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Pepsi's new family!

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From: Julia Rogers <juliakrogers@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:26 PM
Subject: Pepsi's new family!
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The traumers of childbirth or puppy birth in this case!

Terriers are hardy little things, they'll stand up to rats and even foxes and normally give birth very easily on their own, sort everything out themselves and it's like Christmas morning finding lovely little puppies, all healthy and clean!  Not this terrier!  Pepsi had 5 hours hard labour, had to be driven round the block each time to induce contractions, one was born in the foot well of the car,  one got stuck and couldn't be revived and the last refused to appear, so at 11.30pm rushed off to the vets suspecting a very expensive removal of said puppy, luckily the journey did it again and little 'Madge' was born at 12.30am in the vets surgery!

Never again!  But I did say that the last time we had puppies!  We now have 3 beautiful new additions to the family and mum and pups are doing great.

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John Wooden on True Success

This amazing man was 91 years old when he gave this talk.  

He reminds us to not take things for granted, but to be grateful and work HARD on them, in order to go from not only being "inspired" by others but to become "inspiring" to others as well. 

Winning or losing is within ourselves and only to be judged by ourselves. 

http://www.ted.com/talks/john_wooden_on_the_difference_between_winning_and_success.html

Women Entrepreneurs and Home-based Businesses - The Facts

My years as an adolescent female were during the time when women were totally dependent upon their husbands financially and men were totally dependent on their wives domestically. This influence has had a positive and a negative impact.

Being an Internet home based business woman I want to support other women aspiring to become home-based business owners by offering some facts to encourage and inform. Women have come a long way within the business arena due to desire and necessity.

Now we can have it all – a happy marriage, children, friends and a successful business if we choose.  So g

o ahead, think and step outside of the familiar box - you are definitely not alone!  There are 143,368,343 females (50.9%) and 138,053,563 males (49.1%) living in the United States (excluding the US Armed Forces overseas.) and these are the recent facts about American women business owners:-

Women own approximately 66% of home-based businesses, numbering 3.5 million and provide full or part-time employment for an estimated 14 million people. In todays economy, home-based businesses are a growth industry.

The number of women-owned businesses has grown faster than the national average by 20%.

73% of women-owned businesses are home-based businesses.

Between 68% and 70% of womens home based businesses will survive over a three-year period.

By 2010 women are expected to control $1 trillion, or 60% of the countrys wealth, according to research conducted by Business Week and Gallup.

Women business owners economic clout and business-related purchases continue to rise. It is estimated that we will spend $33.5 billion this year on telecommunications equipment, enhanced services and Internet access, according to the Insight Research Corporation.

Women make up 51% of the population but spend more than 80% of the money, including purchases of athletic shoes, home improvement products, new homes, furniture and medical and health care needs.

Women earn $.77 for every $1.00 men earn when their job is outside the home.

Four in 10 (39%) women business leaders are involved in the international marketplace.

Women entrepreneurs are more likely than men business owners to place value on business relationships and on information.

Women business owners are more likely than their male counterparts to seek out the opinions and input of others.

Education:

It is projected that by 2011 women will outnumber men in undergraduate programs by 10.2 million to 7.4 million. Women will earn 59% of the masters degrees and 60% of the doctoral degrees for the years 2005-2006. This has more than doubled from 20 years earlier according to Business and Professional Womens Foundation.

Motherhood/Marriage:

82.5 million are the estimated number of mothers of all ages in the United States (unpublished data), with 1.9 children being the average number of children women have given birth to between the ages of 40-44. This is down from 3.1 children since the Census Bureau began collecting data in 1976.

There are 5.8 million stay-at-home moms nationwide.

There are 60 million unmarried (widowed, divorced or never married) women nationwide.

AND

1.7 million women are military veterans.

Did You Know…..?

Women entrepreneurs backgrounds are:

Management 25%

Sales 21%

Accounting/finance 18%

Marketing 6%

Engineering/manufacturing 4%

Human Resources 3%

Other 23%

What women like about being entrepreneurs:

Being their own boss 20%

Setting their own hours 17%

Controlling their destiny 17%

Pleasing customers 16%

Making decisions 15%

Achieving goals 10%

Interesting .....................................??

The information in this article was acquired from these sources: Fact Monster, U.S. Census Bureau, Road & Travel Magazine, Womens Business Owners Advisory Link, and American Fact Finder.

Julia Rogers - International Home Based Business Owner - The World is my home with a laptop & phone - http://www.7figure-income.com

A Levels, Teenage Stress & Panicky Parents

I was at a charity tennis tournament the other day and was astonished by the amount of stressed mothers agonising over their children's A Levels.  Anyone would think that THEY were taking them!  'I cant sleep with worry' - 'I cant eat' -  'I'm constantly nagging her/him/them to do his/her/their work' - 'only another few weeks until it's ALL OVER!!!'.  

What is the matter with them??!!    How will these young adults cope in the REAL world?!  Surely it is the students responsibility to work as hard as THEY feel necessary to get what THEY want out of THEIR results to give THEM what THEY want out of THEIR lives?!  No amount of nagging and yelling and restrictions and grounding will make them work harder.  I believe more stress is put upon these young tender beings by panicky, stressed parents than the exams themselves!  Aren't they going through enough in this ever increasing materialistic world?? 

My twin 18 year old daughters are in the middle of their A levels and are coping very well.  Or at least they appear to be!  They get up early and go off to study at school or the library, drive off for their exams, come home, crash and order a curry to celebrate!   I wish them luck, give them a hug and a kiss, wave them off and then pay for the curry!

I'm here as always, feeding, supporting and encouraging and occasionally I ask 'are you doing enough to get what you want?'  They stop what they're doing for a second, think and then with a nod and a beautiful smile, they turn back to their facebook page and we all get on with our lives.

Am I  wrong to believe they should, at 18 be responsible for their actions?  The results will tell!

Networking is nice!

A friend of mine invited me to a lunch today with a difference, it was called a spiritual networking lunch.  Now, I didn't know what to expect or who would be there, apart from my lovely friend but I thought, it's networking - good contact marketing, spiritual - this fascinates me and good food - bring it on! 

It turned out to be a fascinating, thoroughly enjoyable few hours, that went far too quickly, with terrific people.  It was organised  by a lovely, insightful lady called Jo Ward who is a NLP Trainer/Coach amongst other things (I'm sure she'll forgive me for missing out other numerous qualifications!).  I've come home with a whole host of new ideas and understand a lot more of what is happening in the world around us.  The conversation ranged from removing limiting beliefs and phobias, education in prisons, autistic children, marketing ideas, reiki, carnelian stones, wealth dynamics, cosmic shifts and angel essence, all munched down with good vegan food, all organic and very healthy!  I feel positively cleansed!

I then got in a black cab back to the station and the cabby and I talked meat for the whole journey!  I love food - all of it, including meat. The Lahore Kebab House in Umberston Street next time I'm in the area was recommended by my friendly cab driver - after lunch!

If this is work, I love it!

Julia:)

18th Spar Treat

It is Monday morning and I'm feeling very chilled after a wonderful weekend at a Spa Hotel with my twin daughters.   It was a treat for their 18th birthday and, I think they would agree, a huge success!  We checked in to Alexander House in Sussex at 3pm and were shown to beautiful adjoining rooms.  All mod cons were provided and  Champagne was promptly delivered with the hotels birthday wishes.  We put on our robes and slippers and made our way down to the spa for the first of our treatments, a full body message.  Absolute bliss!  The Spa is run by Utopia and is fabulous.  Loads of treatment rooms, a nail and hair studio, impressive  gymnasium,and aerobics studio, swimming pool, indoor and outdoor hot tubs, steam and sauna rooms, relaxation room, all beautifully decorated and equipped.  

One of the many wonderful things about being in a spa is mobiles are banned so my daughters were inclined to talk to me!  The trouble with todays technology is that it tends to take over our lives.  Phones are always ringing or bleeping, computers are always on and messaging, we tend to just exist with the people we live with and communication is limited to meal times.  Take away these distractions, throw yourselves together in a hot tub and conversation begins again, communication lines open up and you are reminded of the beautiful people that you live with!  Feeling very relaxed, the evening was rounded off by a delicious dinner in Reflections Brasserie and off to the land of nod in sumptuous big beds and crisp white sheets. 

The following morning we woke up to sun shining over the parkland and a huge breakfast.  A short game of tennis and then back into the robes and slippers for the rest of our treatments.  Prescriptive Facials and Luxury Manicures and Pedicures all inter spaced with bouts of lounging in the Relaxation Room and on demand refreshments.  5pm came far to soon and the time to re-enter the real world.

For anyone wishing to spoil a loved one or themselves(!), I cannot recommend Alexander House too highly.  The Hotel and Spa have got the mix of informal luxury and service down to a fine art.  The service was excellent. food fabulous and the staff incredibly friendly and helpful.

All in all, a thoroughly enjoyable time with my daughters, the only down side is that we are now all hooked!  A Spa fund has to be started!

Julia :)

Know No Limits

Yesterday I posted an article from The NYC Movie Guru Review about the movie Unbeaten.  It is an inspirational movie about what really can be achieved if you really do believe that there are no limits.  One of the competitors Oz Sanchez even has the words "Know No Limits" tattooed on his chest!

The reason that this movie resonates so with me, is because one of my dearest friends was injured October 5th 2008 and is now a paraplegic.  What she has achieved in just over 14 months is astounding and she is an inspiration to me and all who know her.  She wont thank me for mentioning her age (not that I know it but I have a rough idea!) but I believe she has past the 3 score mark and puts so many a quarter of her age to shame.

Prior to the accident, she was training, team chasing and jumping young horses, skiing, playing tennis and golf and enjoying travelling between her home in Hertfordshire and her house in the South of France.  A pretty wonderful, full life, a fantastic partner and with the joy of her grandchildren thrown in.  A loose horse in her yard, which rammed her into a fence, put pay to all that her life was and saw her rebuilding her life skills in the Stoke Mandeville Hospital for 5 months.

No one could have blamed her if she had given up, become a recluse or a misery, given in to advancing years and a wheelchair but not a bit of it!  Within 7 months, she was driving her adapted Audi, far too fast as usual, bombing over to see her grandchildren and friends.  Every morning she takes the dogs for a 'walk' in her Trampa buggy.  Those joining, who are fit enough, have to jog to keep up with her as she negotiates hilly fields, mud and bridges!  Her adapted vegetable garden puts me to shame with every conceivable veg growing in abundance.  She cooks brilliantly, her house always looks fabulously inviting and she is one of the most beautiful, smiley, happy people I know inside and out.

She believes that there is no point worrying about the past or future.  Here is now.  If you know no limits you can achieve anything.

Julia :)

Unbeaten

Unbeaten 
Directed by Steven C. Barber.

 
This engaging and illuminating documentary, narrated by Dan Aykroyd, follows thirty-one paraplegics as they prepare for a two-hundred sixty-seven-mile road race called “Sadler’s Alaska Challenge.” Some of them race in wheelchairs while others in hand cycles. The race itself lasts six days and takes place in Denali National Park way up in the state of Alaska. As paraplegic racer Chris Kohler explains clearly, the main difference between a wheelchair and a hand cycle is that wheelchairs only have one gear while hand cycles have twenty-one gears like a mountain bike. He and the other Alaska Challenge racers interviewed, namely, Geoffrey Erickson and Edwin Figueroa, give their accounts of how they ended up paralyzed and what sparked their interest in joining the race. Director Steven C. Barber interviews them in a way that brings out their unique personalities, wisdom and charisma while showing how some of them have the joy of expressing a sense of humor and wit. Barber includes well-edited footage from the Sadler’s Alaska Challenge and then follows two U.S. Paralympic athletes, Alejandro Albor and Oz Sanchez, as they compete at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics. Sanchez has the very inspiring words “Know No Limits” tattooed on his chest. The race footage not only feels captivating, but also quite suspenseful as you root for them to win during their arduous race. As one of the racers wisely states, just because they’re disabled doesn’t mean that they’reunable; they merely find other ways to reach their goals and don’t let their disability become an obstacle. It’s very uplifting and inspirational to watch as they not only talk about their courage, persistence, passion, endurance and joie de vivre, but also put those individual positive qualities into action as well, a task that’s much easier said than done. At a running time of 1 hour and 19 minutes, Unbeaten manages to be thoroughly engaging, inspirational, illuminating and genuinely uplifting. It’s the rare kind of documentary that finds just the right balance between entertaining the audience and provoking them emotionally as well as intellectually. Please be sure to stay through the end credits for additional footage.
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