BECAUSE YOU ALREADY ARE, YOU CANNOT BECOME !

Because you already are, you cannot become. What can you do? That is it! You can do anything you want to do if you believe in who you already are. Can you see your future? This is the real question I want to ask you.

Do you have a two, three, or five year plan?

I personally love my future; it is where I will spend the rest of my life. People who do not see a future may not have one.

What matters most is how you see yourself! How you see yourself matters most because you can build your self confidence much better. It is similar to checking your gas gauge in you car; you must be able to see your gas gauge.

When it is low, it is time to fill up if you can afford the price at the pump You can always afford to increase your self confidence. The number one way to increase self confidence is listening to what you tell yourself first, listening to what you tell others second and listening to what others tell you third. Because you are not a liar, you tend to believe everything you tell yourself. Everything you tell yourself in a 24 hour day is not truth.

The number two ways to increase self confidence is unconditional service to others. People do not care how much you know, until they know you really care. That is why listening is so important.

It is only in listening to one another, that we receive the most self confidence. What you must watch carefully, when filling up your gas tank is to make sure it does not overflow on you, the car, or the ground. This could be a problem.

What matters most when building self confidence is to watch your self confidence does not overflow on you or others? You must practice humility. Self confidence with out humility is dead.

It is not hard to practice humility; it is sometimes painful, and embarrassing. To be or not to be, that is the question?

The answer: I am!

LIVING WITH LIVING DILENMAS

Bored of the daily monotony of your family life? Want to try out something new to spice up the moods? Well, here are some family fun ideas that are practical and easy to try. They are hardly expensive and give you memories to cherish for a long time too! Read on... Shift the furniture and give the home a new look. Planning and shifting the furniture around and giving home a makeover can be a fun thing to do! It will get the whole family involved in planning and working on the stuff. The creative ideas would be mixed with confusion and random change of plans! It will involve some physical labor too and as a result you get a free home makeover! Try it out! Plant some garden flowers together: Give the gardener a break and get some stuff done together with the family for a change! Gardening can be fun and every member of the family can contribute to this. Even the toddlers can sit back and enjoy the gardening flowers with you! Just get the gardening equipments in place and decide what exactly you would like to plant and where. Make a funny family video and put it up on YouTube: This is easy! Just take out your video camera and record the family members doing their usual activities. Irritate them a bit and provoke them to say silly stuff. Edit the video later with them, and add funny speech bubbles, one liner comments and background music. Share it with all family friends and relatives and request them to comment on it! Hopefully they will contribute and you guys can have a group chat about the whole video too. It can keep you amused for days. You may even win a few bucks on America's Funniest Home Videos! Dig out the old family albums and share the memories: Checking out the old family albums together can be another great family fun activity, especially on the lazy relaxed days! Just get together and flip through the pictures. Your parents will probably have a lot to say about their marriage and the old friends in the pictures, or about your old childhood habits. Share the laugh and watch time fly! Plan a garage sale: If you haven't tried this one yet, you are surely missing out on some great family fun! Clear out the rubbish from your home, the basement, the attic, etc, and earn money out of it too! Hosting a garage sale is a whole lot of fun, and most of you can join in and contribute to it! Party together with the money you make out of it, or purchase a family asset, like a new garden swing, or a television set, etc. Make sure that you get the whole family involved in the fun that you plan to have. Schedule the plan for such a day when you know that every member of the family would be free and at home. Preparing well for family fun, can make it a lot more enjoyable! Anita is a freelance writer for online publications and writes for family enjoyment and child education. If you truly want to have some fun and laughter, go to this Kid-Friendly Website A top line resource on clean humor for young families with lots of things for kids to get involved with.

LET US LAUGH NOW AND NOW

There have been very few shows which have been able to hold their own like Family Guy against a wave of controversies that has been hurled towards them ever since the show's inception. An animated take on the modern American family of today, the lead character of the show features Peter Griffin- a fat, lazy, unintuitive husband with an average job who goes more by the heart than his head. Presented in stark contrast is his wife Lois- the attractive, logically thinking wife representing the fantasy of all American males. They have two kids Chris and Meg who different two shades of teenage cravings and the talking dog Brian is the source of illuminating wisdom in the house full of madcap mishaps. However, the star laurels of Family Guy rest on one and one person alone. Stewie Griffin plays an one year old homoerotic baby who dreams of world domination and plans to kill his mother. His dialogues are laced with layered intelligence and sarcastic humor at its pinnacle making him come in direct comparison to other legendary animated kids like Bart and Lisa from the Simpsons and Eric Cartman from the equally controversial South Park. What sets the show apart is its approach to modern day life that dabbles in between scathing social commentary and unrelated pop culture gags culminating in a laugh riot parodying modern sensibilities. It night lack character depth like the Simpsons or the intellectual wit of South Park, but has a loyal fan following of its own making it the only TV show to come back after being canceled by FOX. Seth MacFarlane, the creator of the show has often come under a line of fire for a number of issues. Peter Griffin has been labeled as a Homer Simpson clone by most Simpson loyalists while several have complained about the irrelevant nature of cut away pop culture shots without any context to the plot. The biggest issue however lies in the Family Guy vs. Sarah Palin debate that takes the effect of such shows on modern society on a much deeper context. Sarah Palin, the former Governor of Alaska and 2008 vice presidential candidate took on the writers of Family Guy by calling them "heartless jerks" for their portrayal of a girl with Down Syndrome in one of the episodes. The controversial episode shows Chris wooing a girl called Ellen with the syndrome who replies during a dinner date that her father is an accountant and her mother is the former governor of Alaska, a subtle jab towards Palin herself whose youngest son Trig has Downs Syndrome. The Family Guy vs. Sarah Palin controversy sparked a huge debate on the portrayal of disability on television and the limit of the "offend everyone" principles such shows are aimed at. Seth MacFarlane commented saying he was proud of the character Ellen who was headstrong and dynamic despite the Syndrome and Andrea Fay Friedman, the women with Down syndrome who voiced the character said she did not find it an insult to have the disease unlike Palin who carried Trig around for sympathy and votes. Palin and her daughter Bristol launched a verbal tirade against the show making it one of the biggest television controversies in the history of Family Guy and American sitcoms.