Friday, April 29, 2011
Dreams Thrown Away - Mini Excerpt
Kalina sat up and watched him walk out the door. She didn't want to move. She was tired from all the walking and exhausted from the flood of emotions that had started raging inside her. Her mind said he was a married man -- an older man, and she shouldn't even let him touch her. But, her body was saying, "touch me again."
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Quote of the Day - April 28, 2011
Sow a thought, and you reap an act.
Sow an act, and you reap a habit.
Sow a habit, and you reap character.
Sow character, and you reap destiny!
Dr. Robert Schuller
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Quote of the Day - April 27, 2011
"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Monday, April 25, 2011
Quote of the Day - April 25, 2011
"I wanted to make a statement, not in any grand or boastful way, but to let people know what God can do when you believe..."
Tyler Perry
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Quote of the Day - April 24, 2011
"Let us be grateful to people who makes us happy, they are charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
Marcel Proust
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
New information gives you a new perspective
Remember the anxiety you used to feel when you were starting a new class or a new grade in school. You knew at the end of the last school year or the last semester, you would be leaving that which had become familiar behind. Or, perhaps it was time for the ultimate…graduation, and life as you knew it was sure to change. There are many situations like this that I could describe, the ending of one familiar experience to be replaced with the unknown. But, isn’t it wonderful how the unknown becomes the known, giving you a new learning experience as well as a new perspective?
Let’s look at the new perspective for a minute from the learning aspect. Dictionary.com defines learning as: knowledge acquired by systematic study in any field of scholarly application or the act or process of acquiring knowledge or skill or the modification of behavior through practice, training, or experience. Did you notice two of the definitions referenced ‘acquired knowledge’ and the last reference a ‘modification of behavior’? Why? The objective of learning something new, even if it is triggered by instinctive behavior, is to modify your behavior. And, why does the modification of behavior take place? Because, what you have learned grants you the ability to look at your world from a different perspective, good or bad or indifferent, but differently.
In the lathering process, you want to acquire knowledge that will modify the type of decisions you make in life. For example, when you were younger and thinner and moving all the time you could buy a box of Girl Scout Cookies, consume the whole box, and not suffer any consequences. Perhaps, as you grew older, you noticed the pounds beginning to stay with you no matter what, except the no matter was an improper diet. You began to pay attention, acquired knowledge about the affects of poor or healthy eating habits. You learned how that very tasty box of cookies could possibly add two or three pounds to your ever increasing thighs.
If you are lathering properly though, you will use the acquired knowledge to motivate a change in your behavior. You will now make the decision to eat a few cookies at a time over an expanded period of time, and not the whole box in one sitting. You will look at that colorful and delicious box of cookies from a new perspective. You will deem those cookies as a means to satisfy your sweet taste little by little, without overindulging and reducing the likelihood of those cookies adding even a centimeter to the diameter of those thighs.
What were the Lather Rinse Repeat practices in this article?
Lather – you learned you could change your outcome (the size of your thighs)
Rinse – you assessed what you learned (the effects of poor diet versus a healthy diet)
Repeat – you made the right choice (smaller portions of the cookies make your thighs happy)
Dilsa Saunders Bailey is in the process of writing the non-fiction book, Lather Rinse Repeat. If you would like to learn more about the concept, contact her for your next speaking engagement. Or, blog with her here at simplydilsa.
Don’t forget to pick up her novel, Dreams Thrown Away
. The romantic suspense novel that tracks a couple whose drive to reach their dreams drives them to make all the wrong decisions leaving all sorts of havoc behind including sex, lies, and murder.
. The romantic suspense novel that tracks a couple whose drive to reach their dreams drives them to make all the wrong decisions leaving all sorts of havoc behind including sex, lies, and murder.Monday, April 18, 2011
Lather Rinse Repeat - Graduate
Life is awesome. There are always lessons to learn. Some of them hard, very few are easy. The important thing is to actually grow and not to repeat them over and over. You have to graduate one day. I'm ready for graduation!!!!
Dilsa Saunders Bailey
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Quote of the Day - April 14, 2011
"Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Quote of the Day - April 13, 2011
"The glue of self-belief and thinking you can is based in your attitude - the way you dedicate yourself to the way you think."
Jeffrey Gitomer
Monday, April 11, 2011
Quote of the Day - April 11, 2011
"Success as a self-publisher is far more of a function of a process than an aptitude."
Peter Bowerman
Sunday, April 10, 2011
SELF PUBLISHING TIPS 103
10 Great Reasons to Self-Publish
- You can control the content of your book.
- You will own the rights to your book.
- You will control the lifespan of your book.
- You can control the royalties and profits from your book.
- You can control the timing of your book’s release.
- You will not need a middle man or an agent to get your book published.
- Traditional publishers require that you market your own book, so why not market your own book for your own increased profit.
- You can position yourself as an expert in your genre, and jump start a speaking or consulting career, increasing your book sales and your profit.
- You can build your own empire or supplement your income by managing your own time, no pressure to meet deadlines.
- Self-publishing is Self-satisfying.
and other ebook formats, too.Friday, April 8, 2011
Book Review - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
A peculiar heroine emerges in this book as she doesn't fit the typical beautiful, statuesque woman with guts syndrome. Instead, she is a defiant, dangerously brilliant Goth chick with piercings in her face and a dragon tattoo on her shoulder. Throughout the book she doesn't realize that her passion for what should be right is as great as her passion to be left alone in her own unique universe with her own set of morals and ethics. The girl with the dragon tattoo surprises herself by teaming up with an embattled journalist to uncover the gross iniquities and horrors of two of Sweden's biggest journalistic stories ever to be told. This book was fantastically engrossing. It stood up to all the great things I had heard about it and that rarely happens. I recommend it wholeheartedly. Can't wait to begin the sequel.
Review by Dilsa Saunders Bailey, Author of Dreams Thrown Away The Stieg Larsson Trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo / The Girl Who Played with Fire / The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest) [Blu-ray]
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Stieg Larsson Trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo / The Girl Who Played with Fire / The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest) [Blu-ray] The Girl Who Played with Fire
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Quote of the Day - April 2, 2011
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its
ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life
believing that it is stupid."
ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life
believing that it is stupid."
Albert Einstein
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