Martin Luther King Remembered

Martin Luther King Day

Bishop John C. Wester of the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, Utah, spoke at a recent luncheon held to honor Martin Luther King. It was inspirational and I felt honored to be able to attend. I wish that more people could have heard this speech. A small part of Bishop Wester’s speech is included in the video below.

For those that have trouble hearing this speech, I have included part of it below:

He did much to leave our country a better place, where peace and harmony could thrive. He brought us a long, long way. And although we have a long way to go, we are not defeated. We are after all a people of hope. A hope enlivened by President-elect Obama, in his historic journey to the white house. He has proven that Martin’s dream is more than that. It is a vision of greater things to come. The first installments of which we are all living in these days of transition. It is fitting then that we pause to remember Martin Luther King Jr. today as we anticipate the inauguration next week.

Ours is an arduous task as we seek to live the values that Martin Luther King espoused.

Taking that path of Desmond Tutu, we seek to fashion a country that embraces eulogy, harmony, and peace.

While this task is daunting, there are ways to begin immediately. For example, this January 19th is a Martin Luther King Jr. day of service. Based on his quote, “Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve,” we are inspired to strengthen our communities and achieve common goals through service.”

Last year, hundreds of thousands of citizens across the nation participated in this day of service. What a great way to honor Martin Luther King. Not by taking the day off, but by making the 19th a day of service.

The Drum Major Awards luncheon has been held annually in Utah to pay tribute to community leaders that showed the drum major instinct, that Martin Luther King referred to during a talk in a 1968 sermon. In that sermon, King requested that he would be remembered as a person who tried to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, be right on the [Vietnam] war question, and love and serve humanity.

Martin Luther King gave over 2,000 speeches in his lifetime and is known as a human rights icon. In 1963, when he led people in the March on Washington, to deliver his I have a dream, speech he became known as one of the greatest orators in United States history. Martin Luther King was one of the youngest people to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in ending racial segregation. He was assasinated on April 4, 1968.

His legacy however, lives on.

Prayer List For Patrick Swayze

Patrick Swayze, accomplished movie actor, 56, is suffering from stage 4 pancreatic cancer.  He was hospitalized on Friday, January 9, 2008 for observation. Patrick Swayze… A person to admire… A cowboy at heart… A dancer and actor extrodinare.

Although being terminally ill, Patrick Swayze has shown incredible courage and determination to live his life with uncommon valor.

His recent interview with Barbara Walters, that can be seen on youtube.com, allows viewers to see some of the incredible accomplishments he has recently made, despite his tragic medical diagnosis.

Millions of people lose the battle to cancer every year and also show incredible courage in their lives. Blessings go out to all who are suffering from this disease and who have lost loved ones to cancer.

Personally, I’ll always remember the stunning performance he gave in the movie, “Ghost.”  Such an incredible movie with a memorable message!

Why Take a Vacation in Hawaii?

Vacation In Hawaii

My recent vacation in Hawaii was so utterly relaxing and uplifting, I just had to share a few photos with you. It’s hard to imagine that a place can be so beautiful and although I spent my first 18 years of life in Hawaii, vacationing there is another story.

As our plane prepared for landing at the Honolulu airport, the flight attendant announced over the speaker, Welcome to Paradise. That awareness was the real beginning of my vacation in Hawaii.

Let me also share with you that I felt extremely reluctant to go on this Hawaiian vacation because I didn’t want to be away from my affiliate marketing business and away from the students that I coach on a regular basis, but it turns out that with the help of Tim Ferris (author of “The 4 hour Work Week,” one of my favorite books) I was able to sign up with a website that allowed remote access to my home computer. That site was a blessing. http://www.gotomypc.com

One of the greatest benefits of being in affiliate marketing is that it allows you to do business from anywhere in the world. You can take your laptop with you and when you have time, process email and check on your affiliate businesses. I had fun logging on to my own pc from my hotel room and not missing any emails or any affiliate marketing questions at all.

I am going to share some beautiful photos with you that I took on my vacation in Hawaii and hope you enjoy them as much as I did. If you ever want to get away from your day-to-day activities, change the scenery a bit and give yourself a fresh start in life, go on vacation in Hawaii.

This is the beach at Waimea Bay and is absolutely heavenly. Sometimes there are no waves and when you swim there it feels like you are swimming in a pool because you can see to the bottom of the ocean.

Makapu beach is famous for body surfing and the colors of the ocean are just what you see here. The blues and greens are breath taking.

This is the Honolulu Tabernacle Reflecting Pool. This is where my parents met each other in Hawaii back in 1946, after World War 2 ended.
The yellow hibiscus grows abundantly in Hawaii and blossoms year round. The colors are so brilliant that they stand out for miles.

There are three good reasons to take a vacation in Hawaii.

1. The temperature is always above 70 degrees.
2. The environment is absolutely amazing and relaxing.
3. The ocean provides peace, recreation and endless fun.

Hope you enjoyed the Hawaii Vacation post!

Where do you like to vacation?

Honolulu, HI
From: Bookable Hotels

10 Easy Steps to Conquer Stress

Christine McFadden, a veterinarian from Merced, California went for her morning walk on March 26, 2002, leaving her four children, ages 17, 15, 14 and 5 sleeping peacefully. She had no reason to suspect something was wrong that day, but she would soon come back to her home to discover that her husband had experienced so much stress that he had taken a gun and killed all four of her children and himself.

Christine McFadden was miraculously able to recuperate from that tragic experience and move on with her life, eventually remarrying and having a set of twin girls.

Stress can ruin lives depending on how we deal with it. There are some easy ways that you can manage the stress in your life constructively and make good progress towards the goals you have set for yourself.

Tim Ferris, author of The 4-hour Work Week”, a New York Times best seller, a Wall Street Journal best seller and a Business Week best seller, has some basic advice for people about time management and dealing with stress.

In a nutshell, Tim Ferris has laid out a plan for people who are working from 9-5 and feeling like they can’t get everything done that they wished for during that time. His golden nugget of time management is to create a business working plan that is automated, where the you in the picture is completely replaceable and the money comes in regardless of the way you spend your time in any one day.

Tim Ferris recommends cutting out any time wasters and to look at your list of things you have to get done and make some cutbacks.  If you had to eliminate one of your daily activities because you need an extra kidney, what would that activity be? His book is full of brilliant ideas about dealing with life.

I have compiled a list of 10 ways for you to effectively deal with stress in your life.

1. Write down or keep a mental list of the environmental stressors that make you feel like pulling out your hair.
2. During the day, rate each situation that is causing your stress on a scale of 1 – 10 with a 10 being you are ready to jump off a cliff.
3. When you have rated your stress a 10, ask yourself what you can do about it in the present, right now.
4. If you can’t do anything about it right now, decide when you can do something about it and make a plan to accomplish it.
5. The world is programmed to solve problems between 9 and 5 whether you have a job that requires your presence or not. Can you take care of this level outside of the normal 9 to 5 time slot?
6. Use the alcoholics’ anonymous concept – Grant me the wisdom to know when I can do nothing about this situation.
7. Pick one person that you can calmly and frankly discuss this stressor with.
8. Ask yourself how a three year old would handle this situation and then compliment yourself for not doing that.
9. For every stressful situation that causes you a level 10 experience, find 3 things that you are extremely grateful for.
10. Remember that people who have no stress are dead.

How do you deal with stress?

Free Starbucks Gift Certificates for Writing Contest Winners

Win over $30 in Free Starbucks Certificate

Thanksgiving is coming up and in the spirit of giving, I have created a writing contest where you can be eligible to win over $30 in free gift certificates to Starbucks.

Starbucks gift certificates make great Christmas presents!

Use your imagination to get some free gift certificates and make money!

 

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• First prize is a $20 – free gift certificate to Starbucks.
• Second Prize is a $10 – free gift certificate to Starbucks
• Third prize is a $5 – free gift certificate to Starbucks.

Here are the contest rules:

Write a short article about good internet business principles to follow. The article can be serious or humorous but it must have one of the following fun titles. Each of these titles has action words in them and are out of the ordinary in a lot of ways. All of these titles came from actual business management books.

All articles will be reviewed and if appropriate will be published. You may provide a link back to your website. Entries to this contest will end on November 21, in time to get these certificates to you by Thanksgiving. Winners will be announced on November 24. 

Here are the titles to choose from:

Blue Blood and Mutiny
Everything I Know About Business, I Learned at McDonalds
Fallen Giant
Falling Forward
First, Break All the Rules
Green Business Strategy
Hide a Dagger Behind a Smile
How Full is Your Bucket
How the Wise Decide
Jacked Up
Made to Stick
Mavericks at Work
Our Iceberg is Melting
Planet Google
Reality Check
See Jane Lead
Sneaker Wars
Starbucked
Stay Mad For Life
The 10 Commandments for Business Failure
The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leaership
The 24 Carrot Manager
The 4 Obssessions of an Extraordinary Executive
The 48 Laws of Power
The 7 Leadership Principles That Drive Breakout Success
The Fifth Discipline
The First Billion is the Hardes
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
The Necessary Revolution
The Only Three Questions That Count
The Radical Edge
The Ultimate Question
The Wolf of Wall Street
Why Work Sucks
Wikinomics
Work Less, Do More

Have fun writing and getting a little free advertising as well.

Presidential Elections – Trick or Treat?

Trick or Treat? 

It’s hard to tell with this Presidential Election coming to a close in less than a week whether we wil have a trick or treat. Have we got all the facts to make a good decision? Will the Presidential candidates actually do what they propose when elected?

Will there be a trick or treat?

With new technology on the Internet providing instant replays of everything the candidates say and do, voters are probably more informed about this presidential election than they have ever been in the past.

Social media sites like www.capzles.com have provided voters with an incredible means of viewing and listening to all the information one could possibly want on each candidate’s past and present. Capzles.com allows users to upload documents, videos and photographs of whatever they choose and then the information is organized on a time line.

All of the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates have a time-line style profile, complete with photos, videos and all their ads. You can see instant replays of the aircraft accident that John McCain was in during his younger years. You can actually see the plane skidding off the runway of the ship. You can also see pictures of him being pulled out of a Hanoi lake by the North Vietnamese after his plane was shot down. View the actual film footage of him as a prisoner, lying in a hospital bed in Vietnam. 

Sarah Palin, mother, moose hunter, maverick, mayor, governor also has an impressive time line. The time line is full of short clips and photos of her career and service.

Barack Obama’s time capsule is equally impressive.  Photos from childhood through the present are interesting to look at. He has posted videos of all of his campaign speeches and one that shows the Charles Keating, Lincoln Savings and loan scandal where five U.S. Senators, including John McCain were investigated for their role in helping Charles Keating to get his charges of fraud reduced. 

Joe Biden’s time capsule is rather sparse with only one photo of him.  Wonder why that happened?

So this next week when you go to vote, there should be no excuse for not being informed about which Presidential candidate you are voting for. Don’t let there be any tricks for you!

Sarah Palin Search Stats

Doing keyword research sometimes brings to light some interesting statistics.  While using internet keyword research statistics to determine what the hot topics of conversation are I discovered that
the number of searches for the words Sarah Palin (37,625) has beaten the number of searches for sex videos (21,036).

Anyone care to comment on this?

Punahou High School Graduates Invited to Comment

Inviting all Punahou high school graduates to comment about their favorite Punahou memory.  That includes any Punahou graduates that may even be running for President of the United States, running large corporations or just kicking back on the beach.   A large group of alumni are gathering on LinkedIn to network with one another, so don’t miss out on the opportunity to join us.

Hawaii was certainly a wonderful place to attend high school. Memories of high school events somehow seem to fade away with the sunset.  Anyone have fond memories of beach parties, prom nights, the Punahou carnival, malasadas, ferris wheels or lily ponds?

Comment below to share your most memorable time with Punahou. 

Nancy (Cook) Collings and Sherry (Cook) Tingley – 2006
Punahou Senior Bench

Old School Hall, Punahou Campus

Pauahi Hall, Punahou Campus

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