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Thursday, April 26, 2007
STRESSED OUT? Here Are Some Suggestions
Half the British population feels more stressed today than they did five years ago, according to a survey commissioned by the Samaritans. More than one-tenth of people say they have felt suicidal - twice the proportion in 2002. But there are ways to reduce your levels of stress - and to improve the quality of your working life. Here are 10 tips.
1. UNDERSTAND WHAT STRESS IS
Stress is defined as what happens when the demands made on a person exceed that person's ability to cope. The word is derived from the Latin stringere - "to draw tight". Some stress is good - it keeps us on our toes and driving onwards. Its origin lies in the "fight or flight" response that evolved in our ancestors and was essential for survival in prehistoric times.
Today, the same fight or flight response - triggering the release of the stress hormones adrenalin and cortisol and marked by a pounding heart or sweaty brow - cannot be discharged by running or fighting as our ancestors did. It has physical and emotional effects, increasing blood pressure and putting a strain on the heart, until we face overload.
We do not want to eliminate stress, but we need to manage it so that it doesn't dominate our lives.
2. GET YOUR COMPANY ON THE CASE
Long hours and a macho culture are among the chief causes of workplace stress. The Health and Safety Executive launched a tough new code to reduce stress at work in December 2004. The code sets six standards, including increasing support and giving staff more control. Employers who ignore the standards are at risk of legal action.
Alan Barber, a former head of maths at East Bridgewater secondary school in Somerset, was awarded £70,000 after leaving with a stress-related illness. The case, which went to the House of Lords, established that an "autocratic and bullying style of leadership" that is "unsympathetic" to complaints of occupational stress is a factor that courts can take into account in deciding claims.
A survey by the mental health charity Mind found that the most stressed workers were teachers, social workers, call-centre workers, prison officers and the police. Public-sector workers suffered more stress than those in the private sector.
3. THE BEST CURES ARE FREE
The single most popular response to stress is to have a drink. This was mentioned by one respondent in three in the Samaritans survey, up from one in four in 2003. Similar proportions say that they watch television or listen to music.
While these may be pleasurable and relaxing at the end of the day, they are not the most effective remedies for stress. "Going for a short walk, doing stretching or breathing exercises, or just getting away from your desk would have a greater impact," says Neil Shah, the director of the Stress Management Society. Exercise also produces endorphins, the body's natural opiates, which boost mood.
Other measures include changing your attitudes, such as learning to accept what you cannot change, managing your time and agreeing with people some of the time. There are no pills or potions or magic cures for stress - notwithstanding the claims of some companies that sell them.
4. LIVE ABROAD - OR MOVE UP NORTH
Many people dream of moving abroad to a stress-free life sitting around the pool sipping cocktails as the sun goes down. But what about working abroad?
A survey by Ipsos, the polling organisation, conducted in nine countries and published in December, found that Germany topped the stress league, while Mexico was the least-stressed nation. Britons were the most likely to claim their life was beyond their control, although they reported less stress overall than the Germans.
The Happy Planet Index, published last year, named the island of Vanuatu in the Pacific as the happiest nation on earth. Latin American countries ranked highest in the happiness league.
If you must stay at home, consider heading north. The pace of life in the capital causes the highest levels of stress, with the North-east a haven of calm by comparison, according to the Samaritans survey.
5. LOBBY THE GOVERNMENT FOR MORE HELP
Almost 13 million days a year are taken off sick from work as a result of stress, according to the charity Mind. Stress costs the economy almost £1 for every £10 generated.
Stress leads to anxiety, depression and mental distress. Mental illness is now Britain's biggest social problem, worse than unemployment and as important as poverty, according to Lord Layard, the Labour peer.
Three in 10 people take sick leave with mental distress in any one year, yet fewer than one in 10 receives any kind of treatment, such as psychological counselling, according to the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health. GPs are forced to fall back on antidepressants, which the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has warned are being over-prescribed.
Lord Layard has lobbied the Government to make the prevention and treatment of anxiety and depression a priority. Treatment is of proven effectiveness, with a gain of £3,000 in productivity for every £1,000 spent, he says.
6. GO OUT TO WORK
Women suffer more from stress than men. In the Samaritans survey, more than half of women said they felt stressed more than once a month. Worst affected were mothers at home with their children and other women without formal employment. Having a workplace to go to, and colleagues for company, may relieve stress as well as cause it. For many people, a life without work is a life without meaning.
At work, those who climb the career ladder are less stressed than those who remain at the bottom. It may seem counterintuitive that as workers gain responsibility they become more relaxed, but research shows that those with more control over their lives tend to outlive their put-upon colleagues. But beware the long-hours culture; maintaining a work-life balance is crucial to emotional health.
7. AVOID JOINING SUCCESSFUL ORGANISATIONS
This may sound odd, but the adage that success breeds success is undermined by research showing that working for an expanding organisation is more likely to make you ill.
Change is stressful, and organisations that are growing rapidly impose greater demands on the workforce than those where there is less change and more stability, even when the change is positive and increases job security.
A study of 24,000 employees in Sweden found that those who worked in organisations with the highest rates of growth had the highest levels of sickness. The National Institute for Psychosocial Medicine in Stockholm, which carried out the study, said it revealed the "ruthless nature" of modern workplaces where employers care more about their bottom lines than the welfare of their workforces.
8. TURN OFF YOUR MOBILE AND TAKE A NAP
Almost one-quarter of the working day is lost to interruptions from e-mails, phone calls and text messages, American research suggests. While sociability is good for health, too much of it can lead to work piling up, adding to stress about getting too little done.
A failure to switch off from work is driving up stress levels. The problem is exacerbated by omnipresent electronic gadgets such as mobiles and BlackBerrys, which mean that the office is never closed.
Getting a break during the day also helps. Daytime naps can boost memory and increase productivity, provided they are not too lengthy so that you wake groggy rather than refreshed. In New York, a company called MetroNaps sells 20-minute snoozes in a pod for less than a tenner.
9. GROW OLDER
One of the puzzles about stress is that those carrying the least responsibility - teenagers - suffer worst. The Samaritans survey of 2,000 people, conducted over the internet in December, found that pressure had increased most on the young, with 70 per cent of 16- to 24-year-olds saying they felt more stressed than they did five years ago.
Almost one in six said the pressures had driven them to contemplate taking their own life, and almost one-third said they had no one to turn to - the highest proportion saying this in any age group. Those aged 35-44 said they felt most stressed - a reflection of the pressure of coping with work and young children.
By the age of 65, however, people report less stress. In part, that reflects diminishing pressure from work and family, and more time for people to call their own. Age also brings acceptance, greater contentment with what you have and less striving for what you don't.
10. TALK TO SOMEONE
Bonding with colleagues is one of the most effective antidotes to stress in the workplace. Chatting over the photocopier, going out for lunch and sharing troubles is the best form of therapy.
Yet fewer people are doing it. Professor Cary Cooper of Lancaster University, an expert on workplace stress, said this was the most worrying finding of the Samaritans survey.
"Too many people are turning to the most inappropriate ways to deal with whatever is stressing them - and that's if they're making any attempt to deal with it at all. Turning to drink is the worst response.
"It's alarming that only 22 per cent of people said they'd go to a friend or a relative for a chat, while as many as 15 per cent said they'd stick themselves away in their room alone, and even more [19 per cent] said they'd go off for a walk or a drive," Professor Cooper says. "People need to talk about the stress and anxieties they have, not hide them."
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Lara Departure Means Success for West Indies
He may have a point. Howbeit not of any significance to my mind though, since it was under Lara that WI cricket actually declined significantly. With a good captain all the issues raised can be inculcated into the team to function as winning effective unit. The board,s job would be to scout around to find such a person.
Soccers clubs has scouts searching the world for the next Maradona, Pele or soccer great from the tip of South America to the Far East. And when one such youth with potential is found he is taken under the wings and groomed by the club he will be playing for in the future until such a time.
Talent though important is not the most essential element for success. There thousands, even millions of folks with talents or gifts or whatever you want to call it, but unless such talent is harnessed, shaped, fashioned, guided, developed accordingly, it will just be that - talent that is wasted.
So I strongly beleive Lara's departure will leave the door open for someone with talent to be fashioned accordingly for success.
Anthony Persaud
Linden Bollers wrote:
Kingston—It is frightening that there exist cricket scribes, amongst them former world-famous players, who believe that the departure of Brian Lara is the partial or whole solution to the free-fall that West Indies cricket has been experiencing over the last 15 years.
As evidence of this shallow understanding of the problems of WI cricket are statements such as, “It would be good to make a fresh start now that Lara has gone,” and, “His departure clears the way for the advance of the team.”
However, these expressions in the belief that Lara as captain was the problem are not surprising. A couple years ago a notable West Indian scribe was saying that Lara should have gone then as his supreme capability with the bat was undermining the confidence of the other less-gifted and mentally deficient players in the team.
Such supposedly informed and intelligent scribes forget when they seek to lay complete blame at the feet of Lara, that he has not been the captain during the entire period of the 15-year decline of WI cricket.
They forget too that:
n Richie Richardson was destroyed as a batsman when he took up the captaincy; that he all but got a physical and psychological breakdown during his term as captain.
n The great Courtney Walsh did little with the team.
n Jimmy Adams moved from a promising batsman with an appetite for big scores and high averages to a man who could barely hit the ball off the square, having to retire prematurely.
n Carl Hooper’s already mediocre performances as a batsman slid even further as captain.
n Chanderpaul saved himself from a fate like Richardson by quickly handing back the captaincy.
n Andy Roberts, Malcolm Marshall, Rohan Kanhai, Roger Harper, Jeffrey Dujon and Sir Viv Richards were frustrated out of the position of coach of the West Indies team.
n Gus Logie was dumped as supposedly unsuccessful.
n Even the great Clive Lloyd and the incomparable Sir Gary Sobers had only marginal success in their various stints and roles with the West Indies cricket team of the last 15 years.
Has it not dawned on them that no single individual has or could be considered responsible for the generational decline in West Indian cricket?
Don’t they understand that it is almost irrelevant when Brian left or was forced to leave; that the problems go much deeper than is being conceived of?
Do they not understand that there was only one time in the recent past of West Indies cricket that the issue of who was captain was important, that time being when the then WICBC refused to appoint Des-mond Haynes as the captain to succeed Viv Richards and instead put Richardson into a role he was not ready for?
Yes, that was when the board failed to understand the importance of the influence of Haynes, as a senior member of the Lloyd/Richards era, being needed to make the transition, to bring the culture, the work ethic and the spirit of domination to another group of young men to allow the West Indian cultural supremacy, confidence in self, confidence in how we interact with the teams from the developed world, to prevail.
Are they not able to understand that the problems of WI cricket are structural, not merely in the organisation of the cricket but in the social problems of West Indian society?
The disaster of the Richardson appointment as captain was compounded when Lara was handed the captaincy when he was even less equipped than Richardson was.
But the above only touches on the captaincy aspect of the failures of the board to critically understand what was happening with WI cricket and what was and continues to be needed.
Packed with businessmen and astute administrators, the boards of the 1970s and 1980s failed to perceive of the possibility of being able to capitalise on the commercial value of the great teams of the period.
They therefore fated their successor boards to eventually go cap-in-hand to the likes of Digicel to support WI cricket when hundreds of millions could have been earned during the period of dominance.
Indeed, instead of discerning the emerging times of sponsorship in cricket, the board did everything within its power to hold back the advancing commercialisation by banning the players who chose to follow their fortunes with the Australian tycoon, Kerry Packer.
Where were these “far-sighted” scribes during that period? Why did they not suggest to the board what lay ahead and what had to be done to make commercial use of the Lloyd/Richards teams?
Why did the scribes not suggest to the board that there was need for a clinical assessment of the methods, planning and strategies of Lloyd to be able to encapsulate them and modernise to continue producing world champion teams?
Here in Kingston on the evening when Lara announced his retirement, social commentator/comedian Oral Tracey did this wonderful spoof in true, true “calypsonic” style, suggesting that now that Lara is gone everything would be alright with the WI team: “The untalented would become talented; the indisciplined would become disciplined...”
This is not a defence of Lara, his unorthodox captaincy, his inability to convert a talented team into a world champion unit, or to hark back to his immature days and ways, not even an attempt to say that he should have been allowed to continue on for another series or until he reached 40.
What the column is saying is that Lara’s departure will make no difference to the serious structural problems of West Indies cricket, that the problems are far-reaching, that the problems are “beyond the boundaries” of cricket, that instead of attempting to borrow solutions from Australia we have to develop our own, and that the need is to transform the structures of WI cricket if we are to ever again become one of the leading teams in international cricket.
But I cannot end here without saying that the cricketing world will remain eternally joyous for the sublime skills of Brian Lara, his West Indian creativity, his sense of timing, above all, his ability to perceive shot-making possibilities that others could only dream about, and his ability to sustain those gifts and insights to the end, never becoming a mere accumulator of runs.
For generations to come, the video of Lara dancing to the spinners, sweeping the deadly “Murali” will remain the standard for great batsmanship.
I will continue next time and repeat, hopefully in different ways and with new insight, what this column has been saying for more than five years now about the needed restructuring of WI cricket
Soccers clubs has scouts searching the world for the next Maradona, Pele or soccer great from the tip of South America to the Far East. And when one such youth with potential is found he is taken under the wings and groomed by the club he will be playing for in the future until such a time.
Talent though important is not the most essential element for success. There thousands, even millions of folks with talents or gifts or whatever you want to call it, but unless such talent is harnessed, shaped, fashioned, guided, developed accordingly, it will just be that - talent that is wasted.
So I strongly beleive Lara's departure will leave the door open for someone with talent to be fashioned accordingly for success.
Anthony Persaud
Linden Bollers
Kingston—It is frightening that there exist cricket scribes, amongst them former world-famous players, who believe that the departure of Brian Lara is the partial or whole solution to the free-fall that West Indies cricket has been experiencing over the last 15 years.
As evidence of this shallow understanding of the problems of WI cricket are statements such as, “It would be good to make a fresh start now that Lara has gone,” and, “His departure clears the way for the advance of the team.”
However, these expressions in the belief that Lara as captain was the problem are not surprising. A couple years ago a notable West Indian scribe was saying that Lara should have gone then as his supreme capability with the bat was undermining the confidence of the other less-gifted and mentally deficient players in the team.
Such supposedly informed and intelligent scribes forget when they seek to lay complete blame at the feet of Lara, that he has not been the captain during the entire period of the 15-year decline of WI cricket.
They forget too that:
n Richie Richardson was destroyed as a batsman when he took up the captaincy; that he all but got a physical and psychological breakdown during his term as captain.
n The great Courtney Walsh did little with the team.
n Jimmy Adams moved from a promising batsman with an appetite for big scores and high averages to a man who could barely hit the ball off the square, having to retire prematurely.
n Carl Hooper’s already mediocre performances as a batsman slid even further as captain.
n Chanderpaul saved himself from a fate like Richardson by quickly handing back the captaincy.
n Andy Roberts, Malcolm Marshall, Rohan Kanhai, Roger Harper, Jeffrey Dujon and Sir Viv Richards were frustrated out of the position of coach of the West Indies team.
n Gus Logie was dumped as supposedly unsuccessful.
n Even the great Clive Lloyd and the incomparable Sir Gary Sobers had only marginal success in their various stints and roles with the West Indies cricket team of the last 15 years.
Has it not dawned on them that no single individual has or could be considered responsible for the generational decline in West Indian cricket?
Don’t they understand that it is almost irrelevant when Brian left or was forced to leave; that the problems go much deeper than is being conceived of?
Do they not understand that there was only one time in the recent past of West Indies cricket that the issue of who was captain was important, that time being when the then WICBC refused to appoint Des-mond Haynes as the captain to succeed Viv Richards and instead put Richardson into a role he was not ready for?
Yes, that was when the board failed to understand the importance of the influence of Haynes, as a senior member of the Lloyd/Richards era, being needed to make the transition, to bring the culture, the work ethic and the spirit of domination to another group of young men to allow the West Indian cultural supremacy, confidence in self, confidence in how we interact with the teams from the developed world, to prevail.
Are they not able to understand that the problems of WI cricket are structural, not merely in the organisation of the cricket but in the social problems of West Indian society?
The disaster of the Richardson appointment as captain was compounded when Lara was handed the captaincy when he was even less equipped than Richardson was.
But the above only touches on the captaincy aspect of the failures of the board to critically understand what was happening with WI cricket and what was and continues to be needed.
Packed with businessmen and astute administrators, the boards of the 1970s and 1980s failed to perceive of the possibility of being able to capitalise on the commercial value of the great teams of the period.
They therefore fated their successor boards to eventually go cap-in-hand to the likes of Digicel to support WI cricket when hundreds of millions could have been earned during the period of dominance.
Indeed, instead of discerning the emerging times of sponsorship in cricket, the board did everything within its power to hold back the advancing commercialisation by banning the players who chose to follow their fortunes with the Australian tycoon, Kerry Packer.
Where were these “far-sighted” scribes during that period? Why did they not suggest to the board what lay ahead and what had to be done to make commercial use of the Lloyd/Richards teams?
Why did the scribes not suggest to the board that there was need for a clinical assessment of the methods, planning and strategies of Lloyd to be able to encapsulate them and modernise to continue producing world champion teams?
Here in Kingston on the evening when Lara announced his retirement, social commentator/comedian Oral Tracey did this wonderful spoof in true, true “calypsonic” style, suggesting that now that Lara is gone everything would be alright with the WI team: “The untalented would become talented; the indisciplined would become disciplined...”
This is not a defence of Lara, his unorthodox captaincy, his inability to convert a talented team into a world champion unit, or to hark back to his immature days and ways, not even an attempt to say that he should have been allowed to continue on for another series or until he reached 40.
What the column is saying is that Lara’s departure will make no difference to the serious structural problems of West Indies cricket, that the problems are far-reaching, that the problems are “beyond the boundaries” of cricket, that instead of attempting to borrow solutions from Australia we have to develop our own, and that the need is to transform the structures of WI cricket if we are to ever again become one of the leading teams in international cricket.
But I cannot end here without saying that the cricketing world will remain eternally joyous for the sublime skills of Brian Lara, his West Indian creativity, his sense of timing, above all, his ability to perceive shot-making possibilities that others could only dream about, and his ability to sustain those gifts and insights to the end, never becoming a mere accumulator of runs.
For generations to come, the video of Lara dancing to the spinners, sweeping the deadly “Murali” will remain the standard for great batsmanship.
I will continue next time and repeat, hopefully in different ways and with new insight, what this column has been saying for more than five years now about the needed restructuring of WI cricket
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Regain Romance - Add Flame to Love
She sits on the fence, her back to him. He stands behind her with his arms wrapped around her slender waist. She arches back gently into his strong arms. Their cheeks gently rubs aginst each other.
They are quiet. Around them the silence looms frozen in time. He could smell her. Fresh, rose petals, clean, desirable. Hunger burn in his cells and fibres. This was a moment to drink her in. Enjoy her womanly essence.
Continue...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Free Telephone Calls?
Skype is perhaps one of the cheapest phone VOIP system available to make calls worldwide for low as $0.017 per minute. Calling the USA from other places in the world is just over one cent per minute.
In addition to being cheap, the skype quality is exceptionally good. Sometimes even better than the old landline telephone system we know about.
How does skype work? All you need to do is go to Skype.com and download the skype software and install it on your computer. Then purchase a $10.00 shype out credit to enable phone to phone calls. You will need a headphone or you can do like me, and buy a USB Phone that stores your personal information in it. You can then plug this usb phone into any usb port on any computer anywhere where internet service is available and you ready to make calls to anywhere in the world.
Note skype to skype is FREE. The person you want to talk with must be logged into skype. Then you can call his skype id and you are ready to talk for free.
There are many other add-on features for skype that allows yuou to use your webcam to see who you are talking with. And many, many more.
Need further help? Email: persaudanthony@yahoo.com
In addition to being cheap, the skype quality is exceptionally good. Sometimes even better than the old landline telephone system we know about.
How does skype work? All you need to do is go to Skype.com and download the skype software and install it on your computer. Then purchase a $10.00 shype out credit to enable phone to phone calls. You will need a headphone or you can do like me, and buy a USB Phone that stores your personal information in it. You can then plug this usb phone into any usb port on any computer anywhere where internet service is available and you ready to make calls to anywhere in the world.
Note skype to skype is FREE. The person you want to talk with must be logged into skype. Then you can call his skype id and you are ready to talk for free.
There are many other add-on features for skype that allows yuou to use your webcam to see who you are talking with. And many, many more.
Need further help? Email: persaudanthony@yahoo.com
FREE WORLD CUP CRICKET - WATCH NOW
Here is a link that will allow you to watch World Cup Cricket free. In addition there are a few bonus movie channels to watch. Enjoy.
http://www.vaanamtv.net/
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http://www.vaanamtv.net/
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Monday, March 19, 2007
World Cup Cricket Shockers!!!!
Bangladesh stunned the cricketing world with an exciting win over cricket superpower India on Saturday March 17, 2007. It was an unforgetable moment in cricketing history. The youths from Bangladesh were impressive with some attacking and aggressive cricketing. It was a wonder to behold.
And not to be outdone, veiled Ireland shocked everyone when they knocked Pakistan the number fourth ranked team in the world out of the World Cup Competition here in the Caribbean and Guyana. It was too much for the coach of Pakistan. He succumbed shortly the enxt day. This was really unfortunate and sad. My condolences to the family of Mr. Woolmer and to the team and other members of the Pakistan team.
And not to be outdone, veiled Ireland shocked everyone when they knocked Pakistan the number fourth ranked team in the world out of the World Cup Competition here in the Caribbean and Guyana. It was too much for the coach of Pakistan. He succumbed shortly the enxt day. This was really unfortunate and sad. My condolences to the family of Mr. Woolmer and to the team and other members of the Pakistan team.
Email From A Friend - Happiness
The Best Way to Achieve HappinessBy Song Chengxiang
People always think that what they want is money, relationships, and material possessions, but what they truly want is happiness. Wealth, health and relationships are just the rewards of being happy. Happiness is a state of vibration that is in harmony with the universe. As you already know, the same frequency vibrations tend to attract each other, so the vibration of happiness is going to attract more wealth, better relationships and better health, since these things are going to add more happiness to your life, and they are in the same vibration. If you go after money, you may not get it, but if you go after happiness, money will flow to you. The same applies to relationships and health.
I believe the ultimate goal in life is to achieve a state of well being, or we can simply say happiness. Is there an easier way to achieve happiness? The answer is Yes! and I am now going to show you how.
I have learned one phrase from Dr Wayne Dyer, that I will never forget. The phrase is "How may I serve?" Dr Dyer said that before his seminars, he always meditates, and repeats the phrase as a mantra "How may I serve... How may I serve?" He never brings any notes with him, and when he speaks, the words just keep flowing to him. He knows exactly what to say, and what to teach. Dr Wayne Dyer is one of my favourite role models. He has achieved great success in almost every area of his life. I believe the one single most important element in Dr Wayne Dyer's success is this mantra, "How may I serve?"
Ask yourself now "How may I serve?" This is the key to ultimate happiness and fulfillment in life.
I would like to share some of my own experience. The most enjoyable thing in my life at this stage is writing articles that can make a difference to the quality of people's lives. Whenever I finish writing an article, I feel positive energy throughout my body. I sometime get puzzled myself! Where does this information come from? How do I write so many articles, having thousands of people read my articles every week? I have finally realized the secret is within this phrase, "How may I serve?".
Every time I write an article for my newsletter, I sit in front of my computer, and ask myself, "How may I serve? How may I serve?" Strangely, the ideas come, and I put my fingers on the keyboard, and words just start flowing.
I didn't understand how this process works, until one day I realized that the information does not come from me, it comes from God (or the Higher Intelligence) - the Higher Self, if you like. I am only a channel for the information to flow. I am a channel that God has created to serve the world. Because that is what I am here for, when I am serving, I feel positive energy, and I feel happy.
I have learned that my life purpose is to serve, and I think this is applicable to everyone. This is what God wants me to learn, this is also what God wants you to learn. You will only feel truly fulfilled once you realize this truth, "Your life purpose is to serve." I am sure you have heard that "If you seek happiness for yourself, it will always elude you, if you seek happiness for others, you will find it for yourself." I know this is why every time I finish an article, I feel so happy, because I know that my article is going to benefit thousands of people, and it is going to change the world to some small extent. Maybe 90% of people will not take any action after they read my articles, this is the nature of human beings, but I know as long as they read them, their awareness will be expanded, and they will see a difference in the long run. For that less than 10% of people who do take action, I know my words are going to change their lives for the better. What a great thing I am doing! I am proud of it. I feel very happy about it.
So starting from today, find ways to help other people. Find some way to serve. You will get addicted to it, because it is so enjoyable helping others. Your help is going to change people's lives.
I often receive emails from my subscribers asking me for help. Can you imagine how happy I am after I've answered their questions? I know that this person's life is going to change for the better just because of my words. How wonderful that is!
Here is a secret I want you to know...
The person who benefits the most is not the one you give service to, but yourself. You may find it sounds strange, but this is true, and it is governed by the universal law of cause and effect. Anything you cause others to experience will come back to you, and multiplied. If you cause others to experience love, you will find more love in your life; if you cause others to have wealth, you will have more in your own life; if you cause others to succeed, you are guaranteed to succeed. This is the law of the universe, and it never fails. So, whatever you want to experience in your life, cause others to experience it first. This is the most powerful way to attain your own desires, and the easiest way to achieve happiness.
Friday, March 16, 2007
Cruizing The Caribbean
Recently a staff of mine came back from his honeymoon which he spent on a seven day cruize with his young beautiful wife on Royal Caribbean Adventure Of The Sea. Sailing from San Juan, Puerto Rico they visited Aruba, Curacao, St. Martin, St. Thomas and back to San Juan. This time of the year the Caribbean is hurricane free so the cruize was more or less on calm seas.
The ship is fourteen stories high and is loaded with facilities from shopping malls, casinos, buffets, restaurants, swimming pools, basketball courts, golf course, live shows, cinemas, and much more. There is a great deal of fun things to do. Plus at any hour whether day or night, room service is available.
How much does this seven day cruize cost? On the cheap end $1,200.00. And this covers everything from meals to entertainment. The only thing you have to pay for is your mall shopping or any cheap electronics that is available on board for the customers to purchase. Everything else as I said is free!
Call up an agent and he might be able to give you much more details than I did. Book now.
Email me if you need further info: persaudanthony@yahoo.com
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