"'elf Expressions Ezine"

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Get Hold of Your Elf!

"Get hold of your 'elf!"

Your weekly collection of marketing tips, hints, and advice interspersed with humor, inspiration, and other goodies to spice things up a bit. Guidance, tutoring, advice, mentoring, coaching, inspiration, English lessons, editing, proofreading services for entrepreneurs and online marketers.

The publisher’s philosophy is that most learn faster by taking small bites, rather than large gulps. Small bites are chewed more thoroughly, swallowed, and digested more readily. Keeping that in mind, many features will be solo items. That way, you will not be bombarded or overwhelmed.

Publisher: Mary Wilkey
Volume 2 - Issue 29XX - October 19, 2002
Regular issue published every Tuesday

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September 11, 2001

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CONTENTS:
Special Offer for Readers
Guest Article
Today’s Chuckle
Internet Tips & Hints
Guest Article
Inspiration
Etcetera

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Borage oil is more potent and less expensive than evening primrose or black currant oil and is the best choice for gamma linolenic acid.
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Recently a variation of a long-chain fatty acid cetyl ester called Omega-9 Plus™ has been discovered. Although not yet officially designated an essential fatty acid, supplementation with this fatty acid has shown a remarkable ability to relieve pain, reverse the effects of arthritis, and relieve the symptoms of a whole host of diseases.
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GUEST ARTICLE

HOW TO FIND SUCCESS
by Steve Goodier

Rabbi Harold Kushner tells a wonderful story about a bright young man who was a sophomore Stanford pre-med student. To reward him for having done so well in school, his parents gave him a trip to the Asia for the summer.
While there he met a guru who said to him, "Don't you see how you are poisoning your soul with this success-oriented way of life? Your idea of happiness is to stay up all night studying for an exam so you can get a better grade than your best friend. Your idea of a good marriage is not to find the woman who will make you whole, but to win the girl that everyone else wants.
"That's not how people are supposed to live," the sage admonished. "Give it up; come join us in an atmosphere where we all share and love each other."
The young man had completed four years at a competitive high school to get into Stanford, plus two years of pre-med courses at the university. He was ripe for this sort of approach. He called his parents from Tokyo and told them he would not be coming home. He was dropping out of school to live in an ashram (a spiritual retreat).
Six months later, his parents got a letter from him: "Dear Mom and Dad, I know you weren't happy with the decision I made last summer, but I want to tell you how happy it has made me. For the first time in my life, I am at peace. Here there is no competing, no hustling, no trying to get ahead of anyone else. Here we are all equal, and we all share. This way of life is so much in harmony with the inner essence of my soul that in only six months I've become the number two disciple in the entire ashram, and I think I can be number one by June!"
It's not always about achievement—doing more and doing it better than anyone else. In our highly-completive world, it is good to remember that success actually begins with doing the RIGHT thing. Miss that, and nothing else matters.
One man put it like this: "I spent my life frantically climbing the ladder of success. When I got to the top I realized it was leaning against the wrong building." Even if he got to the top first, it made no difference. There is no merit in being first to arrive at the wrong place.
Do you know what one difference between efficient and effective is? One who is efficient does the thing in the best possible way; one who is effective does the best possible thing. More important than efficiency is effectiveness. More important than climbing high on the ladder is climbing the right ladder.
Blessed are those who accomplish . . . the right thing. Blessed are those who scale the mountain and, whether or not they even make it to the top, they know they chose the right path. These people will have found success.
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Steve Goodier, Publisher@LifeSupportSystem.com, is a professional speaker, consultant, and author of numerous books. Visit his site for more information, or to sign up for his FREE newsletter of Life, Love and Laughter at http://LifeSupportSystem.com. Get his eBook on the healing power of humor, "Laughing All the Way," (a $4.95 value) for FREE—a valuable gift for new subscribers!

Here is Ben Franklin's final prescription for moral perfection:
"Chastity. Rarely use venery but for health or
offspring—never to dullness, weakness, or the injury
of your own or another's peace or reputation."

A BIBLE RIDDLE

When was the FIRST shedding of blood that was caused by the sins of man?
ANSWER: When God made coats of skins for Adam and Eve after their sin. Genesis 3:21: "Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them."

A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.
—Benjamin Franklin

TODAY'S CHUCKLE

EVER WONDER . . .

Why women can't put on mascara with their mouths closed?
Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?
Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?
When do doctors stop "practicing" and start "curing"?
Why is it that to stop Windows 98, you have to click on "Start"?
Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
When dog food is new and improved tasting, who tests it?
Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?
Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes?
Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?
Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
Why are they're called apartments when they're all stuck together?
If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?
If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

"Crimes are only 'hate crimes' if the victims are liberal victims: minorities or homosexuals. What a farce this whole discussion is! Liberals have so divided this country! We will never be the 'one nation' Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of until we truly ignore 'the color of one's skin' or their personal beliefs or practices. Liberals need to treat everyone—and every criminal and every victim—by the same standards. That is the only way the law—and justice—can work."

—John LeBoutillier

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
—Charles Lindbergh

INTERNET HINTS & TIPS

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Don't walk in front of me—I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me—I may not lead.
Walk beside me—and be my friend.

—Albert Camus

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty.
Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.

—Patrick Henry
(And you thought the only thing he ever said was
"Give me liberty or give me death"! :-)

GUEST ARTICLE

A GRAND CONSPIRACY
by Stephanie West Allen

A surprise for me—a symphony!
Today I took a long walk. The wind was warm and wholehearted making me push energetically against it as I walked. To my great surprise, when I passed a towering pine tree, all the wind on the ground suddenly stilled. The only wind I heard was the wind whistling and singing high up in the swaying, green branches of the old tree. Harmony and melody.
News Flash: Tree And Wind Conspire
The tree and the wind were in concert. And, as they breathed together, they were a magnificent and powerful conspiracy.
Con-spire means to breathe together. "Spire" is a marvelous root word meaning breath or spirit. When things or people breathe together—conspire—great power is created. The law recognizes that power; conspiracy—two or more people conspiring to commit an evil deed—is in itself a crime.
Your Powerful Plot
What compassionate deed, what marvelous plot, what gentle intrigue, can you plan today with one or more other people? Perhaps you and your coworkers or family conspire to bring more laughter into the world. Maybe you start with smiles and the smiles explode into laughter.
Maybe you scheme to do things pleasant and pleasing for other people without their finding out who did it. Maybe you become a merry band of secret scouts throwing grin grenades when no one expects it.
When you and your merry band put your minds together —conspire—to make your world a more joyful place for today, there will be no stopping the imaginative ideas. Remember the power in breathing together for a purpose. Come together in harmony in your superb purpose, like the wind and the pine tree.
And today . . .
Gather up your team—it need be no more than a dynamic duo of two—and conspire, inspire, aspire. Devise a delight-filled scheme for those around you and put it into action. You will have the grandest of conspiracies. Make today a truly con-spiritual day. Have fun, you creative co-conspirators.
©2002 Stephanie West Allen
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Stephanie West Allen, JD, brings humor and motivation to associations and organizations.  http://www.allen-nichols.com

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INSPIRATION

As I was walking down life's highway many years ago, I came upon a sign that read "Heaven's Grocery Store."
When I got a little closer the doors swung open wide,
And when I came to myself I was standing inside.
I saw a host of angels. They were standing everywhere.
One handed me a basket and said "My child, shop with care."
Everything a human needed was in that grocery store.
And what you could not carry, you could come back for.
First I got some Patience—Love was in that same row.
Further down was Understanding—you need that everywhere you go.
I got a box or two of Wisdom and Faith—a bag or two.
And Charity of course—I would need some of that, too.
I couldn't miss the Holy Ghost—It was all over the place.
And then some Strength and Courage to help me run this race.
My basket was getting full, but I remembered I needed Grace,
And then I chose Salvation, for Salvation was for free.
I tried to get enough of that to do for you and me.
Then I started to the counter to pay my grocery bill,
For I thought I had everything to do the Master's will.
As I went up the aisle I saw Prayer and put that in,
For I knew when I stepped outside I would run into sin.
Peace and Joy were plentiful, the last things on the shelf.
Song and Praise were hanging near, so I just helped myself.
Then I said to the angel "Now how much do I owe?"
He smiled and said "Just take them everywhere you go."
Again I asked "Really now, how much do I owe?"

"My child," he said, "God paid your bill a long, long time ago!"

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