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1.) HEADLINE ARTICLE
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Reflections--A List of Year-End Questions
© 2002 By David Batchelor

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In order to embrace the new, we must release the old. An
important part of preparing for the New Year is to review the
past year--to release it--and to learn from it.

To go where we wish to go and be whom we wish to be, we need to
know where we are and who we are. An honest self-analysis is
always helpful to gain clarity. As we end the year, the decade,
the century and the millennium, it seems particularly fitting to
devote some time to reflecting on the year past and where we
find ourselves as the new year dawns.

The following questions should stimulate your thinking for this
process. I hope that you take time out of your busy schedule
this holiday season to ponder where you are and where you've
been. Enter into discussions with people you care about. Write
out your thoughts and feelings. Do some journaling. Consider
writing a letter--an end-of the-year-epistle to yourself. It
could be profound to write it and valuable to read it in the
years ahead.

Reflect upon what you did, how you felt, what you liked, what
you didn't and what you learned. Try to look at yourself and
your experience with as much objectivity as you can-much like a
biographer would.

Here are some suggestions to get you started in mulling over the
past year-perhaps the last decade. Feel free to add your own.

1. Am I where I want to be? (if not, what's stopping me?)

2. What did I achieve? A list of my wins and achievements.

3. What would I have done differently? Why?

4. Was I busy doing or being? (Be comes before do and have.
After all we were created to be human BEings not human
DOings)

5. What were the most significant events of the year past? List
the top three.

6. What did I do right? What do I feel especially good about?
What was my greatest contribution?

7. What were the fun things I did? What were the not-so-fun?

8. What were my biggest challenges/roadblocks/difficulties?

9. How am I different this year than last?

10. For what am I particularly grateful and why?

Another Suggestion: Consider listing all the things in your life
of which you'd like to let go--anything you no longer want. Give
thanks for what they've brought you in terms of learning and
usefulness and then burn the list. It's a symbolic gesture to
help you release the old and be open to the new.

The next step is to list what you DO want-experiences,
knowledge, material things, relationships, healings, whatever.

In doing this, you'll be using the principle of vacuum-releasing
what you don't want and embracing what you do.

I'm confident that anything you can do to make this year-end
more dramatic in terms of your own personal and spiritual growth
will be valuable.

Make it a great New Year by ending this one well.

In closing, I would like to recommend a great book on "Vision".
It's titled "Mach II With Your Hair On Fire". By Richard Brooke.

In case you don't know who Richard Brooke is, here is a summary:

He made his first million before the age of 30, advancing to the
top sales-leader position in a $60 million Network Marketing
organization made up of more than 200,000 sales people. At age
31, he became the Executive Vice President.

At age 33, he accepted the opportunity to "turn around" a
Network Marketing company (Oxyfresh Worldwide, Inc.). This
company, when he joined it, was in a death spiral and
technically bankrupt. It was almost $1 million in debt with no
cash, no assets, and no credit. With the help of a tremendous
staff and his partner Randy Anderson, they turned the business
into a role model for our industry it has posted record growth
every year for the past ten.

You can read the book "Mach II With Your Hair On Fire" free
online at:
http://www.greatestnetworker.com/is/davidbatchelor/learn4

Happy reading!
David :-)

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on Tips, Strategies, Tools and how-to's for creating
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2.) A WORD FROM THE EDITOR
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A warm welcome to all of our New Subscribers.

Instead of my usual ramblings, today I am bringing to you
a special story, written by Stupdiman. He always manages to
bring a smile to my face.

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The Tale Of The Christmas Ham

Years ago, before I mutated into Stupidman, I would
occasionally write a story for my own amusement. Though
written in the first person this is really about Mrs.
Stupidman but I wanted to avoid a bunch of quote marks so
I wrote it the way you see it.

* * * * *

It seemed simple enough, a honey baked, spiral cut, melt in
your mouth, fancy ham from a fancy ham specialty store.

I was in one of my advanced planning moods, it was two days
before Christmas and I was beginning to think about what I
would serve to the seventeen people I'd be feeding on
Christmas day. In Oklahoma City, we have two fancy ham
specialty stores both located on a very busy, pot hole
ridden, four lane road with barricades that are
continuously guarded by city workers leaning on shovels. I
found a coupon for one of the stores that allowed a $2.00
discount on a $60.00 ham and, being temporarily blessed with
forethought, called and reserved a ham, taking unusual care
in writing my secret reservation code on the coupon.

It had been a warm winter day, temperature in the 50's with
strong southerly winds. I decided to take my faithful
traveling companion, Tinkerbelle, an eighty pound Cocker
Spaniel who's obesity was more related to an allergy induced,
steroid driven, food addiction than to a genetic disorder.
We had driven several miles from my home when I realized the
slow chewing motion Tinkerbelle was making was due to her
devouring my coupon. Nonplussed by the loss of the coupon,
the secret reservation code and the address of the store, I
pressed ahead as the wind shifted out of the North and dark
puffy clouds scudded in from over the horizon. I thought
traffic would be light at 2:00 o'clock in the afternoon but
evidently a lot of other people agreed with me as the roads
were packed with holiday shoppers who exhibited their
Christmas spirit by greeting each other with hand gestures
and horn blasts.

I wasn't sure which side of the street the store was located
but I knew it was somewhere within a three or four mile
stretch. Traffic came to a standstill as it seemed everybody
was trying to make left turns across two lanes of snarled up
traffic. Meanwhile, the weather was developing ominous
overtones as the first snowflakes started to fall. I drove
past the store the first time which resulted in my
contribution of two left turns to the less than fluid
traffic flow.

By the time I got parked, Tinkerbelle was whimpering from
her cellulose induced indigestion. Her rapid panting
indicated the indigestion was combining nicely with an
allergy attack. Ever prepared, I gave her a steroid and
left her in the car while I went inside to get the honey
baked, spiral sliced ham.

I went to the back of the long line of customers that snaked
around the store. Twenty or thirty minutes later I worked
my way to the front of the line only to discover I had gone
to the wrong store. Despite my appeals to the spirit of
Christmas, the employees would not sell me a ham without a
reservation and, like Mary and Joseph, I was sent on my way.

I scraped the effect of the worsening storm from my
windshield, noted Tinkerbelle's improving allergic reaction
and deteriorating indigestion and left on my, now desperate,
search for the reserved ham at the other specialty ham
store.

Two miles, two left turns and twenty minutes later I was
back in line at the other specialty ham store. Tinkerbelle
had thrown up while I was waiting to make the second left
turn and was feeling much better. It was almost 5:00 pm
and I was exhausted from my nearly three hour quest. My
spirits began to brighten as I inched toward the front of
the line. The stern faced employee turned to me and in a
no nonsense, thick German accent asked, "Vat is your
reservation code?"

In desperation I blurted out my best recollection of the
code. What little warmth had shown on her face vanished as
she heard my response. My head spun, my blood pressure
rose, I began to sweat. Above her head I disorientedly read
the sign "All ham reservations must be confirmed" and I
began to sob. As the words of my tale poured out she
muttered something in German and then whispered, "Merry
Christmas, your reservation code is 23-GS." I blubbered my
appreciation, repeated the code and received my ham.

Shaken, I placed the ham in the car and began scrapping the
thickening ice and snow from my windshield. As I cleared
the windshield I peered inside and, to my horror, saw the
now ravenous Tinkerbelle devouring the honey baked ham. My
screams startled Tinkerbelle and I was able to wrestle the
chewed up ham away from her.

I was too weak to defend the ham from the wild eyed family
pet and placed the remains of the ham in the trunk and
finished scraping the windows.

I drove slowly home on the snow packed roads. Upon my
arrival I trimmed the teeth marks off the ham, called the
guests and asked everyone to bring a side dish.

There were no leftovers from that Christmas dinner.

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Until Next Time!

Best Regards,
Debbie Solomon
editor@online-exchange.com

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3.) GRINS -N- GIGGLES
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Reasons Why The English Language Is Hard To Learn:

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it
was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

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(usually) the first letter or two of two or more or more words. An
example you're probably familiar with is RAM, which is short for
Random Access Memory. Another example is modem, short for
MOdulator/DEModulator. Sooner or later you'll need to know what
an acronym stands for that you're not familiar with. Below are a few
handy acronym look-up sites, with comments below each.

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"Computer Freezing?"

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Using standby mode, is supposed to save energy when your PC
is unattended, and help your Monitor last longer.

How valuable this function is, I don't know.

However, this facility can cause problems, because sometimes
when you try to bring back your 'normal' screen you find
your PC is frozen. No mouse, no alt/ctrl/delete function ...

Zilch!

Then you have to switch off your computer (even that doesn't
work sometimes), reboot and run scan disk, just to get back
to where you were before you took time off for that cup of
coffee.

If this has happened to you, the answer is to disable the
standby mode. Here's how ...

RIGHT Click on a blank area of your desktop.

LEFT Click on

Properties

Screen saver

Settings (or Power)

Check everything in there to 'Never'.

Click OK and OK again.

Job done.

Now you can have a cup of coffee with peace of mind:-)

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