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Friday, July 31, 2009
New Age Coupon Clipping
In this new "era" of "clipping" coupons, be sure that the coupon site you are visiting is legitimate. Some good places to start:
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Watch Your Mouth and Save a Heart
Enlarge Your Life with Compassion and Consideration
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It is within relationships that we grow as individuals in everything valuable, because it is through them that we become stronger and wiser, allowing us to realize a love that transcends our unseen self-limiting self-interests.
What do we have to do to change the balance sheet of our lives so that for every measure of impatience and intolerance there may be at least an equivalent sum of compassion and consideration?
Your willingness to work your way through the following special exercises -- striving to employ these higher ideals in your relationships with others -- will show you how to use each developing moment in your relationships with family, friends, and coworkers to consciously change your relationship with yourself.
1) Let anyone who wants to psychologically defeat you have his victory, and do it without revealing that you chose to give him the last word.
2) In any moment of consequence, be as willing to see that you may be wrong as you are convinced that you are always right.
3) Even when you know that you are solidly in the right, rather than rub it in, sacrifice your righteousness.
4) Should a sarcastic or unkind remark pop into your mind to tease, torment, or in any way "trash" another person, try swallowing it first to see how it tastes before you dish it out.
5) Let there be times when you don't tell someone everything you know about her problem, even if your understanding of it is better than hers.
6) When feeling displeased with someone, don't show your displeasure, and save any necessary correction for a later time.
7) There are times when the greatest strength (and kindness) one can possess is to allow another his weakness without pointing it out or otherwise punishing him for it.
Keep in mind that everything true we discover about ourselves enlarges our relationship with life.
-- Guy Finley
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Excerpted from Seeker's Guide to Self-Freedom, pages 159-162.
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It is within relationships that we grow as individuals in everything valuable, because it is through them that we become stronger and wiser, allowing us to realize a love that transcends our unseen self-limiting self-interests.
What do we have to do to change the balance sheet of our lives so that for every measure of impatience and intolerance there may be at least an equivalent sum of compassion and consideration?
Your willingness to work your way through the following special exercises -- striving to employ these higher ideals in your relationships with others -- will show you how to use each developing moment in your relationships with family, friends, and coworkers to consciously change your relationship with yourself.
1) Let anyone who wants to psychologically defeat you have his victory, and do it without revealing that you chose to give him the last word.
2) In any moment of consequence, be as willing to see that you may be wrong as you are convinced that you are always right.
3) Even when you know that you are solidly in the right, rather than rub it in, sacrifice your righteousness.
4) Should a sarcastic or unkind remark pop into your mind to tease, torment, or in any way "trash" another person, try swallowing it first to see how it tastes before you dish it out.
5) Let there be times when you don't tell someone everything you know about her problem, even if your understanding of it is better than hers.
6) When feeling displeased with someone, don't show your displeasure, and save any necessary correction for a later time.
7) There are times when the greatest strength (and kindness) one can possess is to allow another his weakness without pointing it out or otherwise punishing him for it.
Keep in mind that everything true we discover about ourselves enlarges our relationship with life.
-- Guy Finley
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Excerpted from Seeker's Guide to Self-Freedom, pages 159-162.
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Monday, July 20, 2009
To Risk
--William Arthur Ward
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool,
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement,
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return,
To live is to risk dying,
To hope is to risk despair,
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.
He may avoid suffering and sorrow,
But he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live.
Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom.
Only a person who risks is free.
The pessimist complains about the wind;
The optimist expects it to change;
And the realist adjusts the sails.
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool,
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement,
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return,
To live is to risk dying,
To hope is to risk despair,
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.
He may avoid suffering and sorrow,
But he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live.
Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom.
Only a person who risks is free.
The pessimist complains about the wind;
The optimist expects it to change;
And the realist adjusts the sails.
Increase Your 3 Types of Energies
Increase Your Three Types of Energy
By: Brian Tracy
Most successful people can be characterized as having very high levels of energy. Since energy is the fuel with which everything is achieved, there seems to be a direct relationship between energy levels and levels of accomplishment. It is hard to imagine a tired, burned-out person achieving much in life. On the other hand, energetic, positive, forward-moving individuals seem to get and enjoy far more of the things life has to offer than does the average person.
Physical Energy is Basic
We have been led to believe that there is basically one kind of energy. We supposedly replenish this energy by sleeping at night, and during the day, we use it up again. It is as though we are machines powered by batteries, and each night we recharge our batteries for seven or eight hours. However, there are some problems with this view of energy. The biggest problem is that it does not deal with the fact that there are actually three different kinds of energy, each of which is necessary for maximum performance.
The three main forms are physical energy, emotional energy, and mental energy. Each of these energies is different, but they are interrelated, and they depend on each other.
The Sweat of Your Brow
Physical energy is raw energy, coarse energy, bulk energy, what we call "meat-and-potatoes" energy. Your physical energy is what you use to do physical labor. It is the primary energy applied by men and women who earn their livings by the sweat of their brow.
The Source of Enthusiasm
The second form of energy is emotional energy. This is the energy of enthusiasm and excitement. This is the energy that lends sparkle to the life of an individual. This is the energy that is necessary for feeling love, happiness, and joy. Largely, it is your emotional energy that makes life enjoyable for you. In fact, almost everything you say and do is determined in some way by an emotion, either positive or negative.
The Requirement for Creativity
Mental energy is the energy of creativity, of problem solving and decision making. You use mental energy to make sales, write reports and proposals, plan your day and your week, and learn new subjects. Your level of mental energy is a major determinant of the quality of your life.
Conserve Your Best Energies
The reason why most people fail to realize their potential in life and work is because they burn up their energy at the emotional level, or the physical level; therefore, they have very little energy left over for mental activities. Most people burn up their emotional energy through the expression of negative emotions. Negative emotions are like a fire that burns up their energy so quickly that they have very little left with which to think positively and constructively. In fact, one five-minute uncontrolled outburst of anger can burn up as much energy as an average person would use in eight hours of work.
Your job is to think continually about how you can stay calm and positive, and work smoothly and efficient, so you can have more mental energy to do the things that are most important to you in life.
Action Exercises
Here are three things you can do immediately to put these ideas into action:
First, take time to identify the different ways that you either use up or deplete your levels of physical, emotional and mental energy. How could you improve in each area?
Second, be sure to get plenty of healthful, nutritious food so you can keep your physical energy at high levels. This is the key to all other energies.
Third, look for ways to conserve your emotional energies by being more relaxed and optimistic in the face of daily problems and disappointments.
The more energy you have, the happier and more productive you will be.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Humor
For some humor, as told by Zig Ziglar……
A lady went to see her attorney about a divorce; and the lawyer asked her, “What’s the problem?”
She started rambling, and he said, “No, be specific!
She said, “Like how?” and he said, “Like, do you have any grounds?”
She said, “Oh yes, as a matter of fact we have about 40 acres out here on the North end of town.” And he said, “No, that’s not what I’m talking about! Do you have a grudge?”
She said, “No, but we got really neat little carport there, right on the side of the house.”
He said, “Woman! We need to make this personal!” And she said “Like how?”
And he said, “Well, like does that man ever beat you up?” And she said, “Oh no, I’m up every day an hour or hour and a half before he even turns over!”
And he said, “Well do you accept any responsibility for the difficulty?” And she said, “Like how?”
He said, “Well for example, do you ever wake up grouchy?” She said “Oh no, I just let him get up on his own, you know, whenever he will.”
And he said, “Well WHY do you want to divorce the man?”
And she said, “Well, the man just CAN’T communicate!”
A lady went to see her attorney about a divorce; and the lawyer asked her, “What’s the problem?”
She started rambling, and he said, “No, be specific!
She said, “Like how?” and he said, “Like, do you have any grounds?”
She said, “Oh yes, as a matter of fact we have about 40 acres out here on the North end of town.” And he said, “No, that’s not what I’m talking about! Do you have a grudge?”
She said, “No, but we got really neat little carport there, right on the side of the house.”
He said, “Woman! We need to make this personal!” And she said “Like how?”
And he said, “Well, like does that man ever beat you up?” And she said, “Oh no, I’m up every day an hour or hour and a half before he even turns over!”
And he said, “Well do you accept any responsibility for the difficulty?” And she said, “Like how?”
He said, “Well for example, do you ever wake up grouchy?” She said “Oh no, I just let him get up on his own, you know, whenever he will.”
And he said, “Well WHY do you want to divorce the man?”
And she said, “Well, the man just CAN’T communicate!”
Monday, July 13, 2009
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
"FREE" by Chris Anderson
FREE (full book) by Chris Anderson
If you've never read an on-line book, here's all you need to know: move your mouse (the hand) to the left side of the book page to "turn back", move your mouse to the right hand side of the page (hand/finger will point right) to turn the next page.
Click here to read Malcolm Gladwell's review.
If you've never read an on-line book, here's all you need to know: move your mouse (the hand) to the left side of the book page to "turn back", move your mouse to the right hand side of the page (hand/finger will point right) to turn the next page.
Click here to read Malcolm Gladwell's review.
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