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Ever since I was a child, I loved vegetables. My mother used to call me a rabbit, and I would call her lucky. Granted, I was a bit picky in that I only liked my veggies raw, but still, what mother isn’t lucky to have a kid who loves vegetables?

As I’ve gotten older, salad continues IWC watches to be a huge part of my diet. In fact, most lunches and dinners consist of at least a salad appetizer, if not a salad entrée. So, when people complain to me that salad isn’t very fulfilling, it’s hard for me to understand. When I ask them what they put in their salad, however, it becomes clear why they’re unsatisfied. Plain and simple, they’re not putting enough nutrition and calories in their salad!

Salads are a great, healthy food that can be very filling and nutritious. But you have to stop treating salads like diet food and start treating them like meals. These three tips will ensure that your salad leaves you feeling satisfied.

1. Include protein. Most salads aren’t fulfilling because they’re lacking in protein. Granted, salad by definition focuses on vegetables, but protein is crucial to making you feel fuller, longer. Further, protein boosts your metabolism by ensuring you’re maintaining muscle mass, which burns more calories than fat. Here are some ways to get some healthy proteins into your salads:

Chicken: Opt for white meat that is either baked or grilled. Avoid fried chicken, chicken salad, or dark meat. Portion: 3-5 ounces or an amount similar to the size of a deck of cards

Salmon: Loaded with Omega 3s, salmon provide you with protein and healthy fats to keep you fulfilled. Portion: 3-5 ounces or an amount similar to the size of a deck of cards

Low-Fat Cheese: When possible, opt for low-fat or fat-free cheese. This will help to keep the saturated fats down in your meal. Portion: 1/4 cup

Nuts: Nuts give your salad an extra crunch and provide you with wonderful fiber, protein, and nutrients. Portion: 1/4 cup

Beans: Beans are loaded with fiber and protein, both of which are really important in keeping your tummy satisfied. Portion: 1/2 cup

Note: If you’re a vegetarian, combine the nuts and beans in your salad to make a complete protein.

2. Choose a variety of quality vegetables: Throwing some iceberg lettuce into a bowl and calling it salad is like calling a few knock-knock jokes comedy. It just doesn’t make the grade. Vegetables are obviously a key ingredient in a salad—they provide tons of vitamins and minerals and are replica watches a great source of fiber. Use those vegetables that provide the most nutrients for the punch. Further, the more colorful your salad, the more vitamins and minerals you will be getting. Here are some of the most nutrient-dense vegetables:

Baby Spinach/Dark Leafy Greens: When it comes to lettuces, aim to ditch the romaine and iceberg for more dark, leafy lettuces and greens. Spinach especially is filled with nutrients that ward off heart disease, colon cancer, and autoimmune diseases such as arthritis and osteoporosis.

Tomatoes: If you didn’t know already, tomatoes are actually a fruit, but they’re often used in salads. Tomatoes are filled with lycopine, which helps to fight cancer. They’re also filled with vitamins A and K, they keep blood pressure low, and they contain free-radical fighters called antioxidants.

Broccoli: This member of the cabbage family is filled with antioxidants, is high in folate, vitamin C, and beta-carotene, and is a great immune system booster.

Carrots: Carrots are filled with antioxidants and vitamins A and C. They’re wonderful for keeping eyes healthy, and skin and hair looking their best.

Onions: Whether or not you’re an onion fan, they’re great at warding off heart disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis.

Bell Peppers: The best part of bell peppers is that they come in a rainbow of colors (there are actually purple bell peppers!) and they’re filled with tons of nutrients that ward off heart disease and cancer.

Cucumbers: Cucumbers taste great in salads. They’re also wonderful for hydrating the body and helping lower blood pressure.

3. Load up on vegetables: It kills me when I see people go to the salad bar and put only a few vegetables in the smallest sized container and call that lunch. No wonder they aren’t satisfied! The truth is, it’s really hard to overdo the amount of vegetables you eat; the more the better. Veggies are very nutritious, are high in fiber, and have very little calories due to their high water content. Further, the more veggies you include, the more likely you’re going to fill up and feel satisfied. So go for that large container and fill it to the brim!

When you dress the salad, always use olive oil and vinegar, or if you want a premade dressing, use vinaigrette. This will help to keep saturated fats, sugar, and sodium out of the goodness of your salad.

Try these tips out and see how filling your salad feels. Do you eat salad for a main course? Do you use these tricks? Do you have your own tricks to make them filling and healthy?

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There’s an interesting talk at TED by Stefan Sagmeister titled The Power of Time Off. In the talk, Sagmeister shared his experience of how he takes one full year off every seven years to recharge his creative life. During the sabbatical year, he closes his design company and IWC watches doesn’t accept any design request. It might seem strange to take one full year for sabbatical, but he argued that it gives him more than what it costs.

Recharge your lifeThere are at least three things he gets from his sabbatical years:

1. He gets fresh ideas for his creative work. Referring to one sabbatical year of his, he said that all the ideas in the following seven years came out from that one year.

2. It benefits him financially. Though he didn’t accept any request for one year, the improved quality of his work allowed him to ask for higher prices in the following years. He could eventually make more money than what he lost.

3. It made his work a calling again. This is my favorite of the three. In the talk, Sagmeister talked about three levels of work: job (when you do your work just for money), career (when you pursue advancement and promotion), and calling (when you do your work simply because it’s fulfilling). Even if your work is something you love to do, the daily routine could make it a job. Sagmeister said that taking a sabbatical year makes his work a calling again.

As you can see, these three things solve three common problems that many people have at work:

If you had any of these problems, here is a simple way to recharge your life: take time off. Of course, it doesn’t have to be one full year since most people (including me) can’t afford it without any serious consequences. But taking even short periods of time off is useful. Here’s what I suggest you to do:

1. Take time off every day. You should set aside time in your day where you can be away from your routine. Cut your communication with the outside world for a while. Use the time to get a sense of clarity of your life and work. Reconnect with your life purpose and look at the big picture of your life. Are you on the right track? Are you doing the right things? You can do this by meditating, praying, walking in the garden, or any way you like. The important replica watches thing is that you to reflect on your life with a clear mind. You don’t have to spend much time on it. Half an hour is enough, in my experience. Doing this helps you live your daily life with clarity.

2. Take a few days off every now and then. During that time, try not to do your routine that might introduce noise into your life. For me that means not connecting to the Internet. Though it’s not necessary, going out of town could be helpful. I can attest from personal experience that such time is really rewarding. I often see my life and work from a new perspective. I can see the forest rather than the trees. This, of course, will happen only if you spend time to reflect on your life and work.

It reminds me of the story of two woodcutters. One of them sawed down the trees all the time without ever sharpening his saw. The other person spent time to sharpen his saw and only then did he saw down the trees. Which one do you think would cut more trees at the end?

Don’t let the busyness of your life lead you to the wrong direction. Allocate time to reconnect with your purpose and calling. Allocate time to see the big picture of your life. Taking time off helps you stay sharp.

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Investors are pumping more and more money into web services that are heavily reliant on Facebook. So how big is the economy around the world’s most popular social network?

An email came through to me last night that, in many respects, is the stock-and-trade of the startup world: a team of entrepreneurs company has received some funding.

In this case, the site in question is the Paris-based Smartdate, and its received $2.2m from investors to try and build its idea of using Facebook data as the basis of a matchmaking service.

So far, so normal. We’ve heard a great deal of this over the years; venture capitalists and investment funds putting money into companies that are building web services.

But there’s something else going on here. From the swathes of press releases and funding announcements I trawl through each day, it feels to me like we’re hearing much IWC watches more recently about sites specifically and publicly built using Facebook as a platform. In many cases, they are almost entirely reliant on Facebook to provide their link to users.

Now, in part, that’s no surprise: building up an ecosystem around Facebook is something that the company has tried very hard to do with F8 and Facebook Connect – and it’s a smart move, because they know that when lots of people are invested in your success, you are less vulnerable to competitors.

But if so many people are pumping into companies that are almost entirely reliant on the world’s largest social networking site, exactly how big is the economy around Facebook?

Let’s see if we can work it out.

We know from a number of reports and internal estimates that Facebook itself is due to post somewhere upwards of $1bn in revenue for 2010, but I’m more interested in what the other companies are doing.

What levels of investment are going? How many companies rely on Facebook to keep themselves going? The conservative estimate must stretch into several billions of dollars worth of business at least.

After all, the headline sites who make the most from this business are worth hundreds of millions – and some are even looking to launch on the stock market. Even if they don’t entirely base their business on Facebook (in many cases, they are available on – or partner with – other social networks too) the spread of users suggests that they’re heavily invested in it.

Back in November, Electronic Arts bought social gaming site Playfish, in a deal we are now told was worth around $275m.

Meanwhile Zynga, another developer of replica watches popular games (like ) has already taken more than $200m of venture capital.

Other companies making applications include Slide (also closely linked with MySpace but funded to the tune of $78m); Mindjolt (recently bought by MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe, funding not public); and of course FriendFeed (bought by Facebook for around $50m).

On top of that, there’s a huge number of companies like the aforementioned Smartdate, Plancast ($800,000); and a whole bunch of companies pushed forward by Facebook’s own $10m fbFund.

That’s just the start.

What other companies do you know that are reliant on Facebook? How big do you think the Facebook economy really is? Stick any information you know in the comments – once we’ve got an idea how big this is, we can start thinking about whether it’s a viable ecosystem, a bubble or a house of cards.

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It was Christmas 1961. I was teaching in a small town in Ohio where my twenty-seven third graders eagerly anticipated the great day of gifts give

A tree covered with tinsel and gaudy paper chains replica watches graced one corner. In another rested a manger scene produced from cardboard and poster paints by chubby, and sometimes grubby, hands. Someone had brought a doll and placed it on the straw in the cardboard box that served as the manger. It didn’t matter that you could pull a string and hear the blue-eyed, golden-haired dolly say, “My name is Susie.” “But Jesus was a boy baby!” one of the boys proclaimed. Nonetheless, Susie stayed

　Each day the children produced some new wonder — strings of popcorn, hand-made trinkets, and German bells made from wallpaper samples, which we hung from the ceiling. Through it all she remained aloof, watching from afar, seemingly miles away. I wondered what would happen to this quiet child, once so happy, now so suddenly withdrawn. I hoped the festivities would appeal to her. But nothing did. We made cards and gifts for mothers and dads, for sisters and brothers, for grandparents, and for each other. At home the students made the popular fried marbles and vied with one another to bring in the prettiest ones. ” You put them in a hot frying pan, Teacher. And you let them get real hot, and then you watch what happens inside. But you don’t fry them too long or they break.”So, as my gift to them, I made each of my students a little pouch for carrying their fried marbles. And I knew they had each made something for me: bookmarks carefully cut, colored, and sometimes pasted together; cards and special drawings; liquid embroidery doilies, hand-fringed, of course

The day of gift-giving finally came. We oohed and aahed over our handiwork as the presents were exchanged. Through it all, she sat quietly watching. I had made a special pouch for her, red and green with white lace. I wanted very much to see her smile. She opened the package so slowly and carefully. I waited but she turned away. I had not penetrated the wall of isolation she had built around herself.

　After school the children left in little groups, chattering about the great day yet to come when long-hoped-for two-wheelers and bright sleds would appear beside their trees at home. She lingered, watching them bundle up and go out the door. I sat down in a child-sized chair to catch my breath, hardly aware of what was happening, when she came to me with outstretched hands, bearing a small white box, unwrapped and slightly soiled, as though it had been held many times by unwashed, childish hands. She said nothing. “For me?” I asked with a weak smile. She said not a word, but IWC watches nodded her head. I took the box and gingerly opened it. There inside, glistening green, a fried marble hung from a golden chain. Then I looked into that elderly eight-year-old face and saw the question in her dark brown eyes. In a flash I knew — she had made it for her mother, a mother she would never see again, a mother who would never hold her or brush her hair or share a funny story, a mother who would never again hear her childish joys or sorrows. A mother who had taken her own life just three weeks before.

　I held out the chain. She took it in both her hands, reached forward, and secured the simple clasp at the back of my neck. She stepped back then as if to see that all was well. I looked down at the shiny piece of glass and the tarnished golden chain, then back at the giver. I meant it when I whispered,” Oh, Maria, it is so beautiful. She would have loved it.”Neither of us could stop the tears. She stumbled into my arms and we wept together. And for that brief moment I became her mother, for she had given me the greatest gift of all: herself.