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Imagine Your Success
During a tour of duty in Vietnam, Major James Nesmeth was captured and held prisoner in a tiny cell for seven years. To keep sane, he mentally practiced his golf game.
Every day he would imagine being at the first tee at his country club. He would imagine the weather, the feel of the club and the grass at his feet. He would look at the ball and imagine the perfect swing.
Soon after he was freed and returned to the United States, he went to his country club and played a round of golf. Without touching his club for seven years, he improved his game by 20 strokes . . . as a prisoner of war!
"One's ability to imagine is directly proportional to one's ability to be successful." -- L. Ron Hubbard
As well as using your imagination to improve your golf game, you can use it in many other ways.
Goal Achievement
Imagine successfully achieving your goals and your chances of reaching those goals are greater.
For example, Shelly and her sister Jill both want to own a home.
Shelly keeps a box filled with paint colors, carpet samples, floor plans and so on. She clips out articles about home locations, loans and buying tips. She has a clear mental image of what her home will look like.
Jill, on the other hand, worries about the problems of buying a home. She worries that house prices are getting out of reach for her. She feels terror whenever mortgage rates increase. She complains that life is unfair.
Shelly and Jill both learn about a house for sale for a very low price.
Which sister says, "I'm sure I can't afford it." Which sister says, "I'm going to go see this house during my lunch break."
Who do you think will be first to own a house?
What Can You Imagine?
Your imagination can help you do a better job at work. For example, your paperwork mountain is swallowing up your desk. While taking your morning shower, you envision yourself completing the entire pile in one day. You imagine yourself working hard and fast to clean up the backlog. You feel the joy as the last piece of paper is handled and you look at your clean desk.
When you arrive at work, you know what to do. Because you have a good imagination, you soon have a clean desk.
Other uses:
● Imagine how the rest of today will go for you. Take a minute and imagine it will be a wonderful.
● Imagine getting more work done next week than ever in your life.
● If you are looking for a spouse, imagine what he or she will be like. Imagine your lives together.
● Imagine what you might accomplish this year. What if you could accomplish anything at all?
● Imagine accomplishing one of your goals. How will it happen? How will you feel?
● When you think about being successful, what does it include? Imagine that!
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5/6/2008
COMUNICATO STAMPA TUTELA O "RAPIMENTO" LEGALE? Il Comitato dei Cittadini per i Diritti Umani, molti avvocati, criminologi e gente comune, s'interrogano negli ultimi anni sul fenomeno dei bambini sottratti alle famiglie senza alcun valido motivo, ma unicamente in seguito a rapporti, opinioni, di assistenti sociali e (fantomatiche) perizie di psicologi e psichiatri. E' notizia di questi giorni che due bambini di Basiglio, da ben 40 giorni sono stati sottratti alla famiglia, solo per un disegno che, come dice lo stesso Tribunale dei minori, solleva più di una perplessità; mentre la bambina stessa e la madre non riconoscono la grafia. Perché un'assistente sociale o uno psicologo invece di fare una verifica, scrive un rapporto che induce il Tribunale a prendere una decisione così drammatica che può di fatto segnare per sempre la vita di un bambino e della sua famiglia? Chi pagherà questo danno? Possibile che siano solo errori? Lasciamo che il lettore formuli la sua idea. Il fenomeno in Italia coinvolge circa 40-50 mila bambini. Il costo che le amministrazioni pagano, per un bambino ritenuto vittima di "abusi", parte dai 150 per arrivare ai 300 euro al giorno. Moltiplicate questo per il numero di bambini. Ci domandiamo qual è la logica che preferisce togliere un bambino alla famiglia di origine perché, per esempio, indigente, facendo pagare alla comunità alcune migliaia di euro quando con 800 euro si potrebbe far fronte all'emergenza immediata e aiutare il padre a trovare lavoro? Che danno esistenziale viene causato al bambino ed alla famiglia? Perché l'assistenza sociale non lavora per preservare l'integrità familiare? Ancora, che valore hanno i rapporti e le perizie di uno psicologo o di un assistente, che il più delle volte sono unicamente opinioni? La pretesa di queste categorie è di capire da un disegno o uno scritto che esiste un abuso. I casi di Rignano e gli altri drammatici episodi, vedi Brescia, Milano, sono esemplari. Ciononostante i Tribunali continuano a fare affidamento su queste opinioni. Qualcuno comincia a capire e a prendere posizione. Casi eclatanti sono il Giudice Edoardo Mori, di Bolzano, che in un articolo del 21 Aprile sul giornale Alto Adige, spara a zero sul valore scientifico di queste perizie e rapporti: "Il fatto che si sia dato ingresso alla psicologia come strumento probatorio è una totale assurdità", e ancora: "…non sono scienze esatte, sono scienze sperimentali. Per definizione - prosegue ancora il giudice Mori – sono strumenti che servono più che altro per manipolare la psiche e non hanno alcun bisogno di cercare la verità". Stessa linea viene sostenuta con forza dal Dott. Marco Capparella e dal Dott. Saverio Fortunato con i loro articoli su criminologia.it. I dubbi sollevati da questi professionisti e l'azione dell'On. Francesco Lucchese, dietro invito del nostro Comitato, con la presentazione dell'interpellanza del 27 Giugno 2007 n° 630, dovrebbero essere le strade maestre da seguire. A nessuno, siano essi assistenti, psicologi o psichiatri dovrebbe essere permesso di minare l'integrità della famiglia e la salute del bambino senza una certezza dell'abuso perpetrato. I bambini urlano nel silenzio di una comunità e le vite dei genitori sono distrutte da accuse infamanti. Una società che tollera questi fatti non può definirsi civile. Qualcuno deve intervenire per porre fine a questa incredibile violazione dei diritti che mina il mattone fondamentale della società: la famiglia. Massimo Parrino Direttore Comitato dei Cittadini per i Diritti Umani onlus E-mail: direttore@ccdu.orgTel: 02/36510685 www.ccdu.org |
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Newsletter del 2 maggio 2008
In evidenza:
Tutela o "rapimento" legale?
Il Comitato dei Cittadini per i Diritti Umani, molti avvocati, criminologi e gente comune, s'interrogano negli ultimi anni sul fenomeno dei bambini sottratti alle famiglie senza alcun valido motivo, ma unicamente in seguito a rapporti, opinioni, di assistenti sociali e (fantomatiche) perizie di psicologi e psichiatri. Leggi tutto
Trento: NO test nelle scuole, legge approvata
La Provincia autonoma di Trento approva definitivamente il progetto di Legge n. 259 che pone il divieto dei test ADHD nelle scuole e tutela i bambini dall'abuso di sostanze psicofarmacologiche. Leggi tutto
Prossimi eventi:
MARTEDI’ 6 MAGGIO TUTTI A BASIGLIO
Sit in favore del ritorno a casa dei bambini sottratti alla famiglia di Basiglio
Conferenza ADHD a Torino
Conferenza ADHD a Pianezza
Il 5 per mille:
Anche quest'anno puoi sostenere le attività del CCDU con una donazione a "costo zero", senza levare nulla al tuo portafoglio. Scopri come
Queste ed altre informazioni su www.ccdu.org
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5/4/2008
PENSIERI IN-BARAZZATI
 Luciana Littizzetto ha detto stasera alla trasmissione di Fazio che in Svizzera hanno presentato un orologio da 300.000 $ (trecentomila dollari!) che ti dice se è giorno o notte, in compenso non indica l'ora!
Ho cercato sul web se questa notizia fosse vera o meno perchè mi sembrava un'assordità e in effetti è vera (vedi qui)!
Ovviamente la Littizzetto ha ironizzato su questa assurdità (il portale del lusso stesso la definisce una provocazione) dicendo che chi compera un orologio per sapere è giorno o notte probabilmente potrebbe comperarsi anche un sensore da pantaloni che gli dica se si è cagato addosso o no.
Più semplicemente mi viene da suggerire a questi spreconi di impiegare meglio i soldi magari assumendo qualche disoccupato per qualche anno per farsi dire se è giorno o notte magari. Se si è nello stesso fuso orario basterebbe anche una telefonata!
Enrico L. Barazzoni
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How to Be Happy
Many people believe they cannot be happy. They say, "Anyone who tells you they're happy is lying." "I'd be happy if I had a better _____ (spouse, job, body, house, income, parent, child, boss, employee, government)." "Life stinks and then you die."
The truth is, you are the one who controls the amount of joy you have in your life. You control it based on how well you follow these two rules:
"One: Be able to experience anything.
"Two: Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily." -- L. Ron Hubbard from Scientology: A New Slant on Life.
Rule One
Every time you are unhappy, there is something you cannot experience. You cannot "be there" with it. You cannot face it.
For example, you are unhappy when someone yells at you. If you can experience being yelled at, you can be happy.
So you decide you will learn to take it. You practice by having a friend yell at you until you can experience it. You realize it's simply noise. Because you can experience people yelling at you, it no longer makes you unhappy.
"To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience those things that are." -- L. Ron Hubbard
As another example, you need to give presentations at your job. However, you hate speaking to groups. You make up excuses and avoid this part of your job until you get fired.
If instead, you face the music and give the talks, you succeed. Despite your fear, you face and experience the audience. You confront the job and feel happy.
Wealth Tip
Rule One gives you an opportunity to increase your income. If you can easily experience work that most people can't or won't do, you become more valuable.
For example, understanding complicated laws, performing heart surgery and managing thousands of people are difficult jobs to experience. This is why lawyers, doctors and CEOs make more money than others. Jobs like selling hot dogs or answering telephones are easy to experience and so do not pay as well.
What valuable work can you do that others can't easily experience? What are the most difficult things for you to experience at work? If you could easily experience them, what would happen with your pay?
Rule Two
"Two: Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily." -- L. Ron Hubbard
This means you need to pay attention to others. Everyone experiences things differently.
For example, your colorful language offends your mother, but makes your friend laugh. Spending the day at a shopping mall is a joy for your daughter, but a boring waste of time for your son. Your political views enrage your father-in-law, but inspire your neighbor.
To be happy, you cannot have attitudes like these: "I'll say whatever I want to anyone I want." "If you don't like what I do, that's your problem." "It's dishonest to not say how I feel."
If you don't care about other people's happiness, the people around you will eventually not care about your happiness either. Everyone becomes unhappy.
"To create only those effects which others could easily experience gives us a clean new rule of living." -- L. Ron Hubbard
If you follow this rule, your work relationships, marriage and friendships all thrive. If you break this rule, you lose friends and make enemies.
For example, you notice that your spouse cannot easily experience you complaining about your work. You stop complaining and your spouse is more cheerful. You feel happier. The rule worked.
Employees and Children
You may think this second rule means you can't demand good performance from employees. For example, "My employees can't easily experience hard work, so I'll be soft on them."
However, laziness ruins productivity which ruins your company. A bankrupt company is difficult for everyone to experience!
So you learn to demand good performance in a way that others can easily experience. "Let's get 100 parts built by Friday and I'll buy everyone lunch!" Everyone is productive AND happy.
As another example, children may not like brushing their teeth, but tooth pain is much more difficult to experience. So you get your kids to brush without anger or threats. "Let's all go brush our teeth with this new purple toothpaste!"
How to Be Happy Right Now
What is making you unhappy right now?
Which rule do you need to follow?
"One: Be able to experience anything." "Two: Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily." -- L. Ron Hubbard
What can you do right now to follow that rule?
How to Be Happy Next Week
1. Write down everything that might be hard for you to experience next week.
2. Write what you can do next week to more easily experience these things.
3. List out what you might do or say next week that others may not easily experience.
4. Write how you can accomplish your objectives next week while only causing things that others can easily experience.
Make these changes and you might have your happiest week ever!
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PENSIERI IN-BARAZZATI
Quando mi danno la paga, per motivi di privacy mi consegnano una busta chiusa.
Non capisco perchè il fisco debba pubblicare i miei redditi sul web.
Per pubblicare il mio indirizzo e il mio numero di telefono sulle Pagine Bianche, devono chiedere la mia espressa autorizzazione scritta e posso anche decidere di non avere il mio indirizzo pubblicato.
Non capisco perchè il fisco possa pubblicare il mio indirizzo sul web senza chiedermi il consenso.
Visco ha dichiarato che i dati erano già pronti da gennaio ma che non ha voluto pubblicarli durante la campagna elettorale.
Forse perchè non sarebbero spariti solo i comunisti ma anche gli ex-comunisti?
Enrico L. Barazzoni 4/29/2008
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The Biggest Secret of Efficiency
Do you ever feel overworked? Is this because you have too much to do? Because your boss is too demanding? Because your work goals are too ambitious? Maybe not.
Why can some people produce twice as much as others? For example, Jane not only handles three kids, but works 30 hours per week and runs a small business from her home office. Jane's house is always clean and she prepares delicious, healthy meals for her family.
Jill, on the other hand, has one daughter, produces no income, can't keep up with her housework and prefers pizza or Chinese food delivery for dinners.
Both Jane and Jill are good mothers, but why are they so different? Are you more like Jane or Jill?
If you want to be efficient and get more done in less time, you simply rid yourself of two bad habits and form one good habit.
Two Bad Habits
1. The first bad habit is to look at a piece of work you are supposed to do--a letter, program, interoffice communication, task assignment, request, whatever--and put it aside to do later.
Instead of acting, you read it, digest it, think about doing it, consider the problems involved, sigh, and put it down to do later. Nothing is accomplished. A total waste of time.
2. The second bad habit is taking a piece of work, deciding you do not want to do it and referring it to someone else, even though it is your job to do. The other person eventually sends it back to you. A total waste of your time AND the other person's time.
One Good Habit
"Do it Now."
"One of the best ways to cut your work in half is not to do it twice."
"If you do every piece of work that comes your way WHEN it comes your way and not after a while, if you always take the initiative and take action, not refer it, you never get any traffic back . . . "
"In short, the way to get rid of traffic is to do it, not to refer it; anything referred has to be read by you again, digested again, and handled again; so never refer traffic, just do it so it's done."
"So if you are truly a lover of ease, the sort of person who yawns comfortably and wears holes in heels resting them on desks, if your true ambition is one long bout of spring fever, then you'll do as I suggest and handle everything that comes your way when it comes and not later; and you'll never refer anything to anybody that you yourself can do promptly."
"Do it when you see it and do it yourself." -- L. Ron Hubbard
For example, the government sends you a tax form asking you for some financial information. You take five minutes to understand what is required and realize it's quite simple. You notice it's not due for two months, but instead of tossing it in your desk to do later, you take another five minutes to look up the financial data, fill out the form and drop it in the mail. If you wait to do it later, you have had to spend another five minutes to understand it again. Perhaps you look at the form once each week until the deadline is near before you actually do the work. You might even forget do fill out the form and then waste even more time understanding why the government is charging you a $250 late fee.
As another example, you notice your car's tire is a little low and you fill it right now. If you wait, you get a flat tire while driving to work. You are not only two hours late for work, you have to buy a new tire.
Your food explodes in the microwave? You clean it up now. Your boss asks for a report? You write it and turn it in now. Your group needs a decision from you? You make it now. Of course, you need to set priorities for long-term projects, but whenever possible, you do new tasks right now.
When you jump and do things at your first opportunity, you stay in better control of your job and your life while earning hours of extra time to use however you wish.
Form a Do-it-now Habit
The best time to get into a do-it-now habit is, of course, RIGHT NOW!
1. Take a stack of papers, task or any kind of cluttered mess that you need to handle.
2. Take the first item.
3. Deal with it, handle it, do it now.
If the item has no current use, file it, store it or throw it away.
If you need to take action, do it right now. Persist until the job is completely DONE.
If you dislike the work involved, it is even more important that you do it right now.
". . . take the initiative and take action. . . ."
4. If you resist this approach, remember the reward. If you get your work done in half the time, how will you spend the OTHER half of your time? Earning more money? Starting new projects? Having more fun? The choice is yours.
Give it a try.
Now!
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COMITATO DEI CITTADINI PER I DIRITTI UMANI O.N.L.U.S. Viale Monza, 1 – 20125 MILANO – Tel. 02/36510685 C.F. 97378250159 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Coordinamento Regione Piemonte – Via Goffredo Casalis 70 – 10139 Torino – email ccdutrn@yahoo.it
Torino, 23 aprile 2008
Redazione TORINO SETTE LA STAMPA
COMUNICATO STAMPA Bambini e adolescenti; iperattività e deficit di attenzione, gli psicofarmaci sono la risposta? Conferenza all’SMS Dante Alighieri di Torino
Continua il giro di conferenze informative promosso dal Comitato dei Cittadini per i diritti Umani, ente internazionale di tutela dei diritti umani nel campo della salute mentale. Questa volta sarà a Torino presso la Scuola Media dante Alighieri nei locali di Via Carlo Capelli 66 dove il 7 Maggio alle ore 18,00 si discuterà di “Bambini e adolescenti; iperattività e deficit di attenzione, gli psicofarmaci sono la risposta?”. Interverranno il dott. Roberto Elia Cestari Presidente Nazionale del CCDU Onlus, ente promotore della recente legge regionale che vieta l’uso indiscriminato di psicofarmaci sui bambini, Gianluca Vignale Consigliere Regionale primo firmatario della legge e Antonino Boeti, Consigliere Regionale e firmatario della legge.
Con l’approvazione da parte del Consiglio Regionale del Piemonte della Legge Regionale n.21 “Norme in materia di uso di sostanze psicotrope su bambini ed adolescenti” avvenuta il 30 ottobre 2007 è stato fatto un passo importante nella direzione della tutela dei bambini dagli abusi psichiatrici causati da somministrazione di psicofarmaci:“Questo provvedimento legislativo, senza precedenti in Europa, rappresenta un grande passo avanti per la protezione dell’infanzia e delle famiglie a fronte di una campagna di marketing che cerca di vendere nuove malattie senza alcun fondamento scientifico” afferma il dott. Roberto Cestari, medico e Presidente nazionale del CCDU oltre che Coordinatore Nazionale della campagna “perché non accada”, e aggiunge “Non si tratta di negare aiuto a chi soffre, ma ogni bambino ha diritto alle soluzioni appropriate. Qui c |
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