Rule One

Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you… with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.

Rule Two

Today, and every day, deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Rule Three

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don’t look back at it too long. Mistakes are life’s way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Rule Four

Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

Rule Five

Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeat again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life’s blueprint. Smile!

Rule Six

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Rule Seven

Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future. You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way.

Rule Eight

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

Rule Nine

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find “tomorrow” on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday’s defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, “If I had my life to live over again…”Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day!

Rule Ten

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Rule Eleven

Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self- pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.

Rule Twelve

Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.

Rule Thirteen

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self- starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.

Rule Fourteen

You will achieve grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day — not long and difficult projects, but chores that will take you, step by step, toward your rainbow. Write them down, if you must, but limit your list so that you won’t have to drag today’s undone matters into tomorrow. Remember that you cannot build your pyramid in twenty-four hours. Be patient. Never allow your day to become so cluttered that you neglect your most important goal — to do the best you can, enjoy this day, and rest satisfied with what you have accomplished.

Rule Fifteen

Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

Rule Sixteen

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valley you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

Rule Seventeen

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Imagine spending time in a Wonderland of nature, with big beautiful trees, and every where you look mother nature smiles back at you!

A place where you can breathe fresh air and feel free!

That place it not too far away infact it is only 60km from Johannesburg and 30km from Krugersdorp.  This is the place where I have selected to host my "Essential Living Weekend Experience" (eve 19th March – lunch 21st March) together with 3 inspiring colleagues and you are invited.

So, if you haven’t booked yet you probably wandering what this weekend is all about.   It’s about being Re-Connected, Re-Energised and Self Aware but most importantly it is about having fun, not sitting around all day indoors listening to someone talk and show you slides.  It’s about going outside, connecting with others and at the same time re-connecting with yourself.  Oh! … and did I say it’s about having Fun! 

Do you want to have more energy - effortlessly? Do you want to discover ways to cook healthy easy vegetarian meals?

Do you want to re-connect with yourself? 

If you answered YES to all 3 of the questions above please click on the link below fill in the form and come spend the weekend with us, before all the spaces are gone.

Bookings:  Click on the link below and complete the form and email or fax it back to me – All the details are on the form

http://mini.majesticinteractive.co.za/admin/uploads/232/documents/Essential%20Living%20Weekend%20Booking%20form.pdf

More Info:  Please click on the link below and download the brochure.
 http://mini.majesticinteractive.co.za/admin/uploads/232/documents/An%20Essential%20Living%20Weekend%20Experience%20BROCHURE.pdf

May you find serenity and tranquility in a world You may not always understand.

May the pain you have known and conflict you have experienced Give you the strength to walk through life Facing each new situation with courage and optimism.

Always know that there are those whose love and understanding Will always be there, even when you feel most alone.

May you discover enough goodness in others To believe in a world of peace.

May a kind word, a reassuring touch, a warm smile be yours Every day of your life, And may you give these gifts as well as receive them.

Remember the sunshine when the storm seems unending.

Teach love to those who know hate, And let that love embrace you as you go into the world.

May the teaching of those you admire become part of you, So that you may call upon them.
Remember, those whose lives you have touched And who have touched yours are always a part of you, Even if the encounters were less than you would have wished. It is the content of the encounter that is more important than it’s form.

May you not become too concerned with material matters, But instead place immeasurable value on the goodness in your heart.

Find time in each day to see the beauty and love in the world around you.

Realize that each person has limitless abilities, But each of us is different in our own way.
What you may feel you lack in one regard May be more than compensated for in another.
What you feel you lack in the present May become one of your strengths in the future.

May you see your future as one filled with promise and possibility. Learn to view everything as a worthwhile experience.

May you find enough inner strength to determine your own worth by yourself, And not be dependent on another’s judgment of your accomplishments.

May you always feel loved.

Call me on 0825614455 if you’d like to take advantage of a kahuna massage at a special price

I had an amazing watsu experience this morning with my friend Andrea. We hadn’t seen each other for years and when I found out that she does this form of healing, I jumped at the chance to experience it.

She’s a bit shy to be on video, but I did take some footage surreptitiously, hehe, and I may upload it here, depending on whether she likes it. Anyway, here’s a video of the founder, >Harold Dull, talking about it.

If you’re a water baby, like me, you’ll love it too, so find more information at http://www.watsu.com/

Or if you’re in Jozi, please contact Andrea on 0836014934.

**Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.**

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?

Because there is a Party, like no Party on earth.
A Tea Party full of wonder, mystery and danger.
Some say to survive it you need to be as mad as a hatter,
Which luckily I am!

So do you care for tea for charity? If you don’t care for tea, you could at least make polite conversation!

Because now you’ve got a date. A very important date: Sunday March 7th 2010!

So don’t be late for your important date. We’ll be having Tea, you C, and after which we’ll be going through the looking glass in 3D to find “Alice in Wonderland”.

Details

Date: Sunday 7th March 2010
Time: 14:30 for 15:00 –don’t be late or you’ll be called naughty!
Venue: Camelot Houghton, then Ster-Kinekor, The Zone, Rosebank
Dress code: Strictly Mad as a Hatter & Wonderland Inspired!
Donation: R220 per person (includes donation, fantastical Tea Party refreshments and 3D movie on release weekend) All proceeds in aid of Faces of Hope Foundation.

RSVP essential:
contact me in a hurry to confirm you’ll be at my Tea Party- I have limited seats you know!
Email the Mad Hatter Telana on jozi7degrees@gmail.com or 083 730 2979
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I’ve decided to learn about Forex trading, as I want to earn lots of money very quickly to realise my dream of living in the country and earning an income without too much of work.

I joined two online companies, on a whim, both gave me a call within hours of each other explaining what they do. It seems lots of these businesses are platforms for people to trade on and they make their money out of the commissions that people pay them (smart)

And they both offer training, one suggests that I start with a minimum of $500 and learn as much as I can till I have enough money, the other suggests that a minimum of $100 is good enough to start with.

I’ll keep learning, but I’d love some people to work with. So if you’re interested in learning about this form of investment, or especially if you know something already and can help me out, then please get in touch

I’ve just got the date of my next dolphin swim from Halo Gaia and I’d love for you to come with me.

Please go to: http://harounkola.com/swimming-with-wild-dolphins/ for all the details and how to book.

I hope that you can come with me, it will be an awesome time. I didn’t get any pics of the dolphins on the last trip, but was very happy to get this pic of me diving into the ocean from Courtney.

Can you come?

Here is the info for my workshops in Joburg and Cape Town.
Please pass on to anyone who you know who wants to transform their work
and make them the best therapist
Hope you are well and happy.
Love and blessings
Vanessa