7 Easy Tips On How To Live Green

Living green doesn't mean you have to wave goodbye to all the niceties and luxuries of modern life. In fact, once you start to investigate the advantages of living a greener life, you may well discover all sorts of extra pleasures. Your taste buds will certainly notice and it's highly likely your wallet will as well. There are plenty of things you can do which will help you to live green without total sacrifice. Here are seven tips that are quick and easy for you to implement. Most of them will barely change the way you operate but will help save the environment, especially if you can gradually persuade your friends to do the same things. 1. Re-use the bags you get every time you shop are good for more than one trip. Re-use them or, better yet, buy a "bag for life" and use that. Collectively, we use millions of plastic bags on a daily basis. Saving a couple bags here and there may not seem to make a difference, but as more and more people do this, the savings will mount up. 2. Re-cycle as much as you can. You probably already have a recycling collection service. If not, look out for recycling places local to you and drop off your newspapers, bottles, cans, etc next time you are passing. Don't make a special trip though. For larger items, if they're still usable then look up Freecycle for your local area. They offer a great way to give unwanted items a new, welcoming home. 3. Eat local produce. Especially if it's bought fresh from a Farmer's Market. You'll notice the difference in taste. And if you buy just what you need (rather than the supersize pack your grocery store normally sells) it probably won't cost much more. Plus you'll save all those miles that the often tasteless food your grocery store stocks has been forced to travel. 4. Turn off unused appliances at the socket. Standby mode still uses lots of energy. Cut your fuel bills by turning off televisions and other items when they're not in use. That includes your computer's monitor as well. Screensavers only stop the screen from getting burned in images. Energy saving mode cuts power usage but nowhere near as much as the on/off switch does. 5. Wash your clothes at a lower temperature. Modern detergents work fine at lower temperatures. Or throw away the detergent in favor of Eco washing balls, saving on the fossil fuels that are used for most modern detergents as well as cutting your washing costs without compromising wash quality. 6. Turn down your thermostat in the winter (and turn it up in the summer if you use air-conditioning). One or two degrees difference is barely noticeable, except when the fuel bill arrives. When you get used to the new, lower temperature, turn it down another degree or two! 7. Compost waste if you have a garden, saving on fertilizer cost and giving your plants a treatment they'll love.

Self Improvement , When We Believe We Become Remarkable!

“People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.” – Norman Vincent Peale I love Norman Vincent Peale’s style. He always made a person feel invited to the table so to speak. He appealed to the common everyday person, not just to the success hounds. Don’t take that the wrong way, I consider myself a bit of a success hound too. Success hounds are people who are attracted to any and all information having to do with success for the sake of success. Frankly not everybody is that way and that’s OK. That’s why Norman Vincent Peale’s style is so refreshing. He didn’t talk about success only because it wasn’t his only interest. In fact he was a minister most of his years for a number of churches spread across this great country of ours. His sermons were very unique, and people would come from all around to hear him speak about a new “positive” approach to modern living. His messages were mostly religious with psychological and business overtones; the opposite of what you might hear from people today such as Stephen Covey, or Zig Ziglar, or Wayne Dyer who speak to us from a business and psychological point of reference with religious overtones. Just listen to the opening words of the above quote for example. He says “people become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things.” What a universal appeal these words have and I am so glad I have found these words and can share them with you today. I want to share with you a personal experience tied in with this quote if I may. In 2003 I was diagnosed with a terrible disease which has progressively worsened taking my livelihood and most things I hold dear away from me. I am now disabled and find myself in a shell of a body that can no longer do too much but my mind races on with things I desire to do making my life just horrible as you could imagine. You would never know it by my articles that this is my situation would you? Here is where the miracle comes in. People really do become quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. I found this out just a few months ago when it dawned on me that I can do something really cool and great even though I am disabled. I can still write! All of a sudden like a bright light that went off in my head, I believed with a burning in my soul that I can write about all the things I have been teaching since I became a motivational speaker over 15 years ago. The juices began to flow again, coursing through my veins and filling me with enthusiasm, something I had not felt since 2005 when I all but gave up on myself. I actually started writing a year ago when I began my daily quotes web-site called http://www.cyreousquotes.com. But I did not recognize the potential I had till my youngest son who believed in me gave me a book to read and encouraged me to research again. Since then I began writing articles for reprint and I can not explain the metamorphosis I went through when it dawned on me that I can still do what I love doing in my life, just in a different way. I have since been approached by several publishers and we are talking about book-rights and such. For the first time since my disease diagnosis I am starting to feel like I have a future again and I have something to live for. I had all but given up with the exception of the website which kept me going for the last year. Norman Vincent Peale’s words reached me and touched my heart. “When they believe in themselves…” Yes when we believe in ourselves we can accomplish huge things, inconceivable things, glorious and monumental things. We can even begin living again in our limited shell of a body with limbs that don’t work and organs malfunctioning. None of that seems important now and I see them as mere shadows designed to distract me away from my God-Given purpose. “People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”

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