Six years ago, Nicole Casanova was at one of those proverbial crossroads in life. However, her mid-life crisis came at 26. Having been successful at a very young age in the San Francisco dot.com arena, she was becoming the victim of burnout. Nicole decided to take a step back, leave her slick six figure career, and give herself space to decide her next move.

After much reading and soul searching, Casanova became aware that her thoughts and actions were making her life unhappy. The former South Beach party girl who gave excess a new name and made it big as a dotcom darling, finally realized that instead of being victim of the world, she was actually responsible for her experiences. She wanted to help others make the same realization, that their thoughts created their reality, in a fun, interactive way. Armed with the knowledge that both the Game and Self-Help industries were growing markets, Casanova created and self-published the board game, Shift.

What’s the one thing you would most like to leave to your children and grandchildren when you are gone?If money was the first thing that came to your mind, that’s understandable. Most of us have been taught to think that way. But it is also a signal that you may need to do some serious, sober thinking about what is most valuable to you and to your family.

That’s the message of a new film from Fox Faith Movies. The Ultimate Gift tells the story of the wealthy Red Stevens, played by Oscar-nominee James Garner, and his grandson, Jason. Most of Red’s children turned out just like many wealthy families do: spoiled, greedy, and selfish. The tragedy is that Red Stevens himself was a good and selfless man, but he was so busy providing for his family’s physical needs that he failed to teach them the values that mattered most to him.

Man has constantly striven to develop new techniques to allow him to achieve more in life. From the early Greek philosophers, through to creative geniuses such as Beethoven, Da Vinci, Dali and Einstein one recurring technique has been ‘napping’.

Now, ‘powernapping’ has taken corporate America and Japan by storm. Workers are actively encouraged to take breaks in their day and have a nap; they are even sent on courses to learn how to do this!

Apparently you’re never too big to take a nap. Today, napping is a health trend, a workplace perk, even an art form. Children do it, students do it, even educated Corporate Chairmen and CEO’s do it.

• British Airways
• Nike
• Union Pacific Railroad

The Neuro-Programmer 2 (NP2) is an innovative software application for the PC, built to help you achieve rapid and long lasting personal change. NP2 stimulates Brainwaves while using Hypnosis, NLP and other Psychological techniques to help you transform your mind and enhance your mental abilities.

Using specially structured light and sound techniques, NP2 is able to affect the mind directly using a neural process known as Brainwave Entrainment. Brainwave patterns represent the electrical activity of the brain. By shifting this activity, NP2 produces mental states conducive to your goals. For example, NP2 can be used to guide your mind to its most receptive possible state, or a brainwave pattern that has been proven to leave the mind more receptive to suggestion and absorbent of information, vastly increasing the effect of Psychological techniques.