You Might Be A Redneck If...........(151 - 175 of 299)

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First 25

151	You consider pork and beans to be a gourmet food.
152	You participate in the "who can spit tobacco the farthest contest".
153	You roll you hair with soup cans and wash it once a year.
154	You consider a three piece suit to be: a pair of overalls, a plaid flannel shirt and thermal underwear.
155	There is a sheet hanging in your closet and a gun rack hanging in your truck.
156	You think the Mountain Men in deliverance were just "Misunderstood".
157	You've ever made change in the offering plate.
158	If the fifth grade is referred to as "your senior year,"
159	You consider a good tan to be the back of your neck and the left arm below the shirt sleeve...
160	You own at least 20 baseball hats.
161	You know of at least six different ways to bend the bill of a baseball hat.
162	You can change the oil in your truck without ducking your head.
163	When you run out of gas, you put gin in the gas tank!
164	Your biggest ambition in live is to "git thet big'ole coon. The one what hangs 'round over yonder, back'ah bubba's barn..."
165	Three quarters of the clothes you own have LOGOS on them.
166	When you leave your house, you are followed by federal agents of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, and the only thing you worry about is if you can loose them or not.
167	You bought a VCR so you could tape wrestling while you are at work.
168	Your dad walks you to school because you are both in the same grade.
169	Your wife has a beer belly and you find it attractive.
170	Your house doesn't have curtains, but your truck does.
171	You have started a petition to change the National Anthem to "Georgia on My Mind".
172	You call your boss "Buddy", on a regular basis. You consider your license plate personalized because your dad made it in prison.
173	You have been fired from a construction job because of your appearance.
174	You need one more hole punched in your card to get a freebie at the house of Tattoos.
175	You need an estimate from your barber before you get a haircut.
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Motivational Quotes (2)

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
-Helen Keller

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence,
is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
-Dale Carnegie

I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world
are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want.
-George Bernard Shaw

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
-Zig Ziglar

Don't just learn the tricks of the trade.
Learn the trade.
-James Bennis

I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.
-Thomas Jefferson

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
-Plato

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
-Aldous Huxley, author

To exist is to change; to change is to mature, to mature is to create oneself endlessly.
-Henri Bergson, French philosopher

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
-Robert Frost, poet

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
-Malcolm S. Forbes

The facts are always less than what really happened.
-Nadine Gordimer, author

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
-Mark Twain

Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-George Washington Carver

The best way to destroy an enemy is by making them a friend.
-Abraham Lincoln

I cannot think of many occasions when a smile is out of place.
-Charles R. Swindoll, author

Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
-John D. Rockefeller

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
-Arthur Ashe

There is only one boss, the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
-Sam Walton

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
-Adlai Stevenson

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
-John F. Kennedy

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.
-James Bryant Conant, American educator

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
-Mark Twain

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
-Robert H. Goddard, pioneer of rocket research

I'm always busy, but always doing things I enjoy. I rarely occupy myself with things that bug me. I'm very fortunate in that not many of us are allowed to move around for kicks and get paid for it.
-Steve Allen - composer, singer, producer, conductor, songwriter and author

We must become the change we want to see.
-Mahatma Gandhi

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
-Abraham Lincoln

Fortune favors the bold.
-Virgil

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
-William Jennings Bryan

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
-Rudyard Kipling

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna -- or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities and let the nice things come out.
-Barbara Walters

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
-Elbert Hubbard, U.S. publisher, author

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
-Samuel Johnson,
British author and lexicographer

If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.
-Gen. George S. Patton

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
-Helen Keller

People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
-Leonardo da Vinci

See Motivational Quote Index for more quotes.

Are You Prepared For Success? (Installment #6)

(If this is your first time on this site, please begin with "Are You Prepared For Success [Introduction.])

Take heart, It's not your fault! However, instead of blaming others, this process will enable you to take control of your life and effect the necessary changes.

It's only human nature, after hearing these messages from people you trust, over and over again, to believe and then repeat these messages, to yourself, over and over again, until they become a part of you; until you have internalized them so deeply into your being that they "become" you.

These messages become embedded in your sub-conscious mind. You may not feel negative about yourself consciously, however, you feel that there is something stopping you from achieving the success rightly deserve. This something is a collection, built up over time, of negative feelings about yourself and your abilities; caused by your internalization and ownership of these negative messages. These feelings are deep in your subconscious. There they cause feelings of inadequacy, inferiority and the inability to believe in yourself and your abilities.

You are where you are, and you are who you are because that is all you believe that you are capable of becoming.

I had, and most of you probably have, a deep, dark scary place inside of you that contains your darkest secrets and your most frightening fears; a place of demons and monsters; a place where you hide those prior actions and thoughts that you are ashamed of. This is the place where all of those negative messages, which contribute to your inadequacies, self condemnation, feelings of rage, envy and jealousy, all congregate and grow stronger every day. They will continue to grow stronger as long as you continue to validate them.

It is a place that you fear...will one day reveal itself to others...and you will be exposed as a fake, a phony, and a loser and then the "truth" will be known by the whole world. This is probably your deepest fear.

In the reflections of the soul

And the honesty of the heart

The truth will be seen

And the fear will depart.

This fear is not your truth. This is the false truth of your past; the false truth that others in your life have forced upon you, as in the following examples:

• People who possibly meant well, trying to protect you from their truths: that this is a "cold, cruel world."
• People who wanted to share their misery by inflicting their pain onto you.
• People who felt inadequate and who could only feel better by making you feel bad.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in un-learning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

-Percy Bysshe Shelley

I'm sure you can think of many more examples that are unique to your own life. List them. Again, this can be very cathartic.)

When you are immersed in your deep, dark scary place, it is difficult hard to understand that these truths that you perceive as yours, are not yours. So you continue to hide them in your dark place, scared that one day they will be revealed. When you are in this place, you most likely reject anything that is positive while only accepting things that are negative in nature, things that fit with your collection of negative messages. Thus, your deep, dark scary place grows ever stronger and even more scary. While holding onto this belief, consciously or subconsciously, it is impossible to break free from the hold that this place, with its negative messages and your greatest fears, has on you, and truly become free of them so you can attain the success you desire.

This process will give you an enjoyable way to break free from this death-grip of negativity.

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

"The only way to truly fail is to give up." Let this statement sink in. When one gives up, it's usually because he/she does not believe that he/she is capable of succeeding. This belief is completely preventable, and fortunately, reversible. Both...the belief that one cannot succeed, and quitting...are usually caused by processing information through these very same false, negative, attitudes that you have built up over the years.

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.

-Julius C. Hare & Augustus Hare

Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

-Bill Marriott of the Marriott Hotels

Following is a metaphor that will help explain what my process is meant to do for you and how it can guide you to the place that you want to be:

“If you grew up wearing a pair of black tinted glasses everything that you look at would have that black tint. No matter how hard you try to see the true colors of objects, you will still see everything through that black tint. There is nothing that you can do to the object you are looking at to change how you see it. This is the same as growing up with negative attitudes; having negative messages implanted in your subconscious. Everything that you look at will be filtered through these negative attitudes (black tinted glasses). A person with positive attitudes will see a cup as half-full, you will see it as half-empty; where a person with positive attitudes will see an opportunity, you will see the risk; where a positive person will dig a little deeper for that little bit extra that is needed to win, you would give up and say "what's the use, I've already lost."

What one person approves, another scorns,

And thus his nature each discloses;

You find the rosebush full of thorns,

I find the thornbush full of roses.

-Arthur Guiterman

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that
we see too late the one that is open.

-Alexander Graham Bell

Now think of how it would be if you were able to remove these dark glasses, and put on a pair of clear glasses. Everything that you previously saw as dark, hopeless, depressing and negative would now have bright colors, true colors, be hopeful, happy and positive. The whole world would seem different, better, more exciting and a place of opportunity...not failure.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

-George Bernard Shaw

By Mel Kaye

Copyright © MondayMorningPower, All rights Reserved

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Therapeutic effects of laughter

Some of you may be wondering why I so often include cartoons and jokes in my blog about attitude.

In our striving to better ourselves, as well as the day-to-day activities, it is very easy to loose perspective. I find that laughter helps me reevaluate and refocus. I also believe that in order to "achieve" one must have fun.

The following comes right out of the pages of Wikipedia:

While it is normally only considered cliché that "laughter is the best medicine," specific medical theories attribute improved health, increased life expectancy, and overall improved well-being, to laughter.

A study demonstrated neuroendocrine and stress-related hormones decreased during episodes of laughter, which provides support for the claim that humor can relieve stress. Writer Norman Cousins wrote about his experience with laughter in helping him recover from a serious illness in 1979's Anatomy of an Illness As Perceived by the Patient. In 1989, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an article, wherein the author wrote that "a humor therapy program can increase the quality of life for patients with chronic problems and that laughter has an immediate symptom-relieving effect for these patients, an effect that is potentiated when laughter is induced regularly over a period".

Some therapy movements like Re-evaluation Counseling believe that laughter is a type of "bodily discharge", along with crying, yawning and others, which requires encourgement and support as a means of healing.

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You Might Be A Redneck If......(126 - 150 of 299)

	First 25
126	You think that the Styrofoam cooler is the greatest invention of all time.
127	You've ever been too drunk to fish.
128	You had to remove a toothpick for wedding pictures.
129	You've ever used a weed eater indoors.
130	You have a rag for a gas cap (on a car that does run).
131	You consider a family reunion a good place to pick up girls.
132	You have to go outside to get something out of the 'fridge.
133	Your richest relative invites you over to his new home to help him remove the wheels and skirt.
134	You've ever financed a tattoo.
135	Your idea of a 7 course meal is a bucket of KFC and a six-pack.
136	You go to a Tupperware party for a haircut.
137	You have spray painted your girlfriend's name on an overpass.
138	Your Junior/Senior Prom had a Daycare.
139	Your dog and your wallet are both on chains.
140	Your kids are going hungry tonight because you just had to have those Yosemite Sam mud flaps.
141	You owe the taxidermist more than your annual income.
142	You have lost at least one tooth opening a beer bottle.
143	Jack Daniels makes your list of "most admired people".
144	You won't stop at a rest area if you have an empty beer can in the car.
145	Your dog can't watch you eat without gagging.
146	You have a Hefty bag on the passenger side window of your car.
147	You have a very special baseball cap, just for formal occasions.
148	You have to scratch your sisters name out of the message: "for a good time call . .", because you feel guilty about putting it there...
149	Redman sends you a Christmas card.
150	You are still holding on to Confederate money because you think the South will rise again.
	Thank you Jeff Foxworthy Next 25

Are You Prepared For Success? (Installment #5)

(If this is your first time on this site, please begin with "Are You Prepared For Success [Introduction.])

The basic winning attitudes that must be attained before you can experience true success are:

1. You must believe in your ability to accomplish anything that you set your mind to.

2. You must know, in your soul, that you will never quit and you will never give up, because quitting is the only true failure.

3. You must have a positive attitude, an attitude that believes anything is possible.

4. Failure is not an alternative that you will allow into your mind. However, if you do stumble (not fail), as most successful people have, you will know why and learn from it - then move on to success!

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

-Thomas Edison

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.

-Napoleon Hill

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

The word impossible is not in my dictionary.

-Napoleon Bonaparte

Don't worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

These attitudes, plus other positive attitudes that you will develop and internalize, will enable you to: no longer be a passive bystander; watching life when you can be active...living life; dreaming of success when you can be achieving success. You will be able to recognize and eliminate all internal negativity, as well as external negativity. You will become success driven and success bound. (Success can be financial as well as non-financial and can occur in many areas of your life, simultaneously.) This program and its unique process can help you attain the basic attitudes that are essential for true success.

The curtain is lifting. We can have triumph, or tragedy, for we are the playwrights, the actors and the audience.

-John Macauley, Chairman

You may already have these positive mental attitudes and know that you can accomplish, and probably have accomplished, anything that you set your mind to. Then this process will act as a powerful reinforcement for you and an enjoyable reading, and/or listening, experience; an experience that will recharge your batteries daily, and will enable you to grow ever stronger and even more confident.

The man who wins may have been counted out many times, but he didn't hear the referee.

-H. E. Jansen

A critical fact to remember is that success for you is not what other people define as success, but what you define as success. To state it another way, "Your success should not be based on what others define as success, but what you define as success, based on what your desires are, measured against an ethical and moral value system." You do not have to define what success means to you at this time. As you progress through this program, the success you desire (the goals that you set and want to accomplish) will become apparent.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

-Abraham Lincoln

True success is first felt in the heart, before it is thought of in the mind.

• Why do some of us feel that "We can't" rather than "We can?"
• Why do some of us think "Why try?"
• Why do some of us feel like victims?
• Why do the success based books that are on the market only work on less than 1% of us?
• Why do some of us feel that success is just beyond our grasp?

The answer to these questions lay ahead.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

-Henry Emerson Fosdick

It is a well-known fact that you come, finally, to believe whatever you repeat to yourself, consciously or sub-consciously, whether the statement is true or false. As previously stated, this process usually starts in childhood, and will continue through adult life until we die. If these messages that you are repeating to yourself had all been positive, up-lifting and winning messages, you probably would not be taking this program. Now, for the rest of us, probably 95%+ of the population, these negative, self-esteem lowering, and dream-killing messages that we have been repeating to ourselves, at best…leave us confused, and at worst…makes us feel like hopeless losers, doomed to a life of disappointments and failure.

These negative messages usually start and continue, if you let them, with:

• "You'll never amount to anything!"
• "Can't you do anything right?"
• "You're as helpless as your father!"
• "You're as worthless as your mother"
• "You're too fat!"
• "You're too stupid!"
• "You'll never be able to do that!"
• "You're a loser and you'll always be a loser!"
• "You'll never succeed at anything!"
• "You live in a cold cruel world!"
• "Our type can never succeed!"
• "Why try; they will never accept us?"
• "I should never have had children!"

I'm sure that you can add many more negative messages to the above list; messages that are unique to you and your personal history. Try listing some of them. This process can be very cathartic.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Don't look back in anger, look forward in hope.

-Zig Zigler

It probably took years and years of listening to, and then repeating to yourself, these negative messages - whether they came from your parents, your siblings, your friends, your teacher, your spouse or your boss - to have produced the negative attitudes that you may now hold. You may be a wonderful, kind and generous person, yet feel as if there is something missing in your life; not feeling successful. After hearing these negative messages, especially as a child, you can't help but believe them. As you continue to hear these messages, your subconscious mind changes the "you" in the messages to "I". So the message transforms from hearing "You can't do anything right!" to believing "I can't do anything right!" This internal process is subtle, insidious and ever so self-defeating.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

-Sally Kempton

By Mel Kaye

Copyright © MondayMorningPower, All rights Reserved

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You Might Be A Redneck If......(101 - 125 of 299)

	First 25
101	Your family tree doesn't have any branches.
102	Your hairdo has ever been ruined by a ceiling fan.
103	Your mother has been involved in a fistfight at a high school sports event.
104	You've ever barbecued Spam on the grill.
105	The best way to keep things cold is to leave'em in the shade.
106	The neighbors started a petition over your Christmas lights.
107	Your brother-in-law is your uncle.
108	You have refused to watch the Academy Awards since "Smokey and the Bandit" was snubbed for best picture.
109	Your only condiment on the dining room table is the economy size bottle of ketchup.
110	The rear tires on your car are at least twice as wide as the front ones.
111	You consider "Outdoor Life" deep reading.
112	You prominently display a gift you bought at Graceland.
113	You use the term `over yonder' more than once a month.
114	The diploma hanging in your den contains the words "Trucking Institute".
115	Your mother keeps a spit cup on the ironing board.
116	You've ever worn a tube top to a wedding.
117	Your favorite Christmas present, was a painting on black velvet.
118	You think that Dom Perignon is a mafia leader.
119	The most commonly heard phrase at your family reunion is "What the hell are you looking at, Shithead?"
120	You think that beef jerky and Moon Pies are two of the major food groups.
121	You think that Campho-Phenique is a miracle drug.
122	The first words out of your mouth every time you see friends are "Howdy!" "HEY!" or "How Y'all Doin?"
123	You have more than two brothers named Bubba or Junior.
124	Your father encourages you to quit school because Larry has an opening on the lube rack.
125	You think a Volvo is part of a woman's anatomy.
	Next 25 Thank you Jeff Foxworth

Are You Prepared For Success? (Installment #4)

(If this is your first time on this site, please begin with "Are You Prepared For Success [Introduction])

To attain true success it's extremely important to deal directly with the origins of your current attitudes. This makes it close to impossible to believe in ourselves and our capabilities. The success formulas that most success-oriented books profess can work; it's right there, in front of us, in black and white. We know, on some conscious or subconscious level, that the answer is there, but we can't seem to put our hands on it, hold it and apply it in our own lives. Why does success seem so illusive?

Most success-based books tell you what can be accomplished and how to accomplish it. Some tell you that by following their "get rich quick" method you can obtain wealth. This may be through real estate, mail order, auctions, etc. There are thousands of ways to make an abundance of money (if that is your definition of success). Do you know that a large proportion of the legitimate ones work, if you have the right attitude? Most of the better success based books do stress the importance of winning attitudes as an important factor leading to success, however, we need to be prepared. Without preparation, the right attitude, these success formulas will never even be attempted. We end up sabotaging ourselves with "I can't".

It's all about attitude.

Two men look out through the same bars:

One sees the mud, and one the stars.

-Frederick Langbridge

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

-Jerome K. Jerome

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

-Francis Bacon

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

-Henry J. Kaiser

The reason that there are so many of these "Get Rich Quick," and "How to Succeed" books on the market is that we continue to buy them, making the authors rich, while we are looking for that fool-proof, no risk, easy answer to a lifetime of riches. We continue to look for the "Secret," or that one formula that will work all by itself; a formula that not even we (with our loser attitudes) can mess up. In other words, a get-rich-quick program that will make us rich.....in spite of ourselves.....when it should be a program that will make us rich because of ourselves. We need to start off as winners, knowing that we will succeed...HAVING THE RIGHT ATTITUDES.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

-Japanese proverb

Please remember…that there are no sure things; nothing is fool-proof. Even the most tried and true method for obtaining wealth, will go array without that all important winning attitude; that belief in yourself...the belief that you can accomplish whatever you set your mind to. You can't allow any negative thoughts into your head. Doubt will sabotage any endeavor, even the ones that "can't fail."

Our doubts are traitors

And make us lose the good we oft might win

By fearing to attempt.

-Shakespeare

There are ways of dealing with the issues of success and attitude head on. Preparing for success really is quite simple.

Expert: Someone who brings confusion to simplicity.

-John Kendrick Bangs

I am not a so called expert. I created a process that works and know why it works. This process is basic; it is simple; it makes sense; it's fun; it is based on common sense and most importantly, it does works. (I am not leading up to purchase of anything. The process will be revealed in future posts.)

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

-Robert Heinlein

Before we get into the basic principles of the process itself, I must offer a simple definition; I use the words "success & succeed" many times. The definition used by this process is, "The road to, as well as the attainment of, your innermost desires (within the bounds of physics, decency, morality and the law.)"

There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.

-Christopher Morely

By Mel Kaye

Copyright © MondayMorningPower, All rights Reserved

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You Might Be a Redneck if….(76-100 of 299)

	First 25
76	Redman Chewing Tobacco sends you a Christmas card.
77	you bought a VCR because wrestling comes on while you’re at work.
78	your dad walks you to school because you're in the same grade.
79	you view the next family reunion as a chance to meet girls.
80	your wife has a beer belly and you find it attractive.
81	your front porch collapses and kills more than five dogs.
82	the main course at potluck dinners is road kill.
83	you mow the front yard and find a car.
84	your other truck is made by John Deere.
85	you think suspenders are a type of shirt.
86	going to the bathroom at night involves shoes and a flashlight.
87	you keep a spit cup on the ironing board.
88	you ever got too drunk to fish.
89	More than one living relative is named after a southern civil war general.
90	Your front porch collapses and more than six dogs are killed.
91	You've ever used lard in bed.
92	Your home has more miles on it than your car.
93	You think that potted meat on a saltine is an hors d'ouerve.
94	There is a stuffed possum anywhere in your house.
95	You consider a six-pack and a bug-zapper high-quality entertainment.
96	Fewer than half of your cars run.
97	Your mother doesn't remove the Marlboro from her lips before telling the State Trooper to kiss her ass.
98	The primary color of your car is "bondo".
99	You honestly think that women are turned on by animal noises and seductive tongue gestures.
100	You stand under the mistletoe at Christmas and wait for Granny and cousin Bobby-Sue Ellen to walk by.
	Thank you Jeff Foxworth Next 25