All I Need To Know About Life
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Posted:Jul 11, 2007 7:04 pm
Last Updated:Jul 12, 2007 6:52 pm 6272 Views
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I Learned from a Cow
- Wake up in a happy mooo-d.
- Don't cry over spilled milk.
- When chewing your cud, remember .... There is no fat, no calories, no cholesterol and no taste!
- The grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Turn the udder cheek and mooo-ve on.
- Seize every opportunity and milk it for all it's worth!
- It's better to be seen and not herd.
- Honor thy fodder and thy mother and all your udder relatives.
- Always let them know who's bossy!
- Stepping on cow pies brings good luck.
- Black and white is always an appropriate fashion statement.
- Don't forget to cow-nt your blessings every day.
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Little Dog
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Posted:Jul 10, 2007 7:01 am
Last Updated:Jul 12, 2007 2:18 am 6363 Views
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Long ago in a small, far away village, there was a place known as the House of 1000 Mirrors. A small, happy little learned of this place and decided to visit. When he arrived, he bounced happily up the stairs to the doorway with his ears lifted high and his tail wagging as fast as it could. To his great surprised, he found himself staring at 1000 other happy little dogs with their tails wagging just as fast as his. He smiled, and was answered with 1000 great smiles just as warm and friendly. As he left the House, he tought to himself, "This is a wonderful place I will come back and visit it often."
In this same village, another little dog, who was not quite as happy as the first one, decided to visit the house. He slowly climbed the stairs and hung his head low as he looked into the door. When he saw the 1000 unfriendly looking dogs staring back at him, he growled at them and was horrified to see 1000 little dogs growling back at him. As he left, he tought to himself, "That is a horrible place, and I will never go back there again."
All the faces in the world are mirrors. What kind of reflections do you see in the faces of the people you meet?
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Between Friends
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Posted:Jul 8, 2007 7:55 am
Last Updated:Jul 11, 2007 8:18 pm 6490 Views
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The road is never long between Friends.
Sometimes in life, you find a special friend.
Someone who changes your life,
just by being part of it.
Someone who makes you laugh,
until you can't stop.
Someone who makes you believe,
that there really is good in the world.
Someone who convinces you
that there really is an unlocked door
just waiting for you to open it.
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Thoughts become real
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Posted:Jul 8, 2007 6:59 am
Last Updated:Jul 11, 2007 3:20 am 6507 Views
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The thoughts you hold most often and most intensely are the thoughts you will put into action. What you think about life determines what you do with your life.
If you worry enough about something you don't want, you will, unfortunately, find a way to make it happen. In the same way, when your most treasured dreams are clearly and meaningfully focused by your thinking, you'll find a way to make them real.
Thoughts can be volatile and easily changed. Yet despite the fact that they have no physical form, they still have enormous power.
For your thoughts create your map of reality. And that map serves as a reference for all that you do.
Taking control of your thoughts requires nothing more than the will to do so. And just as a small change in the rudder can alter the course of a massive ship, by changing your thinking you can change your whole world.
Think as though your thoughts will become real. For you do surely make them so.
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18 Rules for successful life
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Posted:Jul 7, 2007 9:28 am
Last Updated:Jul 10, 2007 6:50 am 6507 Views
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1. Pursue Achievable goals.
2. Keep A Genuine smile.
3. Share with others.
4. Help Thy Neighbors.
5. Maintain A Youthful Spirit.
6. Get Along with the Rich, the Poor, the Beautiful and the Ugly.
7. Keep Cool under pressure.
8. Lighten the atmosphere with humor.
9. Forgive the annoyance of others.
10. Have few pals.
11. Cooperate and reap greater rewards.
12. Treasure every moment with your loved ones.
13. Have high confidence in yourself.
14. Respect the disadvantaged.
15. Indulge yourself occasionally.
16. Surf the net at leisure.
17. Take calculated risks.
18. Understand "Money Isn't Everything ....."
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Why I fired my secretary ....
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Posted:Jul 7, 2007 8:48 am
Last Updated:Jul 11, 2007 8:20 pm 6430 Views
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Two weeks ago was my 45th birthday, and I wasn't feeling too hot that morning anyway.
I went to breakfast knowing my wife would be pleasant and say "Happy Birthday," and probably have a present for me. She didn't even say "Good Morning," let alone any "Happy Birthday."
I thought, "Well, that's wives for you, the will remember." The came in to breakfast and didn't say a word. When I started to leave for the office I was feeling pretty low and despondent.
As I walked into my office, my secretary, Janet said, "Good morning, boss. Happy Birthday." And I felt a little better, someone had remember. I worked until noon.
Then, Janet knocked on my door and said "You know, it's such a beautiful day outside and it's your birthday, let's go to lunch, just you and me." I said, "By George, that's the greatest thing I've heard all day. Let's go."
We went to lunch.
We didn't go where we normally go, we went out to the country to a little private place. We had two martinis and enjoyed lunch tremendously.
On the way back to the office, she said, "You know it's such a beautiful day. We don't need to go back to the office, do we?"
I said, "No. I guess not."
She said, "Let's go to my apartment. "After arriving at her apartment she said, "Boss, if you don't mind, I think I'll go into the bedroom and slip into something more comfortable."
"Sure," I replied excitedly.
She went into the bedroom and, in about six minutes, she came out carrying a big birthday cake, followed by my wife, , and dozens of our friends, all singing Happy Birthday.
And there I sat ... on the couch .... naked.
 
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A Million Frogs
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Posted:Jul 6, 2007 9:43 am
Last Updated:Jul 10, 2007 6:22 am 7004 Views
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A farmer came into town and asked the owner of a restaurant if he could use a million frog legs. The restaurant owner was shocked and asked the man where he could get so many frog legs! The farmer replied, "There is a pond near my house that is full of frogs - millions of them. They croak all during the night and are about to drive me crazy!"
So the restaurant owner and the farmer made an agreement that the farmer would deliver frogs to the restaurant five hundred at a time for the next several weeks. The first week, the farmer returned to the restaurant looking rather sheepish, with two scrawny little frogs. The restaurant owner said, "Well.... where are all the frogs?" The farmer said, "I was mistaken."
There were only these two frogs in the pond. But they sure were making a lot of noise!" Next time you hear somebody criticizing or making fun of you, remember it's probably just a couple of noisy frogs. Also -- remember that problems always seem bigger in the dark. Have you ever lain in your bed at night worrying about things which seem almost overwhelming -- like a million frogs croaking? Chances are pretty good that when the morning comes, and you take a closer look, you'll wonder what all the fuss was about.
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Power of Non-Violence
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Posted:Jul 6, 2007 12:30 am
Last Updated:Jul 11, 2007 3:09 am 6578 Views
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Dr. Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Non-violence, in his June 9 lecture at the University of Puerto Rico shared the following story :-
I was 16 years old and living with my parents at the institute my grandfather had founded 18 miles outside of Durban, South Africa, in the middle of the sugar plantations. We were deep in the country and had no neighbors, so my two sisters and I would always look forward to going to town to visit friends or go to the movies.
One day, my father asked me to drive him to town for an all-day conference, and I jumped at the chance.
Since I was going to town, my mother gave me a list of groceries she needed and, since I had all day in town, my father asked me to take care of several pending chores, such as getting the car serviced.
When I dropped my father off that morning, he said, "I will meet you here at 5:00 p.m., and we will go home together."
After hurriedly completing my chorse, I went straight to the nearest movie theatre. I got so engrossed in a John Wayne double-feature that I forgot the time. It was 5:30 before I remember. By the time I ran to the garage and got the car and hurried to where my father was waiting for me, it was almost 6:00.
He anxiously asked me, "Why were you late?"
I was so ashamed of telling him I was watching a John Wayne western movie that I said, "The car wasn't ready, so I had to wait," not realizing that he had already called the garage.
When he caught me in the lie, he said : "There's something wrong in the way I bought you up that didn't give you the confidence to tell me the truth.
In order to figure out where I went wrong with you, I'm going to walk home 18 miles and think about it.
So, dressed in his suit and dress shoes, he began to walk home in the dark on mostly unpaved, unlit roads.
I couldn't leave him, so for five-and-a-half hours I drove behind him, watching my father go through this agony for a stupid lie that I uttered. I decided then and there that I was never going to lie again.
I often think about that episode and wonder, if he had punished me the way we punish our , whether I would have learned a lesson at all. I don't think so. I would have suffered the punishement and go on doing the same thing. But this single non-violent action was so powerful that it is still as if it happened yesterday.
That is the power of non-violences.
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Principles of Scheduling
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Posted:Jul 5, 2007 1:16 am
Last Updated:Jul 6, 2007 12:30 am 6211 Views
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Scheduling time to get things done indicates commitment.
Here are five suggestions to consider when schedling appointments and activities in your planner. Schedule your goal-related activities, as well as appointments, directly into your planner. "To do" lists will prevent you from forgetting all the things you have to do, but they will do nothing to further their completion. To be effective, you must schedule time to actually get the work done. The reason that New Years resolutions usually go right in one year and out the other, is that people commit them to memory, but not to paper. What gets scheduled usually gets done. What gets postponed usually gets abandoned.
1. Place deadlines on all appointments and meetings. If you call an open-ended meeting, how can the attendees schedule the balance of their day? And what do they bring with them, a box lunch, a toothbrush or a tent?
2. Make appointments back to back. If you have an appointment to see someone from 9:15 to 9:45 a.m, and someone else asks to see you at 10 a.m., see if they can make it earlier at 9:45 a.m. This will add strength to the first appointment's deadlines. It's easier to stick to a deadline when another person is waiting to see you - and it adds credibility to the comment that you'll have to stop on time since you have another commitment. A fifteen-minutes period between two meetings is rarely productive even if it does materialize.
3. If the appointment is with yourself, to work on a task, schedule a definite time period, say 9:15 to 10:15 a.m., but in this case, don't back it up with another appointment. If someone asks for 10:30, see if they can make it 10:45 or 11:00. This will allow you to continue with your task if you're on a roll. It also allows space to schedule last minutes priorities.
4. Always schedule taks to be completed ahead of the deadline date. If a project is due Friday, if possible, schedule it to be completed by Wednesday. This allows for any unseen problems, emergencies or the possibility of missing the deadline through illness.
5. When scheduling time for a task, always allow more time than you think that portion of the job will take. If you think it will take you one hour to complete it, schedule an hour and a half. If you plan to work on an ongoing project for an hour and a half, schedule two hours. This will provide time to accommodate those interruptions that invariably occur when engrossed in a task.
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8 ways to be a leader
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Posted:Jul 4, 2007 2:42 am
Last Updated:Jul 11, 2007 3:10 am 6517 Views
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Begin with praise and honest appreciation.
Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly.
Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
Let the other person save face.
Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be "hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise."
Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.
Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.
Make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest.
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