1/12/09 - News of the Day

What did you learn last week? If you hung out at the Brighton office of Preview Properties.com last week, you learned:

2008 (1/1/08 - 12/31/08) single family home sales - stats:

• Livingston County - # of home sales up 9.4% to 2007; average sales price down 15.3% to 2007.


• Washtenaw County - # of home sales up 4.8% to 2007; average sales price down 15.4% to 2007.
  

Bob Bohlen shared information from Suzanne Somers book "Breakthrough: Eight Steps to Wellness." 16 doctors on the leading edge of their fields were interviewed regarding anti-aging. The eight steps include: 1)BHRT - get biodentical hormone replacement therapy, 2)avoid chemicals and detoxify your body, 3)take nutrition seriously, 4) create a healthy GI tract, 5) avoid all pharmaceuticals possible, 6) supplement your diet, 7) exercise regularly and 8) get proper sleep. Photo credit to Phil Konstantin, found on Wikipedia.

Chris Bonish shared a few secrets on how to archive your documents electronically. He suggested using free software Copernic (get at http://www.copernic.com/en/downloads/index.html) as a desktop search tool.

Tim Furlong gave us some tips on focusing on the right things in 2009. Some of his suggestions:

1. Ask yourself "what have you stopped doing that you need to do again?"
2. Dream big - don't dream small
3. Borrowing from the "Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch - are you going to be a Tigger (cheerful, outgoing, competitive in a friendly way and completely confident in yourself) or an Eeyore (pessimistic, gloomy and depressed) today?

Monday starts the ~9:15 a.m. support group for improving your health - please join us in the conference room!