SSA Blog #41     By Michelle Drew     January 18 2006

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Hello to All!!! A quick catch up today. The past few weeks have been a time of cleaning up old business and creating goals for new business for 2006. If you are like me, you found that there were important things unaddressed last year, that have popped to the forefront for me. While some may criticize the making of New Year's Resolutions, I am a great believer in goals. If you are in business or in a service industry, you may find that goals are refreshed at the start of the fiscal year, July 1. Others use the calendar year to start new goals. If you don't have an annual goal date, I urge you to adopt one. Remember, if you have no goals, you are going no where.

For myself, here are some new goals, and some renewed goals.

1. Renew efforts toward good health and healthy living. For me, this involves, weight loss, increased physical activity and stress reduction.

2. Change charities. Some charities have received donations for years, and are otherwise fairly well funded. This year we have found some new charities that are wonderfully helpful and empowering. You will hear more about them as time goes by.

3. Increase editorial writing. Helping political issues become better known and understood is something I can work harder at. Politics is not something that occurs on election days only. If you pay attention to what is happening all year, you won't be fooled into believing political promises and rhetoric designed to trick voters into supporting them.

4. To recognize and release the causes of frustrations, such as things I cannot change. To this end I have resigned from a professional organization with whom I simply did not share the same vision.

5. To increase my appreciation for life by continuing to publish this blog and share the wealth!!!

All Good Thoughts

Happiness is a way station between to little and too much.
Channing Pollock

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In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.
O. Carl Simonton

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have,
and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful
lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg

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In the long run we shape our lives and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.  And the choices we
make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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Inspirational Reading

For personal inspirations, as well as for material published in this blog, we feature the writings of Steve Goodier.
Steve is a very generous writer who allows anyone to use his content for free. He does have a web site that you can
visit to find more information and writings by him. I hope that you will give him a click at http://www.lifesupportsystem.com

SYMPTOMS OF INNER PEACE by Steve Goodier

How would you rate your level of "Inner Peace"? Enough to stay
calm in a den of lions? Enough to get through a good day? Enough
for the next five minutes, so long as everybody leaves you alone?

You may need a good case of inner peace, a disease that could
leave you stress-free and contented for years to come. A
chiropractor named Jeff Rockwell composed a list he calls
"Symptoms of Inner Peace." You may have already caught this
disease! See how many of these symptoms you exhibit:

1. A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than from
fears based on past experiences.

2. An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment.

3. A loss of interest in judging self.

4. A loss of interest in judging others.

5. A loss of interest in conflict.

6. A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.

7. A loss of ability to worry (this is a serious symptom).

8. Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation.

9. Contented feelings of connectedness with others and nature.

10. Frequent attacks of smiling through the eyes of the heart.

11. Increasing susceptibility to love extended by others as well
as the uncontrollable urge to extend it.

12. An increasing tendency to let things happen.

Inner peace is a communicable disease that could possibly infect
your home or workplace. You may already be showing signs of it
and quite possibly be passing it along to others! Rockwell warns:
"If you have all or even most of the above symptoms, please be
advised that your condition of PEACE may be so far advanced as to
not be treatable."

Have you caught it?


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