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When the eagle soars what keeps him in flight so effortlessly? Flying a crossed the sky on a warm summers day. How does he see his pray at such a long and distant way off in the still of the night? How can they dive at such a fast pace when mating and pull away just before it is to late to smash into the earth below?

Know that the same ancient stuff that gives eagles the ability to fly, is the same magnificent stuff that runs through the veins of a newborn child on a cold November morning! We shall call this stuff Life Force! The same Life Force that takes it last breath in the elderly here in the world of form, is the same life force that helps the teenager hit the winning home run to snatch the state championship from the opposing team!

This life force makes the world go around and all in it exist just the same. How can a fish have a purpose you may ask yourself? Please know that the fish has a purpose and that purpose is perfect and should be blessed and given the same reverence that any living thing should receive! Why you may ask yourself? The fish when caught and cooked shall become a meal for little Billy. It keeps him alive and the blood pumping through his veins, come to find out that little Billy grows up to invent the cure for cancer!

Little did we know that the fish that Billy ate one day, which keep him alive and the blood pumping, had a small part to play in the roll of helping millions to not suffer any more from a dreaded disease! The life force that ran through the fish, when cleaned and cooked gave Billy the energy to go on and nourished his body and that kept his mind strong so that he could carry out his mission or life’s work in this world of form.

The same life force that keep’s Billy going when the going was getting tough is the same life force that runs through the veins of all the little children who now live and get a chance to experience the same life force that little Billy did, because of his great discovery, what gave him that idea? Call it what you want. Call it luck, drive, a happing, a gift from God. YET I KNOW IT IS AND WAS LOVE AND THIS I CHOOSE TO CALL THE LIFE FORCE THAT HOLDS EVERYTHING TOGETER AND RUNS THROUGH EVERYTHING!

Did not God create the ocean as well as the bear? Then how can they be bad in anyway? What keeps the ocean from drying up and the bears heart pumping? Is it not the love of God? I believe so and I chose to call this amazing thing LIFE FORCE, THE INTIMATE LOVE OF GOD THAT RUNS THROUGH EVERYTHING AND KEEPS THE UNIVERSE IN BALANCE! So when you see the eagle soar, the baby cry, and the bear eat a fish and little Billy inviting the cure for cancer, know that they are all good and bless them and know that the love of God runs through all of them and this is the Life Force that I have been talking about!

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

Buddha (563?-483? BC) Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism

‘Strange title’, you may be thinking. I’ll explain. Last week I managed to hear a fascinating talk by Dr David R Hamilton Ph.D* about how our thoughts really do seem to affect our lives and the lives of those around us. He spoke of the weird and wonderful, (including ice crystals which appeared to have been formed in response to a specific word or set of words) but backed up by scientific facts and figures and a real example of how thoughts can affect not only your body, but the body of someone who you direct those thoughts to. The lasting impression I came away with, however, was not all the fantastic things he told us (lots involving the vibration of water depending on your mood and also the Quantum Field) but the final thoughts he wanted to share with us concerning his own personal rules for life. These involved loving yourself, love for others and love for nature. He told us that as part of his philosophy of loving others he ‘pings’ happiness at anyone who he thinks may need it. This involves flicking your fingers at people, either covertly or otherwise. The idea is that you send them a happy thought as you ‘ping’ and somehow that thought will make a difference to your target.

I spent the whole journey home ‘pinging’ happiness at all the other drivers on the road home! I have no idea if they received the waves of happiness I was sending out, but it certainly made the journey much more pleasant! What is your philosophy with regards to other people? Do you try and be as pleasant as possible as you go through your daily routine or do you not even think about it as you’ve already got too much on your plate at the moment? Maybe this is a good week to bring some more happiness into your life and the lives of others – even if it is only by ‘pinging’!

What makes you happy? List anything that comes to mind, however trivial it may seem. What are you doing now that you enjoy? If you hate what you are doing, you will find that moving towards achieving your goals will become an uphill struggle. Discard the things that make you unhappy or find a way to have fun with them. Live a purposeful life, motivated towards your goals. Do things with enthusiasm, commitment, and humor.

If you’ve wanted to address your eating and drinking habits for a while, but haven’t quite got round to it, consider this: your diet can greatly affect your emotions and more. Eating regularly and well, with a balanced choice of food-stuffs can lift your mood, improve your fitness, give you more energy, feed muscles, improve circulation, prevent illness, strengthen your immune system and make you more able to cope with life’s stresses – phew! Watch out for the things like salt, sugar, alcohol and caffeine which are proven to affect mood.

Happiness is good for you! Being happy and laughing out loud has proven benefits: improved respiration, lowered blood pressure, tuned up heart muscles and a boosting of the immune system. Make yourself a priority. Decide to enjoy each moment. Allow yourself to express your feelings, one way or another. Paint, sing, speak, or write, even if no one else is ever going to see or hear it. Sing loudly! How can you remain miserable while singing at the top of your voice?

A good way to lift your mood is by taking up or increasing your level of physical activity. Those people who exercise or indulge in some form of regular physical activity have been found to be happier, more motivated and mentally alert. Even short bursts of moderate activity can enhance your attitude towards life.

Choose to spend time with people who make you laugh, rather than those who bring you down. It is important that you enjoy the people you spend time with. Acknowledge their input in your life and thank them regularly. ‘Ping’ happiness at them whenever you can! Who would you like to spend time with this week? How can you make it happen?

If you have no hobbies or interests to challenge and absorb you, you may have a tendency to get stressed, depressed, discouraged and bored. Why not try out something new this week and take a risk. You never know, you may even have some fun!

What are your surroundings like? Do they lift and inspire you, or do they make you feel low and drag you down? Do the colors around you stimulate and energize you, calm you and bring you joy, or are they dull and dreary? What can you do to make your surroundings more cheerful? Think about how certain colors affect your mood. Which ones make you feel good? How can you add more of them into your life?

Don’t waste time hanging onto old grudges etc. Free up that space for happier thoughts. Attitude is everything! Make your thoughts work for you!

*See his book ‘It’s The Thought That Counts’ at www.Amazon.co.uk

Kate Harper is based in the beautiful Highlands of Scotland. Check out her website http://www.harpercoaching.com

She works with people who are fed up with moaning about their lives and have decided to do something about it. If that is you, please take a look at Kate’s website. Her special interest is in promoting Wellbeing through coaching. She is happy to work with people from any part of the world.

“The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.” Madame Marie du Deffand

Take your first step today and contact Kate.

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The key to selling boats is knowing the competition. In addition to current financial conditions, Mike McDermott of My Luxury Yachts has an intimate knowledge of what yachts are currently in demand and why. Mike can advise a client if they are asking too much or too little for their yacht. In addition, Mike will often recommend small repairs or cosmetic enhancements which will make your yacht more attractive to potential buyers.

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When you sell your boat through My Luxury Yachts, all the advertising is free of charge. In addition to our web page, your yacht will be featured prominently on current web and print listings which are regularly perused by other brokers and clients. Potential buyers are screened by Mike McDermott personally so you don’t need to worry about looky loos and dreamers wasting your time.

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Finding a buyer for your boat is just half the battle. The paperwork and legalities which must be completed afterwards can be intimidating to someone unfamiliar with yacht sales. With Mike McDermott, you get a certified professional broker with twenty years of experience with yacht transactions to handle the contract and the transfer of ownership. All you have to do to complete the sale is show up and sign.

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All of the above services are 100% percent free of charge. My Luxury Yachts will be compensated by taking a small percentage of the profit after the sale is complete. In most cases, this commission is paid for by additional profit you will make when using a professional broker. If you have a new or used yacht for sale, call My Luxury Yachts and let Mike McDermott sell it for you!

In a previous article I mentioned a new credo that I’m working to adopt into my life, and that’s to “do one thing (at a time) and do it well”.

When I can focus my thoughts, efforts and energies on that ONE thing (at a time), I’m much more productive and I enjoy my work (or play, or learning) much more. – From “The Magic of Storytelling” by Linda Dessau.

Today I’m going to discuss two phases of the creative process – inspiration and implementation – and how to maximize momentum in each phase.

When we procrastinate, we fuel our inner critic’s statements that, “You’re no good”, “You can’t do it” and “You’ll never finish it”. We provide evidence that those messages are true, and we sink a little lower in our seats and a little father away from our passion.

When we gain momentum in the creative flow, however, quite the opposite occurs. We create evidence that, “I AM good!” “I CAN do it!” and then, “I finished!”

Two Phases of Creative Expression

The Inspiration Phase

My most creative time is when I wake up in the morning. Without even consciously trying I am visited by countless ideas, solutions to yesterday’s problems, ideas for future projects and other gems.

Momentum carries me before my inner critic is awake enough to stop it.

Sometimes in the inspiration phase, I can consciously harness the momentum. I plant a problem to be solved, and then just open myself up to my muse and let the floodgates pour open.

In fact, I did that when I wrote this article. I knew I wanted to get started on writing, but I didn’t know what I wanted to write about. So I got quiet for a moment until the topic settled in my mind – “momentum”. Then I consciously focused my attention on the topic, with a blank sheet of paper and a pen nearby.

I drafted the structure of the article as I went on with my morning chores.

So the first step of the process – the inspiration – was complete.

But the article wasn’t.

Here’s where we sometimes get stumped in the process – when it’s time to sit down and actually carry out our inspiration. Here’s where the “work” comes in. Here’s where we have to “crank it out”, keep at it; the ongoing, sometimes monotonous task of completing something that we’ve started.

We prefer to stay in the land of inspiration. Where we can just picture the fruits of our labors, the perfect implementation of our creative ideas, without actually having to work at it.

Does this mean that we’re lazy? Well, sometimes, but I don’t think that’s the point. It’s recognizing the different creative energies that are used in the inspiration phase versus the implementation phase.

Most of us don’t consciously procrastinate when it comes to inspiration. We may not make enough time or space in our lives to be open to inspiration, but we don’t usually consciously block it out. Nor could we!

The Implementation Phase

Implementation, however, is another story.

In the implementation phase, procrastination, distraction and lack of focus can all disrupt creative flow and stop momentum to the point where we have to build it up again from scratch.

Have you ever heard the theory that it’s easier to re-write than to write? Do you agree? Why do you think that is?

Re-writing is easier because we’ve got something to work with, something to sink our teeth into. Getting something onto that blank page, though, can be much more difficult.

That’s why staying with one thing, until it’s done, is such an effective method. We expend a huge amount of time and energy building up momentum on a writing project; getting reacquainted with the original inspiration, getting ideas about structure and form, playing ideas off each other, and gaining a true level of intimacy with the work.

Every time we break away from that, whether it’s to answer the phone, get up to stretch, or check on incoming email messages, we lose a little bit of that momentum. Sometimes even as I’m researching a current project, the nature of the Internet (remember it’s nicknamed, “the web”) means it can be several minutes or longer before I get back into the flow again.

Momentum

Here are five strategies that I use to get my momentum going, in order to get and stay in the creative flow.

1. Future Projects File. What sometimes will scatter our attention are new ideas that pop into our heads. This is both in the inspiration phase and in the implementation phase. Any thoughts or ideas that compete with the one we’re actually trying to work on are going to take us out of the momentum of creative flow.

We can get caught up in these thoughts for a couple of reasons. One is that, as I mentioned earlier, it’s more fun to be in the “potential” then the “actual”. But the other reason is that we may have a legitimate concern that we’ll forget the new idea before we get the chance to come back to it.

So I make sure to keep a file dedicated to future project ideas, as well as plenty of scrap paper, so I can quickly capture the essence of the idea. I’m careful not to get into the implementation phase, because that will just take me farther away from the project at hand.

2. Check the desire level for this project. Sometimes when we’re procrastinating it’s for a good reason. Maybe we’ve outgrown the current project and it’s not one that we’re interested in any more. Maybe it’s something we thought we “should” take on, but the decision wasn’t motivated by our own creative drive.

When you’re tempted to let go of a creative project, see which of these scenarios is most true:

1. I still really want to do it, but I feel afraid – afraid to fail, afraid to succeed, afraid to share my work with others or afraid to claim my identity as an artist.

2. I want to have finished the project, I just don’t want to work on the project.

3. I really don’t want to do the project anymore, and I feel completely calm and at peace with the decision to let it go.

In case #3, you can comfortably let go of the project and move on to something you DO want to do.

In case #2, you can try and apply the suggestions I’ve put together here, to harness your momentum and push through the procrastination.

In case #1, you can try to reconnect with your original passion for the project or you can talk to other artists about these fears and how they’ve handled similar situations. Knowing that you’re conquering a fear can add even more fuel to your fire, and more momentum to your work.

3. Have simple and efficient working systems. Painter Robert Genn recently wrote about “economy of means” in his Twice-Weekly letter for creative artists.

He suggests that we be on the lookout for time-wasters such as looking for materials, preparing materials or generally over-complicating things.

Technology can be a huge time-saver, but wrestling with it can also be a huge time-waster. If you run into a technological barrier during your creative work time, try switching to a “low tech” strategy in the moment, and then using another less creative time of day to deal with solving the problem or getting technical support.

Simplicity and efficiency are important in the implementation phase, as well. In order to receive messages from your muse, your mind needs to be clear of cluttering thoughts about what’s on your grocery list or what you wished you said differently to your friend on the phone last night.

In both phases of the creative process, every time a thought or action threatens our momentum, we need ask, “Is this important right now?”

4. Get support from others. To prime your inspiration phase, spend lots of time with people who inspire and support you, and little (if any) time with people who don’t.

You can also pull in that inspiration while you’re working to generate ideas, by looking at pictures, quotes, cards and letters that remind you of those connections.

In the implementation phase, if you’re really struggling to get at it or stay with it, try pulling in a supportive friend or family member. Ask them to receive a phone call from you, at the top of every hour, when you can check in with your progress.

Even if you simply leave them a voicemail message, this can be a huge motivator to stay on track.

5. When all else fails, just start. In my other writings about procrastination, I’ve talked about the 15-minute method. This is where you set a timer for fifteen-minutes and tell yourself you only have to do this task until the timer goes off. If you’re really having trouble getting started, try this method. Then use the other four strategies to stay with it.

As I practice the credo of “do one thing (at a time) and do it well”, I’m gaining more and more evidence that, for me, this approach allows me to use momentum to enter and STAY in the creative flow.

And once I’m in that state of flow, procrastination is a dim memory.

© Linda Dessau, 2006.

Linda Dessau, the Self-Care Coach, helps artists enhance their creativity by addressing their unique self-care issues. Feel like your creativity is blocked? Sign-up for your complimentary copy of the popular e-course, “Roadblocks to Creativity” by visiting http://www.genuinecoaching.com

Magnetism is a wonderful thing. We often hear that someone “has a magnetic personality”, or that they are “full of magnetism”, even that opposites attract “like magnets”. Why the fascination with magnetism? Perhaps because the term magnetism implies that the opportunity exists for something to be drawn to you easily and effortlessly. What if that thing is success, fame, or how about money?

Money is the thing that the majority of the population craves, but most people feel they don’t have enough of. Why is that? Since we know how strong the powers of attraction are, and that like attracts like, the answer lies in the perception “∑but most people feel they don’t have enough of.”

For example, let’s suppose that you are facing a bag of money. You REALLY want that bag of money. You are standing there thinking of all of the things you can’t afford because you don’t have the bag of money. You are focused on all the things you can’t be, do, or have.

Money has a positive ionic charge, your face – has a positive charge (+) and the back of your head has a negative charge (-). The laws of the Universe say that you and the bag of money are going to continue to repel each other.

So let’s imagine that you become frustrated and turn away from the bag of money. (Your negative charge is now facing the positive charge of the bag of money.) You would like to have it, and can think of all of the positive things you would like to do with it, and you are now vibrating positive thoughts. The Laws of Attraction say that you are now in a place where you can attract the bag of money. You have become a money magnet.

When you take a snapshot of your current scenario can you state with sincerity that you are magnetizing money? Have you let go of any limiting beliefs that you have about money? Like financial success is something that happens to others, or that you are undeserving? If money and financial success is your goal how can you become that all powerful magnet?

Allow it!

Allow yourself to let go of any negative thoughts and limiting beliefs that have blocked your success. Allow yourself to believe that you can have the success that you desire. Allow yourself to have the courage to pursue the avenues that will lead you to your financial success. Allow yourself to magnetize the people and scenarios that will help your team assemble effortlessly. Allow your spirit to dance with the knowledge that your have the power to bring what you want to fruition.

You do have what it takes to become a money magnet. You just have to believe in yourself, believe in your goals, and trust that the Universe will do its part once you’ve done yours.

Eva Gregory, master coach, speaker and author of The Feel Good Guide To Prosperity, http://www.feelgoodguide.com, has instructed thousands on the Laws of Attraction in person, on the radio and in dozens of teleconference training seminars and programs. She is the author of several books and e-books and has co-developed several telephone-based and internet-based training courses on the Laws of Attraction. Her most popular program to date is her Leading Edge Living One Year Success Program. Eva is regularly featured on radio and in the media and is a recognized authority on the Laws of Attraction. To learn more about her products and services, visit Leading Edge Coaching, http://www.leadingedgecoaching.com.

I’m a life coach. As I prepare to get on the telephone for a coaching session, I clear away all distractions. My cat is clingy, so I open the glass door in my office and send her outside. I’m about 10 minutes into the coaching session and my cat suddenly appears at the door with a squawking cardinal in her mouth. So much for not being distracted!

I put the person I am coaching on hold and act on my plan to separate the bird from my cat. When I open the door, my cat darts into my office with the bird in her mouth. My eyes get bigger as my horror grows. It feels as if I have just opened the door to total chaos.

I try to calm down and check in with the person I am coaching. I explain my situation. She tells me to take care of the bird. I return to my attempt to free the bird. I finally put the cat in another room, leave the glass door open, hope the bird will fly out on her own and sit outside to continue my call. Wow, talk about an unexpected circumstance! What next?

In the case of this coaching call, it was impossible for me to simply pick up where we left off. Suddenly, this bird was a very real part of the coaching session. Instead of trying to dodge or diminish the unwanted circumstance, it was time to create from it.

How can the sudden appearance of a bird in distress be incorporated into a coaching session? She might become a metaphor that represents freedom. Perhaps, the bird symbolizes how limiting and frustrating it is to feel trapped in an uncomfortable space. Possibly, the bird represents determination to survive no matter how dire the circumstances around her might look. Inspiration might be uncovered, as one marvels about how this bird overcame the odds and survived her ordeal. Thankfully, my creative, resourceful and whole client zoomed right in on the freedom perspective.

Miraculously, through a quick perspective shift that came from dancing in the moment, the stress of an unwanted circumstance was transformed into a gift that made a significant impact.

Sometimes, distractions pop up when we are working with a client. Instead of trying to pretend that they don’t exist, the best thing we can do is dance in the moment, tune into the energy in the space and create from the new material that has suddenly presented itself to us. As it is often said, everything happens for a reason!

(c) 2006 Beverly Keaton Smith

Beverly Keaton Smith, CPCC is a professional certified life coach who owns Embrace Your Gifts and Soar! She works with individual clients and leads coaching groups, workshops and retreats that focus on empowering women to live with greater freedom, joy and fulfillment. Beverly is a co-author of The Book of Druthers, a fun book of questions that paves the way for people to engage in stimulating conversations. To learn more about Beverly, visit http://www.embraceyourgifts.com.

I was thinking this morning about the importance of the profession that I am in. Besides doing various trainings, workshops and consulting, I also coach people. Coaching is a profession that continues to develop but it originally came out of the self help industry. Many of the first coaches were publicists, consultants, sales professionals, and financial advisors. Much of what these people loved about what they did was helping people figure out how to achieve their best.

My own career was in full swing when I was a celebrity lecture agent. Without knowing it, and calling it mentoring, I was coaching college students all over the country in their future careers, their dating lives, or what to do for their summer break. I got really great at asking questions and giving accurate feedback about what I was hearing. I enjoyed pushing people to the next level and enjoyed helping them see that they already HAD the talent they needed to achieve their goals. Now, they just needed a plan.

Years later I see how it sometimes just takes ONE conversation to really turn a person’s life around. And I truly believe that everyone should take the time to find someone to engage with in this conversation.

This is a typical conversation that I have with a first time client. “I’m not satisfied with my job. There’s no creativity or I’m just not that into it. I want to try something new but I don’t know what.” Or, “there are so many things I like to do that I can’t just seem to focus on one”.

Here is how two of the conversations went recently:

I went to lunch with a young woman who has one child who is about to go to school. She had a successful corporate career but has no desire to go back to corporate America. She has so many things she enjoyed so I asked her to make a list of the things she really loved to do:

The list included:
Singing
Working with teenagers
Administrative work
Promotional work
Writing
Organizing

So, I went through the list and crossed off the ones that weren’t going to bring her the income she needed and that she can do for fun at church. (Singing and working with teens). Next, I combined the rest of them and asked if she had ever considered running a professional organizers business?

The look in her eyes was definitely worth gold! She lit up like a Christmas tree because she had never thought of that before. And all we did was combine her talents into one job title.

Now, a few weeks later, she’s busy reading everything she can get her hands on and starting to make plans to promote her business. She’s told me that she’ll be doing lots of free organizing jobs to get referrals in the beginning so she agreed to put me on that list! Its’ not going to happen overnight, but with baby steps every day, she’ll gain experience, confidence, and hopefully, clients!

Another conversation that took place recently was a life changing one for a guy who lived on my street. Steve has two kids and a wife who had been at home with their kids since they were born. His wife, Anne, was a nurse and he was a computer programer. Over time, the type of programming he did was phased out. Somehow, he didn’t see that coming and never got trained on anything else.

When I last saw him at the pool, I knew he had just lost his job. He was trying to decide what else to do. So, I asked him the all important question:

“If you could do anything else in the world, what would it be?”

Steve admitted that he would love to be creative on the computer by doing graphic art but he had no idea where to start and besides he felt it was too late to build a career on a dream. We brainstormed about how to get started from taking classes to doing some volunteer or freebie projects on the side to learn the basics.

I knew also that his wife had “Had it up to Here” with his lack of motivation and knew that she was facing going back to work full time as a nurse. As it turned out, that is exactly what she did, until Steve realized that he could in fact, plan for his dream.

Recently, a For Sale Sign went up and they moved to Florida. Steve is going back to school to learn Graphic Design, and Anne is going to work until he gets his degree.

I know of no better way to make someone’s day than to push them in the directions of their dreams. Even when someone’s dreams are out of the ordinary or so far fetched that you can’t imagine it yourself, it’s still a wonderful gift to help someone figure out HOW to do it, or at least encourage them to try.

Everyone has dreams. But not everyone is pursuing them. If you are one of the lucky ones who is, then what are you doing to help other people pursue their dreams? And if you AREN’T pursuing your dreams, then realize that you won’t be really content until you are moving in that direction.

I have a bracelet that has a wonderful quote on it. I wear it when I need some extra motivation. It says:
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.Thoreau, Henry David

Who knew that life could be made more simple, with only one conversation!

My advice? GET TALKING!

COMMENTS FROM FRIENDS:
Hi Mary——that was the best blog I have ever read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You do absolutely have a very unique gift-of helping people to find their gift and the how to,s of setting people on the path towards that goal. E. M, Florida

To learn more about Mary go to: http://www.marygardner.com/

Mary Gardner is an Executive Communications Consultant and Coach. She works with, coaches and trains individuals, sales teams, executives, and celebrities. She enjoys seeing the best come out in people and has fun in the process. Mary is married to Sway and is mommy to Jeremy 5 and lives in Orlando, FL.

CSS or Cascading Style Sheets has opened up tremendous possibilities for improving web site designs, web page layouts and adding new features. The HTML code can be made shorter, cleaner and simpler by CSS resulting in faster loading of web pages, and making them more accessible to search engines. Here I am narrating my experience with only one part of CSS – using it to eliminate tables.

If you look at a traditionally designed web page, you are likely to find number of tables in the layout. Tables were earlier used only for displaying information in a tabular form. But web site designers soon started using tables for other applications such as showing images, graphics and other decorations.

My own web pages were earlier checkerboards of tables. Each web page was almost fully covered with tables and many tables were nested inside other tables. As I tried to add more features the design became more and more complicated resulting in longer loading times. It also took lot of time to “adjust” the tables on the page to make it acceptable.

It was not an easy task to redesign all the pages using CSS. But once I started, the improvements were more than I had bargained for. The design became simpler, the appearance improved and loading time came down considerably. The code looked real clean. Most of “td” and “tr” tags were gone.

My purpose of this exercise was not really to change the appearance but to make the design simpler. Now the tables which were earlier used only for design purpose have been eliminated. For eliminating tables first step is to decide which tables or more specifically which cells have to be removed. For applying CSS each cell of a table can be considered as a “box”. These boxes are given separate identities and description of each “box” goes into CSS code. The “boxes” can be given names such as box1, box2 etc. The description of the “box” can include size, its location on web page, background color and image if any, font details, padding, border details etc. The location of the “box” can be made “fixed” on the web page, or it can be floating in which case location can be defined with respect to another “box”.

If the location and dimensions of the boxes are properly worked out, they neatly fit into the web page giving it a clean look. Since the code associated with table designs are done away with, the content of the page attains more prominence in the code. This makes it easier for search engine spiders to locate the actual content of the page.

If you have several web pages with similar design, the CSS code with these and other details can be put in an external file. This will further shorten the code for each page. With CSS lot many improvements can be done in web page design and layout. CSS can also be used for search engine optimization of the page.

My experience with CSS has been great and I wonder why it is not used more often. My advice – convert to CSS based design.

Outsourcing to a professional medical billing company to manage your practice’s reimbursements can be both a blessing and a curse. In most cases it will save you significantly in payroll, staff time, and administration headaches, but it can also feel like you’re giving up all control of your revenue. As practices consider their options for managing medical billing, it’s important they find (and maintain) a comfortable sense of control over operations. Here are a few mechanisms of control your medical billing company should offer to show you that the work is getting done efficiently and effectively.

1. Consistent reporting
   Consistent reports should be standard for any medical billing company and are your foundation for control over practice revenues. They should be provided at least once a month and include tracking of transactions, A/R, managed care and capitation utilization, and individual provider reports for practices with multiple doctors. Any medical billing company worth your time should also be able to respond to reasonable requests for customizable reports as well. Reports should be clearly designed to give you a concise understanding of the successes and shortcomings of your practice and medical billing company.
2. Comparative Analysis
   Monthly and periodic reports are helpful in assessing what has taken place over a given time frame, but comparative reports will truly show the ebb and flow over the longer term. You will have a greater understanding of your practice and the performance of your medical billing company if you are able to clearly see improvements to your cash flow over time identify periods of lagging profitability. Make sure your medical billing company is able to furnish you with comparative reports monthly, if not at least quarterly or annually.
3. Performance Metrics
   Performance metrics will often be built into a medical billing services contract, but you should have a mechanism in place for measurement. An example of a solid performance metric would be: 98% of all claims submitted to the carrier within 48 hours of receipt. This is an attainable measurement in most cases, and almost all medical billing software packages can report on submission date for comparison against the date of service. Periodic spot checks of performance metrics will give practices further control over day to day operations and tasks – and not just monthly trends from the periodic reports.
4. Reimbursements Sent to the Practice
   When working with a medical billing company, there are a number of ways in which payments can find their way to your checking account. First – not always the number one choice for that heightened sense of control – payments can be sent directly to the medical billing company. While it would be rare that a medical billing company would do something illegal with the payment (and for very little long term benefit), some practices feel this gives away too much responsibility. Another option is to set up a lock box at a local bank. Lock boxes ensure an added sense of security as all mail is received, opened and sorted by bank personnel – but they add often unnecessary steps and time to the process. The most common option for greater control over your payments would be to have all reimbursements sent directly to the practice. The medical billing company can continue to update A/R based on copies of EOBs if necessary, but you never have to worry about misplaced or misdirected checks if you are receiving them directly.
5. Patient Information
   While the EMR revolution is building, many practices are still moving around enormous amounts of paper. If you are among these, you will need to communicate your patient information to the medical billing company in such a way that you retain copies or originals of encounter documents. Typically, encounter information is sent via fax or mail mail. If mailing patient encounter information to your medical billing company, consider retaining the originals and sending only copies. Though rare, there is always the possibility that it might get lost in the mail, or the medical billing company could misplace a record. Also, with a more advanced medical billing company you will find scanning or imaging of all documents that come into the office is not uncommon – and they can usually send a monthly CD back to your practice for an extra, electronic copy of patient information.
6. Access to Data
   More advanced medical billing companies can also offer practices access to data via VPN (Virtual Private Network) connection or via web portal. Such systems are capable of offering real-time, or near-real-time, access to data and allow client practices to view everything almost as it happens – including daily reports, status of claims, patient balances, etc. Keep in mind that such services do not come inexpensively; they require regular maintenance by very savvy staff.
7. Contract Terms
   Finally, if your billing service does not provide you with a way out of their contract – be it with 30, 60 or 90 days notice – then think about the relationship carefully. Are you getting locked into something you might not be satisfied with just a month down the road? Your medical billing company should have an incentive to keep you happy as a client. The service provider whose willing to give you the “out option” with short notice is most likely more confident of their services than the one seeking to tie you down for six months or a year.

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