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To avoid any confusion I thought it appropriate to list the names (cyber) I go by.
My Names:
Mel Kaye-(my real name), MondayMorningPower,
MMP, Killeris-(Technorati name), Powerkis-(Wordpress name), SiFiBiBi-(Original Blogger name)
Site Names:
Attitude, The Ultimate Power-(Blog name)
MondayMorningPower-(Blog AKA)
It's All About Attitude-(Blog AKA)

My email address: info (at) MondayMorningPower dot Com

Why read Monday Morning Power?

You will find a consistency and a focus in all of my content that can change your attitude which can fuel a positive change in your life, if you want it to. If you are happy with your attitude and your life and see no reason for changing, then you either already have a PMA (Positive Mental Attitude), or you are a victim and want to hold onto your misery. These postings will then serve to fortify the person with PMA, or, hopefully, convince the "victim" that there is a better way. This site will contain essays, poems, stories, humor and links, all with the same goal: The pursuit, capture, care and feeding of a Positive Mental Attitude. I have had readers tell me that they have spent hours on my site and feel great about themselves both during and after. I log onto my own site frequently to help fuel my attitude; I hope you will as well.

To My Fellow Bloggers.....

Please feel free to link my blog to yours. A dose of "Monday Morning Power" would bolster any blog, except for those that profess doom, destruction and the end of the world. If you want to use any of my content in your blog, please ask first via email or by comment. I will need to review your blog for appropriate content and then give you written permission as well as being sure that you link back.

Monday Morning Power

A dose of "Monday Morning Power" and a cup of coffee and you're ready for whatever awaits you. At a minimum you should read this blog on Monday Mornings. However, there will be new posts daily. Whenever you want to feel good, tune in and help yourself to some "Monday Morning Power." Please share this site with everyone you care about. I welcome your comments and suggestions

About Me

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My goal is to help my clients navigate the “residential investment property” market; make some money and have some fun in the process. This real estate market is ripe for the investor. In addition, I would like to help the home buyer and home seller. I am part of an 80,000+ agent network that spans all of North America. Being on the “inside” I can find you the “right” agent to handle your specific needs no matter where in North America you may reside. I have been in and arround the real estate market for most of my professional life and want to be your resource for making money in this market. I have been negotiating all of my life and want to negotiate great deals for you. Following is my contact information and my philosophies: Mel Kaye (Broker Associate) Keller Williams Realty Direct: PCH.MEL.KAYE (724.635.5293) Mobile: 805.300.1769 Fax: 888.371.1190 Email: YESmelYES@gmail.com Website: http://melkaye.com Skype: Mel.Kaye Lic #: 00742678 340 N. Westlake Blvd., Suite 100 Westlake Village, CA 91362


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This Site is dedicated to the development of your ATTITUDE, which is your ULTIMATE POWER. The content includes: Essays, Articles, Poems, Links, Inspirational stories, Quotes, Research, Music, an original series called the "Process" and Laughter....all focused on the
Pursuit, Capture, Care and Feeding of a Positive Mental Attitude.

Monday, July 9, 2007

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I don't know whether to be pleased or embarrassed.

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Your Mission Makes Itself Known Through Your Passions

If you have read me previous posts then you know that I am very big on the use of passion to accomplish attitude changes and that I am also big on taking control of your own life. The other day I came across this essay that I though was very interesting. Please read it and let me know what you think by leaving a comment. Personally, I'm torn; it sounds like destiny, and I'm not sure that I agree with that. However, it also makes a lot of sense.

Your Mission Makes Itself Known Through Your Passions

By Ineke Van Lint, psychologist a spiritual and educational coach

We’ve all come to earth with a unique mission. This is a special assignment. How can you find it? Your mission can be found inside yourself. It has been “imprinted” in your soul long before you were born. You can find clues about your mission by looking to your natural interests. Your mission is connected to your passions, your preferences, your spontaneous interests, and your desires. Looking at what attracts you, over different periods of your life, gives you important clues about what your mission is in this life.


There are certain connections between the significant events of your life. These connections may not be noticeable at first glance, because you’re probably too busy running around and doing all kinds of things that have nothing to do with your mission. The following exercise helps you find the common theme in your life, and to classify different components of your life.


Answer the following questions for the three main periods in your life: childhood – adolescence – adulthood.

  1. What did you like doing when you were a child, a teenager, an adult? What were your favorite activities?
  2. Where did your natural interest flow towards during each of these life periods?
  3. Towards what kind of people did you feel naturally attracted to in each of these periods?
  4. Towards what kind of places did you feel naturally attracted in each of these periods?
  5. Towards what kind of books did you feel naturally attracted in each of these periods?
  6. What was your natural drive during these periods?

Try to find the key, the common factor in your answers. What is the unifying element during your life span? Do you see the connected dots; the leading element? There is one, that’s for sure. Try to find it: it’s important! Completing this summary will assist you in choosing the future course of your life with more awareness. This enables you to become the creator of your own life:

  1. What kind of books do you want to read in your future?
  2. What kind of people do you want to meet?
  3. What places do you want to visit?
  4. What kind of activities do you want to do?
  5. Which passion do you want to follow?
  6. What still drives you, what do you absolutely want to do before your life comes to an end?

Without being aware of it, you have already been busy from time to time accomplishing your mission. Your mission makes itself known through the things that naturally attract you, that interest you, that automatically motivate you. Your mission also makes itself known through your dreams, desires and passions.


Some other questions to help you find out about your passions and your dreams:

  1. If your life were a book, what would be the title?
  2. What would be the title of the current chapter?
  3. What would be the title of the previous chapter, and of the following one?
  4. What would be the end of the book?

Write down the last paragraph of your life book. Once again, you can see that YOU determine the course your life. Be more active and consciously choose how you want to spend your days! Life is much more exciting like this, and you’ll notice you can really co-create your life! It’s better than passively drifting along, right?



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Are You Prepared For Success? (Section II - Installment #8 "It’s Never Too Late!” - Male and Female versions)


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

It's Never Too Late!

You're no longer young. Are you past your prime?

The realization sets in. Are you running out of time?

You know what's needed, the changes you must make,

The direction you must go, there's so much at stake.


But your comfortable and content with the way you are.

Your "failings" are like friends, who don't stray too far.

It's really so easy, there's no effort required,

After all, by day's end, your so very tired.


You try and try and try and fail.

Over and over its the same old tale.

You search for a reason to make the change,

A life altering reason, for your world to rearrange.


Will you again rationalize your fears and not make a move?

Will you stay where you are, in that same old groove?

Or will you dare take a chance on what might be?

Do you have what it takes to really be free?


Your life will be different, no longer the same.

Look ahead with hope, don't look back in shame.

Your past wasn't a failure, a sham or a fake,

Don't look at your life as one big mistake.


Your past has a purpose, a reason for being.

It's what has prepared you for this time of seeing.

Your past was the groundwork for this step to take.

Your future is waiting. It's your decision to make.


There's no magic answer for you to discover,

No hidden secrets for you to uncover.

Don't look for guidance, the answer's in you.

You know what you need, you know what to do.

(An original Poem by Mel Kaye)

I strongly suggest that you write down your immediate reaction, after passionately reading this poem.

  • List the changes that you would like to make in order to move towards the future that you most desire.
    • Are you willing to make these changes?
By Mel Kaye
Copyright © MondayMorningPower, All rights Reserved

Go to Section II (Installment #9)


Saturday, July 7, 2007

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Online Dating


My blog is rated PG-13 because of the words "pain", "death" and "dangerous"....exactly where I want to be.


Motivational Quotes (8)

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
William James

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
Martha Washington

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.
Muhammad Ali

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'ts not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.
Zig Ziglar

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Frederick Langbridge

Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it."
Merle Miller

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you thing about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Norman Vincent Peale

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always look at what you have left.Never look at what you have lost.

Robert H. Schuller


If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.

Denis Waitley

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Buddha

The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.

Winston Churchill

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

Tom Blandi

Positive thinking won't let you do anything but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

Thomas Dewar

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Earl Nightingale


The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William James

I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude-your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people-determines you priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself.

Carolyn Warner

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
Charles Prestwich Scott


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Friday, July 6, 2007

Globalization

Finally, a definition of Globalization

I can understand and to which I can relate

Question: What is the truest definition of Globalization?

Answer: Princess Diana's death.

Question: How come?

Answer:

An English princess with

an Egyptian boyfriend

crashes in a French

tunnel, driving a

German car

with a Dutch engine,

driven by a Belgian

who was drunk

on Scottish whisky,

(check the bottle before you change the spelling),

followed closely by

Italian Paparazzi,

on Japanese motorcycles;

treated by an A m e r i c a n doctor, using

Brazilian medicines.

This is sent to you by

an Iranian,

using Bill Gates's technology,

and you're probably reading this on your computer,

that uses Taiwanese

chips, and a

Korean monitor,

assembled by

Bangladeshi workers

in a Singapore plant,

transported by Indian

lorry-drivers,

hijacked by Indonesians ,

unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen,

and trucked to you by Mexican illegals.....

That, my friends, is
G l o b a l i z a t i o n !


Are You Prepared For Success? (Section II - Installment #7 "It Brings Down The Great" - Male and Female versions)


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

Ominous and powerful, it brings down the great.

No ones immune, it doesn't discriminate.

It can't be held and it can't be seen.

But it leaves devastation wherever it's been.


Oh, the accolades you could have had

For all those accomplishments you wanted so bad.

But you let it in and you gave it life,

And it cut you down as if using a knife.


You knew what you wanted. You knew what to do.

Nothing could stop you, nothing, thought you.

Then you planted the seed and it grew so tall.

Nothing could stop it, nothing at all.


It grew stronger and stronger each and every day.

It destroyed everything that got in its way.

You cursed the day you gave it a name.

You tried to fight back, but in it came.


It consumed all it touched, even your dreams.

It left nothing behind, not even your screams.

And now that you know, you just want to shout,

"Don't ever give in to those first strands of doubt."

(An original Poem by Mel Kaye)

I strongly suggest that you write down your immediate reaction, after passionately reading this poem.

  • What doubts do you have about yourself or your abilities?
  • What could you have accomplished if you had no doubts?
By Mel Kaye
Copyright © MondayMorningPower, All rights Reserved

Go to Section II (Installment #8)



Thursday, July 5, 2007

How we are like computers



Being Positive



By Jacqueline Pigdon


Studies show that positive people are winners in good times and survivors in hard times. People who begin to consciously modify their inner conversations and attitudes report an almost immediate improvement in their performance. Their energy increases and things seem to just go better. How would you like things to be better for you? A simple choice you can make every morning is either a positive one such as ‘I am going to have a fantastic day today and be the best possible person that I can be in all aspects of my life’ and choose to be in this state or ‘allow negativity to set in and be doom and gloom’. It’s your choice.However easier said than done? Yes it is. So where does this positive attitude come from?It comes from your inner belief and knowing based on realistic and achievable goals. Your belief and knowing comes from planning and planning comes from your vision and goal setting. Having realistic, achievable and measurable goals teamed with an inner belief that you ‘know’ you can achieve it - a positive attitude just comes and – you can do anything.

So how do you get this attitude?

  • Listen to your self-talk and choose your attitude
  • Work out what your realistic and achievable goals are and make plan
  • Believe in yourself and your abilities
  • Act with confidence!
  • Contain your reactions
  • Appreciate what you have, if you’re not happy with what you see, do something about it, change and take action!
  • Surround yourself with positive people!

If you do this after a while you will start to gain much more value in your life by being positive that you won’t want to have anything to do with negativity again!



Wednesday, July 4, 2007

"There are better ways to log off"



Big Red Button


Are You Prepared For Success? (Section II - Installment #6 "The Past Is Gone" - Male and Female versions)


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

The Past Is Gone!

"Oh, the regrets I feel for opportunities lost;

I really have wasted my time!"...

Is this how you feel? Is this how you think?

This method of thinking's a crime.


What's gone is gone, what's left is left.

These facts you cannot rearrange.

Let go of the past. Grab hold of the rest.

Now is the time for the change.


What remains is the future. What remains is now.

And it can all play out like a dream.

It can be an ocean of desires fulfilled,

Or a sea of "what might have been."


Don't beat yourself up over moments gone by.

These moments you'll never retrieve.

Look forward with hope and courage and know

It's in yourself that you have to believe.


(An original Poem by Mel Kaye)

I strongly suggest that you write down your immediate reaction, after passionately reading this poem.

  • List those lost opportunities in your past that you would like to let go of.

Go to Section II (Installment #7)

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Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Oops.



Negative Thinking Robbing Souls of Inner Peace

Inner PeaceBy: Rene Graeber

Negative thinking robs the soul of inner peace. As a positive person, one thing I detest is negative thinking. My son is the biggest pessimistic in the world in my opinion, and this boy can drive a mother out of her mind if she allows him to do so.

One thing I notice about negative thinkers is they rarely feel comfortable with self. Feeling comfortable with self is one of the elements required to channel in on inner peace. negative thinkers are full of voids that leave them empty throughout their lifetime.

Negative thinkers rarely find inner peace, because when they are full of damning thoughts there is no room for quietness of the mind. Inner peace is quietness, a calmness of the mind, and negative thinkers often gravel often, whereas they have weak visions and words. Daily these lost souls go through the hours spending every waken moment spilling out their mind over nothing.

Inner peace...will negative thinkers ever have inner peace? Possibly, but it will take longer to achieve than those with minds spending positive feedback. My son again, I felt was the biggest negative thinker in the world, which often irritated me. I could kick that boy and fear each time he opens his mouth to speak. Thus, how can I find inner peace? I learnt to let it go. If he is speaking, I listen to the first sentence and if it appears, he is heading nowhere my ears close immediately and I go back to my own thoughts, which I have minimized over the years.

Bipolar patients often have pessimistic out views. Thus, these people often wonder through life nagging about each detail. Some believe it is the bipolar that causes this reaction, but after spending a year getting a bipolar patient under control, I learned that it is a pattern rather than a part of the diagnosis.

The person has not come to grips with the mind. The symptoms of bipolar gear up the mind charging it for a bout of ongoing talk, but it is the person's mind that is spitting out the negative thought, which in turn robs them of their inner peace.

Thus, to find inner peace you have to reach within your mind and come to agreement with your past, now and behaviors and habits. My son has ADHD, which forces him to speak abruptly interrupting, or else act like a Wildman on drugs. Still, he has a negative relationship with his brain because he chose to think the way he thinks. He also has Psychosis and Schizophrenia, which one is a disease of the mind. Thus, it is difficult for him because his audio, visual, and ability to perceive is affected, but still he can find inner peace if he would only let those negative thoughts go.

Amazingly, I have been around people with psychopathic tendencies, and these people think positive thoughts more so than, few of those with less severe mental illnesses think. It is amazing how the mind works, but to achieve inner peace positive thinking has to develop.

If you think negative on an ongoing basis, realize you are not only robbing your self of inner peace, you possibly are robbing others of their inner peace. personally, misery loves company and I prefer to stay away from those in misery. You have the capacity to gain control over your mind and find the hope within you to obtain inner peace. sitting around making excuses is not leading you anywhere but further behind your inner peace.

Inner peace is a gift. All of us have the ability to reach our inner peace. A mentally retarded person has the ability to reach his/her inner peace. You may wander why, but the truth is we were all born with the truth inside of us, and our brain was constructed to lead us to the path to inner peace.

Now, if you are a negative thinker you are not only wasting your time, you are wasting time of those that have to listen to you nag about each detail of life. accept things you cannot change and do something about the things you can change.



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Monday, July 2, 2007

LogOff Warning



Are You Prepared For Success? (Section II - Installment #5 "Despair" - Male and Female versions)


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

Despair

Stand in the face of total despair

And hold your head up high,

And look beyond as you declare

That through this you will fly.


Nothing will stop you short of death.

You'll feel sorry for yourself no more.

And you are far from your last breath

As you set sight on a distant shore.


This is only a temporary state.

You know this in your heart.

You will not let this be your fate.

From this place you will depart.


There is a better place for you.

This truth you must uncover.

Don't waste your time feeling blue.

The passion, you must re-discover.


Only you can do it now.

It's all within your control.

See what can be and take this vow,

To "Never lose sight of your goal."

(An original Poem by Mel Kaye)

I strongly suggest that you write down your immediate reaction, after passionately reading this poem.

  • Try this...In your mind's eye, back away from yourself and your current situation.
    • What do you see?
    • What would you like to see?

Go to Installment #6 (Male & Female version)

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Birthday Calculator


I recently came across this site. I found it to be quite cool. It tells you how many hours and how many seconds you have been alive on this earth and when you were probably conceived.

After you've finished reading the info, click again, and see what the moon looked like the night you were born.