🤗 A Better Life ~ Switch It Up

Flip Your Routine

Take a new route to work or order something completely different from the menu. It will raise your awareness about your immediate surroundings and create a new sense of place.

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Create a “What If” list. E.g., what if I did this instead of this? Make a list choose a new item from your list each day for a week.

Today’s Smile 😃

A turtle is crossing the road when he’s mugged by two snails.

The police show up and ask, “What happened?”

The turtle answers, “I don’t know. It all happened so fast.”

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🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ Is Using Cotton Swabs to Clean Your Ears a Good Idea?

True or False: Cotton swabs are a safe way to remove wax from one’s ears?

Answer:

False: Cotton swabs can be good for putting on makeup, doing your nails, or any number of odd jobs around the house. But never stick them — or anything else, for that matter — into your ear canal. Earwax is a healthy part of your body’s natural defenses, not a sign of illness. If your ear hurts or is itchy, or you feel like there’s something in there, talk to your doctor.

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😎 Today’s Happy Brain ~ Your Brain Will Thank You

Get Up and Get Moving. Your Brain Will Thank You Later

People who exercise regularly have a lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Exercise improves blood flow and memory; it stimulates chemical changes in the brain that enhance learning, mood and thinking. Be fit. Be smart.

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🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Life

Life

Edgar Guest

Life is a jest;Take the delight of it.
Laughter is best;
Sing through the night of it.
Swiftly the tear
And the hurt and the ache of it
Find us down here;
Life must be what we make of it.
Life is a song;
Let us dance to the thrill of it.
Grief’s hours are long,
And cold is the chill of it.
Joy is man’s need;
Let us smile for the sake of it.
This be our creed:
Life must be what we make of it.
Life is a soul;
The virtue and vice of it.
Strife for a goal,
And man’s strength is the price of
 life and mine,
The bare bread and the cake of it,
End in this line:
Life must be what we make of it.

🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Small Good Deeds Yield an Abundant Harvest

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

🤗 A Better Life ~ No Need to Answer

Let the Call Go to Voicemail

Let that call go to voicemail. Suspending your availability now and then helps you regain your center.

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🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Make it Work!

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.” 

~ Jack London

👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Shine! Shine! Shine!

When I was in basic training, the drill sergeant would come through at 4:30 a.m. screaming, “Get up, you’re snoozing, you’re losing.” I don’t get up at 4:30 a.m., but I do rise early and I plan to shine, shine, shine.

✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Adventure of Writing

“Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through playing people who are absolutely nothing like me.”

Karen Traviss

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