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Archive for August, 2009

Another one by Liv Lane…http://www.myangelpie.blogspot.com/

This one is brand new and I have no doubt it will be as fun to read as her year of beauty.

The Rules for Being Human

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s yours to keep for the entire duration.

2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time, informal school called life.

3. There are no mistakes. Only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error and experimentation. The “failed’ experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately “work”.

4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms, until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.

5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that doesn’t contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are still lessons to be learned.

6. “There” is no better then “here”. When your “there” has become “here”, you will simply obtain another “there” that will again look better than “here”.

7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you.

9. You will forget all this.

Thank you to Sunny Dawn Johnston for sharing this great list!

Very inspirational…http://oneyearofbeauty.blogspot.com/

Encarta defines wealth as “an abundance or great quantity of something”.

Many of us automatically jump to the thought of money when we hear the word wealth.  I know I do. Or at least I did.  When my friend, Cathy, and I decided to co-facilitate a Commanding Wealth Circle I struggled with the name because I didn’t want people to think it was all about money.  Yes, money is a part of it.  We need it to live and enjoy some of life’s pleasures (although many pleasures are free).  I actually pulled out the dictionary as I was creating flyers for the group.  That’s when I saw how expansive the word “wealth” can be.  It’s just how we choose to define it for ourselves.

I am reminded of a story I heard once about a “wealthy” man and his son.  The man wanted to teach his son how lucky he was and thought he could do this by showing the son how poor people live.  They went to the country and spent some time on a farm with a family that would be considered quite poor.

At the end of the trip, the father asked his son what he thought.  The son had a great time and told his father that what he learned was this:

• They have one dog and the family had four.
• They have a pool and the family has a creek that goes on forever.
• They have lanterns in their garden and the family has stars in the sky.
• They have a piece of land and the family has fields that go farther than the eye can see.
• They buy their food and the family grows their own.
• They have walls to protect them and the family has friends.

The son then said to his father, “Thank you for showing me how poor we are.”

It’s all perspective.  Everything in life is that way.  We get to choose how we want to define everything in our world.  It’s both a blessing and curse – depending on your perspective.  Which will you choose?

For more information on the Commanding Wealth Circles, visit our website.

A while back during one of our Virtual Lodestone Networking meeting I shared some of my favorite tips and tricks of social media. I love sharing the things I come across that make my life easier so I thought I’d share just a couple here.

If you Twitter, think about using Hootsuite.com, a free site that allows you (among other things) to schedule out your tweets. This makes it a lot easier to be consistent – a very important piece of effective social media.  They just upgraded it and it has several new features.

Also, on Facebook there is a great Twitter application. When you install the application. It allows you to Tweet right from Facebook AND when you Tweet from anywhere, your Tweets show up on Facebook as a status update. But if you want to be able to be selective, try the Selective Twitter app.  This will only publish the tweets with #fb at the end of them.  This is a great way to manage your social media more effectively.

Most experts in social media will tell you to pick one platform and stick with it until you get really good.  Then add another if you choose.  These two tips will allow you to do both Facebook and Twitter without much extra work.  Let me know how it goes…