I’ve been awarded another Liebster yay ! Some more of my biggest fans want a quote from me … doh only kidding ! My awarder : http://clairelitakeover.wordpress.com/2013/10/02/nominated-for-liebster/ Thankyou, I’m honoured and humbly accept:) Section 1: Directions for you to accept … Continue reading Awards Day – clairelitakeover – Liebster Award, thankyou:)
I’ve been awarded a Liebster yay ! My biggest fans cheering me on the Netherlands women’s hockey team … doh only kidding ! My awarder : http://inkedpen84.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/liebster-award-response-thank-you-for-the-beautiful-gift/ Thankyou, I’m honoured and humbly accept:) Section 1: Directions for you to accept … Continue reading Awards Day – Inkpen – Liebster Award, thankyou:)
I’ve just completed a statistical analysis on when people comment on my blog. To be more exact, what times of day and which days of the week. Obviously there are many factors that can skew these types of studies, so … Continue reading What is the best time of day to post on your blog?
“A man’s got to know his limitations” Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry in Magnum Force 1973 Photoshop- To Overlay text on B&W photo- draw a white … Continue reading “A Man’s Got To Know His Limitations” – Clint Eastwood
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Today we say goodbye to a teacher who had an immense impact on the world. S.N. Goenka was a pioneer in making Vipassana meditation widely available to a secular audience. Over 170 meditation centers have been established… Continue reading Remembering S.N. Goenka
I haven’t shared any of my culinary skills, yet. Angie (AngieG9) inspired me to share what I know about cooking truly awesome Pasta with a Tomato based sauce, with her ketchup recipe. I used to have an Italian girlfriend from … Continue reading Tomato Pasta, The “Right” Way – Give your taste-buds a treat:)
I love to chop things up and then make new things, must be a creative process, I guess. WordPress dot com blogs give us really great tools and widgets already. But I wanted to create a custom Widget to show … Continue reading DIY Widget – Coolest Bloggers – “Fun” with HTML
I really like this quote by Henry Ford, the founder of Ford, a well known brand. It’s simple and straightforward. Whether, you believe you CAN or you believe you CAN’T YOU ARE RIGHT Henry Ford Confidence and self-belief are a … Continue reading “Driven by you” – Confidence by Henry Ford
I’ve been blogging now just over 4 months. I came here originally because I’m rubbish at writing CVs, bored of rat-race brown-nosing and wanted to get starting doing something on-line. Oh and the financial markets had swallowed up a big … Continue reading What is Charisma? by Don Charisma, with a little help from Richard Branson
Here’s my biggest fans celebrating. Only kidding, it’s the Netherlands women’s hockey team celebrating. I like the picture because they really know how to celebrate a win:) I’ve been honoured with some awards, I’m happy to be awarded by thoughtful … Continue reading Liebster Award from chandnilahoti.wordpress.com, thanks Chandni
Father: Hey. Don’t ever let somebody tell you… You can’t do something. Not even me. All right? Son: All right. Father: You got a dream… You gotta protect it. People can’t do … Continue reading How to Make Your Dreams Come True, Father’s Advice to his Son
I think a man only needs one thing in life. He just needs someone to LOVE. If you can’t give him that, then give him something to HOPE for. And if you can’t give him that, just give him something … Continue reading Don Charisma – What motivates men? Love? Hope? Purpose?
I think a man only needs one thing in life. He just needs someone to LOVE. If you can’t give him that, then give him something to HOPE for. And if you can’t give him that, just give him something … Continue reading Don Charisma – What motivates men? Love? Hope? Purpose?
“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains” by Anne Frank, The Diary of a young girl . Very wise words that point to a powerful internal process. Anne Frank describes enduring immense suffering, … Continue reading Courage and Hope within Suffering, by Anne Frank
I am welcoming DannyBoyBroderick to the WordPress community and introduce him as my friend. We’ve known each other for over 10 years. We worked together in a Swiss bank in London, became friends owing to various social events and similar interests … Continue reading Don Charisma welcomes DannyBoyBroderick
What’s wrong with this picture ? As I’m not a photographer, it’s taken me an age to get to the bottom of how to fix this. Photoshop has it’s own idea about colours, presumably something to do with the fact … Continue reading How to Get Photoshop JPG colour to match web page colour
let it be… …let it change… …let it go Don Charisma 2013 Resources & Sources I would like to thank: Vitaly S Alexius svitart.com – for the four seasons graphic, just awesome Vitaly. Please do visit his site, there are … Continue reading DonCharisma.org – Charisma, The Easy Way
moreissuesthantimemagazine has nominated me for this award, and I humbly and proudly accept. Thank you for nominating me:) Since starting blogging I’ve “met” a bunch of really cool people, a real driving force for creativity and positivity. Quite a few … Continue reading doncharisma – I am Part of the WordPress family … Award
(Thanks to 5readblogs for giving me the encouragement and opportunity to write this) Introduction Five reads blog asked me to write about five books that mean a lot to me. I like the idea of the five reads blog, so … Continue reading Don Charisma @ 5readsblog
Many thanks to 5readsblog for encouraging me to write this, I hope that others will find the books I like useful 🙂 Continue reading Don Charisma
The Beginning I have a good old friend of more than 20 years back home in London, England. The UK economy according to the politicians is doing great, but ask most people on the street and you’ll hear a different … Continue reading Getting A Failing Website Back On Top
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin References http://www.etsy.com/listing/110519096/ben-franklin-teach-me-tell-me-involve-me Continue reading Learning by Benjamin Franklin
Interestingly, I posted about downgrading my laptop from Windows 8 to Windows 7 because that’s what I wanted and didn’t particularly like Windows 8, and I’ve had a mini-debate going on with my blog readers. It all started because I … Continue reading Windows 8 is … Crap, Rubbish, Awful, Terrible, Horrible, Slow, A Disaster, A Flop?
In my previous blog post I wrote about building a code box like this one : Code: #!/bin/bash # rsync script rsync -avh –exclude=”*.bak” /home/user/Documents/ /media/diskid/user_backup/Documents/ However, kindly another blogger has pointed out that a nicely numbered code box is … Continue reading Revisted – How to add a code box in free WordPress blog
I wonder if Google has the answer to that particular conundrum ? It’s one of the 50 most insane search suggestions ever seen on Google. Fair question, but funny never-the-less. Some of my other favourites : “I feel like a … Continue reading How Come When I Talk To Girls on FaceBook They Don’t Answer me Back?
A nice little poem that reminds us not to spend too much time in the past or the future, but focus on the here and now. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a Mystery. Today is Gift, that’s why we call … Continue reading Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a Mystery. Today is Gift, that’s why we call it the Present
Attempting to space out neatly text and images in web-pages can be annoying sometimes, trying the patience and wasting one’s time. I had some short paragraphs that I wanted to highlight with images to make them easier to read and … Continue reading Spacing Images and Text in WordPress Free
This man, the author, suffered tremendously will severe health problems, but his courage and spirit are an inspiration Invictus Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be … Continue reading Spirit, Unconquered – Invictus
Frustratingly, WordPress free blog doesn’t have a code box facility, or not one that I could find. Sometimes it’s handy to put a code box for code snippets or commands to be run a command line, like this Code: #!/bin/bash … Continue reading How to add a code box in free WordPress blog
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.” Mahatma Ghandi … has been disputed that he ever said this, but does sum him up quite nicely! Satyagraha is Holding firmly to (or insistence on … Continue reading Steadfastness – Holding firmly to truth
I’m #1 so why try harder… Fatboy Slim album cover You’ve come a long way, baby 1998 Continue reading Self-belief – I’M #1 SO WHY TRY HARDER
“When the Going Gets Tough … the Tough Get Going” Song by Billy Ocean 1985 Continue reading Persistence – When the going gets tough
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will … Continue reading Litany against fear – Fear is the mind killer
Kill Bill Vol2, Pai Mei – “It’s the wood that should fear your hand, not the other way around. No wonder you can’t do it, you acquiesce to defeat before you even begin.” Continue reading Strength – It’s the wood that should fear your hand, not the other way around
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