Roz on All Levels

Things just fell into place for me to write this Blog post today, so I’m supposing it is the right thing to do!  I even found an appropriate quotation by randomly opening my gratitude book– go figure!

“Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.
Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so.
One day I shall dig my nails into the earth,
or bury my face in the pillow,
or stretch myself taut,
or raise my hands to the sky and want,
more than all the world, your return.”
— Mary Jean Iron

If you’ve been following along… besides the normal daily drama, I’ve been going through lots of technical issues — and losing lots and lots of sleep and patience.  Like everything else, one thing gets solved, another takes its place.  The object is to roll with the punches and keep balanced, but  how does one do that? 

For me it is to take a deep breath, walk away and get back to basics.  What is basic for me may not be basic for you, everyone is different.  For me basics means different things at different times.  I’m feeling spiritually balanced at this moment, so for me back to basics today was to have lunch and plop myself down in front of the TV to catch up with my favorite soaps.

WELL there is more… 

I decided to do some decluttering and plow through a bunch of junk mail and papers I no longer needed.  That would have been mindless, but my shredder broke and until one goes on sale, I’m doing it the old fashioned way!

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO…  I sat for one hour “manually” furiously ripping and tearing everything into shreds – being what I like to call “destructively productive.”

You know what?  By the time I got done I was feeling calmer and more than a little contented knowing I actually did something I’d been meaning to do — declutter and file — while destressing in the process! You gotta love it!

Had my spirit been bruised…  I’d have picked an appropriate spiritual CD set and took myself for a walk. OR, grabbed my camera and just walked until I found something to photograph!  Today, I just felt like being alone with me!

What Do You Do to Get Back On Track?

What do you do when you are feeling frustrated and need some de-stressing?

COMMENTS

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Say Thank You

Let’s make it a point to “Thank at least one person a day!”

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Luv & Hugs,

Roz Fruchtman
http://www.SayItWithEcards.com

The – in the title is NOT a hyphen. It was typed with ASCII code ALT 0150 on numerical keyboard.

This is a fun post that I hope will get some interesting comments.   What does Friday the 13th mean to you? Are you superstitious? 

I suppose — at least for me — as one gets older and more realistic one becomes less superstitious (or do they)?

Although I won’t walk under a ladder if I can help it and am not too happy when a mirror breaks, I do my best to not give into the bad luck thing. 

This is a silly one.  At one time…  If I found coins that were “tails up” I would NOT pick them up.  Yet IF I found bills, heads or tails did not matter.   TODAY… I pick it all up as long as it is money and consider it “good luck, whether heads of tails.”  After all, it was there, I found it…  “so isn’t that good luck?”  I once found a $20 bill getting off the bus.  Oddly enough earlier I had lost my own MTA (bus card) with almost $20 on it!

What does this Friday the 13th mean to me?

I’m hoping for a relaxing day.  My site was hacked earlier this week.  It’s fixed now, and I’m looking forward to some rest and relaxation — no matter what the date is. 

IN FACT… I’m looking forward to lots of good luck!  What about you? 

What are you thinking about this Friday the 13th?

COMMENTS

I would love to hear your thoughts and comments on the subject.  Please type them in the Comments Box below. I look forward to sharing with you. Let’s create a “community of encouragement and inspiration!”

Say Thank You

Let’s make it a point to “Thank at least one person a day!”

THANK “YOU” for taking the time to read this.  I hope you will click on one of the buttons below the post to share it with others!

LET’s CONNECT

Follow Me on Twitter
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Be My Friend on Facebook
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Luv & Hugs,

Roz Fruchtman
http://www.SayItWithEcards.com

How are you on commitments? Do you put yourself first?

Are  you more dedicated to keeping commitments with others than with yourself? 

There is something wrong with this picture IF you continually put others before yourself.  YOU are the MOST IMPORTANT person TO YOU! (Or you should be!)

If we do not take care of ourselves there will be very little to share with others?

If we do not keep our commitments to ourselves eventually it will take its toll on who we are. 

After 911 I experienced the darkest time of my life.  Sure we all had sadness, some more than others.  As a New Yorker and one who was caught in the Manhattan lockdown and had to walk miles to get home, I still cannot talk about 911 without getting choked up, but it was more than that.

Right before 911 I had lost a nice amount of weight.  I can’t remember now… maybe 20 or 25 pounds or so.  AFTER 911 I gained it all back.  Now I had to lose it again as everything was tight and I was not comfortable – in fact I was miserable. I did not want to buy bigger clothes.  The only problem was…

Anything I promised myself I did not follow through.  IF I went on a diet it would last a week or two, if I said I was going to exercise, that too did not last for long.

I always considered myself a survivor, someone who was strong, but…   because of my own lack of commitment to myself during this period… Eventually I felt like such a disappointment to myself that my self esteem and confidence was in the toilet.

When I did my first Tony Robbins program I turned that all around.  I began to walk at least five days a week.  I remember marking off the calendar on the fridge.  I began to watch what I ate and lost the weight (I  need to do that once again), I began to feel good about me BECAUSE this was “all about me!” You know how people say:  “IT IS ‘NOT’ ALL ABOUT YOU!”  Well that was and I was PROUD OF IT!

My point, WE “ALL” need to put “ourselves on top of our TO DO Lists!”

I am sitting here now, almost 3:00 am writing three blog posts because of a commitment I made to write 5 blog posts a week for 30 days. 

While I made the commitment to write the blog posts to Faith Barnard’s 30-Day Blogging Challenge Group on Facebook, the biggest commitment was the one I made to myself!

I had wanted to work on three blogs at the same time, but I think this one, where I can express myself and perhaps inspire and encourage others is the most important one to start with.

JOIN ME in “making YOU the MOST IMPORTANT person TO YOU!

COMMENTS

I would love to hear your thoughts and comments on the subject.  Please type them in the Comments Box below. I look forward to sharing with you. Let’s create a “community of encouragement and inspiration!”

Say Thank You

Let’s make it a point to “Thank at least one person a day!”

THANK “YOU” for taking the time to read this.  I hope you will click on one of the buttons below the post to share it with others!

LET’s CONNECT

Follow Me on Twitter
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Be My Friend on Facebook
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Connect With Me On LinkedIn
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Luv & Hugs,

Roz Fruchtman
http://www.SayItWithEcards.com

 OMG, My Website Was Hacked!!!

I started this Blog post Tuesday evening without a care in the world, well nothing major anyway, but it seems the Internet Gods had something else in store for me.

Lo in behold in the middle of writing I received three back-to-back emails from Google.  Why on earth would Google write to little old me?  Well… Google wrote to let me know my site had been hacked and they were putting up a notice each time someone clicked on my link through their search engine to alert visitors of a possible Malware attack.  Something like “BEWARE Malware ~ DO NOT WALK, RUN AWAY!” (Google DID NOT say this exactly, but it was close!)

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AUTHOR’S NOTE:  Now that it is fixed, I can afford to be humorous. This was serious and NOT a joke.

Google was VERY kind, professional and helpful with instructions on what to do AND how to get it FIXED QUICK!

THANK YOU Google ~ IF it were not for you I would NOT know there was a problem because somehow I could NOT see it.  My site looked perfectly normal TO ME!!!  That’s yet another story as it seems all browsers and AntiVirus software is not created equal!

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IS THIS FOR REAL? Am I A Victim of a Scammer, Am I Being Spammed or Worse Yet, Is This Phishing?

My first thought was:  Is this real?  OR, was I being phished, scammed or spammed?   FOR REAL ~ My website was hacked!

AUTHOR’S NOTE: I am thrilled to report… My site has been cleaned and is  now working properly.  Google worked their magic by removing the dreaded Malware Notice in less than 12 hours.  Amazing to say the least ~THANK YOU GOOGLE!!!

WHAT’S GRATITUDE GOT TO DO WITH IT?

How does this relate to gratitude?  Who would be grateful to have their website and business hacked?  Good questions…  You asked, I’ll tell!

My website ~ Say It With eCards at http://www.SayItWithEcards.com is a Judaic eCards website.  In less than four weeks Rosh Hashanah 5771, the Jewish New Year begins.  This is a busy time for my site.  It’s a time when the site gets the most visitors in a six week period!

Imagine if my site would have gotten hacked THEN rather than NOW? OMG!

So although I was not quite sure what would happen and how this hacking stuff would all shake out, I was grateful — IF it had to happen at all — it was BETTER NOW rather than THEN.

There is a lot more to follow on my site hacking adventure, so stay tuned.  I felt a little guilty falling behind on Wednesday’s Blog post as I AM a member of the Faith Barnard’s 30-Day Blogging Challenge on Facebook and planned on having my Wednesday’s Blog Post on Tuesday night to be ahead of the game for Wednesday!  As they say… “Better late than never!”

COMMENTS

I would love to hear your thoughts and comments on the subject.  Please type them in the Comments Box below. I look forward to sharing with you. Let’s create a “community of encouragement and inspiration!”

Say Thank You

Let’s make it a point to “Thank at least one person a day!”

THANK “YOU” for taking the time to read this.  I hope you will click on one of the buttons below the post to share it with others!

LET’s CONNECT

Follow Me on Twitter
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Be My Friend on Facebook
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Luv & Hugs,

Roz Fruchtman
http://www.SayItWithEcards.com