Failure is only temporary. It does not have to be a life script. The real trick is to pick yourself up, and look straight ahead and move forward. This means looking at what you did wrong and how you can do it differently.
by: Charles Swindol
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home.
This past week my wife had to go to St Al’s (a local hospital) for a procedure where she had to stay overnight. We were both nervous with our worst fears as we walked in the front door of the hospital at 5 am Monday morning.
As we walked into the main entrance, we felt that we had entered the 21st century of hospital care. The revolving from was spacious. The entrance had the front desktop to the left and a giant water fall to the right. Colors, shapes, and sounds (or lack of it) was designed to make you feel nothing more than comfort and ease.
I am finding many website that are offering help as there are layoff, cutbacks, and high prices. CNBC.com has a budget breakdown as to what you should be spending. I personally think these proportions should be adjusted to the individual families actual needs.
For ways to cut back on saving money I am going to link to Consumerist.com. As many experts that are out there on the internet I figure it maybe refreshing to hear what some people are doing.
When times get hard, we often withdraw and try to make it through hard times on our own. But it is the time we need to pull our friends and families closest to us. We only can make it through difficult times with help and support of those around us.
Nothing says deep emotions more than a good country song. This is especially true when a particularly true when a country song is sung over and over again by different artist, over the years.
Ray Littrell compares the price of a chocolate bar in the mid 1960’s along with the price of wages. Then Ray take looks at the price of wages today.
We are losing ground, compared to the standard of living in the mid 1960’s. Sure we have computers and more modern conveniences, but we have less money in our pockets.
Listen to Ray’s presentation of the Chocolate Index
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A few month ago, I got the audio version of As A Man Thinketh. It is written by James Allen. Allen insists upon
the power of the individual to form his own character and to create his own happiness.
Thought and character are one, he says, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state. This does not mean that a man’s circumstances at any given time are an indication of his entire character, but that those circumstances are so intimately connected with some vital thought element within him that, for the time being, they are indispensable to his development.
