All Posts in "Month: September 2023"

St Lucia Weather In January

January is an ideal time to visit St. Lucia. Visitors can expect an average of eight hours of sun during the day, and cooler temperatures at night.

The island of St. Lucia is a lush, mountainous, volcanic island located in close proximity to the equator. To give you an idea of just how close – the equator is located at zero degrees latitude, and St Lucia is located at 20 degrees latitude.

The average temperature in January will be in the high 70’s in the morning, rise to 80 degrees by early afternoon, and then drop to around 75 degrees in the evenings. Although this is not the rainy season, you might experience light showers which usually don’t last long. The North East trade-winds off the coast of Africa also pick up during this month, providing cooling breezes on the beaches and throughout the island.

St Lucia is one of the Windward islands, and the closest neighbor islands are Martinique, St Vincent and Barbados. In fact both Martinique and St Vincent are visible on a clear day. St. Lucia lies on the eastern side of the Caribbean Sea, but also borders the Atlantic Ocean.

The island drops off in a perpendicular angle into the Caribbean Sea which makes the water much darker than other islands in the Caribbean. As a volcanic island, the beaches are particularly unique and range from course black sand to soft white power sand – and every color variation from golden, beige and brown. Travelers are … Continue Reading ...

Amos Vanbrocklin by — September 5, 2023 in Fox 11 News
Narcissism and Today’s Society

“It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self – love.” – Voltaire

The subject of ‘Narcissism’ has intrigued us for many decades, but social scientists now claim that it has become a “modern epidemic”. The term ‘Narcissism’ originated more than 2000 years ago when Ovid wrote the ‘Legend of Narcissus’, which tells the story of a beautiful Greek hunter, Narcissus, who, one day, sees his reflection in a pool of water and falls in love with it. He becomes obsessed with his own beauty and is unable to leave his reflected image until he dies. The concept of Narcissism was first introduced by the famous psychoanalyst, Dr. Sigmund Freud’s essay ‘On Narcissism’. He popularized this new concept through his work on the ‘ego’ and its relation to the outside world. Narcissism can be defined as the pursuit of gratification from vanity or egotistic admiration of one’s own attributes. The ‘American Psychiatry Association’ has classified this as ‘Narcissistic Personality Disorder’ (NPD).

Narcissism lies on a continuum from healthy to pathological. Healthy narcissism is part of normal human functioning. It represents required self – love and confidence based on real achievements and the ability to overcome setbacks. But, narcissism becomes a problem when one becomes excessively preoccupied with the self and seeks complete admiration and attention, with complete disregard for others’ feelings. Lack of satisfaction of this need leads to substance abuse and major depressive disorders. In adolescents, this causes ‘Substance Dependency Disorder’ (SDD) – they display overt … Continue Reading ...

Amos Vanbrocklin by — September 4, 2023 in Isis News Today
Annual Reports – Five Keys to Creating an Annual Report For Your Nonprofit

At the start of my second year as an executive director of a housing nonprofit, I thought I had prepared well for my first annual meeting until the day of the event when I realized that we had not produced an annual report as required in our by-laws. Since this happened thirty years ago, before most nonprofits had computers, you can only imagine the work my secretary and I put into producing the basic report we needed for that evening. We met the by-law requirement but certainly didn’t produce something that showcased our organization.

Fast forward three decades…you have a good computer and printer in your office, a staff member who writes well, and the wisdom to give yourself enough time to create an annual report that will serve as both a marketing and a fundraising tool in the coming year. Unless you have abundant resources in the bank or a marketing firm that will donate their services, it is likely that you will create your report in-house. Follow these guidelines to ensure that your report will end up being “read and spread” rather than in the wastebasket.

1. Determine the message you want the report to convey.

You can do this by focusing on a specific program that has had dramatic results this year. You can also focus on your mission and highlight a few things you have done that clearly resonate with that mission. In addition, you can highlight the people you serve with various programs or the … Continue Reading ...

Amos Vanbrocklin by — September 4, 2023 in Nyc News Today
Positive Daily Affirmations

Having positive daily affirmations in your life can only help you in whatever you want to achieve with your life. It has long been believed that repeatedly affirming quotes that are relevant to what you wish to achieve can enhance change. Some use affirmations to help them lose weight while others use positive affirmation to bring prosperity into their lives.

How this is believed to happen is reportedly due to the sub conscious mind being told what to believe. The sub conscious mind does not reason or any free will, it will believe whatever you tell it to if you say it often enough. There are documented reports that show that criminals who recite their defense posture often enough actually believe it is true after a period of time, even when it is proven later that it is completely false the criminals still believe in their own version and cannot be disuaded form that belief, of course if they were repeatedly given daily affirmations to the effect of their guilt over a period of time they would also start to believe they were guilty.

This ability to control the sub conscious can be used by us all to improve our beliefs about ourselves. If through childhood abuse or trauma we have beliefs that are un productive then if we decide we want to change them, we can.
If you were told as a child you were dumb and stupid often enough you would actually believe you are because of the … Continue Reading ...

Amos Vanbrocklin by — September 3, 2023 in Jacksonville Daily News
Daily Affirmations – Prosperity & Abundance Affirmations

Daily affirmations are a very effective way to quickly change your life and start living your dreams by attracting prosperity and abundance. But, it is important that you understand how daily affirmations work and what you need to do to make them more effective.

Daily affirmations work with both your conscious and subconscious mind to change your thinking and your reality. Many times people get stuck in the negative energy that surrounds us. It is easy to fall into the trap of dwelling on negative thoughts that are put in our mind.

Don’t drag yourself down by focusing on those negative thoughts! Instead, you need to have a list of daily affirmations that are written to help increase prosperity and abundance. Write a list, and keep it with you at all times. And whenever those negative thoughts begin to creep into your mind, immediately recognize the negative thought, and then replace it with a positive affirmation.

Positive affirmations that are applied on a daily basis will help you change your reality and you will begin to attract positive people and positive experiences. Many people discount the effects of positive affirmations because they think that they don’t work… but if you give it a little bit of time and a lot of focus you really can attract any amount of prosperity and wealth that you desire.

Take a few minutes each morning and evening to focus on your positive daily affirmations, and you will begin to see the changes occurring in … Continue Reading ...

Amos Vanbrocklin by — September 2, 2023 in Jacksonville Daily News
How to Land an Interview on Radio and Television

Interviews on radio and talk shows are probably the most coveted means of getting one’s message out if you are in the business of talking. From a two-minute news story to a half hour talk show, interviews on broadcast are worth their weight in gold. Since radio and TV make their profit from SELLING time, if you can get that amount of FREE time, you are scoring big!

But how do you get that interview?

The first step is to identify the stations and programs to go after. Start with the local stations in the community you will be having your speaking engagement in. Do a search on the Internet with the name of the town or city and the keywords “radio stations.” Once you have a list, go to each of those stations’ websites and find out their formats and any satellite programs they may broadcast.

The easiest place to obtain that coveted interview is with local talk shows or as a local news story. So start there.

Emails and phone calls are a good place to start, but since everyone else is sending to and calling the newsroom, you will want to make yourself stand out. First, find out what local stories are hot and when you write your email or call, refer to that story in the subject line of your email and when you first call the station. When possible, refer to the reporter who wrote or produced the piece. You will want to make them … Continue Reading ...

Amos Vanbrocklin by — September 1, 2023 in Tucson News