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THE BALANCING ACT
The only FREE weekly publication dedicated to
Helping you create a life of Health, Wealth, and
Balanced Abundance in today's hectic world.

September 25, 2003 Volume 1, Issue 11
Liz Thompson, Publisher
mailto: lthompson@healthywealthynwise.com

Meredith Landino, Managing Editor
mailto: mlandino@healthywealthynwise.com

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WHAT TO EXPECT IN THIS ISSUE
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- Note from the Editor
- Message from Our Sponsor
- Mind Matters: The Waiting Place
- This Week's Resource
- Quote of the Week
- We Want To Hear From You
- Upcoming Events
- Inspirational Story
- Your Success Tip
- Copyright and Publisher Information
- Legal Stuff

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Be sure to check the Upcoming Events section for new teleseminars
we've added to the Website this week. You'll be amazed at all the
wonderful information available to you!

And once again, we have a special offer just for readers of The
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Sincerely,

Meredith Landino
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MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSOR
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MIND MATTERS: THE WAITING PLACE
by Wendy Jameson
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One of my all-time favorite books is Dr. Seuss's, Oh, The Places
You'll Go! In this classic, we're encouraged to believe we have
everything we need to succeed -- from brains in our heads to feet
in our shoes.

Dr. Seuss was a master of the metaphor, and his stories usually
hold a subtle lesson. In this particular story, we meet a young
man leaving home to explore the great beyond. He encounters all
sorts of odd, scary creatures. He becomes frightened, but he
continues. He soars to great fame, and then becomes ordinary
again. He gets lost and mixed up with strange birds, but he
trudges on through foul weather and eventually reaches the
mountaintop.

What a story of triumph!

I want to draw your attention, however, to a particular place in
the book, a place I know well. The Waiting Place. It's a place
where people are just waiting... waiting for a pot to boil,
waiting the phone to ring, or maybe waiting for their big break.
They're all just waiting.

Why? They're lured by possibility and paralyzed by maybe.

Have you ever been to The Waiting Place? Do you ever put things
on hold "just in case"? It can be very frustrating if you're
accustomed to activity, and it can turn into a way of life if you
aren't careful.

I know a woman who kept waiting for the right man so she could
"start her life." She waited on a house. She waited on pets. She
held back from creating her future only because she might have to
get rid of something. Man, was she miserable!

As long as we wait for the future, the present will pass us by.
As long as we're living for "just in case," we don't have to act
on our dreams.

Stop waiting and start creating. Go for it right now! Your future
is waiting...

Wendy Jameson, MA, offers life and business coaching through her
company, Potentiate (www.potentiate.net). She's the author
of The Low Carb Survival Guide e-book and co-creator of the
email-based Self-Manager Success Program. Wendy lives in Gilbert, Arizona
with her husband and two boys. wendy@potentiate.net

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Have you ever asked yourself what separates those rare
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
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How you act is who you become.
- Steve Chandler


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UPCOMING EVENTS
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Our mission at The Balancing Act is to make incredible resources
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INSPIRATIONAL STORY
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The Castaway

In the recent movie, "The Castaway," Tom Hanks played the role of
a FedEx delivery man. His job was to fly all over the world
making sure that packages were delivered on time.

One fateful trip found his cargo plane flying through a nasty
storm somewhere in the middle of the South Pacific. The plane
crashed near a tiny, deserted island. The only survivor was
Hanks.

Upon awakening the next day, Hanks found himself all alone. Alone
with nothing but the clothes on his back.

Picture this: no matches, no tools, no food, no shelter, no
communications, only one small flashlight and a few packages
containing some useless items that had washed up on shore.

Hanks learned to survive a meager existence sleeping in a small
dark cave. His food came from coconuts and the few fish he
managed to catch.

He was captured and held prisoner on an island with seemingly no
hope of ever escaping. Every day the island dictated to him how
he was to live.

He was trapped on that island because he saw no way of escape.

His fears of losing what small sense of security the island
provided, as despicable as it was, prevented him from trying to
escape to a better life. A life he knew existed, but now only
dreamed about.

Looking out over the vast expanse of the ocean, he constantly
thought about that better life. But those thoughts soon returned
to seeing the opposition and competition that prevented him from
returning to what was rightfully his.

Four long years later, Tom Hanks made a decision.

He had grown sick and tired of having a nothing life.

It was either die a nobody, going no place, on a nowhere island,
continuing to live a struggling and pitiful hand to mouth
existence, or... die trying to escape to a real life.

The Pacific Ocean was the obstacle. His opponent was his own fear
of overcoming that obstacle.

He made a plan to escape. The day arrived and Hanks set sail
aboard a makeshift, rinky-dink raft of logs tied together with
tree bark and video tape.

He met every adversity the South Pacific could throw at him. It
wasn't easy, but finally, the rescue came.

The movie portrayed a very intense drama. An analogy of what life
is like for many people. Thousands of folks every day feel
trapped in a nowhere life. They feel as if their life is being
wasted, as if they are going nowhere, on a nowhere island with
little hope of escape.

Every day these same people trudge off to a boring and hopeless
job that offers only an existence but no real sense of
satisfaction in life for accomplishing anything.

These people know there is a better life out there, a life they
so much desire, yet it seems so far away. They are trapped on
their own island of despair.

Held there, not by the island itself, but by their own fears of
not being able to overcome the adversity and opposition that lies
between them and their dreams.

A few do escape from that island. They are the ones who finally
become sick and tired of living a wasted life, they are the ones
who overcome the fear inside.

They start out from their island, not really knowing if they will
make it or not. But they look that sea of difficulties square in
the eye and say, in the unforgettable words of Admiral David
Farragut, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead."

Dave Cole
Prosperity: The Choice Is Yours
Copyright © 2003

Dave's ezine provides you with valuable info on how to market
your online business and how you can make money online. Get your
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you to send in your story and share with your fellow readers.
Simply send your story
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YOUR SUCCESS TIP
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You might be able to give nighttime heartburn the slip by having
a snoring habit corrected.

In a recent study of people with heartburn and sleep apnea -- a
snoring condition in which soft tissue in the throat occasionally
obstructs the airway -- treating sleep apnea resulted in a
dramatic reduction in heartburn symptoms for the patients. See
your healthcare provider for advice on sleep apnea treatments

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COPYRIGHT AND PUBLISHER INFORMATION
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The Balancing Act is Copyright (c) 2003 by the Metis Group. All
rights reserved worldwide. No part of this publication may be
reproduced without express written permission from the publisher.

Liz Thompson, Publisher
Meredith Landino, Managing Editor
The Metis Group
401 S. Fairfax Boulevard
Ranson, WV 25438 USA
Phone: (304) 725-2502
Fax: (304) 728-3068
Email: mailto:lthompson@healthywealthynwise.com   or
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