IT’S LAUGHING
Doctors have long known a few food guffaws can help lower stress homones, bad cholesterol and high blood pressure. Turns out rip-roaring laughter dilates blood vessels, enhancing circulation as much as aerobics exercise, say researchers at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. While more study is needed, it can’t hurt to get several chuckles a day.
Take a few minutes to enjoy the movie,
Laughter is an Instant Vacation. This movie is sure to bring a well deserved break to anyone’s day.
Have fun sharing the joy of laughter with your team, as well as friends and family.
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Andy Andrew’s, The Butterfly Effect, is one of those stories that reminds each of us how our life matters and how our actions and words have a ripple effect on family, friends, and all those around us. Enjoy the 3 minute movie!
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Getting your team to work together toward a common vision is the fuel that allows your
team to reach their goals and envision new goals that well exceed common expectations.
Enjoy this short movie to inspire your team today!
If Life is a Game…These are the Rules is an international best seller with over 4 million copies sold. Chérie is the author of 14 books, and has been on the Oprah Show several times to share her insights about what makes us tick and what makes us happy.
We’re pleased to say, however, that Simple Truths has been given the opportunity to take a great book and make it better! We’ve made it more engaging with the graphics and more “giftable” with an embossed hard cover to create a “wow” effect.
Today, I’d like to share the introduction to her book. As Helen Keller says, “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” Enjoy!
An excerpt from
If Life is a Game…These are the Rules
by Chérie Carter-Scott, Ph.DLife has often been compared to a game. We are never told the rules, unfortunately, nor given any instructions about how to play. We simply begin at “go” and make our way around the board, hoping we play it right. We don’t exactly know the objective of playing, nor what it means to actually win.
That is what Ten Rules for Being Human is all about. These are the guidelines to playing the game we call life, but they are also much more than that. These Rules will provide you with a basic spiritual primer for what it means to be a human. They are universal truths that everyone inherently knows but has forgotten somewhere along the way. They form the foundation of how we can live a fulfilling, meaningful life. Each Rule presents its own
challenge, which in turn provides certain lessons we all need to learn. Every person on the planet has his or her own set of lessons to learn that are separate and unique from everyone else’s, and these lessons, as you will see in Rule Four, will reappear until they are mastered.The Ten Rules for Being Human are not magic, nor do they promise ten easy steps to serenity. They offer no quick fix for emotional or spiritual ailments, and they are not fast track secrets to enlightenment. Their only purpose is to give you a road map to follow as you travel your path of spiritual growth.
These Rules are not mandates, but rather guidelines as to how to play the game. There is nothing you absolutely must do. I hope this book will help you to become more aware of them. By learning the valuable lessons and wisdom they offer, your journey on the Earth might just a bit easier.
As Jack Canfield, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul says in the
introduction: “While reading this book, you will begin to see your life from a
whole new perspective. If you embrace the principles in this book, I promise you
that your life will magically transform and that you will learn the secrets to
manifesting your heart’s desire.”
I hope that learning “the rules for being human” will be your key to a more joyful life.
Just click below for more information or to look inside the book.
The 3rd week of October, known as National Business Week for Women, is set aside as a time to honor and celebrate the contribution of women in business. Take a moment and share with women on your team as well as those you know personally, the movie Oil for Your Lamp, as a reminder that taking care of themselves is a must for success professionally and personally.
Send a kind reminder to the women in your lives that encourages them that taking care of themselves is important and helps them as they care for the other important people in their lives. Enjoy 3 minutes of encouragement as you view the movie, Oil For Your Lamp.
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TEAMWORK ~
Teamwork and team building are words used throughout all types and all levels of organizations. Commitment to the principles to grow teamwork, by each team member, is the key to high performance teams in business, sports and life. The Simple Truths title and movie, Pulling Together by author John Murphy present the ten rules for high performance teams in a way that every person on a sports team or in an organization can understand and implement. Provided below, is a movie banner to inspire your team today as well as 3 key questions from the book to get team building started!
Teamwork questions ~
Do team members know what is expected of them?
How can each team member contribute most effectively?
What constants hold the team together?
Consistent application of the 10 rules of high performance teamwork ultimately generates trust, respect, unity and power within any team. Enjoy this short movie that reinforces teamwork through Lessons from Geese.
It became increasingly clear that I was not alone, the women I met and all of my friends and peers were all spread too thin. We had gone beyond burning the candle at both ends. Women were literally running on fumes.
The concept for Oil for Your Lamp was something I started working on years before I actually wrote the book. I would work on it for a while and then stop. Each time I would come back to it, the same thoughts would ultimately land it back on the shelf. Who am I to write a book about self care? I am working 80 hours a week, I don’t remember the last time I had two consecutive days off, sleep is a distant memory, I travel so much I just dialed 9 on my home phone. I would be a hypocrite.
So year after year, I thought about Oil for Your Lamp, and year after year, it waited. I kept thinking one year I will have balance. One year the timing will be right.
My flawed logic was that I should wait to write the book until my lamp was all
filled up. Well, I finally wised up when even my fumes started running out.
I ultimately realized putting oil in our lamps is a journey, not something I could just check off my list and be done. I knew if I waited for my lamp to be full the book would never be written and it was a story that needed to be shared. So I wrote Oil for Your Lamp from that honest perspective when my lamp was far from full. I reached out to others and shared how they filled their lamps and how I started to fill mine. We must learn together and support each other.
It has been such an honor and a joy to hear from other women about just how deeply this book has resonated with them.
Not a week goes by that I don’t have someone reach out and let me know how they
were touched by Oil for Your Lamp. It’s a great book club book!
Writing Oil for Your Lamp has been life changing for me as well. I made a firm commitment to myself to never again let my lamp get that low. I have kept those promises and made serious life changes in order to find balance and keep my lamp burning brighter.
Here’s one of my stories from Oil for Your Lamp that drives that point home:
Learning to unplug hasn’t come easily for me. The mere thought of being sans cell phone and laptop originally made my pulse race and gave me a rash. However, over time I have come to look forward to the one time each year when I truly leave the rat race and go jump in the lake!
Every summer for almost a decade we have gone to glorious Lake Powell. There are no phones, no cellular connections, and e-mail won’t work either. While out on the lake, we are in our own little world.
Turns out there are some places even stress can’t find you.
Lake Powell is near the Grand Canyon and just as stunning. Camping there gives me the chance to spend time reconnecting with nature. Spending nights under a ceiling of stars surrounded by walls of sheer red cliffs and a fluid carpet of deep green water is nirvana.
The first year we made this trip was quite an adventure. Not only because we were out of contact for the first time, but we had never piloted a houseboat either! Piloting a houseboat is kind of like driving a bus?on water! I only wish we had videotaped the many mishaps and fiascoes we had. I am certain we could have won a funniest home video contest!
Cooking also became an adventure. We found you could BBQ just about anything! We discovered you could cook everything from pancakes to lasagna over a BBQ. The kids, of course, thought we had lost our minds!
Over the years our trips to Lake Powell have morphed and changed as the kids grew up and went to college. We have gone from youngsters playing in the sand, to teenagers and wild wakeboarding, to our more mellow trips involving more floating and reading than boat riding.
But do you want to know what the best part of every trip is? No makeup, no hair dryer, swimsuit required?clothing optional. Heck, if I brush my teeth in the morning I really think I have gone all out! I am always amazed at how liberating it is not to have to think about what I look like, to simply shower, brush my hair and be done?you know, like men get to do every day!
Imagine having your complete bag of tricks consist of a comb every day!
I would never have guessed that the best part of the trip would be not having to “get ready” each day. How did we get that phrase in our vocabulary? What are we getting ready for?
When was the last time you did something really spontaneous? Where has your spirit of adventure gone? If the answer is “buried somewhere deep,” it is time to let her out!
I have discovered the more I carve out time for reflection, dreaming and play, the more effective I am in all areas of my life.
Oil for Your Lamp w/Dvd
Mark Twain said it best, “Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.”
Laughter is one of the simple joys of life! Take a few minutes to enjoy the movie,
Laughter is an Instant Vacation. This movie is sure to bring a well deserved break to anyone’s day.
Have fun sharing the joy of laughter with your team, as well as friends and family.
Kind regards,
A Boy With Down Syndrome Ended Up Being The Most Important Employee…
The story of Johnny the bagger by Barbara Glanz
| I always leave my telephone number and e-mail address with audiences, encouraging them to call me
if they have questions or want to share a success story they experienced by adding a personal signature to their work. About a month after I had spoken to the supermarket folks I received a call from a frontline customer contact person, a nineteen-year-old bagger named Johnny. The caller, who proudly informed me that he was a Down syndrome youngster, told me his story. “Barbara, I liked what you talked about!” Johnny said excitedly, “but I didn’t think I could do anything special for our customers… After all, I’m just a bagger. He decided that every night when he came home from work, he would find a thought for the day. “If I can’t find a saying I like,” Johnny said proudly, “I think one up!” With the help of his dad, he copied and cut out each quote of the day. “When I finished bagging someone’s groceries, I put my thought for the day in their bag and say, ‘Thanks for shopping with us.’” |
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| A month later the store manager called me. He told me…”When I was making my rounds, I found the
line at Johnny’s checkout was three times longer thananyone else’s! It went all the way down the frozen food isle. I was concerned, so I announced ‘Get more cashiers out here; get more lanes open!’ all the while trying to get these people to change lanes. But no one would move. They all said, “No, it’s okay – we want to be in Johnny’s lane – we want his ‘Thought for the Day.’” |
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| Johnny’s spirit of service transformed that store.The manager later called and told me how each of his departments was coming up with their own personal touch and all because of one young man with Down syndrome who decided he could make a difference!As I tell my audiences…“Every one of us in this room can make a difference. We can all be a Johnny.” |
A Boy With Down Syndrome Ended Up Being The Most Important Employee…
The story of Johnny the bagger by Barbara Glanz
| I always leave my telephone number and e-mail address with audiences, encouraging them to call me if
they have questions or want to share a success story they experienced by adding a personal signature to their work. About a month after I had spoken to the supermarket folks I received a call from a frontline customer contact person, a nineteen-year-old bagger named Johnny. The caller, who proudly informed me that he was a Down syndrome youngster, told me his story. “Barbara, I liked what you talked about!” Johnny said excitedly, “but I didn’t think I could do anything special for our customers… After all, I’m just a bagger. He decided that every night when he came home from work, he would find a thought for the day. “If I can’t find a saying I like,” Johnny said proudly, “I think one up!” With the help of his dad, he copied and cut out each quote of the day. “When I finished bagging someone’s groceries, I put my thought for the day in their bag and say, ‘Thanks for shopping with us.’” |
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| A month later the store manager called me. He told me…
“When I was making my rounds, I found the line at Johnny’s checkout was three times longer than anyone else’s! It went all the way down the frozen food isle. I was concerned, so I announced ‘Get more cashiers out here; get more lanes open!’ all the while trying to get these people to change lanes. But no one would move. They all said, “No, it’s okay – we want to be in Johnny’s lane – we want his ‘Thought for the Day.’” |
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| Johnny’s spirit of service transformed that store.
The manager later called and told me how each of his departments was coming up with their own personal touch and all because of one young man with Down syndrome who decided he could make a difference! As I tell my audiences… “Every one of us in this room can make a difference. We can all be a Johnny.” |
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