The significant challenges that we face today cannot be resolved by the same level of thinking that created them.

Hi and welcome to today's issue of Keeping in Touch. A big, warm 'hello' to all our new subscribers.

It's great to be back and I'd like to wish all of you a very happy new year. It was great being able to spend some quality time with my husband as well as see just how wonderful this continent of ours truly is.

My husband, Jimm, is a long haul truck driver. I've been on a few short trips with him but never for a two week stretch. We headed to San Luis, Arizona which is just across the fence to the Mexican border. From there we headed up to Hayward in California. This trip took us through 13 different mountain ranges/passes and several deserts - each state offering something special and unique. It was awesome going from the high desert dunes in California to the orchards which were covered in a dark red blush which proved to be the new growth. And temperatures of 75°F was a touch of heaven. We had a fabulous time.

It also gave me a chance to better understand some of the challenges he faces in his line of work.

This is a time of year where we customarily set our resolutions for the coming year. Unfortunately, many times that's all that gets done. A resolution, a goal, must be followed through with an action step towards the goal you want to achieve.

Our Feature Article was written by Steve Pilkington and it's called It's What I Really Want. It's a fun article that offers a different perspective for those of you who just can't wait to grow up.

Our Special Feature comes to us from Doreene Clement who has written a special article called About Journaling. I like keeping a Journal and it can show your real measure of growth as you look back on what you've written from time to time.

Thank you for being faithful to KIT. I truly appreciate your feedback, comments and suggestions. You are what makes us great!

For some reason I have been having a problem with my mail today but this issue will get out to you today. Have a great day {FIRSTNAME} and keep on smiling.

Lois M. Jeary
Publisher, KIT and KIT Klassifieds
Contact Me http://www.home4success.com

I was talking with a friend the other day and in the course of our conversation he said something to the effect, "my dad was so right. When a man is not happy with his job it affects every other aspect of his life." He continued, "I hate my job, I despise everything about it. How in the world did I ever get so trapped." There was a look of desperation in his eyes.

That conversation set me thinking. When I was a kid and a teenager growing up, I couldn't wait to be grown and take on the world. Most of my teenage years were spent wishing I was an adult. Once I graduated high school, college was out of the question because I didn't want something like higher education interfering with my life plans. I wanted the responsibilities of adulthood because, most of all, it meant freedom! Freedom to do what I wanted, when I wanted and however I wanted. As an adult I could eat as many cookies as I chose to.

I've been a responsible adult and father now for more years than I care to remember. It ain't all it's cracked up to be. My wife and I have two grown children, one of which is a recent college graduate. Want to know what I've discovered? Responsibility is a heavy load to carry across the years.

I have therefore decided to officially resign from adulthood. Here are my car keys and house keys; here is my mortgage payment book; please take my laptop and palm organizer and disconnect me from the internet; also you can have my alarm clock and wrist watch; take my Mastercard, Visa and American Express. You can have my 401k...You can take my entire portfolio!

I hereby officially declare that I'm eight years old again living at home with mom and dad. This time around I'm not going to be in such a rush to grow up.

I want to run and splash in mud holes and make mud pies. I want to catch lightning bugs at twilight.

I want to eat chocolate candy and ice cream and let it melt all over my fingers. I want to catch tadpoles down at the creek. I want my mom to tuck me in and tell me a bedtime story. I want to crawl up into my dad's lap and have him hug me at Christmas time once again. I want to be a super hero and save the planet from destruction. I want to play with model trains and build model cars and planes. I want to play Little League baseball and smell, once again, the grass and dirt of spring time and hear the Ump yell , "Play ball!"

I want my childhood back with the chance to re-live it knowing what I know today. That's what I really want.

People don't believe me when I tell them this is what I really want. I have to go now. I think I hear the nurse coming down the hallway with my medication.

Steve Pilkington is a Personal Development Coach. You can subscribe to his FREE ezine "Create The Life You Are Meant To Live" by sening a blank email to: subscribe@lifecoachpro.net with "subscribe AA" in the subject line visit his website at: http://www.lifecoachpro.net

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When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
- Isak Dinesen

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
- Joshua J. Marine

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
- Denham

Your Journal, Your Journey, Your Story Keeping A Journal

Everyone has a story. Your experiences, your feelings, ideas, thoughts, and dreams all combine to form your life and your journey, which is your story. A great way to keep a relative reflection of all those things that have happened in your life is to keep a journal. A daily journal, a weekly journal, a month end summary journal, any or all these are ways you can keep track and record your experiences, your story.

Your story, your journal is all about whatever, whomever, however, whenever you want it to be about. YOUR journal can contain a word a day, a paragraph, or pages. You can write in YOUR journal every day, or you can write every week or every month. (Recently I did not journal for two months.) Some people have not journaled for years and then started again, when the time was right for them. Remember it is your journal, you choose when to write and when not to write.

YOUR journal contains whatever you want to write about - The beauty of the sunset you saw tonite, your concerns and hopes for your children, the joy and inspiration of the new art exhibit you just saw, your fear and excitement about what is happening in a relationship, how happy you are with your new assignment at work. Writing about whatever is important to you right then and there is journaling. There can be a theme to your journal, or not. I have written about soup, the weather, my self, my friends, and my dreams for the future. A journal, which is the same as a diary, is a place where you choose to store what is important to you.

The start of your journal can be any day of any year. The day you feel you want to start recording your experiences and thoughts is the perfect day to start journaling. It can be January 1, August 19, or today. There is no set time of year to begin a journal or to start to journal again. Some people like the idea of starting their journaling on January 1. They write their goals and ideas at the beginning of the year. Others like the idea of starting the very day it occurs to them that they want to write about their lives in a journal. Whatever you choose, it is the right way for you, and that is all that matters.

What you want to journal in is up to you. You may get a notebook, plain paper, or a blank book. You decide. What you want to write with, a pen or a pencil, is also up to you. I journal with a favorite pen that makes my writing easier for me because it "glides" across the paper. You can also record your journal on tape, video, or the computer. Writing letters can be another form of journaling your experiences. Another way to journal is to write daily on a calendar.

Remembering to take vitamins is hard for me to do everyday. Unless I set them somewhere that I will see them, I can easily forget to take them. The same is true for my journaling. So, I keep my journal on my desk where I will see it every day. For you, that place may be where you have coffee in the morning, your night stand, or by your exercise equipment. Keep it someplace where you will notice it every day.

You may want to have a special, secret place for your journal, so no one else can read it. You can keep it in a locked box, or tuck it away. You can also ask the people around you not to read your journal, as it is private and only concerns you. As you journal about specific events or people you can also use code words or symbols for those experiences. It is important that you feel safe as you write and express in your journal. Think about how you can create that safe space for yourself in your own environment.

There are many benefits from keeping a journal. They include reducing stress, help in setting daily and future goals, and help with the organization of your thoughts and planning your day. Journaling also helps you focus as you are putting in writing, making solid on the page, what you are thinking and feeling.

Write it down, get it out. A journal also creates a very helpful personal reminder. Keeping a journal of your story, your experiences and feelings about your life can improve your well-being, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Taking time every day or week for you, to sit and to write in your journal, makes time for you. You can give that to yourself. The written record of your story becomes a reassured keepsake, a written scrapbook of your life and times.

A place to start journaling
On a piece of paper, write your answers to the question,
"Which three words best describe how you are feeling right now?"
For example-happy, excited, positive
For example-nervous, tense, worried

When you are done writing, you have just journaled.

Writing, expressing, can heal us. It can focus, support, and enhance our lives and well-being. Whether we laugh or we cry, whether through sorrow or joy, we can understand more about ourselves, and each other, through keeping a journal.

With the passage of time, we gain a different perspective. Time is a healer. What was once hard, or unbearable, can now make more sense, giving us a clearer picture. Recording and tracking our lives by keeping a journal, can actually bring relief, clarity, joy, and laughter.

Copyright 1999, 2002 Doreene Clement All Rights Reserved

Doreene Clement is the creator of, The 5 Year Journal, a journal where you can journal your life in one book for 5 years. You can tour the book at www.the5yearjournal.com aboutjournaling@aol.com 480.423.8095

Add special characters to enliven your communications, such as email, with ease. Just follow these simple steps, and use whatever code you desire. It's a very cool way to create a stir amongst your friends. "Hey, how'd you do that?!" It's a secret, of course.

Special characters are created by pressing certain number combinations on the numeric keyboard in conjunction with the Alt key. For example, holding down Alt and pressing "0169" (without the quotes) will yield the copyright symbol: ©.

The symbol is not created until you've pressed the last numeric key! So, while holding down the Alt key, press zero, one, six, nine, and voila! You'll see the copyright symbol "©" appear.

One more interesting point...

If you select a font other than Arial, Courier New, or Times New Roman, you'll get even more options. You may have noticed there are two additional fonts in Windows that are kind of interesting. "Wingdings" and "Symbol." Let's say you're using Word or WordPerfect. Change the font to Wingdings. Then type the codes, and you'll see a totally new way of expressing yourself.

The code is called the "ANSI character set" by techies. ANSI stands for American National Standards Institute. Yea, it's exciting stuff!

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