John Ho’s Neighborhood

I don't remember where I got this story, or who sent it to me, and sadly I have no idea who wrote it; but I've kept it in my reference files for this time of year so that I may share it with others...

May you, your family and all whom you hold dear to you have a wonderful, joyous holiday -- and always remember the spirit of the season.

Sue Crutcher, CMMSC, CPC, PHWC, RRPr, CPTN-CPT

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I remember my first Christmas adventure with Grandma. I was just a kid. I remember tearing across town on my bike to visit her on the day my big sister dropped the bomb: "There is no Santa Claus," she jeered. "Even dummies know that!"

My Grandma was not the gushy kind, never had been. I fled to her that day because I knew she would be straight with me. I knew Grandma always told the truth, and I knew that the truth always went down a whole lot easier when swallowed with one of her "world-famous" cinnamon buns. I knew they were world-famous, because Grandma said so. It had to be true.

Grandma was home, and the buns were still warm. Between bites, I told her everything.

She was ready for me. "No Santa Claus?"  She snorted...."Ridiculous! Don't believe it. That rumor has been going around for years, and it makes me mad, plain mad!! Now, put on your coat, and let's go."

"Go? Go where, Grandma?" I asked. I hadn't even finished my second world-famous cinnamon bun.

"Where" turned out to be Kerby's General Store, the one store in town that had a little bit of just about everything. As we walked through its doors, Grandma handed me ten dollars. That was a bundle in those days. "Take this money," she said, "and buy something for someone who needs it. I'll wait for you in the car."  Then she turned and walked out of Kerby's.

I was only eight years old. I'd often gone shopping with my mother, but never had I shopped for anything all by myself.  The store seemed big and crowded, full of people scrambling to finish their Christmas shopping. For a few moments I just stood there, confused, clutching that ten-dollar bill, wondering what to buy, and who on earth to buy it for. I thought of everybody I knew: my family, my friends, my neighbors, the kids at school, and the people who went to my church.

I was just about thought out, when I suddenly thought of Bobby Decker. He was a kid with bad breath and messy hair, and he sat right behind me in Mrs. Pollock's second grade class. Bobby Decker didn't have a coat. I knew that because he never went out to recess during the winter. His mother always wrote a note, telling the teacher that he had a cough, but all us kids knew that Bobby Decker didn't have a cough; he didn't have a good coat.

I fingered the ten-dollar bill with growing excitement. I would buy Bobby Decker a coat!  I settled on a red corduroy one that had a hood to it. It looked real warm, and he would like that.

"Is this a Christmas present for someone?" the lady behind the counter asked kindly, as I laid my ten dollars down.

"Yes, ma'am," I replied shyly. "It's for Bobby."

The nice lady smiled at me, as I told her about how Bobby really needed a good winter coat. I didn't get any change, but she put the coat in a bag, smiled again, and wished me a Merry Christmas.

That evening, Grandma helped me wrap the coat in Christmas paper and ribbons and wrote, "To Bobby, From Santa Claus" on it (a little tag fell out of the coat and Grandma tucked it in her Bible). Grandma said that Santa always insisted on secrecy. Then she drove me over to Bobby Decker's house, explaining as we went that I was now and forever officially one of Santa's helpers.

Grandma parked down the street from Bobby's house, and she and I crept noiselessly and hid in the bushes by his front walk.  Then Grandma gave me a nudge. "All right, Santa Claus," she whispered, "get going."

I took a deep breath, dashed for his front door, threw the present down on his step, pounded his door and flew back to the safety of the bushes and Grandma.  Together we waited breathlessly in the darkness for the front door to open. Finally it did, and there stood Bobby.

Fifty years haven't dimmed the thrill of those moments spent shivering beside my Grandma, in Bobby Decker's bushes.  That night, I realized that those awful rumors about Santa Claus were just what Grandma said they were: ridiculous. Santa was alive and well and we were on his team.

I still have the Bible, with the coat tag tucked inside:  $19.95.

May you always have LOVE to share.

And may you always believe in the magic of Santa Claus!

I don't recall the movie, but it was scary...

I've gotten my website cleaned up and my new blog working www.SueCrutcher.com/blog if you are interested in taking a look at it. Links are listed on the previous blog. We just got back from 5 weeks in Georgia and S. Carolina on Friday, the 11th ... still cleaning up from that.

More later. WARNING: Next year I have big plans...

Sue

JUPITER/NEPTUNE/AQUARIUS

Butterfly

Hi everyone

We're heading back starting tomorrow -- going to stick along the eastern shore hoping to keep as warm as possible, as long as possible. I've posted some pictures from the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia on my main website (www.SueCrutcher.com) blog. Here is the direct link in case I've posted after you go there: http://www.suecrutcher.com/blog/?p=17 

Trust everyone is doing well and ramping up their business plans for 2010.

Here's a great way to get started:

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What do you think of the NEW LOOK of the site? I've got a bit of tweeking to do to get it more focused on my niche market, but it's on the way.  Lots coming up in the new year as well. I'll be in Tucson 4 times in 2010 starting in January as I've been accepted into Kendall's Platinum 2010 Inner Circle coaching program; am retaking CMMS to be supportive of several friends who are in the program.

Just finishing up my 'marketing calendar' for 2010. In January/February I'm offering PRIVATE COACHING (virtual) for 1/2 price; there's a medium product launch in March/April and I'm in the process of planning my 'big event' this fall:2-day VIP Elite Master Mind Intensive. If you want to know more about any of them, email me at Susan@SueCrutcher.com  

To your success!

Sue Crutcher, CMMSC, CPC, CPTN-CPT

Money, Marketing and Soul Coach; Life Empowerment Mentor; Baby Steps to Success Expert

Creator of [t]Sunami Of Success™ Program*

* = [t]Sunami of Success and [t]Sunami of Success Program are © July 2009 by Susan (Sue) Crutcher. All rights reserved.

Personal and global evolution is at hand, and this month the ‘evidence’ of this may become clearer to you.  You may witness outer change all around you, in all forms.. your own personal world is shifting and transforming before your very eyes and you may now be able to see these changes before you.  They are no longer just internal blossomings, they are manifest in the physical!

Whatever you have been waiting for, or even holding your breath in anticipation for, may come to a conclusion for you finally.  The energies during December see a sense of relief in one or more areas of your life. 

Allow this month also for you to be a time of reflection, take a moment to look back at the year that has passed for you.  What have you achieved? What have you lost? Who have you become as a result of these gains and ‘losses’? [Loss only being that which has left us, transformed and returned in a different form!]

How different are you from January this year?  Not one person is being left behind in this global transition of consciousness, can you feel the profoundness of the changes you have made this year?  I can almost hear the cries in unison from here of “yes”!!

I often encourage my clients to remember what is true for them, what is real in this moment, specific to them.  The energy this month will remind us that although our truth is our pillar, we must also remember to accept the place and truth that others are in also.  Due to the mere nature of our humanness, we will all have differences in what our individual Truth is!  What is real for us, may not be the truth for another.  This acceptance and grace will bring about an openness and tenderness in our relationships.  Removing judgement and embracing acceptance will truly and amazingly allow your relationships to transcend what you thought they could be.

Two words that come to mind for December are : sensitivity and strength.  Being sensitive to the needs and Truth of others will help you to understand them.  This doesn’t mean making their Truth yours, its about the receptiveness and awareness of the place that someone else may be in.  Having the strength to stand tall in your OWN truth, what is real for you RIGHT NOW plus having the openness to understand where the other person is at may well be your greatest achievement this month.

This openness also invokes a sense of co-operation and spiritual team work.  At the end of the day, we are ultimately here to experience the same things : love, joy, happiness.  Some have different ways of finding and experiencing these things and that that is totally OK.

May your December be festive, fun, joyous and embracing on all levels!

Blessings, Sarah K Jones xx

www.sarahkjones.com.au

Hello to all of you,
I on my quest same as the rest of you wanted to make money online;but (here) is where the BIG BUTT comes in so watch out.  I had tried a stupid make money now system that was free where I just do affiliate marketing for her so all I had to do was paste and copy.  That sounded easy enough; but then I thought about my real friends on here that probably viewed that crap and I am sorry. 

Want the real important news!!!!!?  wait for it... wait for it... The real important news is that I ran out of money to pay Kevin Hogan the rest of what I owe him not only am I embarrassed and sad; but I still shout out to anyone that has ears that this man is AMAZING.  He is not your normal internet guru that give you some content and has you pay a lot of money for something that lacks quality, he is a man of his word and he really cares.   I contacted him to apologize to him about the money situation and he was so nice about to me about it that I walked away from my computer with a smile on my face.   

The fact is I'm still human and fall prey to get rich now scams just like other people do.  but by chance anyone out there if you hav'nt heard about Kevin Hogan my idol He just wrote a book that I am getting for an early Christmas present ; because right now times are hard.  Even though we are having money issues though his new book 168 hour week living life your way 24/7.  Every person on earth needs this book!!!!! Do you want to be happy and have time for anything your heart desires.  Then really some how Mr.  Genious has figured it out.    I just want to make enough money to pay Kevin Hogan back so that I can then purchase his licensee programs and then join his inner circle that is still on my Goal Board.  So if you really want a place to invest your money instead of waste your hard earned money go check him out at
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sincerely,
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P.s. that is why my main email address is seeyaatthetopkevin@gmail.com its because he inspired me to go after my dreams.
 

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To your success!

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As a Dating Expert who has both lived in a few different metro regions (New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles/The OC and Las Vegas) as well as worked with singles in a number of different cities both within the United States as well as around the world, one of the considerations a number of singles have is they want to meet, date, and mate with another single in their local area.

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Yes, you will see on some of the online dating niche sites, like those which are faith based for Muslims, Christian or Jewish Singles, is that the single will often make some statement like, “Distance is no object.”  They think the are open to loving and partnering up with another single from any where in the country.

And in a manner, they are open like that.  They are open to love coming to them from just about anywhere.

And then reality kicks in.

In order to really fall in love, to attract your Soul Mate and build a relationship, you actually need to open up and share each others lives together.  Courtship which leads to marriage requires that you share your lives and actually BE with each other.  So much of the dating style of the “Single – Never Married” folks is to either “hang” on the sofa and watch movies, while fun, eventually becomes boring, or to go do the consumer single dating style of going “out” all the time.  Neither of these models is actually what we DO in the normal LIFE of a married couple/life partner relationship.  When I coach singles who are divorced or widowed and we get to that part of my coaching system, they say, “OMG, April, you are brilliant! This is so true!” (I heard this today from one widowed lady.)  And they can see how I approach relationship attraction and building form reality and not from some pipe dream which will never happen.

Real relationships are between human beings.  There are some crass metaphors for describing this which I will refrain from using to illustrate my point.

When you are looking to attract love and build a life partner relationship, generally speaking, to do so you need to be in person.  In order to experience that, this means you want to date another single who is local to you or at least in your metro area region.  That can still mean that they live a few hours away from you.  However, unless you travel to certain metro areas repeatedly for business, you want to keep your targets on another single who lives within a few hours of you, and not thousands miles away, which would be just fooling yourself.

Then you actually have a chance of attracting, meeting, and mating with your Soul Mate and developing the kind of lifelong love relationship which you are craving.

Happy Dating and Relationships,

April Braswell

Las Vegas Baby Boomer Dating Expert

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Good day everyone,

Tis Friday or thereabouts,

Hopefully the review materials had enough triggers in them to write down a few big and small picture ideas.

Make it a great day and bring out your strategy questions.

Good day all,

Very glad to see nice results from promo. Nothing teaches like real life.

Make it an amazing day today!