Month: August 2020

šŸ˜Ž Todayā€™s Happy Brain ~ Forget Where You Left Your Key Fob?

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Here’s A Memory Trick to Make Sure You Never Misplace your Key Fob

Thereā€™s something about walking into another room or passing through a doorway that resets our short-term memory and makes us forget what we went there for. If youĀ visualize your purpose before you leave the current room, youā€™ll increase your chances of remembering what you want. It also applies to the digital world: Before you open up a new browser tab and forget why you opened it, picture your purpose. As a former canā€™t-find-my-glasses person, Iā€™ve been using a similar technique successfully: When putting my glasses down, I now focus sharply on what the tabletop looks like and the things on it so Iā€™ll remember where I put it. Often we have to be proactive when it comes to remembering things.

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šŸ‘Š Today’s Power Thought ~ It’s as Easy as 1, 2, 3

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A smile, a kind word, and a compliment make another’s day brighter and better.Ā 

āœ’ļø Writers’ Wisdom ~ Let the Reader Imagine

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As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation. Ā ~Ā Mary Higgins Clark

šŸŒ¾ Today’s Poem ~ Lamp of Life

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Lamp of Life

Amy Lowell

Always we are following a light,
Always the light recedes; with groping hands
We stretch toward this glory, while the lands
We journey through are hidden from our sight
Dim and mysterious, folded deep in night,
We care not, all our utmost need demands
Is but the light, the light! So still it stands
Surely our own if we exert our might.

Fool! Never can’st thou grasp this fleeting gleam,
Its glowing flame would die if it were caught,
Its value is that it doth always seem
But just a little farther on. Distraught,
But lighted ever onward, we are brought
Upon our way unknowing, in a dream.

āœ’ļø Writers’ Wisdom ~ Reasons for Writing

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“If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others…become an author.”

James Patterson

šŸŽ Today’s Health Question ~ It’s A Berry Good Time

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Summer Time is a Berry Good Time

Raspberries are a Nutritional Treat

Because of their sweetness, raspberries can help satisfy a sugar craving, They offer fiber as well as antioxidants, which combat harmful substances called free radicals in the body, researchĀ has shown. According to the USDA, 1 cup of raspberries has 8 g of fiber, offering 28 percent of the DV and making them an excellent source.

Berries, in particular, are often categorized as superfoods because their high levels of vitamin C and vitamin E, which are antioxidants that help fend off chronic disease, according to a March 2018 article in Frontiers in Pharmacology. A cup of raspberries gives you 32 mg of vitamin C ā€” 35 percent of your DV ā€” and 1.07 mg of vitamin E, 7 percent of your DV, according to the USDA.

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šŸŒž Today’s Inspiration ~ Eyes Wide Open

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“Every day may not be good… but there’s something good in every day.”

Alice Morse Earle

šŸ‘Š Today’s Power Thought ~ Grateful

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Grateful for my eyes. Grateful for my hearing. Grateful for health. Grateful for friends and family. Grateful for the music that brightens my day. Grateful for the birds who come to the feeder. Grateful for the geckos. Grateful for sunshine and rain. Grateful for you, reader.Ā 

šŸ¤— A Better Life ~ The Only Moment That Counts

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Great Advice for a Peace-filled Life

ā€œIf you are depressed you are living in the past if you are anxious you are living in the future, if you are at peace, you are living in the present.ā€ ā€”Lao Tzu

šŸ˜Ž Todayā€™s Happy Brain ~ Want to Remember Names?

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A Simple Trick to Remember Names

I meet someone at the gym. We introduce ourselves to each other (from a safe social distance) and elbow bump (darn, Ā COVID-19). His name is Joe. I won’t forget Joe because I picture my uncle Joe (long deceased, God bless him) towering over the Joe in front of me. Every time I see Joe, I’ll think of my Uncle Joe.Ā 

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