New Seven Wonders of the World (Really Different)

A group of students were asked to list what they thought were
the present Seven Wonders of the World. Though there was some
disagreement, the following got the most votes:

1. Egypt’s Great Pyramids
2. Taj Mahal
3. Grand Canyon
4. Panama Canal
5. Empire State Building
6. St. Peter’s Basilica
7. China’s Great Wall

While gathering the votes, the teacher noted that one
quiet student hadn’t turned in her paper yet. So she asked
the girl if she was having trouble with her list.
The girl replied, “Yes, a little. I couldn’t quite make up

my mind because there were so many.” The teacher said,
“Well, tell us what you have and maybe we can help.”

The girl hesitated, then read, I think the Seven Wonders
of the World are:

1. to touch
2. to taste
3. to see
4. to hear She hesitated a little and then added
5. to feel
6. to laugh
7. and to love

The room was so full of silence you could have heard a pin drop.
Those things we overlook as simple and “ordinary” are truly
wondrous. A gentle reminder as this holiday season comes to
a close that the most precious things in life cannot be bought.

True Inspirational

My name is Nick Vujicic and I was born without limbs and doctors have no medical explanation for this birth ‘defect’. As you can imagine, I was faced with many challenges and obstacles.
Their firstborn son had been born without limbs! There were no warnings or time to prepare themselves for it… The doctors were shocked and had no answers at all! There is still no medical reason why this had happened and Nick now has a Brother and Sister who were born just like any other baby.

I know that there is no such thing as luck, chance or coincidence that these ‘bad’ things happen in our life.
I had complete peace knowing that God won’t let anything happen to us in our life unless God has a good purpose for it all
I am now twenty-three years old and have completed a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Financial Planningand Accounting. I am also a motivational speaker and love to go out and share my story and testimony wherever opportunities become available. I have developed talks to relate to and encourage students through topics that challenge today’s teenagers. I am also a speaker in the corporate sector.
I have a passion for reaching out to youth and keep myself available for whatever God wants me to do, and wherever He leads, I follow.
Writing several best-selling books has been one of my dreams and I hope to finish writing my first by the end of the year.
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It will be called ‘No Arms, No Legs, and No Worries!’
I believe that if you have the desire and passion to do something, and if it’s God’s will, you will achieve it in good time. As humans, we continually put limits on ourselves for no reason at all! What’s worse is putting limits on God who can do all things. We put God in a ‘box’. The awesome thing about the Power of God, is that if we want to do something for God, instead of focusing on our capability, concentrate on our availability for we know that it is God through us and we can’t do anything without God
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Once we make ourselves available for God’s work, guess whose capabilities we rely on? God’s!

TWO GLASSES OF WINE

TWO GLASSES OF WINE
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in
a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 glasses of
wine…
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front
of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and
empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.
He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the
jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas
between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was
full. They agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of
course, the he sand filled up everything else He asked once more if the jar
was full. The students re sponded with an unanimous ‘yes.’
The professor then produced two glasses of wine from under the table and
poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty
space between the sand. The students laughed.
‘Now’, said the professor, as the laughter subsided, ‘I want you to
recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the
important things; your family, your children, your health, your friends,
and your favorite passions; things that if everything else was lost and
only they remained, your life would still be full.’
The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house,
and your car. The sand is everything else; the small stuff. ‘If you put
the sand into the jar first,’ he continued, ‘there is no room for the
pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your
time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the
things that are important to you.’
Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with
your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to
dinner. Play another 18. Do one more run down the ski slope. There will
always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal. Take care of the
golf balls first; the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The
rest is just sand.’
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the wine
represented.
The professor smiled. ‘I’m glad you asked. It just goes to show you that
no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a couple of
glasses of wine with a friend.’

Universal truths

1) Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.
2) At the end of every party there is always a girl crying.
3) One of the most awkward things that can happen in a pub is when your pint-to-toilet cycle gets synchronised with a complete stranger.
4) You’ve never quite sure whether it’s ok to eat green crisps.
5) Everyone who grew up in the 80’s has entered the digits 55378008 into a calculator.
6) Reading when you’re drunk is horrible.
7) Sharpening a pencil with a knife makes you feel really manly.
You’re never quite sure whether it’s against the law or not to have a fire in your back garden.
10) Nobody ever dares make cup-a-soup in a bowl.
11) You never know where to look when eating a banana.
12) Its impossible to describe the smell of a wet cat.
13) Prodding a fire with a stick makes you feel manly.
14) Rummaging in an overgrown garden will always turn up a bouncy ball.
15) You always feel a bit scared when stroking horses.
16) Everyone always remembers the day a dog ran into your school.
17) The most embarrassing thing you can do as schoolchild is to call your teacher mum or dad.
18) The smaller the monkey the more it looks like it would kill you at the
first given opportunity.
19) Some days you see lots of people on crutches.
20) Every bloke has at some stage while taking a pee flushed half way through and then raced against the flush.
21) Old women with mobile phones look wrong!
22) Its impossible to look cool whilst picking up a Frisbee.
23) Driving through a tunnel makes you feel excited.
24) You never ever run out of salt.
25) Old ladies can eat more than you think.
26) You can’t respect a man who carries a dog.
27) There’s no panic like the panic you momentarily feel when you’ve got your hand or head stuck in something.
28) No one knows the origins of their metal coat hangers.
29) Despite constant warning, you have never met anybody who has had their arm broken by a swan.
30) The most painful household incident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned plug.
31) People who don’t drive slam car doors too hard
32) You’ve turned into your dad the day you put aside a thin piece of wood
specifically to stir paint with.
33) Everyone had an uncle who tried to steal their nose.
34) Bricks are horrible to carry.
35) In every plate of chips there is a bad chip.

Microsoft vs. Google On February 1st, 2008 Microsoft offered $44.6 billion for Yahoo. A truly desperate attempt to catch Google.

What English words rhyme with orange, purple, and silver?

In the English language, there are only two words that end in “GRY”: angry and hungry. There are only three that end in “CEED”: exceed, proceed, and succeed, while liquefy, putrefy, rarefy, and stupefy are the only four words ending in “EFY.” As for orange, purple, and silver, poets and songwriters should stay away from them, because there are no words in the entire English language that rhyme with them —
absolutely none!

What is the world’s largest number?

In order to calculate massive quantities, American Edward Kasner coined the “googol,” which is a one followed by one hundred zeros. But the “googoplex” is now the largest number and is a one followed by a billion zeros, which allows us to calculate that the number of electrons passing through a forty-watt light bulb in a minute roughly equals the number of drops of water flowing over Niagara Falls in a century.

Why are dining rooms called “restaurants”?

Up until 1765, diners were offered only what innkeepers chose to  serve. But then, a Paris chef named Boulanger began offering a choice of nourishing soups to passersby and on a board hanging over the door he painted the word “Restaurant,” meaning “to restore.” Boulanger was so successful that throughout the world dining rooms still display his original sign, “Restaurant,” a promise to restore energy.

30 Ways to Make Your Life More Simple

1. Resign from a commitment you’re not passionate about.

2. Stop trying to be perfect.

3. Implement a basic cleaning schedule.

4. Sign up for automatic billpay.

5. Automate a portion of your investing.

6. Clean out your media collection and keep only the items you love.

7. Plant perennials that will automatically bloom next spring.

8. Clean out your purse or wallet.

9. Put a paper shredder next to your mail spot.

10. Winnow your wardrobe down to pieces that work together.

11. Delete any social networking accounts you don’t actually use.

12. Add your number to the do-not-call list.

13. Create a car maintenance schedule and post it somewhere you’ll see it.

14. Design a filing system that you can stick to.

15. Start your day with a healthy meal.

16. Turn your phone off when you need quiet time.

17. Invest in a programmable thermostat.

18. Set one good goal, and go achieve it.

19. Record your good “shower” ideas and then implement them. (Don’t we all get our best inspirations in the shower?)

20. Write to a friend with (gasp!) pen and paper.

21. Set limits on your bad habits, and reward yourself when you stick with them.

22. Stop trying to be a saint and indulge yourself every once in a while.

23. Pay off your credit card debt.

24. Avoid watching commercials and reading advertisements.

25. Rediscover the pleasure of reading purely for enjoyment.

26. Plan two weeks of delicious meals ahead of time and skip the nightly grocery run.

27. Go to your doctor for a preventative checkup.

28. Remember the joys of doing nothing.

29. Singletask as much as possible.

30. Learn to ask for help.

Why are notes taken at a business meeting called “minutes”?

The reason the written records of a meeting are called the minutes is because, in order to keep up, the minute-taker wrote in a shorthand or abbreviation. The word used to describe this condensed writing was minute (my-noot), meaning “small,” and because the spelling is the same, the minutes (my-noots) became minutes. The same circumstances apply to Frederick Chopin’s Minute Waltz: It’s really his small or minute (my-noot) waltz.