“I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Month: February 2021
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Keep On Keeping On
One step, then another, and then another, you got this. Don’t stop walking. Don’t stop trying. Keep on keeping on!
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: My girlfriend hates winter, she complains the cold hurts her face. I got her the perfect birthday gift.”
Pete: “What did you get her, Joe?”
Joe: “A ski mask.”
🍎 Today’s Health Question ~ Cardio or Weights to Blast Calories?
Cardio is a bonafide calorie-killer.
Scientists have found that people who just do aerobic exercise (that’s stuff like jogging, swimming, cycling, dancing), burn up to four times more body fat as people who just did weights, and the same amount of fat as people who did a combination of both. That led experts to conclude that if you only have time to do one, “aerobic training is the optimal mode of exercise for reducing fat mass and body mass”.
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ There Are Lots of Good Things Happening
“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” – Charles Dickens
💡 Something to Think About
Wishing and hoping a dream will happen will not get you as close to your dream as will hard work, unfailing confidence, and a never quit attitude.
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Humility Helps the Writer
Have humility. Older/more experienced/more convincing writers may offer rules and varieties of advice. Consider what they say. However, don’t automatically give them charge of your brain, or anything else – they might be bitter, twisted, burned-out, manipulative, or just not very like you. Have more humility. Remember you don’t know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers. ~ A. L. Kennedy
🌞 Today’s Inspiration ~ Don’t Listen to Your Fears
“If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.”
~ Robert H. Schuller
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ A Poet
A Poet
Thomas Hardy
Attentive eyes, fantastic heed,
Assessing minds, he does not need,
Nor urgent writs to sup or dine,
Nor pledges in the roseate wine.
For loud acclaim he does not care
By the august or rich or fair,
Nor for smart pilgrims from afar,
Curious on where his hauntings are.
But soon or later, when you hear
That he has doffed this wrinkled gear,
Some evening, at the first star-ray,
Come to his graveside, pause and say:
‘Whatever his message his to tell
Two thoughtful women loved him well.’
Stand and say that amid the dim:
It will be praise enough for him.
Today’s Smile 😃
Molly, “I’ve got a coffee date with guy from my online dating site? I’m worried he won’t recognize me.”
Sophie: “Why?”
Molly: “I used a photo of Scarlet Johansson and said it was my most recent photo.”
