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Attitude is everything

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln

We all know our own head trash is our worst enemy. So why do we allow it? If only I had the answer to that one. I think that playing it safe and talking yourself out of something can be easier in some ways than biting the bullet and just working toward whatever it is you want to accomplish. It most cases there is a way to figure anything out if you just spend enough time looking at all the angles. It may not be easy or readily apparent but it is usually there. Don;t give in to your doubt. You can achieve anything you set your mind to.

Laina

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Dropped Call Dilemma

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I was talking to a friend of mine the other day when the call got dropped. I was then talking to the same person later that day and was told another call they had been on got dropped and that both parties then spent about 5 minutes calling each other and getting voice mail and it was frustrating.

This led us to a discussion about who has the responsibility to call back when a call gets dropped. Shouldn’t there be etiquette around this? If there was a rule wouldn’t it save a lot of time wondering if you should be calling back or if you are calling back and you keep getting a busy signal should you stop calling? But then what if they stop calling because they were getting a busy signal too. Look at how complicated it is just to try to reconnect after a dropped call.

Let’s put an end to this frustration and vote. We will take the voice of the majority and it will become official etiquette!

Vote now – polls end May 28th, 2010.

Laina

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Building Yourself

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The way to gain a good reputation (notoriety for some particular characteristic), is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. – Socrates

We all want to have a good reputation. It can be as a business person, a parent, significant other, or friend. We want want to be known for doing the right thing at the right time. But do you ever act in a way that doesn’t really support the reputation you are wanting to project? Don’t deny it, we all have done it at one time or another. It can be hard to always uphold the “motto’ you want to live by.

One of the people whom I feel does live consistently up to the reputation she projects and others perceive is Maya Angelou. She is an amazing women and always has that positive outlook I know I wish I could have all the time. With what I have read about her she hasn’t let adversity get her down and i know personally when i am stress by obstacles it is when i am at my worst. It seems hard to care about your reputation when your life seems to suck. But doesn’t that just perpetuate the suckiness?

What can be done? The saying “fake it until you make it” can sometimes be the best advice. Letting it get to you can just make it worse. Be strong! No obstacle out there can get the best of us!

Laina

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Sarah McDonald – positive in the face of MS.

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This Saturday I had the pleasure of spending some time talking to Sarah McDonald. A outgoing, 25 year-old who was diagnosed with MS at the age of 18. As a former Nursing student, Sarah calls herself a natural caregiver. Instead of letting MS get her down she says her focus is not on feeling sorry for herself for having this disease but rather on being an advocate for increasing awareness for the disease and helping others. Something that is definitely needed.

Thanks Sarah!
Laina

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