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Why Take a Vacation in Hawaii?

December 7, 2008 By Sherry Tingley

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.

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

Hope you enjoyed the Hawaii Vacation post!

Where do you like to vacation?

10 Easy Steps to Conquer Stress

November 17, 2008 By Sherry Tingley

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.

Write down or keep a mental list of the environmental stressors that make you feel like pulling out your hair.
During the day, rate each situation that is causing your stress on a scale of 1 â€“ 10 with a 10 being you are ready to jump off a cliff.
When you have rated your stress a 10, ask yourself what you can do about it in the present, right now.
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.
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?
Use the alcoholics’ anonymous concept – Grant me the wisdom to know when I can do nothing about this situation.
Pick one person that you can calmly and frankly discuss this stressor with.
Ask yourself how a three year old would handle this situation and then compliment yourself for not doing that.
For every stressful situation that causes you a level 10 experience, find 3 things that you are extremely grateful for.
Remember that people who have no stress are dead.

How do you deal with stress?

Presidential Elections – Trick or Treat?

October 28, 2008 By Sherry Tingley

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. www.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

September 22, 2008 By Sherry Tingley

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

August 23, 2008 By Sherry Tingley

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.

Old School Hall, Punahou Campus

Pauahi Hall, Punahou Campus