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5 Tips To boost Your Motivation

Jun 16

Posted by Claude in Social

Motivation is the driving force behind life-enhancing change. It comes from recognizing exactly what you want to do and having an unsatisfiable, desire to do what’s necessary to get it. It keeps your dream on track because it is the power of motivation that keeps you going when the things gets tough.

Here’s 5 top hints to help you supercharge your motivation:

1. Create a picture board and fill it with pictures of your goals. The car you would like to own, the home you want to live in, the area where you want to live yes, they’re the obvious ones. Others could be images of  holiday destinations, prizes, first-class travel tickets, clothes you wish to buy, elegant restaurants you want to patronize, anything you can think of that makes your pulse race.

2. GET MAD. If you would like to change your life for the better then get raging mad about where you are at now. Having a bored attitude towards change isn’t what’s called for and it won’t produce a strong desire within you.

So ask: “Why do I want to change?” Is it because you are FED UP with debts? Is your work DRIVING YOU CRAZY? Is your life BORING AND PREDICTABLE? Are you DISGUSTED AND TIRED of doing the same thing week in week out? Are you BORED BEYOND BELIEF by the dull, uninspiring, discontented people you associate with?

THEN GET ANGRY ABOUT IT. And I mean REAL ANGRY. Write it all down,  the whole  frustrating, unrewarding, miserable lot of it that brands every day of your  life a dull slog until your final days. IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT?

3. Talking of your last days, begin to appreciate the value of time. Time is among the most treasured resources you have and it’s also an nonrenewable resource. You are able to either use it fully or waste it. If you want to create change you’re going to have to put in a lot of time to make it happen.

Begin to reduce the time you waste on irrelevancies like: Television, newspapers, weekends spent shopping, partying, dining out, visiting an endless line of relatives and friends,  these won’t serve you get what you desire and all of them will steal time from you. Precious time that you can use so much more effectively by investing it in YOU.

Remember this: You have a limited amount of time here on Earth. You don’t know how much time you’ve got, no one does. Simply it’s how you use the time you have that matters. So make your time count and that means beginning right NOW.

4. Conformity. Are you a senseless little sheep who is way too shy to do things your own way? Do you have to follow where everyone else goes, behaving exactly like everyone else does and consequently, who obtains the equivalent levels of happiness as all the other little sheep?

Seriously, does this describe YOU? Are you too scared to be different than all of the other sheep because they wouldn’t appreciate it if you chose to pursue a different route? So you dutifully trot along following all the other sheep because if they’re doing it then that’s the right way?

Only if you do what everybody else does you’ll  get what everybody else gets. Do you want to be a foolish, shy little sheep who blindly conforms to all the other sheep? Or do you prefer to be a leader, a warrior who has the courage to be uniquely you and do what you want to do and realize your dreams?

If so then this implies you have to be more like a TIGER than a sheep. Do you really want to be a sheep? I mean, haven’t we got plenty sheep already?

5. Fear your fear. Fear is the power that is dictated to block you in your tracks and rob you of your dreams . But it can only do its job if you let it. Are you going to allow this brutal destructive charlatan trample on your dreams, steal your happiness and beat out your spirit? Suppose this thought haunting your last days: “I didn’t do the things I wanted because I was too scared to live my life”. And by then, it’ll be far too late to suppress fear. Refuse to let fear waste your life and begin taking action – now!

The world is desperatly looking for your singular gifts. Why keep it waiting any longer?

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“Secrets of a Positive Attitude”

Jun 12

Posted by Claude in Social, Uncategorized

Are you perpetually bombarded by thoughts of negativity? Troubled by feelings of insecurity? Do you consider everything in a negative way? The reason for this dwells deep inside your heart.

Are you perpetually bombarded by thoughts of negativity? Troubled by feelings of insecurity? Do you consider everything in a negative way? The reason for this dwells deep in you. You’re what you mentally and spiritually eat.

If a individual drinks day in and day out, odds are his body will be affected in some way. He might experience liver problems, develop cancer or experience some other type of ill health directly related to the quantity of alcohol he has downed.

In the same way, someone who constantly feeds themselves negative thoughts will just become a negative individual.

This is the time to go on a diet. A diet of positive attitude food. You’ve to virtually cease feeding your mind destructive thoughts. Ask yourself is this thought negative or positive or negative?

What do harmful thoughts look like? All right, they begin with can’t instead of can, no as opposed to  yes, will and not won’t. The Good Book (Bible) which is the most outstanding self help book ever published, talks all but taking every thought captive.

The problem in our society has become that what our thinkings have taken us captive. We have started to allow our thoughts to control us.

A great way to recognise what we’re negative about is to question those folks who are closest to us. You can ask your spouse or some other individual in your life who really knows you, how they’d rate your attitude on a scale of 1 to 10. 10 being extremely positive and 1 extremely negative.

Ask this person to be totally honest with you. You’ll benefit from their honesty even if it  hurts. Ask  them what it is that you specifically say that they comprehend as negative.

Write down what they say and consider the actual words. Now is the time to be truthful with yourself.

Those words are a manifestation of what is in you. They are who you are. The swell thing is that you are able to change. It’s as simple as deciding to do so. You must choose to replace the sentiments of negativity with sentiments of positivity. Determine what words you’ll change the negative words on your paper to. Once you’ve done this, attempt to introduce these new positive thoughts in your mind.

You will start to detect a positive shift happening in your life. Your family, friends and colleagues will all notice it also. They might not know what is different about you. But they’ll know that you are not the same person that you were.

The items which are causing negativity in your life could very easily be the news, films, constantly playing back tragedy in your mind and the list could go on. These things should be ruled out if you want your new mental health regime to be a winner.

The news is really damaging and it doesn’t serve someone who’s trying to rid their mind of such thoughts. When you’re feeding yourself thoughts of death from a war or gunshot or car accident visually the consequence will be negative.

I do think there’s a time to grieve over the death of a loved one. Still, if a person constantly plays back this negative event in their heads it could lead to depression. The person who’s deceased is not coming back and we must end that chapter in our lives and move on to the following chapter. This is a difficult task which can only be done by arriving at a decision to continue with our own life, never mind how hard this may be.

You can do it. You can and will have a positive mental attitude, if you just take the steps explained above. You don’t have to live what you were in the past. You’ll be able to be different in the future. The choice is yours. I know you’ll make a positive one.

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Three Things You can do to Do to Help Yourself Be Successful In Life

Jun 11

Posted by Claude in Social

“Do you define success as having a lot of money? Or do you think success is living your life the way you want too?…..”

Do you define success as having a lot of money? Or do you define success as being able to live your life the way you want too? Either way, they’re both good things to reach for. We all know not everybody can be successful because there are checks and balances for achievers and nonstarters.

I really feel most folks prefer to be on the winning side. Nevertheless, we always bump into people that remain in the same situation in life. Do you feel you’re among those people?

Manifestly if you’re an individual looking and attempting to improve your life you prefer to be on the winning side.

Being successful could imply a lot of things. My definition of being successful is carrying through what you intend to do. For instance, I always intended to have a family and I now have a beautiful family. I consider myself very successful.

Success doesn’t imply to look better than the folks close to you. I believe it comes from within and how you think of yourself and your life.

Success is something that you don’t have to demonstrate on a day-to-day basis. Success is how you live your life.

Here are three tips on being successful:

Create a Vision of Yourself… Having a vision is the first and most vital step of any successful project. Create a vision of what you want to accomplish.

Write down how you wish to see yourself one year from now. Imagine what your life will be like. Having a vision will help you concentrate on what you want to achieve.

Adopt Good Habits and get rid of the bad Habits… Always read and learn about the world around you. Think an opportunity through and don’t be impulsive when an opportunity presents itself.

Eat healthy and exercise. After all everything you do beginnings from within. Be in good health and don’t take your wellness for granted. Add physical fitness to your life. Learn to deal with distractions because there will be piles of distractions to deal with. Don’t use distractions as an alibi to fail.

Enjoy the ride… Savour your road to success. The course will be filled with adversity. Maintain your sense of humor because you could go through very tough challenges along the way. Be accountable, try and control your time by being as efficient as possible.

Remember success isn’t free and it does require sacrifice. The price you pay is time and hard work. Success is difficult but gratifying (even during the pursuit for success). To reach your objective you must work hard, be patient, develop yourself and perhaps have a bit of luck on your side.

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Guide to Buying a Computer

Dec 11

Posted by Claude in Uncategorized

What do you have to know when shopping for a computer?

The first question to ask yourself is: what will I use it for? From the answer depends a lot of stuff! If you want to mostly stock pictures, (photos) for example, go for a large screen, a lot of memory. For games, chose a high performing graphic card and small speakers to immerse yourself in the games. To read or write emails and navigate on the web, or again for word processing or some accounting, a base model with sufficient RAM memory will do. Today these models cost as little as 500$ but at this price its a low quality machine.

The numbers

Now let’s talk about the numbers. The most important ones to remember are the following: The RAM memory of the computer, that will allow it to do multiple tasks at the same time. I don’t see why you should buy anything less than 1G (gigabyte) of memory, the price of memory these days is relatively cheap. Double it if you’re to use your computer to play video games.

Now for the storage capacity of the hard disk. Its recommended to go for 250 Go (gigabyte). You can always work with less, especially if you don’t have the intention of saving (backup) many documents or photos. But if you have the tendency to collect and file stuff and use large programs you need more than 200 Go (gigabytes).

Today most computers run with two processors (the motor of the machine) Its become necessary because more and more people listen to video on their computers. The minimum speed of each of these processors is more or less 2 MHz ( megahertz). The higher the number the faster the speed of the processor, the faster  the computer will react. If the new McIntosh have two processors, its not always the case with the PC.

Table Top or Portable?

An other important question : Do I need a portable or Table top computer? Ten years ago portable computer were reputed to be slower than Table tops. Today , they do the same thing. But they are more  fragile and expensive to repair, and more susceptible to break since we carry them around.

If for example, you want to show photos to your family without having to print them, you can move around with your portable from place to place. If you travel and you like the idea of communicating with your friends and family by email or connect to the Internet from your hotel room, a portable is a good choice. Today, most hotel rooms have wireless Internet connections.

But if you spend many hours at your computer, for whatever reason, you must think of ergonomics. Portables are reputed to give back aches because you have to bend your neck to see the screen. The keyboard of the Table Top computer is wider and more comfortable to use, The display adjusted at eye level and the mouse close at hand are assets for good posture.

Concerning the mouse, chose an optical model, for the same price as the out of date traditional mouse. All computers come with a CD and DVD  reader/burner. This is an indispensable tool to keep security copies of all your important documents.

Protect your documents

Remember that the hard drive of your computer is the worst place to keep your documents because it can be damaged at any moment, and you risk loosing everything. After four or five years of good service a hard drive will give signs of weakness. That’s why if you produce a lot of documents (photos, text, drawings plans accounting reports) , seriously think of buying an external hard drive, 250 Go for a Table top and 100 Go for a portable.

You can save on this external drive, additional copies of all your important documents. And for additional security transfer your important documents ounce in a while on a CD or DVD. Tedious, certainly, but necessary to protect yourself from losing everything on an unlucky day. It’s recommended to do an integral copy of your computer’s hard drive. If ever it crashes, your copy on the external drive will resurrect it nothing less.

Mac or PC?

This is quite a debate. The McIntosh company is reputed to build good equipment that operate with there in-house operating system, Mac OSX. (Mac control their operating software and computer).This is a token of quality. As for other computers the PCs they are machines of more or less quality assembled with parts of many origins, and they have in common Windows as the operating system. It doesn’t mean you wont find very good PCs built by reputed manufacturers. What I mean, if you are an artistic user (photographer, graphic designer, etc) You would as a rule be better served with a Mac. Thought you could also easily get by  with a PC also. Its a question of personal choice …. and budget. A McIntosh is generally more expensive than a PC. But Macs have a better longevity and a better resistance. But when the time comes to have them repaired, there are fewer repair shops.

Other equipment

Computer screens are bigger and less expensive today. For a table top get a 20 inch screen they are more comfortable when visualizing two documents side by side. For the portable, get a 15 inch screen. But if its for traveling light, a 12 or 13 inch screen would be OK. If you what to print photos or other documents chose a a popular combo printer/scanner.

Short Life

Legend is that once you leave the store with your computer it’s out of date. Its true that it’s life span is not always as long as you’d wish. The fault is not as much the computers, although some are of bad quality, than the spectacular development of software that demand more and more memory on our computers.

I hope this article will benefit you and help you make a good choice there are so many types and brand of computers on the market today . Best of luck in your quest for a new computer.

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Are you Active or Sedentary

Dec 5

Posted by Claude in Uncategorized

You aspire to become more active?

Today very few people are not aware that being physically active is good, its good for your mental and physical health. On the physical side doing regular physical activities, will in effect bring an important reduction in the risque of developing cardiovascular problems, certain cancers, diabetes type 2, hypertension, osteoporosis, and sometimes it even slows down the aging process.

On the psychological side, benefits are also important it will have an impact on your: mood, your concentration you’ll sleep better, it will reduce mental fatigue, anxiety, and your stress level. Are you taking advantage of these benefits? In other words are you a physically active or sedentary person.

Are your sedentary.

First let’s determine what being sedentary is. A person is considered sedentary when, day after day his or her activities are reduced to a minimum and the energy spent is close to rest, for example the regular daily activities are limited to watching TV, reading, working on a computer, driving a car or from time to time doing the groceries or going to the bank. Is this your situation? If you answered yes and you want to change read on.

Understand that the quantity of exercises needed to leave this sedentary life is not to do a marathon, far very far from it. All you need to do is enter the aerobic zone, even if go in on the tip of your toes… this zone includes all aerobic exercises, that will facilitate oxygen to flow freely in your active muscles. For this to happen the exercise must be demanding for the large inferior muscles (thighs, legs, buttocks) for a certain amount of time.

The key here is to exercise moderately. Moderate aerobic exercise increase your breathing, your pulse, and your body temperature, but you are still able to hold a conversation while working out. Its certainly not an exercise that will completely put you out of breath. A quick walk, swimming, social dancing, cycling, roller skating, are examples of good aerobic activities.

Its understood that when your exercising if your breathing gets heavy, your hearth beats faster your effort goes from moderate to high intensity, it may be your walking up a stiff hill, or involved in a hot tennis game. Be careful, try to keep it moderate. However, if you wish to grow the intensity of your training to this level, do it when your in good physical shape and with the approval of your doctor.

Getting in the aerobic zone

Here is a simple way to enter the zone. First avoid staying inactive for long periods of time, like watching TV for hours. Get up ounce in a while move around before getting back to the couch. Use the stairs when going up a few levels. When walking on the street or in a shopping center, walk faster up to 100 steps a minute. Walk at this speed for five(5) minutes in the beginning, than for ten(10) minutes and than fifteen(15). Do some of these activities for the next few weeks, and you will find that going from sedentary to being physically active is not so hard after all.

Eventually go for 30 minutes of fast walking per day or around 200 minutes a week. Its the minimum recommended by most health organizations. Its also understood that you can replace walking by any moderate aerobic exercise. You could also reach the 200 minutes in many different ways such as:

  • 30 full minutes a day or 2 blocks of 15 minutes per day
  • 5 times 40 minutes per week or 2 blocs of 20 minutes per day per week
  • 4 times 50 minutes per week or 2 blocs of 25 minute a day 4 times

Finally if you are a very active person and everything is going well, what is there to say but keep up the good work.

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Every Morning is a Difficult Start?

Dec 2

Posted by Claude in health

Morning stiffness!

Getting out of bed is difficult, muscles hurt you’re sore all over, you’re articulations don’t obey as they should anymore.

Certain articulations are stiff or hurt in the morning as you get up? If you’ve been exercising or done some type sport the day before, its normal…. your hard muscles are recuperating as soon as you move around everything will get back to normal.

But if on the contrary, morning after morning an articulation is stiff and hurts, and your movements are limited, its a sign of something else, you must take this painful situation seriously and get medical advice.

It could probably be one of many forms of arthritis. Persisting morning stiffness and pain are the first signs. It could be osteoarthritis, a consequence of aging that deteriorates the cartilage, or one of many forms of arthritis

In general most of us wait years before getting medical advice on this subject. We bear with the pain, and let inflammation slowly destroy our articulations. In time, movements become difficult and painful; in certain cases articulations become deformed, out of shape. In dealing rapidly with with the pain, you slow down the inflammation, and prevent  the problem to get worst. The more you wait, the more it becomes difficult to deal with.

What about medication?

Today there are many medications, that will effectively treat inflammation. The anti-inflammatory non steroids classics like (the AINS, such as  MOTTRIN, ASPIRIN, TYLENOL and such) are effective for a lot of people. Traditional medication will make you feel better and relieve you of the pain and prevent the articulation to deteriorate, but they are not effective in the more severe cases. Most medication against arthritis, even if they relieve the pain, they often have more or less important side effects. You should have an honest talk with your doctor to find the convenient medication for you

And if you Exercise?

Arthritis and osteoarthritis have a powerful and dreadful enemy; Exercise. If this sickness, by nature tends to to limit certain movements, exercise on the contrary contributes to maintain or better movements. To limit your exercise because of stiffness or pain is the worst thing to do. When you don’t exercise you have a tendency to gain weight that will accentuate stress on your articulations. And in limiting a little at a time your movements, you end up weakening your muscles and loosing muscular mass. Most of us stop exercising on the pretext that the pain will get worst, when its exactly the opposite that happens.

This said,  its important to chose the right exercises and to do them the right way!

But first with the help of your doctor you want to relieve the pain.Than you can easily begin!

Most of the exercise can be easily be done at home.

Circular exercises will relieve stiffness and maintain the movement of the articulation involved. For example if you have difficulty with the shoulder, do wide circular movements with your arm , to maintain the whole movement. The same scenario  go’s for any affected articulation; its a question of going through the full movement of the concerned articulation.

To grow or maintain the strength of your muscles strengthening exercises are indicated:and they can be done on special exercise equipment or weight lifting.

For endurance, physical exercises such as: cycling, walking, swimming, jogging, cross country skiing, and skating for example are excellent for developing your endurance. Doing such exercises for a certain length of time without being out of breath or getting to tired will greatly contribute to grow the capacity of your cardiovascular and respiratory system.

The beauty of the story:

Combining medication and exercise can in time, cause to reduce your medication, limit the need or even suppress the usage of medicine. In certain cases exercise alone will suffice to control inflammation

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Is Thanksgiving all American?

Nov 27

Posted by Claude in Uncategorized

The Pilgrims’ contribution to American freedom

One of the first private organizations to undertake “Americanizing” new immigrants was the Daughters of the American Revolution. As early as 1910, the group published a guide for new citizens. The 1913 revision included what they felt the immigrant “needs to know,” including history and civics.2 The Pilgrims’ contribution to American freedom was one of the many aspects of American history the DAR felt that immigrants should learn. While the DAR Manual for Citizenship didn’t specifically mention Thanksgiving, it set the stage for later efforts in education.

America was changing

By the late 1800s, America was changing, and the image of the Pilgrims and Thanksgiving became useful history. Starting in the 1880s, immigration increased dramatically. The new immigrants came from Eastern and Southern Europe, with different languages, religions and customs than the old-stock Yankees. Combined with other dramatic changes like growing industry and movement to cities, the large numbers of immigrants began to pose a threat to many Americans’ way of life. How could these newcomers be taught how to become good Americans? As in any time of crisis, people looked to the past for answers. By the early 20th century, the Pilgrims and Thanksgiving became a tool to teach immigrants and schoolchildren about America.

While the Thanksgiving Day celebration is a secular event, those with a religious mind have their own Thanksgiving traditions that they partake of in their churches. With the old European harvest festivals in mind, most churches are decorated with the traditional cornucopias, wheat sheaves, pumpkins, gourds and corn ears. There are particular scriptural texts and hymns that are emphasized at this time of the year to celebrate the harvest and their gratefulness to their God for providing for them.

Prior to the mid-1800s

Thanksgiving had nothing to do with the 1621 harvest celebration, Pilgrims or Native People. Thanksgiving started as a traditional New England holiday that celebrated family and community. It descended from Puritan days of fasting and festive rejoicing. The governor of each colony or state declared a day of thanksgiving each autumn, to give thanks for general blessings. As New Englanders moved west in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, they took their holiday with them. After the harvest, governors across the country proclaimed individual Thanksgivings, and families traveled back to their original homes for family reunions, church services and large meals.

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The Highs and Lows of Xmas

Nov 25

Posted by Claude in Uncategorized

Aren’t the Xmas holidays tiresome? Sometimes caught between decorating the Xmas Tree, menus to prepare and gifts to buy, its like racing against the clock. Are you in the race?

In fact, their are two groups. Either you are part of the minority those who shop early, without stress, without the pushing and shoving. Or like me, you’re part of the majority that near midnight are still hesitating between a pajama or a drill set for your father in law.

Don’t you find it frustrating to know that your best friend has completed his gift list when you haven’t even written yours yet. When you don’t know where to find the gift your son saw on TV, or the one your daughter asked for to Santa Claus is out of stock everywhere and I mean everywhere! When you never know what to buy for Grandma who repeats to whoever whats to hear “At my age, I already have everything, I don’t need anything!” there’s nothing you can do but you still insist on finding something for her.

Why spend all this time and energy ? Come on you know why! Because you like to please those you love. And fill their Xmas stocking. Because Grandma, even if she doesn’t need anything, adores the surprises and can’t resist to lightly shake her gift before opening it, to try and guess what’s in it. Because your father this calm and reserved man, touches you when you see tears in his eyes as he looks at his grand children who are all exited and joyous. Because all the smiles on the faces you love largely reward your strenuous shopping spree

In spite of this crazy atmosphere, Xmas is never the less an euphoric time, with a unique and marvelous excitement. So marvelous that the adult that I have become still remains convinced, that I saw from my window, a gold and red sleight, fly across the sky on a cold star lit night. This image is still clear in my mind. Yet, I was only three years old.

Today my conclusion is, thanks to efforts maintained by our parents, Xmas is a celebration full of magic that makes an impression on the minds of our kids and stimulates their imaginary. It’s also an occasion for you to re-discover the child in you…. To believe again that Santa exists.

TO YOU

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Cruise Holiday Tips for Smooth Sailing

Nov 24

Posted by Claude in Travel

Is anything more luxurious than taking a cruise holiday?

Traveling to exotic locations on a luxury ship, taking in the sun, and breathing the salty breezes can renew and replenish anyone, no matter how long you’ve been retired and from the cares of work. However, a cruise requires planning in order to be the best it can be. Check out these tips and have a cruise experience you will remember.

So where do you start when planning a cruise holiday?  First, what is your budget like? Do you need to minimize expenses?

Here are a few tips for saving on your cruise holiday.

When scheduling your cruise holiday, you should be aware that there are off season and on season dates, and to get the best deal you want to schedule your trip in the off season . What you may not know, however, is that cruise lines actually change their prices a number of times throughout the year. Ask and find out when their absolute lowest season prices are.

Make sure, to keep your cruising plans somewhat flexible and yourself the option to change ship at the last minute. Sometimes ships are not filled to capacity, and the cruise line will sell the last few tickets for these cruises at a real bargain price. It’s always to their advantage to sail with a ship filled to capacity. Knowing this could make you save a bundle on your cruise.

Where you cruise to makes a difference

Where you cruise to on your holiday can make a big difference in your cost as well. Pick a popular spot, you will certainly travel cheaper than if you choose a less popular spot. If you don’t care about the destination or the ports the ship stops in, If you just want to stay on the ocean liner and enjoy the luxuries, Consider booking a cruise that doesn’t stop anywhere. These “cruises to nowhere” are just as luxurious as the others but cost less.

Safety on your cruise holiday.

To be safe on your cruise don’t take a lot of expensive equipment or jewelry with you. Make sure your passport, health insurance, and other papers are updated. Get information about the countries you will visite, their laws and custom, this way when you drop anchor you will protect yourself against  inadvertently breaking any laws on shores you are not accustomed to. Laws in ports and even in the waters can vary, and you sure don’t want a big hassle with a foreign law enforcement agency.

Travel light

To travel lighter, find out about equipment that will be available to you on the ship. For instance, if the cruise line provides irons or hair dryers, you won’t need to pack yours. Also pack your own sample size shampoo, toothpaste, and other toiletries because these items are more expensive in the gift shop. You should have access to laundry facilities on your ship, so you don’t have to take a huge amount of clothing. Pick a wrinkle proof lightweight outfit for every two or three days and in colors that coordinate well so you can make up different outfits through your cruise . Be sure to pack a formal and or semi-formal evening dress if you expect taking part in ship ball or other dressed up events on your cruise holiday.

There is no better way, in my opinion,  to see a large number of places in a short amount of time, in complete ease and comfort, with every need and whim indulged, than aboard a cruise ship. Enjoy your cruise

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New Joys to be Alive

Nov 21

Posted by Claude in Food for taught

I found this text very stimulating I hope you will also…Enjoy

There’s more to life than everything you already know. As each day unfolds, feel what it is to be alive more profoundly than you have ever felt it before.

There are wonderful ways you are capable of feeling, that you’ve never experienced before. Make use of the powerful creativity that is yours, and discover new corners of life’s richness that you’ve never seen before.

Get out of the comfortable rut. There is so much more to life than comfort and predictability.

Somewhere within the possibilities of this moment, you will find beautiful and fulfilling new experiences. Life’s abundance is waiting to be expressed in ways you have not yet known or even imagined.

The world changes constantly, and change can often be frightening. Yet it also continually brings forth new and positive possibilities.

Make good use of what you already know, and let it successfully guide you into valuable new realms. There are always new joys to be lived.

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