“Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” —Sophia Loren
While some people are blessed with perfect journeys to the top, this is not really what happens to everyone. In fact, even the most strong-willed person will find great obstacles along the way. There is really no guarantee that mistakes will not be met along the way.
There is still a great likelihood that you can get off track and lose your way. The road to success does not follow a straight line. The train you are on can easily be derailed and if you do not act on it fast, you may never find your way back anymore. If you are not careful, you may totally lose your way and find yourself elsewhere, where your dreams are obscured.
People make mistakes. Even if you make exacting moves, you can easily commit an error and cause some destruction to your own journey. Your only protection will be to get yourself ready for anything. You need to assume that mistakes will happen so that you can prepare accordingly. You need to be ready to fight back because there is a need to. Failures happen to everyone and what is most important is what you were able to do after encountering one. What are you going to do when you get off track? How are you going to find your way back?
#1: Take responsibility for what happened
Most of the time, when you have encountered a failure, you try to look around and pass the blame on other people. Meeting a disaster is not exactly easy to take, and meeting a disaster that you have caused on your own, is even harder. The first thing you need to do is to admit what you have done wrong. Take full responsibility for your actions and begin to look back at what happened. It is important for you to find out where things have gone wrong so that you can move forward and find your way back.
#2: Forgive yourself
Another reason why people find it hard to bounce back is because they blame themselves for what has happened. Especially if your actions affected other people, you find more comfort hiding behind the shadows rather than facing the music. Admitting responsibility for a bad move is a noble thing to do, but you should not dwell on what you have done longer than necessary. Do not beat yourself up because it will truly hinder you from doing anything else. Every time that you are reminded about what has happened, you will be hindered to make a positive move. Forgive yourself, and forget about what you have done. Instead, think about your next step.
#3: Do not be afraid
What you have done may or may not happen again but this does not really matter. Perhaps, you are afraid about making a mistake again, so you avoid taking risks and choose to stay on safe side. Well here’s something you should know: life is a risk. There is no telling what will happen in the future, so everything you do from today until the end of your life is going to be a risk. If you are always going to be haunted by that one mistake you made in the past for the rest of your life, you will be hindering yourself from achieving so much more. Do not be afraid. Mistakes happen to everyone and yes, it will happen to you. It’s inevitable so why be afraid?
~ Living Life Abundantly
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Just a little rant I needed to get off my chest. Stop believing what others say; they cannot prove truth so follow your own laws and beliefs, and screw what others say. And COME TO ME: If you are downhearted and beng reviled I will love you no mattter what anyone else on the planet says about you. Nothing could separate me from someone I love.
Wow I didn’t know people still watched Fox News lol, I’m an MSNBC girl. I received this interesting email forward from my friend Leslie, calling for people to sign a petition to stop Fox from smearing Barack Obama and polluting the air waves with fear and racism. Check it out…
Subject: Update: FOX smears Obama
More than 428,000 people signed a petition telling FOX to stop their
racist and hate-filled smears against Barack Obama-thanks for signing! If
we hit half-a-million signatures, we can draw media attention and put
pressure on FOX’s advertisers.
Can you help us reach half-a-million by forwarding this email to 5 friends
today?
Last week, we kicked off a campaign to stop FOX from launching racist and
hate-filled smears against Barack and Michelle Obama.
Good news: Over 428,000 people have signed a message protesting FOX.
That’s unprecedented-thanks for signing! Early next week, our partners at
ColorOfChange.org will hold a major event to deliver boxes and boxes of
petition signatures to FOX’s headquarters.
Other media outlets will be invited to cover this event. If we can deliver
half-a-million signatures, this becomes a much more powerful media story.
And when that happens, FOX’s advertisers will get the hint that it’s not a
good idea to associate their products with FOX’s hate-speech.
Can you help us get to half-a-million signatures by the time of the big
delivery next week by forwarding this message to 5 friends today? They can
just click here to sign:
“FOX must stop injecting racism, prejudice, and fear
into our political dialogue. We intend to hold FOX, its advertisers, and
its personalities accountable for FOX’s attempts to smear the Obamas.”
You can let your friends know that FOX is shameless: In the last several
weeks alone, they’ve “confused” Obama’s name with Osama’s, referred to
Michelle as “Obama’s Baby Mama,” and called an affectionate fist bump by
Barack and Michelle a “terrorist fist jab.”1
This morning, Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films launched a short video
called “FOX Attacks: Michelle Obama” showing some of the latest FOX smears
on the Obama family. You can see it on our petition page. Greenwald’s
previous videos documenting FOX’s smears on Barack Obama and the black
community have been seen millions of times on YouTube.2
If we reach half-a-million signatures, we can generate media coverage that
sends a message to FOX that their racist and hate-filled smears go over
the line-and put the heat on FOX advertisers as well. Can you help us
reach that goal by forwarding this email to 5 friends today? They can just
click here to sign the petition:
-Adam G., Peter, Anna, Justin, and the rest of the team
P.S. Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) has a new book out, and we thought
you might be interested. The Nation called Wexler the country’s “Most
Valuable Congressman,” and he’s stood with MoveOn on numerous causes, from
ending the war to stopping warrantless wiretapping in FISA. Now he’s
written Fire Breathing Liberal, a fascinating account of life as an
outspoken progressive in the House of Representatives. Says comedian
Stephen Colbert, “I enjoyed Congressman Wexler’s book even more than I
enjoy cocaine and prostitutes.”
“Fox Attacks: Obama, Part 2,” Brave New Films at FoxAttacks.com, March 2008 http://foxattacks.com/blog/32376-fox-attacks-obama-part-2
Want to support our work? We’re entirely funded by our 3.2 million
members-no corporate contributions, no big checks from CEOs. And our tiny
staff ensures that small contributions go a long way. Chip in here.
PAID FOR BY MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION, http://pol.moveon.org/.
Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.
Update July 24th 2008: Fox Gets the Message
Big news! Your petition signature telling FOX to stop their racist smears against the Obamas had a really exciting day on Wednesday. Here’s what happened:
1:00 p.m. Your signature was printed off at a New York City Kinko’s along with 620,126 others—filling 19 big boxes.
2:00 p.m. The signatures were piled in front of FOX’s national headquarters at 6th Avenue and 48th Street.
3:15 p.m. Hip hop star Nas (whose new album had just risen to #1 on the Billboard charts hours earlier) joined over 100 activists and delivered the petitions to FOX on behalf of ColorOfChange, MoveOn, and Brave New Films.
3:30 p.m. FOX refused to accept the petitions. (Sometimes, the truth hurts.)
4:00 p.m.—9:00 p.m. News of FOX’s racism and the star-studded petition delivery made its way around the world—with stories in Rolling Stone, Billboard, USA Today, Associated Press, Reuters, India Express, Huffington Post, MTV, OpenLeft, and over 200 other places.
11:30 p.m. Stephen Colbert welcomed Nas as his guest on the Colbert Report and dedicated over half of his show to FOX’s racism. The boxes containing our signatures were stacked prominently on Colbert’s set in place of his normal interview table and chairs—and he conducted the entire interview surrounded by petitions! Then, Nas performed his new song “Sly Fox,” which is all about FOX’s racism.
12:00 a.m. Several MoveOn staffers, jaws dropped open, got on the phone and engaged in several rounds of, “Wow!”
Since then, the news has kept spreading around the world. You sent a message to FOX, and that message was very much received!
And the fight’s not over. Together, we’ve denied FOX the legitimacy that would come by hosting Democratic presidential debates, and we got a company to stop advertising on Bill O’Reilly. This week’s delivery made an impact, and we’ll continue to push back together against FOX’s racism and their smears against Obama.
But for now, enjoy the video of Wednesday’s petition delivery—led by our friends at ColorOfChange—and the video of Colbert. Both videos are at this link:
Want to support our work? We’re entirely funded by our 3.2 million members—no corporate contributions, no big checks from CEOs. And our tiny staff ensures that small contributions go a long way. Chip in here.
I received an interesting email with a video clip which portrays Oprah Winfrey as the leader of a new religion based on her latest book club choice, online class, personal beliefs, past statements, and her endorsement of Barack Obama. This email is making its rounds quickly! Apparently some Christians are extremely offended by Oprah’s views and actions and have made it their mission to expose The Church of Oprah. I wonder if The Church of Oprah gives its congregation free cars and houses lol. On a more serious note, have you seen the video?
I can certainly see and understand how and why some Christians find this offensive. However, this video does not reveal all of the facts surrounding the clips shown, nor does it give us total insight as to Oprah’s intentions or beliefs. After watching the video one should ask, who benefits from it and what is the intended purpose. This video reeks of strategic propaganda, it’s the same type of propaganda that plays on Christian fears, and its also the same type of propaganda that bamboozled some Christians into voting for George W. Bush, (but that’s another blog entirely)! The twisting of words and Bible interpretation has been used and abused throughout history for selfish gain (but I won’t go there today either). At some point, people must really begin reading between lines and lies. Start by asking questions like what do the people behind this video have to gain from this? What if anything are they trying to sell you and what details are they leaving out?This video paints Oprah Winfrey as “the enemy” to Christianity. The enemy is NOT Oprah, the author of that book, or Marianne Williamson. You may not share their beliefs or agree with them on spiritual matters but they are not the enemy. According to the Christian Bible:
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:12
Why are Christians so bothered by all of this? Are some operating from a spirit of fear? Are Christians afraid that people will be swayed by new and false doctrines? If a Christian can be led astray by Oprah Winfrey and the concepts in A New Earth, then perhaps that person was not ever really rooted in the Christian faith.
If the concern is for those that are not “saved” being led astray, then Christian’s must seriously ask themselves what (if anything) are Christians doing to really reach the “unsaved.” There is just as much unholiness going on within the Church as there is in the “World”… so much so that the “World” often has a tough time differentiating between the two. There are far too many Christians talking the talk but not walking the walk. So if unsaved people are flocking to religions other than Christianity then perhaps it is an opportunity for Christians to revisit the meaning of:
“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.” —Matthew 5:13
Some have taken this video as a sign of apostasy which is prophesized and often pointed to by Christians when finding fault within the world, but too often Christians overlook or refuse to take ownership for the Churches role in the apostasy as mentioned in the messages to the 7 churches in Revelations. It is always easier to point out what we perceive to be shortcomings of others… but it is always tougher to look at ourselves. There is truth in the saying, “people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”
The Christian Bible says:
Judge not, that you be not judged.
For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.
And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?
Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye’; and look, a plank is in your own eye?
Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. —Matthew 7:1-5
Just as Christians are instructed to rightly divide the word of God , Christians must also rightly divide everything else that they read, see, hear, and/or come in contact with… It just seems to me that too many Christians spend too much time and focus too much energy casting judgment, being offended and/or protesting things that either do not matter or are completely beyond their control. When it comes to the prophecy of the apostasy it is just like every other prophecy in the Christian Bible, in that these things must come to pass… they cannot be stopped or prevented…according to the Christian Bible the apostasy must happen in order for Jesus to even come back right?
If Christians would direct the same energy and time letting theirlight shine the world might be a different place. Maybe our prisons wouldn’t be filled, maybe 3rd graders wouldn’t be plotting to attack teachers, maybe there would be no war in Iraq, maybe homelessness wouldn’t be an issue, maybe the sick would be healed, and the blind would regain sight!
The bottom line is this video is counterproductive and the anti-Oprah sentiment does not help win not one soul to the kingdom of God. The only thing that this video does is stir up controversy and create buzz for an 80 page book called Dont Drink The Kool-Aid: Oprah, Obama and The Occult which is going for $12.95.
“God is not the author of confusion, but of peace” —1 Corinthians 14:33
Now once again I ask, who benefits from this video and how many souls does it save from hell fire and damnation? See through the lies of the machine! Christians should not be moved by this video or the book, but should keep their eyes on Jesus. I know this might step on some toes but I’m fed with the nonsense. Be about the Father’s business.
Wake Up And Smell the Coffee!
Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid: Oprah, Obama, and The Occult
is PROPAGANDA see it for what it is!
According to Merriam Webster Dictionary, Propaganda is defined as:
* the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person
* ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one’s cause or to damage an opposing cause; also : a public action having such an effect
I believe that being broke is a state of mind. A person that constantly confesses out of their mouth that they are broke will always manifest exactly what they believe… As long as they say and believe that they are broke, their finances will reflect what they have said and believed. Sometimes people that find themselves embracing being broke unknowingly suffer from Peniaphobia.
Peniaphobia is the fear of poverty.
What are the symptoms of Peniaphobia?
Indecisiveness
Procrastination
Doubt
Over-Caution
Worry
Pessimism
Envy
The fear of poverty destroys a person’s likelihood of achieving and maintaining financial success because the all consuming fear kills reasoning, imagination, self reliance, enthusiasm, and initiative. People that are afraid of poverty attract poverty. They are often critical of financially successful people and make excuses for their own failures. These people have no problem with pointing out the dark clouds but are usually unable to see the silver tint in those same clouds.
If any of this sounds familiar or describes you CHANGE YOUR THINKING right now! Stop living in fear. I’ll help you Watch this video for the next 30 days and change your life starting today. You Are not Broke. You are a magnet to money and you live life abundantly today and every day.
The history of pageants in the United States date as far back as the 1920′s. The first Miss America was crowned in 1921. Pageants have been around ever since. Some of the most famous and successful women in the world competed in pageants. While some scoff and dismiss pageants as mere “beauty contests” the truth of the matter is women participating in pageants are usually at the top of their game. They are undeniably beautiful, poised, articulate, and extremely smart… I know some may disagree, considering the Miss Teen South Carolina 2007 debacle (I think it was her nerves, that’s exactly what scares me about entering a pageant).
Women that participate in pageants seem to have certain traits in common. They are goal oriented, self motivated, and determined. It takes confidence, self awareness, and a great attitude to compete in a pageant. The preparation and personal development that women go through for a pageant, often helps them in other areas of their lives.Check out this list of noteworthy pageant winners:
Oprah Winfrey Miss Black Tennessee
Diane Sawyer America’s Junior Miss
Halle Berry Miss Ohio, Miss USA first runner up, and Miss World sixth runner up
Mary Hart Miss South Dakota, reached top ten in Miss America
Phyllis George Miss Texas, Miss America
I notice that women that compete in pageants seem to have no problems with public speaking (I don’t think Oprah gets nervous when someone hands her mic). I consider myself an effective communicator but the thought of public speaking frightens me. The fact that I am afraid of anything bothers me even more because I know “there’s nothing to fear but fear itself.” I am also aware that fear = False Expectation Appearing Real. With all of this knowledge why is public speaking such an issue? Perhaps it’s time I face and get over my fears
I’m thinking about participating in the Mrs. California Pageant. Do you think a no make-up, sweats, and t-shirt wearing, non public speaking, plain jane blogger like me can win a pageant? I only have days to decide and only 3 months to prepare to answer those tough questions like “how would you resolve the middle east crisis?” in front of a live audience. Scary! Can you say I need a sponsor(s) and a pageant coach?
If I decide to participate I’ll document the journey via a separate blog (I’m already thinking about things I can do to make it financially worthwhile to my sponsors lol). Living Life Abundantly means facing your fears and being committed to life long personal growth and development. I’m dedicated to living life abundantly.
I look forward to your feedback. I don’t have the sponsorship details available yet but email me if its of interest and I’ll get it to you asap
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
Stephen Covey
There is still a great likelihood that you can get off track and lose your way. The road to success does not follow a straight line. The train you are on can easily be derailed and if you do not act on it fast, you may never find your way back anymore. If you are not careful, you may totally lose your way and find yourself elsewhere, where your dreams are obscured.
