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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What is your real worth?
- Consider this. If it is possible to quote you as a person on the Stock Exchange, what would be your real worth?Have you ever, in your wildest imagination thought that one day, it might just be possible to quote professional men and women, on the Stock Exchange? Never, you say. You in fact think it is just a figment of my imagination.I agree with you. Getting personally quoted on the ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Breaking through uncertainty - welcoming advertisty
- We all question our ability at times. Uncertainty plagues us. It is even more intense if the ability we are questioning relates to something we have never tried or not succeeded at in the past.Set backs are common, but we rarely welcome them. We are inclined to respond negatively to adversity. It may be time to revisit that reflexive response.I had an experience recently that caused ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The secret of lasting personal change
- Why do so many of us end up frustrated when we try to improve our personal reality?Why do diets end up in gained weight?Why do some people fail again and again at business?Why do others get into one bad relationship after another - in spite of their deep desire for a "good" relationship?Obviously no one *wishes* to fail in their personal or business life. Yet this is an...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Fail your way to the top
- Have you had a challenging day or week? Feel a little tired or discouraged with a current situation? Ready to throw in the towel and quit something?Don't worry. It's very normal to go through times of feeling that something in life stinks and all there is to see and feel is the current mess.Here is something neat to ponder during those times, though. When doing battle with discourage...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A faux pas is a mistake in a tuxedo
- Everyone who is anybody has a hobby or at least entertains the idea. Hobbies range from sports to crafts to reading and even traveling. Some hobbies don't make sense to me like collecting dead insects.My long established hobby has earned me a membership in the POP (People Observing People) Culture. The rules specify that each member must swear not to divulge anything observed.Being a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why be great?
- Have you ever thought of what it would take to make you "truly great" at what you do?Look around you at your employees and co-workers and ask yourself whether or not any of them are "truly great" at what they do. No doubt some of them really excel at their jobs and at life, while others just seem to get by. What is it that separates those that excel from those that don't?Is it educat...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Crossing the line of fear
- Oh, this is a great topic! I remember when I was younger and in school, fear stopped me from asking out a girl I wanted to date. I can remember all the thoughts of different things I wanted to say and how I would ask her out. But as quickly as the thoughts to ask her out popped in my head, I came up with all the reasons why she might say no. I remember the "feeling" of rejection and embarrassment ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Head first
- I stepped up to the edge and looked down. I closed my eyes, took a deep breath... and jumped in head first.The summer I turned 13 was spent at the swimming pool. We swam at a huge olympic size pool with three diving boards at one end, two low dives and one high dive.I had bragged to my friends that I could execute the perfect swan dive off the high board. Eventually, I was challenged...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The most important investment you can make for your old age - and no, its not money!
- When I was twenty-two, I was befriended by a woman named Doris who was thirty years older than I was. Although Doris was then a fifty-two year old woman, she did not feel it was inappropriate to befriend me. She did not operate with the social belief that she should choose her friends only from people her own age. We became very close friends and remained so until her death at the age of eight-two...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Attitudes - the overlooked inventory
- It goes without question that any business intending to thrive will, sooner or later, be forced into making an honest inventory of assets and liabilities. Yet, whether from a business perspective, or in the going concern of a single human life, we often lose track of our most vital product, our own attitudes.Attitudes, for the most part, dictate the nature and result of our relationships wi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Look out any window
- Over my extended Thanksgiving weekend I took some time to look through my telescope at the moon. I saw the full moon rising in the east- northeast and thought it would be a good night for a look, so I set up my Meade reflecting telescope in the kitchen and aimed it toward the window.The moon had risen higher and the sky was darkening. The darker it became the more detail I was able to see....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Songs of life
- I imagine when we die we find out how in-tune with our hearts we should have been. Not an easy thing to do with all our mere mortal vices getting in the way.How do we rise above what we are? Can we elevate ourselves and look back down on our lives to see what needs more attention, or less? What's important, what's a waste of time?I've managed to step onto my own shoulders for a bette...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Cool children
- It's funny how an acquaintance from the past just pops into your head sometimes. Usually the flashback is brought on by a phrase someone says, or a thought you have. Today my particular flashback was induced by the words "this guy," which were uttered by one of the custodians where I work, as we passed in the hall.I'll tell you how that phrase came to be...Some time ago, in my multi-...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Dont ever give up
- There is a reason I never gave up. A reason I never will give up my hope, my dreams, my desire to live. The reason is people who care. Those who have shown their concern for me, and their wish for me to succeed, to do the best I can do. They give me a reason to live.A couple of those people are my parents. I thank my father for his (possibly unintentional) ability to make me rethink what I ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Launch yourself into living
- Memorial Day weekend, 2004, found my wife and I along with friends, relaxing in a nice camp setting in Hershey, Pennsylvania. We had a great time at the Hershey Factory Tour Experience, which included, among a dozen other attractions, an excellent 3D movie presentation which wasn't quite like a movie at all, but a true experience, complete with misters and blowers that would alternately sprinkle y...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Anchors away!
- If we want to fill our heads with the doom and gloom society seems to thrive on, all we need to do is turn on the local news at night. To make that quantum leap toward personal happiness and success in life, sometimes we just need to do what so many people seem to be talking about lately: clean house and take personal inventory of the people we associate with most.One of my favorite quotes ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Silence inside
- Silence means no voice input of any sort. What happens when there is silence? We cannot hear anything from the outside, but the voices inside are what we hear pretty clearly. We can hear ourselves. We can loudly hear to what we think and how we think, if we do.We do not give much time exploring to who we are, why we are, and how different lives we are connected to, how should we interact, e...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The minds fancy dress party -or- a brainstorming session
- In Berlin a restaurant opens for anorexics and in Buffalo a lawyer with a stutter wins a court case. When everything you're working on has gone STALE and your own initially promising concepts are starting to annoy you, you need a brainstorming session to get to the missing bits or generate some new ideas.The papers provide ample ideas for jump starts. A stutterer in a court case or an anore...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Your turn on the holodeck
- Good morning Roy, good morning Joseth.Roy? You have in your world's history a wonderful example of what life is all about in the physical world and what it is that you are doing here.Gene Rodenberry lived on your planet in the last century and was a soul with a higher awareness of how life works. He was an accomplished film producer and dealt with complicated human issues that your w...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Are you ready for bonza bottler day?
- BONZA BOTTLER DAY is any day when the date and the month have the same number. Bonza, I'm told, means "excellent" or "really great" in Australian, and there's some suggestion that "bottler" means the same.Bonza Bottler is a "just because" kind of holiday, started a decade or so ago by the late Elaine Fremont who believed the world needed more holidays. On BBD, we are called to let loose, ju...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The eyes of the clown
- There are few enough miracles in life, God knows. I think perhaps the circus is one of them. We pay our money, braced for boredom, and are bombarded by noise, bewitched by beauty, awed still one more time by elephants that, yes, are smaller every year. Yet something happens when we enter the big top. If we let it, we will be carried back to hopes and dreams long surrendered: hopes that something w...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A word fitly spoken ~ believe
- A Word Fitly SpokenA word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. Proverbs 25:11Under All that We Think, Lives All We Believe, Like the Ultimate Veil of Our Spirits. ~ Antonio MachadoBelieve: To exercise belief in, to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; to be persuaded of a truth ~ Webster's Unabri...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to turn your life around fast!
- There is nothing more important than feeling good.Come again? Didn't I just tell you how bad everything is!When you feel good you raise your vibrations. You get what you prefer. You send out a frequency that brings you what you love.When you feel miserable, you're setting yourself up to miscreate your reality. Your pain is a signal for you to change. It's a warning blip...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Powerful caretakers - taking good care of ourselves first
- Our community consists of powerful caretakers. We do a great job of assisting and loving those around us. However, many of us fall short when it comes to taking good care of ourselves. We expend our energies giving to our kids, our jobs, our partners, our schedules and more. Then, at the end of the day, we have nothing left for us. If this goes on for too long, we can begin to experience our lives...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How a sense of wonder makes life richer
- It always amazes me when I meet someone who has a disdain for expansion of knowledge.The other day, over lunch, I was arguing with a girl about a principle of abundance. I illustrated this principle with anecdotes about historically famous millionaires who had applied this principle successfully.Her response: â??I can't use this information. It doesn't come from my e...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Charge your imagination (3)
- As we progress into the year, it is necessary for professionals to really put their Imagination to work as they plot strategies for business excellence this year. To help them do a good job, IMAGINATION (as a person) started an inspirational message on Vision 2030. Here is the conclusion of the message.Dear professionals, have you observed this? Every event that brings the world together co...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Charge your imagination (2)
- As year 2004 winds up and professionals and corporate bodies plot strategies for business excellence in 2005 and beyond, it is time to put their Imagination to real work. In the first part of this message, IMAGINATION, as a person, started an inspirational charge for the professional and business class on what the world of business would be like in the year 2030.He continues to speak.God ma...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Is the life youre living the life you want?
- In pre-revolutionary Russia, a rabbi was walking to the synagogue. A Russian soldier stopped him and asked, "Who are you and what are you doing here?" The rabbi answered, "How much do they pay you for doing this job?" The soldier replied, "Twenty kopeks." The rabbi then said, "I'll pay you twenty-five to ask me those same two questions every day."Ask ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Super mom, wonder woman, energizer mommy or just mom
- Have you ever sat down to watch the evening news and flashes a News Report about a woman that died with 100 cats, house full of trash and stacks of newspapers to fill 100 dump trucks? In my single days, I use to live by a lady like this. The entire neighborhood would talk about her but none of us ever went over there to see if she needed anything or if I could help her clean her house. We just tal...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A childs plight
- In the streets of Bogotá, a child - named Simon* - wanders amidst the crowd. He is a lonely soul, lost in the multitude, forgotten by humanity, rejected by his society.He looks like any other child. His eyes are full of dreams and hope. Yet, at the tender age of 10, he knows of hunger and distress. He knows of violence, terror and cold, but most of all . . . he knows of lon...