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You may have noticed or you may have not that I was absent last week. This wasn’t so much intentional as it was needed. I have been writing on this blog for well over a year and have had posts five days a week at least, since I started this blog. I felt it was necessary to take a brief sabbatical to recharge my batteries. Not only that but I need to refocus my priorities and decide what I wanted to do with several areas in my life.

I took some time and tooled around the Internet doing some things on Facebook, staying away from my RSS feeds just to zone out the information and focusing on some things around the house. This has helped me immensely and I feel like I can start this new week fresh and with the clear peace of mind..

I’m still on the search for daytime employment, as I do not quite have enough clients yet to be able not to work  in a regular day job. As you all know and as I’ve mentioned before is my dream not to work at a regular day job and to only work on my organization and productivity consulting business. Business is slow to be built, especially in this economy, and it’s difficult to be able to network with people due to their own time constraints or their ability to devote time to speak with you. When the economy gets this way, it is imperative that people that have their own businesses focus on their clients and their ability to grow more clients. So their opportunities to talk to those that are comrades in their own fields are limited.

Over the next week I will be doing some intensive work for a client on a personal assisting type level. What I also want to get accomplished this week is a schedule of events in my area that I can go to a network with people. Obviously there’s Toastmasters in my area, but I do believe that they charge a membership fee to join and being laid off. I prefer not to spend any money. So I’m going to search online and see what I can find locally in my area that is free to attend.

Thanks for hanging in there for the week and know that I’m back in the saddle with a new focus… a fresh focus!

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I don’t know if any of my readers have heard of Michael Moore. You might now him from the movie Fahrenheit 9/11, which discussed the controversy and thoughts surrounding the 9/11 attack on the USA.

He has another movie out and if you live on America, you should see it. If you don’t live in America, you should thank god for where you live.

There is a health care crisis in the United States. We are robbed by our insurance companies and it’s not uncommon for people without insurance to be turned away when seeking medical attention in the US. This movie goes into detail about the USA health care crisis and the alarming death rate of US citizens when compared to the rest of the world. Even the people that have risked their lives to save others get refused healthcare. Our healthcare system is the most crooked in the world.

The US ranks 37th in quality of health care, just above Slovenia. Here is the list of all the countries that rank better than we do:

1         France
2         Italy
3         San Marino
4         Andorra
5         Malta
6         Singapore
7         Spain
8         Oman
9         Austria
10        Japan
11        Norway
12        Portugal
13        Monaco
14        Greece
15        Iceland
16        Luxembourg
17        Netherlands
18        United  Kingdom
19        Ireland
20        Switzerland
21        Belgium
22        Colombia
23        Sweden
24        Cyprus
25        Germany
26        Saudi Arabia
27        United  Arab  Emirates
28        Israel
29        Morocco
30        Canada
31        Finland
32        Australia
33        Chile
34        Denmark
35        Dominica
36        Costa Rica

Are you shocked? You should be. The life expectancy of Americans falls well below that of the countries on this list.

In France, for example, you get paid for any sick day that you take. You are able to receive assistance from the government in the form of a part time nanny if you have an infant. You get a free education (up through and including college). It is absolutely astounding to this American what other countries have that we do NOT.

We are the only country in the WORLD that runs healthcare like we do. We do not take care of our homeless and elderly, and if they do receive healthcare, when they are discharged, they are dumped on the streets if they have no where to go.

I’m not going to run down the entire list of atrocities here, but I urge you to see this movie. It is on sale at Amazon for $5.99, so please watch it and share it with your friends. Is it sensationalism? No….it’s the flat out truth. I sat and sobbed after I watched this movie. It is disheartening. After my relatives are gone in this country, I am out of here, to move abroad. We’ll sell the house and leave.  I will not continue to remain in this country and be treated this way.

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