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Hey visitors, I've moved! Go to .love.laugh.learn.live.. All of this site's content was brought over and more interesting links and articles are being added everyday.Thanks!Mike

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What are you doing just sitting there reading this? It's a beautiful day today no matter where you are. Whether the wind is blowing, rain is pouring, sunny or snowing, there is something wondrous to it all. Even if war is being waged in your lands or disease is spreading, there is a greater picture to it all. I cannot deny that I am "just sitting here" typing this right now, but I am going to

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There is this nagging thought in my mind that in order for me to move forward with a successful blog, not something just recreational, but something innovative and able to provide substaintail income gains, I have a good deal of changes to make. These are the following changes that I intend to make in the next year of my blogging:1) Change from Blogger to a hosted WordPress platform.2) Develop

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Compliments of blog archives from Steve Pavlina, I found an excellent resource for people to find a surprise in their life: unclaimed property. Visit the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators website. You can click Find Property along the left-hand side navigation and then are taken to a site to select the state. Each state will have a seperate site to visit and search by

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I've been gone for about a week or so just taking in life and exploring more of what I love and finding out more about what I am and intend to be.  I read an interesting passage from "Conversations with God: Book 3" last evening that summarizes an excellent way to move beyond old belief structures to empower our lives and be more whole.  The statement was that guilt and fear are humans

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I am testing a new method of posting.  By emailing a certain address, the entry should automatically appear in my blog. I don't know how this is going to work, but I will soon find out.  Other than that, I feel like a little writer's block right now so if you don't see anything new from me for awhile, I apologize. I'm sure a new wave of creativity will come some time soon.

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This story was prompted by my drive to work today. Pulling out from the Wawa near my home ( a right turn with yield sign and short lane), the car in front of me pulled out and then I followed, believing I had plenty of room between me and the cars that had just left the intersection from a light change. The person in front of me decided not to speed up to keep the flow of traffic going and was

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This week I've begun a new system so that I can grow to be an expert in a new field. This was inspired by two articles, one, from Creating Passionate Usersentitled How To Be An Expert and second, from Steve Pavlina's Blog entitled How To Become An Early Riser. Using the the ideas from these blog entries, I've begun the practice of becoming an earlier riser in order to study a new, we'll call it

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Here some recent albums that have been on the top of my playlist lately:Matisyahu- Live at StubbsMatisyahu is a Hassidic Jew Reggae Musician with a capable band that has a diverse repitoire of musical genres that I would summarize as jam rock reggae. This album is a live concert from Stubb's in Austin, Texas. He is a rising star in the music world, making a great presense in the commercialized

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Because my family has certain dietary concerns, we sometimes have a more limited range of foods that we buy. When we find something we like, we often stick with it, like rice cheese or gluten-free pretzels. Occassionally we will purchase a less-than-quality product that we usually have no problems with. On these rare occassions, I will contact the consumer concerns department of the

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A great little, build-your-own web technology can be found at Rollyo.com. I've built a little search engine based on the theme of Yoga. I hope this works for you. If so, I will put the search in the main part of the page. (edit) Since it works, I can go back and add other categories of search, like blogging, golf, web design, and those will be included in the drop-down list. Simply type in

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There is a nifty little program that I run on my home computer. It is called Yahoo! Widgets Engine. These "Widgets" are smaller programs that can run on your desktop and include things like a mini photo slideshow, news feeds, weather, system monitoring, and more. On the Yahoo! Widgets home page, you can download the engine software and find a huge list (that continues to grow) of widgets that

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This salt is rumored to be a fantastic remedy for muscle aches and further, if you bath in one kilo (about 2lbs) of it for 30 minutes, you are supposed to feel as though you fasted for 3 days. I know there are some great benefits from fasting, but most people look at you cross-eyed when you suggest it. So, here is an alternative that may even be a bit pleasure, i.e. if your mate joined you in

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This week they will be thawing out Walt Disney to see if he comes back to life. Not really, but now that I have your attention, the topic of this post is Cryogenic freezing. Apparently this process has a substantial benefit and application to a variety of fields including automobiles, tools and sporting equipment. I remember about a year ago or so reading an article regarding someone improving

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I found an interesting site perusing one of my local favorites (Lifehacker) today, and the site is called Nuvvo. It allows you to set up online classes and teach for free, either offering the course teachings for free or for a fee that you set. I looked through the list of courses and a few were interesting and I'm certain as the publicity spreads, the community and selection will grow. This

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Keeping a budget can be one of the smartest tools to use in managing your family or personal income. I know that my wife has done an excellent job with our family budget, from the initial set-up to continual revisitation to see where we save and where we overspend. It is an art and science, something you need to study and maintain consistently. For example, knowing how much you spent on

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I've returned from a five day vacation from work and this blog. I know, I know, you had missed my informative and comedy-filled articles so much that you probably chewed off your fingers in anticipation, but chew no longer, I am back in action and I am throwing out my format for now. I will post whatever I want, whenever I want, about whatever I want, so whenever you want to read it, you can

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Hey All (four of you),I have a new entry on Dadbloggers.com. The piece is title Child-Speak Translation and it is about my joy in knowing my son's secret code language, in other words, the art of understanding his pronunciations. Many cannot comprehend Boris Forrest language, but there are a few that can, and I am one of those proud few. So go ahead and read the short entry as I am sure you

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Family 12082005 173 Originally uploaded by mfshearer. This is to test a great functionality through Flickr and Blogger. I can post a new picture of my little girl riding a train (or any picture) and do a little write up about it and post it to my blog from Flikr. Just perfect. I will go back to my blog later and update the links. This has nothing to do with Wisdom Wednesday, but I am

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I try a variety of methods when it comes to keeping track of my day/week/month/life. This week, I have implemented to new techniques to see how things go. One, I put a posted note on all of my books to denote what my assignment is for the week. It helped me look at the book and realize exactly what needed to be done without having to open to the page with the folded corners or dirty napkins.

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I am sticking with my proposal last week for a theme each day, but excluding weekend posts. The weekends are my time to catch up on all things that cannot be done during the week, like homework, headaches, and hankerings. More importantly,it is time to spend with my family and away from the computer. This blog was started to give me some creative writing release while at work and since I am

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There is a ton of free software online that has comparable tools that many of your conventional software provides. The biggest example is Open Office versus Microsoft Office. Many people incorporate free spyware, anti-virus tools, FTP programs, blog software (Thanks Blogger!), and others. Check out Download Dot Com for a grand list of software, both free and fee-based, to see what fun you can

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I think we can list many reasons why to choose to live more frugally. We have limited income that we need to stretch to pay rent/mortgage, bills, groceries, car repairs, debt, and other big and little financial surprises throughout our lifetime. It is a surprise that so many people get by, and we also know many people don't. Being frugal is an art and a science, a method of resourcefulness and

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Here is an excellent (though puzzling at first) technique a folding a perfect shirt, Folding Shirt Video. Wow, did it take watching this a few times to understand what on earth she was doing! Pay notice to a few key things:1) The t-shirt is front side up.2) The right knee is to the left of the left sleeve.3) Cross your left-hand over to the right side. 4) Fold down with your right hand. Leave

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This was one of the smartest moves I've made in purchasing: buying a split boxspring. I learned my lesson by not being able to get my boxspring down stairs and having to return it. For just a little more (less than $100), I bought a split boxspring that split lengthwise. It is a breeze to get up and down almost any staircase (even those narrow spiraling staircases). I don't know why people

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