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thePEBBLE - 12/09/04 - Habits Control Your Business Success
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TODAY'S TRIVIA - - -
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Has lightning ever caused a plane to crash?
How does lightning help plants?
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ANSWERS TO YESTERDAY'S TRIVIA - - - -
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Can high-pitched screaming or singing really make
glass shatter?
It's not easy to do, but it is indeed possible to make glass
shatter with a high-pitched sound. To do it, you have to
match the sound's frequency to the frequency of the glass,
causing the glass to vibrate. Each glass has a slightly
different natural frequency.
How come lightning doesn't hit planes?
It does. But commercial planes are designed to handle
lightning strikes. The shell of the aircraft is usually aluminum
or other materials that cause lightning to travel only along the
outside of the plane and then to dissipate into the air. Planes
also have plenty of other protective equipment.
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thePEBBLE CONTENTS:
1. STRANGE BITS AND PIECES!
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2. TITLE ARTICLE - - -
How Your Habits Control Your Business Success
by Rose Hill
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3. MEDICAL COLUMN by Karin Henderson
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
PART 7 of 8
Lightheadedness/Dizzy/Eyesight
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4. THE SAGA OF PINEHILL by Ken Darby
The monastery
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5. OBSERVATIONS OF OUR BUSINESS
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6. THINK ABOUT THIS TODAY!
7. HA! HA!HA!
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STRANGE BITS AND PIECES!
Over 52.4 % of Boulder, Colorado citizens have a bachelor's
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TITLE ARTICLE - - -
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How Your Habits Control Your Business Success
by Rose Hill
Habit: A consistent behavior you perform so frequently that it
is automatic.
For example, if you learned to drive a car with a standard
transmission, the first few lessons were pretty jerky while
you learned to synchronize the clutch with the accelerator
pedal. If you released the clutch too fast, the car would stall.
If you pressed the accelerator too fast without releasing the
clutch, you raced the engine but you and the car were still
sitting there! However, with practice, practice, and more
practice, you learned to synchronize control of the clutch
with control of the accelerator so that you don?t even think
about it any more. It is now a habit.
All habits consist of knowledge combined with skill from
practice. What all this means is that you can learn new
habits to replace those that are no longer working for you.
You have to change what you're doing, how you're
doing it, and the choices you make in order to change
your business results.
If you keep doing what you?ve always done,
you'll keep getting what you?ve always gotten.
That means that if your business is not headed in the
direction you desire right now, you must make new
choices and start new habits to ensure you ultimately
get the results you want.
Your choices of habits, determine your success.
That may seem harsh to you. Especially if you?d like credit
for having ?Good Intentions.? The fact is that your intentions,
however good, are immaterial until they are supported
by your behaviors. In fact, good intentions that are not
actualized will drain you of the energy necessary to take
effective action. Remember, the only question of
significance is ?"What's working and What's isn't?"
Every habit has its consequences. Habits that are working
for you create positive consequences; habits that are not
working for you create negative consequences every time.
You may not like that your habits create consequences
but you'll still receive those consequences just the same.
Whether or not you like it isn't a factor. The fact is that as
you keep on repeating a behavior you will get repeatable,
predictable results.
Up to 90 percent
of your current behavior
is based on habits.
By and large, these habits work for you. They save you
from the tedium of having to make new decisions each day.
Wouldn't it be boring and a waste of energy if each day
you decided to brush your teeth, but then had to decide
where, with what toothbrush, with what of the 100's of
toothpastes now available, for how long, with what type
of action on the toothbrush, and so forth. It's much easier
to go into automatic and let your neural net take charge
freeing you to plan for that important meeting with your
big client at 2 PM.
Habits are part of being human; we all have them. We use
them to conserve energy and effort; to provide
familiarity/security; to free up energy for other things; to
improve and fine-tune our skills; and to assist in avoiding
physical and/or mental pain. Often, a particular habit can
lose its usefulness. Yet, because we are human we tend
to continue the habit, knowingly or unknowingly. Only with
awareness and a strong reason or motivation to change
can we initiate and sustain change.
Habits tap into the nearly human obsession to be (and to
appear) consistent with what we have already done. Once
we have made a choice or taken a stand, we encounter
personal and interpersonal pressures to behave consistently
with that commitment. For good or for ill, the drive to be
(and to look) consistent constitutes a highly potent
weapon of change.
To understand why consistency is so powerful a motive, it
is important to recognize that in most circumstances
consistency is valued and adaptive. Inconsistency is
commonly thought to be an undesirable personality trait.
The person whose beliefs, words, and actions don't match
may be seen as indecisive, confused, two-faced, or worse.
On the other side, a high degree of consistency is normally
associated with personal and intellectual strength. Certainly,
then, the personal consistency brought by habits is highly
valued because it provides us with a reasonable and
gainful orientation to the world. Most of the time we are
well served by habits... without them our lives and our
businesses are difficult, erratic, and disjointed.
By superimposing a new habit on top of an existing habit,
you can create a new way of doing things. In other words,
you start replacing old negative habits with new positive
habits.
For example, if you always show up late for meetings,
your stress levels are probably high and you feel
unprepared. To improve this you might decide to develop
a new habit of arriving five minutes early for every
appointment, including meetings. If you take on this
challenge you might notice:
The first month or so of the new behavior is tough. In fact,
you'll find yourself reverting to the old behavior during
times of stress or unawareness this is normal because
it is in compliance with our need to be consistent with
our prior behavior. However, don?t resort to
self-recriminations for the backsliding. Just pick
yourself up and recommit to the desired new behavior!
The more you activate the desired new behavior, the
easier it becomes. Eventually, it will be become just as
strong as the old habit you are replacing then it will
supersede the old behavior. Employ the principle of
consistency to help you build your new habit.
By systematically replacing your negative habits with
new positive habits one at a time you can dramatically
change all aspects of your business.
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Rose Hill is the Founder and Owner of SoloBizVille and
the SoloBizU community ? She specifically designs
programs to help jumpstart solo entrepreneur?s business
success. Learn more at www.SoloBizVille.com
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MEDICAL COLUMN - - - -
by Karin Henderson
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
PART 7 of 8
Lightheadedness/Dizzy/Eyesight
QUESTION: What could be the cause of my ear bleeding, it
has blead 3 times each time I lost my hearing for about 30
minuites afterwards and this last time it wasn't like blood
coming out, it looked more like orangy water, but I didn't lose
my hearing this time, but I did have a little 3 second episode
afterwards and then it seemed to be drainging in my mouth.
I haven't had any ear ache just the bleeding, this has been
going on for about 6 months.
ANSWER: I trust you have gone to see a specialist by now
and have had major testing such as an MRI and blood work
up done. Your inner ear is very close to the spinal column.
Any opening to the inner ear via a possible hole or fistula, is
concern for major infection. This could lead to serious problems.
Don't fool around with this or self-diagnose those kinds of
signs and symptoms. Six months is a very long and
unacceptable time to wait. You are describing two sources
of fluid, neither of which is "natural" to the body. Please
get some medical attention right away.
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THE SAGA OF PINEHILL
by Ken Darby
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Eloise Henry, age 18 when the story began
and David Wylie, age 20, were selected by a
stranger in town to take a dangerous trip,
together. The idea was that each was to take
only the clothes on their back and go
anywhere in the world where the stranger
took them. They were to be left there to find
their own way home. They had no money,
no identification, and no idea where they
were. If they arrived back home, there
would be a million dollars waiting in each
of their bank accounts
The story deals with their adventures along
and leads to the only way they could survive.
The story leads to many friends, many
adventures and many places.
As you read enjoy. It continues . . . . . . .
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"Wonderful" said Mae. "Now I see how the word
gets spread in ways man knows not. You perform as
guiding spirits for man always encouraging him
toward higher and higher thoughts. Are there many
of you?"
"Working from here we have over 200. There are
also around 300 places in earth where there are
groups doing the same work we perform. As time
goes by you shall see them. Come, eat. Please join
us."
Mae and Susan were ushered to seats near the
head of the table. They were being treated as
honored guests. Mae was seated next to the person
at the head of the table, then was left an empty
chair and then Susan was seated. They both well
knew why the empty seat between them.
"We have been watching your work with great
interest. It is a way of capitalizing on the work
we have been doing for centuries. It gives us
great pleasure to welcome you here. You have come
from a line who learned higher law the true and
real way, by your own decision. We admire your
work and your continued efforts."
"Why thank you. However, we do no more than
you for the ground has been prepared for us. While
you help maintain peace and encourage in a global
sense we have merely taken advantage of your
steadfast service. It does take all of us."
"Well said. I do believe you are correct.
Often people think we are angels, yet they could
open their eyes to see the truth. Few there are
who venture that far or possess that courage. Yet
over all the years we have served we have seen
much growth in the global sense. Oh, yes, there
are pockets of tribalism and worse, but on the
whole man is ever so slowly progressing to meeting
his Maker. It is enough for us that we serve."
"So too with us. We seek no reward. Mankind is
welcome to our time and attention, without cost,
when he asks. It is enough that we have been
chosen. It is enough that we have the capacity to
help. We seek nothing from man. Our Maker is our
source. Man can do nothing to harm us."
"That is not what we see, from time to time.
We man trying to harm you and we see you wisely
use the law to avoid harm and turn evil back unto
him that sent it. If all men would only see."
At that moment there was a flash of light and
Sien suddenly appeared between the two ladies.
"Good morning ladies, table"
The room filled momentarily with a group
"hello". Sien apparently spent much time here and
they all knew him well.
"Hello Sien. It is nice to see you. We have
not seen you since Oomano's and Romano's wedding
in Matto Grosso, well over a year ago. How are
you?" Mae and Susan had nearly the same words on
their lips.
"I am fine you two. And I see you are fine.
Welcome. This is where I spend most of my time
when I am not working. While of an Indian-White
heritage, I was actually raised for most of my
youth only a few miles from here. We all knew you
were travelling this way. It is a great pleasure
for us to have you here. You have been doing some
fine work in our land. Thank you."
Modestly Susan answered, "Sien, we have not
come anywhere close to the service to mankind you
have been. You are too kind."
"My dear Susan, each is called according to
their talent, and even that changes as time goes
on. You have been doing wonderful work, as is
Reno, Amenti and Maria even now. This is good and
we are all happy to see it. Have they shown you
around the monastery?"
"No, we only just arrived and just sat down."
"It is not much different than the monastery
in South America where I have taken Eloise and
David. Temples carved into the middle of huge rock
formations have a tendency to be alike. This is no
exception. This monastery was created partly with
the use of higher law and partly by hard hand
work. It was being worked on long before those of
us who live by higher law came into this area. The
monks were not doing well and petitioned our
assistance. Eventually each of them present in
those days learned higher law and now it is used
only by those who live accordingly. The facility
is huge, really, with lots of rooms for anyone who
wishes to join us. However, as you well know by
now this table and these chairs are the only
furniture here. There are no cooking facilities,
no beds, no special rooms set aside for special
people. It is only a huge series of empty rooms
carved out of the rock."
"We are long experienced in providing for
ourselves. We, too, have no possessions on us and
create our own environment. We, too, need little."
"Excellent. Such unbounded trust on your Maker
is what makes your life so valuable."
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THINK ABOUT THIS TODAY!
"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal
and then leap in the dark to our success."
---- Henry David Thoreau
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"Yeah," he said smiling slyly. "All the girls do."
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