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If you can’t measure it, you’ll have a hard time improving it. What are you trying to achieve?

This is a simple question that often seems to be too hard to answer. Most businesses and entrepreneurs I have worked with in the last 15 year never really know what to say, except: More leads. More sales. More traffic. I’ve only ever had a handful of clients who knew exactly how much more they wanted and needed — because they had set their goals and targets.

If you do not know how much you’re currently generating form your online presence, you’ll never know how much you need to get what you want. If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it!

Alright — here are a few questions you can ask yourself to figure out what would be an achievable and realistic goal to set. Relax, there are no wrong answers here.

  • How much money do I need to generate per month to keep the business running. (Operating capital)
  • How much money would I like to take home, after all expenses are paid for. (Profit)
  • How much would I like to re-invest in the business, so I can build a buffer with which I can expand, grow and attract more business.(Investments)
  • How much money would I need to keep the business running for at least 6 months, at its current capacity, if no new revenue was coming in.

If you answer these questions, you should have a reasonable idea of how much money you need to generate. One rule of thumb I have is to never accept a project that isn’t at least 30% profitable.

Once you have a ballpark figure — you’ll need to compare it to the current numbers. How much revenue are you generating? How much of it is profit? (depending if you account for your wages/drawings as profit or not). The difference between the two numbers is the gap that you’ll need to bridge in order to meet your goal! Take a minute to work this out of a piece of paper or excel spreadsheet. It is important to have this number handy so you can really tailor make your digital strategy.

Where are you at? Let’s see how we can close the gap to meet your goal.

If we look at this in a simple way — all we need is to figure out how much traffic you’re currently generating through various channels, see what the conversion rates are and adjust the input of traffic and improve the percentage of conversions. There are other ways, such as increasing your fees, margins and customer lifetime value, but in this guide we will just cover the bare numbers.

When I say channels, I break them down in the following categories:

  • Organic Traffic (Search engines)
  • Referral Traffic (Via links on other websites, forums, etc)
  • Direct Traffic (Via browser bookmarks, type-in visitors)
  • Paid Traffic (Google AdWords, Bing Ads, etc)
  • Social Media
  • Email

Let’s say you need the online business to generate at least $500K per year, and you’re currently only doing $250K — 50% short of the goal we’ve previously established.

We simply look at the traffic per channel and conversion rate per channel. For example, let’s say you’re getting 1000 visitors per month through Organic Traffic. 5% of those convert into a sale, which on average is worth $500.

This means you’re doing $25K per month or $300K per year in sales on your current Organic Traffic channel. If you were to either double the traffic to 2000 per month, OR increase your conversion rate to 10% — you’d smash the $500K annual goal by generating $600K per year on that channel alone.

So start defining your “MORE” and give yourself a chance to hit these goals, instead of always feeling like you’re chasing your tail and let FOMO rule your business.

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I’m sure this has been posted elsewhere, but I just became aware of this AAdvantage Award chart that displays the number of miles needed for a oneworld Explorer ticket, the continent based round-the-world travel product from the oneworld alliance: Travelling the world has never been easier, more flexible or more affordable thanks to oneworld Explorer.…

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> About AATK

About AATK

History and Mission

President’s Message

Officers and Board Members

President’s Message

A message from Dr. Joowon Suh

Dear Members of AATK,

Warmest greetings to everyone! Hope you and your family are all healthy and safe in this time of uncertainty. We are now looking forward to a restful summer after an unusually challenging academic year.

This year, due to the global COVID-19 situation, instead of welcoming everyone in New York City, I will be meeting you virtually at the 2020 Annual Meeting on June 19th and 20th. On behalf of the Korean language faculty at Columbia University, I want to emphasize how sorely disappointed and saddened we are that we cannot welcome you in person on the Columbia campus after two years of diligent preparations of the meeting. At the same time, I am excited about this unexpected opportunity to take full advantage of technological resources and advances available to us at Columbia and the collective experience that we gained through our online teaching during the last half of the spring semester. I understand that all presenters, attendees, and organizers may have to make substantial adjustments. However unusual the situation might be, following the great success we achieved at the University of Minnesota last year, I have no doubt that we will continue our meaningful intellectual exchanges and accomplish another success in our annual gathering this year. The registration for the conference will continue through June 19th with no registration fee. Considering that more than 100 people have already registered to participate in our online meeting, we expect to broaden the audience beyond our familiar group of colleagues. Furthermore, all of us will not only gain valuable insights into our academic and professional endeavors but also learn new ways to interact with one another through these experiences.

This year’s workshops and conferences owe greatly to the local organizing committee at Columbia University, all of whom are responsible and resourceful for this collective endeavor, and Dr. Mee-jeong Park, the Program Chair, who have put incredible amount of work and energy into making this meeting possible. Dr. Bumyong Choi, the AATK Treasurer, and Dr. Kyung-Eun Yoon, the AATK Webmaster & Newsletter Editor, also deserve our special appreciations for their due diligence and commitment to maintain all aspects of conference planning and organizational business of the AATK. I also would like to thank the Executive Board, particularly the three departing members, Drs. Hee Ju, Mijeong Mimi Kim, and Sang-Seok Yoon, for their dedicated services for the organization and its membership. Please join me in thanking them for their invaluable services to the AATK.

On behalf of all AATK members, I want to express my sincere gratitude to the Korea Foundation for its generous funds, which have made our annual meetings financially possible and stabilized over the years. I specially thank Director Hyeon Seon Choi for her sincere interest in and continuous support for the future of the AATK. This is her last year as Director in Los Angeles Office, and she will be greatly missed. I also want to thank Columbia University for their generous financial and precious moral support. Without it, this year’s meeting would not have been possible under such a tight schedule of converting the conference entirely online. Our very special thanks go to Professor Emeritus Ho-min Sohn at the Korean Language Education & Research Center (KLEAR) for the generous contribution to the AATK.

At the opportune time of our first-ever virtual annual meeting, the new AATK website is to be launched on June 1st. This long-overdue project, which has gone on for more than a year and a half since November 2018, is surely one of the most ambitious and challenging projects that the current AATK leadership has to tackle. Along with the newly designed look, the new website accommodates new technology and user profiles more effectively and makes almost all AATK business and projects operate online. For instance, we will conduct this year’s board member election online from recommending candidates to voting. In addition, we reinforced online functions that manage membership, annual meeting websites, conference registration, program chair tasks, and developed the online procedures for Korean Honor Society and specifically designed space for our future virtual meetings. With the updated website, I expect that we will build an even stronger and more dynamic community together. This was all made possible with the full financial support of the Korea Foundation. I thank Director Choi for her guidance to secure the funding. For this new website project, the AATK Officers, led by Dr. Kyung-Eun Yoon, worked tirelessly – reviewing our needs, updating contents, streamlining the process, and collecting market information to locate a company for this project. My deepest gratitude goes to Dr. Yoon for her dedication, perseverance, and thoroughness throughout this long and arduous process. Without her commendable effort, and more than 200 correspondences that she had to manage, this complex project would not been possible at all.

Following the achievements in previous years, the three main AATK projects and activities have continued their successes: the Korean Language in America, the Korean Honor Society, and the Korean Special Interest Group at the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. The Korean Language in America, the official journal of the AATK, continues to flourish under the editorship of Dr. Hae-Young Kim. Since our last meeting in 2019, two volumes, 23.1 and 23.2, were published to include several informative, substantial, and stimulating research articles, forum pieces, and book reviews. The KLA is truly the intellectual core of the AATK. I strongly encourage all members to strive for more submissions to the future KLA volumes. The Korean Honor Society continues to grow at high schools in various regions in the U.S. thanks to the selfless work of the KHS committee, led by Dr. Meejeong Kim, and K-12 teachers. The AATK representation at the ACTFL and collaboration with the Korean-SIG in the field of foreign language education has become strengthened with the general support of the Korea Foundation. Under the new leadership, Dr. Angela Lee-Smith as the Chair and Ms. Sandra Song as the Vice Chair, I anticipate that many more AATK members will actively participate in the 2020 ACTFL World Language Convention & Expo in San Antonio, Texas on November 20th through 22nd. Please refer to more detailed reports of these projects and activities in this newsletter.

The AATK has now been firmly established as the sole organization that represents Korean language educators in North America. Encouraged by all the developments and expansions in the field recent years, we should continue to collaborate to adjust and improve ourselves in order to grow further to embrace diversifying group of members, to better position the Korean language education within the field of foreign language education, and to prepare ourselves for the future generation of the field. I urge you to join in these endeavors and to continue your interest in and support for the AATK.

Enjoy our first remote AATK Annual Meeting hosted by Columbia University! I sincerely hope to see you all, in person, next year at Cornell University for our 26th Anniversary Meeting!

Best wishes,

Joowon Suh

For more information regarding this website and news posting, please contact Dr. Kyung-Eun Yoon, webmaster, aatk@aatk.org
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A woman wrote to me recently about buying a house in Key West. Once she found out I live in Costa Rica, she wrote this:

I have a question since you are living in Costa Rica. This is where my husband originally wanted to get a home. We had even started to look when we were told there is a really bad problem with people stealing and/or homesteading your property if you left it to go anywhere. Have you found this to be true? Linda

Hi Linda,

That is all true. When we leave to go anywhere, we hire a person to stay in our home, about $300/month. Right now, my mom lives with us so when she goes on a trip, we are here. When we go on a trip, she is here. We also have three dogs, so we’d have to hire someone anyway if mom weren’t here.

If you leave your property alone for any length of time with no one checking on it occasionally, squatters will move in. There is a way to protect yourself from this – you put a lien on your property yourself so no one would bother; I can tell you who to talk to about this [Garland Baker]. But squatters have rights here and you have to be on guard.

Petty theft is rampant in Costa Rica. At our house, we have a monitored alarm system, bars on the windows and razor wire on our fence. We keep our doors locked and are very aware of the problem. As gringos (native speakers of English), we are targets. No matter how poor we really are, we will never be as poor as the poor here.

That said, this is the worst thing about life here. As a wise woman told me (over and over again because I never hear anything the first time it’s said), "Everything has a price. Ask yourself are you willing to pay it?" Living with the threat of petty thievery, for us, is far better than living in the U.S., especially right now. Costa Rica is peaceful and beautiful, no terror alerts, no para-military police. The market is soft, but they just don’t have the problems here they are having in the U.S.

Costa Rica is worth investigating, but petty theft aside, the culture is very different. We came here for a year planning to go home at the end of it. But we fell in love with living here so decided to stay. I strongly suggest renting here first for six months to a year, then make the decision. You will love it or hate it; you want to find out before you buy. In the big picture, life here is definitely worth considering.

Squatters are a huge problem* here. If you own property and leave it, you could lose your right to it or to parts of it. The vaquero [va-CARE-oh, cowboy] who lives around the corner from us wanted to hook up a hose to our outside faucet. He lives in a house with no running water… I can’t even begin to describe the house. We said yes; he hooked up a long hose and had running water for awhile. I mentioned this to a friend and she said unhook that immediately. After three months, he can earn the right to use the water and you will be obligated to supply his water for life.

Is this true? Seems outrageous, but, after everything I’ve read and heard and learned, I think there is some truth to it. For now, I can’t begin to decipher the laws here. And in other situations, like with squatters and employees, ticos can earn the right to all kinds of things you never meant to promise. You need a very good advisor here.

*Clarification: When I say squatters are a "huge" problem, I mean huge as in if it happens to you it’s quite the struggle. Not huge as in it happens to everyone once… I have no idea what the statistic would be on how many people per year have a problem with squatters. If it happens to you, you will understand what I mean by "huge" problem.

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28 10 2014

There oughtta be an app for that.

That’s never a sentence I thought I’d write, given that a) I don’t have a smart phone or tablet, and thus b) don’t use apps.

Still, after reading about California cops who nicked nude photos from women’s phones, I thought, well, wouldn’t it be possible to create an app which, when you entered a particular password, would present a Potemkin version of your phone?

I mean, this already must exist, right? Somebody who was upset by TSA or border patrol or law enforcement snooping of laptops must have figured out a way to get around directives to lay bare their files by coming up with looks-so-real dummy drives, a kind of fronting which makes it seem as if some (real) files represent all files.

I know fuck-all about either hardware or software, but I have heard of mirror disks and disk partitioning, so shouldn’t it be possible to fake out a snooper by calling up a bland version of a phone or table in place of the real one? Or by asking that question am I just demonstrating that I know fuck-all about hardware and software?

In any case, a decent Potemkin app would also have to dummy up the data on storage space, and, unlike the infamous villages, appear from all angles to be real. Users, too, would have to include enough info in the bland version to make it seem real, so the app would have to make it easy to assign anodyne status to photos, messages, and whatnot. And given that many people don’t lock their devices between active use, perhaps the app could be have a default version, such that the bland drive is what appears after the phone is aroused from sleep.

It wouldn’t be foolproof, regardless, especially in cases when one’s device is confiscated: with enough time, techs could presumably figure out how to get around the false front.

But sometimes fronting is all you need to get past the nosy cop with your privacy intact.

So, app-people, if you haven’t already done this, get right on it!

And if you already have, well, never mind.

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How to get abs fast – All About The Most effective Tummy Physical exercises

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The brochure “Research in Graubünden 2020” (German) presents researchers from the member institutions of Academia Raetica and includes a retrospective of our activities in 2020. We hope you enjoy reading it. All articles from Bündner Woche are translated into English. Just scan the QR codes on top of each article.

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Saint Rita of Cascia

+John 15:1-8
I am the vine, you are the branches

Jesus said to his disciples:
‘I am the true vine,
and my Father is the vinedresser.
Every branch in me that bears no fruit
he cuts away,
and every branch that does bear fruit
he prunes to make it bear even more.
You are pruned already,
by means of the word that I have spoken to you.
Make your home in me, as I make mine in you.
As a branch cannot bear fruit all by itself,
but must remain part of the vine,
neither can you unless you remain in me.
I am the vine,
you are the branches.
Whoever remains in me, with me in him,
bears fruit in plenty;
for cut off from me you can do nothing.
Anyone who does not remain in me
is like a branch that has been thrown away – he withers;
these branches are collected and thrown on the fire,
and they are burnt.
If you remain in me
and my words remain in you,
you may ask what you will
and you shall get it.
It is to the glory of my Father that you should bear much fruit,
and then you will be my disciples.’

Acts 15:1-6
They were to go up to Jerusalem and discuss the problem with the apostles and elders

Some men came down from Judaea and taught the brothers, ‘Unless you have yourselves circumcised in the tradition of Moses you cannot be saved.’ This led to disagreement, and after Paul and Barnabas had had a long argument with these men it was arranged that Paul and Barnabas and others of the church should go up to Jerusalem and discuss the problem with the apostles and elders.
All the members of the church saw them off, and as they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria they told how the pagans had been converted, and this news was received with the greatest satisfaction by the brothers. When they arrived in Jerusalem they were welcomed by the church and by the apostles and elders, and gave an account of all that God had done with them.
But certain members of the Pharisees’ party who had become believers objected, insisting that the pagans should be circumcised and instructed to keep the Law of Moses. The apostles and elders met to look into the matter.

Psalm 121(122):1-5
I rejoiced when I heard them say: ‘Let us go to God’s house.’

I rejoiced when I heard them say:
‘Let us go to God’s house.’
And now our feet are standing
within your gates, O Jerusalem.
I rejoiced when I heard them say: ‘Let us go to God’s house.’
Jerusalem is built as a city
strongly compact.
It is there that the tribes go up,
the tribes of the Lord.
I rejoiced when I heard them say: ‘Let us go to God’s house.’
For Israel’s law it is,
there to praise the Lord’s name.
There were set the thrones of judgement
of the house of David.
I rejoiced when I heard them say: ‘Let us go to God’s house.’
Source: The Jerusalem Bible
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
1987 The grace of the Holy Spirit has the power to justify us, that is, to cleanse us from our sins and to communicate to us “the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ” and through Baptism:
But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. For we know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. The death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves as dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

1988 Through the power of the Holy Spirit we take part in Christ’s Passion by dying to sin, and in his Resurrection by being born to a new life; we are members of his Body which is the Church, branches grafted onto the vine which is himself:
[God] gave himself to us through his Spirit. By the participation of the Spirit, we become communicants in the divine nature. . . . For this reason, those in whom the Spirit dwells are divinized.

1989 The first work of the grace of the Holy Spirit is conversion, effecting justification in accordance with Jesus’ proclamation at the beginning of the Gospel: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Moved by grace, man turns toward God and away from sin, thus accepting forgiveness and righteousness from on high. “Justification is not only the remission of sins, but also the sanctification and renewal of the interior man.
1990 Justification detaches man from sin which contradicts the love of God, and purifies his heart of sin. Justification follows upon God’s merciful initiative of offering forgiveness. It reconciles man with God. It frees from the enslavement to sin, and it heals.

1991 Justification is at the same time the acceptance of God’s righteousness through faith in Jesus Christ. Righteousness (or “justice”) here means the rectitude of divine love. With justification, faith, hope, and charity are poured into our hearts, and obedience to the divine will is granted us.

1992 Justification has been merited for us by the Passion of Christ who offered himself on the cross as a living victim, holy and pleasing to God, and whose blood has become the instrument of atonement for the sins of all men. Justification is conferred in Baptism, the sacrament of faith. It conforms us to the righteousness of God, who makes us inwardly just by the power of his mercy. Its purpose is the glory of God and of Christ, and the gift of eternal life:
But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from law, although the law and the prophets bear witness to it, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, they are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins; it was to prove at the present time that he himself is righteous and that he justifies him who has faith in Jesus.

1993 Justification establishes cooperation between God’s grace and man’s freedom. On man’s part it is expressed by the assent of faith to the Word of God, which invites him to conversion, and in the cooperation of charity with the prompting of the Holy Spirit who precedes and preserves his assent:
When God touches man’s heart through the illumination of the Holy Spirit, man himself is not inactive while receiving that inspiration, since he could reject it; and yet, without God’s grace, he cannot by his own free will move himself toward justice in God’s sight.

1994 Justification is the most excellent work of God’s love made manifest in Christ Jesus and granted by the Holy Spirit. It is the opinion of St. Augustine that “the justification of the wicked is a greater work than the creation of heaven and earth,” because “heaven and earth will pass away but the salvation and justification of the elect . . . will not pass away.” He holds also that the justification of sinners surpasses the creation of the angels in justice, in that it bears witness to a greater mercy.

1995 The Holy Spirit is the master of the interior life. By giving birth to the “inner man,”justification entails the sanctification of his whole being:
Just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for sanctification. . . . But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get is sanctification and its end, eternal life.

Saint Rita of Cascia (Born Margherita Lotti 1381 – 22 May 1457) was an Italian widow and Augustinian nun venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. Rita was married at an early age. The marriage lasted for eighteen years, during which she is remembered for her Christian values as a model wife and mother who made efforts to convert her husband from his abusive behavior. Upon the murder of her husband by another feuding family, she sought to dissuade her sons from revenge.
She subsequently joined an Augustinian community of religious sisters, where she was known both for practicing mortification of the flesh and for the efficacy of her prayers. Various miracles are attributed to her intercession, and she is often portrayed with a bleeding wound on her forehead, which is understood to indicate a partial stigmata.
Pope Leo XIII canonized Rita on 24 May 1900. Her feast day is celebrated on May 22. At her canonization ceremony she was bestowed the title of Patroness of Impossible Causes, while in many Catholic countries, Rita came to be known to be as the patroness of abused wives and heartbroken women.
Saint Rita (Margherita Lotti) was born in 1381 in the city of Roccaporena a small suburb of Cascia (near Spoleto, Umbria, Italy) where various sites connected with her are the focus of pilgrimages. Her parents, Antonio and Amata Ferri Lotti, were known to be noble, charitable persons, who gained the epithet Conciliatore di Cristo (English: Peacemakers of Christ). According to pious accounts, Rita was originally pursued by a notary named Gubbio but she resisted his offer. She was married at age twelve to a nobleman named Paolo Mancini. Her parents arranged her marriage, a common practice at the time, despite her repeated requests to be allowed to enter a convent of religious sisters. Her husband, Paolo Mancini, was known to be a rich, quick-tempered, immoral man, who had many enemies in the region of Cascia. Rita had her first child at the age of twelve.

Rita endured his insults, physical abuse, and infidelities for many years. According to popular tales, through humility, kindness, and patience, Rita was able to convert her husband into a better person, more specifically renouncing a family feud known at the time as La Vendetta. Rita eventually bore two sons, Giangiacomo (Giovanni) Antonio, and Paulo Maria, and brought them up in the Christian faith. As time went by and the family feud between the Chiqui and Mancini families became more intense, Paolo Mancini became congenial, but his allies betrayed him and he was violently stabbed to death by Guido Chiqui, a member of the feuding family.

Rita gave a public pardon at Paolo’s funeral to her husband’s murderers.Paolo Mancini’s brother, Bernardo, was said to have continued the blood family feud and hoped to convince Rita’s sons to seek revenge. Bernardo convinced Rita’s sons to leave their manor and live at the Mancini villa ancestral home. As her sons grew, their characters began to change as Bernardo became their tutor. Rita’s sons wished to revenge their father’s murder. Rita, fearing that her sons would lose their souls, tried to persuade them from retaliating, but to no avail. Accordingly, she petitioned God to take her sons rather than submit them to possible mortal sin and murder. Her sons died of dysentery a year later, which pious Catholics believe was God’s answer to her prayer, taking them by natural death rather than risk them committing a mortal sin punishable by Hell.

After the deaths of her husband and sons, Rita desired to enter the monastery of Saint Mary Magdalene in Cascia but was turned away. Although the convent acknowledged Rita’s good character and piety, the nuns were afraid of being associated with her due to the scandal of her husband’s violent death. However, she persisted in her cause and was given a condition before the convent could accept her: the task of reconciling her family with her husband’s murderers. She implored her three patron saints (John the Baptist, Augustine of Hippo, and Nicholas of Tolentino) to assist her, and she set about the task of establishing peace between the hostile parties of Cascia.Popular religious tales recall that the bubonic plague, which ravaged Italy at the time, infected Bernardo Mancini, causing him to relinquish his desire to feud any longer with the Chiqui family. She was able to resolve the conflicts between the families and, at the age of thirty-six, was allowed to enter the monastery.

Pious Catholic legends later recount that she was transported into the monastery of Saint Magdalene via levitation at night into the garden courtyard by her three patron saints. She remained at the monastery, living by the Augustinian Rule, until her death from tuberculosis on 22 May 1457.

The “Acta” or life story of Saint Rita was compiled by the Augustinian priest, Father Jacob Carelicci. Rita was beatified by Pope Urban VIII in 1626. The pope’s private secretary, Cardinal Fausto Poli, had been born some fifteen kilometers (nine miles) from her birthplace and much of the impetus behind her cult is due to his enthusiasm. She was canonized on May 24, 1900 by Pope Leo XIII. Her feast day is May 22. On the 100th anniversary of her canonization in 2000, Pope John Paul II noted her remarkable qualities as a Christian woman: “Rita interpreted well the ‘feminine genius’ by living it intensely in both physical and spiritual motherhood.”
She has acquired the reputation, together with St. Jude, as a saint of impossible cases. She is also the patron saint of sterility, abuse victims, loneliness, marriage difficulties, parenthood, widows, the sick, bodily ills, and wounds.

Her body, which has remained incorrupt over the centuries, is venerated today in the shrine at Cascia, which bears her name. Many people visit her tomb each year from all over the world. French painter Yves Klein had been dedicated to her as an infant. In 1961, he created a Shrine of St. Rita, which is placed in Cascia Convent.

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Are you losing the sale?

Yesterday, while watching a sales webinar, I was struck by how relevant the information was for sharing Christ with others. Don’t get me wrong- I’m not talking about hawking your faith to people like you’re ready to hit the next tier of your MLM pyramid!

The whole webinar was about relating to potential clients in a way that draws them in. The educator offered some highly useful business tips that I’ve already begun to utilize so, if you’re not a person who’s comfortable or intent on sharing your faith then use this blog post for sales strategy. Either way I hope it’s helpful!

Sales Tip #1: By the time someone reaches out to you they’ve eliminated a lot of your competitors already.

If a client takes the time to reach out to me about my company’s services they are already interested in what I have to offer. Have you found this to be true when friends ask about your faith in Christ? In my experience, the ones who’ve reached out to me have ‘shopped’ other religions or belief systems without finding the one that fit their needs. Business wise and evangelically, this was a wake up call for me to be more mindful of the potential for relationship.

Sales Tip #2: Don’t adopt a different persona when you reach out to people.

Learning how to be ‘me’ in email correspondence was hard! At the start of our company I thought I had to be super businessy and formal to be taken seriously. The reality was I turned off some potential clients because they couldn’t sense the real me. My relating lacked congruence and they could feel it. At some point I came to terms with the fact that I’m an exclamation point and emoji type of person. If you like that – I’m your girl. If you don’t- I’m not. And that’s OK!

If someone asks you what you believe and why, don’t answer them like you have a doctorate in Theology (unless of course you do . Go you!) You can’t talk about a real faith in a real Saviour by acting fake. It doesn’t work. You be you.

Sales Tip #3: Don’t answer questions they haven’t asked yet.

Oh boy! I’ve made this mistake in sales and telling people about Jesus so. many . times!! When a prospective bridal client asks me about what to do with her hair I don’t give her makeup tips. Now, she might want makeup tips, but that’s not what she asked. If I flood her with info about ALLL the things there are two very possible outcomes. Either A. she doesn’t feel heard or B. she gets overwhelmed. I believe the same is true when answering questions about God and faith. If the initial question is about prayer, I’m not going to give advice on tithing. I’ve found both in sales and in faith talks, that a give and take conversation works best. They ask- I respond and counter by asking for more information to figure out specifically what they need. We might have 100% of the facts but if they only need or want 10% of it then we should find out which 10%.

Sales Tip #4: Serve don’t Sell

There’s a marked difference when my initial conversation with a bridal client is born out of a desire to give rather than to get. The minute I start focusing on ‘getting the sale’ rather than offering her something that I truly believe will make her wedding experience better I become disconnected from her. The minute we talk about our Christian faith and all we can think of is getting them to say the Salvation Prayer the conversation becomes about us and not them.

There’s a tiny French bakery named Collet’s by my gym that has a Starbucks across the street from it. The Starbucks is much larger , but I will choose Collet’s for my business meetings every time. Why? Because when I’m enjoying my fabulous cappuccino, Collet comes over to give us a Madeline cookie or ask us if we would like some water. She serves her clients with love.We don’t need to sell people on God. All we need to do is serve them. Serve with your kindness. Serve with your love. Serve with your listening. Answer their interest in Jesus by living a life that reflects him. Passing out cookies is a nice touch too though.

Feeling Empty

No one really likes Empty. No one wants Empty. Definitely, no one wants to Feel Empty.

Empty promises. Empty bank account. Empty fridge. Empty nest. Empty headed. Empty bucket. Running on Empty. Empty words. Empty wine glass. *gasp!!

All of it denotes having less , feeling less, being less and in our culture less is never positive.

I want Full instead! Full sounds fun! Full feels better. Full means I’m not lacking for anything.

Full belly. Full schedule. Full life. Full on. Full of laughter. Full assurance.

If fullness is the goal then why does it so often leave us feeling empty?

I heard a pastor on the radio today saying that ‘if your mind is always full of your own ideas you will never have the mind of Christ.’ And there it is. There’s our answer. We are full, but of the wrong things. I am full of the wrong things.

I have agendas and deadlines. I have goals to attain, new skills to learn, and accomplishments to reach. I want to meet people and go places. I want to be known. I want to make my mark. Leave my legacy. Don’t we all??

None of these things I desire is inherently bad unless you notice the common theme. I , I, I, me, me ,me…….I’m full….. Of Me. So many times the things I’m loading up on are meant to Fill the void. Fill the loneliness. Fill the Time. Fill the Silence. I stuff my time and my life and my thoughts so completely there’s no room for anything new.

Sometimes I don’t leave room for Jesus.

God wants to pour himself into me. More than rivulets into the narrow gaps He wants to flood into my Whole heart. He can give me more fulfillment than any worldly goal or possession I might chase.Emptying my heart of loving anything that takes Christs’ place makes no sense to the world. But the funny thing about Jesus is he rarely made sense to his disciples either. When the disciples argued among themselves about which of them was the greatest; Christ told them that ‘it is the one who is least among you all who is the greatest.’ Luke 9:48

Say what? He was basically saying ‘Hey! Stop filling yourself with yourself and instead be emptied out for others and full of me! The kind of status you’re looking for lacks substance and will never keep you satiated. If you make room for what I offer you will never thirst again. Never be hungry again. Never strive again. Make . Room. For . Me.”

Jesus desperately wants to give us the best gift we could ever receive. But you can only grab onto it if you let go and reach for it with empty hands. For me it’s a daily intentional choice between staying full of what I want vs. what God wants. While it’s sometimes a struggle to get there, empty doesn’t scare me like it used to. Now, I crave it knowing God’s plans for me far exceed anything I’ve ever concocted myself!

This Easter, I ask you to try something that might be new and scary. Close your eyes and take a deep breath- then release something that you’ve been clutching tightly with both hands.(not your phone. Put your phone down before attempting this) 🙂 Ask God to empty you of it so you can take in whatever He has for you.

Trust me when I tell you that being receptive and empty for God will fill you with more peace than you could imagine. After all, He gave us an empty tomb and nothing has ever filled the world as much as that.

Getting to God: 3 Tips on Prayer

Have you ever felt like you just weren’t hearing from God? Or that your prayers were words uttered in an empty room and instead of them floating up to heavenly ears they crashed to the floor?

No? ……Just me?

Recently, a dear friend shared with me that she didn’t know ‘how’ to pray. My well thought out and deeply theological response was,

“Just talk to Him.”

Friend: “Yeah, but How? I just don’t get what I’m supposed to do

I think this is a very common question. I mean, if we’re going to take the time to pray to the God of all Creation we want to do it right! Right? But here’s a truth that should take away some performance anxiety for you-there is no perfect way to pray. Prayer and how it’s done is as unique as the person praying it. That being said, there are a few guidelines I discovered from reading about what men and women of the Bible did. Incorporating these 3 simple ideas that I’m about to share with you helped build my prayer life.

  1. Get Away

A prayer closet, bathroom, garage, car, pantry, treehouse… doesn’t matter where as long as it works for you. When my kids were small Jesus and I hung out in the bathroom a lot! Even if it was only 1 minute 10 times a day and those prayers were just for patience and sanity, God obviously met me there because we all survived the toddler years. Seriously, if you need to go hang out in the laundry room to be with God , I promise He’ll meet you there. When He does, ask Him how to get formula stains out, would you? I was never able to do it so I’m pretty sure it takes divine intervention.

2. Get Quiet

You might think that this belongs in the last suggestion. But getting away and getting quiet are two different things. Sometimes we spend all of our prayer time talking to God and we never pause to listen. It’s easy to want to tell God about everything that’s worrying us, everyone that needs help, every future fear, and every need. Don’t get me wrong- He wants to hear it!There’s nothing too insignificant for us to share with our Father. Phillipians 4:6 says , “Do not worry about anything; instead pray about EVERYTHING. Tell God what you need and thank Him for what He has done.” Heck, I’ve prayed for a good parking space before when I had a horribly sprained ankle and I’m quite sure it was no coincidence I got one!

However, equally important, or even more so ,than God hearing us is the importance of US hearing Him. The Holy Spirit is a ‘still small voice’. We need to become comfortable in the silence of prayer. Those times we just close our eyes and ask God ‘what do you need me to hear today, Lord?’ can be some of the most peace bringing and powerful meetings. And again, even if at this time of your life you can only get 2 minutes of quiet- that’s ok! God can speak as fast as He needs to.

3. Get Real

I used to feel so intimidated at church when I’d hear people come out with these Uber spiritual and eloquent prayers. I’d go home and try out their brand of prayer speech and think, ‘who IS this person?!’ . God doesn’t want us to try to sound like anyone else. He’s not looking for poems or your best Billy Graham imitation. He doesn’t care about our grammar or our delivery or our vocabulary. He Knows what you sound like! Don’t worry if you forget what you were going to say mid sentence (this is why I pray out loud. I’m too ADD to stay in my head. It’s busy in there.) Tell Him you’re angry about what’s happening. Tell Him you Do. Not. Appreciate. what ever lesson He’s teaching you and that you’d like Him to find another way thankyouverymuch. Yell at Him if you need to. If you don’t know what to pray- tell Him that. He already knows how you feel in your heart any way so there’s no point in pretending it’s ‘fine’. Wearing a mask of ‘I’m fine’ with God only keeps Him at arms length. Be honest ; be real; be raw. God’s just waiting to turn arm’s length into an embrace.

I hope this helps anyone struggling with their prayer life. If it did , let me know! And if you have something that’s been beneficial to your own prayer life- please share with me!

[Funny side note; when I was writing this and said we don’t have to be poets, this popped into my head. I think my last haiku was in seventh grade. LOL!!]

A Haiku on Prayer

Open wide your heart

Lift your eyes to Heaven

You are the Poem

Change Ahead

If there’s one constant in life it’s that it’s always changing. Sometimes I handle them well and just roll with the punches and other times the changes punch me. In the gut. Hard.

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This past Halloween I got gut punched.

For about the last 10 years our same group of moms and kids have traveled together in a Trick or Treating pack. We looked forward to it every year. We’ve transitioned together from having  babies we could costume adorably to toddlers who lost most of their costumes in their travels. We watched our children grow into grade schoolers and go through their obsessions with dressing as the super hero du jour. We shared sarcastic jokes and life happenings. We talked about relationships, and teachers we loved and hated, and what we hoped for and feared for our childrens’ futures. (women talk A Lot!) Those Halloween nights are some of my fondest memories.

Now that my two oldest boys are 27 and 18 I have one candy collector left- my 12 year old, Nicholas.

About two weeks before Halloween Nicholas, asked if he could go trick or treat with his new middle school best friend.  I sort of mumbled something non committal and hoped he’d forget the request and that we’d follow tradition with our band of merry men as per usual. But deep down, I knew it wasn’t over.

48 hours to go before Halloween and the request was made again. As sad as I was that our usual group wouldn’t be together we went to his new friends house. The new friend is a great kid and his parents couldn’t have been nicer or more hospitable.”This could be good “,I thought- “I can learn to hang out with different people”. Then the parents said, ‘the boys know when to check in so we’ll bring him home when they’re done.” Um,,,,what??! That was the beginning. (The arm  pulled back ready for the blow.).. But, ok, I thought, that’s fine, I’ll just walk around with them myself. I made it for about for about 3 houses and it just wasn’t the same. It felt miserable and lonely. I felt more like a stalker than a parent.  There went Nicholas, having a blast ,running with his friends dressed in silly costumes consuming vast amounts of sugar. He didn’t need me there anymore.

Annndddd…. Gut punch!!!

I knew it was coming. I . Knew. It. He’s my third child and I’ve been through all of this many times before in many different ways. But you know what? You never fully get used to it.

I’ve done what I’m supposed to do which is raise my sons to be independent and Not need me for everything. (my husband is currently rolling his eyes as he reads this) 😉

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That’s what I kept telling myself as I drove home sobbing. Now please don’t read this and think that I’m some sort of super clingy mom who is so needy that I hinder my boys from having new experiences- I’m not that at all. I have always encouraged them to try Everything that interests them. Try the sport. Audition for the solo. Give the speech. Taste the new food. For the love….PLEASE try the new food!

I wanted to deny my sadness as being silly and and indulgent but you know what? I mean, it’s just a silly Halloween tradition. It’s not like he just moved out! Your moment might be something entirely different and you’ll be tempted to ignore it and push it aside. But you know what...It’s not silly and it’s not nothing.     Transition is hard. Throughout all of our lives we have to change . Marriage; babies; graduations; puberty; jobs; pregnancy; moving; ageing; it’s all change all the time. With every one of those changes there is joy and there is also some pain. I mean really-pregnancy? C’mon!

In the excitement for the new thing there is always a tinge of sadness for the passing of the old and a little bit of apprehension of what’s to come. So I think I’ll give myself some grace. I’ll let myself be sad and miss the little boy  at the same time I’m thrilled to watch Nicholas grow into a young man. He and my other sons may not need me in the same ways, but they still need me and I’ll be there for when they do.

Right now Nicholas needs me to eat all of the Almond Joys that he hates. So that’s something…. 🙂

Isaiah 43:19 “Be alert and present! I’m about to do something new! Do you see it?”

If you want a great laugh, take a look at this short video of Halloween night and the blow up dinosaur costume. It’s been a hit on Facebook!!

Taking my place in the Pews

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about ‘new’ Christians. People who’ve just decided to accept Jesus or maybe they haven’t accepted him yet but they are ‘trying on’ the Christian life. I have some good friends who have just begun attending church. In fact, they were previously pretty Anti-church. So now when they sit next to me, I’m keenly aware of all the nuances of the service. How church members relate to each other. The rituals and habits we have. It must seem so foreign to them! I remember when it was foreign to me. The churchy language, the small groups, full immersion baptism. Oh man , THAT one used to freak me out! (I worked hard on my hair and makeup and you want to ruin it? In public??) I’m also aware of the expectations that can sometimes accompany church membership.

One of the things I dearly want for my friends is not to confuse who they are to the church with who they are to God.

I  started attending church again regularly after a lengthy almost  two decades  hiatus during which I royally screwed up life (another many stories for another time) I was happy to be there but I felt like such an outsider. It was like being the new kid in middle school and all the other kids had been friends since they were in Kindergarten. Fortunately, the congregation was incredibly friendly and welcoming. Plus they served snacks after service. Bonus! They drew me into their tribe, their culture, their lives, their conversations. It was amazing! I couldn’t get enough. After 14 years in my  2nd abusive marriage (no judging) my self esteem was next to nothing and I didn’t feel like I had anything of value to offer other than my hairstyling skills. But these people-they seemed to love ME and that’s what I so desperately needed. So, in true over achiever fashion I jumped right in to everything they had to offer. And there was a lot!! I did women’s ministry. I did Bible studies. I attended conferences. I helped with and planned events, dinners, children’s ministry puppet shows. You name it, I said YES. Heck , I even went to Bible college and graduated Valedictorian! I drank ALL the Kool Aid! I was killing this Christian thing!! And for a while it felt awesome! I was accepted. I was praised. I was wanted. I was appreciated.

When I was at my lowest God knew what I needed and He generously supplied.However, while I was moving up in church leadership I began to realize that something was off. My church family seemed more interested in what I was producing rather than what I was becoming. I was a major player. One of the ‘special’ ones. I also felt tired, judged, confused, stretched thin, and vaguely empty.

I began to realize that I wasn’t doing all this for God. I was more concerned with what people would think of me if I Didn’t do #allthethings  all the time. Ashamedly,  I also realized that I was addicted to the accolades that I got from being ‘one of the chosen’ who sat at the front of the church. Or being one of the few that attended the inner circle meetings of church hierarchy. I’d become one of the cool kids and I liked it. It made me feel special. Somewhere along the line I’d gotten it wrong. I’d come back to church and to Jesus because he accepted and loved  ME.  Not because of Anything that I did. He loved me when I wasn’t doing anything ‘special’. I didn’t want to have to do all the right things to be accepted anymore. Jesus had only one qualification for me to follow him and that is that I am totally Unqualified.

My marriage(s)  had left me with the wound of ‘ never good enough’. Even though I thought I’d left that at the door, all I did was bring it with me and put a Sunday suit on it. I’d moved my hamster wheel of worthiness from home to church. I’d spent years and years trying to become whatever people wanted me to be so that I’d be valuable to them. Constantly trying to figure out what they wanted from me.

What I didn’t understand was that all God wanted from me was– Me.giphy (1).gif

Because God likes to mess with my comfort zones, He led us away from that particular church and all the activities I’d put in His place. He removed my protective Armor of Productivity and put me on a ‘Busyness Time Out’.  I no longer had my committees and bible studies and women’s groups to take up my time. In the absence of movement there was only me…..and God. And you know what I began to realize? I didn’t need all the busy work. Not once. Not one single time did I feel any less loved for not ‘producing’ . In fact, I felt peaceful and comforted and accepted again. As I spent my time with God and reading His word it slowly dawned on me that He just wants me to love Him. Trust Him. Love others. Be kind. It doesn’t matter if I do that for 300 people or just the guy bagging my groceries.  I don’t need to do something that looks Big and Amazing to people. To God the smallest gestures of love ARE big and amazing. He knows that my giving of love produces far more results than anything else.

So, if you want to find me at church don’t go looking where the volunteers are. That may come at another season of my life again; but not now. For now, you can find me sitting in the aisles next to my newbie church friends and just being with them.

Building the Butterfly

“The caterpillar is a necessary stage but becomes unsustainable once it’s job is done. There is no point in being angry with it and there is no need to worry about defeating it. The task is to focus on building the butterfly, the success of which depends on powerful positive and creative efforts in all aspects….” Elizabet Sahtouris

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I’ve been thinking a lot about butterflies lately. Like there aren’t far more important things, right? I know it’s weird but whenever something sticks in my mind like this I usually know that God has something for me to share. So stick with me on this one even if it gets a bit ‘science-y’ okay? It’s fascinating. Truly.

It started when I went to see my dear friend and business partner, Patti, in the hospital after she suffered a horrible car accident. This was not the type of accident where you have a few broken bones and some whiplash. This was a stay in the hospital three weeks, wheelchair, home care nurse,six month rehab, let’s hope you heal normally type of an accident. LIFE Altering!

One of the first things she said to me in the hospital was, “I just want to hurry up and get this (recovery) over with!” Well, yeah! I mean, who wouldn’t ?! As I looked around her room at the cards and children’s drawings meant to cheer her up I noticed how many butterflies were on them. Patti. Loves. Butterflies. They are all over her house. And I thought, how funny that we always see the beautiful butterflies but not the cocoon.

As a culture we are obsessed with the pretty. Me included. #shinysyndrome .We love the ‘before and after’ photos of people who’ve gone from obese to gym beast. We can relate to a Before photo and we  desire to be the After, but we ignore the getting there part. Why do we celebrate the butterfly and despise the chrysalis? It’s in the butterflies getting there stage that all the magic happens. That’s when I realized how much we have in common with these little winged creatures.

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Although we can’t see it, I’d imagine that being stuffed in a cocoon is  cramped , uncomfortable, and dark. Isn’t this pretty much how we feel when going through a transformation? I know I do!  The stretching , molding, breaking down and building up again into a new creation generally sucks when it’s happening. It’s painful. Caterpillars can totally relate to this.  (Get ready! Science-y part coming!) Inside the cocoon, they go through a stage called histolysis which is defined as “the breaking down [of tissues] during the process of metamorphosis.”  Ok, first off , Eewwww!!! Secondly, Holy wow! have I been there! The last 15 years of fully turning my life over to God I’ve changed in a million ways. Every habit , attitude, or belief I hold now required the tearing down of one I held before. Old dreams perished and new ones were fashioned. Goals I’d had, no longer seemed worthy of pursuing. Huge parts of me had to disintegrate and die in order for new ones to be born. People knew something was going on WITH me but they couldn’t see what was going on IN me. And, just like Patti, I wanted to hurry up the ‘getting there ‘ process and reach my ‘After’.

Ok, here’s my last ‘science-y’ butterfly fact. When I read it, it blew my mind. Inside of these insects are structures called Imaginal Discs.These discs are responsible for the caterpillar turning into a butterfly. They are what actually becomes the wings. AND they are only activated once they are in the cocoon!  Why does a caterpillar even form a cocoon? I’m so glad you asked…. Because they run out of something called juvenile hormone. Basically, their carefree days of living off the tree and eating free leaves are over and they have to get out and get a job.Seriously, I’m not making this up. Can’t you see how this is so much like us?

At some point, being juvenile doesn’t serve us -it stunts our growth. God knows the potential He’s placed in us and He loves us too much to let us stay as children in our faith. Sometimes it doesn’t feel like He loves us because the whole ‘getting mature’ thing is even More painful than staying immature. For me,I wanted IMMEDIATE change, not months or years of angsty self examination. I reached out to God looking for light and freedom and it felt like He put me into a dark crampy cocoon. Then He made me stay there. Well, I really made myself stay in the dark. I remained until all the lies I’d believed about myself were crushed and my mind was renewed with God’s truth of who I really am. I am made in God’s image and everything I needed to be a butterfly was already in me.

Because here’s the thing about us humans, we will happily walk around consuming things of this world until something forces us to seek God and the change that comes with that. We don’t just wake up one day and think, ‘Today I want to question all my motives, goals, and relationships. Then I’ll reexamine my dreams and where I put my finances. Yeah! This is gonna be awesome!” #no  . It takes the cocoon; the journey through the dark, to find your wings. When your time comes to go through transformation, embrace it. It’s in the dark that we find the power of Christ that is in us. It’s that power that will give you your wings.


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a change in time

musings on behavioural change – the small stuff and the big stuff.

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checks and balances; where change lives

I thought it was about time I looked back over the last three years, from the time when I started the Graduate Certificate in Sustainability, to see what changes we have made and what still lies in the ‘too hard basket’. The ‘We’ to whom I refer is my husband Peter, and myself. I am lucky that Peter has supported me from day one in my attempts at behaviour change. Such support is not a given.

The change I am most pleased about is our reduction in food waste, or more precisely, wasted food. While we have made attempts over the years to ‘divert food waste from landfill’, it hasn’t always been a top priority, funny about that. We’ve had a compost for years but that has become a place to stack all unwanted green waste. I have had some success with worm farms, however I have twice been defeated by a string of hot days. Then one of the students in the course suggested I try the bokashi bucket. It suits our lifestyle perfectly, something not to be underestimated, so now all scraps and any leftovers go into the soil in our backyard.

Chopping up food scraps is a meditative practice for me – I enjoy the process and the result.

Another area where our awareness has been raised is, just how embedded ‘single use plastic’ has become in the western lifestyle. I am constantly reminded, at the monthly creek sweeping of Darebin Creek, of the amount of plastic being thrown away. We stopped using plastic bags, for the most part, some time ago. We still have a way to go when it comes to kicking the habit of buying prepackaged goods from the supermarket. Some people seem able to go cold turkey – once they realise the damage a product is causing to the environment, they no longer buy it – still working on this one.

I was pretty shocked at how far down the layers of plastic go. There was no way I could remove all of it so I stuck with the most recent items that could end up in the waterways.

But let’s not get too depressed. There is fun to be had in this crazy old world in which we live. Our efforts at ‘re-using, re-cycling’ etc still provide a lot of pleasure and pride. Take for example, when our washing machine recently stopped working and was beyond repair.

Peter made it into a brazier! Okay, the plastic might melt from the heat, but we’re going to give it a go. Suki is not so sure.

One unexpected outcome was my new career as a rapper. (ha ha!) As  part of our graduation from the Community Leaders in Sustainability program, we were required to make a short video of what we would take away from the course. Inspired by our son, Louis, who kindly allowed me to use his beat, I decided to try writing a rap. Peter took on the role of camera operator and editor and , voila, instant fame!

And last, but not least, I finally ditched the big toilet paper company and changed over to a company that has a strong ethical basis – my logic being that we should support companies that are committed to making a difference.

The name is a bit off-putting, but it isn’t a bad question for us to be asking ourselves. (Couldn’t resist a free plug for Bill Gammage’s book!)

The main thing I have learnt on this comparatively newly chosen path is that it is worth making these small changes, even though there are those who think we are way past being able to make a difference with the little things. It is our continued desire to consume way beyond what we actually need that is contributing to the current swathe of problems linked to environmental degradation. If we stop buying stuff, the companies producing it will have to change their ways.

For our children, and our children’s children.

Plastic is the hard evidence

When you have one of those nice little chats about ‘the fate of the planet’, you most likely focus on the fossil fuels vs. alternative energy debate. You might even discuss the high percentage of methane in the atmosphere caused by livestock and landfill. Today I’d like to have a go at investigating the role that plastic plays in such discussions.

While Peter and I have managed to break a few plastic habits over the years – forgoing plastic shopping bags and water in plastic bottles – there is still a way to go. (Please contact the author personally if you want to know the ugly details.)

My plastic awareness metre went off the scale just a few weeks ago when I joined a local group in picking up litter from the banks of Darebin Creek.

This packaging has escaped from the yard of a business that backs onto the creek. Guess where it is heading.

In one of my earlier posts, I mentioned how the sustainability class I attended at Swinburne University was introduced to the fact that when we throw something ‘away’, it actually goes somewhere, and while this sounds annoyingly obvious, it is a concept that has only wired into my brain since having to pick up stuff that has been thrown away.

Other than plastic bottles and syringes, the third most common item I found while creek sweeping was plastic straws, a seemingly innocent item that Peter and I have been using in our morning smoothies for some time now.

With this new found awareness of straws, I went searching on the internet to see what other people are saying. I soon discovered that I am not the only one acknowledging our over reliance on single-use plastic items. Celebrities like Adrian Grenier  and Jeff Bridges have recently added their voices to the call for us to refuse single-use plastic items.

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It seems that Americans use 500 million straws per day, this “could fill over 127 school buses each day, or more than 46,400 school buses every year!http://www.ecocycle.org/bestrawfree/faqs

You don’t need to join a group, celebrity-led or not, as this refusal to use single-use plastic items is something we can do on our own accord. If you need some inspiration however, you could check out The Last Straw, a group based in Perth that ask us to ‘Sip. Don’t suck’.

Besides, sometimes groups with good intentions end up creating a whole lot more ‘rubbish’ that we don’t really need.

Sorry to focus on SIDS fund-raising, but they are a perfect example.

Finally, I’d like to tell you about a little girl who had high hopes for the future. That little girl was me. I remember as a child thinking that, while children could be unkind and thoughtless, adults were wise; they knew what to do when a problem arose.

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Here I am sitting in Auntie Myra’s backyard in Bendigo. I’m wondering if mum was taking a photo of the garden and then decided my red jumper would bring out the red in the flowers in the background.

It didn’t take too many years for me to discover that grown-ups can be just as unkind and thoughtless as children. As an adult, I feel a responsibility to do what I can to tread lightly on the earth so that those who come after us know that we did what we could.


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The causes of a physical disability are also varied. They usually fall into one of two categories:

  • Hereditary/Congenital – where a person has been born with a physical disability or developed one due to inherited genetic problems, has suffered an injury at birth, or has issues with their muscles.
  • Acquired – An acquired physical disability could be due to an accident, infection or disease, or as a side effect of a medical condition.

Achieve Australia supports people with a range of physical disabilities to live independent, meaningful and valued lives. Some of these physical disabilities are described below.

Acquired brain injuries

Acquired brain injuries result in physical disabilities. They occur after birth as a result of damage to the brain through accidents, strokes, tumours, infections, degenerative neurological diseases, or lack of oxygen.

These occurrences can cause damage to the cognitive, physical, emotional and sensory functions of the brain resulting in minor or profound disabilities that can be temporary or permanent.

Epilepsy is a neurological condition that triggers recurring unprovoked seizures. The causes of epilepsy are not always known, but brain trauma, strokes, brain cancer and drugs and alcohol are thought to be significant factors.

Some people are able to treat their Epilepsy with medication, surgery and lifestyle changes. However, unfortunately, epileptic seizures can sometimes result in brain damage, causing physical disabilities.

Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral Palsy affects the way the brain controls the body’s muscles resulting in speech, movement and posture difficulties. In most cases it is caused by brain injury or abnormal development that occurs before birth or before one month of age.

Cerebral Palsy is non-life threatening, however it can vary in severity, ranging from minor interference with motor-skills, to quadriplegia.

Cystic Fibrosis (CF)

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a hereditary genetic condition, inherited when the gene is carried by both parents. It affects more than one million people in Australia.

CF affects the respiratory, digestive and reproductive systems, because of a malfunction in the mucus and sweat glands which causes mucus to thicken and build up, resulting in recurrent infections in important bodily organs. From birth, a person with CF undergoes constant medical treatments and physiotherapy.

Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a is an autoimmune disorder causing damage to nerve cells. This results in diminished brain and spinal cord function, manifesting in various ways. Symptoms can range from fatigue and numbness to paralysis and vision loss.

It affects women twice as often as men and no two people will experience the same symptoms. The progress and severity of MS can be difficult to predict.

Spina Bifida (SB)

Spina Bifida (SB) refers to a range of developmental birth defects that affect the spinal cord, leaving nerves open to damage.

The severity of the symptoms depends on the location of opening in the spine. People with SB often develop learning difficulties, mobility symptoms and paralysis, muscle wastage, scoliosis, and bowel and bladder symptoms.

Prader-Willi Syndrome(PWS)

Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a rare, non-hereditary genetic disorder that affects development and growth. Characteristics may include growth and skeletal abnormalities, eye problems, intellectual disability, emotional instability and excessive eating, which often leads to obesity.

An abnormality of chromosome 15 is seen in most people with PWS. There is no cure, but treatments can improve quality of life.

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The Good-Witch, Isabella from both "Phineas and Ferb" in "Wizard of Odd," and "Odd-tastic: The Musical."

The Good-Witch, Isabella is the good-witch of all of Odd and lives in a beautiful castle in Patchkinland. She travels around Odd in her eyeball when ever she likes to. She is also the leader of the Fireside Girls with The Patchkins. For when she is very good, wonderful, smart, and very kind to everyone in The Land of Odd, she still would be the most wonderful good-witch to everyone when she is the good-witch in Odd for years to come. She will be played by ????????? in Odd-tastic: The Musical and ????????? in The Land of Odd, The Free!

Early Life

The Good-Witch, Isabella was born in Patchkinland, without her blue skin like the other patchkins (whose skins are blue). At some point in her life, she met and become friends with Kevin Perry for when he dropped in after a big tornado blew him from Cleveland,

The Good-Witch, Isabella singing and dancing to "The Yellow Sidewalk"

Ohio to The Land of Odd, and Oscar (The Patchkin) for when he moved to Patchkinland after his mother and father tell him to move on and keep moving forward. She is also a great friend of The Patchkins for when she first met them, and became the patchkin's leader. She is also very talented at controlling her powers, and since after she turned six years old, her father sent Isabella to Bustopolis to meet the wizard. (As described by Adyson Sweetwater)

Present Life

Isabella now lives in Patchkinland with The Patchkins at her castle not far from town with her mother, her father, Little Witch Suzie, her five brothers, and her five sisters. She spents most of her days helping out with her two friends, Kevin Perry and Oscar (The Patchkin) when she is not to busy with her schedule. She also spends

The Good-Witch, Isabella singing

time caring for her two pets, Pinky (Isabella's Dog) and Stacy Owl, or trying

"What'cha doin'?"

to earn her patches. She is also great friends with The Patchkins when they usually know what they are doing everyday. She use to have magical red rubber boots to help control her powers, but since after she grew out of her red rubber boots, she can now control her powers all by herself, so, she now passes the red rubber boots to Little Witch Suzie, but since after the house fell on top of her, Candace has her old red rubber boots and then, feels sad about her sister, but, then, as her, Kevin Perry, and Oscar (The Patchkin) went to The Wizard's Chamber in Bustopolis, they spot Doofenwitch squished on top of another person's house, so, she gives her old red rubber boots to Kevin and since after Kevin went home with Isabella's red rubber boots, she still controls her power by the time Kevin returns to The Land of Odd in "The Land of Odd, The Free!" But, when she decided to help Kevin Perry and Oscar (The Patchkin) let the other nations join The Land of Odd, she becomes fearless, brave, and very challenging to help Kevin save his father and restore peace to The Mainland.

The Good-Witch, Isabella is happy, fearless, sweet, caring, friendly, and spirited, eager to help Kevin and

The Good-Witch, Isabella in a conservation with Doofenwitch

Oscar's ideas. ("Odd-tastic: The Musical") Most of the time, she usually does it for fun, or simply because she has a good personality when she is expressing yourself to her friends. She is mostly optimistic, but also cares for, and worries about people at times. This is shown when she is fearless and tough to stop the forces of evil. ("The Land of Odd, The Free!") Being the good-witch of Odd, she has fantastic leadership and organized styles, though she'll get follow Kevin's orders as well. She can handle her temper for when someone showed more interest. Isabella also shown at least for when she can be a preditable and knid witch in Odd. She also can be a bit sad for when she thinks that Little Witch Suzie dies from being crushed from the house that landed on top of her, but she was soon happy that she was still alive. ("Odd-tastic: The Musical")

Physical Appearance

The Good-Witch, Isabella has long black hair and has oval blue eyes. She wears a pink ballgown with a pink crown or tiara, white ballet slippers and a magical wand. She also has other dresses that she wears throughout

Isabella in her Christmas Ballgown

"Odd-tastic: The Musical." (see background information) She loves hanging out with The Patchkins in Patchkinland, as well as Kevin Perry and Oscar (The Patchkin). She wears a yellow and gold ballgown with a golden crown and an orange and red ballgown with an orange crown also. She wears a brown and dark green bracelet on her arm for when she is prepared to go to war to defeat The of The Mainland's army and all set to go to war to help Kevin Perry save his father. ("The Land of Odd, The Free!") She is also a very, good singer and sings a few songs for her friends when she is having a great time. ("Odd-tastic: The Musical") She collects so many Accomplishment Patches with The Patchkins for when they did a really, good job. ("Odd-tastic: The Musical") ("The Land of Odd, The Free!") She can be very kind to all of the others when she is a really, special girl. For Christmas time, she wears a green crown with and a red star, and a green and red ballgown for when she is playing in the snow with The Patchkins. ("Unnamed Christmas Special")

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Locations in Odd-tastic: The Musical

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ADA Centre of Excellence Launch

On 14 November 2019, as part of our continuous efforts to expand our footprint, we have officially launched the ADA Centre of Excellence in Malaysia.

The event was officiated by our Minister of Communications and Multimedia, YB Gobind Singh Deo, who expressed that ADA’s growth was in line with the government’s initiative to continue growing the nation’s digital economy.

Located at Axiata Tower, the centre will support rising data and digital demands both locally and regionally across eight other markets – Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka. This expansion has also created new roles, including highly skilled positions in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)  sector – a highly employable workforce in Malaysia.

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The Bravern

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Welcome to the latest building to block my view at work, The Bravern. Two towers of excess. One of the towers is leased by Microsoft (just in time for their layoffs!), the other housing (just in time for the house market crash), and the bottom few floors are all high end shopping (just in time for the markets to be in the crapper).

Why can't someone put in a nice brew pub or microbrewery to give Rock Bottom some competition? I have no use for a Jimmy Choo's store, damn it. Give me something I can use, or give me my view back!

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Closed Sets & Limit Points

July 2020

Problem 5: Let \(X\) be an ordered set in the order topology. Show that \(\overline{(a, b)} \subset [a, b]\). Under what conditions does the equality hold?

Theorem 17.6 in the book states that, given a subset \(A\) of \(X\), and given the set \(A'\) of all limit points of \(A\), \(\overline{A} = A \cup A'\). \((a, b)\) is clearly in \([a, b]\), so we just need to prove that if \(x\) is a limit point of \((a,b)\), it is in \([a, b]\).

Let \(x\) be a limit point of \((a, b)\), and suppose it is not in \([a, b]\). Then, either \(x < a\) or \(x > b\). This would allow for the existence of neighbourhood(s) of \(x\) (such as \(\{p | p< a\}\) if \(x < a\) and \(\{p | p>b\}\) if \(x>b\)) that do not intersect any points of
\((a, b)\), which contradicts our assumption that \(x\) is a limit point. Thus, any limit point of \((a, b)\) must be in \([a, b]\). \(\tag*{$\blacksquare$}\)

Problem 12: Show that a subspace of a Hausdorff space is Hausdorff.

Given a Hausdorff space \(X\), and \(A \subset X\), the subspace topology on \(A\) is defined as the collection of all sets \(A \cap Y\) where \(Y\) is open in \(X\). Given \(x, y \in A \subset X\), since \(X\) is a Hausdorff space we can define a neighbourhood \(U_1\) of \(x\) in \(X\) and a neighbourhood \(U_2\) of \(y\) in \(X\) such that the two neighbourhoods are disjoint. If \(U_1 \cap U_2 = \varnothing\), then \(U_1 \cap A \cap U_2 = \varnothing\), and so there are disjoint neighbourhoods of \(x\) and \(y\) in the subspace topology on \(A\), making it a Hausdorff space. \(\tag*{$\blacksquare$}\)


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In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. Matthew 5:16

Jesus wants us to shine in His glory. He bought us with His precious blood. There are so many ways He gives us the opportunity to shine.  I hope I do with my words because I want them to give Him the glory.  I pray they are a blessing to those who read them. I pray they minister His love to you, the purest form of His love. There is nothing He can’t do or fix or heal! No heart is too broken! No sadness too deep! No wound He cannot bind! No soul He cannot save!

There is no grief He cannot turn to joy! No chaos or confusion that He cannot turn in to peace.  No lack He can not bring into abundance.  He can do anything He wants to because He is God. But He can not do anything against His Word, He is just. He restores, He reverses injustices.

He has many names and they are all great, He is love, He is peace, He provides.  Jesus is our best friend, let’s light the way with His love and shine for Him. Rebecca Jones / Dam Tuong Quong

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Narcolepsy is one of the most complex of non-respiratory Sleep Disorders, consisting of a tetrad of Excessive Daytime Sleepiness, Cataplexy, Sleep Paralysis and Hypnagogic Hallucinations.

Once we’ve diagnosed Narcolepsy, treatment for your Narcolepsy comes in many forms including :

Behavioural Therapy

Good sleep hygiene is crucial in managing Narcolepsy symptoms in the long term. Adequate sleep at night is important, daytime timed-naps can be useful.

Many medications can be used to treat Narcolepsy, each with their own pros and cons.
CNS stimulants such as Methylphenidate (Ritalin, Concerta) and dextroamphetamine (dexamphetamine, dexamfetamine) work well but have long term implications.

Modafinil and Armodafinil (Modavigil, Nuvigil) are generally better-tolerated than amphetamine-based medications, and with less side effects. These still however require longterm vigilance.

Sodium oxybate (Xyrem, metabolite of gamma-aminobutyric acid) has been used in the USA since 2002, and has been used by our clinic since Australian access was granted in late 2014. We have the largest known group of South Australia patients on treatment, with impressive symptomatic results. We provide regular clinical monitoring in conjunction with patients’ General Practitioners, to ensure optimal titration of treatment modalities based on the patient’s clinical status.

We’re excited to hear on the horizon are newer medications including Pitolisant and Solriamfetol!

At Adelaide Sleep, we routinely counsel, diagnose, and treat all aspects of Narcolepsy and Idiopathic Hypersomnia. We have experience in all medications used for Narcolepsy and Narcolepsy-like conditions. If you’d like to know more, contact us now.


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Spring Break 2018: Beauty Essentials!

Hello Lovelies!!

Whenever I have a trip coming up, I always like to plan my packing ahead of time, and lately my goal has been to pack as lightly as possible (quite the challenge for a beauty blogger!). Here are a few space-saving tips and my own makeup/skincare/haircare/toiletry packing list!

Sized to Travel

It can be expensive to buy both full sized products AND over-priced travel sized versions. To avoid the extra cost, here are some of my life hacks!

  1. if you are testing out a product, or know that you will take a while to use it up, buy the travel size! I usually do this for powders, bronzers, and blushes as I use these products sparingly (the powders and blushes featured were purchased a year ago!).
  2. Samples!! There are a number of ways I will get sample sizes, usually this is from subscription boxes or redeeming rewards. I mostly do this for the skincare featured like Tatcha or Clinique. I also collect samples of other makeup like blush/highlighter sticks to save for travel! Pro tip: save old sample-sized bottles and refill them before a trip! I also refill travel-sized bottles of my shampoo and conditioner!
  3. I love to pack single use products in my carry-on for in-flight skincare or haircare!

Gallery: The Packing List

The final photo shows all my products packed and ready to be stored in various bags depending on how long I will be traveling!

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