Ann Wigmore
Here is an excerpt from the book The Wheatgrass Book by Ann Wigmore (1909-1993)
who was a holistic health practitioner, nutritionist and whole foods advocate.
WHEATGRASS AND OVERCOMING CANCER
For many years I have taken a great interest in the problem of cancer. My reasoning has been that if wheatgrass and live foods can help the most feared and uncontrollable medical problem, cancer, no questions should remain about its ability to heal, nourish, and balance the body. With twenty years of teaching cancer patients behind me, I know that—contrary to popular belief—all types of cancer can be overcome. However, my own opinion is that we will never find a "cure" for this dreaded problem because it can't be cured. The body of the cancer patient must heal itself in the very same way any body rebounds from a cut, bruise, or common cold. Although there are drugs which seem to help by destroying this or that cancer cell, all they can do is help. The body must replace the lost cells with new cancer-free ones.
Once you understand the logic of self-healing and self-cleansing it is easy to understand how the body can reverse even a serious problem like cancer. All that is needed is sufficient will to live and fight the disease, and enough life energy in the body—a strong enough immune system. How do you build up the immune system to overcome or prevent cancer? First, by eliminating the things that reduce your immunity: stress at home or at work, and processed and cooked foods. Once you have taken some of the pressure off your immune system in this way, you must learn how to rebuild it. Thus, your second task is to cleanse the toxic residues of stress and bad food choices from your system with a cleansing live food diet and wheatgrass.
Live foods and wheatgrass juice will begin the process of cleansing and rebuilding the immune system as long as you stay clear of the stresses and foods that create a high risk of cancer in the first place. If you do not avoid stresses, you are like a person with a broken leg who continues to walk on the leg without a cast and crutches. You won't heal regardless of how calm you are or how well you eat. Until you get off the leg and rest it nothing will help. Similarly, if you don't take a vacation (I recommend a permanent one) from the foods that congest and clog your body, your chances of recovery will be that much poorer.
While wheatgrass juice helps to build immunity, its beneficial effects range much further. Preliminary studies have identified a number of substances in wheatgrass juice that are formidable anti-cancer agents. One of these is called abscisic acid. I first learned of abscisic acid from Eydie Mae Hunsberger, a former Hippocrates guest who used the Hippocrates Diet and wheatgrass juice to heal herself of malignant breast cancer. As she relates in How I Conquered Cancer Naturally, her doctor took an interest in her case and researched many past studies to find the active ingredient in wheatgrass that helped make her well.
What he discovered was abscisic acid, a plant hormone known to prevent seeds from germinating until environmental conditions are just right. In tests on laboratory animals, he found that even small amounts of abscisic acid proved to be "deadly against any form of cancer." Tumors disappeared quickly in animals given injections of abscisic acid. Eydie Mae did mention, however, that research with abscisic acid is in its infant stages and it is still too early to tell whether it will become a "cure." But as she says, "Poor eating habits cause more diseases than cancer. We may be able to reverse cancer with abscisic acid pills, but then die from a heart attack or something else." Only sound preventive nutrition and a healthful lifestyle can save us from all illness. Eydie Mae's decision to switch from the "condemned person's diet" to wheatgrass and other live foods on the Hippocrates Diet certainly paid off for her—within one year after she was given up by the medical establishment, the cancer was in remission—and it remained that way.
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Where Have All The Leaders Gone?
ExcerptWhere Have All the Leaders Gone?
By Lee Iacocca with Catherine Whitney
I Had Enough?
Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, "Stay the course."
Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic. I'll give you a sound bite: Throw the bums out!
You might think I'm getting senile, that I've gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore. The President of the United States is given a free pass to ignore the Constitution, tap our phones, and lead us to war on a pack of lies. Congress responds to record deficits by passing a huge tax cut for the wealthy (thanks, but I don't need it). The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we're fiddling in Iraq, the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving pom-poms instead of asking hard questions. That's not the promise of America my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for. I've had enough. How about you?
I'll go a step further. You can't call yourself a patriot if you're not outraged. This is a fight I'm ready and willing to have.
My friends tell me to calm down. They say, "Lee, you're eighty-two years old. Leave the rage to the young people." I'd love to—as soon as I can pry them away from their iPods for five seconds and get them to pay attention. I'm going to speak up because it's my patriotic duty. I think people will listen to me. They say I have a reputation as a straight shooter. So I'll tell you how I see it, and it's not pretty, but at least it's real. I'm hoping to strike a nerve in those young folks who say they don't vote because they don't trust politicians to represent their interests. Hey, America, wake up. These guys work for us.
Who Are These Guys, Anyway?
Why are we in this mess? How did we end up with this crowd in Washington? Well, we voted for them—or at least some of us did. But I'll tell you what we didn't do. We didn't agree to suspend the Constitution. We didn't agree to stop asking questions or demanding answers. Some of us are sick and tired of people who call free speech treason. Where I come from that's a dictatorship, not a democracy.
And don't tell me it's all the fault of right-wing Republicans or liberal Democrats. That's an intellectually lazy argument, and it's part of the reason we're in this stew. We're not just a nation of factions. We're a people. We share common principles and ideals. And we rise and fall together.
Where are the voices of leaders who can inspire us to action and make us stand taller? What happened to the strong and resolute party of Lincoln? What happened to the courageous, populist party of FDR and Truman? There was a time in this country when the voices of great leaders lifted us up and made us want to do better. Where have all the leaders gone?
The Test of a Leader
I've never been Commander in Chief, but I've been a CEO. I understand a few things about leadership at the top. I've figured out nine points—not ten (I don't want people accusing me of thinking I'm Moses). I call them the "Nine Cs of Leadership." They're not fancy or complicated. Just clear, obvious qualities that every true leader should have. We should look at how the current administration stacks up. Like it or not, this crew is going to be around until January 2009. Maybe we can learn something before we go to the polls in 2008. Then let's be sure we use the leadership test to screen the candidates who say they want to run the country. It's up to us to choose wisely.
So, here's my C list:
A leader has to show CURIOSITY. He has to listen to people outside of the "Yes, sir" crowd in his inner circle. He has to read voraciously, because the world is a big, complicated place. George W. Bush brags about never reading a newspaper. "I just scan the headlines," he says. Am I hearing this right? He's the President of the United States and he never reads a newspaper? Thomas Jefferson once said, "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter." Bush disagrees. As long as he gets his daily hour in the gym, with Fox News piped through the sound system, he's ready to go.
If a leader never steps outside his comfort zone to hear different ideas, he grows stale. If he doesn't put his beliefs to the test, how does he know he's right? The inability to listen is a form of arrogance. It means either you think you already know it all, or you just don't care. Before the 2006 election, George Bush made a big point of saying he didn't listen to the polls. Yeah, that's what they all say when the polls stink. But maybe he should have listened, because 70 percent of the people were saying he was on the wrong track. It took a "thumping" on election day to wake him up, but even then you got the feeling he wasn't listening so much as he was calculating how to do a better job of convincing everyone he was right.
A leader has to be CREATIVE, go out on a limb, be willing to try something different. You know, think outside the box. George Bush prides himself on never changing, even as the world around him is spinning out of control. God forbid someone should accuse him of flip-flopping. There's a disturbingly messianic fervor to his certainty. Senator Joe Biden recalled a conversation he had with Bush a few months after our troops marched into Baghdad. Joe was in the Oval Office outlining his concerns to the President—the explosive mix of Shiite and Sunni, the disbanded Iraqi army, the problems securing the oil fields. "The President was serene," Joe recalled. "He told me he was sure that we were on the right course and that all would be well. 'Mr. President,' I finally said, 'how can you be so sure when you don't yet know all the facts?'" Bush then reached over and put a steadying hand on Joe's shoulder. "My instincts," he said. "My instincts." Joe was flabbergasted. He told Bush, "Mr. President, your instincts aren't good enough." Joe Biden sure didn't think the matter was settled. And, as we all know now, it wasn't.
Leadership is all about managing change—whether you're leading a company or leading a country. Things change, and you get creative. You adapt. Maybe Bush was absent the day they covered that at Harvard Business School.
A leader has to COMMUNICATE. I'm not talking about running off at the mouth or spouting sound bites. I'm talking about facing reality and telling the truth. Nobody in the current administration seems to know how to talk straight anymore. Instead, they spend most of their time trying to convince us that things are not really as bad as they seem. I don't know if it's denial or dishonesty, but it can start to drive you crazy after a while. Communication has to start with telling the truth, even when it's painful. The war in Iraq has been, among other things, a grand failure of communication. Bush is like the boy who didn't cry wolf when the wolf was at the door. After years of being told that all is well, even as the casualties and chaos mount, we've stopped listening to him.
A leader has to be a person of CHARACTER. That means knowing the difference between right and wrong and having the guts to do the right thing. Abraham Lincoln once said, "If you want to test a man's character, give him power." George Bush has a lot of power. What does it say about his character? Bush has shown a willingness to take bold action on the world stage because he has the power, but he shows little regard for the grievous consequences. He has sent our troops (not to mention hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens) to their deaths—for what? To build our oil reserves? To avenge his daddy because Saddam Hussein once tried to have him killed? To show his daddy he's tougher? The motivations behind the war in Iraq are questionable, and the execution of the war has been a disaster. A man of character does not ask a single soldier to die for a failed policy.
A leader must have COURAGE. I'm talking about balls. (That even goes for female leaders.) Swagger isn't courage. Tough talk isn't courage. George Bush comes from a blue-blooded Connecticut family, but he likes to talk like a cowboy. You know, My gun is bigger than your gun. Courage in the twenty-first century doesn't mean posturing and bravado. Courage is a commitment to sit down at the negotiating table and talk.
If you're a politician, courage means taking a position even when you know it will cost you votes. Bush can't even make a public appearance unless the audience has been handpicked and sanitized. He did a series of so-called town hall meetings last year, in auditoriums packed with his most devoted fans. The questions were all softballs.
To be a leader you've got to have CONVICTION—a fire in your belly. You've got to have passion. You've got to really want to get something done. How do you measure fire in the belly? Bush has set the all-time record for number of vacation days taken by a U.S. President—four hundred and counting. He'd rather clear brush on his ranch than immerse himself in the business of governing. He even told an interviewer that the high point of his presidency so far was catching a seven-and-a-half-pound perch in his hand-stocked lake.
It's no better on Capitol Hill. Congress was in session only ninety-seven days in 2006. That's eleven days less than the record set in 1948, when President Harry Truman coined the term do-nothing Congress. Most people would expect to be fired if they worked so little and had nothing to show for it. But Congress managed to find the time to vote itself a raise. Now, that's not leadership.
A leader should have CHARISMA. I'm not talking about being flashy. Charisma is the quality that makes people want to follow you. It's the ability to inspire. People follow a leader because they trust him. That's my definition of charisma. Maybe George Bush is a great guy to hang out with at a barbecue or a ball game. But put him at a global summit where the future of our planet is at stake, and he doesn't look very presidential. Those frat-boy pranks and the kidding around he enjoys so much don't go over that well with world leaders. Just ask German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who received an unwelcome shoulder massage from our President at a G-8 Summit. When he came up behind her and started squeezing, I thought she was going to go right through the roof.
A leader has to be COMPETENT. That seems obvious, doesn't it? You've got to know what you're doing. More important than that, you've got to surround yourself with people who know what they're doing. Bush brags about being our first MBA President. Does that make him competent? Well, let's see. Thanks to our first MBA President, we've got the largest deficit in history, Social Security is on life support, and we've run up a half-a-trillion-dollar price tag (so far) in Iraq. And that's just for starters. A leader has to be a problem solver, and the biggest problems we face as a nation seem to be on the back burner.
You can't be a leader if you don't have COMMON SENSE. I call this Charlie Beacham's rule. When I was a young guy just starting out in the car business, one of my first jobs was as Ford's zone manager in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. My boss was a guy named Charlie Beacham, who was the East Coast regional manager. Charlie was a big Southerner, with a warm drawl, a huge smile, and a core of steel. Charlie used to tell me, "Remember, Lee, the only thing you've got going for you as a human being is your ability to reason and your common sense. If you don't know a dip of horseshit from a dip of vanilla ice cream, you'll never make it." George Bush doesn't have common sense. He just has a lot of sound bites. You know—Mr.they'll-welcome-us-as-liberators-no-child-left-behind-heck-of-a-job-Brownie-mission-accomplished Bush.
Former President Bill Clinton once said, "I grew up in an alcoholic home. I spent half my childhood trying to get into the reality-based world—and I like it here."
I think our current President should visit the real world once in a while.
The Biggest C is Crisis
Leaders are made, not born. Leadership is forged in times of crisis. It's easy to sit there with your feet up on the desk and talk theory. Or send someone else's kids off to war when you've never seen a battlefield yourself. It's another thing to lead when your world comes tumbling down.
On September 11, 2001, we needed a strong leader more than any other time in our history. We needed a steady hand to guide us out of the ashes. Where was George Bush? He was reading a story about a pet goat to kids in Florida when he heard about the attacks. He kept sitting there for twenty minutes with a baffled look on his face. It's all on tape. You can see it for yourself. Then, instead of taking the quickest route back to Washington and immediately going on the air to reassure the panicked people of this country, he decided it wasn't safe to return to the White House. He basically went into hiding for the day—and he told Vice President Dick Cheney to stay put in his bunker. We were all frozen in front of our TVs, scared out of our wits, waiting for our leaders to tell us that we were going to be okay, and there was nobody home. It took Bush a couple of days to get his bearings and devise the right photo op at Ground Zero.
That was George Bush's moment of truth, and he was paralyzed. And what did he do when he'd regained his composure? He led us down the road to Iraq—a road his own father had considered disastrous when he was President. But Bush didn't listen to Daddy. He listened to a higher father. He prides himself on being faith based, not reality based. If that doesn't scare the crap out of you, I don't know what will.
A Hell of a Mess
So here's where we stand. We're immersed in a bloody war with no plan for winning and no plan for leaving. We're running the biggest deficit in the history of the country. We're losing the manufacturing edge to Asia, while our once-great companies are getting slaughtered by health care costs. Gas prices are skyrocketing, and nobody in power has a coherent energy policy. Our schools are in trouble. Our borders are like sieves. The middle class is being squeezed every which way. These are times that cry out for leadership.
But when you look around, you've got to ask: "Where have all the leaders gone?" Where are the curious, creative communicators? Where are the people of character, courage, conviction, competence, and common sense? I may be a sucker for alliteration, but I think you get the point.
Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making us take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo? We've spent billions of dollars building a huge new bureaucracy, and all we know how to do is react to things that have already happened.
Name me one leader who emerged from the crisis of Hurricane Katrina. Congress has yet to spend a single day evaluating the response to the hurricane, or demanding accountability for the decisions that were made in the crucial hours after the storm. Everyone's hunkering down, fingers crossed, hoping it doesn't happen again. Now, that's just crazy. Storms happen. Deal with it. Make a plan. Figure out what you're going to do the next time.
Name me an industry leader who is thinking creatively about how we can restore our competitive edge in manufacturing. Who would have believed that there could ever be a time when "the Big Three" referred to Japanese car companies? How did this happen—and more important, what are we going to do about it?
Name me a government leader who can articulate a plan for paying down the debt, or solving the energy crisis, or managing the health care problem. The silence is deafening. But these are the crises that are eating away at our country and milking the middle class dry.
I have news for the gang in Congress. We didn't elect you to sit on your asses and do nothing and remain silent while our democracy is being hijacked and our greatness is being replaced with mediocrity. What is everybody so afraid of? That some bobblehead on Fox News will call them a name? Give me a break. Why don't you guys show some spine for a change?
Had Enough?
Hey, I'm not trying to be the voice of gloom and doom here. I'm trying to light a fire. I'm speaking out because I have hope. I believe in America. In my lifetime I've had the privilege of living through some of America's greatest moments. I've also experienced some of our worst crises—the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War, the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam War, the 1970s oil crisis, and the struggles of recent years culminating with 9/11. If I've learned one thing, it's this: You don't get anywhere by standing on the sidelines waiting for somebody else to take action. Whether it's building a better car or building a better future for our children, we all have a role to play. That's the challenge I'm raising in this book. It's a call to action for people who, like me, believe in America. It's not too late, but it's getting pretty close. So let's shake off the horseshit and go to work. Let's tell 'em all we've had enough.
Excerpted from Where Have All the Leaders Gone?.
Copyright © 2007 by Lee Iacocca. All rights reserved.
By Lee Iacocca with Catherine Whitney
I Had Enough?
Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, "Stay the course."
Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic. I'll give you a sound bite: Throw the bums out!
You might think I'm getting senile, that I've gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore. The President of the United States is given a free pass to ignore the Constitution, tap our phones, and lead us to war on a pack of lies. Congress responds to record deficits by passing a huge tax cut for the wealthy (thanks, but I don't need it). The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we're fiddling in Iraq, the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving pom-poms instead of asking hard questions. That's not the promise of America my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for. I've had enough. How about you?
I'll go a step further. You can't call yourself a patriot if you're not outraged. This is a fight I'm ready and willing to have.
My friends tell me to calm down. They say, "Lee, you're eighty-two years old. Leave the rage to the young people." I'd love to—as soon as I can pry them away from their iPods for five seconds and get them to pay attention. I'm going to speak up because it's my patriotic duty. I think people will listen to me. They say I have a reputation as a straight shooter. So I'll tell you how I see it, and it's not pretty, but at least it's real. I'm hoping to strike a nerve in those young folks who say they don't vote because they don't trust politicians to represent their interests. Hey, America, wake up. These guys work for us.
Who Are These Guys, Anyway?
Why are we in this mess? How did we end up with this crowd in Washington? Well, we voted for them—or at least some of us did. But I'll tell you what we didn't do. We didn't agree to suspend the Constitution. We didn't agree to stop asking questions or demanding answers. Some of us are sick and tired of people who call free speech treason. Where I come from that's a dictatorship, not a democracy.
And don't tell me it's all the fault of right-wing Republicans or liberal Democrats. That's an intellectually lazy argument, and it's part of the reason we're in this stew. We're not just a nation of factions. We're a people. We share common principles and ideals. And we rise and fall together.
Where are the voices of leaders who can inspire us to action and make us stand taller? What happened to the strong and resolute party of Lincoln? What happened to the courageous, populist party of FDR and Truman? There was a time in this country when the voices of great leaders lifted us up and made us want to do better. Where have all the leaders gone?
The Test of a Leader
I've never been Commander in Chief, but I've been a CEO. I understand a few things about leadership at the top. I've figured out nine points—not ten (I don't want people accusing me of thinking I'm Moses). I call them the "Nine Cs of Leadership." They're not fancy or complicated. Just clear, obvious qualities that every true leader should have. We should look at how the current administration stacks up. Like it or not, this crew is going to be around until January 2009. Maybe we can learn something before we go to the polls in 2008. Then let's be sure we use the leadership test to screen the candidates who say they want to run the country. It's up to us to choose wisely.
So, here's my C list:
A leader has to show CURIOSITY. He has to listen to people outside of the "Yes, sir" crowd in his inner circle. He has to read voraciously, because the world is a big, complicated place. George W. Bush brags about never reading a newspaper. "I just scan the headlines," he says. Am I hearing this right? He's the President of the United States and he never reads a newspaper? Thomas Jefferson once said, "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter." Bush disagrees. As long as he gets his daily hour in the gym, with Fox News piped through the sound system, he's ready to go.
If a leader never steps outside his comfort zone to hear different ideas, he grows stale. If he doesn't put his beliefs to the test, how does he know he's right? The inability to listen is a form of arrogance. It means either you think you already know it all, or you just don't care. Before the 2006 election, George Bush made a big point of saying he didn't listen to the polls. Yeah, that's what they all say when the polls stink. But maybe he should have listened, because 70 percent of the people were saying he was on the wrong track. It took a "thumping" on election day to wake him up, but even then you got the feeling he wasn't listening so much as he was calculating how to do a better job of convincing everyone he was right.
A leader has to be CREATIVE, go out on a limb, be willing to try something different. You know, think outside the box. George Bush prides himself on never changing, even as the world around him is spinning out of control. God forbid someone should accuse him of flip-flopping. There's a disturbingly messianic fervor to his certainty. Senator Joe Biden recalled a conversation he had with Bush a few months after our troops marched into Baghdad. Joe was in the Oval Office outlining his concerns to the President—the explosive mix of Shiite and Sunni, the disbanded Iraqi army, the problems securing the oil fields. "The President was serene," Joe recalled. "He told me he was sure that we were on the right course and that all would be well. 'Mr. President,' I finally said, 'how can you be so sure when you don't yet know all the facts?'" Bush then reached over and put a steadying hand on Joe's shoulder. "My instincts," he said. "My instincts." Joe was flabbergasted. He told Bush, "Mr. President, your instincts aren't good enough." Joe Biden sure didn't think the matter was settled. And, as we all know now, it wasn't.
Leadership is all about managing change—whether you're leading a company or leading a country. Things change, and you get creative. You adapt. Maybe Bush was absent the day they covered that at Harvard Business School.
A leader has to COMMUNICATE. I'm not talking about running off at the mouth or spouting sound bites. I'm talking about facing reality and telling the truth. Nobody in the current administration seems to know how to talk straight anymore. Instead, they spend most of their time trying to convince us that things are not really as bad as they seem. I don't know if it's denial or dishonesty, but it can start to drive you crazy after a while. Communication has to start with telling the truth, even when it's painful. The war in Iraq has been, among other things, a grand failure of communication. Bush is like the boy who didn't cry wolf when the wolf was at the door. After years of being told that all is well, even as the casualties and chaos mount, we've stopped listening to him.
A leader has to be a person of CHARACTER. That means knowing the difference between right and wrong and having the guts to do the right thing. Abraham Lincoln once said, "If you want to test a man's character, give him power." George Bush has a lot of power. What does it say about his character? Bush has shown a willingness to take bold action on the world stage because he has the power, but he shows little regard for the grievous consequences. He has sent our troops (not to mention hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens) to their deaths—for what? To build our oil reserves? To avenge his daddy because Saddam Hussein once tried to have him killed? To show his daddy he's tougher? The motivations behind the war in Iraq are questionable, and the execution of the war has been a disaster. A man of character does not ask a single soldier to die for a failed policy.
A leader must have COURAGE. I'm talking about balls. (That even goes for female leaders.) Swagger isn't courage. Tough talk isn't courage. George Bush comes from a blue-blooded Connecticut family, but he likes to talk like a cowboy. You know, My gun is bigger than your gun. Courage in the twenty-first century doesn't mean posturing and bravado. Courage is a commitment to sit down at the negotiating table and talk.
If you're a politician, courage means taking a position even when you know it will cost you votes. Bush can't even make a public appearance unless the audience has been handpicked and sanitized. He did a series of so-called town hall meetings last year, in auditoriums packed with his most devoted fans. The questions were all softballs.
To be a leader you've got to have CONVICTION—a fire in your belly. You've got to have passion. You've got to really want to get something done. How do you measure fire in the belly? Bush has set the all-time record for number of vacation days taken by a U.S. President—four hundred and counting. He'd rather clear brush on his ranch than immerse himself in the business of governing. He even told an interviewer that the high point of his presidency so far was catching a seven-and-a-half-pound perch in his hand-stocked lake.
It's no better on Capitol Hill. Congress was in session only ninety-seven days in 2006. That's eleven days less than the record set in 1948, when President Harry Truman coined the term do-nothing Congress. Most people would expect to be fired if they worked so little and had nothing to show for it. But Congress managed to find the time to vote itself a raise. Now, that's not leadership.
A leader should have CHARISMA. I'm not talking about being flashy. Charisma is the quality that makes people want to follow you. It's the ability to inspire. People follow a leader because they trust him. That's my definition of charisma. Maybe George Bush is a great guy to hang out with at a barbecue or a ball game. But put him at a global summit where the future of our planet is at stake, and he doesn't look very presidential. Those frat-boy pranks and the kidding around he enjoys so much don't go over that well with world leaders. Just ask German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who received an unwelcome shoulder massage from our President at a G-8 Summit. When he came up behind her and started squeezing, I thought she was going to go right through the roof.
A leader has to be COMPETENT. That seems obvious, doesn't it? You've got to know what you're doing. More important than that, you've got to surround yourself with people who know what they're doing. Bush brags about being our first MBA President. Does that make him competent? Well, let's see. Thanks to our first MBA President, we've got the largest deficit in history, Social Security is on life support, and we've run up a half-a-trillion-dollar price tag (so far) in Iraq. And that's just for starters. A leader has to be a problem solver, and the biggest problems we face as a nation seem to be on the back burner.
You can't be a leader if you don't have COMMON SENSE. I call this Charlie Beacham's rule. When I was a young guy just starting out in the car business, one of my first jobs was as Ford's zone manager in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. My boss was a guy named Charlie Beacham, who was the East Coast regional manager. Charlie was a big Southerner, with a warm drawl, a huge smile, and a core of steel. Charlie used to tell me, "Remember, Lee, the only thing you've got going for you as a human being is your ability to reason and your common sense. If you don't know a dip of horseshit from a dip of vanilla ice cream, you'll never make it." George Bush doesn't have common sense. He just has a lot of sound bites. You know—Mr.they'll-welcome-us-as-liberators-no-child-left-behind-heck-of-a-job-Brownie-mission-accomplished Bush.
Former President Bill Clinton once said, "I grew up in an alcoholic home. I spent half my childhood trying to get into the reality-based world—and I like it here."
I think our current President should visit the real world once in a while.
The Biggest C is Crisis
Leaders are made, not born. Leadership is forged in times of crisis. It's easy to sit there with your feet up on the desk and talk theory. Or send someone else's kids off to war when you've never seen a battlefield yourself. It's another thing to lead when your world comes tumbling down.
On September 11, 2001, we needed a strong leader more than any other time in our history. We needed a steady hand to guide us out of the ashes. Where was George Bush? He was reading a story about a pet goat to kids in Florida when he heard about the attacks. He kept sitting there for twenty minutes with a baffled look on his face. It's all on tape. You can see it for yourself. Then, instead of taking the quickest route back to Washington and immediately going on the air to reassure the panicked people of this country, he decided it wasn't safe to return to the White House. He basically went into hiding for the day—and he told Vice President Dick Cheney to stay put in his bunker. We were all frozen in front of our TVs, scared out of our wits, waiting for our leaders to tell us that we were going to be okay, and there was nobody home. It took Bush a couple of days to get his bearings and devise the right photo op at Ground Zero.
That was George Bush's moment of truth, and he was paralyzed. And what did he do when he'd regained his composure? He led us down the road to Iraq—a road his own father had considered disastrous when he was President. But Bush didn't listen to Daddy. He listened to a higher father. He prides himself on being faith based, not reality based. If that doesn't scare the crap out of you, I don't know what will.
A Hell of a Mess
So here's where we stand. We're immersed in a bloody war with no plan for winning and no plan for leaving. We're running the biggest deficit in the history of the country. We're losing the manufacturing edge to Asia, while our once-great companies are getting slaughtered by health care costs. Gas prices are skyrocketing, and nobody in power has a coherent energy policy. Our schools are in trouble. Our borders are like sieves. The middle class is being squeezed every which way. These are times that cry out for leadership.
But when you look around, you've got to ask: "Where have all the leaders gone?" Where are the curious, creative communicators? Where are the people of character, courage, conviction, competence, and common sense? I may be a sucker for alliteration, but I think you get the point.
Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making us take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo? We've spent billions of dollars building a huge new bureaucracy, and all we know how to do is react to things that have already happened.
Name me one leader who emerged from the crisis of Hurricane Katrina. Congress has yet to spend a single day evaluating the response to the hurricane, or demanding accountability for the decisions that were made in the crucial hours after the storm. Everyone's hunkering down, fingers crossed, hoping it doesn't happen again. Now, that's just crazy. Storms happen. Deal with it. Make a plan. Figure out what you're going to do the next time.
Name me an industry leader who is thinking creatively about how we can restore our competitive edge in manufacturing. Who would have believed that there could ever be a time when "the Big Three" referred to Japanese car companies? How did this happen—and more important, what are we going to do about it?
Name me a government leader who can articulate a plan for paying down the debt, or solving the energy crisis, or managing the health care problem. The silence is deafening. But these are the crises that are eating away at our country and milking the middle class dry.
I have news for the gang in Congress. We didn't elect you to sit on your asses and do nothing and remain silent while our democracy is being hijacked and our greatness is being replaced with mediocrity. What is everybody so afraid of? That some bobblehead on Fox News will call them a name? Give me a break. Why don't you guys show some spine for a change?
Had Enough?
Hey, I'm not trying to be the voice of gloom and doom here. I'm trying to light a fire. I'm speaking out because I have hope. I believe in America. In my lifetime I've had the privilege of living through some of America's greatest moments. I've also experienced some of our worst crises—the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War, the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam War, the 1970s oil crisis, and the struggles of recent years culminating with 9/11. If I've learned one thing, it's this: You don't get anywhere by standing on the sidelines waiting for somebody else to take action. Whether it's building a better car or building a better future for our children, we all have a role to play. That's the challenge I'm raising in this book. It's a call to action for people who, like me, believe in America. It's not too late, but it's getting pretty close. So let's shake off the horseshit and go to work. Let's tell 'em all we've had enough.
Excerpted from Where Have All the Leaders Gone?.
Copyright © 2007 by Lee Iacocca. All rights reserved.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Your World is ...
This article is from David Icke's Newletter. A little lengthy for a blog but worth reading ...
David Icke Newsletter, October 7th 2007
YOUR WORLD IS ...
... WELL, ER ... YOU!
Hello all ...
How often we hear people say that they have lost control of their lives or how unlucky they have been that this or that has happened to them. I understand this response given the version of 'life' and ourselves that is implanted by what we call society.
We are led to believe that we are victims of circumstance beyond our control and that poor old me is suffering because of what someone else did or didn't do. If only he, she, they, had not acted as they did we would not be in this mess. How could they? How beastly they are.
But however tempting it may be to apportion and externalise blame for our plight, I wonder if it is really justified. After all, the best way to make people powerless is to convince them they are powerless and the most effective way to do that is to sell them the belief that circumstances outside their control are dictating their life experience.
Once we accept that belief we are lambs in the wolf pound because to accept that we have no control is to experience no control. What we believe we perceive and what we perceive we experience.
Let us look at things from a different angle. A few 'what ifs':
What if we are unconsciously attracting into our lives all the people, places and experiences that we think are randomly controlling and influencing our daily experience?
What if we had the power, once this understanding became conscious, to change the people, places and experiences that we don't like?
What if no-one controlled our lives, except ourselves?
That understanding would bring an end to the powerless existence of the vast majority who think that some unseen force or 'god' is handing out 'good luck' and 'bad luck' and thus deciding their fate. Is it any wonder that those who wish to manipulate humanity are desperate for us not to see where the power really lies - with ourselves?
'Believe you have no power and you will believe in me ...'
This is how I see it, and of course make of this what you will:
Everything is vibrating energy in different forms be it a human body, flower, rain shower, location or experience. And like-vibration attracts like-vibration through what I have called 'vibrational magnetism'.
I should stress that I am not talking about two people having a like-vibration in their entirety, like energetic twins. Within the human field are endless sub-fields which express different elements of our 'whole'. Most of these are hidden from the conscious mind.
We may consciously know that we are frightened or flying or spiders, but there will be endless other underlying fears or traits held in the subconscious that we are not aware of and all of these come into the energetic vibrational mix. Each one has the potential to 'lock in' magnetically to their vibrational 'role-mate' and attract an aircraft, spider or whatever.
I would say that there are four major ways that we create our daily lives. We attract the people, places and experiences that mirror our own vibrational fields because:
1. We need to put ourselves in our own face so we can remove the fears and perceptions that are holding us in limitation and mental and emotional servitude.
2. We carry pre-programmed vibrational patterns so we attract the people and experiences that will lead us along our pre-chosen path - say, as an example, uncovering the force that manipulates this 'world'.
3. We allow manipulated beliefs to infiltrate our sense of reality and thus attract the same experienced reality. This is how we are manipulated into victim mode and the mind-prisons of religion, politics, race, and so on, by accepting the implantation of belief.
4. What we give out in how we act we get back in consequences for those actions - cause and effect.
Together, this vibrational cocktail manifests as what we call our 'life'. So while it seems much easier just to blame everyone and everything else for what is happening to us, the truth is, I would suggest, that the 'culprit', though that is not the right term, is staring back at us in the bathroom mirror.
'So it was you all along ...'
To acknowledge this is to consciously take control of our lives by realising that if we change what we are putting out (a vibrational version of our inner self) we will change what we are pulling in (daily experience).
This is the revelation that the global manipulators are so desperate to keep from us, for it is the key to the door marked 'infinite possibility'.
Everything is vibrating energy that we decode into holographic 'physical' reality and to understand the nature of experience we need to keep that constantly in mind. You may see a 'car', but what it is beyond the decoded hologram is vibrating energy, the same with your partner, mother, father, boss, iPod or coffee table.
And energy not only attracts energy of sympathetic vibration, it affects energy in the same way that radio stations closely matched on the dial interfere with each other. This explains so many 'coincidences' that we put down to bad luck.
When I was a teenager and in my early 20s I was going through some serious emotional challenges (so what's new?) and I had a series of cars in this period that all suffered from the same problem - overheating.
Was it simply some staggering coincidence that four cars of different makes and different ages all had knackered radiators and cooling systems? No, no. My overheating emotional (vibrational) field had affected its 'role-mate', the vibrational field known as the cooling system. My overheating had been transferred to the vehicles which were, on an energy level, just an extension of me while I was driving them.
A few years ago a friend called to say she was in a real bad emotional state and she was driving up to see me and a few others that she knew. Half an hour later came another call - she was stuck on the motorway because her car had ... overheated.
'Just when I'm really ticked off this has to happen.'
I have never been keen on authority, but there was a time in the 1980s when I became especially antagonistic, not in a way that was outwardly expressed, but within myself. I would see people in uniform, like traffic cops, and my skin would bristle. In this same period I was constantly stopped by the police in my car for vehicle checks or document checks to the point where I had to go to the same police station three times in two weeks to show them my driving documents that I wasn't carrying when the police stopped me.
What was it about me? I thought. Why didn't they stop the guy behind or the woman in front? Vibrational attraction, that's why. When I relaxed my inner-state, my 'attitude', the police left me alone and I have never been stopped since.
How many times when we are in a rush to get somewhere do we hit a traffic hold up? How many times does the learner driver on his first lesson pull out in front of us or some other delay happen when we are chasing the clock? None of this is just bad luck, it is vibrational attraction - fear of being late, anxiety about not being on time, once again attracts its 'role-mate' ... people and events that make us late.
'Just my luck.'
When we relax and accept that what is, is, and we'll get there when we get there, we tend to sail through to the destination because our inner blocks are not creating outer ones. We flow, so the journey flows, because the journey is an energetic extension of us.
Someone who sees themselves as 'little me' will have a life in which nothing exciting happens because in their reality this only happens to other people - so it does. Their energy field is not in a vibrational state that syncs magnetically with anything exiting because it is the vibrational equivalent of a yawn.
A friend often complains that the weather is always windy and the sea rough whenever she has to travel by boat. What is her greatest fear? Travelling on boats in rough seas. I was sitting in a pub with another friend this week who can't stand spiders. What happened? Two spiders crawled on the table.
We need to attract and face what we fear because fear equals limitation and we are infinite consciousness - all possibility. How can we fully express that if we are limited in any way?
It is the same with people we attract. You don't like someone you are with? So what is it about you, or what you need to observe or learn, that made you attract them and not someone you would like to be with?
When we acknowledge what that is, the vibrational field that did the attracting is transformed by the realisation and you cease to attract that sort of person - energy field. How many times do we attract into our lives the same kind of people over and over? This is how and why.
There is the documented story of the man in Hawaii who cleared almost an entire psychiatric ward full of violent patients after he realised that they were all a reflection of something in him. The ward was eventually closed due to lack of patients and yet he had not directly treated anyone. He merely went through their files and worked on those expressions of him that the patients were reflecting. When he healed himself he healed them because one was a projection of the other.
So are the Illuminati who seek to control - limit - human understanding a reflection of something in the human collective mind? Oh yes. Whatever it is, a sense of limitation, a fear of being controlled, or a combination of many things, they could not exist in our experience if we didn't create or attract them or if they did not attract us.
I may be in a minority of one on this, but I say there are no actual laws of physics - only a collective sense of limitation that manifests as apparent laws of physics. If experienced reality is created by perception of reality then a belief in limitation must manifest 'laws' of limitation, otherwise that belief could not be experienced.
For example, if you believe that if you walk through fire you will burn your feet you will burn your feet in line with the 'laws of physics'. But if you open your consciousness to a greater understanding - if you release some sense of limitation - then the same 'laws of physics' do not apply and you can do a fire-walk without getting burned.
Laws of physics are merely a mirror of our sense of limitation. If we believe in the illusion of limitation we have to manifest the illusion of limitation - laws that say 'can't be done'. When our sense of limitation disappears, so do they, as with fire-walking.
Why do some people get killed in freak accidents in apparently safe and protected situations and others 'miraculously' survive an explosion that kills everyone else. It is to do with the law of attraction within the human energy field that comprises of multi-vibrational patterns connected to belief, fear and life-path - most of them buried in the subconscious.
I should add some provisos to all this in that there are some things that won't change if you have planned to experience them. This is where I differ fundamentally from the documentary called The Secret which deals with the law of magnetic attraction.
If you have a pre-arranged life path that includes experiencing poverty for whatever reason you are not going to be rich until that cycle has worked through no matter how many pictures of dollar bills or Ferraris that you pin to the wall to aid your visualisation of abundance.
I guess the best advice is that line about changing what you can and accepting what you can't and having the wisdom to know the difference. Or even better there are the words that were given to me through a psychic lady nearly 20 years ago:
'True love does not always give the receiver what it would like to receive, but it will always give that which is best for it. So welcome everything you receive whether you like it or not. Ponder on anything you do not like and see if you can see why it was necessary. Acceptance will then be very much easier.'
So, in summary: whatever the cause of a manifestation in our lives, be it fear, belief, cause-and-effect or pre-planned experience, there is only one place to look to find the reason and the answer. Now, where did I put that mirror?
David Icke Newsletter, October 7th 2007
YOUR WORLD IS ...
... WELL, ER ... YOU!
Hello all ...
How often we hear people say that they have lost control of their lives or how unlucky they have been that this or that has happened to them. I understand this response given the version of 'life' and ourselves that is implanted by what we call society.
We are led to believe that we are victims of circumstance beyond our control and that poor old me is suffering because of what someone else did or didn't do. If only he, she, they, had not acted as they did we would not be in this mess. How could they? How beastly they are.
But however tempting it may be to apportion and externalise blame for our plight, I wonder if it is really justified. After all, the best way to make people powerless is to convince them they are powerless and the most effective way to do that is to sell them the belief that circumstances outside their control are dictating their life experience.
Once we accept that belief we are lambs in the wolf pound because to accept that we have no control is to experience no control. What we believe we perceive and what we perceive we experience.
Let us look at things from a different angle. A few 'what ifs':
What if we are unconsciously attracting into our lives all the people, places and experiences that we think are randomly controlling and influencing our daily experience?
What if we had the power, once this understanding became conscious, to change the people, places and experiences that we don't like?
What if no-one controlled our lives, except ourselves?
That understanding would bring an end to the powerless existence of the vast majority who think that some unseen force or 'god' is handing out 'good luck' and 'bad luck' and thus deciding their fate. Is it any wonder that those who wish to manipulate humanity are desperate for us not to see where the power really lies - with ourselves?
'Believe you have no power and you will believe in me ...'
This is how I see it, and of course make of this what you will:
Everything is vibrating energy in different forms be it a human body, flower, rain shower, location or experience. And like-vibration attracts like-vibration through what I have called 'vibrational magnetism'.
I should stress that I am not talking about two people having a like-vibration in their entirety, like energetic twins. Within the human field are endless sub-fields which express different elements of our 'whole'. Most of these are hidden from the conscious mind.
We may consciously know that we are frightened or flying or spiders, but there will be endless other underlying fears or traits held in the subconscious that we are not aware of and all of these come into the energetic vibrational mix. Each one has the potential to 'lock in' magnetically to their vibrational 'role-mate' and attract an aircraft, spider or whatever.
I would say that there are four major ways that we create our daily lives. We attract the people, places and experiences that mirror our own vibrational fields because:
1. We need to put ourselves in our own face so we can remove the fears and perceptions that are holding us in limitation and mental and emotional servitude.
2. We carry pre-programmed vibrational patterns so we attract the people and experiences that will lead us along our pre-chosen path - say, as an example, uncovering the force that manipulates this 'world'.
3. We allow manipulated beliefs to infiltrate our sense of reality and thus attract the same experienced reality. This is how we are manipulated into victim mode and the mind-prisons of religion, politics, race, and so on, by accepting the implantation of belief.
4. What we give out in how we act we get back in consequences for those actions - cause and effect.
Together, this vibrational cocktail manifests as what we call our 'life'. So while it seems much easier just to blame everyone and everything else for what is happening to us, the truth is, I would suggest, that the 'culprit', though that is not the right term, is staring back at us in the bathroom mirror.
'So it was you all along ...'
To acknowledge this is to consciously take control of our lives by realising that if we change what we are putting out (a vibrational version of our inner self) we will change what we are pulling in (daily experience).
This is the revelation that the global manipulators are so desperate to keep from us, for it is the key to the door marked 'infinite possibility'.
Everything is vibrating energy that we decode into holographic 'physical' reality and to understand the nature of experience we need to keep that constantly in mind. You may see a 'car', but what it is beyond the decoded hologram is vibrating energy, the same with your partner, mother, father, boss, iPod or coffee table.
And energy not only attracts energy of sympathetic vibration, it affects energy in the same way that radio stations closely matched on the dial interfere with each other. This explains so many 'coincidences' that we put down to bad luck.
When I was a teenager and in my early 20s I was going through some serious emotional challenges (so what's new?) and I had a series of cars in this period that all suffered from the same problem - overheating.
Was it simply some staggering coincidence that four cars of different makes and different ages all had knackered radiators and cooling systems? No, no. My overheating emotional (vibrational) field had affected its 'role-mate', the vibrational field known as the cooling system. My overheating had been transferred to the vehicles which were, on an energy level, just an extension of me while I was driving them.
A few years ago a friend called to say she was in a real bad emotional state and she was driving up to see me and a few others that she knew. Half an hour later came another call - she was stuck on the motorway because her car had ... overheated.
'Just when I'm really ticked off this has to happen.'
I have never been keen on authority, but there was a time in the 1980s when I became especially antagonistic, not in a way that was outwardly expressed, but within myself. I would see people in uniform, like traffic cops, and my skin would bristle. In this same period I was constantly stopped by the police in my car for vehicle checks or document checks to the point where I had to go to the same police station three times in two weeks to show them my driving documents that I wasn't carrying when the police stopped me.
What was it about me? I thought. Why didn't they stop the guy behind or the woman in front? Vibrational attraction, that's why. When I relaxed my inner-state, my 'attitude', the police left me alone and I have never been stopped since.
How many times when we are in a rush to get somewhere do we hit a traffic hold up? How many times does the learner driver on his first lesson pull out in front of us or some other delay happen when we are chasing the clock? None of this is just bad luck, it is vibrational attraction - fear of being late, anxiety about not being on time, once again attracts its 'role-mate' ... people and events that make us late.
'Just my luck.'
When we relax and accept that what is, is, and we'll get there when we get there, we tend to sail through to the destination because our inner blocks are not creating outer ones. We flow, so the journey flows, because the journey is an energetic extension of us.
Someone who sees themselves as 'little me' will have a life in which nothing exciting happens because in their reality this only happens to other people - so it does. Their energy field is not in a vibrational state that syncs magnetically with anything exiting because it is the vibrational equivalent of a yawn.
A friend often complains that the weather is always windy and the sea rough whenever she has to travel by boat. What is her greatest fear? Travelling on boats in rough seas. I was sitting in a pub with another friend this week who can't stand spiders. What happened? Two spiders crawled on the table.
We need to attract and face what we fear because fear equals limitation and we are infinite consciousness - all possibility. How can we fully express that if we are limited in any way?
It is the same with people we attract. You don't like someone you are with? So what is it about you, or what you need to observe or learn, that made you attract them and not someone you would like to be with?
When we acknowledge what that is, the vibrational field that did the attracting is transformed by the realisation and you cease to attract that sort of person - energy field. How many times do we attract into our lives the same kind of people over and over? This is how and why.
There is the documented story of the man in Hawaii who cleared almost an entire psychiatric ward full of violent patients after he realised that they were all a reflection of something in him. The ward was eventually closed due to lack of patients and yet he had not directly treated anyone. He merely went through their files and worked on those expressions of him that the patients were reflecting. When he healed himself he healed them because one was a projection of the other.
So are the Illuminati who seek to control - limit - human understanding a reflection of something in the human collective mind? Oh yes. Whatever it is, a sense of limitation, a fear of being controlled, or a combination of many things, they could not exist in our experience if we didn't create or attract them or if they did not attract us.
I may be in a minority of one on this, but I say there are no actual laws of physics - only a collective sense of limitation that manifests as apparent laws of physics. If experienced reality is created by perception of reality then a belief in limitation must manifest 'laws' of limitation, otherwise that belief could not be experienced.
For example, if you believe that if you walk through fire you will burn your feet you will burn your feet in line with the 'laws of physics'. But if you open your consciousness to a greater understanding - if you release some sense of limitation - then the same 'laws of physics' do not apply and you can do a fire-walk without getting burned.
Laws of physics are merely a mirror of our sense of limitation. If we believe in the illusion of limitation we have to manifest the illusion of limitation - laws that say 'can't be done'. When our sense of limitation disappears, so do they, as with fire-walking.
Why do some people get killed in freak accidents in apparently safe and protected situations and others 'miraculously' survive an explosion that kills everyone else. It is to do with the law of attraction within the human energy field that comprises of multi-vibrational patterns connected to belief, fear and life-path - most of them buried in the subconscious.
I should add some provisos to all this in that there are some things that won't change if you have planned to experience them. This is where I differ fundamentally from the documentary called The Secret which deals with the law of magnetic attraction.
If you have a pre-arranged life path that includes experiencing poverty for whatever reason you are not going to be rich until that cycle has worked through no matter how many pictures of dollar bills or Ferraris that you pin to the wall to aid your visualisation of abundance.
I guess the best advice is that line about changing what you can and accepting what you can't and having the wisdom to know the difference. Or even better there are the words that were given to me through a psychic lady nearly 20 years ago:
'True love does not always give the receiver what it would like to receive, but it will always give that which is best for it. So welcome everything you receive whether you like it or not. Ponder on anything you do not like and see if you can see why it was necessary. Acceptance will then be very much easier.'
So, in summary: whatever the cause of a manifestation in our lives, be it fear, belief, cause-and-effect or pre-planned experience, there is only one place to look to find the reason and the answer. Now, where did I put that mirror?
Friday, January 25, 2008
40 Tips for a Powerful Life
1. Take a 10-30 minute walk every day and while you walk, smile. It is the ultimate anti-depressant.
2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
3. Buy a TiVo (DVR), tape your late night shows and get more sleep.
4. When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement, "My purpose is to__________ today."
5. Live with the 3 Es - Energy, Enthusiasm, Empathy, and the 3 Fs - Faith, Family, Friends.
6. Watch more G movies, play more games with friends and read more books than you did in 2007.
7. Make time to practice meditation and prayer. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.
8. Spend more time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of six.
9. Dream more while you are awake.
10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less foods that are manufactured in plants.
11. Drink some green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, seafood, broccoli, almonds & walnuts.
12. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
13. Clear your clutter from your house, your car, and your desk and let new energy into your life.
14. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead, invest your energy in the positive present moment.
15. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn and pass all your tests. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
16. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card.
17. Smile and laugh more. It will keep the energy vampires away.
18. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
20. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
21. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
22. Make peace with your past, so it won't mess up the present.
23. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
24. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: "In five years, will this matter?"
27. Forgive everyone for everything.
28. What other people think of you is none of your business.
29. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.
30. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
31. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.
32. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
33. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
34. The best is yet to come.
35. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
36. Do the right thing!
37. Call your family often.
38. Each night before you go to bed complete the following statements: "I am thankful for __________." "Today I accomplished _________."
39. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.
40. Enjoy the ride. Remember that this is not Disney World and you certainly don't want a fast pass. Make the most of it and enjoy the ride.
2. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
3. Buy a TiVo (DVR), tape your late night shows and get more sleep.
4. When you wake up in the morning complete the following statement, "My purpose is to__________ today."
5. Live with the 3 Es - Energy, Enthusiasm, Empathy, and the 3 Fs - Faith, Family, Friends.
6. Watch more G movies, play more games with friends and read more books than you did in 2007.
7. Make time to practice meditation and prayer. They provide us with daily fuel for our busy lives.
8. Spend more time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of six.
9. Dream more while you are awake.
10. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less foods that are manufactured in plants.
11. Drink some green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries, seafood, broccoli, almonds & walnuts.
12. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
13. Clear your clutter from your house, your car, and your desk and let new energy into your life.
14. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead, invest your energy in the positive present moment.
15. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn and pass all your tests. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
16. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card.
17. Smile and laugh more. It will keep the energy vampires away.
18. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
20. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
21. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
22. Make peace with your past, so it won't mess up the present.
23. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
24. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words: "In five years, will this matter?"
27. Forgive everyone for everything.
28. What other people think of you is none of your business.
29. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.
30. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
31. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.
32. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
33. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
34. The best is yet to come.
35. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
36. Do the right thing!
37. Call your family often.
38. Each night before you go to bed complete the following statements: "I am thankful for __________." "Today I accomplished _________."
39. Remember that you are too blessed to be stressed.
40. Enjoy the ride. Remember that this is not Disney World and you certainly don't want a fast pass. Make the most of it and enjoy the ride.
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