Beautiful Start To The Day

I passed out about 7pm last night and woke up around midnight full of beans so i got stuck into some study and worked through heaps. About 5:30 this morning i decided i would take the dogs for a walk.
I went the opposite way to what i normally walk and it was odd with some of the differences like walking past truckies sleeping on the side of the highway and bigger trucks passing me from the other direction.
The dogs enjoyed it thoroughly an i used the time to put my headphones in and do some French lessons. I'm up to lesson 6 now Bonjour!
Anyway here are some photos from my walk
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Good Karma or Bad Karma?

What goes around comes around

It’s a philosophy that so many people believe in. One catches oneself thinking after a good deed has been done that something good will happen to them as a result.

There’s also the anticipation for the bad side of it too! Have you ever been so angry or annoyed at someone without having the courage to tell them whets on your mind and then badly stubbed your toe? It happens to me often; I’ve spent months recovering and re-growing toenails, lovely thought hey!

On Facebook there is an application called “Send Good Karma” there’s no real point to it really except people expect to get good karma in return, making them happier!

In my opinion karma is a crazy energy, two days ago I had a guy knocking on the front door of my sanctuary threatening me and I knew as he was talking that he was full of it! And so I refused to play victim to him.

During the course of the day I dealt with the situation and later in a phonecall with him he hung up the phone on me that was officially the first time I’d ever been hung up on!

I’ve talked to people about it but I still can’t sleep! I am so exhausted but the conversation keeps on running through my head, obviously there is more going on than just that particular conversation, stress from not being on time with my courses, trying to budget a holiday when prices skyrocket beneath you and feeling a bit alone as all my family is out of town.

So I found this book which is looking at karma and meditation, it is really relaxing, I am listening to it now with a cup of chamomile tea hoping I don’t oversleep today.

Here is the link, go ahead and listen to the sample and see what you think about it!

Understanding Karma

How To Train Your Cute, Adorable, Naughty Beagle

In July 2005 Daley our Staffy x Beagle joined our family as a eight week old puppy. Named after Troy Cassar-Daley she is nothing like the Australian singer/songwriter. She was the most loved and adored puppy in the world and she knew it! She is still one of the smartest dogs I’ve ever seen but it took a lot of work to get her just right, and she still manages to follow her nose just a little too much sometimes.

Beagle owners will agree that that a beagle is the most rewarding and wonderful dog to own, but beagle dog training is not the easiest. Beagles are very smart dogs and many people assume from this that they will be easy to train. But the smartest dogs, like the smartest people, are not the most obedient.

Beagles can be stubborn and set in their ways. It is not difficult to make them understand what you want them to do, but having them actually go ahead and do it is a very different matter. However, with steady, consistent training you will be able to achieve your aims in the end.

There are 3 points that concern beagle owners in particular, more than owners of other dogs. These are:

1. How to make a beagle come when it is called.

If they are unleashed or manage to escape from the yard, beagles will chase after anything or nothing, often running into danger on the street. They are hunting dogs and they will follow a scent even if the animal that left it has been gone for hours.

To train her to come, first you need to teach your dog to come to you in the house. Then move to the yard. You can use a leash, increasing the length as she becomes more obedient. Finally, let her off the leash - but put her back on it if she does not come when called.

In this early stage of training, never leash her when she comes to your call - she will see that as punishment for coming to you!

When you are sure that she understands the command and will obey it, begin using it on a long leash outside of the yard too. But accept that you may never be able to let your beagle off the leash in unfenced areas.

2. How to stop a beagle chewing clothes, furnishings, children's toys ... whatever it is, they will try to eat it.

Something that is useful here is to give the beagle plenty of toys of her own, and try to keep other things out of reach. You will find that you need to keep a very tidy house with all your shoes, etc, hidden away.

Any time that you find the dog chewing something of yours, just offer her own toy instead. When she takes it, reward her. Remember it is natural to beagles to chew, so rewarding her for chewing the right things is the best way to train her.

3. What to do with a beagle who bites your hand.

The play of young beagles often includes some nipping or biting. If you have a puppy with a tendency to do this, you will want to train her out of it as soon as possible, especially if you have kids - and it's good if you do, because beagles are pack animals who are happiest in large, active human families.

You probably want her to transfer her biting to her toys. However, it is better not to give her a toy when she bites you, because she may see this as a reward for biting you. Just withdraw your hand and walk away. Show her that you will not play if she is going to do that.

At the same time, make sure that she has plenty of her own toys that she can bite on, to satisfy her chewing instincts.

Never try to train a dog to do anything by punishing her. All of her behavior seems natural to her - it is like punishing a child for playing. All that happens is they get scared of you. It is very important to understand that it is natural to beagles to do all of these things, for successful beagle dog training.

I’ve lost many paint brushes, jogging shoes, a swag, and horse lead ropes to our puppy but I love her so much, she is the sweetest most caring sookish thing in the world. She can sit, jump, lie, talk, bark on command, shake hands and knows food refusal too! I love getting her to show off for schmakoes.

Are You Flying Solo???

For those of you who don’t know me very well yet, I am a sole trader; my business consists of home and lifestyle choice provision to tenants, colleagues and family & friends.

I don’t know much about business practices, to date everything I’ve learnt is from my mentor’s. I will be good at it. ! I am very passionate about my work, I am definitely a soloist, and it tells me I wasn’t wrong when I made the decision to go it alone.

I spend quite a bit of time researching different tools on the internet that I can use; I need it smart, instant and free! I recently found this really resourceful website that helped me take notice of issues I hadn’t come across yet but that when improved really affected my business positively, everything from phone manners to good personal happiness advice, because after all, if your not happy you waste a lot of energy getting happy or working out why your not so happy.

Another thing you should know about me is I hate wasting time, and I hate people wasting my time! When people say they are going to come over my house to pay a bill, they say they will turn up in the morning and then don’t rock up at all! That really errks me!

Anyway I digress again! This website is free, instant and very smart, they have many smart people writing articles for them so it is current relevant information for people who are flying solo or others considering working for themselves.

When you sign up for the newsletter it’s not spam and jam packed full of really great articles. It also gives you four free bonuses you can download. They are reports that really made me understand myself that little bit better! And we all know that when you understand yourself you can perform at your peak abilities, therefore not wasting time and actually achieving your goals.

So go ahead and check it out and leave a comment here telling me I’m right!!! I love being right!!! And even more I love being told I’m right lol! Kidding, but go ahead and check it out anyway, very interesting reading indeed.

FLYING SOLO

Day To Day Goal Setting

I wanted to share a little about writing down your day to day goals. My last blog entry was about keeping your goals to yourself and I still believe that! But you really do need to refresh your memory occasionally about the important things to you, otherwise you may become bogged down with day to day going’s on and forget what really matters.

I have a scrapbook in which I keep pictures of the life goals I want like a trip to Paris, a wardrobe full of really good quality clothes and my dream house. I don’t use this for my day to day goals as they would clutter up the vision for my life. Also day to day goals need constant rendering, you need to be able to add to goals and fully delete some that are just impractical or unnecessary.

I use my tasks function on my Outlook program for this. Seeing as a lot of my home business is based around my email program I can just flick through and add or delete them as I go.

Recently I was trying my hardest to study a network marketing cd full of great advice but the guy’s voice kept putting me to sleep right here at my computer, it was seriously taking me forever to get through it,

I pressed stop half way through the third session out of five and wrote on my goals, “Finish net marketing course” and each day when I found I had a break from emailing I would read through the list and find the easiest goals and try to achieve them, or at least work towards them a bit.

Yesterday after several stages of achievement I actually finished that cd! I didn’t need to celebrate completing that goal but the simple act of deleting the task felt so good! As the list gets smaller you start wondering what you might do if it got down to no tasks.

I never have no tasks in my list, there is always some little mundane thing that I’ve been putting off that needs doing, I even have on my list “put rubbish out” and “write letter to Grandparents” as it’s something I don’t need to do every day but just seeing it there means I’m more likely to do it in a timely manner.

Just so you know, it’s been years since I’ve written to my Grandparents but I always mean to! I just never get around to it! Hmmm!!! I might do that today lol!

Keep Your Goals To Yourself!

I had a really good day today; I achieved a lot of my daily goals which left me feeling proud of myself. Then I went to see my parents and Dad started sharing his negatives about his work.

Over the years I’ve become used to blocking them out, ignoring them and even thinking about something completely different while he talks

Today we got onto the subject of a new venture I am making and what arrangements I will need to do to make it work. He automatically started fidgeting and cleaning up the table. I could see this dark cloud forming around his head.

I don’t know why it is so difficult for him to support me, it’s as though his own fears have to become true for me! That’s when I lose all respect for him and don’t want to be near him, and then I have to leave talking with my mother for another occasion when he’s not around.

As soon as I get up to leave he apologizes for being negative and tries to make jokes, this just makes me dislike him even more.

I guess that’s why they suggest that you never tell anyone else your goals because they don’t have the same mental ability of making things happen as you. I remembered this saying, “evolve or die” I told that to dad and said it was fine that he remains Jurassic!

So there people, I’ve been wondering what I could possibly write today that might help someone else out. Keep your goals to yourself!

Except of course you can tell me your goals and dreams here, because I listen, and I believe that anything is possible! I am trying to teach myself French by saying things in French to my mother who used to know it, she corrects my pronunciations.

I’m sure the thought of me going off to France by myself scares her but it’s not going to stop me from going because it’s my goal and I believe in myself!

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