BehindTheBuy.com, will take us through recommendations for 2011 to help our users with their most common New Year’s resolutions. The categories are: quitting smoking, improving memory, being on time, fixing finances, getting in shape and finding a job.
QUITKEY
The “quit smoking” resolution may be the most broken of all due to the fact it involves trying to break a physical addiction…no easy feat! The Quit Key should be one of many support initiatives to help you kick your destructive habit forever. You should also consult with your physician regarding other recommendations/alternatives…they may include support groups, hypnosis, and prescriptions at helping you wean your body from its addiction to nicotine. Achieving this resolution will not only improve your health it will also increase your quality of life! It’s a mini computer you keep on your keychain. NIH recommended. QuitKey alters your smoking routine and eases you off cigarettes gradually. QuitKey reminds you when to smoke and when not to smoke. Step by step. Hour by hour. One day at a time. Stage 1 (7 days): You smoke at your normal rate and use the QuitKey smoke button to record every cigarette you smoke. QuitKey uses this information to form your personal quit plan. Stage 2 (14 to 34 days): QuitKey helps you follow your quit plan by prompting you when to smoke. Each day you smoke less and gradually reduce you nicotine dependence while preparing yourself to quit for good. $60; http://www.amazon.com
PREVAGEN
Let’s face it, part of aging includes a natural decrease in your ability to remember things…If that bothers you (and it should!) there are natural alternatives available to help slow (or even reverse!) the hands of time and bring you back to a time when your mind was sharp and you had no issues with recall. As somebody who has used it, I recommend Prevagen.Your brain is made up of many small cells, and controls everything you do. When your brain is not functioning properly, everything it controls is affected. To stay healthy your brain has a built-in protection system that contains a protein to regulate cellular calcium. Too much calcium in a brain cell will destroy it. As we age, the body’s ability to naturally produce this protective protein slows down. When this happens you begin to lose about 30,000 brain cells every day, and may start to experience difficulty with memory, focus and concentration. Prevagen helps keep brain cells alive by supplementing the protective proteins your body stops producing. Prevagen is a brain health supplement shown to improve memory loss and protect the brain by keeping cells alive longer.* The brain functions better as brain cells are protected and healthy. You will be protecting the long-term benefits of which we hope you will cherish for years to come. Prevagen uses a protein called apoaequorin. Apoaequorin comes from the jellyfish – an organism with one of the simplest nervous systems. While apoaequorin has been commonly used in laboratory research for over forty-five years. Prevagen is the first time it has been used in a therapeutic manner. Apoaequorin is unique in that it is from a family of molecules that are called calcium-binding proteins. Calcium-binding proteins are known to deplete in the aging process. Prevagen uses apoaequorin to help restore calcium balance in the human body . $43.69; www.amazon.com
Phillips Wake Up Light
If you are chronically late, especially in the morning, here’s an alarm clock that promises to help you greet the day in a non-jarring way while waking you from your slumbers with your favorite tunes and a graduation in natural light that is sure to wake you with a smile and get you going out the door, to start your day, in a timely way.
Introducing the new Philips Wake-up Light, a more pleasant and natural way to wake-up in the morning. Light gradually increases for 30 minutes before your wake up time to gently prepare your body to wake up and feel more energetic at the start of your day. With optional FM radio and nature sounds, waking up will be a pleasant experience. Its innovative design includes a light that can be adjusted to 20 different brightness settings, making the product suitable to use as a lamp in any bedroom. At the end of your day, set the dusk simulator to drift you off to sleep by gradually dimming the light and sound. $100; www.amazon.com
It should not be a shock that there are smart phone apps designed to keep you on task and help remind you of your important daily goals and assignments.
SpringPad
It should not be a shock that there are smart phone apps designed to keep you on task and help remind you of your important daily goals and assignments.Springpad gives you a place to quickly and easily save anything you want to remember. Take a note, create a task, scan a product barcode and look up the book your friend mentioned. The best part is that no matter where you are, Springpad is there with you to make sure you don’t forget something worth remembering. Just think it and Spring it, and it’ll be there for you when you need it. Available across all platforms, and best of all… It’s FREE!
Quicken Deluxe Software 2011
If your bank account balance is not where you would like it to be…a change in your daily financial habits is definitely in order.The Quicken Deluxe Software 2011 gives you money management and budgeting tools to help you watch your spending and increase your savings. Set Personal Finance Goals and Save More View all your accounts in one place. See exactly where your money’s going with auto-categorization. Create–and stay–on budget. Stay on top of your day-to-day finances. Never miss a bill. Improved–View All Your Accounts in One Place- Organizes your finances by bringing your online accounts together–including checking, savings, credit cards, loans, investment and retirement accounts. Avoid the hassle of going to multiple websites. Now you can see it all in one place with just one password. Quicken now automatically downloads your transactions from over 12,000 banks, brokerages and other financial institutions–including PayPal.
Mint.com
At Mint, we believe money is for living. So we make everything
simple and streamlined. Sign up takes less than five minutes. Then Mint automatically pulls all your financial information into one place, so you can finally get the entire picture.
Brookstone’s Digital Coin Sorter
Cash in on that loose change! Digital Coin Sorter processes 312 coins per minute. A digital display shows you the dollar value or coin quantity. Works quickly and smoothly with anti-jam technology. Pull out a coin tube, and the sorter stops automatically. Features two rows of tubes, with two tubes for each coin denomination, so it handles a lot of sorting. Lid opens to remove unsortable coins or foreign objects. Turn those bulky coins into spendable cash fast and easy! Order your Digital Coin Sorter from Brookstone today! $100; www.amazon.com
P90X
Revolutionary workout program. In just 90 days, you can get back in shape, or build the body you’ve always wanted. All you need is a set of dumbbells or resistance bands, a pull-up bar, and about an hour a day. No gym membership required. One of our viewers, Denmark Francisco, submitted a photo of his before and after from using the program. $140; www.amazon.com
Insanity
Then, for those of you that are already in shape, but want to take your bodies to the next level, there’s the Insanity work out.This is one of the hardest workout program ever put on DVD. No equipment or weights are needed. Just the will to get the hardest body you’ve ever had. The secret to these mind-blowing results: MAX Interval Training. Shaun T took traditional interval training and flipped it on its head-you perform long bursts of maximum-intensity exercises with short periods of rest. Each workout keeps you constantly challenged as you alternate between aerobic and anaerobic intervals performed at your MAX. The result: burn up to 1,000 calories in an hour and get the most insane body in 60 days $145; www.amazon.com
Bobble, self-filtering water bottles
Last year Americans spent nearly $11 billion on over 8 billion gallons of bottled water, and then tossed over 22 billion empty plastic bottles in the trash. The Bobble is made from recycled materials and has 300 uses before you need to change the filter. It’s replaceable filter removes organic contaminates from regular municipal tap water and meets or exceeds International Standard 42 for chlorine, taste and odor reduction. $10; www.amazon.com
WinWay Resume Deluxe
This product is the result of more than 18 years of research and innovation in career development software. Now you can say good bye to writer’s block and write the perfect resume in record time. Choose from thousands of customizable resumes for virtually every career type and career stage, multiple designs and more than 116,000 job-winning phrases that will set you apart from the competition. Creating a winning resume couldn’t be faster or easier! $32; www.amazon.com
Re-connect- Find past and present colleagues and classmates quickly. LinkedIn makes staying in touch simple. Power your career- Discover inside connections when you’re looking for a job or new business opportunity. Get answers- Your network is full of industry experts willing to share advice. Have a question? Just ask.
FREE; www.linkedin.com