Free Shake Weight® this December


It’s been almost a year since I bought my Shake Weight® on December 11,
and now I’m giving as many free Shake Weight devices as possible!
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I MESSAGED ALMOST EVERYONE, even those people I can no longer remember I’ve ever met, stating that few days ago I acquired my license as a fitness senior consultant. This is what I do apart from my professions as technical writer, free-lance content editor, and an editor-in-chief for the advertising and marketing media of a small team. By being a fitness senior consultant, I have taken further steps to realize my vision of seeing a fitter world by transforming people’s lives, one person at a time—my long-held vision for five years now.

Verbal bullying, punch lines, and bruises


From curse words that were culturally proscribed yesterday to the same curse words that are commonly accepted today
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… culture has come a long way indeed.
 
REPORTING RESEARCH RESULTS RELEVANT to verbal bullying at a meeting of the American Psychological Association, Lilia Cortina and Vicky Magley found that rudeness is unbridled in the workplace. Their study indicated that 71 percent of 1,100 surveyed workers said that they had experienced pompous and outright rude behavior. Later on, with the increasing encounters of uncivil behavior came symptoms of anxiety and depression among victims of maltreatment. Those passive victims suffered the worst mental health. Similarly, according to bullyingstatistics.org, “Many victims of verbal bullying are affected in very real ways. Verbal bullying can affect one’s self image, and affect someone in emotional and psychological ways. This type of bullying can lead to low self-esteem, as well as depression and other problems. It can aggravate problems that a victim may already be experiencing at home or in other places.”

For 40 or 50 years, there has been an increased exposure to lack of civility. A survey conducted by a nonprofit research group, Public Agenda, reported 79 percent of interviewed adults said that lack of respect and courtesy in the (American) society is a serious problem and more than one-third confessed that they use foul language in public—clearly, this is verbal bullying in public.