A Better Life: ItsYourFuture!

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A Better Life: ItsYourFuture!

Be Happy Be Healthy, Live Long and Prosper
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Vol.2, No.12, June 15th., 2000 ISSN 1442-5211

CONTENTS IN THIS ISSUE
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1. Our Sponsor

2. Welcome - From the Publisher

3. Our Motto

4. BE HAPPY: the MIND-ATTITUDE

Inspiration: "Information, Please"
Humor: Troubles With Children, Parts I and II
Romance: Thinking Like a Romantic

5. BE HEALTHY, LIVE LONG: the BODY-HEALTH/FITNESS/NUTRITION

-Want Want A Fitter, Better Looking Body? Weight And See!
-Grandma Was Right!
-Super Broccoli
-Glen's Food Fit for the Fit Recipe: Jamaican Beef

6. PROSPER: MONEY-CAREER/BUSINESS/INVESTING/HOME BUSINESS

- A Free Online Conference
- Valuable Read of the Week: The Power of Focus

7. Our Companion Ezines

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9. Privacy Policy, Disclaimer and Copyright Notice

10. Contact Information

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2. Welcome from the Publisher
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"Whose life have you touched today?"

This week, we have another heart-warming story in our Inspiration
section, entitled "Information Please". It harks back to an
earlier technological age that many of our readers will not have
experineced. That doesn't matter, because the human message is
timeless. The story ends with the question, "Whose life have you
touched today?"

In my own small way, I hope the words we print in these pages
reach out to help, reassure, support and inspire. But I know in
my heart, that producing this ezine not enough. I know that most
of our readers are from the First World, and that as a group we
enjoy one of the greatest standards of living in the history of
our species. For all our problems and shortcomings, we are
uniquely blessed. Many are not so lucky. They live with hunger,
disease and oppression daily.

The underlying motivation of A Better Life:ItsYourFuture!, is to
support and encourage those who want to take control of their own
future- in how happy they choose to be, in their health, and in
the realm of personal finance. For most of us, our problem lies
in not taking advantage of the wealth and opportunities that lie
all around us. For many in the world, the opportunities are much
smaller, and much further out of reach.

Over the last year, I've been drawn back a number of times to a
website that helps change the lives of many people. Its called
Life in Africa, and its purpose is to help individuals set up
small enterprises to support their families. The amounts of money
involved are a pittance to us, and beneath the normal banks'
dignity. Very briefly, supporters of Life in Africa donate money.
The money is used to guarantee small loans to individuals who can
make a good case. Most of them are women, trying to help provide
for their families. As the loan is repaid, the money is recycled-
further loans are guaranteed, helping even more people.

By self-selection, readers of A Better Life:ItsYourFuture! are
a wonderful group of motivated, supportive, compassionate people.
I'd like to propose that, as a community, we work with the Life in
Africa Foundation to support the endeavors of those with the
initiative to develop ways of helping their families. I'd ask you
to have a look a few webpages....

http://www.lifeinafrica.com/give/borrowers/may00.htm
will show you the kind of people we can help.

http://www.lifeinafrica.com/microfinance/microfinance.htm
will tell you how microfinance works.

http://www.lifeinafrica.com/report.htm
will show you how some individual donations are working in practice.
Have a look at how $100 donated by a couple called Bruns, has
guaranteed 4 loans worth a total of $599 in just 6 months.

Next issue (July 1st), I'll invite all our readers to make a small
donation by credit card. Money that for us only means a couple of
magazines or a Big Mac Meal. I'm talking $5, $10 or $20. Nothing
to us. The total amount will be forwarded to the Life in Africa
Foundation as a donation from the readers of this ezine. So that
you know 'the right thing has been done', I will publish a list
of donors, and the amounts they donated, in the July 15th issue.
>From then on, we'll keep you up-to-date on a monthly basis with
information on the people who are being helped, and their
projects that have been made possible by your generosity. I for
one, will feel a little prouder of my answer, when I see the
question, "Whose life have you touched today."

John

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3. Our Motto
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Our Motto is- "Be Happy, Be Healthy, Live Long and Prosper."
>From this Motto, we can define the three areas in which we intend
to assist our readers.

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4. BE HAPPY: the MIND-ATTITUDE
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Quote:
"The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their
happiness in another's keeping."
- Claudius Claudianus

Inspiration: "Information, Please"
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When I was quite young, my father had one of the first telephones
in our neighborhood. I remember well the polished, old case
fastened to the wall. The shiny receiver hung on the side of the
box. I was too little to reach the telephone, but used to listen
with fascination when my mother used to talk to it. Then I
discovered that somewhere inside the wonderful device lived an
amazing person - her name was "Information Please" and there was
nothing she did not know.

"Information Please" could supply anybody's number and the correct
time. My first personal experience with this genie-in-the-bottle
came one day while my mother was visiting a neighbor. Amusing
myself at the tool bench in the basement, I whacked my finger with
a hammer. The pain was terrible, but there didn't seem to be any
reason in crying because there was no one home to give sympathy.
I walked around the house sucking my throbbing finger, finally
arriving at the stairway.

The telephone! Quickly, I ran for the foot stool in the parlor
and dragged it to the landing. Climbing up, I unhooked the
receiver in the parlor and held it to my ear." Information
Please," I said into the mouthpiece just above my head. A click
or two and a small clear voice spoke into my ear.

"Information"

"I hurt my finger..." I wailed into the phone. The tears came
readily enough now that I had an audience.

"Isn't your mother home?" came the question.

"Nobody's home but me," I blubbered.

"Are you bleeding?" the voice asked.

"No," I replied." I hit my finger with the hammer and it hurts."

"Can you open your icebox?" she asked. I said I could.

"Then chip off a little piece of ice and hold it to your finger,"
said the voice.

After that, I called "Information Please" for everything. I
asked her for help with my geography and she told me where
Philadelphia was. She helped me with my math. She told me my
pet chipmunk, that I had caught in the park just the day before,
would eat fruit and nuts.

Then, there was the time Petey, our pet canary died. I called
"Information Please" and told her the sad story. She listened,
the said the usual things grown ups say to soothe a child. But
I was unconsoled.

I asked her, "Why is it that birds should sing so beautifully
and bring joy to all families, only to end up as a heap of
feathers on the bottom of a cage?" She must have sensed my deep
concern, for she said quietly,

"Paul, always remember that there are other worlds to sing in."

Somehow I felt better.

Another day I was on the telephone." Information Please."

"Information," said the now familiar voice.

"How do you spell fix?" I asked.

All this took place in a small town in the Pacific Northwest.
When I was nine years old, we moved across the country to
Boston. I missed my friend very much. "Information Please"
belonged in that old Wooden box back home and I somehow never
thought of trying the tall, shiny new phone that sat on the
table in the hall. As I grew into my teens, the memories of
those childhood conversations never really left me. Often, in
moments of doubt and perplexity I would recall the serene sense
of security I had then. I appreciated now how patient,
understanding, and kind she was to have spent her time on a
little boy.

A few years later, on my way west to college, my plane put
down in Seattle I had about half-an-hour or so between planes.
I spent 15 minutes or so on the phone with my sister, who lived
there now. Then, without thinking what I was doing, I dialed
my hometown operator and said, "Information, please."

Miraculously, I heard the small, clear voice I knew so well.

"Information." I hadn't planned this, but I heard myself saying,
"Could you please tell me how to spell fix?"

There was a long pause. Then came the soft spoken answer,
"I guess your finger must have healed by now."

I laughed, "So it's really still you," I said." I wonder if
you have any idea how much you meant to me during that time."

"I wonder," she said, "if you know how much your calls meant to
me. I never had any children and I used to look forward to your
calls."

I told her how often I had thought of her over the years and I
asked if I could call her again when I came back to visit my
sister.

"Please do," she said. "Just ask for Sally."

Three months later I was back in Seattle. A different voice
answered,"Information."

I asked for Sally. "Are you a friend?" she said.

"Yes, a very old friend," I answered.

"I'm sorry to have to tell you this," she said." Sally had
been working part time the last few years because she was sick.
She died five weeks ago." Before I could hang up she said,

"Wait a minute. Did you say your name was Paul?"

"Yes."

"Well, Sally left a message for you. She wrote it down in case
you called. Let me read it to you. The note said, "Tell him I
still say there are other worlds to sing in. He'll know what I
mean."

I thanked her and hung up. I knew what Sally meant.

Never underestimate the impression you may make on others.

Whose life have you touched today?

Humor: Troubles With Children Part I
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A couple with three children waited in line at San Francisco's
Pier 41 to purchase tickets for a boat trip to Alcatraz. Others
watched with varying degrees of sympathy and irritation as
the young children fidgeted, whined, and punched one another.
The frazzled parents reprimanded them to no avail.
Finally they reached the ticket window.
"Five tickets, please," the father said. "Two round trip,
three one way."

Humor: Troubles With Children Part II
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Several years ago, as I returned home from a business
trip a storm hit, with crashing thunder and severe
lightning. I arrived home about 2 a.m. and found my
two children in bed with my wife, Karey. They were
apparently scared by the loud storm. So I slept in the
guest bedroom that night.

The next day I explained to the children that it is O.K.
to sleep with Mom when there is a bad storm and I am away,
but when I am expected home they are not to sleep with Mom.
They just said, "OK!"

After my next trip, Karey and the children picked me up
in the terminal because the plane was late. They, along
with hundreds of other folks, waited for their arriving
passengers. As I entered the waiting area my son saw me
and came running up to me shouting, "Hi, Dad! I've got
some good news!"

I waved back and replied loudly, "What's the good news?"
Alex boldly shouted, "While you were away nobody slept
with Mommy!"

The airport became very quiet. Everyone in the waiting
area looked at Alex, glanced at me, and then, searched
around to see if they could figure out who was his Mother!

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Romance: Thinking Like A Romantic
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by Michael Webb

In the hundreds of interviews I have given, one question comes
up almost more than any other. Perhaps you have the same one for
me. The reporters want to know where I get my ideas. The answer
is quite simple: everywhere!

Very few of us are natural romantics. However, all of us have the
capability of being romantic, it just takes a little effort and
practice. After years of doing romantic things on a nearly daily
basis, the way my mind processes information has changed. When I
read the newspaper, walk through a store or watch a movie, my
mind latches on to ideas that could be used to express my love to
my wife. As I mentioned in a previous column, even the junk mail
can be a source for romantic inspiration.

Just like a poet, song writer, architect, artist, fashion
designer or homemaker has trained their minds for new ideas and
concepts for their profession, the same can be true with romance.
After struggling at the beginning of my romantic days, now
several new ideas come to me each day. In fact, I have so many
ideas that I will not be able to use all of them in my lifetime.

I challenge you to write down one romantic idea each day for the
next week. You will discover that it is a lot easier than it
seems when you actually put your mind to it. You might even be
able to write down several each day. Once you train your mind to
think as a romantic, the ideas will begin appearing without any
effort at all. Then hopefully, you can begin sharing your ideas
with me.

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5. BE HEALTHY, LIVE LONG: the BODY-HEALTH/FITNESS/NUTRITION
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Quote:
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you
don't try."
- Beverly Sills

Want Want A Fitter, Better Looking Body? Weight And See!
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Many of us have been brought up thinking that the exercise we
need to lose weight is aerobic. Like running, cycling, walking,
swimming etc. Many of us also were brought up in a world where
the only people who lifted weights were serious athletes, or
guys looking for a nicely-muscled, good-looking body. Times have
changed. Now we know that fat is burnt in the muscles, and that
the greater out lean muscle mass is, the higher our metabolic
rate is. The higher our metabolic rate is, the more fat we burn.
This means that an ideal regime to promote fitness, health and
fat loss, would incorporate diet with both aerobic and weights
(anaerobic) training. Use all three, and you'll have a fitter,
stronger, healthier and better-looking body. Weight and see!

Grandma Was Right!
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Chances are your Grandmother of Great-Grandmother used to spoon
out a daily dose of cod-liver oil to her kids- and didn't they
hate it! Over the next couple of generations, as we got more
into science and technology, the old cod-liver oil dropped off
the radar. Over those same couple of generations, diseases and
medical conditions of all sorts went on the increase. Heart
disease, cancer, arthritis andd diabetes to name a few. Now, the
scientists are telling us that an important part of our diet is
Essential Fatty Acids, and that we are particularly deficient in
the Omega-3 EFA's. According to Dr. Gary Wikholm, "Essential
fatty acids serve to facilitate cellular communication, keep the
blood flowing smoothly throughout the body, protect the body from
cancer, and regulate blood sugar...The richest sources of omega-3
fatty acids are flaxseed and some types of seafood...salmon,
mackerel, herring and other types of cold water fish." This is
not the easiest article to read, but it is well worth the effort.

Super Broccoli
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New evidence that diet has a huge impact on disease rates is
continuing to pile up. Years of research in the US and UK has
established that broccoli has a cancer-fighting quality. Broccoli
contains a chemical called sulphoraphane, which when released in
the gut, increases the production of glutathione transfrease, an
enzyme which helps destroy cancer-causing food substances that
can lead to colon cancer.

Now, scientists in the UK have debveloped a type of super-
broccoli. "We have produced a vegetable that has 100 times more
sulphoraphane than normal and, according to laboratory tests 100
times as much anti-cancer activity", said plant biologist, Dr
Richard Mithen. It is hoped that tests will show that the super-
broccoli will help prevent colon cancer, and help slow down
existing cancers. It is hoped to be on the market in two years.

Glen's Food Fit for the Fit Recipe: Jamaican Beef
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with Glen Esse
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1 tablespoon OIL
500g. MINCED BEEF
1 ONION peeled and chopped
1 clove of GARLIC
1 425g. tin TOMATOES
1 425g. tin CORN KERNALS
1 teaspoon SUGAR
1 teaspoon CINNAMON
� teas. Ground CUMIN
� cup RAISINS
Chopped green ends of SPRING ONIONS

Heat oil in a 2 litre saucepan and stir fry until brown, the
BEEF, ONION and GARLIC.

Add the rest of the ingredients, cover and simmer for 25-30
minutes adding a little water if the mixture gets to thick.

Serve with RICE and GREEN VEGETABLES.

You can make this recipe quiet exotic by adding slices of
pineapple ( fresh or tinned ) that have been seared in a pan.
This gives the dish a real sweet and sour twist to it.

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