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You are invited and encouraged to share your thoughts on all aspects of the Premier Double Edition of Sharing Life Skills. Everyone on the creation end of this newsletter would love to hear from you. With your help we can make sure that you are getting the information you truly need to continue on your path of self-improvement. Thank you for participating!
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Dear Gail
I read your article about how to overcome ones bad habits. You have described this process in a very nice way. You are making a nice contribution to mankind, I really appreciate that.
thanks and regards
I love this idea and the list of authors…top notch! Thanks for bringing them together, conveniently at my fingertips;)
Thank you for sharing the premier issue of Sharing Life Skills! I’ve already skimmed the issue and I am excited about sitting down and reading it from cover to cover. Looking for ward to upcoming issues – I’ll be sharing this with my family, as well!
Sid Savara – your article “You Can’t Change Your Life Until….” is excellent. Fantastic insight and pragmatic mindset for change.
One suggestion: The power of your message can be doubled by re-wording your statement:
“You will start accomplishing your long-term goals and dreams only after you start acting today like the type of person who can accomplish those dreams.”
Instead of:
“You will not accomplish your long term goals and dreams, unless you start acting today…”
Positives are easier to follow. Negatives redirect which weakens the message.
I hope this is received well, and not as quibbling. Surely the content of your article is what is most important and that is excellent either way.
dear sharing life skills team,
i am indeed excited to receive your news letter. its so heart warming to find such enriching articles connected to our lives.
i thank you for contributing your time and resources to enhance the quality of lives. thanks for making me a part of your shared life.wishing you all a fruitful journey
Thanks you for such a resourceful news letter which inspires and also motivates us do enhance our lives.
i thank you for responding to us and giving us a platform to share and reflect on our way of living.
i truly liked your articles and look forward to connect with you through this news flash. congrats and all the best
I love initiatives who are co-creative like this. Congratulations for bringing all these wonderful people and ideas together.
Dear Jonathan,
I am so happy receiving a copy “Sharing Life Skills”. I am a social worker but also volunteer to teach life skills to Deaf children in Uganda. Though i have not read the whole magazine, the whole lay out really looks awesome. And thanks for bringing on board your friends to share with us their life skills experiences.
“sharing life skills” articles are always educative and I’m certain I will use the same skills and tips from your works to teach my Deaf students.
Please, keep it up. This is really awesome!
Many thanks.
Senyondo
I am hoping that this newsletter will help me to finally fulfill my dream of attaining good health. Thank you very much.
Hey!
I just read “THE KEY TO GETTING WHAT YOU REALLY WANT IN LIFE”, and just had to comment on its brilliance..
As Jeff Nickles says, it SOUNDS such a simple concept, but it so completely misunderstood, and people are left bemused by what they are missing.
Thank you for your contribution and insight.
This was a very valuable article.
Courage to Fail in Front of the World
Anyone who’s tried, failed, and succeeded, knows first-hand the truth of Steve’s Borgman’s “Success Factors”. But how do we get the courage to fail in front of the world? Most of us would shake our boots off on stage in front of millions waiting for us to fail. Even so, there’s a simple way to dump that kind of fear. A little story will illustrate how it works. Imagine you’ve been taught there are hideous alien monsters in the woods behind your house at night. How about a nice refreshing walk in the forest around midnight? No? Me neither. I’m more terrified than you are. No way I have the courage to go out in the darkness alone. Okay, but now imagine there’s a switch on a pole that turns on a humongous light. When the light is on, every scrap of darkness is gone from the forest. Flip that switch and you can see for yourself there are no monsters. Not even little ones. Do you have the courage to walk in the woods at night now? Of course. Getting the courage to stand alone before any crowd and fail is as easy as that. In a nutshell, there are two different ways of seeing the world to choose from. Choose the right one and you will happily fail in front of millions. It’s a bit like the half-empty or half-full glass actually. Just choose which one to apply to your life and you’re good to go. Ciao Steve and thanks for the informative essay. John Duffield
Jonathan,
What an outstanding list of contributors you have! I’ve only just discovered this gem, but you can bet I’ll be reading this issue, and all future issues cover to cover.
Most Sincerely,
Angela Artemis
Gail,
Restraint – Will power – two sides of the same coin perhaps? Issues I too have struggled with. I do think it takes maturity to see that restraint is really another way to keep our lives on track. Each time we divert our energies going after that momentary desire it sidetracks us from reaching our ultimate goals.
Thank you for this wonderful article Gail.
I like the way you write and it’s good to know there are others out there who are interested in improving their lives. It’s so easy to blame others for our problems, especially when the person(s) have done things which have hurt us. We love to hold on to resentments and blame because we feel we have such a right to them!
I suffer with severe mood swings and chemical imbalances and a lifetime of bad habits that I am desperately trying to change. Sometimes I forget there are other people who have been down similar self defeating roads and who have risen above. Thank you for the advice this article offers- please keep more of the same coming. Even more details on how I can stop once I notice would be great. My problem is even when I realize the bad reaction, habit, response, etc.- I am already well into it and I don’t KNOW HOW to just stop. It becomes an even greater challenge if I’ve involved another in the situation. Thanks for any more advice (for an almost 40 year old female dealing with an A.B.I. from drowning in 1977).
Dear Jeff,
Reading your article it has helped me a lot with what I still need to learn about what I really want. I’m a student at the moment and I’m still not sure if nursing is what I really want to do. Thanks to your insightful article, now I need to sit down and figure out what it is that I really want.
Rob,
I couldn’t agree with you more. My personal peace improved dramatically when I learned to self monitor my thoughts. Just being aware of yourself and observing yourself allows one to see behavior patterns that are programed into your life and not helping. My perspective of life is the key to my peace. I find many define success in a way that almost guarantees failure. In my opinion, if we keep looking for success in the materialistic world we will always fall short of contentment.
LIFE
Life and everything in it,
is a gift from the inifite mind;
And the only way life can go wrong
is through the limits of the finite mind
Dear team,
Congratulations on your wonderful endeavor. I truly enjoyed your professional yet soulful newsletter. It is evident that this final product was preceded by a great deal of preparatory work and I feel privileged to be receiving it. Especially the submission by Ms. Brock was inspiring for me.
Looking forward to many more issues, thank you.
I love the work of your team and I’ve already spent more than four hours reading and printing out some of your popular posts on the website. Your articles are very professional without boring technicalities. Thanks for the good job.
Thank you so much for all the great advice and inspirational articles, I absolutely love this and honestly I think I will carry some of these ideas in how I perceive life. I think I will print it out and keep in my folders to read whenever I encounter troubles and worries in life.