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The main thing people are lacking in today’s economy surprisingly is not money. Sure some people are hurting worse than others. However, the main thing the majority of people are lacking is confidence in their future. Well the best way to restore confidence is to take positive steps daily to improve your future outlook. So what is the good news in all of this. Consider this, most people tend to have a somewhat pessimistic outlook on most things. As a result people with an optimistic outlook are refreshing and bring hope.
By doing what you can to stay upbeat and optimistic you stand a much better chance to keep your job in the event of layoffs. People even your bosses love those who bring them good news. So focus on finding good news and good news will find you.
More good news:
Dow Breaks 9,000 for First Time in 6 Months After Home Sales Surge US Stocks rose 2.1% to close at 9,069.29 today as bright reports on home sales and corporate earnings bolster beliefs that the recession is lifting.
Also Ice cream cones were invented by Charles E. Menches on July 23rd, 1904 Also you want an entertaining upbeat comedy to watch. I highly recommend you see the movie New in Town with Renee Zellweger. You’ll definitely feel better after watching it.
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Have you ever wondered about why so many immigrants through the years have risked so much to come to America. It’s because of the great opportunity it represents to create wealth and build a better life. That’s why we have such an illegal immigration. Legal immigration through the proper channels is what has made America great. Unchecked illegal immigration has the potential to undue so much of the good created by all the legal immigration This story is not about the debate over illegal immigration. This is about the story of one family who immigrated from Eastern Europe past the Statue of Liberty in New York to make a better life for their family. They certainly did just that.
However, because of this story Americans are now enjoying the incredible health and otherwise benefits of Himalayan Goji – GoChi Juice.
This is the story of Ray Faltinsky’s Family.
On Liberty Island, in New York Harbor, stands one of the largest statues in the world. The statue represents a proud woman dressed in a loose robe. Her right arm holds a great torch, raised high in the air. The left arm grasps a tablet bearing the date of the Declaration of Independence. A crown with huge spikes, like sun rays, rests on her head. At her feet is a broken shackle, symbolizing the overthrow of tyranny.The torch she holds rises 305 feet above the base of the pedestal. At night, it gleams with a powerful light as a symbol of liberty lighting the entire world. In 1903, a poem was inscribed on a tablet at the base of the pedestal. Lady Liberty speaks these words to the world:
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free… Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
And so they came. The homeless, the tempest-tost. The freedom lovers, the dreamers. They left everything they had, said goodbye to families and cultures and began their flight to freedom.
In December 1955, on a refurbished, creaky old American Army boat, the General Langfitt, 400 people set sail from Bremerhaven, Germany. Their destination: Harbor of New York City. During World War II, this boat was used to carry American soldiers to Europe. Now it was used to carry the poorest immigrants from Europe to America. On this trip were Germans, Poles, Romanians, Hungarians, Czechs, and other immigrants from Europe looking for freedom in America. Many on the boat had waited for more than five years for this opportunity to leave their homeland. None of them spoke English or had more than $100 with them.
The conditions were primitive. Husbands and wives slept in different quarters. No one was allowed to bring any personal belongings other than clothing with them on the boat.
The boat was painfully slow. For more than two weeks it was rocked by stormy waters. Nearly every immigrant was seasick to the bone. At one point, the General Langfitt had to stop in the middle of the Atlantic for nearly three days because the waters were so treacherous. Many thought this was the last trip of their lives. But while the immigrants were filled with weakness, fear, and uncertainty, they did not complain because they knew this was but a small price to pay for what lay ahead in America.
That boat was of particular interest to me. Below is a photograph of a family on that boat. The man sitting at the table is my father, Nikolaus. The woman is my mother, Martha. The little boy is my older brother, Ron, and the little girl is my older sister Gabrielle. The year was 1955.
Ten years ago, in 1998, on the occasion of my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary, I told this story at our annual Convention and in our previous monthly publication called the FreeLife Times. This summer, it is my privilege, on the occasion of my mom’s 80th birthday and my parents’ 60th wedding anniversary, to once again say thank you to my mother and father. Thank you for having the dream and vision of coming to America. Thank you for the sacrifice and courage to leave your culture and your country behind, because you felt we had a better opportunity in America. Thank you for years of sacrifice and hard work that has enabled all your children to grow up and prosper in this great country.
I learned many lessons from my parents, like the value of hard work and being honest. But the most important lesson I learned from them was how important it is to practice the Golden Rule: treating others the way you would like to be treated. This single rule alone has had a more positive impact on the record growth of FreeLife all around the world than any other principle we practice. It is the cornerstone of our business, and it will be the primary reason we will continue to grow and prosper as we become a bigger force for good around the world than any other Direct Sales company in history.
Thank you, Mom and Dad, for your flight to freedom and the life lessons that have made a difference in so many lives around the world.
Don’t you love it when the guy who’s been knocked around, the underdog rises to the top, gets the girl and generally makes you feel good about life? You know the kind of story, it’s the kind that gets made into a movie. In fact the more the hero had to overcome the better the story, and the more we tend to admire, even love that individual when they finally succeed at something. Especially that person whose been knocked down and bullied so often they have to look up just to have poor self-confidence. Well this is just such a story. In fact when you’re done take a look at the YouTube videos referenced in the story. They’ll make the hair raise on your arms and give you goose bumps.
No matter how beaten up you may be, how much debt you might be in, how much you owe on your credit cards, how many rejections you have faced, how far away you are from your goals, I’m here to tell you…
Don’t give up. Success lies just around the corner!
Let me share a moving story about someone who never, ever gave up. In spite of great obstacles, he kept his dream alive.
Paul Potts was raised in Bristol, England, by his father, a bus driver, and his mother, a supermarket cashier. He developed a love of singing in his school choir, but he was shy and because he stayed out of the spotlight, his talents were overlooked.
Young Paul had a bit of a weight problem and he had been badly bullied in school, to the point that he had no self-confidence whatsoever.
“It was pretty bad,” he said. “They used to beat me up. I even thought of throwing myself down some stairs one day—not to kill myself, but to make people feel sorry for me.”
Growing up in a tough urban neighborhood, Paul did not dare disclose his growing love of opera for fear of being bullied even more. His passion became public only because he accepted a dare from friends to enter a local karaoke competition dressed as Luciano Pavarotti. His friends thought it would be funny to see him fumbling on stage, but the laughter stopped as soon as Paul opened his mouth.
Gaining a little confidence from his performance, Paul began to sing and even entered a local television talent contest. Although he didn’t take first place, he won enough money to pay for more voice lessons in Italy, where he actually got to sing in front of his idol, Pavarotti. The great tenor was impressed with Paul, and urged him to continue his studies, but unfortunately, fate had other plans.
Shortly after returning from Italy, Paul was stricken with a ruptured appendix and during emergency surgery, doctors found a tumor on one of his adrenal glands. They wanted to remove it right away, but Paul had no insurance and little means to pay. Although he was now singing opera with local companies, he was unpaid for these performances. He sang in the truest meaning of the word “amateur”—for the pure love of singing.
Ultimately, he had no choice but to have the surgery, and he had to sell his car to pay for it. This meant he now had to bicycle 15 miles to his “day job” as a salesman at Car Phone Warehouse, and work 13 hour days just to put food on the table for himself and his new bride.
In 2003, as if he had not had enough bad luck, Paul was knocked off his bicycle by a careless motorist and suffered a badly broken collarbone and severe whiplash.
The long and painful recuperation was made even worse by extreme financial difficulty, and Paul was so desperate that he even stopped singing for the next four years. By 2007, he was 30,000 pounds in debt, living on the brink of poverty. One day, while surfing the Internet, he came across “Britain’s Got Talent” website by accident.
It was a pop-up and he meant to close it, but instead, he maximized it. Paul filled out the application form <b>but when he reached the bottom where he could either submit or cancel, he could not decide. Was he too old? Did he have enough talent? He had not sung in four years! And so, in the end, he literally got a 10-pence piece out of his pocket and flipped it. He decided if it landed on heads, he’d go for it, and if it landed on tails, he wouldn’t. It landed on heads.</b>
With his best $35 suit, he dragged himself to the audition. Here’s a quote from Paul regarding that night: “I remember getting to the edge of the stage, and I seriously considered walking out onstage, waving to Simon Cowell, and walking off again. I didn’t know what I was doing there. It was a big risk, and I’ve never been much of a risk-taker. I just think it’s easier to think that you might have gotten something than to know that you didn’t.
You can see what happened that night by going to youtube.com and entering “Paul Potts.” It’s an incredible scene.
Paul went on to win that program and 100,000 pounds. He announced his retirement from Car Phone Warehouse, took his wife on a luxury vacation, paid off his 30,000-pound debt, and got his teeth fixed. “I’d wanted to deal with the teeth because I felt very self-conscious about them,” he said.
He went on to sing in front of the Queen of England and appeared on news programs around the world, including Oprah. He signed a million-dollar worldwide record deal and his album became number one in 17 countries, selling over two million copies.
Paul now sings around the world and is regarded as one of opera’s greatest Cinderella stories. “I still can’t believe it,” said Paul. “I keep waiting for someone to pinch me and say, ‘Wake up, Paul. It’s time for work—you’re late again!’”
If Paul Potts never gave up on his dream, why should you?
Are you tired of rejection? So was Paul.
Are you insecure about yourself? So was Paul.
Are you in debt? So was Paul.
Do some people laugh at your dreams? They laughed at Paul.
Do you have some health challenges? So did Paul.
Are you a bit overweight? Paul was.
Are your teeth a little crooked? Paul’s were.
Are you too busy working a JOB? Paul was.
The bottom line is that none of that matters, not even a little bit. All that matters is that you never give up on your dream.
Maybe we can’t sing like Paul but each of us, everyone of us has a unique and special talent that we can share with the world. What is yours? Are you afraid to let the world see it? Look how close Paul and the rest of the world was to losing out on being blessed by Paul’s incredible talent – the simple flip of a coin. My God I hate to think of how much poorer each of us would be now if Paul had not taken that risk, if he had simply decided to play it safe and not sing.
