I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort to cut back. From then on, I’ve tried to be a little more flexible.

How many women out there will eat at home because their husband didn’t suggest going out to dinner until after something had been thawed? Does the word “refrigeration”
mean nothing to you?

How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while you watched ‘Jeopardy’ on television?
I cannot count the times I called my sister and said, “How about going to lunch in a half hour?” She would gas up and stammer, “I can’t. I have clothes on the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday, I had a late breakfast, It looks like rain.” And my personal favorite: “It’s Monday.” She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch together.

Because we cram so much into our lives, we tend to schedule our headaches… We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to ourselves when all the conditions are perfect!
We’ll go back and visit the grandparents when we get Stevie toilet-trained. We’ll entertain when we replace the living- room carpet. We’ll go on a second honeymoon when we get two more kids out of college.

Life has a way of accelerating as we get older. The days get shorter, and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer.
One morning, we awaken, and all we have to show for our lives is a litany of “I’m going to,” “I plan on,” and “Someday, when things are settled down a bit.” When anyone calls my ’seize the moment’ friend, she is open to adventure and available for trips. She keeps an open mind on new ideas.
Her enthusiasm for life is contagious. You talk with her for five minutes, and you’re ready to trade your bad feet for a pair of Rollerblades and skip an elevator for a bungee cord.

My lips have not touched ice cream in 10 years. I love ice cream. It’s just that I might as well apply it directly to my stomach with a spatula and eliminate the digestive process. The other day, I stopped the car and bought a triple-decker. If my car had hit an iceberg on the way home, I would have died happy!

Now… go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to do… not something on your ‘SHOULD DO’ list.

Written by an unknown author.

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So I think it’s fine for me to write occasionally about blogging, internet marketing and list building as these are things which can definitely contribute to your wealth.

In this case I have to agree with the Build a Better Blog ladies who say that it’s darn aggravating when people don’t leave their names when commenting. I myself can’t determine either whether to take the comment for real or consider it spam. And how the heck do you reply back to the person?

So I’m guilty of being Richcroc on some places like Twitter, & Science of Getting Rich Forums but every one knows I’m Claudia Apfelthaler. Oh and then there’s the Science of Being Well Forums which I like to hang out at from time to time where I’m registered as Healthcroc.

A little portrait puts a face behind the name. Me I’ve got nothing to hide and you?

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He walked away, his little heart broken.
I didn’t realize how harshly I’d spoken.
While I lay awake in bed,
A still small voice came to me and said, “While dealing with a stranger, common courtesy you use, But the children you love, you seem to abuse.
Go and look on the kitchen floor,
You’ll find some flowers there by the door.
Those are the flowers he brought for you.
He picked them himself: pink, yellow and blue.
He stood very quietly not to spoil the surprise, and you never saw the tears that filled his little eyes.”

By this time, I felt very small,
and now my tears began to fall.
I quietly went and knelt by his bed;
“Wake up, little one, wake up,” I said. ”
Are these the flowers you picked for me?”
He smiled, “I found ‘em, out by the tree.
I picked ‘em because they’re pretty like you.
I knew you’d like ‘em, especially the blue.”
I said, “Son, I’m very sorry for the way I acted today; I shouldn’t have yelled at you that way.”
He said, “Oh, Mom, that’s okay. I love you anyway.”
I said, “Son, I love you too,
and I do like the flowers, especially the blue.”

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I was watching Galileo which is one of those TV programmes which has all sorts og interesting stuff. Anyway on this particular series some clever people were saying that each person has a left and a right face. So after seeing the experiment on TV I thought I’ve got to try this out on myself. I always knew that my left and right face is different. One look in the mirror told me so. I know my smile is skew. I was kind of shocked by the results and I nearly didn’t publish it for fear of revealing my neanderthaler aspects to the world! (Every woman likes to show only her best self) But what the heck? These are my pictures. I did this with photoshop. I ruled a line down the middle of my face and then copied the separate halves and stuck the mirror images together.

It’s like I can see my kind self and my mean self. Ouch!

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Hello this is the hottest and most informative internet marketing information available. And it’s FREE.

You got that right - FREE.

I know I should have told you about this earlier but I was well, how can I say? I was just having an identity problem can you believe?

Seriously I was having a crisis about my blog and freaking out about which template to use etc. Every time I looked at the darn thing I just hated it. And that of course turned into a whole procrastination scenario - common I’m sure you’ve been there.

Then I totally believed I had to buy myself a camcorder because my webcam doesn’t allow me creativity and bla bla…. Typical procrastination.

Phew, glad I found the wordpress theme I’m using because you know what? it just resonated with me. And I don’t care if other people are using it. The point is I have dreams often that I’m in one of those hot air balloons. This was like wow, here are the pictures in my head in a FREE wordpress theme!

But now back to the 30 day challenge - it’s beginning on the 1st of August 2008 and there’s some preseason stuff you need to catch up with. Stuff like learning about twitter, friendfeed and browsers etc.

Let me just say that I’ve been around some and the 30 day challenge is worth money.

Ed and Dan are more than just nice guys. Ed is on the social front more but Dan’s a clever geek guy and between the two of them you land up with a dynamite package. Also they’re fun which counts loads for me. Because I despise boring big time. So they get my vote for entertaining and informative.

Do yourself a favor like this minute and get signed up to the 30 Day Challenge.

Here’s a video I made on my webcam the day before I fell into useless apathy ha ha… but it is about the 30 day challenge.

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But I tell you one thing I can testify to is that gratitude gets you heaps. Every day my life is unfolding more beautifully as I reach out for my dreams. And I don’t mean it in a material greedy way even though I think poverty sucks. I’m talking about feeling totally happy and grateful because the sun is out - the winter is over.

It’s so rejuvenating and often I think back to my poor days and again I don’t mean it in a material way but on reflection that time when my spirit seemed so impoverished instead of feeling grateful for what i had i was bitching and whining - even on beautiful sunny days.

But I’ll tell you one thing I went through an incredible process in the winter it was kind of like my cocoon phase and now the butterfly is emerging.

Serious.

I didn’t do it on my own I was guided by an incredible person - Dr Gayek of The Science of Being Well Networks

So I suggest you go check it out to - this is the ultimate Mind, Body & Soul programme on the internet.

I promise as of today I’ll be a good girl and blogging a lot more regurlarly.

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I was skeptical about the Mind Control Marketing Book because the name sounds so evil.

But knowing that Mark is a no nonsense guy and that I’ve never felt that I’ve been ripped off by him I thought what the hell, I don’t think it will be evil.

Mark has sensed that a lot of people might feel that way and writes about that in the first chapter.  It is not evil to persuade your customer to choose you over thousands of others. I mean that is what business is right?

I’m a believer in the law of attraction which states you must know what you want and then take the action to get you there. The action part is where many people meet “shipwreck” as the grand daddy Wallace Wattles says in his book The Science of Getting Rich which is the book that everybody, including the wisest of the wise seems to have read. Mind Control Marketing will show you how to effectively put together an irrestible offer. This is not about scamsville. This is so in tune with giving people quality service or product.

I’m glad I invested in the $27 for the book. As usual Mark over delivers.

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Sometimes the fear has been more sort of a self induced anxiety than actual fear of danger.  Fear in it’s self is not a bad thing because it helps us to survive. If we didn’t have fear we would expose ourselves to really dangerous situations that can lead to death or severe bodily harm.

Anyway watch Dr. Duckett give his take on fear. I enjoy his approach. So many of the so called feel good gurus  have a esoteric approach which makes things hard to understand and get a grip on.

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Jack took a long look at his speedometer before slowing
down: 73 in a 55 zone. Fourth time in as many months. How could a guy get caught so often?

When his car had slowed to 10 miles an hour, Jack pulled over, but only partially. Let the cop worry about the potential traffic hazard. Maybe some other car will tweak his backside with a mirror. The cop was stepping out of his car, the big pad in hand.

Bob? Bob from Church? Jack sunk farther into his trench coat. This was worse than the coming ticket. A cop catching a guy from his own church. A guy who happened to be a little eager to get home after a long day at the office. A guy he was about to play golf with tomorrow.

Jumping out of the car, he approached a man he saw every Sunday, a man he’d never seen in uniform. “Hi, Bob. Fancy meeting you like this.”

“Hello, Jack.” No smile.

“Guess you caught me red-handed in a rush to see my wife and kids.”

“Yeah, I guess.” Bob seemed uncertain. Good.

“I’ve seen some long days at the office lately. I’m afraid I bent the rules a bit -just this once.” Jack toed at a pebble on the pavement. “Diane said something about roast beef and potatoes tonight. Know what I mean?”

“I know what you mean. I also know that you have a reputation in our precinct.”

Ouch. This was not going in the right direction. Time to change tactics.

“What’d you clock me at?”

“Seventy. Would you sit back in your car please?”

“Now wait a minute here, Bob. I checked as soon as I saw you. I was barely nudging 65.” The lie seemed to come easier with every ticket.

“Please, Jack, in the car.”

Flustered, Jack hunched himself through the still-open door.
Slamming it shut, he stared at the dashboard. He was in no rush to open the window. The minutes ticked by. Bob scribbled away on the pad. Why hadn’t he asked for a driver’s license?

Whatever the reason, it would be a month of Sundays before Jack ever sat near this cop again. A tap on the door jerked his head to the left. There was Bob, a folded paper in hand.
Jack rolled down the window a mere two inches, just enough room for Bob to pass him the slip.

“Thanks.” Jack could not quite keep the sneer out of his voice.

Bob returned to his police car without a word. Jack watched his retreat in the mirror. Jack unfolded the sheet of paper.
How much was this one going to cost? Wait a minute. What was this? Some kind of joke? Certainly not a ticket. Jack began to read:

“Dear Jack,

Once upon a time I had a daughter. She was six when killed by a car. You guessed it — a speeding driver. A fine and three months in jail, and the man was free. Free to hug his daughters. All three of them. I only had one, and I’m going to have to wait until Heaven before I can ever hug her again. A thousand times I’ve tried to forgive that man. A thousand times I thought I had. Maybe I did, but I need to do it again. Even now. Pray for me. And be careful, Jack, my son is all I have left.

- Bob”

Jack turned around in time to see Bob’s car pull away and head down the road. Jack watched until it disappeared. A full 15 minutes later, he too, pulled away and drove slowly home, praying for forgiveness and hugging a surprised wife and kids when he arrived.

Life is precious. Handle with care.

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1. Egypt’s Great Pyramids
2. Taj Mahal
3. Grand Canyon
4. Panama Canal
5. Empire State Building
6. St. Peter’s Basilica
7. China’s Great Wall

While gathering the votes, the teacher noticed that one quiet student hadn’t turned in her paper yet. So she asked the girl if she was having trouble with her list. The girl replied, “Yes, a little. I couldn’t quite make up my mind because there were so many.”

The teacher said, “Well, tell us what you have, and maybe we can help.”

The girl hesitated, then read, “I think the ‘Seven Wonders of the World’ are:

1. to see
2. to hear
3. to touch
4. to taste
5. to feel
6. to laugh
7. and to love.”

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