Merry Christmas From ETR
Issue #2234
- WEALTHY: Ready for your second holiday gift from ETR? (Michael Masterson)
- HEALTHY: 3 ways to make holiday meals easier on every diner (Kelley Herring)
- WISE: Holiday greetings from Charles Dickens
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
- A simple way to escape from holiday stress (Bob Cox)
- 10 little things MaryEllen loves about the holidays
- It’s Good to Know… what, exactly, a calling bird is
- Add "fealty" to your vocabulary
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There will be many steps you take towards your goals where it will feel like you’re taking two steps forward and one step back. You will have breakthroughs, triumphs, and opportunities to overcome adversity.
But to keep moving forward, you just might need a friendly kick-in-the-pants every once in a while. Here’s how to stay energized towards action and success every day of the year.
- Charlie Byrne
"A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!"
Charles Dickens
Merry Christmas From ETR
In the spirit of the season, I made you a big promise yesterday. Every day for 12 days (starting yesterday), ETR is going to give you a fun, useful gift.
When I told MaryEllen and the ETR crew about this idea of mine, they thought I had been drinking too much eggnog. "It’s fine for you to act like Santa Claus, promising all those gifts," they said. "But we don’t have 500 elves here to help us create a dozen new ‘toys’ for our readers!"
But then they put on their Santa caps and thought about it. And then they thought some more. And by the end of the day, they had figured out how to do it.
(I’m really excited about this!)
Today is the second day of ETR’s 12 Days of Christmas Give-Away Bonanza – but it’s the first day of the 12 Days of Christmas. And, as you remember from the carol, the gift for the first day is a partridge in a pear tree.
Well, we don’t have any partridges at ETR. But we do have something that you’ll probably like even more. Today’s gift will teach you how to live like a billionaire… even if you’re still trying to make ends meet. Click here to pick up your second gift.
Keep reading ETR to find the next 10 special gifts ETR has prepared for you.
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The Greatest Medical Discovery of the Century
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Holiday Stress De-Activator: Appreciate What Is Working in Your Life
By Bob Cox
The holiday season is filled with opportunities to create joyful memories with your business associates, family, and friends. Unfortunately, it can also be very stressful.
In 2006, the American Psychological Association polled men and women about their stress levels. Nearly 44 percent of women and 30 percent of men admitted that their stress skyrocketed during the holidays.
But there ARE actions you can take to reduce your stress… and maintain balance and sanity. One of the best is to set aside some time to be grateful.
So do that today. Think about the major areas of your life – your job, health, finances, love life, family, friends, and living situation. Take stock of what is going well. This is NOT the time to think about what is going badly. Your focus, today, should be on what is working.
Be thankful for your ability to work, to think, to spend time with family and friends. Just taking a few minutes to remind yourself of everything that is good in your life will recharge your batteries and help shore you up whenever you’re feeling overwhelmed.
[Ed. Note: Bob Cox is the creator of The Billionaire Way and the voice of ETR's Total Success Achievement Program. Members get weekly motivational Power Surge Messages packed with advice on how to accomplish their goals... twice-monthly teleseminars with Bob and Patrick Coffey... and personal coaching calls. Click here to learn how you can achieve all your goals in 2008.]
The Holiday Host: Serving Guests With Special Diets
In years past, your primary concern for the holiday spread was probably geared toward pleasing palettes. Creamy mashed potatoes for Uncle Morris. Green bean casserole for Dad. Cranberry-pecan fruit salad for your sister.
These days, your focus has likely changed to the health needs of your loved ones. Aunt Bettie’s diabetes. Grandma’s celiac disease. Cousin Tim’s nut allergy. Still, as the host, you want to make sure that all of your guests are enjoying the meal.
You’ve already planned a meal that takes their needs into consideration. And you carefully read the labels on the food you bought to see if there were any "hidden" ingredients that might cause a problem for someone.
Now here’s one more thing you can do to put your guests with special diets at ease: Let them know what’s in the foods you’re serving.
You can either pull each one aside and warn them about anything they should stay away from, or (if you have the time) write up little ingredient cards to put in front of the various dishes on the buffet line. Your thoughtfulness will be much appreciated.
[Ed. Note: Kelley Herring is the founder and CEO of Healing Gourmet and the author of the new e-book, Guilt-Free Desserts: 20 All-Natural, Fail-Proof, Low-Glycemic Desserts Just in Time for the Holidays
Discover how simple lifestyle choices can improve your health by reading ETR's free natural health e-letter.]
10 Little Things I Love About the Holidays
By MaryEllen Tribby, ETR’s Publisher & CEO
1. Watching The Little Drummer Boy with my kids
2. Explaining to my kids while shopping in the mall how Santa can change ethnicity from one store to the next
3. Believing that I can eat 20 sugar cookies, 3 pieces of apple pie, and a pint of rice pudding in one sitting and not gain weight due to the magic of Christmas
4. Calling my family up north on Christmas Day while sipping eggnog on the beach
5. Hearing my husband say he does not want anything for Christmas because he already has everything he needs – his family
6. Ridiculously ornate holiday decorations
7. Pleasant conversations with complete strangers
8. The beautiful delight on Delaine’s face Christmas morning when finding a tube of toothpaste in her stocking
9. Connor’s holiday knock, knock jokes
10. Mikaela’s conviction that it is just a coincidence that Santa and Mom have the same handwriting
It’s Good to Know: What, Exactly, Is a Calling Bird?
The song "The 12 Days of Christmas" is a staple of the Christmas season. Unfortunately, just about everyone has trouble keeping the lyrics straight. To make matters worse, inadvertent alterations to the song’s lyrics have crept into many popular renditions over the years.
For example, the four "calling birds" that make up the fourth day’s gift, should actually be four "colly birds." Colly means black as coal, making the actual gift four blackbirds. And the fifth day’s gift of "golden rings" does not refer to jewelry, as many believe, but to ring-necked birds, such as pheasants. With these distortions remedied, you can see that the first seven gifts are all intended to be types of birds.
Although some have tried to ascribe religious symbolism to the imagery in the song, most experts say it is a secular work that originated in France and was later translated and adopted by the English. The first published version was in an English children’s book in 1780, although the song is probably significantly older. It was part of a memory game in which players took turns reciting the verses. If a player forgot a line, they had to give out sweets or kisses.
(Source: Snopes and Wikipedia)
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When the lights start flashing…
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- Patrick Coffey
Word to the Wise: Fealty
"Fealty" (FEE-ul-tee) – from the Latin for "to trust" – is faithfulness.
Example (as used by poet Joaquin Miller): "Tis morn. Behold the kingly Day now leaps / The eastern wall of earth with sword in hand, / Clad in a flowing robe of mellow light, / Like to a king that has regain’d his throne, / He warms his drooping subjects into joy, / That rise rejoiced to do him fealty, / And rules with pomp the universal world."
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Michael Masterson
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