Sunday, April 24, 2011

Tarpon Springs Easter Dynamite

I guess I am the first to report the events of last night, April 23, 2011, in Tarpon Springs Florida.

Easter is the biggest holiday for the Greek Orthodox Church. In order to begin celebrating at midnight on Easter morning, the Greek Orthodox gather at 11:00 pm on Saturday night. They start early in Tarpon Springs, as St. Nicholas Church must only hold about 500 people and they attract a crowd much larger than that. So if you want to get a seat in the glorious church, you must arrive before 10:00pm.

The faithful who arrived early and were admitted to the church, were evacuated at about 9:15 pm because the police had to search the building and the area. The rumors say that a bomb or some dynamite had been discovered. Everyone inside had to evacuate. No members were allowed to enter the church. The street was blocked off to all but police and police vehicles.

Police dogs searched the area.

Noone was allowed into the church until 11:20.

The service was abbreviated and much more quiet than usual. Nevertheless, shortly after midnight, candles were lit and the faithful exchanged greetings, as well as hugs and kisses.

KALO PASCHA!

Monday, April 18, 2011

Hotmail Hijacked Again

I opened my email this morning. Wow! 100 messages! I usually don't have that many unread messages... Oh, no! A bunch of undeliverables by Postmaster. About 25 of them. So I look at a few of them and discover that "g_constantas" sent everyone on my list a link to some unknown website. If you got one of these, I am very sorry. I did not send it. My husband got one and he was angry that I sent him a link to a site where he can buy Viagra. He didn't believe me when I said it wasn't me! It says right here, from Gloria Constantas!

But this has happened to me before and I have gotten other similar messages from people I know on hotmail. They only come from hotmail. So I tried to contact hotmail support. I can't send a question. I don't know if it is only my computer with that problem. Hotmail Q&A says that I must've given my password to some unauthorized site. I'm sure I didn't. But I really wish this didn't happen. I was just about to send out my newsletter. Right now I think there are several people who don't want to hear from me. Anyway, the spammer exceeded my limit, so I can't send any messages right now. I am just hoping that there are no more messages from the spammer hanging out in virtual space, that will be activated when the limit is resent tomorrow at 10:13am.

It's weird, they also deleted my "Sent" folder. I changed my password and security question a few times. They deleted all the sent messages from 2010 and 2011. I wonder why?

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Financial IQ

I have just completed 2 books by Robert Kiyosaki. The ones I have read are Increase Your Financial IQ and Guide to Becoming Rich. I have also read Rich Dad, Poor Dad, which is probably his first and most famous book.

I am very impressed with his chapter on Developing your Financial Genius in Increase your Financial IQ. In it, there is a section about how words inluence our thinking and our behavior. This man grew up in Hawaii. Maybe the differences are more pronounced there, but he states that the rich and the poor speak different dialects. He says the dialect of the poor and middle-class limit the money-making potential of the speakers! He backs this up with science, citing that the mirror neurons in the brain are responsible for this phenomenon. The mirror neurons are the learning parts of the brain and they tend to mirror or reproduce what is in their environment. So if you want to be rich, you have to surround yourself with nice things, and immerse yourself in the language of the wealthy people -- The words, thoughts, and actions of the Rich!

How's that for verbal impact?! I find the scientific evidence for my theory in a book about personal finance. That isn't what I was looking for.

This book also contains a lot about personal and business budgets, net-worth, and the economy. It is very helpful for anyone who deals with money, anyone who buys things, or sells things, anyone who wants money, in short, every one! I recommend it highly.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Time Savers

Computers are such time savers for people today. What would we do without the Internet?

What did we do before? I just looked up a word on the internet found several definitions, most of them agreed and I can click here and hear the standard pronunciation! If I didn't have Internet, I would have had to drag out the unabridged Dictionary, which weighs about 15 pounds, look it up and then heave it back up on the shelf. Instead I will use the Internet and then go to the fitness club and do some bicep and tricep weight training. I think I just heard a bell. Not exactly a bell, but an electronic signal which is supposed to sound like a bell. Just a minute, let me check my email....

3 hours later

Yes, the internet is quite a time saver. How else would I keep up with all my friends and business acquaintances, and a myriad of FaceBook Friends, to boot!
It only took 30 minutes, uh, 45, I mean, an hour, oh, THREE HOURS to check it. Next time I'm going to set a timer. I think I can do that with an app...let me check on that.

Anyway, there are only 24 hours in a day. If I save something like 4 or 5 hours by getting all my news and socializing done online, it's not like I get more time tomorrow, or on the weekend. So what does it mean to SAVE time? I'll have to research that and get back to you. Stay tuned.

And if you want to reduce stress and improve your time management skills, I intend to make a free download available on my website, www.EnlightenedHypnosis.com.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Millionaire Mind

Last night I went to a Millionaire Mind Event and I am pumped!

I took the pledge. No complaints will pass my lips for 7 (SEVEN) days!

Do you think I can do it???!

Monday, April 4, 2011

New Paragraph

Is this a problem with my computer? or is everyone having the same problem?
All of a sudden my blog articles do not post with any spacing between paragraphs. the only way I can get some spaces between paragraphs is to use the quotation indicator on the toolbar. Like I did with the first 2 sentences of this blog. Otherwise it gets all bunched up. All spaces and enters (Return Key = enter) are reduced to one space. I am not wordy, but when there is only one paragraph, I think this makes it harder to read, and may make someone who does not want to concentrate just glance at the lenghth of the paragraph, find it daunting, and just move on to another blog.
Is anyone else having this problem?
Also I can't copy something from a word document and paste it into my blog. What is that about?! I often write articles in Word and then decide to put it in blogger... I did that today and it took me 15 minutes to retype the article I just posted on Verbal Impact. I want to post a series of articles about learning, memory and test anxiety, under the heading of Studying with Hypnosis. I think I am going to need a way to separate the paragraphs. So I'll be creative with the quotation device. See what I mean? This is supposed to be a different paragraph...

Friday, April 1, 2011

Walking in the Park

This morning as I walking in the park, some thoughts came to me. I was wondering why sometimes Life seems like a struggle. Then it came to me.
Life is like a dance.
Sometimes you may have difficulty learning new steps, and sometimes you may feel tired, but the energy keeps you going. Sometimes it seems difficult to keep dancing, but
the Dance is always Beautiful.
The park was refreshing this morning. It seems Mother Nature did her Spring Cleaning yesterday, with an extended high speed wind-rain-thunder-and-lightning storm. There were branches, spanish moss, leaves and dry palm fronds on the path. It was beautiful. I love the park in the morning, anyway.