adapted from: Brian Tracy
There are several different aspects of courage. Perhaps the most important is the courage to endure, to persist, to "hang in there" in the face of doubt, uncertainty and criticism from others or your own self-doubts.
Practice Patience in Adversity
This is called "courageous patience," the willingness and the ability to "stay the course" in the face of uncertainty, doubt and often criticism from many quarters.
Stay the Course
In my experience, there is a critical time period between the launching of a new venture or facing a big challenge and the results that come from that opportunity. During this hiatus, this waiting period, many people lose their nerve. They cannot stand the suspense of not knowing, of possible failure. They break and run in battle, they quake and quit in business or in life.
The True Leader
But the true leader is the person who can stand firm, who refuses to consider the possibility of failure. The turning points of many key moments in human history have been the resolution, or lack thereof, of one person. Courageous patience is the acid test of leadership.
To encourage others, to instill confidence in them, to help them to perform at their best requires first of all that you lead by example.
You probably already know that the most successful people have incredible levels of self-confidence and courage. They've accomplished great levels of success and happiness in their lives and seem to be unstoppable in everything that they do.
The fact is, that when you develop unshakable self-confidence and courage your whole world will change for the better.
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Treat Addiction Like Diabetes
Researchers Tell Docs to Treat Addiction Like Diabetes, Other Conditions
http://www.jointogether.org/news/features/2000/researchers-tell-docs-to-like.html
· There are effective intervention treatment program for addiction and diabetes
· Diabetes and addiction can be controlled if not cured
· Addiction and diabetes have a strong genetic component
· Personal responsibility plays a strong role in the developing of the disease and/or success in treatment
· Stress level and inactivity are behavior related risk factors
· 40 – 60 % of drug dependent individuals resume drug use within a year of treatment, more than 70% of diabetics fail to adhere to dietary or behavioral recommendations
· In addition to education and counseling medications have been developed in recent years that have been proven effective in treating addiction and diabetes
· Addiction and diabetes are chronic disorders that cause long term biological changes, successful treatment requires more than treating the acute condition, with detoxification and short-term counseling
· Relapse is not a sign of treatment failure, it signals a need to perhaps adapt medical monitoring and behavioral strategies
"No matter what your past has been, you have a spotless future."--Hugh B Brown, Conference April 1969
President David O. Mckay, Conference Report, October 1961, First Day—Morning Meeting, p.9
To the Church in all the world the message of the First Presidency, the Council of the Twelve, and the other General Authorities is: Be true and loyal to the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. "Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord." (Psalm 31:24.)
Gordon B. Hinckley, Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley, p.582
Shape up. I say that to myself constantly. Shape up. Stand a little taller. Be a little better, a little stronger, a little more thoughtful, a little humbler, a little more prayerful, that you may be worthy of the guidance of the Lord and of His wonderful blessings. (Smithfield/Logan Utah Regional Conference, priesthood leadership session, April 20, 1996.)
And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall. Helaman 5:12
Elder Marion D. Hanks, A Loving, Communicating God, Ensign (CR), November 1992, p.63
“To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.”
http://www.jointogether.org/news/features/2000/researchers-tell-docs-to-like.html
· There are effective intervention treatment program for addiction and diabetes
· Diabetes and addiction can be controlled if not cured
· Addiction and diabetes have a strong genetic component
· Personal responsibility plays a strong role in the developing of the disease and/or success in treatment
· Stress level and inactivity are behavior related risk factors
· 40 – 60 % of drug dependent individuals resume drug use within a year of treatment, more than 70% of diabetics fail to adhere to dietary or behavioral recommendations
· In addition to education and counseling medications have been developed in recent years that have been proven effective in treating addiction and diabetes
· Addiction and diabetes are chronic disorders that cause long term biological changes, successful treatment requires more than treating the acute condition, with detoxification and short-term counseling
· Relapse is not a sign of treatment failure, it signals a need to perhaps adapt medical monitoring and behavioral strategies
"No matter what your past has been, you have a spotless future."--Hugh B Brown, Conference April 1969
President David O. Mckay, Conference Report, October 1961, First Day—Morning Meeting, p.9
To the Church in all the world the message of the First Presidency, the Council of the Twelve, and the other General Authorities is: Be true and loyal to the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. "Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord." (Psalm 31:24.)
Gordon B. Hinckley, Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley, p.582
Shape up. I say that to myself constantly. Shape up. Stand a little taller. Be a little better, a little stronger, a little more thoughtful, a little humbler, a little more prayerful, that you may be worthy of the guidance of the Lord and of His wonderful blessings. (Smithfield/Logan Utah Regional Conference, priesthood leadership session, April 20, 1996.)
And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall. Helaman 5:12
Elder Marion D. Hanks, A Loving, Communicating God, Ensign (CR), November 1992, p.63
“To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.”
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Best Jobs for Retirees
Best Jobs for Retirees
1. Nursing
2. Health Care Technician
3. Health Care Administration (Non-Medical)
4. Teaching Aide
5. Contract & Temporary Professional
6. Merchandise and Grocery Retail
7. Specialty Retail
8. Accounting and Finance – Tax preparation
9. Banking and Lending
10.Driver-Car, Bus, light Truck
11. Customer Service Rep
12. Nonprofit services, Delivery and Administration
13. Insurance and Financial services
14.Home care and personal aide
15. Hospitality and Food Staff services
16. Office clerical and administration
17.Self-employed
18.Franchise Business owner
19.Small Business – employee general duties
20.Federal, State, Municipal government
http://www.forbes.com/
1. Nursing
2. Health Care Technician
3. Health Care Administration (Non-Medical)
4. Teaching Aide
5. Contract & Temporary Professional
6. Merchandise and Grocery Retail
7. Specialty Retail
8. Accounting and Finance – Tax preparation
9. Banking and Lending
10.Driver-Car, Bus, light Truck
11. Customer Service Rep
12. Nonprofit services, Delivery and Administration
13. Insurance and Financial services
14.Home care and personal aide
15. Hospitality and Food Staff services
16. Office clerical and administration
17.Self-employed
18.Franchise Business owner
19.Small Business – employee general duties
20.Federal, State, Municipal government
http://www.forbes.com/
Monday, January 14, 2008
Only Two Choices
The Two Choices We Face
Each of us has two distinct choices to make about what we will do with our lives. The first choice we can make is to be less than we have the capacity to be. To earn less. To have less. To read less and think less. To try less and discipline ourselves less. These are the choices that lead to an empty life. These are the choices that, once made, lead to a life of constant apprehension instead of a life of wondrous anticipation.
And the second choice? To do it all! To become all that we can possibly be. To read every book that we possibly can. To earn as much as we possibly can. To give and share as much as we possibly can. To strive and produce and accomplish as much as we possibly can. All of us have the choice.
To do or not to do. To be or not to be. To be all or to be less or to be nothing at all.
Like the tree, it would be a worthy challenge for us all to stretch upward and outward to the full measure of our capabilities. Why not do all that we can, every moment that we can, the best that we can, for as long as we can?
Our ultimate life objective should be to create as much as our talent and ability and desire will permit. To settle for doing less than we could do is to fail in this worthiest of undertakings.
Results are the best measurement of human progress. Not conversation. Not explanation. Not justification. Results! And if our results are less than our potential suggests that they should be, then we must strive to become more today than we were the day before. The greatest rewards are always reserved for those who bring great value to themselves and the world around them as a result of who and what they have become.
To Your Success
Jim Rohn
Each of us has two distinct choices to make about what we will do with our lives. The first choice we can make is to be less than we have the capacity to be. To earn less. To have less. To read less and think less. To try less and discipline ourselves less. These are the choices that lead to an empty life. These are the choices that, once made, lead to a life of constant apprehension instead of a life of wondrous anticipation.
And the second choice? To do it all! To become all that we can possibly be. To read every book that we possibly can. To earn as much as we possibly can. To give and share as much as we possibly can. To strive and produce and accomplish as much as we possibly can. All of us have the choice.
To do or not to do. To be or not to be. To be all or to be less or to be nothing at all.
Like the tree, it would be a worthy challenge for us all to stretch upward and outward to the full measure of our capabilities. Why not do all that we can, every moment that we can, the best that we can, for as long as we can?
Our ultimate life objective should be to create as much as our talent and ability and desire will permit. To settle for doing less than we could do is to fail in this worthiest of undertakings.
Results are the best measurement of human progress. Not conversation. Not explanation. Not justification. Results! And if our results are less than our potential suggests that they should be, then we must strive to become more today than we were the day before. The greatest rewards are always reserved for those who bring great value to themselves and the world around them as a result of who and what they have become.
To Your Success
Jim Rohn
Social Security Benefits in Retirement
Just a few years' more work can have a significant impact on your retirement income. You can continue adding to your 401(k) or other retirement plan, which reduces your current taxes and lets those investments continue to grow. Working longer also means you'll have to rely on your savings for fewer years.
A job can also boost your Social Security benefits. Although you can collect as early as age 62, your Social Security checks will be about 25% smaller -- for the rest of your life -- than if you wait till your normal retirement age. And if you continue to work and collect Social Security before your normal retirement age, you will lose $1 in benefits for every $2 you earn over $13,560 in 2008.
Once you reach your regular retirement age -- which is 65 and 10 months for those born in 1942, who turned 65 in 2007 -- you can collect full Social Security benefits, no matter how much you earn by working. The normal retirement age increases to 66 for those born between 1943 and 1954, and rises gradually to 67 for people born later. www.kiplinger.com
A job can also boost your Social Security benefits. Although you can collect as early as age 62, your Social Security checks will be about 25% smaller -- for the rest of your life -- than if you wait till your normal retirement age. And if you continue to work and collect Social Security before your normal retirement age, you will lose $1 in benefits for every $2 you earn over $13,560 in 2008.
Once you reach your regular retirement age -- which is 65 and 10 months for those born in 1942, who turned 65 in 2007 -- you can collect full Social Security benefits, no matter how much you earn by working. The normal retirement age increases to 66 for those born between 1943 and 1954, and rises gradually to 67 for people born later. www.kiplinger.com
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Can't - Edgar Guest
Can’t
Edgar Guest
Can’t is the worst word that’s written or spoken;
Doing more harm here than slander and lies;
On it is many a strong spirit broken,
And with it many a good purpose dies.
It springs from the lips of the thoughtless each morning
And robs us of courage we need through the day:
It rings in our ears like a timely sent warning
And laughs when we falter and fall by the way.
Can’t is the father of feeble endeavor,
The parent of terror and halfhearted work;
It weakens the efforts of artisans clever,
And makes of the toiler an indolent shirk.
It poisons the soul of the man with a vision,
It stifles in infancy many a plan;
It greets honest toiling with open derision
And mocks at the hopes and the dreams of a man.
Can’t is a word none should speak without blushing;
To utter it should be a symbol of shame;
Ambition and courage it daily is crushing;
It blights a man’s purpose and shortens his aim.
Despise it with all of your hatred of error;
Refuse it the lodgment it seeks in your brain.
Arm against it as a creature of terror,
And all that you dream of you someday shall gain.
Can’t is the word that is a foe to ambition,
An enemy ambushed to shatter your will;
Its prey is forever the man with a mission
And bows but to courage and patience and skill.
Hate it, with hatred that’s deep and undying,
For once it is welcomed ‘twill break any man;
Whatever the goal you are seeking, keep trying
And answer this demon by saying: “I can.”
Edgar Guest
Can’t is the worst word that’s written or spoken;
Doing more harm here than slander and lies;
On it is many a strong spirit broken,
And with it many a good purpose dies.
It springs from the lips of the thoughtless each morning
And robs us of courage we need through the day:
It rings in our ears like a timely sent warning
And laughs when we falter and fall by the way.
Can’t is the father of feeble endeavor,
The parent of terror and halfhearted work;
It weakens the efforts of artisans clever,
And makes of the toiler an indolent shirk.
It poisons the soul of the man with a vision,
It stifles in infancy many a plan;
It greets honest toiling with open derision
And mocks at the hopes and the dreams of a man.
Can’t is a word none should speak without blushing;
To utter it should be a symbol of shame;
Ambition and courage it daily is crushing;
It blights a man’s purpose and shortens his aim.
Despise it with all of your hatred of error;
Refuse it the lodgment it seeks in your brain.
Arm against it as a creature of terror,
And all that you dream of you someday shall gain.
Can’t is the word that is a foe to ambition,
An enemy ambushed to shatter your will;
Its prey is forever the man with a mission
And bows but to courage and patience and skill.
Hate it, with hatred that’s deep and undying,
For once it is welcomed ‘twill break any man;
Whatever the goal you are seeking, keep trying
And answer this demon by saying: “I can.”
Lincoln's Legacy
Abraham Lincoln
"I do not discuss the tariff, I know that if we buy goods made in America we have the goods and we have the money, and if we buy goods not made in America some one else has our money.”
"This love of liberty which God has planted in us constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence. It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling seacoasts, our army, and our navy. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit, and we have planted the seeds of despotism at our very doors."
"Good boys who to their books apply,
Will all be great men by and by."
"I accept all I read in the Bible that I can understand, and accept the rest on faith."
"We have forgotten God!"
"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us to the end, do our duty as we understand it."
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown; but we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self—sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
"If it ever reaches us, it must spring up among us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher; as a nation of freemen, we must live through all time or die by suicide."
"Let [the Constitution] be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges, let it be written in primers, in spelling books and in almanacs, let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation."
"Let the people know the truth, and the country is safe."
"Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we will succeed."
"Let us dare to do our duty as we understand it."
"Bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible; still while they continue in force for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed."
"That the Almighty does make use of human agencies and directly intervenes in human affairs is one of the plainest statements in the Bible. I have had so many evidences of his direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some power other than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above. I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do, or not to do, a particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it."
"My faith is greater than yours. I not only believe that Providence is not unmindful of the struggle in which this nation is engaged, that if we do not do right God will let us go our own way to ruin; and that if we do right He will lead us safely out of this wilderness, crown our arms with victory and restore our dissevered Union, as you have expressed your belief; but I also believe He will compel us to do right in order that He may do these things, not so much because we desire them, as that they accord with His plans in dealing with this nation, in the midst of which He means to establish justice.
"All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother."
A friend was talking with him regarding the condition of the country, and so on, and made the remark, "I hope that the Lord is on our side." "Well," said President Lincoln, "I do not worry about that at all; I know that the Lord is always on the side of right. What worries me most is to know if we are on the Lord's side."
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable, it is a positive good in the world; that some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built."
"Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well-wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the revolution never to violate, in the least particular, the laws of the country, and never to tolerate their violation by others. As the patriots of '76 did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor. Let every man remember that to violate the laws is to trample on the blood of his fathers and to tear the charter of his own and his children's liberty. Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries and in colleges. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in the legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice -- in short, let it become the political religion of this nation."
"I know there is a God, and that he hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If he has a place, a work for me--and I think he has--I believe I am ready. I am nothing, but truth is everything. I know I am right, because I know that liberty is right; for Christ teaches it, and Christ is God."
The great emacipator was no enemy to the "Mormon" people. When asked, after his election as president, how he intended to treat the "Mormon" question--which was bothering the politicians as well as the priests--he answered in his quaint, characteristic way: "I intend to treat it as a farmer on the frontier would treat an old water-soaked elm log lying upon his land--too heavy to move, too knotty to split, and too wet to burn. I'm going to plow round it." And he did.
"I do not discuss the tariff, I know that if we buy goods made in America we have the goods and we have the money, and if we buy goods not made in America some one else has our money.”
"This love of liberty which God has planted in us constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence. It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling seacoasts, our army, and our navy. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit, and we have planted the seeds of despotism at our very doors."
"Good boys who to their books apply,
Will all be great men by and by."
"I accept all I read in the Bible that I can understand, and accept the rest on faith."
"We have forgotten God!"
"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us to the end, do our duty as we understand it."
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown; but we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self—sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
"If it ever reaches us, it must spring up among us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher; as a nation of freemen, we must live through all time or die by suicide."
"Let [the Constitution] be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges, let it be written in primers, in spelling books and in almanacs, let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation."
"Let the people know the truth, and the country is safe."
"Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we will succeed."
"Let us dare to do our duty as we understand it."
"Bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible; still while they continue in force for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed."
"That the Almighty does make use of human agencies and directly intervenes in human affairs is one of the plainest statements in the Bible. I have had so many evidences of his direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some power other than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above. I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do, or not to do, a particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it."
"My faith is greater than yours. I not only believe that Providence is not unmindful of the struggle in which this nation is engaged, that if we do not do right God will let us go our own way to ruin; and that if we do right He will lead us safely out of this wilderness, crown our arms with victory and restore our dissevered Union, as you have expressed your belief; but I also believe He will compel us to do right in order that He may do these things, not so much because we desire them, as that they accord with His plans in dealing with this nation, in the midst of which He means to establish justice.
"All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother."
A friend was talking with him regarding the condition of the country, and so on, and made the remark, "I hope that the Lord is on our side." "Well," said President Lincoln, "I do not worry about that at all; I know that the Lord is always on the side of right. What worries me most is to know if we are on the Lord's side."
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable, it is a positive good in the world; that some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built."
"Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well-wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the revolution never to violate, in the least particular, the laws of the country, and never to tolerate their violation by others. As the patriots of '76 did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor. Let every man remember that to violate the laws is to trample on the blood of his fathers and to tear the charter of his own and his children's liberty. Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries and in colleges. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in the legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice -- in short, let it become the political religion of this nation."
"I know there is a God, and that he hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If he has a place, a work for me--and I think he has--I believe I am ready. I am nothing, but truth is everything. I know I am right, because I know that liberty is right; for Christ teaches it, and Christ is God."
The great emacipator was no enemy to the "Mormon" people. When asked, after his election as president, how he intended to treat the "Mormon" question--which was bothering the politicians as well as the priests--he answered in his quaint, characteristic way: "I intend to treat it as a farmer on the frontier would treat an old water-soaked elm log lying upon his land--too heavy to move, too knotty to split, and too wet to burn. I'm going to plow round it." And he did.
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