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The best of self-help quotations dealing with stress, anger, worry, fear. Positive tips on living healthfully, confidently, happily, peacefully. Good ideas for life in just a few words from Grampa's personal collection of popular sayings, selected from tens of thousands, tuned to his needs over a lot of years.
Your new home purchase is such a big investment and the process requires careful scrutiny. Before signing that contract, and before signing off your acceptance of this expensive product, do your homework.
Many past experiences understandably have a great influence on our lives and how we are feeling right now. Sometimes that feeling is very low or painful. The good news is that in recalling past events we can select the feel good stories and feel good. It may take some practice but with a bit of effort it can be a satisfying and enjoyable way of passing through our days happily.
Originally used as basic transportation for home and business the automobile has become much more since the days of the Model T Ford. Today it supports a major industry as well as a wonderful convenience and better standard of living for so many. But the negative aspects of this great invention are now becoming more apparent. Consider the mess that cars are making of our beautiful natural world as they spread fumes and noise into a once serene environment. And in their production and usage, cars chew up Mother Nature's resources at an increasing rate.
Life is thought, and when we cease to think, we are not living. How we think, is the kind of life we live. Since we are able to control our thoughts, we can determine the course of our life and the way we feel during our time here. "We are what we think." - Buddha (BC) It is very important to establish good thinking guidelines and follow them. Placing thoughts of peace and happiness in our minds will help to make our lives peaceful and happy. If we do not set our thoughts properly, we will be dragged through life by way of places where we do not wish to go.
More and more corporations are using unethical tactics to increase profit. Many are using marketing trickery on a regular basis, and often along with their competitors. The deceptive marketing includes misleading ads, false labelling, tricky wording, small print, hidden charges, planned over-consumption, and so on. It is a great waste of time and money to all who buy products that are not as they are presented.
We now see and hear ads in print publications, TV commercials and infomercials, spam and junk mail, telephone marketing, product labels, massively scattered in sport venues, and increasingly into what should be our valuable public spaces.
The lifestyles of families and particularly children, are undergoing big changes in this grand technological era. While much of it is of great advantage, interesting and fun, exercise and activities in the fresh outdoor air is declining and often non-existent for some.
The credit market business is a great big fat, heavily marketed mean money making machine. Borrowing is a necessary part of living for most today where it provides assistance in purchasing the necessities to live a comfortable life. In most recent decades the credit and other industries have advanced in the direction of emphasizing the 'need' to require more than what makes us simply comfortable.
At one time television in the living room was a place for the family to get together to watch a family program, and the choices were quite limited. Since then it has 'progressed' in such a way that huge amounts of programming are now directed at different segments of the family. As a result most of it is not watched as a group and may be viewed separately at different hours or in separate rooms.
The wasteful production and consumption of oversized houses, cars, meals, services... have created oversized headaches for society and the world. The big roomy house requiring comfortable transportation to and from the suburbs is a prime example of things gone wrong in our social development.
Civilization along with our natural world have serious problems. Planet and social deterioration have accelerated in recent times, fueled by expanding commerce and over consumption. Driven by commerce's need for increased earnings, expansion marches on, sputtering from time to time. The predicament worsens as the buying frenzy spreads into every aspect of our lives.
Society Stretched! Are commerce and consumption and the related social stresses reaching a limit? Much of the populace is in worry mode these days about finances and their families, and what lies ahead for our lifestyles and the world in general. These are both confusing and stressful times if we consider some of the negative trends in the way commerce, government and people are acting and interacting. The circumstances this time might be quite different than in earlier serious setbacks as there have been so many social changes for so many years, both positive and negative.
The high intensity and shrewdness of marketing is influencing our society and family life in the wrong way. It is shaping our lives by starting on us at a very early age and continually persuading us to want something new. We need to stop and consider what is important in making our lives happier. Did that latest purchase make us happier? Was it worth the price we paid? Did it last or did we begin craving for a new thing? Programmed to do so, most of us go through life always wanting more and better.
It's Sunday morning and a good week lies ahead. One sure thing about this week is that after Saturday night it will be gone forever. But I will be glad I was here. For starters I will very quickly review last week. Just once, to determine what I should have done, what I should not have done. If there is anything I should correct, and I can correct, and I want to correct, I will. If there isn't I will forget it now and forever. Now for this week:
Don't give up that blog edit it into an article site. For the article writer who has chosen the blog platform for writing about a passionate topic some adjustments to standard posting procedures could be very useful. This is particularly so for the blogger who prefers to write more comprehensive articles less frequently, and also for the non-professional who has something to say but is conce ed about writers block.
When you shop beware! Important buyer information may be lurking! "Accepts no responsibility... Terms are for one year after which... Use of this product is entirely... "Warranty does not include... Valid only with the activation of... Company reserves the right..." Often camouflaged in befuddling text are details explaining what you need to know, and if it was easily read and understood you might likely walk away. That is why it is disguised and made fuzzy.
Another year passes by and I'm wondering; what the heck are we doing with society, this planet and the people on it? If this is the era of plenty and so much for so many, why are millions living in poverty or starving? As we gobble up natural resources and dump massive amounts of waste into our environment, why do we work so hard at competing for yet more of just about everything? That we don't need! As we are prodded by the big free enterprise machines we strive and wonder what next can we get.