Happy New Year!!

To close 2010 appropriately, I wish to share 11 tips on How To Stay Young that were sent to me by a dear friend:

1. Throw out non-essential numbers.

This includes age, weight and height.
Let the doctors worry about them.
That's why you pay them.

2. Keep only cheerful friends.

The grouches pull you down.

3. Keep learning.

Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever...
Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.'
And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh often, long and loud.

Laugh until you gasp for breath.

6. The tears happen.

Endure, grieve and move on.
The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves.
Be ALIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love...

Whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.
Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health.

If it is good, preserve it.
If is is unstable, improve it.
If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9. Don't take guilt trips.

Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county,
to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Tell the people around you that you love them at every opportunity.

11. AND ALWAYS REMEMBER

Life is not measured by the breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.

I hope you will share this message with someone...
We all need to live life to its fullest each day.

Self Improvement as a Way of Life

Every thought we have, every decision we make and every action we take is for our self improvement either directly or indirectly. Oh, the millions of wondrous possibilities and wondrous probabilities that are available to each of us each day.

 In one source, I counted  44 different aspects of self improvement. These aspects range from "Abundance Prosperity" [very popular these days], Mind Development, Time Management, and also includes information on  Shopping and Product Reviews. This one library contains quite an array of varied information. And, unfortunately, there is a vast amount of misinformation that is also published and available to the ill-informed reader. How does one tell the difference?

One friend of mine, calls it "a jungle". I like this analogy for its visual connotation and for the imagined fear that would be ever present if we were transported to a real jungle. However, when you "people watch" you become more aware of the jungle of imagined fear that encompasses so many people today.

This leads me to the "Law of Cause and Effect". Can you envision Ignorance as being the Cause/Source of Fear? And, then how does this relate to all of Marketing Tactics that are based on Fear? And how does this make you feel when you have been "scammed" [tricked into buying into something that you felt would bring you Abundance and  Prosperity]?

I ask you to ponder these thoughts and your reaction to them. You cannot change your life without allowing new directions to your road map of being. No excuses for the past are allowed. You cannot change the past; it's over; however, you can change the future course of your life by contemplating new thought.

I also ask you to join me in discovering and planting the seeds of Love, Happiness, Joy and Inner Peace in the beautiful garden of Your Innermost Heart.