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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Count your blessings
- Each day brings a new beginning. It's a new leaf in the story of your life. It can be bright, cheerful and positive, with the courage to face another day, whatever it may bring with enthusiasm.Or, let the dark clouds hover and you shiver in the cold. Let yourself be overcome with the jitters. Wallow in all the negative issues in your life, past and present. You are a victim, helpless and fo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Challenge your problems
- Life teaches us in peculiar ways. It knocks us down. It makes us struggle to get back up.Blessings often appear as misfortunes and trials. When we challenge problems with solution-focused thought, needs are filled. We improve the lives of others and ourselves.Challenging a problem begins with embracing it rather than resisting it. Accepting the truth about what is so places us in a p...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Adversity to victory
- The following is a true story about a young friend who lives in St. Louis.Andy was born with a developmental disorder. The two sides of his brain were not joined normally with each other. The right side of his body could not communicate with the left. At age three, it was difficult for him to walk, speak, and play. He could only echo back a few words and walk slowly while someone held each ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - One woman?s story of how her smile increased her confidence
- For one who takes pride in being involved with different community organizations, possessing a high level of confidence is essential. Especially when that involvement includes speaking to large and small groups requesting donations for numerous non-profit organizations.Such is the case with Teresa Bock, Assistant Vice President of Wells Fargo Bank's Olympus Hills Office in Salt Lake City. N...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How would you react to tragedy like this?
- The true story I'm about to share will have a profound impact on you, just as it did on me.One day a mother was in her kitchen doing the dishes, when through the window, out of the corner of her eye, she saw an alligator moving across the lake behind the family's Florida home.Knowing that her son was swimming in the lake, she immediately went racing to the back yard, yelling for him....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Self acceptance ? lessons from my hair affair
- For our diet and, indeed, in every aspect of our lives, we must remember to relax from the demands of the unrealistic ideal. For those trying to lose weight, you cannot be the Barbie. For those lifting weights, you cannot be the Governor of California. Accepting this principle first, can give you the peace of mind to love what you do have, lower frustration, and actually make weight loss easier in...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Trusting yourself and others
- How come, as women, we always second-guess ourselves? Are we not confident to choose a mate that has the characteristics of what we yearn for or start and operate a business that we have a passion for? Who can you trust?For most of my teenage and adult years, I'd sit in front of my computer going over a wish-list of things to accomplish before growing old. Unfortunately, others tried to deg...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Clicking to good vibrations!
- Recently my dad visited me in Victoria, BC. He is THE most appreciative person I know!While we were out shopping one day, I insisted upon stopping at one place and then another and another--intensly searching for a specific item. Finally, I found it at Staples--it's a metal counter. You know, one of those metal things that you can 'click' to help you keep track of the number of items you ar...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Lifestyle changes ? a conscious choice!
- Are you ready for a change? Is it time for those plans that you've been thinking about for so long? Now is a good time for making plans, for lifestyle changes, starting over, finding new directions and developing as a human being. Now is a very good time for creating your own personal lifestyle and a life that you have chosen to live.Let there always be cross-roads! ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Attitude adjustment
- "If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now."~ Marcus Aurelius"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind."~ William JamesThe attitude that you adopt is a major factor in determining both...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Go ahead, toss the starfish!
- There is an old story that tells of a man walking along a beach when up ahead in the distance, he catches sight of another man acting strangely. As he gets closer, he notices the man is picking things up from the sand and throwing them into the water.Upon reaching him, he sees the objects being tossed are starfish, stranded on shore by the retreating tide. Curious about his intentions, the ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A lesson from a hum of a bamboo clump
- Have you heard a nature hymn? For example, a whir of ting-a-ling-a-ling sound yielded by bamboo leaves when wind blows to its clump? If you have an opportunity to visit a bamboo garden, try to listen to its hymn. The trees of a bamboo clump will sing along with the wind.When the wind blows blandly, bamboo leaves will play a beautiful symphony, so that it can sway your soul. And when the win...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Aftermath of a child?s near death experience
- An 18 month-old girl lay dying of diphtheria in January of 1944. It was before the widespread use of antibiotics. In fact, the antibiotics were reserved for the troops fighting in World War II. That's where the little girl's father was...on Iwo Jima.The young mother took her fever-ridden child to the hospital in hopes that something could be done to save her precious child. The mother was t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Anamcara - the blessing of peace
- "Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love."Jelaluddin Rumi. Mystic PoetIn Corrogue there is synchronicity ? "meaningful co-incidence."I am reminded of this fact in an email I received this week. This was an email from others engaged in the dynamic I practice as an Anamcara. As a practitioner of "soul friendship" I am no longer surprised at the wa...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Adages for the new age
- The old familiar adages just don't do it for me any more. For instance, consider "the early bird gets the worm." In this age of freelancing, premature ejaculation and peaking too early in one's career (by age 24) a more appropriate adage might be "The early bird dies earlier."Another one that has been puzzling me lately is "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.'...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The fuel for creative vigor
- Writing a book or creating a killer headline requires a special blend of imagination, inspiration, and knowledge. Whether the ordeal is like enduring a root canal or soaring on a cloud, depends on how upbeat you are. The fuel of creative vigor is enthusiasm.It is practically impossible to create with a negative attitude. Unless you are excited about what you are doing it can be like climbin...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Problem solving: the easy way to solve problems in life
- Life is full of problems.The more you solve them, the more new ones come up.And you can sweep problems under the carpet or run away from them.Wherever you go, sooner or later there will be problems for you to solve.Since this is a fact of life, you may as well develop some skills on how to handle problems in life.Here are some insights on how to deal with problem...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 8 ways to get your healthy groove on
- You've heard the saying, "You are what you eat." I say? "You Are What You Think!"The amount of time you spend reveling in wonderful moments of joy, contentment, inspiration, laughter, love and learning? will be directly proportional to your health, happiness, success, satisfaction, productivity and fulfillment!Maintain a healthy outlook through the power of a positive thoug...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - My mothers garden
- I love to talk about Purposeful Living with others and share how it's affected my life. But sometimes when I get to the part about doing what you need to do my listeners eyes glaze over and I know I've lost them. I get the response that it doesn't seem like much "fun" to find your purpose and do what you need to do. In fact, it sounds rather Calvinistic. It sounds like trudging uphill in...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Walking on a path of life
- We set out walking along a route where one foot walks on a sidewalk that is slowly accenting to higher levels, whilst the other foot walks on the road. We will get to a point where we have to make a choice. Do we raise ourselves up onto the side walk and continue to ascend, or do we keep both feet on the road, on the lower level?If we stay on the road, we will keep in the gutter and when it...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Wanna trade places?
- Even immediately after my car accident, every single person who saw me was pleasantly shocked at how "great" I looked. Funny how much a little concealer and a new hair style can make anyone look fabulous.One of my physicians confidently told me "there's no 'look' for pain". This wise woman also said "you can't see muscular or neurological damage".Going through physical and neurologic...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - No problem!
- Thanks to Walt Disney's "The Lion King", children the world over know the Swahili expression "Hakuna Matata". It means "No Problem" and we grown-ups should use it more often.I used to come home and my wife would say, "We have a crisis!" I would immediately think that our daughter was in a hospital, the car broke down, or her mother was coming to stay with us. But it was usually just that th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - $12 and 90 minutes to change your life
- Have you ever listened to self hypnosis tapes? Or listened repeatedly to certain music that carried a specific message? Or what about, have you attended weekly services within a specific religious venue?What do all of these have in common? They influence and change your thinking and paradigm over time to whatever it is they espouse.James Allen wrote "as a man thinketh in his hea...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Realistic living
- " The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he purposes to remove." ? Samuel JohnsonThe one person, who is of more importance to you than anyone else in the world, is just - YOU. And it is your concep...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A reason for living in a nutshell
- In brief, my book A REASON FOR LIVING is the product of a sustained effort to answer in the most enlightening and inspiring way this single question: Why live? I started to ask myself that question about thirty years ago after my diving accident, which left the husky and lusty teenage athlete that I was a near quadriplegic. What had given meaning to my life until then had become largely impossible...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Are you tired of being stuck?
- All you want is a little more.More money, more love, more fun, more friends.So what happens when we don't get what we want, when the flow slows down or even stops?You get mad, sad and unhappy.You blame the president, the country, the war, your mother, father, husband, wife, child, co-worker, Anyone we can think of, even the driver of that car who passed you on the freew...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Be a star in your own life
- Do you have the charactertics to be star in their own life? What characteristics below do you have or don't have already? Give each item a rating from 1 to 10 with 10 being you have this charactertics 100%.1. Believe anything is possible. The universe is your oasis, see everything as vast within a reachable horizon. Keep raising your ceiling every day. Believe in you and others will believe...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Moneys sad lack of intrinsic value
- A good number of my columns deal with finances and money-related issues. Obviously, these are issues we have to confront everyday. However, I have to try to keep in mind the fact that money has only a limited value in our lives. Many of us, including myself, often lost sight of the fact that money is a means to an end, not an end in itself. It has no intrinsic value. It is only worth the benefit o...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 4 abundant ways to add fire to your passion!
- How many times have you found yourself dreaming you were more passionate?What makes certain people so passionate? How come they seem to be on-fire for their cause? Why do enthusiastic people become leaders we are willing to follow?Maybe you once had a burning desire inside of your heart. If you have ever hoped to add more fuel to the F.I.R.E. of living then perhaps these four simple ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why buddhism succeeds - the right thing is the thing to do
- The ongoing teachings are exemplified in an understanding and execution of two ideas, which I will briefly describe:Karma: the Buddhist interpretation is in the words and actions of the individual. It means that good work brings about a good rebirth, and that each rebirth is a reflection of the good living and good deeds in the prior life. That is the deeper meaning of Karma, the Buddhist,a...