MAKING THE MOVE
Golfer's Guide to Gated Communities

In the upcoming issue of Living Southern Style magazine, writer, Teresa McLamb, provdies an overview of many of the premier gated golf communities in Arizona, the Southeast, as well as the Bahamas.

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Communities near the Masters (Augusta, Georgia)

Reynolds Plantation
River Island
Riverwood Plantation
Bartram Trail
Pointe Shores
Stillwater Coves
Larkspur Landing

Across the river in North Augusta, South Carolina

Hammond's Ferry
Mount Vintage Plantation
Pine Ridge Plantation

YOUR HEALTH
Killing the ANTs (Automatic Negative Thoughts) that invade your brain.
According to renowned brain expert Dr. Daniel Amen (www.amenclinic.com), “…the thoughts that go through your mind, moment by moment, have a significant impact on how your brain works.” Dr. Amen quotes research by Dr. Mark George and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health which demonstrated that happy, hopeful thoughts had an overall calming effect on the brain, while negative thoughts inflamed brain areas often involved with depression and anxiety. According to Dr. Amen, here are four ANT “species” to look out for:

• Mind reading - Predicting you know that another person is thinking something negative about you. Says Dr. Amen: "A negative look from someone else may mean nothing more than he or she is constipated. You don't know. You can't read minds."
• Fortune telling - Predicting a bad outcome to a situation before it has occurred. Unconsciously predicting failure will often cause failure. For example, if you say, "I know I will fail the test," then you will likely fail the test!
• ‘Always’ or ‘never’ thinking - This is where you think in words like ‘always’, ‘never’, ‘every time’, or ‘everyone’. These over-generalizations can alter behavior. Dr. Amen tells about a friend of his who asked out an attractive woman. She turned him down. He told himself that no one would ever go out with him again. This ANT prevented him from asking out anyone else for over nine months.
• Guilt beatings - Being overrun by thoughts of "I should have done... I'm bad because…. I must do better at… I have to…” Guilt is a lousy motivator of behavior.

Dr. Amen concludes: “ANTs can take over and infest your brain. Develop an internal ‘ANTeater’ to hunt down and devour the negative thoughts that are ruining your life.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE
Resources to Help Plan Your Family Reunion
Family reunions are growing rapidly, according to a recent column in the Wall Street Journal. Edith Wagner, editor of Reunions magazine, estimates that 200,000 family reunions are held each year. Organizations ranging from the YMCA of the Rockies (which operates two resorts near Denver) to Walt Disney World Resort report significant increases in their family reunion business. Royal Caribbean International is even launching two new cruise ships with family suites that sleep 14. For help with your family reunion, check out www.reunionsmag.com (the web site for Reunions magazine) and www.myevent.com, which will help you set up your family reunion web site and host it for $9.95 per month. Helpful books include “Family Reunion Planning Kit for Dummies” by Cheryl Fall, “Family Reunion”, by Jennifer Crichton and “Your Family Reunion: How To Plan It, Organize It and Enjoy It,” by George G. Morgan. If you’re really clever, you can combine a family reunion with a trip to check out some retirement communities or investment property.

CHECK IT OUT
Cruises with dance camps aboard
According to a recent article in USA Today, the hit TV show “Dancing With the Stars” has provided a huge lift for adult dance camps. One dance camp owner reports that, “Registration increases every time the show airs.” There are plenty of resort-based dance camps, of course; but a really cool idea is to combine a cruise with a shipboard dance camp. Here are a few web sites where you can check out the seagoing options:

www.danceacrosstheseas.com
www.dancejamcruise.com
www.sundancercruises.net
www.letsdancevacations.com

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