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Well peoples...here we are at the half way point of 2007, and didn't that go by quickly? How are your intentions for 2007 or your New Year resolutions, moving along?
Some of you have been sitting on a fence for quite some months, if not years. I image that could be painful! Is it time for you to throw your hat over the fence and, at minimum, buy my 30 minute life coaching orientation audio? Think about your breakfast of bacon and eggs. The chicken is merely interested, the pig is committed. don’t be a chicken!
During June, I was very pleased that I was again honoured with an opportunity to contribute to the Perpetual Light Fund. It is such a wonderful project. This fund gives out an award of $100 every month to a light worker around the world. Each month a new individual receives a light award for the purpose of starting or expanding a life-enhancing business.
She’s smart, she’s sassy and she eats rogue corporations for breakfast. Now the original Erin Brockovich is coming to Perth for lunch, and you can be there.
You might be interested to join me in a global peace initiative that's being launched on August 1. The principle behind it is simple: people like us are going to take a few simple steps to become more peaceful in ourselves, which in turn will make us a more peaceful influence on those around us. There's much more to it than this, so please check it out at www.millionmeditators.org
Explore your mystical experience of the Divine and tap into your highest potential in this empowering new workshop by spiritual teacher and visionary author, Caroline Myss. I am giving you advanced notice of Caroline's Entering the Castle Australian Tour because leaving it till the 1st August edition of Triggers may be too late.
On 7 July join the Live Earth party with Avaaz and Al Gore! Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent concert series taking place on 7/7/07 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis.
Business Owners, Solo-preneurs, Speakers, Consultants and Coaches - Do You Want to Avoid the Top 10 Money Mistakes that Ensure Your Business Will Eat You Alive? Join Elizabeth Potts Weinstein, for her free teleclass, How to Avoid Business Owner's Top 10 Money Mistakes.
This month, in place of one of an article that I author, I will share with you Erin's philosophy statement at the Brockovich blog, written by Erin Brockovich.
It is so inspiring and affirming, as is Erin. She shares the following message better than I would have said it.
When you visit her blog site, it is also worth the time to read her personal account of her life, in her bio.
"People ask me all the time what I think and what my opinion is.
Well, here are a few of my thoughts and beliefs:
Everyone believes, because of the movie, that I am an environmental activist. I am often referred to as the environmentalist with cleavage.
I do care a great deal about the environment but my real work and my greatest challenge is trying to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public health and safety.
I am an advocate for awareness, the truth, and a person's right to know. I believe that in the absence of the truth, all of us stand helpless to defend ourselves, our families and our health, which is the greatest gift we have. As with everything, some people always go too far, too far to the right, too far to the left, and this is true of environmentalism and now, in many instances, our issues fall on a deaf ear.
Often times we don’t think about or worry about or understand what is happening to another until it happens to us. Deceits have no boundaries. Disease doesn’t recognize the color of our skin or our political parties affiliation. When it comes to cover-ups and destruction of our environment, we our all up for grabs.
A lot of times I am motivated or become very inspired by a cliché. They make me think and more often than not can be true. For example, "an informed citizen is the only true repository of the American will" - Thomas Jefferson. Oh how right he was.
I believe that our perception of things become our reality. It is how you choose to see yourself, your character, that can actually determine your fate.
Most people don’t know that my favorite movie is not "Erin Brockovich" but "Pay It Forward". All of us should pay it forward but not with the expectation of seeing a reward, that is not why we do it. Pay if forward because it is the right thing to do, reward or not.
If you follow your heart, if you listen to your gut, and if you extend your hand to help another, not for any agenda, but for the sake of humanity, you are going to find the truth."
~ You are only ever one insight away from a breakthrough.
~ If nothing changes...nothing changes!
~ Life is not a practice game.
~ Focus on the 20 percent that matters.
~ There are results and consequences for every action, and non-action.
Arthur Browning is the author of Webtemplates Blog. He co-authors and manages several other websites as well, including Design Interviews. Arthur also writes on art at Contemporary Art Gallery Magazine, world affairs and social problems - as well as being an investor and art collector. He spent many years studying psychology, sociology, art, and world affairs in graduate and postgraduate university programs.
This is a fun service provided by FutureMe.org You can write yourself a letter and it will be emailed to you on a date that you indicate at the site. That could be next week, in a year, or in a few years. To date 425,960 letters have been written to the future and counting...
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This site is an archive of Dharma talks given by Gil Fronsdal and various guest speakers at the Insight Meditation Center since 2000. Each talk illuminates aspects of the Buddha's teachings. The purpose is the same that the Buddha had for his teachings, to guide us toward the end of suffering and the attainment of freedom.
In 2008 you will be able to listen to the thousands of testimonies which have been collected, and add your own testimony to the site. In the meantime, take a look at the project, the team, and some interviews that have already been made at 6 billion Others, a project by Yann Arthus-Bertrand.
Davide DeAngelis (aka The Money Shaman) is giving away an incredibly powerful free e-course called The New Money Dynamics which includes 7 days of audio recordings as well a beautifully laid out booklet.
Expensr (not a spelling error), is a free online personal finance application. expensr is founded by Reman Child and Shawn Gupta. As working professionals, they needed a fast and easy way to track their spending habits. After complaining to each other over lunch one day about not knowing where all their money went, they decided to do something about it. That's how expensr was born. The founders still have trouble putting money away, but at least now they know where it all goes.
An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family.
He would miss the paycheck, but he wanted to retire. They could get by. The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end his career.
When the carpenter finished his work and the builder came to inspect the house, the contractor handed the front-door key to the carpenter. "This is your house," he said, "my gift to you."
What a shock! What a shame! If he had only known he was building his own house, he would have done it all so differently. Now he had to live in the home he had built none too well.
So it is with us. If we build our lives in a distracted way, reacting rather than acting, willing to put up less than the best. At important points we do not give the job our best effort. Then with a shock we look at the situation we have created and find that we are now living in the house we have built. If we had realized that we would have done it differently.
Think of yourself as the carpenter. Think about your house. Each day you hammer a nail, place a board, or erect a wall. Build wisely.
It is the only life you will ever build. Even if you live it for only one day more, that day deserves to be lived graciously and with dignity.
The plaque on the wall says, "Life is a do-it-yourself project."
Your attitudes and the choices you make today will be your life tomorrow, build it wisely.
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