Posted: under Advice & Tips, Inspirationals.
Tags: advice, age, beauty, celebration, children, choice, earth, elderly, era, family, forgiveness, friends, friendship, gentleness, gift, God, growth, happiness, healing, history, inspiration, journey, joy, lessons, life, love, mind, miracle, occasion, parents, peace, present, relationship, retirement, road, secret, seniors, soul, star, time, tips, travel, universe, world, youth
“To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I’ve ever written.”My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:
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1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good
.2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone.
Posted: under "Jamaica ~ Land Of Paradise", "Welcome to JAMrock ~ JAMAICA ~ NO PROBLEM".
Tags: activities, America, attractions, boutique, Canadian, Caribbean, celebration, challenge, country, development, Dunn's River Falls, economy, experience, flight, foreign, globe, growth, hotels, importance, industry, island, Jamaican, markets, partner, quality, resort, season, smiles, success, supporters, tourism, travel, traveller, vacation, villas, visitors, winter
Published: Sunday | April 19, 2009
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WESTERN BUREAU:
DESPITE THE current economic challenges afflicting the global travel and tourism industry, Canada continues to outpace Jamaica’s other source markets, except the United States (US), solidifying double-digit growth for the island’s number-one foreign exchange earner - tourism.
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Tourist arrivals from the North American country at the end of February were at a 23 per cent increase over 2008. Preliminary figures show March even more bullish, confirming Canada in second-place ranking as the most important tourism market for Jamaica.
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Canadian visitors from Saskat-chewan led the increase with 63.8 per cent growth, followed by a dramatic 89.6 per cent growth in visitors from Newfoundland. There was also an increase in visitors from Western Canada, with 32.7 per cent growth in British Columbia and 29.7 per cent growth in Alberta.
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Apr 21 2009
Posted: under "When You're Down to Nothing God's UP to Something", Advice & Tips, Inspirational Poetry.
Tags: advice, age, anxiety, blessings, burden, challenge, character, courage, cross, depression, desire, difference, era, fulfillment, goodness, gratitude, growth, history, improvement, inspiration, learning, lesson, life, lifestyle, lifetime, load, man, might, opportunities, opportunity, others, pain, period, positive, power, Professor, setbacks, strength, stress, struggles, success, teacher, teaching, thankfulness, time, tips, trials, tribulation, troubles, tutor, value, values, wealth, weight, woman, worries
Be thankful that you don’t already have everything you desire.
If you did, what would there be to look forward to?
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Be thankful when you don’t know something.
For it gives you the opportunity to learn
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Be thankful for the difficult times.
During those times you grow.
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Be thankful for your limitations.
Because they give you opportunities for improvement.
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Apr 20 2009
Posted: under "A Slice Of Life", "Life is precious handle with PRAYER!", Inspirationals.
Tags: activity, axe, boss, change, check, Christ, coffee, day, duty, employee, employer, family, friends, friendship, God, growth, inspiration, integrity, Jesus, job, language, life, listening, Lord, man, manager, meditation, money, others, prayer, reading, Savior, scripture, supervisor, task, time, today, tool, tools, voice, volume, woman, words, work, world, youth
A young man approached the foreman of a logging crew and asked for a job.
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“That depends,” replied the foreman. “Let’s see you fell this tree.” The young man stepped forward and skillfully felled a great tree. Impressed, the foreman exclaimed, “You can start Monday.”
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Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday rolled by. Thursday afternoon the foreman approached the young man and said, “You can pick up your paycheck on the way out today.”
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Apr 10 2009
Posted: under "A Slice Of Life".
Tags: beauty, bliss, colors, earth, flowers, growth, happiness, joy, laughter, life, love, man, rose, roses, smiles, spring, woman, world, youth
Posted: under "A Slice Of Life", "When You're Down to Nothing God's UP to Something", Inspirationals.
Tags: accident, advice, age, aid, air, anger, anxiety, assistance, assurance, author, beacon, belief, boat, body, boy, bridge, burden, care, challenges, Christ, cloud, clouds, comfort, Comforter, concern, courage, cross, day, depression, destination, direction, duty, earth, era, exam, example, eyes, faith, fire, flame, focus, food, girl, God, goodness, grace, growth, guidance, guide, hands, heart, highway, history, home, hope, horizon, House, hut, inspiration, instruction, insurance, island, job, journey, King, knowledge, labor, lake, land, language, life, lifestyle, lifetime, light, load, love, man, map, memory, mercy, mind, morning, nature, need, needs, noise, ocean, others, pain, path, perception, period, perspective, phone, plan, plans, plant, plants, pond, possession, praise, praises, prayer, promise, promises, protection, purpose, quiz, rain, rainbow, Redeemer, riches, rivers, road, safety, scripture, sea, season, security, sheep, shepherd, shield, ship, sign, signal, size, sky, sleep, smoke, soil, son, soul, sound, spirit, storm, strength, stress, struggles, surprise, task, test, time, tips, today, traffic, travel, trial, trials, tribulation, trust, vehicle, vision, water, wealth, weight, wind, wisdom, woman, words, work, worries, worry
The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him and every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming.
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Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from the elements and to store his few possessions.
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But then one day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, the smoke rolling up to the sky.
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The worst had happened; everything was lost. He was stunned with grief and anger. “God, how could you do this to me!” he cried.
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Feb 07 2009
