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Giving Thanks for Online
Opportunities?
© 2002 by Liz
Hekimian-Williams
Have you noticed that during the holidays a lot
of us start
reflecting about our lives more? We think about the meaning of
life, our hopes and dreams, things we regret, and things we're
thankful
for. I've actually caught myself recently feeling thankful
about my computer
and all the opportunities being online has
brought into my life personally
and in business. Have you?
I have to admit it. Even though I've
been online for years, I am
still impressed daily by the expansiveness of
the internet. There
are millions, or is it billions, of websites,
information,
entertainment, financial opportunities, and such resources and
opportunities that are available to us online! If you're anything
like
me, then you get just as excited as I do when you receive a
good friend's
email, a great business lead, a shopping bargain, find
an interesting ezine
to subscribe to or discover an intriguing
website you haven't seen before.
This reminds me of a TV commercial I saw once where the
fellow
that was surfing online had a warning message come up
on his computer screen
and it said something like "You've now
reached the end of the Internet". He
was using a high speed
internet connection that helped him speed through the
entire
internet until supposedly he actually reached the end! He looked
incredulously at the message. Wouldn't you?
Wouldn't it
distress you if you ever had that message pop up on
your computer screen?
That was it? No more new stuff?
What do you mean I've reached the end of the
internet?!
No way, no how!
Fortunately, we have an endless
resource at our fingertips,
full of opportunites for personal and business
enrichment. And
there's no end in sight.
Think about it. Isn't
chatting instantly online, or sending and
receiving email messages nearly
instantly so amazing? The online
opportunities for strengthening and
expanding personal and
business relationships are incredibly vast, and they
have become
an important part of our lives.
And business
and financial opportunities are everywhere! You
can hardly check your email
or go website viewing without
getting some pitch about a business
opportunity. Sometimes
these are unwelcome, or a scam. Sometimes it's quite
the opposite
and good opportunities arise.
There are
some truly legitimate and worthwhile resources
and opportunites for folks who
wish to establish an online small
business of their own. There are ways to
make extra money
online, perhaps even a great deal of money and reach
towards
financial independence. Starting an online business is not easy,
but if you use the right resources, learn the ropes, and
persistently
develop your business, it can be fun and lucrative.
Yes, these are
interesting and exciting times online. There's
always something new to
discover, someone new to connect
with, and new opportunities with every
click. So, this holiday
season, along with giving thanks for all of your
offline blessings
and opportunities, also remember to give thanks for your
online ones.
About the Author:
Liz
Hekimian-Williams is a loving wife, mom to three active
kids, a mental
health counselor, and founder of Giftsprings.
She provides uplifting gifts
and home decor products, articles,
resources and coaching to help others
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Walk with Gratitude
Joyce Moseley
Pierce
During this season of gratitude and thanksgiving,
I wanted to
write about something we do every day
with very little thought.
Something we’ve been
doing since we were very small. Most of us did
it before we even talked. I’m talking about
walking.
The
way I see it, there are basically four reasons
we walk
1.Travel – To
get from one place to another.
We don’t even think about getting up
each morning
and walking from our bed to the bathroom, but I
watched my
elderly grandmother as an invalid for
many years and gained an appreciation
for my ability
to get up and go wherever I wanted without help from
anyone else.
2.Pleasure – I remember taking walks with my
grandfather and my dad as a child, and that
tradition has continued with
my own grandkids.
When the grandkids come to visit, they love to
walk
down to the lake in our neighborhood to feed
the ducks. Part of the
enjoyment, I believe,
is just being away from everyone else. We walk,
we talk, and we just enjoy one another’s
company. When I was in
Las Vegas for the
birth of a new granddaughter, I walked the other
two
kids to school one day. My granddaughter,
Olivia, who was 5 at the
time, stopped other kids
along the way to say, “My grandma is walking me
to school.” She was so proud, and I am so thankful
to have the
health to be able to walk with her.
3.Exercise – Walking is one of the
best ways to
exercise. You can walk at the pace you need to
reach
the desired heart rate. All you need is a
pair of good walking
shoes. No clubs to join.
No classes to attend. You can
walk during the
day or at night. Inside or out. In the mall or
on a treadmill. If you need more of a challenge,
you can carry a
backpack with additional weight,
or you can swing your arms to raise your
heartrate.
You will find that your legs have to move as fast
as
your arms. Even if you’re uncoordinated, it is
impossible for your
legs not to follow your arms.
Try it.
4.Peace of mind
– You’ve heard of the “fight or
flight” response? When I am
upset or when I have
things to work out in my mind, I go for a walk.
I may start out stomping as I try to release
anger, but by the time I
get back home, I have
worked through it and my mind has been cleared
so
that I can think rationally. Instead of sitting
in a chair stewing
about a problem, or getting
into a fight with someone, walking can be great
therapy,
and you may be able to find a rational way to resolve
the
problem.
I suppose walking is one of those things I’m
especially
grateful for because when I was a year old my mother
realized
I wasn’t walking properly. It looked
like one leg was longer
than the other, but the actual
problem was that the leg hadn’t joined the
hip properly.
After tearfully pleading with other family members who
wanted to deny there was anything wrong with their
little girl, she made
an appointment with an orthopedic
surgeon and I was put in a body cast that
went from under
my arms to my knees. I spent the next year in that
cast. I probably weighed as much as my mother did with
that
plaster cast. As an adult, my aunts and uncles told
me about how
horrified they had been when they saw
"the horrible cast" and feared it
would keep me from doing
things other one year-olds did. They told of
their joy
when they saw that I not only learned to walk, but run and
climb in spite of the challenges I had.
Probably the most valuable
lesson from that experience
was that I learned that with encouragement, I
could not
only walk, but I was given the confidence to believe
that I
could do anything.
On Thanksgiving when you stuff yourself with turkey,
instead of curling up on the couch and taking a nap,
think about taking
a walk instead. It will help
revive you and give you the time you need
to think
about the things you’re grateful for.
Copyright 2002 Joyce
Moseley Pierce
mailto:piercejam@sbcglobal.netJoyce is a freelance writer and owner of Emerson Publications.
She is
the creator of "All They'll Need to Know," a workbook
to help families
record personal and financial information.
http://www.emersonpublications.com/pages/843554/index.htmShe is also the editor of The Family First Newsletter, an
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