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Blue Card Messages

We are on week 8 of The Greatest Secret by Og Mandino.  I’d read The Greatest Salesman in the World, but fell short on reading the Ten Scrolls.  It would have been a simple task to read them once through – but no, the assignment is to read each scroll 3 x per day for an entire month.  I never stuck with it.  Until one man named Jeff invited me to join his group and, together as a team, we all committed to reading these scrolls together.

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BECOMING ME: A film in progress

When I first began my Road to Ruby journey, my excitement level was HIGH.  I had big thoughts and big dreams – I believed I was going somewhere and it was going to be amazing!  The journey can beat you down and it can bloody your knees and it can (well, it did me) make you cry.  It can make you wonder all sorts of things about yourself; make you reevaluate yourself even if you have confidence in other areas.  I do my best to remember a dream I had in the very beginning – when I was filled with optimism and joy and hope – when things hadn’t gotten difficult yet.  Still, deep down, I knew what was in store.  The dream started with a huge CRESCENDO of music – just like you hear at the opening of a motion picture such as Paramount, Columbia or Sony, that music that resonates, making the entire theatre vibrate and sending chills up the back of your neck, and the words appeared in front of my eyes:  BECOMING ME.  That was the name of the movie to come . . . that was the beginning of my journey down this Road to Ruby.

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Hibiscus Dreams

The Honolulu Coffee Co.

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Spreading goodwill at The Goodwill

You just never know where you’re going to meet someone who needs what you have.  I wandered into the Goodwill Store last Sunday, looking for a little basket.  I didn’t find one, but I did meet Ed.  I overheard him talking with one of the sales guys in the store about how he had learned the importance of staying hydrated (in his big hand he carried a TALL bottle of water) and take care of himself.  He was advising this young man that, 20 years down the road, he just might wish he’d taken better care of himself, giving him some tips of what he could do right now.  My ears really perked up when he said, “I’ve even been able to reverse some of the wrinkles on my face!”  That got my attention because, of course, our ageLOC science does just that!  I had to go meet Ed.

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The Art of Listening

How long has it been since you really listened to someone’s heart?  It’s not as easy as you might think.  You need to cancel out all your own thoughts and judgments and all those things that you are thinking you want to say as they’re talking.  You just sit quiet and listen.  You don’t say anything.  You just listen.  Ask questions, and listen some more.

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