The Company You Keep

This is awesome information which a good friend forwarded. Makes a lot of sense. See if you agree.

COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE - THE COMPANY YOU KEEP

* It Is Better To Be Alone Than In The Wrong Company.

* Tell me who your best friends are, and I will tell you who you are.

* If you run with wolves, you will learn how to howl. But if you associate with eagles, you will learn how to soar to great heights.

* A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. The simple but true fact of life is that you become like those with whom you closely associate, for the good and the bad. The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve.

* Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity.

* An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.

* As you grow, your associates will change. Some of your friends will not want you to go on. They will want you to stay where they are. Friends that don't help you climb will want you to crawl.

* Your friends will stretch your vision or choke your dream. Those that don't increase you will eventually decrease you.

Consider these ideas:

* Never receive counsel from unproductive people.

* Never discuss your problems with someone incapable of contributing to the solution, because those who never succeed themselves are always first to tell you how.

* Not everyone has a right to speak into your life.

* You are certain to get the worst of the bargain when you exchange ideas with the wrong person.

* Don't follow anyone who's not going anywhere.

* With some people you spend an evening; with others you invest it.

* Be careful where you stop to inquire for directions along the road of life.

* Wise is the person who fortifies his life with the right friendships.


If you see people without a smile today, give them one of yours.

Choose to rise...Don't settle...Go for your dreams!

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Cash Back for Free Phone

With the escalating prices of goods, a wise shopper would look for deals and bargains. Shopping online provides great opportunities for getting the best prices from the best deals.

There are many coupon and deal sites but only a few are cash back deal sites. This site, dealking.com, is the most aggressive with many great offers. Right now, their King Offer is the Cingular Go Phone and the Prepaid T mobile phone for free from their cash back offer. The best part is, neither phone requires a contract.

You can also find other hot offers for dining, phones, toys, electronics, cosmetics and fragrances and many more.

Dealking.com also has many other cash back offers from sites such as buy.com and more. Check out Dealking.com today.

Bone Health

In last night's episode of "Judging Amy", Maxine's boyfriend, Ignacio, was encouraging her to take the 10,000 daily steps to improve her health after her heart operation. I've read about the necessity of taking this same amount of steps a day to give the heart a good workout. I don't meet this target most days though but close. Do you?

Below is an article from The Star that talks about bone health and the steps to take to improve it. An interesting read.

Mobile Phones

Gone are the days where phone-calls were made solely from a fixed line, either at home, in the office or from a pay-phone. These days it seems like almost everyone carries a handphone. Most of us would not dream of leaving home without it. A phone is more a necessity these days. They are now a tool of the trade as deals are transacted via the phone. Parents need to know whereabouts of their children and children need to contact parents. Contact is possible and quick with just a few button-pushes.

With phone technology constantly being improved upon and each model gets better than the last, do you have a phone that's up to speed to serve you well? Motorola has the solution for you.

Visit the website for a wide range of Motorola mobile phones and look over the great deals, the free gifts and attractive mobile tariffs available. You can also purchase packages here.

Smile

Smiling is infectious; you catch it like the flu
When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling too.
I passed around the corner and someone saw my grin
When he smiled I'd realized I'd passed it on to him.
I thought about that smile then I realized its worth,
A single smile, just like mine could travel round the earth.
So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected
Let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected.

Raise Your Credit Score

If you've ever applied for a credit card, a personal loan, or insurance, there's a file about you. This file is known as your credit report. It is information on where you live, how you pay your bills, and whether you've been sued, arrested, or filed for bankruptcy. This report is compiled by Consumer reporting companies and they sell the information in your report to creditors, insurers, employers, and other businesses with a legitimate need for it. This information will be used to evaluate your applications for credit, insurance, employment, or a lease.

Whether you are an individual or a business owner, you now have the ability to dramatically boost your credit score literally overnight. Yes, you can raise your credit score up to 200 points.

Having a good credit report would mean it will be easier for you to get loans and lower interest rates when you need them. Lower interest rates usually translate into smaller monthly payments and thousands of dollars saved on your most important financial matters.

There are 5 major factors that make up a credit score - see the 5 factors and the "weight" they carry:

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Online Dating

We, me and a few girlfriends, met up the other day and conversations inevitably touched on dates and such. One girlfriend shared her unpleasant experience at a social function which was a gathering of singles - of both sexes. She found out to her horror that some guys were not really interested in finding life-partners but rather one-night stands. That was the first and last time of such a function for her.

Perhaps, online dating would be a better alternative as finding someone that you are truly compatible with is very difficult and online dating has become one of the most exciting ways to meet new people. I believe there are many good sites available. I found this particular site, Elite Dating Club. They have assembled a directory of online dating sites that are helpful to all different types of singles looking to meet new people. Their objective Dating Site Reviews are most helpful. Plus, the site also has extra dating tips and advise articles for singles.

Yoko Ono & John Lennon

Forgiveness or Forgive and Forget - we hear a lot of either of these or we even preach this to the people around us. But is it that easy to practise it? If it's just someone losing one of your treasured belongings or spoiling a lucrative deal, forgiveness or forgetting it may not be difficult though grudgingly. But what if the act involves taking a life of someone close to you? Would forgiveness be easy?

Yoko Ono, though calling for a worldwide day of forgiveness on the anniversary of John Lennon's death on Dec 8, is herself not ready to forgive his killer. Can you blame her? Read article below which I've retyped due to the illegible print on the image:



YOKO not yet ready to forgive
LONDON: Yoko Ono has called for the anniversary of John Lennon's death to become a worldwide day of forgiveness, but said she could not yet absolve her husband's killer.

"Every year, let's make Dec 8 the day to ask for forgiveness from those who suffered the insufferable," she said in full-page newspaper advertisements.

"To the people who have also lost loved ones without cause; forgive us for having been unable to stop the tragedy."

She thanked all those who wrote to her at this time every year to say they were thinking of her and her husband.

She said Lennon was "shot and killed at the prime of his life, at age 40, when he had so much life ahead of him."

Mark Chapman, the obsessed Beatles fan who gunned down Lennon in 1980 outside his New York apartment, remains in jail and was denied parole for a fourth time earlier this year. - Reuters

Source: The Star