Self Improvement Newsletter
Issue # 114, November 13, 2000

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-> Quotes of the Week
-> Personal Growth Products and Services
-> The Top 10 Things To Be Grateful For Each And Every Day -by Dennis Tesdell
-> BOOK REVIEW: A Short Guide to a Happy Life - by Anna Quindlen
-> Brief News of the World
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*** QUOTES OF THE WEEK ***
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In each of us are places where we have never gone.  Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them. -Dr Joyce Brothers

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing.  They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself. -Wang Yang-Ming

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest  dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization. -Denis Waitley {American Trainer}


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** THE TOP 10 THINGS to BE GRATEFUL for EACH and EVERY DAY - written by Dennis Tesdell   **
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This list seems very basic. Yet not everyone in this country or in the world has, or will be able to be grateful for, all of these things. In their life some of these things do not exist  now, nor have they ever existed. Thanksgiving Holiday is more than turkey, Grandmas's pumpkin pie, half price sales and sports events. This list is one which, hopefully,  everyone reading it can say applies to them. However simple it may seem, it is humbling and sad to realize that many in our country and even more in other countries, only have 1-2 things on this list each day, while most if not all of us have all ten! Perhaps if we are thankful for these basic things daily, it will help ourselves and others gain more abundance, or at least we will appreciate our own more.

1. Waking up alive.
George Burns once said a great day for him was waking up and not seeing candles, a church, and his friends all dressed in black. He was blessed financially and health wise. Many, in this country and in other countries, are lucky to make it to age 10, let alone 100.

2. Decent Air To Breathe.
While everyone has this, in some places in the world, the air is so polluted and foul smelling, the people die of respiratory ailments just from breathing.

3. A New Day To Learn And To Earn A Livelihood.
Most of us live in areas with very low un-employment rates. If we choose and need to work and have a job, we can earn money daily or weekly *somehow*. Others are in school or educational environments. They can learn or increase what they already know. Many people have no jobs and will never have a chance to learn a basic education.

4. A Home In Which To Eat, Sleep, Live, And Relax.
We are blessed if we are not one of the millions of people whose home consists of a car, an abandoned house or building, cardboard or tin constructed "shelters," or the bare earth or grass. Think about pictures you may have seen of the homeless when you complain about your home or apartment being too cold or warm, or the utility bill being too high.

5. Ample Clean Food To Eat & The Option To Buy As Much As We Need.
Most of us never have experienced waiting in line 2-6 hours to buy a loaf of bread, some flour, eggs, etc. We don't know what it is like to wait for a truck to pull up and hand out boxes or containers of rice or Red Cross rations. We've never dug in dumpsters behind a grocery store or restaurant to get the food that was thrown out to have for our daily meal. Food is expensive for many. At least in the U.S. we have no lack of it and it is not rationed out to us or sold at black market prices.

6. Friends, Family and Pets.
Most all of us have one or more of these three things in our life. In some parts of the country and the world, people are alone-young children are alone. And the "pet" may have to end up feeding a family or a group of people due to lack of any other food supply. We spend more money on the food and vet bills for our pets than many people in poor countries MAKE in income in a 1-3 years!

7. Living In A Democratic Society.
Not talking or pushing politics. But we are free to pretty much do and say what we wish as covered by the Bill of Rights. And we don't have tanks and armed soldiers walking the streets 24 hours a day looking for looters, guerillas and terrorists. Life and the   government isn't at all perfect here. But it sure beats anything else I have seen or read about in my lifetime.

8. Abundant Natural Resources.
Yes we need to clean up our water and air, and plant more trees, etc. But we *do* have in   our towns, water and sewage control that are sanitary to use and maintained. Our air  quality varies from town to town, and on average is much better than in many other countries in the world. We also have ample supplies of electricity, gas, and other resources we need to live and thrive personally and industrially.

9. Clothing To Protect Us From The Elements & To Even Enhance Our Appearance.
True, there are places in the U.S. where people in poverty lack adequate clothing. Compared to our population, however, the majority of us have adequate clothes, and many of us have clothing that is both functional and attractive as well.

10. The Gift Of Choice.
This is something everyone has no matter where they live. Even if they live in a poor non-democratic society, we all have the choice to make decisions, to act, and to be however we wish, as adults at least. This was given us at birth and is never taken away, but is often taken for granted, ignored, or not fully developed or used.


About the Submitter
Dennis R. Tesdell is an experienced personal development and self-care coach as well as an author on personal growth, self-care and self improvement issues. He may be contacted at lifecoach@coachdt.com, or through his website at
http://www.coachdt.com for information on his services, free newsletter,etc.
 

** BOOK REVIEW: A SHORT GUIDE to a HAPPY LIFE - by Anna Quindlen **
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"I'm not particularly qualified by profession or education to give advice and counsel,"  confesses author Anna Quindlen, as she begins this tender little instruction book. "It's widely known in a small circle that I make a mean tomato sauce, and I know many inventive ways to hold a baby while nursing, although I haven't had the opportunity to use any of them in years."

It is precisely this commonplace form of wisdom that make readers trust and respect Quindlen. She uses her candid, heart-to-heart narrative voice along with her novel-writer descriptive skills to show readers how good we have it: "Life is made up of moments, small pieces of mica in a long stretch of glittering gray cement." Later she urges readers to "Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face." The format smacks of "gift book," with an abundance of pleasing, artsy photographs. Don't be ashamed to fall for the packaging, though. This is one of those books that could remain in the living room for years or in the family for generations. --Gail Hudson


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*** BRIEF NEWS OF THE WORLD ***
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POSITIVE
"Students from KG Elementary School spent some time Friday reading to residents of the Northern Montana Care Center as part of Make a Difference Day. 
PARTICIPATING CLASSROOMS WERE to perform good deeds in their community on Saturday, Oct. 28, the official day for the event. There were 15 KG students, from kindergarten through third-grade, who went out a day early to spend time with the residents of the center. Classrooms were encouraged to do their good deeds anytime during the Book-It! program, from Oct. 2 to Nov. 15. The students brought their own books, some of them homemade, to read to the residents. They also brought donations for HRDC, including clothes, books and school supplies."
(click here for complete news story)
http://www.msnbc.com/local/PNHV/1144.asp

Young talents paint for charity.
"Children of expatriates pooling their artistic talents under the guidance of Toh Puan Mahani Idris (centre), wife of Finance Minister Tun Daim Zainuddin, at the Artisan Centre and Gallery in Jalan Ritchie, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. Their donated work, together with several others by young local talents, are on display at the gallery in an international arts exhibition.  Proceeds will be go to leukaemia patients at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Hospital in Cheras."
(click here for complete news story)
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2000/9/25/nation/2503odma&sec=nation


Stamford bustled yesterday with good deeds.
"Daffodil bulbs were planted at Kosciuszko Park. Patients were visited at hospitals, blood was donated and hand-made presents were delivered.  Throughout the city, volunteers from the Jewish Community Center on Newfield Avenue brightened the lives of residents. The activities were part of the second annual Mitzvah Day, when, according to Jewish belief, God commands men and women to perform works of kindness, called mitzvots."
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http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/Advocate/release/09-25-2000/article6.html


OTHER

Smoking may cause anxiety disorders
"A new study suggests teen smokers are prone to anxiety disorders in adulthood, adding to a growing body of research implicating cigarette use as a cause rather than a result of emotional upheaval."
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http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/486765.asp

Ephedra can be deadly, doctors warn
"Ephedra, a widely used dietary supplement can cause heart attacks, stroke and other potentially fatal problems, a new study finds."
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http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/486355.asp

"The towering Norway spruce chosen as this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was installed Friday in preparation for a lighting ceremony later this month in midtown Manhattan. The 80-foot tall tree, cut down on Thursday, was donated by Bill and Frances Heady of nearby Buchanan, New York, about 35 miles north of New York City. Bill Heady planted the tree in 1950. The couple's son, Bill Jr., and his wife, Fay, watched as a crane gingerly lifted the tree from a long, flat truck. The dangling spruce, also secured by ropes, was then turned slowly in midair from a horizontal to vertical position before being lowered into place. In the coming weeks, the tree is to be decorated with 30,000 lights in time for a November 29 illumination ceremony."
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http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/11/10/rockefeller.tree/index.html



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