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My Team Won, Therefore I Won(Pass the Salsa and Nachos)

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Who needs exercise or self-improvement when you can live like a champion from the comfort of your couch with a bowl of nachos and jar of salsa nearby?

There’s no greater joy than realizing you are, in fact, a winner—without leaving your living room How, you ask? Simple: my college team won. Which means I won. I, personally, out-coached the opposing team,

Living vicariously through a team is the ultimate life hack. You don’t need to train, eat kale, or even stretch your hamstrings (I do all three). All you need is cable, Wi-Fi, and a foam finger large enough to double as a flotation device. Victory? It’s mine. Defeat? Clearly, the refs were blind, biased, or possibly involved in a conspiracy.

The best part? On Monday mornings, I get to say, “We crushed them.” Yes, we. Me, the guy with salsa on his shirt. We’re in this together.

There’s a big game on Saturday followed by a big game on Sunday. There’s no time for meditation this weekend.

Channels ~ A Poem by Shel Silverstein

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Channels

Shel Silverstein

Channel 1’s no fun.
Channel 2’s just news.
Channel 3’s hard to see.
Channel 4 is just a bore.
Channel 5 is all jive.
Channel 6 needs to be fixed.
Channel 7 and Channel 8-
Just old movies, not so great.
Channel 9’s a waste of time.
Channel 10 is off, my child.
Wouldn’t you like to talk a while?

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Real-Life Drama You Couldn’t Make Up

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We binge mystery thrillers for the drama, suspense, and shocking endings—but real life? It’s got juicier plot twists, worse decisions, and way fewer commercial breaks. We’ll watch a mystery thriller on our TV wondering how it is going to turn out. The story’s writer’s did a great job in holding us in suspense. We’re not sure what will happen. When we go to bed we may have trouble falling asleep because the ending was exciting and worse, if it didn’t end the way we wanted it to. What we don’t think about is that the mysteries or drama shows we watch are happening all the time all around us. I knew a guy who had been married (notice the past tense) for twenty-five years. He confided in my that he was having an affair. Then he proceeds to tell me with whom he is having an affair. I knew all three people. I didn’t need to read a book to see how this was going to end. Well, he ends up divorcing his wife and he marries the younger woman with whom he was having an affair. He tells me that when he dies both women will be by his bedside each holding one of his hands (talk about narcissism and ego). He did die and no, both women were not holding his hand we he died. Not too much suspense there. The only suspense was how much his first wife was going to get in the divorce settlement. She was the only winner in this story. She unloaded his sorry butt and made him pay.

What If . . .

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What if today I chose to do something totally different that what I normally do, what would it be like? I might not watch TV tonight. Yikes, what will I do with all that time? Would I slide into staring at my handheld phone, watching videos on my iPad, or going on social media? Can’t do that, it’s just substituting one drug for the another drug. I could go for a walk. I could read a book. I could handwrite a journal entry. I could bake healthy muffins and even eat one as soon as they come out of the oven. I might even sketch a design for landscaping my yard.  There are plenty of alternatives.

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