Joe: “There have been a lot of break-ins in the parking garage where I work.
Pete: “That’s too bad, Joe.”
Joe: “It’s wrong on lots of levels.”
Month: November 2021
👊 Today’s Power Thought ~ Don’t Fear the Waves
Each time we face a challenge and defeat it, we become stronger for the next challenge. Challenges roll in like ocean waves. We get a break in between waves; however, a wave is always rolling toward us. Don’t fear the waves, life has prepared you for whatever it brings.
🤗 A Better Life ~ Is It Time to Change Channels?
It’s easy to find fault. All of us carry a bullseye on our shirts. What if we sought to find good in each other instead of fault? Our world view immediately changes. Is it time to change channels?
💡 Something to Think About
Imagine extending your arms out straight to your sides and serving as a pipe. Now, imagine a spigot on each of your wrists. If both spigots are open, water flows through. If you turn off one spigot, the flow stops. It’s the same way with love. Receiving love is one spigot and giving love is the other spigot. Both spigots have to be open for love to flow through the pipe. To receive love, we have to give love.
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Creating a Character?
“When you’re building a character, or at least when I’m building a character, you start saying, ‘How am I going to make people like him?'” ~ John Sandford
🍎 Today’s Health Tip ~ Stuff Healthy People Do
What Do Healthy People Do?
- They look on the bright side – Healthy people are more optimistic than unhealthy people. They don’t waste time and energy complaining. If they think they need to make a change in their life, they do it. They know that a positive mental attitude goes a long way toward promoting other healthy behaviors in their lives.
- Healthy people enjoy exercising.
- Healthy people make health a priority – This is perhaps the most important habit of healthy people. They make a conscious choice to be healthy.
- Healthy people surround themselves with healthy people – Healthy people have a tendency to participate in healthy behaviors with folks who share their sentiments.
- Healthy people eat healthy snacks – healthy people choose to eat snacks like raw almonds, vegetables, fruits, and nuts.
Today’s Smile 😃
Joe: “My brother, Jim was diagnosed with multiple personalities.”
Pete: “That’s too bad, Joe.”
Joe: “It’s working out, he’s good people.”
💡 Something to Think About
Once we’ve locked into our thoughts, listening and cooperation leave the room. Is it possible to keep an open mind? Is it possible to listen to alternative explanations without becoming defensive? If you are one who listens, keeps an open mind, and sets aside defensiveness, the world needs you.
🌾 Today’s Poem ~ Daylight and Moonlight
Daylight and Moonlight
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In broad daylight, and at noon,
Yesterday I saw the moon
Sailing high, but faint and white,
As a schoolboy’s paper kite.
Yesterday I saw the moon
Sailing high, but faint and white,
As a schoolboy’s paper kite.
In broad daylight, yesterday,
I read a poet’s mystic lay;
And it seemed to me at most
As a phantom, or a ghost.
But at length the feverish day
Like a passion died away,
And the night, serene and still,
Fell on village, vale, and hill.
Then the moon, in all her pride,
Like a spirit glorified,
Filled and overflowed the night
With revelations of her light.
And the Poet’s song again
Passed like music through my brain;
Night interpreted to me
All its grace and mystery.
🤗 A Better Life ~ Be Grateful for Good Memories
It’s tough to let go of the past especially when the past was filled with good memories. We can’t hang out in the past, memories can’t feed us or keep us warm at night. Be grateful for the good memories and walk into the day knowing the past gave you the strength to keep moving forward. Never quit.
