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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Cool new gadgets I want
iNnovation: 2 Freakishly Futuristic iPhone Add-Ons
When the iPhone came out, did anyone really expect it to spawn all kinds of bizarre add-on devices that could make this seemingly innocuous smartphone powerful enough to do pretty much whatever we want it to? Well, we have a feeling some people did, because iPhone gadgets with associated apps have been bouncing out left and right. One of the most interesting (and useful) ones we’ve seen lately is this $50 dongle that turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into a universal remote. It’s made by L5 Technology, who debuted the device at CES 2010. According to them, it’ll actually control any compatible device within about 30 feet via a free app from the app store. Just select the devices you want to control, drag and drop buttons where you want them, and you’re good to go.
Another handy invention to debut at CES was the Mophie credit card reader device. It’ll let you take payments with nothing more than your iPhone, a third-party app, and this little device which attaches directly to your phone. Imagine how much easier this would be for merchants than carrying around a computer to take credit cards at trade shows and other remote locations.
Neck-Mounted Camera Lets You Blog Every Second of Life
You thought those personal blogs detailing every moment of some random person’s every day were annoying? Get ready for an even more personal level of sharing: the Vicon Revue is a wearable digital camera that takes pictures all day with no effort on the user’s part. The first version released is a research model used as a “memory aid” for people with Alzheimer’s or other memory issues…but the consumer version will likely be used for photographic picblogging of the fascinating minutiae of strangers’ lives.
The camera is equipped with a whole suite of sensors that tell it when to start snapping furiously. When the wearer’s environmental conditions – like the lighting level or ambient temperature – change, it snaps one pic per second. Otherwise, it takes a new picture every 30 seconds.
If you’re the type of person who is inclined to record every second of every day, the Vicon Revue offers a simple way to do that without putting a lot of work into it. And since the camera is worn around the neck instead of held up to the face, it’s possible that the people you interact with will feel more at-ease than they would with a conventional camera pointed at them.
Cool Underwater Camera Casts Off to Catch Sea Life Pics
Here’s an invention for everyone who loves watching marine life at the beach but doesn’t want to actually get into the water. The Beriscope looks like a child’s toy, but it’s actually a little more sophisticated than that. The spherical end of the gizmo – which is actually a camera – is attached to a long tether that allows the ball to descend into the water. The user then places the device up to their eyes to watch the underwater show.
Throwing the camera into the water is a bit like casting a fishing line: you rear back and then let it go with all your might. When you’re ready to bring the camera back up, just twist on the opposite hand grip and the cord retracts like magic. Everything is coated in protective rubber, minimizing the chance that the device will be broken on the way down or the way back up.
It’s easy to imagine a gadget like this being used to scout out potential diving spots or just to get a taste of what it’s like under the water for those who aren’t able to scuba dive. It would be nearly impossible to direct the ball camera to a specific place, so this camera seems best left to those who are able to go with the flow and watch whatever underwater visions might happen to float by. But if the designer, Jaewon Choi, were able to add a light to the design, we can see it becoming a hot rental item at beaches all around the world.
When the iPhone came out, did anyone really expect it to spawn all kinds of bizarre add-on devices that could make this seemingly innocuous smartphone powerful enough to do pretty much whatever we want it to? Well, we have a feeling some people did, because iPhone gadgets with associated apps have been bouncing out left and right. One of the most interesting (and useful) ones we’ve seen lately is this $50 dongle that turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into a universal remote. It’s made by L5 Technology, who debuted the device at CES 2010. According to them, it’ll actually control any compatible device within about 30 feet via a free app from the app store. Just select the devices you want to control, drag and drop buttons where you want them, and you’re good to go.
Another handy invention to debut at CES was the Mophie credit card reader device. It’ll let you take payments with nothing more than your iPhone, a third-party app, and this little device which attaches directly to your phone. Imagine how much easier this would be for merchants than carrying around a computer to take credit cards at trade shows and other remote locations.
Neck-Mounted Camera Lets You Blog Every Second of Life
You thought those personal blogs detailing every moment of some random person’s every day were annoying? Get ready for an even more personal level of sharing: the Vicon Revue is a wearable digital camera that takes pictures all day with no effort on the user’s part. The first version released is a research model used as a “memory aid” for people with Alzheimer’s or other memory issues…but the consumer version will likely be used for photographic picblogging of the fascinating minutiae of strangers’ lives.
The camera is equipped with a whole suite of sensors that tell it when to start snapping furiously. When the wearer’s environmental conditions – like the lighting level or ambient temperature – change, it snaps one pic per second. Otherwise, it takes a new picture every 30 seconds.
If you’re the type of person who is inclined to record every second of every day, the Vicon Revue offers a simple way to do that without putting a lot of work into it. And since the camera is worn around the neck instead of held up to the face, it’s possible that the people you interact with will feel more at-ease than they would with a conventional camera pointed at them.Cool Underwater Camera Casts Off to Catch Sea Life Pics
Here’s an invention for everyone who loves watching marine life at the beach but doesn’t want to actually get into the water. The Beriscope looks like a child’s toy, but it’s actually a little more sophisticated than that. The spherical end of the gizmo – which is actually a camera – is attached to a long tether that allows the ball to descend into the water. The user then places the device up to their eyes to watch the underwater show.
Throwing the camera into the water is a bit like casting a fishing line: you rear back and then let it go with all your might. When you’re ready to bring the camera back up, just twist on the opposite hand grip and the cord retracts like magic. Everything is coated in protective rubber, minimizing the chance that the device will be broken on the way down or the way back up.
It’s easy to imagine a gadget like this being used to scout out potential diving spots or just to get a taste of what it’s like under the water for those who aren’t able to scuba dive. It would be nearly impossible to direct the ball camera to a specific place, so this camera seems best left to those who are able to go with the flow and watch whatever underwater visions might happen to float by. But if the designer, Jaewon Choi, were able to add a light to the design, we can see it becoming a hot rental item at beaches all around the world.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Some of my favorite pictures from my childhood
My mom is the most amazing woman in the world!!! I will never forget how much you sacrifice to keep us all together!!! This picture is my favorite even-though it was taken after you and Dad got a divorce. You are a strong and brave woman!!!
I've always had a love for horses!!!
ANGELA YOU WILL ALWAYS BE MY BIG SIS!!!! I LOVE YOU
I will always be my mom's little girl!!! I LOVE YOU MOM
I miss my grandparents so much!!!! You will always be close to my heart!!!
I've always had a love for horses!!!
ANGELA YOU WILL ALWAYS BE MY BIG SIS!!!! I LOVE YOU
I will always be my mom's little girl!!! I LOVE YOU MOM
I miss my grandparents so much!!!! You will always be close to my heart!!!
LOVE YOUR LIFE
SMILE AND BE YOURSELF!!!!
READ A BOOK!!!! It's ok,,,I have a great sense of humor. LAUGH OUT LOUD!!!
Do something you LOVE!!! I enjoy riding motorcycles!!!
Act SILLY!!! WHO CARES WHAT PEOPLE THINK!!!
Dance and HAVE FUN!!!!
READ A BOOK!!!! It's ok,,,I have a great sense of humor. LAUGH OUT LOUD!!!
Do something you LOVE!!! I enjoy riding motorcycles!!!
Act SILLY!!! WHO CARES WHAT PEOPLE THINK!!!
Dance and HAVE FUN!!!!
I love Angels!!! A collection of Angel Quotes.
I'm a cool Angel:)
Angel Quotes
We feel isolated and lonely, and it's not necessary. Each of us has a guardian angel who works with us as much as we will allow...
Eileen Elias Freeman, Angelic Healing
...but we all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels...
William Shakespeare, King Henry VIII
God assures us that his angels are always nearby, ready to help. This is what matters.
Timothy Jones, Celebration of Angels
Angels (it's said) would be often unable to tell whether they moved among living or dead. The eternal torrent whirls all the ages through either realm for ever, and sounds above their voices in both.
Rainer Marie Rilke, The First Elegy
When we freely forgive others who have hurt us, our angel brings us a special blessing of love from God.
Eileen Elias Freeman, The Angels' Little Instruction Book
Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.
Helen Keller
There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself.
St. Thomas Aquinas
"I believe most at-home accidents happen in the bathroom because our Guardian Angels give us our privacy".
Cathy L. Poulin Aug 06
And whoever disbelieves in God and his angels and his books and his messengers and the last day, he indeed strays far away.
The Koran
It is impossible to see the Angel unless you first have a notion of it.
James Hillman, The Soul's Code
For he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways.
Psalm 91:11
So far as the Angels are recipients of that spiritual heat and light they are loves and wisdoms, not loves and wisdoms for themselves, but from the Lord.
Emanuel Swedenborg
It was first whispered among the Seraphim and Cherubim, and then said aloud among the Angels and Archangels, that he didn't even look like an angel!
Charles Tazewell, The Littlest Angel
Keep your good deeds for others a secret, just as your Angel works behind the scenes in your own life.
Eileen Elias Freeman, The Angels' Little Instruction Book
An Angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision, and by bringing within his reach some truth which the Angel himself contemplates.
St. Thomas Aquinas, The Bliss of the Way
Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events.
Billy Graham
To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.
James Hillman, The Soul's Code
Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perhaps children's innocence, wherever it comes from, contributes to the fact that they seem to see angels more often.
John Ronner, Know Your Angels
Give of yourself as the Angels do, and wonderful things will come to you.
Ramadan, 1
And whoever disbelieves in God and his angels and his books and his messengers and the last day, he indeed strays far away.
The Koran 4:36
I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.
Emanuel Swedenborg
God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.
Socrates
Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has given you.
Eileen Elias Freeman, The Angels' Little Instruction Book
If some people really see angels where others see only empty space, let them paint the angels: only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.
John Ruskin
What know we of the Blest above but that they sing, and that they love?
William Wordsworth
So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us oft, and worshipped be.
John Donne
For every soul, there is a guardian watching it.
The Koran
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counsellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian angel.
Joseph Addision
All we know of what they do above, is that they happy are, and that they love.
Edmund Waller
He will give his angels charge of you, to guard you in all your ways. On their hands they will bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone.
Psalm 91:10-11
Our human weakness is protected by the assistance of the Angels and…in all our perils, provided faith remain with us, we are defended by the aid of spiritual powers.
Gregory Nyssa
The benevolent guardian angel of the 1940s was, of course, Superman. While a cloak replaced the wings, this expression of the all powerful guardian archetype, who battled the evil dragons of satanic violence, greed and injustice, replaced the Archangel Michael in the popular imagination.
Malcolm Godwin, Angels: An Endangered Species
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
Henry Ward Beecher
Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.
Mortimer J. Adler, The Angels and Us
Angels come to help and guide us in as many guises as there are people who need their assistance. Sometimes we see their ethereal, heavenly shadow, bright with light and radiance. Sometimes we only feel their nearness or hear their whisper. And sometimes they look no different from ourselves...
"I believe most at-home accidents happen in the bathroom because our Guardian Angels give us our privacy".
Cathy L. Poulin Aug 06
Eileen Elias Freeman, Touched by Angels
If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.
St. John Chrysostom
Experiences with Angels do not occur to people by chance. There is a sort of run-up to the experience.
H.C. Moolenburgh, Meetings With Angels
In the case of those who are making progress from good to better, the good angel touches the soul gently, lightly, sweetly, as a drop of water enters a sponge, while the evil spirit touches it sharply, with noise and disturbance, like a drop of water falling on a rock.
St. Ignatius of Loyola
Time is man's angel.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Death of Wallenstein
Contemporary Angel accounts are frequently about unpredictable encounters that have personal significance in the lives of otherwise average people. Most accounts involve some wonderful or mysterious being who appeared when most needed and who was usually only recognized as an Angel in retrospect.
Ruth J. Moro, Angels in Our Midst - A Naturalistic Embrace of the Miraculous
It is often stated that when an Angel descends to the earth, it brings with it a part of the light of the heavens, thus perhaps explaining the strong association of white to represent that light.
James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver, Angels A to Z
Through the 13th century, paintings of Angels exhibit a predominantly masculine appearance. Over the next 300 years, their images become more delicate, gentle, and feminine, until Angels are shown as androgynous or even distinctly female.
David Connolly, In Search of Angels
One thing is clear: Angels are far more than projections of the divine mind or literary devices. They are real, personal beings, even if their corporeality is totally different from ours.
Eileen Elias Freeman, Touched by Angels
The Angel is one of those Articles of Faith as unshakable as our belief in the existence of God, an atom, or the ill luck of the number 13.
Malcolm Godwin, Angels: An Endangered Species
One thing you can say for Guardian Angels: they guard. They give warning when danger approaches.
Emily Hahn, Breath of God
I am one of you and being one of you is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary Angel of earth, since, in my sight, you see the earth again...
Wallace Stevens, Angel Surrounded by Paysans
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
G. K. Chesterton
Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an Angel.
St. Augustine
Angels are our true and trusty servants, performing offices and works that one poor miserable mendicant would be ashamed to do for another.
Martin Luther, The Table Talk of Martin Luther
And the Angel said, "I have learned that every man lives, not through care of himself, but by love."
Leo Tolstoy
In the Roman Catholic Church calendar, October 2 is the day for honoring guardian angels.
John Ronner, Know Your Angels
Interest in angels has traditionally been associated with millennialism, especially when the millennium is viewed as emerging in the wake of a God-directed apocalypse. This is largely because of the importance of angels in relevant Scripture. Angels become significant as the central actors in the drama of the final days.
James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver, Angels A to Z
Angels encourage us by guiding us onto a path that will lead to happiness and hope.
Andy Lakey
Angels are principally the guardians of our spirits. Their function is not to do our work for us, but to help us do it ourselves, by God's grace.
Eileen Elias Freeman, The Angels' Little Instruction Book
Angels can maintain anonymity as long as they need to, pretending to be mortal when the occasion calls for such a masquerade.
Emily Hahn, Breath of God
Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.
Mortimer Adler
The Christian Bible offers some 300 references to Angels.
James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver, Angels A to Z
In their role as celestial servants to humans on earth, Angels act variously as guardians, guides, teachers, truth-givers and comforters, protectors of the righteous, punishers of the wicked, and more.
David Connolly, In Search of Angels
Remember, Angels are both God's messengers and God's message, witnesses to eternity in time, to the presence of the divine amidst the ordinary. Every moment of every day is riddled by their traces.
F. Forrester Church, Entertaining Angels
The world of demons, fallen Angels, is very real - a fact we need to know. We have to face up to this terrible reality, so that we do not fall unsuspectingly into their hands and come under their tyranny.
Basilea Schlink
Let your holy Angel have charge concerning us, that the wicked one have no power over us.
Martin Luther
Gabriel is a unique archangel in the sense that it is almost certain that she is the only female in the higher echelons.
James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver, Angels A to Z
Angels speak. They appear and reappear. They feel with apt sense of emotion. While Angels may become visible by choice, our eyes are not conducted to see them ordinarily any more than we can see the dimensions of a nuclear field, the structure of atoms, or the electricity that flows through copper wiring.
Billy Graham, Angels: God's Secret Agents
And I saw another Angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.
Revelations 14:6
The traditional Christian belief is that eternal God was alone in the beginning. Then, He created Angels, next the universe, and finally, humankind. However, some early Jewish writers thought that God creates Angels every time He breathes.
John Ronner, Know Your Angels
Let your holy Angel have charge concerning us, that the wicked one have no power over us.
Martin Luther
The entire hierarchy of Angels can best be described as an endlessly vast sphere of beings who surround an unknowable centerpoint which is called God.
Malcolm Godwin, Angels: An Endangered Species
Angels walk upright, speak Hebrew, and are endowed with understanding; they can fly in the air, move from one end of the world to another, and foretell the future. They have the shape of man, but consist half of fire and half of water.
Encyclopedia Judaica
Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel assigned him for his defence, I cannot venture certainly to affirm; not one angel only has the care of every one of us, but that all the angels together with one consent watch over our salvation.
John Calvin
A shiver runs down your spine when you realize it is not our imagination. Something is watching us out there.
Sophy Burnham, A Book of Angels
Angels are men of a superior kind; Angels are men in lighter habit clad.
Edward Young, Night Thoughts
The aura of light that surrounds them, especially the haloes that encircle their heads, suggests a quite different role. Their wings betoken their coming to mankind as messengers, but their haloes symbolize that they come from heaven which is their home.
Mortimer J. Adler, Angels and Us
The wisdom of the ages teaches that each individual, whether believer or not, good or bad, old or young, sick or well, rich or poor, has a personal Guardian Angel with him or her at every moment of life's journey.
Janice T. Connell, Angel Power
Angels are intelligent reflections of light, that original light which has no beginning. They can illuminate. They do not need tongues or ears, for they can communicate without speech, in thought.
John of Damascus
I saw Gabriel, like a maiden, or like the moon amongst the stars. His hair was like a woman's, falling in long tresses...He is the most beautiful of Angels...His face is like a red rose.
Ruzbehan Baqli
Our certainty that angels right now witness how we are walking through life should mightily influence the decisions we make. God is watching, and His angels are interested spectators too.
Billy Graham
Heaven comes to people - and their loved ones - when they are dying. It is not uncommon for angels to appear when people are on the edge of death, and people who have had near-death experiences often describe feelings of indescribable peace. Angels.
Gary Kinnaman, Angels Dark and Light
The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Man's flaw is that he can deteriorate; and his virtue is that he can improve.
The Talmud
Somehow the Angels comfort me whenever I have tears...And always they encourage me to overcome my fears...I tell them all of my troubles when they seem too much to bear...And I put my faith and confidence in their almighty care...
Martina Tarandek, "Angels' Prayer"
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Matthew 23:30
A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened by an angel to know what is good, but it is not instructed as to the reason why. But sometimes he is instructed by angelic illumination, both that this act is good and as to the reason why it is good.
St. Thomas Aquinas
The higher orders [of angels] are presumed to be closer in their nature to God and to function in roles that serve God more directly than the lower orders, which tend to the administration of the physical universe and the service of humankind. Some orders are associated with particular divine qualities - Seraphim with Love, Cherubim with Wisdom, Thrones with Judgment.
David Connolly, In Search of Angels
May the Archangel Raphael accompany us along the way, and may we return to our homes in peace, joy, and health.
Catholic prayer
But angels help us remember, when the urgencies screaming for attention make us forget, when we feel so estranged by stress or worldliness that we miss the many-splendoured things. They remind us to look beyond our everyday circumstance or stress.
Timothy Jones, Celebration of Angels
Angelica, Angelica archangelica, is the herb of the angels. One legend regarding angelica says that in 1665, a community of monks, whose members were dying of the plague, was saved when one of the monks had a dream in which an angel told them to eat angelica. As soon as they chewed the plant they were cured.
James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver, Angels A to Z
Angels belong to a uniquely different dimension of creation which we, limited to the natural order, can scarcely comprehend.
Billy Graham
Most people in the deepest part of their memory, hold the angels in great esteem.
John T. Connell, Angel Power
Greater association with the Angels lifts our minds from ourselves and focuses them upon ways and means by which we too may assist in establishing God's Plan.
Flower A. Newhouse, Rediscovering the Angels
Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become Angels when they are sent. For the name Angel refers to their office, not their nature. You ask the name of this nature, it is spirit; you ask its office, it is that of an Angel, which is a messenger.
St. Augustine
When humans face testings and tragedy, they should remember the Angels who are always standing ready to lend their celestial assistance, comfort, and counsel.
Flower A. Newhouse, Rediscovering the Angels
Angel Energy follows God's Laws and can only be used for the greatest good for all.
Belinda Womack, Angels Guide
How do you know if an angel has crossed your path? Sometimes you don't, because angels often appear as coincidences. That is, they seem like chance events, but they are really part of God's carefully orchestrated plan for your life.
Gary Kinnaman, Angels Dark and Light
Angels can help us understand what intuition means in a personal way. Angels are actually in charge of a large part of our intuitive self. Viewing intuition from the perspective of angel consciousness, we can say that intuition is our way of tapping into a higher power for guidance and awareness.
Terry Lynn Taylor, Guardians of Hope: The Angel Guide to Personal Growth
So far we still don't know whether angels are ethereal beings of light without substance or if they take a solid human form with real wings which actually enable them to fly.
Malcolm Godwin, Angels: An Endangered Species
Whatever you put your attention on in this life will increase in your life. As you put your attention on angels, they will begin increasingly to make their presence known to you.
Denise Linn, Sacred Space
It is not righteousness that you turn your faces toward east or west; but it is righteous to believe in Allah and the Last Day, and the angels and the Book and the messengers.
The Koran
Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us.
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
Have you ever considered that, just perhaps, the reason you have gotten as far as you have is because of the invisible work of anonymous Angels? Good strangers in the night?
Gary Kinnaman, Angels Dark and Light
You don't need a formal prayer or invocation to call the Angels to your side. Simply think, "Angels, please surround me," and they are there.
Doreen Virtue, Divine Guidance
September 29 is the feast day for the three Angels mentioned by name in the Bible - Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael.
John Ronner, Know Your Angels
He who has fed a stranger may have fed an Angel.
The Talmud
God created the Angels to serve Him and His people. If there is anything we can learn from the Bible about Angels, it's that they are real. Angels exist.
Gary Kinnaman, Angels Dark and Light
Remember, angels are both God's messengers and God's message, witnesses to eternity in time, to the presence of the divine amidst the ordinary. Every moment of every day is riddled by their traces.
F. Forrester Church, Entertaining Angels
But we can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that says, "Go. Ask. Reach out. Be an answer to someone's plea. You have a part to play. Have faith." The world will be a better place for it. And wherever they are, the angels will dance.
Joan Wester Anderson, Where Angels Walk
It must be recess in heaven if St. Peter is letting his angels out.
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Guardian angels are perhaps the most popular kind, probably because we all know how fragile life can be. We desperately need protection from unexpected circumstances and unseen dangers. Just the thought of good angels hovering around us gives people a feeling of safety!
Gary Kinnaman, Angels Dark and Light
When we are overcome by some evil will, should we not tremble before the presence of the choirs of angels that surround us?
St. Hilary
Angels live no place, as God lives no place. They live in the space of eternity, in the center of our hearts, and sometimes I think we each serve as the channels and angels of God, touched by wings of silence, pushed to angelic acts.
Sophy Burnham, A Book of Angels
The minute you speak to your angel for the first time, you will never be alone again, because our angels are always with us. No matter where you are as you read this, you are surrounded by angels. Your room, your office, your garden, are filled with angelic presences.
Eileen Elias Freeman, Angelic Healing
Angels play a very active role in the purposes of God and the affairs of men, but do not control human events or violate the free will of human beings.
Gary Kinnaman, Angels Dark and Light
Angels are inseparable friends, who bring strength and consolation to those who include them in their lives. In truth, angels are our best friends.
Janice T. Connell, Angel Power
The truth of angels is they have many shapes, forms, sizes, appearances, and duties. You will see angels as you need to see them. Sometimes you may see only a burst of light in a darkened room or a cloudy form around a person's body.
Barbara Mark and Trudy Griswold, Angelspeake: How to Talk with Your Angel
Becoming aware of our angels' hidden presence in our lives is not difficult or arduous, but it is subtle and requires great patience.
Eileen Elias Freeman, Touched by Angels
Your two guardian angels are always with you. The other angels come and go as we need them.
Doreen Virtue, Divine Guidance
The angels see you as dazzling young diamonds which are being polished to perfection.
Elsa Joy Bailey, "Angelbytes"
Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention is made, it is implicit under the name of "heaven," when it is said, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
St. Augustine
We have been so long in a downward spin. The angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly and with our spirits we can. We are meant to ascend, to transmute the negative mass of the world's corrupted thought forms. No one asked us to stay so long, away from heaven, away from joy.
Marianne Williamson, Illuminata
The angels as the guardians of men are set over men as instructors and monitors. This shows the relationship that is to exist between them. Man's attitude is to be one of obedience and subjection. He is to follow the lead of the angels, and consequently some reverence is already implied in the very relationship that exists between man and angel.
Tertullian
It is at the hour of death that the good angel shows the greatest zeal in protecting and defending the soul committed to his care, invoking often the assistance of other angels against the wiles and fury of Satan.
Pascal Parente, Beyond Space: A Book about Angels
Ask your angels to stay as near to you as they can; to help keep your vision clear and your presence simple, so in all the days to come there will be a radiance and Glory in your spirit.
Karen Goldman, Angel Voices
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse De Lamartine
I saw them with my bodily eyes as clearly as I see you. And when they departed, I used to weep and wish they would take me with them.
St. Joan of Arc
The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.
Edward Burne-Jones
Angels assist us in connecting with a powerful yet gentle force, which encourages us to live life to its fullest.
Denise Linn, Sacred Space
Unaccustomed to recognizing any power greater than his own, Western man, in his need to find an answer to his contradictions, may be forced to his knees in an inner struggle with the angel of the Lord, who could be the bringer of the missing and saving element.
Theodora Ward, Men and Angels
In the strictest definition, an angel is a superior being living in the spirit world - standing between humans and God.
John Ronner, Know Your Angels
People of goodwill long to know angels, to enjoy their presence, power, and protection. The experience is quite personal and different for each person.
Janice T. Connell, Angel Power
Angels will not run your life. No angel will intrude on your free will. They cannot interfere.
Barbara Mark and Trudy Griswold, Angelspeake: How to Talk with Your Angel
Our private thoughts are known only to God. The secret thoughts of all of us are not known by angels or demons or one another. Every prayer, however, is heard instantly by our Guardian Angel.
Janice T. Connell, Angel Power
Methods of Invocation - Colors to Be Worn
Guardian angels of the home - Rose and soft green
Healing angels - Deep sapphire blue
Angels of maternity and birth - Sky blue
Ceremonial angels - White
Angels of music - White
Nature angels - Apple green
Angels of beauty and art - Yellow
Geoffrey Hodson, The Brotherhood of Angels and Men
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
“The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.” – John Milton
Relax -- What's That?
I have trouble relaxing. I don't think I'm alone in my inability to completely relax. How many of us leave our offices every night and leave our jobs behind until the next morning? Not many, I'm sure. So many of us, thanks to technology, find ourselves bringing work with us, even when we are on vacation. I encourage you to take time away from work when you can, but even if that isn't possible, you should find a little time to relax each day. Your mind, body and soul will feel much better.
Relax -- What's That?
I have trouble relaxing. I don't think I'm alone in my inability to completely relax. How many of us leave our offices every night and leave our jobs behind until the next morning? Not many, I'm sure. So many of us, thanks to technology, find ourselves bringing work with us, even when we are on vacation. I encourage you to take time away from work when you can, but even if that isn't possible, you should find a little time to relax each day. Your mind, body and soul will feel much better.
Monday, July 19, 2010
How to Be Kind
1. Be happy (not phony happy). Before you can be kind to others you have to be kind to yourself. Calling yourself fat or ugly makes you feel bad and you may try to criticize other people for justification.
2. Avoid gossiping/spreading rumors about other people. If someone is being mean to another person, like calling them stupid or fat, try not to join in. You could even stand up for them. If your friends are aggressively teasing or gossiping about someone, give a non-confrontational defense---such as "She's always been nice to me" (provided she has always been nice to you; lying is wrong, so don't lie)---or steer them away from that conversation topic to at least delay them until you leave.
3.Be a good listener. When talking to someone, try to listen and sincerely pay attention until they are almost done.
4.Compliment people lavishly. For example, to comment on something they're wearing, you can say "Oh, I love your shirt!" or "Your shoes are awesome!". Try not to get jealous; if they know you're jealous it can cause an awkward moment; it's very awkward when you want something they're wearing. If someone compliments you, thank them and continue what you were doing or compliment them in return, out of obligation (remember this person is trying to be nice and friendly towards you, perhaps wanting to be your friend).
5. Be yourself, don't concern yourself with whether or not you look "dumb" while you are doing something; most of the time people aren't really paying attention anyway.
6. Start each day with a plan. Think of what you would like to see and do, then think of someone who is lonely, perhaps lives alone and has no family (the more depressed the better!). Ask this person to join you in your plan for the day. Share your time with them (e.g. ask them to lunch); this could be the highlight of their week or life. Take joy in making others happy!
7. Offer to pet-sit when you know a friend is going on vacation. If you know a neighbor is sick, ask them if they need groceries when you go grocery shopping.
8. Stop and talk to someone who is lonely, share a cup of coffee and pay twice the bill.
9. Whatever you say, whenever you say it, do so in a calm, polite voice that is respectful to the other party. Don't unneccessarily raise your voice, as it makes you seem like a rude person.
10. Help, even if you aren't asked. You should look around to see if anyone needs help and help them without prompt. It can be a simple thing, to help someone with something that he seems to have difficulties in or something you think he needs or will need. Whenever you can, try to help someone else. It could be at their work, with their homework or about their relationships and more. If someone asks you something, be open-minded and don't immediately dismiss them, try to be as helpful as you can. Even if you don't do what they asked, you can at least suggest another to possibly aid them.
11. Make it a hobby to volunteer somewhere every once in a while or do something really nice for other people.
12. Don't feel the need to gloat about your good-deeds; be humble. Doing something nice solely for the good graces of those around you isn't really kindness. Aiding someone unaware of your help can feel just as good.
13. Adopt pets; it is an excellent exercise of loving kindness. You can even adopt temporarily by offering to foster an animal and help socialize it so that it can be adopted by another family or person.
14. If someone is upset, comfort them by consoling them and giving them a hug. Ask them if they would like to talk about it. If they have had a fallen out with a friend that is your friend, hear both sides of the story before picking sides and do not annoy them if they want to talk in private.
2. Avoid gossiping/spreading rumors about other people. If someone is being mean to another person, like calling them stupid or fat, try not to join in. You could even stand up for them. If your friends are aggressively teasing or gossiping about someone, give a non-confrontational defense---such as "She's always been nice to me" (provided she has always been nice to you; lying is wrong, so don't lie)---or steer them away from that conversation topic to at least delay them until you leave.
3.Be a good listener. When talking to someone, try to listen and sincerely pay attention until they are almost done.
4.Compliment people lavishly. For example, to comment on something they're wearing, you can say "Oh, I love your shirt!" or "Your shoes are awesome!". Try not to get jealous; if they know you're jealous it can cause an awkward moment; it's very awkward when you want something they're wearing. If someone compliments you, thank them and continue what you were doing or compliment them in return, out of obligation (remember this person is trying to be nice and friendly towards you, perhaps wanting to be your friend).
5. Be yourself, don't concern yourself with whether or not you look "dumb" while you are doing something; most of the time people aren't really paying attention anyway.
6. Start each day with a plan. Think of what you would like to see and do, then think of someone who is lonely, perhaps lives alone and has no family (the more depressed the better!). Ask this person to join you in your plan for the day. Share your time with them (e.g. ask them to lunch); this could be the highlight of their week or life. Take joy in making others happy!
7. Offer to pet-sit when you know a friend is going on vacation. If you know a neighbor is sick, ask them if they need groceries when you go grocery shopping.
8. Stop and talk to someone who is lonely, share a cup of coffee and pay twice the bill.
9. Whatever you say, whenever you say it, do so in a calm, polite voice that is respectful to the other party. Don't unneccessarily raise your voice, as it makes you seem like a rude person.
10. Help, even if you aren't asked. You should look around to see if anyone needs help and help them without prompt. It can be a simple thing, to help someone with something that he seems to have difficulties in or something you think he needs or will need. Whenever you can, try to help someone else. It could be at their work, with their homework or about their relationships and more. If someone asks you something, be open-minded and don't immediately dismiss them, try to be as helpful as you can. Even if you don't do what they asked, you can at least suggest another to possibly aid them.
11. Make it a hobby to volunteer somewhere every once in a while or do something really nice for other people.
12. Don't feel the need to gloat about your good-deeds; be humble. Doing something nice solely for the good graces of those around you isn't really kindness. Aiding someone unaware of your help can feel just as good.
13. Adopt pets; it is an excellent exercise of loving kindness. You can even adopt temporarily by offering to foster an animal and help socialize it so that it can be adopted by another family or person.
14. If someone is upset, comfort them by consoling them and giving them a hug. Ask them if they would like to talk about it. If they have had a fallen out with a friend that is your friend, hear both sides of the story before picking sides and do not annoy them if they want to talk in private.
My thoughts today :)
I just got off an important phone call that could change my future. I'm so happy. Don't let anyone change who you are!!!!! Details to come in future blogs.
I'm staying positive and I'm going to keep moving forward in a positive direction. I'm so lucky to be surrounded by people who love me.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Quotations about Happiness
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ~Benjamin Franklin
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~Jacques Prévert
If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. ~Palmer Sondreal
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ~Robert Anthony
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. ~Edith Wharton
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. ~E.L. Konigsburg
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. ~Cynthia Nelms
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. ~Robertson Davies
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. ~Norm Papernick
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. ~Colette
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. ~James Openheim
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. ~John Barrymore
"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. ~A.A. Milne
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. ~H. Jackson Browne
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack. ~Hazelmarie Elliott (“Mattie”)
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. ~Margaret Young
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. ~St. Augustine
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts, 1931
This is my "depressed stance." When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. ~Charlie Brown
Pleasure is spread through the earth
In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
~William Wordsworth, 1806
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~Abraham Lincoln
Happiness is a form of courage. ~Holbrook Jackson
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. ~Jean de La Bruyere
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. ~Christian Nestell Bovee
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. ~Frederick Keonig
Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart. ~Terri Guillemets
Every now and then,
when the world sits just right,
a gentle breath of heaven
fills my soul with delight...
~Hazelmarie ‘Mattie’ Elliott, A Breath of Heaven
It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ~Berke Breathed
Happiness is the soundtrack of my life. ~Grey Livingston
Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory. ~Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is a direction, not a place. ~Sydney J. Harris
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. ~Author Unknown
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama
Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. ~Author Unknown
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ~Lady Blessington
The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1. ~Author Unknown
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. ~Bernard de Fontenelle
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? ~Yevgeny Zamyatin
A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap. ~Miriam Muhammad
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. ~Immanuel Kant
Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. ~Johann Pestalozzi
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward Beecher
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. ~Sigmund Freud
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. ~Salvador Dali
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. ~V.S. Pritchett
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. ~Walter Savage Landor
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. ~Doug Larson
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ~Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. ~Bertrand Russell
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. ~Doug Larson
Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking. ~H.W. Byles
What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise. ~Kitty O'Neill Collins
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. ~William Shakespeare
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. ~John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. ~Joseph Roux
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. ~Andrew Delbanco
Happiness is the feeling you're feeling when you want to keep feeling it. ~Author Unknown
Joy is a flower that blooms when you do. ~Author Unknown
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. ~Booth Tarkington
Jumping for joy is good exercise. ~Author Unknown
Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway. ~Rob Thomas, "3 A.M."
Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. ~Gretta Brooker Palmer
Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. ~Channing Pollock, Mr. Moneypenny
The happy have whole days,
and those they choose.
The unhappy have but hours,
and those they lose.
~Colley Cibber
When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. ~Charles L. Morgan
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. ~Iris Murdoch
Happiness is... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. ~Thomas Szasz
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. ~Niccolo Machiavelli
You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. ~Author Unknown
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ~Ernest Dimnet
One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ~George Bernard Shaw, Candida, 1898
One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. ~Eugene O'Neill
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. ~Seneca
One filled with joy preaches without preaching. ~Mother Teresa
Misery is almost always the result of thinking. ~Joseph Joubert
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. ~Thornton Wilder
Be happy. It's one way of being wise. ~Colette
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness. ~Frederich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. ~William Saroyan
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ~Anton Chekhov
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ~Douglas Jerrold
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ~Don Herold
If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. ~Taisen Deshimaru
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. ~Georges Duhamel
If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal - that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid. ~J.D. Salinger
There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day
Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
~Emily Dickinson
Happiness is a function of accepting what is. ~Werner Erhard
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. ~Maxim Gorky
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. ~John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1863
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~Joseph Addison
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. ~Samuel Johnson
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. ~Freya Stark, The Journey's Echo
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? ~Leslie Caron
On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. ~William R. Inge
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~Mahatma Gandhi
When you're really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights - and flowers will bloom on a barren land. ~Grey Livingston
Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. ~Don Marquis
If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. ~Sophocles
Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. ~Hosea Ballou
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. ~Charles Caleb Colton
Some pursue happiness, others create it. ~Author Unknown
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. ~Epictetus
Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment. ~Author Unknown
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is the natural flower of duty. ~Phillips Brooks
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ~Albert Camus
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ~Thomas Jefferson
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ~Charles Kingsley
You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance. ~Lavetta Sue Wegman
It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God. ~Jean Ingelow
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. ~W. Beran Wolfe
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ~Albert Camus
Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other. ~Norman Bradburn
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. ~Josh Billings
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. ~William Feather
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. ~Johnny Carson
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ~J.D. Salinger
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~Author Unknown
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. ~Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. ~Mildred Barthel
[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental. ~Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife, 1829
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ~Robert Frost
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. ~Author Unknown
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck
Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society. ~Charles Gow
All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. ~Robert S. Lynd
I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. ~Abd-El-Raham
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. ~C.P. Snow
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~Jacques Prévert
If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. ~Palmer Sondreal
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ~Robert Anthony
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. ~Edith Wharton
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. ~E.L. Konigsburg
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. ~Cynthia Nelms
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. ~Robertson Davies
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. ~Norm Papernick
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. ~Colette
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. ~James Openheim
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. ~John Barrymore
"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. ~A.A. Milne
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. ~H. Jackson Browne
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack. ~Hazelmarie Elliott (“Mattie”)
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. ~Margaret Young
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. ~St. Augustine
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts, 1931
This is my "depressed stance." When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. ~Charlie Brown
Pleasure is spread through the earth
In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
~William Wordsworth, 1806
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~Abraham Lincoln
Happiness is a form of courage. ~Holbrook Jackson
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. ~Jean de La Bruyere
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. ~Christian Nestell Bovee
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. ~Frederick Keonig
Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart. ~Terri Guillemets
Every now and then,
when the world sits just right,
a gentle breath of heaven
fills my soul with delight...
~Hazelmarie ‘Mattie’ Elliott, A Breath of Heaven
It's never too late to have a happy childhood. ~Berke Breathed
Happiness is the soundtrack of my life. ~Grey Livingston
Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory. ~Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is a direction, not a place. ~Sydney J. Harris
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. ~Author Unknown
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai Lama
Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. ~Author Unknown
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ~Lady Blessington
The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1. ~Author Unknown
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. ~Bernard de Fontenelle
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? ~Yevgeny Zamyatin
A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap. ~Miriam Muhammad
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. ~Immanuel Kant
Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. ~Johann Pestalozzi
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward Beecher
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. ~Sigmund Freud
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. ~Salvador Dali
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. ~V.S. Pritchett
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. ~Walter Savage Landor
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. ~Doug Larson
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ~Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. ~Bertrand Russell
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. ~Doug Larson
Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking. ~H.W. Byles
What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise. ~Kitty O'Neill Collins
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. ~William Shakespeare
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. ~John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. ~Joseph Roux
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. ~Andrew Delbanco
Happiness is the feeling you're feeling when you want to keep feeling it. ~Author Unknown
Joy is a flower that blooms when you do. ~Author Unknown
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. ~Booth Tarkington
Jumping for joy is good exercise. ~Author Unknown
Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway. ~Rob Thomas, "3 A.M."
Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. ~Gretta Brooker Palmer
Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. ~Channing Pollock, Mr. Moneypenny
The happy have whole days,
and those they choose.
The unhappy have but hours,
and those they lose.
~Colley Cibber
When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. ~Charles L. Morgan
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. ~Iris Murdoch
Happiness is... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. ~Thomas Szasz
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. ~Niccolo Machiavelli
You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. ~Author Unknown
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ~Ernest Dimnet
One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ~George Bernard Shaw, Candida, 1898
One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. ~Eugene O'Neill
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. ~Seneca
One filled with joy preaches without preaching. ~Mother Teresa
Misery is almost always the result of thinking. ~Joseph Joubert
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. ~Thornton Wilder
Be happy. It's one way of being wise. ~Colette
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness. ~Frederich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. ~William Saroyan
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ~Anton Chekhov
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ~Douglas Jerrold
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ~Don Herold
If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. ~Taisen Deshimaru
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. ~Georges Duhamel
If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal - that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid. ~J.D. Salinger
There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day
Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
~Emily Dickinson
Happiness is a function of accepting what is. ~Werner Erhard
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. ~Maxim Gorky
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. ~John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1863
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~Joseph Addison
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. ~Samuel Johnson
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. ~Freya Stark, The Journey's Echo
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? ~Leslie Caron
On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. ~William R. Inge
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~Mahatma Gandhi
When you're really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights - and flowers will bloom on a barren land. ~Grey Livingston
Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. ~Don Marquis
If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. ~Sophocles
Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. ~Hosea Ballou
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. ~Charles Caleb Colton
Some pursue happiness, others create it. ~Author Unknown
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. ~Epictetus
Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment. ~Author Unknown
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is the natural flower of duty. ~Phillips Brooks
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ~Albert Camus
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ~Thomas Jefferson
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ~Charles Kingsley
You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance. ~Lavetta Sue Wegman
It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God. ~Jean Ingelow
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. ~W. Beran Wolfe
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ~Albert Camus
Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other. ~Norman Bradburn
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. ~Josh Billings
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. ~William Feather
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. ~Johnny Carson
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ~J.D. Salinger
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~Author Unknown
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. ~Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. ~Mildred Barthel
[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental. ~Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife, 1829
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ~Robert Frost
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. ~Author Unknown
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck
Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society. ~Charles Gow
All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. ~Robert S. Lynd
I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. ~Abd-El-Raham
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. ~C.P. Snow
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
30 Wonderful Articles and Sites for Self Motivation
In desperate need for some motivation?
There is never a shortage of information on the web, with the topic of motivation as no exception.
Below are 30 articles and sites for motivation, so you will never be at a loss for ways to motivate yourself when you are feeling discouraged.
General Motivation
*Steve Pavlina – Motivation for Smart People (Sans Chest Pounding) – a great article on how to stay confident and motivated after coming up with a great idea
*Emory.edu – But They Did Not Give Up – this article offers inspiring little blurbs about famous and historical figures who faced setbacks but still achieved success through persistence
*Zen Habits – The Only Two Secrets to Motivating Yourself You’ll Ever Need – two great essential principles to live by to keep yourself motivated
*Think Simple Now – How to Achieve Anything – this article offers very interesting insight into examining why we don’t do something, and then changing these barriers within us
*Pick The Brain – How To Motivate Yourself – Self Motivation – interesting post on why we lose motivation and how to get it back through confidence and focus
*Steve Pavlina – Do It Now – fascinating article by Steve Pavlina who discusses how he accomplished outstanding scholastic achievements through motivation and focus
*Steve Pavlina – Overcoming Negative Emotions and Boosting Motivation – Steve discusses his use of motivational audio tapes to keep himself motivated
*Lifewithoutlimbs.org – this is Nick Vujicic’s website. He was born without limbs but constantly strives to get the most out of life
*Make It Great – this is a blog by Phil Gerbyshak, dedicated to leading a positive and optimistic life and improving relationships
*A List Apart – Staying Motivated – A List Apart is for web designers, but this post is applicable to everyone
*Lifehacker – Hack Attack: Sustaining motivation – a great lifehack on staying motivated
*Life Optimizer – Self Motivation: How to Motivate Yourself – another post offering some great tips on how to motivate yourself and let go of your past
*Get Rich Slowly – The Power of Yes: A Simple Way to Get More Out of Life – an interesting post about breaking out of your comfort zone
*Persistence Unlimited – The Top 50 Blogs That Will Unleash Your Motivation – a great resource for a ton of different sites related to motivation
*The Motivation Tool Chest – this site has a lot of different articles and tools for how to motivate yourself
Psychology of Motivation
*Stanford Magazine – The Effort Effect – a fascinating article about a study on motivation done at Stanford
*Valdosta.edu – Motivation to Learn: An Overview – some psychological principles behind motivation
*Wikipedia – Motivation – it can’t hurt to understand the basics of motivation itself, can it?
Motivational Tips and Tricks
*Zen Habits – Top 20 Motivation Hacks – An Overview – some great motivational hacks brought to you by Leo Babauta, author of Zen Habits
*Zen Habits – The Ultimate Guide to Motivation – How to Achieve Any Goal – Another Zen Habits post. Leo just really knows motivation!
*Lifehacker – Jerry Seinfeld’s Productivity Secret – an interesting technique comedian Jerry Seinfeld uses
*Pick The Brain – 21 Proven Motivation Tactics – here are some useful tactics for improving your motivation
*SFWA.org – 50 Strategies For Making Yourself Work – some interesting techniques for keeping yourself working and staying self-motivated
*Lifehack.org – Thirteen Tricks to Motivate Yourself – some more great tips to motivate yourself, brought to you by Lifehack.org
*Zen Habits – Get Off Your Butt: 16 Ways to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump – Leo offers some insightful ways to get yourself out of a slump
*Lifehack.org – 8 Tips to Create a Day to Recharge Your Motivation – some useful tips you can use to make time for yourself to recharge
*Lifehack.org – 8 Steps To Continuous Self-Motivation – these are some wonderful techniques for sustaining long-term motivation
*WE The Change – Top 31 Motivation Hacks – even more interesting and relevant tips to motivate yourself
*The Positivity Blog – 5 Things to Remain Positive About When All Hope is Gone – there is a lot of discouragement out there.
Here is how to cope
*Betterlife-seeker – Five Amazing Ways To Motivate Yourself – Better-life Seeker offers five interesting ways to ensure you are motivated
There is never a shortage of information on the web, with the topic of motivation as no exception.
Below are 30 articles and sites for motivation, so you will never be at a loss for ways to motivate yourself when you are feeling discouraged.
General Motivation
*Steve Pavlina – Motivation for Smart People (Sans Chest Pounding) – a great article on how to stay confident and motivated after coming up with a great idea
*Emory.edu – But They Did Not Give Up – this article offers inspiring little blurbs about famous and historical figures who faced setbacks but still achieved success through persistence
*Zen Habits – The Only Two Secrets to Motivating Yourself You’ll Ever Need – two great essential principles to live by to keep yourself motivated
*Think Simple Now – How to Achieve Anything – this article offers very interesting insight into examining why we don’t do something, and then changing these barriers within us
*Pick The Brain – How To Motivate Yourself – Self Motivation – interesting post on why we lose motivation and how to get it back through confidence and focus
*Steve Pavlina – Do It Now – fascinating article by Steve Pavlina who discusses how he accomplished outstanding scholastic achievements through motivation and focus
*Steve Pavlina – Overcoming Negative Emotions and Boosting Motivation – Steve discusses his use of motivational audio tapes to keep himself motivated
*Lifewithoutlimbs.org – this is Nick Vujicic’s website. He was born without limbs but constantly strives to get the most out of life
*Make It Great – this is a blog by Phil Gerbyshak, dedicated to leading a positive and optimistic life and improving relationships
*A List Apart – Staying Motivated – A List Apart is for web designers, but this post is applicable to everyone
*Lifehacker – Hack Attack: Sustaining motivation – a great lifehack on staying motivated
*Life Optimizer – Self Motivation: How to Motivate Yourself – another post offering some great tips on how to motivate yourself and let go of your past
*Get Rich Slowly – The Power of Yes: A Simple Way to Get More Out of Life – an interesting post about breaking out of your comfort zone
*Persistence Unlimited – The Top 50 Blogs That Will Unleash Your Motivation – a great resource for a ton of different sites related to motivation
*The Motivation Tool Chest – this site has a lot of different articles and tools for how to motivate yourself
Psychology of Motivation
*Stanford Magazine – The Effort Effect – a fascinating article about a study on motivation done at Stanford
*Valdosta.edu – Motivation to Learn: An Overview – some psychological principles behind motivation
*Wikipedia – Motivation – it can’t hurt to understand the basics of motivation itself, can it?
Motivational Tips and Tricks
*Zen Habits – Top 20 Motivation Hacks – An Overview – some great motivational hacks brought to you by Leo Babauta, author of Zen Habits
*Zen Habits – The Ultimate Guide to Motivation – How to Achieve Any Goal – Another Zen Habits post. Leo just really knows motivation!
*Lifehacker – Jerry Seinfeld’s Productivity Secret – an interesting technique comedian Jerry Seinfeld uses
*Pick The Brain – 21 Proven Motivation Tactics – here are some useful tactics for improving your motivation
*SFWA.org – 50 Strategies For Making Yourself Work – some interesting techniques for keeping yourself working and staying self-motivated
*Lifehack.org – Thirteen Tricks to Motivate Yourself – some more great tips to motivate yourself, brought to you by Lifehack.org
*Zen Habits – Get Off Your Butt: 16 Ways to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump – Leo offers some insightful ways to get yourself out of a slump
*Lifehack.org – 8 Tips to Create a Day to Recharge Your Motivation – some useful tips you can use to make time for yourself to recharge
*Lifehack.org – 8 Steps To Continuous Self-Motivation – these are some wonderful techniques for sustaining long-term motivation
*WE The Change – Top 31 Motivation Hacks – even more interesting and relevant tips to motivate yourself
*The Positivity Blog – 5 Things to Remain Positive About When All Hope is Gone – there is a lot of discouragement out there.
Here is how to cope
*Betterlife-seeker – Five Amazing Ways To Motivate Yourself – Better-life Seeker offers five interesting ways to ensure you are motivated
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Sunday, June 27, 2010
How to brand yourself
Welcome to the new age of network marketing. If you are like me, you're trying to find a way to bring in an income. The traditional ways of marketing and doing business are a thing of the past. Now we have an amazing opportunity to start recruiting more people for your business along with the amazing ability to connect with thousands through social networking.
Let's face it Corporate America doesn't provide stability for its employees. The stability you get in your career comes from you. Always remember you are the only one who truly appreciates your talents, skills and hard work.
With the economy being in a state of emergency and so many people unemployed, people are struggling to survive and pay their bills. Our nations economic system is in great peril and many of our citizens just do not have the funds to meet the bare requirements to live in a productive society. The internet can fill the gap, step in, and take a role in your finances. Many people like you and me are turning to the internet to find hope.
A man by the name of Mike Dillard came up with a concept called branding yourself, this remarkable concept is producing millionaires all over the world! When you brand yourself, you become the product!
Websites like Youtube, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, blogging, etc... are utilized for this sole purpose. If you're trying to sell a service, or in a home based business, social networking sites are big on branding.
*NO CAREER IS INTERESTING IF IT'S NOT ENGAGING AND CHALLENGING, AND YOUR MOST IMPORTANT JOB IS TO FIND THAT--OVER AND OVER.
*DO NOT SETTLE FOR OUTDATED WORKPLACE MODELS THAT ACCEPT COMPLACENCY AND DOWNPLAY SELF KNOWLEGE. SURE, THE JOB MARKET IS TOUGH NOWADAYS- BUT THAT'S NO REASON TO SETTLE FOR LESS.
*LOYALTY IS CARING ABOUT THE PEOPLE YOU'RE WITH, RIGHT???
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I am a real person looking for simple solutions for everyday issues. I'm currently searching for experts to add to my networks. I'm searching for help in the following ares: nutrition, health and wellness, anti aging procedures, skin care products and services.
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Thanks for your time :) Have a great night!!!
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Let's face it Corporate America doesn't provide stability for its employees. The stability you get in your career comes from you. Always remember you are the only one who truly appreciates your talents, skills and hard work.
With the economy being in a state of emergency and so many people unemployed, people are struggling to survive and pay their bills. Our nations economic system is in great peril and many of our citizens just do not have the funds to meet the bare requirements to live in a productive society. The internet can fill the gap, step in, and take a role in your finances. Many people like you and me are turning to the internet to find hope.
A man by the name of Mike Dillard came up with a concept called branding yourself, this remarkable concept is producing millionaires all over the world! When you brand yourself, you become the product!
Websites like Youtube, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, blogging, etc... are utilized for this sole purpose. If you're trying to sell a service, or in a home based business, social networking sites are big on branding.
*NO CAREER IS INTERESTING IF IT'S NOT ENGAGING AND CHALLENGING, AND YOUR MOST IMPORTANT JOB IS TO FIND THAT--OVER AND OVER.
*DO NOT SETTLE FOR OUTDATED WORKPLACE MODELS THAT ACCEPT COMPLACENCY AND DOWNPLAY SELF KNOWLEGE. SURE, THE JOB MARKET IS TOUGH NOWADAYS- BUT THAT'S NO REASON TO SETTLE FOR LESS.
*LOYALTY IS CARING ABOUT THE PEOPLE YOU'RE WITH, RIGHT???
I want to take this opportunity and let everyone know I'm in several different MLM businesses. I'm always looking for new people to help build OUR DREAM TEAM. Stay tuned for more details.
I am a real person looking for simple solutions for everyday issues. I'm currently searching for experts to add to my networks. I'm searching for help in the following ares: nutrition, health and wellness, anti aging procedures, skin care products and services.
I'm open to ANY suggestions!!!!!
Thanks for your time :) Have a great night!!!
Be Blessed, Melanie
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