ACHIEVEMENT LADDER ENTHUSIASTS CONGRATULATE THE REAL HEROES OF THE WINTER OLYMPICS IN VANCOUVER, B.C.

In honoring the persons who have made the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C., a successful achievement, the Achievement Ladder Enthusiasts Human Beings International Association congratulates the many persons who were the behind the scenes heroes. These individuals include the builders of the various venues that housed the Winter Olympics Events. The patience, the perseverance, and the total dedication of the host Country was obvious to the casual observer. When the weather appeared to be taking a different direction for the Winter Olympics, the team of workers focused on bringing in enough snow and a solid base to assist the maintenance workers to prepare the venues for the best conditions under the worst conditions. When an Olympic participant was fatally killed, the experts corrected the oversight on the fast track that took one life too many. With the transportation throughout the area, the visitors were able to travel from one location to another location with ease because of the solid preparation that was noticed. All of the citizens of Vancouver, B.C., appeared to be prepared to host the Winter Olympics with grace, with sincere hospitality, and with a gracious competitive environment appropriate for the participants and their coaches from various Countries throughout the world.

What have the visitors and the participants taken with them from this exceptional Winter Olympics? The positive attitude that will propel these persons for years to come is the value-added reward for a job well done. What will the host Country take with the ending of these Winter Olympic Games? The satisfaction and the encouragement to bring together the best competitors from all over the world in a safe and secure Country. The law enforcement and the safety first professionals of the host Country can be especially proud of keeping the Winter Olympics a positive memory in a world that seems to overlook the positive contributions of the "behind the scenes" professionals. To communicate in multiple languages effectively is one of the challenges of any global venture.

Congratulations to the organizers, the investors, the workers at all levels of expertise, the people who supported this venture, and the many individuals who will continue to be "unsung heroes" of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C.

Your Ladder of Achievement participants and your Achievement Ladder Enthusiasts appreciate your positive thrust to make the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C. a tremendous success at all levels of human development.

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ACHIEVEMENT LADDER ENTHUSIASTS ENCOURAGE MATURITY AT ALL LEVELS OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

To be a mature adult means to avoid doing childish things such as ranting, stomping our feet, crying for no reason, and being a general nuisance to all. To grow in all levels of holistic maturity, Achievement Ladder Enthusiasts must welcome opportunities to exercise their multiple intelligences in different circumstances. To be holistically intelligent, a Ladder of Achievement Enthusiast agrees to explore areas of strengths and weaknesses to develop a plan of action for each area of intelligence. These intelligences include the following areas: spiritual, physical, mental, emotional, aesthetical, economic, political, philosophical, psychological, musical, sexual, entrepreneurial, intrapreneurial, ecological, financial, and many other characteristics of a fully holistic intelligent human being. Assessing our strengths and weaknesses is a full time endeavor for the lifelong learner in multiple dimensions. Our aptitudes, our altitudes, our attitudes directs our positive thrust in maximizing our holistic intelligences as expected by mature human beings.

During this special season of Lent, 2010, Achievement Ladder Enthusiasts are asked to rediscover their totality as fully human, fully alive human beings with a opportunity to transform their ordinary every day actions into extraordinary accomplishments that start with the NOW. Today is the tomorrow that we thought about yesterday. Planned Procrastination has the same end result as planned obsolescence. Neither approach will bring about a positive result. As members of Achievement Ladder Enthusiasts Human Beings Association, we are called upon to reconsider our priorities by extensive prayer and contemplation, by choosing fasting opportunities to make better choices, and by challenges to being aware of almsgiving opportunities and discernments. Lent is not a reason to give something "up" or to fast to "lose weight" or to "give token" donations to the less fortunate. There is a reason for the season. If we praise our Creator with words of wisdom but do not have any love reason, our rhetoric is empty and foolhardy. If we honor our Creator with our lip service, our hearts may be far from honoring the Lord of Lords, the King of Kings, the Creator of the Universe. We need to "walk our talk." If we say we love God but avoid giving our neighbors the respect and honor that they are due, we are "liars" and "hypocrites."

Using the C.O.P.E. method of discerning our total holistic intelligences, our positive efforts will be to rediscover the Challenges that we face every day in the multi-facted situations that life deals us. After we have listed all of our Challenges, the next step is to look at the Options that are most effective in meeting our daily challenges as human beings. Next, we need to devise a Plan that will reduce the negative influences in our Holistic Life and replace the negatives with positive affirmations of our human existence. Lastly, we need to Evaluate what is working well in our lives and what is still an obstacle in our maturing as effective adults working in our environments. Let us use the Season of Lent to redisover what the Master taught each of us through His Positive Example even to the point of laying down His life for His friends. "Whatever you do the the least of my brothers and sisters, you did to ME."

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WHAT CHOICES WILL ACHIEVEMENT LADDER ENTHUSIASTS ENCOUNTER?

The beauty of each human being that makes one unique is the ability to make choices that are life changing in every situation. As a human being, we are able to make positive and negative choices based on our value system that we have acquired during our many life experiences. For many indiviudals, the will to make a difference will determine the effective choices that will best benefit the well-being of each human being. As a human being is faced with dilemmas in their lives, the impact of positive choices in each episode of their lives creates a life-giving or a death knoll for the choices that are made.

In the event of one day, our choice to wake up at an appointed time will determine the affect that we will have on our various activities planned for that day. In choosing what will be the nourishment for our body at the various meals of the day, we will be making decisions that will positively or negatively affect our healthy choices in each situation. Realizing that weight management is a choice in selecting healthy food choices, we will either encounter over weight or under weight as reflected on insurance policy applications. In making choices in our social environment, we will either make peer pressures or independent thinking opportunities with our social choices. Choices in the realm of reading materials will mean either we enhance our intellectual pursuits or we degrade our minds with inappropriate and indecent literature. Negatism begets negativism; however, positive thinking encourages a positive response in deciding our numerous choices for either life or death issues. To be against something means that the person should be for something. For every negative response there should be a positive response. For example, a person may read in the media that 10 percent of the people in the workforce are unemployed; however, that means that 90 percent of the people in the workforce are employed . For even in the 90 percent of the people in the workforce, some of these persons may be lacking experience, effective attitiudes, or educational opportunities. Making choices means making decisions to make positive progress in their goal-setting aspirations as they climb the Ladder of Achievement. Making excuses or making rationalizations for poor choices or unethical choices means that the individual lacks moral or ethical values in making human choices on a day- to -day basis.

For all Achievement Ladder Enthusiasts, the decision to give human beings at all ages an opportunity to live life to the fullest is often clouded by misinformation, social peer pressures, negative indoctrination, and incompetent rationalizations. When some human laws are contrary to divine inspired law, the choice is to follow the divine inspired law and to change the human law. In some cases changing such inprudent human laws may take as much as centuries to make a positive change for the benefit of all innocent human beings. Yes, today we are reminded to CHOOSE LIFE...that is a CHOICE that we can accept.

ST. VALENTINE'S DAY FOR ALL ACHIEVEMENT LADDER ENTHUSIASTS

Today is St. Valentine's Day in the Christian World. St. Valentine is the Patron of Greetings. "St. Valentine, a Roman Priest, together with St. Marius and his family, assisted the martyrs who suffered during the reign of Emperor Claudius II in the 3rd Century. Being apprehended, St. Valentine was sent to the Prefect of Rome, who commanded that St. Valentine be beaten with clubs and afterward beheaded. He suffered martyrdom about the year 270 A.D."

"The custom of sending valentines on this day is the revival of an ancient pagan practice, which consisted in boys drawing the names of girls in honor of their goddess, Februata Juno, on February 15. To abolish this practice, names of saints were substituted on billets drawn upon this day, Februray 14. Prayer: God of power and mercy, through Your help, St. Valentine has overcome the tortures of his passion. Help us who celebrate his triumph to remain victorious over the wiles of our enemies. Amen." (Lives of the Saints, Rev. H. Hoever)

"The custom of sending Valentines on February 14 stems from a medieval belief that birds began to pair on that day." (Dictionary of Saints, John J. Delaney)

HAPPY SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2010!