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Hi there and welcome to the Home 4 Success channel. Well up until yesterday most of the snow we had received had vanished. Today and for the next couple of days it looks like the weatherman may be making up for it.

I'd like to extend a very warm welcome to new subscribers - glad to have you with us.

Most of you know I had wrist surgery last month and for the most part things are moving along, although not quite as expected. I had the dressing removed at the hospital three weeks ago at which time I was fitted with a brace. It appears that the dressing was too tight and caused some problems so I don't have all the feeling in all my fingers yet - three are pretty good. Now that makes for a challenge when typing. :-) Then the incision became infected so it's slowed down the recovery process. I've been booked for physiotherapy and the waiting lists are very long. I plan on doing my own so that if and when I get booked, they will see I won't need it.

Business is very much the same. You have a plan - you follow it - and things just pop up unexpectedly. Your ability to cope with these 'surprises' will determine your ability to succeed.

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, today's Feature Article is called A Thousand Marbles. I don't recall where I found this piece and I don't know who the author is. It is definitely worth the read.

You will never please everyone all the time. It's not in your best interest to even try. Live your life to the fullest - do what's best for you, without causing harm to others, as presented in today's Special Feature - A Creed To Live By.

Happy Thanksgiving to our U.S. subscribers. Have a great day and keep on smiling.

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The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Perhaps it's the quiet solitude that comes with being the first to rise, 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 basement shack 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 dial up into the phone portion of the band on my ham radio in order to listen to a Saturday morning conversation. Along the way, I came across an older sounding chap, with a tremendous signal and a golden voice.

You know the kind, he sounded like he should be in the broadcasting business. He was telling who ever he was talking with something about "a thousand marbles."

I was intrigued and stopped 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 recital."

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 the shack next to my gear. 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 I have been given a little extra time. And the one thing we can all use is a little more time."

"It was nice to meet you Tom, I hope you spend more time with your family, and I hope to meet you again here on the band. 73 Old Man, this is K9NZQ, clear and going QRT, good morning!"

You could have heard a pin drop on the band when this fellow signed off. I guess he gave us all a lot to think about. I had planned to work on the antenna that morning, and then I was going to meet up with a few hams to work on the next club newsletter. Instead, I went upstairs and woke my wife up with a kiss. "C'mon honey, I'm taking you and the kids to breakfast."

"What brought this on?" she asked with a smile. "Oh, nothing special, it's just been a long time since we spent a Saturday together with the kids. Hey, can we stop by the toy store while we're out, I need to buy some marbles."

There is so much information packed into the pages of Quikonnex.com that I thought I'd share some of the information with you. Right now the creators of the service are taking a well deserved break but they are working on a new solution for those of you who may concerned about downloading the Awasu reader. I promise you - Awasu is absolutely safe and I've upgraded mine so that I can read my private messages through Awasu. Works like a charm.

Coming Soon: The new development will be a cross-browser, cross-platform viewer that can be run right within your browser. It's being tested right now and it's great! I have no doubt QuikView will be ready the beginning of next month.

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Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
- Denis Waitley, author and speaker

When will transformation begin? It starts at the moment you decide to change. That's why it's so vital for you to stop for a moment and come face to face with one aspect of your life that needs drastic action immediately.
- Neil Eskelin

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
- John Wooden

Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others; it is because we are different that each of us is special.

Don't set your goals by what other people deem important; only you know what is best for you.

Don't take for granted the things closest to your heart; cling to them as you would your life; for without them, life is meaningless.

Don't let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or the future; by living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life.

Don't give up while you still have something to give; nothing is really over ... until the moment you stop trying.

Don't be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect; it is the fragile thread that binds us to each other.

Don't be afraid to take risks; it is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.

Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find; the quickest way to receive love is to give love.

Don't dismiss your dreams; to be without dreams is to be without hope. To be without hope is to be without purpose.

Don't run through life so fast that you forget where you've been; but, know where you're going.

- Author Unknown

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