You will receive a fortnightly dose of motivation, inspiration, laughter and thought-provoking quotes. If you find yourself bogged down in our competitive, stressful work world, take a few minutes to read and then think about the positive messages you will receive.
In this
issue:
1.
Inspirational Quotes
2. Joke
3. Computer Tips to reduce your
stress levels
4. Wild
Trivia
5. Metaphor
6. Affirmations plus
7. Check out our developing Website
www.SelfDevelopment.Biz
8. Motivational Five Principles
That Will Change Your Business and Your Life
9.
EFT
Courses
You have one shot at today. Use
it to learn, love and laugh!
"Children
who receive a lot of approval learn to accept themselves." Dorothy
Nolte
"A
word spoken in kindness engenders confidence. A thought expressed with kindness
engenders profound feelings. A generous act performed with kindness engenders
love." Lao Tseu
“Someone once asked me why women don't
gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have
as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total
instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.” - Gloria
Steinem
"A
horse may be coaxed to drink, but a pencil must be lead." - Stan Laurel
Two
fonts walk into a bar. The bartender says to them, "Get out! We don't serve your
type here."
"The
child had his mother's eyes, his mother's nose and his mother's mouth. Which
left his mother with a pretty blank expression." -Robert Benchley
Cowboy:
"Well, I suppose you've been all right. You've been a decent horse, I guess. A
bit slow sometimes, but a decent horse, and..."
Horse: "No, you idiot! I didn't ask you
for FEEDBACK! I said I wanted my FEEDBAG!"
PSYCHIC
HOTLINE...A lonely frog telephones the Psychic Hotline and asks what his future
holds. His personal psychic advisor tells him: "You are going to meet a
beautiful young girl who will want to know everything about
you."
The
frog is delighted with this news, and replies, "This is great! Will I meet her
at a party?" he croaks.
"No,"
says the psychic, "in biology class."
The last tip showed you how to quickly find an email by clicking on Find in MS Outlook or MS Outlook Express.
This week we will see how
to send an email to a group of people
without any of those people being able to see who else it was sent to. This will
protect the privacy of everybody's email address.
This tip will
work in MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express, most other email software will have
similar functionality.
When sending the message, you can click on To... or CC... buttons next to where you would normally type the persons email address. When you click on either button, MS Outlook will open your address book and you can select th first person you would like to send the email to. Instead of now clicking on either To or CC, use the BCC button (Blind Carbon Copy). Repeat for all of the other people you would like to send this email to, and when it is received, they won't know who else, or how many other people you sent the email to.
You can also click the View menu and BCC Field and you can now type email addresses directly into the BCC field.
If you would like to find out how to
do something in particular, or share something that you find useful, send it to
newsletter@websitemanagers.com.au and it may be answered in a future newsletter.
I
hope this tip will help you to save time, reduce stress, and generally improve
your life the way the rest of this fantastic newsletter does. Stay tuned for
more great tips on how to save time and remove the frustration of dealing with
computers in the next newsletter.
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4395.
A)
The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British
or Americans.
B)
On the other hand, the French eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart
attacks than the British or Americans.
C)
The Japanese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the
British or Americans.
D)
The Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine, and also suffer fewer heart
attacks than the British or Americans.
E)
Conclusion: Eat and drink what you like. It's
speaking English that kills you.
Thanks
Peter Watson
A
professor was in the habit of giving his students a little gift at the end of
the school year - a purple ribbon with the words "I hope I have made a
difference" printed in gold letters on the ribbon.
As
he gave each student their ribbon he explained why he had appreciated teaching
them, and why his course had been different because that particular student had
been present.
One
day it occurred to him to see what effect this little custom would have on the
community. He gave each student three purple ribbons instead of one, and told
each of them to give one ribbon to someone they knew who, in their opinion "made
a difference." He also told them to give the two other ribbons to that same
person, with instructions to hand them out to others who had made a difference.
After that the students were to come back and report what happened.
One
student who had a part-time job gave his ribbon to his boss, a grumpy fellow who
nevertheless appreciated the honour. "I
admire everything you've done," the student said to his boss. "I think you're a
creative genius and a real fair guy. Will you allow me to pin this purple ribbon
on your jacket as a sign of my appreciation?"
The
boy's boss was surprised but also pleased. "Yeah, sure, why not?" he
said.
"And
will you take these two other ribbons," the student continued, "and give them to
someone you think makes a difference, like I did for you? It's for a project
we're doing at school." "All
right," the boss replied.
That
night the boss returned home wearing the purple ribbon on his jacket. He greeted
his 14-year-old son and said, "Something strange happened to me today. One of my
employees gave me this ribbon. See what's written on it? 'Because you make a
difference.' He gave me another ribbon just like it and told me to give it to
someone who's made a difference for me, someone who is very special and means a
lot to me.
"I
had a pretty hard day, but on the way home I said to myself, 'There's only one
person I want to give this ribbon to.' I know I tell you off a lot because you
don't work hard enough at school, because all you think about is going out and
having fun with your friends, because your room's always a mess... But tonight I
want to tell you that you are very very important to me. You and your mother
make all the difference in my life, and I'd like you to accept this purple
ribbon as a sign of my love. I don't tell you I love you very often, not nearly
enough, I know. But I do love you, and I think you're a wonderful
kid!"
As
soon as he stopped talking his son burst into tears. His whole body shook with
sobs. His father took him in his arms and held him close, saying, "That's okay,
it's all right. Did I say something wrong?"
"No
Dad." his son replied, "It's just that... I decided I was going to kill myself.
I was going to do it tomorrow. I had it all planned out. I wanted to kill myself
because I was sure you didn't like me, even though I tried hard to be good. Now
that's all changed..."
on
a lighter note
According to a news report, a certain private school in Victoria recently was faced with a unique problem. A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom. That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints. Every night, the maintenance man would remove them and the next day, the girls would put them back. Finally the principal decided that something had to be done. She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man. She explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night.
To
demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked the
maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required. He took out a
long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and cleaned the mirror with it.
Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror. There are teachers, and
then there are educators.
In
Katherine Gordy Levine's book "Parents Are People Too: An Emotional Fitness
Program for Parents," she talks about doing a body scan a few times a day so you
make yourself aware of the physical changes your body goes through on the way to
feeling stressed.
You
imagine a scanner taking a look at your body from head to toe. For example,
sitting here now I have a slight ache in my temples, my mouth is dry and the
middle of my back is vaguely uncomfortable. Been at the keyboard for too long
and the water jug ran out an hour or so back. Easily remedied.
If
I was to do the scan when I was starting to feel stressed it would be something
like this: my breathing would be faster, my heartbeat would be a bit quicker and
stronger, there would be a tight feeling across my shoulders and my jaw would be
a little tighter.
Try
it a few times a day and soon you will be able to recognise those changes that
occur in your body as the stress starts to build. Pick up on the early signs and
use some breathing or similar techniques to avoid the fire-breathing monster
appearing.
When
it comes to breathing practice, we have the basic ten minute trainer for
re-learning diaphragmatic breathing in the library, and this is worth it’s
weight in gold if you are stressed, a worrier, your energy levels are low, or
even going through a spell of feeling depressed. Once you have done this
practice for a variable period, you’ll discover how the benefits spill out
throughout your day and evenings too. Oxygen is a multi-purpose drug that can
relax you better than any medication, and energise you better than any
medication.
But
let’s assume that you have done sufficient practice to be able to recognise when
your breathing rate has speeded up, or you have tripped back into upper chest
breathing. Now you can correct it by simply slowing and deepening your breathing
wherever you are, standing, sitting or lying.
Now
you are competent, why leave it at that? You can add other modules to breathing
that will enhance it, and allow you to use your normal breathing for a huge
range of other purposes. One simple example is using breathing to relax down, by
blocking off monkey mind chatter – the conscious mind traffic – by slotting in a
very simple seesaw mantra. As you breathe in think "re" to yourself but stretch
it like elastic to fill the span of the inhalation and as you breathe out
stretch "-lax" in the same manner. It becomes a specific instruction to
subconscious as well as a means of blocking out the racing and distracting
thoughts that keep restressing you just at the moment you want to
unwind.
Or
you can become ultra playful and add in sounds and pictures and just about
anything else that works for you. Here are a few simple ideas:If
traffic problems cause you to be stressed, then try this: Breathe in calm -->
Breathe
out tension
Troubled
by information overload: Breathe in order --> Breathe out
chaos
Not
feeling well? Breathe in healing --> Breathe out
disease
Simply
construct an image or sound or feeling that matches your need and test it out.
If it doesn’t work immediately, don’t give up but try adjusting your construct
to see what happens. I know that if I get the sort of tension, I’m experiencing
now from sitting too long at a screen, I can deal with it in under three minutes
by using colour and temperature, and breathing cool ice blue into my skull, and
dirty warmed murky blue out.
Find
a purpose and experiment. You can’t do any harm so let yourself stretch your
spirit of adventure and exploration.
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Here are five key values practiced
and lived by big dreamers. I call these Principles for Living On Purpose. Add
more of any one of these to your life and with your team, and you are guaranteed
to see results, including happier people and a more profitable business They
include: setting an intention, living with integrity, sharing your dreams,
taking action, and building Dream Teams.
1. Intention - It is the setting
of your intention that will allow wonderful resources, opportunities and people
to show up to support you. You have to be clear, I mean crystal clear, about
where you are going, the end result you are aiming for. What do you intend to
do, create or accomplish?
When should you set an intention? You may be
surprised by my response. You could set an intention every day, even every
moment of each day. Do you intend to live on purpose? Do you intend to learn and
grow? Do you intend to be loving and kind? Here are some times to consider
setting an intention: Before you go to sleep, intend to rest. Before you open
your eyes, intend to have a quiet and focused mind. Before you get out of bed,
intend to have a fun and productive day. Before you eat breakfast, or any meal,
intend to taste and enjoy it.
Before you leave the house, intend to have
a heartfelt moment with your family. Before you start your car, intend to have a
safe ride or walk to work. Before you dive into work, intend to learn something
new and be successful.
And so on. The operative word here is before. You
set an intention and then you take action. These are simple intentions. We also
want to have deeper, meaningful intentions about how we live our lives. How do
you intend to feel every day? How do you intend to express your love? How do you
intend to express your creativity? How do you intend to have fun, to make a
contribution, to take a risk? How do you intend to live?
2. Integrity -
If you were to survey big dreamers and successful people on the qualities that
they value most, at the top of the list is usually integrity. Keeping your word
and delivering on your promises is essential. When you have cleaned up your past
and are free to move forward, not only are your dreams more attainable, they are
richer, deeper and more rewarding. You have the opportunity to honestly assess
your entire life and to become more alive than you ever imagined. Through simple
steps, you can free your past and make room in the present, so you can dream and
live the life you long for. Learn the process that deals with truth, honour and
your word as your bond, and you will experience ease and shortcuts on your
dreams. This principal, best summed up as maintaining integrity, is the very
essence of a true living dreamer. I know I have integrity when I have peace of
mind. There are no skeletons in my closet, no incompletion weighing heavily on
my shoulders. I am simply saying that when life flows with ease and grace, we
can trust that we are in the right place, at the right time, but more
importantly than that, we are living with integrity.
Integrity comes in
many forms and fashions, but has to do with wholeness. Are you whole, are you
complete, and is your life intact? Are your relationships whole, complete and
intact? How about your health, your finances, your home, your car, your heart?
Integrity is essential not only to being a dreamer, but also to your well being.
If you are indeed intentional and committed to living a life of joy, ease and
abundance, a life filled with love, generosity and contribution, integrity is a
must. All the money in the world will be worthless without it, and with all the
people in the world you may still feel lonely, if you are not and can not be
true to yourself.
A building cannot stand without integrity, a car cannot
drive without it, and you certainly cannot have the life of your dreams without
it.
For this reason, it's useful to see where your life is working and
perhaps where it is stuck, clogged or shutdown. I will show you how to take a
simple inventory. This will help you become clear about where you are and what's
working or not working in your life, so you can make powerful choices about what
you do and don't want.
The difference between where you are and where you
want to be will reveal simple steps that need to be taken. But this powerful
process of exploring what's been left unsaid, undone or incomplete in your life
is one of the most awesome things you can do to have freedom and access to your
dreams.
I have an extremely potent and unbelievably simple approach to
help you do this. But don't be deceived by its apparent simplicity. This
assignment, if undertaken completely and with full integrity, meaning to the
best of your true ability, may be the most profound thing you have ever done in
your life. And once you clean house (including mind, body and car) there is a
big payoff. You will experience tremendous peace of mind and greater ease in
your life while accomplishing your new dreams.
Once you've done this,
it's complete and maintenance is easy. You do not need to go back to being the
"old you" or creating more skeletons in your closets. Transformation means you
have changed and are living a different kind of life. Once you complete your
incompletions, and practice not creating new ones, you will know the sweet taste
of freedom beyond anything you have ever experienced.
The Completion
Inventory: Here are the three simple steps.
1) Ask yourself what's
incomplete here and write it down.
2) Ask yourself what do you need to do to
complete this, and write that down.
3) Complete what's incomplete.
The
areas I recommend you visit should include but not be limited to are: your
health, your body, your spirit, your mind, your work, your home, your
relationships, your car, your legal matters, medical issues, taxes, insurance.
You get the idea.
That's it. When you finish, you will have a list, long
or short of things you need to do to live in integrity. With each item you check
off your list, you'll feel lighter and freer. You'll gain more clarity about
yourself, your values and your truth. You'll find your authentic voice, make
better decisions, pursue bigger dreams and sleep better at night.
3.
Share Your Dream - With newfound clarity (from your intention) and newfound
freedom (from living with integrity) the world is your oyster. Now when you
speak about your dream or vision, there will be nothing in your way. People will
relate to you differently because you will feel different about yourself. You
can move forward with confidence, knowing that you can trust yourself and
therefore, others can trust you. With clarity and focus you will speak about
your dream with a whole new level of passion. You will feel it in every cell of
your body, and you will be aligned. Passionate living is when we align our head
and heart through our actions. This is also another form of integrity. There are
many ways you can share your dream. The most important thing is that you find
your voice. A visionary is someone with a vision or a dream. But a visionary
also articulates their dream with such clarity that others understand what it is
and with such passion that others want to participate with them. A visionary
inspires with greater purpose.
And a visionary brings voice to their
vision. "A visionary becomes a true leader, when they can communicate the
vision, " Dick DeVos, the President of Amway Corporation told me during a recent
interview. They let their dream be heard and have impact. Sometimes it is a
popular message and sometimes they are one lone voice. Regardless, they hold
true to what they believe in, to what inspires them, and they bring it alive in
the world through their convictions, words and of course, actions.
There
is a reason the throat lies between our head and heart. True communications asks
us to feel what matters to us and what we are passionate about, and then to
process it into thoughts and ideas. When you express your heart's desire through
words and language, others can share it and become a part of it.
It is
through language, the what we say, when we say it, and most importantly, how we
say it, which connects us with others and creates amazing outcomes.
4.
Take action - When all is said and done, it is essential that you put everything
you have learned into action. Although words are powerful, they are not enough.
Actions speak even louder than words. You must take the necessary steps forward
by taking action; get mobile and get going.
It is through the steps you
do take, that you can actually see what you have learned, the progress you are
making, where you are stuck and where you need help. Without action, we are
"just" dreamers. And without progress we may simply be day dreaming or
fantasizing, accomplishing nothing. It is what you do, that actually
demonstrates to you and others, that you are not just talking about your dreams
and they are not casual flights of fancy. Taking action is power. People judge
us much more based on what we do, not just what we say.
This may sound so
simple, perhaps even understated, but to not mention it and emphasize the
importance of it would make this process incomplete. What actions will you or
are you taking to move your dream forward? What are you doing to make your
dreams real? Specifically, what are you doing to create a dream come true
life?
In my work, I always ask people to create a "WOW." Within One Week,
what's a powerful step you will take to catapult your dream forward? Big
dreamers take many steps every single day as they are constantly and
continuously in action on their dreams.
What's one thing you could do
today, right now, to demonstrate your commitment to your dream? One call, one
email, one conversation that you can have today? Everything changes when you
take action.
5. Build Dream Teams - Once you are clear about what you
want to accomplish and you speak about your goals clearly, you will begin to
experience the ease and joy that comes from sharing your dream with others. The
single most powerful thing you can to realize your dream and shortcut the
process is to build Dream Teams. Find like-minded people who share your dreams,
values and integrity, and you will be unstoppable.
And as your family
watches you move into action on the dreams that you have been talking about, or
thinking about, and as they watch you joyfully produce life-changing results,
even some of your most hard core sceptics may have a change of heart. Build
awesome Dream Teams. Begin with one person who believes in you and your dream.
Then seek out others. Inspire them with your vision and passion. Show them you
are serious through the action you take every day. Invite the to join you as you
encourage them to dream bigger dreams. Even with an existing team or down line,
you can re-ignite passion and produce far better results when you begin to
operate as a Dream Team. When we connect our financial goals to our dreams and
desires, the energy for achieving our goals becomes much more dynamic and
meaningful. This is the power of going for your dreams and sharing them with
your team.
The world needs your dreams. It's never been a better time to
take a stand for what matters to you most. Stand up, speak out and be heard.
Your dreams matter and will impact the lives of many people. Be generous with
what you value, for this too is a form of integrity and intention.
Marcia
Wieder motivational speaker, specializing in goal setting, visionary thinking
and team building.
Due to popular demand Carl is going to run the EFT course again. This time it will be held at Bexley RSL, so if any of you are interested let him know as again he is limiting the numbers to 10. It will be on Sunday the 2nd and 9th of June (10am to 3pm). Carl’s contact details are Carl (02) 95992703, Sareliuscjsarelius@ihug.com.au
Also a few of us are doing another EFT and
PROVOCATIVE ENERGY THERAPY course with David Lake and Steve Wells at the end of
May. If you are interested I can send you details and if anybody would like to
be included we have negotiated a discount price as we are going as a group.
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