The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower view points. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
 
 We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
 
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
 
 We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.
 
 We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.
 
 These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom.  
Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.
 
 Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.
 
 Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.
 
 Remember, to say, 'I love you' to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.
 
 Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.
 
 Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.
 
 AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
 
 Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Life is short. And uncertain. It is like a drop of water skittering around on a leaf.

You never know when it will drop off the edge and disappear.

So each day is far too precious to waste.

Each day that you are not radiantly alive and brimming with cheer is a day wasted.

Look at the current economy. Many economists are calling it a depression .

Even the word implies a disempowering feeling.

If people are afraid to borrow to buy products and worry about spending money,

there will be more business closures and job losses.

In essence, focusing on the problems can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

When people are complimentary and nice they make other people feel good too.

Take out your journal. Put a line down the middle of the page.

 Consider the following life events:

- Someone criticized you or you criticized someone else

- You complimented someone or someone gave you a compliment

- The NEWS reported a downturn in the economy

- You or someone you know received a less than flattering result on a test or review

 On the left hand side record all of the times you witnessed these external

events trigger people's moods immediately. Include yourself, your family and

friends and people you have read about.

Then in the right-hand column, record all of the times you remember people not being affected by external events or other people - good or bad. You or they seemed to be able to rise above the situation or at least remain neutral to the event. Did you notice any pattern emerge?

If you are like most people you will notice the reactions to the events in the

right- hand column contained circumstances where people had a better

understanding of themselves and the situation at hand. If they made a

mistake they admitted it. If they got a poor result on a test or a project they looked for ways to learn from it. They knew their weaknesses and strengths.

If someone pointed out their weakness, they did not have to fall apart

because they already had insight into this. Conversely, if someone pointed

out their strengths, they didn't get a swelled head and become overly ecstatic because they understood themselves.

Don't get me wrong. We are all affected by other people. If I had to choose

to be with a group of people all day I would pick the optimists over the

pessimists. But neither group should be able to drastically change my mood

if I know myself well enough. It is an inside game

 Nothing illustrates this better than an account from Victor Fankl , author of

the epic book, Man's Search for Meaning. In it he said, “The consciousness

of one's inner value is anchored in higher, more spiritual things, and cannot

be shaken by camp life. But how many free men, let alone prisoners,

possess it?” He was speaking about how he was able to rise above the

atrocities of the concentration camps of Nazi Germany that he had suffered

through and give meaning to his life and hope for the future. If he could

do that under those horrible circumstances, surely we can all learn to

focus on our own “inner value” in our current situation.

Know yourself better

Discover your strengths and allow those to flourish. Your Dream Career is

found in this fertile soil. Know your weaknesses and delegate these or get

help with these or shore them up in some way. Understand that life is going

to have its ups and downs so expect it and don't be thrown by them.

 Know others better

Start to look at the reasons other people behave the way they do. When they criticize you or compliment you it says more about how they are feeling that day than anything about you.

 Know the world better

Face it. You are rarely going to go through a week – or even a day –

without something going awry. That is life. Instead of worrying about what is

or is not happening, think of what you can do about it. Take action.

The world is comprised of six billion different people. They each have their way of doing things and their way of looking at and reacting to their environment.

It would be impossible to control all of the events and people in your life so

don't even try. Instead, it is a lot easier and more practical to focus on what

you do have control of - Yourself .

Romans 12:12

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible;

and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

You become what you think about most of the time. And the most important part of each day is what you think about at the beginning of that day and at the end of the day. Start and end your day with positive thoughts and avoid listening to the news which most likely leave you depressed!

Start Your Day Right
Take 30 minutes each morning to sit quietly and to reflect on your goals. You'll find when you read the biographies and autobiographies of successful men and women that almost everyone of them began their upward trajectory to success when they begin getting up early in the morning and spending time with themselves.

Feed Your Mind With Positive Ideas
This is called the Golden Hour. The first hour sets the tone for the day. The things that you do in the first hour prepare your mind and set you up for the entire day. During the first thirty to sixty minutes, take time to think and review your plans for the future.

Use Your Quiet Time Effectively
Here are four things that you can do during that quiet time in the morning. Number one is to review your plans for accomplishing your goals and change your plans if necessary.

Number two is think of better ways to accomplish your goals. As an exercise, assume that the way you're going about it is totally wrong and imagine going about it totally differently. What would you do different from what you're doing right now?

Number three, reflect on the valuable lessons that you have learned and are learning as you move toward your goals.

"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak
minds." Albert Einstein

'The clock of life is wound but once, and no man has the power to tell
just when the hands will stop, at late or early hour. Now is the only
time you own. Live, love, toil with a will. Place no faith in time,
for the clock may soon be still.'

“Live so that if people get to know you, they will get to know Jesus better.”
“Live so that when you tell someone you are a Christian, it confirms their
suspicions instead of surprising them.”
“Live so that the preacher won’t have to lie at your funeral.”
“Live as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back
tomorrow.”

"Life is not easy for any of us. We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained"
Do you have too much stress in your life?

Do you ever find yourself lying awake at night, unable to fall asleep, because you're worrying about one of the zillions of things you have to do the next day?

Do you ever wake up bone-tired on a cold, dark morning... not wanting to get out of bed and face the day ahead of you?

Do you wake up in the middle of the night, not able to get back to sleep.

Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by your busy schedule ... your huge to-do list ... and all you have to do at your job and at home?

Do you crave sweets, carbohydrates, and salt for no apparent reason, especially at night?

Do you notice that your short-term memory is starting to falter on you ... you enter a room can't remember why you went there to begin with?

If so, you're not alone...

In today's fast-paced society, more folks are suffering from stress overload, insomnia, and their debilitating effects than ever before.

Instead of using medications, try our creative visualization techniques, natural supplements, deep breating, biofeedback device and other natural methods to help you cope and thrive during stressfull times. Please read the chapter on " from stress to success" By Dr. George Grant 101 ways to improve your life with 100 authors including Mark Victor Hanson and Les Brown.

Please visit:  This website http://drgrant.thepc.hop.clickbank.net for wise choices. 
We all have 24 hours/day; 1440 minutes, and 86400 seconds.. making a wise choice in our food & life style every waking second will determine our state of wellness or Ilness. Are you making a wise choices for food / exercise / sleeping / meditation / relaxation?

Using Stumbling Blocks as Stepping Stones
By: Brian Tracy

Everyone makes mistakes and the busier you are, the more mistakes you will make. The only question is "How well and how effectively do you deal with the inevitable ups and downs of life?"

In this newsletter, you learn the difference between a positive and negative worldview. You learn how to benefit from your mistakes and how to remain positive in the face of adversity.

Let the Light Shine In
This is achieved through the simple exercise of self-disclosure. For you to truly understand yourself, or to stop being troubled by things that may have happened in your past, you must be able to disclose yourself to at least one person. You have to be able to get those things off your chest. You must rid yourself of those thoughts and feelings by revealing them to someone who won't make you feel guilty or ashamed for what has happened.

Using Stumbling Blocks as Stepping Stones
There are two ways to look at the world: the benevolent way or the malevolent way. People with a malevolent or negative worldview take a victim stance, seeing life as a continuous succession of problems and a process of unfairness and oppression. They don't expect a lot and they don't get much. When things go wrong, they shrug their shoulders and passively accept that this is the way life is and there isn't anything they can do to make it better.

On the other hand, people with a benevolent or positive worldview see the world around them as filled with opportunities and possibilities. They believe that everything happens as part of a great process designed to make them successful and happy. They approach their lives, their work, and their relationships with optimism, cheerfulness, and a general attitude of positive expectations. They expect a lot and they are seldom disappointed.

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Flex Your Mental Muscles
When you develop the skill of learning from your mistakes, you become the kind of person who welcomes obstacles and setbacks as opportunities to flex your mental muscles and move ahead. You look at problems as rungs on the ladder of success that you grab onto as you pull your way higher.

Two of the most common ways to deal with mistakes are invariably fatal to high achievement. The first common but misguided way to handle a mistake is the failure to accept it when it occurs. According to statistics, 70 percent of all decisions we make will be wrong. That's an average. This means that some people will fail more than 70 percent of the time, and some people will fail less. It is hard to believe that most of the decisions we make could turn out to be wrong in some way. In fact, if this is the case, how can our society continue to function at all?

Cut Your Losses
The fact is that our society, our families, our companies, and our relationships continue to survive and thrive because intelligent people tend to cut their losses and minimize their mistakes. It is only when people refuse to accept that they have made a bad choice or decision-and prolong the consequences by sticking to that bad choice or decision-that mistakes become extremely expensive and hurtful.

Learn From Your Mistakes
The second common approach that people take with regard to their mistakes, one that hurts innumerable lives and careers, is the failure to use your mistakes to better yourself and to improve the quality of your mind and your thinking.

Learning from your mistakes is an essential skill that enables you to develop the resilience to be a master of change rather than a victim of change. The person who recognizes that he has made a mistake and changes direction the fastest is the one who will win in an age of increasing information, technology and competition.

By remaining fast on your feet, you will be able to out-play and out-position your competition. You will become a creator of circumstances rather than a creature of circumstances.

Action Exercises
Now, here are three steps you can take immediately to put these ideas into action.

First, imagine that your biggest problem or challenge in life has been sent to you at this moment to help you, to teach you something valuable. What could it be?

Second, be willing to cut your losses and walk away if you have made a mistake or a bad choice. Accept that you are not perfect, you can't be right all the time, and then get on with your life.

Third, learn from every mistake you make. Write down every lesson it contains. Use your mistakes in the present as stepping stones to great success in the future.