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Issue 343 - December 26, 2007
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"Remember always that you have not only the right
to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any
useful contribution in life unless you do this." Eleanor Roosevelt
Today's issue includes:
1. Your Achievement Article - 7 Keys for Joyful Living
by Chris Widener
2. Your Achievement Quotes - Priorities, Love and Procrastination
3. Your Achievement Tips - The Giving Receiving Cycle by Mark Victor Hansen
4. The feel good movie of the season!
5. More Information
1. Your Achievement Article
7 Keys for Joyful Living! by Chris Widener
Here are some thoughts for finding and experiencing joy in your life. If there were one thing I could wish upon my family, friends and the readers of this Ezine, it would be joy in everything they do!
Know your purpose. Nothing will bring you joy more than knowing what it is that you are about on this earth. Not knowing brings sadness, wondering, fear and lack of fulfillment. Above all, find out what your unique purpose is here on this earth - then fulfill it! As you do, you will experience joy!
Live purposefully. This is a follow up to number one. It is one thing to know your purpose, but then you need to live according to that purpose. This is a matter of priorities. Let your actions and schedule reflect your purpose. Don't react to circumstances and let them cause you to live without your purpose fully in site. Living without your purpose will cause frustration. Living purposefully will bring you deep satisfaction and joy!
Stretch yourself. Don't settle into the status quo. That will leave you unfulfilled. Always look to stretch yourself. Whatever you are doing, stretch yourself to do more! Stretching yourself will break the limits you have set for yourself and will cause you to find joy in your expanded horizons!
Give more than you take. It brings happiness to accumulate. It brings joy to give away. Sure, getting the car you worked hard for will bring you a sense of satisfaction and even happiness. But it won't bring you joy. Giving something away to the less fortunate will bring you deep, abiding joy.
Surprise yourself and others too. The words here are spontaneity and surprise! Every once in a while, do the unexpected. It will cause everybody to sit back and say, "Wow, where did that come from?" It will put a little joy in your life, and theirs.
Indulge yourself sometimes. Too much indulgence and you are caught in the happiness trap -- looking for the next purchase, celebration, etc., to bring you a little "happiness high." But if you will allow yourself an infrequent indulgence as a reward for a job well done and a life well lived, you will appreciate the indulgence and experience the joy of it.
Laugh a little - no, a lot! Most people are just too serious. We need to laugh a little - no, a lot! Learn to laugh daily, even if you have to learn to laugh in bad situations. This life is to be enjoyed! The next time you go to the movie rental store, get a comedy and let loose! Let yourself laugh!
Joy can be yours! Look for it, pursue it and enjoy it!
-- Chris Widener
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"Your brain has more than 100 billion cells;
each connected to at least 20,000 other cells. The possible
combinations are greater than the number of molecules in the known
universe." Brian Tracy
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"All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms."
Harrison Ford
2. Your Achievement Quotes
PRIORITIES
"Keep in mind that you are always saying 'no' to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it." -- Stephen Covey
"Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things." -- Jim Rohn
"To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right." -- Confucius
"It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things money can't buy." -- George Horace Lormier
LOVE
"Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life and when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love." -- Mary Manin Morrissey
"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." -- Rainer Maria Rilke
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." -- Mother Teresa
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." -- Jeanne Moreau
PROCRASTINATION
"The greatest thief this world ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large." -- Henry Wheeler Shaw
"You may delay, but time will not." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can." -- Mary Frances Berry
"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing." -- Friedrich von Schiller
"Style is being yourself, but on purpose." Patricia Fripp
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"Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside you -- if you listen to it, you can play it." Nido
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3. Your Achievement Tips
The Giving-Receiving Cycle by Mark Victor Hansen
Curiously enough, the giving spirit creates the receiving spirit. So, to get more all one needs to do is give more. The more ideas one creates and gives away the more ideas one has.
Andrew Carnegie, the steel baron and philanthropist who funded America´s 3,000 libraries and the great Carnegie Hall in New York said: "I'll spend the first half of my life creating great wealth and the second half giving it away…Attempting to do the most good and the least harm with my benefactions."
Carnegie was a generous genius with ideas. He gave away visionary ideas with his charitable contributions. As a tribute and monument to his gifts, his foundation is alive, well and still processing an ever-growing largess. The Wee Scotsman was the first to give and inspired other rich people to do the same. Now that is a legacy worth leaving! It gives each of us a new benchmark to "goal" towards.
In giving and sharing you always have more. It seems arithmetically as though one would have less but, in fact, giving expands whatever one has. Music is the best example of this theory, proving that giving and sharing always creates more for everyone.
When a musician gives their all, they feel exalted and thankful that the music flowed through them. The audience is enthralled, entranced, moved to happy tears, and feels compelled to participate instantaneously in a standing ovation. The star musician bares his soul and the audience is wowed and ecstatic to tell everyone to see this performer.
Likewise, the simple act of giving simultaneously creates more good and blessings seemingly out of nowhere. Why? Because God is always watching and cheerfully gives instantaneously to the giver. That's why givers' give more. They have experienced this amazing formula, even if they cannot articulate it. They know that it works to theirs and everyone's benefit.
Pop some popcorn, dim the lights and get ready to watch a powerful movie.
PASS IT ON, an award-winning film that clearly explains how everyone, regardless of background, can achieve their fondest dreams of wealth, inspiration, success and happiness. At a time of year in which setting new goals is foremost in your mind, this DVD movie can help inspire you in developing 2008 goals.
You won't find it at your local video store. But I want to make it available to you at a special price – 40% off suggested retail!
You'll not soon forget its message – one you'll want to share! Follow this link now to find out more about this extraordinary movie and take advantage of a very special offer.
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"Whatever your talent is, you should craft
it, nourish it and build on it. It is the 'niche talent' that will take you
to the top of your field." Mark Victor Hansen
4. The feel good movie of the season!
Pop some popcorn, dim the lights and get ready to watch a powerful movie.
PASS IT ON, an award-winning film that clearly explains how everyone, regardless of background, can achieve their fondest dreams of wealth, inspiration, success and happiness.
At a time of year in which setting new goals is foremost in your mind, this DVD movie can help inspire you in developing 2008 goals.
You won't find it at your local video store. But I want to make it available to you at a special price – 40% off suggested retail!
You'll not soon forget its message – one you'll want to share!
Follow this link now to find out more about this extraordinary movie and take advantage of a very special offer.
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"For a man to achieve all that is demanded
of him he must regard himself as greater than he is."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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