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A Heartfelt Welcome
ARISE and be FREE
Your ARISE Article
Can I Get ARISE Outa You?
Poignant Ponderings
Giving  Back
Will You ARISE & Help Me?



Dear Valued Subscriber,
 

A belated Happy Thanksgiving to all our Canadian subscribers. Hopefully, you didn't overdue it with turkey, ham and all the trimmings like I did! We celebrated at my sister's home in Hamilton and the highlight seemed to be watching her wedding video where I was MC and royally roasted her, her hubby and many others in attendance. Geesh, put a microphone in front of that guy and . . . :-)

The world has once again come together in the wake of yet another horrific natural disaster. The earthquake in northern Pakistan has claimed nearly 40,000 lives and left tens of thousands homeless. As with the media coverage with the latest hurricanes on the Gulf Coast the scenes are simply too heart wrenching to watch. While this is unfolding hundreds of thousands of families on our shores still need our help.  If you are a new subscriber please take a look at our long-term relief project for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Here is the link where every nickel of your donation will go directly to victims:
http://www.katrina-long-term-relief.org

I wrote in our last issue about having my grandsons during the first week of October while my eldest daughter vacationed in Mexico. It's pretty hard to keep two energetic tykes entertained in a highrise but they were very well behaved. We made sure to visit the sculpture park below my building almost every evening after dinner so they could burn off some pent-up steam. It's been a long time since I packed lunches and helped with homework but we had a fun time. A one hour round trip to school twice a day was not so fun though nor was the last morning when one of my guys managed to sneak bubblegum into bed the night before. It's been an equally long time since I had to remove that sticky substance from a child's head! I wasn't particularly thrilled when they arrived late for school but the one teacher could not stop laughing as a frustrated me recounted the tale and apologized for our tardiness. Her biggest chuckle was seeing the red spot still atop Corbin's head as I just ran out of time trying to get it all out. I received plenty of advice after the fact though that peanut butter does a quick job of getting gum out of hair.

Some more personal news. I am moving in a few weeks. This time to the small city about 200 miles from Windsor where Wayne Gretsky was born and raised. A large sports center and expressway bear the name of the world's greatest hockey player. Wayne's father, Walter, a well-known celebrity himself, still resides in the family home (a few blocks from where I will be living) and is very active in the vibrant community of 87,000 raising money for charity. I will certainly miss my Detroit skyline view but will be visiting Windsor a few times a month to see my mom, my grandboys, my sisters and my many friends.

Many of you will know that I and few of my wonderful friends raise money each year as corporate sponsors for the U.S. Marine's Toys for Tots program with our annual Internet Toy Drive. We have enlisted the help of one of the Internet's premier SEO companies and if you know even a little about optimizing websites for the search engines you know that having links pointing back to you is extremely important. So, I am going to ask that if you have a website of any description and want to help us put a smile on the face of a needy child this Christmas that you go grab a banner and upload it and link to http://www.internettoydrive.org. We will be updating them shortly to reflect the "5th Annual..." but you can use what we have right now. Also, we accept donations all year long and some are coming in right now, so please do help if you can. Thank you!

I decided to feature an article I wrote for my private site, People Building People, several months ago. We all get down and stressed at times and I outline a process that I use to quickly bounce back in Take a Timely Time Out. Perhaps it will work for you. With the packing and just general confusion that goes along with moving I have a feeling I will be taking some of my own medicine very soon.

Assuming you enjoy this publication can I ask you to do me a small, but at the same time, huge favor? Would you choose 3 people from your Address Book right now and send them this issue or the main page link to ARISE!: http://www.arise.themirrorezine.com - and suggest they subscribe. Thank you, I'd really appreciate that!

Now, please kick back and enjoy this issue of ARISE!

As always, my greatest wishes for your complete success,

Rick Beneteau

ARISE and be FREE

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YOUR ARISE ARTICLE

Take a Timely Time Out

It's something I'd done over the years at times when I felt a little down or stressed. Now it's something I do almost every day, sometimes several times a day, so that I feel less stress and experience more joy in my life. For me, it's really a magical, yet simple process. I'd like to share it with you.

I take a short time out to do what I call a Blessings Count. It's not a process where I use a calculator or keep score or anything like that. Here's how it works.

Usually early in the morning before I start working, I simply shut out all the chatter in my mind and just focus on the fact that so much in my life is so right. Just so many blessings. Despite the pressures and problems of everyday life, it has always been this way. It will be no different for you. We all have many blessings no matter where we are in our lives:-)

I may conjure up fond memories and images of my daughters, my grandchildren, my mom, my late father, brother or sister, or some of my great friends. It may be remembering a kindness that was extended to me or that I extended to someone. Perhaps it is just the sunshine or much needed rain today.

They can be the shortest moments or the smallest things but whenever I reflect upon these gifts I can't help but feel this deep sense of gratitude. And joy. Suddenly and magically, I feel whatever unnecessary negative weight I was carrying, lift. My problems seem to self-adjust and take on the proper proportion. Any fear I may have been feeling is reduced, or disappears. The balancing I receive from acknowledging the wonderful, positive and real blessings in my life, and feeling truly grateful for them, is a very powerful force indeed!

Something else. I have become more sensitive to the little everyday things that are truly blessings in my life. It might be that little voice on the other end of the phone saying "Papa, I love you". Do I ever feel blessed hearing that!

Could be the call from my mother who just wanted to say a very sincere thank you for the tasty soup I made her. Even the fact that I enjoyed cutting up the fresh vegetables to make a nutritious meal for her and then be able to deliver it and have a nice visit is a great blessing.

A few days ago I received an email from someone who seemed to be at the end of his rope trying to get a new business off the ground. He came across a piece I wrote called "The Entrepreneur's Prayer" and he couldn't thank me enough for the extra ounce of motivation he received from reading it. No greater blessing than to be able to bless the lives of others. Truly.

"Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we think others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts."
Sarah Ban Breathnach

How about you? Is your list of blessings as long as mine? Take a time out and try a Blessings Count. I guarantee you will discover a list just as long, and hopefully longer:-)

Here's how else a Blessings Count can improve your life. We are continually bombarded by negativity in our lives. Our minds are conditioned by our environment to run like the evening news - The Channel 7 Action Bad News, that is! Negative thought after negative thought streams endlessly on the screens of our minds like the news anchor reeling off stories of suffering, destruction and death. A good friend of mine suggested years ago that some media mogul should create GNN - the Good News Network. You know, feature only stories about the abundant, very good news in this world we never get to hear about. Great idea, except that because of our conditioning it would never find a large enough audience to make it viable. Sad, but another story altogether.

Thing is though, with life being as complicated and confusing as it is today, we need to be running as many good-news scripts through our minds as often as we can each day. One great way to accomplish this is to take that time out and do your Blessings Count. You see, it will be all good news because you have so many blessings to choose from!

Last week, at the apex of a short period of time where I had become very stressed over business issues (and should have been practicing what I am preaching) I received a call from a close friend of mine. He was on the road in his large motor coach and just pulling into this busy drive-thru coffee place. Problem was, he turned into the one-way lane the wrong way!

The sound of angry horns and loud voices were soon heard and this seemed to be perfect background ambience for the loud stress I was allowing myself to feel. What happened next though was amazing. One by one my unfrazzled friend, who was literally plugging up the entire joint with his mammoth vehicle and couldn't maneuver out of the situation, addressed each screaming person very calmly in his low-key voice, even using some pretty hilarious self-deprecating humor in the process. No one could have possibly remained angry at this guy! Soon the horn blasts silenced and the verbal exchanges turned friendly. I even heard a few of the formerly angry motorists laugh! He got them all to back up and get out of his way and most importantly, if he didn't teach them a great life lesson, he certainly helped to make a great day for them. I could only feel a little ashamed that I wasn't handling my pressure at the time with such great grace. Being made privy to this great moment was, well, a blessing!

Nothing seems to rattle my friend. I've never seen him angry or appear to be overtly stressed. At times I have been tempted to label him as irresponsible but I think just a layer deeper and realize that he is indeed very wise to have learned to do whatever version of a Blessings Count that he does - all day long. For him, life is simply great - all the time. Incidentally, he makes his living helping people to lead healthier and happier lives and he has blessed many. Someone who walks his talk and most certainly counts his blessings!

As the timing of the Universe often has it, someone passed along this quote by Henry Ward Beecher just as I was putting the finishing touches on this article:
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

What a wonderful way to end this article. I mean, if we can learn to balance ourselves and feel less stress and experience more joy in our daily lives so that we can in fact paint a spectacular portrait of our own life, why not find a simple way to create that masterpiece?

Life itself is a blessing. How we live it and recognize all the blessings we truly have can make it all the more so.

Take a timely time out and Count Your Blessings!


© Rick Beneteau
All Rights Reserved

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Can I Get ARISE Outa You?

710

A few days ago I was having some work done at the local Ford Dealership. A blonde came in and asked for a seven-hundred-ten.

We all looked at each other and another customer asked, "What is a seven-hundred-ten?"

She replied, "You know, the little piece in the middle of the engine, I have lost it and need a new one." She said that she did not know what it was but this piece had always been there.

He gave her a piece of paper and a pen and asked her to draw what the piece looked like. She drew a circle and in the middle of it wrote 710. He then took her over to another car, which had its hood up and asked, "Is there a 710 on this car?"

She pointed and said, "Of course, it's right "there."

Click here to see what she pointed to

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Poignant Ponderings

The Rose
by Jim Rohn


Lifestyle is style over amount. And style is an art - the art of living. You can't buy style with money. You can't buy good taste with money. You can only buy more with money. Lifestyle is culture - the appreciation of good music, dance, art, sculpture, literature, plays and the art of living well. It's a taste for the fine, the unique, the beautiful.

Lifestyle also means rewarding excellence wherever you find it by not taking the small things of life for granted. With Valentine's Day approaching I wanted to illustrate this with a personal anecdote:

Many years ago my lady friend and I were on a trip to Carmel, California for some shopping and exploring. On the way we stopped at a service station. As soon as we parked our car in front of the pumps, a young man, about eighteen or nineteen, came bouncing out to the car and with a big smile said, "Can I help you?"

"Yes," I answered. "A full tank of gas, please." I wasn't prepared for what followed. In this day and age of self-service and deteriorating customer treatment, this young man checked every tire, washed every window - even the sunroof - singing and whistling the whole time. We couldn't believe both the quality of service and his upbeat attitude about his work.

When he brought the bill I said to the young man, "Hey, you really have taken good care of us. I appreciate it."

He replied, "I really enjoy working. It's fun for me and I get to meet nice people like you."

This kid was really something!

I said, "We're on our way to Carmel and we want to get some milkshakes. Can you tell us where we can find the nearest Baskin-Robbins?"

"Baskin-Robbins is just a few blocks away," he said as he gave us exact directions. Then he added, "Don't park out front - park around to the side so your car won't get sideswiped."

What a kid!

As we got to the ice cream store we ordered milkshakes, except that instead of two, we ordered three. Then we drove back to the station. Our young friend dashed out to greet us. "Hey, I see you got your milkshakes."

"Yes, and this one is for you!"

His mouth fell open. "For me?"

"Sure. With all the fantastic service you gave us, I couldn't leave you out of the milkshake deal."

"Wow!" was his astonished reply.

As we drove off I could see him in my rear-view mirror just standing there, grinning from ear to ear.

Now, what did this little act of generosity cost me? Only about two dollars - you see, it's not the money, it's the style.

Well, I must have been feeling especially creative that day, so on our arrival in Carmel I drove directly to a flower shop. As we walked inside I said to the florist, "I need a long-stemmed rose for my lady to carry while we go shopping in Carmel."

The florist, a rather unromantic type, replied, "We sell them by the dozen."

"I don't need a dozen," I said, "just one."

"Well," he replied haughtily, "it will cost you two dollars."

"Wonderful," I exclaimed. "There's nothing worse than a cheap rose."

Selecting the rose with some deliberation, I handed it to my friend. She was so impressed! And the cost? Two dollars. Just two dollars. A bit later she looked up and said, "Jim, I must be the only woman in Carmel today carrying a rose." And I believe she probably was.

Can you imagine the opportunity to create magic with those around you, and all for the cost of a few dollars, some imagination and care. Remember, it is not the amount that matters but the thought and care that often has the greatest impact upon those you love.

This article was submitted by Jim Rohn, America's Foremost Business Philosopher. To subscribe to the Free Jim Rohn Weekly E-zine send a blank email to mailto:subscribe@jimrohn.com  or go to www.jimrohn.com and also receive 20-60% off on all audios, books and tapes. Also review the complete Jim Rohn archive of articles, vitamins for the mind and Q and A. Copyright © 1999-2005 Jim Rohn International. All rights reserved worldwide.
 

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GIVING BACK

You might already support these or similar organizations, but it's the sad truth that we can never really do enough to help people, especially children. Here is what I support and encourage you to review:

The Internet Toy Drive  
Founded by Anne Marie Baugh and myself, and sponsored by Drew Bledsoe (#11, 2001 Super Bowl Champion quarterback), we are official corporate sponsors of the U.S. Marine's Toys for Tots program.

My WorldVision Children
This is the special group of children from around the world that I sponsor. WorldVision is a Christian organization that has been around for decades and almost every penny donated goes directly to these needy children and their families. Nothing beats receiving a handwritten letter, or even an email now, from "your child":-) You can even buy chickens or cows that get right to these families in dire need!

St. Jude Children's Hospital
My father was a lifelong musician and played piano in bands with Danny Thomas (founder of St. Jude and father of Marlo Thomas) among others during the depression, thirties and early World War II years. Understandably, this world famous research hospital is close to my heart:-)

Parenting with Dignity P
If you are a parent, expecting to be one in the future, or even believe you've done your parenting job, do yourself a great favor and check out this fabulous resource! Drew Bledsoe, his father and family members, my great friend Tom Heatherington and many more have established an absolutely wonderful foundation devoted to the betterment of children and families (Mac Bledsoe was interviewed on ABC's 20/20 this year).

Will You ARISE & Help Me?

I would greatly appreciate it if you would take a few seconds to tell just a few of your friends about ARISE. Simply Forward this URL to everyone in your Address Book.  All they need to do is enter their email address below (it will NEVER be shared or given away).

Thank You!!

   

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