Archive for February, 2012

Jealousy?

Monday, February 27th, 2012

Jealousy?

Who has time to be jealous? One that has no focus. One that has no goals. One that knows not where he is going.

Jealousy is a silent cry of an inward yearning. It screams I need help. I want attention. I wish someone would see me for who I am.

Jealousy is cancer. It starts at the most subtle time in life and remains hidden. Yet, it continues to grow. Unnoticed. But growing. Neutral. But growing. Benign. But growing.

A jealous person is a stingy person. Uncaring. Unsympathetic. Insensitive.

Jealousy in marriage and other relationships is a deal breaker. It binds one party from being free and keeps the other occupied with irrelevant concerns.

Jealousy is one of those evils that stifles a person growth, ability to fly and be free, as well as cages one to the confines of her evil thoughts and un-trusting ways.

How can one deal with jealousy? Get a life. Understand that a person is with you, whether it is for friendship or other relationship, because relationships are a place of trust. A place of safety. A place of love.

How can one deal with jealousy?  Cope with it. Reveal it. Confess it. Deal with it. Overcome it. Get over it. Get rid of it.

Why is it so important that one recognizes jealousy for what it is and deals with it promptly? Because the cage that you try to place one person in maybe just be the place you find yourself in for life.

Be free to love. Be free to enjoy. Be free to trust. Say no to jealousy.

 

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Whitney Houston Dead at 48

Saturday, February 11th, 2012

Whitney Houston Dead???

I can’t believe it. It is sad so sad.

My heart goes out to her family.

I think it important that we not start to speculate on what happened. I have been watching the news and am hearing some strange and disappointing assumptions. Sure, I think everyone wants to know what happened to Whitney Houston, but now is not a good time to guess or assume.

Whitney Houston had problems like the rest of us. No one is perfect. We all have issues. So, let’s not judge like Whitney Houston is the only one on the face of the earth with problems. Whitney Houston is a person that I believe wanted to enjoy love, life and happiness. On her way to those destinations, Whitney Houston took a few wrong turns like we all do. But, I truly believe that she was trying to do right and to get right. Did she ever get there? I or no one else will know.

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During times like this, we ought to focus more on the good that a person has done and not the area they struggled in. Whitney Houston is dead. She can no longer right her wrongs, it is now in the hands of the creator. We should redirect our attention to the joy that Whitney Houston has given us and the good she has done.

“If we didn’t help her in life, let’s not disrespect her in death.”

Whitney Houston is dead. So, let’s celebrate her life.

I remember when I first heard Whitney Houston’s angelic voice. I was sixteen and emotional. I heard “I am saving all my love for you” and fell in love with her voice from that point on. Any and everything that she sang, became my favorite. I remember “You give good love” , “How will I know”, “the greatest love of all”, I want to dance with somebody”,  “I will always love you” and so many more. Oh, who could forget the “National Anthem?” No one will ever sing it like that again.

I also appreciated Whitney Houston’s acting and movies. Loved “The bodyguard” and watch “The Preacher’s Wife” every year.

Whitney Houston was a wonderful entertainer. Loved her and will appreciate the entertainment that she brought to our lives.

Thank You Whitney Houston. You will always be remembered and now have your place by some of the other greats Marvin Gaye, Teddy Pendergrass, and many others.

Let us all remember that life in these bodies are not forever. We have a short time to enjoy life and make a difference in other people’s life. Let’s take advantage of it. When you see someone who is struggling, don’t judge if you are not willing to help.

God is still good.

 

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Top Blogging Sites No One Is Reading

Saturday, February 11th, 2012

Top Blogging Sites…

 

Top blogging sites are everywhere. They come in all different sizes and shapes. There is one for everyone. There are funny ones and sad ones. Informative ones and novelty ones. There are top blogging sites for whatever subject a person is looking for. Yet, there are more top blogging sites than people interested in them. Let’s face it, most people don’t know that many top blogging sites even exist.

So, what do you do when you have a top blogging site, but no followers?

That’s the question that someone asked me this week. I was shocked, because this person actually has a couple of  good top blogging sites. They say relative things and do everything in their power to keep their information fresh and interesting. But, they have no followers.

So what do you do?

Let me ask you this question. If you were sitting in a 10,000 seat arena and everyone was there to hear about your new break-through study on creating rock-solid relationships. What would you do if you started talking but no one accept the 10 people in front of you could hear. Would you keep speaking or would you try to figure out why the other 9,000+ people couldn’t hear you? I doubt you would keep going or their “boos” and complaints would quickly get your attention.

That’s how it is with top blogging sites. If you have good information to share and no one is listening, you may want to stop speaking and find out what the problem is before continuing.

Here are 7 simple things you can do to get the followers to your top blogging sites almost instantly:

1. Know your target-Make sure you are talking to the people who are listening. If you were trying to sell ice cream, would you talk to people in Alaska or Hawaii?

2. Search Engines- Submitting your website and posts to search engines are a must. Millions of people depend on search engines to find what they are looking for. If you are not listed in search engines, how would anyone ever find you. Remember when we had the good old phone books? When someone needed a number, they searched the phone book. If your business wasn’t in there, then you were guaranteed not to be contacted. Search engines are the phone books of today. List your site if you want to be found.

3. Current Information-  I hate reading old information. If I pick up a newspaper and it has yesterday’s date on it, I don’t read it. And I am not alone. Millions of others are the same way. They will allow you a few days to update your top blogging sites, but if you haven’t updated it in two months, they will go to other top blogging sites. Top blogging sites are the newspaper of this age.

4. Start Local-  Friends, families, co-workers, grocery store clerks. You run across hundreds of people daily. Why don’t they know about your top blogging sites? Make business cards with your top blogging sites info on them. Order pencils/pens from vista print and hand them out. When you pay the waitress/waiter and leave them a tip, write them a thank you note with your blog information on it. Start local.

5. Keywords- What would someone type if they were looking for your blogs? Keywords are very important. If your sight is about babies, but you don’t use the right keywords then folks looking for the exact information that you are writing about will more than likely not find you. Google has a simple but wonderful keyword tool. Get familiar with keywords.

6. Networking- Do you know anyone else with top blogging sites? If so, why not let them advertise for you and you advertise for them? It’s free. If your top blogging site is about babies and theirs is about cooking, when someone comes to you about cooking you refer them to your friend. And when someone mentions babies to your friend, she will refer them to you. This simple technique works really good. Use it with about 20 of your friends and you will start to have lots of followers in no time.

7. Articles- Your post are like mini-articles. So, why not post them at article hubs? The great things about some article sites are they do most of the advertising for you and many people looking for particular topics will search there first. This definitely increases your chances of getting noticed.

These are just some of the ways that you can start to get followers to your top blogging sites. There are thousands of others but this will get you off to a good start. Remember, if no one is reading your top blogging sites, why write? Find out who your audience is and what they want, then create your top blogging sites to reach them and satisfy their needs.

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You Are You

Sunday, February 5th, 2012

You spend years and thousands of dollars trying to change you, but let me save you some time- you are you.

One of the greatest things that we can do with our lives is accept the fact that we are beautiful enough, we are smart enough, we are tall enough, we are thin enough. We are just enough. And that is something that we should be proud of.

Now, I am not saying that we shouldn’t try to improve. Not by far. What I am saying is that most people do what they do not in the sake of improving and becoming better for themselves, but compare themselves to other people and then trying to measure up. That doesn’t work.

You can only be as great as you can be. You will never measure up when you are using the standards of someone else. You are you and that is beautiful.

What would happen to this world, the society, our communities if we accepted ourselves as who we are and spent less time trying to change us, but instead we used that time and energy to help someone else, love someone else, feed someone else, and encourage someone else. That is what life is about.

I believe that life is not about indulging into reality T.V. or reading fictional magazines that tell us how we are “supposed” to be. But, acknowledging who we are and admiring the majestic hand of God that created us and take what we have been given to touch someone’s life. I believe that. Life is more about touching and helping someone else than it is about “me, me, me.” Some of the greatest historic icons figured this out early.

What would have happened if Walt Disney was only concerned about himself. What if Mother Theresa would have only felt the hunger pain in her own stomach? What is Martin Luther King Jr non-violence approach made him a hermit, which kept him at home? And what if Jesus would have allowed his Royalty to confine Him to the Kingdom where He was served versus bringing him to an earthly one where He served? Where would we be if these icons were wrapped up in trying to be like someone else or worse, trying to enjoy their own lives? We would not be where we are today.

Here’s is the bottom-line. Most of those people did what they did because the understood the word “self-less” and chose it over the word “selfish.” Because of their choice and sacrifice, people they have never met are able to enjoy life that they wouldn’t have any otherwise known.

You are you. Be you and use what you have. If you want to improve you, do it because you want to and not because someone else thinks you ought to.

Be you and live like only you can.

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