Poetry Lovers' Page: If by Rudyard Kipling

Poetry Lovers' Page: If by Rudyard Kipling

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Rudyard Kipling

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If you can keep your head when all about you 

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; 

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, 

But make allowance for their doubting too; 

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, 

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, 

Or being hated, don't give way to hating, 

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: 

If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master; 

If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim; 

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster 

And treat those two imposters just the same; 

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken 

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, 

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, 

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools; 

If you can make one heap of all your winnings 

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, 

And lose, and start again at your beginnings 

And never breathe a word about your loss; 

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew 

To serve your turn long after they are gone, 

And so hold on when there is nothing in you 

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" 

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, 

Or walk with kings -- nor lose the common touch, 

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, 

If all men count with you, but none too much; 

If you can fill the unforgiving minute 

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -- 

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, 

And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son! 

Beware of the Grinch by Dennis Waitley

Beware of the Grinch by Denis Waitley

Now's the time you should hear this! For very good reason!
Now, please don't ask why. It's not simply the season.
Sooner or later the Grinch will invite you
To give up your life's goal as something you can't do.

It could be his head isn't screwed on just right.
It could be, perhaps, that his pants are too tight.
But I think the most likely reason of all
Is that his heart is too cold and his vision too small.

The Grinch is a dream stealer of many disguises.
A friend or relation with depressing surprises.
Just when you feel that your business is booming
He fills you with thoughts that are glooming and dooming.

He whispers about the forthcoming disaster
And about the new plan where you'll get rich much faster
When you say you look forward to earning a million.
He'll scoff and retort: "Not one chance in a billion!"

With a stock market rising and confidence strong
You'd think he'd get real and start going along.
But he howls and he growls with his terrible frown
"Whatever goes up, has got to come down!"

Sometimes the Grinch is quick to appear.
Sometimes he shows up year after year.
But whatever your "Why" and no matter "Who"
The dream stealer, Grinch, will start hitting on You.

He's the fear deep inside that insists you can't sell.
He's the voice that says, "Stop! Things are going too well!"
He especially hates Christmas and the spirit of giving
For he selfishly thinks that by "getting" you're living.

He thinks passionate service is too big a "Why"
And that money's the only incentive to try.
But he's missing the point, and hasn't a clue
That every Who out in Who-ville has a Dream to come true.

Sooner or later all dream stealers find
That they're out in the cold and left far behind.
What they could have or might have or should have possessed
Has now passed them by and left them depressed.

As you sit by the fire and plan the new year
Surrounded by family and friends of good cheer.
Remember the Grinch, with his feet in the snow.”
Standing puzzling and puzzling: "How could it be so?"

"It came without ribbons! It came without tags!
It came without packages, boxes or bags!"
"Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store."
"Maybe Christmas... Perhaps... means a little bit more!"

It's a spirit to treasure each day and each night
It's the reason the American dream is still burning bright
It's a mission of hope you can trust and believe
"The more that you give, the more you'll receive!"


This week during the Holidays, look for ways to give more!

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It is Up to You by Jim Rohn

One of the first  things successful people realize is the old adage, "if it is to be, it is  up to me." That is, for you, the fact that your success and your course is  up to you. This doesn't mean that you do it all alone. It simply means that you  take responsibility for your life and your career.

Too many people today  look at opportunity and figure it is up to someone else to make sure they get  it. They look at financial security and hope that the government will make sure  they live safely in retirement or in case of disability. They wait and wait,  figuring that it is up to someone else. And then the wait is over, and it is  too late to do anything. Their life is over and they are filled with regret.
This isn't true for  you however. You know that you must take responsibility for your life. It is up  to you.

The fact is that  nobody else is going to do it for you “you must do it yourself.

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High or Low sugar, You NEED to know.

Utilizing a freshly voided urine sample we measure the brix to find out the level of carbohydrates that are being thrown off in your urine.  This tells you a few things about how your body is utilizing sugar.

First, if the number is very low (from 0 - 1.2) you would expect to be experiencing hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) symptoms, as your pancreas is "dumping" too much insulin.

Second, if the number is very high (above 5.5) you may be experiencing diabetic-like (high blood sugar) symptoms, and your pancreas is not able to create enough insulin.

Third, if the reading is between 2 and 5.49 (known as the "Zone of Misery), your blood sugar level could drop at any time into the hypoglycemic range.

Finally, if your urine carbohydrates are reading between 1.2 and 2.0 brix then you are doing good. This is where your sugars reading needs to remain throughout the entire healing process.  Once your body's mineral balance is stabilized and the rest of the numbers remain in the best range long enough, the sugars reading should stabilize at 1.5 brix regardless of what you eat (assuming good eating habits for the most part-common sense again).

In order to help bring your sugars into the best range, look at your diet. 
 
If you have a low reading, you will need to eat a variety of fruit between meals to keep your sugars from plummeting. In some extreme cases a person with extreme low urine brix reading should avoid water and drink only fruit juice until the urine brix reading normalizes above 1.5 Brix. Perhaps even before bed you will need a snack. In some instances, low sugar drops lower at night and may cause insomnia. Eating a piece of fruit or 1/2 cup of yogurt before going to bed could possibly be the best remedy for low sugar insomnia.

If you have a high reading it's time for a change in diet. The best thing you could do for yourself is to do whatever it takes to get your sugar down in a healthy manner.  Eat a wide variety of fruit throughout the month, just don't overdo it and don't eat any fruit or carbohydrates after 2:00 PM.  For some of you with extremely high sugar, you will need to temporarily avoid all fruits and sweets of every conceivable kind for a few weeks allowing your body to normalize its sugars. In every case, more vegetables need to be added to the diet.  With a weak digestion you will cook or steam more of your vegetables. With a strong digestion you are free to have more of the vegetables raw. A couple of salads a day with 3-4 different greens, some grated carrots, cabbage, bell peppers, etc., topped with a bit of your favorite dressing to which a teaspoon of good quality olive oil has been added is just delightfully pleasing to the lowering of most high brix readings. 

Comfrey has a special property that works the best for normalizing insulin production. To use comfrey pour your favorite juice-about 2 oz.- into a blender and start blending in fresh comfrey leaves.  Keep adding the leaves while blending until the juice appears to be "full".  Continue blending for 3 minutes or so.  Strain the blended liquid to remove the pulp and slip slowly-take 30 minutes to drink this. Alternatively you may use comfrey tea.

Over the course of a couple weeks your energy level may surprise you as your brix reading comes down.

To your Health