Fall Down Seven Times , Get Up Eight.

We all go through difficult times. Whether it’s not getting a desired job, dealing with a difficult coworker, struggling to get along with a boss, hurting financially, coping with health problems, or nursing a damaged relationship, we all have to face adversity and trials in our lives.  Sometimes the struggles we go through are the result of choices we made, and sometimes they are the result of consequences that were completely beyond our control. Regardless of the cause, no trial we experience or pain we suffer should be wasted. Trials can educate us; they can build our character and help us develop patience, humility, and strength if we choose to let them.

Rabbi Ephraim Nisenbaum, in his book, “Power Lines: Insights and Reflections on the Jewish Holidays,” takes the comparison of people to trees and ties it back to a powerful insight for Tu Bishvat. “The tree goes through cycles in its life. The heavy-laden tree of summer empties itself of fruit in the autumn, and then slowly loses its leaves, one by one. By winter time, the tree stands shorn of its previous glory. For all purposes, it appears to have died.”
“But then comes Tu Bishvat! In the midst of the cold winter days, when all vegetation seems frozen or dead, the sap of the tree starts to flow beneath the surface bark. Rising slowly from roots buried in the hardened soil, the sap pushes its way up, pumping new life into outstretched branches that reach towards the heavens.”
This is the message of Tu Bishvat: there is a cycle of decay, renewal, birth, and growth that we human beings share with nature, specifically trees, over the course of our lifetimes.

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It's never too late nor hopeless to bring back to life your abilities as a rainmaker. Never!

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Surprising Ideas That Make Money..

Have you ever seen a product or business and recalled or thought to yourself , “Why didn’t I think of that?” While most people daydream every day about 'going west ', only some would step off the treadmill......


I'm selling bespoke metalwork to the public and businesses mostly in the UK. My main business is designing/restoring metal windows for historic buildings. I've also just branched out into bronze commemorative and memorial plaques.Carl Huxley , CH Designs

After being a relationship coach for a few years, I had finally taken the advice of my clients and wrote a book. With high hopes, I began sending off sample chapters. The responses I did get were all along the lines of, "This is great, but who are you?" The plan was to start a free advice site, grow a following and healthy traffic and then push it all to my book when the time was right. http://www.dating-relationship-advice-for-women.com was born. 

I started in September 08 with a simple charitable idea: ask the world's knitters and crocheters to send one 8 x 8" square to Southern Africa to be made into blankets for the 1.4 million AIDS orphans, whose number, sadly, increases by about 500 a day.

Sandy

Make Today The FIRST DAY Of The Rest Of Your Life

What A Difference A Year Can Make!

 Before
First, let me give you a little background. I finished junior college and decided not to go on to university. I just didn't like school and never really did that well.I've always been a pretty good "people person" and I was a natural salesman. I started working for an asphalt company as a commissioned sales representative and it didn't take me too long to "see" that there was good money in paving and coating driveways.So, rather than work for someone else, I asked my dad for some backing and started my own business - I was 17 years old at the time.                                         

After


 My name is Judd Burdon. I am 24 years old. I own 4 online businesses and thanks to SBI!, my life has changed dramatically for the better over the last 12 months. I put my "Before" and "After" photos up for fun, but they really do tell the whole story.


Don't Let The Boy In You Die...

Warren Macdonald: Finding Opportunity In Adversity , Onward and upward.

First of All, The Accident

The one-minute snapshot of the accident is that I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I was on a hike with one other person on a remote island in Australia, and we set up camp on the side of the mountain. I had to go to the bathroom and I needed to do so away from our water supply, so I started scrambling up this steep rock wall. I got to no more than a few feet off the ground when a piece of the wall broke loose. That’s when life changed big time for me, because that rock slammed me back down into the creek bed.  Geert and I couldn’t move it. I spent all night underneath it. We decided that Geert would have to hike out and then organize a rescue. While he did that, I spent two days trapped underneath that one-ton piece of rock. Finally a helicopter came in with a rescue team. They lifted the rock off and got me to the hospital, the surgeon explained to me that he would have to amputate both legs above the knees.

I think you set yourself up for a fall if you live life really safely instead of working with fear. Fear gets me focused. I’m scared of heights, so rock climbing for me is an exercise in control. I get really engaged with what I’m doing, because if I panic, I will probably die. I can’t close my eyes and will myself to the ground, so I just have to overcome the fear and take control. It’s almost like a meditation. A lot of climbers, including my partner, started climbing because it was the only time they felt they could live fully in the moment.
In a way, I’d been preparing my whole life for what happened on Hinchinbrook Island. My partner pointed out to me that I was the “ideal” person for this to happen to. One of my mottos, which I didn’t really put into words until after the accident, has always been “Don’t freak out and never give up.” Staying calm was what really helped me get through it. If I had freaked out and spooked Geert, and then he had had his own accident rushing down the mountain to get help, well, that wouldn’t have helped anybody.

Warren 

In April 1997 Warren Macdonald was climbing on Hinchinbrook Island, Northern Australia when a giant boulder fell on his legs. Warren survived the accident thanks to Geert van Keulen, a Dutch traveller Warren had met the day before, who raced down the mountain for help.He spent two days out in the open and both his legs were amputated at the thigh.
Ten months later, Warren climbed Cradle Mountain, Tasmania, Australia using a modified wheelchair and the seat of his pants. A year later he climbed Federation Peak in Tasmania, Australia. In February 2003 he became the first double-above knee amputee to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa's tallest peak while using specialty climbing prostheses developed by Hanger prosthetists Kevin Carroll and Chad Simpson. More recently Warren climbed El Capitan in Sierra Nevada, California, United States and the Weeping Wall in Alberta, Canada.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Macdonald

This Father's Day.....

• Treat him to a spa - yeah,surprise him and help him to relax , unwind under your watchful eyes.
• Do his chores  - take out the trash , clean his car , grill his favorite dish right at home , make it memorable in ways you know how.
• Last but never least give him a gift - a gift of a website  - you see Dad is the one who puts the food on the table. Perhaps he's bored at work. Perhaps he has, deep down in his heart a boyhood dream to start his own business. But instead of him burning all the savings launching a business , help him launch his business for only the cost of a lunch!! Tell him the story of  Crystal Maleski  who launched her own business with some e-mails to friends about easy dinner ideas.

Happy Father's Day !

Cry From A Frugal Trench

In some Asian communities a most widely accepted belief and an overarching principle is that frugality

will make them  rich . Driven by that obsession they would take no turn in the road but ' work' themselves into the trenches of extreme frugality .Having reduced their meals to sandwiches and coffee , cutting corners on every front , they slash their comforts and needs to the bones.How low can you get down though, for you'll still have those mandatory bills to pay in life ? So should you exhaust yourself with your cost cutting mindset or use that energy to populate income generation?

The truth is severe austerity won't solve that problem.You can only slash your spending so far. If you need money, you must find a way to MAKE more of it. That's how life works.What WILL do it , is stepping on gears : on different income generating gears .That's the only way to create financial independence and take control of your future, by stepping on gears - different financial gears.You save your life from financial noose by increasing your income or resourcing your income .

One of the best ways to resourcing your income is launching your own online prescence.This will add value to your income sources.Better to do it now while you’re young and full of sap then when age has inked your strength away AND for only the cost of a dinner. In truth , when you make more money, scores of your loved ones will stand to benefit from it all.

All you need to do is to find a right way for you to add your particular value to some income re-generation.

Jim Straw suggests this is what you could do .

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