Life purpose is not just about the meaning of life in some grand, abstract, cosmic sense. It is about the meaning of your life. And it is not about chasing a carrot through life to reach some end destination that is down the road. It is about feeling that purpose in every step of the journey.

Why Bother?

What if you could eliminate

• the dissatisfaction that creeps into your daily life?
• the feelings that you are working a pointless and thankless job?
• the concerns that your not making a difference in the world?
• the nagging feeling that there must be more to life than what you’re experiencing?

Understanding your life purpose and incorporating it in all that you do is the antidote to all of the above. It provides you with a meaningful compass with which to gain direction in your life. If you are looking to transition into a new career or find a satisfying relationship, knowing your life purpose can help you know in which direction you should head.

If you simply have a nagging feeling that there must be something more in life, but you don’t feel that you need to change your job or revamp your relationships, discovering your life purpose can bring new levels of joy and passion to your life as it is now. It can help you discover why you love the things you love, and what you can do to get even more of that good stuff.

Whichever category you fall into, the first tip I want to give you to help you with your mission is that it’s not about what you do, it’s about who you are while you are doing it.

Being vs Doing

Your life purpose is not about what you do for a living. Or what you do at all. Your life purpose is not tied to any one activity. It is not about the doing. It is about the being. It is about the “you” that shows up in everything that you do.

Life leaves clues. So what you do in life-whether it be your job, your hobbies, or any of your daily activities-is the starting point for finding you life purpose. Your first task in discovering your life purpose is to dive below the surface of your activities and take a look at what is happening on the inside during each activity. In particular, take a look at the ones that make you feel the most at peace, happy, content, passionate, and purposeful. You can begin by asking yourself:

• What are you doing when you lose all track of time?
• What is similar in all the things you love to do?
• What is the feeling you get when you engage in these activities?

Make a list of the top five descriptors or feelings that come up as you answer these questions. This list of words will tap into the core of who you are in all that you do. Start thinking about how you can get more of those feelings in your life. Use that list of words to help you make choices throughout your day that keep you aligned with your core. When you can match up your outside activities with who you know you are at your very core, you experience greater happiness, energy and success. You are living your life purpose.

This article is part one of a three part series on finding and following your life purpose. Life Purpose Basics will continue with part two: What Does “Meaning” Mean?

Fibonacci Retracement, Extension and Projections are one of the most popular technical analysis tools in the arsenal of any traders. Infact, Fibonacci Retracements are widely used by day traders and swing traders in their trade setups. These are considered to be leading indicators unlike most of the other technical analysis indicators that are considered as lagging in nature.

Most of us as traders are familiar with the Fibonacci Number Sequence that is obtained by adding the last two numbers to get the subsequent number in the sequence that starts from 0,1. So, the Fibonacci Sequence develops like this 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,….and so on. These ratios 0.382, 0.5,0.681,1,1.272 and 1.618 are considered to be very important in forming the different retracement, correction, extension and projection levels.

In any trend, price action has the tendency of pulling back or retracing itself. This is also known as the Correction. Suppose, we have an uptrend. The price action when it starts from the low, at some point will tend to consolidate itself by retracing itself or pulling back upto a certain extent and then resuming in the original direction. These retracements or correction can be 0.382, 0.5 or 0.618 percent most of the time. So if you have failed to enter the uptrend at its low, you can enter it at one of these levels.

However, sometimes, price action can continue to retrace itself more than 100% meaning it can go beyond the original low of the trend. When this happens, it is known as a Fibonacci Extension. So, Fibonacci Extension is a special type of correction or retracement when the price action retraces itself more than 100%. This extension can go as high as 1.272 or 1.618 percent.

Fibonacci Projection is a concept that is used to determine the levels where the trend is most likely to exhaust itself. Fibonacci Projections are considered to by very important in the Elliot Wave Analysis. This projection can be at 1.618, 2.618 or even 3.618 percent and is used to determine the swing.

Now, Pivot Point is calculated by adding the High, Low and the Open of a certain timeframe then dividing it by 3. You can calculate two pivot point support levels and two pivot point resistance levels. If you are not familiar with pivot point calculations, you should read my article on Pivot Points.

When you trade with pivot points, you draw these support and resistance levels on the chart and see if the price action breaks these support or resistance or holds it. Suppose, you are trading the 30 minutes chart. You draw the pivot point support and resistance level. The price action rises and hits the resistance forming a doji. A doji is considered to be an indecision bar.

Now, it the price action starts to fall subsequently, you can take it as sell signal with the stop placed close to the high of the doji. When to get out? You can draw the retracement levels 0.382,0.5 and the 0.618 to see where the price action will complete the retracement. This way you can keep your emotional control and don’t let the trade end prematurely. Whatever, Fibonacci Retracement when combined with Pivot Points can be a powerful combination that you should master. Good Luck!  

Point of Use (POU) meters are designed to provide a submetering solution for those properties that cannot be submetered by conventional submeters due to plumbing designs that bring multiple pipes into the apartment or office (stacked risers). The meters were specifically designed for stacked riser plumbing configurations typically found in properties that utilize a central boiler to provide hot water.

In a typical installation very small flow meters are installed inconspicuously on each hot & cold outlet to the shower/tub, toilet, sink, dish washer and clothes washer. Depending on the manufacturer the flow meters either have a transmitter built in or are connected to an interface board/ transmitter. The transmitters report usage information to a central Processing computer that in turn forwards the usage information to a billing center where bills can be printed and sent to the end user.

Equipment and installation costs are typically higher that traditional systems but the payback is still usually less than a year. When deciding on a POU meter, a principal consideration should be that the meters can be read by any Automated Reading System (AMR). This allows the property owner to choose between many billing companies and does not tie the owner to equipment that can only be read by a few companies.

Submetering has been proven by numerous studies to reduce usage by as much as 39%. Although POU meters have been available for over ten years they have not been widely used until recently. With the current interest in green solutions and the ever rising water and sewer costs properties that in the past could not be traditionally metered are now installing POU meters and benefitting from the same type of usage reductions that properties with conventional plumbing have realized for years. Since roughly 50% of apartments and 90% of office buildings utilize stacked riser plumbing the benefits of submetering with POU meters have barely been touched.

In restaurant point of sale a product passes through certain distinct stages during its life. This cycle of stages is called Product Life Cycle or PLC. The PLC is normally presented as a sales curve spanning the products course from introduction to exit. Concept lies in the fact that each stage in the restaurant point of sale is characterized by a typical market behavior and consequently each stage lends itself to the application of a certain specific marketing strategy. Understanding the PLC concept and managing it effectively can help prolong the profitable phases of the life span of a product.

A typical product at restaurant point of sale passes through distinct stages during the course of its life. During the market pioneering stage, the product is in its introductory stage in the market. Here there may not yet be a ready market for the product. Sales are low; the product undergoes teething troubles; profits seem a remote possibility; demand has to be created and developed; and customers have to be prompted to try out the product. One of the crucial decisions to be taken at this stage is the pricing strategy to be adopted for the product.

The ease and speed with which competitors can bring out similar products is perhaps the most important factor in deciding the pricing strategy at this stage. Another crucial area demanding attention is market development and promotion. That’s where demand has to be created and developed. The firm has to invest heavily in promotion before it sees any returns.

During the market growth stage, the demand for the product increases and the size of the market grows. That’s when one has to stay ahead of his competitors and persuade the customer to prefer his brand. He cannot dictate the price to the customer; he cannot dictate the terms to the channel.

My husband, Gary, and I have been regular keynote speakers about the power of prayer and directed intention alongside frontier scientists studying Zero Point Field; this is the underlying matrix that connects everything in the universe, and we ourselves are part of this vast dynamic cobweb of energy exchange. These leading scientists are now proving what mystics have been saying for decades: that we all have control over our world, a capacity to heal ourselves and our loved ones and, indeed the world. Also, that the existence of the Field provides a plausible explanation for many unexplained phenomena, such as past lives or life after death, for many of the world-famous speakers presented evidence that consciousness is not encased in the brain and never dies.

The missing element from these theories is that secret elixir of life, love, hence the inclusion in these conferences of mystics as well as scientists. Potentially, the power of love through prayer, directed intention and healing, can affect every technology on the planet.

The fact that the power of Love is the secret elixir of life is not a new thought. This truth is engraved on the Sphinx, it is in the caves of the Anchorites near Mount Sinai, and on the great rock near Deir, Petraea, we are told: “The Torch of life is fed by the oil of Love.”

Just as love is the oil, intentional prayer is the tool that can draw upon the field – the universal supply of energy – and join this with the elixir of love, so that it becomes an alchemical force, to inspire ourselves and others. We can draw upon this vast universal field, mix it with the magical elixir, and use the results to transform our personal and global world. In fact with so much talk of energy shortage, we learn there need never be a shortage of energy. In the words of Lynne McTaggart: “Zero point field…. is a vast inexhaustible energy source all sitting there unobtrusively in the background of the empty space around us, like one all-pervasive, supercharged backdrop. To give you some idea of the magnitude of that power, the energy in a single cubic yard of ’empty’ space is enough to boil all the oceans of the world.” It is difficult to envision this type of immense transformative power. While we don’t want to boil all the oceans, we have found that, when we learn to “plug in” to this universal supply, other so-called miracles can occur.

My own Spiritual Master for over twenty five years, Dr. George King , Founder of The Aetherius Society, taught that the real energy crisis facing mankind was not so much a shortage of oil or electricity, but an underlying greed, a selfishness, a shortage of love. In the early 1970s he coined the phrase The Spiritual Energy Crisis. One major aspect of his life work was to invent technology for powerful healing missions that help balance this fundamental energy crisis, and bring love and healing into the world on an impersonal, global scale.

On an individual level, while “miracles” can happen to us without any preparation at all, the likelihood for apparently impossible things to happen is far greater if we can fully utilize the magic of the mind-body-spirit connection. While our conscious minds analyze, and create limits, checks and boundaries to help us understand the world around us, our soul or spiritual self is attuned to the limitless nature of Creation. The more we align ourselves with our spiritual aspects, therefore, the more we are operating in the realm of the miraculous. As Marianne Williamson said: “While we are used to looking to all manner of external powers to “fix” us – from medicine to technology to money, etc. – there is today a resurgence of inner knowing that the powers of the spirit surpass the powers of the world.”

Here is a story that indicates the power of the spirit, and the unusual way prayer can work. When a friend was a young student, living in England, he missed the last bus home. After a few miles, he realized he was in the middle of nowhere. By then, it was freezing cold, pitch dark and raining. As a naturally spiritual person, he decided to pray. Typical of this person, he did not actually pray for help for himself but offered some prayers for peace. He did not want to be seen so he went behind a thick bush and was silently praying hard when he suddenly heard a voice say: “I’m not going to see you hiding behind the bush!” He came out from behind the bush and saw that a truck had pulled up and was offering him a lift. When he asked the truck driver how he knew he was there, he just winked and smiled knowingly!

The more we prepare ourselves spiritually, the more the spiritual world opens up to us and can release its riches. There is actually no such thing as a miracle. So-called miracles happen when we learn to understand and control our mental-spiritual nature, and the seen and unseen worlds around us. These unusual events also happen when there is intervention between the physical and the higher realms.

Many yogis, adepts, sages, and mystics have, throughout the centuries, demonstrated control of matter in many, often spectacular, ways. The great Avatar, Jesus demonstrated great miracles such as healing, walking on water, and raising the dead. He also told us that we could do greater things than even he could. Dr. George King, found that while in a highly elevated mystic state, the result of many hours of spiritual practices, he would levitate at times. His landlady could not understand the round marks of grease on his ceiling: like young men in those days he wore cream to flatten his hair! He also recounted the time when he went into a store and everybody ignored him. He suddenly realized he was invisible! Again, the result of hours of spiritual practices.

All the great spiritual teachers, masters, yogis, and enlightened ones of every faith throughout history have taught us this same truth in their different ways. We are all capable of these things. We just have to access the miracle machine within us. One of the best keys to unlock the great spiritual power within us is prayer.

As well as helping others through our prayers, they will also help us. Prayer, performed effectively, will bring better health, clarity of mind, and more creativity and intuition. As well as these physical and mental benefits there are, above all, numerous spiritual benefits. As action and reaction is opposite and equal, by the Law of Karma, we must receive back the same amount and quality of love, healing and inspiration that we send out.

Swami Sivenanda, one of the world’s true spiritual giants (1887-1963), taught “Work hard and you will be purified. You do not have to bring the light, the light will unfold from within you.” (Tattwa Shuddhi: The Tantric Practice of Inner Purification – Swami Satyananda Saraswati. Bihar School of Yoga, Munger, Bihar, India.

Exercise: Preparing for Miracles

Start each day with a prayer to put you in the right frame of mind to see the miraculous in life.

The following is a suggested prayer you may wish to use to begin this prayerful journey. For greatest effect, say the prayer out loud with all your heartfelt feeling, keep your hands raised up, palms facing outwards, and visualize energy flowing through you as a brilliant, white stream of light. This is energy from the field, conditioned by your love and by the intention of your prayer. By raising your hands in this way, you are allowing spiritual energy to flow freely through your heart center (also known as chakra) situated in your aura just in front of the breastbone, and through the psychic centers in the palms of each hand

Oh Mighty Creator

I ask that your light, power and strength

May unfold within me

So that my Spiritual self, Spark of the Divine,

May guide and direct me always.

I ask that I may be ever aware

Of the beauty and wonder of Creation

And help to build this within my life

And in the world around me.

I thank you for listening to my prayer

May Your will be done.

You will know when you are drawing through yourself the great powers of the Cosmos through your prayers, as you will have many signs. These may be one or more of the following:

• Sudden flashes of insight.
• An increased interest in the great mysteries of life.
• Feelings of spiritual joy and aliveness.
• An enhanced appreciation of creation and the oneness of life.
• A greater sense of spiritual fulfillment and personal accomplishment.
• Increased sensitivity for the suffering and joy of others, as well as increased physical sensitivity.
• Greater awareness of the subtle realms.
• More psychic ability and creativity.
• And more…

One of the difficulties for enterprises to manage their branch offices with less technical IT supports is extending the secure system to their branch offices. Having technical skill employee (especially in IT security) in each of the branch offices lead to overhead cost. In modern businesses with multiple branch offices, integrating the communication system between the head quarter and branch offices is a must to support business productivity. However, connecting the branch offices that have low security design will just make security holes and vulnerabilities to the central office and to the enterprise network as a whole.

One of the vulnerabilities that contribute to security holes to branch offices is the deployment of wireless network that is not properly designed with security in mind. Providing the wireless internet access to company guests without limiting the network access can compromise system security. Providing no data encryption for wireless communication is very dangerous for the system that can cause the un-authorized users gain access easily to the system.

Many network administrators have difficulties in extending the security protection from well secured wired network to wireless networks. This is sometimes caused by the difficulties in integrating multiple networking products from different manufacturers. Moreover, security becomes the last thing to consider when deployments of the wireless networks for many network administrators. It is therefore, selecting the premium wireless access points in building wireless networks for branch offices is very essential to mitigate the security compromise. The access points that can be integrated with your existing secure wired networks.

Juniper AX411 Wireless LAN Access Point which is combined with the Juniper SRX series would be ideal solution for branch offices and helps network administrators to manage and design both wired and wireless security. AX411 is designed for branch offices of Enterprise class businesses. Should you build your home business or SOHO, you can consider more economical access points such as DAP-1522 Xtreme N duo access point by D Link.

What this Product Does

Juniper AX411 Wireless LAN Access Point is powered by the latest wireless 802.11n standards with dual-band and 2×3 MIMO technologies delivering the speeds of up to 300Mbps. With dual-band support, the AX411 can accommodate both types of 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz based wireless devices.

AX411 is designed to be easily integrated with the award winning Juniper SRX branch office series. This will allow you to manage centrally and deliver the security performance from wired network to wireless networks easily. By combining the AX411 and SRX series gateway, you can extend the security and Quality of Service (QoS) requirements to the wireless networks easily.

Juniper AX411 Wireless LAN Access Point supports multiple SSIDs to allow you segregate the security requirements for different groups of users such as providing different security access to company guests without providing internal network access. You can provide each of unique SSID with specific security and QoS requirements to meet your business security policies.

AX411 is designed to support future cluster cloning technology to ease the deployments of multiple access points for large wireless networks. The good thing with the integration to the SRX series is that SRX provides wireless controller capabilities in managing up to 2 AX411 access points. But, should you require managing more than two AX411 devices, you need to purchase additional software licenses.

Juniper AX411 Wireless LAN Access Point supports the 802.3af Power over Ethernet (PoE) to allow you install the devices in area where no power points are available such as deployments in ceilings. You just need to connect the Gigabit Ethernet port of the AX411 using the UTP LAN cable to the PoE enabled Switch port or connect to SRX series with PoE enabled. AX411 includes mounting to ease deployment the devices in the wall, mount desk, or ceilings.

Building a wireless network for branch offices must comply with the high security policy setting of the enterprise. Low security design for branch offices will just promote the security holes and vulnerabilities to the enterprise network. Combination of the Juniper AX411 wireless access points and the SRX series gateway is ideal solution for branch offices network.

By Ki Grinsing

Do you know that 4 out of 10 men suffer from Premature Ejaculation? Here are 5 reasons why you can get Premature Ejaculation in most cases.

– Genes

– Masturbation

– Intensity

– No idea of how the ejaculatory process works

– Sensitivity, get completely overwhelmed and out of control during sex

So, do you want to know how to delay ejaculation before reaching the point of no return and last longer in bed? I am sure you find Premature Ejaculation an embarrassing issue, especially each time you wish you can satisfy your partner greatly in bed. Here are few tips that can help you to delay ejaculation.

Slow down the process

Whenever you feel that you are reaching the point of no return, slow down and stop for a few seconds. You are likely not being able to control the flow when there are too much excitement and sensations, so just slow down the process.

Control your thoughts

Think of some other things to distract yourself from getting too excited. This is to train yourself to control your thoughts and reduce the arousal.

Do PC Muscle Exercises

Weak Pubococcgeus can also cause you to come early. You can do some exercises to strengthen the PC muscles. If you want to know how to control your PC muscles, you need to do a PC flex. It is like when you are urinating, you stop the flow and continue. The flex that you feel is called PC flex. For a start, flex around 20 to 30 times and gradually increase the number to 300 times a day. As the muscle level increase, the length of time that you hold on will also last longer.

The problem of ejaculating too early is a common problem and please do not feel shy to seek help in solving this problem. It is best to learn How To Delay Premature Ejaculation now rather than waiting for the problem to get serious especially if you want to have the ultimate sexual pleasure all the time.

 Point of Sale Technology goes far beyond the simple cash register and figuring out how much change to give to the customer these days. Retailers are discovering how a combined point of sale (POS) system increases productivity and makes all record keeping for the business so much easier. Here are some of the ways that new POS technology can help your retail business to control stock and increase profits by reducing staff time on stock control. If you don’t have the stock the customer wants available, you may lose sales, but a good and efficient stock control system will ensure you never again lose a sale due to lack of stock.

Increase Efficiency for Staff

By combining your stock control system into the point of sale technology, you increase staff efficiency. Instead of having to go out to a storeroom to check if the size the customer has requested is available, the customer service representative can simply press a button and discover what sizes of a particular product are in stock. The POS system can help your staff answer customer enquiries efficiently, as well as reduce the amount of time in the storeroom, instead of serving customers.

The POS computer includes the POS inventory software, so your staff always have an up to date inventory. As your customers buy each item, the inventory software automatically updates as the staff register the sale on the POS computer. This reduces the need for lengthy weekly reporting to know what to stock to order. With the POS computer including all the information staff need, it makes it an easy and efficient reference point for your staff, increasing efficiency in serving your valuable customers.

Keep Records of Stock across National Stores

You can integrate the POS system your retail store uses across all the stores in Australia. This means you can keep accurate records of what is in any one of your retail stores at any time. Staff at one store can easily check with if another store has the desired item in stock and can then request that item be sent to their store for the customer. This increases sales as customers will generally leave a store that doesn’t have the item they want in stock, but if the staff can offer to provide the item within a day or two from another store on the national database, the customer is likely to agree to the sale. You can also easily generate reports on what stores are selling what, making overall management of the retail chain much easier.

Order Stock as You Sell It

An important function of the POS inventory software is the ability to automatically order stock as you sell it. You can set up the system to order the stock, or to create a list of sales and suggested order list for a staff member to review and action the order. The simplicity of the inventory software and the integration with POS computer means that the inventory automatically updates when staff ring in a sale. You have an up-to-date list of your inventory at any time.

Make Stocktake Easy

The inventory software makes the necessary bi-annual stocktakes extremely easy. You simply print out the reports from the inventory manager and cross-check this against the actual stock. Since the inventory software updates when ordered stock arrives and again when the stock sells, the only discrepancies you could have in the stocktake are from thieves.

A good POS system using the latest technology, such as integrating the inventory software with the POS computer increases staff efficiency, makes serving customers easier, and provides easy ways to keep track of and order your stock. Remember that without stock, you can make no sales, so stock management has to be a key function of any retail store.

Hello, I’m Stan Fidel-the marketing and selling coach. Welcome to article 16 of our 20-article series on Becoming An All-Star Sales Person.

In this article, we continue our discussion of closing. The Minor Point Close is a variation on the basic assumptive close. Like the basic close, you start out acting as if you expect a yes and you present one or two benefits that your prospect liked.

Here is where it becomes a little bit different. You ask a minor point question that your prospect would need to answer if he had already said yes to the major question of buying your product or service.

In this example of the Minor Point Close, let us continue using our previous context of the financial adviser. “You like the idea of having a professional manage your investments. You also really like all the time you will be saving. Do you want to do the asset transfer yourself or do you prefer that we handle the paperwork for you?” If your prospect answers the minor point question regarding who will handle the paperwork, he has bought your proposal. By choosing one of the minor alternatives he has agreed to the major question.

Let’s summarize the minor point close. It relies on a confident tone of voice. You must convey positive expectancy. Ask your prospect a minor question that would need to be answered once he made the major decision to buy. You are however, asking him the minor question first instead. If he answers, he has bought!

What you’ve just done: you’ve learned to close a sale by assuming a yes and confidently asking a minor question for it. Your positive expectant tone of voice is what makes this happen. Use this principle professionally and personally and get better results in all of your persuasion efforts. If you like what you’ve just read and want to see my 20-video series, on closing sales and becoming an extraordinary sales person, please go to http://www.stanleyfidel.com/free for the entire free series. Good-bye and good selling.

The title is somewhat misleading, since the book covers many other aspects of weight loss. Many of them useful, but the connection with how to overcome your set point was not clear. Researchers first came up with the “set point” theory in 1982. They found that many biomechanisms in the body act as a sort of weight thermostat. If you suddenly eat a lot and start to gain, these mechanisms kick in to help you lose the extra weight.

Cut way down on your calories and start a heavy exercise program, and your body slows down to avoid losing too much weight. This accounts for the tendency of dieters to hit a plateau after they’ve started a weight and exercise program and lost about 10% of their pounds. After the excitement of the first month or so, to suddenly stop losing weight despite all your efforts can be immensely frustrating, and accounts for many dieters quitting before they attain their goals.

Many experts emphasize the genetic nature of the set point, but although genetics is one factor, it’s obviously not the only one. The set point can and does change. Most of us gradually gain weight over the years. If the set point didn’t change, we’d remain our 21 year old weight while eating whatever we pleased. If only. Plus, we know that people can continue to lose weight despite the set point. People fed starvation diets in concentration camps for a long period continue to waste away.

An important point Dr. Blackburn makes — and which more people seeking permanent weight gain need to understand — is that changing the set point takes around six months. Lose that easy 10% of excess pounds, he advises, then continue your weight loss program but don’t expect any more progress for another six months. After that, your set point has been reset to your 90% weight, and you can then easily lose 10% of that. Unfortunately, at that point the book continues with lots of advice for dieters. Much of it is good, but little is new. But he didn’t clearly draw the lines. Is it following his advice that resets the set point to a lower level? Or just waiting six months? Plus, he is clearly of the calories-are-weight school. He dismisses the Zone health plan as just a “fad diet” without bothering to address any of the medical issues Dr. Barry Sears writes about.

He does not even address the glycemic index. Dieters are told to eat baby carrots even though carrots have a high glycemic index, meaning that they raise your insulin almost as much as table sugar. When he writes about exercise he’s just as shallow. He treats all forms of exercise as just a way to burn calories, even though researchers have determined that the real benefit lies in how high intensity exercise can alter your metabolism for up to forty-eight hours after the exercise. And how it can increase your supply of human growth hormone and, if you’re a man, testosterone.

Those metabolic and hormonal changes are far more important for both losing weight and general good health than the calories you burn while walking on a treadmill. Dr. Blackburn ignores them all. Instead, he advises you to move more — even if just tapping your fingers to burn calories. This advice to burn more calories by acting jittery and nervous seems to contradict the later sections in the book which advise dieters to reduce stress.

This, and his stress on the importance of getting plenty of sleep, is welcome and useful. He’s correct that not enough diet books stress the importance of reducing or dealing with stress in healthy ways rather than overeating. I searched Amazon and didn’t find any other points in print on the set point, so apparently it is filling a gap in the marketplace. However, people who want long term health, especially when they need to lose weight to get there, should keep the set point in mind while they’re on the Zone diet, doing high intensity sprints several times a week and body weight exercises on other days of the week.

Remember that your body interprets a fast 10% weight loss as the beginning of a famine. Stick to eating in the Zone and exercising regularly. After six months your body will figure out that you haven’t starved to death, and reset the set point down. Then keep going. Short term dieting is not healthy. Proper eating and exercise throughout your life is what will keep you slim and fit.