Chris Le Roy's Articles

  • Absolute References Vs Relative References in Microsoft Excel
    Microsoft Excel is built on a regime of Columns and Rows with the intersection of these two elements giving us our cells. The cells in Microsoft Excel are always named Columns and then Rows, so a typical cell address would look something like - AB256. This particular cell is found on column AB and in row 256.
  • Asthma in Infants
    The person who is learning the Buteyko method takes control of their breathing and by reduction of the use of their deep breathing muscles reduces the depth of their breathing until a desire for a deeper breath is felt. This indicates that a higher level of CO2 is being trapped in, so in a short time avoiding the conditions associated with CO2 deficiency.
  • Asthma: Emphysema vs Asthma
    In the past emphysema has been seen as a death sentence. Your doctor or specialist may have explained to you that this condition is progressive, and will eventually stop you from breathing at all. You may have been told that new drugs are becoming available all the time, and new research is happening.
  • ASTHMA: Shallow Breathing To Tune Your Body
    We are now at the position where we can discuss more exactly the process that if followed will normalize your breathing. We have seen in earlier chapters that our breathostat or respiratory centre has somehow become set at the wrong level.
  • Asthma: The Effect of Diet On Your Breathing Health
    The key point to remember here is that everything you eat will make you breathe more deeply. Some foods will make you breathe more than other foods. Plus there is some individual variation in how much people respond do different foods.
  • Asthma: Your Lungs Are Like The Carburetor On A Car
    Learning to calculate how much your lungs are over breathing is not that difficult. In fact, it is a simple calculation to work out by what factor you are overbreathing. Divide 60 by your pause and multiply by 100%.
  • Basic Excel: Developing Your First Spreadsheet
    Developing your first worksheet can be an exciting time but there are a few things you need to be aware of. When entering data into a cell, the data is normally going to be text, numbers or a formula.
  • Basic Word: Use Autocorrect to Deal with Acronyms Easily
    The world today has gone literally gone acronym crazy. Every industry has its own plethora of acronyms to bamboozle the uninitiated. Acronyms are also often a source of great pain for those people who have to create procedure documents for their industry.
  • Childrens Asthma: Problems When Sleeping
    The majority of children have some difficulty during the night. To wake a couple of hours after going to sleep with a nasty cough is common. As is snoring, bed-wetting, and restless sleeping [thrashing about and waking often].
  • Dispelling 8 Misconceptions of Organization
    Some people were born organized and then there are those of us who struggle with organizing every year at this time. It seems that it’s always at the end of the year when that little annoying bug begins nudging you to clear things up and start the new year organized.
  • Do All Keywords Sell on Both Organic Search and Pay-Per-Click?
    We are constantly bombarded by the same generic internet marketing information day-by-day. Over the last 2 years very little has changed in the overall process of internet marketing but what internet marketers do not tell you is why some keywords sell and some do not. This is the whole reason why some websites make enormous amounts of money, while other similar sites make very little if any at all.
  • Domains: Buying an Existing Domain Name Vs a New Domain Name
    No one can deny that the Internet is here to stay and that businesses who do not embrace the internet are going to struggle in the coming years. With the Internet and Search Engines reaching a new level of maturity, I have noticed in their rankings that they are beginning to put more and more weight on the age of the domain in their index and because of this we have now reached a crossroad for many businesses to evaluate whether they are better off buying an existing domain versus registering a brand new domain. But Buyer Beware!
  • Eight Tips You Should Remember On Your Path To Success!
    Everything that happens to us happens for a purpose. And sometimes, one thing leads to another and the result is a disaster. Instead of locking yourself up in your cage of fears and crying over past heartaches, embarrassment and failures treat them as your teachers and they will become your tools in both self-improvement and success.
  • Five Things You Need To Remember Before Starting a Small Business
    Everyone knows someone who has decided to go into small business but did you know that 70% of all small businesses fail within the first 12 months of operation. In some countries that failure rate is as high as 85 to 90%. Small Business is one of the toughest industries you can ever decide to take on and most people who go into small business go into it for the wrong reason.
  • How To Control Sneezing
    Your goal with sneezing is to avoid the increasing loss of CO2. If you tend to get caught up in a series of sneezes where you may sneeze from 6 to 60 times in a row, then you know how long it can take to recover.
  • How To Help Your Child Stop Coughing
    The key point here is that when you start to do this you may feel a little uncomfortable. In the past when there was a slight tickle in your throat or a feeling of 'lumpiness' in your chest, you coughed and had short term relief.
  • Internet Marketing: Could Your Business Survive Without A Customer Database
    For over 20 years I have worked as an independent IT/Business consultant for some of the most prestigious organisations in the world including companies like Telstra, BHP, BMA Coal, Suncorp Metway and many many more. But it still astounds me, that there are still companies out in the market place, even to this day, that still don’t value the need for a Customer Database. In some cases, they don’t even know what it is.
  • Learn meditation: Meditate To Beat Insomnia
    The world to me seems to be speeding up everyday. We are working longer hours, we are busier than we have ever been before, the traffic is snarling more and more and our stress levels are going through the roof. The consequence to this is that more and more people are suffering insomnia and this can become dangerous and affect your ability to function effectively.
  • Learn Why Telephone Numbers on the Side of Your Business Vehicles Maybe a Waste of Money!
    One of the greatest myths in vehicle marketing today is for people to prominently display their phone numbers on the side of their vehicles thinking people will ring them as they drive their billboard around town. In fact very little business is achieved by having traditional telephone numbers on the side of their vehicles …
  • Meditation Basics: Choosing The Incense Right For You!
    Meditation sessions are fantastic to help you manage and balance your day-to-day life. One of the important elements you can include as part of your meditation session is incense and for a beginner this really is an important tool and can make the difference between a successful meditation session and an unsuccessful meditation session.
  • Meditation: Choosing the Right Meditation Pillow
    Whether you realize it or not choosing the right meditation pillow can make a huge difference to the success of your meditation session. Most people when starting out on learning the technique of meditation will simply sit on the floor and try to meditate with no support at all. However, trying to maintain the right posture for any period of time is quite a challenge and will simply lead to an unsuccessful meditation session.
  • Meditation: Six Step to Unlocking Your Inner Peace
    Just like many of us I have been looking for a way to break the constant information overload to help give my mind a chance to relax and after many years of studying and test trying the art of meditation by many of the great religions like Budhism I have found a simple six step formula that helps me to unleash the inner peace that really wishes to come out.
  • Meditations - Meditating for Good Will
    One of the things we are taught when we are young is to respect each other and to treat each other with the utmost respect. However somewhere along the way we seem to forget the art of good will. There is a simple meditation that you can use to help you ensure that your heart, mind and soul each day maintain goodwill towards all mankind.
  • Meditations: Creating Your Meditation Strategy
    Meditating without a plan is like going on a holiday with no idea where you are going or what you are going to do. All that will happen is that you will get lost and will not end up achieving anything. If you do meditate without having a clear strategy in place, you will find over a period of time that your interest in meditating will wane and you will simply stop meditating. However, if you develop a strategy for what you want out of your meditation, then you have a goal and this means that you are more likely to stick with your meditation sessions till you achieve your goal.
  • Meditations: Defining the Purpose of Your Meditation Session
    The concept of meditating for many people is that of hippies sitting out in the bush, high on weed, all chanting together or of Buddhist Monks in the high mountains of Tibet chanting their sacred text. Meditation can be all of that and more. Meditation is for everyone, not just a select group. When choosing to meditate, you must clearly define the purpose of the meditation session. Meditation in the western world is most commonly related to stress relief and to help ease the strains of everyday life but it does not have to be.
  • Meditations: Developing Your Weekly Meditation Plan
    Meditating without a clear plan or purpose is like going on a safari trip with out a map. You will get lost very quickly and you will not achieve what you setout to achieve. A meditation plan should simply set out how you want to plan your meditation for the week and what you want to focus on during that week but be advised there are few elements you will want to consider.
  • Meditations: For Acts of Theft
    The act of stealing, that is, taking somebody else's possessions and calling them your own whether by force, by deception or simply by borrowing the item and not giving it back will always have a negative impact on your own psyche and karma whether you realize it or not. More so the act of theft will in the long run cause you more suffering whether it is through guilt or by being caught.
  • Meditations: For Speaking Unkind and Unthoughtful Words
    The world has become a cruel and unusual place and I am quite sure you, like I have been a victim, at some time, of a person speaking unkind and unthoughtful words. Whilst we may not be able to do anything about the person who has been unkind to ourselves, we can undertake reflectful meditations that will help ensure that we do not participate in the act of speaking unkind.
  • Meditations: For Those Who Gossip About Others
    Have you ever caught yourself gossiping about another? Have you ever talked to a friend or stranger about your next door neighbor who you thought was having an affair with the pool man? Have you ever stood around the water fountain and talked about what a colleague did at the previous nights Christmas Party?
  • Meditations: Meditating Sitting on a Chair
    Meditation has been embraced by western society over the last few years with more and more people choosing to meditate to help them cope with day to day life. It amazes me that in a society in which each of us are wealthier than our grandparents that we are certainly no happier than the people during the depression. In fact I honestly believe we are more miserable than those who suffered the worst period in history. Meditation is an excellent tool to help you deal with challenging times.
  • Meditations: Overcoming Those Distractions During Meditation
    I was sitting in a class today talking to some of my computer training students. We discussing how to absorb the material being learned and in particular we discussed how using meditation can help in their learning process, how meditation can help them learn more effectively and more so how they could overcome any distractions that might happen during their meditation session. See distractions are not just those that happen externally to you, they also happen internally and those internal distractions are tougher to overcome than the external ones.
  • Meditations: The Stillness Style Meditation
    The Stillness Style Meditation technique is one of the simplest techniques to actually master. It is also a fantastic meditation style that can be used with or without meditation music. The Stillness Style Meditation is one of the first meditation techniques taught when you learn the Buddhist way of life.
  • Meditations: The Use Of Sacred Phrases In Your Daily Meditations
    There are many reasons for meditating, such as meditating for relaxation, stress relief or dealing with an issue. Sometimes you may even meditate for the fun of it because of the high you get coming off a meditation session. However, sometimes you may want to meditate for a purpose or to help reinforce something you want to achieve.
  • Meditations: Using Meditation to Master The Art Of Success
    Quick question before we start, please raise your hand if you have achieved everything you wanted to achieve in your life. Let me ask you another question … do you have a passion to succeed or to achieve something? Are you programmed to succeed? Would you like to know how?
  • Microsoft Excel 2003 - How to Name a Range
    One of the most common functions that you will use in Microsoft Excel is to name a cell. The role of naming the cell is simply to provide you with a name to remember rather than a specific cell address like B2 or B3. However, one of the cool functions that Microsoft has incorporated into Microsoft Excel is the ability to name a range of cells and utilize the range when required.
  • Microsoft Excel 2003 Shortcuts: How to Create a Drop Down Box in a Microsoft Excel Cell
    Have you ever been in a situation where you were building a template in Microsoft Excel 2003 and it would have been really useful to actually have a drop down box so that your users could choose from a preset list, rather than them simply typing in their own values? Well the cool part is that Microsoft Excel 2003 allows you to build your own drop down boxes in the application and in this article we will show you exactly how to do this.
  • Microsoft Excel 2003 Shortcuts: How to Use Labels in Formulas
    Microsoft Excel 2003 is one of the most diverse tools in the Microsoft Office 2003 arsenal. It allows you to manage numbers and data by creating formulas that automatically calculate but in many cases users build inefficient formulas. These formulas can in fact cause problems in the future if people add in rows to your field. To resolve this problem we can in fact use labels to add up your fields.
  • Microsoft Excel 2003: How To Control What Data Can Be Entered Into A Microsoft Excel Cell?
    Microsoft Excel by default allows you to enter any type of data into a cell however sometimes when you are developing a spreadsheet for use by your staff or external people you will want to control what data can be entered into a specific cell.
  • Microsoft Excel 2003: How to Join Multiple Cells Together Using Text Concatenation
    One of the issues you maybe faced in Microsoft Excel 2003 is having to combine various cells together into one single cell. For example, you may have three columns named, Title, First name and Last name and you maybe asked to combine those three values together. To achieve this capability we use the Text Concatenation Function. This article will look at the process of combining these cells together.
  • Microsoft Excel Basics: How to Embed a Chart
    Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool that allows you to take data from your worksheet and position the chart within the worksheet. This type of chart is known as an Embedded Chart.
  • Microsoft Excel Basics: What Are Functions?
    Microsoft Excel allows you to write any formula that you require in a cell using basic mathematical operators such as Brackets, Division, Multiplication, Subtraction and Addition however it is easy for these formulas to become complex very quickly.
  • Microsoft Excel Shortcuts: How To Setup A Shared Workbook
    Microsoft Excel 2003 has become the spreadsheet of choice for over 80% of corporate businesses around the world. One of the clear advantages of using Microsoft Excel 2003 over other spreadsheeting programs is the ability to have multiple people entering information into the same spreadsheet. This function in Microsoft Excel is called Shared Workbooks and we will go through how to setup this capability in this article.
  • Microsoft Excel: What Is Spreadsheeting?
    The concept of spreadsheeting has been around for hundreds of years. The process can be described as the ability to arrange numbers, characters and other objects into rows and columns. It is most common that spreadsheets only contain numbers and text.
  • Microsoft Excel: Working With Toolbars
    Toolbars are a crucial part of the Microsoft Excel 2003 Application and assist in improving your productivity and efficiency in the application. Microsoft Excel contains a range of toolbars that you can use for a variety of different tasks.
  • Microsoft Word Basics: How to Select Text Effectively
    Using Microsoft Word allows you to create highly effective documents that are professional and pristine. However many users of this powerful application still find the simple task of selecting text challenging, especially in long documents.
  • Online Promotion: Using Bumper Stickers To Promote Your Online Business But There Are 3 Rules
    When I first promoted the idea to my clients of using bumper stickers to promote their online business assets, they all thought I was nuts. In fact some of the comments were like "Promoting your online business on bumper stickers, you have got to be kidding, no one is going to access your website." Except along came the 3G Network and true internet enabled phones. Guess who's laughing now!
  • Small Business Secret #1 - Build Your Business with The End In Mind
    Small Business is the toughest industry to break into. If you were a betting man, you would never in a million years want to go into a small business when the odds for success in small business are so bad, that 70% of all small business fail in the first year. Let me be blunt, if you want to succeed in small business, only listen to those people who have built a small business in an industry they no nothing about and succeeded. These are the people who seriously know how to build a small business.
  • Small Business Secret #2 - Build Your Business Knowing How You Will Exit the Business
    Creating a small business from nothing is easy to do anyone can do it, by simply filling out a few forms at a government office and then you have your small business. Making it successful is the hard part but also knowing how to get out of your business is as important to your business as owning it. Way to many people startup small businesses but then have no idea how they are going to exit it and in the end the way they build their business in many many cases results in them not getting the windfall they had hoped for.
  • Small Business Secret #3: Seven Documents All Small Businesses Must Have to Be Successful
    When many small business owners start out thinking about building a small business, they are often mislead into believing that the only document that they need to succeed is a Business Plan. In fact this plan is only one of seven documents every small business should have if they ever expect to survive let alone succeed.
  • Small Business Secret #4 – The 10 Chapter Elements Every Business Plan Must Have to Be Successful
    One of the ten most important documents you must have in creating a successful small business, and in fact any business is the Business Plan. The Business Plan is the overall summary document that describes how your business will work, how people will invest into your business and how the business will operate.

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