ONE COOL FAMILY

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The heart never hardens for one who gardens...
You make everything around you bloom.

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The pear that ripens, perfectly tended, is like a companion long befriended. The seasons come, the seasons go, but every year the warmest glow...

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"It is often said that eyes are the windows the soul. If this is true, then a smile is the doorway."



:) Ciao..

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GOOD NITE..

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that pic of the young girl and the poem were very nice@enigma

Thanks aki.. ya talks about slowing down in life, and enjoying it as it comes along

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Hello and Good Morning Everybody

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Hello and Good Morning Everybody

"Chilly" Up North ... Chilli Here In AP ... And HOT, Too! ... But, Thanks To "Cool" God & Team ... We're ONE COOL FAMILY!

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How often do you ...

* bump into old friends in unlikely places?
* learn a new word, and suddenly you see it everywhere?
* hum an old tune, and then hear it on the radio?

How often do you think about someone - and seconds later they phone you?

Coincidence? Not really.
Your mind is a magnet.

Happy people attract other happy people.
Positive thinkers attract opportunities.
Crooks attract crooks.

Thoughts might be invisible but they are REAL THINGS - just like electricity or gravity. And thought energy obeys natural laws.

If radio waves and TV signals can travel huge distances - through bricks and concrete - why not thoughts?

Your brain is at least as amazing as any TV transmitter.

A thousand books have been written on the power of thought. How many "coincidences" do we need to get the message?

If you sweat enough about going broke, it will happen.
If you worry enough about getting sick, it will happen.

Picture yourself surrounded by true friends - and you'll find them.

Picture success, and work toward it, and you are on your way.

Your life is not a lottery.

YOU ATTRACT WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT.

In a nutshell

What you think about, you become.

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What do you do when you are stuck?

Did you ever ask yourself: "What am I doing in this stupid job?"

Do you ever feel like you are stuck?

If you feel frustrated or unhappy at work, whether you're a
chicken plucker or a brain surgeon - your best strategy is

GIVE IT ALL YOU'VE GOT.

Why?

1. You feel better about yourself
2. You develop your skills
3. You develop a reputation
4. Sometime, someone will notice you and offer you a better position, or
5. You'll one day get the confidence to go do your own thing.

Fred says, "If I had a great job, I would really work hard, but if I've got this lousy job so I just sleep all day!

No, Fred!

When we continually give our best, life naturally leads us toward new opportunities.

Sometimes it takes a while, but it happens.

One more thing. Opportunities, job offers and romance usually come from unexpected situations and unexpected people.

It's life's way of reminding us to keep an open mind!

In a nutshell

Successful people tell themselves, "If I make the most of this opportunity, I'll get a bigger one.

Life rewards effort, not excuses.

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Why should we forgive people?"


At some point most of us learned that it is a good idea to forgive people. We learned that it is "holy" or "spiritual".

But there is a more basic reason to forgive people: when you don't forgive them, it ruins your life!

Let's say:
a) you are my boss and you give me the sack, or
b) you are my girl, and you run off with my buddy.
So I say, "I'll never forgive you for that!"

Who suffers? Not you!

I'm pacing the floor. I've got the knot in my stomach. I'm losing sleep. You are probably out partying!

Where do we get the idea that if WE don't forgive people, THEY suffer? It's nuts!

Recent studies at the Public Health Institute in California confirm that hostility and resentment tear down your immune system and double your risk of heart attack, cancer and even diabetes.

Bitterness makes you sick!

To forgive someone, you don't have to agree with what they did. You just have to want your life to work.

In a nutshell

Is it easy? Usually not. But you don't forgive people for their benefit.

You do it for your benefit.

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A Track Record

I know a fellow who is forever trying to clinch million dollar deals. But his big deals never happen!

Meanwhile his car is falling apart and even his dog is getting thin.

Why? He never learned to clinch hundred dollar deals! He never developed the habit of success.

Most tycoons start washing cars or selling newspapers at about ten years of age.

They develop a "success pattern". They sharpen their skills. Then they aim higher.

You first learn to catch little fish, then big fish. Surgeons practise on tonsils before they do brain surgery!

What's so important about a success pattern? It's what gets you to BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.

When you know in your heart:
1. "I've prepared myself for this,"
2. "I can do it!", and
3. "I deserve it," you are on your way.

When you don't believe in yourself, you are dead in the water.

Also, other people's patterns will tell you more about their future than all of their promises and all of their good intentions.

If some guy wants to:
a) work for you
b) borrow money
c) be your business partner
d) give you brain surgery, look at his track record.

If there's no success pattern, look out!

In a nutshell

Wherever you are headed, start small and make success a habit.

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Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana. He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 FM in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won.

Hi Sue, Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all.

Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job. As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wetsuit. This time of year the water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater.

This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose. Now this sounds like a pretty good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints.

What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wetsuit. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi. Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. Within a few seconds my butt started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened.

The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it. However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate. When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my butt. I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator.

His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically. Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression. When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet. As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tu! be of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut.

So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt.

Now repeat to yourself, I love my job, I love my job, I love my job."

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