'elf Expressions Ezine
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“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 1 - Issue 46 - February 5, 2002
Published every Tuesday evening
February already! Does anyone else get the feeling that the Lord is playing a huge joke on us and speeding up time itself?
We are doing something a little different to accommodate all the ads flooding in. In order to keep the number of ads down to twelve in the main section, new subscriber ads will be featured in a separate section, just before ETCETERA.
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Most people fail not from bad decisions,
but from indecision.
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CONTENTS:
Subscriber in the Spotlight
Feature Article
Today’s Chuckle
Today's English lesson
Internet Tips & Hints
Guest Article
Inspiration
Etcetera
"Believe and act as if it were impossible to
fail."
—Charles F. Kettering
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SUBSCRIBER IN THE SPOTLIGHT
The first subscriber to submit his or her personal profile sharing with the rest of us all about who he/she is, background, family, location, interests, hobbies, goals, dreams, etc., will be spotlighted right here next issue—and yes, an email and/or URL may be included! Send to readermail@elfexpressionsezine.com
Our Subscriber in the Spotlight this week is William B. Doyle,
author of the anti-terrorism/crime prevention "Hard Target"
ebook series & staff/ghost writer for 3,000+ ezines.
INCHON, KOREA (01 January 2002) - Greetings from "The Land of
the Morning Calm"! I am William B. Doyle, aka "Willie Raccoon"
and live with: my boss lady (wifeypoo), Sam Soon Chang; 80-year-old
father-in-law; 70-year-old mother-in-law; 16-year-old orphaned niece;
13-year-old orphaned nephew; and 3 dogs—"Shuba," my father-in-law's
very old mongrel buddy, "Mini," wifeypoo's baby, and "Marilyn,"
one of the results of "Shuba" and "Mini" sneaking off together.
I completed over twenty years of active duty in the U.S. Navy as an
electrician and law enforcement officer on April 30, 2000, serving
the last ten years in Japan before moving to Korea. After eight months of unemployment (it was ugly), I finally landed a below-minimum-
wage job as a store detective for Yongsan Garrison's Main Exchange.
Three months later I resigned from it and slid into my present position as the Law & Order Office's "Civilian Misconduct Officer/Civilian Misconduct Community Services Coordinator."
Knowing a regular job would never help my family and me realize our
dreams, I looked into network marketing as the vehicle to do so
as early as '92. Two didn't pan out, mainly since I didn't know what
I was doing and had severely limited resources by being overseas.
I'm sticking with one right now as my "backend," to introduce it
only after building an opt-in subscriber/customer base via other
methods.
I continually learn new things about internet marketing, knowing
this old dog needs to learn new tricks to make it. Totally self-
taught, my sites (http://www.wbdoyle.com and neglected personal one—http://www.willieraccoon.com) sometimes unfortunately show it. I've been lucky enough to keep finding mentors and others gracious in sharing their knowledge and experience to help me along the way. My "Mission" and "Vision" statements are both located at my willieraccoon site, while also printed out and framed at work and at home, so I may read them daily to remain focused.
Recently, I've been pursuing joint ventures with some of the
"internet big dogs" to get exposure and build my opt-in list
(where the real money is). One such being considered is my
surrendering 100% of ALL profits for a test period while
receiving 1,000,000+ weekly site visitors. Why? One percent (10,000+)
WILL become MY opt-in subscribers each week. They purchase
something—great. If not, I still have them as subscribers.
The other method is writing articles for 3,000+ ezines with
over 80,000,000 opt-in subscribers in exchange for FREE access
to them. Ever notice how Dr. Nunley continuously pumps out
ezine articles? Hmmmmmm. There's method to the madness.
I'll always consider myself a "net newbie," which aids in my
keeping open to new ideas, methods, tools, resources, etc.
That's one reason I'm receiving tons of ezines and junk email
daily—there are gems hidden in those things!
Thank you for allowing me to share with you. I look forward
learning more from this ezine and its readers, their sites, and
businesses. May 2002 and beyond be THE years for you and yours!
I know they're mine. Honor. Courage. Commitment. The ONLY
way to live and do business.
William B. Doyle
http://www.wbdoyle.com
webmaster@wbdoyle.com
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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FEATURE ARTICLE
THINGS
Ever wonder about things?
Like in, YOUR things? How many you have, what kind, what you use them for, why you use them, how you use them, IF you use them, when you use them, and where you put them?
Where is this going, you ask?
Straight to the heart of the question: Do you own your things, or do your things own you?
I mean, everyone has things, because things are necessary, right? Really?
After the three basics of food, clothing, and shelter, what do we REALLY need?
Isn't everything else just a convenience? I mean, sure, there are things we HAVE to have to "live" in this society, in addition to the basics, right?
But we all have many, many things we do NOT HAVE to have! Things to put things in; things we stack things on top of; things we put things underneath; things to hold things; things to store other things in; things to do things with; things to fix things with; things to clean things with.
And the list goes on: things to write things with and things to write things on; things to file things in; things to cook things in and on; things to listen to things on; things to watch things on; things to light things up; things to darken things down; things to lock things up; things to talk on and things to talk into; things to carry things in; things to hang things on; things to wash things in.
Point is, few of us have our things. Truth is, our things have us. Why is this so?
Because of the necessity of CARING for those things. Things have to be scrubbed, cleaned, waxed, polished, vacuumed, washed, ironed, replenished, dusted, scraped, painted, buffed, refreshed, trimmed, cut, weeded, pruned, watered, dried, fumigated, purified, organized, filed, refurbished, refilled, replaced, sharpened, repaired, patched, sewn, hemmed, set, reset, timed, scheduled, reviewed, checked, raked, mowed, carried out, brought in, drilled, hammered, screwed, prepared, picked up, drawn, sliced, diced, shredded, moved, removed, drained, etc.
So the fewer things we have, the fewer things have us!
Henry David Thoreau wisely observed, "Simplify, simplify." Let's start today and divest ourselves of all the extra baggage.
Why? Because it will give us a new freedom to enjoy life—and to be more productive and creative! Our minds will not be so cluttered, and our lives will not be frittered away in endless, meaningless mundane activity.
Seriously, folks, if you haven't used it for a year, consider losing it—before you get irretrievably lost among the rubble!
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5 MINUTES — PAIN GONE
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5 Minutes – Pain Gone
On March 14, 2001, as I was loading some cattle into a trailer to take them to a sale, one of the cows (a rather wild one) decided she really didn't want to be in that trailer, just as I was about to close the trailer gate. She ran back and caught my hand between the heavy steel trailer gate and a steel fence post.
The impact smashed my hand and nearly cut off my index finger. My hand swelled to almost double in size and was still swollen when we made the trip to Kentucky on April 26 to attend 2001, A Winner’s Odyssey. On Friday April 27, my hand was still swollen to the point I could not completely close it into a fist and was still hurting quite a bit.
When everyone was asked if they wanted to try the Pain Away, I thought it might help my hand a little. They put a couple of drops on the back of my hand and within five minutes the pain was gone and I could make a tight fist. I thought if it had helped that hand so much, maybe it would help the other hand that had been swollen with arthritis for a number of years—so I found someone with the sample bottles and asked if I could get another couple of drops.
When they put the Pain Away on the arthritic hand, instead of rubbing it in with my fingertips I just rubbed the backs of my hands together (I thought this would put a little more on the hand I had smashed). Within just a few minutes, I could make a tight fist with BOTH hands. (I hadn't been able to make a tight fist with the arthritic one for years.)
I have since received my order, which included the Pain Away, but I haven't needed to use it on my hands, and I can still make a tight fist and work with my hands without any pain nearly three weeks later. This is very important to me, since we live on a farm and put in long hours working with our livestock and trying to keep the buildings and fences repaired. And my wife and I also have several yards we mow during the summer for family and friends.
I am very thankful that Mary and Howard Ritter introduced us to this company and also very thankful that my wife and I made the trip to Owensboro with them to be there as HISTORY WAS BEING MADE. My wife and I are on the complete Baseline of Health products and feel better and have more energy than we have in years. We plan to devote a lot of that extra energy to building our financial future with Healing America.
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A BIBLE RIDDLE
Where in the Bible is the ONLY story of Jesus washing the feet of His disciples?
ANSWER: The story is found ONLY in John, Chapter 13:1-12.
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"You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears.
Don't
do it ...
A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate
self-defeating feelings while undercutting
your finest, most productive ones."
—Marsha Sinetar
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TODAY'S CHUCKLE
A clergyman was walking down the street when he came upon a group of a few boys about ten years of age, surrounding a dog. Concerned that the boys were hurting the animal, he went over and asked them what they were doing.
One of the boys replied, "This dog is an old neighborhood stray. We take him home with us sometimes, but only one of us can take him home.
So we're having a contest: whichever one of us tells the biggest lie can take him home today."
Of course, the reverend was shocked. "You boys shouldn't be having a contest telling lies!" he exclaimed. He then launched into a ten-minute sermon against lying, beginning, "Don't you boys know it's a sin to lie?" and ending with, "Why, when I was your age, I never told a lie."
There was complete silence for about a minute. As the reverend smiled with satisfaction that he'd gotten through to them, the smallest boy
gave a deep sigh. "All right," he said, "give him the dog."
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"Success is the ability to go from one failure to
another with no loss of enthusiasm." —Winston Churchill
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TODAY'S ENGLISH LESSON
Seeing the same elementary mistakes over and over again has prompted this publisher to write an English lesson each issue.
Yes, folks, I know—it's unbelievable, but I actually saw this one: "ado" vs. "adieu"!
"Ado" means fuss or commotion.
"Adieu" is French for goodbye (farewell, or I commend you to God).
Reminder: We offer a reasonably priced editing/proofreading service for articles or even entire ezines. Just email: editingservice@elfexpressionsezine.com
Just as one cannot be a "little bit" pregnant,
a principle cannot be compromised
but only adhered to or surrendered. Honesty is abandoned as much by the
theft of a dime as of a dollar.
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NEW! — MARKETING MANIA — NEW!
Hi, Friends — Welcome to Marketing Mania!
I publish Dee's Helpful Info., A Real Home Business Newsletter, and own Endless Mts. Home Business, located in the Heart of The Endless Mts. in Pennsylvania. I have an associate degree in accounting, but my passion is writing. I was employed for several years, but decided a home business might be my cup of tea, as I hate working out!
I have been married to a wonderful man for fifteen years and have two teenagers at home. My husband works full time as a computer break operator in sheet metal, for Mestek. Inc. and is a local volunteer firefighter of eighteen years. Our website is:
http://www.homebizandmore.homestead.com
My policy is to help others start and improve their own home-based businesses with the experiences from which I have learned. This information is in tips, ideas, how-to articles, free and paid tools. I am always open to more ideas and useful information to add to my website.
Please enjoy today's tip!
Donna Sweat
mailto:donna@sosbbs.com
What Bugs Us Publishers!
This is for the rest of you, too!
I had attempted to write this article once before, but somehow I did not like what I wrote and scrapped it. I don't see articles like this and was hesitant to express my comments.
Perhaps all publishers can view my position in a similar manner when it comes to those little things that bug us. Some one who has never published or edited an ezine may never understand the point of this article, yet they might possibly see why we become irate over these issues.
The following is my list of annoyances:
- Newsletters with all classifieds, NOTHING ELSE! Yup, for those of you who know of Dee's Helpful Info., I publish a classified edition, but include an article and also an all article ezine, ArticleZ 4 U Xpress.
Subscribers who subscribe only to see their free ads and then unsubscribe or give a false email address. This should be Number ONE!
Unformatted Newsletters—Geez, I hate going clear out into nowhere to read!! Lines that take up the whole window and then a teeny, short line to follow, of sixty characters ... my eyes are out of focus! Formatting may be a tedious task for some, and I will admit, my formatting has problems occasionally. Sticking to a set number of characters makes it easier to read and looks much nicer.
Spam Emails—We share the same email address. You are kidding, right? I certainly hope not!
This is not spam. Ok ... but I never received anything from you before ... it must be spam, or else why would you tell me right off?
Make $5,000 in the next five days! You have to be kidding! Maybe if I won the lottery!
No subject line—I am not opening it!
No e-mail address—not this one either!
Neither e-mail address or subject—delete it!
Virus attachments—I get these occasionally, more often than I'd like. Usually in an email you cannot return. Thank God for virus software!
Here's my FREE Ad!—That's it ... no name, no subscription email. You must subscribe first and then you get a free ad. Give some details, please.
Outdated adcodes—I get this one fella who sends an ad every week with an adcode that is three months old! I email him each time, and he keeps doing it ... maybe he figures I'll forget and let it slip in ...
Subscribers who get irate over unsubscribing—I enclose a link for unsubscribing/subscribing in every email for my newsletter, and Topica also includes a link. That's two times! It sends me off to Topica in an email search to remove this subscriber before I am accused of spam. More often than not, I can't find the address in the search; you guessed it—they must have found the unsubscribe link!
Website contact information—Where is it? These sites have some good information, and all I want to do is compliment them. Put that information in bold if you have to.
BannerMania—Websites with tons of banners!
Pop Ups—I get so many sometimes, my browser freezes and shuts down!
Itty-bitty fonts—I cannot read a word smaller than a pinpoint ... where's the magnifying glass?
This list could go on forever—it is getting pretty large. Perhaps we could write an ebook of complaints.
I may get a few cans of "Raid" to eliminate the Bugs!
©2002 Donna Sweat, Publisher —
mailto:donna@sosbbs.com
Dee's Helpful Info. — mailto:dsweat-subscribe@topica.com
Endless Mts. Home Business —
http://www.homebizandmore.homestead.com
INTERNET HINTS & TIPS
Here's the best that we've encountered so far when it comes to HTML tutorials. It's the most complete HTML tutorial you'll ever need.
It is in e-book form, so once you've downloaded, it will be very easy for you to make reference material when trying to learn to create beautiful web pages.
Download the E-Book here:
http://www.resource-a-day.net/resources/web.html
Look Beyond the Fog
On a bitterly cold morning in 1952, Florence Chadwick began her quest to swim the channel from Catalina Island to the California coast. The long-distance swimmer had already achieved the honors of being the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions.
On this day, however, the water was numbingly cold and the fog so dense that she was not able to see the surveillance boats directly beside her. Many times during her swim she was startled by rifle shots fired from the surveillance boats into the water, signaling that sharks were spotted.
After laboring over 15 hours, Chadwick asked to be pulled into the boat. Her coach pleaded with her to continue, insisting victory was just ahead. Chadwick strained to look for land, but could see only fog. With less than a half-mile from her goal, she quit.
"I'm not excusing myself," she later noted, "but if I would have seen the land, I might have made it." It wasn't bitter cold or exhaustion that caused her to quit. But rather her inability to see just beyond the fog.
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Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter
for us in an advanced age;
and if we do not plant it while young,
it will give us no shade when we grow old.—Lord Chesterfield
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GUEST ARTICLE
The Subtlety of Language
by Jim Rohn
I have found that sometimes the subtle difference in our attitude, which of course can make a major difference in our future, can be as simple as the language we use. The difference in even how you talk to yourself or others. Consciously making a decision to quit, saying what you don't want and to start saying what you do want. I call that faith. Believing the best, hoping for the best and moving toward the best.
A few examples could be, instead of saying, "What if somebody doesn't respond?" you start saying, "What if they do respond?" Instead of saying, "What if someone says no?" You say, "What if they say yes?" Instead of "What if they start and quit?" say, "What if they start and stay?" or "What if it doesn't work out?" You say, "What if it does work out?" The list goes on and on.
I found that when you start thinking and saying what you really want then your mind automatically shifts and pulls you in that direction. And sometimes it can be that simple, just a little twist in vocabulary that illustrates your attitude and philosophy.
Our language can also affect how others perform and behave around us. A teenager says to a parent, "I need $10." And if the parents learn to say, "No comprende. That kind of language doesn't work here. We've got plenty of money, but that's not how you get $10." Then you teach your teenager how to ask, "How can I earn $10?"
That is the magic of words. There is plenty of money here. There is money for everybody, but you just have to learn the magic words to get it. For everything you could possibly want. If you just learn the philosophy. How could I earn $10? Because you can't go to the soil and say, "Give me a harvest." You know the soil smiles and says, "Who is this clown that brings me his need and brings me no seed." And if you said to the soil, "I've got this seed and if I planted it, would you work while I sleep?" And the soil says, "No problem. Give me the seed. Go to sleep and I'll be working while you're sleeping."
If you just understand these simple principles, teaching them to a teenager (or an adult) is sometimes just a matter of language. It's like an investment account instead of a savings account. Simple language, but so important. It is easy to stumble through almost a lifetime and not learn some of these simplicities. Then you have to put up with all the lack and all the challenges that don't work out simply from not reading the book, not listening to the tape, not sitting in the class, not studying your language and not being willing to search so you can then find.
But here is the great news. You can start this process anytime. For me it was at age 25. At 25 I'm broke. Six years later I'm a millionaire. Somebody says, "What kind of revolution, what kind of change, what kind of thinking, what kind of magic had to happen? Was it you?" And I say, "No. Any person, any six years, 36 to 42, 50 to 56. Whatever six years; whatever few years you go on an intensive, accelerated personal development curve, learning curve, application curve, and learning the disciplines." Now, it might not take the same amount of time, but I'm telling you the same changes and the same rewards in some different fashion are available for those who pay that six-year price. And you might find that whether it's in the beginning to help get you started, or in the middle to keep you on track, that your language can have a great impact on your attitude, actions and results.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
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This article was submitted by Jim Rohn, America's foremost business philosopher. To subscribe to the Free Jim Rohn Weekly E-zine, go to http://www.jimrohn.com/ps.dll?a=ednar3668 or send a blank email to subscribe@jimrohn.com
©2000 Jim Rohn International. All rights reserved worldwide.
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INSPIRATION
If I knew it would be the last time
that I'd see you fall asleep,
I would tuck you in more tightly
and pray the Lord, your soul to keep.
If I knew it would be the last time
that I see you walk out the door,
I would give you a hug and kiss
and call you back for one more.
If I knew it would be the last time
I'd hear your voice lifted up in praise,
I would videotape each action and word,
so I could play them back day after day.
If I knew it would be the last time,
I could spare an extra minute or two
to stop and say I love you,
instead of assuming you would KNOW I do.
If I knew it would be the last time
I would be there to share your day,
well I'm sure you'll have so many more,
so I can let just this one slip away.
For surely there's always tomorrow
to make up for an oversight,
and we always get a second chance
to make everything right.
There will always be another day
to say our I love you's,
And certainly there's another chance
to say our "Anything I can do's?"
But just in case I might be wrong,
and today is all I get,
I'd like to say how much I love you
and I hope we never forget,
Tomorrow is not promised to anyone,
young or old alike,
And today may be the last chance you get
to hold your loved one tight ...
So if you're waiting for tomorrow,
why not do it today?
For if tomorrow never comes,
you'll surely regret the day,
That you didn't take that extra time
for a smile, a hug, or a kiss
and you were too busy to grant someone,
what turned out to be their one last wish.
So hold your loved ones close today,
whisper in their ear,
Tell them how much you love them
and that you'll always hold them dear,
Take time to say "I'm sorry, please
forgive me," "thank you," or "it's okay."
And if tomorrow never comes,
you'll have no regrets about today.
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