One Book Everybody Should Own, Read, and Absorb

Whether you were born in the 30s, the 50s, the 70s, or even the 90s, you have to agree that morality has steeply declined through the years. The comfort of those fortunate to live through the 50s, when they were able to leave their doors unlocked and when neighbors could drop in uninvited, has disappeared.

Admonitions to "honor your elders" and "trust adults" no longer apply to this new world of instant gratification replete with avenues to pornographic highways, admission to which is so easily accessible all you have to say is, "yeah, I'm 18 or older," and you're in. Children are being subjected to a world wide web of deceit filled with poisonous spiders ready to strike at prey that unwarily touch upon one of its threads.

We now have to protect our children and ourselves in ways we never thought we would. Seemingly simple questions, such as, "Do you know how to get to (name a place)," can mean a swift grab and run into a tinted-windowed van and a tortuous trip to hell. No longer can we blindly trust anyone. 

The sad thing is most of us aren't (or at least haven't been until now) equipped with the necessary tools to handle these precarious situations. We might recognize when we – or our children – are being manipulated or in danger, but we don't know how to handle the manipulators, because we have been raised to "be nice to people."

How can you tell the difference between somebody who is being friendly and somebody who is grooming you so that he or she can molest your sons or daughters? Not until Dr. Phil's Life Code: The New Rules for Winning in the Real World, have we had a manual that tells us exactly how to detect frauds and exactly how we can protect ourselves and our children. 

Life Code is more than just one book. It could have been titled, How to Live Your Life Authentically, AND How to Protect Yourself and Your Children from Criminals, AND How to Recognize a Manipulator AND… (I could go on and on). I wish I could have read Life Code when I was in my teens. It might have saved me from a lot of grief over the years. 

Life Code could save you or your children from experiencing situations that would lead to emotional problems later in life. If I gave stars on what I expected from this book and on what I got from this book, on how much I learned from this book, and on how valuable I believe this book is, Life Code would get every star possible and then some.

I highly recommend Life Code. I plan to read it again and again until its message seeps into my pores and becomes part of me.  

The Day of the Gum Ball

A long, long, loooong time ago my mother and her best friend took four of their children to watch a Disney movie. I was one of those children. I don't remember which Disney movie we watched, but I remember part of the day vividly.

It was beautiful. The sun was shining. And I was happy. 

We had been walking down the street after Bonnie's mom, Theresa (you now know where I got my name), and my mom had stopped at a gum ball machine. What a treat! We NEVER got gum balls! This day truly was magical! All four of us plopped the gum into our mouths and continued on.

And then one of those defining moments occurred – you know, the ones Dr. Phil talks about? – "defining moments" that impact you so profoundly, they stay in your long-term memory forever and affect everything you do from that point on? From the "Day of the Gum Ball" moment on, I would question EVERYTHING, because that moment shaped the rest of my life. And it took place right there on that Chicago street when I was only five years old.

Seconds after we had put the gum into our mouths, Bonnie pulled from her mouth a perfectly shaped miniature toy dog. I was amazed – and perplexed.

"How did you do that?" I asked Bonnie, who was a year younger than I.

"I don't know. It just happened."

She must have used her teeth, I reasoned, so I used my teeth and tried to carve a little dog toy. I pulled the gum from my mouth and hoped to marvel at my creation.

Sadly it was just a glob of gum. 

But I didn't give up. Over and over and over and over again, block after block after block, I tried to sculpt a toy dog with my gum, biting around what I hoped would be its head and rolling between my tongue what should have looked like a tail.

Every few steps, I pulled the gum from my mouth, hoping to marvel at my own exquisite creation. Finally, after being scolded, "KEEP THAT GUM IN YOUR MOUTH!" I had to accept the sad truth – Bonnie was extraordinarily talented, and the only thing I could use my teeth for was chewing.

Later (I don't remember how many years passed), my "aha" moment arrived when I noticed tiny little toys in a gum ball machine. Wasted hours spent trying to create a gummy masterpiece – wasted hours wishing I could be as creative as my 4-year-old friend, Bonnie, because there it sat, taunting me from the inside of a gum ball machine – a perfectly shaped miniature toy dog!

To this day, when I see the wheels in a child's head spinning, I know that child is asking, "How did you do that?" as the child tries to reason how things work in this world – all thanks to "The Day of the Gum Ball." 

RAPID WEIGHT LOSS in only 17 DAYS with the 17 Day Diet Plan

I can already hear you saying, a 17 day diet plan that provides healthy AND rapid weight loss? Are you serious? Yes, I am serious. I have never read or heard more dieting success stories than I have from people who have used Dr. Mike Moreno's 17 Day Diet Plan. Though nobody would call me fat, I have always had to watch what I eat.

My early life was consumed with what I could and couldn't eat due to food allergies. I could not eat eggs or anything that included eggs, like cakes, ice creams, cookies, etc. I was also allergic to yeast, which ruled out breads. Looking back, I think it's no wonder I never gained any weight.

Still, whether one is skinny or fat, diet is important, and The 17 Day Diet Plan sounds like something that would work for anybody interested in healthy living.

The problem with diets is that so many people confuse diet with starvation and sacrifice. Yes, not eating anything with eggs or yeast was a sacrifice for me, but it also contributed to my low weight (though I probably appeared to be anorexic to others).

Starvation is NOT, and never has been, the answer. And sacrifice? If sacrifice comes with the promise of good health, it's not really a sacrifice at all, is it?

Now, because I have cancer, I am even more concerned with diet and, because of a bad back, I am equally concerned with exercise that will contribute to my overall health rather than hurt me.

What I heard from the Dr. Phil show today (which discussed The 17 Day Diet Plan) – and something I had forgotten about – was that the body NEEDS hydration, LOTS of hydration.

Thirst not only indicates that your body needs fluids, but also signals that your body is already dehydrated, so drinking plenty of GOOD fluids (not sodas) will help you distribute nutrients throughout your body and it will help lessen the number of headaches and body aches you might feel. As Dr. Mike Moreno discussed, other medical issues could be related to dehydration as well. So hydration appears to be a huge component in maintaining good health.

Though I probably don't appear to anybody who knows me as needing this product, because I'm not overweight, I will probably get The 17 Day Diet Plan anyway, because anything that contributes to RAPID weight loss (for me that means getting rid of a flabby stomach) and good health that can be accomplished in only 17 days appeals to me on many levels, especially my sense of urgency.

Like a lot of people, I want results NOW. And even though I'm not overweight, I hate having to hide my massive flabby stomach beneath HUGE tops. I'm looking forward to receiving The 17 Day Diet Plan. People who use it are excited about their rapid weight loss and claim to feel more energetic after using The 17 Day Diet Plan.

In the meantime, while I'm waiting for my 17 Day Diet Plan to arrive, I'm going to exercise more (without straining my back), drink lots and lots of water, and eat HEALTHY foods with lots of veggies.

Let's get healthy! (Any of the links will take you to the book.)

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