Hyrum W. Smith

• You control your life by controlling your time.
• Your behavior is a reflection of what you truly believe.
• Money is only a byproduct of being engaged in a worthy cause.

Hyrum W. Smith founded the Franklin Quest Company in 1981. Smith is author of 10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management (1994) and What Matters Most (2001) as well as other audio tapes. He has also written a few religious books.

ACIM does have re-occuring themes

I will direct you to wherever you can be truly helpful,

and to whoever can follow my guidance through you.

(T4,VII,8.8)


I am here only to be truly helpful.
I am here to represent Him Who sent me.
I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do,
because He Who sent me will direct me.
I am content to be wherever He wishes,
knowing He goes there with me.
I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal.
(T2,V,18.8.2-6)

Jim Rohn quote

"The Bible gives us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. One list of human stories is used as examples - do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings - don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning."

Commitment

Although it's not always easy,

this is part of loving someone

unconditionally

with all your heart and

with all you have to give!

It's a promise that should last a lifetime.

It

describes you as a person

and

describes the essence of your soul.

It's a promise to be there,

one for the other,

no matter what happens,

no matter who falls.

For better or for worse.

For better

or

for worse.

Mahatma Gandhi

"My life is an indivisible whole,
and all my attitudes run into one another;
and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind."

The Financial Crisis of the 1870's : Lessons from history

The Long Depression
The financial crisis of the 1870's has been called The Long Depression. Its effects were still being felt even in the 1890s. The Long Depression was a worldwide economic crisis experienced in the 1870s. Low wages for farmworkers speeded the drift of labour from the land towards the towns.

How Did The Long Depression Start?
The depression began with a building boom in Europe, with rapid building construction taking place in Vienna, Paris and Berlin.
Mortgages were easy to get and large British banks happily made loans to developers. Mortgages were also available from new savings banks designed for the middle-classes. People used half-completed buildings as collateral because credit was so easy to obtain. This created a housing bubble.
The crisis hit when Russia and Central Europe couldn’t compete with American exports of wheat and other crops, including kerosene which undermined the use of rapeseed oil for cooking. Banks no longer wanted to lend so easily. Eventually the stock market in Vienna crashed and the crisis spread to Western Europe.

The Crisis in America
In the United States, the Long Depression began with the Panic of 1873.
Before this the United States had seen an era of unprecedented prosperity. Housing and construction boomed. Shops were full of customers. Prices of commodities reached new levels.

The Panic of 1873 was the start of the Long Depression, a severe nationwide economic depression in the United States that lasted until 1879. It was precipitated by the bankruptcy of the Philadelphia banking firm Jay Cooke & Company on September 18, 1873, following the crash on May 9, 1873 of the Vienna Stock Exchange in Austria (the so-called Gründerkrach or “founders' crash”). It was one of a series of economic crises in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
America became affected when the inter-bank lending rate shot up. The country had seen a boom in railroad construction financed mainly by large banks, such as Jay Cooke & Company.

They had created complicated financial instruments little-understood by investors to finance the railroads. Eventually this became impossible to sustain. Railroad companies went broke and large banks failed. Jay Cooke’s inability to pay its debts led to the stock-market crash of 1873, which is often called the Panic of 1873. The stock market closed for ten days as Wall Street attempted to deal with the problems.

More than 100,000 businesses failed after the Panic of 1873. Railroad construction was curtailed and building and manufacturing declined. Mass unemployment (unemployment reached 14%), demonstrations, and strikes beset the nation. In 1874 thousands of unemployed demonstrated in New York’s Tomkins Square Park. This was the largest demonstration that had ever occurred in New York.

The National Bureau of Economic Research dates the contraction following the panic as lasting from October 1873 to March 1879. At 65 months, it is the longest-lasting contraction identified by the NBER, eclipsing the Great Depression's 43 months of contraction. Following the end of the episode in 1879, the U.S. economy would remain unstable, experiencing recessions for 114 of the 253 months until January 1901.

Read more: http://americanhistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_financial_crisis_of_the_1870s#ixzz0GWNizWPn&B
Sources
http://americanhistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_financial_crisis_of_the_1870s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depression
The Golden Age of Farming came to an abrupt end in 1870. http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/gcselinks/industrialrevolution/agricultural/GreatDepression.pdf

"Man is made or unmade by himself...

In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection; by the abuse and wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of the beast. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and master."
-James Allen As A Man Thinketh

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have."

A new kind of knowledge-based computing

Today's WolframAlpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. You enter your question or calculation, and WolframAlpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer. Based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing... more »

Mind Lamp: 60-Minute Time Lapse by Psyleron

Mind Lamp: 60-Minute Time Lapse from Psyleron on Vimeo.

Possibilities

"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it cannot be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."

--Elbert Hubbard

Norman Vincent Peale

"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things.

When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success."

George Berkeley

"All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth

-- in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world --

have not any substance without a mind."

Leonardo da Vinci

"Obstacles cannot crush me.
Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."

VIRUS ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Be Extremely Careful especially if using internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on.
You may receive an apparently harmless email with a

Power Point presentation

- 'Life is beautiful.'

If you receive it

DO NOT OPEN THE FILE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES ,

and delete it immediately .
If you open this file, a message will appear on your screen saying:
'It is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful.'
Subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC and the person who sent it to you will gain access to your name, e-mail and password.
This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon.

An end to whoopie?

Introduced by Britain's Labour government in 1998, anyone can apply for an ASBO to stop anyone else from doing something that they find irritating, "alarming," or "threatening."

...
Once you have been branded with an ASBO, if you break its conditions—by having noisy sex in your own home, for example—you are potentially guilty of a crime and can be imprisoned.
http://www.reason.com/news/show/133423.html

William Lyon Phelps

"Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness."

Cathleen Fanslowe-Brunjes ...

wrote a delightful book

"USING THE POWER OF HOPE TO COPE WITH THE DYING : The Four Stages of Hope"

Whether you are a Nurse, PersonalSupportWorker, Hospice volunteer or simply have a palliative family member this book will help each and everyone of you.

Her nine strategies helpful to the dying I can personally say are often neglected

1. Visit
2. Ask what they need or want
3. Call if you can't come
4. Send mail
5. Allow for silence
6. Leave something personal
7. Send gifts
8. Reassure them they are not forgotten
9. Keep your promises

But I think I'd add be genuinely sincere.

The chapter "Wisdom of the Dying and the Choice of the Moment" is insightful.

She also has a chapter on the Hand-Heart Connection. TTer's will know about it. Everyone should.

It is their experience, but it's also yours!

What will you take away from it?

How will it help you grow?

Children

"The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to lose time in order to gain it."
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
"Children share with geniuses an open, inquiring, uninhibited quality of mind."
-Chauncey Guy Suits
"The plays of natural lively children are the infancy of art. Children live in a world of imagination and feeling. They invert the most insignificant objectwith any form they please, and see in it whatever they wish to see."
-Adam Gottlob OchleuschlŒger

Brian Tracy

• "Manage by objectives. Tell people exactly what you want them to do and then get out of their way."


• "Continually tell people how good they are and what a great job they are doing."

Help those who need it, not just those who deserve it.

Everyone deserves it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

"Doubt whom you will,

but never doubt yourself."

More Code Names

LeanMeanGeneThePodcastingMachine
SheWhoMustBeObeyed (Okay, so I like Rumpole)

Love

"To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength." ~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"You need to feel love inside yourself before you can offer it to anyone else." ~ Denis Waitley

“Where there is great love there are always miracles.” ~ Willa Cather

"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best." ~ William M. Thackeray

"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age." ~ Jeanne Moreau

"We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love." ~ Mother Teresa

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." ~ Kahlil Gibran

If you love what you do, you will never work another day in your life." ~ Confucius

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Funny (but annoying) Mom phrases!

http://ca.video.yahoo.com/watch/1197846/4274384

Annoying (but very funny) Mom phrases! @ Yahoo! Video

Jim Rohn

"Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing."

"There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting."

"If you talk to your children, you can help them to keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams."

"The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy."

“Family is just another way to learn forgiveness. Live your life with more kindness, with more joy and happiness, and this will help you awaken from the dream.” Ken Wapnick

Denis Waitley

"The confidence you need is belief in your potential. If you see world class potential in yourself, you'll put in the effort. If you don't see the potential, you won't put in the effort and you'll wait for the performance, and the performance always follows the belief in self."

So this week stand tall and SMILE -- it will do wonders for you and give light to those around you!

Confidence is belief in your self and your potetntial which leads to effort.

Warren Buffett

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Deepak Chopra

"You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices."

"Human beings are made of body, mind and spirit. Of these, spirit is primary, for it connects us to the source of everything, the eternal field of consciousness."

http://www.disappearing-car-door.com/

Jatech LLC is a California Limited Liability Corporation formed to promote the Founders proprietary invention, the Retractable Vehicle Door, also know as the Disappearing Car Door and Rotary Drop Door.
This ground breaking, game changing technology has been developed over the last decade incorporating design and engineering input from many major automobile manufacturers (OEM’s) and their Tier One suppliers.
The recent response to the Company website (4 Million worldwide visitors) has emphasized the opportunity for sales of the Retractable Door Technology on a worldwide basis with broad vehicle applications.

Samuel Smiles

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.

Ken Wapnick on YouTube: Swine Flu_Practical Application of "A Course in Miracles"

Swine Flu_Practical Application of "A Course in Miracles"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRgMms93ObY&feature=channel_page


Also new there:
Guilt_Themes from "A Course in Miracles"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z7u0lweoWs&feature=channel_page

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby

It occurred to me yesterday that Quimby was essentially a Medical Intuitive and then some.

Most of the material I've read was pre-ACIM so it's presented those terms. From an ACIM perspective Quimby separated "J" the body and the "Christ Mind" ("J" as the human and Christ as the wisdom). He saw man as being made up of TRUTH and BELIEF. Where BELIEF lies below the level of Thought. He also recognized the importance of being in harmony with the self.

He was ahead of his time in discovering that minds were joined. During his experiments with hypnosis he progressed to the stage where all his commands were given mentally. He saw the mind as a spiritual matter always changing in a continuous state of flux, affected by other minds.

He realized he had, and learned to utilize, his spiritual senses of sight, smell, taste and touch. They say he learned to identify different ailments by their smell.

In a broad sense of the term you could say he was a NLP practitioner, using the language of his time (biblical) to relate to his patients. He recognized the rapport necessary between operator(Doctor, Dentist) and patient.

One interesting aspect of his method of treatment was that in the end he would explain to the patient what was wrong, where they had pain or discomfort, and the underlying thought patterns that had invoked it. If he was wrong in his diagnosis the session abruptly ended and charged nothing as he felt he had failed to connect.

I liked that idea. The ramifications of a psychic or medical intuitive reading are astounding.

 

If...

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

Rudyard Kipling

The content of A Course in Miracles has always existed in various forms.

Zeitgeist Addendum

13 Videos http://www.youtube.com/user/Chrisky81
or 2hr version http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912


Zeitgeist Addendum! Fantastic material, not only illuminating, but the Addendum gives suggested solutions to the seemingly insolvable problems this world is facing.
- The first section is the Introduction.
- The second and third sections address MONEY, what it is and how it has been used as a tool to control.
- The fourth, fifth and sixth sections introduce the concept of the ECONOMIC HITMAN, a term some of us may be familiar with. Hold onto your hats when you listen to this story!
- The seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth sections deal with the proposed CAUSES of the world's problems.
- The eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth sections begin to propose SOLUTIONS to our dilemma.
The film, Zeitgeist: Addendum, attempts to locate the root causes of this pervasive social corruption, while offering a solution. This solution is not based not on politics, morality, laws, or any other "establishment" notions of human affairs, but rather on a modern, non-superstitous based understanding of what we are and how we align with nature, to which we are a part. The work advocates a new social system which is updated to present day knowledge, highly influenced by the life long work of Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project."
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/statement.htm

Watch for
Iran 1953
Panama 1981
Iraq (they tried twice)
South America
World Bank and the IMF



and Jerome Daly
def'n of consideration

• a contract's basis
• a contract is founded on an exchange of one form of consideration for another

Are mortgae contract's and credit card charges lawful considerations? or illegal
The Strange Case of Jerome Daly’s Mortgage (1968)
Is it Possible All Mortgage Contracts Are Void and Foreclosures are Invalid?
Jerome Daly, The Federal Reserve, & The Credit River Decision
#7 Jerome Daly 1969


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Time to eat all your words
Swallow your pride
Open your eyes

High time we made a stand and shook up the views of the common man
An end to need
And the Politics of Greed

Power of our Joined Minds

Again, I say to you that if two of you are in agreement on earth about anything for which they will make a request, it will be done for them by my Father in Heaven.
Matthew 18:19

ACIM explains to us why this is the case.

It is the Power of our Joined Minds and the access to God it brings about.

Tea for 2.

The French gentkeman said to his wife "Pass the sugar, sugar".
The British gentleman said to his wife "Pass the honey, honey".
The Canadian gentlman said to his wife "Pass the tea, bag".

Oh, us Canadians.