* God Moves In Mysterious Ways !!

"For in the day of trouble he [God] will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his tabernacle and set me high upon a rock."      

          [ Psalm 27:5]

I have read that William Cowper, like many people today, suffered from times of deep melancholy and depression. One night when he was in a particularly dark mood of despair, he decided to take his life by jumping into the Thames River.

That night the city of London was blanketed with an extremely heavy fog and Mr. Cowper, searching to find the river, lost his way. Stumbling blindly through the fog he was dumbfounded when he found himself on the doorstep of his own home. Going to his room he penned the words of the beautiful hymn:

" God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform; 
He plants his footsteps in the sea, 
And rides upon the storm. 
His purposes will ripen fast, 
Unfolding every hour; 
The bud may have a bitter taste, 
But sweet will be the flower."


"Dear God, please help me in my times of despair and depression to trust in you. Hide me in the shelter of your love and lead me to the place of help that I need. Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully in Jesus’ name, Amen.”

* Success !!!

" Success  means  having  the  courage,  the  determination,  and  the  will  to become  the  person  you  believe  you  were  meant  to  be ".        [George Sheeha ]

         

Look deep. Are you doing the things you need to do on a consistent basis in order to get the results you want to get?

No matter if your goals are personal or professional in nature; there are four characteristics of success that will help you find what you are looking for in life. From becoming a better parent or spouse, to finding more success at work, these attributes provide a roadmap, a checklist, to help you achieve your goals, too.

1. Personal Accountability

“I do what I say because I said I would do it.” It all starts and ends with you. When you look into the mirror, do you like what you see? We can push away, hide, and even deny to others what we are thinking and doing, but we can never hide it for ourselves.

Personal accountability is not about perfection; it’s about effort. We can never be all things to all people, but we can be everything to ourselves. We can get up every morning with the attitude to focus on the things that will create a more successful and happier life and not to short-change or sabotage ourselves in the process.

Listen to your inner wisdom, your gut, to see if you are on track or not – 100% of the time your inner wisdom is right. You then have a choice to make. You can choose to rationalize why you are not seeing the results you had hope to gain or you can choose to be completely honest with yourself and make the necessary adjustments to get back on track.

2. Resiliency

Life will always throw you off balance. You will encounter setbacks when you were expecting success. It’s not a matter of “if” this will happen, it’s only a matter of “when.”

When disappointment and failure happens remember this: Our character is not defined by what happens to us, our character is defined by how we respond to what happens to us.

3. Interpersonal Skills

We do not live in a vacuum. Even though our journeys may be our own, we cannot ignore the other people on the road with us.

The ability to communicate, to ask questions of others who have achieved what you are seeking, to listen and to respond are all invaluable tools.

If you are seeking a more fulfilling relationship with your friend or partner or parents, then how well you relate to that person will determine the success, or failure, of that relationship.

Similarly, if you are looking for more career opportunities, then your ability to communicate your goals and accomplishments are critical.

Here’s a good strategy to remember in order to improve your interpersonal skills: Talk less and listen more. Think of the 80/20 rule. 80% of your time should be spent listening. It is in these moments you will come to realize the true expectations of your partner or your boss, for example. Once their expectations are clearly understood, you are in a better position to meet them.

4. Continuous Learning

The minute you stop learning you start to lose, or go backwards.  Too often, we get in the trap of saying, “I have learned how to [fill in the blank],” instead of saying, “I’m still learning how to [fill in the blank].”

There is a significant difference in these statements. When we use words that end in ed, learned, accomplished, achieved, we are saying there is nothing else to learn; that we “got it.”

But life is dynamic and nothing is ever freeze-dried. Therefore, if we take the approach we are always in the process of learning, accomplishing and achieving, then we are in a much better position to adapt and to adjust when change and setbacks occur.

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* Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean ?

A carrot, an egg, and a cup of coffee... You will never look at a cup of coffee the same way again.

Enjoy this timeless tale that teaches us all a little bit more about life and ourselves:

A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose.

Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil; without saying a word.

In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning to her daughter, she asked, ' Tell me what you see.'

'Carrots, eggs, and coffee,' she replied.

Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg.

Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The daughter then asked, 'What does it mean , mother?'

Her mother explained that! each of these objects had faced the same adversity: boiling water. Each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.

'Which are you?' she asked her daughter. 'When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?

Think of this: 

Which am I?

Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?

Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff ? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart?

Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you. When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest do you elevate yourself to another level? How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you happy.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can't go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling.

Live your life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.

We all r like COFFEE but so let not imitate the carrots n d eggs !!!!!!!

* I'll get around to it someday !!!

Someday Syndrome : -   not doing what you want to because you don’t know what it is, because you’re procrastinating about it, or because you have too much stuff getting in your way.

Everyone suffers from Someday Syndrome at some point in their lives, often catching it repeatedly.

"I'll get around to it someday" means putting off what you want to do, thinking you'll have all the time in the world to do it later.

Do you procrastinate? Do you have a list of things that you plan to do and yet never actually get them done?

You put pressure on yourself to get them done. You've tried deadlines, making yourself accountable to someone else, and even read all the blogs and books you can find on motivation and action.

And yet your Somedays stay Somedays without a single action taken.

Do you want to know why?

It's not what you think. It's not because you're a lazy person. It's not because it's someone else's fault. And it's not because you honestly will get to it later.

Procrastination comes from one of three things:

• Disinterest

• Inertia

• Fear

Those are the only reasons why people say "I'll get around to it someday" and if you can overcome those three blocks, you'll never say that again.

And just how do you overcome these blocks? With passion and a clear idea of what you want, then making a commitment and following through.

Simple, no?

No. Not simple. If it were so easy to do, the word procrastination wouldn't exist in our language.

Here's the truth:

It's hard to get started and it's hard to stay focused long enough to see things through to the end.

"Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all."

     [ Mignon McLaughlin, Author & Journalist (1913-1983)]

The problem is life is full of options. It's easy to come up with a few things you want to do. The real desires, however, often hide under the surface, so we need to push ourselves to figure out what really excites us.

There are many things we could, and want to, be doing… but so many things that we aren't doing. A friend told me about an exercise he did: he wrote down a hundred dreams and is now working on all of them. I laughed, thinking there was no way I could come up with a hundred things I'd like to do someday.

Then I started. And guess what? I got to one hundred without a problem. Some were steps within larger dreams and some were a bit out there (like buying a two-million Euro villa that I love), but they are still my 'Somedays.'

Of course I can't do all of them at once. Oprah Winfrey is credited with saying, "You can have it all, you just can't have it all at once."

But, you know what? That doesn't matter. Without knowing what you want, you have nothing (or if you do have things, it's either stuff you don't want or stuff you've achieved accidentally). That's why I'm a big advocate of writing down what you want. I've always done it, but never quite as ambitiously as brainstorming one hundred dreams.

In a list of a hundred dreams, you need to be self-centered. Too often, especially when there are others in our lives, we want things for them. That's not a 'Someday.' Doing something with someone is a 'Someday.' Deciding things for them is also not a 'Someday;' it's an expectation and no one has the right to decide someone else's 'Somedays' for them.

Many of us feel that we have no options, that we're stuck in a life of 'should' and 'need.' This list opens up the options: Once we know what we want, we can then figure out how to achieve them.

So, what Somedays are you not getting around to?

Get Yourself a "Round To it"

Do you know what you want out of life? Are you pursuing it? Or do you reach the end of each day frustrated by the lack of progress on your dreams?

Your days are full and you're exhausted by the time you fall into bed and yet your dreams stay exactly where there were, not moving even a half-step forward.

You tell yourself that tomorrow you'll get started (or finish up) your dream projects, but deep down you know that's not going to happen. Instead you'll continue doing what you do every day and nothing will change.

It's not easy breaking habits and patterns of behavior and thought. It takes strength, commitment and a plan to break away and do what you need to do.

But if you want to achieve your dreams, you have to get started. You have to stop saying someday and start taking action – even the tiniest of actions!

And with that comes the next problem: What action? On which dream? Do you even really want what you think is your dream or is it the dream of someone else?

Much better to just sweep it all under the carpet and pretend your dreams don't exist.

But dreams do not go away that easily. They keep nagging at you, demanding attention and the frustration builds until you feel like snapping.

It would be easy to quote Nike and say: Just Do It, but if it were that simple Someday Syndrome wouldn’t exist. Here are some key ways to cure Someday Syndrome so that you don’t need to suffer through a cure.

Steps :-

* Be you. This is the happiness project’s number one happiness commandment. Maybe you’re not doing something because in reality, it doesn’t fit with who you are. If so, dump the idea and the expectations that likely came along with it, and go find something that suits you better.

* Clear out the junk. If you don’t know what would suit you better, it could be because your mind and emotions are all cluttered up. If your mind’s in chaos, how could you possibly make a clear decision on getting rid of your somedays? The clutter includes the negative thoughts (like thinking that you would never be able to run more than 30 minutes without dying), or negative attitudes (saying to yourself "I'm too lazy to run").

*How to Overcome Procrastination Using Self Talk

*How to Be Optimistic

* Know what you want. And why you want it. If you are going cure Someday Syndrome, you’ll need to know details about that desire and the reasons behind it. And if you don’t know what that is, the blogosphere is full of blogs ready to help you figure out your dreams.

* Make a grand plan. “Grand” because this is the big picture plan. Don’t get carried away. Planning can feel like action, but really it’s no different than talking. Until you actually do something, you’re still procrastinating. Starting is more important than getting into detailed plans.

* Take one step at a time. The only details you need to choose at this point is first steps. Don't get overwhelmed by details. Just focus on just the next two or three things that you're going to do.

* Ignore the rest. That’s right. Ignore everything else in the goal except what you’re working on. We often use comparisons of where we are now to where we want to be as a form of procrastination. While checking in is always a good thing, we can do it when each small task is completed, and not in the middle of a task. When you're in the middle of my current activity, don’t think about what’s coming up next week. Why would you want to freak yourself out?

* Get help. Daniel Gilbert in his book Stumbling on Happiness, says that the best route to figuring out if our goals will actually make us happy is to talk to others who have done it. Also try to be lazy when you can be, so if someone else has done the work, then there’s no need to waste your time reinventing the wheel, now is there?

* Don’t compare. Be careful when you get help, because the dream-shattering tendency to compare lurks nearby.

* Be uncomfortable. Judith Sills in her book The Comfort Trap, or What If You’re Riding a Dead Horse? talks about how we might be terribly unhappy, but we’re comfortable so we don’t do anything about the unhappiness. Happiness is a risk, but the current situation even if it’s painful is safe. Which would you prefer? Comfortably in pain and unhappy or uncomfortably blissful?

* Celebrate the process as well as the end. Acknowledge your progress. Use your FaceBook, blogs, other means to write about the progress. Tell others. And in turn, this sharing inspires others and helps them move past their own Somedays and toward achieving their goals.

* Don’t stop at the easy point. Wait a second. It's important to push yourself just a little bit further than you think you can go. Commit beyond your initial goals. While you’re celebrating and taking it one step at a time, come up with one unexpected action you can take that’ll add energy, excitement and a bit of fear to your goal. That bit of fear will probably be the best motivator you’ve ever found.

By Alex Fayle

* All That I Am Is Yours !!!

Dear God,

Lately it’s been difficult seeing Your plan for me. There are days when I’m convinced I know where You are steering me, but on other days, I’m not sure. Maybe this back and forth is part of your arrangement; part of the process, You are taking me through. How do I embrace the fire You have placed in my soul and allow it to burn so hot, so bright, that its energy can’t be missed? I do hear You whispering some of the answers to me.God, continue to show me how to trade self-doubt for confidence.On the day you call me home, my hope is I won’t look back with regret, but with the understanding I did live the life You intended for me. I’m trying to see, and appreciate, that life. I’m just asking for a little help right now.For now, I will continue to hold on to my faith and realize all that I am is Yours !!

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3 O' Clock Prayer To Divine Mercy !!!

You expired, O Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls and an ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world. O Fount of Life, unfathomable Divine Mercy, envelop the whole world and empty Yourself out upon us. (recite one time)

O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of mercy for us, I trust in You. Amen (recite three times)

* The Miracle Prayer !!!

Lord Jesus, I come before You just as I am. I am sorry for all my sins.

 I repent of my sins please forgive me.

In Your name, I forgive all others for what they have done against me.

I renounce Satan, the evil spirits and all their works. I give You my entire self, Lord Jesus, now and forever.

I invite You into my life Jesus. I accept You as my Lord, God and Saviour.

Heal me, change me, strengthen me in body, soul and spirit. Come Lord Jesus, cover me with Your Precious Blood and fill me with Your Holy Spirit.

I love You Lord Jesus. I Praise You Jesus. I Thank You Jesus.

I shall follow You every day of my life.
Amen.

 Mary my Mother, Queen of Peace, all the Angels and Saints, please help me. Amen

* Something For God To Do !!!

This is God.

Today I will be handling all of your problems.

I love you. And, remember.... If life happens to deliver a situation to you that you cannot handle, do Not attempt to resolve it yourself!

Kindly put it in the SFGTD (something for God to do) box. I will get to it in MY TIME.


All situations will be resolved, but in My time, not yours.

Once the matter is placed into the box, do not hold onto it by worrying about it.

Instead, focus on all the wonderful things that are present in your life now.

God has seen you struggling, God says it's over.

* God's Gift !!!

* Today is the day !!!

" Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday "

* Too Busy for a freind !!!

One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name.

Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down.

It took the remainder of the class period to finish their assignment, and as the students left the room, each one handed in the papers.

That Saturday, the teacher wrote down the name of each student on a separate sheet of paper, and listed what everyone else had said about that individual.

On Monday she gave each student his or her list. Before long, the entire class was smiling. 'Really?' she heard whispered. 'I never knew that I meant anything to anyone!' and, 'I didn't know others liked me so much,' were most of the comments.

No one ever mentioned those papers in class again. She never knew if they discussed them after class or with their parents, but it didn't matter. The exercise had accomplished its purpose. The students were happy with themselves and one another. That group of students moved on.

Several years later, one of the students was killed in VietNam and his teacher attended the funeral of that special student. She had never seen a serviceman in a military coffin before. He looked so handsome, so mature.

The church was packed with his friends. One by one those who loved him took a last walk by the coffin. The teacher was the last one to bless the coffin.

As she stood there, one of the soldiers who acted as pallbearer came up to her. 'Were you Mark's math teacher?' he asked. She nodded: 'yes.' Then he said: 'Mark talked about you a lot.'

After the funeral, most of Mark's former classmates went together to a luncheon. Mark's mother and father were there, obviously waiting to speak with his teacher.

'We want to show you something,' his father said, taking a wallet out of his pocket 'They found this on Mark when he was killed. We thought you might recognize it.'

Opening the billfold, he carefully removed two worn pieces of notebook paper that had obviously been taped, folded and refolded many times. The teacher knew without looking that the papers were the ones on which she had listed all the good things each of Mark's classmates had said about him.

'Thank you so much for doing that,' Mark's mother said. 'As you can see, Mark treasured it.'

All of Mark's former classmates started to gather around. Charlie smiled rather sheepishly and said, 'I still have my list. It's in the top drawer of my desk at home.'

Chuck's wife said, 'Chuck asked me to put his in our wedding album.'

'I have mine too,' Marilyn said. 'It's in my diary.

Then Vicki, another classmate, reached into her pocketbook, took out her wallet and showed her worn and frazzled list to the group. 'I carry this with me at all times,' Vicki said and without batting an eyelash, she continued: 'I think we all saved our lists' .

That's when the teacher finally sat down and cried. She cried for Mark and for all his friends who would never see him again.

The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don't know when that one day will be.

So please, tell the people you love and care for, that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late.

* Your Reaction Determines 90% !!!

* Holy Rosary !!!

The month of October has been specially selected as the "Month of the Rosary," and the feast of the Holy Rosary is now celebrated on the 7th of this month. This feast of the most Holy Rosary took its origin from the great victory of the Catholic forces over the Mohammedans at the battle of Lepanto on October 7th, 1571. The defeat of the enemies of the Church and of civilization was due to the special assistance of the Mother of God.

Our Lady has referred to the practice of the rosary in many of her apparitions. Our Lady of Lourdes taught St. Bernadette to pray the rosary. When Our Lady appeared at Fatima in 1917, she exhorted us, “Say the Rosary every day to obtain peace for the world,” and she even added a prayer to the recitation of the decades. When Our Blessed Mother appeared to St. Dominic and Bl. Alan, she spoke of fifteen promises to those who faithfully recited the Most Holy Rosary:

1. Whoever shall faithfully serve me by the recitation of the rosary, shall receive signal graces.

2. I promise my special protection and the greatest graces to all those who shall recite the rosary.

3. The rosary shall be a powerful armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.

4. It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant mercy of God; it will withdraw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.

5. The soul which recommends itself to me by the recitation of the rosary, shall not perish.

6. Whoever shall recite the rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life.

7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.

8. Those who are faithful to recite the rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plentitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits of the saints in paradise.

9. I shall deliver from purgatory those who have been devoted to the rosary.

10. The faithful children of the rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in heaven.

11. You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the rosary.

12. All those who propagate the holy rosary shall be aided by me in their necessities.

13. I have obtained from my Divine Son that all the advocates of the rosary shall have for intercessors the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death.

14. All who recite the rosary are my sons, and brothers of my only son Jesus Christ.

15. Devotion of my rosary is a great sign of predestination.

"The rosary is my weapon.Our Lady has never refused me a grace through the recitation of the rosary".

          St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina

* If You Have Email !!!

A jobless man applied for the position of "office boy" at Microsoft.

The HR manager interviewed him then watched him cleaning the floor as a test.

"You are employed."

He said." Give me your e-mail address and I'll send you the application to fill in, as well as date when you may start."

The man replied "But I don't have a computer, neither an email."

I'm sorry", said the HR manager, "If you don't have an email, that means you do not exist. And who doesn't exist, cannot have the job."

The man left with no hope at all. He didn't know what to do, with only $10 in his pocket. He then decided to go to the supermarket and buy a 10Kg tomato crate.

He then sold the tomatoes in a door to door round. In less than two hours, he succeeded to double his capital.

He repeated the Operation three times, and returned home with $60.

The man realized that he can survive by this Way, and started to go everyday earlier, and return late.

Thus, his money doubled or tripled every day. Shortly, he bought a cart, then a truck, and then he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles.

5 years later , the man is one of the biggest food retailers in the US .

He started to plan his family's future, and decided to have a life insurance.

He called an insurance broker, and chose a protection plan.

When the conversation was concluded, the broker asked him his email.

The man replied, "I don't have an email".

The broker answered curiously, "You don't have an email, and yet have succeeded to build an empire.

Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an email?!!"

The man thought for a while and replied, "Yes, I'd be an office boy at Microsoft!"

Note:-

* Internet is not the solution to your life.

* If you don't have internet, and work hard, you also can become a millionaire.

......So,don't curse If you don't have internet connection in your home.

When one door closes,another door opens !!!

* Don't Expect !!!

"In life, dont expect anything from anyone.

Because expectation, when not fulfilled, gives you pain.


When you get something without expecting it,


It gives you pleasure.


Keep doing your part


And leave the rest to God".