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Aha!The truth! lol

Tell Ryan that I often ask who that Nan person is as well. On a more serious note, sweetie you are going to be fine. When I was grieving my father I was a complete mess. Counseling was a Godsend for me. Therapists are strange and wonderful creatures who are an enormous help. I am (and plan to continue) with my therapist to help me function through recovering from my illnesses. Never feel shame. We are self-loving to be able to let them help us. We are always here for you, you know that. Big hugs and hug yourself a time or two.

at least you are on google

Hi Dawn! Happy 2015 to you as well. I sure miss you, sweetie.

Thank you for sharing information, Henry. I remember as a young girl the dam flooding the historical sites. It is good to know Abu Simbel was saved. Did you see science has reconstructed the faces of the Rameses II and some of his relatives? So interesting! Amazing to gaze on the faces of ancient times.

Nan, Koach, can probably expand on my comment better where I would likely be confusing. He was present years ago when I had to excuse myself from chat duty due to one of my invented recipes. The recipe contained bananas, dill pickles, mustard, soy sauce, and raisins. I ate a bite or two of the recipe and knew it was a fail. As soon as I swallowed the last bite, the bowl I was holding (containing the remainder of the "stuff") began to become hot. I'm not sure what caused such a strong exothermic reaction, but my stomach started rumbling and it didn't feel good for a while. Koach's sympathetic and caring response at the time I was able to return was, "I'm never eating at your house." In summary, this casserole was like that.

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My final recommendation - Don't make this one.

Thanks to TV_Tech, I'm going to try this tomorrow night.

David Allen's Food for Thought November 2014 To-Do Lists: Usually "Amorphous Blobs of Un-Do-Ability" Most people’s written or mental to-do lists, though created and maintained as a worthy exercise, are merely descriptions of unfinished details and projects in their lives, and are not a really an effective kick-start in getting them done. It’s because another level of decision-making and tracking is still required, even after we’ve captured the area, situation, or project that has our attention. Typical ingredients of such inventories are things like, “Mom,” “Bank,” “Strategy meeting,” or “Phillip.” Accurately identified stuff that has one’s attention, but still lacking in the necessary ingredients for clear and motivated action to close those open loops. A very bright, very hardworking professional I worked with had wound up overwhelmed and somewhat frozen about many of her large and rather ambiguous projects. This seems to be the rule more than the exception these days, for most people I coach. The problem was quite simply that every time she would remind herself of the project, she would feel like she had to sit down and do a detailed and intelligent project plan about it, in order to know what to do, to deal with it successfully. Seldom do we ever have the time, energy, or opportunity to do that kind of thinking (project planning) in the heat of battle of day-to-day life. What we ought to be doing is clearly defining the end result of the item (Project), and deciding the next physical visible action required to move toward it (Next Action). This is the simple but profoundly powerful Action to Outcome method. What amazed my client was how quickly she could come up with the exactly appropriate (and easy to do) next action about the most ambiguous and sophisticated of projects. If we’re not sure what needs to be done, then there’s more information we need, and that’s invariably a phone call, an email to send, a meeting to set, a conversation to have, or a document to review.

I agree with the "homework" comments. However, I love to chat on anything so I will go with the flow. I would attend if John hosts anything.

OMG, that was hilarious. On another note, I always wondered why Koach keeps stuffing me in the K.com freezer.

ROFL!!

Not exactly a howling belly laugh, but I'll take it.

A jobless man applied for the position of 'office boy' at Microsoft. The HR manager interviewed him, then gave him a test: clean the floor. The man passed the test with flying colors. "You are hired," HR manager informed the applicant, "give me your e-mail address, and I'll send you the application for employment, as well as the date you should report for work. The man replied " I don't have a computer, or an email!" "I'm sorry," said the HR manager. "If you don't have an email, that means you do not exist. And we cannot hire persons who do not exist." The man was very disappointed. He didn't know what to do. He only had $10 with him. Once that is spent, he won't have any money to buy any food. He went to the supermarket and bought a crate of tomatoes with his $10. He went from door to door and sold the tomatoes in less than two hours. He doubled his money. He repeated the operation three times, and returned home with $60. He realized that he can survive this way. He started to go everyday earlier, and return late. He doubled or tripled his money every day. Soon, he bought a cart, then a truck. In a very short time, he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles. Five years later, the man became one of the biggest food retailers in the U. S. He started to plan his family's future, and decided to have a life insurance. He called an insurance broker, and chose a protection plan. At the end of the conversation, the broker asked him for his email address. The man replied: ' I don't have an email.' The broker was dumbfounded. "You don't have an email, and yet have succeeded in building an empire. Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an email?," he exclaimed. The man thought for a while, and replied, "an office boy at Microsoft!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you just lost your Job or Just failed an Interview Don't worry be Optimistic.....

That is so funny, Henry, LOL.

That salmon looks like something on River Monsters. It is cool how happy those guys look. Camping is so relaxing.

David Allen's Food for Thought October 2014 Climb the Fire Tower—Weekly Several times recently I have had the opportunity to spend time with some real “veterans” of my seminars and methods, and the one lament that almost all of them have is their lack of habit with the Weekly Review. “You know, David, it all works really well, except that I haven’t really been able to get to the Weekly Review on a regular basis.” This seems to be one of the biggest hurdles to implementation of the mind-like-water techniques—not establishing the ongoing review and cleanup and recalibration of one’s personal management system and its contents. There is no system, formula, software, or set of lists, no matter how completely filled out, that can tie together the almost infinite number of variables that go into “getting our act together.” The only thing that makes it work is a consistent intervention of you. At some point you must lift yourself out of day-to-day tree hugging and do at least a modicum of forest management. Having a Projects list is a great step in that direction, but just having it doesn’t keep it current, or keep ensuring that there are next actions on each one appropriately decided and tracked. It also doesn’t ensure that the whole inventory is reviewed and the contents weighed appropriately, given the changing nature of priorities and outer realities. There is a light-year’s difference between being “sort of” organized and having everything downloaded, clarified, updated, and reviewed from at least an elevated horizon. The brain does not get to graduate to its more exalted and more effective command post of making intuitive choices from its options, without this. It must remain the lowly galley slave trying to remember what it ought to be thinking about, at what level, when. And it doesn’t do that very well, so it gets punitive lashes from our own inner judge. If anyone can tell me how they can get to the level of full creative freedom without reviewing and self-renegotiating all their commitments on a consistent basis, I’d love to hear it. It would be great if I didn’t have to do it. But until then, brushing teeth, taking showers, balancing my checkbook, and doing a Weekly Review remain necessary drills to keep my world where it needs to be.

I have no doubts you are, Smiley, lol.

Absolutely great, LOL.

Name it Cynthia.

I HATE YOU BOTH! STOP THAT!