Last night I was watching television. Almost everything was reruns, so I decided to watch the History Channel. It was a show about how so many different people/cultures have predicted the end of the world. Supposedly that will be happening right around the Winter Solstice in 2012. I think it is fascinating that so many predictions revolve around that date. I wonder if it has something to do with the numbers – for example the date will be 12/21/2012. So many 1s and 2s. The show certainly was quite convincing that the end of the world really might be coming! I’m starting to wish I had just gone to bed!
My mother is constantly sending me clippings in the mail about some Celebrity Speakers or Motivational Speakers that are coming to the area that she wants me to go see with her. Or should I say HEAR with her? She thinks that motivational speakers are fantastic, and I’ve gone to hear a couple of them with her, but I have to admit that although they do a really good job, the main point of their speech is to keep a positive attitude and how they kept plugging along to get some kind of help through a hard time that they had and they got the help that they needed.
Most of the time, the help that they needed (and got) was close at hand, provided by someone close to them. I haven’t heard many motivational speakers talk about how everyone they knew turned their backs on them and a complete stranger helped them out! Well, notwithstanding the few wealthy people who sponsored entire classes to go to college after they graduate high school (and yes, that is motivational to finish school if you have a wealthy sponsor!)
I’d love to give an aspiring motivational speaker some speaking tips. Take a good hard look at your speech and ask yourself if the message you are delivering is appropriate to the audience? Telling someone to pull themselves up by their bootstraps isn’t going to help someone who has no boots! Of course, you shouldn’t tell them to just give up, either. There is a fine line there. If you are going to give someone a pep talk about improving their lives, it would be great if you provided resources to help them, and not just a pep rally.
One sad fact of life is that so many people that become drug addicts start out as innocent victims of some kind of accident that puts them in a lot of pain. The doctors, in their efforts to relieve that pain give the patients a medicine, such as the very popular vicodin, that is highly effective in controlling pain, but is also highly addictive.
One of the most populat television show characters, House, is addicted to vicodin. On a recent episode we watched House agree to go to vicodin rehab in order to get his medical license back. It was suspended but he was told that if he went to one of the vicodin rehab centers that he would be reinstated after the doctors cleared him. I think that this particular show has shown a lot of good information about how easily one can fall into the life of an addict, and how not all addicts are out in the street mugging people!
I guess I really shouldn’t be surprised how many commercials I see on television nowadays regarding the issues of credit repair. There are a lot of different companies out there that offer to help fix your credit. Some of these bad credit repair services, such as Ovation Credit service give the consumer the impression that repairing credit is easy. And it IS easy if the only thing wrong is mistakes on your credit report.
But if the issues are that you have poor credit because you haven’t been paying your bills, then these services cannot help you at all. What you need to do in these cases is to make arrangements with your creditors to get your bills paid! And that may not be easy if you have lost your income due to some unforeseen situation. Job loss, sudden health issues, and accidents can all contribute to troubles that will have a negative impact on credit ratings.
My son has been struggling for the past couple of years to find a good job. He has had his heart set on becoming a newspaper reporter, but he can’t seem to find one in the area. So he has decided to look into becoming a substitute teacher for the local school system. There is always a demand for substitutes, and I think he would make a really good teacher. Looking into what qualifications he needs, we were surprised to find that you don’t even need a college degree, only a high school diploma!
Education and Personal Growth, Environment and green, General life | Dean | 
January 7, 2010 11:05 am | 
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