Increasing Your Knowledge

I woke up this morning and wondered, "what will I learn today?"

Each day is an opportunity to increase your knowledge of the world.

With each experience there is something to be learned. And that something is different for everyone.

For instance, I had an appointment to have my teeth cleaned the other day. I realize that people have many different emotions about sitting in the dentist chair. Well, it doesn't bother me so I sit down and open my mouth. What I learned is that I was missing brushing some teeth and I was paying attention to where those areas were.

I said something about missing some spots and the hygienist was surprised that I was paying attention so that I could improve my brushing. She said that most people were just interested in the office gossip and she wished more people would pay attention and at least floss once in a while.

I took what I learned that day and have been using the information ever since to make sure that I don't gather plaque and tartar on my teeth. I see that as a pretty important lesson. Without your teeth and your feet, where would you be? Couldn't smile or eat and with out feet you can't get around that well, so both are pretty important.

Look around each day and see what you can learn. It could have a small impact on your life or it could bring about profound change in you.

Learn to be happy and thankful, to help others to feel better. And in doing so it will also make you a better person. Try to give out at least 3 compliments a day. After a while it gets addicting and I'll bet you can't stop with just 3.

Be the light in your world and light will be returned. Be the happiness in your world and happiness will be returned. Be the love in your world and love will be returned.

All of these things will return to you in threefold if they are shared from the heart.

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Time to let go

Sometimes life has it's little twists and turns.

It seems there's a surprise around every corner and all of them are not so pleasant.

There comes a time in life that a person needs to take a look around them. A really close look. At the people, the environment, the way something feels.

Are the people around you nurturing you in any way shape or form? Is the environment healthy and how about the way it feels?

All of us are looking for something better in our life. More money, a better relationship, kids that behave and show some respect, Stay young for ever (oops, did I slip that one in?).

It is true. The thing is that these are major changes. You can keep looking for change or you can step your foot out and make a move towards change. You need to be the change you are looking for, Because if you aren't, the change will NEVER happen

Life is short. But it is much to long if you are living in someones Else's nightmare.

And so there comes a time to let go. To understand that there are some environments that are just unhealthy and uncomfortable. There are just some people that are not willing to do their part. With those individuals all you can do is put forth just as much effort as they do. Eventually every thing "shakes out".

Letting go can be something that takes a while to do, or it can happen in an instant depending on what the situation is.

It is a release from being directly related emotionally to that place, person, or thing. To be able to say, "isn't that interesting" without allowing that item to change the structure of your emotions. To be interested but detached from the out-come.

Letting go.....it seems pretty simple. I'm here to tell you that it is not. There were many things in my life that I could not let go of. One of them was a relationship that was abusive mentally. I found that the more I worked on my own self, the clearer the picture became and the letting go began.

Put up the big stop sign on the people and things that take advantage or hurt you. Draw a line in the sand and let everyone know what you will tolerate and that you have choices. This will get you on the path to the mind set that you can change your life.

We all have choices. Make a choice today to be happy and healthy in your life, relationships and the way you choose to live.

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Are you a Bird of a Different Feather?

I was driving down the road the other day and I noticed that there were several birds on the electrical wires over head. A whole row of them and they all looked exactly the same. I knew that if one took off they all would.

Well I don't know if it was my thought but something startled the birds and all of them took off like I thought......Except for one bird. It looked just like every other bird but it stood out in the fact that it was a bird that didn't follow suit of the other birds.

As long as I could see the bird and the wire, it remained where it was. I wondered why only one bird decided to stay when the others all "flew the coop"?

Already I liked this bird. I have never been one to follow the lead of some else. I have always preferred to take things at my own pace and ponder them on my own time. I guess you can say that I have never been a follower.

I figured that this bird had different plans for the day. Maybe it wasn't time to go find a worm or go for a "joy fly". At any rate it was apparent to me that this bird was making it's own decisions and it was living life the way it choose to live it.

How many people do you know that just follow along and take off when the "other birds" take off? Hoping to find that one thing that will work and not really showing very much ingenuity.

Sometimes you need to take a different course, one of your own choosing, maybe one that nobody else is taking.

Follow your instincts and go for it. you won't regret it.

You will be a Bird of a Different Feather

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Advertising Optimism?

What's with all the optimism in advertising?

Have they read the recent job-less report?

Seems the Giant Advertisers are on a path to convince all of us that we are in a full and total recovery.

The advertisers are using commercials to get it out to a broad audiance that our nation is out of hot water.

Huge dollars are being spent by the big companies to radiate well being in our country today. Trying to convice large numbers of people to go out and let loose of some of the cash they are hording.

The "campaign of optimism" was being worked on back as far as last spring. Advertisers are betting that people are tired of the bad economy and are ready to hear about some good news. By delivering that good news they are hoping to change the mood of the consumer.

What the big companies and advertisers don't seem to understand is that until banks start lending money, big companies start hiring employees and consumers start spending there is not going to be any fuel on the fire of the economic recovery.

A Majority of the people in this country are reliant on a job. They depend on someone needing them to work for the cash they earn.

A Minority of the people in this country are self reliant and depend on only their self for their survival. These are the people that are making the economy work for them. If you would like to be one of these people visit the rest of my blog and visit:

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It's all in Perspective

It could no longer be avoided, the house keeping that is.

Because of the size of our house I knew I would be at it all day and into the evening. I wanted to make it a little more interesting so I started at the other end of the house.

When we built our house almost 3 years ago, we were involved in everything from framing to all of the little last minute details. I have been the head house keeper and chef since that time.

So I headed into the bathroom to scrub, clean and "slave away". It was brighter because it was afternoon instead of morning. I started with the bath tub and as I started to scrub I spotted what I thought was a scratch (EEEEK) but upon closer examination I discovered that it was paint that got there when they build the house and I have never noticed it before. I used a little elbow grease and thankfully it came off with no problem.

So how did I miss that? Well, I just needed to change my perspective, the light did that for me. It made me start thinking I could change my own perspective to make things more visible or just to see something a different way.

The light was the key, as it could be for so many people that need to shift into a different perspective.

I decided I was going to do a total shift and instead of thinking "UGH! Housework" I thought to myself what a beautiful house we have and it is such a pleasure to clean in and enjoy the sparkles.

I have the most beautiful kitchen and what a pleasure it is to prepare a meal in. We have been blessed with food that is healthy and I am able to prepare a balanced meal, there are many people that go without food or the food they have is not healthy.

What is your perspective?

Shift to positive and see that your entire world will have more light, more peace, more beauty, and more love.

Solutions to problems are easy to find when you shift your perspective and look for a positive solution instead of dwelling on the problem and how bad it is or could be.

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Consistency Pays off

We are in our favorite place in the world.

Our house in the high desert has 12 1/2 acres. The environment is dry, sunny, warm. The soothing smell of the sage puts us in a relaxed mood and also opens up the creative channels.

When we are at home break times consist of going out to the back deck and sit outside away from the computer screen. When we are here in Redmond it consists of grabbing a 9 or for me an 8 iron, heading out to our "shooting platform", grabbing a few golf balls out of the bucket and shooting for the round pen in the back pasture. Very good way to clear the brain out.

So I am working but watching Gordon taking his break outside on the "shooting platform", doing what he does to enjoy himself. He has no idea he is being watched, he's just doing his thing.

I notice each time he does the same thing, consistently. He picks up a ball places it on the mat, adjusts his grip, puts the club head down next to the ball, focuses and twitches a few times and then he pulls the trigger nice and smooth. Ends his swing with his navel to the ball and he gets the results he was looking for, BULLS EYE right into the round pen. He would have landed the green for sure.

To get those positive results he was consistent each time with what he did. If he missed it a bit, he adjusted and tweaked what he thought would work until I was watching him time after time hit his mark. He didn't give up when he missed a few times, he just fixed a few things and tried again.

That's what makes him the person that he is. He is a Leader, a consistent, patient person who knows what it takes to succeed. His mind set is that he can accomplish anything that he puts his mind to because he will consistenly set about to do what he knows needs to be done to get to where he wants to be. He "works backwards" meaning that he knows what he wants so from there he works backwards to where he is and figures out steps along the way that will get him to what he wants, consistently adjusting and moving forward all along the way, until BULLS EYE happens because he KNOWS it will.

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How are you growing?

I was in the yard this weekend admiring the way the yard looked. The garden is getting to the end and it will be time to take it down soon.

I walked over by the fire pit and looked at the decorative grass growing in the planter right next to it.

We had the entire landscape done about two years ago and it was all put in at the same time. I loved the decorative grass but I noticed that two out of the three were much bigger.

I thought this was interesting. All of the grasses have received the same water, the same amount of sun. They get fed and fertilized the exact same way. So why were two of them so much bigger? The smaller one wasn't diseased at all, it looked just as healthy as the larger ones.

It made me wonder why some people just seem to stay in the same place year after year, never seeming to grow in any way. We all have the same chance in life to make something happen and to move forward. Yet there always seems to be someone you have known at one point in your life that seems to be in a time warp.

It isn't always easy or comfortable to grow and to get what you need. Maybe if this little plant had grown faster then it would be able to grab it's portion of the sunshine.

Each time you delay, another moment passes where no action is taken and soon everyone around you will be bigger and will eventually block out the sun. Making it harder for you to gain back what you need to go forward.

DON'T GET BEHIND, Catching up is hard to do. Do something today to move forward and make your life better. The more time you waste procrastinating could be time that spent moving forward. Find out how we managed to break free at

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What you believe can change your life

Everything starts with a belief.

If you just waited for change it would never come because of two things

Lack of action and a lack of belief

In order for you to change anything you must first take action and make something happen. When you do that you will have a belief that it will work and you will start to see the change you are looking for.

The change will not come without you leading the way. No body will create the change that you want. You alone have the ability to activate your creativity.

When you believe in what you are trying to accomplish, that will get you one step closer to what you want to attain.

When you go to the doctor and he writes you a prescription. You leave the doctors office with a belief that the prescription for the medication will help what ails you. If you didn’t believe then you wouldn’t go to the pharmacy, pay money for the medicine and then take it. Part of your healing is your own belief that you will be healed with the medicine that has been prescribed. That faith will lead you on the road to healing.

Belief in yourself will lead you in the direction that you are looking to go. Surround yourself with people that believe in you, support is a priceless commodity and should never be taken for granted.

The people that you don’t need in your life are the “dream breakers” They like to tell you that your dreams are “crazy” and will “get you no where”.

Look to see where these people are going. Many of them are just sitting in the same place they were 10 years ago. Chances are that they broke their own dreams and now the “dream breakers” are on a mission to keep everyone in their broken dream life creating doubt and rejecting new ideas.

They do it in disguise, saying they want what is best for you, or that they just worry about you. In reality they are afraid that you will move on when you accomplish what you set out to do and they will have less control, because you will believe that you can do anything you set your mind to.

They have a lack of that belief and an unwillingness to do what is necessary to move forward.
It is not easy gathering people around that will allow their dreams to be broken

SO HOW WILL THEY EVER REPLACE YOU?

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Piggy Bank look skinnier?

It isn't your imagination, your piggy bank has lost weight .

Americans are feeling the effects of a shrinking paycheck. We are not just making a decision to stay home on the last weekend of the season or choosing to cut back on school supplies. We Americans are experiencing the feeling of being "cautious"

The growth in our wages has all but stopped in the past 6 months.

Figure this one out: Wages have grown in the private sector by 1.3 percent but inflation is running 2 percent. Factor that in with the lost contributions to your 401 K (maybe it is a 201 K or a 101 K at this time) and the new ways that employers are finding to cut back.

Does the word "furlough" mean anything to you. That is when your employer closes the business and you get unpaid unplanned leave. This decreases the average workers income another 2 percent per year.

WE ARE LOOSING GROUND FASTER THAN WE CAN TURN AROUND!

Not to mention the employees that are working overtime and not getting compensated and the employees that are working off the clock. The government is failing to enforce the laws so we are living in a lawless land where employment is concerned.

We need to worry about the ways that these companies are restructuring and saving money because it is directly affecting the American people.

Quit sending our jobs over seas. Pay us for the work we do. With the current situation the middle class will cease to exist.

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Together you accomplish more.

This weekend was a fabulous weekend to give our self a break. We needed it. Together we accomplished more relaxation than we would have if we would have been relaxing alone.

The way I figure, We were using the same amount of time but there were two of us doing the activity of "relaxation" so in the same time frame there was two of us working on it, hence more relaxation at one time.

I think we did a better job at it than if we would have alone. I have the evidence of this picture. We are relaxing and having fun.

The weather could have been drier for a tent camping trip but that didn't bother us either. Want to know why? There was two of us working on the problem together, so we only had to think half as much.

We were multi-tasking as well. When one of us was busy relaxing, the other was taking care of business. That way there was someone relaxing the ENTIRE time. <=0) It made for a great time.

One reason to go out there and rough it for the weekend is that you appreciate home when you get there so much, I'm dreaming about the silky smooth sheets and the soft bed right now.

I feel twice as rested than ever.

What a great weekend!!