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The Art of Manliness is a great blog for men.  Thanks for the good work guys.

There, I found this gem from way back in 1905 about the Greatness Of Simplicity. (exerpted from the book “Self-Control, Its Kingship and Majesty” by William George Jordan)  The language is definitely old school, but the message is timeless.

“No character can be simple unless it is based on truth—unless it is lived in harmony with one’s own conscience and ideals. Simplicity is the pure white light of a life lived from within. It is destroyed by any attempt to live in harmony with public opinion.
Public opinion is a conscience owned by a syndicate,—where the individual is merely a stockholder. But the individual has a conscience of which he is sole proprietor. Adjusting his life to his own ideals is the royal road to simplicity.
Affectation is the confession of inferiority; it is an unnecessary proclamation that one is not living the life he pretends to live…”

“The longest Latin derivatives seem necessary to express the thoughts of young writers. The world’s great masters in literature can move mankind to tears, give light and life to thousands in darkness and doubt, or scourge a nation for its folly,—by words so simple as to be commonplace. But transfigured by the divinity of genius, there seems almost a miracle in words…”

“The individual can attain self-control in great things only through self-control in little things. He must study himself to discover what is the weak point in his armor, what is the element within him that ever keeps him from his fullest success.

This is the characteristic upon which he should begin his exercise in self-control. Is it selfishness, vanity, cowardice, morbidness, temper, laziness, worry, mind-wandering, lack of purpose?—whatever form human weakness assumes in the masquerade of life he must discover. He must then live each day as if his whole existence were telescoped down to the single day before him.

With no useless regret for the past, no useless worry for the future, he should live that day as if it were his only day,— the only day left for him to assert all that is best in him, the only day left for him to conquer all that is worst in him. He should master the weak element within him at each slight manifestation from moment to moment. Each moment then must be a victory for it or for him.

Will he be King, or will he be slave?—the answer rests with him.”

Would you like to read the whole book?  Good Ol’ Google scanned it for you.  Get it here. You can download it as a PDF.  You know…around the turn of the last century, it seems like a lot of timeless material was written for us to discover now.  ”It Works” by  R.H. Jarrett and many others seem to distill the great lessons of life into a fine wine of meaningful thoughts.

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    Tonight, I’d like to share some other tools that have helped me out during the last year.  Take a look at them and see if you can use them to help your operation.
    Microsoft charges a lot of money for Office, even the Student and Home version.  If you want a good set of Office-like tools that costs zero dollars, look no further than Google Docs.  One big advantage is that Google Docs makes it easy to collaborate with others on a project without having to send files back and forth. The lastest revision always loads and the program makes all your revisions available, just in case you make a mistake.
    Another plus is that since your projects are stored for you by Google, you can work from any internet connected computer.  Read more about it here: http://docs.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=15114
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    Wink is a freeware product, designed as Tutorial and Presentation software. With it, you can capture screenshots, add titles, create explanation boxes, record audio as you  go, and more.  It works on all versions of Windows and some versions of Linux.
    Wink will create presentations in the Flash format, EXE, PDF, PostScript, HTML.  It is really a useful tool.
    Find out more here: http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
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    Sherry’s Index [ http://d21c.com/Sherry727/pages/altindex2.html ] has a lot of things you can use as a webmaster or a gardener.  Really, it has a ton of stuff all on one page.  Follow this link to her terrific reference page! Just go there. You’ll love it. http://d21c.com/Sherry727/pages/newnewreference.html
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    http://sendible.com touts itself as a complete messaging platform.  Sendible lets you reach all your contacts from one place through email, sms, and social network messaging.  You can use the free account or upgrade for more messages and contacts.  A very handy service.
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    OK.  Now it’s up to you.  Use these sites to make your life easier and your business more profitable.
    P.S.  Eddie, I know the newsletter is a week late.  I’m sorry.  It’ll be ready in a few days.

    Tonight, I’m in the Twin Cities, MN.  It’s supposed to snow a little overnight, but nothing like what’s going to hit Iowa.

    Hey.  I’ve gotta say it…How ‘Bout Them Hawkeyes at the Orange Bowl!?  What a team.  What a game.

    I’d like to share more tools that have helped me during the last year.  Try them and see if you can use them to help your operation.

    Microsoft charges a lot of money for Office, even the Student and Home version.  If you want a good set of Office-like tools that costs zero dollars, look no further than Google Docs.  One big advantage is that Google Docs makes it easy to collaborate with others on a project without having to send files back and forth. The lastest revision always loads and the program makes all your revisions available, just in case you make a mistake.

    Another plus is that since your projects are stored for you by Google, you can work from any internet connected computer.  Read more about it here: http://docs.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=15114

    Need more power than what Google gives you?  then get Open Office.  It’s a free program that replaces Office. www.openoffice.org.  Nice.

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    Wink is a freeware product, designed as Tutorial and Presentation software. With it, you can capture screenshots, add titles, create explanation boxes, record audio as you  go, and more.  It works on all versions of Windows and some versions of Linux.

    Wink will create presentations in the Flash format, EXE, PDF, PostScript, HTML.  It is really a useful tool.

    Find out more here: http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

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    Sherry’s Index has a lot of things you can use as a webmaster or a gardener.  Really, it has a ton of stuff all on one page.  Follow this link to her terrific reference page! Just go there. You’ll love it.

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    http://sendible.com touts itself as a complete messaging platform.  Sendible lets you reach all your contacts from one place through email, sms, and social network messaging.  You can use the free account or upgrade for more messages and contacts.  A very handy service.

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    OK.  Now it’s up to you.  You can use these sites to make your life easier and your business more profitable. ..or you can watch some more TV

    P.S.  Eddie, I know the LifestyleDesignPartners newsletter is a week late.  I’m sorry.  It’ll be ready in a few days.

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