Archive for the ‘Self Help News’ Category

Richard Deitsch: Ex-Bonds mistress dishes on steroids, life with Barry

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

The media tour took her earlier in the day to The Howard Stern Show, where the subject of performance enhancement centered on the bedroom as opposed to the baseball field. Inside Edition and Reuters filled the bill on the previous afternoon. Geraldo was scheduled for the weekend. This is Kimberly Bell’s life for the moment, a minor figure in a major story about baseball and steroids. For Bell, though, it is a much smaller tale. It is the story of woman who fell in love with the wrong man: Barry Bonds.

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Trend watch: Angry-lit

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Trying to lose weight, get over a break-up or find the perfect partner?

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Second To One

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

Roy (Doc) Halladay was mowing them down in order last Saturday afternoon: 00, 01, 02, 03…. Routine. Twice on the day before starts and once more on game day, the Toronto Blue Jays righthander takes a laminated grid containing 100 randomly distributed numbers and locates each one in sequence: 37, 38, 39, 40…. Think of it as Sudoku for Cy Young winners. The purpose of the exercise is to narrow the focus of a lively mind to nothing but the next number, which helps Halladay sharpen his concentration on nothing but the next pitch when he reaches the mound. “I’m not one of those guys who’s worried about who’s on deck,” he says. When he began working the

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THE LEADERSHIP INDUSTRY Yes, even the new varieties can be taught, and at least 600 outfits want to sell you their approach. Off

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

TRYING TO TEACH leadership may be a lot like trying to teach sex. If you really need lessons, well . . . Or that was the old view, part of the you-have-the-right-stuff-or-you-don’t school. Getting …

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Review: Carrey positively OK in ‘Yes Man’

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

It’s been a while since Jim Carrey did an out-and-out comedy — unless you count “Fun With Dick and Jane,” which I don’t. “Yes Man” isn’t going to figure in any Top 10 lists or Oscar prognostications, but it takes a simple idea and runs with it, reminding us how Carrey became such a big star in the first place.

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Tips from Washington’s self-help manual

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

“Every action in company ought to be done with some sign of respect to those that are present.”

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Author hires investigators to review sweat lodge deaths

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

A self-help expert said Tuesday that he has hired his own investigators to determine what happened at his Arizona retreat last week, when two people died after spending considerable time in a sweat lodge.

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ELECTRONIC SELF-IMPROVEMENT A growing collection of videocassettes and computer programs can make your life better — if you hel

Friday, November 20th, 2009

After his 37-foot sloop sank near the Virgin Islands during a sudden storm 18 months ago, sailor John J. Whyte vowed that his next yacht would be sturdier and safer. Using his Zenith portable compu…

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Poor Man’s Prophet Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad says that everything you’ve been told about

Friday, November 20th, 2009

The theater at Madison Square Garden, located beneath the famous New York arena, is a 5,600-seat venue that has played host to boxing matches, trade shows and numerous second-tier rock groups. One …

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What the killjoys can do to you

Friday, November 20th, 2009

In early Rome, if you failed to repay a debt, your creditor had you. You became his slave. He could sell you or, if he chose, kill you. And heaven forbid if you had more than one creditor, they cou…

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