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1). Overwhelmed and Overworked: The Myth Of American Productivity In a world where employees are tethered to their workplaces virtually around the clock, by laptops, cell phones, and blackberries, the traditional balance of home and work has crumbled. 2). Unemployment Blues: The Mixed Emotions Of Finding A Job Don’t be surprised or upset if you don’t experience an unalloyed sense of joy and optimism when you finally obtain the job you have been seeking for so long. 3). Interviewing Skills: How To Present Your Work History It may take you some time and self-exploration to identify it, but there are always some aspects of your work history that carry a positive spin. 4). Unemployment Blues: Maintaining Emotional Balance Some kind of emotional balance is necessary if we are to stay healthy, maintain our relationships, and be able to effectively function in job search. 5). Unemployment Blues: Take Back Control! One of the most emotionally crippling aspects of unemployment is the sense of powerlessness it engenders. We feel that we have no control over our situation, our lives, our future. 6). Is Losing Weight Worth The Trouble? Reframing weight goals and redefining our diet success leads to higher self-esteem and make the probability of continued weight control far more likely. 7). Look On Aisle 5 We stock up on packages loaded with chemicals we can’t even pronounce. We pick up bags of quick snacks with nary a nutrient in the bunch. We throw fluffy breads and crackers into our cart, knowing they are merely edible plates. 8). Seven Proposals To Cure Unemployment Cycles Here are seven proposals to permanently address the "Unemployment Problem." 9). The Psychology Of Diet Preparation We tend to think of weight loss as something that involves only our body. Yet the actual size of the body does not trigger the decision to lose weight, such a choice in made in the brain. 10). Employment Under The Microscope A certain amount of oversight is involved in almost any job. The more important, the more highly skilled, the more successful the position, the lower the degree of oversight. 11). Weight Loss: Tweaking Your Lifestyle Despite our national propensity to overeat, under-exercise, and grow steadily heavier and more out of shape, we all yearn to be slender, fit, and attractive. 12). The Chefs Are Coming, The Chefs Are Coming . . . It was in the late 1980s and 1990s that we started to balloon to what is now epic proportions. Yes, that correlates with the growth spurt of the fast food outlets and the soft drink industry. It also quietly parallels 85 million of us falling in love with the television chefs and the appetite for culinary masterpieces they triggered. 13). Life Is One Damn Diet After Another Allowing ourselves to think of a diet as a delineated, restricted period within our total life span is a sure avenue back to tent city (that refers to what we wear, not where we live). To have any hope of attaining permanent weight control, we must approach it as a lifelong effort, watching our intake day after day, week after week, year after year. 14). Job Hunting Tip: Accepting Judgment Applying for work is stressful, no matter the circumstances. Even if you are already working, and merely looking to see what else is out there, you