Paul Palmer, proud to be a pisces man

There are times that you are going to get caught up in the middle of a bad relationship.  It is definitely not a pleasant thing, and I wish it could be avoided all together, but life is not perfect and neither are relationships.  There are going to be times in a relationship when you just want to walk away, but for some reason you stay and not quite sure why.  The bottom line… love won’t let you leave.

I know it’s frustrating at times when you get your heart broke time after time just to find yourself in the same situation yet again with the same person, and you do what you’ve always done; you stay!  People around you think you are crazy and want to give you advice about what you should do.  The problem with that is that it’s easy to give smart advice when you are not the one in that situation.  They have all the logical answers and speak with great confidence.  As soon as they get placed in the same situation, they usually handle it the same way you did.  And like you, they stay and then ask themselves why.

Love is a wonderful, yet strange thing.  No one can ever explain it or truly understand it.  The one thing that they do know is that it is very powerful!  It can give you hopes and dreams and it can take them away.  It causes you to think outside the box when you are faced with the decision to leave.  It causes you to think things that only makes sense to you and cause you to accept things that you wouldn’t normally accept.  And as strange as it sounds, it’s quite common and very normal. 

Love will also cause you to overlook the truth.  When you catch your significant other in a lie, and you know it’s a lie, love makes you accept it because it is easier on the heart.  Sometimes you would rather accept a lie than the truth, because it makes you feel better.  So now what you know as a lie has become your truth.  The funny thing is when you are on the outside looking in, you see it for the lie that it is, but when you are on the inside, you see what love allows you to see, which ultimately causes you to stay.  You are now starting to be held hostage by your own love.  

While love is holding you hostage, your head begins to tell you one thing while your heart tells you another.  That alone is a battle within itself.  Your head is your sense of reason and your heart is your protector from pain.  No one likes emotional pain and they try to avoid it at all cost.  When pain is lingering in the air, your love for someone sets to the “heart” default to prevent any pain to you.  This is when the heart has just taken over.  Now your mind has to work overtime to help you hold on to the truth.  Your head will give you a hundred reasons why you should leave and your heart can give you just one, and that one can outweigh the hundred because your heart is your protector and it will do whatever it needs to do to protect you from pain.

Many of you will go through trials and tribulations time after time with that someone.  You will shed many tears and time after time and stay for your own personal reasons.  Everyone will become a relationship expert and offer advice.  Despite all of that, only you will know when enough is enough.  Eventually your mind will prevail and allow you to accept reality for what it is and allow you to accept any pain that comes your way. And just like anything else, you will get though it and move on.  But until then… accept the fact that love won’t let you leave

Darnell E. Patton

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Similar to many other industries that are offering services and products, there are many different life insurance companies, in fact many thousands, who can offer you a product or service that will suit the needs that you have, should you be looking for life insurance cover. One organization will not doubt run very differently than the next, but they will all offer the two types of different policies that are offered in the market. The two basic policies that are on offer in the industry to consumers are term and whole – each having their individual pros and cons and offering policy holders different features and guarantees – should you be looking at the differences between these two, then you should be able to find such information on any of the top five industry leaders, who are named below.

Similar to other large organizations in other sectors and service industries, the top five insurance firms have teams of highly qualified and trained customer service agents who are knowledgeable about the products and services on offer and will help you become more informed about such offerings, as well as help you through the buying process of such policies. When you communicate with them, they should be able to answer any questions or queries that you have, should you be a current policy holder, or one that is wanting to join them. However, on many occasions, and as such has become a bad feeling towards larger organizations, many do not understand the importance of delivering great customer service to you and so will generally lose a lot of business through others who know how to treat their customers.  The others that provide excellent customer service and interest in customers and the industry will succeed as a life insurance organization and will grow to be one of the industry leaders, to be recognized and regarded highly by others. Here is a list of the top 5 life insurance companies:

* ARP Life Insurance
* Primerica Life Insurance Company
* Prudential Life Insurance
* New York Life Insurance
* California Life Insurance

Where Are They Located?

As mentioned previously, there are thousands of life insurance companies throughout the whole of America. You will find these firms located anywhere and everywhere, so long as there is a town big enough to warrant them being there.  You will probably not be able to go about your daily life without seeing an advert on a bus or on the tv – they regard their business as competitive and to be honest the amount that the industry is worth I am not surprised. Many have therefore chosen to opt for a more online base to attract, retain and inform people about their company, insurance policies and services, as well as reducing costs that are associated with so many brick and mortar companies throughout America. Some of these organizations who have considered this move to be a little too quick and not in their interests have paid the price, and thus do not appear in the five companies above – something that some have been regretting ever since.

If you are not really a person who goes onto a computer, let alone the Internet, then you will most likely want to buy from an organization via the phone or in person.  You will be able to look through your phone book for a local insurance firm and you should also speak to colleagues and friends, enquiring which one that they have chosen and why. Additionally, if you are able to use the Internet, then more directories and search pages are becoming increasingly accessible via an Internet browser when you load up a web page; generally, you will find an up-to-date set of address and contact details for the companies that you select. However, you should keep ion mind that whilst you will want to find a policy with the best value for money, keeping your costs low, you shouldn’t sacrifice this with poor customer service experience.

Ray Devine

Do you ever speak negatively to yourself, maybe you put yourself down in front of others, or perhaps you have difficulty accepting praise (maybe you don’t think you deserve it)? If you are guilty of doing this, why do you do it? These are all related to low self esteem and a lack of self confidence.

It simply does not pay to put yourself down when you are on a path of self development or self improvement. For every little success you have will be negated by the negative self talk or attitudes you have towards yourself. It’s like one step forward, negative self talk, then two steps back.

Wherever you want to get to in life, whatever you want to do, it is imperative that you become your own best friend first. Why bother with self doubt and loathing? Look where they have got you? Put them behind you, they haven’t served any useful purpose up until now and they won’t serve a useful purpose in the future. All they do is keep you stuck in a self perpetuating loop of negativity and self doubt.

In what situations do you speak negatively towards yourself? Maybe you make a mistake at work and say to yourself ‘I’m an idiot, I always do this’? Or maybe you left the house one day and forgot to bring some important paperwork with you? Did you remind yourself that you are ‘useless person who always forgets things’? Or perhaps you said something even more severe?

What good does it do talking to yourself like this? You are essentially beating yourself up (at least mentally anyway). Do you feel better when you do this? It is like you have this deep belief that you are an idiot, and that this event (whatever it may be) has just proved it correct.

It’s not useful and it gets you nowhere. Instead it just leaves you feeling negative and bad about yourself.

In this day and age, time waits for no one; to be successful you need to be on your own side. You need to continually support yourself through everything you do, it is important to give yourself praise when you make progress (however small) and not to berate yourself when things go wrong.

Remember this if you are having a bad day, or things aren’t going right for you, don’t beat yourself up, you are on a path, you have a goal, don’t get upset by minor things in life, nothing is really that bad. Don’t let anyone else define your happiness. Only you control if you are happy or not, nobody else.

Life can be hard enough without you being your own worst enemy. Always be your own best friend. Learn to accept yourself for who you are at any moment in time.

Paul Alexander Wood

Many lasting life lessons are not academic, but are the soul’s spiritual lessons for growth through adversity. These are moments of transformation and illumination felt deeply as you are in alignment with a universal higher and greater power.I was honored to witness many of these lessons through my daughter, during the final days of my stepfather’s life.

Treasuring my daughter from the moment he knew she would arrive, we all saw their special connection. As Parkinson’s disease and strokes began robbing him of independence and his tremendous intellect, she was eleven. She had lived through her parent’s divorce, moving, my Mom’s cancer and her father’s suicide. I wondered if she would protect her already fragile heart, or be open and vulnerable by loving him through his full lifespan.

Seeing him as the precious grandparent he had always been, through more than 2 years of hospitalizations and nursing home stays she lit up his face with every visit. After wheeling her new bike up to the second floor of the nursing home to show her Dan-Dan, she proudly rode it right out the front door! My daughter creatively included him in her life, and as she adapted, found her love still fit.

During our last Christmas together my stepfather struggled to share his last advice for her to “take advantage of every opportunity”. A simple message,it reflected his life philosophy. After the holidays, his life’s journey was nearing an end, and hard decisions for end of life measures brought anguish for my Mother.From three hours away, the stress of being apart was enormous, and weekend visits and late night phone calls left us living on edge.

Then came a mid-week call indicating that the time was near; sleeping more than awake, doctors said soon he would only sleep away. School was concerned about absences,but we knew we had to go, as we knew the pricelessness of closure, and the empty pain of having none.

The bright blue February day contrasted with the grayness of the pain we felt; we had lived through the death of my ex-husband, and knew what my 75 year old Mom was soon to endure.Entering the hospital room felt like we had entered a different dimension; it was not the setting but the circumstance that felt alien. This was not what life should come to, not a life well-lived in service to others. Our hope was for a meaningful and memorable visit, but I saw that we had entered a different form of “life classroom”.

He was no longer hooked up to tubes he hated but seemingly unaware of our presence; we learned that he had been awake the day before. Perhaps we had missed the opportunity for him to know our goodbye. Uneasy, but staying close, my daughter hated seeing him so thin, his white hair not so clean. Together we gently washed it one last time, and like always, she gently put lotion on his thin skin.I watched her care for her “Dan- Dan”, much as he had cared for her as an infant,her eyes filled with love and acceptance. Life is a full circle!Loving them both, it was almost more than I could bear as I witnessed the essence of my child truly loving another soul, just as they are.

My stepfather had spent his life striving for perfection in all he attempted, to “earn” or deserve acceptance. Even a masters degree in divinity, chemistry, and physics, and a doctorate in education did not lessen his drive to prove himself worthy. Giving thousands of hours in public service, as a spiritual, personal, community and professional role model, he was not satisfied that he had done enough. He always graded himself slightly short, denying his Parkinson’s diagnosis for as long as possible, and embarrassed as he lost strength and balance.

The purpose and meaning of his experience had been a topic of private discussions between us as I suggested his illness was a way for him to be humbled enough to finally love and accept himself. He knew intellectually that grace is a gift and not a pre-paid plan, and I reminded him that he was perfect as he was, with a wheelchair or hospital bed. Now I was saying goodbye to a man truly humbled, and still loved beyond measure. Was that not Grace? Did he feel it in his heart?

Moreover, his long illness had shown my daughter growing in grace, patience, compassion and love. She had come to see love as not only good times, like playing catch, helping with homework, or coming to watch school plays and basketball games. Loving now encompassed loving someone even when pared down to the very essence of life, vulnerable and fragile. Since her Dad’s death, she understood why love is to be treasured and never taken for granted.

Now, it was time to head home. My stepfather had been lightly awake at times, and hopefully he had heard us tell him how much we loved him. I whispered in his ear a wish to let me know when he “got where he was going”,to let me know if he and my husband were together again. (They had been great buddies,sharing a sense of humor unique to their relationship.)

As we neared the door, my daughter turned back for one last try. I believe she needed something she did not get from her Dad, to hear this goodbye. She had encouraged him all afternoon to speak, but he had not spoken in a couple of days. I ached for her disappointment, and questioned whether I had exposed my child to too much. Had I hurt her in trying to help her?

Leaning over the railing very close, she said slowly one more time, “I love you Dan-Dan.” Now awake, I saw he was looking right at her, focusing very intently. We heard a very soft, but clear and precious “…Love …(pause) .. You”. They were the last words that kind, generous and wise man ever spoke, a true gift to a devoted granddaughter who needed that last goodbye so very much.

Almost two years have passed since my stepfather’s death, and tears are hitting my keyboard even now. There is no doubt in my mind that I had the guidance of a higher power helping me parent that day and perhaps heal a small part of the ache for her Dad.

We are faced with so many decisions as parents, the sum total of which help to shape who our children are and will become. Yet, many singular decisions made day- to- day, over and over, appear to be of no great consequence. How do we know which decisions are life-changing? If we reflected too greatly on that, we would make no decisions at all!

I often hear parents who are struggling with major life decisions voice a desire to protect and shelter their child, even staying in unhealthy relationships believing it is best for their child. What are we teaching our children in that classroom that is Life? Children are resilient, and wiser and stronger than we imagine. Lessons they take away from observing and living our choices will one day influence the choices they make when it is all up to them.

Listen to your heart. We hear that so much because the messages of the soul offer guidance, whether through prayer, meditation, music or quiet reflection. By appreciating and respecting a child’s spiritual needs, we are able to place them in a path of learning through adversity, or to try to steer them out of the path. Sometimes the best path for their emotional growth is right beside you, learning from you, while you are still able to hold their hand.

My daughter listens to her heart, even if it hurts. She reaches out to help others,such as in comforting cousins as their Mom was suddenly dying. She sat by her Aunt’s hospital bed to tell her goodbye when others were hesitant to enter that hospital room, taking my Aunt’s hand, and saying goodbye. Her sensitivity and compassion have helped a close friend who recently lost her brother in a car accident, with an inner wisdom greater than her years.

Would I wish for a less traumatic childhood for her? Of course, but I also trust in a Purpose for us all, and see her growing into a young woman with compassion and a deep capacity for understanding. I know in my heart that she will continue to follow her unique life path in a way that honors and expresses her many special gifts. Guided by her promise to her “Dan-Dan”, I know he is also making sure she takes advantage of that opportunity.

And, if you are wondering, he did let us clearly know when he “got there”.

“No exercise is better for the heart than reaching down to lift up another.” Tim Russert

Janice Burroughs

Did you know that people with ADD actually have an evolved brain that’s the next step in where our entire race as human beings is going? That’s one theory about ADD. But it makes sense. With everything going on in the world–the technology, medicine, business… everything–doesn’t it make perfect sense that people are going to need quicker minds?

Never use ADD as an excuse for why your life stinks. Don’t even infer it. Whether or not ADD is an affliction is beside the point. You can’t let the fact that you have ADD destroy your self-image and when you destroy your self-image, you destroy your ability to accomplish anything of consequence, especially maintaining a powerful, strong, unique, and progressive relationship with someone. ADD can be your best asset!.

When many people decide that they’re going to have better relationships, they say, “Why do I have to be the one to change? Why can’t somebody else change?” Today you get a choice. When you have ADD, you can decide to master yourself or you can keep on trying to control everybody else.

When you try to control everybody else, guess what? It usually doesn’t work.

The choice is to either make a change or make a whole lot of changes and be willing to make changes for the rest of your life, in order to stay in strong, healthy relationships or stay the way you are, letting your ADD try to control everyone, and allow things to fall apart.

When we talk about making a change, we’re not talking about changing who you are permanently to be something else, like if you’re left-handed right now, suddenly you should become right-handed. Or, just because you’re ADD, there’s no way you can become non-ADD. We’re not talking about that, not about permanent kinds of changes.

What we’re talking about is using your innate ADD ability to shift, to model, and to work in different modes to simply align yourself at a particular time within a particular relationship to make the relationship go more smoothly. We’re talking about a skill.

If you went out and you did a 12-week French intensive and you learned how to be fairly fluent in French, and right after that, what if you went and learned Chinese and then you learned another language and all of a sudden you know 24 languages.

Because you developed those skills to be able to literally shift gears depending on who you were talking to in order to have better communication, better interaction, more positive back and forth and ultimately have everything run more smoothly and more profitably, either financially or whatever you’re trying to accomplish in the situation, would you be any less you?

No, of course not.

You’d be more.

If you’ve ever been on a cruise and you pull into a port of call in a place where they speak a foreign language, it is so cool to be able to converse with the merchants in that foreign language to buy a souvenir. Think about it, it takes three times as long to make your purchase and it takes a lot more frustration and a lot more energy. Not to mention when you can speak the local language, most of the time you get a better deal.

Try translating that idea into your last negative or abrasive conversation with your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, or your wife. You get a better deal out of the situation if you know how to talk in other people’s languages.

Tellman Knudson And Stephanie Frank
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/adult-add-speak-new-languages-103682.html

A strong belief in yourself will give you the Confidence to achieve whatever you want from your Personal and Professional Life.

Why settle for second best ? Why not seize life with both hands and achieve the things you really want ? What’s stopping you from achieving your true potential?

You are only here once and its too late by the time you a sitting in your rocking chair !

Self confidence is something that can be achieved by anyone – its a life skill and is something that you are born with but it often gets lost along the way.

Life coaching has helped millions of people throughout the world to build their confidence and self belief.

Success breeds success and you will see positive changes in a very short space of time. As your confidence grows, you will want to stretch yourself and see just how far you can go.

Bolster Your Self Confidence in 10 Easy Steps

1 - Work out in your own mind what success means to you. What goals do you want your new confident self to achieve. Make these SMART goals and write them down using the formula, “It is now (date) and I am / have (insert your own words)”. Image these are your ultimate goals if everything was exactly as you wanted it to be (10 out of 10).

2 - For each goal, spend some time thinking about what needs to have happened to let you know that you have achieved this goal ? What will you be saying to yourself, what will you be doing, what will other people be saying ?

3 - 90% of achieving your goals come from the “Why”. Why are these goals important to you ? What are the reasons, write them all down beside each goal.

4 - Beside each goal, estimate where you what score you would give yourself as of today in terms of satisfaction in that particular area.

5 - Work out which areas of your life you are already confident in (if any) and write these down eg. career; relationships; physical; parenting skills etc. List your key strengths in these areas, what are you good at ? Note these down and look for evidence to back these up.

6 - What could you do to move your current rating up by one notch. Eg. if you are confident in your ability to lose weight today at 5/10, what could you do to move it to a 6/10 ? List all possible ideas, spend some quality time doing this and draw up a long list of things that you could do.

7 - Now go through the list of options and select which options will deliver the results you want and appeal most to you, without being overwhelming.

8 - What are the “baby steps” within each of these options that you would need to do, eg. look up a phone number, speak to a friend etc

9 - Prepare an action plan with specific “baby step” tasks and times/dates that these will be done.

10 - Do these actions, remembering why you are doing these and congratulating yourself along the way when you have achieved each small step – you are now moving closer to achieving your goal and living the life you want – CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!

Repeat as necessary until you achieve your goals to your satisfaction.

If you need an independent coach who will listen and challenge you, contact Kaleidoscope Coaching.

Jennifer Bruce

According to a survey, a growing number of people are searching for marriage advice on the internet, based on the reports of search engines. It’s no surprise really, when recession is at its peak, job uncertainty and layoff is at its highest, inflation rises constantly, the demands for today’s environment necessitates constantly keeping abreast of technological advances in any market for both businessmen and job seekers alike, amongst a zillion other factors. At the same time, infidelity and extra marital affairs are growing at an exponential rate especially among co-workers. In such times, how does one manage to keep up the spice in his/her marriage by investing time, energy, money, creativity, and other resources? Or should he manage to make his spouse try and understand him every time?

First of all, let me make this clear – it is certainly possible to spare a bit of your time /resources for your spouse, no matter how busy you are, or how many deadlines you have to meet, or whatever your mental, physical and financial condition is. If you cannot accept this fact, none of the tips I give you (or the ones you find elsewhere) will do you any good. I can actually prove this to you right now – how much time, energy and money do you spend in thinking up of excuses, fighting with your spouse over trivial matter, surfing uselessly on the internet, watching crap on the idiotbox, and spending money on products / services you don’t really need? (Try keeping a record for just one month, you will be surprised). Can not you utilize this time, energy and money for your beloved, for someone with whom you’ve spoken your marriage vows, for someone with whom you decided to spend the rest of your living life? Now if you’re really serious in leading a happy married life, I’ve written a few tips below that will give you maximum ROI in today’s hectic times, so to speak! But before I begin, you need to understand that work time and family time don’t mix, you need to separate them. While it’s OK to share your experience about your day with your spouse, it is not OK to continue your work throughout your family time. If you work entirely out from your home or you have deadlines and need to bring some of the work, home; set a specific time when you plan to complete it and inform it to your spouse. And when the time comes for it to get over, you better quit!

Below are some tips to spruce up your marriage:

1. Spending quality time together is a great way to enhance your marriage, especially doing something of common interest. Watching movies together cuddled on the patio, dining out, going to parties, gardening, cooking, going to the gym, eating together, going for a weekend getaway, going for a walk, etc are just some of the things you can do together, which you would anyway be doing it. If both of you like to do charity, you can go together and shop for whatever it is you would like to donate. For example, cribs, baby clothes and toys for synergy houses and orphanages, trees / plants for a nearby park, preparing food packets and giving it to the poor, etc. Besides the good that it does, charity also boosts your self respect.

Warning: While spending time together is good for you, so is giving each other space. Encourage each other to take time apart and do the things that they love to, without interfering. A “singles” night out is all right at times. Have trust in your spouse – don’t be suspicious and drill them on details.

2. Surprise your spouse with little low cost gifts that are creative and show that you really think of and care for them. Gifting a flower without any occasion (just creatively say “for being my best friend and life partner”), surprise tickets to a concert, getting up a little early and serving breakfast in bed, saying “I love you, sweetheart” just out of the blue and at a time when your spouse least expected it, offering to give a massage, doing one of their errands without being told, flirt with your spouse in a public place (especially if you don’t generally do it), giving compliments, just once leave the toilet seat up (or down whichever is the opposite of your habit), stealing a kiss, making a greeting card and sending it to his office (or to her at home), gifting a personalized item like a porcelain cup with your mate’s name, etc are some ideas; put on your thinking cap and get creative! Write a love letter and put it in unexpected places. If your spouse travels to work, put it in his CD case, or stick an “I love you” note on the mirror before you go to sleep, so your spouse sees it in the morning and smiles!

3. Keep a memory box and fill it with photograph albums, a sexy dress that you no longer wear (but was gifted by your spouse), old movie and concert tickets, old love letters, birthday cards and anniversary cards, travel brochures of places you have visited and enjoyed, etc. You can open the box once in a while and reminisce about each of them, bring the memories alive!

4. Once in a while, go shopping alone and buy a bunch of things just for your mate. Be careful in what you buy; you don’t want to waste a lot of money in things that will never be used. For example, buy a watch for her that has changeable color rings to match her clothes, colorful buckles and hair bands, etc; a travel shaving kit for him, or maybe a box of beers. Buy something “especially for him / her”, not to be used by you at all.

OK friends, I’ll take a break here; look out for my next article “dos and don’ts to lead a happy and healthy married life”. You will find it at http://www.bharatbhasha.com/family.php/107297

Nirjara Rustom
http://www.articlesbase.com/marriage-articles/sprucing-up-your-married-life-on-shoestring-resources-678726.html

I’m sure this message will land me on some kind of enemies list and I will be branded racist, kook, right wing extremist, but I just don’t give a D…., any more. This country has been too good to me and my loved ones to stand by and watch it turned into a dictatorship without letting my voice be heard. I’m going to be communicating to all I can reach via internet while it is still available. How many of you know legislation is quietly sliding through the senate(Jay Rockefeller) that will give the chosen one complete authority to control the internet in the US of A. Where does your internet business go when He decides an “emergency” warrants shutting down the internet for “security” reasons? If you think I am some senile old fool sitting in his rocker holding a drool cup, do so at your peril, you and your loved one freedoms are at risk.

The current President of The United States is the biggest threat this country has ever been faced with. I’ve been on this earth for 73+ years, served eight years in the Air Force and love what this country has always stood for, a place where hard word, education, loyalty, kindness, love and determination will reward you unbelievably well. I’m so sad to see how our newest generations are so simple minded as to believe in this Pied Piper, that he will somehow take care of you in all ways. I am amazed at the speed and ease with which he is being allowed to do this.

The unbelievable debt being generated for future generations will soon come due, but then it will be too late. I’m happy to see there are others like me who understand what is happening, but I fear “He” is already working on ways to shut our mouths permanently. The internet takeover being one of them. Please, Americans, wake up and look at what is happening…not a shot is being fired but our wonderful country is close to surrender, being destroyed silently and quickly from within. There has never been a country as great as ours and if this “change” is allowed to happen, there will never be another like it, ever again.

Why do you think so many people from all over the world want to come here? They’re smarter than we are…they know what the alternatives are, have lived it and want to get away from it. Please, please don’t let this man destroy the American way of life. Write your congress reps. and senators and tell them to oppose this man and his radical ideas.

Many of you aren’t old enough to know the recent past, but there are those who think Jimmy Carter was a good president. He may have been a “good man” but he was without doubt the most ineffectual, uninspiring, unpatriotic president in my lifetime. (I almost voted for him because I was angry at President Ford for letting Nixon off) Thank God I didn’t, it would have been one of the more stupid choices of my life. The country suffered greatly. But I’d trade ‘Bama for Carter in an instant. What Carter did was due to being incompetent and even though he was a screaming liberal, he never held malice towards this country. ‘Bama wants revenge for deeds done long before most of us were born and he wants to be the Ultimate Ruler over this great land. He’s on his way with all the liberal media outlets in his back pocket, figuring ways to stifle talk radio, shut down the internet, cap and trade to increase the cost of energy to where we won’t be able to afford travel, I know I’m leaving alot out, but the best of all will be his “Civilian Army” with “a strength as great as our present miltary”.(His words, not mine) Do you know why he needs this? Who is this unseen threat, we citizens? We have a volunteer military. Some are there because they needed a job, but most are patriots and passionately believe in America and it’s principles, as was my decision “back when” in 1956. If it ultimately came to a total take over of our country because this administration had crippled us so badly we had to capitulate to his rule for just our existence, for food and water, I don’t believe our military would go along with him. He will of course try to ruin the military by holding back funding, which he is already doing.

Ever heard of (Americorps) Let’s not forget Acorn, Apollo Group, the  New Black Panthers to name a few of “HIS chosen troops for his army. The  “civilian army” would be there to finish off the job, taking over the role of our present military. His own personal army. How do you spell “dictator”? This scenario has happened many times before in history, even recently(Hugo Chavez). Wake up before it’s too late. Don’t let him get away with this. Vote him out in 2012. Resist him now. Speak up Be American!!

Wally
http://www.articlesbase.com/politics-articles/speak-up-be-american-1241818.html

Do you want a better job? Do you want more friends? Learn Spanish and you can have both! Spanish is spoken in many parts of the world and is spoken throughout the United States. With so many people speaking Spanish it can improve your job aspects and your friends network if you learn Spanish. Take the time to learn Spanish and many jobs will open up to you. If you learn Spanish, you will have a whole new group of people to be friends with.

Many jobs open up to you when you learn Spanish. Spanish speakers are all over and people need to be able to talk with them. In restaurants, offices, schools, stores, churches, or anywhere else that you find people, there is likely a need to have someone who can speak Spanish. Learn Spanish and these jobs become available to you. Learn Spanish and you can often get higher pay for this very important skill.

Some of the many tools that can help you learn Spanish include listening and responding to Spanish tutor recordings, reading Spanish books, practicing Spanish grammar, spending time in Spanish chat rooms, or talking to friends in Spanish. Learning a new language can be very challenging, but if you are willing to spend the time to work in the language, you will be able to learn Spanish in little time.

To learn Spanish in a classroom is difficult. You get very little one on one attention from the teacher. In a standard classroom, you go in to learn Spanish, but you are practicing with someone who speaks it at the same or lower level than you, another student. You are hearing them speak it wrong, you are practicing it wrong. The teacher might give you a little one on one attention, but if they have 30 students, you will get a minute or two of individual attention in a 60 minute class. This is not enough to learn Spanish. There are many different ways but the easiest way I found is using today’s technology on the net and once I learned a few words it was easy to get into conversation and stumble through to learn more and more words. Going back to how we learned our own language, by using pictures and sounding out words makes learning a new language quick , fun and easy!

Now, if you really want to improve your life and learn Spanish, then you need to spend time with Spanish speakers. Listen to native speakers and practice saying the words like they do. Practice your limited Spanish on native speakers. You will learn Spanish faster, the more you practice. Not to mention how quickly you will pick up the accent. Any native speakers will usually appreciate your attempts to speak their language, even if you get it wrong. Let them help you learn Spanish and use the excuse to go on holiday so you can show off your new skills!

Abi Smith
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We live in a fast paced world that has become more focused on technology and personal advancement than the needs of the individual.  It is easy to get down on yourself or feel the urge to give up, but the truth is that will not solve anything. I am writing this with the hope that it can inspire just 1 person to be a better person and work to achieve a life that is truly fulfilling. I have been where you are at and know what it feels like. I have noticed 2 qualities that seem to prevent many from success and personal happiness.

The first danger you must avoid is a low self esteem. I can not stress this enough. If you do not love yourself, you will never be able to truly love another or be comfortable with who you are. A low self esteem will cause you to underestimate yourself, let manipulative people take advantage of you, cause you to push away people who can help you, and give you a sense of unrest because you will feel like nothing you do is ever good enough. To love yourself, you first must be true to yourself. Contrary to popular belief, people who are prideful, arrogant, materialistic, and vain hate themselves. It is all a front they put up to make others feel inferior. Do not fall into this trap. Society in general mistakes these traits for strength when they are actually glaring signs of weakness and insecurity. You can not achieve happiness through these things. For example, lets take materialism into account. If having better “stuff” than everyone else is what you feel makes you happy, it will be impossible. This is because no matter what you do, there will always be someone else who has better “stuff” than you do, more expensive clothes, bigger house, fancier car, etc. This is a form of competition that will not benefit you. If instead you make up your mind to love yourself, this stuff will not matter to you, and you will be able to see through it. Let us use vanity as an example. Do not mistake me, I believe everyone should try to look their best, but feeling you have to look like an anorexic, bleach blond, D-cupped magazine model is not healthy. I have known models. They have told me that it is impossible unless you more or less starve yourself. Some of them have told me they ate only 1 apple or 1 stalk of celery every day to have the body they have. Every human being has physical flaws, and the sooner you accept them the better off you will be. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Society is extremely shallow, but that does not mean you have to be as well. Look your best, take care of your body, and be happy with that. Those magazines present an image that is unattainable. It is a fantasy. Television and magazines are not real life. They are glamorized to appeal to the masses. If you base your supposed happiness on achieving an impossible and false image, you will never be happy with yourself because there is always something else you could do cosmetically or surgically to try to achieve perfection, which is impossible.

So you ask how do you love yourself? This is easier said than done, but the first step is figuring out who YOU are, not who society feels you should be. Take some time out to sit down and write out the person you want to be, both now and in the future. Also write down the things you love about yourself and things you feel are negatives that you could change. Never stop growing as a person. You can always improve yourself, but do not go overboard or it will overcome you. Also, learn to accept at work at the flaws in your personality. Everyone has at least 1 thing they struggle with, whether they will admit it or not. For me, it is keeping my emotions in check, but with years of work I can see improvement in myself. The next step is the hard part, actually putting a plan into action and fulfilling it. Realize that every human being is born an individual, different DNA and different fingerprints. It is a lot harder to be a leader than a follower, but the truth is nobody respects followers. It is the leaders who make differences in the world, and change starts with the individual. It is a lot less stressful to be yourself than to have to live your entire life pretending to be someone else. Also, keep in mind that no matter what you do you will never be able to please everyone, so just be yourself and make it easier!

The second thing keeping most from bettering their lives is jealousy and blaming others for your problems. You can not be responsible for the actions of others, only your own. It is popular to blame others for problems, but most the time people bring problems on themselves. Are you in an abusive relationship? You picked the other person and are choosing to stay. Have you gotten yourself into debt? Nobody forced you to charge all that stuff. Are you unhappy with your weight? If so, it is not the fault of someone who spends time at the gym. Jealousy will get you nowhere, only give you a sense of false satisfaction by blaming someone else for an issue that is entirely your own. I understand there are some things in life that can not be changed, but for anything that can be it is up to you and you alone to put in the hard work and reap the rewards of positive change in your own life. The sooner you learn to accept responsibility for your actions and love yourself, the sooner you can be a happier person.

I hope this can help someone out there. I am an independent life coach who has been helping young ladies for 6 years. If you are a struggling young lady who would like more information about me or speak with me about what is troubling you, feel free to visit my website at http://jmlifecoach.110mb.com. Thank you for reading, and I hope you have a great day!

Joshua Mikhail