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“Happiness can be as elusive as a fluttering butterlfy but as easily attainable as a crawling caterpillar. Put aside the net, and let it happen.”
Brain G. Jett

What an interesting statement this is as well as truthful. There is a phrase often heard today, “Keep it simple.” If we could only do this more easily, we all might be much happier.

When things are not going well and you find yourself struggling, slow down, take a deep breath or two, and ask yourself what is it that you are really seeking? And, what it is that is getting in your way of obtaining what you desire?

In order to become that beautiful butterly, the caterpillar was rather ugly. To become more beautiful, the caterpillar had to pay its dues so to speak. It took hard work to weave the chrysalis around its body, in which it would be encased to grow and metamorphous into the new and lovely creature.

Patience is at stake here. So ask yourself, how can I simplify my life, this task, this job, this adventure, and possibly this relationship? Dare not to control things so much and see what beauty emerges.

Copyright 2005

Karlynn Baker

Karlynn is originally from Southern California but moved to Arizona to work on her Master of Science Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling and also specialized in addictions. She owns The Employee Assistance of Tucson, Inc., providing counseling and training for employees and their dependents. It is very rewarding work. She believes in helping people to help themselves. She enjoys her life with her husband, David, her three daughters, and her two adorable grandsons.

Why do you do what you do? What is your real work in the world, and why is it important to know the answer?

I’m an entrepreneur at heart. I have started and run several businesses, and as I look back, I think the most important element in financial and personal success is awareness of purpose and the capacity to stay open to it.

Many years ago I was a participant in a seminar. At the end, the leader took us through a guided meditation in which we asked ourselves, “What is my purpose for doing the work I do, in my relationships, and for being alive in this time and place?”

The word ‘connection’ popped up in my mind, and it felt right. My work then and now is helping people manage conflict with power and grace, and about removing the barriers to connection. Outside of work, as well, I want my actions to reflect this purpose. So when the word came up in the meditation all those years ago, it gave a name to something I already recognized.

My work is still about connection. On rough days, knowing this keeps me going. On good days, when life flows, it is reaffirmed. It doesn’t matter whether it makes sense to anyone else. My life is about connection.

What about you? What purpose underlies your work and your life? Is it Creativity? Compassion? Diversity? Empowerment? Relationship? Health? Beauty? Spirituality? Love? These concepts occur as I think of friends and colleagues and their work in the world.

Like peeling an onion, the external layers of our work are the activities we engage in. Each layer moves us closer to a central purpose that is behind the time and effort we expend, and behind the gratitude with which we celebrate our success.

So take some time today to give yourself a gift. Close your eyes, relax, and ask your inner wisdom what your work is really about. Then keep that in front of you as a beacon. Refine it, nurture it, and hold it close at hand. This is essentially what each of us is called to do — to explore and to discover our fundamental motivation, not just occasionally but every day, and with every decision. You’ll rediscover, reinvent and revitalize your work, moment to moment. And you’ll have fun doing it. I wish you good energy.

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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action. . . You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that activate you. Keep the channel open.

Martha Graham, dancer, choreographer

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© 2005 Judy Ringer, Power & Presence Training

About the Author: Judy Ringer is Founder of Power & Presence Training, specializing in unique workshops on conflict, communication, and creating a more positive work environment. Judy is also a black belt in aikido, and is writing her first book on the connection between aikido, conflict, and living a more purposeful life. To sign up for more free tips and articles like these, visit http://www.JudyRinger.com

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If you have only been a tourist in Mexico and have never lived here, you may have never noticed this. Mexico is a country of little butts and its entire infrastructure is designed for their small, and perky rear-ends. In know this for a fact because I am a professional writer trained to note and record such things.

Americans, of course, have all of the fat-butt genes God handed out at creation. There is no use in denying this, so don’t try. You will not win the argument. Americans have the fattest keisters on the planet and all the proof you need is to come to Mexico, stay for about a month, and try to get along “well” in normal daily affairs.

We have to be assisted into the back seat of Mexican cabs because our fannies are so large that we cannot get in and out of the backseats without the fire department coming with the Jaws of Life. When we try riding the buses all we can get into the seat is one butt-cheek with the other hanging over the side looking and flopping about like a swollen blob-monster. It also becomes plaintively apparent when we try to get in and out of some of the doors installed in these buildingshouses included. They were all built for hobbits, which, by the way, are real and all live here in Guanajuato. Mexico.

My wife and I notice this too when we try going out to eat. I swear to God that every restaurant in the town is designed for someone no more than 4.5 feet tall. This includes the entrances and the seating arrangements. I can get one side of my fundament onto the chair cushion and one kneecap under the table. The other leg has to stay extended out in to the aisle causing all manner of havoc with people trying to jump over this telephone-pole-sized leg. They act horrified since they have never seen something so huge.

In addition, the toilets: I think I have some permanent damage, or something, from trying to sit on these toilet seats designed for someone with a backside the size of a hand puppet. I have actually broken many of themI am deadly seriousall around town in the public facilities. I try never to frequent the same public facility twice so as not to be recognized. I am sure there is a warrant out for my buttock crimes.

It is nightmarish!

Not only does this town’s infrastructure cater to little-butted people but also to people who are the size of Santa’s Elves. I know I have sustained multiple concussions from forgetting that the doors in all these homes and buildings are built with the “little folks” in mind. I have rearranged my scalp, not purposely mind you, on many occasions from scraping it on the doors. We had an apartment here where the back door was less than two feet wide. I swear I am not making this up. I could not enter nor exit that back door without contorting myself into an inhuman and ungodly shape. I simple could not walk squarely through that door.

I cannot describe to you what it is like to be a giant in a land of little hobbits.

I had to travel eight hours to a resort town that had a Wal-Mart that catered to big-butted King Kongs just to buy a pair of underwear. I do not for one nanosecond believe that I would be able to find underwear in Central Mexico to fit me. There isn’t the demand to accommodate fat butts.

Doug Bower is a freelance writer, Syndicated Columnist, and book author. His most recent writing credits include The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Houston Chronicle, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Transitions Abroad. He is a columnist with Cricketsoda.com and more than 21 additional online magazines. He is also a writer with EzineArticles.com with a readership of almost 6,000. He lives with his wife in Guanajuato, Mexico. His newest books, Mexican Living: Blogging it from a Third World Country can be seen: CLICK HERE:
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Introduction

Hello entrepreneurs. I have been in business for about 3 months. I started my business to become rich and get out of my job. The current job position I hold is a computer network teacher in a medium-sized School District. I want out of this position because I know I can do much better. If you are starting or thinking about starting a home business then you know exactly how I feel. If you are a beginner in a home business, I would like you to know that things will be rough. But you can get through the rough times to reap the rewards.

Reason

As I stated earlier, I have been in business for about three months. I am still waiting for the profits to come in. Why am I still working in my business? I continue working on my business because of the reward. I want to be rich. I also enjoy being home with my children in the summer. After dealing with the my children this summer, I am going to enjoy working at home ALONE during the school year.

Business Type

As you should know, the only why to become rich is to be your own boss. The only way to become your own boss is to start your own business. The real question is what type of business should you start. Should you start a franchise, consultant, home business, or investing. Home businesses are easier and less costly to start. Also, home businesses can be run very effectively on the Internet.

It is very important for you to select the correct business to be in. I have started several other businesses in the past. None of them were correct for me. Hence, I did not put forth enough energy, effort, etc. to make them successful. Let me give you several examples:

My first business was a business to business selling. I was not a good salesperson nor did I want to be. Thus the business was destined to fail.

The second business was an Internet-based business. I did not put in the funds nor learn enough to market the business. Thus this business was destined to fail.

For this reason, I am stressing that you determine the best business for yourself. As I mentioned earlier, I have decided on a home based business. Why? I want the idea of being able to stay home. A home business will give me the flexibility to be available for my family at any time of the day. If you would like more information on the home business I am running go to www.tmjohnson.us.

Knowledge

As a new entrepreneur, you know there are many things you will have learn:

1.Product or service

2.Clients or customers

3.Distribution

4.Marketing

Out of these four items, you may find that marketing is hardest to learn and the most expensive.

Purpose

This article has been written to encourage new entrepreneurs to continue working for their dreams. Your dreams are the rewards of your hard work. If you think like me, you know that your dreams will not come true as long as you work for others. Your reward is definitely worth your full effort and sacrifice. Because of your effort and sacrifice your dreams, rewards, will come true.

Next Issue

We will discuss marketing.

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I am an individual that has attempted several businesses. I am successful in my current business. I am writing these articles to help new entrepreneurs be successful on their first try.

Combine the two of everybody’s chief leisure actvities and what you’ve got is a rage named a sportsbook gambling web property. Really now - what could be more original… Picture a large assembly of fellas applauding their favored local club, and regularly bets will be calculated along with the racket. So keen to catch some of the anticipation, on-lookers frequently attempt to foreknow who will win the coming struggle. At the end of the day, this turns to become a good-humored struggle termed sportsbook gambling web property.

No doubt it might easily seem to be dependency forming, but in point of fact wagering sportsbooks is essentially just for fun and to tie up with buddies. Here, you’ll be able to wager a an insignificant amount of boodle and nonetheless have a incredible time. Here are a few basic suggestions to help everyone get started wagering sportsbooks.

If you want to wager, you will want to drop by at a sportsbook gambling web property, i.e. a place which receives sportsbook gambling web property. In the US, you can find four states where people can go for wagering sportsbooks legitimately, but if legality is no concern, you can go for it anyplace as long as you can pinpoint a bookie and you happen to be a legal adult. Included sports events you can choose to risk your money on are pro plus, naturally, college basketball as well as football, pro hockey, pro hockey, plus, naturally, wagers on both horse and dog racing. Patrons may bet money on the complete results of a contest, when exactly an opponent will go under, and even if a given coin toss in a contest will land heads or tails.

The sportsbook setup lean on statistical mathematics make it easier for you infer which club you judge will win. First we have the balance, i.e. lead in points given to a the weaker team assumed to take a licking by a defined number points. You will see a lot of varied styles of antes- straight bets, teaser wagers,parlay stakes, plus, to boot, over/under lays, the straight being the dominating one in wagering sportsbooks.

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Fun and exciting golf vacation packages from all over the world are available just about year round. No matter where you want to vacation, you can usually find a golf package nearby to satisfy your inner golfer. But golf travel also has its own set of challenges too, so here are some tips on how to make your golf vacation a fun and successful one.

Almost everyone prefers to take their own golf clubs with them as they travel. And most likely, your travel arrangements will involve a flight to your destination. Unfortunately though, airlines will not allow you to bring your golf clubs on board with you as carry-on luggage. So that means that you will have to check your clubs in with regular baggage instead. And here is where a little advance preparation can come in handy.

If you’ve ever watched baggage handlers as they load and unload an airplane, you know that they are not especially gentle with the baggage. So if your expensive golf clubs are in with all the suitcases, you can count on your clubs being tossed and thrown around throughout the journey. Some golfers have even found that their clubs were pretty well destroyed at the end of the flight because of the rough handling that they received.

In order to avoid that, there are golf travel cases that are available to help protect your clubs as they go through baggage handling. Generally, these golf cases fall into two categories, either hard or soft. The hard cases are the most expensive, perhaps costing even several hundred dollars, but they do a very impressive job in protecting your clubs. In fact, the case itself is almost indestructible. So if you happen to travel a lot and take your golf clubs with you, a good hard golf travel case can be an excellent investment.

If you can’t afford the extra money for the hard golf travel case, there are also soft ones that are available that can do a very good job too. Of course, the protection is not quite up to the standards of the hard case, but the soft golf travel cases usually handle most baggage situations that they will encounter very well.

You also have to be prepared for the possibility that your golf clubs could be lost in transit, as this sometimes happens. So before you leave on your trip, check to see if your homeowners or property insurance will ensure your clubs in transit. If not, carry with you the receipts for your golf equipment so that you can easily and quickly prove ownership and value of your clubs if they happen to be lost.

In order to have the most fun while on a golf vacation package, you’ll need to be prepared for whatever weather you may encounter at your destination. So before leaving, it’s a good practice to check online to see what the upcoming forecast for your vacation destination is going to be. Then make sure that you pack accordingly. There is nothing more uncomfortable for a golfer than playing a round of golf in very cool weather with not enough warm clothes on, or playing in very hot weather with clothes that are too heavy and insulated.

Finally, it’s a good idea to choose a destination that has activities that can be enjoyed other than just playing golf. Sometimes the weather just doesn’t cooperate with your plans and you may not be able to play at all on some days. So having other points of interest in the area can save the day in such situations.

Hopefully these ideas and suggestions can help you better prepare for your next golf vacation, and help you have a great time on your getaway.

Steadman Issenburg writes on many consumer related topics including golf. You can find the best golf travel cases and myrtle beach golf specials by visiting our Golf Tips website.

Chances are that you think you do not have time to make home bridal shower favors . Today, we are all too busy in our daily lives and do a favour party may take some time. In fact, you can do for a house if you try to cheat a little. Choose an adorable bag for which is already decorated will reduce the time needed to make a favour from zero. Some options for fantastic decorated for bags or boxes include a pink plaid bag for box for bags come with an assortment of used to put on the front, an adorable “go out” car with an old-time Hollywood feel, or to commemorate a special person in the married life of May who fought breast cancer, choose a pink and white box for a pink ribbon on the front.

Custom wedding shower favours are also great - especially if you customize an article to be dropped right into the purse or travel bag. Great options in this category are sun block, shower gel, hand cream or lip balm. For more eco-friendly, choose packages seed wildflowers personalized with the happy couple of names. No waste, the more your guests will enjoy a beautiful garden of wildflowers after showering.

Whatever support you choose for the wedding shower, it is easy for you. A support should not be completely by hand warmly on your guests. Choose a wedding shower for that love you ensure that your guests love too. Be sure to enjoy the game.

Money clips are devices that are used to hold money in lieu of the wallet. It is a good option to carry around for the gentleman who wants to carry some handy cash without the trouble of pulling out a wallet. It is a folded metal about two inches by one inch and is shaped like a letter “U” that clamps money together.

People who are often in the upper echelons of society prefer the money clip because it is easier to use and is a status symbol than the bulkier wallets.

Materials used for money clips are gold, silver, titanium, platinum, leather, magnets and aluminum. Precious stones are also often a part of the money clip giving it a status that is more preferred than the wallet. A jeweler can personalize money clips to make it more representative of your personality. You can have it monogrammed or in any designs that you want. Just like any other good accessory, money clips are good statements of yourself and you can have it designed in whatever fashion you would like.

But whichever design you choose, money clips are good accessories for formal attire and in formal occasions like black tie parties and weddings. Professionals also choose the money clip, as it is more appropriate in business settings than the wallet that has a workingman stigma to it.

Money clips today can also come in bigger sizes that can be about three times larger than the traditional ones. Newer designs can be attached to credit card holders that can house business cards and ATM cards.

There are four basic kinds of money clips depending on the preference of the user.

The Magnetic Money Clip

Magnetic money clips are made from two rectangular magnets covered in leather where one end of the rectangle swings the money clip to open and to close. It has the best carrying capacity than metal money clips holding as many as 15 folded bills.

The Metal Money Clip

Metal money clips are the most luxurious of all clips. Typically, the metal money clip is a folded rectangular precious metal. With the exemption of titanium, metal money clips can hold few amounts of folded bills because of the unbendable property of the material. Modifications in design however can enable you to carry more bills like money clips that are spring activated.

The Hybrid Money Clip

Hybrid money clips are those that are designed to hold both cash credit cards and ATM cards. It can come designed with a solid plastic clip or a magnetic clip to hold the cash together. Storus and Stienhausen are the more popular makers of the hybrid money clips. This money clip variant can be designed in many various and creative ways that cannot easily be found in any store.

The Rubber Band Variant

While this is not really a money clip, the rubber band variant also serves the same purpose as the clips. The rubber band variant is simply an oversized and overpriced rubber band. What it does is lump together your credit cards and ties in the cash, as you would do with any ordinary fat rubber band.

A money clip can add prestige to your attire and a good addition to your collection of accessories. Money clips have been used and has been identified with the gentleman then and now.

Robert Thatcher is a freelance publisher based in Cupertino, California. He publishes articles and reports in various ezines and provides money clip resources on http://www.your-money-clip.info

It seemed more than a little ironic that the front door of the Jeu de Paume, the venue of Sam Stourdzé’s “Chaplin et les Images” (Chaplin in Pictures) exhibit looks out on Place de la Concorde, just a few short steps from the faade of the Hotel Crillon where Charlie looked down from his position on the first floor balcony at the hoards of adoring Parisians creating a traffic quagmire there in March 1931. Paris and Parisians have been and continue to be kind to Charlie, to hold him in their hearts as well as their minds. This summer in Paris, Charlie Chaplin films were on television every Sunday night, Monsieur Verdoux and The Great Dictator were being shown on the big screen at select MK2 theaters around town and, if you were paying attention, you might have seen him both pictured and quoted in a special exhibit at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie celebrating the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s theory of relativity and in an exhibit at the Bibliothque Nationale de France commemorating Jean-Paul Sartre’s 100th birthday, cited as being one of the motivations for Sartre’s visit to America in the 1940s.

But the “main event” was and is “Chaplin in Pictures” at the Jeu de Paume until September 18th and then moving on to the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, and hopefully elsewhere. Although the exhibit is loosely arranged according to Charlie’s creative chronology, it’s best experienced randomly. What struck me first was how multi-textual Charlie’s images are: they’re two-dimensional, three-dimensional, photographic, filmic, verbal and visual-to name a few. And while Stourdzé expertly traces the development and evolution of the Chaplin image, his exhibit suggests that this particular goal is almost beside the point. The Little Tramp is not an evolving product that, like a snake, sheds his skin never to pick it up again. The Tramp of Mabel’s Busy Day is as important to an understanding of the Tramp in Modern Times or of the character of Verdoux as he is to himself or to the Tramp of the Keystone films alone. These Chaplin images overlap; they engage in dialogue with each other; they infect each other. As you face the wall, for instance, and begin to look at a traditionally framed photo-one you’ve only seen in books before and so are a little more than excited to see the real thing-you notice that even this image is not “pure.” The glass covering the photo reflects the film loop playing just behind you, so as you try to look at Chaplin on the stage in Repairs, the Tramp from Kid Auto Races at Venice walks into the frame, sauntering tenuously up to Lehrman’s movie camera. This montage-creating ability of the exhibit design is reinforced by strategically placed display cases that juxtapose magazine covers, postcards and Charlie’s own “official” pressbooks from the archives in a simple and effective collage and by a striking display of modernist artistic representations of the Tramp by Fernand Leger, Erwin Blumenfeld and others which show Chaplin’s character either exploded into familiar parts and re-assembled or placed newly envisioned in unfamiliar contexts.

Another part of the exhibit continues in this mode. At a station containing three small screens, clips from the Mutuals and a few Keystones are creatively blended to highlight similar movements, strategies and bits of business-all while being infected and effected by one of the few sounds of the exhibit, the soundtrack from City Lights accompanying the boxing scene, being screened just a few feet away. A similar effect is created and expanded upon later in the exhibit, in a large space-both open and enclosed-in which three films are projected on one wall, with first the ending of The Great Dictator and the ending of… well, hopefully, you’ll see for yourself.

Not to be forgotten or dismissed in this account is the audience. I think Chaplin himself was always keenly attuned to his audience and so you could say that the audience of this exhibit-you and I and the gaggle of folks crowding around that particular film still from Sunnyside you’re just dying to see-are as much a part of the experience as the artifacts themselves. Young and old, male and female, they were all here. Some shuffled around alone or in family groups, others had obviously taken the time to arrange a private guide-led tour. Very few were completely silent and so, this was the true and perhaps intended soundtrack of the exhibit-shuffling feet, voices making themselves heard at all decibels in both conversation and laughter, and the light swish-swish of clothed bodies in motion.

One of the great things about Charlie is that he belongs to everybody and everybody seems to want to possess some part of him, or connect to him in some way. One young boy figured out that he ould “collaborate” with Charlie in a way when he accidentally discovered that his hand had slipped over the lens of a film projector. Soon he began trying new positions, effecting lighter and darker shadowing on the Charlie image-making the films and Charlie his own. This is just one of the freedoms this exhibit allows-a kind of personal connection to Charlie Chaplin that is long overdue.

To access the entire article, please visit the Archives section of the Chaplin Newsletter (www.discoverchaplin.com/newsletter.html) at www.discoverchaplin.com.

This article on Charlie Chaplin reprinted with permission.
Copyright 2005 Discover Chaplin.

The author of this newsletter article, Lisa Stein, is an accomplished Charlie Chaplin collector and scholar who has written extensively and spoken internationally about Chaplin’s life and art. She also holds a PhD degree for her studies of Charlie Chaplin. In addition to authoring the Chaplin Newsletter for Discover Charlie Chaplin, Dr. Stein maintains her own website thelittlefellow.org: A Charlie Chaplin Fan Page.