Jessica Smith

The key point to keep in mind about values is that choosing which values you stand by and by implementing them in your life brings new energy into everything concerned with them. Being fair is by far more cool than being unfair.
[A]
Ambition
Appreciation
Accomplishment, Success
Accountability
Accuracy
Adventure
All for one & one for all

[B]
Believing in Others
Beauty

[C]
Caring
Character
Class and Grace
Commitment
Common Ground
Compassion
Cooperation
Courage
Courtesy
Calm, quietude, peace
Cleanliness, orderliness
Collaboration
Communication
Community
Competence
Concern for others
Content over form
Continuous improvement
Country, love of (patriotism)
Creativity

[D]
Dedication
Dependability
Determination
Diversity
Do The Right Thing
Decisiveness
Discipline
Discovery

[E]
Effort
Ease of Use
Efficiency
Equality
Excellence

[F]
Forgiveness
Friendship
Fairness
Faith
Family
Family feeling
Flair
Freedom
Fun

[G]
Gratitude
Good will
Goodness

[H]
Hard Work
Helping Others
Honesty
Hope
Humility
Harmony
Honor

[I]
Including Others
Integrity
Independence
Inner peace, calm, quietude
Innovation

[L]
Learning
Listening
Live Your Dreams
Love
Loyalty
Leadership

[O]
Opportunity
Optimism

[P]
Patience
Perseverance
Persistence
PunctualityMeaning
Peace, Non-violence
Personal Growth
Pleasure
Positive attitude
Practicality
Preservation
Privacy
Punctuality

[R]
Respect
Responsibility
Right Choices
Respect for others
Responsiveness

[S]
Sacrifice
Self-Esteem
Service
Sharing
Soul
Strength
Safety
Satisfying others
Security
Self-givingness
Self-reliance
Simplicity
Skill
Speed
Spirit in life (using)
Stability
Success, Achievement

[T]
Teaching by Example
Tolerance
Trust
Teamwork
Timeliness
Tradition
Tranquility
Truth

[U]
Unity

[V]
Vision

[W]
Wisdom

Just by eating normally, drinking loads of water and becoming tea total for 4 weeks.

Happy Birthday Grandma!!

Saturday night went here http://panaceamanchester.co.uk with Sophie was cool then the Press Club which was very quiet followed by Tiger Tiger which was absolutely packed, much like a cattle market haha
Today I've been to Stoke and then Wrexham working had the top down on the car was ace in the sunshine ;o)

How's your personal magnetism? Actually, our bodies are electrical systems. And, just like a magnet, we all can attract (or repel) people, situations or things either to or away from us.

This is because our thoughts and emotions are forms of energy as well, and the thoughts and emotions that we "send out" have a great deal to do with how others perceive us and how we interact in the world.

The key here is to become aware of the types of thoughts and emotions you generally have. Are they positive and open to possibilities, or negative and critical (of yourself or others)? A simple point to remember is that you attract what you focus on.

For example, if you catch yourself having a negative thought such as, "I'll never get ahead," you're sending out a negative, or repelling, energy. But if you turn it into a positive statement, like "I am succeeding in my chosen path," you'll be sending out a positive, attracting energy.

So, boost your personal magnetism with positive thoughts, and, like the old folk song, "let your little light shine."

How many marbles do you have?

The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Perhaps it's the quiet solitude that comes with being the first up, or maybe it's the unbounded joy of not having to be at work. Either way, the first few hours of a Saturday morning are most enjoyable.

A few weeks ago, I was shuffling toward the kitchen, with a steaming cup of coffee in one hand and the morning paper in the other. What began as a typical Saturday morning turned into one of those lessons that life seems to hand you from time to time.

Let me tell you about it. I turned the volume up on my radio in order to listen to a Saturday morning talk show. I heard an older sounding chap with a golden voice. You know the kind, he sounded like he should be in the broadcasting business himself.

He was talking about "a thousand marbles" to someone named "Tom". I was intrigued and sat down to listen to
what he had to say. "Well, Tom, it sure sounds like you're busy with your job. I'm sure they pay you well but it's a shame you have to be away from home and your family so much. Hard to believe a young fellow should have to work sixty or seventy hours a week to make ends meet. Too bad you missed your daughter's dance show. " He continued, "Let me tell you something Tom, something that has helped me keep a good perspective on my own priorities." And that's when he began to explain his theory of a "thousand marbles."

"You see, I sat down one day and did a little arithmetic. The average person lives about seventy-five years. I know, some live more and some live less, but on average, folks live about seventy-five years." "Now then, I multiplied 75
times 52 and I came up with 3900 which is the number of Saturdays that the average person has in their entire lifetime.

"Now stick with me Tom, I'm getting to the important part. "It took me until I was fifty-five years old to think about all this in any detail", he went on, "and by that time I had lived through over twenty-eight hundred Saturdays. "I got to thinking that if I lived to be seventy-five, I only had about a thousand of them left to enjoy. "So I went to a toy store and bought every single marble they had. I ended up having to visit three toy stores to round-up 1000 marbles. "I took them home and put them inside of a large, clear plastic container right here in my workshop next to the radio. Every Saturday since then, I have taken one marble out and thrown it away.

"I found that by watching the marbles diminish, I focused more on the really important things in life. There is nothing like watching your time here on this earth run out to help get your priorities straight. "Now let me tell you one last thing before I sign-off with you and take my lovely wife out for breakfast. This morning, I took the very last marble out of the container. I figure if I make it until next Saturday then God has blessed me with a little extra time to be with my loved ones...... "It was nice to talk to you Tom, I hope you spend more time with your loved ones, and I hope to meet you again someday. Have a good morning!"

You could have heard a pin drop when he finished. Even the show's staff didn't have anything to say for a few moments. I guess he gave us all a lot to think about. I had planned to do some work that morning, then go for a run. Instead, I went upstairs and woke my son up with a kiss. "C'mon, I'm taking you to breakfast." Hey, we can stop at a toy store while we're out? I need to buy some marbles."

I'm back marketing trucks again!
But this time with a few vans, dealerships, service & parts thrown in for interest ;o)

Mum & Dad came round last night with a huge bunch of sunflowers, which I had to put in two vases
rrrrrrr aren't they fab!

Ickle man has got a new clarinet, so we have had lots of fun with him making lots of interesting noises! I'm teaching him all the tunes I know however, it's a few years since I played!!

Never Too Busy for a Friend..
One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a
space between each name.

Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down.

It took the remainder of the class period to finish their assignment, and as the students left the room, each one handed in
the papers.

That Saturday, the teacher wrote down the name of each student on a separate sheet of paper, and listed what everyone else had
said about that individual.

On Monday she gave each student his or her list. Before long, the entire class was smiling. "Really?" she heard whispered. "I
never knew that I meant anything to anyone!" and, "I didn't know others liked me so much." were most of the comments.

No one ever mentioned those papers in class again. She never knew if they discussed them after class or with their parents, but
it didn't matter. The exercise had accomplished its purpose. The students were happy with themselves and one another. That group of students moved on.

Several years later, one of the students was killed in Vietnam and his teacher attended the funeral of that special student.
She had never seen a serviceman in a military coffin before. He looked so handsome, so mature.

The church was packed with his friends. One by one those who loved him took a last walk by the coffin. The teacher was the last
one to bless the coffin.

As she stood there, one of the soldiers who acted as pallbearer came up to her. "Were you Mark's math teacher?" he asked. She
nodded: "yes." Then he said: "Mark talked about you a lot."

After the funeral, most of Mark's former classmates went together to a luncheon. Mark's mother and father were there, obviously
waiting to speak with his teacher.

"We want to show you something," his father said, taking a wallet out of his pocket. "They found this on Mark when he was killed.
We thought you might recognize it."

Opening the wallet, he carefully removed two worn pieces of notebook paper that had obviously been taped, folded and
refolded many times. The teacher knew without looking that the papers were the ones on which she had listed all the good things each of Mark's classmates had said about him.

"Thank you so much for doing that," Mark's mother said. "As you can see, Mark treasured it."

All of Mark's former classmates started to gather around. Charlie smiled rather sheepishly and said, "I still have my list. It's in the top drawer of my desk at home."

Chuck's wife said, "Chuck asked me to put his in our wedding album."

"I have mine too," Marilyn said. "It's in my diary."

Then Vicki, another classmate, reached into her pocketbook, took out her wallet and showed her worn and frazzled list to the group "I carry this with me at all times," Vicki said and without batting an eyelash, she continued: "I think we all saved our lists."

That's when the teacher finally sat down and cried. She cried for Mark and for all his friends who would never see him again.

The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don't know when that one day will be.

So please, tell the people you love and care for, that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late.

And One Way To Accomplish This Is: Post it so someone can read it!

Don't pass up the wonderful opportunity to do something nice and beautiful

Remember, you reap what you sow. What you put into the lives of others comes back into your own.

May Your Day Be As Blessed As You Are Special

With love from

Jessica x

As the "ageless" Sophia Loren has said, "There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age."

Someone said to me today God is never too busy for us and it made me think of the power of generosity, service and relationships. It has to be the greatest joy in life, the ability to give the gift of your time. To be generous in spirit as well as sharing your material things is a virtue!

My son PJ has taken Nicky to London for the weekend. They flew about 7.30 this morning and he's already rung me to say they've been to the dungeons and The Tower of London and now sitting in a pub before they go to see a show The Producers...lucky for some!

My Dad is such a pillar of society a Community man and always in the local paper for one good deed or another! I'm very proud of my Dad!

Hated every minute of being dark it was like looking at another person

PJ for tea last night and we all had jacket potato with tuna and corn on the cob.. ..was very tasty. Then went to see Yvonne, Stuart & Nicky. Yesterday caught up with Lou, took her some flowers cos she's had a tough time of things lately.

The British coast is wonderful...real famous five!