Help someone up today!

Rodney www.HelpingPeopleUP.com

We’ll it might be the time for giving, but I believe if we look at the root of Christmas, it is not about giving “stuff”.  It is about giving of yourself to help others.  It is about giving yourself to your family so that everyone can share in the Lord’s birthday party.

Unfortunately our society has turned Christmas into the time when everyone seems to lose track of the true meaning and ends up deeper in debt than they were before Christmas.

Just thought I’d share these super tips with you from the great financial coach, Dave Ramsey.  Put them to use and your Christmas season and the post holiday season will be happy.  Enjoy

Dave Ramsey’s Ten Christmas Spending Tips

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Rodney

Achievement IQ Moments: 50 Extraordinary Stories About People Who Transformed Vision, Attraction, Readiness, and Action Into Massive Success.

As many of you know, one of my alltime favorites sayings is “Experience is the best teacher…especially if it is someone else’s experience.”

Stanley F. Bronstein uses his latest book in the Achievement IQ series to give you the experiences of 50 high achieving individuals.

Each of the 50 chapters introduces you to a new person who at some point in their life has that light bulb shining moment where they make a decision that propels them to great success.  Mr. Bronstein appropriately refers to these as AIQ moments.

Some of his subjects have overcome great odds in order to build their lives, while others will show you how the pure power of a vision will help you succeed.

In each of Bronstein’s  interviews, he not only shares the individual’s inspirational story, but he also shares their personal advice for success as well as their contact information and websites.

If you believe, like me, in keeping yourself in an environment of success, then this is a great way to meet and surround yourself with, and learn from, new motivational people.

If you are looking for an easy, yet success-environment impacting read, then Achievement IQ Moments is for you.

Call it what you want.  I simply call it God’s blessing.

It is that “magic” thing that happens when you take your eyes off of yourself and put them on others.

Helping others is one of the key foundations to building a great life.
It is not a matter of keeping score (I helped two people today therefore I should be rewarded twice tomorrow).

It is a matter of putting your heart out there and helping people in all kinds of situations without thinking about how it will affect you. That is when the blessings flow your way.

One of the best examples of helping without thinking is our volunteer firemen. These are people who answer the bell on a daily basis and never think twice about running into a burning house to save a life.

These are people who just help. They don’t think about the consequences or the rewards. They just help. They live their lives being a blessing to others.

That mentality can be applied to many everyday situations.

It might be the young mother with a grocery cart full of food and a child in each arm, trying to make it to her car in the parking lot. How easy is it to take a few seconds and give her a hand.

It might be anonymously giving a bit of money to someone who seems to be struggling. Don’t expect them to repay you. Don’t expect to gain anything from your kind act. But trust me you will benefit. Just in ways you probably will not even realize.

How about buying breakfast or lunch for someone you don’t even know.
Sounds a little weird doesn’t it. It will feel a bit out of your comfort zone, but try this sometime. The next time you are in a restaurant and see someone sitting at a counter who looks a bit rough around the edges, when you are finished with your meal, slip your waitress some money to anonymously pay for their meal. THEN LEAVE. Don’t wait for them to find out or acknowledge your act.

Just go about your day with the newfound warm feeling that automatically comes when you help someone else in such a manner.

I could make this into a very long article, actually I could do a book on helping ideas. It is so easy once you get going.

If you have a minute, please leave me a comment and tell me your helping story or idea. I hope to compile a bunch of “how people help people” ideas for publishing down the road.

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Water hydrates our muscles, regulates our body temperature, promotes good kidney function, promotes good brain function, and much, much more. So it would seem to be good common sense that we should try to know a little more about the water we drink. But, most of us probably don’t bother.

Most of us have heard that bottled drinking water has now surpassed, milk, tea and yes my friends, even beer as the beverage of choice. Only soft drinks remain ahead of bottled water.

So what I want to share with you today is this — not all bottled water is the same. As a matter of fact, far from it.

Diligent research (ok, I used Google) uncovered over 670 current brands of bottled water in the world. And a recent ABC News report found a huge variation in water quality.

The gamut ranged from some bottlers merely filling their bottles with tap water, all the way up to the “about to be launched” Perfect Empowered Drinking Water which is purified 15 times, then remineralized, ionized, microstructured and pumped full of oxygen using a proprietary process (that means they wouldn’t tell me how they do it) called Molecular Bound Oxygen or MBO for short. The word is, this water will give you better strength, better balance and better flexibility and oh yes, they say it tastes really good too.

I’m curiously waiting for the launch to try it myself. I’ll keep you up-to-date here at the blog or you can leave your email here to get automatic notification when it is launched.

The lesson today is, if water is such an important part of our healthy bodies, let’s make sure we know what we are drinking and what is in our water. Read some labels, do some research and make sure you are fueling your body properly.

Drink up and here’s to a long, healthy life.

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Authors Ken Blanchard and Barbara Glanz have come up with the greatest example I have ever seen. This short movie shows the impact that a sincere, simple act of service can have.

Have a look and enjoy!

http://www.stservicemovie.com/

“Why didn’t we have a drug problem when you and I were growing up?”

I replied, I had a drug problem when I was young:

I was drug to church on Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday night. I was drug to church for weddings and funerals.

I was drug to family reunions and community socials no matter the weather.

I was drug by my ears when I was disrespectful to adults.

I was also drug to the woodshed when I disobeyed my parents, told a lie, brought home a bad report card, did not speak with respect, spoke ill of the teacher or the preacher, or if I didn’t put forth my best effort in everything that was asked of me.

I was drug to the kitchen sink to have my mouth washed out with soap if I uttered a profanity.

I was drug out to pull weeds in mom’s garden and flower beds and cockleburs out of dad’s field.

I was drug to the homes of family, friends, and neighbors to help out some poor soul who had no one to mow the yard, repair the clothesline, or chop some firewood; and, if my mother had ever known that I took a single dime as a tip for
this kindness, she would have drug me back to the woodshed.

Those drugs are still in my veins and they affect my behavior in everything I do, say, or think. They are stronger than cocaine, crack, or heroin; and, if today’s children had this kind of drug problem, would be a better place.

God bless the parents who drugged us. Amen to that!!

How many times have you had the need to call your cell phone company or cable television company or any other service oriented company, only to make contact with a “customer service” (I use this term loosely) rep who gives you just the opposite of good customer service. The link below is to a story from a marketing friend of mine, Joel Comm. It is about a recent encounter he had with a lack of common sense in the customer service department. Click here to read Joel’s customer service nightmare

Hopefully this story will help you with some of your future airline planning and be an inspiration to you in the way you and your company take care of your number one priority.
If you have had a similar experience in any industry, please help our readers by clicking on the comment link and posting it below.

Help Someone UP Today!

Rodney