ANDYS WEKLY JOURNAL

ANDYS WEEKLY JOURNAL #4

Andy Phillips — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:04:33 +0000

ANDYS…The Listening Service.

#4 (07th DEC, 2008)

Andy’s The Listening Service is primarily a counselling service offering free at source help information and advice for everyone and anyone to use although it deals mainly with issues dealing with disability. It’s services are open to both able bodied and disabled persons, We look forward to hear from you.

Andy’s thoughts:

I guide you in the way of wisdom and lead along straight paths. Proverbs Chapter 4 vs 11

We know not what path may be, As yet by us untrod but we can trust our all to thee our father and our God- Wme J Irons

Following on from what I said last week. Leading a faith filled life can be very challenging. For one thing you don’t know what is around the corner, you cant know it is impossible for us to know what lies around the corner. God however knows everything and will guide you through life and show you which path to tread.

A man must walk his path alone, Sometimes People come and go but it is the personal relationship that we build up with God our father over time that counts. It is a personal journey that unfolds like a map over time and becomes a personal relationship that grows like father & son. Warning, God can show us the paths like signposts along the way but we must choose which route to take. Mans free will means he will never intervene.

If you have read my story you will know of the trials and tribulations I have had to endeavour to overcome. When I was lying in a hospital bed not knowing if I was going to live or die. One thought entered my mind and put my mind at rest. I was walking on an empty beach no one was around there was but one set of footprints in the sand. It was a image dragged up from over 20 years earlier of a Christian poster that I had on my bedroom wall in the 80`s. Why did it put my mind to rest because the words that accompanied the poster were as follows During the times of trial & suffering when you only see one set of footprints it was then that I carried you. I realised that The Lord was protecting over me.

That was something precious. To share with others not to chuck down their throats, not to be preached down to or in bashing people over the head with, but a message of love given by God. And another pearl of wisdom collected over a lifetime of personal journeys If having others believe in you and your dream was a requirement for success, most of us would never accomplish anything.

You need to base your decisions about what you want to do based on your dreams and your goals – not the goals, desires, opinions and judgments of your parents, friends, spouse, children and colleagues. Stop worrying about what other people think, and follow your heart.

Remember Dr. Daniel Amen’s 18/40/60 rule : “When you’re 18, you worry about what everybody’s thinking about you; when you’re 40, you don’t care about what anybody thinks about you; and when you’re 60, you realise that nobody’s been think about you at all.”

So there you are !. Most of the time, nobody’s think about you at all ! They’re too busy thinking about their own lives. And if they are thinking about you, it’s only to wonder what you’re thinking about them. People think about themselves, not about you.

Think about it. All the time you waste worrying what other people are thinking about you, your ideas, your goals, your clothes, your hair – all that time could be far better spent thinking about and doing the things that will achieve your goals- anxiety. Conversely, taking steps to raise your self-belief can make you less anxious and have a significant and positive effect on the way you handle stressful situations.

You have to believe in yourself. Whether you call it self-esteem, self-confidence, or self-assurance, it’s a deep-seated belief that you have what it takes – the abilities, inner resources, talents and skills to handle whatever life throws at you, and create the results that you desire.Andy Phillips Read my story

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Thought of the week:

I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody’s got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon. –Beck Hansen Robert Louis Stevenson

Good News of the week:

Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to church and reading newspapers — but they don’t spend a lot of time watching television, a new study finds.

That’s what unhappy people do.

Although people who describe themselves as happy enjoy watching television, it turns out to be the single activity they engage in less often than unhappy people, said John Robinson, a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland and the author of the study, which appeared in the journal Social Indicators Research.

While most large studies on happiness have focused on the demographic characteristics of happy people — factors like age and marital status — Dr. Robinson and his colleagues tried to identify what activities happy people engage in. The study relied primarily on the responses of 45,000 Americans collected over 35 years by the University of Chicago’s General Social Survey, and on published “time diary” studies recording the daily activities of participants.

“We looked at 8 to 10 activities that happy people engage in, and for each one, the people who did the activities more — visiting others, going to church, all those things — were more happy,” Dr. Robinson said. “TV was the one activity that showed a negative relationship. Unhappy people did it more, and happy people did it less.”

But the researchers could not tell whether unhappy people watch more television or whether being glued to the set is what makes people unhappy. “I don’t know that turning off the TV will make you more happy,” Dr. Robinson Still, he said, the data show that people who spend the most time watching television are least happy in the long run.

Since the major predictor of how much time is spent watching television is whether someone works or not, Dr. Robinson added, it’s possible that rising unemployment will lead to more TV time. – New York times

Be The Change:

Centre for Screen-Time Awareness shares information about how we can take control of electronic media in our lives, not allowing it to control us. [ more ]

Monday:

In this cold commodity culture, Where you lay your money down, It’s hard to even notice, That all this earth is hallowed ground…The gift keeps moving, Never know where it’s going to land,You must stand back and let it, Keep on changing hands. –Bruce Cockburn

“You don’t have to participate in a local currency or service exchange to be part of the cooperative gift economy. Any time you do a favour for a family member, neighbour, colleague, or stranger you’re part of it. Here are some ways you can spend time in the gift economy, where you’ll find fun, freedom, and connection.” So begins this inspiring list of starting places from Yes! Magazine [ more ]

Join the gift-economy today!

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Mondays live session.9 till 11 pm, GMT (Please feel free to join me on line today).

Tuesday:

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end. –Albert Schweitzer

“My cousin Heidi was stricken around age 16 with a debilitating disease, which took her life about 20 years later. As the disease progressed, she became wheelchair bound and unable to easily communicate (I’m not sure of the disease — it may have been a combination, including Parkinson’s).When she was in her late 20′s, she would often have her mother take her out into the front yard when the weather was nice so that she could sit in her wheelchair and watch the cars pass by. One day, my aunt was doing dishes and looked out the window to see a car pulled to the side of the road.” What happened next was a brief and beautiful exchange that the author of this real-life story would never forget. [ more ]

Take time to share in some way — not only with friends and family — but with strangers too.

You really have Social Disease when you make all your play work. The only reason to play hard is to work hard, not the other way around like most people think. Andy Warhol

Tuesdays live session.10 till 12 am, GMT (Please feel free to join me on line today).

Wednesday:

Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to church and reading newspapers — but they don’t spend a lot of time watching television, a new study finds. That’s what unhappy people do. Although people who describe themselves as happy enjoy watching television, it turns out to be the single activity they engage in less often than unhappy people, said John Robinson, a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland. [ more ] Submitted by: Trishna Shah

Centre for Screen-Time Awareness shares information about how we can take control of electronic media in our lives, not allowing it to control us. [ more ]

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” Henry Ford

Wednesdays live session.10 till 12 am, GMT (Please feel free to join me on line today).

Thursday:

Nature, where life is reproduced and exists, has the right to exist, persist, maintain, and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions, and its processes in evolution. Every person, people, community, or nationality will be able to demand the recognition of rights for nature before the public bodies. –Quote From Constitution of Ecuador

There was a time when people were considered property and this idea is quickly being antiquated. But now, Ecuador has taken a revolutionary step — by codifying it in its Constitution — of granting rights to Nature! Ecuador’s constitution grants nature the right to “integral restoration” and says that the state “will promote respect toward all the elements that form an ecosystem” and that the state “will apply precaution and restriction measures in all the activities that can lead to the extinction of species, the destruction of the ecosystems, or the permanent alteration of the natural cycles.” [ more ]

Learn more about the Community Legal Defense Fund that is trying to bring this codification into 100 local communities in the US! [ more ]

Lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action. Anthony Robbins

Thursdays live session.9 till 11 pm, GMT (Please feel free to join me on line today).

Friday:

If we had a pound for every person who said, ‘I would join you lads, if it weren’t for the mortgage and the kids,’ we would have enough money to buy new boots. –Will

Three young men having been walking across Britain without any money, camping out and relying on the kindness of strangers to survive. Calling themselves “singing adventurers”, they have taken three major trips in the past three years, sleeping wherever they can and foraging for food. They sing three-part folk songs, ancient and modern, wherever they are welcomed. They “busk in heaving towns, chant in crumbling chapels, and get feet tapping in many a-pub across the land.” [ more ] Submitted by: Kantesh G.

Watch the trio share their story on video! [ more ]

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile. Brian Tracy

Fridays live session.10 till 12 am, GMT (Please feel free to join me on line today).

Saturday:

Food is the field in which we daily explore our ‘harming’ of the world. –Gary Snyder

What if you were told that one solution to crises such as global warming and the worldwide financial meltdown could be unearthed in the simple act of growing your own food? Nothing drastic; nothing revolutionary. Just a window box for a tomato plant in your kitchen.” It’s remarkable, but people who grow their own food, who reconnect with the soil, can immediately appreciate the implications of an economy that doesn’t respect the power of ecology,” says Woody Tasch, somewhat quixotically. But Tasch is no quack. He’s chairman of the Investors’ Circle, a national group focused on funding socially responsible companies. Since 1992, Investors’ Circle has placed $130 million into 200 such businesses and venture funds. [ more ]

Experiment with the practice of pausing before meals to reflect on where your food comes from.

Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature … what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these things about a person, you can touch him at the core of his being. William Bernbach

Saturday no session today

Sunday :

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. –Leo Buscaglia

In 2000, after 31 years of robust health, James Chippendale, a wealthy Dallas business executive who had traveled much of the world, was found to be suffering from a lethal form of leukemia. Mr. Chippendale’s doctors told him that his only chance of survival was a bone marrow transplant, and that the likelihood of finding a matching donor seemed bleak. More than 5,000 miles and a world away, Klaus Kaiser, a simple man who repairs bicycles in the German village where he was born, had unsuccessfully tried to be a marrow donor for a friend with a blood disorder. Each year Mr. Kaiser received a form asking if he wanted to continue being listed on the donor registry. And each year he checked the box marked “yes.” On paper at least, or more accurately on sophisticated medical computer screens, Mr. Kaiser’s marrow seemed a perfect match for Mr. Chippendale… this New York Times article shares more of their moving story. [ more ] Submitted by: Avantika

Learn more about the Love Hope Strength Foundation Mr Chippendale founded. [ more ]

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted. Robert Collier

Sunday no session today

Sponsor sought :

ANDYS… THE LISTENING SERVICE. Is a faith-based initiative although it is not owned or run by any particular religion, church, group or organisation? It was decided right from the beginning that counselling offered on the web site should be freely available to anyone & everyone, At source. Which would make it both affordable for all and be completely open and above board. We are basically a non-profit making company. That is why we do not ask for gifts or donations although these are always gratefully received. There is always a need for funding.

Especially when we have so many other projects and initiatives that we want to put in place. Our future plans include: Making the website a stand alone Url not connected with word press as present, same goes with the message board. Which we would prefer to be advert free, We would like to fully promote the site, which costs money. We would also like to introduce a dedicated telephone help line and be able to train up volunteer counsellors to work on the web site.

Therefore we have decided to create a stream of revenue through business promotion and sponsorship based on one small advert, which will appear on every weekly journal, and newsletter delivered to members. We have a ever increasing number of visitors (hits on the web site) With the words Sponsored & supported by So and so Ideally this should be a company with vision as well as a social conscience. The sponsors would have no editorial rights. And the ownership of Andy’s will always remain independent. (See example below) If anybody is interested and want to have in informative chat please e-mail me on andypaulphillips@yahoo.co.uk.-Andy Phillips

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ANDYS…WEEKLY JOURNAL #3

Andy Phillips — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:10:33 +0000

“Here for you when you need us the most”.

#03 (24th Nov, 2008)

Andy’s The Listening Service is primarily a counselling service for everyone and anyone to use although it deals mainly with issues dealing with dis ability. It’s services are open to both able bodied and disabled persons, We look forward to hear from you.

Andys thoughts:

“When you are praying, If you are angry with someone, forgive him so that your father in heaven will also forgive your sins” -Mark 11 vs 25

God Speaks to us in many different ways, This morning was no different. How do I know it was God, and not my imagination, Because it encouraged me, it inspired me and it was just what I needed at that particular point in my life. More importantly it was backed up by Gods word. I was reading a newsletter that came through me door from an old friend Phil Davise, Phil is a bit of a rugby legend here in the Rhondda having played for Llanelli, Newport and Wales in his time and is the inspirational leader of Sporting marvels a Rhondda Faith based charity that work within local Rhondda schools using sportsmen and women from across the waters introducing them to the Christian faith. He wrote-

While God can and does work on our imperfections it seems that he will not entrust great power and great responsibility to the likes of you and me unless he knows that we have a heart that can be trusted.

“When we come up against our mountains, the obstacles of life, Mark 11 say that we can speak to them and they’ll evaporate! imagine reaching the place where you can speak to things and they “move”? Imagine the damage if such power were wielded irresponsibly? You’d have to be rooted and established in Love, otherwise, those who wronged you would be dead meat!”

He goes on to say “When I was young, If someone wronged me, their name found it’s way into a mental “black book”. I never forgot. I remember once getting hit right at the end of a Rugby game and there being no time to seek retribution. It was six years before I came into the company of the bloke who’d hit me. This time, it was a training session, because I’d joined the same club the hitter played for. To me, it made no difference that he was now a teammate I had to have my pound of flesh, I thought it was my due.

Before the stroke I was very tolerant of others and took everything on the chin. Since the stroke I have become very grumpy to an extent that it has become a family joke, I loose my rag quite easily I can be very verbal but never physical I suffer from great anger and frustration that has ruined my private life and made my marriage almost intolerable, combine this with wanting a caring, loving Christian life, to do good and be successful at everything I do. you can see my dilemma. My frustration was eating up my soul and has been tearing me apart. Within the hour I was reading my Bible, searching for confirmation when I came across Matthew chapter 5 verse 43-48

Love all People

You have heard that it is said, Love your neighbour and hate your enemies, but I say to you Love your enemies. Pray for those who hurt you. If you do this, you will be true children of your father in heaven, He causes the sun to rise on good people and on evil people, and he sends rain to those who do right and to those who do wrong. If you love only the people who love you, you will get no reward. Even the tax collectors do that. And if you are only nice to your friends, you are no better than other people. Even those who dont know God are nice to their friends. So you must be perfect as your father in heaven is perfect.

God was telling me that if I want the things that I desire and pray for I will receive them in abundance, but first I have to break free of the shackles that are holding me back. I must forgive those around me even if they do me wrong, I must put right the feelings of anger and frustration Most of my problems was caused by the stroke. Feelings that have festered unchecked for so long and is now holding me back. Only when I learn to let go of these feelings can I expect to receive the great blessings that I seek.

It is hard enough for a disabled person to change careers let alone find a suitable job. This week I am waiting to hear about a job application, which will, I hope ensure that I will be able to work in the community doing the one thing I desire the most. Being able to work with disabled people on an enablement programme even though I have no formal qualification in this field only 43 years of life experience to fall back on and first hand experience of what it was like to be disabled. And a positive outlook Please prays that my application will be successful thank you. - Andy Phillips

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Thought of the week :

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name. –Robert Louis Stevenson

Good News of the week :

Michael Perham, 16, is the youngest person to have sailed across the Atlantic alone. He set out on his latest voyage from Gun wharf Quays, Portsmouth, on Saturday morning. He will be alone at sea for over four months and his only contact with family will be through satellite link-ups. Michael said: “I’m a little bit nervous but otherwise really, really excited. “It’s just the feeling of being completely in control, relaxed and at one with nature. It’s just fantastic. But you don’t look forward to the fact you are alone for about four months.” Psychologists have helped prepare him mentally for the challenges ahead and he said his experience crossing the Atlantic would also stand him in good stead. Money raised from the epic voyage will be donated to Save the Children and the Tall Ships Youth Trust. [ more ]

Be The Change:

Have you ever been witness to a quiet act of everyday courage?

Mondays :

Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. Vince Lombardi

Monday live session.9 till 11 pm, (Please feel free to join me on line).

Tuesdays :

Lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action. Anthony Robbins

Tuesday live session 10 till 12am, (Please feel free to join me on line).

Wednesdays :

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile. Brian Tracy

Wednesday live session 9 till 11pm, (Please feel free to join me on line).

Thursdays :

Thursday live session 10.till 12am, (Please feel free to join me on line).

Fridays :

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted. Robert Collier

Friday live session 9 till 11pm. (Please feel free to join me on line).

Saturdays :

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance. Arthur Schopenhauer

Saturday no session today

Sundays Quote :

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Rollo May

Sunday no session today

Sponsor sought :

Therefore we have decided to create a stream of revenue through business promotion and sponsorship based on one small advert, which will appear on every weekly journal, and newsletter delivered to members. We have a ever increasing number of visitors (hits on the web site) With the words Sponsored & supported by So and so Ideally this should be a company with vision as well as a social conscience. The sponsors would have no editorial rights. And the ownership of Andy’s will always remain independent. (See example below) If anybody is interestedand want to have in informative chat please e-mail me on andypaulphillips@yahoo.co.uk

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ANDYS…WEEKLY JOURNAL #2

Andy Phillips — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:36:31 +0000

Andys The Listening Service is primarily ia counselling service for everyone and anyone to use although it deals mainly with issues dealing with disability. It is open to both abled bodied and disabled persons, their carers as well as medical professionals.We look forward to hear from you.

Andys thoughts: Hi and Welcome to the second instalment of my weekly journal as I try to guide you through the universe that is Andy! I hope you are enjoying the experience. So buckle up and enjoy your galactic excursion. I will continue to try to Motivate and encourage you.

“I will try to keep this as short as possible this week because, I want to get back to my wife, she as lost her voice and I do not want to miss a moment of it”.

Regular visitors will have noticed quite a few changes to the web site lately two obvious ones is the changing sections displayed across the navigation bar that is because I wanted to introduce more upbeat positive sections rather than harping on about downbeat negative ones, I wanted to cheer the place up a little. Put a smile on visitors faces . So we have totally revamped the the navigation bar Pushing issues such as anger and depression into health and suicide, bullying, gangs into youthTo create enough room for two new sections, one is called the art s therapiesand deals with art, music, drama, & voice therapies, it includes a links to organisations dealing with art therapies, plus a list of art and craft sites, suppliers, clubs etc. It has widely been proved that taking part in such activities can be both relaxing and therapeutic.

The second new section deals with disabled sport which contains a list of sporting and recreational activities open to disabled people. It also gives information and links directly to the disability Wales website. Sport can be very therapeutic as well as helping to keep you fit and healthy.

Third new section is disability and deals with all kinds of disability issues.

I do hope these new sections serve to motivate and Inspire and ultimately encourage you to participate fully”-Andy Phillips

Thought of the week: As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives. –Buddha

Good News of the week: What began as one man’s passion to help at risk kids has become the vision of many through the Playmakers Mentoring Foundation and their innovative program which began in the Sacramento CA area. Developed and led by Coach Greg Roeszler (AKA Coach Roz) and his dedicated staff of assistant coaches, Playmakers is drawing kids off the streets and out of gangs to be part of this amazing outreach where children are loved and respected and taught to be the best they can be. Through their inspiring leadership, Roz and his coaches use the game of football to teach boys how to play by the rules, to respect others, how to be a good citizen and a leader in their community.

Obviously, it is going to take generations to break the cycle that poverty and broken families have created, but now there is hope. Coach Roz and his dedicated team of coaches are showing the boys not only what it means to be a real man, they are teaching them what a husband and father should be like so they can adopt those roles with integrity when their time comes.

Grades and attendance at the high school where Coach Roz began this program were so bad that even with a 2.0 requirement for sports, the school had to shut down the JV program. The kids just couldn’t qualify. Then along came Coach Roz. Immediately he raised the grade requirement to 2.5 and opened the Bulldog program (early morning tutoring sessions) so the kids could succeed. To everyone’s amazement and delight, the kids came.

Now the program embraces schools in surrounding communities, thus forming a network that has spread across the valley and throughout the state. But Playmakers doesn’t stop there. Playmakers holds free three-day football camps throughout the State of California for kids who otherwise would never have the opportunity to participate in special sports events. And the word is getting out. Calls are coming in from around the country from people who want to bring this much-needed outreach to their communities as well.

Here are just a few of the keys that make this program work:

Playmakers provides mentoring as well as middle and high school football camps. Currently they are serving over 1,000 kids, more than 50 coaches, and countless single parents.
Coach Roz holds Coaching for Character Clinics for coaches so they, too, will know how to teach character both on and off the field.
Youth from surrounding schools are welcomed into Playmakers, thus creating a state-wide network for at-risk kids.
To be a Playmaker, students must agree to participate in community service. Already, the results are dramatic. As these at-risk kids learn to work with others and contribute to their community, their growing self-esteem and positive attitudes touch every area of their lives. Kids who have not been able to get along are learning to work together and respect each other.
Because the program has made such a positive impact on the students, the high school where Coach Roz teaches now requires anyone who “gets in trouble” to become part of the “football family” in order to be reinstated in the school.
Coach Roz tells us that kids never came into the school’s weight room before, but they are coming now, and not just once in a while, but regularly.
Students who participate in the Bulldog program receive backpacks emblazoned with the logo, “Student Athlete.” The backpacks have quickly become a source of pride among the participants, and a magnet for those not yet in the program.
Coach Roz and his staff love all these kids as if they were their own, and the kids know it. These are boys who have either one or no parents, who live in the streets, sleep in garages and worse, but they will do anything for their coaches because the coaches honestly believe in them.
Everyone who is part of this program gets to play in every game. Even though many coaches only play their “best” players to give their team the best chance of winning, Coach Roz is more interested in affecting lives than affecting the score of a game. While he also would like for his team to win, he is teaching them and showing them that to be a real winner, all you have to do is give your best.
Playmakers has developed a mentoring chain of responsibility. It begins by assigning adult mentors to students who would benefit from this kind of support. But the program doesn’t stop there. Students who show responsibility are taught how to mentor children younger than they are, and then they are given a child to watch over and guide. Thus the young child answers to his student mentor, and the student mentor answers to his adult mentor. The mentoring chain is proving to be a powerful and effective way to teach kids how to care for themselves and others.
By changing the lives of these young men, Playmakers is changing future generations as well. Through Playmakers and their football camps, coaches are able to connect with the boys and then follow them back into their lives, where they act as role models both on and off the field. Truly, this is a noble work that not only is creating a better day for today’s young men, it is bringing promise for their future as well.

For more information, please use the following contacts:
Coach Greg Roeszler ~ 916-220-1284 ~ coachroz@theplaymakers.org
Our web site: www.theplaymakers.org
Historian & Publicity: Donna Miesbach, 402-330-2474, dmiesbach@tconl.com
Promotion & Publicity: David Humm, 702-871-0410, oak375@cox.net

Be The Change: Consider being a mentor for a young person you know.

Mondays Quote: If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Rollo May

Tuesdays Quote: Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance. Arthur Schopenhauer

Wednesdays Quote: Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow— that great teacher. Eleonora Duse

Thursdays Quote: You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. Wayne Dyer

Fridays Quote: Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind Earl Nightingale

Saturdays Quote: Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for? Robert Browning

Sundays Quote: Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving. W.Clement Stone

More great quotations next week.

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ANDYS…Weekly journal. #1

Andy Phillips — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:11:53 +0000

Andys The Listening Service is primarily ia counselling service for everyone and anyone to use although it deals mainly with issues dealing with disability. It is open to both abled bodied and disabled persons, their carers as well as medical professionals.We look forward to hear from you.

Andys thoughts: Welcome ! To a new regular feature, Starting this week. Andys weekly journal will try to give you added information plus short stories and features that will enhance the web-site. Giving thought and encouragement to others as well as keeping myself Positive, and hopefully It will continue for the good as it matures and ages just like me.

Moving forward at quite a pace I can report that The 2nd Chance Project (the outreach unit) Is quickly coming to fruition. We are currently creating the infrastructure that will eventually become the carcus & skeleton of the project ready to apply for initial grant funding. The project which is slowly taking shape & that will eventually become The 2nd Chance I would encourage all readers to get involved with this project either through words of encouragment to remembering us in your prayers to to giving both on a personal as well as economic basis. I thank you all for supporting this endevour. The next Phase is to create a working party of volunteers able to steer the project in the right direction.

2nd Chance is about creating opportunities, through 2nd chances that can mean the difference between getting a fresh start in life, Or a continuance of drug addiction, alcohol and crime. offer our young people who may have lost their way & with broken lives. To work with indeviduals to mentor them into young adults with a sense purpose & a future. Not of one of no hope & Nothing left to live for.

If we want to confront and overcome our fears.

We first have to learn to listen

and to understand those fears”

.-Andy Phillips

Thought of the week: Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime! –Lawrence G. Lovasik

Good News of the week:‘Submitted by: Birju Pandya

A severely handicapped little girl who cannot walk or talk has used a machine to tell her mother for the first time: ‘I love you.’

Six-year-old Elke Wisbey, who was born brain-damaged, has been able to communicate with her family by using a high-tech gadget which tracks her eye movements.

The £17,000 MyTobii Smartbox machine from Sweden detects which icons Elke is looking at by using tiny lasers.

When her eyes settle on an icon on the screen of the Smartbox, a pre-programmed voice speaks the word or phrase for her.

Just a few days after setting up the equipment, Elke’s parents, Glynnis and Matt Wisbey, described how their daughter started using her eyes to repeat the words ‘I love you’ over and over again.

Mrs. Wisbey, 43, who also has a son, Galahad, aged nine, said: ‘I thought it was stuck and then I realised what she was saying.

‘She was looking at the “I love you” icon and I couldn’t believe it, she kept doing it.

‘I said to Elke “are you telling Daddy you love him?” and she pointed at the icon “yes”.

‘It really choked me up, made me really emotional. I’m still emotional when I think about it.

‘It was quite emotional. It is mind-blowing really. We have gone from somebody not being able to communicate to this.

‘We didn’t think Elke would ever be able to tell us how she was feeling, and now she can. This will be amazing for us, absolutely phenomenal.’

Readers of a local newspaper raised money to buy the specially-adapted machine for the family from Bearsted, Kent.

The Wisbey family are all learning how to help Elke use the machine, but the little girl, who will never be able to walk or talk for herself or feed herself, has mastered it more quickly than any of them.

She has already got to grips with a number of words and phrases and can also play games and browse the internet with it.

Mrs Wisbey said: ‘Elke is an absolute delight to know. She smiles when she recognises people and places and she showers hugs on those she likes best.

‘It’s going to change our lives completely. We’ve been overwhelmed by people’s support, it takes some people years to raise this kind of money and we’ve done it in a summer.

Be The Change:Call your mom today.

Mondays Quote: In dreams begins responsibility. William Butler Yeats

Tuesdays Quote: Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Wednesdays Quote: You can’t climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don’t fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that’s reasonable, and then gradually raise it. That’s the only way to get to the top. Emil Zatopek

Thursdays Quote: Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you and with you.” Norman Vincent Peale

Fridays Quote: We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved. Winston Churchill

Saturdays Quote: I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Sundays Quote: The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure Joseph Campbell

More great quotations next week.

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