by Chang Wee Teo
The law of attraction is an ancient law that has recently been brought to light through Esther Hicks. Esther Hicks channels spirits that collectively use the name – "Abraham."
According to the law of attraction "that which is like unto itself is drawn." In simpler terms this can be expressed as like attracts like. It could also be said as - as you sow, so shall you reap; what goes around comes around; what your put out you get back and what you want, wants you.
Many successful people have lived by the positive philosophy of the law of attraction including, by self admission, Oprah Winfrey. The secret that is said to have once been known by Beethoven is now common knowledge thanks to the works of Esther Hicks and her husband Jerry Hicks.
The statement "ask and you shall receive" is common knowledge. The law of attraction says "Ask, believe, receive." Abrahams secret teachings say how all things that are wanted or unwanted are brought to you by the law of attraction. A belief is only a thought that you keep thinking. Never before has the law of attraction been explained as clearly as it is here by Abraham through Esther and Jerry Hicks.
Let us examine the basics of the law of attraction. Once a vibration is activated by you, a response is given via the law of attraction. If you ask, you receive. According to the law of attraction, everything is valid and truthful. In the germination of the seed of your desire is everything that is necessary to make your desire true. You must relax and let the law of attraction organize and manage and then happily do your work.
The secret law of attraction that has now been revealed is a universal law. Universal laws cannot be changed or broken. They have been around since the dawn of creation. They apply to everything, everywhere. They are basic principles on which life is based.
The law of attraction, revealed by Abraham-Hicks is the most powerful force in the universe. Practice is needed to "get it" but once you get it you need never look back. The secret of the law of attraction is – like attracts like. This means many things. You are a living magnet. Energy attracts energy. You get what you focus on whether you want it or not.
Though some people are better at attraction than others are, this does not mean the person with average law of attraction skills cannot get better of even surpass others. In working the secret law of attraction, always take inspired action. If something feels right, go ahead and do it. Always expect your desires to come true. Expect miracles to happen.
Money, relationships and jobs happen in our life according to our expectations. The moment we focus on them, they start moving toward us. The quality of desires we focus on affects what we get from life. Our thoughts and feelings must affirm the positive to bring in happiness into our lives.
Think you have as much money you want in your life. Then feel it. Also, believe it. Believe that you already have as much money as you want in your life. Be grateful for the money you have. Accept yourself as a rich person.
Do the same with relationships and with jobs. Think, believe, feel and accept yourself in a positive position on these and the positivity will come to you. This is the secret that has been revealed by Abraham-Hicks in the law of attraction
What we focus on is brought to us. If it is on having less, we create that experience for ourselves. If it is on having more we bring richness into our lives. The man who says he hates his job is creating this reality for himself by not noticing the good parts of his job. If we obsess on not having something, then we are blocking what we deserve from coming to us. The secret is wanting, believing and accepting what you desire in your life.
Most people focus on their not having things they want rather than having them. This is a negative thought process and blocks what we want from coming into out lives. Once a secret, it is now known that the law of attraction is not mystical mumbo jumbo but a fact that has been borne out in countless lives. Expect positivity and receive positivity. So think, feel and believe positive.
That is the law of attraction in a nutshell.
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Monday, January 28, 2008
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Sunday, January 20, 2008
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Stories from lottery winners of 4D, TOTO and Big Sweep
extracted from Winning Times, Singapore Pool :
3/2007
Lucky Handphone number
Bukit Merah - This single man in his forties was never a fan of Singapore Sweep. His favourite game is 4D and he likes going to the Pools outlet at Bukit Merah View because he feels it is lucky. One fateful day, he was at his favourite outlet buying his 4D number when he spotted a Singapore Sweep ticket containing all the digits of a relative’s handphone number. It was such a coincidence that he felt he had to buy the ticket. This coincidence proved to be his lucky charm. He could not believe it when he checked the internet and found he had won the Singapore Sweep top prize of $2 million with only one ticket! This clerk is now a Sweep fan and will probably use his winnings to invest in a property and treat his parents to a well-deserved holiday.
Lucky from the middle
Tampines - This resident from Tampines is a happy man. Retired after working many years as an administrative staff, his children are all grown up, have good jobs and with families of their own. He has been a loyal Sweep fan for many years despite not having won any big prizes. He doesn’t believe in ‘lucky’ outlets, but he has one particular habit for luck. He likes to pick a middle ticket amongst the stack; and his formula has proven fruitful for him. As for what he will do with his winnings, he said with a smile “It will give me something to think about”.
Lucky Numbers for Toto
Hougang Ave 7 – This coffee shop assistant does not believe in chasing numbers. If it is not drawn out, it is simply not lucky. His lucky formula is to match winning 4D numbers into a Toto combination. Now in his fifties, he has been buying Toto for many years. He has this gut feel that this formula would work for him. As luck would have it, his winning formula won him over $1.5 million in the Toto draw on 18 June 2007. He checked the results on the teletext after work on the draw date itself and was so excited he could not sleep. What will he do with his winnings? He intends to buy his dream house in his hometown in Malaysia.
Sweep Lucky Draw Winner
This gentleman in his early forties was all smiles when he came to collect his $10,000 prize money. A long time fan of 4D, he was never much of a Sweep customer. He only bought Sweep if the mood strikes him. He decided to buy a few Sweep tickets this round because it was new. Little did he expect to win the lucky draw. Equally excited, his wife said she used to wonder if winners were real, but is now convinced. This gentleman has already decided what he wants to do with his winnings - buy his wife a Rolex watch!
2/2007
A lucky lady
Ang Mo Kio - This single lady in her late thirties never won anything big in her life. Out of work for a nearly a year, she just had a fresh start with a new clerical job. She was thrilled when she won a small prize at Singapore Pools and on collecting her prize, decided to treat herself to another little flutter. Never did she dream that her $1 Toto Quickpick would win her a $3million fortune. With life safely back on track, her priorities are to share her good fortune with her family and make donations to temples.
A Family Man
Woodlands - Recently retired from the military, this gentleman in his fifties is a contented man. His children are financially independent and his wife's business is humming along. Having worked all his life, he now enjoys a comfortable life living off his retirement benefits. He indulges in a lottery ticket now and then, buying from his favourite outlet in Woodlands whenever inspiration strikes. One day, when he went to buy a 4D number, he found that the number had sold out. "Well," he said, "I was going to spend $3 anyway. What would you suggest?" The lady at the counter suggested a Singapore Sweep ticket. So he bought one even though he rarely played the Sweep. As luck would have it, that ticket won him a cool $2million. So what will he do with his winnings? Well, he intends to invest in his wife's business and maybe help his children start their own businesses.
A Working Man
West Coast Drive - This winner of Toto Draw 2221 is one hardworking gentleman. He has worked all his life and even in his fifties, he doesn't intend to retire. He was so busy with work that he only found out he won six days after the draw. This man has always been very thrifty as well. He spends about $1 - $2 each time he is inspired by a number. In fact, the winning ticket was the first time he ever bought a System 7 ticket. Even after winning over $1.5million, this feisty gentleman says he has no plans to retire and will work as long as his company wants him. He plans to use his winnings to provide for his family when he retires.
A Very Lucky Man
Northbridge Road - This is the biggest lottery winner in Singapore Pools' 39 years of history. This man in his late twenties was the sole winner of over $6.5million in the cascade draw held on 24 May 2007. This lucky gentleman is an occasional lottery buyer. He only buys when the jackpot is large or when he feels lucky. The Toto jackpot had rolled over to $6.5million and this man decided to place a small wager. Luck certainly found him when his ordinary Quickpick became the winning numbers. The married man enjoys his work in the sales line and does not plan to retire early. He has no plans for his winnings but added that he would definitely look at good causes to donate to and maybe, indulge his family.
1/2007
Study Abroad
Yishun - It was another late day at the office. As she came through the door, she saw brochures of overseas universities in the trash bin. She had spoken to her daughter the night before, explaining that the family simply could not afford to send her overseas for her tertiary education. It was the toughest thing she had done. She knew her daughter had dreams of becoming a vet since she was a little girl. The mother in her forties sighed as she finally made time to check her lottery tickets. Her husband had dutifully clipped the past 3 months' draw results from the newspapers and reminded her of the expiry deadline of 90 days for the Sweep tickets. Checking the numbers on her last ticket as she prepared to thrash the others, her heart started to pound. The numbers matched! She had won! Moments later, and still stunned, she retrieved the brochures from the trash bin. With $2 million prize money, her daughter's dream could finally come true.
A Happy Man Tanjong Pagar
The gentleman in his late seventies is a happy and contented man. A retired professional with three grown children with lives of their own, he keeps himself busy with a full social calendar. Everyday, he catches up with friends and buddies all over Singapore. They'd chat over a cup of coffee and go for meals together. On the way to his appointments, he would sometimes place a $2 bet on Toto when the mood seized him. This retiree is now $1.5 million happier. Aside from a dinner celebration with his family, this gentleman is still thinking of meaningful ways to use his winnings.
Pooling 10 persons’ luck
iToto winner - This elderly retiree in his seventies rarely buys the lottery as he does not consider himself lucky. Once in a while, however, he would try his hand at Toto. He was not particularly keen when he first heard of the $5 million Mooncake Draw, that is until he learnt about iToto that allows ten persons to share a System 12 ticket at a fraction of the price. "10 persons sharing a ticket means pooling 10 persons' luck together" reasoned this retiree. So he queued up and bought himself an iToto ticket. And as luck would have it, this man finally won the lottery!
Give it a shot
iToto winner - This manager in the shipping industry was not much of a Toto player. He knew he was a lucky man, having won 4-D many times before, but he felt the odds of winning Toto were just too remote. He was intrigued when his colleague told him about iToto which cost only one-tenth the price of a System 12 ticket. He was ready to give it a shot. He made his way to different outlets and bought into different shares of iToto. It seemed that his luck in 4-D held sway for Toto too. He won not just one but a few winning shares in the iToto tickets he bought.
3/2007
Lucky Handphone number
Bukit Merah - This single man in his forties was never a fan of Singapore Sweep. His favourite game is 4D and he likes going to the Pools outlet at Bukit Merah View because he feels it is lucky. One fateful day, he was at his favourite outlet buying his 4D number when he spotted a Singapore Sweep ticket containing all the digits of a relative’s handphone number. It was such a coincidence that he felt he had to buy the ticket. This coincidence proved to be his lucky charm. He could not believe it when he checked the internet and found he had won the Singapore Sweep top prize of $2 million with only one ticket! This clerk is now a Sweep fan and will probably use his winnings to invest in a property and treat his parents to a well-deserved holiday.
Lucky from the middle
Tampines - This resident from Tampines is a happy man. Retired after working many years as an administrative staff, his children are all grown up, have good jobs and with families of their own. He has been a loyal Sweep fan for many years despite not having won any big prizes. He doesn’t believe in ‘lucky’ outlets, but he has one particular habit for luck. He likes to pick a middle ticket amongst the stack; and his formula has proven fruitful for him. As for what he will do with his winnings, he said with a smile “It will give me something to think about”.
Lucky Numbers for Toto
Hougang Ave 7 – This coffee shop assistant does not believe in chasing numbers. If it is not drawn out, it is simply not lucky. His lucky formula is to match winning 4D numbers into a Toto combination. Now in his fifties, he has been buying Toto for many years. He has this gut feel that this formula would work for him. As luck would have it, his winning formula won him over $1.5 million in the Toto draw on 18 June 2007. He checked the results on the teletext after work on the draw date itself and was so excited he could not sleep. What will he do with his winnings? He intends to buy his dream house in his hometown in Malaysia.
Sweep Lucky Draw Winner
This gentleman in his early forties was all smiles when he came to collect his $10,000 prize money. A long time fan of 4D, he was never much of a Sweep customer. He only bought Sweep if the mood strikes him. He decided to buy a few Sweep tickets this round because it was new. Little did he expect to win the lucky draw. Equally excited, his wife said she used to wonder if winners were real, but is now convinced. This gentleman has already decided what he wants to do with his winnings - buy his wife a Rolex watch!
2/2007
A lucky lady
Ang Mo Kio - This single lady in her late thirties never won anything big in her life. Out of work for a nearly a year, she just had a fresh start with a new clerical job. She was thrilled when she won a small prize at Singapore Pools and on collecting her prize, decided to treat herself to another little flutter. Never did she dream that her $1 Toto Quickpick would win her a $3million fortune. With life safely back on track, her priorities are to share her good fortune with her family and make donations to temples.
A Family Man
Woodlands - Recently retired from the military, this gentleman in his fifties is a contented man. His children are financially independent and his wife's business is humming along. Having worked all his life, he now enjoys a comfortable life living off his retirement benefits. He indulges in a lottery ticket now and then, buying from his favourite outlet in Woodlands whenever inspiration strikes. One day, when he went to buy a 4D number, he found that the number had sold out. "Well," he said, "I was going to spend $3 anyway. What would you suggest?" The lady at the counter suggested a Singapore Sweep ticket. So he bought one even though he rarely played the Sweep. As luck would have it, that ticket won him a cool $2million. So what will he do with his winnings? Well, he intends to invest in his wife's business and maybe help his children start their own businesses.
A Working Man
West Coast Drive - This winner of Toto Draw 2221 is one hardworking gentleman. He has worked all his life and even in his fifties, he doesn't intend to retire. He was so busy with work that he only found out he won six days after the draw. This man has always been very thrifty as well. He spends about $1 - $2 each time he is inspired by a number. In fact, the winning ticket was the first time he ever bought a System 7 ticket. Even after winning over $1.5million, this feisty gentleman says he has no plans to retire and will work as long as his company wants him. He plans to use his winnings to provide for his family when he retires.
A Very Lucky Man
Northbridge Road - This is the biggest lottery winner in Singapore Pools' 39 years of history. This man in his late twenties was the sole winner of over $6.5million in the cascade draw held on 24 May 2007. This lucky gentleman is an occasional lottery buyer. He only buys when the jackpot is large or when he feels lucky. The Toto jackpot had rolled over to $6.5million and this man decided to place a small wager. Luck certainly found him when his ordinary Quickpick became the winning numbers. The married man enjoys his work in the sales line and does not plan to retire early. He has no plans for his winnings but added that he would definitely look at good causes to donate to and maybe, indulge his family.
1/2007
Study Abroad
Yishun - It was another late day at the office. As she came through the door, she saw brochures of overseas universities in the trash bin. She had spoken to her daughter the night before, explaining that the family simply could not afford to send her overseas for her tertiary education. It was the toughest thing she had done. She knew her daughter had dreams of becoming a vet since she was a little girl. The mother in her forties sighed as she finally made time to check her lottery tickets. Her husband had dutifully clipped the past 3 months' draw results from the newspapers and reminded her of the expiry deadline of 90 days for the Sweep tickets. Checking the numbers on her last ticket as she prepared to thrash the others, her heart started to pound. The numbers matched! She had won! Moments later, and still stunned, she retrieved the brochures from the trash bin. With $2 million prize money, her daughter's dream could finally come true.
A Happy Man Tanjong Pagar
The gentleman in his late seventies is a happy and contented man. A retired professional with three grown children with lives of their own, he keeps himself busy with a full social calendar. Everyday, he catches up with friends and buddies all over Singapore. They'd chat over a cup of coffee and go for meals together. On the way to his appointments, he would sometimes place a $2 bet on Toto when the mood seized him. This retiree is now $1.5 million happier. Aside from a dinner celebration with his family, this gentleman is still thinking of meaningful ways to use his winnings.
Pooling 10 persons’ luck
iToto winner - This elderly retiree in his seventies rarely buys the lottery as he does not consider himself lucky. Once in a while, however, he would try his hand at Toto. He was not particularly keen when he first heard of the $5 million Mooncake Draw, that is until he learnt about iToto that allows ten persons to share a System 12 ticket at a fraction of the price. "10 persons sharing a ticket means pooling 10 persons' luck together" reasoned this retiree. So he queued up and bought himself an iToto ticket. And as luck would have it, this man finally won the lottery!
Give it a shot
iToto winner - This manager in the shipping industry was not much of a Toto player. He knew he was a lucky man, having won 4-D many times before, but he felt the odds of winning Toto were just too remote. He was intrigued when his colleague told him about iToto which cost only one-tenth the price of a System 12 ticket. He was ready to give it a shot. He made his way to different outlets and bought into different shares of iToto. It seemed that his luck in 4-D held sway for Toto too. He won not just one but a few winning shares in the iToto tickets he bought.
Quick Interesting Facts
In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
You can't create a folder called 'con' in Microsoft Windows!
Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.
Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
In its ancient form, the carrot was purple, not orange.
Only male fireflies can fly.
Nearly 30% of female lottery winners hide their winning ticket in their bras.
Bacteria that cause tooth decay, acne, tuberculosis, and leprosy can be cured with cashews.
Snails breathe through their feet.
Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste.
Under extreme stress, some octopuses will eat their own arms.
Women wishing to enter Canada to work as strippers must provide naked photos of themselves to qualify for a visa!
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.
A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years!
Iguanas have two penises!
You can't create a folder called 'con' in Microsoft Windows!
Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the materials used in the tanning process.
Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
A volcano has enough power to shoot ash as high as 50 km into the atmosphere.
Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.
Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. This is because the foot tends to swell a bit around this time.
If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
In its ancient form, the carrot was purple, not orange.
Only male fireflies can fly.
Nearly 30% of female lottery winners hide their winning ticket in their bras.
Bacteria that cause tooth decay, acne, tuberculosis, and leprosy can be cured with cashews.
Snails breathe through their feet.
Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste.
Under extreme stress, some octopuses will eat their own arms.
Women wishing to enter Canada to work as strippers must provide naked photos of themselves to qualify for a visa!
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.
A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years!
Iguanas have two penises!
Friday, January 11, 2008
Interesting Facts about Humans
Women blink twice as many times as men do.
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day.
There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger.
The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain.
After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
A person swallows approx. 295 times while eating dinner.
Your urine will turn bright yellow if you eat too much asparagus.
If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
A baby is born every seven seconds.
You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000000000000071 ounce of its spray.
You breathe about 10 million times a year.
There are more people alive today than have ever died.
The human body is better suited to two four-hour sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.
A man's beard contains between 7000 and 15,000 hairs.
A beard grows an average of 140mm a year
A hair is 70 per cent easier to cut when soaked in warm water for two minutes
4 million people die annually from diarrhea infections, caused by poor sanitary conditions
The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair
The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
The most common time for a wake up call is 7 a.m.
The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.
The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
When filming summer scenes in winter, actors suck on ice cubes just before the camera rolls - it cools their mouths so their breath doesn't condense in the cold air.
Humans were first infected with the HIV virus in the 1930s.
4.5 million people have their health 'adversely affected' by air pollutants each year.
4 million children die each year from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires that burn wood and Dung
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day.
There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger.
The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain.
After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
A person swallows approx. 295 times while eating dinner.
Your urine will turn bright yellow if you eat too much asparagus.
If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
A baby is born every seven seconds.
You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000000000000071 ounce of its spray.
You breathe about 10 million times a year.
There are more people alive today than have ever died.
The human body is better suited to two four-hour sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.
A man's beard contains between 7000 and 15,000 hairs.
A beard grows an average of 140mm a year
A hair is 70 per cent easier to cut when soaked in warm water for two minutes
4 million people die annually from diarrhea infections, caused by poor sanitary conditions
The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair
The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
The most common time for a wake up call is 7 a.m.
The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.
The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
When filming summer scenes in winter, actors suck on ice cubes just before the camera rolls - it cools their mouths so their breath doesn't condense in the cold air.
Humans were first infected with the HIV virus in the 1930s.
4.5 million people have their health 'adversely affected' by air pollutants each year.
4 million children die each year from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires that burn wood and Dung
Interesting Facts about Sex
Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.
Males, on average, think about sex every 7 seconds.
Each day, there are over 120 million sexual intercourse taking place all over the world.
There are men in Guam whose job is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the 1st time.
Sex burns 360 calories per hour!
Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day.
22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.
For every ‘normal’ webpage, there are five porn pages.
The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.
Turkeys can reproduce without having sex. It’s called parthenogenesis.
In india it is cheaper to have sex with a prostitue than buy a condom!
“Formicophilia” is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your genitals. Gross!!
“Ithyphallophobia” is a morbid fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.
When swans go on a date, they’ll put their heads together. Then they stick together for life.
Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal.
The average shelf-life of a latex condom is about two years.
The word “gymnasium” comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means “to exercise naked.”
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands.
85% of men who die of heartattacks during intercourse, are found to have been cheating on their wives.
The greatest recorded number of children one mother had was 69 children. Do the math!
The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were: Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
25% of women think money makes a man sexier.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Snakes have two sex organs.
Women who read romance novels have sex twice as often as those who don’t.
A man’s beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.
A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
Donald Duck comics were once banned from Finland because Donald doesn’t wear pants.
In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by death.
In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman’s genitals, but is forbidden from looking directly at them during the examination. He may only see their reflection in a mirror.
In Cali, Colombia, a woman may only have sex with her husband, and the first time this happens her mother must be in the room to witness the act.
In Santa Cruz, Bolivia it is illegal for a man to have sex with a woman and her daughter at the same time.
In Maryland, it is illegal to sell condoms from vending machines with one exception: prophylactics may be dispensed from a vending machine only “in places where alcoholic beverages are sold for on the premises.”
These figures are circulating on the internet and on usenets. I can’t vouch for their scientific approach and method. I don’t even know who conducted this survey and when. This survey doesn’t address the diseases or hurt caused from promiscuous sex. Nevertheless, the figures are worth sharing.
Latino women have sex more often than either Blacks or Whites, who get down at roughly the same rate.
Women with a Ph.D. are twice as likely to be turned on by the thought of anonymous sex as women who never got a bachelor’s degree.
70% of women who smoke have had more than 4 lovers in the last year while 60% of female non-smokers had none.
Women who respond to sex surveys in magazines like Cosmo may have 5 times as many lovers as typical women.
White teenage girls who live with single mothers are 60% more likely to have sex before the age of 18 than those who live with both parents. The percentage is much lower for black girls.
Women who lost their virginity before their 18th birthday are likely to be twice as sexually active as women who don’t.
Australian women are more likely to have sex on the first date.
Women who went to college are more likely to enjoy oral sex (giving and receiving) than high school dropouts.
Males, on average, think about sex every 7 seconds.
Each day, there are over 120 million sexual intercourse taking place all over the world.
There are men in Guam whose job is to travel the countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of having sex for the 1st time.
Sex burns 360 calories per hour!
Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day.
22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.
For every ‘normal’ webpage, there are five porn pages.
The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.
Turkeys can reproduce without having sex. It’s called parthenogenesis.
In india it is cheaper to have sex with a prostitue than buy a condom!
“Formicophilia” is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your genitals. Gross!!
“Ithyphallophobia” is a morbid fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.
When swans go on a date, they’ll put their heads together. Then they stick together for life.
Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal.
The average shelf-life of a latex condom is about two years.
The word “gymnasium” comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means “to exercise naked.”
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands.
85% of men who die of heartattacks during intercourse, are found to have been cheating on their wives.
The greatest recorded number of children one mother had was 69 children. Do the math!
The world’s youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were: Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
25% of women think money makes a man sexier.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Snakes have two sex organs.
Women who read romance novels have sex twice as often as those who don’t.
A man’s beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.
A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
Donald Duck comics were once banned from Finland because Donald doesn’t wear pants.
In Lebanon, men are legally allowed to have sex with animals, but the animals must be female. Having sexual relations with a male animal is punishable by death.
In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman’s genitals, but is forbidden from looking directly at them during the examination. He may only see their reflection in a mirror.
In Cali, Colombia, a woman may only have sex with her husband, and the first time this happens her mother must be in the room to witness the act.
In Santa Cruz, Bolivia it is illegal for a man to have sex with a woman and her daughter at the same time.
In Maryland, it is illegal to sell condoms from vending machines with one exception: prophylactics may be dispensed from a vending machine only “in places where alcoholic beverages are sold for on the premises.”
These figures are circulating on the internet and on usenets. I can’t vouch for their scientific approach and method. I don’t even know who conducted this survey and when. This survey doesn’t address the diseases or hurt caused from promiscuous sex. Nevertheless, the figures are worth sharing.
Latino women have sex more often than either Blacks or Whites, who get down at roughly the same rate.
Women with a Ph.D. are twice as likely to be turned on by the thought of anonymous sex as women who never got a bachelor’s degree.
70% of women who smoke have had more than 4 lovers in the last year while 60% of female non-smokers had none.
Women who respond to sex surveys in magazines like Cosmo may have 5 times as many lovers as typical women.
White teenage girls who live with single mothers are 60% more likely to have sex before the age of 18 than those who live with both parents. The percentage is much lower for black girls.
Women who lost their virginity before their 18th birthday are likely to be twice as sexually active as women who don’t.
Australian women are more likely to have sex on the first date.
Women who went to college are more likely to enjoy oral sex (giving and receiving) than high school dropouts.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Interesting facts!!!
What Does WD-40 Stand For?
Maybe you didn’t know but WD-40 stands for Water Displacement, 40th attempt. Name was coined by the chemist, Norm Larsen, while he was attempting to concoct a formula to prevent corrosion by displacing water. Norm's persistence paid off when he perfected the formula on his 40th try.
Earth's Record Holders Highest mountain on Earth, Mt. Everest grows about 4 millimeters a year since two tectonic plates which collided millions of years ago to form the Himalayas, continue to press against each other. Earths highest waterfall is at Angel Falls in Venezuela which drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).
Hottest place on earth is Azizia in Libya 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) and coldest was in Vostok, Antarctica -129 Fahrenheit (-89 Celsius). Pacific is the biggest ocean (32.6% of the Earth's surface)and Nile River in Africa is longest 4,160 miles (6,695 kilometers).
Dubai Facts
Dubai is the fastest growing city in the world. No taxes on income and there are no personal taxes either. In Dubai Emirates Mall you can ski indoors while shopping, measuring 400 meters and using 6000 tons of snow. Burj Dubai will become the world's tallest building, along with the world's tallest man-made structure when it is completed. Eighty percent of Dubai residents are foreigners.
Monopoly Facts
Monopoly was invented by Charles B. Darrow during the Depression in the 1934 and at first it was rejected by Parker Brothers due to "52 design errors"! Streets in Monopoly are taken from Atlantic City, New Jersey. Game was very popular in Cuba until Fidel Castro took power and burned all the Monopoly sets. Standard Monopoly bank starts with $15,140 and it is estimated that Monopoly has been sold 250 million times through out the world.
Testis Or TestifyThe word "testis" cames from the Latin meaning to bear witness. In ancient Rome, only men could bear witness or testify in a public forum. In order to show importance to their testimony, they would hold their testicles as they spoke, and an oath was declared while holding another's testicles.
The Great Wall Myth
It is common mistake to say that The Great wall of China is visible from outer space. It is too thin to be noticed from such a great distance. Only two man made structures visible from space are: The Pyramids of Giza and the Hoover Dam.
Facts MySpace was founded by former Friendster members Chris Dewolfe and Tom Anderson in 2003. They saw opportunity to beat Friendster with more options and less restrictions for social network users. MySpace was purchased in 2005 for $580 million by Rupert Murdoch creator of a media empire that includes 20th Century Fox and the Fox television stations. MySpace has more than 40 billion page views a month. Google paid $900 million to be MySpace's search provider. MySpace runs on Microsoft .NET Framework, operating under Windows 2003 server and applications written in C# for ASP.NET.
History Of Amazon.com
Jeff Bezos coined the term Amazon.com from the earlier name Cadabra.com. It was the excellent way to present large volume online bookstore. But did he have hidden intentions? It is hard to believe but in the early Internet days, when Yahoo was dominant search engine, results on one page were listed alphabetically. Amazon would always appear above its competition for a specific keywords. This could be a breaking point for Jeff to expand and became what it is today.
What Is Google?
Google, the Internet search company founded in September 1998. by Larry Page & Sergey Brin, got it's name from the word Googol, which represents number 1 followed with hundred zeros after it.
What Is Yahoo!? Yahoo the complex internet organism has complicated name. Word "Yahoo" is shortcut for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". It was coined by PhD candidates at Stanford University: David Filo and Jerry Yang.
Others interesting facts
The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.
Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.
The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.
Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.
Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.
The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.
Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.
You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.
A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the practice of picking one's nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations.
Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.
At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.
Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
Ten years ago, only 500 people in China could ski. This year, an estimated 5,000,000 Chinese will visit ski resorts.
The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side.
The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.
In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
A snail can sleep for three years.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
It took approximately 2.5 million blocks to build the Pyramid of Giza, which is one of the Great Pyramids.
Thomas Edison designed a helicopter that would work with gunpowder. It ended up blowing up and also blew up his factory.
Americans ate eight million more orders of french fries and almost six million more hamburgers this year compared to last.
The USA has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.
Maybe you didn’t know but WD-40 stands for Water Displacement, 40th attempt. Name was coined by the chemist, Norm Larsen, while he was attempting to concoct a formula to prevent corrosion by displacing water. Norm's persistence paid off when he perfected the formula on his 40th try.
Earth's Record Holders Highest mountain on Earth, Mt. Everest grows about 4 millimeters a year since two tectonic plates which collided millions of years ago to form the Himalayas, continue to press against each other. Earths highest waterfall is at Angel Falls in Venezuela which drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).
Hottest place on earth is Azizia in Libya 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) and coldest was in Vostok, Antarctica -129 Fahrenheit (-89 Celsius). Pacific is the biggest ocean (32.6% of the Earth's surface)and Nile River in Africa is longest 4,160 miles (6,695 kilometers).
Dubai Facts
Dubai is the fastest growing city in the world. No taxes on income and there are no personal taxes either. In Dubai Emirates Mall you can ski indoors while shopping, measuring 400 meters and using 6000 tons of snow. Burj Dubai will become the world's tallest building, along with the world's tallest man-made structure when it is completed. Eighty percent of Dubai residents are foreigners.
Monopoly Facts
Monopoly was invented by Charles B. Darrow during the Depression in the 1934 and at first it was rejected by Parker Brothers due to "52 design errors"! Streets in Monopoly are taken from Atlantic City, New Jersey. Game was very popular in Cuba until Fidel Castro took power and burned all the Monopoly sets. Standard Monopoly bank starts with $15,140 and it is estimated that Monopoly has been sold 250 million times through out the world.
Testis Or TestifyThe word "testis" cames from the Latin meaning to bear witness. In ancient Rome, only men could bear witness or testify in a public forum. In order to show importance to their testimony, they would hold their testicles as they spoke, and an oath was declared while holding another's testicles.
The Great Wall Myth
It is common mistake to say that The Great wall of China is visible from outer space. It is too thin to be noticed from such a great distance. Only two man made structures visible from space are: The Pyramids of Giza and the Hoover Dam.
Facts MySpace was founded by former Friendster members Chris Dewolfe and Tom Anderson in 2003. They saw opportunity to beat Friendster with more options and less restrictions for social network users. MySpace was purchased in 2005 for $580 million by Rupert Murdoch creator of a media empire that includes 20th Century Fox and the Fox television stations. MySpace has more than 40 billion page views a month. Google paid $900 million to be MySpace's search provider. MySpace runs on Microsoft .NET Framework, operating under Windows 2003 server and applications written in C# for ASP.NET.
History Of Amazon.com
Jeff Bezos coined the term Amazon.com from the earlier name Cadabra.com. It was the excellent way to present large volume online bookstore. But did he have hidden intentions? It is hard to believe but in the early Internet days, when Yahoo was dominant search engine, results on one page were listed alphabetically. Amazon would always appear above its competition for a specific keywords. This could be a breaking point for Jeff to expand and became what it is today.
What Is Google?
Google, the Internet search company founded in September 1998. by Larry Page & Sergey Brin, got it's name from the word Googol, which represents number 1 followed with hundred zeros after it.
What Is Yahoo!? Yahoo the complex internet organism has complicated name. Word "Yahoo" is shortcut for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". It was coined by PhD candidates at Stanford University: David Filo and Jerry Yang.
Others interesting facts
The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.
Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.
The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.
Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.
Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.
The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.
Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.
You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.
Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.
A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the practice of picking one's nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations.
Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.
At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.
Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
Ten years ago, only 500 people in China could ski. This year, an estimated 5,000,000 Chinese will visit ski resorts.
The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side.
The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
Topless saleswomen are legal in Liverpool, England, but only in tropical fish stores.
In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.
In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
A snail can sleep for three years.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
It took approximately 2.5 million blocks to build the Pyramid of Giza, which is one of the Great Pyramids.
Thomas Edison designed a helicopter that would work with gunpowder. It ended up blowing up and also blew up his factory.
Americans ate eight million more orders of french fries and almost six million more hamburgers this year compared to last.
The USA has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
How can I use Affirmations to Attract Money and Material Possessions
How can I use Affirmations to Attract Money and Material
By Jeff Staniforth, creator of Sculptor 3.
So you desire to gain material things in life? Affirmations are usually effective in this respect - maybe even more so than with other desires because material desires often come with stronger emotional attachments.
You'll recall that in my previous article, "Why Do Some Affirmations *Work* - and Others Don't?" I emphasized that affirmations that are emotionally charged are the ones most likely to work. So when you are emotionally connected to your desire for material things, you can use the power of affirmations to see how quickly your need is manifested!
Power Affirmations for Attracting Money. If your desire is to have an abundance of money to fill your needs, practice this affirmation: "I always have an abundance of money to meet all my needs." Repeat it several times, then stop affirming. Be silent while knowing, visualizing, and feeling how it is to already have the amount of money you desire. Feel as though it has already happened, and that all your needs are more than satisfied. While in this state, hold yourself open to all the ways and means by which you will have money flow into your life to meet your every need.
Following are other power affirmations for abundant supply. Choose the affirmations that feel appropriate to you --those that resonate with you, or strike an emotional chord. It is important that the words feel comfortable to you and are in line with who you are. Feel free to create one for your specific need by substituting other words that have special meaning to you:
Affirmations of Abundant Supply:
* I am now open to receive.* Life is easy, I have an abundance of whatever I need.* I now have surplus, all my needs are being met.* I have unlimited abundance.* I now give and receive freely.* This is a rich universe and there is plenty for all of us.* I now live in a rich and loving universe.* Money comes to me easily and effortlessly.* I am always supplied with whatever I need.* I move forward with an expectancy of my greatest good.* I look for and receive a bountiful supply.* My greatest good is coming to me NOW.
The last affirmation was a turning point for me personally.
TIP: How to Maintain the Emotional Charge of Your Affirmations
Most people who practice affirmations experience the challenge of maintaining the emotional charge of their affirmations. That's because although the power of thought is amazingly strong, it remains strong for a short period of time. Its quality changes and tends to diminish with each repetition.
For example: Suppose you recite an affirmation such as: "All my needs are met instantaneously." The affirmation produces a feeling, and you understand and connect with the affirmation at a certain level. But when you continue repeating the affirmation, "All my needs are met instantaneously," again and again, the thought seldom maintains the same level of emotion previously achieved. With each repetition, you tend to lose the mental picture of what the words mean, and they start to have less meaning.
Affirmations that are meaningless fail to reach deep enough to touch the limitless powers of your subconscious mind.
By Jeff Staniforth, creator of Sculptor 3.
So you desire to gain material things in life? Affirmations are usually effective in this respect - maybe even more so than with other desires because material desires often come with stronger emotional attachments.
You'll recall that in my previous article, "Why Do Some Affirmations *Work* - and Others Don't?" I emphasized that affirmations that are emotionally charged are the ones most likely to work. So when you are emotionally connected to your desire for material things, you can use the power of affirmations to see how quickly your need is manifested!
Power Affirmations for Attracting Money. If your desire is to have an abundance of money to fill your needs, practice this affirmation: "I always have an abundance of money to meet all my needs." Repeat it several times, then stop affirming. Be silent while knowing, visualizing, and feeling how it is to already have the amount of money you desire. Feel as though it has already happened, and that all your needs are more than satisfied. While in this state, hold yourself open to all the ways and means by which you will have money flow into your life to meet your every need.
Following are other power affirmations for abundant supply. Choose the affirmations that feel appropriate to you --those that resonate with you, or strike an emotional chord. It is important that the words feel comfortable to you and are in line with who you are. Feel free to create one for your specific need by substituting other words that have special meaning to you:
Affirmations of Abundant Supply:
* I am now open to receive.* Life is easy, I have an abundance of whatever I need.* I now have surplus, all my needs are being met.* I have unlimited abundance.* I now give and receive freely.* This is a rich universe and there is plenty for all of us.* I now live in a rich and loving universe.* Money comes to me easily and effortlessly.* I am always supplied with whatever I need.* I move forward with an expectancy of my greatest good.* I look for and receive a bountiful supply.* My greatest good is coming to me NOW.
The last affirmation was a turning point for me personally.
TIP: How to Maintain the Emotional Charge of Your Affirmations
Most people who practice affirmations experience the challenge of maintaining the emotional charge of their affirmations. That's because although the power of thought is amazingly strong, it remains strong for a short period of time. Its quality changes and tends to diminish with each repetition.
For example: Suppose you recite an affirmation such as: "All my needs are met instantaneously." The affirmation produces a feeling, and you understand and connect with the affirmation at a certain level. But when you continue repeating the affirmation, "All my needs are met instantaneously," again and again, the thought seldom maintains the same level of emotion previously achieved. With each repetition, you tend to lose the mental picture of what the words mean, and they start to have less meaning.
Affirmations that are meaningless fail to reach deep enough to touch the limitless powers of your subconscious mind.
Believe that You Deserve to be Wealthy
Believe that You Deserve to be Wealthy
By Stuart Goldsmith
You are lost if you do not believe that having money is a good thing.
You need the self-confidence and focus to follow your dream and this will be fatally undercut if you have the wrong philosophy of life and money. No amount of effort on your part will overcome a faulty philosophy. If, deep down, you believe that wealth is a sin or that money is dirty, or wicked then the first step is for you to correct this error or give up all hopes of wealth for you and your family. What is a 'wrong' philosophy with regard to making money?
Anything which could be described as altruistic, socialist, collectivist, communist or any one of its thousand manifestations no matter what the label, no matter what the disguise, no matter what the smoke screen.
Without exception, every self-made millionaire I have met was a rugged individualist. Most of them despised government, although many were clever enough not to say so in public. And believe me, there were approximately zero socialists amongst them.
A socialist, whatever he calls himself, is someone who believes that brute force should be used to loot from the productive, in order to provide handouts for the unproductive. No matter how you disguise it, or make it look fancy, that's the plain truth of the socialist doctrine.
I believe that it is impossible for you to attempt to get rich if you have some nagging doubt that money is the root of all evil, that Capitalism is bad or that wealth should be divided up amongst the needy. You have surrendered the philosophical high ground if you sign up for any of these positions.
Let me apologize in advance if you find this a little heavy. It is my sincere wish that you read this article and stay with me. Later articles are far easier. The teachings I produce in order to help people have a better life aren't merely plucked from the air, randomly. My views are based on a solid, 'from the ground up' philosophy of life - a thing which few people have in our compromise age of mixed economies.
It is a powerful thing to have a coherent philosophy of life. Without this, you react to life's events with a series of random, mood of the moment responses which are often contradictory and self-defeating. You pick emotions and opinions from an array of ill-considered viewpoints and hand-me-down beliefs.In contrast, a coherent philosophy empowers you. The correct thing to do in all situations becomes obvious - it is merely a question of being strong enough to do it, which is not always so easy!
No thief, no con-man, no criminal will ever come close to stealing the amount of wealth taken from you by force due to bad philosophy. I am, of course, talking about state theft of your life efforts. If you do not believe such theft is wrong, your wealth-generating efforts are doomed.
By Stuart Goldsmith
You are lost if you do not believe that having money is a good thing.
You need the self-confidence and focus to follow your dream and this will be fatally undercut if you have the wrong philosophy of life and money. No amount of effort on your part will overcome a faulty philosophy. If, deep down, you believe that wealth is a sin or that money is dirty, or wicked then the first step is for you to correct this error or give up all hopes of wealth for you and your family. What is a 'wrong' philosophy with regard to making money?
Anything which could be described as altruistic, socialist, collectivist, communist or any one of its thousand manifestations no matter what the label, no matter what the disguise, no matter what the smoke screen.
Without exception, every self-made millionaire I have met was a rugged individualist. Most of them despised government, although many were clever enough not to say so in public. And believe me, there were approximately zero socialists amongst them.
A socialist, whatever he calls himself, is someone who believes that brute force should be used to loot from the productive, in order to provide handouts for the unproductive. No matter how you disguise it, or make it look fancy, that's the plain truth of the socialist doctrine.
I believe that it is impossible for you to attempt to get rich if you have some nagging doubt that money is the root of all evil, that Capitalism is bad or that wealth should be divided up amongst the needy. You have surrendered the philosophical high ground if you sign up for any of these positions.
Let me apologize in advance if you find this a little heavy. It is my sincere wish that you read this article and stay with me. Later articles are far easier. The teachings I produce in order to help people have a better life aren't merely plucked from the air, randomly. My views are based on a solid, 'from the ground up' philosophy of life - a thing which few people have in our compromise age of mixed economies.
It is a powerful thing to have a coherent philosophy of life. Without this, you react to life's events with a series of random, mood of the moment responses which are often contradictory and self-defeating. You pick emotions and opinions from an array of ill-considered viewpoints and hand-me-down beliefs.In contrast, a coherent philosophy empowers you. The correct thing to do in all situations becomes obvious - it is merely a question of being strong enough to do it, which is not always so easy!
No thief, no con-man, no criminal will ever come close to stealing the amount of wealth taken from you by force due to bad philosophy. I am, of course, talking about state theft of your life efforts. If you do not believe such theft is wrong, your wealth-generating efforts are doomed.
Why Some People Have All The Luck
Why Some People Have All The Luck
By Professor Richard Wiseman, University of Hertfordshire
Why do some people get all the luck while others never get the breaks they deserve?
A psychologist says he has discovered the answer.
Ten years ago, I set out to examine luck. I wanted to know why some people are always in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experience ill fortune. I placed advertisements in national newspapers asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me.
Hundreds of extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research and over the years, I have interviewed them, monitored their lives and had them take part in experiments.
The results reveal that although these people have almost no insight into the causes of their luck, their thoughts and behaviour are responsible for much of their good and bad fortune. Take the case of seemingly chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not.
I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this was due to differences in their ability to spot such opportunities. I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside. I had secretly placed a large message halfway through the newspaper saying: "Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win $50."
This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more than two inches high. It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it.
Unlucky people are generally more tense than lucky people, and this anxiety disrupts their ability to notice the unexpected.
As a result, they miss opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and miss other types of jobs.
Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for. My research eventually revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.
Towards the end of the work, I wondered whether these principles could be used to create good luck. I asked a group of volunteers to spend a month carrying out exercises designed to help them think and behave like a lucky person.
Dramatic results! These exercises helped them spot chance opportunities, listen to their intuition, expect to be lucky, and be more resilient to bad luck.
One month later, the volunteers returned and described what had happened. The results were dramatic: 80% of people were now happier, more satisfied with their lives and, perhaps most important of all, luckier.
The lucky people had become even luckier and the unlucky had become lucky.
Finally, I had found the elusive "luck factor".
Here are Professor Wiseman's four top tips for becoming lucky:
1) Listen to your gut instincts - they are normally right
2) Be open to new experiences and breaking your normal routine
3) Spend a few moments each day remembering things that went well
4) Visualize yourself being lucky before an important meeting or telephone call.
By Professor Richard Wiseman, University of Hertfordshire
Why do some people get all the luck while others never get the breaks they deserve?
A psychologist says he has discovered the answer.
Ten years ago, I set out to examine luck. I wanted to know why some people are always in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experience ill fortune. I placed advertisements in national newspapers asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me.
Hundreds of extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research and over the years, I have interviewed them, monitored their lives and had them take part in experiments.
The results reveal that although these people have almost no insight into the causes of their luck, their thoughts and behaviour are responsible for much of their good and bad fortune. Take the case of seemingly chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not.
I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this was due to differences in their ability to spot such opportunities. I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside. I had secretly placed a large message halfway through the newspaper saying: "Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win $50."
This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more than two inches high. It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it.
Unlucky people are generally more tense than lucky people, and this anxiety disrupts their ability to notice the unexpected.
As a result, they miss opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and miss other types of jobs.
Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for. My research eventually revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.
Towards the end of the work, I wondered whether these principles could be used to create good luck. I asked a group of volunteers to spend a month carrying out exercises designed to help them think and behave like a lucky person.
Dramatic results! These exercises helped them spot chance opportunities, listen to their intuition, expect to be lucky, and be more resilient to bad luck.
One month later, the volunteers returned and described what had happened. The results were dramatic: 80% of people were now happier, more satisfied with their lives and, perhaps most important of all, luckier.
The lucky people had become even luckier and the unlucky had become lucky.
Finally, I had found the elusive "luck factor".
Here are Professor Wiseman's four top tips for becoming lucky:
1) Listen to your gut instincts - they are normally right
2) Be open to new experiences and breaking your normal routine
3) Spend a few moments each day remembering things that went well
4) Visualize yourself being lucky before an important meeting or telephone call.
Australians Developing High Tech Holden Cop Car
Australian police are prepared to roll out a futuristic new weapon in the fight against crime, a Holden VE Commodore that might make James Bond feel spoiled for choice.A product of the collaboration between the Australian National Safety Agency, Holden, and Motorola, this concept law enforcement vehicle incorporates multiple advanced technologies. While the project was initially developed to address problems with heat and power management, the team realized that the use of a powerful all-in-one computer could fix those issues while providing other advantages.
(Click through the jump to read more about the trick Aussie cop car.)
The Holden unit contains voice recognition software that let officers keep their hands in place on the wheel, as well as cameras that can bean the action in real-time to communications centers. There’s also an automatic license plate recognition camera proficient enough to scan 5000 to 8000 cars in a 10-hour period.
Another super-cool, high tech feature is a firing mechanism that can launch a GPS enabled dart into a fleeing vehicle, allowing authorities to pursue an offender while avoiding dangerous high-speed pursuits.
http://news.windingroad.com/aftermarket/australians-developing-high-tech-holden-cop-car/
How and When To Make Humour at Work!
A good laugh will do wonders for you as smiling and laughing lowers your stress levels, wins you a friendly reputation, and helps your usually tense co-workers and bosses to relax.
Humour on the job will do a lot for your career, but there are a number of things you need to know about laughter and humour in the place of work.
Feeling good and having humour in our lives can do wonders for our position and productivity, which means that there is definitely a place for some humour on the job. Having a smiling face will help your co-workers and supervisors feel better being around you, and you may well end up reaping rewards by laughing more in the workplace. But you need to know how to apply humour in your work environment.
Laughing has been proven to be a huge stress reliever, letting you feel better and becoming more productive. To be able to loosen up and have some fun is great, so why not take that approach to work each day and lighten up around the work place? Smiling can make your job easier, more than ever if you work in customer service or sales. But there's certainly a right and incorrect way to use humour in the workplace.
One of the main rules with humour in the workplace is to avoid controversy when you are joking on the job. Stay well away from joking about political affairs, race and religion.
Sex is another unsafe topic because of sexual harassment in the workplace. Make sure that you stay well within the lines of decency.
Never make fun at other people within your organization, as you are trying to win friends with the people you work with, and not set against them. If you can't help yourself, please be extremely careful.
Poking fun at the work you do or the industry you work in is a good way to earn some smiles from your co-workers and supervisors. While these types of workplace jokes may not be so funny at home or with friends, as they really don't appreciate the pressures of your employment, the people who are around you in your job will definitely appreciate the humour about their frustrations and will be able to laugh over the situations instead of complaining.
Making jokes about the ups and downs of your trade is a safe way to add wit to the place of work. You will have the benefit of knowing precisely what your co-workers have to face each and every day, and it's much better as it helps to let go of tensions and lower stress levels by getting them to chuckle about the situations they come across frequently.
The very best time for some humour is when you are not working, but still in the region of the people you work with, such as a coffee or lunch break. You can also make an effort to be funny on the job, but when you are working, it's a good idea to use jokes much more thinly than you would normally do.
In general, humour in the workplace is a superb area to flex your creative muscles and give your job a little boost.
Humour in the workplace helps stress levels to drop, and your co-workers will feel better about working with you. Start gradually, and add a few more safe jokes here and there to incite a few smiles. Everyone will feel better because of your efforts.
Humour on the job will do a lot for your career, but there are a number of things you need to know about laughter and humour in the place of work.
Feeling good and having humour in our lives can do wonders for our position and productivity, which means that there is definitely a place for some humour on the job. Having a smiling face will help your co-workers and supervisors feel better being around you, and you may well end up reaping rewards by laughing more in the workplace. But you need to know how to apply humour in your work environment.
Laughing has been proven to be a huge stress reliever, letting you feel better and becoming more productive. To be able to loosen up and have some fun is great, so why not take that approach to work each day and lighten up around the work place? Smiling can make your job easier, more than ever if you work in customer service or sales. But there's certainly a right and incorrect way to use humour in the workplace.
One of the main rules with humour in the workplace is to avoid controversy when you are joking on the job. Stay well away from joking about political affairs, race and religion.
Sex is another unsafe topic because of sexual harassment in the workplace. Make sure that you stay well within the lines of decency.
Never make fun at other people within your organization, as you are trying to win friends with the people you work with, and not set against them. If you can't help yourself, please be extremely careful.
Poking fun at the work you do or the industry you work in is a good way to earn some smiles from your co-workers and supervisors. While these types of workplace jokes may not be so funny at home or with friends, as they really don't appreciate the pressures of your employment, the people who are around you in your job will definitely appreciate the humour about their frustrations and will be able to laugh over the situations instead of complaining.
Making jokes about the ups and downs of your trade is a safe way to add wit to the place of work. You will have the benefit of knowing precisely what your co-workers have to face each and every day, and it's much better as it helps to let go of tensions and lower stress levels by getting them to chuckle about the situations they come across frequently.
The very best time for some humour is when you are not working, but still in the region of the people you work with, such as a coffee or lunch break. You can also make an effort to be funny on the job, but when you are working, it's a good idea to use jokes much more thinly than you would normally do.
In general, humour in the workplace is a superb area to flex your creative muscles and give your job a little boost.
Humour in the workplace helps stress levels to drop, and your co-workers will feel better about working with you. Start gradually, and add a few more safe jokes here and there to incite a few smiles. Everyone will feel better because of your efforts.
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Pregnancy Articles-Bond with Unborn Baby
Do you believe in communication with unborn babies? Some people think that mothers can communicate with their babies after delivery. However, I strongly believe that we can communicate with unborn babies (foetus) when they are in the wombs. I shall share with you about my experience.
3Cs Principles of Communication with unborn babies
1. Conviction
The most important thing is the strong belief in communication with the unborn babies. When you believe strongly in communication, you will try your best to find ways to reach the unborn babies. However, when you are not certain with your belief, you may miss the opportunity to communicate with the foetus.
2. Commitment
Commitment is to put your belief into action. You need to have a desire to communicate and put it into practice. With daily practice, you will be able to communicate with the foetus. Through dialogue, mediation, music, imagination, tapping, sending positive and loving message and so on, we can communicate with the unborn babies. For example, you can get feedback from foetus by asking foetus to kick one time to indicate yes, and two times to indicate no. You need to practice it daily with the foetus until it becomes a language of communication.
3. Care
The pregnant women need to take care of their own emotional and nutritional needs. The more stable emotion of the mother, the more positive energy (love) will be flowed to the unborn baby. It helps to nourish the baby emotionally, mentally and physically. The happy and healthy mother will give birth to a happy and healthy baby.
Personal Experience
I communicated with my older son when he was a 7 months old feotus. A year ago, he told me that it was very dark (no light) inside and he was playing with the water inside my womb. He could listen to the sound, but it was not very clear. Based on the feedback from my older son, I started to believe strongly about prenatal communication. The first pregnancy was very smooth.
On the contrary, my second pregnancy was very complicated. I had �threaten abortion� due to detachment of water bag when I was pregnant with my 7 weeks� old feotus. I had internal bleeding and was hospitalized for treatment and observation. I was very scared and worried. I hoped that my feotus and I would be fine. I was lost and helpless. My mother asked me to try to talk to my feotus and asked his help for recovery. Then, I lied down on bed and listened to music and started to imagine that the blood clots were absorbed by the womb and the feotus could heal himself. Two weeks later, miracle happened. (Show the pictures of scan for comparison). The blood clots disappeared. It showed the healing power of our mind.
However, I had bleeding again during 15 weeks of pregnancy due to low lying of placenta. I was worried about the situation. I read book about the risk of low placenta, it might lead to premature baby. I was even more scared after reading. Later, my doctor advised me to take rest at home. She hoped that my placenta would be at correct positioning by 28 weeks of pregnancy. Therefore, I applied no paid leave for 4 months to rest at home. I used this opportunity to take care of my elder son and develop the bond with my unborn baby. My mother said to me over the international phone call (IDD), �You can speak to the baby and ask him to position himself correctly. I believe it work.� Then, I said to my unborn baby, �I love you and I trust you that you can return back to the normal position�. At 22 weeks, miracle happened again. My baby was back to normal positioning. Thanks for the valuable advice from my mother. I thought everything should be fine.
By 25 weeks, I was diagnosed with gestational diabetic (diabetic during pregnancy). To my surprised, I could not believe it because I did not take sweet things or outside food. It was another blow for me. I was very restless and worried. Doctor said that I might have a higher chance to give birth to a diabetic baby. Therefore, I needed to control my diet closely and monitor the sugar level. Can you imagine 6 times finger pricks per day? I was so scared to do it. I was sad when the blood cannot come out after pricking. At that moment, I was studying the prenatal education from my teacher, May Ng, who gave me support and emotional assurance. May e-mailed to her teacher, Pamela to ask for help. I received the wonderful, loving and assurance message from Pamela. My teachers, mother and husband supported me. I made a decision to take charge of my life and my baby�s life again. I closely monitor my diet and sugar level. I treated the pain as an experience to share with children with diabetic and I can understand them. My teacher told me to mediate and communicate with the foetus. Then, I whispered or use my heart to talk to him, �Baby, you are very strong and healthy and free from diabetic.� (Whisper to baby) I told my baby this loving message everyday while listening to relaxing music. Finally, my baby was free from diabetic. It is a blessing for him. I wanted to express my gratitude to my teacher, May and Pamela.
By 39 weeks, my foetus wanted to come out. I used the TENS (pain releasing machine) and Entonox gas to reduce my labour pain. When it was so painful, I closed my eyes and visualized the image of my baby (Picture of image). It helped me to reduce the pain. When I sensed that the baby was about to come out, I asked the nurse to call doctor. I told my baby, � You shall come out fast with a few push. I am waiting to meet up with you.� Surprisingly, the doctor came and my baby was out with a few push (a few minutes� time). The name of my second son isFong Zhi Heng, it means wisdom and perseverance. With perseverance and determination, my son can meet up with me finally.
I was so pleased that I totally forgot that my placenta was still inside the womb. I bled a lot. Due to breathing a lot of gas, I felt unconscious for a period of time. Suddenly I was back to the birthing room. Then, doctor called me,�Wai Chong, are you O.K.?� I saw the ceiling of the room and told my doctor, � I was back�. Luckily, the doctor helped me to expel the placenta within 45 minutes. If there had been a delay of another 15 minutes, I would have bled to death. Thanks for the doctor to save my life. Life is so precious that I cannot afford to lose. I learn to appreciate and cherish life.
Conclusion
Strongly believe in yourself and trust that you can do it. Be grateful to the people surrounding and supporting us. With conviction, commitment and care with unborn babies, you can communicate and reach out to the unborn babies at the earliest stage. It helps to build up the bond with the baby. The sending of loving and positive message makes a difference to the life of unborn babies.
(From Connecting With your Unborn Baby E-Book by W.C. Mak)
Wise Parenting Website http://tinyurl.com/34kkvf
3Cs Principles of Communication with unborn babies
1. Conviction
The most important thing is the strong belief in communication with the unborn babies. When you believe strongly in communication, you will try your best to find ways to reach the unborn babies. However, when you are not certain with your belief, you may miss the opportunity to communicate with the foetus.
2. Commitment
Commitment is to put your belief into action. You need to have a desire to communicate and put it into practice. With daily practice, you will be able to communicate with the foetus. Through dialogue, mediation, music, imagination, tapping, sending positive and loving message and so on, we can communicate with the unborn babies. For example, you can get feedback from foetus by asking foetus to kick one time to indicate yes, and two times to indicate no. You need to practice it daily with the foetus until it becomes a language of communication.
3. Care
The pregnant women need to take care of their own emotional and nutritional needs. The more stable emotion of the mother, the more positive energy (love) will be flowed to the unborn baby. It helps to nourish the baby emotionally, mentally and physically. The happy and healthy mother will give birth to a happy and healthy baby.
Personal Experience
I communicated with my older son when he was a 7 months old feotus. A year ago, he told me that it was very dark (no light) inside and he was playing with the water inside my womb. He could listen to the sound, but it was not very clear. Based on the feedback from my older son, I started to believe strongly about prenatal communication. The first pregnancy was very smooth.
On the contrary, my second pregnancy was very complicated. I had �threaten abortion� due to detachment of water bag when I was pregnant with my 7 weeks� old feotus. I had internal bleeding and was hospitalized for treatment and observation. I was very scared and worried. I hoped that my feotus and I would be fine. I was lost and helpless. My mother asked me to try to talk to my feotus and asked his help for recovery. Then, I lied down on bed and listened to music and started to imagine that the blood clots were absorbed by the womb and the feotus could heal himself. Two weeks later, miracle happened. (Show the pictures of scan for comparison). The blood clots disappeared. It showed the healing power of our mind.
However, I had bleeding again during 15 weeks of pregnancy due to low lying of placenta. I was worried about the situation. I read book about the risk of low placenta, it might lead to premature baby. I was even more scared after reading. Later, my doctor advised me to take rest at home. She hoped that my placenta would be at correct positioning by 28 weeks of pregnancy. Therefore, I applied no paid leave for 4 months to rest at home. I used this opportunity to take care of my elder son and develop the bond with my unborn baby. My mother said to me over the international phone call (IDD), �You can speak to the baby and ask him to position himself correctly. I believe it work.� Then, I said to my unborn baby, �I love you and I trust you that you can return back to the normal position�. At 22 weeks, miracle happened again. My baby was back to normal positioning. Thanks for the valuable advice from my mother. I thought everything should be fine.
By 25 weeks, I was diagnosed with gestational diabetic (diabetic during pregnancy). To my surprised, I could not believe it because I did not take sweet things or outside food. It was another blow for me. I was very restless and worried. Doctor said that I might have a higher chance to give birth to a diabetic baby. Therefore, I needed to control my diet closely and monitor the sugar level. Can you imagine 6 times finger pricks per day? I was so scared to do it. I was sad when the blood cannot come out after pricking. At that moment, I was studying the prenatal education from my teacher, May Ng, who gave me support and emotional assurance. May e-mailed to her teacher, Pamela to ask for help. I received the wonderful, loving and assurance message from Pamela. My teachers, mother and husband supported me. I made a decision to take charge of my life and my baby�s life again. I closely monitor my diet and sugar level. I treated the pain as an experience to share with children with diabetic and I can understand them. My teacher told me to mediate and communicate with the foetus. Then, I whispered or use my heart to talk to him, �Baby, you are very strong and healthy and free from diabetic.� (Whisper to baby) I told my baby this loving message everyday while listening to relaxing music. Finally, my baby was free from diabetic. It is a blessing for him. I wanted to express my gratitude to my teacher, May and Pamela.
By 39 weeks, my foetus wanted to come out. I used the TENS (pain releasing machine) and Entonox gas to reduce my labour pain. When it was so painful, I closed my eyes and visualized the image of my baby (Picture of image). It helped me to reduce the pain. When I sensed that the baby was about to come out, I asked the nurse to call doctor. I told my baby, � You shall come out fast with a few push. I am waiting to meet up with you.� Surprisingly, the doctor came and my baby was out with a few push (a few minutes� time). The name of my second son isFong Zhi Heng, it means wisdom and perseverance. With perseverance and determination, my son can meet up with me finally.
I was so pleased that I totally forgot that my placenta was still inside the womb. I bled a lot. Due to breathing a lot of gas, I felt unconscious for a period of time. Suddenly I was back to the birthing room. Then, doctor called me,�Wai Chong, are you O.K.?� I saw the ceiling of the room and told my doctor, � I was back�. Luckily, the doctor helped me to expel the placenta within 45 minutes. If there had been a delay of another 15 minutes, I would have bled to death. Thanks for the doctor to save my life. Life is so precious that I cannot afford to lose. I learn to appreciate and cherish life.
Conclusion
Strongly believe in yourself and trust that you can do it. Be grateful to the people surrounding and supporting us. With conviction, commitment and care with unborn babies, you can communicate and reach out to the unborn babies at the earliest stage. It helps to build up the bond with the baby. The sending of loving and positive message makes a difference to the life of unborn babies.
(From Connecting With your Unborn Baby E-Book by W.C. Mak)
Wise Parenting Website http://tinyurl.com/34kkvf
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