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Inside this Newsletter
1. Articles
A. Best Stay-On-Track Advice
2. Letter
Shirts that say you are happy being YOU!
"The number one is the loneliest number if
we believe it to be." Regena English
http://www.leatherspinsters.com
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What if you tried to do everyone’s job at the office in addition
to your own? You’d run out of time, energy, space, inclination,
opportunity, and patience pretty quickly wouldn’t you?
Or what if you tried to run all the houses in your neighborhood
as well as your own? Again, you’d miss out on what was going on
in your own home, because you were so busy with everyone else’s.
You’d be off track for enjoying and furthering your own home and
your own job rather quickly, wouldn’t you.
The same is true of your life. If you don’t decide to block out
the things that are not important to the happiness and welfare of
your own life, you’ll end up too busy and too distracted to see
what you want to happen for yourself.
Staying on track with a goal while daily life is coming at you
faster every day can seem difficult at best. But creating
priorities -- and protecting them -- doesn’t mean that you have
to choose between family and career. Not at all. That’s about
balance (a whole different show!)
Staying on track with priorities -- goals, ideas, plans -- does
however mean that you have to choose the way you allocate your
time.
No matter how rich, how smart, how beautiful, every person on the
planet is given the same 24 hours each day. The key to success
in staying on track with your goals (* drum roll please *) is to
examine how you spend your time in relation to what you say your
priorities are.
For example, when I was writing one of my ebooks, it became my
top priority as I neared the deadline. I chose to rearrange my
schedule, to not see as many clients, to take rain-checks on
dinner invitations, to ignore the new fall TV shows.
When you set a goal, or set a priority in your life, you also
have to consciously decide to stay on track with it by not
letting distractions get in the way.
Remember the example at the beginning of the article -- in order
to say YES to your house, to your job, you have to watch out for
and say NO to other things, sometimes even things that you really
want.
Decide to stay on track with your healthy eating at lunch by
ordering a salad or a veggie sandwich. Decide to stay on track
with studying for your professional tests by delegating the
laundry to someone else for a few weeks. Decide to stay on track
with your finances by deciding on how much your clothes budget
actually is each week.
Decide to stay on track with conscious living.
For the next week, try this real life stay on track strategy:
Every time you check your hair, check your choices. Ask
yourself, “Am I making choices that are leading me in the
direction I want to go in?” See if you’re on track for the day,
if not make the adjustment.
It’s a stay-on-track habit that will get you what you want
quicker than you ever thought possible. Kathy Gates is a Professional Life Coach in Scottsdale Arizona.
What is Life Coaching? Your life -- only easier, happier, more
joyful! Learn more about how to create a simpler, less
stressful, more meaningful lifestyle. Visit
www.reallifecoach.com
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Goodmorning Patty,
Your email is appreciated and valued. The penpal page on the leatherspinsters.com site was discontinued a few years ago due to participants receiving spam galore. In the
upcoming newsletter there will be a link to where leather spinsters can post their introductions for penpals. Yes it's understandable friends and family would be curious
about your current life choice but eventually their curiosity with you will fade. Always remember to live your life in a manner that will produce joy and peace for you.
Thank you for taking time out of your day to email me it was indeed a pleasure.
Sincerely,
Regena English,editor
Micheal,
You have authored some insightful letters over the years. I can only think you are a lonely man and your loneliness is coloring your perceptions of the women you are exposed to in your daily affairs.Bethany
Dear Mr. Bell,
I read your letter with interest and I "heard" a sad man who is perpetually judging the single women in his life with harshness. Your critical comments are a reflection of how you feel about yourself
and is projecting it onto women. When you feel good about yourself you will find yourself surrounded by women who feel good about themselves.Trisha
Micheal you spend so much time picking the women in your dance club apart I have to wonder about your state of mind? Never mind the women, are you happy?Deloise
Michael this is not the first letter you've written about maladjusted women, at least that's how you described them. You need to ask yourself why is it these appear to be the only women you choose to socialized when the world is clearly filled with other types?Elise
Dear Micheal,
Here is something to think about. There was a time I wondered why I drew uncaring vampirish men into my life and not compassionate, sensitive men. And there it was
men mirrored my conflicted feelings of self. anonymous
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