DON'T keep it FRESH on your MIND!

     Don't let a NEGATIVE CIRCUMSTANCE from your PAST stay FRESH ON YOUR MIND allowing it any chance to STINK UP your TODAY'S. 

    Take the NEGATIVE EXPERIENCES from your PAST and JUST FLUSH IT out of your mind so PEACE OF MIND will have ROOM to GET IN.

   There will be CHALLENGES on YOUR LIFE'S JOURNEY that will CHALLENGE YOU.

    There will be HARDSHIPS on YOUR LIFE'S JOURNEY that will be HARD but the POSITIVE OUTCOME that YOUR HARD WORK will BRING will be WORTH IT.

    You may have not been able to PREVENT IT from happening but YOU CAN PREVENT IT from staying FRESH ON YOUR MIND HURTING YOU over and over again as you KEEP RELIVING IT over and over again.

   When it POPS UP trying to GRAB YOUR ATTENTION..... JUST FLUSH IT.....out of YOUR MIND.

   YOU can't have a FEELING without FIRST having a THOUGHT.

    If YOU want to have HAPPY THOUGHTS then....THINK of things that MAKE YOU FEEL HAPPY.

  If YOU want to FEEL HAPPY then...THINK of HAPPY THOUGHTS. 

   

   

    

TOUGH TIMES are TEST

     It's EASY to be kind and courteous when everything is EASY GOING.

    BUT... how will YOU BEHAVE during the TOUGH TIMES?

    YOUR TRUE CHARACTER will be SEEN by OTHERS by how YOU REACT during the TOUGH TIMES.

   Don't do anything that YOU SHOULDN'T DO to get through the TOUGH TIMES because you will have to LIVE with the CONSEQUENCES for EVERYTHING that YOU do for your LIFETIME.

    Don't let YOUR FRUSTRATION control YOUR BEHAVIOR because YOU will be FRUSTRATED with YOURSELF at the END OF THE DAY.

    DON'T turn a TEMPORARY SETBACK into a SETBACK that will SET YOU BACK for a LIFETIME.

    You may not have EXPECTED IT but you have to ACCEPT IT because LIFE is a rollercoaster and you will have GOOD DAYS and BAD DAYS, that's just LIFE.

   BEFORE YOU REACT Just STOP and THINK about what YOUR ACTIONS will BRING because once YOU REACT YOU can't take it back.

   The OUTCOME isn't determined by the CHALLENGES that you face it is determined by HOW YOU REACT to the CHALLENGES that you face.

    

   

     

Will YOU do what makes you HAPPY?

     If YOU want to have the RIGHT TO DO what YOU want TO DO then YOU have to let OTHERS have the RIGHT TO DO what THEY want TO DO.

    What WORKS for SOMEONE ELSE may not WORK FOR EVERYONE but EVERYONE should have the RIGHT TO DO what WORKS FOR THEM.

    If it MAKES YOU HAPPY then YOU WILL BE HAPPY DOING IT.... so JUST DO IT and BE HAPPY.

   It's a FACT that YOU can't PLEASE EVERYONE but YOU CAN and YOU should PLEASE YOURSELF.

   As long as it DOESN'T HURT ANYONE ELSE and it MAKES YOU HAPPY then DON'T WORRY about what ANYONE ELSE thinks.

    DON'T WORRY...... BE HAPPY.

    

You can FEEL the THUNDER SHAKE the GROUND

     As we were watching the TV together out of nowhere came a RUMBLE that was impossible to ignore.

    We knew they were PREDICTING RAIN but we were caught off guard when the RUMBLE FROM THE THUNDER SHOOK the couch we were sitting on.

    It was not RAINING yet but you knew the RAIN WAS ON IT'S WAY because we could FEEL THE RUMBLE.

    When we LOOKED OUTSIDE we could SEE THE DARKNESS in THE SKY HEADING OUR WAY.

    We decided to SIT ON THE PORCH to WATCH THE CLOUDS as they ROLLED IN.

     The dogs came outside to LAY DOWN on the PORCH with us. 

     All of a sudden in the middle of a sentence WE WERE SILENCED by a LIGHTNING STRIKE that LANDED EXTREMELY CLOSE to the PORCH.

      WE KNEW a STORM WAS COMING. We KNEW YET it STARTLED US sending OUR HEARTS POUNDING.

      Obviously we ALL RACED TO THE DOOR to get INSIDE to BE SAFE FROM being STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

       THE DOGS were the FIRST ONES IN they SURE didn't think about PROTECTING US.

     All they Thought about was PROTECTING THEMSELVES from the LIGHTNING.

     The LOOK THEY GAVE ME when we got INSIDE was a LOOK OF FRUSTRATION that WE WOULD EVEN HAVE TOOK THEM OUTSIDE in the MIDDLE OF A STORM.

      As the THUNDER AND LIGHTNING ROARED OUTSIDE we could FEEL IT SHAKING THE EARTH.

     ALTHOUGH it only lasted for about a HALF HOUR FOR THE ENTIRE THIRTY MINUTES IT FELT LIKE A WAR WAS RAGING ALL AROUND US.

     LATER when the RAIN HAD PASSED we went back out on the PORCH but our DOGS decided that WE COULD GO OUTSIDE BY OURSELVES this time and they would just STAY INSIDE.

    We could HEAR THE BIRDS out CHIRPING as they waited for the WORMS to COME UP to the surface as the RAIN HAD JUST FLOODED THEIR HOLES UNDERGROUND.

    WE could HEAR THE FROGS CROAKING as they CAME OUT OF HIDING to PLAY IN THE WATER PUDDLES.

     As the cars drove down the road you could HEAR THE SPLASHING as THEIR TIRES ROLLED through the WET ROADWAYS.

   As the RAINWATER SPLASHED DOWN off the ROOFTOP you could HEAR THE PATTERN OF SOUND OF THE WATER AS IT WAS DRIPPING DOWN.

     A THUNDERSTORM REMINDS US that MOTHER NATURE IS UNDENIABLY A POWERHOUSE.

   AND SHE OCCASIONALLY SHOWS US THAT IN JUST THE BLINK OF AN EYE HER POWER can SHAKE THE EARTH.

     

    

     

Will you GET UP AND STAND STRONG or GET PUSHED DOWN and STAY DOWN?

     If YOU want to STAND STRONG then YOU WILL HAVE TO STAND UP for WHAT'S RIGHT!

    If YOU want to BE SAFE then YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE IS SAFE!

   If YOU WOULDN'T want it to HAPPEN TO YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE.....THEN DON'T LET IT HAPPEN TO ANYONE!

    The WORLD won't get BETTER ON IT'S OWN...WE ALL MUST DO OUR PART.

    WORLD PEACE is POSSIBLE by EVERYONE EVERYWHERE BRINGING PEACE OF MIND to ONE PERSON AT A TIME!

    WITHOUT even saying a word you can make a POSITIVE DIFFERENCE because A SMILE SAYS PEACE IN ANY LANGUAGE!

    HAPPINESS is a STATE OF MIND no matter WHAT STATE OR WHAT COUNTRY YOU LIVE IN!

     YOU may have a lot of LOVE IN YOUR HEART but can ANYONE SEE IT OR FEEL IT? 

    Even if YOU are not able to HELP them you DEFINITELY can HELP THEM by making sure YOU DON'T make it WORSE FOR THEM!

    BE KIND TO EVERYONE YOU MEET because you have no idea what they may be facing.

Have you ever wished that YOU HAD NOT SAID what YOU SAID?

     After a hectic situation after you have had a moment to think about it...have you ever said.... 

     I SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID THAT?

    Or I WISH I WOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT?

     We all have FELT SOMETHING and SAID THINGS during a HEATED MOMENT IN LIFE that we wish WE HAD NOT SAID.

   We have all REACTED to a NEGATIVE CIRCUMSTANCE in such a NEGATIVE way that we wish we COULD TAKE BACK how we REACTED. 

    UNFORTUNATELY once you SAY IT you can't change what PEOPLE HEARD.

    UNFORTUNATELY once you DO IT it BECOMES a FACT something that YOU DID that you are HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR because YOU DID DO IT.

    LUCKILY you can be FORGIVEN if you ASK FOR FORGIVENESS from those who you had hurt, but CAN you FORGIVE YOURSELF?

    We tend to EASILY FORGIVE OTHERS yet we JUDGE OURSELVES so harshly that we have trouble FORGIVING OURSELVES.

     Remember that NO ONE IS PERFECT so accept that NO ONE is PERFECT INCLUDING YOURSELF.

   We ARE ALL JUST HUMAN AND HUMANS ARE NOT PERFECT, BUT....... REMEMBER BEFORE YOU REACT.....STOP and THINK about what YOUR ACTIONS WILL BRING because ONCE YOU REACT YOU CAN'T TAKE IT BACK.

   AND like your MOM TOLD YOU....IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING NICE TO SAY.....THEN YOU SHOULDN'T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL.

     

     

    

Don't MISS IT because you didn't LOOK for IT

    You can't wait for it to FALL IN YOUR LAP because IT WON'T just FALL IN YOUR LAP.

    Just because you DESERVE IT doesn't mean you WILL GET WHAT YOU DESERVE.

    You will have to LOOK FOR IT if you have ANY CHANCE of FINDING IT.

    You have to FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO IT so you KNOW WHAT TO DO if you want to SUCCESSFULLY DO IT.

     When you are a child you THINK THAT ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING is EASILY POSSIBLE but when you are an adult you REALIZE that some things are GOING TO BE HARDER than you THOUGHT.

    IF it is IMPORTANT TO YOU then YOU WILL HAVE TO LOOK for a WAY TO DO IT and DO WHATEVER IT TAKES to DO IT.

   The ANSWER is not always EASY TO FIND but if YOU LOOK FOR IT, YOU WILL FIND IT, if YOU DON'T LOOK FOR IT then you WILL NEVER FIND IT.

   It may take HARD WORK but IF YOU PUT IN the HARD WORK you can get the RESULTS you want.

    IF YOU DON'T PUT IN THE WORK then you WON'T GET the RESULTS you WANT, it's that SIMPLE.

  The RESULTS YOU will GET AFTER YOU PUT IN all the HARD WORK you will CLEARLY SEE that IT WAS WORTH YOUR HARD WORK.

   LIFE is not ALWAYS EASY but it's EASY to SEE that if you WANT IT then you will have to put in the HARD WORK to get it.

   So..... JUST DO IT.

    

    

What kind of VIBES are you BRINGING?

     As you INTERACT with someone what kind of VIBES are YOU sending them?

    Did you know that without SAYING A WORD how you FEEL is CLEARLY KNOWN by the LOOK ON YOUR FACE?

    From the MOMENT an ANGRY PERSON enters the ROOM everyone can SUDDENLY FEEL THE TENSION growing in the room.

    Have you ever EXPERIENCED that kind of MOMENT?

    Could you IMAGINE what the LOOK ON YOUR FACE would LOOK LIKE if you would LOOK IN THE MIRROR when YOU ARE ANGRY?

     I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD GO LOOK IN THE MIRROR the Next time they are ANGRY to SEE WHAT EXACTLY other people would SEE.

     And TRUST me you will CLEARLY SEE at a glance it ISN'T A GOOD LOOK.

   From the MOMENT a HAPPY GO LUCKY INDIVIDUAL walks in the ROOM everyone can SUDDENLY FEEL a SENSE OF CALMNESS around them.

    Have you ever wandered what KIND of VIBES are YOU SENDING when YOU ENTER the ROOM?

    Have you ever Asked YOURSELF what KIND OF VIBES DO YOU WANT TO BE SENDING?

    If YOU WANT TO SEND OUT GOOD VIBRATIONS ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS START SHARING A SMILE WITH EVERYONE YOU MEET.

   A SMILE SPREADS PEACE EVERYWHERE because a SMILE SAYS PEACE IN ANY LANGUAGE.

  PEACE ON EARTH IS POSSIBLE BY BRINGING PEACE OF MIND TO ONE PERSON AT A TIME.

     

     

    

    

    

    

One thing leads to ANOTHER to GET what you NEED you HAVE TO PUT IN THE WORK

    Not EVERY DAY will be EASY but EVERY DAY you  WAKE UP is a DAY you should be GRATEFUL to have.

    As long as YOU ACCEPT that you won't get EVERYTHING you could EVER WANT you will be able to be GRATEFUL that you have EVERYTHING that you need.

     HOW YOU FEEL will be determined by WHAT YOU SEE which is determined by HOW YOU LOOK AT IT.

     You may not like getting WET when you get caught out in a RAINSTORM but you can still be THANKFUL it's RAINING because you know we NEED THE RAIN.

     Driving through the CONSTRUCTION while they work on the ROAD is ANNOYING but you will APPRECIATE the IMPROVEMENT to the ROADS when the CONSTRUCTION is completed.

    It is a lot of HARD WORK to PLANT THE FLOWERS but it SURE brings a SMILE to your face EVERY TIME you GET TO ENJOY the FLOWERS BLOOMING.

    IF YOU PUT in the WORK YOU WILL BE ABLE TO ENJOY the FRUITS OF YOUR LABOR.

   IT'S TRUE YOU WILL REAP WHAT YOU SOW. 

    If you want to ENJOY the VEGETABLES from your GARDEN it is ONLY POSSIBLE if you PLANT A GARDEN.

Keep your EYES WIDE OPEN so you will SEE WHAT IS BEST

    You may not AGREE with them on EVERYTHING but you can STILL RESPECT them if they are a GOOD PERSON.

    A GOOD TEAMMATE may be a VEGETARIAN and you are a MEAT lover but TOGETHER you can still make a GOOD TEAM.

    And you can still ENJOY going OUT TO DINNER WITH THEM. 

     YOU can ENJOY your BEEF BURGER and THEY can ENJOY their VEGGIE BURGER while you BOTH SHARE SOME FRIES.

    You NEED to KEEP your EYES WIDE OPEN to SEE the POSITIVE in EVERY SITUATION AND IN EVERY PERSON so you SEE WHAT PARTS you NEED TO KEEP.

     NO ONE is PERFECT so QUIT EXPECTING ANYONE but ESPECIALLY YOURSELF to BE PERFECT.

    We are ALL DIFFERENT and it is OUR DIFFERENCES that MAKES US EACH UNIQUE.

    If we were all the SAME there wouldn't be anything NEW to TALK ABOUT.

     DON'T LET ANYONE OR ANYTHING CHANGE WHO YOU ARE because YOUR UNIQUENESS IS WHAT MAKES YOU UNIQUE.

    

   

If you TELL SOMEONE that YOU WILL then YOU WILL DO IT

     If YOU TELL SOMEONE that YOU WILL be there at 10, YOU GET THERE AT 10.

   If YOU TELL SOMEONE that YOU WILL HELP them, YOU GET UP AND HELP them.

   If YOU TELL SOMEONE that YOU WILL DO IT, YOU JUST DO IT.

    BUT..  have YOU NOTICED that if YOU SAY YOU WILL DO IT for YOURSELF YOU PUT OFF DOING IT?

    If YOU SAY YOU WILL DO IT because YOU NEED TO DO IT for YOURSELF, GET UP AND DO WHAT YOU SAID YOU WOULD DO.

   A PERSON IS ONLY AS GOOD AS THEIR WORD...  SO STICK TO YOUR WORDS... INCLUDING WHAT YOU SAY YOU WILL DO FOR YOURSELF.

    

Be PROACTIVE to make sure you have what YOU NEED in YOUR FUTURE

    Spend some time with the ELDERS in your family and you will see what you will be doing when you are the ELDERS OF YOUR FAMILY.

    You WILL SEE the NEED to STAY HEALTHY when YOU ARE YOUNG so you will be HEALTHY when YOU ARE OLDER.

    You WILL SEE that what THEY CHOSE TO DO when THEY WERE YOUNG has DETERMINED WHO THEY ARE AND WHERE THEY ARE NOW THAT THEY ARE OLDER.

    You WILL SEE that we all ONLY HAVE THE TIME WE HAVE and we NEED TO ENJOY EVERY MOMENT WE HAVE. 

    You WILL SEE that NOTHING IS MORE IMPORTANT than the TIME WE get to SPEND TOGETHER with OUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

    You WILL SEE that it WILL TAKE HARD WORK to get where you WANT TO BE but it WILL BE WORTH THE HARD WORK.

   You WILL SEE that you may own several homes during your LIFETIME but you might WANT a HOME WITH NO STAIRS that you WOULD HAVE TO CLIMB as YOUR LAST FOREVER HOME.

    You WILL SEE that for YOUR OVERALL WELL BEING you WON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE in the SKIN YOU ARE IN UNLESS YOU ARE COMFORTABLE with WHAT YOU DO IN THE SKIN YOU ARE IN.

     IT'S THE CIRCLE OF LIFE, ONE DAY YOU ARE BORN AND ONE DAY YOU WILL BE THE ELDER.

   

   

    

   

Either YOU WILL or YOU WON'T

     Whether someone LEARNS from THEIR MISTAKES is BASED on whether they will ADMIT THEIR MISTAKES.

    Whether someone is HONEST OR NOT is determined by whether THEY CHOOSE TO BE HONEST OR NOT.

    Whether someone HEARS what IS SAID OR NOT depends on whether THEY LISTEN to what IS SAID OR NOT.

    To be the BEST YOU that YOU CAN BE REQUIRES YOU to DO YOUR BEST.

    Every CHOICE YOU MAKE MATTERS and it is UP TO YOU to CHOOSE WISELY.

    REMEMBER just because other people are DOING IT DOESN'T mean that it is the RIGHT THING for YOU TO DO.

    CHOOSING to do NOTHING is still a CHOICE YOU MAKE, SO CHOOSE WISELY not only what YOU DO but WHAT YOU WON'T DO.

    Sometimes it takes a TORNADO in YOUR PERSONAL LIFE to GET YOU WHERE YOU NEEDED TO BE and it was the ONLY WAY TO GET YOU THERE.

    EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASONS. 

    Even YOUR MISTAKES are A NECESSARY PART of  YOUR JOURNEY to get you where YOU ARE MEANT TO BE.

    Since YOU ALONE will live with the CONSEQUENCES for EVERY CHOICE YOU MAKE, YOU ALONE SHOULD DECIDE so CHOOSE WISELY.

    

What are you looking for?

    When you are on an EASTER EGG HUNT, you have to LOOK for EASTER EGGS if you want to FIND EASTER EGGS.

    When you are looking for a BARGAIN you will have to LOOK at the PRICES to FIND A BARGAIN.

    When you want to SEE the POSITIVE in EVERY SITUATION all you have to do is LOOK for the POSITIVE in EVERY SITUATION.

    If you ONLY LOOK at the NEGATIVES in EVERY SITUATION then you will ONLY SEE THE NEGATIVES in EVERY SITUATION.

    If you SEE TROUBLE COMING then you can GET OUT OF THE WAY so you can AVOID GETTING HIT HEAD ON by the TROUBLE.

    Once I started LOOKING for BUTTERFLIES I started SEEING BUTTERFLIES EVERYWHERE I WENT.

    Once I started THINKING about MY GOAL I started SEEING the PATH I had to TAKE FOR ME TO REACH MY GOAL.

    WHAT YOU WILL FIND WILL BE DETERMINED BY WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR?

    What are you LOOKING FOR?

    

    

     

A THOUGHT is a THOUGHT not a FACT

    You may THINK you KNOW but without getting the FACTS, it is SIMPLY a THOUGHT you were THINKING.

    Someone can TELL you THEIR OPINION but that doesn't mean it is a FACT, it is JUST THEIR OPINION.

    I am sure that on your LIFE'S JOURNEY there was a time when what you THOUGHT was TRUE, you REALIZED LATER in LIFE to be FAR FROM THE TRUTH.

    If you DON'T GET the FACTS then you will make UNEDUCATED DECISIONS based on WHAT?

     DON'T GET BRAINWASHED by someone's OPINIONS that are simply THEIR OPINIONS.

     If you are going to make an IMPORTANT DECISION then it is in YOUR BEST INTEREST to GET THE FACTS to base your DECISION ON.

    REMEMBER Just because you THINK that you KNOW EVERYTHING doesn't mean that you REALLY KNOW EVERYTHING.

    If you want to make an INFORMED DECISION then GET ALL THE FACTS so YOU CAN make an INFORMED DECISION.

It may seem like it is an INAPPROPRIATE time to LAUGH but.....

    When someone you are with TRIPS AND FALLS it makes you LAUGH, that doesn't mean that you DON'T HAVE ANY SYMPATHY that they fell.

    It was just a NATURAL REACTION TO LAUGH.

    Have you ever LAUGHED AT YOURSELF when you realized that you did something STUPID?

    It was just a NATURAL REACTION TO LAUGH.

    I was sharing a MEMORY with my friend about an Unfortunate NEGATIVE SITUATION I had endured and I couldn't STOP myself from LAUGHING.

   Obviously I wasn't LAUGHING because I ENJOYED the NEGATIVE SITUATION but LOOKING BACK at it now as I DESCRIBED it to her it MADE ME LAUGH.

     It was just MY NATURAL REACTION TO LAUGH.

    A GOOD BELLY LAUGH is HEALTHY for your MIND, BODY AND SOUL.

     Even if the LAUGHTER is at yourself over something silly that OUT OF EMBARRASSMENT you wouldn't SHARE it with anyone.

    When was the last time you had a GOOD BELLY LAUGH?

    

     

   

Surely you know it ISN'T SAFE to DRIVE while you are ONLY LOOKING IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR

     If you want to know what is in FRONT OF YOU it will REQUIRE YOU to LOOK FORWARD.

     You CAN'T DRIVE SAFELY while you are ONLY LOOKING IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR.

     If you want to AVOID TROUBLE COMING you can ONLY GET OUT OF THE WAY if you SEE TROUBLE COMING YOUR WAY.

    If you want to KNOW what you NEED TO KNOW it will REQUIRE YOU to LEARN what YOU NEED TO KNOW.

    It could be RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU but you WON'T SEE IT unless you LOOK FOR IT.

    KEEP YOUR EYES WIDE OPEN as you go on your LIFE'S JOURNEY so you can SEE WHAT YOU NEED TO SEE.

    Remember that the REARVIEW MIRROR is made to SEE WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN and how FAR YOU HAVE COME.

    The FRONT WINDSHIELD is made so you can SEE WHAT IS IN FRONT OF YOU SO YOU CAN NAVIGATE SAFELY while you are on your LIFE'S JOURNEY.

    Leave the PAST IN THE PAST so you can FOCUS ON THE PRESENT MOMENT YOU ARE IN and ENJOY IT.

TRY an EXPERIMENT to SEE what a difference WHAT YOU DO Makes

    What do you think the DIFFERENCE would be between them If you add PLANT FOOD to ONE of your PLANTS but NOT to the OTHER ONE?

   During a DROUGHT SEASON YOU will have to WATER YOUR GRASS if you want to have HEALTHY GREEN GRASS.

   If you want to REAP THE REWARDS for the HARD WORK, you will have TO DO THE HARD WORK it will take.

   Be REALISTIC that Things WILL TAKE TIME, they just don't happen in an INSTANT.

  SO STOP EXPECTING INSTANT GRATIFICATION SO you can STOP getting ANGRY when you don't get INSTANT GRATIFICATION.

   During tough times to keep MOVING just Remind yourself that WHAT YOU PUT INTO IT will DETERMINE WHAT YOU GET OUT OF IT.

   Because it's TRUE that you REAP WHAT YOU SOW.

    LIFE LESSONS come from the LESSONS you LEARN on your LIFE'S JOURNEY.

   

   

   

   

   

    

IT is what it is until....one day IT ISN'T

     What USED to WORK may NOT WORK ANYMORE, THAT'S JUST LIFE.

    What USED to be POPULAR at one time CAN one day be a MEMORY from the PAST.

    What USED to be your FAVORITE thing TO DO CHANGES with TIME.

   What USED to be FOUND everywhere can one day be HARD TO FIND.

   YOU CAN'T get too COMFORTABLE in LIFE because LIFE IS ALWAYS CHANGING.

   Remember IT IS what IT IS until....one day IT ISN'T, THAT'S JUST LIFE.

   YOU may NOT KNOW what the FUTURE HOLDS but REMEMBER that everything will be OKAY as long as YOU ADJUST to the CHANGES AS YOU GO.

   

   

With CREATIVITY you will CREATE A SOLUTION

    There will be CIRCUMSTANCES that you will have to face on your LIFE'S JOURNEY and you will have to get CREATIVE to get through them.

   Things will CHANGE on your LIFE'S JOURNEY from TIME TO TIME and you will have to get  CREATIVE to make the necessary CHANGES to NAVIGATE through them.

   With the PRICE of EVERYTHING going UP you will have to get CREATIVE to STRETCH YOUR MONEY to get what you need.

   Make sure that you don't do anything to get through a TEMPORARY SETBACK that will CREATE a PROBLEM that will affect you NEGATIVELY for YOUR LIFETIME.

   AS LONG AS you get CREATIVE AND ALWAYS STICK to the STANDARDS YOU SET for YOURSELF on your LIFE'S JOURNEY you can get THROUGH ANYTHING.

Conversation between people let's everyone FEEL HEARD

      If YOU don't MAKE the TIME to LISTEN then YOU will have NO IDEA HOW THEY FEEL.

   If YOU don't TAKE the TIME to sit down and TALK ABOUT IT then THEY will have NO IDEA HOW YOU FEEL. 

   WHEN you UNDERSTAND how EACH of YOU FEEL then YOU BOTH can WORK THINGS OUT and YOU BOTH CAN BE HAPPY.

   Sometimes when YOU NEED to TALK to someone in a BUSINESS to WORK THINGS OUT you can't get past the ROBOT to TALK TO A HUMAN.

   Sometimes in Life when it comes to a BUSINESS YOU NEVER FEEL HEARD because the HUMAN that OWNS the BUSINESS DOESN'T CARE HOW YOU FEEL.

   BEFORE the Pandemic there were MANY MOM AND POP STORES that were OPEN who CARED ABOUT how you FELT so YOU would be their REGULAR CUSTOMER.

  UNFORTUNATELY the LESS COMPETITION a BUSINESS has the LESS they CARE how YOU FEEL because you have NO CHOICE but to SHOP THERE because they are the ONLY TYPE OF STORE AVAILABLE TO SHOP AT.

   If YOU want STORES TO COMPETE for your BUSINESS then SUPPORT YOUR MOM AND POP STORES so there will be COMPETITION TO PLEASE THE CUSTOMER.

   If YOU want to have OPTIONS then keep your OPTIONS OPEN.

It's a HOME NOT A STORAGE UNIT

     You can make it FEEL LIKE HOME without SPENDING a fortune.

    You can FEEL COMFORTABLE in YOUR HOME without SPENDING a fortune.

    You can RELAX in YOUR HOME by NOT HAVING TO WORK EXTRA to PAY FOR THINGS TO FILL IT that you DON'T EVEN NEED.

   You DON'T have to KEEP UP WITH THE JONES'S and fill your HOME with THINGS THAT YOU CAN'T AFFORD.

    REMEMBER it is YOUR HOME.... NOT A STORAGE UNIT to store THINGS THAT YOU DON'T NEED while you MAKE PAYMENTS ON THEM.

   HOME SWEET HOME is SIMPLY THE FEELING OF BEING COMFORTABLE HAVING EVERYTHING YOU NEED in YOUR HOME, EVEN THOUGH YOU DON'T HAVE EVERYTHING YOU EVER DREAMED OF HAVING.

   To APPRECIATE WHAT YOU HAVE, it will REQUIRE YOU TO  BE THANKFUL for WHAT YOU DO HAVE.

   

    

    

SUNNY DAYS are awesome but you have to remember What COMES WITH the SUN.

    When you LOOK OUTSIDE and see that it is a beautiful SUNNY DAY it makes you SMILE FROM EAR TO EAR as you ENJOY the VIEW.

   I could see the Butterflies and the Bees OUTSIDE JUST flying all around our flowers gathering the pollen.

   I DECIDED to take my coffee and go sit OUTSIDE on my porch to ENJOY the beautiful SUNNY DAY we were having today.

   It started out RELAXING JUST SITTING OUTSIDE PEACEFULLY ENJOYING NATURE but before I knew it a BEE decided the HAIRSPRAY I was wearing was A GOLD MINE OF POLLEN.

   I finally got the BEE to RETURN TO THE FLOWERS but now I am wore out after all that WAVING AROUND to SHOO AWAY THAT BEE I had to do.

   I tried to GET BACK TO JUST RELAXING OUTSIDE and ENJOY the SUNNY DAY but then I started THINKING about how UNCOMFORTABLY HOT I was because I was SITTING OUTSIDE on a HOT SUNNY DAY.

   THEN.... that BEE DECIDED to MAKE SURE he ANNOYED ME ENOUGH to make me GO BACK INSIDE THE HOUSE so he and all the OTHER INSECTS could ENJOY THE SUNNY DAY.

   So IN THE END ME AND THE BEE AGREED that I would ENJOY IT FROM THE AIR CONDITIONED INSIDE of my house DURING the HOTTEST PARTS OF THE DAY.... OUTSIDE WAS ALL THEIRS TO ENJOY.

   It might be your FAVORITE KIND OF Weather but that doesn't mean you will LOVE EVERYTHING THAT COMES ALONG WITH YOUR FAVORITE WEATHER.

   

   

Find the QUIETNESS in a NOISY PLACE by FOCUSING on LOOKING for the QUIETNESS

    Sometimes YOU NEED a QUIET PLACE so YOU CAN RELAX and have a QUIET MOMENT to RELAX.

   In the FAST PACED WORLD we live in it's hard to remember to STOP every now and again and just RELAX and "SMELL THE ROSES." 

   As you find yourself RUNNING AROUND with TOO MANY THINGS TO DO remember to STOP and take a MOMENT throughout your day to RELAX.

   YOU won't be able to ENJOY the FLOWERS when they BLOOM unless YOU STOP long enough to ENJOY them while they are BLOOMING.

   You may have to FOCUS HARD on the SOUNDS OF THE BIRDS SINGING to HEAR them over the SOUNDS OF THE TRAFFIC, but if you FOCUS YOU CAN.

   YOU may have to FLUSH OUT all the OTHER NOISES around you to CHOOSE WHAT YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO HEAR.

   ALL THE NOISES around YOU are just NOTHING BUT NOISES that can ONLY DISTRACT YOU if YOU LET IT.

You can ONLY LEARN what TO DO by DOING IT!

    If YOU DON'T TRY then YOU will never know if it will WORK OR NOT.

   Some LESSONS can ONLY be LEARNED by LEARNING what DOESN'T WORK FIRST.

   The FIRST TIME you got on a BICYCLE did you think you would AUTOMATICALLY KNOW HOW TO RIDE A BIKE?

   OF COURSE NOT, because YOU KNOW THAT YOU will start off all WOBBLY AND FALL a FEW TIMES.

   But YOU DON'T GIVE UP just because you FALL a FEW TIMES.

   IF YOU DID then you will NOT LEARN how to RIDE A BIKE.

    YOU JUST GET UP and GET BACK on that bike because YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO RIDE A BIKE.

   LIFE LESSONS are LEARNED by LEARNING AS YOU GO. 

   SOMETIMES YOU CAN ONLY LEARN the HARD WAY.

   If YOU PUT IN THE WORK then everything will WORK OUT OKAY.

REGROUP to continue moving forward

    When you get KNOCKED DOWN on your LIFE'S JOURNEY, you got to GET BACK UP in order to KEEP MOVING FORWARD.

    Although it may be true that you take TWO STEPS FORWARD and fall ONE STEP BACK, you are still ONE STEP CLOSER to where YOU want to go.

    On your LIFE'S JOURNEY you will face CHALLENGES along the way and you will have to ADJUST to SUCCESSFULLY meet the CHALLENGES.

    When you get THROWN A CURVE BALL on your LIFE'S JOURNEY you will have to REGROUP to go AROUND THE CURVE to KEEP MOVING FORWARD.

    LIFE IS A ROLLERCOASTER and THERE will be UPS AND DOWNS as well as TWISTS AND TURNS, you JUST have to GO WITH THE FLOW to KEEP MOVING FORWARD.

    We only have the TIME we have so we have to ADJUST, REGROUP, and at times we may even have to BEND LIKE A PRETZEL to ENJOY THE TIME WE HAVE.

    If YOU SEE TROUBLE COMING then GET OUT OF THE WAY.

   

A TEXT from time to time doesn't allow any CHANCE for SIMPLE "SMALL TALK"

    You would be surprised at what you COULD LEARN that could help you in your FUTURE by just sitting around together, IN PERSON, and just SIMPLY TALK.

    "SMALL TALK" is TALKING about NOTHING IN PARTICULAR just ODDS AND ENDS of STORIES about NOTHING BUT it's ENTERTAINING AND.. It just might help you one day.

   TO ME ...That is what MY BLOGS ARE, just "SMALL TALK" about NOTHING but IT JUST Might HELP DISTRACT you while you PONDER each BLOG.

    "SMALL TALK" ALLOWS FOR AT LEAST A CHANCE that SMALL CONVERSATIONS might TEACH you things that you DIDN'T KNOW THAT YOU WOULD NEED TO KNOW.

    You LEARN how to RELAX by STOPPING LONG ENOUGH to have time for "SMALL TALK" and just RELAX and take a deep breath of FRESH OXYGEN.

   IF YOU want to really have a BOND with someone it takes stopping long enough to BOND with them, not just send them a TEXT from time to time.

   A physical HUG 🤗 is not the same as a FACEBOOK POKE.

   TO STAY CONNECTED TO YOUR HUMAN SIDE you got to INTERACT PHYSICALLY WITH REAL HUMANS. 

    

There is NO HURRY so ....

     If you are TRAVELING OUT OF TOWN to ENJOY MEMORIAL DAY with OTHERS...  There is NO HURRY so SLOW DOWN and DRIVE SAFELY.

    As long as YOU ARRIVE SAFELY then it DOESN'T MATTER if you ARRIVE LATER THAN YOU HAD PLANNED.

    AS WE ARE REMEMBERING those that are no longer with us on MEMORIAL DAY we also NEED TO REMIND OURSELVES TO CHERISH our LOVED ONES that are AROUND US EVERY DAY.

    We are REMINDED that EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US ONLY HAVE THE TIME WE HAVE SO DON'T WASTE A MOMENT OF THE TIME YOU HAVE.

    TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN ENJOY because YESTERDAY IS ALREADY GONE, TOMORROW MAY NEVER COME, but TODAY IS YOURS TO ENJOY.

   If YOU want to ENJOY LIFE YOU have to ENJOY IT WHILE YOU ARE LIVING IT, BOTH ON THE GOOD DAYS AND THE BAD DAYS. 

   LIFE IS A ROLLERCOASTER and THERE WILL BE UPS AND DOWNS, as well as TWISTS AND TURNS, THAT'S JUST LIFE.

    

    

Take care of YOURSELF..!!

    You ALONE decide WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO EAT, no matter how many times someone has told you how UNHEALTHY IT IS FOR YOU.

    You ALONE decide WHETHER YOU WILL EXERCISE TO MAINTAIN YOUR HEALTH, no matter how many times you have been told that REGULAR EXERCISE is NECESSARY to maintain your OVERALL WELL BEING.

    You ALONE decide WHETHER YOU WILL BE AN HONEST PERSON OR NOT, the CHOICE OF WHO YOU WILL BE is UP TO YOU.

    You ALONE SET THE STANDARDS you will LIVE BY NO MATTER HOW CHALLENGING LIFE CAN BE they are STANDARDS YOU WILL NOT CROSS 

    You can BLAME IT ON THE MOON OR JOE BLOW but the TRUTH is THAT YOU ALONE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT YOU DO.

    DON'T DO ANYTHING to get through a TEMPORARY SETBACK that YOU will PERMANENTLY PAY THE CONSEQUENCES for.

    Your REPUTATION is WHAT people THINK THEY KNOW ABOUT YOU but YOUR ACTIONS DECIDE the TRUE CHARACTER THAT PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT YOU.

What You HEARD can have MANY MEANINGS

     YOU MAY have HEARD yet you COMPLETELY MISUNDERSTOOD what you HEARD.

    It's like FIVE PEOPLE can Read the same FORTUNE COOKIE and HEAR A TOTALLY DIFFERENT MESSAGE.

   I Love getting a FORTUNE COOKIE knowing I am going to be TAKEN ON A short JOURNEY to PONDER THE MESSAGE and HOW I INTERPRET IT will determine WHERE the MESSAGE TAKES ME.

    Go on a JOURNEY the NEXT TIME you GET TOGETHER to have some CHINESE DINNER with your FRIENDS.

    WHILE you are all sitting around the table letting the FOOD DIGEST, READ YOUR fortune Cookie messages out loud.

   GO on A JOURNEY in the DIRECTION TO WHEREVER THE FORTUNE COOKIE MESSAGES LEAD each of YOU AS YOU PONDER WHAT IT WAS SAYING TO EACH OF YOU. 

   IT will do ALL OF YOU some GOOD to PUT DOWN YOUR PHONES long enough to take a JOURNEY AND USE YOUR MIND TO PONDER YOUR THOUGHTS.

   

    

IF GIVEN A CHANCE WOULD they TAKE IT?

      If no one GIVES them A CHANCE then they DON'T HAVE A CHANCE.

      Someone has to GIVE THEM A CHANCE so they can HAVE A CHANCE. 

     It is the only way YOU can SEE if GIVEN A CHANCE WOULD THEY TAKE IT.

     We all know someone who is facing tough times and they just NEED to CATCH A BREAK.

     Sometimes it may be because they BLEW A CHANCE they HAD in the PAST BUT.... today if they were GIVEN A CHANCE THEY WOULD DEFINITELY TAKE IT.

    If YOU have A CHANCE to GIVE SOMEONE A CHANCE WOULD YOU?

   They may not take ADVANTAGE OF THE CHANCE but YOU will FEEL GOOD that YOU at least GAVE THEM A CHANCE.

     IF GIVEN A CHANCE TO HELP SOMEONE I HOPE YOU WILL TAKE THAT CHANCE.

    

     

Choose wisely

     ALL THROUGHOUT YOUR LIFE you must PICK and CHOOSE what BATTLES are WORTH FIGHTING FOR.

    A war is comprised of MANY MANY small BATTLES that makes CHOOSING which BATTLES are WORTH FIGHTING FOR very important.

     Whether it is a WAR at WORK, A WAR IN your RELATIONSHIPS, there is a WAR to be WON in MANY AREAS on YOUR LIFE'S JOURNEY.

     AND you won't WIN EVERY BATTLE so SAVE YOUR TIME AND ENERGY for the MOST IMPORTANT BATTLES.

    If it doesn't really matter then OBVIOUSLY it IS NOT a BATTLE THAT YOU NEED TO WASTE your TIME and ENERGY ON.

    WHAT is MOST IMPORTANT TO YOU is the MOST IMPORTANT BATTLE TO WIN.

     OUR new puppy has made us CHOOSE to let him GET AWAY with a LOT BUT....some THINGS he could be DESTRUCTIVE WITH we are WINNING THE BATTLE WITH. 

    SINCE NAPKINS AND SOCKS are CHEAP to REPLACE.....THOSE BATTLES WE LET HIM WIN.

    YOU DON'T have to WIN EVERY BATTLE to WIN THE WAR you just have to WIN THE MOST IMPORTANT ONES. 

     When you COMPRISE with OTHERS then EVERYONE CAN BE A WINNER.

    

You KNOW YOU BEST so what do YOU THINK YOU should do?

    At times it's HELPFUL to ASK SOMEONE THEIR OPINION, Because getting SUGGESTIONS on what YOU should do will give YOU A DIFFERENT VIEW to CONSIDER.

    EVERYONE has their OWN OPINIONS but at the end of the day the ONLY OPINION THAT MATTERS MOST IS YOURS.

    THE FACT IS that YOU KNOW YOU BEST so YOUR DECISIONS should be made BASED ON WHAT YOU KNOW is BEST FOR YOU.

    Sometimes on YOUR LIFE'S JOURNEY YOU might make a WRONG DECISION but OUR MISTAKES in LIFE are sometimes A NECESSARY PART of OUR JOURNEY. 

     As long as YOU Did what you thought was BEST FOR YOU at the end of the day YOU WILL BE PROUD OF YOURSELF.

    EVERY DECISION YOU make MATTERS so CHOOSE WISELY because YOU WILL HAVE TO LIVE WITH the CONSEQUENCES for EVERY DECISION that YOU MAKE.

     KEEP IN MIND that Just because other people are doing it doesn't mean that it is the RIGHT THING for YOU TO DO.

    

    

    

    

WITHOUT EVEN SAYING a WORD

    Have you ever heard the phrase...A PICTURE is worth a THOUSAND WORDS?

    Have you ever heard the phrase.... ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER than WORDS?

    YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY A WORD for people to HEAR YOU LOUD AND CLEARLY.

    When you walk in a room THE LOOK ON YOUR FACE let's everyone KNOW WHAT kind of MOOD YOU ARE IN. 

   When you LOOK IN THE MIRROR you can SEE WHAT OTHERS SEE.

   And TRUST ME WHEN YOU ARE ANGRY YOU DON'T LOOK GOOD.

   NO ONE WILL BELIEVE what YOU SAY AS YOU ARE DOING THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT YOU SAY THEY SHOULD DO.

   AND REMEMBER the phrase in the song...THAT IF YOU ARE HAPPY YOUR FACE WILL TRULY SHOW IT.

   WITHOUT SAYING A WORD THE LOOK ON YOUR FACE and YOUR ACTIONS SPEAKS VOLUMES.

   

A CHANGE is sometimes NECESSARY

    You may have spent a LIFETIME working TOWARDS A GOAL then SUDDENLY ONE DAY YOU REALIZE that TODAY your GOAL HAS CHANGED.

   It doesn't mean that you WASTED YOUR TIME working TOWARDS the GOAL YOU ONCE HAD, it just means your GOALS HAVE CHANGED.

   What you WANT when you are a TEENAGER CHANGES with TIME.

   What you THINK IS MOST IMPORTANT when you are MIDDLE-AGED CHANGES after DECADES OF LIVING.

   When you are OLD you realize that there isn't DECADES for you to WORK ON REACHING NEW GOALS 

    SO you LEARN TO MAKE THE MOST OF WHAT YOU DO HAVE and MAKE GOALS THAT WORK FOR YOU WHERE THINGS ARE FOR YOU TODAY.

    YOU DON'T HAVE TO STICK TO THE PLANS you MADE before you EXPERIENCED LIFE BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO LIVE LIFE TO LEARN WHAT is the BEST PLAN FOR YOU IN THE LONG RUN.

Just because SOMEONE or SOMETHING has ANGERED YOU is NO EXCUSE

    When you are ANGRY DON'T SPEW YOUR ANGER onto OTHERS.

    I AM SURE YOU KNOW THAT SPEWING YOUR ANGER ONTO OTHERS WON'T MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER. 

   BUT IT SURE DOES HURT those that YOU SPEW YOUR ANGER ON.

   ANGER IS GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOU SICK.

  YOU WOULDN'T SPREAD THE FLU TO OTHERS because you know it will MAKE INNOCENT PEOPLE SICK.

   Which IS WHY YOU SHOULDN'T SPEW YOUR ANGER ONTO OTHERS BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE THEM SICK.

   When you are ANGRY take WHATEVER ANGERED YOU and JUST FLUSH IT OUT OF YOUR MIND so IT CAN'T KEEP YOU SICK, NOR MAKE OTHERS SICK EITHER.

   On your LIFE'S JOURNEY you CAN'T PREVENT that there will be PEOPLE AND SITUATIONS THAT ANGER YOU.

    BUT YOU CAN PREVENT IT FROM DESTROYING YOU OR HURTING OTHERS by JUST FLUSHING IT OUT OF YOUR MIND.

   

   

   

There is a SMALL WINDOW OF TIME

     YOU CAN'T COMPLAIN THAT YOU TRIED but you COULDN'T DO IT when you ACTUALLY WAITED UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE to TRY.

   YOU CAN'T HONESTLY say that YOU DID YOUR BEST if you DIDN'T DO EVERYTHING THAT YOU COULD HAVE DONE 

   IF THE DEADLINE to have it DONE is at 12 NOON you CAN'T SHOW UP AT 3:00 PM and EXPECT THAT THE DEADLINE was for EVERYONE ELSE but YOU.

   YOU may have the most EXPERIENCE but when you are considered to POSSIBLY JOIN THEIR TEAM they are looking for a TEAM PLAYER.

    IF you DON'T SHOW UP ON TIME TO BE A TEAM PLAYER you SHOW THEM that you will not be a GOOD TEAMMATE.

   You get a lot more done with FIVE AVERAGE WORKERS who SHOW UP ON TIME EVERY DAY then you will with a GOOD LEADER THAT RARELY SHOWS UP TO LEAD THE TEAM.

   Although EXPERIENCE MATTERS, CONSISTENCY AND STAYING FOCUSED IS WAY MORE IMPORTANT TO HAVE A POSITIVE OUTCOME.

They might not remember WHEN, WHERE OR FROM WHOM they LEARNED it

    You might LEARN IT but you might not know WHERE YOU LEARNED it.

   You might have LEARNED IT from someone but not remember WHO YOU LEARNED IT FROM.

   PERHAPS you need to LEARN the FACTS about it because you never know if WHERE YOU LEARNED IT OR FROM WHOM YOU LEARNED IT FROM really knew the FACTS or was it just THEIR OPINION.

   I recently was reminiscing with someone about WHAT I LEARNED FROM THEM when I was YOUNGER.

   I proudly TOLD THEM HOW IT HAD INFLUENCED ME.

   Then with WIDE EYES THEY GASPED and told me I COMPLETELY TOOK WHAT THEY SAID THE WRONG WAY.

  They ACTUALLY MEANT THE TOTAL OPPOSITE OF WHAT I THOUGHT THEY MEANT.

   You may have HEARD IT BUT YOU MAY NOT HAVE TRULY UNDERSTOOD WHAT YOU THOUGHT YOU HEARD.

   JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE SAYS IT DOESN'T MAKE IT A FACT, IT'S THEIR OPINION.

   JUST BECAUSE YOU HEARD IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU HEARD IT CORRECTLY.

   I began to think about all the CHOICES AND DIRECTIONS I CHOSE IN MY LIFE based on what I THOUGHT was ACCURATE FACTS I HAD LEARNED FROM THEM.

   ALTHOUGH IT'S TOO LATE NOW to CHANGE HOW IT INFLUENCED ME IN THE PAST, I CAN MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS BASED ON THE ACTUAL FACTS.

   I CAN CLEARLY SEE NOW HOW I WOULD HAVE DONE SOME THINGS DIFFERENTLY.

You can't ENJOY the BENEFITS OF LAUGHTER if you DON'T LAUGH

    LAUGHTER is the BEST MEDICINE WITHOUT ANY NEGATIVE SIDE EFFECTS.

   LAUGHTER is the BEST MEDICINE and you can give it away for FREE.

   LAUGHTER is the BEST MEDICINE and you can GIVE IT AWAY WITHOUT A DEGREE.

   LAUGHTER ACTIVATES your ORGANS to WORK PROPERLY.

   LAUGHTER HELPS you make ROOM for PEACE OF MIND to get in.

   When you CAN'T LAUGH because you are NOT ALLOWED TO LAUGH, THERE IS A PROBLEM.

   A GOOD BELLY LAUGH is GOOD FOR YOUR MIND, BODY AND YOUR SOUL.

   WHEN WAS the last time that you had a GOOD BELLY LAUGH over something SILLY?

   HAVE you ever had TO SURPRESS YOUR LAUGHTER because you were AFRAID that you would be JUDGED HARSHLY for LAUGHING?

   WE CAN ALL BENEFIT PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY FROM A GOOD BELLY LAUGH.

   MAKE SOMEONE LAUGH TODAY to HELP them FLUSH AWAY A BAD DAY.

How long could you go WITHOUT LOOKING AT YOUR PHONE?

    There are VERY VERY VERY FEW PEOPLE who DON'T OWN A SMARTPHONE.

    MOST PEOPLE carry their SMARTPHONE with them EVERYWHERE they go.

    Not ONLY when they LEAVE FROM PLACE TO PLACE, they carry their SMARTPHONE from ROOM TO ROOM.

   Have you ever thought about HOW MUCH TIME YOU spend LOOKING AT YOUR SMARTPHONE?

   I just watched a sitcom that showed EVERY MEMBER OF THEIR FAMILY sitting SIDE BY SIDE EACH OTHER LOOKING AT THEIR SMARTPHONES.

   They were ALL LOOKING AT DIFFERENT THINGS on their SMARTPHONES, NOT even INTERACTING WITH EACH OTHER.

   IF YOU are going to SPEND TIME WITH YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS YOU have to TURN OFF YOUR SMARTPHONES so YOU CAN INTERACT WITH THEM.

   There ARE TIMES AND THERE ARE PLACES WHERE YOU NEED TO PUT DOWN YOUR SMARTPHONES to STAY CONNECTED TO YOUR HUMAN SIDE.

   

  

Don't let ANYONE decide HOW YOU FEEL

    Have you ever known someone who ALWAYS has a NEGATIVE ATTITUDE about EVERYTHING?

    You know the MOMENT they SAY ANYTHING they will ZAP YOUR JOY and PEACEFUL ENERGY leaving you FEELING EXHAUSTED.

    UNFORTUNATELY you can't ALWAYS AVOID getting close enough to them to PREVENT them from having ANY CHANCE TO SUCK THE JOY OUT OF YOU.

   But ANYONE AND ANYTHING that you can AVOID that will EVOKE NEGATIVE THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS...... AVOID THEM.

    Who you SURROUND YOURSELF WITH has A LOT TO DO WITH HOW YOU WILL FEEL.

    IF YOU want to keep a POSITIVE PEACEFUL ATTITUDE then AVOID giving a NEGATIVE PERSON A SECOND of YOUR TIME To AFFECT YOU NEGATIVELY.

    IT'S LIKE SEEING A SHARK IN THE WATER, YOU WOULDN'T GO SWIMMING IN THAT WATER because YOU KNOW YOU WILL BE ATTACKED.

    IF YOU SEE TROUBLE coming GET OUT OF THE WAY.

If YOU NEVER HEAR about it then HOW ARE YOU GOING TO KNOW about it?

     If YOU NEVER HEAR anything about it then YOU will NEVER KNOW it ever EXISTED.

    It's EASY to NOT LEARN from what has HAPPENED if YOU NEVER HEAR that it EVER HAPPENED.

    If YOU TEACH YOUR CHILDREN to APPRECIATE what they do have then they will LEARN TO APPRECIATE what they have.

   If YOU TEACH YOUR CHILDREN to RESPECT THEIR ELDERS then they will LEARN TO HAVE RESPECT FOR THEIR ELDERS.

   If YOU LET YOUR CHILDREN BE DISRESPECTFUL to OTHERS then they will be DISRESPECTFUL TO OTHERS.

   EVERY HOME IS A CLASSROOM AND EVERY PARENT IS A TEACHER.

   I didn't THINK it would be POSSIBLE to convince my children that SANTA CLAUSE WAS REAL but I DID and they ENJOYED THE MAGIC of believing in SANTA CLAUSE.

   If YOU ONLY HEAR ONE SIDE OF A STORY then to YOU it IS A FACT even though the FACT IS there is always TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY.

    WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT YOUR CHOICES ARE YOU CAN'T CHOOSE WHAT IS BEST FOR YOU.

   YOU can't ASSUME THAT just because YOU HEAR IT... IT'S TRUE.... HEARING SOMEONE ELSE'S OPINION DOESN'T MEAN IT'S TRUE.

   

   

DON'T EXPECT anyone to make THEIR DECISIONS based on YOUR FACTS

   The FACT is that YOUR OPINIONS are based ONLY ON what YOU THINK.

   YOUR THOUGHTS will determine the REALITY that YOU WILL LIVE whether it is the TRUE REALITY OR NOT.

   If YOU BELIEVE it IS TRUE then to YOU it is TRUE even though YOU might have a DIFFERENT OPINION if YOU KNEW the TRUE FACTS.

   Before YOU FORM YOUR OPINION get ALL THE FACTS so that YOU CAN have an INFORMED OPINION NOT BASE YOUR  OPINION ON AN UNEDUCATED GUESS that you might REGRET.

   Have YOU ever DREADED going to an event because IN YOUR OPINION YOU THOUGHT it was a WASTE OF YOUR TIME?

    BEFORE YOU REACT.... STOP...  and Get ALL THE FACTS BEFORE YOU FORM YOUR OPINION, so YOU CAN MAKE THE BEST DECISIONS for YOURSELF.

    There are a lot of WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING but if YOU LOOK CLOSELY YOU will be ABLE TO SEE if YOU NEED TO RUN from the WOLF OR NOT.

   KEEP YOUR EYES WIDE OPEN so YOU CAN SEE where YOU SHOULD GO to GET WHERE YOU WANT TO GO.

You should ASK YOURSELF if IT will REALLY MATTER A YEAR FROM NOW?

    You may THINK it is something that you SHOULD DO but ACTUALLY YOU SHOULDN'T, IF it is UNNECESSARY and WON'T MATTER "NEXT YEAR."

   DON'T WASTE your TIME AND ENERGY on ANYONE OR ANYTHING that in a YEAR FROM NOW it WON'T MATTER TO YOU at all.

   There will be MANY FLY BY NIGHT FRIENDS and TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE SITUATIONS that will come ROLLING IN AND OUT during your LIFE'S JOURNEY.

   I often wander what makes someone on the show THE WALL decide whether they SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT sign the contract to get the guaranteed amount of prize money.

    Perhaps they have HEARD the phrase that ONE BIRD in the HAND is better than TWO BIRDS IN A BUSH.

   It's okay to DREAM ABOUT WINNING THE LOTTERY but BE HONEST with yourself that your CHANCES ARE SLIM TO NONE.

   No matter what you THINK IS GUARANTEED in LIFE the HONEST TRUTH is NOTHING IN LIFE IS GUARANTEED.

   YESTERDAY is already GONE and TOMORROW may NEVER COME but TODAY IS YOURS TO ENJOY.

    THE SPECIAL BONDS that YOU BUILD with Your FAMILY AND FRIENDS are what will BE MOST IMPORTANT.

   Your REPUTATION THAT YOU WORK TO BUILD will be what will be MOST IMPORTANT.

    But if YOU REALIZE that it DOESN'T MATTER THEN it's a NO BRAINIER......SPEND YOUR TIME AND ENERGY ON WHAT DOES MATTER.

   

    

Don't forget that AT THE END OF THE DAY you will REAP WHAT YOU HAVE SOWN TODAY

    There are CONSEQUENCES for EVERY CHOICE YOU MAKE.

     Remember that EVEN choosing to DO NOTHING is a CHOICE YOU MAKE.

   At the END OF THE DAY you should ASK YOURSELF are YOU PROUD OF EVERYTHING THAT YOU DID TODAY?

    As long as YOU DID what YOU THOUGHT WAS BEST then YOU SHOULD BE PROUD OF YOURSELF for DOING WHAT YOU THOUGHT WAS BEST regardless of the OUTCOME.

   YOU won't have any REGRETS if at the END OF THE DAY YOU DID YOUR BEST.

    AT THE END OF THE DAY it DOESN'T MATTER what ANYONE ELSE DOES, THINKS OR SAYS, ALL that matters is that YOU DID what YOU thought was BEST FOR YOU.

    When TIMES ARE TOUGH TEMPORARILY... DON'T DO ANYTHING that you WILL REGRET ... because YOU WILL LIVE WITH THE CONSEQUENCES PERMANENTLY FOR YOUR LIFETIME.

    AT THE END OF THE DAY ALL THAT MATTERS is that YOU ARE PROUD OF YOURSELF.

    

It's that time of year for the COUNTY FAIR, are you going to go to the FAIR this year?

    TIME FLIES and it's that time of year for our COUNTY FAIR.

    What IS your favorite thing you look forward to doing at the FAIR?

     When you are VERY YOUNG you hope you are finally TALL enough to RIDE the BIG RIDES.

    When you are a TEENAGER you look forward to meeting up with your FRIENDS to HANGOUT at the FAIR.

    When you are PARENTS you look forward to seeing the JOY on your CHILDREN'S FACES as you make plans to spend a day at the FAIR.

    No matter how many YEARS or even DECADES you go to the FAIR at EVERY AGE you look forward to your favorite FAIR FOOD.

    MY friend used to go to the FAIR every year with her grown son and ONLY play their favorite GAME and eat a FUNNEL CAKE and then LEAVE.

    She said it was only an hour together but it was a YEARLY TRADITION that they ENJOYED TOGETHER.

     I always ENJOYED the PIG RACE. And after all the DECADES of PIG RACES I am surprised that they still have PIGS NAMED THE SAME.

     We might be a SMALL TOWN but we get some BIG NAME ENTERTAINERS that always come to OUR SMALL COUNTY FAIR to PERFORM.

     What do you look forward to at the FAIR?

      

    

If YOU don't TRY then obviously YOU won't ACCOMPLISH IT

     You have to GO AFTER what YOU want if YOU will have ANY CHANCE of getting what YOU want.

     You have to TRY TO DO IT if YOU will have ANY CHANCE of DOING IT.

    YOU have to ASK THE QUESTION if YOU want an ANSWER to YOUR questions.

    If YOU want things to be DIFFERENT YOU will have to do things DIFFERENTLY.

    If YOU want to be the BEST YOU can be then you will have do the BEST that YOU can do.

     If YOU want to LEARN from YOUR MISTAKES YOU will have to ADMIT that YOU MADE A MISTAKE.

     If YOU DON'T LIKE the DIRECTION YOU are HEADED then TURN AROUND and go a DIFFERENT DIRECTION.

    Life is full of CHALLENGES and YOU will have to ACCEPT that YOU will have CHALLENGES because that's JUST LIFE.

    All YOU have to DO is DO the BEST that YOU can DO to have the BEST OUTCOME that YOU can have.

    It's up to YOU so JUST DO WHAT YOU NEED TO DO.

    

The ECLIPSE is NATURE'S way to remind us WHO'S IN CONTROL

    Were you able to be in the TOTAL ECLIPSE path to see it for yourself?

    For weeks we have all gotten to hear from people who described the FEELING they had EXPERIENCED in watching a TOTAL ECLIPSE DECADES AGO.

    There were those that planned their VACATIONS around being in the path of the TOTAL ECLIPSE because of WANTING to EXPERIENCE that FEELING AGAIN.

    Then there were those that after HEARING about the EXPERIENCE WANTED to EXPERIENCE it for themselves.

   When you go from DAYLIGHT to DARKNESS it is  like a LIGHT SWITCH was being SWITCHED TO THE OFF position.

    You can't help but wonder WHO TURNED OFF THE LIGHT?

    When you EXPERIENCE a EARTHQUAKE that makes THE GROUND RUMBLE, you have to wonder WHO COULD have SHOOK THE EARTH so violently?

   As you see the HOT LAVA SPEW OUT of a VOLCANO flowing ALL over the TOWNS around it, you have to wonder WHERE did that SCOLDING HOT LAVA come from?

   As you EXPERIENCE a SEVERE THUNDERSTORM and you can FEEL THE POWER of the THUNDER AND LIGHTNING, you can't help but be REMINDED how POWERFUL NATURE is.

    

Are you really COMMUNICATING if you DON'T TALK about it?

    Before you get UPSET when they seem to NOT CARE about WHAT YOU WANT because if YOU NEVER TOLD THEM WHAT YOU WANT, then they obviously DID NOT have NO IDEA WHAT YOU WANTED.

   Before you get UPSET about what you THOUGHT THEY MEANT you should ASK THEM WHAT THEY MEANT.

   Before you FORM YOUR OPINION you need to get THE FACTS so YOU MAKE AN INFORMED OPINION.

   You may THINK you KNOW SOMEONE but the TRUTH  is that you ONLY SEE WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO SEE.

   You may NOT AGREE with THEIR DECISIONS but we CAN AGREE that you have NO IDEA what they have dealt with in THEIR LIFETIME that made them MAKE the decision that was BEST FOR THEM.

   If you WANT THEM TO KNOW then you have to TELL THEM so they will KNOW, THEY CAN'T READ YOUR MIND.

   There are many things that people MISUNDERSTAND because they NEVER HEAR ABOUT IT TO UNDERSTAND IT.

   If we will COMMUNICATE BETTER with each other then we would KNOW EACH OTHER BETTER. 

   BE KIND to EVERYONE you MEET because you have NO IDEA WHAT THEY MAY BE REALLY FACING.

   

   

Change the way you LOOK AT IT and what you will SEE WILL CHANGE

      If you LOOK AT it DIFFERENTLY you will SEE DIFFERENT THINGS.

    IF you LOOK at it from a DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW you will SEE a VIEW that you DIDN'T SEE BEFORE.

   WHAT you LOOK for will DETERMINE what you WILL SEE.

    TEN people can LOOK at the SAME THING, yet SEE TEN DIFFERENT THINGS.

   When my son felt he was being yelled at, I could SEE the ANGER inside him building up.

     Then I got him to realize he normally had done it ONCE A WEEK but it had been NEARLY TWO WEEKS since he had done it.

    Immediately I could see the ANGER DISAPPEAR from his face and it was REPLACED with a LOOK OF UNDERSTANDING that he had FORGOTTEN TO DO IT LAST WEEK.

    Before you let WHAT YOU THINK YOU SEE affect you, TRY LOOKING AT IT DIFFERENTLY and you just MIGHT SEE how it ACTUALLY should AFFECT you.

    When he LOOKED AT IT DIFFERENTLY HE COULD SEE that he WASN'T being yelled at he was just being REMINDED that it was something he needed to do.

    When you CAN HELP them SEE IT FROM A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW you HELP them from being ANGRY UNNECESSARILY.

    UNFORTUNATELY you do DAMAGE to your OVERALL WELL BEING from being ANGRY over something even though it was NOTHING TO BE ANGRY ABOUT.

    HELPING someone SEE IT DIFFERENTLY may be ALL THE HELP THEY NEED to HELP KEEP them HEALTHY.

You know you are OLD when you....

    You know you are OLD when you can't STAY AWAKE when it is NAP TIME.

    You know you are OLD when you can't continue TELLING someone your STORY if you FORGET a simple WORD UNTIL MINUTES later when you FINALLY THINK OF THE WORD.

   When my father in law did it we used to not understand because The WORD could have EASILY BEEN SKIPPED and we would have still UNDERSTOOD THE STORY.

   BUT when you are OLD you are DETERMINED to PROVE to YOURSELF that you CAN REMEMBER THE WORD whether it matters to anyone else or not.

   You know you are OLD when you CAN NO LONGER EAT the FOODS you used to LOVE because now that FOOD UPSETS your stomach.

   You know you are OLD when you CALL SOMEONE in there THIRTIES a YOUNGSTER.

    You may FEEL LIKE you are YOUNG and you may even LOOK LIKE you are YOUNG.

    But when you are OLD you CAN'T DENY that you are OLD because you're REMINDED in many little ways that you are OLD.

    You may FEEL YOUNG AT HEART but remember that your NOT AS YOUNG as you used to be, so BE CAREFUL what you PHYSICALLY DO because you GOT OLDER with time.

  

If it DOESN'T MATTER then it SHOULDN'T AFFECT you

    If it DOESN'T MATTER then why are you WASTING your time WORRYING about it?

   If it DOESN'T AFFECT you one way or another then why are you letting it WAY HEAVY ON YOUR MIND?

    If it DOESN'T MATTER in the "BIG PICTURE" of your life then JUST FLUSH IT out of your mind and FORGET ABOUT IT.

  IF you have to put off DOING SOMETHING another day it's OKAY TO WAIT another day.

  It DOESN'T MATTER if you can't get EVERYTHING DONE today then DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT if you can't get EVERYTHING DONE TODAY.

   If WORRYING ABOUT it WON'T HELP then WHY ARE YOU making yourself sick WORRYING ABOUT IT?

   If it ISN'T a LIFE OR DEATH situation then DON'T MAKE IT ONE by WORRYING yourself to DEATH about it, JUST FLUSH IT OUT OF YOUR MIND.

   If you want PEACE OF MIND you have to take all your WORRIES and the THOUGHTS that DON'T MATTER and JUST FLUSH IT out of your mind so PEACE OF MIND has ROOM to get in!

   PEACE OF MIND is JUST A FLUSH AWAY!

Happily ever after doesn't mean you won't have any struggles

     Life is a ROLLERCOASTER which means it is full of UPS and DOWNS as well as TWISTS and TURNS.

    On your LIFE'S JOURNEY you will have GOOD DAYS and you will have BAD DAYS, that's just LIFE.

    You will experience HAPPY MOMENTS as well as have  MOMENTS of SADNESS, that's just LIFE. 

   Living HAPPILY ever after doesn't mean you won't have any STRUGGLES.

   It means IN SPITE of the CHALLENGES you will have to face you can ENJOY LIFE. 

   Like the plaque on my wall says...

   I asked God for all things that I might ENJOY LIFE, he gave me LIFE that I might ENJOY all THINGS.

   The next time you are facing a NOT SO PLEASANT CHALLENGE in Life remember that before you know it you will be enjoying a PLEASANT MOMENT. 

   LIFE IS LIFE and throughout your LIFE'S JOURNEY you will live HAPPILY EVER AFTER as you navigate through the BUMPS along the way.

    Being HAPPY is a STATE OF MIND and HOW YOU LOOK at things will DETERMINE WHAT YOU SEE which will DETERMINE your STATE OF MIND.

  

You can't be YOU if you KEEP CHANGING

    You CAN'T please everyone, so DON'T keep CHANGING to TRY to please ANYONE.

   BUT you CAN ALWAYS be PROUD OF YOURSELF, as long as YOU stay TRUE TO YOURSELF.

   If YOU keep CHANGING to please OTHERS before YOU know it YOU WON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

   All that really matters is that at the end of the day YOU are PROUD OF EVERYTHING that YOU DID that day.

   YOU won't Always make the RIGHT DECISION or say the RIGHT THING, but if YOU did what you thought was the RIGHT thing to do EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT.

   No one is PERFECT so don't JUDGE YOURSELF so harshly by expecting everything YOU DO to be PERFECT.

    The MISTAKES you make on your LIFE'S JOURNEY are NECESSARY to LEARN so YOU GROW to be the BEST YOU that YOU CAN BE.

    At the END OF THE DAY All that matters is that YOU ARE PROUD of YOURSELF.

   

It may be BOGO but should you BUY IT?

     Since the prices on GROCERIES have DOUBLED it has made it NECESSARY to HUNT the stores and find your GROCERIES for BOGO deals.

    BUT...Unless you have a WALK IN PANTRY to store a lot of items you have to LIMIT what you can BUY no matter if it is a BOGO item.

    I have ENJOYED the EASTER EGG HUNT to find the bargains BUT....I am ready for prices to get BACK TO NORMAL PRICES so I don't have to HUNT anymore.

    And if it's BOGO on a box of chocolate you  have to ask yourself do you SERIOUSLY think that you should BUY them knowing that you don't NEED TO EAT TWO of them?

    When I walk in the front door at my local GROCERY STORE they have TABLES LINED UP with all kinds of GOODIES on sale BOGO.

   Now it's a different EASTER EGG HUNT trying to find the HEALTHY ones and IGNORING the UNNECESSARY SWEET ones.

   What you HAVE IN YOUR PANTRY is exactly what you CHOSE TO BUY at the store to bring home. 

   If you DON'T HAVE ice cream or chips to EAT then you will EAT something else.

   

They may not REMEMBER IT but IT had a big IMPACT on WHO THEY ARE TODAY

    YOU may not REMEMBER a lot about your GREAT GRANDPARENTS but you wouldn't be WHO YOU ARE TODAY without the AFFECTS they had on YOU.

   Even a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with someone can have a AFFECT for THEIR LIFETIME even though they have NO MEMORY OF THE ENCOUNTER.

   The SEEDS of THOUGHT that YOU PLANT can grow ROOTS and make a HARVEST THEY will SOW throughout THEIR LIFETIME.

   WHAT KIND of SEEDS are YOU PLANTING?

   LIKE YOUR MOM TAUGHT you....If YOU don't have anything NICE TO SAY then don't SAY ANYTHING AT ALL because WHAT YOU PLANT IS WHAT WILL GROW AND SPREAD onto others.

  We NEED to SPREAD SEEDS OF KINDNESS so KINDNESS WILL SPREAD into OUR COMMUNITIES and REPLACE the INSANITY we see in SOCIETY.

  The WORLD won't get BETTER on its OWN we all MUST DO OUR PART.

   Be KIND to EVERYONE you meet so EVERYONE can BENEFIT From YOUR KINDNESS. 

   What YOU SOW is what will GROW. 

   REMEMBER , when you are ANGRY DON'T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL SO YOU DON'T SPEW IT ONTO OTHERS 

TURN THE CHANNEL on the THOUGHTS that you CHOOSE NOT to THINK about

    Our minds have an ENDLESS STREAM of THOUGHTS that try to GRAB our ATTENTION.

   It is UP TO YOU WHICH THOUGHTS you will CHOOSE to THINK ABOUT.

   Just like you USE the REMOTE CONTROL to CHOOSE what you WILL WATCH on TV, you USE your WISDOM to CHOOSE what THOUGHTS you WILL THINK ABOUT.

    You can't PREVENT a NEGATIVE THOUGHT from POPPING UP front and center AGAIN and AGAIN,  but you can at a QUICK GLANCE JUST FLUSH IT OUT OF YOUR MIND so it can't HURT you AGAIN AND AGAIN.

   You NEED to FILL YOUR MIND with POSITIVE THOUGHTS that will KEEP a POSITIVE OUTLOOK that will have POSITIVE AFFECT in your life.

  If all you THINK ABOUT is NEGATIVE THOUGHTS then you can ONLY HAVE a NEGATIVE OUTLOOK which can ONLY LEAD to a NEGATIVE OUTCOME.

   YOUR THOUGHTS DETERMINE the REALITY YOU will LIVE IN.

   Peter Pan could ONLY FLY if he THOUGHT HAPPY THOUGHTS.

   If you want a POSITIVE OUTCOME think POSITIVE THOUGHTS like Peter Pan and BE HAPPY. 😀

   

You don't have to LIKE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT

    There are MANY THINGS on our LIFE'S JOURNEY that we HAVE TO DO even though they are NOT TOTALLY WHAT we WANT TO DO.

    If you are those LUCKY FEW who LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THEIR JOB then you will be ONE OF THE LUCKY FEW people who do. 

   GROWING A GARDEN takes a lot of HARD WORK but if you PUT IN THE HARD WORK you will ENJOY EATING your HARVEST OF VEGETABLES.

   You may NOT LIKE GOING TO WORK but you sure LIKE the PAYCHECK that you will EARN FOR GOING TO WORK, and YOU NEED THE PAYCHECK.

   You may NOT LIKE EVERYTHING about your family and friends but you WILL GLADLY take the GOOD WITH THE BAD to STAY CLOSE to your family and friends.

   You may DISAGREE with SOME PEOPLE but you can AGREE TO DISAGREE with them to GET ALONG.

    A LOT of the MOM AND POP BUSINESSES had to close during the pandemic making us all have to SHOP AT BUSINESSES that we WOULDN'T if WE COULD SHOP somewhere else.

   LIFE is something you have to CONSTANTLY ADJUST to HOW YOU HAVE TO DO THINGS because LIFE is CONSTANTLY CHANGING.

   You DO WHAT YOU GOT TO DO IN LIFE, THAT'S JUST LIFE.

    

You can't STOP IT but you can STOP giving your STAMP OF APPROVAL

    There are MANY THINGS that are OUT OF YOUR CONTROL.

    There are MANY THINGS that are NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.

    There are MANY THINGS that you WILL HAVE TO CHOOSE on your LIFE'S JOURNEY.

    Keep in mind that EVERY CHOICE you make MATTERS.

    AND that CHOOSING TO DO NOTHING is still a CHOICE you make.

    If you don't AGREE with a TELEVISION SHOW than DON'T WATCH IT.

    To express your DISAGREEMENT don't give it high ratings to keep it on the Air, TURN THE CHANNEL.

   If you don't LIKE IT then don't SUPPORT IT in any way.

   ONLY if you PROMOTE things that MAKE A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE will you be a PART of what MAKES A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE.

   It's true that you REAP WHAT YOU SOW, so PAY ATTENTION to the SEEDS you are PLANTING.

   The WORLD won't get BETTER on its OWN we ALL MUST DO OUR PART.

   

   

An HOUR can make a Big difference

    You WOULDN'T think the CLOCKS springing FORWARD an HOUR could have any REAL IMPACT on you.

    After all ....you went to SLEEP at the SAME TIME AFTER you CHANGED THE CLOCK.

    So if you WENT to bed at 10 LIKE NORMAL and you GOT UP at 8 Like NORMAL, then WHY does it FEEL like you were CHEATED out of an HOUR SLEEP?

   The ONLY DIFFERENCE is it is DARKER OUTSIDE in the morning.

   Goes to show you that if you are USED TO IT, Then if what you are USED TO CHANGES the SLIGHTEST BIT, YOU NOTICE 

    Old HABITS are HARD TO BREAK even INSIGNIFICANT HABITS are HARD to BREAK, CHANGE is still a CHANGE you will have to GET USED TO.

   Luckily our phones CHANGE TIME AUTOMATICALLY because when I saw the TIME ON THE STOVE this MORNING I thought I had PLENTY OF TIME to get ready.

   So I was WASTING TIME RELAXING when I looked at the TIME ON MY PHONE and realized I didn't have ANY TIME to WASTE if I was going to be READY IN TIME.

   You will get done the SAME AMOUNT of stuff in an 8 HOUR SHIFT but that HOUR SHIFT IN TIME will take you TIME TO ADJUST TO.

   LIFE is full of things CHANGING on your LIFE'S JOURNEY and you will JUST have to ADJUST as YOU GO on your LIFE'S JOURNEY.

   You can't get TOO COMFORTABLE in LIFE because LIFE is always CHANGING.

You have to ACCEPT IT for what IT IS

     You can't PRETEND that it is not WHAT IT IS, because IT IS WHAT IT IS.

    You may WISH it was DIFFERENT but IT IS WHAT IT IS.

    If you only have APPLES you can't make LEMONADE, you have to make APPLESAUCE.

   If life gives you nothing but LEMONS you can't make APPLESAUCE, but you can make some delicious LEMONADE.

   You may not be a FAMOUS PAINTER, but you can still find JOY in PAINTING.

   You may not have EVERYTHING that you ever wanted but you can be HAPPY that you have EVERYTHING you NEED.

    You can either see the GLASS HALF FULL or HALF EMPTY, It is up to you.

   But you could DIE OF THIRST if you don't TAKE A DRINK of the HALF OF GLASS you do have.

    Have you ever COMPLAINED about something SMALL to someone only for them to say I understand then you find out that they face far WORSE?

    You can ENJOY WHATEVER YOU GOT, if you make the MOST OF WHAT YOU GOT.

   So ACCEPT that Life isn't PERFECT, NOTHING IS PERFECT, but you can make PERFECTLY DELICIOUS LEMONADE.

    

Before you team up with anyone, Ask yourself will they be a TEAM PLAYER?

   There are many different kinds of PLAYERS on a TEAM.

   There are many different TEAMS you will need throughout your LIFE'S JOURNEY.

    Before you TEAM up with ANYONE to do ANYTHING, stop and ask yourself a very important question.

   Will they be a good TEAMMATE?

   Will they WORK TOGETHER for the good of EVERYONE on the TEAM?

   To be a good TEAMMATE they have to be a good LISTENER so they  will to know what EVERYONE NEEDS.

   So you have to ask yourself are they a GOOD LISTENER?

    Each TEAMMATE has a ROLE to play for the TEAM if the TEAM is to be SUCCESSFUL.

   Each TEAMMATE should be INDIVIDUALLY SUCCESSFUL as well as be a SUCCESSFUL TEAM.

   Who you TEAM UP with in Life determines whether you will have the TEAMWORK you will need to be SUCCESSFUL in LIFE.

   Before you TEAM UP with ANYONE, STOP and Ask yourself will they be a TEAM PLAYER?

   

    

   

   

    

Every story is MOMENTS you ENJOYED

    As we sat around listening to the MANY STORIES about their VACATION days, it was like watching a movie.

    We followed along with the STORY vividly as they told us MANY DETAILS about how it LED UP TO the result of the MOMENT.

   There may have only been THREE SNOWBALLS thrown but it is the STORY told so VIVIDLY that it was a SNOWBALL FIGHT that we will remember.

   The FUNNIEST MEMORIES are the NOT SO FUNNY MOMENTS that you experienced.

   Yes there was lots of GOOD FOOD and GOOD FUN that are memorable but the MEMORIES of the NOT SO PERFECT MOMENTS are the MEMORIES we will always TREASURE the MOST.

    EVERY MOMENT is a MOMENT TO TREASURE even the MOMENTS that were NOT SO PERFECT MOMENTS you had to live.

    ENJOY Your LIFE'S JOURNEY while you are on the ROLLERCOASTER OF LIFE.

    

Until you OWN UP to your SHORTCOMINGS you will ALWAYS come up SHORT of where you want to be

    It's hard to ADMIT that it is in anyway, YOUR FAULT.

    In NO WAY do you have to ADMIT it to others, BUT you DO have to ADMIT IT to YOURSELF if anything is going to CHANGE at all.

    It's EASY to see the FAULTS of others BUT YOUR FAULTS are OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND.

    If you want ANYTHING to CHANGE in YOUR LIFE, you will have to do SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

    DON'T WAIT for the PERSON to say IT'S THEIR FAULT before you SEE YOUR FAULTS.

   BECAUSE if they were going to ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY to their part they would have done it before now.

   You are the LEADER in your LIFE so your DESTINY is up to you to DECIDE where YOU will LEAD YOURSELF.

    YOU don't LIVE LIFE ALONE but YOU ALONE DECIDES how YOU WILL LIVE your life.

    

    

Looks can be deceiving so pay attention

     Just because they have COLORFUL hair doesn't mean they have a COLORFUL personality.

    Just because they have many TATTOOS doesn't mean that they enjoyed the pain of getting a TATTOO.

   Just because they talk a good GAME doesn't mean they are a good GAME player.

    Just because they say they aren't WORRIED about it doesn't mean that deep down they aren't WORRIED.

    Just because they seem a little DISTRACTED at that moment doesn't mean that they are always DISTRACTED.

    Some people can't SING but they still enjoy SINGING SONGS.

    Some people think they CAN'T DO IT but once they try it they easily GET 'R DONE.

    Some people look HATEFUL yet they are the SWEETEST person ever.

    Don't fORM YOUR OPINION without getting to truly know the TRUE FACTS to base YOUR OPINIONS ON.

   You can't JUDGE a BOOK by the COVER because the HEART of the BOOK is HIDDEN INSIDE.

    

Don't let what happened in your PAST hold you back

    Don't let what happened in your PAST prevent you from ENJOYING your TODAY'S.

    Don't let what happened in your PAST prevent you from LOOKING FORWARD to your FUTURE.

    Don't let what happened in your PAST prevent you from being EVERYTHING that you want to be.

   Your PAST is NECESSARY to PREPARE you for your FUTURE.

    Your MISTAKES on your LIFE'S JOURNEY are NECESSARY in order for you to LEARN from them.

    Your TOUGH TIMES on your LIFE'S JOURNEY are NECESSARY to BUILD your STRENGTH so you can stand LOUD AND PROUD.

    Take the PAINFUL EXPERIENCES from your PAST and LEARN what you need to from them then.......JUST FLUSH IT out of your mind.

    Don't let your PAST PREVENT you from ENJOYING the MOMENT YOU ARE IN.

    

    

    

    

You can't write a BIOGRAPHY on what you THINK your LIFE will be

     If you write your BIOGRAPHY at age 20 is it really your BIOGRAPHY?

    Or is it just STORIES about the FIRST TWENTY YEARS of your LIFE?

     If you write your BIOGRAPHY at age 30 is it really your ENTIRE BIOGRAPHY?

    Or is it just STORIES about the first THIRTY YEARS of your LIFE?

    Can you TRULY call it your BIOGRAPHY if you still got a lot of YEARS of your LIFE to live?

    If you write about what you THINK OR WANT OR HOPE your LIFE will be, it CAN'T BE YOUR TRUE BIOGRAPHY.

    What you THOUGHT LIFE would be RARELY turns out to be what LIFE really is.

    So after saying that you need to ASK YOURSELF why do you feel SOOO.....UPSET when things on your LIFE'S JOURNEY doesn't turn out EXACTLY like you THOUGHT they would?

   LIFE is LIFE and LIFE is UNPREDICTABLE.

    Which is why you can not WRITE your TRUE BIOGRAPHY based on what you THINK YOUR LIFE SHOULD BE.

When it is gone it's gone

    You won't ENJOY the gentle breeze if you don't slow down so you can feel it.

   You won't get to see the beauty of a flower when it blooms if you don't stop long enough to ENJOY it before it withers away.

   You won't notice let alone ENJOY the little things in life if you only look for the big things that may or may not come your way.

   You can't wait to ENJOY your children because before you know it they will be grown ups.

   You can't put off doing something when you are younger that you won't be able to do physically when you are old.

   If you have something to say to those around you then say it because you don't want to miss your opportunity to say it because there is no guarantee that tomorrow will come.

   Slow down so you can ENJOY the gentle breeze while it is blowing.

   Stop and smell the flowers while they are in bloom.

    You can only ENJOY the laughter of a child when they are still children.

   To ENJOY LIFE you have to slow down so you can ENJOY it while you are living it.

Pay attention to your GUT

     Your GUT INSTINCTS are trying to WARN you about something.

     Your GUT INSTINCTS are your BUILT-IN WARNING system trying to GRAB YOUR ATTENTION to WARN you.

    When you feel your GUT gargling it DOESN'T always mean you have GAS.

    When you are about to do something and your GUT starts TUMBLING you need to STOP and THINK before you do it.

    At the end of the day you don't want to say I had a FEELING that I shouldn't do it but I IGNORED the FEELING.

   MISTAKES happen but is it a MISTAKE that could have been AVOIDED?

   IF you pay attention to your GUT you will be able to AVOID the DANGER if you HEED the WARNINGS.

   

    

You get used to your surroundings so surround yourself with positivity

    If it is the ONLY way you had ever done it then it is NORMAL for you to do.

   If you live in a state that it always SNOWS then you will learn how to DRIVE in SNOWY weather.

   If you live in a state that NEVER SNOWS you might not know how to safely DRIVE in the SNOW.

   If you surround yourself with NEGATIVITY then you will have a NEGATIVE outlook.

   If you surround yourself with POSITIVITY then you will  have a POSITIVE outlook.

    If you surround yourself with people who INSPIRE you then you will feel INSPIRED.

    If you surround yourself with people who have nothing POSITIVE to say then you will only hear NEGATIVITY.

   It is BETTER to SWIM alone in the ocean then to be surrounded by SHARKS.

   CHOOSING who to surround yourself with is CHOOSING who you want to be.

   

Have you ever met a Bee that could outsmart you?

    About a Decade ago I couldn't get past a BEE that was guarding my front door.

   He would fly off the porch and I would think I could finally go on the porch and go inside.

   Then before I could grip the door handle, he would come out of nowhere and I would retreat as I screamed back out to the front yard.

   I didn't want to open the door and take a chance that he would fly inside and take over where I could go inside too.

   Here I find myself again a Decade later being controlled and told what to do by a BEE.

   I wandered whether it was possibly the same BEE but I Looked up the lifespan of a BEE, so I knew it definitely wasn't.

   Turns out that I am JUST LUCKY to get to have ANOTHER encounter with a BEE who was ENJOYING how easily he could stop a giant human.

   But this Time I decided to show the BEE that I had made a plan a decade ago, in case it ever happened again, that I would just walk around to the side door and go inside.

   And after I went inside I looked out the front window on the porch and let him see me LAUGHING from INSIDE my house.

   

Will it be TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT?

    Don't turn a TEMPORARY SETBACK into a PERMANENT SETBACK.

   When you are facing a NEGATIVE MOMENT don't turn it into a PERMANENT LIFETIME PROBLEM.

   How you REACT to the CIRCUMSTANCES that you must face will DETERMINE whether you have a POSITIVE OUTCOME or a NEGATIVE OUTCOME.

   STOP and THINK about what your REACTION will BRING because ONCE YOU REACT you CAN'T TAKE IT BACK.

   You will have to LIVE with the CONSEQUENCES that your ACTIONS will BRING.

   Don't let a TEMPORARY FIX to the TEMPORARY PROBLEM that you are facing be something that you will have a LIFETIME OF REGRET DOING.

   Your CHARACTER is not JUDGED by how you REACT when TIMES are GOOD but your CHARACTER is BASED on what you do when TIMES ARE TOUGH.

   Anyone can turn a MOLE HILL into a MOUNTAIN if they keep ADDING DIRT. 

  It's EASIER to STEP OVER a MOLE HILL than it is to CLIMB A MOUNTAIN.

   Life is HARD ENOUGH without you making it HARDER ON YOURSELF.

  

You may not be able to FIX it but you definitely can make sure you don't make it WORSE

    You may not have the SOLUTION to their problem but you can make sure you don't cause them anymore PROBLEMS.

    You may not know the ANSWERS to their QUESTIONS but you can make them feel HEARD.

    You may not UNDERSTAND what they are going through but you can ACKNOWLEDGE what they are going through.

    You may not know what to SAY to HELP but you can take the time to LISTEN to them and that will HELP.

   They are not EXPECTING you to FIX their PROBLEMS but they are HOPING that you CARE enough to LISTEN to them.

   If you LISTEN to them it will give them a chance to JUST FLUSH IT out of their minds so PEACE OF MIND will have ROOM to get in.

   If you take the time to LISTEN, it will give them a chance to FIGURE out what they need to do for themselves as they SAY it OUT LOUD.

    All they may need is someone to take the time to LISTEN so they can CLEAR their mind so they can think MORE CLEARLY to FIGURE out what THEY NEED to do to FIX IT.

   Will you give them a MOMENT of your time?

    

Since prices on groceries are rising you got to UP YOUR GAME

    Grocery prices started rising during the pandemic but now the pandemic is over but PRICE GOUGING is apparently here to stay.

   At first they said it was because of the pandemic but now they won't say that it is because they can GET AWAY WITH IT. 

   Unfortunately we all have to ACCEPT that the prices are not going down so we have to get CREATIVE to be able to AFFORD to eat.

   Luckily being CREATIVITY is fun especially if you make it an EASTER EGG HUNT to find a bargain price.

   I get excited to find items on sale especially when I get something BOGO.

   But PLEASE CHECK THE EXPIRATION DATES.

   It isn't a BARGAIN PRICE if it EXPIRES before you can eat it. 

   There are many things in Life that you have NO CONTROL OVER like the HIGH PRICES of groceries but you are IN CONTROL of how CREATIVE you are to find a BARGAIN PRICE.

  With a little bit of a IMAGINATION and some CREATIVITY and PLANNING you can keep your COST for FOOD down to earth.

   

   

   

STRESSING ABOUT IT WON'T PREVENT IT but you can PREVENT yourself from STRESSING ABOUT IT

    STRESSING about it WON'T PREVENT IT from HAPPENING so DON'T STRESS about it.

    STRESSING about it JUST IN CASE it HAPPENS is UNNECESSARY STRESS that DOES REAL DAMAGE, that is just UNNECESSARY.

   Your THOUGHTS are the REALITY YOU LIVE whether it is TRUE REALITY OR NOT.

    HOW YOU LOOK at IT determines what YOU SEE and what YOU SEE determines what you THINK about IT.

    DON'T LOSE FOCUS STRESSING over things UNNECESSARILY,  just FOCUS on WHAT IS HAPPENING so you can ENJOY IT.

  You CAN'T LIVE the PRESENT MOMENT you are in UNLESS YOU FOCUS ON the PRESENT MOMENT not WASTE IT STRESSING about a MOMENT that MAY OR MAY NOT HAPPEN TOMORROW.

  You CAN'T LIVE the PRESENT MOMENT you are in UNLESS YOU FOCUS ON the PRESENT MOMENT not WASTE IT STRESSING about a MOMENT FROM YOUR PAST.

   YESTERDAY is already GONE and TOMORROW may NEVER COME, but TODAY is YOURS TO ENJOY.

   If you want to ENJOY LIFE you have to ENJOY THE MOMENTS while you are LIVING THEM.

If you KNOW there COULD be a TRAFFIC JAM then make sure you LEAVE A LITTLE EARLIER then.

    Have you ever heard someone say I KNEW that I would get STUCK in a TRAFFIC JAM and BE LATE.

   You LOOK at them and say then WHY didn't you LEAVE Earlier then so you WOULDN'T BE LATE?

   How MANY TIMES have you YOURSELF said....I KNEW THAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN AFTER IT HAPPENS?

   IF you KNOW that TROUBLE is COMING then GET OUT OF THE WAY, IT'S SIMPLE JUST GET OUT OF IT'S WAY.

   You have to HOPE FOR THE BEST but JUST IN CASE you have to PREPARE yourself if you KNOW it's POSSIBLE that things won't go exactly as you had PLANNED.

   And if you want to MAKE SURE you are going to arrive ON TIME you have to leave EARLY in case there is a TRAFFIC JAM, that's JUST LIFE.

   You won't be ANGRY if you ARRIVE five minutes EARLY but you will be ANGRY if you ARRIVE five minutes LATE.

   

WHAT If you COULD, WOULD YOU?

     What if.... you COULD make a POSITIVE DIFFERENCE in the WORLD, WOULD YOU?

    What if.... you COULD HELP someone in a POSITIVE WAY, WOULD YOU?

    What if.... you COULD EASE the STRESS for someone so they COULD make room for PEACE OF MIND, WOULD YOU?

    What if.... you COULD SAY something that COULD ENCOURAGE someone, WOULD YOU?

    What if.... you COULD, WOULD YOU? YOU SHOULD.

    What you DO is up to you but remember that YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW.

    SO plant SEEDS of KINDNESS so KINDNESS will GROW.

    

It wasn't FORGOTTEN it was just BURIED TREASURE waiting for you to REMEMBER

    You can't REMEMBER everything so some of our MEMORIES get SHRUNKEN  and BURIED to MAKE ROOM for MORE MEMORIES.

    But when a BURIED MEMORY gets TRIGGERED it SWELLS to LIFE SIZE to REVEAL ITSELF for you to RELIVE.

   A BURIED MEMORY can be TRIGGERED by a SIGHT, a SMELL, a SOUND, a CONVERSATION you just never know what memories will POP UP.

   When I HEAR a SONG from my TEENAGE YEARS I can suddenly vividly RELIVE ONE OF THE MEMORIES you LIVED ENJOYING that SONG when you were a TEENAGER.

   When I look at OLD PICTURES I suddenly get TRANSPORTED BACK IN TIME and I get to ENJOY that MOMENT AGAIN in MY MIND.

   But there is ALWAYS A YING AND A YANG to EVERYTHING.

    Some THINGS can TRIGGER NEGATIVE MEMORIES that you DON'T WANT TO RELIVE.

   SO GET AWAY and  STAY AWAY from NEGATIVE TRIGGERS so they CAN'T TRIGGER YOU.

  ALWAYS SURROUND YOURSELF with ONLY THINGS AND PEOPLE THAT TRIGGERS POSITIVE MEMORIES and POSITIVE THOUGHTS and POSITIVE VIBES. 

      LEARN what TRIGGERS you and CHOOSE.

   

   

Before it was actually successful it was just someone's dream

   Every IDEA is at first just a THOUGHT.

   What if the IDEA was not followed by any ACTIONS?

   Well obviously if the ACTIONS that are needed to make it SUCCESSFUL isn't done then it can't possibly be SUCCESSFUL.

   If you WANT it then you have to be WILLING to put in the EFFORT it will take to be SUCCESSFUL.

   Those who GIVE UP and say it CAN'T BE DONE definitely WILL NOT be the ONE WHO DOES it because they WON'T DO what it takes to GET 'R DONE.

   Every SUCCESSFUL PRODUCT starts out as just a THOUGHT that is then followed by ACTIONS.

   

   

   

   

   

   

You don't have to have EVERYTHING to APPRECIATE what YOU DO have

    You can't APPRECIATE what YOU GOT unless YOU ACKNOWLEDGE what YOU DO have. 

    Do you see the glass as HALF FULL or HALF EMPTY?

    Are you THANKFUL for what YOU GOT or are you angry because you don't have EVERYTHING that you ever wanted?

    You may have to FIX the roof on your house but you SHOULD be THANKFUL that you have a HOUSE to FIX because some people don't.

    You may have to buy NEW TIRES for your CAR but you have to be THANKFUL that you have a CAR because some people don't.

   You may have CHALLENGES to face on your  LIFE'S JOURNEY but you have to be THANKFUL that you are ALIVE to be able to face them.

    LIFE is a ROLLERCOASTER and ROLLERCOASTERS are full of UPS AND DOWNS as well as TWISTS AND TURNS, that's JUST LIFE.

   And if you want to ENJOY LIFE  you have to ENJOY IT WHILE you are LIVING IT.

   Like the plaque on my wall says...

I asked God for ALL THINGS that I might ENJOY LIFE he gave me LIFE that I might ENJOY ALL THINGS.

   

Do you know what is in your drawers?

   Oh my, what a surprise it was when we went through some of the drawers in our house.

   Some things that we found we suddenly vividly remembered the day we bought it.

   Yet there were some things that we could not remember getting at all.

   We started out just curious what was in the drawers of a cabinet we had.

   It became instantly clear that we probably had many things in our closets, cabinets and drawers that we had forgotten about.

   Only about Ten percent of it could we just toss away and about thirty percent of it we wanted to keep.

   Now we have to figure out what to do with the other sixty percent of THINGS that we don't need or want at all.

  Do you have drawers that you have no idea what you have in them?

   When you get bored one day pick a room and look inside one of your drawers and see what is inside.

   We had a lot of trips down memory lane as we went through the drawers.

  And we also had many good BELLY LAUGHS as we saw what we had tucked away inside the drawers. 

   We all do spring cleaning in our homes on a regular basis, but what we have stuffed out of sight in the drawers can stay hidden for decades.

  Unless you look in your drawers you don't know whether there is junk in the drawer or buried treasure.

Do you want PEACE OF MIND?

    If you want PEACE OF MIND you have to MAKE ROOM for it to get in.

   So take the time to ACKNOWLEDGE your thoughts and learn what you NEED TO from them then.... JUST FLUSH IT OUT OF YOUR MIND to make ROOM for PEACE OF MIND.

   Take the THOUGHTS of WORRYING about ANYTHING that you have NO CONTROL OVER and JUST FLUSH IT OUT OF YOUR MIND to make ROOM for PEACE OF MIND.

   Take ANY STRESSFUL THOUGHTS about things that MAY OR MAY NOT HAPPEN and JUST FLUSH IT OUT OF YOUR MIND to make ROOM for PEACE OF MIND to get in.

   Our MINDS have an ENDLESS STREAM of THOUGHTS but as long as you DON'T let it GRAB YOUR ATTENTION it doesn't take up ANY ROOM so PEACE OF MIND has ROOM to get in.

   You can't STOP the STREAM OF THOUGHTS from coming up but YOU CAN CHOOSE which THOUGHTS you let GRAB YOUR ATTENTION.

   You CHOOSE WHICH THOUGHTS you will CHOOSE to THINK ABOUT. 

   AND you also CHOOSE WHICH THOUGHTS you will FLUSH OUT OF YOUR MIND.

   PEACE OF MIND IS JUST A FLUSH AWAY, SO JUST FLUSH IT SO PEACE OF MIND HAS ROOM TO GET IN.

If it is TOO MUCH then DIVIDE it into SMALLER SIZES

    When you become OVERWHELMED you become IMMOBILIZED.

    When you are OVERWHELMED you can't SEE HOW TO get it done.

   SO if 100% is MORE than you can do then DO 50% So you will have HALF AS MUCH to do because HALF OF IT is already DONE.

   If you have MORE than you can do AT ONE TIME then PLAN on doing PART OF IT AT A TIME so you won't become OVERWHELMED and GET NOTHING DONE.

   DON'T set yourself up for FAILURE by being UNREALISTIC about what you can REALISTICALLY DO.

   When something that you want to BUY is more than you can AFFORD on your BUDGET, then make a BUDGET that includes SAVING up to BUY IT.

   You may NOT be able to do it ALL AT ONCE but YOU CAN DO IT, you just have to do it ONE STEP AT A TIME.

   YOU CAN ONLY DO WHAT YOU CAN DO.

   BUT YOU CAN DO ANYTHING you want to do, ALTHOUGH it may take DOING IT LITTLE BY LITTLE so it is DOABLE FOR YOU TO DO.

   EVERY STEP YOU DO is ONE STEP closer to GETTING IT DONE.

   

It may come your way but you still have to GRAB IT

    OPPORTUNITIES are FEW and FAR BETWEEN in Life so make the most of the OPPORTUNITIES when they do come your way.

   Keep in mind that OPPORTUNITIES are NEVER LOST they are just TAKEN BY SOMEONE ELSE.

   You also have to remember that you CAN'T WAIT for the PERFECT OPPORTUNITY because NOTHING IS PERFECT.

   When OPPORTUNITY knocks at your door you have to OPEN THE DOOR to see what OPPORTUNITY YOU HAVE an OPPORTUNITY AT.

   You may NOT get an OPPORTUNITY but you CAN MAKE an OPPORTUNITY for yourself if you TRY.

   DON'T miss ANY OPPORTUNITY TO BE THE BEST YOU THAT YOU CAN BE so you will have the OPPORTUNITY to be the BEST YOU THAT YOU CAN BE. 

   GET UP and MAKE THINGS HAPPEN because it isn't going to FALL INTO YOUR LAP.

    LIFE is WHAT YOU MAKE IT.

   

  

How you CHOOSE to LOOK AT IT determines what you SEE

    If you only buy yourself BLUE colored CLOTHING then your WARDROBE will be full of BLUE CLOTHES.

   If you want to wear OTHER COLORS of CLOTHING then you will HAVE TO look at OTHER COLORS of CLOTHING.

   If you ONLY SEE the NEGATIVE PARTS of your day then you WON'T SEE the POSITIVE MOMENTS you had TODAY.

   IF you are always LOOKING for TROUBLE then you will ALWAYS FIND YOURSELF IN TROUBLE.

   Because LIFE IS all in HOW YOU LOOK AT IT and your POINT OF VIEW is the only VIEW that you CAN SEE.

   If you DON'T like the DIRECTION that your LIFE IS GOING then STOP AND CHANGE the DIRECTION that you ARE GOING.

   You have to be HONEST WITH YOURSELF even though the TRUTH MAY HURT, it's just GROWING PAINS.

   You CAN'T LEARN from your MISTAKES unless you first ADMIT that you MADE A MISTAKE.

   LIFE is what you MAKE OF IT, so MAKE 2024 YOUR BEST YEAR EVER!

You can MANIFEST IT so be careful what you are MANIFESTING

     If you are always EXPECTING the worst that CAN HAPPEN in every situation then every ACTION you make WON'T ALLOW anything GOOD TO HAPPEN.

   If you don't SEE a way to have a POSITIVE OUTCOME then you WON'T SEE what ACTIONS to take so that you can have a POSITIVE OUTCOME.

   Your THOUGHTS are the REALITY that you will LIVE IN whether it is the TRUE REALITY you WOULD have HAD to LIVE IN OR NOT.

   If you DON'T THINK YOU CAN DO IT then you WON'T DO IT because you will NEVER TRY TO DO IT.

   You can EITHER be your WORST ENEMY or your BIGGEST CHEERLEADER, IT'S UP TO YOU.

   BE LIKE the LITTLE ENGINE WHO COULD that CHANTED I THINK I CAN all the way to the TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN.

   YOU CAN AS LONG AS YOU THINK YOU CAN!

   YOU CAN DO IT, YES YOU CAN!

   

   

It looks like MY MONDAYS seem to always have....

    There is always MORE THINGS then I could possibly even have time to do every MONDAY.

   I have been doing things one by one that were on MY MONDAY TO DO LIST of THINGS that I NEEDED to get done by TODAY.

   But I don't think there was even the SLIGHTEST CHANCE that I could do everything on MY MONDAY TO DO LIST.

   So I am sitting here trying to figure out WHY I would make MY MONDAY TO DO LIST so long that it isn't even HUMANLY POSSIBLE to do in ONE DAY.

   When I look at what is STILL left on MY MONDAY TO DO LIST, I realized that it will take me ALL DAY TOMORROW to complete everything on the list.

   So I OBVIOUSLY need to be REALISTIC when I make any TO DO LIST for myself so I don't set myself up for failure.

   And I need to STOP putting off UNTIL TOMORROW on what I SHOULD do EACH DAY because eventually TOMORROW becomes MONDAY.

What can you do in just FIVE MINUTES?

    Have you ever said you couldn't do it because you don't have time?

   Even though it would only take you THIRTY MINUTES to do you convince yourself that you don't have THIRTY MINUTES to spare.

  So Why don't you divide that job into SIX JOBS you could do in FIVE MINUTES time.

   We all know that no matter how BUSY we are we can easily find FIVE MINUTES to spare, right?

   COULD YOU, or should I say WOULD YOU COMMIT to do SOME PART of it FIVE MINUTES at a time?

   You would be surprised just how much you can do in FIVE MINUTES.

   Seriously you need to set a timer on your phone for FIVE MINUTES and get up and see what you can actually do in FIVE MINUTES.

   In FIVE MINUTES you can STRAIGHTEN UP any ROOM of your house and SEE the difference that it makes in that ROOM, even though you still have a lot more that NEEDS done in that ROOM.

   It not only LOOKS BETTER it also makes you FEEL BETTER MENTALLY.

   It SETS a RELAXING PEACEFUL MOOD for how you FEEL when you are in that ROOM.

   It won't cost you ANYTHING, YOU just have to COMMIT to spending FIVE MINUTES of your time.

   Could you imagine what you could do after you spend a FEW FIVE Minute Intervals of your time?

   What if you spent FIVE MINUTES A DAY for the next WEEK, could you imagine what you could get done?

   And What if you spent FIVE MINUTES A MONTH all year, could you imagine what you could get done in 2024? 

   TRY IT, Set your timer and you will be SURPRISED when you SEE what you ACTUALLY can do in just FIVE MINUTES of your time.

   

What feeling does the word ZEN evoke for you?

    I can still FEEL the emotions that the old commercials for CALGON brought on.

   I can still ENVISION their MEANING of an average person having  CALGON MOMENTS in their EVERYDAY LIVES.

   It doesn't necessarily mean BIG STRESSFUL moments happening ALL AT ONCE either.

    It just takes multiple MINI STRESSFUL moments SIMULTANEOUSLY happening to make it FEEL like a CALGON MOMENT.

   Unfortunately you don't always have TIME to take a CALGON BATH.

   But when you are having a "CALGON MOMENT" in your Life just grab your "TOOLBOX" of TOOLS to use to DISTRACT yourself so you can RELAX.

   That is why I BLOG to help you whenever you NEED  CALGON RELIEF anytime  or anyplace you NEED ONE.

  YOU can STOP by and have a MOMENT TO RELAX while you PONDER my MINI BLOG for some CALGON RELIEF.

   I DISCOVERED a GAME on my phone yesterday that I am adding to my "TOOLBOX" of TOOLS to PLAY to help me if I need it to have some CALGON RELIEF. 

  In case you want to add it to your "TOOLBOX" It's called ZEN WORD.

  At the beginning when you turn on the GAME it gives you an ENCOURAGING MESSAGE of PEACE OF MIND.

  I found myself turning it on and off over and over again to ENJOY their PEACEFUL MESSAGE each time.

   The more TOOLS IN YOUR TOOLBOX the more PEACEFUL MOMENTS YOU can have on your LIFE JOURNEY.

   LIFE IS LIFE, BUT YOUR LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT with the TOOLS YOU USE TO LIVE IT.

  ENJOY LIFE WHILE YOU ARE LIVING IT.

   WE ARE ALL CARPENTERS.