Self Improvement

• 10 of your favorite large fresh chilies


• 2 cloves of garlic, pealed and halved


• 3/4 cup white vinegar


• Salt

There is a great satisfaction that comes from creating something yourself. So maybe I could go to the store and buy an expensive bottle of hot sauce, something called "Satan's Spit" or "Tonsil Torcher," but where is the sacrifice in that? To make my own hot sauce I have to put up with my entire body smelling like vinegar and pungent peppers for hours, my kitchen being trashed with pepper guts, and headaches from inhaling so much spice. The time of solitude in my kitchen is well worth the work.

My kitchen is small with only a single narrow doorway. If there were more than two people in there at once, it would reach its maximum capacity. The appliances all suck, but they are still functional enough to not be replaced. The stove is filthy with burnt char that has somehow melded and become part of the actual surface, the oven is missing a shelf and the light, the refrigerator door does not seal all the way and is also missing a light, the dishwasher door has to be slammed shut for it to latch correctly, and finally the toaster's timing setting is broken, so if you don't pay attention you ruin breakfast. The only positive thing about my kitchen is that the air conditioning vent is one of the best in the house, blowing cool air directly in front of the main counter. Despite all the negatives, I still feel like a master when I am there alone and with a mission. I become invincible with a recipe and a collection of ingredients.

Rule number one: Always wear gloves. Don't think you can skimp and go cheap with loose fitting plastic ones either, you must get the rubber ones that doctors or cooks wear. This rule is essential because the juice of the chilies can cling to your fingers for many hours after touching, and it will hurt if you touch a sensitive part of the skin.

Jalapeno, Serrano, Cayenne, and Habanero peppers all make delicious flavors for homemade hot sauce. Even fresh peppers of this kind have a natural heat and a unique flavor, but if you want the kind of heat that will punch you in the face, you need to broil or roast them. Heat intensifies heat.

I once put abnormally hot Jalapenos on a pizza I was cooking, thinking that I could cook some of the heat out of the pepper, and I was surprised when the juices from the Jalapenos set my whole pizza on fire with spice. I had to throw the whole thing away because my wife and I couldn't handle more than a few bites.

For your hot sauce, you must first turn your oven on to the broil setting and allow it heat up completely. Then prepare the chilies by cutting off the stems and slicing them in half long ways. You also need to cut them in such a way that the halved chilies could lay flat. Once they are cut you can gut them. Make sure you get most of the seeds and the ribbing out of the pepper. A few seeds here and there won't hurt though. Set the seeds aside because we will add them back in later. Now you can place them on the broiler with the cut side facing down. Then broil for five minutes.

Doing things yourself creates opportunities for leaning and growth. Everyone knows that, but why do we still insist on things being done for us? Sometime I'm just in the mood to be lazy or I only have time for the way, store bought jelly. Not only do I learn, but also I get a great sense of pride. I wouldn't go to the store and buy ten loaves of my favorite bread then bring them back to my neighbors. Although I would certainly share my homemade hot sauce with the folks in the apartment above me. I would want them to enjoy and recognize my efforts and hard work. I would want to be appreciated.

Rule number two: Open all the windows in your kitchen and the adjacent rooms. Once the peppers start broiling, the smell can be very overpowering. On my first attempt at broiling peppers, I could see fumes from the peppers and I swear the stench embedded itself into the walls. it was overwhelming. The smell actually went straight to my stomach and I nearly yaked up the leftover hot wings I'd had for lunch. So be sure there is plenty of ventilation and it is probably a good idea to have a fan blowing also.

I learned a special trick for roasting the peppers that the recipe never explained, and I found out the hard way. If you are broiling a set of peppers that are particularly skinny, you don't have to broil them for the full five minutes. You will end up burning them to a crisp and you won't be able to use very much of them in the actual sauce. Three minutes will blacken the skin enough to bring out the heat and pepper flavor yet still have soft pulp underneath. You want to avoid the flakey char. Likewise, a larger or thicker pepper will need to cook a few minutes longer.

Once the peppers have finished cooking, you need to place them in plastic bags and allow them to cool in the fridge for at least twenty minutes. Once they are cool you have two different options. You can either leave the charred skin on the pepper and this will give the final product a slightly burnt taste, which is actually very nice, or you can peel the skin off which will eliminate that burnt taste yet the spice will remain. It's completely up to your own preferences. I personally like the burnt taste, and I like to see the small black specks that float around in the finished sauce.

I put hot sauce on everything. It's the best in macaroni and cheese. I don't really like the fancy made-from-scratch kind of mac and cheese normally found at church pitch-in, but I love the kinds that come in a box. If I combine a liberal dose of hot sauce and cut up Vienna sausages in my mac, I would have a meal that i could eat every day until I die. Of course, if I did that i would probably dies well before I normally would, but I would be happy.

Once you have made your choice to peel the skin off or leave it, you can now combine the garlic and the peppers into the blender. I personally have a smaller blender that is used for single serving concoctions like smoothies or margaritas and this type of blender works very well because the final product is only about a cup. So blend for a few seconds to mince the peppers and garlic, and then slowly add the vinegar. To make sure you don't add the vinegar too fast, it is probably a good idea to only pour in 1/4 cup at a time.

Rule number three: Do NOT touch your face! Just in case your gloves get cut or if you were less than diligent following rule number one, do not touch your eyes, nose or mouth. I made this mistake a few months ago and my right eye burned for a solid ten minutes, and my wife refused to let me come near her in fear that I would "burn" her.

Once the hot sauce is fully blended, let it sit for about ten minutes to allow the bubbles to die down. After the bubbles have stopped popping you will be left with a light foam on the top of the sauce, scoop this out and throw it away because it doesn't taste good. Add salt to taste. Then pour into a container of some sort. I usually keep old hot sauce bottles or things of similar size to recycle for my homemade hot sauces, so be sure to have some handy. A fellow hot sauce chef actually used baby bottles for his hot sauce containers, so be creative. Now, refrigerate. Your new homemade condiment should stay good in your fridge for many weeks, however, mine are usually gone within a couple days.

Happy Saucing.

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And dear friend what is this life really all about?. For we are here and all we see are a few moments of good things happening to us, and then the majority of all the other moments are nothing but trouble, pain and confusion. And all of us because of this, at some point in life will ask for the meaning of life, and how can we live life to its fullest in just one day?. Well today I will answer for you how to live life in a day.

And the way that you do that is to learn the key things that will help you live life to it' s fullest potential, so you can know joy, prosperity, love and enlightenment. All to help you be at your best each and everyday, and live an awesome life being victorious.

First way is to have love and warmth.

Have love and warmth in your heart, within your body and mind. You must allow yourself to feel all the wonderful things that exist on this earth that you are a traveler in. Like feel the love and warmth when someone gives you flowers, or a friend says they can't go through something without you, and even when your pet is showing you unconditional love when you come home.

Second way to live life in a day is to be appreciative and grateful.

Every little thing that happens to you in this life is an experience that will help you grow and enrich you. But you must learn to stop giving your own meaning to things as soon as they happen in your life. No my friend, do give things a chance to play themselves out and appreciate the message that is being sent to you from above. And remember in everything there lies opportunities, it all depends on how you perceive them. So in everything be positive, appreciative and grateful, and you will conquer all.

Third way is to be curious at all times.

Yes be curious about all of life little excitements. Be it just in your backyard, take a magnifying glass and see the thousands of lives that are going about their daily chores. And you will discover a world within a world. Be curious as to how the flower blooms each morning with the rising of the sun and you will live life to it's fullest.

Fourth way is to get excited and passionate.

Life is but the Sum of all moments. So get excited about the moment that you're getting up and out of bed, be passionate about the smell of that coffee and look forward to it. Get excited about those new clothes that you just bought and are about to put on, and be passionate about the rising sun and see it in all it's splendor, majesty and beauty.

Fifth easy way to live life in a day is to have determination.

Each day be determined about your purpose for that day. Make things happen by speaking that day out loud what things you want and exactly how you want them to happen. And you'll see the Universe will bring them your way exactly how you ordered them.

Sixth way is to be flexible.

Understand dear friend that for all things to work for you, there must be thousands of pieces that are added perfectly together in the puzzle of life by the Universe. So be flexible when things and great opportunities come into your life, for I guarantee you that 99 percent of the time they will not be as you expected.

Seventh way is to be confident.

And really what does that mean?. It means to act on what you truly, truly believe deep down in your heart and soul. Like if you feel successful on that day, then speak success, walk it, breath it in, speak it and love all aspect of success and you will have it as you live life in a day.

Eighth way is to be cheerful.

The Universe is interconnected, and have you ever noticed that when you yawn somebody else who is around you tends to yawn as well. And when someone is crying near you, even a child, your heart and body is quickly saddened and you are emotionally stressed. So with that, be cheerful in all that you do that day, in every spoon you put in your mouth, in every hand you shake, in every gift of smile that you share that day.

Ninth wonderful way to live life in a day is to feel healthy.

Once again whatever you tell the Universe to do it will do, for it was created only to serve you and God. Remember you are God's child and heir to his throne, and so everything that serves Him must serve you. So speak health, feel healthy and do healthy things that will enrich you today and every day.

Tenth way to live life in a day is to contribute.

You came here on earth from heaven as a spiritual being who wanted to share the experiences of this physical dimension. So contribute the love that you are filled with and the pure energy that surrounds you, and fill the life of someone else with love, compassion and understanding. Be magnanimous in all you do and be passionate as well. Give like you've never given before to one person, and you will see that your great acts will be talked about for years to come. Yes, do leave a legacy behind. For people will not remember how much money you had or how many degrees you had, but one act of kindness and compassion will be talked about by someone even at their death bed.

So live life in a day to it's fullest by planting seeds of greatness that will comeback to you each and every day, having multiplied and forever growing. For look around you and ask yourself, how the rich seems to always get richer and yet the poor with the little they have, they seem to lose more of it each day. It is all because each one is planting their own kind of seeds each day. The rich is confident, determined, curious and flexible. So he keeps planting seeds of success. But the poor is unsure, is depressed, and feeling sick. So the poor keeps planting seeds of failures. So live, live and live my friend by having love and warmth, by being appreciative and grateful, by being curious, by getting excited and passionate, by being determined, by being flexible, by being confident, by being cheerful, by feeling healthy and by contributing at all times. Dr. James Dazouloute

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Authored by: Dr. James Dazouloute

Dr. James Dazouloute holds a PhD and a Doctorate degrees in 2 fields, and is a national leader, educator, life coach and activist. Working to fight injustice, ignorance and poverty in all forms. Especially poverty of the mind, in not being enlightened. Click here now to get more free articles and videos about spirituality, meditation and health at: http://www.jamesfreespiritual.org/.

Do you want to know how to approach someone you don't know? Thinking about striking a conversation with a stranger, but the nerves are getting in the way? Scared to embarrass yourself in front of other people?

Learn how to approach someone you don't know right here right now.

Step 1: Develop Your Self-Confidence.

It all starts with having the right disposition. If you're naturally shy, it doesn't mean that you can't get up the nerve to approach someone in particular. It just means that you have to summon more courage than you normally would.

Anyone can be self-confident. Just think of any successful endeavors you have achieved in the past that made you feel amazing, and "carry" that experience with you as you come up to anyone.

Step 2: Play It Down.

Learning how to approach someone you don't know is not that big of a deal. People say that it's difficult and it takes a certain kind of person to do it; but if you allow yourself to believe what they're saying, then you're only going to get discouraged.

Talking to strangers is not a big deal. It's simple and not something you should over think.

Step 3: Practice.

It's always vital to practice and hone your communication skills. Try it with the barista at your favorite coffee shop. Most of them are probably game for a conversation.

Just say hi, thank the barista for the coffee, and perhaps say something nice about the coffee so as not to get too personal.

Step 4: Smile.

People like talking to those who have good smiles. And if you're planning to talk to someone you don't know, then smiling serves to get one foot in the door. Practice your smile in the mirror so that it comes across as friendly and not threatening.

Step 5: Have An Idea Of The Conversation.

Before approaching the person, run a scene of how you want the conversation to go. Make sure you know what to say after introducing yourself, lest you find yourself struggling with something to say.

Ask questions - that is always a great way to get someone to be comfortable with you. Just don't ask anything that is too inquisitive, like where they live or even how much they're earning. Ask common questions pertaining to something that you two might have in common.

One last tip when it comes to learning how to approach someone you don't know is to relax. Don't entertain thoughts that will only make you doubt yourself and panic. Keep the positive attitude up and never give up.

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Subliminal images are unique pictures that can influence your subconscious and conscious mind when you gaze at them. They do appear in TV shows, movies, magazines and other media sources. In most cases, when such images are looked upon, they are not usually recognized for what they really are. In fact, your conscious mind may even try to ignore them. They may as well be beyond your level of conscious perception.

There are some real facts you need to know about subliminal images in order to use them effectively. In the first place, you need to understand how they really look like and also how they appear. Basically, such images can be in any form. They can be in the form of print adverts in the magazines. They can also be in the form of regular commercials meant for adverts in the TV. They can also be in the form of DVD images which you can easily watch. Whichever is the case, the best subliminal images you can use are the types that also have real messages and sounds that can influence your mental system. There are many of them out there in DVD forms. Some of them even appear only as messages or sounds in ordinary CDs.

Another fact you need to know about using the subliminal images is how they influence the human mental system. Basically, the images are first of all perceived by the unconscious or subconscious mind. At first, your conscious mind doesn't have enough time to recognize or analyze such images. When you first notice a subliminal image, your conscious mind can easily ignore it without having anything to do with it. In the process of ignoring the image, your subconscious mind has already picked it without your knowledge. Oftentimes, there's always a clear impression the image will make deep down in your unconscious mind. Later on, this impression will come up to influence your conscious mind especially when you least expect. Here's a typical example. There are some subliminal images used as adverts in the TV. When you first observe them, your conscious mind can easily ignore them as nothing to be thought about. However, when such images keep re-appearing on daily basis maybe during news or advert sessions, your subconscious mind will be picking the impressions without you knowing it. Later on, such impressions will begin to have serious influence on your conscious thoughts. You might even wake up one day to see yourself repeating the sounds or wordings used in the adverts. The above scenario is exactly what happens when you make use of subliminal images or messages designed to help you achieve a sound and healthy mental system.

Again, you need to discover the best two methods you can engage in using subliminal images. You can either use the visual or audio methods. The visual method involves the use of the subliminal images in the software form while the audio method involves the use of the subliminal messages on CD's. You can always grab them from bookstores or reliable sources online. You can always enhance your mental system effectively when you use the subliminal images accordingly.

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One of the most important studies I undertook over a period of five years was ZEN. Ultimately, I learned the art of sitting still. I teach this art now, without the five year waiting time. It saves my clients lots of waste.

The key to ZEN is the opposite to sense debt. It's sense Credit.

In order to go into Sense Credit you need a few things:

• First sit down, lie down and shut up... this is often the hardest part for those in sense debt who think the sound of their voice is a sense compensation system...


• Second, smell, taste, feel, see, hear everything.. just let it all in and allow your mind to explore it all.. wow... there are actually birds tweeting underneath the noise of your self talk...


• Third, don't move a muscle... it's about now that your nose gets itchy, your crotch needs scratching (men only) and your big toe gets a cramp. Leave it and focus on the smell, taste, feel, see, hear everything.

Eventually, you'll be able to tune into different things but the key is to not fight or apply force. Just be with the world as it is.

The temptation is to judge things.. you might hear a truck go past or your neighbour fart and give this negative spin while the sound of a bird or bee is spun positively. This is what you are aiming to overcome through Dead Practice.

(Dead practice is my name for Zen because all your body is dead during the practice)...

Now here's the pinch. Our head, our relatively over active sense debt head, is always trying to make sense of the world by thinking. So, what we do when we've been in sense debt for many years is to give everything a score. Sounds are either good or bad, smells are wonderful or digesting, sights are either for sore eyes or eye candy and touch is either pleasing or not. This is called "THE EGO."

Naturally, our obsession is to have more EGO and so we become fairy princess' looking to surround ourselves with good tastes, good sights, good smells, good feelings, good sounds.. and we become imprisoned by our conscious attempts to avoid the opposites... this is meagre living and how we survive in sense debt life.

Great leaders, artists, speakers, lovers, parents, friends, singers and actors feel everything but act on nothing. They live in sense credit. Sense credit means you think less, feel freer, enjoy life more, have an increased immune function and attract what you love.

The enemy to Sense Credit is your mind. And this mind may have very strong old habits of judgment. To deal with that, you'll need to learn how to unlearn. And that's another story...

So, that gives you some insights as to the difference between a great lover, partner, leader and an ordinary one. You see the great partner is not in sense debt, therefore they are not claiming you, and you are not claiming them for the purpose of compensating for debt.

The great partner turns up in sense credit, with their mind at rest... this in essence is how we turn up in life.

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