I know you've often thought about goals you'd like to achieve or changes you'd like to make: a new job, a new relationship, weight loss, giving up smoking are among the common ones. If you've been successful, you've taken the time to chart out a plan to achieve each goal. I wonder: how often have you planned to enjoy the life you've envisioned? How often have you considered the choice you have in directing the big picture of your life?
This is not only relevant for today or the coming months. It's the kind of thinking and planning that can direct a lifetime of small decisions. It may seem daunting however, a life's direction starts with simple daily activities. Here are a few steps to try; some questions to answer that will begin the process of crafting a personal vision for your life.
Imagine you're looking back over the achievements of your life, the connections and contributions you've made, the people who loved and taught you, the place where you can clearly see your imprint. Have you imagined the overall theme? Use these questions to help you lay out the life plan you'd like to enjoy:
What is the vision you see for your life as your ideal?
What is truly most important to you? What would you safeguard above all else?
Who are the people you would like to have share your vision?
What resources will assist in the realization of your life vision?
What are the skills you will utilize to realize your vision?
What could interfere with your realization of your vision?
What actions will enable you to "live your vision" every day?
What one thing will you do today to move you forward?
This last question puts you to the test, helping to ground your life's vision in the here and now. Realizing that daily activities are part of a larger vision adds a significance to each small step we take and can invigorate those seemingly inconsequential wins we achieve. Just as having a destination helps us know which roads to take or avoid, having a life vision is a great way to gauge the value of decisions we must make.
I challenge you: name and claim your vision! Keep it in mind to propel you, to provide the energy and rationale to keep your personal commitments. Maintaining your personal commitment and knowing your dream can be achieved is a significant key to making it so.
Counterfeiting is once again on the rise with the lightning speed advancement of computer technology and worldwide access. A popular forgery method is digital printing using computer scanners and high-resolution printers. Professional money-printing presses use technologies similar to those of the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing and produce high quality "supernotes" or "superdollars" that can easily fool an unwary or untrained eye. But despite the generally high quality, funny money is regularly detected at the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank cash offices and in financial institutions all over the globe.
Nonetheless, the U.S. Secret Service, whose responsibility it is to keep counterfeiting in check, requires public education and cooperation to crack down on this crime for the benefit of everyone. To that end the Secret Service has set up a handy and informative website with sections called How To Detect Counterfeit Money and Know Your Money to offer advice on how to guard against forgery losses. In the meantime, here are some quick pointers that use your eyeballs rather than technology for spotting fake bills.
All U.S. paper currency features a portrait of someone, likely a president or fondly remembered politician, who has been dead for a long time. When held up to the light, most real money displays a "ghost" image. This "ghost" is typically a faint image of the politician featured on the bill. Although it's on its way, U.S. currency does not yet include holograms. Real money also features the signature of someone from the treasury department, but this name will vary from time to time. And all paper money has a unique serial number.
Counterfeit notes can be identified in a number of other ways. For instance, they may differ in color, shade, or type of paper or vary in lines of design. A big red flag is if they're missing the distinctive red and blue threads which the US Treasury puts in the paper. If you suspect a bill is counterfeit, compare it with a real bill for specific evidence of counterfeiting.
Usually counterfeiters use a high-grade bond paper that gets soaked down it to give it the worn look and color of a real bill. This paper may have printed or hand-drawn red and blue fibers like those of true bills, but the fibers in a true bill can be lifted from the paper by a sharp instrument. Check for signs of watermarks on the paper by looking through the note toward a strong light. Watermarked paper is proof of a counterfeit. And check the edges of the paper for signs that two pieces of thin paper have been glued together.
To find out more about anti-counterfeiting features, new U.S. currency designs, and other money facts, visit the website of the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Or see the web page of the Treasury Department Financial Crimes Enforcement Network for more information on fighting other financial crimes, including terrorism financing and money laundering.
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