While fishing can be a fun and exciting hobby, it can be also be dangerous. Unexpected circumstances like thunderstorms, hurricanes, wild currents, lightning and other accident could spoil your fishing trip.

Getting yourself prepared of what to expect if such circumstances occur can make your fishing trips with your friends or family an enjoyable and relaxing one. The list below gives you a guide of what to expect and what preparations you should take in each scenario.

1) weather safety Always check the weather forecast for the day before leaving for the shore to fish. It is advisable to stay on land if storms are predicted. If you are fishing on shores or in a boat, watch out for approaching thunderstorm, lightning in the sky and flash floods. Remember: Lightning always strikes the highest target, so it is important to lay down your fishing rod and your body stays low in the boat. You have to get ready to head to the dry land immediately before extreme lightning strikes.

If the weather is extremely hot and you are planning to spend long hours under the hot sun, remember to apply sun block on your uncovered skin to prevent sunburns and skin damages. Be aware of heat sickness symptoms such as nausea, breathing difficulty and lightheadedness. Keep your body hydrated by drinking plenty of water.

2) Fishing Lines - Be aware of your surrounding! Always look around before you cast to make sure there's nothing or no one around you. If your lines get caught in anything surrounding you such as trees, logs, never try to force it out towards you. Should the hook come free, it could fly towards you and cause injuries to you and others. Try to get your line out of the tangle by gently tugging on it to avoid any major accident. You can also snap off the branches of the tree and slowly remove your line.

3) Equipments Safety Sharp objects like fishing hooks and knives can cause injuries. Always bring your first aid kit to treat injuries on your fishing trips. Should an incident occurs and leads the skin to bleed, you'll need disinfectants such as medicated lotion, bandages or cotton.

4) Fishing on Boat - Always wear a life jacket especially if you have never try fishing on boat before. You can easily lose balance and fall if you are not careful enough.

With all these tips in mind, you could enjoy your fishing trip safely and successfully.

Alex Stevenson is the owner of MyBestFishingGuide.com, a website that provides Comprehensive complete guide to Fishing. You can also download your FREE copy of "How To Plan And Budget The Fishing Trips of Your Dreams" at http://www.mybestfishingguide.com

In preparation for my overseas game for Tuesday, was practicing yesterday a particular golf thought with a buddy of mine. It seems that my hand was placed a little too far from my body. Closer observation of the professionals, like Garcia and tiger, their hands are placed very close to their lower body.

tip #1:
I used to have a swing thought, that having the hands too close was incorrect. After having made this correction, I now bring my hands closer to my body, and not just for the short irons but for every club in the bag.

tip #2
During the take away, its also important to move the triangle formed by the left and right fore arms in one motion to the 2 o'clock or 8 o'clock position, depending from your point of view. Erine els said the takeaway is all hands, while some people just move their entire chest to the right (if you're a right hander). To me, I think both work, so long as it is a 1 piece takeaway for the triangle formed by the left and right forearms.

tip #3
Its also important to note that the shaft of the club does not pass the toe line. this is the imaginary line drawn across the toes of the left and right foot.

One interesting point to note is that keeping the hand close to the body, does not mean that the club head will cross this toe line. Its a false golf thought I had, and hope if you're reading this, it will help you too.

Be sure to have a golf buddy take a video for you, and read lots of golf books because have the right golf thoughts mixed with your vides will produce you a beautiful and elegant golf swing!

this is the award winning guide sherman used to build his elegant & yet simple golf swing - http://elegantgolfswing.blogspot.com

Cultivating positive energy: Most of us who study Yoga have been taught that an abundance of Prana (vital air or vital energy), can be found at the ocean, lakes, large open fields, and in the mountains.

Although the air is different, this same energy can be found where people assemble for a positive reason. For example: when people assemble to meditate or pray.

You can feel it in your home, at a church, mosque, temple, shrine, ashram, seminar, martial arts hall, etc. This is when people bond in a mass for the common good. The energy can be used to help humanity and our little planet for the best. You can project this energy outward by acts of kindness every moment of your life. This is not to say, you allow yourself to be abused. You can be kind to everyone who comes into your life, without becoming a doormat.

You have influence over a limited number of people who you see in a day. Why not make every contact a harmonious and positive experience?

Some examples would be:

Stop making foul gestures, becoming angry, and swearing when another driver on the road has irritated you.

Don't take advantage of respect with anyone.

Treat everyone as special no matter what their economic status.

In regard to your next question: What is the mystery behind attracting positive energy?

To be honest, there isn't one, but I will give you the formula.

Firstly, you have to realize that you have infinite potential, and it comes from within. You also have unlimited potential from the outside, when you engage in prayer, and meditation, on a daily basis. prayer and meditation will positively charge you, and you will contribute to the benefit of others as a result of it.

In turn, all of this helping of others will result in finding people around you who are more than willing to give you a helping hand.

The following ideas will cultivate positive energy around you.

Make it a point to wake up in the morning with excitement and say hello to everyone you come into contact with. This goes for the security guard, janitor, maid, garage attendant, cashier at the store, and anyone you may overlook in the course of your day.

Stop criticizing your family members, co-workers, friends, and associates.

Be diplomatic first, before giving any advice.

Let your family know that you love them everyday.

Be sincere and treat everyone as important.

Take time to give to people. This doesn't have to be expensive. You could give a sincere compliment, a card, a letter, or flowers. Become a trustworthy partner with family, friends, co-workers and associates.

Set goals - whether they are tangible or not. It is a healthy practice to have goals at any age. The final results will be that your positive energy will attract positively charged personalities and successful people will seek you out. If this is a major change for you, it will not happen overnight.

Let me share a related Zulu saying: Patience is an egg that hatches great birds.

Why should you become an eternal optimist?

Every one of us has a choice. When you fall down, you must pick yourself up. You can't blame life's hurdles or obstacles you have to find solutions to get over, around, under, or through them.

Focus on your past achievements and learn to be happy with yourself. Everyone has failed, at some point, but we must constructively learn from our past experience.

Your individual approach, to life's daily obstacles, is the gateway to success or failure. Therefore, success is a matter of choice.

Building Positive Energy

In relation to what most of us see as possible - success is unlimited. When primal man first discovered fire, could he imagine the concept of a forge? When modern man discovered the forge, could he imagine sky scrappers?

To build positive energy for pursuit of common goals and success, you need a support group. Find and seek out like-minded people.

My first taste of Yoga was over 40 years ago, at the age of 7, in a martial arts school setting. I have continued to study martial arts until this day and I have four teaching certificates in four different martial arts. Now I teach both Martial Arts and Yoga. I began to seriously practice Yoga (under Laura Foster) over twenty years ago due to martial arts competition related injuries.

Laura was a skilled & knowledgeable teacher of Restorative Hatha Yoga, raja Yoga, and Laya Yoga. After training with her for 3 years, she certified me as a teacher in 1987.

I became certified as a Master teacher (Guru) on September 15, 1995, after teaching over 5,000 hours under her wing. Shortly afterward, Laura retired at age 90. Since that time, I started organizing Yoga Teacher training camps. As time went on, we began getting requests from everywhere in the U.S. and Canada for a comprehensive Yoga teacher training correspondence course.