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46 Ways to be a Better Person

Thank you for stopping by my blog.

Here’s a quick list that will get your started on having a nicer day now. Good luck and let me know how it goes.

1. Take a deep breath now, hold it as long as you can. Count to 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, release, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and now another.

2. OK, two more deep breaths. Relax.

3. Concentrate on this word <<oooaahhhhmmm>> and close your eyes and take another two deep breaths, in through your nose out through your mouth.

4. Meditate. Concentrate on your third eye and just be peaceful. You can stop reading this! It’s okay!

5. Slow down. Try moving slowly.

6. Start each day as Gandhi did: Be the change you want to see.

7. Look for ways to help others.

It almost always seems impossible until it's done. ♡

It almost always seems impossible until it’s done.x♡o

8. Treat yourself great.

9. Be your own friend.

10. Go to the mirror and make funny faces.

11. Make yourself and/or a friend a nice cup of tea or coffee.

12. Take a long walk without music or distractions.

13. Clean. Go left to right, it works.

14. Be young in your heart.

15. Hug a tree.

16. Jump on one leg. Now the other. Do this in your mind’s eye. Or for real.

17. Spin like a child with your eyes closed. Do this in your mind’s eye. Or for real.

18. Hug someone. Even yourself.

19. Next time you see someone on facebook that’s down, get involved. Try sending links, messages.  Or, how about a phone call?

20. Believe in miracles. :) I do.

21. Be inspirational.

22. Forgive yourself.

6 Simple Rules to live by: Be happy, be nice, be a leader, be organized, be a lifelong learner and be healthy. Listen to the next sound you hear.

23. Push yourself to be a little bit better.

24. Count to ten before reacting. {or better yet, just let it slide.}

25. Pet an animal.

26. Turn off the tv.

27. Sell something on ebay.

28. Give something away to charity.

29. Treat yourself to a day spa.

30. Take a nice long relaxing bath or shower.

31. Bake.

32. Organize your files.

33. Make a list of three things you don’t want to do and then do them.

34. Eat well. How’s a salad sound for your next meal? A big one!

35. Exercise.

36. Take a risk with love.

37. Write a message on someone’s facebook wall saying thank you for being there.

38. Enjoy this moment.

39. You can reprogram your mind to believe anything you want it to. Triy listening to affirmations. There are tons on you tube.

40. Shine the light that God has given you.

40. Shine On!

40. Shine the light that God has given you.

41. Tell someone you love them.

42. No matter what your age, dream — even big if you’d like.

43. Remember a moment when you were blissful. Hold on to it.

44. Accept yourself for exactly who you are.

45. Send a REAL letter in the mail.

46. Give yourself a little break.

Thanks for reading and have a great day. I believe in you. I do.

In the comment section, I’d like to know what you can hear, smell and feel in this exact moment. What is around you? I can hear  boys playing, the washing machine spinning and a distant car passing.

Twitter Facebook Faceoff ► Which one do you prefer? #ff @jbuliesblog

Hello!

I’m thinking about my friends clicking in here from all over the world. How awesome is the world wide web? Shout out to the www.

Hello World Wide Web.

Today I’m talking about twitter and how hard it is to understand as least for someone like me.

Please tweet or pin. Thanks!

Please tweet or pin. Thanks!

I’ve had some great great comments on my facebook page. Facebook rules by the way. Twitter, well, it’s new all new to me.

Go facebook, go!

I got comments about how to use twitter since it’s such an enigma for me. David Letterman figured it out by getting a laptop and one of his techies to turn on his twitter page so he can update it during the show.

If David Letterman can do use twitter, certainly I can do it too, right?

Are you like me? Curious about new technology?

Keep a journal. Really. It's lovely.

Keep a journal. Really. It’s lovely.

First step. I try to google twitter tips. You know what I get? More questionable information.

So for you, my friends, I’m offering you here from jbulie’s blogs, that’s me, @jbuliesblog. Please follow me on twitter, my

Top ten reasons why I prefer facebook to twitter.

1) Because I can’t figure twitter out.

2) Because one of my favorite artists, Nev, has about 22,000 twitter followers, so obviously, he rules.

3) I added a so called twitter expert to my friends list and tried to follow his instructions. He’s on my facebook account, check him out, 21 year old millionaire. Really. ;)

4) Apparently, I need to fork out cash to automatically to add friends according to the automatic instructions.

5) Nearly all articles I have read about twitter say how people don’t like twitter.

6) Celebrities are thriving on twitter. I love celebrities. I’m following them all. I can’t figure out twitter. I’m not a celebrity. Let’s do the math A + B = C No twitter followers over here, yet!

Yes. Please.

Inspired choices. Yes. Please.

7) Writer fell asleep. No number seven. Shout out to Apple and the ipad.

*8) The boy genius expert advised me to use his software to add all followers of a famous person, well, there is no add all followers button. I can’t even believe I spent time looking for it. Can I have my two minutes back?

9) Someone out there knows how it works. Now I am back to square one. I know my friends on facebook say leave it alone, but I cannot deny it is a big presence in social media.

Stop thinking about it and just do it.

I’m no social media expert, and in fact, I’m going back to being a mom and wife. It’s much more satisfying. Lots of hugs and kisses, and unexpected words.

Your turn. Going the extra mile here kids.

11) What is your take? Do you like twitter? Do you use twitter? Is it basically another social media network? Is it a cell phone application? The people who are bloggers with lots of twitter followers, do you think they did it by using automatic applications that tweet for them?

As always, thanks for following. I ♥ my readers. You guys are awesome. Hope your day is beautiful and filled with love.

Thanks for leaving your comments. I appreciate them.

On What’s Up With Me and My Blog

Hello friends and welcome back. Nice to see you.

I started this blog in October of 2010 as a way of sharing part of my life with my friends and family abroad.

Lately I’ve received a couple of comments about me and my blogging I wanted to respond to. A friend of mine commented that she doesn’t get any email notifications. It’s a thing I have with email. I hadn’t checked my email for like a weekend, then checked and I had about 150 messages that mostly went right into spam. It’s more than I can keep up with.

Seeing how this is a personal blog about my life here, when I email, let’s say 216 people with what I’m up to, I feel like it’s me sending one of my personal letters to let’s say 216 people. I wouldn’t do that. Neither would you.

So, friends have asked how to subscribe to my blog via email so they know when I update. Well, it’s really not that simple. What I do is republish old posts. I’m doing that in order to try to not spam you with my life.

Also, as you know I cannot stand having articles published without comments. This happened recently to one of my favorite blog posts. It’s really strange, but in person I have had numerous people tell me that they loved it. But only two people left a comment. Seeing how when someone reads an article but doesn’t comment, it makes the article look like no one is reading it. I can see on my stats feature that it has plenty of readers dropping in.

I suppose it’s all part of the learning to blog, learning by doing process.

Here’s things I’ve done on this blog that I have tried if you are ever thinking of setting up a blog.

1. Set up your twitter and facebook accounts immediately and link them to your blog so people know who you are. I made the mistake of adding my facebook page to my blog after a year or two of blogging. I should have done it from the beginning. Also, there are two types of facebook fan pages, one is called a page and the other is called a group. It’s really been a nightmare actually because one of the two isn’t linkable. Also the format keeps changing making it hard to manage.

2. I’ve tried numerous themes on. I’ve read as much as the next guy has on niche marketing, creating a brand, blah blah blah, but I’m just me, just a lady who is tying at her keyboard sharing my life. Not a brand, not a niche. I’m trying to live here and learn here and to share.

Here’s the breakdown: When I started blogging I quickly learned where I could blog from for free. There were three main blogging platforms, but I chose WordPress because the owner Ma.tt wrote me right back welcoming me. I knew it was a real person out there. The forums and online help were outstanding.

Then when you choose look for your blog, you have what is called a dashboard, with a hundred or so options of links, posts, pages, ratings, comments, media, appearance, blah blah blah. One of the most important obviously is what’s called the theme which is the over all layout of your blog. So I keep changing mine. Buy hey, that’s me. A marketing professional would probably say to choose one and stay with it. I’m not pro. I’m just me, like I said, so I keep changing mine.

I’m like that with my hair too. I can’t remember the names of the themes I’ve chosen but I sure have had fun playing with them. I admire bloggers who can choose one image, choose one theme and stick with it even for YEARS. Wow! Not me. I was even thinking of changing themes daily, only my widgets get all freaked out.

What’s a widget? It’s another one of your options that you set up where you can decide what is visible on your sidebars. Mine have gone from two side bars to one, to bottom, to top, you name it. Even without. Once, I had like 40 odd widgets. Now I have about 16. It’s what you see is what you get folks.

In summary, I don’t like email, so you probably aren’t getting an email update from me, even if you have signed up to get one. I change my theme alot. I don’t like when I don’t get comments. I wish more people encouraged my talented students who are would so appreciate your kind words supporting the art and need to hear your positive feedback.

Also, I set up a couple of pages I later pulled down. I don’t think that’s too bit of a problem. Finally, I don’t believe that all of those ads you see flying around blogs help or work. I thought about it but in the end, I decided I don’t want to be all addy and all. So there you are. That’s my update.

On a personal side, it’s a beautiful day, I’m feeling fantastic, so I’m going outside. Hope you are well. As always I hope this post finds you lovely, lucky and in love.

Julie