Just be happy

That might sound easy and it is. To be happy sit down or lie down and think of happy thoughts. Think of all the wonderful things you are going to do. Paint a picture that is enticing and warm. That isn’t too hard is it? I don’t think so.
You can think of places you like to go to. The beach, the mountains, a walk in the wood or any place that makes you feel good. This can make you feel happy and into ouch with yourself.

How about saying “Hello self I am happy”. I won’t say this in front of others, because they might think you are a little strange. But it is good self talk to get you in the happy spirit. You know that when you happy others want to be around you. With other people around you that are happy the happiness in side you will expand and you will feel better and better.

Better is better that worse. So keep thoughts happy thoughts rolling and be on the happy side of the street. This can help you move forward to you goal, because you won’t be all tied up inside.

Freeing yourself with happiness is something that can help you in many ways. Example you don’t have to be complaining about things you can’t do anything about any ways. Or you don’t have go over past mistakes. There are over and we should forget about them and move on.

It is not that difficult to keep you self happy, so when you get out of bed every day just be happy.
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Judging isn’t good for you

It is so easy to judge people, like that person doesn’t dress right or she talks funny. We all have done it. Me I am at my worse when I am driving. My son once said to Micki, his mom and my wife, why do all the bad drivers come out when daddy is driving. What I was lacking was a load speaker on top of my care so I could inform people of their terrible driving. What do think this was doing to my mind? Your right if you said I had it all upset about something I couldn’t do anything about.

If I told you I am now perfectly clear of this, I would be not telling the truth. However, I am much better than I was. The net result is when you have your mind all cluttered up with things that you can’t influence it is wasted energy.
Solution is to be aware that you are judging and put a stop to it. When you get up in the morning tell you self I am not going to judge today. Just being conscious of the fact that judging is a waste of you time will help you from judging.
Achieving you goals, take a lot of your energy and wasting in on judging only retards you ability to get to where you want to go. So Stop judging and put you energy to better use.

Do you think great people sat around sat and said that Joe is so boring or the suit he is wearing is a bad fit. I don’t think so, why would they. They had better things to do than that. So why don’t you give it a try and just stop judging. See what happens, you might find out you start achieving your goals faster. Wouldn’t that be nice?

I have canceled the order for the speaker for the top of my car and decided to enjoy the journey. Why don’t you.

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Crawl before you walk

Yesterday we were at Skip and Deb’s house for Christmas day. Ship and Deb are our son and daughter in law. What a thrill to watch their two children enjoying the bounties of Santa. Zoey who just turned three a month ago is really becoming a little lady. For some reason she asked Santa for a tool box and he gave her one. She opened the tool box and told her mom that tools are for boys. Deb told her that she asked Santa for it, but she still insisted the tools are for boys.

Enough of the tool box story and on to the real story. Zoey is a very active little girl and she wanted to do a somersault. Skip, her dad, got down on the matt and showed her. First he told her bend her knees and put her hands on the matt. That was enough to get me laughing, which is a healthy thing to do. She first fell on her side before she got the second set of instructions, which was to tuck her chin into her chest. I can’t explain what she did, but it wasn’t anything like she was told. Now I am getting real healthy doing all this laughing.

After several tries she managed to get down on her hand with her knee bend and I think she got her chin tucked somewhat close to her chest. Then with a little push from her dad she started to roll over but just about the time you would have thought she was going to make it she fell on her side. This happen many times, but this did not stop her from trying to learn how to somersault.I am sure that next time I visit with Zoey she will be able to do a somersault, because she was going to concur that challenge. And that is how life is. We have to go through the learning steps before we reach some sort of proficiency.

The important thing for all of us to remember that no matter how proficient we get at our chosen challenge there is always room be improve.

Look at this way we can all be better than we were yesterday.

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To give or not to give?

That isn’t even a good question and I have always said there are no bad questions. I have to say that it is a bad question. We might all have our reason why it is a bad question and that is OK. I’ll give you my reason why it is bad.

One you can always give something from the heart, a prayer, a wish or a positive thought. Because we live in the fabulous universe we are all contacted and our thoughts radiate like the ripples that are made when a stone is thrown in a still pond. So that is one way to give.

You can write a poem or a thought about the person you want to give the gift to. Just think how much you will up lift them with your positive thoughts.
These are two wonderful ways to give someone a gift. It is also important that you will have a good feeling by giving them a gift.

The thought of the gift is many times more important than the monetary value of the gift. So this year no matter what you give those that you care for, be sure you give it to them with love.

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Out of the box

You and I have heard, think out of the box. People have been doing this sense man has been around, especially the successful. If you follow the crowd, you’ll be just like the masses. If we want more out of life we need to find ideas that haven’t been used or are changed in some way thus they look new.

When you come up with new out of the box ideas many people don’t always get too excited out them. As time passes and the ideas catches on, that is the test if the ideas has merit.

There are so many people that have been very successful in life by using out of the box thinking. My grandfather and my Dad were two of those who were out the box thinker and I’ll tell you about them are a later date. For now I’ll tell you the story about Henry Ford.

Ford started and lost a couple of business around the start of the nineteen hundreds. That did not stop him. He finally found the right combination and started build the Model T. It was a home run. Like all business, that started and grew at a rapid pace there were a myriad of problems.

One major problem was car sales were very cycle, sales were slow in summers and very brisk in the winter. Ford had an idea to hire famers, which were in great supply around Detroit. They were industrious and hard working, but had to tend to their farm in the spring and summer. Ford’s ideas were to hire them in the fall and winter and to attract them he would offer them five dollars a day. Industry thought he was crazy and they were also upset because it was way over the present wages paid.
His ideas worked so now Ford could make cars in the winter when cars were being sold and not making them in the summer when they were not being sold.

Sound pretty simple and it was and that is the way of many out of the box ideas.

What is the old saying, “Keep it Simple Stupid”

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Do we hear?

I have twenty five percent hearing loss, but with help of hearing aids I do just fine. Hearing is not what I am going to talk about, but rather those of us that pretend we are hearing, but are really are waiting for the other person to stop talking so we can speak. We have all heard the old saying, we were given two ears, two eyes and one mouth and we should use them in that proportion.

It is hard to hear when we are running our month all time. So here are some ideas to help all of us to make people happier and learn more. Instead of wanting to talk all the time why don’t we start listening more? A lot of good things can happen. As I said earlier you make people happy because you are paying attention to them by listening to what they are saying. People really like to be heard so give them a chance and listen to them.

You might also find out that people will want to be around you. People like other that make them feel good and by hearing what they are saying you are truly doing that.

One thing you can do is let them know you are listening to them by nodding your head and when they stop talking ask them a short question about what they were telling you. You might find out they might even want to hear what you have to say. If these things occur you are having a true conversation. Your learning something and the person you talking with is to.

By really hearing (listening) to people you will find other will want to be around you.

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One way to make it

John is a person that you just have to like. When he walks in room he has a smile on his face and he almost looks like he is ready to laugh. He really is a happy guy. As he walks into a room he looks around for people he knows. When he spots them he walks over and normally starts talking with the ladies. He just lights everyone up. He always has a comment about the person he is talking with then listens to them and moves on to cheer someone else up in the room. He is so natural at what he does you never fell he is putting on any airs.

As you might think John is a very success business person even though he has been retired for many years. Yes he still works as a consultant, when he wants and I am sure that’s one of the things that keeps him in so sharp.

One of the reason I think John has been so successful is he cares about people. He does this by engaging them and then listens to them. That doesn’t seem so hard but how many people do you see do that.

John was willing to learn his business from top to bottom and when the chance came to show what he could do he took it and ran for a TD. For the non sport people that a touchdown in football and they are good if it the team you are rooting for.

Maybe you should take time to smile and talk with others and most importantly listen to them, you might learn something.
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There are some things that are good about getting older.

There are some great things about getting older, you can drive a car, will that was forty years ago. You get experience in many different things in life. So if you learn from each experience you can grow as a person, and you can enjoy the wonderful things of being alive.

As we grow older something’s change. For example when you going on a long trip in your car and you stop for a break, you just don’t bound out of the car you slowly slide out and gingerly start to move. After a few moments things start to work as they should, well let’s just say you’re moving. Your hearing starts to decrease and you can’t see without the help of glasses. But for those that won’t except wearing glass or contacts have to have someone read the menu for them. I bring this up because an I had some friends who would not wear their glass and always complained the print was too small.

We have come all this way to have all this happen to us. But there is good news. When you get old enough you not only get social security but Medicare. What that’s mean you don’t have to pay any more hospital bill and if you get a supplemental program, you pay a monthly fee pulse $135 a year and that’s it. Isn’t that great. That’s what the salesman told us.

My feeling about getting older, it is like a fine wines it, gets better with age. If you take the time to stop and smell the roses, life well is a great journey.

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It’s lost

The ring story goes on. David the fellow who gave me was a big man, with big hand and fingers. My hands are not big at all and that also means the fingers aren’t large either. So the ring he gave me fit very loosely on my finger. To keep the ring from falling off I had to keep my hand slightly clinched. Most of the time it was not a problem, but it did come off from time to time.

One time Micki and I were in the Florida Key in lagoon listening to a live music that was being played at the tike bar on shore. We were on small rafts hanging on to your small boat. As I switch hands to hold on to the boat my ring slipped off. The water was only six to seven feet deep and the bottom of the lagoon was all sand so it would be easy to see if I had a mask, but I didn’t. Being we were in salt water I had a real problem, it is very to see in sakt water without a mack. How was I going to find my ring?

At that moment I thought I had lost the ring forever, but along came a guy with his mask and snorkel. Mind you the only thing to see at the bottom was sand, but if you’re a tourist from somewhere they don’t have clear water, you would think this was great place to snorkel.

When this guy pocket his head out of the water, I asked him if he would look for a silver torques ring at the bottom. He was delighted to have something to do and quickly slipped under the water in pursuit of my ring. In a few moments he surfaced we my ring in his hand. He gave to me and I kept thanking him, I even offered him a reward, like a cold drink. But, he was happy enough just knowing that he help someone.

Over the first year of having the ring I lost it six times, but in every case, for some reason, it found its way back to me. Is there something magical about the ring I don’t know? But you can be sure the only time it comes off me is at night when I go to bed. There is a reason it doesn’t fall off anymore and I tell you that story some other time.

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The Ring

Everyone has a story that they remember and think it is special. Here is my story. I was leaving Chicago Airport going back to Ft. Lauderdale after a long few days working a trade show. I had a drink in the Crown Room and then one on the plane. I was bushed and ready to relax. My seat was my normal place, on the aisle. Just before take off a very large man asked to get in his seat by the window, I moved out and he moved in to his seat.

He went right to work and I laid my head back to catch some ZZ’s. The Stewart came by and asked if we needed something and my new friend to be said yes and by the way bring me two thank you. That’s how it started. I found out he was half Indian and worked for Eskimo tribe that had several businesses with sales over three hundred and fifty million dollars. He lived in New Mexico, but travels the world. Now about why he was so large. He played football at University of Illinois with Dick Butkus and had played some pro ball, but said he was to small. You couldn’t till it by what I saw.

Somehow we started talking about meditation. He was really into it. Yes I meditate but not like David, that was his name. After hearing about him he wanted to hear what I did, so I told him. At that time our business was going through some very difficult times. He listen and then he took off his ring and handed to me. He said you need it more than I do.

The ring was silver with two torques stones that were raped with two silver snakes protecting the stones. He told me the ring would protect me, because people are afraid of snakes. Whether that is true or not I don’t care, but just in case I have wore the ring ever since David gave it to me.
There is another whole story about the ring but I’ll tell you that later.

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Does Time really fly?

According to my grandma Cherry, who lived to be ninety seven, the older you get the fast time goes by. When I would visit with her she would tell me some wonderful stories of her youth and childhood. That will be in another story. At that time she was in her nineties. She had nothing to do, but watch and listen to sporting events. You might seem this strange, but sports where her life. She would watch golf, though she could hardly see. I am not sure she understood golf, but it was a sport and that was good enough for her. Her favorite sport was hockey, especially the Detroit Red Wings. Maybe you have something to look forward to when you get old.

Back to does time really fly and why would that be. I have some ideas about why time goes by faster as we get older and I will share them with you. After you have read the ideas please leave me you comments. This will help all of us to understand what happens with time as we grow older.

Let’s start with when we were young. You went with you parents to you grandparents. The first trip seemed to take forever but as you went back time after time. The trip didn’t seem as long. One of the reasons is on the first trip everything you saw driving there was new to you. Your mind had to digest all the visual scenery. On the following trips your mind didn’t have to absorb so much, so the time seemed to go by faster.

You might ay familiarity of your surrounding takes less energy of your mind so you mind can relax. This could be one reason for time going by faster when we get older, but I am sure there are more. Let me know what you think.

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When you care good things can happen

Many years ago our youngest son Todd and myself where given the job by Micki, Todd’s Mom and my wife, to go out and find a Christmas tree. We had an idea where to go because one of Skips, our oldest son, buddies was working at the Police Athletic Leagues Christmas tree lot. So we went off to find Bobby, he is Skips friend that was working at the Christmas tree lot.

Todd and I arrived at the tree lot and started looking around. As always I was in a hurry, so I would take almost any tree that was tall enough. Now Todd now an engineer was much fussier than me. On my insistence I had Bobby put the tree I selected in the trunk of our car? This car in today’s standards look like a small motor home, so there was almost enough room for the treeing the trunk. Just the top pocked out. Bobby got something to tie the trunk lid down and we were off.

Todd did not talk on the way home, which is very unusual because he was a great talker in the car. We arrived home and I went in the house to get something to cut the line holding the trunk lid down. Micki came out with me for the viewing of the tree, but I couldn’t open the trunk because was Todd was setting on the trunk lid with his arms folded and said this is tree is terrible looking and he didn’t want it.
What I am I to say. I said what any red blooded American man would say I’ll go and get another tree. That was not enough for Todd. We had to take the present tree back, to make him happy. Then Todd had an idea. He would call Bobby. Todd after calling Bobby told us that Bobby would pick up the tree and give us our money back. All of this happened, but guess who didn’t go to get the new tree, me.

One of our best friends happened to stop by and Micki told him the tree story and asked him if he would take Todd and find us a tree worthy of Todd’s approval. Of course he said yes and Todd and Bob were off to find a suitable tree. On their return Todd was happy with the tree and so was I.

What has happened in our household is me; David and Dad, can no longer go out to get a tree without Micki. This rule has made everyone happy in our family.

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Does being organized help?

You tell me. I know from personal experience when I get organized it saves me time. I don’t have to go looking for things, because they are where they are supposed to be. That being said am I as organized as I should be, not a chance.
I have my moments when I take the time to put things where I can find them, then there other times I don’t take the time and my office looks more like a paper staking factory. Do you think I really save time by not putting things back where they should be. In the long run NO. So why do I make these messes? I my case my minds is going so fast from one thing to another, I don’t take the time to put things back where they should be. I just can’t wait to move on. Thus I don’t put things back.

January 1, 2009 I swear on a stack of bibles I will get and stay organized.

There is wonderful book “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch, read it you’ll like it. In the book he told his wife when they were first married that they would have one filing system and it would be alphabetic. When reading about his filing system I thought I should give it a try and guess what it is working. That is when I put things back where they should be.

In the future I know I will get better.

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Do you want to lose weight?

First go to your medical professional, in my case that is my doctor, and make sure you medically can change your life style.

Every week Micki, my wife, gest a Women’s magazine and on the clove they have some wonderful looking women who has the best diet in the world. You can lose ten pounds in a week and or hundred pounds in six months. Every one is the absolute best. Now mind you in fifty two weeks there is a new and greatest diet every week. That is really something.

I have done some non-scientific research on these diets and found out that they all tend to be very low in calories. The pictures of the food looks very inviting, but there really isn’t much to eat. Example, eat a large three once piece of lean meat or a three ounces of some wood grilled chicken, all of this with fresh fruit and vegetables. OK enough about these diets.

Here is mine. First if you eat what I suggest you will greatly reduce your chances of having a heart problem like I had, now for what you should eat. This is not a diet but a way of eating that is healthy for you.

Let’s start with what not to eat. One, no bad fats, we don’t have time to go over bad fats, but if you and Google and look for bad fats I am sure you can get the answer. Two, don’t eat refined floor. No white bread or pasta. Three no sugar sweeten sodas. Four greatly reduce your alcohol consumption. If you have to have a drink, drink red wine and only two glasses for men and one for the gals per day not setting.. Don’t do what I did and get twelve once wine glasses.

If you change your eating habits to this way of eating you well lose weight and ever more important you well be healthier.

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Every day is a day to say thank

Every day is a day to say thank

Don’t you feel extra special when people you don’t even know say thank you when you helped them in some way. Here we have two words that can do so much. Thank you makes us feel good. There is nothing wrong about feeling good and have that happy felling inside us.

A thank you can we very quick, like when you hold a door when someone is going to go through it. Or it can be big thank you. Like when someone does something very special for you. For example let’s say you really needed a new computer, but did not have funds to buy one. Then out of the blue your best friend said he just got the latest computer and his old one is just six months old but he won’t need it anymore and asked if you would you like it. Boy would I like, Yes Yes. Then it comes the super special THANK YOU.

Have you given someone special to you a thank you today? Why don’t you just try it. You will make them feel good and you too.

Thank you is a very nice way to help people be happy. Do it, people will like it.

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Where is my bike

We have all had a bike. There was an age that it is your only form of transportation, except for walking. When you would drive by a school there would by roll and rolls of bikes parked in the bike racks. You could see almost any type of bike. Like a grills bike that would be pink or a Schwin with chrome finders and mud flaps and there would be everything in between as far as style...

Today you see many adults riding their bikes for exercise. For some reason bike riding is not my favored form of exercise. I am not saying it is not good, so if it something you like to do go for it.

If you want to see bike riders go to Asia and India. When I was in India bikes where the main form of transportation. To show how important bikes where I India our supplies that manufactured chucks for us had a bicycle fund for new employees to purchase a bike. I won’t go in to details, but the bikes helped their staff get to work.

Now where is my bike? Well it is not my bike I am talking about but a friend. Like all of us he used his bike until he tells he got a car, and then bike just took up room in his dad’s garage. My friend went off to college and long forgot about his bike. Then one day when he was home on a college break he decided to ride his bike to the beach which was about a half a mile from his house. After searching the garage and not finding his bike. He asked his Dad where my bike is. Oh his Dad said I sold it and sent you a check for what was paid for your bike. “You Got the check” his dad said” Oh I think so”. After thinking a while my friend said to his Dad “I think I drank my bike”.

The moral is always read the fine print when receiving gifts.

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Old friends

Last night Micki and I went to a Christmas party of past members her fund raising group...These gals when they were active had more fun and did a lot of good for the community. If the girls were working on and event many of their spouses where also involved. One event was like a county fair and it brought in tens of thousands of people in a two and half day to the event. I was one of the lucky ones because Micki went through the leadership ranks of the group and that meant I was like her special assessment, which gave me the opportunity to have the fun of being involved with some really neat people.

Last night over ninety of the group met at a Christmas party Bill and Eileen’s house. What a wonderful house for such a party. The weather was just prefect. Well all I can say about the food it was super, you would have been hard pressed to find a restaurant to match the quality of the food.

Back to old friends. I got to talk to people I haven’t seen in years. Go over our past stories was fun. Then catching up with where they are at now, but what was really great was listening to the dreams for tomorrow.

Most of them had pretty lofty dreams. How about traveling to the jungles of South America, climbing the world’s highest mountain, or getting down to my level spending more time with their grand kid. Whatever their dreams were, they had a passion for them and I just loved to listen to their dreams. I was sure that most of them would be doing their dreams in the future.

It truly is nice to get around old friends. We don’t have time to see most them on any regular bases, so these kinds of events give me and you a chance to reacquaints are selves with some wonderful people.

When you have the opportunity go to events like theses, they can really recharge the old batteries.

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T’s the season

T’s the season
It is that time of the year to go out and get the Christmas tree, for those of us the still get real dead trees. A Christmas story won’t be complete unless I told about Micki’s and my first Christmas tree buying experience.

We lived in Michigan and in December it would be dark by 4:30 PM, so when I got home about 5:30 PM it was dark. That did not stop us from going out and getting a tree. Micki told me there was a place to get Christmas trees up Monroe Blvd. just past Outer drive. I know this means nothing to you but it bring back good memory for me. Back to the tree lot, Micki went in and turned left because that is where the Scotts pine trees where, I turn left because that is where the short needles tress where. So those of you that might not know Scott Pines at long needles.

On with the story. Micki waved me to come over to her. I did and asked why. She said she found our tree and I said that can’t be our tree because we, meaning my mother and dad, only have short needle trees. She countered with well we only have Scott Pines, the long needle tree.

When we got home and I on loaded the Scott Pine, I wasn’t the happiest but anything for Micki.

We put up the tree as soon as we go home. Aunt Florence gave us her old tree ornaments and lights. She redid her tree with all new ornaments and light, this was good for us.

Soon the tree was all decorated and we said down and were looking at the tree when we saw two eyes near the top of the tree and the eyes started to get bigger and bigger. Then the tree started to fall. Lucky Chatty our cat got out just fine and we were able to put the tree back up without it showing much damage. As we sat back down we both agree this was not a good looking tree.

Yesterday we bought a Christmas tree in just five minutes. Then we went and got all new light for the tree plus light for outside. Had lunch with Boo, our favorite bartender server. She makes anybody and everybody feel good. I gave a copy of my book to her and she almost did a flip. Then she ran over to her boss and showed him the book. He then said I want two, of which I just happened in the car.

The moral of the story is happiness comes in many forms but whatever the form is enjoy it

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Try to listen

You and I have a friend or two that must have one ear and two months. All as they do is interrupt. I don’t know what you do but after awhile I turn them off. They have no desire to listen to anything that is said. All they want to do is tell you about anything, and mean anything whether they know anything about the topic or not. You think these people were Google, but in most cases they don’t even give you enough time to ask a question. Sorry about that, but I had to get that off my chest.

My question to anyone do we learn from talking of listening? It is my believe that listening and reading is how we gain knowledge. So what if you talk all the time and don’t listen? You miss great opportunities to gain knowledge and learn.
Learning and knowledge does not stop when we are over eighteen, it is a lifelong process. More and more research has shown that our mines are still able to learn tell we leave this world. The beauty of this is we always have the ability take what we are learning and apply it.

Einstein was a great thinker tells the very end of his life. We all should keep growing in knowledge. And then apply what we learn.

Reading and listening are they background of gaining knowledge. My challenge to everyone is never stop learning.

Read and try to listen, you might like it.

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I do what I am told

The story starts with Micki and her good friend Cindy. They were co-chairing the Winterfest Ball. It is in early December every year and is part or the world famous Winterfest Boat Parade. The ball has over seven hundred people in attendance. It is black tie with all the music and entertainment you would ever need. Let’s say it is a huge event
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Micki told me before the ball to do my best to stay out of her way; because she would have to make sure what was planned was right and like always deals with the unplanned events. She told me to stay with Ray, Cindy’s husband and that’s what I did.

Ray and I spend the evening drifting around. We met up with a lot of old friend and that gave us a chance to catch up on old times. The evening went by fast and I did not bother Micki. The most I would do is give her a wave from a distance.
Somewhere around Mid-night Ray said he was going home and being we lived on the same street he said I could ride home with him. After thinking it over two things went through my mind. One Micki told me to stay with Ray. And second she had her car at the event of course I went home with Ray.

About 2:00 A.M. the phone range and as I rolled out of bed I noticed Micki wasn’t there. When I picked up the phone I heard “where are you” and I said where did you call. That where I am at. Then I heard “Why did you go home” and I said ‘you told me to say with Ray, Ray said lets go home and I did. I did what you told me stay with Ray.”

There story gets real complicated after I went to pick up Micki and Cindy and I’ll leave that part of the story for another time.

So times you shouldn’t to what you’re told. What do you think?

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People are amazing Part 2

Now for rest of the story. As we left the story John had been told by his computer guru that he could solve Johns problem, which was evaluating over two hundred gas stations in Southeast Florida in the time required. So what was his plan?

First the guru needed that location of all the gas stations. Two a list of what information John needed. The information needed was five questions that could all be answered by viewing the station form outside and a couple of photos of the station.

That was the easy part. Now the guru had to lay out the techie part of solving the problem. He hired two people to visit each of the gas stations and fill out he form’s, but not on paper but on a wireless lap top computer that could send information anywhere there was cell phone service, which is everywhere in South Florida. The two information gathers also had digital cameras to take the picture of the gas stations.

Now the guru sent the two out with a computer map of each location and how to get there. Then they started gathering the information on the gas stations. As they put the information and photos in their computers they would E-mail the information to John and he would organize it on a spread sheet. Because of John’s vast knowledge of the gas station distribution he had long ago developed a formula on how the evaluate them.

John was able to keep up with the information flowing in to him and at the end of the forth day he had it all in his system. When I said John put the information in the computer that really wasn’t the case, his wife did all the real work? John always said he wasn’t paid for work but for his knowledge and I guess he is right.
With some organizing of the data John was able to present to his client a document with the value of each station and a grand total of the proposed purchase, photos and all, on time.

I never heard if the stations where purchased by his client, but I do know that he and his guru and the guru’s helpers where paid in full.

So what’s the point? John has a great breath of knowledge, but in no way was he a technology guru, but he knew of one which made it possible to take his knowledge and get it to his client in the time required. We don’t have to know everything, but we do have known where to find the knowledge we do not possess.

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People are amazing

We all have some friends that are amazing. John is one of my friends that fit the amazing part. John has the most wonderful wife. She is his wife, best friend and business partner. The amazing part is they are in love more today as when they got married over twenty years ago. Now about John he is the most gracious person you will ever meet. He remembers things about people, like when he would ask me about how my dad was doing. He called my dad a you old man, but it was in a very caring way. John likes the ladies. He is always flattering them and kidding them about their “old man”. They ladies love it.

John is a very good golfer. He can play with anyone. If you ever get a chance to play with golf with John you would be in for a great experience.

John has years of experience in the petroleum distribution business, so after he left a major oil company, he start a consulting business for distributers of petroleum or as we laymen would say gas stations. This consulting keeps him as busy as he wants to be.

Here is an interesting project he took on. A major oil company wanted to sell over two hundred gas stations in South Florida. A South American major player in petroleum was interested in buying them, but didn’t know what price to put on them, so he contacted John. Yes John good do it, but there was a problem the bid had to be in by end of the month which was only seven days away. For some reason John said he could do it but at the time had no idea how he was going to get the job done on time.

First ideas he contacted a friend that is a computer guru, who was always telling him let me know if you need any help. So he called him and told him his problem. Bingo the guru had a solution.
I’ll give you the solution in my next blog and a question for you.

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The beauty of Fall

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A great day

Micki and went to lunch at a place called Coconuts, it is on the Inter-Coastal Water Way in the middle of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The sky was as clear blue as it could be. The temperature was in the low 70’s with just a light breeze. We could see the sky scrapers in the down town sky line above the horizon, what a beautiful sight. The boat were moving slowly north and south seemly sucking up the warmth of the sun.
We had a light lunch and enjoyed the view. It can’t get better than this unless you love the looking at snow capped mountain and to tell you the truth that sounds pretty good. The only problem for me is I have lost my love for cold weather sense I left Michigan in 1970.
My point is this is the season to take the time to unwind and enjoy life. For each of us this is a different thing, but whatever it is takes, take the time to do it. You will be better for it.
Actually we should not wait for this special season to unwind and get relax, because we all get wound up and let the pressure build within us. This is not healthy. I think we all know this, but we don’t always realize that we are so uptight, so my suggestion to all of us, and that includes me, understand the value of taking time for our self and appreciate what we have.
What do we have to appreciate? Well most of have good friends. Take some time to let them know how much you care about them. You might be surprised that they well feel good about your comments. Not only will they feel better, but you will to.
Go out and let those that are important to you know you really care for them. It will do you both good.
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Thanksgiving

I am thankful my family and I live in the best country in the world. I wouldn’t get into the present issues or the past, but just say we are free and say and do almost anything we want. Now I want to give thanks to my mom and dad they keep me on the straight and narrow and gave me lots of love. Not just by saying they loved me, but through their actions. They’re not with me known in body put they are here in spirit. And my love for them is as strong as ever.
I give thanks to Micki my wife for over 44 years. If I did all the research to find a wife I couldn’t have found one as good as Micki. She is so loving and caring not only for me but for our children and friends. Not to mention the rest of the world.
Our two sons Skip and Todd could not be better. They both have wonderful children. This could be a long story so I won’t bore with all the things our grandchildren have done.
Now let’s take a look at our friends. Jan and Bob, though their hundreds of miles away, are still our dearest friends. They are the laughers. You can’t help but love them. Then we have our friend form the old neighborhood. Doug and Marsha, Linda and Mike we always have great times with them. Doug, Mike and I play golf every Wednesday. The six of us play most Sundays. Micki has had to stop for awhile because of a bad shoulder. We do so many things to gather I am not going to mention then now. Except that all of us have to been to most of our children’s weddings and we still enjoy being with one another.
Enough is enough, I am sure my stories about thanksgiving sound a lot like yours and I hope they would, because they are all part of why I have had a very very happy life.
Thanksgiving to all and
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The Bridge

I get to look at this almost every morning on my walk. I'll show other things I see on my walk from time to time.

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It is all right to be different

It is all right to be different

You are different form me, actually you are different form everyone else in the world that has ever been. Now that’s different. So don’t you think it is important to be able to live with different people? Not to put works in your mouth, but yes it is. We been doing this most of our lives so why worry? The question to you, have you been doing a good job getting along with others? Most would say sure I get along with most people and they would be right. But are they getting the most out of the relationships with others. I am not suggesting that you use people, but rather work with others and they work with you to achieve common goals.

I am not going to get into personal missions, goals and objectives, we’ll leave that for another time, but I would like to have you think about how and why improved relationships with others if important to all. One it saves energy. What I mean by that it we can greatly reduces conflict that is unnecessary. Without this unwanted conflict you and other can use the energy to make things better for ourselves and others.

When we can first understand ourselves it is a big step forward in improving relationships. Some people just know themselves. They know their strengths and their weakness, other don’t and that can be a problem.
Let make it simple, when we are not in conflict with others there is more time to do things that can be of benefit to ourselves and the world. That may sound like a very grand statement, but it is a fact.

Though we’ll never totally reduce conflict, but wouldn’t it be a much better place if we did. Part of reducing conflict is knowing that we are different from others and learning to appreciate them.

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The little people challenges

The little people challenges
Last weekend my son Skip was out shopping, with soon to be three year old daughter, Zoey. Everything was going well until Zoey stopped and started starring at something she wanted. Skip said let’s getting going Zoey, but she wouldn’t budge. Finally Skip said we have to go now, but she wasn’t going anywhere until she got what she was looking at. Skip explained to Zoey that here birthday was just day’s away and she would be getting gives then. Also, to reinforce the point that Christmas was just a little over a month away and Santa would have more gifts for her. In no way did she want to listen to her Dad. All she wanted is what she looking at. Finally Skip said NO, you can’t have that. Well very definitely she put her one hand on her hip and with the other hand pointed her finger at her Dad and said ‘You can’t say NO to me”.

Saying no to her was not a option she wanted to hear as far as she was concerned and at that time Skip really did not want to cause a roucous in the store, so he did what any red blooded parent would do and punted. He looked at Zoey and said” You wouldn’t want me to tell Santa what you said would you” Zoey didn’t even take a second and said “I am sorry Daddy”.

Daddy and Mom can be up against some real focused minds with these little people. So the challenge is how to deal with them without causing major problems. Skip dealt with Zoey by knowing that Zoey wanted Santa to bring her gift and if she didn’t mind her parents the gifts might not come on Christmas morning.

Yes sometimes we just have to say no and deal with the outcome. But, to cause less conflict if we can find something that is important to other person and use that to reduce or eliminate the conflict that might result, this is good. Food for thought.

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Happiness is when things are going right.

Happiness is when things are going right.

That is a true statement. However, the real test of inter happiness is when things are not going right. Now I don’t want you to go out and makes things not go right, they happen naturally enough.

When things don’t go right and you can still feel happy in side then you know you have inners strength. The inter strength will help you even more when things go right. Let’s look at what builds your inner strength. Doing the right things is one thing. Understanding that we cannot always make the right decisions is another.
One of the many things is to remember, that things are not as bad you think and when things are GREAT there are not as great as you think they are. The more you understand this the more the peaks and valleys of life will not seem as difficult.
When things don’t go right look at what you can learn from it. Look how you and eliminate the problem in the future. All of us make mistakes. Don’t beat yourself because did. Mistake is just part of being human. Let it go and move on. This will free you up to take on new opportunities.

Opportunities are all around us, we just need to keep our eyes open for them. You might have a client leave you because you couldn’t meet all his demands. You might find you have been spending way too much time for the amount of profits. Now you can put more effort into existing clients and potential new clients that will give a much better return for the time and effort.

Happiness is helping other and yourself.

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Laughing is GREAT

You must have a friend just like mine. His name is Mike and he was my neighbor over 35 years ago and we are still dear friends to this day. The point is he is a laugher. To this day when I am with Mike he laughs and that make me laugh, because he is always laughing. Does he tell the best jokes, NO. Can he do silly tricks that make you laugh, NO. What he does do is laugh and a very good laugh at that. He laughs at his poor golf shots. Some people don’t understand that he is laughing at himself. Yes he wants to make all good golf shots, but when he doesn’t he relaxes and laughs, which does help him play better golf. Being around Mike makes me feel good, and relaxed, which puts me in a happy state.

Laughing makes you happy and happiness is good for you. If you read my book “Happiness in Eight Steps” I go over the health benefits of laughing. My succession to you is search for the happy laughing people and you’ll find out by being around them how your attitude and inter self will be much better for it.

One of my biggest tips to you about laughing is laugh at yourself or laugh with someone. This makes you and everyone else feel good. If you laugh at someone you are really judging then and that is not good. We are not here to judge other but to help them. One of the ways to help people is to laugh with them.

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Happiness in the present

The present is where we are right now. We do have choices. We can be happy and enjoy it or we can be upset about things that have happened in the past. Can we change the past, NO. Can we learn from the past, I think so, but for sure we can’t change the past? So don’t try.

How about dreaming about the future, yes dreams are great but you have to remember they are just dreams. What is going to get to your dreams is what you do right know. Even it is just one small step towards your dream it is a start. Right now is the key word because it is in the present.

Seems we are all in the present right now let’s enjoy it and be happy.

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Being in a loving environment

When I am around Micki there is a special feeling inside me. That goes for when I am around our sons and their families. I just feel good. My question to you, do you have that special feeling when you’re around people you love. My best quest is you do. OK what my point.

My point is if you have that special feeling it gives you happiness and there is nothing wrong with that.

When you’re happy you’re not sad, so that is good. So be around thoughts you love and be happy.

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Be happy be in shape

Be happy be in shape

I don’t mean look like a pear. I am talking about your body being healthy. You don’t have to be weight lifter to be in shape and you don’t have to run a marathon either. Just doing something for 30 minutes a day and it doesn’t have to be all at one time.

Here is some ideas, don’t park next to entrance when going shopping, park near the back of the lot. Don’t take the elevator to go up a couple floors take the stairs. What I am really saying is don’t be a couch potato.

As an old friend told me never lay down when you can sit, never sit when you can stand and never just stand when you can walk.

Now go out and be active.

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Happiness is less

Happiness is less

In many ways happiness using less energy is good. The obvious is using less fuel when driving or better yet driving less. I know my next car is going to get at least 50% better gas millage than my present car. My next home air-conditioner is going to be much more efficient than my present one and everything I buy that use energy will be more energy efficient. Well that help, yes but what will really help is when everyone does the same thing.

Yes better energy efficiency will help a lot but the real improvement will be how we get energies that are environmental friendly and use less fossil fuel.

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Save a Life

Last night we were helping save lives and many of them would have been children. A Child Is Missing had its Tour d’Vine event and it was a smashing success. All the funds raised goes to help save lives. A Child Is Missing works with law enforcement by making over 1000 calls a minutes in the specific area that the missing child was last seen. This is a GREAT organization to learn more go to www.achildismissing.org.

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Happiness and prosperity

Happiness and prosperity

What could be better? Not much. Being happy and having prosperity is a great dream to have. Happiness is something that we can learn and prosperity is something we earn. In my book “Happiness in 8 Steps” I give you ideas on how you can learn to be happy. In my new book I’ll give you practical ideas on creating prosperity in your life. Here is a hint helping other is a sure way to get prosperity in your life.

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Do you have a problem or an opportunity?

You might think you have a problem and get down. When you get down on yourself it does nothing to solve your problem, don’t get down on yourself. Now a problem is a problem or is it? Could it be an opportunity in disguise? Yes it is. Problems are always opportunities. You will learn from the problem, you will then be able to move on to new successes if you want to. The key word here if you want to. So take the positive road, attack your problems as opportunities and enjoy life to the fullest. Now you can be really happy.

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Why did this happen to me?

Why did this happen to me?

My answer is to you is don’t go back and worry about what happened in the past. Why might you ask? Can you change what happened? I don’t think so. So don’t waste your energy worrying about past issues.
You might want to see how you can take your past problems and make them work for you. There is an old saying “Take a lemon and make it lemonade”. You should move forward and make your life the best it can be. The present is where you will find happiness.

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Love to Learn

I love to learn and Saturday morning I had chance to be with one of the best in making things happen. Randy Gage is his name. He is a rage to riches guy. Straight forward and able to give you valuable information in a well organized way. Now to take what I learned on make it work for me.

It so important to apply what you learn and it also very rewarding and that’s make you happy.

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Getting started

As I mature mornings are becoming the best part of my day. Why you might ask. Will I love getting my mind and body going? How I do that. First I meditate and then that a good walk with a little weight work out. The walk gives me time to smell the roses and start planning my day. Yes I have a big plan, but this is special time I need to go over what I want to accomplish that day.

By knowing what I want to do helps me stay in a happiness state.

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Weddings make you feel happy

Weddings make you feel happy

Last night we went to a wedding of the daughter of one of our best friends. She is 38 and this was her first marriage. The ceremony took place by the pool; the weather was perfect; it was 75 and a slight breeze. Then we went to the ball room and the party began. As you would suspect the wedding party was introduced and then the bride and groom. Of course the bride and groom had the first dance. This is where it started to really make me happy… The bride was looking up at her new husband with the warmest smile. It was like saying I am yours forever. He was look down at her in the same way. You could feel the happiness and passion they felt.

Will all I can say if you need a lift go to a wedding and observed the new couple. It will lift your spirits and make you happy all over.

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Happy things happened today

Happiness comes in many way. Today I learned some great things from Randy Gage that will help me with the success of my business. I left the meeting knowing that success was to come to me more than I ever thought, which made me very happy.

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It can't happen to me

Yes this is what many people think. They think child molesters live in alleys and look terrible. Will that is no true. The Film "It can't happen to me" will be shown at the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival Monday November 10th at 5:00 PM:

It is at: Cinema Paradiso
503 S E 6th Street
Fort Lauderdale, Fl 33301

If you have children, grand children or just love children this is a must see.

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Not a cloud in the sky.

Micki and I walked down to New River. Someday I’ll tell you that story about how New River got its name. But today I just want to let you know how beautiful the morning was. At 7:00 Am there was not a cloud in the sky. It felt good be alive.

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Getting back to warm country

Enjoyed a day in Charleston. As we walked the streets in old town it was like being back over 200 years ago, except for the cars. I am sure we could have spent days look at all the art, but we felt it was time to head home. Have a lot to do so I am ready to get started.

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What a view

From front window of Jan and Bob’s house you are looking west right at the foothill of the Smokey Mountains. The colors are starting to turn all those beautiful fall colors. In a few days the color will be gone and so will be back to Ft. Lauderdale, but first at stop at Charleston.

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What a day

I found a good place to walk this morning; it was at a baseball park down by the river in Murphy NC. 30 minutes was all I could take because t was 43 and winds out of the North. But the walk felt good.

Needed a new mouse for my laptop. As you would think I went to Wal Mart. It is open24/7. They had just would I needed. Now I am not so frustrated moving mouse. I am a happy guy.

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Boy it is nippy

Got in the car to get Micki a diet coke. I was 36 in my car. For a Florida boy that’s cold. It is going to get up to 60 today and that is it. Tonight back into he low thirties. Enough of the weather.

For football fans yesterday was a mixed bag. Being from Michigan yesterday is always tough, because University of Michigan played Michigan State. We are normally for UM but this year we were for State and they one. I am sure most of you really don’t care one way or another and that’s OK.

Jan and Bob have some of their friends coming over to visit with Micki and I to night. There real nice people and we should have a very good time.

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I am ready

I am ready for the rest of my life. But I am really looking forward to today. In fact I look forward to everyday. Why not. We live in the best country in the world; I have a wonderful wife and family. And I am surrounded with some of the best friends any one could have. So I look forward today. It is my wish you will to.

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A feel a few years younger already

We made it to Bob and Jan's in Murphy NC. As advertised we all started laughing about what ever. Wed. night we stayed in Valdosta GA. At a very nice Holiday Inn. It had a wireless network and it connected to my computer, but I couldn’t get on the Internet. At Bob and Jan’s I set my computer up and the wireless worked GREAT. So here I am back on the Internet.

The leaf is just starting to change. If I get a good picture of the color I put one on the blogg for all of you to see.

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Off to add years to my life

Off to NC to visit my happiest editor. When she and her husband get up in the morning they are laughing and when they go to bed their laughing. Just being with them adds years to your life. She'll go over chapter 9 and then I can start on another project.

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Off to add years to my life

Off to NC to visit my happiest editor. When she and her husband get up in the morning they are laughing and when they go to bed their laughing. Just being with them adds years to your life. She'll go over chapter 9 and then I can start on another project.

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My last day

This is my last day in heart rehab and I did just fine. I was always very active so rehab was nothing new for me, except people always wanting to know how you felt. At least some one cared. Now I am on my own and that OK.

This is the day I finish the last chapter in “Happiness in Eight Steps”. It will be in the 2nd Edition. For those that bought the book without chapter 9, they can E-mail me and I’ll send them a copy of the chaptered.

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A Day of Happiness

Met with my financial people today I they say I am doing OK. Will that was a surprise to me. Life goes on. Have chapter nine just about finished, then of to Beki. Tomorrow is my last day at my heart rehab, and then I am on my own. That’s OK I have been working out for the 35 years. If you read my book you might find out why I had a heart problem.

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Laugh it is good for you

Laughing is good for you in so many ways. It tones up muscles and helps you digest food better.

The part I like best it helps you make new friends and build better relationships.

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Happy and Healthy

When you’re happy you might not be healthier, but you will sure fell healthier. Being happy makes people want be around you, why I ask you who wants to be around a sourpuss. Happiness to you

Thank you make you and other happy

Thoughts about “thank you”


When you say “thank you” to someone, observe their reactions.

Always say “thank you”. It will brighten up the other person’s day.

If you want to feel better, say “thank you”. It is a great soul healer.

A heartfelt “thank you” can mend a broken heart.

When to Smile

Thoughts about smiling


If you spouse or boss is chewing you out, DON’T SMILE.

Take a look in the mirror to check out your smile.

It’s easier to smile than to frown. A smile uses 17 muscles, a frown uses 43. So smile and save energy.

Smile for a day when appropriate and look for people’s reactions.

A smile takes away many heartaches.

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Happiness In Eight Steps

Foreword by Alvan Balent, M.D.

The story of David Lindemann's book is, "Live life in Happiness. Why not?"

And why not? Is it too simple to live your life in happiness? Too basic? Perhaps we need to be simple. Perhaps we need to go back to basics. Perhaps with this guide, the cynical negativity of today can dissolve like the words of the unpretentious song, "Don't Worry, Be Happy!" Using our own plain common sense, we can smile, be polite, do service, take care of our body-mind-spirit, laugh, attract people we like, and in the process become reasonably happy.

"Live life in Happiness. Why not?" Eight steps to happiness. A start, leading away from Ego to the Self, perhaps to realization. Perhaps to the discovery that, "Everyone must figure it out of themselves." And then perhaps, just to have a better day, every day.

David has discovered some basic truths. Use this simple, yet powerful beginning, and build on his words by adding your own sweet zest in your journey to happiness.

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