Utilising business jets has many positives, from having the ability to fly in ultimate comfort, through to having the ability to make that important conference meeting in a different nation.

To a lot of high-flying businesswomen and multi-national firms, the business jet is a key element in commercial life, with the high expenses linked to possessing an executive jet counterbalanced by the time saving abilities, letting organisations to do their commercial needs internationally.

Since the introduction of the Gulfstream G550, passengers can now make use of its extra long passenger area, long-distance abilities and the greater comfort levels.

The G550 from Gulfstream is powered by two Rolls-Royce jet engines, has a range of 6,750 nautical miles at Mach 0.80 with a high speed cruising ability of mach 0.87. The greater flight-range ensures that it is capable to perform trans atlantic flights easily, increasing a passenger’s capability to globally, while its extra long cabin means it can take fourteen customers in first class comfort and opulence.

For many people, travelling on a G550 from Gulfstream is out of the question, but since the introduction of fractional ownership, the possibility of travelling on these remarkable executive jets is a lot more likely.

Fractional aircraft ownership is a new model introduced in the mid 90s to give users of business jets a better selection of jets, and minimising the total cost of private travel.

By not buying a private jet but instead subscribing to a fractional membership plan with a fractional private jet ownership organisation, clients are not faced with the extra expenses of the plane’s maintenance, employing a completely trained crew and all of the other costs that is coupled with running a private jet.

In addition to saving money on jet maintenance and staff, associates of a fractional aircraft scheme are able to select and use a jet from a range of aircraft, depending on the length of flight required by the passenger. At the end of the day, Introducing The G550 Gulfstream has the ability to transport up to and including 14 customers; but you may not always need that amount of passenger room. By using a smaller plane, smaller amounts of fuel are used, so a journey wouldn’t cost as much and will be more sympathetic to the environment.

Live churches are constantly changing. They are not changing the message in the Bible, for that never changes. They do not switch from one new fad doctrine to another every time the “spiritual wind” changes. NO, that is not what I mean. However, our society is changing. Anyone who pays any attention at all to the world around us knows this is true. In the early part of this century the church was the focal point of the family and even of society in many areas. I fully agree that it should be thus today, but the fact remains that it is no longer true. For the Christian it should be true. But for many of them it is no longer true. People no longer flock to the church for that social interaction.

The church must reach out to the community and the lost. We must learn to leave the four corners of our sanctuary and seek out those whom Jesus commanded us to, and do what He said. “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” (Matthew 28:19) That may mean doing things just a little differently than we have in the past. It may mean that we take “the church” back into the home with small group Bible Study. I may mean that we develop “family circles” with several families that have some things in common so they can relate to each other. It may mean that we start “ministering” to those who have been divorced, are one-parent families, the homeless, and yes even the homosexuals and other undesirables. It may mean that we not only feed the hungry but also minister to them as well.

Changing may also mean that our worship service changes from one which is rigid, always the same Sunday after Sunday after Sunday; to one which is more joyous. It may change from one with “stone faces” to one with Christians smiling and singing and praising God. It may mean that our worship services are exciting and full of variety. It may mean that as the congregation leaves the worship service they have more joy in their hearts and a spring in their step because they know they have been in the presence of God!

Dead churches don’t have to change. All they have to do to remain a dead church, is NOTHING! Dead churches don’t have to improve for the future, they just worship their past.

Live churches have lots of noisy kids! After all, kids will be noisy. What do lots of kids indicate? It indicates that the church has lots of families that are in the child-bearing years – twenty to forty year-olds. Why is this important? If the church is to thrive, it must contain a significant proportion of these families. Older families no longer have young children. If the church is mostly older families, who will continue as the families begin to go on to be with the Lord? Dead churches don’t have lots of noisy kids, dead churches are fairly quiet!

Live church’s expenses will most likely exceed their income. But that is where faith comes in. A church that is alive will seek new ways to minister to the people, not regarding the cost in money. We must do our part in the kingdom. God will provide the finances to do that job!

There is a principle in strategic planning called, “Cost – Benefit Analysis.” In other words, when a plan of action is under consideration, the cost of that plan must be considered in relation to the benefits which will be received from that plan of action. In the business world and the world of education, I agree that this is a good practice. But in the church? How can we put a “Cost-Benefit Analysis” to the winning of one soul? How much does it cost to win a soul to Christ? Does it matter? Christ certainly did not put that principle in His Great Commission! How much does it cost to minister to one-parent families? Does that matter? How much does it cost to feed the poor? Does that matter? Now please don’t misunderstand me! I am not suggesting that the church go on a spending spree that would put Howard Hughes (if he were still alive) in the poor house. Let’s be good stewards of the money God provides, but let’s step out on faith to do His work.

Live churches move out on faith. Dead churches operate totally by human sight. Jesus put it this way, “Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.” (Matthew 15:14) If we in the church try to do all that we do totally by human sight, we will be like the blind leading the blind. We must step out on faith. We must seek those who need ministered to, then step out on faith and find a way to do God’s will. And believe me, if we will do that, God will provide the means to get the job done!

Live churches focus on people and their lives. Dead ones focus on programs. What will God say to us when we enter Heaven and are giving an accounting for our work here on earth and we tell Him about all these “wonderful programs” we developed? Will He say, “But who did you win for my kingdom?” What will WE SAY when not one name comes to our lips? God’s work is about people, not programs! God’s work is healing broken lives and bringing them back to Christ. God’s work is feeding the poor both physically and spiritually. God’s work is helping the widow and the orphan. God’s work is helping the single mother raise her children and provide for them. God’s work is caring for the homeless. How did Jesus put it? “And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’” (Matthew 25:40) What are we, the church, doing to these – the least of the brethren of Jesus? Whatsoever we are doing to (or for) them, we are also doing likewise to the Savior.

Live churches are filled with tithers, dead ones are filled with tippers. Which are you? Just as we spoke of the church as a whole must step out on faith to do God’s work, the same is true with us as individual Christians. How can we, as a body, say we must have faith and step forward with the church’s finances when we are not willing to make sacrifices personally. It is plain in the Scriptures, we must put God first. That means with our money as well as our faith and talent. I have heard it said many times, “you can’t out-give God”, or “if you give sacrificially, God will bless you richly.” Now really, is that why we should give of our tithe? It is true that God will provide for us! But our motivation for giving must be to bless others, not be blessed ourselves. Paul tells the elders of the church at Ephesus, “I have shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you must support the weak. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” (Acts 20:35) Let’s not be giving of our tithes and offerings expecting to receive a blessing. Let’s give freely with the intent that our tithes and offerings will provide an abundance of blessing to those about whom we have been speaking.

Lofty ideas? Perhaps. But what do you think Jesus would have us do? Be like the dead church which relives nightmares? Or the live church which dreams great dreams of God and working FOR His kingdom? Are we to be like the dead church which has the word CAN’T as its most used word? Or like the live one which does not even have that word in its vocabulary? Are we to be like the dead church and respond to every new idea with, “We’ve never done it that way before.”? Or will we say, “Here is a group of people who need our love and help. Let’s find a way to minister to them.”?

The choice is really ours. We can be part of a dead or dying church, or we can be part of a living, growing church which is on fire for God seeking out those who need our help, and then helping them. We can be part of a church which has a worship service which brings glory, praise and honor to the Savior and our Heavenly Father. We can be part of a church which is a light in the community shinning forth for Jesus Christ. Have you ever heard the saying, “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.”? How about you? How do you characterize YOUR congregation? Is it alive – or dying? Are you trying to be a part of the solution, or are you part of the problem? You will give an account some day to God for your part in the kingdom. And when you stand there to give your account, you will stand ALONE!

Remember live churches evangelize, dead churches fossilize!

All Scriptures quoted are from the New King James Version unless otherwise noted.

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1) Reciprocal links, while not becoming totally dead, are decreasing in value, and
there will most likely be an algorithm update to lessen their importance. The
original thought process behind the importance of a link was that it was seen as a
“vote” for the linked-to site. Now that reciprocal links are everywhere, it is hardly a
great way to count “votes” for a website. Reciprocal linking will continue around the
internet, although the amount of people who try to get away with one-way links (by
never getting back to you once you’ve added their link) will increase significantly.
This will, of course, be an attempt to acquire one-way links, which brings us to our
next subject….

2) One-way links and triangle linking, though already quite popular, should explode
over the course of 2005. Both are much harder to control and acquire, which makes
Google happy. The triangle link “ploy” makes links look like one-way links even
though “Site A” is returning the favor to “Site B” through “Site C”. There will be
attempts to sell triangle linking programs and systems by SEO companies, however,
the complexity, difficulty and time involved in this scheme will produce ridiculous
prices.

3) What this about a new search engine that is going to index every site on the
internet, EVERY 10 seconds? Become.com has turned a few heads with it’s claims.
Site owners have reported Become Bots spidering “like crazy”. It’s all quite hush,
hush, however and you need to have an invite in order to test it out. It should be
interesting to see what they’re capable of if and when they decide to go live. I’ll go
out on a limb and say that it’s a household name by this time next year.

4) MSN will scrap the “beta” tag on February 1st from it’s sparkling new search
engine, which is currently live at search.msn.com and Bill Gates thinks it will rival
Google. There is a lot of debate over this issue, but there is no denying that it is far
better than the old chugger they were using before. Love him or hate him, Gates has
most likely given a hard right to the chin of Yahoo!, which seems to be suffering
from a magnitude of quality problems. MSN will be second to Google in total
searches in 2005.

5) PR still has importance. However, it is also decreasing in value. PR is only based
on the quantity and quality of links (both inbound and outbound) from the given
web page. The most obvious reasoning for the declining importance theory is due to
the fact that on any given search on Google, the PR of each page seems to have
barely any correlation with it’s place in the rankings. For all you PR lovers out there,
hold on to your toolbar’s tight, because this could be a bumpy ride.

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The initial and most obvious reason why individuals might take out a subscription for a magazine, instead of obtaining them from the local shop is very likely value savings. Subscribing for a magazine is a lot less expensive in relation to acquiring it on a monthly basis at the marked price. Depending on the distributor, production house or publication title, readers could usually receive up to seventy percent off the list cost! Cost cuts are usually increased much further via purchasing a lengthier publication subscription plan, the more month’s you sign up to the more the reduction.

Usually a magazine publishing house or reseller, will include complementary gifts when you obtain a subscription straight from them. These gifts include free limited edition digests, t-shirts, stationary supplies or other novelty knickknacks. Occasionally publications may well even insert extra magazine subscriptions at reduced or zero cost.

Let us face up to it a magazine subscription is evidently helpful. No further journeys to the bookstore. No future queuing in line. No future missing the latest issue. No more calling the publisher or forking out far too much to obtain back-issues. That is even if magazine retailers even exist near to where you live!

Often times people might want to pick up a title that is unfortunately not freely obtainable in a corner shop, convenience market or magazine retailer. Local shops will often charge more than normal for specific orders. What’s worse, their deliveries may not regularly come on time. Ordering a subscription to difficult to locate publications eliminates this particular problem entirely.

In our fast-paced world, information is everything. It is crucial to stay updated with the latest affairs in a continual manner. Magazine subscribers might usually get their magazines far ahead of the latest issue finding their way to the retailers’ shelves.

In times of financial difficulty, it might often be hard for your loved ones to cover the funeral costs, which are often rather expensive, without the help of some additional finances. Retaining a life assurance policy will often assist to pay for funeral costs with the intention that the funeral expenses will not become a greater burden to your spouse and children.

If your family is dependent upon your financial provision to cover the mortgage on a recently acquired home or condo, if you passed away, your family might well face the possibility of losing the house to the bank if they cannot manage to re-pay the bank. With this in mind, it is critically important to have life cover with the aim that your loved ones will be in possession of enough capital to retain a property to abide in the event of your ill-timed death. On top of loan or tenancy reparations are the costs of daily living; groceries, clothing, transport and also any other daily cost.

Paying for university tuition costs is something that you would usually do for one’s children if you were alive and well. However, if you passed away, there would possibly not be anyone to provide assistance for university tutelage costs. Life assurance would normally support these costs in the chance of one’s passing and would guarantee your kids’ advanced learning.

It is essential to remember that life assurance is necessary important for several reasons. It’s a vital choice that should not knowingly be taken lightly. Analyse your choices for the assorted categories of life assurance and the level of compensation the providers give in order to make an educated choice. Death is a part of life that nobody can foresee. Consequently, it is vital to be covered in any situation. Protect your loved ones in the chance of your untimely death, by certifying that you possess decent life assurance coverage. Make life insurance part of your investment portfolio, as you are investing in your families future.

The latest trend in kitchen appliances is to have them disguised. Adding a wooden front on to a fridge could be one simple step to making your kitchen appear more fashionable. Specialized storage is also in vogue right now. Refrigerators aren’t the only appliances to be disguised this way: dishwashers can also be disguised with cabinet fronts. Recent advances in green technology have also made dishwashers patently more energy efficient, too. Because of recent technological developments practically all kitchen gadgets are overall faster and significantly more energy efficient.

Thankfully, there isn’t a rule that says you can only have one dishwasher. In some cases a single isn’t enough and another has been put in the counter. As you would imagine, this means that you cut down on the work when you have a lot of people for dinner. If you want to keep pans away from your priciest glasses then this may be the thing to do. A quick glance over some magazines should give you a few ideas for the cabinetry too. Victorian designs and plain shaker doors in light cream have come back as the most popular home refitting things that money can buy. Medium to light coated cherry is steadily replacing oak as the most fashionable style of counter. However, you really shouldn’t restrict yourself to oak, pine or other woods — marble and granite can be decent substitutes, it should be noted. A bar fridge, a clothes dryer, and other appliances make it quick and easy to update your home and provide a fresh, new appearance. With this year’s fashions bringing in such a lot of new and exotic ideas, the possibilities and combinations are boundless. So did we promise too much? Everyone can make their own dream kitchen.

Young girls love anything to do with dress up, makeup and hair dressing which is why Barbie has never ever fallen out of fashion. Mattel keeps improving her year after year, and has really become quite adept at noting the changes in how wider society views young girls. Barbie is her very own woman, she teaches girls self esteem as well as to be grateful for inner beauty.

Childrens toys in the pre-teen years and beyond are regularly more technologically advanced; these toys excite the brain and also boost hand eye coordination. One really enjoyable plaything is definitely the Rubik’s Touch Cube; this teaches thinking and problem solving skills.

Lots of the renowned West End musicals are sold out long before the performance, therefore planning before is greatly suggested. A number of deals may be offered to tourists which contain accommodation as well as tickets for a West End musical. By knowing the theatre packages offered, some terrific offers could be had by those bright purchasers who planned their trip months ahead. Start off by opting for a show or alternatively by deciding on a day that you will be in the London vicinity, but make sure to fit in a visit to one of the countless wonderful theatres to see the top stage craft available in the world.

Seeing one of the many fine shows in London is a classic and timeless way of enjoying the vigorous London arts scene. Famed for gifted artists, London theatre is a beacon across the globe of what first-class theatre can be like. Observing theatre at its best as it happens can be a real treat for the whole family, or even an electrifying evening with that special person. With a plethora of shows, there is certain to be a way to bring even more culture into your life through theatre patronage. Whether or not you prefer a quirky, pleasurable romp through a musical performance or a striking and loving tale, the theatrical scene in London is among the greatest the UK has to offer. Get the best available London show tickets online.

For smart people with a sense for theatre, London show and hotel packages are to be had to make certain that your excursion to the theatre land is complete with a day of tremendous amusement in one of numerous celebrated musical theatres. By buying tickets beforehand and booking your seats early it is possible to get your hands on the best seats to many of the most electrifying events and shows on at this minute.

Step Number One

Spend some quiet time and write down exactly what the change or changes will be and why you want them, this is the first crucial step towards achieving goals. At this stage, write only what it is you’d like to achieve and why. The ‘how’s’ and ‘when’s’ can come later.

Step Number Two

This step too is very important, and it has everything to do with you accessing a state of inner peace. The peace I write about has little to do with listening to relaxation music, essential oils in a burner or harps playing (though they can help). Achievement of your goal requires having peace through a quiet mind and inner calmness regardless of the chaos around you and how long this chaos reigns.

When you have this (peace) you’ll have greater clarity, your creative self will make itself known, you’ll gain foresight into how you will achieve your outcome, focus, and negativity will have minimal impact.

There are individuals who know how to step into the state of peace; however others may require some gentle guidance.

If you find achieving a peace state challenging, there are 5 options listed below that may help you:

1. Find yourself some quiet time when you know you’ll be undisturbed and paint, draw, write, or map out all you can about your intended outcome.

2. Embark on a meditation program that will teach you a selection of meditation techniques.

3. If you’re willing to be coached, find yourself a reputable personal coach who can help you work through limiting beliefs and help you discover what your values are.

4. Seek out a mentor. This would be someone whom you admire, is inspiring, motivating, and successful, be available to you and who is a fundamentally positive, peaceful and calm individual.

5. Embark on a spiritual development program.

The world of alternatives is huge. To find something you’ll be happy with may take a little research, start by asking friends and family members to point you in the right direction. If they’re just not into that kind of thing it may be wise to broaden your search through the internet, books, and/or other members of your community.

Step Number Three

This important step is about gifting yourself with a fresh outlook on life.

Looking at things in a totally different way and from a new angle will give you a more global perspective revealing greater possibilities and may be achieved by:

1. Asking parts of you what is important to you, each time you receive an answer continue by asking why that answer is important. When you can go no further ask yourself “how can you change this issue?” This may sound a bit strange, however from experience this works.

2. Transformational Coaching.

3. Understanding your motivation or lack of motivation. Once you’ve gained an understanding of you, you’re in a position to become proactive into making necessary changes toward achieving your goal.

4. Reading autobiographies of how successful people did it.

Step Number Four

By now you know exactly what you want; you can step into profound inner peace at will; have picked up great self-help and self-healing tools; eliminated limiting beliefs; and worked out your values. Now it’s time to finally pinpoint exactly how you’re going to go about achieving your goal.

There will be many ways on how you’ll achieve your goal; however the time frame will vary greatly depending on what you need to acquire first. Maybe you need:

1. To acquire new skills such as sales, writing, technology, or marketing skills etc. for that new career you’ve always wanted to be part of.

2. To seriously start networking yourself and your product. Become known in your community.

3. To gather a team of like minded individuals that will motivate and inspire you into achieving your goal, whatever it is. Constant negative input can quickly extinguish dreams.

4. Start an investment portfolio for your future if you’re after a secure financial future.

5. Read as much as possible on whatever your goal is, it will give you a fundamental understanding of what it’s all about.

Step Number Five

This last but important step (they’re all important) is the calculation of when your outcome will finally eventuate. If you’ve followed the previous steps adding Step Number Four into the equation, you’ll be able to determine the time you can celebrate in a really, huge way of finally reaching the pot at the end of your rainbow!

1. Calculate the time it takes to complete your training courses or higher education.

2. Investment portfolio goals as discussed with your investment adviser.

3. Discuss with your business/personal development/ transformational coach how many sessions and ‘home-play’ will be required of you for you to achieve your goal.

4. Factor in time it takes for people to get to know you if you’re selling a product or you are the product. Speak with a marketing professional or someone ‘in the know’ first.

5. It’s important to be realistic about timeframes. Sometimes our greatest plans will go awry and will take much longer than expected (much like newly discovered actors and singers who have been plugging their trade for many years before hitting the big time!)

Sometimes, incidents will happen and be out of our control no matter what we do. Like my computer taking with it all my electronic office equipment earlier in 2005 (one of the most frustrating experiences I’ve ever had). To keep going required perseverance, patience and flexibility – it would have been so easy to give up!

Anyone can achieve goals through inner peace, perseverance, patience, flexibility and sometimes viewing situations from an entirely different angle.

Michaela Scherr Transformational Coach

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Michaela is a Transformational Coach, certified practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), writer, and Metaphysician who is totally committed to helping others create positive and action oriented changes to their lives.

Michaela is the author of several e-books and publisher of a monthly newsletter called From My Desk.

I walked into Wal-Mart today and the retarded person, who could barely speak a syllable correctly [thanks to EOE employment], mushed out ‘Happy Holidays’ to me as I entered the church [sorry, supermarket]. I looked at Timmy with a glare of discontent; I am a born-again Christian and I prefer to hear ‘Merry Christmas’…I guess the short yellow bus didn’t bring you to such enlightenment. Being an alcoholic and heroin addict brought me to Christ. This is the time of our Lord and I don’t appreciate the trained hippies excluding Christ from our annual nomenclature.

Why did he tell me ‘Happy Holidays;? Hasn’t he been waching Fox News Channel? Bill O’Reilly is explicitley detailing the problems that political correctness has caused our country. Corporations are too busy trying to sell wares than pass along our American [they're takin' our jobs!] culture. 90% of our country are Christians, hence Christ, thus celebrating our annual holiday of ‘Christ’mas, not Happy Holidays. That just gives leeway to the damn Jews and Muslims [who are godless heathens anway- notice my non-capitalization of god] and their attempts to change our meaning of Christmas. Yes, Adam Sandler is cute, but is still going to hell. I buy my kids all the toys they put on their wish list to Santa Claus, and there is nothing more spirited than that. They are happy on December 25th, just as the world was happy when Christ was born to save our sinning souls. He was nailed to a cross for that retard at Wal-Mart to tell me ‘Happy Holiday’?

Let’s take our country back. Hell, with all the Mexicants and other foreigners trying to attack our country daily, the least we could do is give thanks to our Lord and Saviour that will save us from these damn freeloading bastards. Keep Christ in Christmas, and tell that Wal-Mart loser you are a Christian!

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