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-- By Pete Barkelew, Inspire21.com founder These 30 "Positive Daily Affirmations" were created to help train the mind to eliminate many of the mental stumbling blocks people have in life and business. The idea is to read one each day of every month to help manage stress, deal with others and improve your outlook on life. Day 1: QUIT PROCRASTINATION Human beings tend to put things off, like menial tasks and chores. The easiest way to handle any task is to tackle it right away, without hesitation. Volumes have been written on the virtues of "ACT NOW!" I will eliminate a lot of my day-to-day aggravations and concerns by simply doing the things I'd normally put off immediately. Handle it once; get it out of the way. Day 2: QUIT TARDINESS

ÔÇ¿By Jeff Guidry Freedom would also come to me in my dreams and help me fight the cancer. This happened time and time again... Freedom and I have been together 11 years this summer. She came in as a baby in 1998 with two broken wings one of them broken in four places. Her left wing doesn't open all the way even after surgery. She's my baby. When Freedom came in she could not stand. She was emaciated and covered in lice. We made the decision to give her a chance at life, so I took her to the vets office. From then on, I was always around her. We had her in a huge dog carrier with the top off, and it was loaded up with shredded newspaper for her to lay in.

Father was a hardworking man who delivered bread as a living to support his wife and three children. He spent all his evenings after work attending classes, hoping to improve himself so that he could one day find a better paying job. Except for Sundays, Father hardly ate a meal together with his family. He worked and studied very hard because he wanted to provide his family with the best money could buy.

Whenever the family complained that he was not spending enough time with them, he reasoned that he was doing all this for them. But he often yearned to spend more time with his family.

Bay Area man saved by organ donation takes up little girl’s cause, raises $1M OAKLAND, Calif. — Rachel Beckwith was only nine when she was killed in a car crash outside of Seattle. The story of her life made headlines after she died. Now KTVU has learned how her death …

Excerpt from Living a Five Star Life by Betty Mahalik

By Willy Eagle A brother and sister had made their usual hurried, obligatory pre-Christmas visit to the little farm where dwelt their elderly parents with their small herd of horses. The farm was where they had grown up and had been named “Lone Pine Farm” because of the huge pine, …

By Dave Griffith
-- Falsely circulating the Internet, without credit, as "Crabby Old Man"

Glorifying Jesus - One Sole at a Time

Dale Carnegie wrote the book on how to treat people in "How To Win Friends and Influence People." In addition to writing, lecturing and public speaking, he founded the Dale Carnegie Learning Institute where tens of thousands have acquired his many skills for success.