- - "It's Your Life Style" Newsletter - - July 2006 Issue - -

SUPPORTING BUSY PROFESSIONALS, WORKING PARENTS, SENIORS AND
PEOPLE RECOVERING AT HOME OR WITH RESTRICTED MOBILITY

Imperial Personal Assistant Delivers the Gift of Time - - Your Time

Summer, and time to relax!  Have you had a chance to stretch out on your deck chair and just listen to the wind in the trees and the birds chirping?

Welcome to the July 2006 issue of this monthly newsletter.  Thank you for inviting me into your mailbox.  Please forward to anyone you know who could use a helping hand at home or office. We just might be able to help.

Special Announcement .. New Website for shopping!

This summer, take a moment to reconnect with yourself and your family. Look up, down and in front of you. Remember to stop and look behind you, you never know what you will be rewarded with. The memories you create will be carried forward to be reviewed this winter and you will be able to say Remember when we .. and that is worth everything!

The greatest gift is Time (Off).

You dont have to pack your bags and leave home to make summer special. Kick up your heels and run away to your own get away oasis. Try the NEW collection of Body Washes, Creams, and Spray Mists. 3 great scents, Coconut Lime, Tropical Mango or Pomegranate $12.50 each for 237 ml. Add one to your summer spa basket or tuck one into a hostess gift or summer care package and surprise someone special. Gift baskets available.

GREAT IDEA! Share a Gift Certificate and your friend can choose the perfect item for their own summer get away.

 Out There  having fun with no time to stop?
Do not let your tummy rumble and your energy stumble. Carry along a Meal Replacement Bar or one of the NEW fantastic Chewy Fudgy Carmel Protein bars in your backpack or purse.  Do not be tempted by those drive throughs!

Available as a mixed case of 25 Mini Meal Replacement Bars
(1/2 meal) in 5 flavours at $52.50 or 7 (full meal) Bars at $23.80. Due to high volume sales, the prices have been reduced by 35% over last years catalog price.  Power Bars Order Here
Have a great summer and bring back those memories!

"Alone we can do so little, but together we can achieve so much."     - Helen Keller 

Please let us know how we can lend you a helping hand?

Cheryl Scoffield                                                             Personal Shopping Assistant Virtual Executive Administrator  - Strategic Partner

Cheryl is proud to sit on the board of the Roaring Women Educational Fund and volunteer administrative support.
Read about RWEF here!

Roaring Women made the news nationally in the business magazine Business Edge. Read the article here!

Recently Cheryl was mentioned in Savia Lane newsletter.
Thanks Coach Leesa!  Chief Divapreneur of Savia Lane

Recent Charity Fundraising Events

Bronte Village BIA, 3rd Annual Comedy Dinner Show and Silent Auction, May 5, 2006. Supporting annual Canada Day Celebration and Fireworks.

Roaring Women Golf Tournament, Silent Auction, June 8, 2006, supporting the Educational Fund.

Invite us to your next Charity Event!
We*d love to help raise funds on your silent auction table.

Our Gift Of Time Package , includes a Delivery Scheduling Appointment with a Personal Shopping Assistant (Value $75) and a $25 Product Gift Certificate. 

Please forward this message to anyone you feel would benefit from this valuable service. Visit Cheryl at www.RoaringWomen.com/cheryl   and www.CompanyofWomen.ca

This message is sent to you because you are a colleague, friend or associate of mine.  I'd like to keep you on my mailing list to receive future issues.  However, if you would prefer not to receive this newsletter please let me know by sending an email to: info@ImperialPersonalAssistant.com.

A recent study revealed that as a nation we are sleep deprived. If you are not getting at least 8-9 hours of sleep each night, you may be seeing signs of sleep depravation such as;

- periods of forgetfulness        - loss of patience           - agitation and stress              - bags under your eyes          - hair lose                      - dry, patchy skin
                 - and a tendency to put on extra pounds (who needs that!) 

Sleep affects us metabolically since our body is repairing and recharging itself.
So try to get 7-8 hrs a night. 

We would all love to put our heads down on the desk and catch a few zzz..s,
We wish! Instead keep your motor running with the restorative powers of a drink containing ginseng and herbs. Its like zzzs in a can! Even better,
Zero carbs and No sugar.  Available in carbonated and non carbonated in many flavours. Case of 12, $27.60. 

Or check out the Siberian Ginseng and Ginkgo Biloba tablets standardized for quality 100 tablets, $63.40. Get more information!

Do not forget we have a . New Website for shopping!
 

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty ... but everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.    Phyllis Diller

Very interesting information gleamed from the newsletter published by www.IWantItAll.net.

Ever wondered what those stickers on your fruit meant? 
Organic, Normal or Genetically Modified!

Now this is what surprised me most of all.......  Those little stickers affixed to your pears and potatoes reveal a lot more than how much you'll pay. Read the article here.

Spent all winter in the house. Remember to gently stretch those tight sore muscles which may have tightened up over those months while you were busy doing other things. Flexibility is important to your bodys ability to move and time invested in stretching exercises will pay off. Additionally supplements like Glucosamine Complex and Omega 3s from deep ocean fish can help prevent soreness.  Find out more.

Get out there and take advantage of the great summer, put a break in your day.  Just walk around the block at lunch! You will benefit from the chance to clear your head and give your subconscious a chance to come up with additional solutions to those pressing issues. And do not worry about getting sun burnt, as you tour around town on a sunny day? Protect the back of your neck and arms with an SPF 8 Body Lotion without being sticky or smelling like you are at the beach. 400ml for $16.45

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently  - Henry Ford

Choose to begin again. You will never change your life
until you change something you do daily.

You can make some great strategy decisions about your direction just by giving yourself time to sit quietly not even really thinking about anything consciously.  Recently I had the opportunity to sit in on a seminar The Keys to Developing Your Future lead by Winnie Lui Master Practitioner and Trainer of NLP, Hypnosis and Time Line Therapy. The seminar walked the participants through a process that allowed the sub-conscious to process all the questions and decisions we need to make about important areas of our life. We had the opportunity to allow the answers to rise to the surface.

Now that I'm back in my office with a tool to unblock my life and I feel energized and have more clarity. The art is to remember to keep those, calm, peaceful dock feelings at hand and develop the skill of bringing them back into your daily life when you need them. I can now use the techniques I learned from Winnie. Find out more about the seminar at www.mastertransformation.com. 

 Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.  That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.  - Emily Kimbrough

Home Office Time Saving Tips

Learn to spend the majority of your time on those tasks that put you in flow and delegate or contract out the tasks that take you out of flow and zap your energy.  You know the ones .. the tasks you put off for every good reason you can think of! Try instead to delegate rather than procrastinate. Putting the task off is not a good replacement for saying no. Just think others can learn to do the tasks you delegate and they can grow by the experience. 

Perhaps that filing can be done by a student looking to earn a bit of pocket money!!

This summer try a new path. Book self time into your calendar, just as you would book time to run errands and attend business meetings and personal events.  Just 15 minutes a day to maybe drink a coffee, while sitting in your car alone, with the radio off, can begin to build an inner peace and start a habit of stopping to really be in the moment to relax, have fun and re-discover who you are and what is important to you.  Because when you take a few moments to reconnect with yourself and calm your mind, you fill your internal reservoir.  Later that resource will be there to draw on when it comes time to be fully present for someone else.  Go ahead book that time, because you are important, not only to yourself, but to the people in your life.  Important enough to invest time in.

Small deeds are done better than big deeds only planned Author Unknown

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Home Office Tech Tips

Make sure the programs you install don't contain adware. Many freeware programs do include adware. It's how the publishers make their money. If you're not sure, read the license agreement carefully (these are usually shown directly or through links as part of the installation process). Also, check the publisher's Web site very carefully.

Install a pop-up blocker to prevent adware and spyware pop-up windows. Much spyware installs after you click a deceptive link in a pop-up browser window. Install a pop-up blocker, and you won't even be tempted to click those links. My two favorite pop-up blockers are completely free. The first is the new MSN Toolbar. The second is the Google Toolbar. Pop-up windows are annoying time wasters anyway, so you'll thank yourself later.

Don't unwittingly install adware or software. If you do click what seems like a "safe" link, and then you see the dialog box, don't click the Yes button to install the software. If in doubt, however, do not proceed. This dialog box is your last line of defense, and you should only install programs from the Internet that you chose to install. This is similar to giving someone your credit card number who calls you at home. It's a different story if you called them. Spyware scanners and some viru s scanners with spyware signatures can help combat spyware. However, the best strategy is to be discriminating about what you choose to download and install. 

Links: MSN Toolbar http://toolbar.msn.com

Google Toolbar http://toolbar.google.com

Upcoming newsletters will include Home Office Tech Tips on this topic;

Protecting your computer from threats with a security system

Protecting against Spyware and Adware

Tips contributed by Nathan Manimtim 

Having problems with your computer? Need help with home office networking? Bought a router to bring the internet to additional home computers and need help setting it up?      Email Nathan at Home Office Tech

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