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- Learning: Tiptoe Anticipation - by Submitted on Sep 23, 2011 from Sara DillingerDo you want to know how to stay young? One of the easiest ways is to never stop learning. There is increasing evidence that if you can keep an open mind and a lively curiosity, you might possibly live longer and enjoy it more. Open your mind's eye and remember the excitement you felt as a ...
Views: 1568 - Living Without Regrets - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2011 from Sara DillingerBoomer 54 Mark of Baby Boomer Talk Online posted the following list of the Top 5 regrets people have on their deathbeds after attending the funeral of a favorite aunt. I’ve expanded each point with comments just to add a little more fuel for thought: The Top 5 Regrets People Have On Their ...
Views: 1425 - Longevity: Who Will Live Longer? - by Submitted on Apr 05, 2011 from Sara DillingerAesop got it right. You remember the old fable of the Grasshopper and the Ant? It was attributed to Aesop who, according to tradition, was a slave back in ancient Greece. The story involved a Grasshopper who wasted time fiddling around while the dutiful Ant laid in stores for the coming ...
Views: 1078 - M Is For Mindset - by Submitted on Jul 25, 2011 from Sara DillingerThey say that it is the perogative of a woman to change her mind. I think that is sexist. I think that all of us need, from time to time, to change our minds. Certainly, we sometimes need to change our mindset. What's a mindset? Break the word down. Well, it might make more sense if you ...
Views: 1163 - Maintaining Balance Is Crucial As We Grow Older - by Submitted on May 13, 2011 from Sara DillingerHas anyone ever told you that you have rocks in your head? It was undoubtedly meant as an insult, but it’s true, you know. Or sort of true. Actually, the balance organ in the inner ear is lined with tiny hair-like cilia. There are also tiny calcium carbonate stones – the so-called rocks in ...
Views: 1350 - Memories of the Old Family Bible - by Submitted on Mar 28, 2011 from Sara DillingerDo you have a family Bible? I’ve been feeling nostalgic of late and one of the memories that I’ve raked up from my subconscious is the memory of the old family Bible. I don’t have the physical Bible – my sister, the eldest in the family and my only living relative, inherited it. But I have ...
Views: 798 - Memories: Foundations for the Future - by Submitted on Mar 14, 2011 from Sara Dillinger“Memories may be beautiful and yet, what’s too painful to remember We simply choose to forget.” I came upon an interesting article in the April 2011 issue of "Discover" magazine. The article, written by Carl Zimmer, talked about the importance of our memories. The blurb says: “Rich ...
Views: 1213 - N Is For No and Now - by Submitted on Jul 29, 2011 from Sara DillingerN is for No and Now If you are a parent, remember when your child was about two years old. What was his or her favorite word? Chances are, it was the word “No.” My youngest grandson is twenty-months old and already he has a clear grasp of the meaning of the word “No.” Not only can he ...
Views: 1288 - P Is For Patience - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2011 from Sara DillingerWipe that grimace off your face and don't whinge! I know that patience is probably just about the last thing you want to read about today (ranking just above your Aunt Mabel's hemorrhoids). I'm sitting here watching a cardinal in the tree outside my window. He's a frenetic fellow, hopping ...
Views: 1285 - Playing Games with Tapping - by Submitted on May 22, 2011 from Sara DillingerI wrote a humorous (I hope) piece yesterday about tapping to fall in love. I have also used tapping with some success, believe it or not, in playing the computer game Free Cell. Don’t get me wrong; I don’t play Free Cell all day long but it is, occasionally, necessary to lift your nose from ...
Views: 1584 - R Is For Responsibility - by Submitted on Aug 18, 2011 from Sara DillingerI've heard the “R” word quite a bit of late as I have listened to NPR's reporting of the riots in Britain. This morning it was particularly ubiquitous as the government, the police, and the rioters talked about who was “reponsible”. Let's start off by making something abundantly clear: ...
Views: 1100 - Reach Out To Your Grandchildren - by Submitted on May 17, 2011 from Sara DillingerI just returned from a trip to Worlds of Fun with my grandson Thomas to find a blog posted in my email that proclaims “Grandparents and grandkids are connecting”. John Agno, who writes the “So Baby Boomer” blog had older grandkids in mind. He mentioned the use of Facebook and you have to be ...
Views: 1290 - S Is For Subconscious - by Submitted on Aug 22, 2011 from Sara DillingerS is for Subconscious Early in this alphabetic progression, we encountered the conscious mind (C Is For Conscious). Let's review a little. Thought is the language of the conscious mind. It is the conscious mind that knows that it knows. It acts upon what it “knows”. Thus, the ...
Views: 1282 - Settiing Goals and Getting Them Done - by Submitted on May 08, 2011 from Sara DillingerThere is a story told about Albert Einstein. It seems that Einstein was once traveling from Princeton on a train. The conductor came down the aisle, punching the tickets of every passenger. When he came to Einstein, the great scientist couldn’t find his ticket. He looked everywhere, turning out ...
Views: 1241 - Sex for Boomers: Rated Rx - by Submitted on Mar 08, 2011 from Sara DillingerWhy should an activity that offers us mental, physical, emotional and spiritual benefits be limited to youth? Is there some immutable law that says that when a person passes the age of sixty, they no longer want or need to have sex? While it is true that the biologic imperative to reproduce ...
Views: 954 - Sidney Poitier and The Measure of a Man - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2011 from Sara DillingerI have been reading Sidney Poitier’s book, The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Memoir (HarperCollins, 2000). It was my admiration for Sidney Poitier as an actor and a man that made me take a second look at the book in the store. It was that subtitle, A Spiritual Memoir, that made me buy it. I ...
Views: 2536 - Some Thoughts in a Time of Crisis - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2011 from Sara DillingerWe interrupt this regularly scheduled alphabet to bring you this special message: With our elected representatives in Congress fighting like kindergartners and the last-minute deal to increase the debt ceiling of the United State of America, with the subsequent down-grading of our credit ...
Views: 1088 - Spiritual Practices: Routine or Rut? - by Submitted on Mar 14, 2011 from Sara DillingerWhat is the difference between a routine and a rut? Is the series of actions that you are currently undertaking a routine or a rut? There is something in all of us that seeks to organize our time. For some of us, that organization is necessary to move us through a busy and demanding schedule. ...
Views: 2185 - Subconcious Reasons Your Resolutions Failed - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2011 from Sara DillingerHappy New Year! Well, no. Unless you are following the fiscal calendars as some organizations and corporations do. But it is now a little over six months since the new year began which means – unless I got my math wrong, which is always a possibility – the year is half over. O, my gosh! ...
Views: 1079 - T Is For Think - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2011 from Sara Dillinger“To be or not to be..., the melancholy Dane mused (the past tense of another word for think). He might just as well have asked himself “To think or not to think”because that was what he was doing: thinking. He thought (the past tense of the verb to think) that he had seen his father's ...
Views: 1276 - Teaching to Learn - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2011 from Sara DillingerIf you are interested in keeping your brain active and limber as you enter retirement, you can do so by constantly seeking out new learnings. Oddly enough, one of the best ways of doing this is by teaching. Most volunteer teachers will tell you that they learn more than their students. ...
Views: 1219 - Transformational Income: A Recipe for Success - by Submitted on Feb 16, 2011 from Sara DillingerI tried a new recipe for lunch today. The recipe was kind of like a Definite Plan. I had a “Master Mind” group working with me toward the goal of a palatable lunch. That group consisted of myself, my mother (now deceased) who taught me to cook, the unknown person who developed the recipe, and ...
Views: 812 - Transformational Income: Ask Yourself These Questions - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2011 from Sara DillingerPop quiz! We are well into the second month of 2011, so it is time to ‘fess up. How many of you made New Years’ resolutions? Let’s see a show of hands. Okay. Now, of those of you who made New Years’ resolutions, how many of you have kept those resolutions thus far? Hands up. Uh-huh. Well, ...
Views: 977 - Transformational Income: Beginning Steps - by Submitted on Feb 16, 2011 from Sara DillingerHave your ever wondered what mystical power gives some people the capacity to surmount seemingly insurmountable barriers, master difficulties that make our piddling problems pale in comparison, or simply SUCCEED in whatever they attempt to do? Is there some form of spiritual, mental or ...
Views: 737 - Transformational Income: Causes of Failure - by Submitted on Feb 07, 2011 from Sara DillingerYou shouldn’t let all these causes of failure discourage you. Think of it this way: they are like termites. They might be eating away at the foundations of all your efforts but once you know that they are there, you can take measures to eradicate them. With that little pep talk out of the ...
Views: 878 - Transformational Income: Conquer Your Fears - by Submitted on Feb 06, 2011 from Sara DillingerHave you had – or taken – the opportunity to evaluate yourself in terms of the ten major causes of failure that we listed yesterday? If you found this task onerous or found it difficult to be honest with yourself, you might consider asking someone who knows you well to go over the list with ...
Views: 968 - Transformational Income: Don't Give Up - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2011 from Sara DillingerIf you have ever dieted unsuccessfully, you will know that your lack of persistence reveals itself in late night snacking, cheating, scale avoidance, and tight clothes. If you have been unsuccessful at maintaining an exercise regimen, your lack of persistence is evidenced in continued ...
Views: 678 - Transformational Income: Final Analysis - by Submitted on Mar 07, 2011 from Sara DillingerI had a minor crisis in my household last night. I went into the laundry room to feed the cats and found the floor in the southeast corner of the laundry room flooded with water. The southeast wall of the laundry room is the southwest wall of the kitchen, along which the sink, dishwasher, and ...
Views: 753 - Transformational Income: If - by Submitted on Mar 11, 2011 from Sara DillingerLong before Napoleon Hill wrote his book Think and Grow Rich, long before the Great Depression that inspired Hill’s earnest book, long before World War I, Nobel prize laureate Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem entitled IF: If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and ...
Views: 801 - Transformational Income: Imagine - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2011 from Sara DillingerImagine there's no Heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may ...
Views: 738 - Transformational Income: Leading to Failure - by Submitted on Feb 02, 2011 from Sara DillingerJust as there are specific traits or attributes of successful leaders, there are also factors which will sabotage one's leadership efforts and lead to failure. According to Napoleon Hill, these negative factors are a catalog of what NOT to do: 1. INABILITY TO ORGANIZE DETAILS Mastery of ...
Views: 666 - Transformational Income: Make Up Your Mind - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2011 from Sara DillingerDo you dither? Flip-flop? Delay making a decision for fear that you will make a mistake? Do you put off making decisions until you have ALL the information or until conditions are RIGHT? You are not alone. In fact, so many of us have this same problem that lack of decision is near the head of ...
Views: 825 - Transformational Income: Mind Your Ps and Qs - by Submitted on Feb 04, 2011 from Sara DillingerWhen I was a kid, we children were told on occasion – usually special occasions – to mind our Ps and Qs. When I was younger, I thought those initials referred to peas and carrots and I could see the sense of minding the Ps. Peas were sneaky little dickens and would roll off your fork and scatter ...
Views: 771 - Transformational Income: No Fear - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2011 from Sara DillingerThe final chapter in Napoleon Hill’s classic book, Think and Grow Rich, is about fear. The book was written just after the Great Depression when there was a lot of fear in the hearts and the minds of the American people. We have recently been through a difficult economic period and we are ...
Views: 719 - Transformational Income: Persistence - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2011 from Sara DillingerHave you ever gone on a diet or started a new exercise routine? Were you successful at losing all the weight you wanted to lose or building the muscle or strength you wanted to build? If so, why? And if not, why not? What was the most important factor in the success or failure of your diet or ...
Views: 796 - Transformational Income: Plan To Succeed - by Submitted on Jan 28, 2011 from Sara DillingerSteps One Through Five Let’s recount the steps toward riches that Napoleon Hill lists in his classic book, Think and Grow Rich. 1.Desire 2.Faith 3.Auto-Suggestion 4.Specialized Knowledge 5.Imagination The Sixth Step: Planning Now we come to the sixth step: ...
Views: 2354 - Transformational Income: Protect Your Subconscious from Spam - by Submitted on Feb 21, 2011 from Sara DillingerSubconscious Spam The Subconscious mind consists of a field of consciousness in which every impulse of thought that reaches the objective mind through any of the five senses, is classified and recorded, and from which thoughts may be recalled or withdrawn. Think of it as the email of your ...
Views: 876 - Transformational Income: Seeking Employment - by Submitted on Feb 04, 2011 from Sara DillingerNapoleon Hill, in his classic Think and Grow Rich, delineates the attributes of a leader and those factors that cause failure in leadership. These sections, and his advice on developing a “Master Mind” group are moving us toward the goal of selling ourselves. For many of us, that means applying ...
Views: 695 - Transformational Income: Stimulate Your Mind - by Submitted on Feb 16, 2011 from Sara DillingerSEX Let’s get it right out there in the open. We are going to be talking about SEX today. But before you scroll through this article looking for the salacious parts to highlight or cut and paste, let me prick your bubble. There will not be any salacious parts. Instead, we are going to talk ...
Views: 2067 - Transformational Income: The Only Thing We Have to Fear.... - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2011 from Sara DillingerSo, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear… is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. With those words of his first inaugural address, Franklin Delano Roosevelt sought to ...
Views: 674 - Transformational Income: The Sixth Sense - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2011 from Sara DillingerThe Thirteenth principle listed in Napoleon Hill’s classic book, Think and Grow Rich, is known as the Sixth Sense, through which Infinite Intelligence may, and will communicate voluntarily. This is the apex, the top rung, if you will, of the ladder of success outlined by Hill. A word of warning, ...
Views: 779 - Transformational Income: What You Need to Know - by Submitted on Jan 21, 2011 from Sara DillingerA Simple Solution “It’s a simple solution…you change one thing, and suddenly you’ve changed everything.” —Rebecca Onie, founder of Health Leads, which places student volunteers in urban clinics, assisting patients with housing, food, legal aid and other basic needs. The quote above caught ...
Views: 680 - Transformational Income: What's Holding You Back? - by Submitted on Feb 04, 2011 from Sara DillingerIt is a part of life’s tragedy – and unfairness – that millions of men and women earnestly try, work hard, and yet fail while only a few people succeed. The old saying that “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer” seems true. In preparation for his book, Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon ...
Views: 940 - Transformational Lives: What the World Needs Now - by Submitted on Mar 12, 2011 from Sara DillingerI have come to the end of a long series of articles based on and summarizing Napoleon (Why do I always think of Napoleon Solo when I type that name?) Hill’s book, Think and Grow Rich . I started the series with mixed motives, to be quite honest. At this stage in my life, when I am unemployed ...
Views: 842 - Trnsformational Income: Be Positive - by Submitted on Mar 07, 2011 from Sara DillingerIt’s an old joke, but it’s not very funny: A person is expressing doubts about his or her ability to achieve his goals. A friend seeks to encourage him by saying, “Oh, come on! You have to think positive.” To which the person responds, “Okay, I’m positive I can’t do it!” Strong ...
Views: 718 - U Is For Use - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2011 from Sara DillingerThere are times when we can only approach meaning in a round-about way, just as there are times when you can only really see something by not looking at it directly but catching it, as they say, out of the corner of your eye. In just that manner, we can only come to an understanding, at ...
Views: 1231 - Unemployed Men: An Ongoing Crisis - by Submitted on Apr 17, 2011 from Sara DillingerMy father was, as the saying goes, a “Jack of all trades and Master of none.” I’m told that he was a truck driver when he and my mother met. Within my personal memory – and I was the youngest of four children – he worked in heavy construction, farming, as an auto mechanic, insurance salesman, ...
Views: 1105 - What Am I Going to Be When I Grow Up: Baby Boomer Edition - by Submitted on Apr 07, 2011 from Sara DillingerHave you ever found yourself wondering what you are going to be when you grow up? Read that sentence again carefully. Notice that is in the future tense. Since it is in the future tense, it may seem a strange question to address to Baby Boomers but let’s think about it a minute. When you ...
Views: 936 - What Do You Need to Be Happy? - by Submitted on Mar 27, 2011 from Sara DillingerIf you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. If you’re happy and you know it, And you really want to show it, If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. Do you remember this old round? It was a staple in Sunday ...
Views: 890 - X Is For Excalibur - by Submitted on Sep 11, 2011 from Sara DillingerI know that "Excalibur" doesn't start with the letter X. But the only words that I could think of that start with an X are xenophobia and xylophone. Besides, I've always been a fan of the Arthurian legend and Excalibur figures large in that myth. Excalibur was, if you will remember, ...
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