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Now it’s time to give 2009 its deuces. It was a great year but it still gets a good riddance. This issue is dedicated to the good and bad in 2009 and helping you enter 2010 with a positive attitude. So often we enter the New Year with the wrong attitude, so I want you to do me a favor. I want you to take a piece of standard size and fold it twice, creating four boxes. Label the boxes: physical, personal, mental, and financial. In each box, write several goals you have that fall into each category. Personal is for your emotional, social, spiritual goals, and any other goals you have. I had to improvise because I didn’t know how to fold paper to create five boxes. This piece of paper will help you in the New Year. In this column, you will meet three people who will help you cherish your body, mind, and heart.
1. Get a physical: yearly physicals check your cholesterol, blood pressure, etc and help you ward off potential problems and major diseases. Once you find what’s going on, you can treat yourself in the way you feel works best for you.
2. Maintain a cleansed and detoxified body: people don’t realize that what makes you work is on the inside. Taking a vitamin or supplement without detoxifying is like putting on deodorant without showering first.
3. Check your pH level: according to medical research, diseases can flourish in an acidic environment. Human blood stays in a very narrow pH range right around 7.3. Below or above this range means symptoms and disease. Your body cannot do its job of warding of diseases and being strong if it’s not balanced. Too reduce acid in the body, limit fats, unhealthy carbohydrates, and meats such as beef and pork.
4. Eat more fruits and vegetables: most people don’t allow their body to have natural nutrients from living foods.. Eat lean meats like chicken and fish and drink lots of water.
Cherish your mind- the brain is the most powerful organ in the body. Without your brain, you cannot function at all. You also have to get your philosophical mind right. Is there something you think you can’t do? Have you been looking at the same dream since 2000 and now it’s 2010 and the dream is just that, a dream? We have author of Know Thy Self Power: Change Your Thinking Change Your Life, Chris Duncan here to help you get your mind right for 2010.
”Opening your mind to success determination and belief are the starting points for success. They open you up to new opportunities to do and be anything you desire and all you need is a subconscious thought to plant the seed.
Positive thoughts and energy empower you. Whatever you think, you attract back to yourself in greater degrees. Literally, your thoughts create your reality. Evidence is all around you, Are your thoughts negative or positive?
Is a closed mind holding you back and keeping you attached to the past? Once you let go of this programming, doors of possibilities and success open to you.
There is nothing that can make you happy or at peace. You either are, or you are not. You decide to be happy, and you decide to be at peace. Again, it is a determination and belief, once you determine that you are happy and at peace, you act in happiness and peace. When a negative situation presents itself, just remind yourself that you are happy and at peace. It allows you a moment to mentally step back from the situation and find a positive reaction.
Be open-minded in all situation respond to new situation, ideas, and knowledge with an open mind to keep the “ need to be right” at bay. In those situations say to yourself:
“I may never have thought, of this before or in this way. I want to listen with put comment, even if it’s only to learn more about this person who is speaking.”
Working towards success, you must give to and serve others. Focus on your goal in the now by continually working towards it without been “attached” to it. As soon as you attach emotion to your goals, it eludes you.
Attach your emotion to helping others and your success will chase after you
Christopher Duncan
Knowthyselfpower.com
Cherish your heart- one of the most important things we have to do in our lives is protecting our symbolic and real hearts. Too often we eat things that are toxic for us and we invite people in our lives that are toxic for us. We cannot be healthy if our heart isn’t healthy. In this segment, I will give you tips that I found on wikihow on how to have better relationships and friendships.
1.) Pick the people in your life carefully: would you buy a car that had a broken engine? Or eat bruised and rotten fruit? No, we’re picky when it comes to our houses, cars, clothes, food, and anything else but when it comes to picking people, we often let the wrong people enter our hearts. If this is someone you want to have a bond with, look carefully at their values and actions.
2.) Be responsible for yourself and your happiness: no amount of money or anyone else will make a miserable person happy. Also, depending on others will leave you broken and disappointed every time. If you want to be happy, just be happy. The only person who can live your life is you.
3.) Accept people for who they are: the only perfect person was Jesus and I’m sure there were a few thousand people who hated him. You’re not perfect so looking for perfection is futile. Learn how to accept people for the quarks in their personalities because people have to accept you for the quarks in your personality. I’m talking about some personality problems not including abuse of any kind.
4.) Learn to let ish go: it’s not so serious that everything has to be World War III. Some things you’ll just have to learn to accept. If your friend is late, maybe you should keep a clear schedule on that day and be ready at 9 instead of 8. Good people are hard to find.
5.) Communicate: in any relationship, you have to tell people how you feel. Too many friendships are lost because of a miscommunication. Say what you mean and mean what you say. I hate when people say one thing but really mean another and then have the nerve to get upset when there’s a miscommunication.
6.) Relax your expectations: not everyone is your best friend or your future husband or wife. Some people are in your lives for a season and some are forever. Take everything at face value and have fun. That doesn’t mean that they’re bad people, because you’re not everyone’s friend, but it just means their role is minimal and too enjoy them while they’re in your life.
Side eyes and blank stares of 2009, I.E. people who got on my nerves in 2009.
Senator Joe Wilson: he doesn’t get a side eye for what he said; he gets one for that apology. It’s obvious he meant what he said and he only apologized because it was politically correct. I would prefer that he didn’t apologize. I’d rather have his outburst than his no effort apology.
Chris Brown: we all know why. At first he received a blank stare for the pre-Grammy night incident. Then he received a side eye for his “ I’m sorry tour”. Although people have moved on and are accepting his new music, his “I’m sorry tour” failed because it prompted more jokes than sympathy. I think he should have waited until next year and donated some money to domestic violence shelters, foundations, or spoke out against domestic violence.
Wall Street: they really need a kick in the behind but they will get a blank stare. I don’t understand how some people make over two billion dollars a year and their companies are asking for bailouts. I wish I made .05 percent of what they make but these people are so greedy that they can’t see living without their ridiculous salaries coupled with an even more ridiculous bonus. F.Y.I Wall Street, you don’t get a million dollar bonus for doing your job.
The government: they get a side eye for giving out all of those pointless bailouts. They gave a few trillions in aid to companies that still failed. Since we’re giving out money to anyone who asks, can I get a few million or my student loans paid?
MTV: they get a side eye for not having better security at the VMA’s. I know that there are potential stage crashers at every award show, but two in one night is unacceptable. There is no way two people should get on the stage with little to no resistance.
Joe Jackson: I really don’t know what he gets. I’m appalled at his behavior since Michael died. I understand that everyone grieves differently, but to use your son’s death as self-promotion is just wrong. Joe actually said that Michael was worth more dead than he was alive. He’s trying to milk Michael’s death for everything it’s worth. I don’t know how to feel about that.
People with camera phones: The get a blank stare because there is no way you should be taping anyone being beaten to death and not once think about calling 911. There is not one explanation that would justify watching someone be raped or beaten, especially since you can text 911 now. We are that desensitized as a society that we can’t call 911 if someone is in trouble. I would hope that if something horrible is happening to me, that someone would shut the camera down and call or text 911. Maybe I have too high expectations.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta: all of them get side eyes. They get side eyes for being 30+; Kim gets a side eye on her age, and acting like they’re in high school. What 40-year-old woman tries to pull the wig, or shift it, off of another grown woman’s head? They’re too old for that; just stop it. My mother is in her 40’s and I would be embarrassed if she acted like that. I understand it’s a TV show but they know they’re too old for all the drama.
Jon and Kate: This has been the year of Jon and Kate. The reality ex-couple became famous after becoming parents of sextuplets and twins but years of Kate berating Jon in front of America, their marriage finally crumble. The thing that blows me away is how they ask for privacy, mainly Jon, and the cameras manage to find them at every move. If you want privacy, then act it and keep your business private. We don’t want to know what you did, how you did it, and when you did it. The TLC show ended but when will the minstrel show end.
Instant Celebs: what’s really good here? You mean to tell me if I have an affair with a powerful man that I will be rich and (in) famous and I don’t have to have a real talent or job? This is ridiculous. The woman who brought down the governor of New York is an advice columnist with the New York Post. Can she even give advice? I’m pretty sure Tiger Woods’ alleged mistresses will be fishing for their own reality show or a way to milk this 15 minutes of infamy. Look at Kim Kardashian. She turned an embarrassing sex tape into a multi million-dollar empire.
Greedy Baby Mama’s and the men that: you get the heave ho in 2010. There is a difference between child support and adult support. A real man doesn’t need an order to take care of his child, but he does need an order to support a grown woman. Just because you opened your legs to a rich man, does not mean you’re set for life. Ladies we have to do better. If you want to live it up, get a job that allows you to live it up.
Why are we still going raw in 2009/2010? There are too many incurable STD’s for you to sacrifice your life for questionable sex. Yes I said questionable and you can take it how you want to. If the only time you like this person is when you’re in the sack with them, it’s time to reevaluate what you’re doing. Time to step your game up in 2010.
Donna’s last words of 2009:
If I have not given you anything else besides this, it’s okay. This is my advice, for everyone including myself, for the New Year. Do not take 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, or 2009 into 2010. Let 2010 be it’s own year. Look at it through new eyes. So what the other four years may have sucked, let it go. It doesn’t matter what happened because you survived. Yesterday is history and tomorrow is a mystery. All we have is today. Cherish today and live today. Whatever you want to do, just go out and do it. I feel like if it doesn’t hurt anyone else, embarrass your family, or break the commandments, then do it. Just do it. 2010 is the year to just do it. Go out and enjoy yourself and have fun. If you have a dream, why not take baby steps to make it happen. Do whatever you want to do. Live 2010 to the fullest.
See you next year.
Hugs and Kisses,
Donna
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