The Miraculous Power Of Persistence

persistenceJafree Ozwald – There are many visualization techniques and manifesting exercises you can do to start attracting a specific goal, vision or dream into your life. However, sometimes Life will test you, and your ordinary day can become extremely challenging just so you will grow, expand and evolve onto the next level.

Whenever you are pushed to your limit in life, the Universe is attempting to expand the old ceiling you’ve placed above yourself. It’s trying to help you get in touch with a deeper aspect of yourself that is fearless, unstoppable and undefeatable. Whenever you are truly blocked by life, just stop and notice the end result you truly trying to attain, and how much you are actually invested in creating it. Continue reading

Tired Of Unwanted Sales Phone Calls?

phoneCatherine J Frompovich Don’t you just ‘love’ those annoying phone calls during the dinner hour when you have your hands immersed in food preparation? Or, even those telemarketers who have the chutzpah to leave a recorded message for you on your voice mail?

Well, there is a way that readers can stop such annoying phone calls, even though it may take up to a month. However, it definitely is worth the effort. Here’s how to go about stopping unwanted sales phone calls.

The Federal Trade Commission Consumer Information website offers a couple of ways to stop landline and mobile (cell) phone numbers from being accessed by what many folks consider nuisance calls.

Here’s how, according to the Do Not Call Registry  Continue reading

Wendy McElroy ~ The Alarming Lack Of Pretense In Politics

ActivistPost  October 14 2013

Abraham LincolnOne of the most alarming trends in American politics is the lack of pretense being displayed by authority. Like a ravening beast that loses its fear of humans, government becomes more dangerous when it loses the need to pose as a public servant who performs legitimate tasks. In short, government becomes more dangerous when it doesn’t care what you think of it. The sentence-long version of the argument for pretense is this: the need to pretend is a restraint upon authority.

The libertarian icon Murray Rothbard used to chuckle gleefully over the statements and antics of the notoriously corrupt politician Boss Tweed (1823-1878) of Tammany Hall. Murray loved the blatant quality of the man’s corruption. “Those were the days before politicians had PR agents, and a crook was a crook,” Murray would declare. He found the transparent corruption to be charming because it was non hypocritical and it publicly revealed the ugly face of politics.

I disagree.

The government is a band of organized thugs who steal wealth and impose social control. Every ‘legitimate’ function government provides – such as the construction of roads – would be better provided by a free market that does not steal and does not control behavior. But if there must be a government, then I want it filled with pretense. Continue reading