Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Quote of the Day --    “ My writing process – I outline everything out. …I actually write an outline that is about 10,000 words or 40 pages worth of material. For me it is helpful to be able to stop and think - and be sure that all the pieces fall in together. …You really have to decide where you want to spend your time. …if I want to start writing then that is something that moves up in the priority list. …I might say ‘hey I want to write 1000 words a day’ – and if you do that for 60 days – then you’ll have a finished book.  …It is tiring to sit and write for 8-10 hours a day, so breaking it into little chunks where you have an hour or a half hour just to follow your outline and write. ” ~ Chris Rakunas Today’s quote originates from the Conscious Discussions Talk Radio episode that aired back on Nov 4… titled: Delivering Hope to Haiti  (*Click on the title to access the full discussion) --...

Wishing all of our readers and supporters a very warm and relaxing holiday season! * We are taking the day off from hosting the radio show :)    -- Quote of the Day --  “We live in the present,  we dream of the future,  but we learn eternal truths from the past.”  May-lin Chiang -- Positive News --    We were thrilled to read a report by the Steel Recycling Institute showing that recycle rates for steel has reached an “all-time high of 92%”. In fact steel is the most recycled item in North America, beating recycle rates for aluminum, paper, plastic, glass (with recycling rates increasing to 34% over all those items). Auto recycling is at 94%, appliance recycling is at 90%. Info : recycle-steel.org or sustainable-steel.org   Find Dave and Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, their radio program, blog, and more at: http://brummet.ca * Support the Brummets by t...

-- Quote of the Day -- " It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult ." ~ Seneca -- Chatter -- The Brummet's Muse newsletter goes out this morning - sign up via the widget on the top right on this site if you'd like to receive a copy. This newsletter goes out every 2 weeks via email. Our Canadian Authors MySpace Blog was just updated: http://blog.myspace.com/canadianauthor -- Conscious Living Events -- April 16-17 China International Recycling Conference & Exhibition. New Century Grand Hotel - Hang Zhou, (China) Info: www.chinairc.org April 19- 25 Bauma 2010 Munich, Germany; New Munich Trade Info: www.bauma.de/en -- Steel Recycling -- Steel recycling rates have made the industry very eco-friendly with between 28 and 90 percent recycled content in today’s manufactured steel products. Steel holds the record for the highest recycling rate of all materials currently accepted in recycling waste man...