Must-see web sites from Possibilities Coaching

The following are high-quality web sites that can provide useful information on a wide variety of topics. (Remember of course, that web content is for informational purposes only; it is not a substitute for your partnership with your health/financial/legal advisors).

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InteliHealth COOL TOOLS is a multi-faceted, easy-to-use, content-dense "cool" site with numerous interactive opportunities to assess yourself and learn about fitness and wellness.

Just Move is a wonderful resource from the American Heart Association. It features useful health-based information, a fitness log, and personalized fitness suggestions.

The Fitness Connection is a "fitness portal", offering a specialized search engine pointing towards the Intranet's fitness sites. This is a great site to find out more about what you are after in terms of health and fitness.

Fitness articles from BodyWorks. BodyWorks is primarily an online store, but they also have some excellent fitness articles, to which this link points. I've personally profited from reading them, and you might also.

Fitness Online seeks to motivate and inform you so that you can achieve your fitness goals. It serves you on a variety of topics such as exercise, nutrition, adventure planning, expert opinion, and product information

Fitness Partner Connection is a huge collection of resources aimed at educating and motivating towards greater fitness, nutritional excellence, and wellness. It has an easy to use, simple format.

Oxygen Fitness has extensive health and wellness resources, including ask-an-expert, a great database of fun fitness activities with practical can-do instructions, and an electronic community.

PHYS is a fun and informative site. It includes information on every conceivable sports, fitness, and wellness topic, including expert opinions and articles from noted magazines.

Internet Health Library Fitness resources The Internet Health Library serves up a solid listing of Internet resources where you can explore the topic of health, wellness, and fitness at great depth.

The Stress of Life categorizes and discusses the various kinds of life stress from business stress to holiday stress. Each category hosts a series of articles and sub-topics. It has a unique and helpful approach to stress management.

Stress Busters discusses various ways to manage your stress and includes other good stress-related links.

Stress Access from the University of Wisconsin offers basic stress assessment tools.

Stress Management is a terrific basic site on stress education and stress management. It manages to be fun and upbeat in its mode of delivery.

StressFree is a site produced by stress-management health care professionals. It has a number of useful articles and quizzes on managing personal stress.

Stressed.com by Loretta LaRoche delivers a number of interesting articles on the topic of stress, and also includes a few other interesting resources such as humorous e-cards and a bulleting board.

Hyperstress is offered by the Institute of Stress Management. A number of great resources are included here, some for free and some for a fee. The (free) articles are useful, and the other products are interesting as well.

Soothing Yourself has numerous brief vignettes on how to, well, soothe ourselves in difficult moments. This is a more informal, personal, engaging page for stress management.

Ideas by Creativity Pool is a global database of ideas, solutions and future inventions. The site works much like the penny cup next to the cash register: If you're in need of an idea, go ahead and help yourself, if you have one spare, simply submit it to the database. If you're successful with an idea from the pool, feel free to reward the person who submitted it. To facilitate the creative process, the Creativity Pool also hosts several forum basins where you can improve ideas, pull them to pieces or simply enjoy yourself.

Creativity Web offers a wonderfully wide range of articles, tools, exercises, and other creativity resources.

The Enchanted Mind offers exercises and information on developing your creative powers. It is an excellent site.

The Creativity Portal is a wonderful arts portal with tutorials, articles, books and products, art supplies for sale, and more. It is a comprehensive, A through Z resource.

Creativity For Life is a playful, fun site with informative and inspiring articles, and creativity-related books and products to purchase.

Creativity Cafe: where you can meet kindred creative spirits and find a number of inspiring resources!

Creative Aerobics...you don't have to exercise too much of your imaginative power to guess what this site is about! It is a fun, inspiring, site filled with creative tools.

The Motley Fool seems to be the investment site I hear the most about these days. It contains extremely good information on investing, and on financial matters in general. Check it out.

Finance by Netscape, Finance by Yahoo, Quicken.com, Money.com, and Kiplinger provide especially fine "one-stop-shopping" solutions for those seeking information on financial matters, be it investment articles, mortgage rates, tax information, or cost-of-living comparisons.

Budget Central by TulipTreePress offers a wonderfully accessible, understandable, yet thorough approach to starting and keeping a budget. This is a very good financial information tool.

IRS You aren't still going to the library to pick up that one form not included in your tax packet, are you? You can print out tax forms and publications, at the IRS web site. Plus, there are numerous informative articles and an easy-to-use search engine.

http://www.bbb.org/ The better business bureau is a fantastic resource for both consumers and businesses. This is an excellent place to go for advise, and, of course, to check out a business with which you are contemplating doing business.

U.S. Small Business Administration is a resource that you simply cannot do without if you are planning, or running, a small business. The resources and tools include business plan tools, small business mentoring, critically important how-to articles, plus many others.

Hoover's Online - The Business Network provides an extensive menu of intelligence for small (and larger) businesses. Much of it is fee-based, but the free data is a gold mine as well.

Entrepreneur.com has an incredibly wide variety of articles for the small business owner, whether the business is a gleam in your eye or whether it has been a robust success for years.

Center for Business Planning We know that a good business plan is critical to the success of a business, big or small. The Center for Business Planning offers you tools so that you can build the business plan, and the business, of your dreams.

Starting a business offers excellent, basic articles on designing, planning, and implementing your business idea.

Tech Web delivers late-breaking information on technology and how it affects your business.

FlashMarketing Internet Marketing Resources offers a variety of free articles and products-for-purchase that can assist you in marketing your products or services on the Internet

ZDNET is a comprehensive resource for the computer or electronics user. There are tutorials and guides, product reviews (and I don't make a computer purchase without consulting these), software downloads, and an extensive database of articles from the leading computer publications.

CNET is a twin-sibling to ZDNET, both being owned and operated by CNET networks, and both offering similar content. I personally use both.

PC World - Here's How offers tutorials and guidance on a number of computer user issues. It is aimed at the beginner to possibly intermediate computer user, but does contain information the advanced user might find useful as well.

Pricescan offers prices lists for any piece of hardware, software, or electronic equipment you might be considering. It lists the prices from high to low, along with the vendor and how to contact them. It provides direct links to the vendor's websites when available. It even offers graphs so you can see the price history for the item you are considering! This may prevent you from paying more than you need to for a given item.

Parents.com is the information-packed online home of Parents Magazine. The resources contain a database of their award-winning parenting articles. Whether you want general parenting information or have a very specific question, this is a good place to begin your research.

Pampers.com offers more than you might think in the way of information on parenting young children. Everything from nutrition, to sibling rivalry, to tantrums, and more are discussed in expert articles and interactive forums.

Baby Center offers you a wealth of information on parenting both babies and toddlers.

The National Parenting Center is a treasure of reputable information on many topics for any age child. It contains a database of articles with an effective search tool, forums, and chats.

Parent Soup organizes its comprehensive database of parenting information into both ages and subjects. It also offers "message boards, chats, magazine sites, quizzes and free stuff" as well. It is part of ivillage.

Parents Place is another part of the ivillage community. It offers the same format as parent's soup, but with an emphasis on pregnancy and infant care.

Education Index Education Index bills itself as your guide to the best and most useful education-related sites on the web, and with good reason. It is both comprehensive and very high-quality. Whether you are looking for information (of any conceivable kind) on preschool or graduate school you have a good chance of finding it here.

The University of North Carolina offers an excellent selection of high-quality parenting links with an emphasis on parenting education.

Family.com offers a wide variety of parenting and family resources. It has a special focus on family fun and family activities, and includes an activities section, a party section, recipes, travel information, and a pet section. In addition to information it offers bulletin boards and chats on family-related topics.

Child.com is the online version of the magazine. Like Parent.com it is an extensive resource for expert opinion and information on just about any parenting topic you can think of.

Get Organized Now offers just about everything you need in order to organize your time and your space. It even offers motivational and inspirational articles for those who know what to do, but can't make themselves do it! I have found both their email newsletter and the books offered on their site very useful. The articles contained here are very useful as well.

Flylady is a light-hearted, yet information-dense, incredibly helpful resource for anyone feeling overwhelmed with the clutter in their life. There are so many good tips here, if you picked just one, you probably would see some improvement.

Organizing Tips offers a potpourri of articles and advise on organizing your time and space.

Online Organizing is aimed at those who want to organize their own space, and those who want to be professional organizers (and organize other's space!). Either way, it contains useful resources on the subject.

Organized Living contains a variety of articles in various categories, so you can fine tune your search for organizing solutions.

Organized times focuses on the very important point that good organization skills reduce stress, especially in hectic lives such as ours. This site contains some useful strategies, and is worth a good looking-over.

Organization from goto.com If your area of interest is physically structuring your home to best store your "stuff", then this is the place for you.

Internet Public Library is a goldmine of information. In its own words, it is "the first public library of the Internet". Click on the REFERENCE option on the home page for the reference categories. If you have interest in thousands of associations (such as business and networking groups) that might serve your interests, don't miss this specific list. Be sure to explore this wonderful site!

WWW Virtual Library is another general-purpose, well-categorized research site that either provide hours of happy learning or answer specific questions.

All Experts Do you wish you could pose that burning question to someone who really knows the answer? All Experts provides a free Question and Answer forum for this very purpose.

Britannica is the online version of one of the most respected encyclopedias. There is a subscription fee for full use, but the free services are also very good.

InfoPlease provides "all the knowledge you need" formatted both in very useful categories and supported by a search engine as well.

Ref Desk adds to the list of excellent general-purpose information sites by its inclusion of current news sites and stories of all kinds, and, its own lists of reference sites! This is another very good site to know about.

Itools goes beyond facts, and offers a variety of tools as well that you will find useful. Whether you are interested in a excellent reference source, or whether you want currency converters, maps, search engines, internet tools such as ping and host check, or other utlities, explore Itools.

The Library Of Congress is a huge, multi-faceted, easy-to-browse site. It is what one might expect from such an institution. I highly recommend looking around this site when you have a moment, and then coming back for more when you have research needs.

Federal Consumer Information From information parenting to information on small business, from national parks to known scams, you can order, or read online, a wide variety of literature published by the United States Government. If you've every ordered any of these booklets from the FCIC paper catalog before, you are probably aware that this site is nothing short of a treasure!

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Free Newsletter Directory - Get up to date news, articles and resources for free. Choose from over 200 topical newsletters at Free-Ezines.net. Please link to: http://www.free-ezines.net

LifeTimeInfo.com : Self Help
FREE Information for a Lifetime! FREE articles, newsletters, e-books, e-courses, Ask The Experts, meet the Gurus, learn about the classic texts, and more!

Goal Distillation is a very useful set of tools that can help you clarify and define what you truly want, and what goals you really want to set.

SelfGrowth.com is the most complete guide to information about Self -Improvement, Personal Growth and Self Help on the Internet. It is designed to be an organized directory, with articles and references to thousands of other Web Sites on the World Wide Web.

Get Motivation This is an incredibly content-rich "motivational mecca". I highly recommend a web trip to Get Motivation for the articles, tips, quotes, and more.

Biz-eWomen.com. The site is not only a quality resource for local women to locate the merchant in their community but it also provides a wealth of information for women entrepreneurs in their articles section. Each month they showcase a biz-eWoman of the Month who has taken the plunge and successfully started to live the life they dreamed of. This article can be enjoyed by any woman who either has a dream or is working to fulfill their dream of starting their own business.

www.4CornersCoaching.com : Providing a calm place to achieve professional and personal growth. Sign up online for a free coaching session with Alex Fitzpatrick, MA.

The Motivational and Inspirational Corner - America's motivational headquarters where you'll find motivational and inspirational quotes and stories. Home of the Power Up Passage of the Day and the Power Performance Program.

Dream It - Do It Personal and Professional Coaching is a wonderful coaching site featuring Coach Lisa Holba, with a number of articles and resources for achieving your dreams. Their philosophy is "Change your thoughts; Change your life".

Articles from Images of One If your interest runs towards New Age/Alternative Spirituality, here is an interesting selection of articles and e-books on prosperity, abundance, and other related topics.