win his first term in City Hall. He breezed to re-election in 1981 and 1985, winning an unprecedented three-quarters of the votes cast.

In 1982, he made a run for governor against Cuomo, then the state's lieutenant governor. But Koch's bid blew up after he mouthed off about a possible move to Albany, saying that living in the suburbs was "wasting your life."

Koch's third term was beset by corruption scandals, one of which ended in the suicide of a top party boss in 1986.

Meanwhile, racial unease ran high after the deaths of two young black men who were set upon by gangs of whites in 1986 and 1989, and the mayor fell out with many black voters for purging anti-poverty programs and saying, among other things, that busing and racial quotas had done more to divide the races than to achieve integration. He also said Jews would be "crazy" to vote for Jackson during the civil rights leader's 1988 presidential campaign.

Koch attributed his defeat to longevity, not racial tensions. But he also said his biggest regret as he left office was that "many people in the black community do not perceive that I was their friend."

On Friday, Jackson said in a statement that Koch's "leadership and legacy will never be forgotten."

At 83, Koch paid $20,000 for a burial plot at Trinity Church Cemetery, at the time the only graveyard in Manhattan that still had space. "I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone," he explained.

The funeral will be Monday at Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan. Dignitaries including Bloomberg and Ido Aharoni, the Israeli consul general in New York, will be among the speakers, said a person familiar with the arrangements, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person wasn't authorized to discuss them.

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Associated Press writer Samantha Gross contributed to this report.

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GameStick wraps up successful Kickstarter run with nearly $650K

With a sum totaling around six times what the folks at PlayJam initially requested, the GameStick Kickstarter campaign can certainly be called a success. The project ended today just shy of $650K ($647,658 to be precise), resulting in its successful funding. Now all the folks at PlayJam have to do is deliver on the promise of their Kickstarter: produce and ship around 5,500 GameStick's by April (not to mention the Dock, and various special edition versions of the GameStick itself). A tall order, but one no doubt assisted by an infusion of cash six times what PlayJam expected to be working with. The model seen above is the final controller design, remodeled based on feedback from the backers that brought GameStick to life. It's the final model backers will see when their unit arrives this April.

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Four questions that will be answered by UFC 156

UFC 156 is the UFC's annual Super Bowl weekend card, and as usual, it's a big one. A former champion will drop down to try to win a belt in a new weight class, a Strikeforce champion will try to win a shot at the UFC heavyweight belt, and these questions will be answered.

What have the layoff and injuries done to Jose Aldo? By the time he walks into the cage on Saturday night, it will have been 385 days between Aldo's fights. He had several injuries and had bouts canceled twice. It's hard to say if we'll see the invincible Aldo who fought Chad Mendes last January.

How does the new weight class suit Frankie Edgar? Since starting as a lightweight, Edgar has had doubters because he was on the small side for 155 lbs. It worked for him, as he did win and defend the UFC lightweight championship. Now that he's lost it, he's trying again for the belt at 145 lbs. Will the new weight class fit him even better than lightweight did?

Did Alistair Overeem look past Antonio Silva? At the pre-fight press conference, Overeem called the bout with Silva a warm-up fight.

"Obviously I've not fought for 13 months, so it's going to be a good test for me," Overeem said. "I should not overlook 'Bigfoot' Silva, but if I look at my training and what I do to my sparring partners, I should not make 'Bigfoot' Silva more than he is. He should not be a problem, but that's why it's a warm-up fight."

That's dangerous ground to tread, as looking past the man who is about to punch you makes it lightly you'll get knocked out. Overeem should beat Silva, but the one way he can lose is to not take Silva seriously.

Can Jon Fitch use his wrestling to neutralize Demian Maia? You may not like to watch Fitch's matches. You may have used the words "lay and pray." But you cannot deny Fitch's ability to use his wrestling to hold off opponent's strengths. This time, he'll be using it against Maia, whose submissions and jiu-jitsu are tough to beat. This is Fitch's chance to show he can hold off even the best ground games.

What are you most looking forward to for UFC 156 -- or are you not looking forward to it at all? Speak up in the comments, Facebook or Twitter.

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White House: Hagel will win Senate confirmation

Republican Chuck Hagel, President Obama's choice for defense secretary, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republican Chuck Hagel, President Obama's choice for defense secretary, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate Armed Services Committee ranking member Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., second from left, asks a question of former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, second from right, President Barack Obama's choice for defense secretary, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., left, and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, listen. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Sen. Lindsey Graham, D-S.C., holds a copy of a congressional letter urging the European Union to blacklist Hezbollah as he questions former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama's choice for defense secretary, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Hagel's nomination. Hagel refused to sign the 2006 letter when he was a Senator urging the European Union to declare Hezbollah a terrorist organization. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., center, flanked by Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., left, and the committee's ranking Republican Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., right, asks a question of former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama's choice for defense secretary, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, during the committee hearing on Hagel's nomination. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., questions Chuck Hagel, a former two-term GOP senator and President Obama's choice for defense secretary, during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. Hagel faced strong Republican resistance and was forced to explain past remarks and votes even as he appeared on a path to confirmation as Obama second-term defense secretary and the nation's 24th Pentagon chief. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The White House on Friday dismissed criticism of Chuck Hagel's hesitant congressional testimony and insisted that it expects the Senate to confirm him as defense secretary.

One day after Hagel was roughed up in a grueling confirmation hearing, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Hagel did a "fine job" and the Obama administration would be stunned if Republicans tried to block the nomination of a decorated Vietnam combat veteran and former two-term GOP senator.

"The president believes Sen. Hagel will make an excellent secretary of defense and that he will be confirmed and he looks forward to working with Sen. Hagel in that position as we continue to advance our national security priorities," Carney told reporters.

If confirmed, Hagel, 66, would be the lone Republican in President Barack Obama's Cabinet, the first Vietnam veteran to be defense secretary and the first enlisted man to take the post.

Hagel seemed ill-prepared under withering cross-examination from Senate Armed Services Committee Republicans in nearly eight hours of testimony. He was repeatedly pressed about past statements and votes on Israel, Iran and nuclear weapons.

Senate Democrats, who hold the majority, continue to stand behind the nomination, and no Democrat has said he or she would vote against the president's pick for his second-term national security team.

But Republican opposition grew on Friday as Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt, a member of the committee; Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk and North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr announced that they would vote against Hagel. About a dozen Republicans have said they will oppose their former colleague and several others have indicated that they are likely to vote no.

So far, Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran, the top Republican on the Appropriations Committee, is the only Republican to announce his support for Hagel.

Burr said the hearing "confirmed for me many of the concerns I had about the nomination." Kirk said his existing concerns combined with Hagel's testimony were the reason for his opposition.

Blunt said "Hagel's answers before the committee were simply too inconsistent, particularly as they related to Iran and Israel. The idea that we can contain a nuclear Iran and his view that we should not have unilateral sanctions are just wrong and are too dangerous for us to try."

In fact, Hagel corrected his statement about containment of Iran and said all options, including military action, should be on the table to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

While Blunt announced his opposition, he signaled he would not support any effort to block the nomination. Blunt is a member of the GOP leadership team, and his reluctance to wage a filibuster fight is a positive sign for Hagel amid the threat of efforts to block the nomination.

Democrats hold a 14-12 edge on the committee, which could vote as early as Thursday, and a 55-45 advantage in the full Senate. Democrats would need five Republican votes to stop a filibuster, and GOP lawmakers often have spoken about the right of a president to get an up-or-down vote on his nominee.

Carney did not mention Republican Sen. John McCain by name, but he clearly was referring to him when he questioned the "badgering ... over issues like, 'why did you disagree with me over Iraq?' "

"Now somewhat bizarrely, given that we have 66,000 Americans in uniform in Afghanistan, senators yesterday in the hearing for the nomination of a secretary of defense asked very few questions about that active war," Carney said. "Instead they wanted to re-litigate the past. That argument will continue, no doubt."

The nominee's fiercest exchange came with McCain, a fellow Vietnam veteran and onetime close friend over Iraq.

The Arizona Republican pressed Hagel on whether he was right or wrong about his opposition to President George W. Bush's decision to send an extra 30,000 troops to Iraq in 2007 at a point when the war seemed in danger of being lost. Hagel, who voted to authorize military force in Iraq, later opposed the conflict, comparing it to Vietnam and arguing that it shifted the focus from Afghanistan.

"Were you right? Were you correct in your assessment?" McCain asked.

"I would defer to the judgment of history to sort that out," Hagel said as the two men talked over each other.

"The committee deserves your judgment as to whether you were right or wrong about the surge," McCain insisted.

Unable to elicit a simple response, McCain said the record should show that Hagel refused to answer. And he made it clear that he would have the final word ? with his vote, which he said would be influenced by Hagel's refusal to answer yes or no.

"I think history has already made a judgment about the surge, sir, and you're on the wrong side of it," McCain told Hagel.

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Hundreds turn out for inaugural Dubai Outsource Zone Cricket Cup ...

The eagerly anticipated event took place at the Insportz Club in Dubai on 25th January and saw 20 teams comprising companies located in DOZ participate for a chance to win the tournament trophy.

The event and was attended by more than 500 spectators who turned out in force to cheer on participants and colleagues from some of DOZ's premium business partners, including Habib Bank Zurich, du, Royal Bank of Scotland, Mashreq Bank, Back Office, Cupola, IDAMA, AXA Insurance, First Data, Pamcal, ADCB, Dunia Finance, Serco, Gulf Outsourcing, Interglobe, Jumeirah Group and TECOM Investments.

The DOZ Cricket Cup was awarded to the team from Mashreq Bank following a close final match with runners up, du.

Speaking after the event, Ammar Malik, Director of Operations, Dubai Outsource Zone said: "In addition to providing world class services to DOZ's business partners, we strive to encourage a healthy work life balance across our community. The success of the DOZ Cricket Cup not only highlights the popularity of cricket in Dubai, but more significantly the potential of business zones to bring together members of the community. The establishment of the tournament falls in line with the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai to promote sports and competition across Dubai, a vision that DOZ fully supports."

"We are delighted that the tournament attracted so many teams from across DOZ and hope to make the Cricket Cup an annual event.All teams put in their best efforts at the event and at the end of the day, the best side won the cup - congratulations to Team Mashreq."

Farhad Irani, Head of Retail Banking Group at Mashreq commented: "I would like to congratulate Team Mashreq for their spectacular performance and wining spirit throughout the tournament. This is a reflection of what teamwork really stands for. We are grateful to DOZ management for organising this community bonding event. Our players demonstrated pure talent, playing each game as if it were the final. They are worthy of being declared Champions of DOZ Cricket Cup 2013 and of bringing the trophy home."

DOZ was established in June 2004. Companies set up in the zone can expect to experience an environment that attracts different elements of the value chain from banking and finance, insurance, IT, legal to airlines and hospitality. Companies currently operating in DOZ include Genpact, Interglobe, Serco, Back Office, AXA Insurance, Du, Mashreq Bank, Arab Bank, First Data, Cupola, Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd, Al Futtaim Willis and Jumeirah Group.

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Don't Get Discouraged In Your Network Marketing Business

Don?t Get Discouraged In Your Network Marketing Business

Funny thing happened to me today. I just can?t believe this after over twenty years in the industry.? I was talking to a prospect and they were saying how they were miserable and need a big change in their lives. They were not where they wanted to be in their lives and were broke and the list went on and on.

I talked to them about how I made my living and all that it provides me and how I would train them every step of the way through the process.

Then the person said, ?no, I don?t want to do that.? The only thing that could make a substantial change in their lives and they wanted no part of it. It just amazing to me even after over twenty years in the network marketing industry it still baffles me.

If you want change in your life, you want success, you want more money and freedom to do what you want with your life. Then what are you going to do to make that happen? Are you going to keep going to your job that is not providing you with any of that and no hope of changing. I mean in five years you will be in the same boat that you?re in today just five years from now.

You can?t get hung up on what people do but it is just funny to me that so many people will complain about their situation but won?t do anything to change it. I am SO glad that over 20 years ago I saw this business and knew that it was this or slave my life away. I know that my life is drastically different than if I stayed the course I was on and I have helped untold

So when you get down with the way things go in your business don?t get discouraged because we all go through it. From the highest paid person in Network Marketing to the brand new rep. Hang in there and keep doing what you need to do to change your life!

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