A TOAST TO GLUHWEIN FROM THE CHRISTMAS MARKETS!

Do you know where you have to go to find one of these mugs?

My Brother and Sister-in-law got me started on these...and luckily, I can find these (occasionally) stateside, rather than in GERMANY!  They brought home one for me from their travels in Germany during the holiday...where there are quite a few Christmas markets that sell every type of Christmas item imaginable.  They are also famous for serving  Glühwein: a type of mulled wine that is served during the holiday season in collectible mugs such as these.  I actually picked up a few at local thrift stores!  To find out more about the markets...there are youtube videos to view...all a little different and all very enjoyable. 

view Christmas Markets 

There are 10 to view on this page...ranging from 1-5 minutes.  Have fun!

 

NOT A JOB...A SOURCE OF INCOME!

Take a different path...

I attended a media conference ( TechPhx ) recently and was chatting with a fellow attendee on the way to our cars.  I said something to her that nearly blew her away.  It wasn't anything I had thought of myself, but it seemed to take her by surprise.

We were discussing "needing a job"...and I turned to her and flatly stated that I didn't want a job, I wanted a source of income or rather provision.  You could see lightbulbs going off in her head.  "Oh," she said,"I never thought about it like that before!  ...but, you're RIGHT!"

We have trained ourselves to think that the only way to provide for ourselves and our family is to get (or make--taking the entrepreneurial route) a JOB...and if we work hard and go to college we will be rewarded with a good job and equally good wages.

Well, Dorothy...we aren't in Kansas anymore.   It is only in the recent past that people thought of having a job and that being their source of income or provision.  

In days gone by, we didn't hold that mind-set, and that mind-set didn't have the accompanying mind-limiting attributions.  

Your "job" was to provide for yourself and your family...and that meant you wore many hats and did many things.  You could provide for yourself by farming and gardening.  Probably both.  Your provision might show up in the form of hunted game or a catch of fish.  Your provision could come from your ability to sew and knit your own clothes.  You might have a few chickens.  Maybe you also grew and ground some wheat and baked your own bread...all without having a "job".

Fortunately, you could sell off your "extra" eggs or chickens, or you might be handy with a needle, or with wood working, or metal-smithing.  All these things might become a source of income--your provision--without you becoming a chicken farmer, or a seamstress, or a wood carver, or a blacksmith.

You could barter things you couldn't do or didn't want to do yourself.  

The trick is to provide for yourself as much as possible, barter or trade what you can't or won't do, and find a few things to sell.  


Suffice it to say that "jobs" tend to enslave us away from  being able to enjoy and live our lives.