Month: May 2020

🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ 2 Tips to Feel Better

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2 Feel Better Tips

  1. Keep company with good people. Maximize the amount of time that you spend with people you enjoy being around. Connecting with others who radiate positivity and have similar interests will excite and energize you. On the flip side, people you don’t relate to or who have negative outlooks, complain often or make poor choices will only drain your energy account. Be selective in the company you keep.

  2. Avoid news overdose. The news is an important way to stay connected to what’s happening in the world. It can be educational, entertaining and even uplifting. Unfortunately, the news is too frequently bombarded with stories of suffering. These stories can skew your view of the world and cause you to focus on your worst fears, instead of recognizing the good that surrounds you. You can’t avoid these stories altogether, but try to minimize your exposure when you can, especially during trying times.

Source: Mayo Clinic

🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Two Raindrops

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Two Raindrops

Joseph Morris

  Two little raindrops were born in a shower,
  And one was so pompously proud of his power,
  He got in his head an extravagant notion
  He’d hustle right off and swallow the ocean.
  A blade of grass that grew by the brook
  Called for a drink, but no notice he took
  Of such trifling things. He must hurry to be
  Not a mere raindrop, but the whole sea.
  A stranded ship needed water to float,
  But he could not bother to help a boat.
  He leaped in the sea with a puff and a blare—
  And nobody even knew he was there!

  But the other drop as along it went
  Found the work to do for which it was sent:
  It refreshed the lily that drooped its head,
  And bathed the grass that was almost dead.
  It got under the ships and helped them along,
  And all the while sang a cheerful song.
  It worked every step of the way it went,
  Bringing joy to others, to itself content.
  At last it came to its journey’s end,
  And welcomed the sea as an old-time friend.
  “An ocean,” it said, “there could not be
  Except for the millions of drops like me.”

✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Dreaming Into the Story

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“A lot of time, with stories, I’ll start out with a title and try to dream myself into the story that it evokes – a kind of subconscious exercise in which I’m trawling for some kind of entryway into fiction.”

~ Dan Chaon 

Today’s Smile 😃

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Joe: “My wife and I went to a marriage counselor.”

Pete: “How did it work out?”

Joe: “The counselor ask us, “So, tell me what brings you here today?”

My wife said, “It’s really difficult to live with him. He’s so literal.”

I said, “My truck.”

👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Today’s Mission

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I’m planting smiles and a good word wherever my travels take me today. 

🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ Stressed? Make it Work for You

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Mindset is Everything

Dr. Kelly McGonigal is a health psychologist at Stanford University who studies the effects of stress on the body. Dr. McGonigal gave a popular TED Talk where she identified important strategies for turning stress into a positive influence on your life. In her talk, she cites a study that found if you believe that stress is bad for you, it will be; however, the study also found that believing that stress can be beneficial changes the way people experience the effects of stress, including how your body responds. Here’s another way to view the current situation: Think of this time as one long endurance workout; yes, it’s a challenge on a number of different levels, but you will come through it and one day look back at how you survived. If you’ve finished a marathon, a 5K is no big deal.

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🤗 Feel Good Hack ~ Discovering Joy in Your Journey

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Find joy in the journey. It makes sense to enjoy the journey and find what is joyful along the way, each and every day.

  • Take care to avoid focusing so much on the finish line that you lose sight of joy in the journey.
  • Notice the things that are good about each day.
  • Notice the wonder of the world about you as often as possible. Make a conscious choice to stop now and then and really take in the things around you.
  • Be interested in and curious about the world. Revive your childlike wonder, only this time, overlay it with your positive experiences and deeper knowledge.

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Today’s Smile 😃

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Joe: “My friend Al went bald years ago, but he still carries around an old comb with him.”

Pete: “Why does he do that?”

Joe: “Al just can’t seem to part with it.”

🌾 Today’s Poem ~ My Creed

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My Creed

S. E. Kiser

  This is my creed: To do some good,
    To bear my ills without complaining,
  To press on as a brave man should
    For honors that are worth the gaining;
  To seek no profits where I may,
    By winning them, bring grief to others;
  To do some service day by day
    In helping on my toiling brothers

  This is my creed: To close my eyes
    To little faults of those around me;
  To strive to be when each day dies
    Some better than the morning found me;
  To ask for no unearned applause,
    To cross no river until I reach it;
  To see the merit of the cause
    Before I follow those who preach it.

  This is my creed: To try to shun
    The sloughs in which the foolish wallow;
  To lead where I may be the one
    Whom weaker men should choose to follow.
  To keep my standards always high,
    To find my task and always do it;
  This is my creed—I wish that I
    Could learn to shape my action to it.

✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Be Patient With Yourself

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n order to even begin to learn how to play his instrument, it takes the guitarist weeks to build calluses on his fingertips; it takes the saxophonist months to strengthen his lip so that he might play his instrument for only a five-minute stretch; it can take the pianist years to develop dual hand and multiple finger coordination. Why do writers assume they can just “write” with no training whatsoever-and then expect, on their first attempt, to be published internationally? What makes them think they’re so much inherently greater, need so much less training than any other artists?

~ Noah Lukeman

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