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Welcome to the 19th Edition of "Creative Living."

Saturday, November 22 , 2003

In this issue we have:

1.) Article: The Secret of Happiness in Life and Business
2.) Hot Craft Tip:  Excellent Knitting Tip
3.) Recipe: Pumpkin Pie
4.) On Parenting: -
5.) Home Tool Tips:
6.) Car Tool Tips
7.) Tasteful Joke
8.) Reader's Questions:
9.) Editor's Word Pick
10.) Last Minute Reminders
11.) Inspirational Quote

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The Secret of Happiness in Life and Business

by Terry Dean

Let me begin by telling you a story...

In Indiana, there lives a woman who works 8 hour days
6 days a week at a local computer company. We will call her
"Barbara" for the sake of this article.

Barbara dreads getting up in the morning. She dreads getting
ready for work. She dreads driving to work.
She dreads clocking in. She absolutely hates her job.

She has a degree in computer science, but she can barely stand
the sight of a computer anymore. Everything in her miserable
life has become a drudgery to her. She can barely stand herself.
The most important thing to her is that wonderful clock that
chimes 5 p.m. when it is time for her to go home.

She rushes to her car...Drives as fast as the law allows home...
and then immediately rushes into her house as fast as she
can to the noise of overexcited door greeters. Both them and
her have waited all day for this moment. Now, she can relax.

She sits down on the couch...collects up her pets (2 dogs and
a cat) and gives each of them the attention she knows that they
crave. She turns on "Animal Planet" on the television set and
sits back breathing a sigh of relief that she lived through
another day.

Every day this same process occurs. Sometimes she makes a stop
by the library and gets a collection of books on "Dog Care"
and on "Dog Training." On her day off (that wonderful day),
her and her dogs go and spend the entire day at the local park.
All of them wait all week for that wonderful event.

Because of the drudgery of her job and the desire she has to be
constantly free from it, she decided to check into starting her
own home business. Her friends sell Avon. As a matter of fact,
one of them even makes enough money to do it full-time.

Barbara envies this woman...She gets up and works when she wants
at her own business which she loves. She always seems to have a
spring in her step and a smile on her face.

Then, one day her friend invites Barbara to join her.
Excitement overflows inside of Barbara...She will be able to be
in control of her own destiny. She can be in business for herself.

Barbara jumps at the chance...besides it is only $25 she says
to herself..."What do I have to lose?" She is absolutely on fire
with this new possibility...She can work for herself and make her
own life.

She quickly begins to do everything her sponsor told her to
do...She makes up lists of contacts. She begins contacting them
all one by one.

She does everything necessary to get started as fast as possible.

Barbara begins making a little money... (It always starts out
small in your own home business), but something is missing. S
he stills has her job... She has her new home business and is
beginning to make a little income doing it... BUT she has even
less time than before to do the things she loves.

Her day off came and went...She had meetings to attend in her
new business. Her dogs stayed home staring longingly at their
leashes wondering what was wrong. Barbara is making more money
now, but is no more free time than ever before.

Now, after the excitement of her new business has worn off, that
telephone is getting pretty heavy to use.
It is getting pretty tiring to come home from work every day and
have to work this second job...even though it is hers.

One day, her sponsor quits and she has no one to help her stay
motivated anymore. That was the final straw.
She can't do it any more. She goes back to the old routine feeling
guilty that she "failed" in her home business venture.

Later on down the road, this same process occurs. She joins another
home business "opportunity" only to later give up and quit because
she just can't take it anymore. Dozens of times this happens. Every
time she feels more guilty that she just doesn't have what it takes
to make it in her own home business.

Every time this occurs she ends up exhausted on her couch. The
funny thing is that the answer to her problem has been right under
her nose all of the time.

It happens to be staring up at her lovingly right this moment
holding it's leash.

Her problem has been that she works a job she hates.
She wants a way out and others are promising her a solution that
just isn't suited to her. They make money doing it because they love
it. She makes a little at it and quits because she can't stand that
JOB either.

For them, it is a way of life and a passion. For her, it is just
another JOB, yet with less starting salary.

Her passion is for her pets, but she spends time trying to work
up passion for other people's desires.

I will let you off the hook and tell you...Barbara's problem
is that she is trying the WRONG home business for her. She
should be starting a business where her passion is at. Instead,
she just tries to imitate others who have completely different
desires.

I wonder if that is your problem? If you can't wait to get off
your job and get out to the golf course, but you are trying to
sell health products, it won't work. If you only want to garden
all of the time, but sell make-up, you are dead in the water
before you ever start.

The Best Way to Produce A Lifestyle You Enjoy is By Doing What You Love!

Take off the blinders...Take off the limitations.
What do you love doing? What are your hobbies? What is it
that you think about every time you get a spare moment?

That is the BUSINESS for you to be in...Don't tell me it can't be
done.

I will just tell you to figure out how to do it.

Let's go back to Barbara...What should she be doing?
How about being a pet sitter, dog walker, pet day care, pet
groomer, or a dog trainer? She could write books on pet training,
animal grooming, etc. That could be an information business. It
could be a service business. Don't put limitations on yourself
or others.

Don't tell me it can't be done! On TV, I just heard about a DOG
BAKERY which only sells gourmet dog treats. They have over a
million in sales and 20,000 mail order clients besides what they
have in their little shop. If you love it, you will find a way
once you make up your mind!

For many of you reading this, you may be in the wrong business.
You are making money (Or you aren't making money it doesn't matter), but you just aren't happy. Well, now you have it.
Somebody was finally willing to tell you the truth of the matter.

Find your LOVE and you will find success. Yes, it will be hard
starting out. It is in any business you get started in. If your
business is also your passion and your hobby though, YOU WILL
make it through and won't quit when it gets hard, because you
LOVE it.

Take my quick test below...

Do You Dread Getting Out of Bed Every Morning?

Do you constantly wish you could obtain freedom in your life
somehow?

Have you tried a home business before and failed?

Do you wonder if there is any purpose to your life?

Do you wish you could spend more time at your hobby than at your
job?

If you answered "YES" to any of those questions, you have some
thinking ahead of you. If you answered "YES" to all of them, you
better do something in a hurry!

The Best Way to Produce A Lifestyle You Enjoy is By Doing
What You Love
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Craft Tip:

Excellent Knitting Tip: Keep ball of yarn in nylon stocking, it
will flow out free of tangles.

Thanksgiving is coming :) If you do not understand or
celebrate this American holiday, just enjoy that it is a wonderful
day to give thanks and share with family. It is always the
fourth Thursday of November.

Here is a great site for crafting projects for kids
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/thanksgiving/
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Recipe:
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Pumpkin Pie is Something Thanksgiving should not be
without. Award Winning Pumpkin Pie Recipe

BRANDIED PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE

Crust:

1-1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted
1/4 cup sugar

Filling:

2 (250 g) pack cream cheese at room temperature
1 (125 g) pack cream cheese at room temperature
1 cup sugar
4 medium eggs
1 (14 oz.) can pumpkin (no spices added)
2-1/2 tsp. ginger
1 tbsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. cloves
1/3 cup brandy
whipped cream
preserved ginger

For crust, combine crumbs, sugar and butter in a bowl and mix
well. Press crumb mixture firmly into bottom of 10 inch spring
form pan and 2 inches up sides. Bake in moderate oven, 350
degrees for 10 minutes.

For filling beat together cream cheese and sugar until light and
fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each
addition until smooth and creamy. Add pumpkin, ginger, cinnamon,
nutmeg, cloves and brandy and mix until well blended. Pour
cheese mixture into crust and bake in slow oven, 325 degrees,
for 50 or 60 minutes, or until well risen. Turn off heat and let
cheesecake cool in oven. When cold, decorate top with whipped
cream and sliced ginger.

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Weight Loss Tip:
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Substitute your food choices for better less fattening
food choices. If you want ice cream, eat ice milk or
frozen yogurt. If you want pie, choose pumpkin pie
over a chocolate cream pie (But, not pumpkin pie cheese
cake)

Do more physical things than you did last week, today.

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Safety Tip:
Get enough sleep. More accidents happen when you are
tired. If you are sleepy and you must continue what you
are doing, slow down.

When opening an oven, wait a few seconds before checking
if something is done or not, that first blast of the oven is hot!

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Parent Tip:
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Try to give your kids each their own quality time each day.
Shoo the others ones away to doing something fun while
you give your undivided attention to one of your children.
Then, shoo that one away and snag another for quality time.
Quality time can be a time where you can get things done, but
still give a child the attention they need.
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Household Tip:
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Tie a knot in your plastic garbage bags like they do in
hotels to keep your plastic tightly around the can

For bathrooms, use your grocery plastic bags to save money
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Car Tip
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Here is a site that has some great tips
www.badcaragain.com
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Marriage Tip?
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Try to focus on what it is you decide to disagree on. Surprise
your partner by really listening to his/her concerns.

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Today's Joke
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Great truths about life brought to us by children:

- No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats.

- When your mom is mad at your dad, don't let her brush
your hair.

- If your sister hits you, don't hit her back. They always
catch the second person.

- Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato.

- You can't trust dogs to watch your food.

- Reading what people write on desks can teach you a lot.

- Don't sneeze when someone is cutting your hair.

- Puppies still have bad breath even after eating a tic tac.

- Never hold a dustbuster and a cat at the same time.

- School lunches stick to the wall.

- You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.

- Don't wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts.

- The best place to be when you are sad is in Grandma's lap.

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Editor's Word Tip on Commonly Misspelled Words
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anniversary
congratulations
definite
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Inspirational Quote:

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the
paint on it you can."

Danny Kaye

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Thank you for being my reader!

Teresa King

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