tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25270573088303700412024-03-13T19:13:15.575-07:00Gallerysmuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.comBlogger3263125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-74090840738529886012010-04-09T01:05:00.001-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.407-07:00Self Motivation and Visualisation It can be very difficult to motivate ourselves. We might need a pat on the back and a bit of encouragement - but sometimes we need to be able to keep ourselves going! How can we motivate ourselves to stick with our goals and keep fighting for what we want, when life feels like it is working against us?Read this article here muahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-24609671687517918182010-04-09T01:05:00.000-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.408-07:00Easter is Here There are many things about Easter that stand out, but one thing that is above the rest is the power of Jesus' resurrection. I think we understand that His rising from the grave is so important to Christians.Read this article here muahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-85430687115846982122010-04-08T21:54:00.000-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.408-07:00“Wolf Nipple Chips, Get ’Em While They’re Hot.” Sometimes life is good. Sometimes it’s so good that you don’t need it to get any better. Last Tuesday night was one such night, given that I was sitting on the couch snaffling the last of my Easter eggs watching Barcelona’s Lionel Messi give a performance against the Mighty Arse that more or less defied superlatives. In my day I’ve been lucky enough to watch (not in the flesh, mind) the likes ofmuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-57886305309828699362010-04-08T03:03:00.000-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.408-07:00Benson, AZ And The Butterfield RV ResortWe arrived at the Butterfield RV Resort in Benson, AZ at 1:30 yesterday afternoon under clear blue, sunny skies and a temperature of 75F – although it seemed much warmer than that.  Now this place is more like what I would call a resort – especially in comparison to the Shangri-La in Yuma.  It’s a beautiful park with trees at each site and level, paved, full-service pull-thrus.  muahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-92044995607063706742010-04-08T01:05:00.002-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.408-07:00Starting a Guidance Program When I first started my work as guidance counselor, the school principal made it clear to me that one of their problems is the increasing hyperactivity and disruptive behavior of pupils so she wanted me to come up with a guidance program that would cater to this problem. At first, I felt overwhelmed with what the task entails because I was new and was still adjusting to my work environment. I domuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-59752805526012875232010-04-08T01:05:00.001-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.409-07:00Success In Life - Step 1 To Making 2010 Amazing - Decide What You Want Now! One of the things I love about starting the new year is spending time mapping out my vision and goals. I love the process of reviewing the past year and looking into the future with fresh eyes. And as a coach helping others do the same is an amazing and exciting privilege.Read this article here muahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-27415556897858909022010-04-08T01:05:00.000-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.409-07:00Stop Procrastinating and Do it Now Are you fed up of making excuses or finishing things at the very last minute? Do you think you are destined to suffer from this habit forever, or would you like to change?Read this article here muahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-87368327092417225592010-04-07T22:29:00.000-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.409-07:00Nobody Move, This Is A Review: SKIPPY DIES by Paul Murray I reviewed Paul Murray’s SKIPPY DIES for RTE’s Arena programme alongside Edel Coffey a couple of weeks back, working off the (koff) ‘notes’ below. I haven’t listened back to the show, but hopefully it was all a bit more comprehensible than the notes suggest - although if it was, the credit is all Edel’s. To wit: Set in the fictional Seabrook boys’ boarding school in South County Dublin, Skippy muahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-58543031775783950622010-04-07T09:58:00.000-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.410-07:00Boylan Point It’s curtains for KT McCaffrey, folks. Or - dum-dum-DUM! - is it? “The latest of the excellent series featuring Dublin journalist Emma Boylan,” was how the Irish Independent’s Myles McWeeney described KT McCaffrey’s previous outing, THE CAT TRAP, and he may well find himself using the same phrase again one of these days. For lo! KT launches NO CURTAIN CALL on this coming Friday, April 9th, at muahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-78419538700227270442010-04-07T03:05:00.000-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.410-07:00An Easy Drive To Yuma, AZWe pulled into the Shangri-La RV Resort in Yuma, AZ at 12:15pm on Tuesday after a short, leisurely drive from Desert Hot Springs, CA.  All of our packing and preparations to leave, over the weekend, sure paid off as we were able to pull out of the Sands RV Resort at 8:30am about 30 minutes ahead of our expected departure time. We stopped for a short break at a rest stop just before Yuma, AZmuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-88346032979465172652010-04-07T01:05:00.002-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.410-07:00Mistakes People Make When Trying to Motivate Themselves Today the self help and motivational industry has grown really huge and a lot of people have become interested in improving their lives and building stronger motivation. Even though so many people are interested in these exact points, a lot of people never actually get started and even fewer learn how to motivate themselves and push through any barrier life presents them with.Read this article muahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-79524809877451517992010-04-07T01:05:00.001-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.410-07:00Frequently Asked Questions of Motivation There is a lot of confusion and uncertainty when it comes to the best way to motivate yourself. This is mainly due to all the gurus and self help organizations constantly claiming to have found the next big thing that are going to change people's lives forever and help them motivate themselves at all times. Motivating yourself is actually quite simple once you have enough practice and get the muahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-82545670088598093182010-04-07T01:05:00.000-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.411-07:00How To Effectively Change Someoneâs Mind During our lives we encounter many situations where we feel the need to change someone's mind about something. When someone is resistant to changing their mind about something, it doesn't necessarily mean that they are stubborn or annoying but rather can simply mean that somewhere in their belief system there is something that is preventing them from believing you. In order to be able to changemuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-25202340073735818632010-04-06T05:10:00.000-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.411-07:00Flowers for the Tone-meisterSpring has definitely "sprung" at Duke Gardens right now...I will be out of town visiting my dad in Georgia tomorrow, and I knew this would be the last chance I'd have to see the full spring "show," so I headed over to the terrace area of the Duke Gardens yesterday after work, instead of heading straight home.My dad, "Tony," came through his open-heart surgery, and he's heading home from the muahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-2285844737143330752010-04-06T03:01:00.000-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.411-07:00An Earthquake, A Windstorm & We’re Off To Yuma, AZSunday, we got hit with a 7.2 magnitude earthquake and we were “shakin’, rattlin’ and rollin’” in the desert.  No damage done, but lots of excitement.  Then yesterday, as if a shaker wasn’t enough, a violent windstorm swept thru Desert Hot Springs and we were “rockin’ and rollin’” again.  What me worry?  Here I am, in late January, standing on the San Andreas Fault We muahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-5820222748908480402010-04-06T01:05:00.002-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.412-07:00Get Motivated by Following 5 Rules of Motivation Being motivated in life is very essential. If a person is not motivated for something in life then he has no meaning to his life. With positive motivation, one can achieve success in life.Read this article here muahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-50626319676267373052010-04-06T01:05:00.001-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.412-07:00A Stormy Day in Shiloh Town... A cold and rainy day today... The skies above Shiloh... Mendoza staying out of the rain under his shelter... Baja, Scrappy and Pokie Dot (who is a temporary Wanderer) escaped the cold rain under City Center...Some little friends in my feed bin. Where are Shiloh's feral barn cats when you need them? Even the barn cats wait for their cat food to be brought to them! Tanya groomed Fancy in the muahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-84039124644485972010-04-06T01:05:00.000-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.412-07:00How Visualisation Helped Grandpa Pursue a Business and Achieve a Better Quality of Life Bill was over sixty years old, had only a small income, and no money or assets. He had already spent his superannuation the last few years on various ventures and adventures. He didn't smoke or gamble, and very occasionally had a social drink. Bill realised that he had not provided for himself in his later years, so now was determined to create some ongoing income.Read this article here muahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-11861116149585546542010-04-05T03:01:00.000-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.412-07:00A Real Shaker And Preparations To Leave on TuesdayFirst, the shaker.  Paulette and I were just sitting around in the 5’er yesterday afternoon and thinking about taking Molly and Rylie to the dog park, when right at 3:42pm our 5’er started shaking and it wasn’t from the wind!!  It was a 7.2 magnitude earthquake centered about 108 miles east of Tijuana, Mexico.  The quake lasted about 30 seconds, it started slow then built in muahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-33517923376327853042010-04-05T02:12:00.000-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.413-07:00“Ya Wanna Do It Here Or Down The Station, Punk?”: Phil Rickman Yep, it’s rubber-hose time, folks: a rapid-fire Q&A for those shifty-looking usual suspects ...What crime novel would you most like to have written?THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. Or maybe THE TIGER IN THE SMOKE. Or even LAMBS IN THE SMOKE.What fictional character would you most like to have been?I wouldn’t. That’s like asking which writer I’d want to have moving me around. Creepy. Forget it.Who do muahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-43256138949417152242010-04-05T01:05:00.001-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.413-07:00The Weekend... Very sad news from Shiloh as we said good-bye to adopted and boarded horse, Trooper, who had to be euthanised at the vet clinic after a pasture accident. Trooper, who was renamed Xanthos by his adoptive owner, Vic, was found early on Saturday morning in his pasture standing on three legs. We don't know what happened to him, there was not any outward sign of trauma but he could not bear weight onmuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-3386993882968761692010-04-05T01:05:00.000-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.413-07:00A Happy Easter A Happy and Peaceful Easter from all of us at Shiloh! Fiesta stood in for the Easter Rabbit...Read this article here muahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-55471683230745189712010-04-04T03:02:00.000-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.413-07:00The Kraft Nabisco LPGA In Rancho MirageUntil yesterday afternoon, I’d never been to either a PGA or LPGA tournament.  Since the Kraft Nabisco LPGA event was taking place this weekend at the Mission Hills Golf and Country Club in nearby Rancho Mirage, I thought it would be as good an opportunity as any to see the top women golfers in the world hit the ball around. The grandstand encircling the first tee at Mission Hills muahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-12882512131524108812010-04-04T01:05:00.000-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.414-07:00The Ability To Make A Change: One-Man Power Every successful concern is the result of a One-Man Power. Cooperation, technically, is an iridescent dream things cooperate because the man makes them. He cements them by his will.Read this article here muahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527057308830370041.post-64938348128995835402010-04-03T03:00:00.000-07:002011-08-16T13:09:52.414-07:00Getting Ready To Leave And A Gripe!We have to be ready to move in just 3 more days, so I’ve begun the process of reorganizing the basement storage areas for packing up.  I also made sure to lubricate both the landing gear and the slide rails on the 5’er, as well as the moving parts on the truck’s hitch – especially the locking bar.  I lubed up all the moving hitch parts and cleaned out the truck bed It’s amazing howmuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04822705305933238577noreply@blogger.com0