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SSA Blog #54 By Michelle
Drew March 6 2006
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About our Sponsors...
I
come to the SSA column more often than anyone, and for many
reasons. The most obvious is that I write the column. Anoother reason
that I visit frequently is to view and try out our sponsors. The
program we use for ads is Google. While I am not a fan of advertising
per se, I have come to realize that I simply could not afford to
spponsor this website myself. Given that it was ncessary to use
advertising, I am relying on Google to have good ads to my readers. So
of course I click often and visit the sponsors. What I have found, much
to my own surprise, that there are services and products that I have
found and used here on the SSA site. I do keep an eye out, but if there
are ads that you find disturbing, please let me know. At the moment,
only ads for tobacco products are blocked, and I am not seeing a
problem there.
SO....Given
all that, do click on a sponsor ad. Internet services, and marketing on
the internet is the newest success and the way of the future.
Some great information and products are out there for YOU...
All Good Thoughts
<
style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">No
pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, nomaterial
success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the
<
style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">sense
of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, forthe
preservation of self-approval.
Minot
Simons
You
are the same today that you'll be five years from now except for two
things: the people you meet and the books you read.
Mac McMillan
Find something you're
passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
Julia
Child
Inspirational Reading
IN FOCUS
by Steve Goodier
In reading a
mortality chart, I discovered something truly amazing. A
great number
of people die each year from a disease I had never heard
of! Of course,
there was the predictable number who died of heart
attacks,
cancer, stroke, accidents and the like, but at the bottom of
the chart was
one that surprised me. It was called "miscellaneous."
Apparently,
a large number of people die of "miscellaneous" every
year!
I think I
understand why. I suffer from "miscellaneous" when I go
in too many
directions at once. When I am scattered, the disease
begins to take
over. Soon my self-esteem is
affected and I
feel as if I'm doing nothing important. Flitting here
and there, I
have no overriding purpose and I feel as if my life is
spinning out
of control. It must be a terrible way to die!
However, I
believe there is a cure for the disease. It's called
"focus." A
focused person is one who knows what is important and
follows the
path. She may have many interests, but one calling. A
focused
person hears one voice more clearly than the others...and
follows. Some
call it pursuing a mission. Some call it knowing your
purpose.
Others call it being centered. Whatever it is called, a
focused
life can be meaningful and happy.
Not every path
should be followed, and not every goal should become a
life's
calling. But a truly worthy focus can raise a life from
mediocrity and
save it from a slow death by miscellaneous.
Are you in
focus?
__________
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