tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152656832024-03-06T22:50:14.796-05:00Me, Myself, and MineThoughts from a Follower of Jesus, both inspired and not, for your reaction as we journey along together!
“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.” – Ursula K. LeGuin (1929- ) U.S authorGaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-1123693163419062542011-03-02T19:30:00.000-05:002011-03-02T19:15:50.448-05:00Welcome!Gary F. PattonGaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-69388930868256646482011-03-02T19:11:00.004-05:002011-03-02T20:11:32.736-05:00Finding Extra Time, SB 2011-03-02Another Patton Associates S-M-A-R-TBriefing™"Three Easy Steps to Finding Extra Time"by: Gary F. Patton (gfp '42™)1 Have you noticed that when a big crisis hits, poor time utilizers always seem to manage to make time to deal with it. Why is that do you think? Maybe it's because the problem that has reared its ugly head is perceived as crucial, eh?“Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-70567469505591712602011-01-19T16:33:00.001-05:002011-01-19T16:33:32.383-05:00Best, Stop Trying to be theAnother Patton Associates S-M-A-R-TBriefing™"Striving to Be 'The Best' is Overrated & Not Smart"by: Gary F. Patton (gfp '42™)1 Many so-called gurus argue that you need to be substantially better than everyone else in your field to be successful and make money. As a people development specialist, I say that's nonsense. You really only need to be Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-13911732151820651332011-01-19T16:31:00.001-05:002011-01-19T16:31:33.316-05:00Stress Management Made EasyAnother Patton Associates S-M-A-R-TBriefing™ "Dis-Stress Control Made Easy"by: Gary F. Patton (gfp '42™)1 Do you find yourself worrying? Facing a serious challenge? Or struggling with a person or situation that's causing you to feel 'stressed'. If so, here is good news for you ..."Any thought that contains love has a Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-38912313350886637192010-12-04T17:54:00.002-05:002010-12-05T16:39:04.776-05:00Strengths & Liabilities, PersonalAnother Patton Associates S-M-A-R-TBriefing™"Your Strengths Can Turn into Liabilities"by: Gary F. Patton (gfp '42™) 1 What are your principal strengths? You're wise to be very clear about what they are because they complement your value. And you'll usually have more than one!Call it too much of a good thing, if you will! But, when you overuse one of your strengths, use one exclusively or use anyGaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-76730954364507547642010-06-29T14:17:00.002-04:002010-06-29T14:23:37.970-04:00Wordle Cloud ExamplesCity of Wimps by Jonathan Kay Only in Toronto could isolated spasms of political protest drive a whole population into a state of collective hysteriaYou'll find a Wordle for the following article at http://is.gd/d9246When I was covering the riots at the Summit of The Americas in Quebec City eight years ago, the most useful data came through my nose: If I smelled tear gas in the air, I would Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-88302645404400872562010-06-18T08:36:00.000-04:002010-06-19T08:45:41.111-04:00Love's Power ...A New Approach to Stress ManagementAnother Patton Associates S-M-A-R-TBriefing™The Power of Loveby: Gary F. Patton (gfp '42™)The Beatles were right! "All we need is love!"That's because love is the most powerful force in the universe ...in your home, your workplace and in your neighbourhood. Recurring research proves it.For you business people who doubt my linking the words 'love' and 'workplace', here's what one top management Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-17440590207570750172010-06-11T17:29:00.002-04:002010-06-11T17:35:39.885-04:00Breakthrough ThinkingAnother Patton Associates S-M-A-R-TBriefing™"Breakthrough Thinking® ...Adding Distinctive Value To Your Business & Life"by: Gary F. Patton (gfp '42™) Your Challenge"Change is constant and inevitable. Improvement and growth are optional!" ~ gfp '42™Every day, in service centers, offices, factories and homes, people try to solve problems. Yet, more often than not, their "solutions" are Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-34552249910078474762010-06-09T10:47:00.006-04:002010-06-09T11:09:41.690-04:00Industrial Wind Turbines ...Not GreenThe Trouble with Industrial Wind Turbinesby: Michael SpencleyIndustrial Wind Turbines (ITWs) are not just a "green-washed" tax grab by governments. They are a real problem in many community areas ...including:IWTs are not 'green'. (Spain's CO2 emissions are up 50% with its subsidized "green jobs" program.)IWTs do not create jobs. (2.2 jobs were destroyed for every so-called “green job” created inGaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-11760153162871801312010-06-04T20:44:00.004-04:002010-06-10T11:31:56.367-04:00A Huge Interpersonal Communication ProblemAnother Patton Associates S-M-A-R-TBriefing™“The Dangers of Billy-Goating”by: Gary F. Patton (gfp '42™)Might you be using a word repeatedly that is interfering with your ability to communicate effectively? The dangerous word to which I refer is ‘but’. This little word can severely damage your oral communication as well as your letter, e-mail or Blog/Web site writing.You'll hopefully permit me to Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-56023107082029030402010-06-02T16:20:00.007-04:002010-06-04T21:07:25.058-04:00Adverse Health Effects & Industrial Wind TurbinesBy: Carmen Krogh A Snapshot · From Health Canada: ‘…there are peer reviewed scientific articles indicating that wind turbines may have an adverse impact on human health.’[1] · Not every one gets sick. However, from a population stand point, those at risk include: healthy people; people with pre-existing health problems.[2] ·Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-32150074589385504692010-02-15T17:47:00.005-05:002010-02-17T18:33:05.064-05:00Iran's is a Dangerous RegimeFebruary 11, 2010 marked the 31st anniversary of the Iranian Revolution.Some of you are old enough to remember the terrifying, daily headlines about the threats to the lives of the Americans who were kept hostage by Iranian terrorists in the U.S.'s own Embassy ...for months after the riots broke out in Tehran.Remember an Embassy is a place of safety and refuge for foreigners in civilized, and Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-81324159474691702112008-11-23T18:36:00.006-05:002009-01-13T18:23:34.632-05:00Virtual Boyfriend / Girlfriend Anyone?Have you thought maybe, just maybe, that Web 2.0, despite its purported relation-promoting interactivity is reducing people's personal interaction skills ...particularly those of GenYs?Might Web 2.0 be turning you and old into relational cripples in real interpersonal situations? Worry on, then! For you will be sure to find scary, as I do, the new rage sweeping Japan's teenage girls.Webkare, WebGaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-68807145451247327742008-09-19T11:07:00.015-04:002008-11-24T16:10:43.230-05:00Have You Tweet, Tweeted Today?No I'm not asking if you listened to the birds today. Or sung in the shower or somewhere. One 'Tweets' when they send a message to the 'Tweetverse' using 'Twitter'. And for those of you who think I'm kidding using these 'cutesy' terms, Twitter has a whole vocabulary, and even a 'Twictionary' of its own.Twitter is a two-year-old, free micro-blogging site that is racking up high-profile enthusiastsGaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-88676455989600166352008-08-03T07:47:00.007-04:002009-01-13T18:17:52.571-05:00Seniors Tap into TextingWhat do you think about the title of the above article from the August 1st Washington Post here? Is this your experience?I'm one of the supposed 50% of those over 65 who have a cell Phone. And one of the only 2% who have a PDA. And I'm not texting. I use the phone, e-mail and three different social networks ...FaceBook, FriendFeed, Linked-in, Plaxo and Twitter.Why do I need to thumb on a ity-bityGaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-31083504509161714122008-07-05T13:12:00.006-04:002008-07-05T16:35:35.936-04:00Does Henry Morgentaler Deserve the Order of Canada?Quick, name one thing that's more contentious in Canada than abortion? Varying political views you might answer? Or religion? Or how to approach terrorism?All these may be inappropriate in 'polite company' some may argue. But, they all seem to pale in contentiousness beside the question of whether or not one agrees that a fertilized egg in the womb is a incipient human being and to cause that Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-32877688281839731342008-06-21T17:25:00.007-04:002008-12-10T21:04:07.574-05:00The "greening" of CanadaWith considerable fanfare the Liberal Party of Canada announced it's new "Carbon Tax" on June 20, 2008. It will serve as the core of Mr. Dion's platform for the next Federal election in 2009.You'll be hit with a flood of Liberal propaganda about it over the coming weeks and months leading up to the coming election.What's a carbon tax all about? Is it good for Canada's economy? Will it help us Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-62747339919554198882008-06-10T10:46:00.005-04:002008-12-10T21:04:07.706-05:00Might Global Warming Be an Attack on the Traditional Family?How do you feel about the threat of 'Global Warming'? How about abortion and population control? And what about the so-called threat to the traditional family? The lunacy of the 'left'? Or the 'right'?No matter what your views might be on one or all of these important subjects, be prepared to exercise your emotions as you read the column by Mr. Don Feder called "Global Warming - Left's Latest Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-7078190208202993382008-05-22T18:43:00.005-04:002008-12-10T21:04:07.826-05:00Is Canada Really A Wallflower at UN Dance?What do you think about the U.N.? How about our participation in it? Might you think we should have pushed harder for a so-called 'coveted seat' on the UN Security Council ...despite the various costs to Canada, it's reputation and the values of many of it's citizens?Well, Lynda Hurst lamented we should have in her news feature in the Toronto Star on May 20th. She extensively quoted Paul Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-52713523294074966312008-03-12T11:34:00.011-04:002008-12-10T21:04:07.991-05:00Chuck Norris Takes On Oprah"For years, Chuck Norris has been a vigilante for justice, rounding up the bad guys in various films and TV shows such as 'Walker, Texas Ranger'. Recently, he embarked on a whole new crusade – challenging TV’s resident daytime diva, Oprah Winfrey. In a WorldNetDaily exclusive commentary this week, Norris authored 'Oprah’s New Easter', addressing her recent and ongoing promotion of spiritual Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-37247315435560814452008-02-23T16:15:00.012-05:002008-12-10T21:04:08.180-05:00"The Shack"Have you read an incredible book lately? One that makes you tingle? I just finished doing so. And I want to recommend The Shack to you ...unconditionally!The Shack is a Christian book written by a Canadian Follower of Jesus.Three of this book's many endorsements will tell you more, more concisely than I can. And they're from people with more influence to motivate you than I have: "When the Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-20617567368007784462007-12-01T10:49:00.002-05:002008-12-10T21:04:08.380-05:00Frustrated by Those Who Change Their E-Mail Address More Often Than You Do Your Underwear?If you are, take heart! Your salvation is at hand!Throughout e-mail's evolution, it has maintained two distinct differences from the systems it seeks to supplant. Unlike the telephone, there is no so-called, master directory of e-mail addresses. And unlike snail mail system, once you change addresses, messages are not forwarded to a new location.There is a request in the U.S. before the Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-20344682898331069022007-11-29T21:11:00.004-05:002008-12-10T21:04:08.641-05:00Stem Cell Research BreakthroughFor those of you who may not have seen the announcement in your local paper, there has been a confirmed breakthrough in this morally "dicey" area. It does not seem to be part of a campaign to raise funds for further research as too many of these kind of announcements seem to be.A group of researchers announced that they had "...successfully reprogrammed human skin cells into cells Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-68098733428106124812007-11-27T17:57:00.001-05:002008-03-07T17:49:50.423-05:00So, What's The Big Deal About Illegal Immigration?You may change your mind or become more concerned, depending on your current opinion, after reading this short article.In the U.S., illegal immigration is currently a hotly debated topic. In Canada, my country, it's a big yawn issue for the majority of us ...yet still a significant problem.Dr. Douglass is an American, self-labeled politically-incorrect, medical writer. Below is Dr. Douglass' Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15265683.post-15208438987877699982007-11-17T19:17:00.001-05:002008-12-10T21:04:08.820-05:00Should You Guard Your Children Against This Movie?Heard about the new movie, "The Golden Compass" yet? Set to be released worldwide on December 7th. as part of Hollywood's Christmas offering, the buzz is building.Before buying into the marketing hype though, you may wish to do a little research about this movie yourself ...certainly before taking or letting your kid(s) go and see it.Here's how one plot summary writer, Tom Aylward-Nally, Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02257498105097735091noreply@blogger.com0