Self Improvement Newsletter
Issue # 63, November 21, 1999

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In this issue:

-> Quotes of the Week
-> Personal Growth Products and Services
-> The Top 10 Lists to Make to Achieve Your Most Important Goals/Dreams
-> BOOK REVIEW: Secrets About Life Every Woman Should Know : Ten Principles for Total Emotional and Spiritual Fulfillment
-> Brief News of the World
-> How to subscribe to this newsletter
-> How to view previous Issues of the Newsletter
-> How to Advertise in the Self Improvement Newsletter


*** QUOTES OF THE WEEK ***
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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him. -Honore De Balzac

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.  - Diana Rankin


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*** THE TOP 10 LISTS TO MAKE TO ACHIEVE YOUR MOST IMPORTANT GOALS / DREAMS. ***
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Take a rainy afternoon or a quiet early morning and spend an hour or so looking at the following ten planning areas for achieving your really big dreams.... your lifetime to-do list!

1. List your Top Ten Dreams...your Top Ten "Lifetime To Do List."
   List your top ten lifetime goals...ten really important things you dream about doing or accomplishing before your life ends. Do you want to climb Mt. Everest? Write a book? Sail around the world? Be elected to Congress? Don't hold back... go for your wildest dreams...your highest aspirations. Don't critique them or ask yourself "how?" When you complete the top ten, rank them in order of priority and get ready to get started on Number One.

2. List Ten Short Term (30 day) Goals That Will Be Steps Toward List how to fulfill your Number One Lifetime Goal...in very incremental, easily doable steps.
   For instance, dreaming of writing a book? Commit to a goal of putting an outline for the plot on paper in the next 30 days. Buy a book on how to get published. Set up a writer's haven. Tell ten people you are writing a book. Want to take a cruise around the world? Make a short term goal of sending away for cruise brochures. Open a cruise account with $25.00, $50.00 or more. Commit 10% of your earnings toward your dream.
Celebrate your successes and repeat this step every 30 days.

3. List ten barriers that could be holding you back from reaching your lifetime goals.
   Money? Time? Education? Parental Responsibilities? The ol' demon Procrastination? Look for ways to overcome or compensate for these barriers. Pick the number one barrier and then list ten things you can do to overcome or minimize this barrier.

4. List the top ten excuses you use for not achieving your short term goals.
   Ban the use of excuses. Post a "NO EXCUSES" sign. Fine yourself $1.00 each time you even think one of your excuses. Add the $1.00 to your "Dream Kitty." Work on eliminating excuses one by one. Awareness helps.

5. List ten healthy daily habits that will keep you healthy and reduce stress as you work toward your goals.

6. List ten personal attributes that will help you achieve your short term and lifetime goals.
   Attributes like perseverance, courage, creativity. We often undervalue our own resources. Post this list as a reminder of your best qualities next to your "No Excuses!" sign.

7. List your top ten accomplishments in life.
   We also often overlook or downplay what we have already accomplished in our personal and professional life. Looking at your accomplishments in black and white reinforces your confidence and self-esteem.

8. List ten people who will support you in achieving your goals.
   These ten people should be people who will unconditionally support, encourage, and celebrate you as you move toward your dream. They are your Circle of Ten....Your Fan Club.... Your Cheerleaders.

9. List ten specific ways your Circle of Ten can support you in
achieving your goals.
   Share your goals, both short term and lifetime, with them. Share your requests with them and ask for their ideas.

10. List ten specific rewards you will give yourself to celebrate the
milestones (however small) as you move toward achieving your short term and
lifetime goals.
   Never underestimate the value of rewards. They nourish the soul and keep us motivated.


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*** BOOK REVIEW: Secrets About Life Every Woman Should Know : Ten Principles for Total Emotional and Spiritual Fulfillment  ***
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Written by Barbara De Angelis

Of course, it seems logical that happiness can and should come from within, and waiting for it to come from outside through other people, our work, or life experience can be disappointing. However, logic is one thing; living as though we know we are responsible for our own happiness is something else--it is too easy to depend on (and blame) others or our situations for our unhappiness. De Angelis, a popular author on relationship topics, recognizes this dichotomy and keeps hammering home the point that real happiness cannot come from outside ourselves.

She offers 10 principles designed to force readers to focus inward and change what can be controlled--our thoughts and feelings--and stop worrying about what we cannot control, such as the behavior of others. The 10 chapter titles contain the 10 principles and include "Change Is Inevitable, So Stop Resisting and Surrender to Life's Flow" and "Fear Will Steal Your Aliveness--Make Your Courage Bigger than Your Fear." For all self-help collections. -Marlene Chamberlain Copyright© 1999, American Library Association. All rights reserved

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*** BRIEF NEWS OF THE WORLD ***
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POSITIVE  NEWS OF THE WEEK
Consumers should expect ready supplies of pharmaceuticals and glitch-free medical devices when the calendar changes to the Year 2000, the U.S. government said Thursday.

A consumer group, Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI),  that often does studies on food, randomly tested 50 turkeys for bacteria that can cause people to get sick, (campylobacter and salmonella) and found turkeys are much safer this year than last year.

KaBOOM!, a nonprofit organization, has pledged to build a thousand playgrounds to serve more than one million children-primarily in neighborhoods that lack safe places for kids.

A 26-year-old Malden man escaped with his life and without serious injury Friday despite spending the night alone on a rugged New Hampshire mountain during a snowstorm.



OTHER NEWS
The U.S. flu season is well under way with cases reported in 37 states, almost three times the number reporting flu cases a month ago, federal health officials said Monday.

Jesse Jackson arrested in school protest
The Rev. Jesse Jackson and at least four followers were arrested Tuesday after marching onto school property to protest the expulsion of six Decatur, Ill., high school students.

A 60-year-old Kenyan pleaded guilty in court to stealing food worth 20 U.S. cents to feed his 15 children and two wives, a local newspaper said on Thursday. Thomas Ogero, a casual laborer, told the court in a preliminary hearing that he stole maize, beans and cabbages from a food kiosk because his family was starving, the East African Standard reported.

Former Greek first lady Margaret Papandreou urged Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday not to run for the U.S. Senate but to become a champion of the world's underprivileged.   She explained to the first lady that "she should set her sights much higher."


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