Joe: “I interviewed for a job yesterday. I was asked to tell something about myself.”
Pete: “What did you say?”
Joe: “I said, ‘I’d rather not. I really want this job.'”
Month: January 2021
🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ What Foods Will Help Boost Your Memory?
Foods Boosting Memory
Eat More of These Foods:
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- Leafy green vegetables
- Salmon and other cold-water fish
- Berries and dark-skinned fruits
- Coffee and chocolate
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Cold-pressed virgin coconut oil
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👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Stay on the Right Path
The side of the road is crowded with those who quit, who sought an easier route, and who chose to give up. Struggles happen. They are temporary. Choose to endure. Choose to fight on. Choose to give it your best.
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Love is a Magic Ray
Love is a Magic Ray
Khalil Gibran
Love is a magic ray
emitted from the burning core
of the soul
and illuminating
the surrounding earth.
It enables us
to perceive life
as a beautiful dream
between one awakening
and another.
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Mark Twain’s Opening Paragraph in “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
The Opening Paragraph to Mark Twain’s “The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn”
You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly – Tom’s Aunt Polly, she is – and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Each Struggle Makes You Stronger
“The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.”
~ Napoleon Hill
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ It Is as Simple as One, Two, Three
“I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ Want to Stay Strong as You Age?
Use It or Lose It
We naturally lose muscle mass as we age. “If you have less muscle mass, you have fewer mitochondria and less ATP (adenosine triphosphate),” points out Dr. Marcelo Campos, a primary care physician with Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates in Boston. Being sedentary compounds the problem by weakening and shrinking muscles and causing them to use energy inefficiently. Physical activity strengthens muscles, helps them become more efficient and conserve ATP, and increases the production of energy-producing brain chemicals. Don’t be intimidated by the recommendation of 30 minutes per day, at least five days per week, of moderate-intensity exercise. The 30 minutes can be spread out into several shorter periods. And you don’t need to break a sweat.
💡 Something to Think About
What we ask determines what we find.
Instead of asking, “How was your day?”
You might ask: “Tell me about your day.” Or, “Tell me something good that happened to you today.”
The conversation will be totally different and enlightening.
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ She Walks in Beauty
She Walks in Beauty
Lord Byron
She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
