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Every day seems to bring more shocking news than the day before. Today has been no exception as the headlines are ablaze with one unbelievable story after another.

Are you becoming numb to the onslaught of violent and poor human quality exhibited in recent breaking news?

A mother rapes her daughter’s 14 year old friend, a man dressed as Santa kills nine people on Christmas Eve at a holiday party and now even Lee Anthony, brother of accused murderer Casey Anthony may even face charges.

Now more than ever people need to look deep inside for strength and stability. The pressure of a slow economy, job loss and the violent trend in attitude is fuel for imbalanced thought and reaction.

Our young people need us more than ever right now. They need real answers, real direction and effective guidance instead of empty promises or being ignored.

Instead the focus seems to be on what is politically correct and hollow endeavors that occupy our time and make us feel good without improving society.

I sincerely believe that we as responsible adults can truly make a difference. That we can be uplifting and inspirational to the youth that will be our future leaders. These crimes are the result of adults gone wrong.

Adults that for one reason or another either strayed from the proper path of quality living or formed their thought and decision processes improperly.

The skill of the parent is reflected in the quality of the child and the adult that results from that child. It is our responsibility to provide quality direction to developing children and also to be accountable in identifying and responding to imbalanced development in young adults.

Of course there will always be the exception to the rule, but the current pattern of violent crime and poor human decision doesn’t need to continue.

Make it your goal in life to elevate the quality of your living skills. Not just New Year’s resolutions, but real improvement in who you are and what you stand for. Raise your Human Thermostat and seek to improve the quality of your vales, principles and morals.

See your children through to adulthood and set the very best example possible each and every day. For it is through your example that children learn their most lasting lessons.

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Where is that elusive point when you have had all you can take and you snap mentally? What is it that will be the final straw and drive you over the edge and what would you do?

Bruce Pardo found that elusive point of madness. Something inside him snapped and he lost all control over his anger, rage and imbalanced form of reasoning.

Bruce went where few people have ever gone and didn’t live to return from that place. Nine other people also didn’t live to talk about what it was like to be confronted by someone beyond the brink of madness.

Each of us has a unique mental makeup and set of limitations on our ability to cope with the distress, stress and the pressures of living. Some have more strength than others.

When that point of enough is reached we change from normal and nice to nasty and uncontrollable. A person beyond the brink isn’t the person you once knew anymore. They have evolved into a creature driven by base desires and emotions often without sane reasoning and emotional attachment.

Many of the people who knew or spoke to Bruce Pardo just before his mad killing spree on Christmas Eve said he seemed nice and pretty much normal. However, a few hours later he had disintegrated into someone that would shoot an 8 year old child in the face without remorse on his way to fulfilling his need to kill those with whom he had issues.

Past feelings and emotions couldn’t stop him and neither could third degree burns. He was beyond the mere limits of normal human pain in a place where the brain shuts down everything except the intense focus on singular purpose.

It was a terrible event that is for certain. Terrible for the innocent people injured and killed and also terrible that something could drive someone like Bruce Pardo to commit such a crime.

Speaking to others I see nothing but seething hatred for Bruce Pardo and what he did, but we must always try to remember that except for a specific course of events it could have been any one of us standing in that doorway spewing flames and shooting people.

Until you have actually been there you can never say never and claim that you would or will not go beyond your sense of human reason.

Something snapped inside Bruce Pardo that day and it could happen to anyone at almost any time under the right circumstances.

The best defense is to vent your pressure. If you find yourself under extreme distress stop and take the time to talk it out with a friend, family member or seek out professional help. Don’t allow the stress and pressure to constantly build thinking that you can handle it all by yourself.

Once you step beyond the brink it’s simply too late.

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Breaking news that will stun you to the core if you only stop to think about what it means to this society and the safety of your family. The Caylee Anthony situation is much more than you realize.

People are we all going completely mad or what?

The news is simply full of stories that reflect how imbalanced and unstable those around us are becoming.

Casey Anthony is only the tip of the imbalanced iceberg. There are children from 8 to 18 shooting and killing their schoolmates and parents. How about the ex-state trooper who decided to shoot innocent people at traffic lights in Texas.

Now there are the stories of a man dressed in a Santa suit who decides to go on a murderous rampage at a Christmas Eve party and another man who calmly walks up the street to the local playground and beats two young boys to death with a metal baseball bat.

All this while we here at my offices practically beg people to IMPROVE their living skills.

It is imperative, no absolutely REQUIRED that we teach our children quality living skills and thought patterns and that we reject the current patterns of violence and indifference so often fostered in commercial games, videos and music.

The shocking truth is that Casey Anthony is nothing more than a reflection of more to come from other children as they bring into reality the poor decisions and actions lingering just below the surface of their thoughts.

Almost every day I am confronted by parents that tell me they don’t need the advice. They are doing just fine or that nothing is wrong only to call me a day, week or few months later crying the blues over a child or family member in trouble, injured or even dead.

We do need to change, radically and we need to change NOW.

I challenge you to make a difference instead of turning away again and ignoring the issue with indifference and denial. Alter the course of your family and children before it is simply too late for any of us to help.

I am practically begging you to make the change. Accept help from one of our Certified Private Life Mentors or even take the training and graduate into a profession as a CPLM.

Help yourself and others before you and your spouse become the parents of the next Casey Anthony or worse.

Please, please don’t turn away seeking out more entertaining tabloid news instead of learning from yesterday’s mistakes made by someone else. Don’t leave this message and move on claiming that it doesn’t apply to you or your family.

If you don’t think it can happen to your family you are DEAD wrong. None of the victims in the crimes described above throught it would happen to them or even saw it coming.

Pay attention, learn and live a better and safer lifestyle of happiness and fulfillment.

I am begging, pleading with you to listen and learn now!

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This year has been such an interesting and often distressing period with stories like Casey and Caylee Anthony and the downturn in the economy. It’s important that we focus on the truly vital things in life.

You don’t get what you expect, you get what you deserve. What do you deserve?

It’s important to understand that living is giving. Helping others is the essence of the living experience not constantly seeking to receive.

In helping others you strengthen your character, principles and overall value in life. That value is the source of all that you receive. People and yes, even companies look at your living value when defining their interaction with and support of you.

Often people try to purchase value. They buy new vehicles and decorate them with chrome, wheels, DVD systems and other features that REFLECT value, but these things are most often their attempt to disguise their feelings of weakness and insecurity.

The teen boy that is unpopular with girls cloaks his weaknesses and insecurities by surrounding himself with the fancy new car. Girls cloak their weaknesses and insecurities by developing a following of friends and a network of cell phone messages.

Road rage is created by people desperate to avoid insecure feelings of being weaker than the vehicle that just passed them. Regaining the lead position makes them feel they have overcome their weakness in their mind and the eyes of fellow drivers.

Casey Anthony hid her weaknesses and insecurity in the bright lights and wild times of nightclub fun.

Good living skills don’t just happen they are cultivated. Progress and good results in life are not chance, luck or fate, but rather the byproducts of quality decisions and actions.

Want to live a better life? Learn to improve your living skills.

Want to help other people live a better life? Learn to help them improve their living skills.

Our Certified Private Life Mentor ( CPLM ) class lessons teach people to develop a profession of sharing quality living skills.

Life isn’t what you expect or want it to be. It’s what you make it and deserve.

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At a time of year when any normal young person her age should be at home with her family Casey Anthony sits in jail waiting for the legal storm gathering just over the horizon.

Meanwhile there is one bright spot in this tragic story of desire gone awry. The body of Caylee Anthony was found and has come home to her family for the holiday season.

Yes, it’s a sad moment to experience during the holiday season and one that most people would rather not go through, but nonetheless it is an end to the search. An end to the not knowing where little Caylee was and what happened to her.

It has also brought out the feelings in people as they drop flowers, balloons and stuffed animals at her memorial. It is a time of remembrance for a beautiful little girl with an all too short life.

Here is an interesting test of your mettle. Can you forgive Casey Anthony or the person responsible for the crime? If you can, if you can find true absolute forgiveness in your heart and thoughts you are one step closer to being a person with quality living skills.

For you see there are three things that define a person of true character.

Belief
The ability to have complete unwavering belief or faith in what you consider real, true and important. Be it your religion, values or principles you must have strong belief that it is right and just.

Forgiveness
The ability to completely cut yourself free from all of the unforgiving strings that connect to the issues you have held like a canopy overhead relating to anyone or anything that you feel has wronged you in any way.

Gratitude
The ability to be truly grateful for what you actually have and not desirous and filled with envy over the things that others have.

Once you can master these three points you are free. Free from the manmade pain and discomfort that so many try to drown out or deal with through anger, greed or the constant search for meaning.

Can you find it in your hearth to wish Casey Anthony a Merry Christmas and forgive her for anything she has or may have done? Or will you be simply another victim caught in the grip of bitter feelings and misguided vengeance?

Only you know the answer to that question.

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First of all we would like to take this opportunity to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your support. Your solidarity has helped maintain our strength and our hope - especially at this difficult time of year.

A quick update on what has been happening:

As you may have seen in the media, the Portuguese authorities have lifted our ‘arguido’ status and in July 2008 closed the investigation to find Madeleine. It is therefore even more important now that we, Madeleine’s family, do everything we possibly can to try and find our little girl.

Reassuringly, we know that there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever to suggest that Madeleine has been seriously harmed (and this has been further confirmed after studying the recently released Portuguese police files). In light of this, we passionately believe that there is a very strong likelihood that Madeleine is out there and can be found.

With your support we will NEVER give up looking for Madeleine.

Like any family who suddenly find themselves in such a confusing and terrifying situation, we don’t know if any of us could have got through all this without the support of people like you. So thank you so much for your help. Without your prayers and efforts, the confusion, isolation and heartache our family has faced would have been so much harder.

Yours sincerely

Gerry and Kate McCann

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What you are about to read may seem shocking to some and emotional to others, but I assure you that once you read it you will never be the same. I know I haven’t been since experiencing the event.

How can I say that? Because once an emotion is triggered, once a thought is generated it changes the person in ever so slight a way. It lights a spark within that instinctive human need inside each of us to do the right thing and help our fellow man.

I travel extensively and was due to see Glenn Beck in his final performance of The Christmas Sweater in Charleston, S.C. on Wednesday evening.

After two weeks away from my family I wanted to leave my home studio and travel back to our home in North Carolina with enough time to see my girls off to school and a bit of rest before trekking to Glenn’s show.

So at 2:30 am I was off and a little more than four hours later was pulling up into our driveway.

Nothing says more than the look in a child’s eyes when you truly care for them and their interests.

After a few hours of rest I was again on the road headed toward Charleston. After about 150 miles I stopped to get fuel. After I got out of my vehicle another car pulled up to the pumps.

The vehicle was a little rough and missing some hubcaps and the man that emerged was somewhat tattered and dirty. He circled his car in almost helpless confusion for a moment or so and then approached me.

He told me he was travelling to Charleston and simply didn’t have any more money and wanted to know if I could spare him a few dollars of gas so that he could get back to his family.

Now, I’d heard the story before, but something else in this man’s eyes told me his words came from the heart and not from greed or lazy intentions.

So I did pump some fuel into his car, but before he could turn to leave I took him by the shoulder with one hand looked him in the eyes and said;

Now you must repay me for the favor. A puzzled look can over his face, but I continued.

Maybe not today, but tomorrow or soon YOU must do something for another person. Not just some simple act like picking something up or holding a door open, but rather something that takes some effort or commitment on your part.

You must find it in your heart to return this good deed to another. I cannot tell you when, but you’ll know when the time is right. You must promise me that.

He looked directly in my eyes and I could see tears welling up as he promised he would and wished me a Merry Christmas as he got into his car and drove away.

I fueled up and after lingering a while I was back on the road.

The weather was foggy, chilly and raining at times and after about 20 minutes of driving I noticed another vehicle stopped on the side of the interstate highway. Inside trying to stay warm was a woman that appeared to be easily in her 70’s and outside kneeling by the front of her car in the misty rain was the man I had helped earlier.

He had stopped for her and was now changing her very flat tire in the rain.

I made it to the show that night and listened to the message of hope and inspiration that Glenn offered and after a few minutes of chatter afterward with the show’s producer Don Brenner and congratulating Glenn on a wonderful performance I was once again back on the road heading toward home and my family.

However, my mind kept going back to the look in that man’s eyes and the sight of him kneeling in the rain to help that elderly woman.

I want to challenge you. If you are reading this message I want to ask you to do the same. To go out today, tomorrow or whenever the opportunity and need is before you and do just one good thing, one truly good deed for another person.

Then look them directly in the eyes and ask that they do the same for another.

Create a chain of good deeds that passes from person to person. And if you feel so inclined please share this written story message with another person. It is my gift to you and to all the other people that we can reach out to in their time of need.

The spirit of giving is the greatest gift we have to offer.

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You’ve seen the news, who hasn’t, and by now many people have become emotionally invested in the case of little Caylee Anthony. After all these months her mother Casey Anthony gives us valuable clues.

Valuable clues that we should be aware of and seriously considering instead of totally focusing on only the sensational aspects of the case.

Clues and facts like:

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The news is full of billions of dollars of bailout requests and plans for corporations and financial institutions, but where are the bailouts for the average person like me and you? There are options if you read on.

We hear about a new corporate or bank bailout almost every day, but nothing for the average hard working American that makes up the core consumer market.

Oh, there is some news for you this morning. How about credit card companies jacking up their interest rates on people already strapped with job loss, mortgage concerns and few places to turn for help. That should help you out a lot.

Don’t despair, there are a few people out there that still care. Overstock.com just announced a $50,000 give away bailout for a customer family. I sure there are others and we would love to hear about them if you know of anything that might help those families in need.

We just started accepting application resumes for our 2009 Certified Private Life Mentor CPLM program and the responses have been, well, just amazing.

In September of this year we took the old program and went back to the drawing board to improve it and mainly to reduce the cost to make it available to all in this sagging economy.

I am so pleased with the new design and the 44% tuition reduction. It is something I take great pride in because there can never be a greater gift than helping people and teaching them to help others.

Being able to truly touch people and change their lives is simply amazing.

I cannot put into words what it feels like when someone looks at you with tears in their eyes and explains how your influence has saved their life. It is something you simply have to experience.

My hope, my dream is that every person that graduates as a CPLM will one day experience that moment and feeling.

Meanwhile, if you happen to know of any funding or program that is available to help families in need please feel free to share them with us. Simply comment and my producers will be sure to moderate the information onto this blogcast.

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The discussion of the past week has shifted to the human remains that were located and yet to be identified as Caylee Anthony. There is one critical question that will provide many answers.

Why were the remains located in that particular place? A location so close to the home of Casey Anthony’s parents.

The fact that Casey went to school nearby and knew the area has been pointed out as has her uneasy response to her father about his going into the trunk of her vehicle.

Perhaps, just perhaps if Casey did place those remains there she did so in a state of panic. Obviously the remains were in a bad state based on the smell in the trunk.

Perhaps in her desperation to remove them quickly she simply went just down the street and quickly dashed them out into a wet flood zone hoping they’d never be found.

Could she see at night in that tree lined area well enough to go into the wet darkness? Was she brazen enough to carry the remains in during the daylight or early evening hours that held risk of being seen by someone passing by?

It will be so interesting to see the answers as they unfold in this case.

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