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Serendipities! "Then the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth ... " (Genesis 8:11 NKJV).I like to think of the serendipities of life as new leaves. Imagine the surprise and relief, the joy and wonder, Noah felt when the dove came back with a new leaf. It meant new life for Noah and his family. Many w ...7 Steps to Building a Successful Business Building wealth requires following a proven system to help guide you on your journey. Following a proven system considerably increases your odds of winning big.There are seven steps to wealth creation that will help you conquer any defeat and rise to the top.Wealth Creation Tip #1: Associate with successful people.Associat ...The 5 Fortunes Within What could be nearer to us than our own selves. What could be a greater fortune to discover than our own love. When you can accept yourself just as you are, with all your warts and wrinkles, with all those extra tucks of fat, with all those scars and blemishes, with all your broken promises and misadventures, then, and only then, can you begin ...Be Kind to the Kin "Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you" (Ephesians 4:32); "...He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked" (Luke 6:35c).Loving someone is sometimes the easy part; it is the living with someone that turns our heart into sour mash that becomes bitter and unpalatable. This admonition to ...The Road Not Taken Robert Frost has always been one of my favorite poets. And one of my favorite Frost poems is The Road Not Taken.Here are some excerpts from that poem:Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could . . .Two roads diverg ...The First Key to Getting What You Want I was listening to an interview with a well-known Internet marketer who said that the number one question his clients ask him is: What is the one thing that I can do that will guarantee my success?No matter where we are on the road to our success, often times lost on a detour away from it, we always want to know if there's one, and we hop ...Time For whatever reason, I often find inspiration for these newsletters at the local post office. Don't ask me why -- I have no idea. But I hear the most interesting conversations from the people in my little mountain town while they're visiting the post office. I'm not eavesdropping -- it's just such a small place, you can't help overhearing the fo ...On Spread I’ve been giving much thought lately to “spread,” or to the impact I’m having on those around me. Most days find me frustrated that I don’t have very much of it, feeling that once I’m gone, my legacy won’t be large enough, that enough lives won’t have been positively affected by my having been here, and that I won’t have had the effect that I al ...Gems #2 From 1919:***Lest we think the folks didn’t know about tobacco years ago: "Tobacco injures heart, nerves, stomach and eyesight. Tobacco ruins the sexual system and causes cancer of lip, tongue and throat. Any form of tobacco habit may be easily, inexpensively overcome with nature's antidote, a pleasant Florida root I accidentally discover ...Making Money Online - Viral Marketing Secrets As an Internet Marketer the lifeblood of your business is traffic. If you do not have visitors to your site then your business is effectively dead and worthless. You need to continuously drive new visitors to your site and keep people coming back.There are a multitude of different ways to do this, some of which are free, some of which w ...Dare To Dream What is a dream? According to Wikipedia, A dream is the experience of envisioned images, voices, or other sensations during sleep. However we are not talking about dreaming while we sleep now, we are talking about dreaming while we are awake and concious. We are talking about imagine and visualize what is our future scene looks like. Basically d ...Use It or Lose It! "To the man who has, more will be given; and he who has not, will lose even the little he thinks he has" (Luke 8:18).This certainly seems unfair. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Perhaps Jesus is telling us here that truth that is not understood and made applicable in our lives will be lost. The proverb, "If you don't use it, ...Life's Trade Offs Today - you will make dozens of decisions.Today - you will receive the consequences of previous decisions.Tomorrow - you will make more decisions.Tomorrow - you will inherit the outcome of yesterday’s decisions.Every time you make a trade-off you are learning the importance of making better choices now, so you can cr ...Cashing In: The (Over?) Abundance of New Poker Books Since 2000 (a number somewhat arbitrarily chosen) there has been a plethora of poker books released. There are, in a nutshell, two different categories that all of these books can be categorized under. These categories being strategy and 'non-fiction'. Obviously strategy books are 'non-fiction', but I am describing books that either tell a st ...Everyday is a Gift, Open and Enjoy It There is a bottle of perfume sitting on my dresser that I was given when I was ten years old! As you can tell I have pack rat tendencies! For me that pattern started as a young child. I could never bear to throw things away. There was more to it than not wanting to throw things away. I loved the feeling I had when I would receive something new, ... People Who Give You Angst Have A Gift For You Have you wondered why it seems that the same type person shows up in your life—the person who gives you the most angst, a.k.a. difficult people? This person could be your neighbor, boss, colleague, service provider, someone on a committee you are on, etc.Metaphysically, we are here to learn and grow spiritually and emotionally. In order ...Learning from Sport - Don't be Afraid to Question What You Do In the run-up to Christmas a programme on television reminded me of a story that I had heard before. It was all about an event that started on Christmas Eve in 1914.World War I had started. British and German troops had been locked in a terrible conflict and were fighting from the trenches. But as Christmas approached the guns fell sil ...Save Time By Creating Email "Signature Templates" If you're like me, there are certain types of email that you send out regularly that follow a set form (client follow up notes, meeting notes, email article submission, etc). These can be irritating to have to recreate from scratch every time, but the tried and true method of creating a seperate document-file template, then sending that out as a ...Great Quotes: "Sometimes, You Have To Go A Long Distance Out Of Your Way" “How did you see your path in life so early?” I’ve been asked, a number of times.If I have, or if it seems I have, it’s probably because I read widely, and various insights and quotations stick with me, and I’ve used them for guidance.One of them comes from the Edward Albee play: “The Zoo Story.”Jerry, a key character, is le ...Inspirational Historical Thoughts on Justice We live in a period of massive exposure to information of all sorts and types. While information is important in an effort to evaluate the circumstances confronting us on a personal and world wide basis, the manipulation of information has led to the twisting or at least obfuscation of the true measure of powerful words. Put simply, sound bites ...Are We There Yet? In a recent disaster, a man was asked why he would keep searching for a loved one, even when he knew there was little hope of any survivors. He was told repeatedly, the chances of finding anyone still alive were very slim.The man replied, "I don't want to wake up five years from now and ask - what if? What if I had only done this or that? ...Her Daughter Needs Help I was wearing my uniformly cool, if not frosty expression as I caught a glimpse of the woman who had stationed herself outside of the supermarket’s automatic door.What is it this time? I wondered: Girl Scout cookies? A fundraiser? Or is this just another street person?Gosh, I was getting so tired of saying yes and no, of having to ...Motivated And Inspired To Find God When was the last time you found yourself really motivated to find God? When did you have finding God on your top ten list of things to do? When was making a search for the God of your dreams a top priority? When was the last time you felt inspired to search for God?You need to get motivated to find God. You need to understand how import ...Give Your Life Meaning and Purpose As I look around, I see many who almost seem robotic as they go about their every days. They get up, get dressed, go to work, sit in their offices, come home, watch TV, go to bed, and get up and do it all over again. Days turn into weeks, which turn into months, which turn into years. Soon they’re asking themselves ‘What happened to my life?’ ...Things I Wish I Had Always Known What an exciting journey life can be! We were taught so many things growing up, to be polite, to respect others, to go to school and get good grades. We weren’t taught some very important things, probably because they are only learned through the school of “hard knocks.” I must have been absent that day but life lessons and challenges present ...Bring Your Dreams Into Reality By Acting As If "I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me." --Cary GrantRecently a prospective client told me a little story. He had attended a party in his industry, that is, the industry, he wants to be successful in. As he drove there, he began feeling jitters and a general sense that he did ...Where Are You Going This Year? "The world stands aside to let him pass who knows where he is going" - David Starr Jordan.The year was ushered in with great jubilation as is always the tradition. It is always exciting seeing a new year and the excitement is understandable. But once the euphoria is gone, the question should be, "What next?" Most people forget to ask this ...Precious Memories! “Let us not forget” (Deuteronomy 4:9).What a gift we have with a good memory! Without memory, we would be unable to recall the many blessings we have received from both God and man. It also helps to keep in mind that we would lose our mind if we were not in Jesus' mind. It is this precious capability that enables us to accumulate and appl ...The Littlest God Here is one of my favourite inspirational tales. Read on ...It was not long after the Gods had created humankind that they very soon realised that they had made a huge mistake. The creatures that they had created were so adept, so skilful, so full of curiosity and the spirit of enquiry that it was only a matter of time before they would s ...The Greatest is Love And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love ( 1 Corinthians 13:13 NKJV).Faith: Without it, there would be no Christianity, or any other religion in the world for that matter. We talk of coming to faith in Christ, living a life of faith, and often laud those in Scripture and in modern times who are known ...
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