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KNOW ONCE AND FOR ALL WHEN TO PURCHASE ANYTHING!

Mark DiVincenzo says, the concept was his wife's, but everyone will benefit by knowing when and how to do whatever and when:  It is a must for all. 
Her are a few examples of what you can learn:
Exercise for the best results, travel during less traffic.
Ketchup in May because it is the beginning of summer. 
Fly at noon because the traffic to the airport is lighter.
Run between 6 and 8 pm because your muscles are at their peak and so is your flexibility and your blood temperature is high so you have greater endurance in the evening.

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"THE ETHICS GUY'S" NEW BOOK

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OUTSOURCING CUSTOMER SERVICE IS MAKING COMPANIES LOOK LIKE A SPOILED CHILD

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I would not normally attach myself to negative criticism of any company, job, or a persons ethnicity, BUT...I completely agree that the outsourcing of customer service to people that don’t' speak English as their first language is frustrating at the very least.
In the past two months, I have had reason to contact customer service with several companies and have experienced this. However, my last experience was with a customer service rep that speaks English, and he still couldn't help me because only a portion of the information I needed was available to him and he had no other options to offer me. Big name companies are merging their customer service with other companies, I guess as a cost saving step, but as much money as it save them the greater the negative affect on their business tolls.
I am not going to point fingers and jump into name-calling but companies that outsource their customer service to other companies are just asking for negative feedback. Do they think that any feedback at all is good practice? As if a child that acts up when his/her parents isn’t paying attention, so they go steal a car?
Companies must want positive feedback and must know that customer service is the backbone of their business. WORD OF MOUTH RULES and it must be positive word of mouth, otherwise pack up your toys and go home because your business will eventually suffer.
Listen to professionals that know what they are talking about....no, not me but how about the Ethics Guy
Weinstein is the corporate consultant, author, and public speaker known as The Ethics Guy. He has appeared on numerous national TV shows and is the author of several books on ethics. His Ask the Ethics Guy! column appears every other week on BusinessWeek.com's Managing channel. You can weigh in on this topic:

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LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE

A simple concept that we have all probably lived most of our lives knowing, but how many of us really use this as a recovery tool?  A motivator, a catapult, or just to give a little lift to our day; laughter is the simplest and most affordable way to feel better about anything or everything in our lives.  I just said to someone yesterday in reference to my friend Bev and how we both know, "if we can't laugh at ourselves then who can we laugh at?"  It is also a message I gave to my daughter in a question she asked me a while back about a rerlationship she was in, "make sure the person you find is someone that can laugh at themsleves."  Laughing for any reason is rewarding but being able to laugh at oneself, is gratifying, and a real strong sense of self.  This video is an exercise using laughter that, if watched everyday, you will get great benefit from.

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I'M PROUD OF YOU

"Im Proud of You, Tim"

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I seem to be on a spiritual journey these days. I went to a store the other day (it was actually a Dollar Store) and finding a sale on books, I ran across 2 books that intrigued me. The first one is "I'm Proud of You," by Tim Madigan. It is the story of Tim's friendship with Fred Rogers (From Mister Rogers Neighborhood). Tim Madigan a Journalist, in 1995 for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, doing a story on Fred Rogers, and it depicts how their relationship grew over the years. It is a tender and moving story, but what left me with such confusion was the way that Fred Rogers always asked for Tim Madigan to pray for him, and when Steve Madigan, Tim's brother, was dying from Cancer; Fred asked Steve to pray for him also. Left with this confusion, but feeling that I was about to learn something new and crucial to my spiritual awakening, I began to read the second book. "The Prayer of Jabez, by Dr. Bruce Wilkinson with David Koopp, a small book about a passage in the bible where during a long list of genealogy, is a little verse (1Chronicles 4:9), and also verse 10) Verse 9 which reads "And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying "because I bore him with sorrow." (Wilkinson refers to it as "born in pain, which is the Hebrew translation for the word Jabez)verse 10 reads "and Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested."
The book goes on to relate a fable called:
Mr. Jones Goes to Heaven
It tells how when Mr. Jones enters heaven and Peter gives him a tour, Mr. Jones notices a building that Peter has not shown him. Mr. Jones aks Peter why he did not show him that building, Peter says, "Oh, You don't want to see that one." Mr. Jones asks again at the end of the tour to see the building. Peter relents and lets him in. Mr. Jones sees a room full of shelves filled with white boxes with red ribbons around them, he notices that they all have names on them. He asks Peter if there is one with his name on it. When Peter says, "yes, there is." Mr Jones finds his box and opens it. When he looks inside he sees all the blessings that God had stored for him during his time on earth but...Mr. Jones never asked him for them."
Every show I watched on television this weekend all carried pretty much the same message about asking God for "your' blessings. Jack Canfield refers to this as "reverse paranoia, and I see it as the "Law of Attraction, alive and well and living inside of me.
If you want to purchase either of these books they are on top this post, but check your "Dollar Store" first.
And please remember "To Pray for Me,"

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"If I die tonight in my sleep:
let me have hugged and told my children that I love them,
let me have told my mother how much she is loved and appreciated,
let me have helped a friend or better, a stranger,
let me have worked very hard these past hours in the name of my personal progress, and, let me have gone to sleep with the knowledge that I did the very best I could do today.
~Rick Beneteau"

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Greater Boston Walk Now for Autism Speaks Sunday, October 10th www.walknowforautism.org/greaterboston The dog days of summer are here, but October 18th is right around the corner. We are gearing up for another great walk!  Last year, with your support, the Greater Boston Walk raised $1.3 million to fund research, community resource provider grants, and many family services intiatives. We want to be just as successful this year and need your help to do that. To help with your fundraising: Make sure you and ALL of your team members are registered!  Kids can fundraise too!  In fact, kids can be amazingly successful and we will be providing information on a proven technique involving having kids write letters. Update your fundraising webpage! It has been proven that people are more likely to donate when a page is personalized. Having a picture of your family and telling the story of why you walk are two of the most effective tools to utilize. Setting a fundraising goal can also help! One team set a goal of $8,030 because that is the number of days their family has been affected by autism. This inspired others to give and the team reached well past their goal! Other goal setting ideas could include birthdays ($1,125 for 11/25) or the cost to cover therapy expenses for one month. Let everyone know what your goal means to you! Use your email center to send a message to those in your address book. There are letters available to get you started, but be sure to personalize it by adding in an update on your family and why you are walking! Sending "Thank You" messages to donors are important too and also available in the email center. Reach out to people who have donated to you in the past. You can find a list of donors from 2007 and 2008 in your Personal Headquarters. To access this list click on the "Reports" tab and select "Past Event Donation Statistics." Grand Club and FIVE Grand Club The Grand Club is a way to get VIP treatment on Walk Day! Every individual walker who raises $1,000 or more becomes a member. You'll receive a commemorative pin, recognition on Walk Day, and other great benefits.  Start fundraising today to join our current members of the Greater Boston Walk Now for Autism Speaks Grand Club. Congratulations to:          Rebecca Ackerman    Gerry Chiasson Mike Marrone Eileen Camelio  Lea Irzyk Joshua Geary  Kristina Naumann  Deirdre Legge Ellen McGuigan Jaqueline Hubbard Rosemarie Hubbard Gerry Gustus Barry McLean Our FIVE Grand Club ($5,000 or more raised by Walk Day) will have a special VIP tent all to themselves at the big event - with special treats and giveaways!  Congratulations so far to Bill Sansone and Jess Wilson An Amazing Kick-Off Event! This year's Walk Kick-Off event was an evening of incredible inspiration and lots of valuable information.  We are very grateful to our speakers, 14 year old Rebecca Ackermann who captains a very successful team, Doing it For Dave, in honor of her twin brother and Mike Mayes, a young adult with autism, who was non-verbal for many years and who is now attending college and providing leadership and inspiration to others.  We are also very grateful to fabulous Ch. 5 News Anchor Randy Price who joined us once again and is always a great friend to our families, volunteers and fundraisers. Save the Date! UNO Chicago Grill wants to curb your hunger and help Autism Speaks as they raise money Labor Day Weekend; September 5th - September 7th.  You are invited to dine in or out all day long at your favorite UNOS and have 20% of your bill (excluding tax and tip) donated back to Autism Speaks. More details coming soon!   Are you a fan of the Greater Boston Walk Now for    Autism on Facebook? If not, become a fan and raise awareness of autism spectrum disorders by sharing your pictures and fundraising stories!  The page is updated with local news and events! Invite all of your friends to become fans! Tell us how your Lemonade Stands are going! This FUN fundraising challenge ends August 31st.  We will share stories of some very successful folks and announce the top fundraiser!

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TODAY I OVERCAME FEAR

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I began two years ago, willy nilly, running rampant through the internet trying to find my purpose. The reason why ones life has turned out the way it has. Well, this journey took me to places so far from the realm of anything I ever expected to accomplish, and yet it blessed me with a clear and open mind. I am now able to see the world without the rose-colored glasses. The glasses a mother gives her child to protect him/her from the real world. They are off now; and I see the world in a way I never thought I ever could. The synchronicities of life are so blatantly beckoning me in a direction that I would have, in the past, been too afraid to encounter. Today was the first day I had to overcome all the fears and believe in myself so much that even the unkind words of a man I thought was my friend, could not stop me. I did not allow stopping myself by the pain that his words brought to me. I did everything in my power to keep going. Today was the last day that another “man” (or woman), would be my excuse for not going where I truly belong. Today, I overcame fear.

Fear has been the one emotion I completely understand. Fear was the vessel that all thoughts ran through in my mind. Fear was the tool that snapped my mind closed when I faced It. Fear was the voice of anger screaming in my face, the smell of alcohol making me tremble, the lines in my father’s face forming the look that we all recognized as the time for the other shoe to drop. It always did, because we always expected it to. Conditioned by the familiarity of the steps; always taking us to the same ending. We never learned that we only had to change how we thought about; what we expected to see change. I have been coming up on this for two years now and I finally faced it today. When a person yells in my face, I get to “choose not to accept” that behavior and I can do that by walking away, not enabling the bad behavior by accepting it. I am not the small child whose father taught her to live in fear; I am a strong healthy minded mature woman making her own choices about what takes place in her life. I am the adult that took the words my father said to me with malice, “It’s all in your head,” to heart, and realized that he had given me an amazing gift by telling me that. When a person treats me as poorly as that man did today, I know it has nothing to do with me. His mind controls his behavior, as mine controls my behavior. I choose to not respond or accept behavior like that ever again. I am saddened when I think that my strength makes others feel weak and weakness makes then angry; but it is not acceptable behavior so I will not. “It is “really” not my business what others think of me.” ">A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61)">A New Earth: awakening to Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club section 61)

As my purpose was unfolding today, I found myself having many of those private conversations we have with ourselves when we think no one is listening. The ones we all have, I know I am not alone in that. I often joke to my friends that my neighbors must think I’m off my trolley when they know I live alone and I am talking aloud, vehemently trying to make my point, to the invisible me. If I have to keep rejecting people in my life based on bad behavior I will probably find myself having more conversations with the invisible me. I joked with my friend today and told her I would wave from my back yard, as I thought how alone I might have to be. Living in a neighborhood is not at all, as Mister Rogers said it would be. He said we would all be friends, however, where is he when I need him? Maybe I should contact him through one of the dimensions I know exists around me now. Maybe when I am in a guided meditation, quantum leaping to the top of a giant daisy, I will find him and finally ask to explain how he could be so cheerful in that neighborhood everyday. “It’s a wonderful day in the neighborhood. Won’t you be my friend?” I am making a joke of all of this because I actually find it humorous that I saw so clearly today, what I wish I had seen so many years ago. Years before raising my own children, years before my divorces, my bad relationships, and my bad working relationships with men that rejected me in management positions over them. Men that because of their small minded thinking, and lack of self esteem, manipulated and choreographed my demise from management positions, by convincing other men that I was just another emotional woman, and had no right to be in a position of power over them. Moreover, here I was thinking that the world has changed and men and women all realize that we are all equal. Sorry, I had to stop there for a moment to stop laughing at myself. Equal, in what universe? Isn’t it time to open our eyes and minds and really remember that “there is no new thing under the sun?”

The purpose that I discovered today has nothing to do with my treatment by others. I am only observing how my day went, despite the fact that I found myself, the confidence, and the ability to go after the one thing I know was meant be. I have begun to create the blueprint for the program that I know will help others like me, which come from dysfunction mentally or physically, to heal them and re-create their lives. Free themselves from the obstacles that stand in their way, and teach others to do the same. I have discovered the “positive catch-22.” The “give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach him to fish and he will eat forever.” Help another find their passion, and despite obstacles, disabilities, and the disservice of others; find their way to the life they desire. Get up to a job everyday that they love. A job that is truly them, the real them, the person they were meant to be. More to come….

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WHAT CAN WE EXPECT FROM OURSELVES?

We never really know what we can expect from ourselves until it really comes down to the bottom line. With less than hours left of my school week, I managed somehow to erase my hard drive which had become infested with a virus, reformat it in time to get back to completing my assignments for the week, even after many frantic notes to my professor. I am amazed at myself and feeling refreshed because I have created a fresh start for myself. Of course I will first have to find the cookbook I was writing, it seems I may have thrown out the baby with the bathwater.

Sometimes we have to take a step back, just to move forward. We have to force ourselves to part with the things that are creating unecessary stress in our lives. It may be people or things...but if it is making you consistently unhappy...what is it really worth? Life is meant to be lived and I consider "failures just another door to success."

I GIVE UP

Image via WikipediaThe electrical world and I should seriously part company, because if its electrical and knows I'm coming it immediately goes into this walking, talking, unexplainable, robotic like, aura and I am lost in it for days. But pretty much everything these days is electrical so i really can't avoid them it, but you are not like me, right? you can use electrical things, like a toaster or an iron without burning the toast or the clothes. If so read on:

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But if you are like me...there is just no hope...give it up.