Time for a Challenge! Are you up for it?

This years seems to have been a fast, challenging and, for some, a painful year.  Yet here we are just over the longest day of the year (22 June) already - and now into the period of nights drawing in again.  Before you know it (dare I say it?) Christmas festivities and the New Year (there - I said it!!) will be upon us once again.  So it seems the right time to reflect on the last six months:  where did you get to with this year's resolutions?  If you  made them - did you start any?  More importantly - did you achieve any?  

Whatever your answers, we are still only half-way through the year and have plenty of time to redress the situation.  For those struggling with debt, fearful of the current economic crisis and paralyzed by the pace of change, this could be the time to take control of your future and finish the year off with a bang.

One of my challenges!

I want to provide you with an opportunity to redeem yourself and turn things around for the  better - much better.  The one thing we all love is a challenge!  For some it could be a goal that puts you to the test, an obstacle that says, "You can't beat me," a belief system that is begging for a breakthrough, or even a mountain that just dares you to climb it, or a plane that drops you out of it!

There is nothing like an old-fashioned challenge that makes you say "BRING IT ON!"; that shows you what you're made of; that causes you to push the boundaries and test your limits.  For it is ONLY when we overcome various challenges that we get to reap the sweetest rewards.

If these words have stirred something that urges you to find out more, email me (jax@lifepathpro.com) - get in touch.  You have nothing to lose but a few minutes of your time, and who knows what you will eventually gain from it?

DO YOU DARE TO DREAM OF A BETTER LIFE?  I did - and I got it!  If I can do it, anyone can.

I look forward to hearing from those of you that choose to take the challenge.

More than 100,000 stand up for elephants: Spread the word!

Thank you for telling the EU to end the international ivory trade. Care2 members have rallied for elephants -- more than 100,000 people have signed the petition!

The more signatures we get, the better chance we have at making the EU listen. Please ask your family and friends to join you and sign the petition to EU leaders »

Recent ivory stockpiles sales to Japan and China have signaled to poachers that killing elephants is OK. If we want to make sure no elephants are killed for their tusks, we need to stop the demand for ivory worldwide -- and that means a ban on international trade.

Please urge your friends and family to take action. You can send a message with our tell-a-friend tool, post the petition to your Facebook profile or copy and send the sample message below:

Sample email:

Hi -

Twenty years ago, illegal poaching was wiping out the world's remaining elephants. But the international outcry led to a ban on ivory trade. Demand plummeted and the elephants had a chance to rebound. But recent stockpiles sales have spurred demand for ivory and elephants are dying.

Join me in urging the European Union to oppose any international ivory trade.
http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AgJh6/zls4/AEciK

Seizures of illegal ivory are skyrocketing. The lesson is pretty clear: Any legal ivory trade leads to illegal killing.

Please take a moment to stand up for elephants. Join me in telling the EU to protect elephants and stop legal ivory trade.
http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AgJh6/zls4/AEciK

Thanks!

I love what I'm doing!

Isn't life amazing when you realise how many of us there are helping to change other people's lives? What better way to make the world a better place?

Keep Kids in School and Out of Coalmines

For an estimated 70,000 children, the coal mines in the Indian region of Meghalaya are the only known way of life.

Keep children in schools and out of coal mines. »

Although child labor is outlawed in India, the national ordinances go ignored in large regions of India, including Meghalaya, allowing children to be pulled away from school and into the dangerous mines.

Clad only in shorts and plastic flip-flops, children as young as eight squeeze into dangerous fissures deemed too small or hazardous for adults.

Most of these children are immigrants, lured or outright abducted from Bangladesh and Nepal on the false premise of finding riches under the hills of Northeast India. Instead, they are forced to work in the mines for as little as a dollar a day.

Urge Indian President Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil to end child labor and give Meghalayan children the chance to escape the mines. »

Adopt a Baby Elephant Today for US$ 50/yr (Min Fostering Fee)

A tiny newborn elephant is orphaned, often its mother and family gunned down to serve the Ivory trade, its life support gone; any survivors fleeing in terror; its fate now suffering and death in hopeless and lonely isolation it cannot understand. For an elephant, the family is all important; its very existence dependent upon its mother's milk for the first two years of life and a life that should span three score years and ten, equivalent to that of man. In a perfect world that elephant life would be filled with fun and joy through the companionship of friends and a close-knit and loving family, whose love is pure and unconditional all the days of its life.

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Good times living a life of passion

Going for your Dreams

Instead of sharing posts that help others I thought I'd take the opportunity to share a link of my own.  Unless you dare to go for your dreams, how will you ever know if they can ever be achieved?  Instead of staying where you are in your life at this moment, thinking you'd like something more.... why not take the action of trusting yourself and making the first step onto the other path towards going for them?  "Nothing ventured - Nothing gained" is such a good motto. 

I seriously do not believe we were put here on this amazing earth to do nothing with our lives but 'survive'.  We are surely here to progress and achieve - but in order to do that, we have to make those first steps out of our comfort zone.  Once you get of the fear, and just do it anyway.... life can be like a Pandora's Box.  You just never know what's in there for you!

SO GO AHEAD, PRESS THIS LINK AND OPEN THE BOX

If you don't like it, just go back to where you are now - I challenge you today to live your life - don't just exist!

Live, Laugh and Love

African Lions Will Suffer Unless U.S. Cuts Its Own Red Tape

Loss of habitat and prey, over-exploitation for trophy hunting and commercial trade, and retaliatory killings from human-wildlife conflict, have all contributed to the decline of the African lion. Now we can add one more threat to the list: bureaucratic delay.
Last week marked the passing of the 90-day deadline for the US Fish & Wildlife Service’s (FWS) initial response to a scientific petition to have African lions listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
This petition, filed on March 1st by the International Fund for Animal Welfare and a coalition of other wildlife and animal welfare groups, is aimed at providing vital protections for a species that has declined by nearly 50 percent over the last two decades from a variety of threats including trophy hunting by wealthy Americans.
But this isn’t about the numerous and serious threats to lions in the wild, it’s about the bureaucratic red tape hindering a timely endangered species listing.
Listing delays prevent tangible protections from coming into place against on-the-ground threats to species, and in the case of species lusted after by the trophy-hunting community, delay provides an opportunity, if not a twisted incentive, for hunters to kill individual animals while they still can.