Wings of Love Gospel Singing Group was formulated in the year 2000. Their home base is Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. Its members comprised of four vocalists and four musicians. The group has seen changes over the years of members coming and going because of various commitments. They have traveled to many places in Canada spreading the gospel in song and looking forward to extending their “wings of love” to other countries as well.
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Sunday, September 23, 2007
Sunday, August 5, 2007
The Safe Way to Prevent Heart Disease By Shane Ellison
High cholesterol leads to heart disease, right?
Wrong!
Heart disease is not a disease of high cholesterol. If cholesterol were the culprit, this ubiquitous substance would clog up the entire 100,000 miles of adult veins, arteries and capillaries. Instead, 90 percent of heart disease cases are caused by the narrowing of the spaghetti-sized coronary arteries. The rest of the arteries, veins and capillaries that nourish the body remain perfectly healthy, despite being rich in cholesterol and fat. This observation alone renders the cholesterol theory of heart disease obsolete.
Yet the medical system pushes cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins as the answer to a nonexistent problem-even though the treatment can be worse than the disease.
As a former drug chemist, I saw first-hand how drug side effects are hidden from patients and doctors by Big Pharma. Statins serve as poignant examples of how these side effects may actually cause more damage than they prevent.
1. Cholesterol-lowering drugs decrease CoQ10 levels within the heart. This essential energy-producing molecule is crucial to proper cardiovascular function. Without it, you can develop congestive heart failure -- the heart literally fails.
2. Cholesterol-lowering drugs can destroy memory. Cholesterol works to ensure the integrity of the myelin sheath. This coating within the brain is responsible for encouraging the passage of electrical messages. It is needed for memory and focus. As the cholesterol-lowering drugs deplete cholesterol, the myelin sheath breaks down and memory deteriorates.
3. Cholesterol-lowering drugs can increase the risk of cancer. Studies show they mimic a growth factor responsible for cancer's proliferation. The growth factor is known as VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor). VEGF is "cancer fertilizer." Thus, cholesterol-lowering drugs create an environment within the user's body conducive to cancer growth.
The fact that cholesterol-lowering drugs can potentially cause cancer will never be mainstream. Drug company-funded studies are conveniently short in nature, typically five years or less, while it usually takes decades for cancer to develop. Even heavy smoking will not cause lung cancer within five years. As long as the cholesterol-lowering drug trials last only five years, this side effect will continue to fly below the radar. A coincidence?
Side effects of cholesterol-lowering drugs are discounted by medical doctors because they are usually hidden by drug companies who pay for the study. Consider: The British Medical Journal has reported that only 30 percent of statin drug trials have reported the number of participants with one or more negative side effects caused by the drug!
According to USA Today, the U.S. government is not sending out warnings either. They reported, "Statins have killed and injured more people than the government has acknowledged."
Fortunately, we don't need to rely on cholesterol-lowering drugs to prevent heart disease. Studies show that cholesterol does not play a role in this pandemic killer. In fact, cholesterol appears to increase lifespan. You will have to wrestle with this -- it is the antithesis of what drug companies and medical doctors promote. But it's true nonetheless. Supporting the conclusions of many other studies, the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society showed that elderly individuals with low total cholesterol levels (less than 189 mg/dL) were at higher risk of dying than those with cholesterol levels from 276 to 417 mg/dL.
Science has made great strides in identifying the true cause of heart disease: inflammation. Inflammation leading to heart disease is typically the result of nutritional deficiencies and poor lifestyle habits. Preventing inflammation by adhering to proper nutrition is working to prevent heart disease.
A wildly effective way to prevent inflammation is to increase your sensitivity to the fat-storing hormone known as insulin. Aside from cinnamon (1-5 g daily), exposure to sunlight and drinking green tea, other methods of increasing insulin sensitivity exist:
1. Interval training is among the best techniques for increasing insulin sensitivity and lowering inflammation. Short bouts of resistance training followed by rest cause the muscles to absorb insulin from the blood stream. As an added benefit, the body produces anti-inflammatory molecules known as cytokines in response to interval training.
2. Nutritional supplementation with magnesium (400 mg daily) also increases insulin sensitivity. A magnesium deficiency inhibits insulin from escorting glucose out of the bloodstream into muscles. The end result is insulin resistance and an increased risk of heart attack. Magnesium aspartate is the best-absorbed form of magnesium.
3. Tannic acid from the banaba leaf mimics the actions of insulin by eliciting glucose transport from the blood stream into muscle. The safe and effective blood-sugar-lowering effect of tannic acid has caught the attention of Big Pharma. Many drug companies are working rigorously to create a synthetic knock-off in order to use it as an insulin-sensitizing agent among diabetics.
Increasing insulin sensitivity has become the absolute hottest area of research. Not only does it suggest a single way of ameliorating heart disease, but also a host of other diseases caused by inflammation. These include but are not limited to diabetes, cancer and even Alzheimer's.
Instead of dosing patients up with a handful of drugs to treat a handful of diseases, increasing insulin sensitivity is one remedy for all three - and allows us to avoid the hidden dangers of cholesterol-lowering drugs!
[Ed. Note: Shane Ellison is known as "The People's Chemist." He holds a Master's degree in organic chemistry and has first-hand industry experience with drug research, design and synthesis. He is the author of Health Myths Exposed and The Hidden Truth About Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs. Get his FREE Life-Saving Health Briefs here...]
Wrong!
Heart disease is not a disease of high cholesterol. If cholesterol were the culprit, this ubiquitous substance would clog up the entire 100,000 miles of adult veins, arteries and capillaries. Instead, 90 percent of heart disease cases are caused by the narrowing of the spaghetti-sized coronary arteries. The rest of the arteries, veins and capillaries that nourish the body remain perfectly healthy, despite being rich in cholesterol and fat. This observation alone renders the cholesterol theory of heart disease obsolete.
Yet the medical system pushes cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins as the answer to a nonexistent problem-even though the treatment can be worse than the disease.
As a former drug chemist, I saw first-hand how drug side effects are hidden from patients and doctors by Big Pharma. Statins serve as poignant examples of how these side effects may actually cause more damage than they prevent.
1. Cholesterol-lowering drugs decrease CoQ10 levels within the heart. This essential energy-producing molecule is crucial to proper cardiovascular function. Without it, you can develop congestive heart failure -- the heart literally fails.
2. Cholesterol-lowering drugs can destroy memory. Cholesterol works to ensure the integrity of the myelin sheath. This coating within the brain is responsible for encouraging the passage of electrical messages. It is needed for memory and focus. As the cholesterol-lowering drugs deplete cholesterol, the myelin sheath breaks down and memory deteriorates.
3. Cholesterol-lowering drugs can increase the risk of cancer. Studies show they mimic a growth factor responsible for cancer's proliferation. The growth factor is known as VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor). VEGF is "cancer fertilizer." Thus, cholesterol-lowering drugs create an environment within the user's body conducive to cancer growth.
The fact that cholesterol-lowering drugs can potentially cause cancer will never be mainstream. Drug company-funded studies are conveniently short in nature, typically five years or less, while it usually takes decades for cancer to develop. Even heavy smoking will not cause lung cancer within five years. As long as the cholesterol-lowering drug trials last only five years, this side effect will continue to fly below the radar. A coincidence?
Side effects of cholesterol-lowering drugs are discounted by medical doctors because they are usually hidden by drug companies who pay for the study. Consider: The British Medical Journal has reported that only 30 percent of statin drug trials have reported the number of participants with one or more negative side effects caused by the drug!
According to USA Today, the U.S. government is not sending out warnings either. They reported, "Statins have killed and injured more people than the government has acknowledged."
Fortunately, we don't need to rely on cholesterol-lowering drugs to prevent heart disease. Studies show that cholesterol does not play a role in this pandemic killer. In fact, cholesterol appears to increase lifespan. You will have to wrestle with this -- it is the antithesis of what drug companies and medical doctors promote. But it's true nonetheless. Supporting the conclusions of many other studies, the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society showed that elderly individuals with low total cholesterol levels (less than 189 mg/dL) were at higher risk of dying than those with cholesterol levels from 276 to 417 mg/dL.
Science has made great strides in identifying the true cause of heart disease: inflammation. Inflammation leading to heart disease is typically the result of nutritional deficiencies and poor lifestyle habits. Preventing inflammation by adhering to proper nutrition is working to prevent heart disease.
A wildly effective way to prevent inflammation is to increase your sensitivity to the fat-storing hormone known as insulin. Aside from cinnamon (1-5 g daily), exposure to sunlight and drinking green tea, other methods of increasing insulin sensitivity exist:
1. Interval training is among the best techniques for increasing insulin sensitivity and lowering inflammation. Short bouts of resistance training followed by rest cause the muscles to absorb insulin from the blood stream. As an added benefit, the body produces anti-inflammatory molecules known as cytokines in response to interval training.
2. Nutritional supplementation with magnesium (400 mg daily) also increases insulin sensitivity. A magnesium deficiency inhibits insulin from escorting glucose out of the bloodstream into muscles. The end result is insulin resistance and an increased risk of heart attack. Magnesium aspartate is the best-absorbed form of magnesium.
3. Tannic acid from the banaba leaf mimics the actions of insulin by eliciting glucose transport from the blood stream into muscle. The safe and effective blood-sugar-lowering effect of tannic acid has caught the attention of Big Pharma. Many drug companies are working rigorously to create a synthetic knock-off in order to use it as an insulin-sensitizing agent among diabetics.
Increasing insulin sensitivity has become the absolute hottest area of research. Not only does it suggest a single way of ameliorating heart disease, but also a host of other diseases caused by inflammation. These include but are not limited to diabetes, cancer and even Alzheimer's.
Instead of dosing patients up with a handful of drugs to treat a handful of diseases, increasing insulin sensitivity is one remedy for all three - and allows us to avoid the hidden dangers of cholesterol-lowering drugs!
[Ed. Note: Shane Ellison is known as "The People's Chemist." He holds a Master's degree in organic chemistry and has first-hand industry experience with drug research, design and synthesis. He is the author of Health Myths Exposed and The Hidden Truth About Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs. Get his FREE Life-Saving Health Briefs here...]
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Sunday, July 29, 2007
6 Ways You Can Reverse the Aging Process
You know that as you get older, you’re going to physically change for the worse. I’m convinced that if you effectively address these physical “age markers,” your health span will soar and you’ll look and feel younger.
I’ve measured how physical capacities change with age. Then, I’ve tracked each change against efforts to reverse them. I’d like you to focus on six important physical age changes that you can reverse.
1. Loss of lean tissue mass. Your muscles and internal organs are lean tissues. As we age, most of us lose both muscle and internal organ weight and replace the lean tissue with fat. People who age well, who seem to be far younger than their years, retain their lean tissue mass. Indeed, the Evergreen Project found that the more lean tissue you have the longer your life, the fewer your illnesses and the better your mental functioning.
Lean tissues protect you from many age-related ailments:
• Reduces risk of bone fractures by supporting bones.
• Improves sexual health by stimulating sex hormone production.
• Reverses hormonal age by boosting human growth hormone.
• Helps you keep trim by boosting your metabolic rate.
• Gives you more energy by increasing glycogen stores.
• Decreases risk of infection by strengthening your immune system.
Lean tissue loss begins at age 30, with an average of three pounds lost per decade. Yet the loss is preventable and completely reversible. I’ve seen patients of all ages regain 100 percent of their youthful lean mass.
To build muscle mass, you must engage your big muscles. The quadriceps on the front of your thigh, the hamstrings on the back of your leg and the gluteus of the buttocks are your three biggest. Provide stiff resistance through a broad range of motion for these three muscles. This can include weight training with squats or leg presses, bodyweight exercises, bicycling, stair-steppers or elliptical machines.
2. Shrinking lungs. As years pass, your lung volume shrinks. By the time you’re 60, you’ve lost up to 40 percent of your lung volume. Here’s how you can measure yours: Ask your doctor to give you a pulmonary function test to check your lung capacity. I find it very valuable to monitor the benefits of exercise at reversing the loss of lung volume that afflicts so many elders.
3. Diminishing heart capacity. Most people don’t realize that they’re losing heart capacity until it’s too late – when they’re in the emergency room after a heart attack. Yet you can get a gauge of your heart capacity by measuring your recovery heart rate.
Begin by walking comfortably for two minutes. Then measure your heart rate by locating your pulse on your wrist and counting the number of beats for 15 seconds, then multiply by four to get the beats per minute. This is your normal-activity heart rate. Now do a round of jumping jacks. Then, after two minutes measure your heart rate again.
Next, check your heart rate until it returns to your normal-activity rate. The amount of time from peak activity back to your normal-activity heart rate is your recovery time. The fitter you are, the faster your heart rate will recover back to normal.
If you don’t practice short-burst cardio, your heart and lungs have probably lost capacity. Here’s what to do. Use short bursts of cardio to get your heart rate to a target range for your age. Start at 60 percent of your maximum heart rate. (Your maximum heart is 220 minus your age.) In a few weeks work up to 80 percent of your maximal heart rate.
4. Increasing body fat. If you don’t act to prevent it, fat slowly but relentlessly replaces lean tissue as you age. But again, this shift is not inevitable.
Start by measuring your body fat. Get it measured at the gym or use a set of calipers. My youthful body fat goal is 8 to 16 percent for men and 12 to 24 percent for women.
Fat loss starts with adequate protein. This signals your body that, “the hunting is good.” What do you need to store extra body fat for if you will eat well again tomorrow? To put your body in fat-burning mode, over-consume protein, and minimize everything else. This is one piece of advice where I get a lot of resistance. If you can have some faith and try it, you’ll see too how much easier it makes losing fat and achieving a more youthful body.
Finally, short bursts of exercise burn fat best. Short bursts use energy from carbohydrates stored in muscle rather than from fat. Carbs burn energy at a much higher rate. You then burn off your fat during the recovery period as you replenish the carbs.
5. Thinning bones
6. Loss of functional strength. You can use the same routine to build bone density and functional strength. As it turns out, your bones respond to stressors put on them by increasing their density. And, if you are effectively stressing your bones, you will also be building functional strength.
Most adults lose 1 percent of bone mass annually. As you lose bone minerals, your bones become lighter, more porous, weaker and at greater risk for fracture. Unfortunately, a bone must lose a quarter of its weight before a standard X-ray can see the problem. Instead, get a bone mineral density test (BMD). The best BMDs test the bones of your lower spine and hip. These areas are at higher risk for fracture as you age.
If your BMD detects trouble, you can increase bone density and strength with weight-bearing exercise such as walking, bicycling, swimming or weight training. Focus on increasing intensity in all of these exercises.
Taking calcium will have little effect on this loss of bone with age. But you can help reverse the process with the only vitamin that’s also a hormone, vitamin D. Take 400 IU of vitamin D daily or one tablespoon of cod liver oil (the best native vitamin D source).
Get started on your own physical anti-aging program today. Begin nice and easy. You’ll have to build up to some of the exercises. If you feel any pain, dizziness or shortness of breath, slow down. Just get started and try them. The age-defying results will surprise you.
[Ed. Note: Dr. Sears, Chairman of the Board of Total Health Breakthroughs, is a practicing physician and the author of The Doctor's Heart Cure, is a leading authority on longevity, physical fitness and heart health.]
I’ve measured how physical capacities change with age. Then, I’ve tracked each change against efforts to reverse them. I’d like you to focus on six important physical age changes that you can reverse.
1. Loss of lean tissue mass. Your muscles and internal organs are lean tissues. As we age, most of us lose both muscle and internal organ weight and replace the lean tissue with fat. People who age well, who seem to be far younger than their years, retain their lean tissue mass. Indeed, the Evergreen Project found that the more lean tissue you have the longer your life, the fewer your illnesses and the better your mental functioning.
Lean tissues protect you from many age-related ailments:
• Reduces risk of bone fractures by supporting bones.
• Improves sexual health by stimulating sex hormone production.
• Reverses hormonal age by boosting human growth hormone.
• Helps you keep trim by boosting your metabolic rate.
• Gives you more energy by increasing glycogen stores.
• Decreases risk of infection by strengthening your immune system.
Lean tissue loss begins at age 30, with an average of three pounds lost per decade. Yet the loss is preventable and completely reversible. I’ve seen patients of all ages regain 100 percent of their youthful lean mass.
To build muscle mass, you must engage your big muscles. The quadriceps on the front of your thigh, the hamstrings on the back of your leg and the gluteus of the buttocks are your three biggest. Provide stiff resistance through a broad range of motion for these three muscles. This can include weight training with squats or leg presses, bodyweight exercises, bicycling, stair-steppers or elliptical machines.
2. Shrinking lungs. As years pass, your lung volume shrinks. By the time you’re 60, you’ve lost up to 40 percent of your lung volume. Here’s how you can measure yours: Ask your doctor to give you a pulmonary function test to check your lung capacity. I find it very valuable to monitor the benefits of exercise at reversing the loss of lung volume that afflicts so many elders.
3. Diminishing heart capacity. Most people don’t realize that they’re losing heart capacity until it’s too late – when they’re in the emergency room after a heart attack. Yet you can get a gauge of your heart capacity by measuring your recovery heart rate.
Begin by walking comfortably for two minutes. Then measure your heart rate by locating your pulse on your wrist and counting the number of beats for 15 seconds, then multiply by four to get the beats per minute. This is your normal-activity heart rate. Now do a round of jumping jacks. Then, after two minutes measure your heart rate again.
Next, check your heart rate until it returns to your normal-activity rate. The amount of time from peak activity back to your normal-activity heart rate is your recovery time. The fitter you are, the faster your heart rate will recover back to normal.
If you don’t practice short-burst cardio, your heart and lungs have probably lost capacity. Here’s what to do. Use short bursts of cardio to get your heart rate to a target range for your age. Start at 60 percent of your maximum heart rate. (Your maximum heart is 220 minus your age.) In a few weeks work up to 80 percent of your maximal heart rate.
4. Increasing body fat. If you don’t act to prevent it, fat slowly but relentlessly replaces lean tissue as you age. But again, this shift is not inevitable.
Start by measuring your body fat. Get it measured at the gym or use a set of calipers. My youthful body fat goal is 8 to 16 percent for men and 12 to 24 percent for women.
Fat loss starts with adequate protein. This signals your body that, “the hunting is good.” What do you need to store extra body fat for if you will eat well again tomorrow? To put your body in fat-burning mode, over-consume protein, and minimize everything else. This is one piece of advice where I get a lot of resistance. If you can have some faith and try it, you’ll see too how much easier it makes losing fat and achieving a more youthful body.
Finally, short bursts of exercise burn fat best. Short bursts use energy from carbohydrates stored in muscle rather than from fat. Carbs burn energy at a much higher rate. You then burn off your fat during the recovery period as you replenish the carbs.
5. Thinning bones
6. Loss of functional strength. You can use the same routine to build bone density and functional strength. As it turns out, your bones respond to stressors put on them by increasing their density. And, if you are effectively stressing your bones, you will also be building functional strength.
Most adults lose 1 percent of bone mass annually. As you lose bone minerals, your bones become lighter, more porous, weaker and at greater risk for fracture. Unfortunately, a bone must lose a quarter of its weight before a standard X-ray can see the problem. Instead, get a bone mineral density test (BMD). The best BMDs test the bones of your lower spine and hip. These areas are at higher risk for fracture as you age.
If your BMD detects trouble, you can increase bone density and strength with weight-bearing exercise such as walking, bicycling, swimming or weight training. Focus on increasing intensity in all of these exercises.
Taking calcium will have little effect on this loss of bone with age. But you can help reverse the process with the only vitamin that’s also a hormone, vitamin D. Take 400 IU of vitamin D daily or one tablespoon of cod liver oil (the best native vitamin D source).
Get started on your own physical anti-aging program today. Begin nice and easy. You’ll have to build up to some of the exercises. If you feel any pain, dizziness or shortness of breath, slow down. Just get started and try them. The age-defying results will surprise you.
[Ed. Note: Dr. Sears, Chairman of the Board of Total Health Breakthroughs, is a practicing physician and the author of The Doctor's Heart Cure, is a leading authority on longevity, physical fitness and heart health.]
Sunday, June 17, 2007
WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY
Sometimes words are not enough. You know what you’d like to give to someone but simply don’t have the time to go out and purchase it or you want to say something to someone but don't know how to say it, especially on those occasions when words are not necessary. Why not say it with gifts or collectibles. Check us out for gifts for every occasions and at a price you can afford. Come on over to www.joannorastore.com
Sunday, June 10, 2007
INFLUENCE
Every one is surrounded by an atmosphere of its own-an atmosphere, it may be, charged with the life-giving power of faith, courage, and hope, and sweet with the fragrance of love. Or it may be heavy and chill with the gloom of discontent and selfishness. By the atmosphere surrounding us, every person with whom we come in contact is consciously or unconsciously affected.
This is the responsibility from which we cannot free ourselves. Our words, our acts, our dress, our deportment, even the expression of the countenance, has an influence. Upon the impression thus made there hang results for good or evil which no man can measure. Every impulse thus imparted is seed sown which will produce its harvest. It is a link in the long chain of human events, extending we know not whither. If by our example we aid others in the development of good principles, we give them power to do good. In their turn they exert the same influence upon others, and they upon still others. Thus by our unconscious influence thousands may be blessed.
Throw a pebble into the lake, a wave is formed, and another and another, and as they increase, the circle widens, until it reaches the very shore. So with our influence. Beyond our knowledge or control it tells upon others in blessing or in cursing.
This is the responsibility from which we cannot free ourselves. Our words, our acts, our dress, our deportment, even the expression of the countenance, has an influence. Upon the impression thus made there hang results for good or evil which no man can measure. Every impulse thus imparted is seed sown which will produce its harvest. It is a link in the long chain of human events, extending we know not whither. If by our example we aid others in the development of good principles, we give them power to do good. In their turn they exert the same influence upon others, and they upon still others. Thus by our unconscious influence thousands may be blessed.
Throw a pebble into the lake, a wave is formed, and another and another, and as they increase, the circle widens, until it reaches the very shore. So with our influence. Beyond our knowledge or control it tells upon others in blessing or in cursing.
Thursday, June 7, 2007
SPEECH
The power of speech is a talent that should be diligently cultivated. Of all the gifts we have received from God, none is capable of being a greater blessing that this. With the voice we convince and persuade, with it we offer prayer and praise to God. How important, then, that it be so trained as to be most effective for good.
The culture and right use of the voice are greatly neglected, even by persons of intelligence and Christian activity. There are many who read or speak in so low or so rapid a manner that they cannot be readily understood. Some have a thick, indistinct utterance; others speak in a high key, in sharp, shrill tones, that are painful to the hearers. Reports and other papers presented in public assemblies are sometimes read in such a way that they are not understood and often so that their force and impressiveness are destroyed. This is an evil that can and should be corrected.
By diligent effort all may acquire the power to read intelligibly, and to speak in a full, clear, round tone, in a distinct and impressive manner.
The right culture and use of the power of speech has to do with every line of work. It enters into the home life, and into all our intercourse with one another. We should accustom ourselves to speak in pleasant tones, to use words that are kind and courteous.
In seeking to correct and reform others we should be careful of our words. They will be a savor of life unto life or of death unto death. In giving reproof or counsel, many indulge in sharp, severe speech, words not adapted to heal the wounded soul. By these ill-advised expressions the spirit is chafed, and often the erring ones are stirred to rebellion. Under all circumstances reproof should be spoken in love.
The culture and right use of the voice are greatly neglected, even by persons of intelligence and Christian activity. There are many who read or speak in so low or so rapid a manner that they cannot be readily understood. Some have a thick, indistinct utterance; others speak in a high key, in sharp, shrill tones, that are painful to the hearers. Reports and other papers presented in public assemblies are sometimes read in such a way that they are not understood and often so that their force and impressiveness are destroyed. This is an evil that can and should be corrected.
By diligent effort all may acquire the power to read intelligibly, and to speak in a full, clear, round tone, in a distinct and impressive manner.
The right culture and use of the power of speech has to do with every line of work. It enters into the home life, and into all our intercourse with one another. We should accustom ourselves to speak in pleasant tones, to use words that are kind and courteous.
In seeking to correct and reform others we should be careful of our words. They will be a savor of life unto life or of death unto death. In giving reproof or counsel, many indulge in sharp, severe speech, words not adapted to heal the wounded soul. By these ill-advised expressions the spirit is chafed, and often the erring ones are stirred to rebellion. Under all circumstances reproof should be spoken in love.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
SET STANDARDS
Many whom God has qualified to do excellent work accomplish very little, because they attempt little. Thousands pass through life as if they had no definite object for which to live, no standard to reach. Such will obtain a reward proportionate to their works.
Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascent the whole length of the ladder of progress. Let nothing hinder you. Fate has not woven its meshes about any human being so firmly that he need remain helpless and in uncertainty. Opposing circumstances should create a firm determination to overcome them. The breaking down of one barrier will give greater ability and courage to go forward. Press with determination in the right direction, and circumstances will be your helpers, not your hindrances.
Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascent the whole length of the ladder of progress. Let nothing hinder you. Fate has not woven its meshes about any human being so firmly that he need remain helpless and in uncertainty. Opposing circumstances should create a firm determination to overcome them. The breaking down of one barrier will give greater ability and courage to go forward. Press with determination in the right direction, and circumstances will be your helpers, not your hindrances.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
INSPIRATION
"I know how inspiration is to me. I make it a part of my daily routine to read and listen to positive, inspirational information. When I wake up I take time to pray and meditate and read scripture or listen to something positive because statistics show that if you read or listen to something positive in the first twenty minutes of your day your productivity will go up dramatically. Why is that?
If you woke up this morning and it was rainy and cold and wet and clammy outside, what does your body usually want to do? Go back to bed!. Yet, if you wake up and the sun is shining and the birds are singing and it's a beautiful day, you are more apt to want to get up and take advantage of that day, so as not to miss one minute of it.
The same is true for your psyche. If you wake up and hear how bad things are and how many negative things happened overnight, it creates a cloud above you. You might get up but you are not enthusiastic about jumping into that day. But if you wake up and read something positive like Lion and Gazelle, which states:
Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up and knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed and eaten, also every morning in Africa a lion wakes up and knows that it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle...when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
Whatever you do, make it a habit to wake up and start your day with that which is positive, powerful, and inspirational. When you start your day in a positive way, you begin your day with a new perspective, a new attitude, and a new excitement. You are excited about being alive, and if you are excited about being alive, you are more apt to try more. If you try more, you are more apt to achieve more. Choose to program yourself rather than letting the negative naysayers program you. Choose to win."
-Willie Jolley
If you woke up this morning and it was rainy and cold and wet and clammy outside, what does your body usually want to do? Go back to bed!. Yet, if you wake up and the sun is shining and the birds are singing and it's a beautiful day, you are more apt to want to get up and take advantage of that day, so as not to miss one minute of it.
The same is true for your psyche. If you wake up and hear how bad things are and how many negative things happened overnight, it creates a cloud above you. You might get up but you are not enthusiastic about jumping into that day. But if you wake up and read something positive like Lion and Gazelle, which states:
Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up and knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed and eaten, also every morning in Africa a lion wakes up and knows that it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle...when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
Whatever you do, make it a habit to wake up and start your day with that which is positive, powerful, and inspirational. When you start your day in a positive way, you begin your day with a new perspective, a new attitude, and a new excitement. You are excited about being alive, and if you are excited about being alive, you are more apt to try more. If you try more, you are more apt to achieve more. Choose to program yourself rather than letting the negative naysayers program you. Choose to win."
-Willie Jolley
LIFE IS A BIT LIKE A BALANCE SHEET
Are you familiar with the phrase, “her life hung in the balance?” This describes a woman teetering on the edge, hovering between life and death. One wrong move, one bad decision, and game is over. Obviously, I hope that doesn’t describe your situation. The point I want to make is that creating balance is critical to living the life you really want. If you are always on the edge, taking everything to extremes, it puts incredible pressure on you and the people close to you. In the long run, that’s not healthy.
Your life is a bit like a balance sheet. It’s a statement of accounts, a running tally of how you’re really doing. In business, when expenses consistently exceed revenues, a financial crisis is not far away. It’s the same with life balance. If your life load does not allow time for rejuvenation, a health crisis may be close at hand. If this describes you, it’s time to make changes now! If you are at a turning point, a critical juncture where the expense column is significantly outweighing your income, then it’s time to make corrections. Look at the payoff. A healthy balance sheet inspires confidence and self-assurance. It shows you are in control. It proves you are using good judgement and common sense. The overall effect will have you constantly smiling because you are in harmony with the world and with yourself.
-Fran Hewitt
Your life is a bit like a balance sheet. It’s a statement of accounts, a running tally of how you’re really doing. In business, when expenses consistently exceed revenues, a financial crisis is not far away. It’s the same with life balance. If your life load does not allow time for rejuvenation, a health crisis may be close at hand. If this describes you, it’s time to make changes now! If you are at a turning point, a critical juncture where the expense column is significantly outweighing your income, then it’s time to make corrections. Look at the payoff. A healthy balance sheet inspires confidence and self-assurance. It shows you are in control. It proves you are using good judgement and common sense. The overall effect will have you constantly smiling because you are in harmony with the world and with yourself.
-Fran Hewitt
Monday, June 4, 2007
IT'S NOT WHAT YOU ARE THAT HOLDS YOU BACK....
It's not what you are that holds you back. It's what you think
you're not." Those wise words from Denis Waitley probably
explain more people's failure to achieve the life they seek
than any other quote I'm aware of.
What keeps most people from achieving is they spend too much
time dwelling on their weaknesses and shortcomings instead of
focusing on their gifts. And that's significantly due to their
self-esteem (or lack thereof).
www.asamanthinketh.net
you're not." Those wise words from Denis Waitley probably
explain more people's failure to achieve the life they seek
than any other quote I'm aware of.
What keeps most people from achieving is they spend too much
time dwelling on their weaknesses and shortcomings instead of
focusing on their gifts. And that's significantly due to their
self-esteem (or lack thereof).
www.asamanthinketh.net
THE LAW OF ATTRACTION
"People do not attract that which they want, but that which they are."
- As A Man Thinketh
To put it another way: When you stop working on what it is you're trying to get, and start working on YOU, only then will you get what it is you want.
It really is very basic when you think about it. Jim Rohn says, "To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract."
I know so many people who work very hard and diligently and sacrifice greatly in an effort to create wealth. But they haven't changed who they are, and until they begin to think and act like wealthy people they'll never attract the wealth they seek. Wealthy people don't think and act the way they do because they have wealth. They have wealth because they think and act that way.
How many people are on a diet today who don't stand a chance of losing (and keeping off) any weight because they're still the same person who gained all that weight to start with. Let me repeat again, so you'll grasp how important this is: Slim
people don't think and act the way they do because they're slim. They're slim because they think and act that way.
To get what you want, you change who you are, and you change who you are by simply changing the way you think and act. And one technique for doing that which is promoted by a lot of wise teachers is to "act as if." If you "act as if" you're slim long enough, then one day you will attract slimness even though you may be 100 pounds overweight today. If you act as if you're wealthy long enough, then one day you will attract all the wealth you can imagine even though you may this moment be destitute and homeless.
Bob Proctor says, "Act like the person you want to become. For as Goethe, the German philosopher, once wrote, 'Before you can do something, you first must be something.'"
And that's worth thinking about.
- As A Man Thinketh
To put it another way: When you stop working on what it is you're trying to get, and start working on YOU, only then will you get what it is you want.
It really is very basic when you think about it. Jim Rohn says, "To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract."
I know so many people who work very hard and diligently and sacrifice greatly in an effort to create wealth. But they haven't changed who they are, and until they begin to think and act like wealthy people they'll never attract the wealth they seek. Wealthy people don't think and act the way they do because they have wealth. They have wealth because they think and act that way.
How many people are on a diet today who don't stand a chance of losing (and keeping off) any weight because they're still the same person who gained all that weight to start with. Let me repeat again, so you'll grasp how important this is: Slim
people don't think and act the way they do because they're slim. They're slim because they think and act that way.
To get what you want, you change who you are, and you change who you are by simply changing the way you think and act. And one technique for doing that which is promoted by a lot of wise teachers is to "act as if." If you "act as if" you're slim long enough, then one day you will attract slimness even though you may be 100 pounds overweight today. If you act as if you're wealthy long enough, then one day you will attract all the wealth you can imagine even though you may this moment be destitute and homeless.
Bob Proctor says, "Act like the person you want to become. For as Goethe, the German philosopher, once wrote, 'Before you can do something, you first must be something.'"
And that's worth thinking about.
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