Friday, June 29, 2012

Time

To realize
The value of a sister
Ask someone
Who doesn't have one.

To realize
The value of ten years:
Ask a newly
Divorced couple..

To realize
The value of four years:
Ask a graduate.

To realize
The value of one year:
Ask a student who
Has failed a final exam.

To realize
The value of nine months:
Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.

To realize
The value of one month:
Ask a mother
who has given birth to
A premature baby.

To realize
The value of one week:
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize
The value of one minute:
Ask a person
Who has missed the train, bus or plane.

To realize
The value of one-second:
Ask a person
Who has survived an accident.

Time waits for no one.
Treasure every moment you have.

You will treasure it even more when
you can share it with someone special.

To realize the value of a friend or family member:

LOSE ONE.

The origin of this letter is unknown,
But it brings good luck to everyone

Peace, love and prosperity to all!

Remember...

Hold on tight to the ones you love!

Interesting Human Body Facts

·         The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.

·         A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.

·         It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

·         One human hair can support 3 kg (6 lb).

·         Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

·         The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.

·         The average man's penis is three times the length of his thumb.

·         A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.

·         If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.

·         Men with hairless chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.

·         There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

·         Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square inch.

·         Women blink twice as often as men.

·         The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain.

·         When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate. They do the same when you are looking at someone you hate!

·         Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.

·         Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.

·         If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.

·         The average woman is five inches shorter than the average man.
 

You guys are still looking at your thumb, aren't you?

Top 10 Traits of Highly Successful People

By: Lee Davidhcz

We have all read about people who are successful briefly.

They win a gold medal, make a fortune, or star in one great movie…and then disappear.

Or, there are those like Marilyn Monroe who achieve extraordinary success, at the cost of their own lives.

These examples do not inspire me!

My focus and fascination is with people who seem to do well in many areas of life, and do it over and over through a lifetime.

In entertainment, I think of Paul Newman and Bill Cosby.

In business, I think of Ben and Jerry (the ice cream moguls), and a local hardware store owner who is famous for the money he’s give to children’s charities.

As a Naval Officer, husband, businessman, politician and now as a mediator and philanthropist on the world stage, Jimmy Carter has had a remarkable life.

We all know examples of people who go from one success to another.

These are the people who inspire me!

I’ve studied them, and I’ve noticed they have the following traits in common:

1.    They work hard! Yes, they play hard, too! They get up early, they rarely complain, they expect performance from others, but they expect extraordinary performance from themselves. Repeated, high-level success starts with a recognition that hard work pays off.

2.    They are incredibly curious and eager to learn. They study, ask questions and read – constantly! An interesting point, however: While most of them did well in school, the difference is that they apply or take advantage of what they learn. Repeated success is not about memorizing facts, it’s about being able to take information and create, build, or apply it in new and important ways. Successful people want to learn everything about everything!

3.    They network. They know lots of people, and they know lots of different kinds of people. They listen to friends, neighbors, co-workers and bartenders. They don’t have to be "the life of the party", in fact many are quiet, even shy, but they value people and they value relationships. Successful people have a rolodex full of people who value their friendship and return their calls.

4.    They work on themselves and never quit! While the "over-night wonders" become arrogant and quickly disappear, really successful people work on their personality, their leadership skills, management skills, and every other detail of life. When a relationship or business deal goes sour, they assume they can learn from it and they expect to do better next time. Successful people don’t tolerate flaws; they fix them!

5.    They are extraordinarily creative. They go around asking, "Why not?" They see new combinations, new possibilities, new opportunities and challenges where others see problems or limitations. They wake up in the middle of the night yelling, "I’ve got it!" They ask for advice, try things out, consult experts and amateurs, always looking for a better, faster, cheaper solution. Successful people create stuff!

6.    They are self-reliant and take responsibility. Incredibly successful people don’t worry about blame, and they don’t waste time complaining. They make decisions and move on. Sometimes they are criticized for taking this to extremes – Jimmy Carter carried his own briefcase and a President "shouldn’t" do that! Extremely successful people take the initiative and accept the responsibilities of success.

7.    They are usually relaxed and keep their perspective. Even in times of stress or turmoil, highly successful people keep their balance, they know the value of timing, humor, and patience. They rarely panic or make decisions on impulse. Unusually successful people breath easily, ask the right questions, and make sound decisions, even in a crisis.

8.    Extremely successful people live in the present moment. They know that "Now" is the only time they can control. They have a "gift" for looking people in the eye, listening to what is being said, enjoying a meal or fine wine, music or playing with a child. They never seem rushed, and they get a lot done! They take full advantage of each day. Successful people don’t waste time, they use it!

9.    They "look over the horizon" to see the future. They observe trends, notice changes, see shifts, and hear the nuances that others miss. A basketball player wearing Nikes is trivial, the neighbor kid wearing them is interesting, your own teenager demanding them is an investment opportunity! Extremely successful people live in the present, with one eye on the future!

10.  Repeatedly successful people respond instantly! When an investment isn’t working out, they sell. When they see an opportunity, they make the call. If an important relationship is cooling down, they take time to renew it. When technology or a new competitor or a change in the economic situation requires an adjustment, they are the first and quickest to respond.

These traits work together in combination, giving repeatedly successful people a huge advantage. Because they are insatiable learners, they can respond wisely to change. Because their personal relationships are strong, they have good advisors, and a reserve of goodwill when things go bad. And finally, none of these traits are genetic! They can be learned! They are free and they are skills you can use. Start now!

Diffusing Anger or Feeding the Flames

- By Margaret Paul, Ph.D.

Have you ever had an argument with someone -- a partner, spouse, close friend, child, parent or other relative, or a business associate -- that started small and spiraled into an intense conflict?

Have you ever scratched your head, wondering how it got so out of control?

Let's take a look at what feeds the flames of anger and what diffuses it.

Feeding the Flames of Anger
Emma and Jake have been married for 14 years.

They love each other, but they frequently have arguments that escalate into intense fights where both of them end up feeling awful.

They've noticed that it doesn't matter what the conflict is about.

Just about anything can touch off their anger, defensiveness, and blame.

Then the laundry list from the past comes up and they are at it, often ending with threats of divorce, which neither of them wants.

The problem is that they feed the flames with ANY response once one of them is angry.

Once a person is angry, he or she is no longer open to hearing another view of things.

Anger is a way of trying to have control over getting one's way.

When a person is angry and yelling at or blaming another person, they are trying to bully that person into doing what they want.

They don't want to hear the other's feelings, explanations, lectures, or logic.

When they are angry, they may have no feelings of caring about the other person -- they just want to control the person or the situation.

Therefore, ANYTHING you say to an angry person feeds the flames of anger and escalates the conflict.

The angry person may use whatever you say against you.

Then your own anger escalates as you defend against the attack and attempt to gain control over the other person's behavior, feelings, or views.

Now you are both pointlessly trying to control each other, bringing out the heavy artillery as you defend your position.

Diffusing Anger
Most people, when yelled at, attacked, accused, or blamed, get triggered into defending and explaining -- hoping to change the angry person's mind.

It is as if the angry person has thrown out a hook and you bite.

If it is someone who knows you well, like your partner, he or she knows exactly what to say to you that hooks you into engaging in the conflict.

Yet engaging is exactly what feeds the flames.

To diffuse the anger, you need to disengage.

Disengaging means that you COMPLETELY unhook yourself from the conflict.

Disengaging does NOT mean that you walk away in anger, muttering under your breath about how bad and wrong the other person is and how he or she can't treat you this way.

It does NOT mean that you shut down, closing your heart and withdrawing your love or caring.

Your silent anger and withdrawal of caring are just other ways of trying to control the angry person.

Energetically, you are still engaged, and the other person knows it, albeit unconsciously.

They know they have gotten to you, which fuels their hopes of winning.

Disengaging does NOT mean that you go off and ruminate about the other person, about how wrong they are, and how you are going to teach them a lesson.

It does NOT mean that you rehearse over and over what you are going to say to them next time you talk.

When you disengage, you are walking away from the conflict to TAKE LOVING CARE OF YOURSELF, NOT TO PUNISH THE OTHER PERSON.

This means that you fully accept that you have NO CONTROL over the other person's anger.

You are getting yourself out of range of attack without shutting down your compassion for yourself or the other person.

You are helping yourself to not take the other person's behavior personally by telling yourself that this is not about you -- it is about whatever is going on with the other person.

You are occupying your mind with helpful and pleasant thoughts -- prayers for the other person, a happy song that you sing to yourself, or about what you would love to do with your time right now.

Completely letting go is a very loving act toward yourself and the other person.

Because the other person energetically gets that their anger is not working, they are more likely to calm down.

When the other person is friendly again, you are ready and willing to re-engage with no hard feelings and nothing to rehash, because you have kept your heart open and taken loving care of yourself.

 
About the Author:
Margaret Paul, Ph.D. is the best-selling author and co-author of eight books, including "Do I Have To Give Up Me To Be Loved By You?" and "Healing Your Aloneness." She is the co-creator of the powerful Inner Bonding® healing process. Learn Inner Bonding now! Visit her website for a FREE Inner Bonding course, http://www.innerbon ding.com, or email her at margaret@innerbondi ng.com. Phone Sessions Available.


WOW

Read the following sentence carefully:

"I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunication's incomprehensibleness".

This is a sentence where the first word is one letter long, the second word  of two letters; the third word is three letters long ............ the 8th word is 8  letters long and so on ... the 20th word is 20 letters long !!

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Intended For Mothers

Somebody said it takes about six weeks to get back to normal after you've had a baby...somebody doesn't know that once you're a mother, normal is history.

Somebody said you learn how to be a mother by instinct...somebody never took a three-year-old shopping.

Somebody said being a mother is boring...somebody never rode in a car driven by a teenager with a learner's permit.

Somebody said if you're a "good" mother, your child will "turn out good"...somebody thinks a child comes with directions and a guarantee.

Somebody said "good" mothers never raise their voices...somebody never came out the back door just in time to see her child hit a golf ball through the neighbor's kitchen window.

Somebody said you don't need an education to be a good mother...somebody never helped a fourth grader with her math.

Somebody said you can't love the third child as much as you love the first...somebody doesn't have three children.

Somebody said a mother can find all the answers to her child-rearing questions in the books...somebody never had a child stuff beans up his nose or in his ears.

Somebody said the hardest part of being a mother is labor and delivery ...somebody never watched her "baby" get on the bus for the first day of kindergarten.

Somebody said a mother can do her job with her eyes closed and one hand tied behind her back...somebody never organized seven giggling Brownies to sell cookies.

Somebody said a mother can stop worrying after her child gets married...somebody doesn't know that marriage adds a new son or daughter-in-law to a mother's heart strings.

Somebody said a mother's job is done when her last child leaves home...somebody never had grandchildren.

Somebody said your mother knows you love her, so you don't need to tell her...somebody isn't a mother.

Laughs

We look at the present through a rearview mirror; we walk backwards into the future.
~Marshall McLuhan

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy."
~Frank Sinatra

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.

It's not a hangover. It's wine flu.

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

Q. Have you heard about the lawyers' document program?
A. No matter what font you select, everything comes out in fine print.

I was hugged, and then I was mauled, by a bipolar bear.

Is any thing worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.
~Spike Milligan

Life is like a penis.... simple, relaxed and hanging free.
It's women who make it hard.

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Money
~Richard Armour

Workers earn it,
Spendthrifts burn it,
Bankers lend it,
Women spend it,
Forgers fake it,
Taxes take it,
Dying leave it,
Heirs receive it,
Thrifty save it,
Misers crave it,
Robbers seize it,
Rich increase it,
Gamblers lose it,
I could use it.

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Unfair life

Life is unfair, get used to it.  To illustrate:
I lost my car keys at a ball game and never found them.
I lost my sunglasses at the beach and never found them.
I lost my socks in the washing machine and never found them.
I lost three pounds on a diet ... I found them AND five more.

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Rodney Dangerfield lines

My wife only has sex with me for a purpose.  Last night she used me to time an egg.

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass!

I went to a massage parlor. It was self service.

I went to see my doctor... Doctor Vinnie Boombatz. Yeah...I told him, "Doctor, every morning when I get up and look in the mirror I feel like throwing up.  What's wrong with me?  He said, "I don't know, but your eyesight is perfect."

I was so ugly, my mother used to feed me with a slingshot!

I tell you, I'm not a sexy guy. I was the centerfold for Playgirl magazine. The staples covered everything!

What a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me!

I tell ya when I was a kid, all I knew was rejection.  My yo-yo, it never came back!

Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor.  I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes.

When I was a kid I got no respect.  The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note they said, "We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again."

When my old man wanted sex, my mother would show him a picture of me.

I met the surgeon general. He offered me a cigarette.

I'm a bad lover.  Once I caught a peeping tom booing me.

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Passion

He Grabbed Me Around My Slender Neck
I Could Not Call Or Scream.
He Dragged Me To My Dingy Room
Where We Could Not Be Seen.

He Tore Away My Flimsy Wrap
And Gazed Upon My Form.
I Was So Cold And Damp And Scared
While He Was Dry And Warm.

He Pressed His Feverish Lips To Mine
I Could Not Make Him Stop.
He Drained Me Of My Inner Self
I Gave Him Every Drop.

Then He Cast Me From His Side
So Now You See Me Here.
An Empty Bottle Thrown Away
That Once Was Full Of Beer.

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Lingerie shopping

When my wife had to rush to the hospital unexpectedly, she asked me to bring her a few items from home.

One item on her list was "comfortable underwear."

Worried I'd make the wrong choice, I asked, "How will I know which ones to pick?"

"Hold them up and imagine them on me," she answered.

"If you smile, put them back."

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MAKING THE GRADE

A schoolteacher expecting her first child attended natural childbirth classes. When she went to the hospital in labor, she found that one of her classmates had also arrived and was also in labor. The classmate immediately requested drugs to ease her pain, while the teacher gave birth aided only by her husband's coaching.

When the nurses rolled the teacher out of the delivery room, she spotted a chalkboard. Beside her classmate's name was an A-; next to hers was a B+.

"Honey, look at that!" the teacher complained to her husband. "She took all the drugs they gave her and made an A-. I gave birth naturally and only got a B+."

Her patient husband rolled his eyes. "Sweetheart," he said, "that's your blood type."

"Making The Grade" from "A Tribute To Teachers" by Richard Lederer (2011)

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SORRY I'M LATE

The General went out to find that none of his G.I.s were there. One finally ran up, panting heavily.

"Sorry, sir! I can explain, you see I had a date and it ran a little late. I ran to the bus but missed it, I hailed a cab but it broke down, found a farm, bought a horse but it dropped dead, ran 10 miles, and now I'm here."

The General was very skeptical about this explanation, but at least he was here, so he let the G.I. go. Moments later, eight more G.I.s came up to the general panting, he asked them why they were late.

"Sorry, sir! I had a date and it ran a little late, I ran to the bus but missed it, I hailed a cab but it broke down, found a farm, bought a horse but it dropped dead, ran 10 miles, and now I'm here."

The General eyed them, feeling very skeptical but since he let the first guy go, he let them go, too. A ninth G.I. jogged up to the General, panting heavily.

"Sorry, sir! I had a date and it ran a little late, I ran to the bus but missed it, I hailed a cab but..."

"Let me guess," the General interrupted, "it broke down."

"No," said the G.I., "there were so many dead horses in the road, it took forever to get around them."

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

10 Things You Should Never Say to Your Wife

It’s a pity no one states the things not to say to your wife ever. 

But if we had to had to bribe the pundit to read out the top 10 commandments of what a husband must never mention to his wife instead of wedding vows, this is what it would look like.

1. “Maybe you should go on a diet.”
Yes, looking after your house and keeping it habitable has affected how she looks but if you can’t compliment her, don’t ever let her hear this one. Especially when you’re sitting with your perfect tyre in place.

2. “Why don’t you work as long as me?”
Yes, we get it. You’re irritated and need to spark off an argument but talking about what a great sacrifice you make by working is not going to help anyone. Especially if she’s quit her own job to look after the house and kids.

3. “Anand from Accounts is ….”
No, your wife doesn’t want to know about office gossip. When you’re home, she wants you to listen to her not your work problems. At least not every day!

4. “That one looks hot!”
If you have ever said this to your wife while checking out another woman and lived to survive the tale, you know what a landmine this sentence is loaded with.

5. “I don’t feel like talking.”
This can be excused if used sparingly. However, if you want to prevent communication problems in your relationship then you better learn to have an open channel all the time.

6. “All you do is nag.”
Desist from ever saying this. Your wife’s already short fuse will be completely blown if you such this incendiary sentence.

7. “Why do you want to go shopping again?”
Yes, she knows you hate it. But you need to entertain her too and if she likes to go shopping, then tough luck. Deal with it, don’t complain about it.

8. “You’re not really wearing that, are you?”
Unless you’re Narendra Kumar Ahmed or Sabyasachi Mukherjee, questioning her sartorial choices so bluntly is going to cause a major fight. Try and suggest your picks in a more delicate manner.

9. “Must be that time of the month.”
If you think you can use this line as a weapon for a clever retort, you’ve got another thing coming. This can be one of the most insulting, not to mention sexist, things you can ever say to your wife.

10. “You’re acting like your mother.”
The biggest no-no. No woman likes to be compared to another woman, especially her mother. Bear in mind you’re also passing a judgement on her mother with this one. Unless you want to spend an entire year apologising, refrain from ever using this line during your entire marriage.

A marriage is a union between two different people and it can be perfect only if both the people accept each other as they are.