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What do YOU have down in your cellar? If it's like most peoples, your basement started out like mine as an empty space with a furnace and a hot water heater. In five years it was filled up with boxes of stuff you don't need, half finished projects you'll never finish and lots of very happy spiders. I hate to admit it took me sixteen years of planning and wishing before I decided to finish the basement. The clincher was the day I got a nice hand-me-down computer and a beautiful desk to put it in. There was no space in the rest of the house for my beloved computer, so down the cellar it went. After six months of alternately freezing to death, wiping the dirt off the computer and feeling like a refugee, we made the big decision.

It would cost about $4000., even using the talents of my carpenter brother-in-law. No easy task, there was concrete everywhere we looked - floor, walls, and even the ceiling. The design we settled on avoided the duct work along the walls, providing closet space four feet deep and eighteen feet long. (We have no garage) Under the stairs was space for luggage pieces and all the extra food bought in quantity.

One fourth of the area at one end was home to all of my tools and the home-made workbench in a closed-off room. The other end created a narrow but long space for my bicycle and Christmas boxes. The central area ended up measuring 24' by 16', a not too shabby size for out entertainment room. At one end is the computer center. An HP Media Center computer keeps company with an HP 13 x 19 inkjet printer and a sideways scanner. A couch and love seat divide the room nicely, facing two wall units containing a TV, a hi fi radio/CD/DVD, and a dry bar. All of the speakers are built into the walls to save space. In the corner under a boxed ceiling with dimmer spots stands the keyboard organ. For my wife I built in a four foot deep by eight foot wide sealed closet for the extra dishes and glassware.

Marianne decorated the walls with pictures of flowers and hand-painted plaques. The eight foot ceiling was popcorn sprayed, the sheet rock walls were treated to resemble rough plaster and painted a pale tan. The floor is glued-on high traffic beige carpet. The whole project took about three weeks and they say it will add $8000 to the selling price of the townhouse. I'm just as happy as a bug in a rug and I may never leave my beautiful cellar.

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The difference between health store and pharmacy. health stores and pharmacies are very different. A person usually can not find products that are sold at a pharmacy at a health store and visa versa. health stores are a great option for someone looking for something that differs from the normal medication they would usually take.

health stores have products like protein powders that are used by weight lifters to build bulk. They also have alternative medicines like cranberry extract pills that are thought to help with urinary tract infections. These are just a couple of examples of the types of products a person would find at a health store.

A health store is a store that sells products that contribute to ones health. Most of the products are pills and herbal remedies. Many health stores also sell products for gaining and losing weight. A health store is not much like a pharmacy, though. There are some main differences between the two that a person should be aware of.

A pharmacy sells medication and vitamins that are usually clinically tested to be effective. The products in a pharmacy often require a prescription, as well. Over the counter medication found at a pharmacy is usually well known and trusted remedies.

A health store, on the other hand, sells mainly products that are not 100% proven, but that are considered alternative type medications and products. These products are approved for safety but the effectiveness has not been proven enough to be certified as effective. The products found in a health store do not require a prescription.

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Believing in good balanced diet, taking vitamins and minerals. Daily exercise, yoga, stretching, breathing exercises, drinking enough water, meditation, relaxation, positive thinking, and trying to be happy.

Watching The Open, the oldest and most prestigious tournament in golf, always makes me think about the level of my own play.

It would at best be described as 'poor'. I'd hate to think how it would be described at worst, but let's just say there are only 2 friends who are prepared to play with me, I am that bad!

It can be so frustrating, and yet of course it's highly addictive - when you hit a good shot, you want to hit another one, to repeat the good feeling... Then when you hit a bad shot, you want to hit another one to erase the bad feeling...

You can see the idea - there's always one next shot to do it right- it can be a life-long addiction! Watching the Major Tournaments is a chance to see goal achievement theory at work in quite a pure form.

Let's face it, golf is a simple game to understand, but difficult to master. Difficult, but not impossible! All the top players, the ones that stay there for year after year, they simply took instruction on how to play, learned the technique, and then worked. Worked hard. Worked hard for years.

In fact they never stop working at it. They all have coaches, even Tiger Woods, and you can see them churn inside with frustration when they get it wrong. Notice though, that after they've had a strop at getting it wrong, they buckle down to getting it right!

A successful golf game is based almost entirely on constant hard work to implement techniques which have been taught.

Yes of course you get people who have natural talent, but the huge majority of players on the golf circuit just use this simple goal achievement lesson.

If you apply it to most things in general life, you'll see the same kind of results.

So, do you you hate (but love) golf like I do?

Gordon Bryan is the author of 'Transform Your Life in 21 Days!' which has been described as 'motivational magic.' Read about it and grab his free 8 Step Goal Achievement plan at: http://www.transformyourlifenow.com