"All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now."
Pearl S. Buck
Patricia Fripp once said to me, “Craig, people will not remember what you say as much as they will remember what they see when you say it.” In other words, we have to make our speeches very visual in order to have the deepest impact. Here are 4 ways to accomplish this:
"We're face-to-face with our destiny. And we must meet it with a high, resolute courage, for ours is a life of action, of strenuous performance, of duty. Let us live in the harness of striving mightily. Let us run the risk of wearing out rather than rusting out."
- Theodore Roosevelt
FCBD 2009 was a hit, as over 2,000 other comic book shops worldwide opened their doors and gave away more than 2 million comic books to readers of all ages. A record number of public and school libraries participated this year, attracting patrons and promoting the pleasure of reading. (full story)
The Authors of “The Power of Small” Share a Few Small Tips That Can Add Up to Big Savings
Let’s face it. Right now, times are tough and we’re all looking for little ways to save in our day to day routines. Although saving an extra $100 a month sounds like a lofty goal in an economic climate where every penny counts, we know it’s easier than you think. As the authors of the new book, THE POWER OF SMALL: Why Little Things Make All the Difference, we’ve made a valuable discovery. The secret to attaining your biggest goals is to take one tiny step at a time.
Instead of making one big change, such as cancelling your cable or giving up eating in restaurants entirely, we believe that these painless modifications to your current spending patterns will help you easily net that extra $1200 a year.
So, how can you get started? Try out these eight tips to save an extra hundred bucks this month:
http://genxfinance.com/2009/04/29/8-small-changes-you-can-make-to-save-an-extra-100-this-month/
Tim Wilson makes a short but very valid point about the questions to ask while speaking so that you can connect with the audience.
http://speakingquicktips.blogspot.com/2008/07/power-of-moment.html
We all have the best intentions when it comes to losing weight.
This time, it's going to be different. After all our past attempts,
we have finally learned every lesson the hard way. This time, we
are going to stay on track, lose that extra weight, and keep it off
for good.
Be honest with yourself- you've gone through this before. You've
given yourself this pep talk every time you plan another weight
loss battle.
Maybe you've even kick- started your motivation by planning a diet
and joining a gym. You've learned to examine everything on the menu
and find the most health- conscious choice. You'll definitely order
it next time, but today, you'll make the occasional splurge.
You bought new workout clothes, and found a way to squeeze a gym
routine into your already packed schedule. You'll start that
routine as soon as the rest of your life settles down a little bit,
or when you're feeling better.
You have the best intentions, you really do, but losing this weight
is always harder than you remembered. But you still want to lose
the weight and get in shape, it's just that you just can't make it
your first priority in every single social or professional
situation.
As you keep trying to lose the weight, you've gotten better at it,
too. You've learned how to take off those first few pounds, and
keep them off for quite a while.
You've been going to the gym or working out at home regularly, and
you're feeling energized. You're even beginning to see results from
all of your work outs.
After keeping up this routine for a few weeks, or maybe even a
couple of months, your weight loss goals seem more attainable than
ever. You're doing so well, that you deserve a break.
You decide to take it easy, just for a few days, a week at the
most. You revert to some of your old eating habits, and you skip
the workouts. Before you know it, you're right back to where you
started.
What does it take to really lose the weight forever? You have all
of the information you need, you have access to every diet and
workout plan imaginable, and you can find a weight loss expert on
every TV channel, website, and in every bookstore, so weight loss
success should be easy and attainable for everyone.
What all of these plans fail to recognize is that you need guidance
to get you through the long haul. It's easy to stay motivated in
the beginning, before the demands of the weight loss process start
to take their toll.
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Her Mother's Face
by Roddy Doyle
“Her mother had died when Siobhán was only three.” In this quiet story set in Dublin, a girl is left with a father so sad he never speaks to her about her mother. By the time she is 10, Siobhán can no longer remember her mother’s face; it’s an “empty space” that causes painful unhappiness. One day, Siobhán meets a beautiful woman who recognizes the girl’s sadness and listens to her story.
Read more ... and get the activities ..., or buy the book either from Amazon or from an Australian outlet.
"Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means to meet ourselves in a new way -- in the newness of each moment where all is possible and nothing is limited to the old."
-- Stephen Levine
We can transform painful memories by re-imagining them from the soul’s perspective of love and meaning.
Andrew Schneider says that all experiences have the purpose of serving the soul. An experience in the past blocked us because our fear at the time distorted our perception of what happened. To transform this limiting experience, we must bring what was then unconscious into the soul’s realm through consciousness.
We can do this by following these steps:
1. RECALL the past experience that might inhibit us.
2. OWN the experience (no judgment, blame, etc.).
3. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for it and the consequences (i.e., the experience was determined by my subjective perception of what occurred, dictated by my lack of wholeness -- specifically my fears).
4. GIVE IT MEANING (the soul was attempting to gain some kind of mastery or skill, but we didn’t know that at the time).
5. RE-IMAGINE it from the perspective of soul consciousness (showing its higher purpose).
The Soul Journey – a 6 e-book program by Andrew Schneider – an in-depth, practical guide to healing the personality and developing soul consciousness. Take a journey through the traps of ego. A journey through consciousness. A journey into a life of meaning, purpose, joy and service. Are you ready for the journey of your life?
Who Is Mark Twain?
By Mark Twain
Hardcover, 240 pages
HarperStudio
List Price: $19.99
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EnlargeMark Twain published more than a dozen books and hundreds of shorter pieces during his lifetime. Getty Images
Best known for crowd-pleasers like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and for his lucrative speaking tours, Mark Twain was a writer whose livelihood depended on maintaining enough down-home affability to appeal to the masses. Yet as we see in Who Is Mark Twain?, a new collection of previously unpublished writings, he fantasized constantly about the freedom death would bring.
Among the writings left behind at Twain's death in 1910, at age 74 — in his "large box of Posthumous Stuff" — were squibs, rants, unfinished essays and his most heretical and passionate work, Letters From The Earth, a satirical attack on Christianity so scathing that his daughter forbade its publication until the 1960s. ... more
