You won’t believe this

The story starts with a friend of our daughter’s friend. Now that is complicated as it is going to get. This friend of a friend’s son called her at work. His is twenty two but has the mental capacity of a ten year old. You could guess that is really big on Harry Potter.

Will here is what happened and believe it or not but it is at true story.
Let’s call the friend of friend’s son Bob. Bob call his mother at work and said a troll was yelling at him. Mothers told bob to calm down and the troll will be fine.
It took just a few minutes and Bob was back on the phone with his mother who is a friend of a friend. Bob now was almost yelling and now he was saying the troll was swearing at him. Will the friend of a friend told Bob everything is OK.

After she thought about the situation she thought she should go home and investigate. She didn’t live far from her home so it only told a few minutes to get there.

Just as Bob had told her there was a load voice that was swearing at Bob. When she entered the dining room she saw a very angrily midget yelling “on tie me I am the census taker.”

Bob still insisted that he had caught a troll. You can imagine how the friend of a friend felt. The first thing she did was untie the census taker and apologies all over the place. Bob was still confused, but his mother finally got through to him that the census taker was not a troll and was helping the government.

The friend of a friend did call the police, and while waiting for their arrival. The friend of the friend explained Bob’s problem, so when the police arrived the census taker said he would not press charges and was very happy to get out of the house.

This proves again that truth is Stanger than fiction.

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When people know best, I guess

Have you ever wanted to help someone and they didn’t even want to listen to you, will I have. I have a cousin that I will call Jerry, because that is I name. The reason I can give you his name is because he’ll never read this and if he would, but he won’t, because he just refuses to have a computer.

Jerry is very bright and has a thirst for learning, but for whatever reason cannot understand that a computer can open the whole world to him.

I won’t go into the full story, but to say Jerry has a physical handicap almost from birth. And even with this he has always been full of life and wanting to export new thing.

We worked together for over thirty years and always had a great relationship. Then the computer came, at first it wasn’t a problem, because he always ask the computer department for information.

Then the time came when the computer sat on your desk and you get would ever information it had to offer you. But for whatever reason Jerry would never do it himself but have some staff member get him the data.

Jerry has long been retried, but still refuses and I mean refuses to get his own computer, this even after his many friends and I encouraged him to do so. Why do I care because he could learn so much about some many things that could help him?
There is a new process called prolotherapy which can be used instead of join replacement. The process could possibly help Jerry improve his life style to the point he could be 100 times more mobile than he is today.

Jerry deserves every break he can get and this prolotherapy might be just the thing, I don’t know. If Jerry would get on Google or Bing he could learn so much and maybe find out things that could improve his life many full.

I haven’t and many of his friends that really care about Jerry have not been able to have him seem the light.
I don’t know what he is afraid of and that is if he is. Please give me some ideas on how to have Jerry understand how much Internet could help him.

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The laughers

Micki and I had the pleasure of visiting our best friends last week that is why you haven’t heard from me. Now on with the laughing story...

Jan and Bob get up in the morning laughing and go to bed laughing. You can imagine we are always in for a tread when we visit them. They say or do so many things that just keep us laughing...

Example is having breakfast at their house. There is nothing like just throwing together some bacon and eggs. NO, Bob has to get out his cook book and prepare something special. What we have found out is Bob doesn’t want anyone, including Jan, in the kitchen when he is getting ready to cook and for that matter when he’s cooking.

The funny part for Micki and I is that they prepare a weekly menu. You might not think that’s funny, but for us it is. Jan is busying around trying to help and Bob is busy trying to get her out of the kitchen. It‘s like the three stooges, but lacking one.

The great part about all of this is everyone is laughing. Bob’s laughing at Jan for being in his way. Jan is laughing at Bob for being so bossy and Micki and I laughing at the show.

This is only the start of the day. It seems everything that Jan and Bob do causes some reason to laugh. Jan always has and plan for our days when we visit them and so does Bob, but most of the time they are different plans. Now comes the compromising and we end up doing nothing the either of them had planned. This might not seem funny to you. I guess you have to be there.

There are times we don’t even know what were are laughing about, but we are laughing.

Here why all this laughing is good for us. If you go to my book”Happiness in 8 Steps" pages 45 & 46 you can find out how laughing is good for you. Here is just a couple of things laughing does for you. I t reduces stress, lowers blood pressure, elevates your mood and there is much more.

Have friends that are laughers and do a lot of laughing you self. Your life will be richer for it.

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More results with less

Yes you can move faster to you goals by doing less. That is less of the wrong things. Vilfedo Pareto gave us the ideas on how to do this. Many of you have heard of the Pareto principle, which the 80 – 20 rule. To refresh your memory here is what Pareto found. Twenty present of the world’s population controlled eighty present of the world’s wealth. As this principle was further studied it has been found that it applies to almost anything we do. It could be 80%-20% or 90%-10%, but the net result is small amount whatever gets the biggest portion of the pie. Just think how this can help you move forward toward you goals.

One we can look at what are the twenty present of the things we do that give us eighty present of are results. It might be when you spend time with you best accounts you get more business. Or you might find that doing the things you do best give you much more results as when you work on things that you don’t do best. What ever it is, do the things that give you the eighty present of your results and bet you presently spend twenty present of you time on these things.

What about eighty present of the time that gives you twenty present of our results? Maybe you shouldn’t be doing them. An example, my very good friend was a very successful VP of sales. What he did was spend all his time with his top ten present of is sales staff. Yes he spent NO time with the others. What happened is that top ten present sales grow at a ten present rate and even if the other ninety present grew at a ten present rate it wouldn’t even come close to the sales growth of the top ten present. What he did with the top ten present was, he listened and then took what he heard and helped get their ideas into action.

Finally he cut the sales force in half. The uppers half was the ones he looked for the ones that could be a top ten presenter.

Maybe you should rethink where you are spending eighty present of you time and stop doing it and do more of the things that give you eighty present of you result. You might find you will even have more results than you ever had before.

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Why the grunt?

In my research on grumps I have been looking for the perfect grump and you know I think I have found one. So I am going to describe what I think makes a prefect grump.

Let call this grump Dick. He is a very smart person and at moments can be very outgoing. Then there are times when he, to me, is a perfect grump.
Here is how Dick responds when I ask him a question like “are you having a good day” Dick responds with grunt, yes a grunt. I am not sure what the grunt means, but that what he does.

Dick is very consistent with his grunts. It doesn’t matter what you ask him, he just gives you a grunt. Dick grunt this and grunt that and you never really know how he feels about something you ask him.

How about this, Dick doesn’t really know how he feels so he grunts to acknowledge you, but has no answer to your question. That might be one reason.

But here is what might be the really reason for the grunt, he is a perfect grump and really doesn’t want to talk to me or anyone else at that time.

Could this be what makes a perfect grump, not wanting to talk with people?

So when your’ talking, or trying to talk, with a perfect grump and he or she gives you grunt, you figure it out.

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Happiness builds health

There is more and more evidence that happiness has a very positive impact on your health. I’ll start with the big one. When your’ happy you life longer.

Researchers were going over the diaries of the Sister of Notre Dame of Milwaukee. This sister lived together sense the early 1930’s. What the researcher found in their diaries were the sisters that used words that were more positive in their diaries lived eight years longer. Now that should get your attention.

Let’s look at it in another way. Gallup along with Kansas University did a study in 140 countries and questioned over 150,000 people. Those 140 countries account for over 95% of the world’s population. Here is one thing they found that no matter the status of the people being questioned, meaning they might be living in a real third world life style. The results remained the same. Negative emotions were a reliable predictor of poor health.

So you can see being happy improve your life span and being negative is a predictor of poor health. This might make you do a personal reassessment of your life style.
This is the easy part. If you want to be happy, you will be happy. It is that easy. Now there are many other things that you can build on to raise your level of happiness and I’ll touch on just a few.

Smile more because when you smile others smile with you. It makes everyone feel better and when we feel good we are healthier. Not bad for just a smile.

A heartfelt thank you works wonders for you and those that you gave the thank you to. This is even stronger, hand write someone you want to thank, and in the thank you note give them the reason you have sent them the thank you. It truly show that you care and took the time to do something special.

You see how by just doing the little things you have brought happiness to yourself and others, which helps build your health.

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Some people are selectively grumpy

You have met and I have met people that are so pleasant most of the time. Then you see them with somebody and for whatever reason they treat this person like they have poison ivy.

There might be some reason why this happiness. Let’s say this person that is very nice to you and not to some others. There are some differences that this person feels comfortable about with you but not with another. If this person is a hard charging get things done at all cost and the person there dealing with is the steady easygoing person there can be a problem. The reason is the charger wants the thinks done now and sees no reason why it can’t be done pronto.

The steady person want to think through what to and doesn’t like to jump feet first in to something. Now you can see where the problem comes from.

There are some things that alleviate these problems. If the hard charge understood that he or she is a hard charge that is good. Secondly if the hard charger understood that people that are different doesn’t mean that they are bad or good, but different from them self.

There are a lot of other things that can cause people to be selectively grumpy. The big reason is the lack of understanding of hem self and others.
Today I only touched on one small example of a cause why people are frustrated and or grumpy to some people

When you have good understanding of yourself that is a good start, but what is the real kicker is when you understand other. When you understand others better it so much easier to have them wanting to listen to you.

In the future I’ll be giving you information you can use in understanding yourself better. You more than likely have good understand of yourself, but just in case your’ missing a little something I’ll give you some ideas to help enlighten you.

You will also learn how to better understand others and deal with them. It will make you life so much more enjoyable.

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The girl friend’s father

It has been many years sense that I had this experience, but human nature doesn’t change so the story is the same. The first time you meet the father of your girl friend you can feel some tension in the room. It is not that he is a bad guy, but he knows how he liked girls when he was my age.

It takes awhile before you and the father start to relax. That is you ever go over to our girl friend’s house again. Let’s say for kicks I do. Each time you meet the father of your girl friend tension lessons, but then the questions start.

What do want to do after high school? Where do you live? And just a load of probing questions. If that isn’t enough he wants you to sit down and it is always in one of those chairs that you can sink right down to the floor.

If you date this girl for more than a few weeks the pain and tension subsides on each additional visit.

There was one thing I really never felt comfortable with the father of my girl friend until I got to college. That might be that I was a little older and wiser.
If you date this girl for over six months, then questions change to have you thought what you and Ms. X are planning for the future. That type of questioning really made me sweat.

What I really trying to say the father of my girl friend never really trusted me and he would make comments to re enforce his feelings. How about “You know that is my precious little daughter, you take special care of her.” Of course I am going to take care of her.

What I really wanted to tell him is his daughter is the hottest thing and she doesn’t really care about what he thinks her and I should be doing. Let’s face it we, girl friend, were in love and we will do what people that were in love do.

Now I must say I was in love with her until we broke up. Then the whole cycle of meeting the new girl friend’s father started all over again.

Now I understand why I was so stressed out as a youngster

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Take time to observe

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We can learn so much just by taking the time to observe what is going around you. Here is one thing to observe and it is children, yes children. We can learn, I mean really learn so much from our children.

As adults we have lost a lot of our imagination, but when you observe children you are watching imagination at the highest level. They can play with a wooden block for hours. You try that.

When they can’t get their way they will cry or fuss for awhile, when that is over and normally it doesn’t take long, they are off to another something. Just like that there back to imagining flying to the South Poll, building a bridge across a Ocean or feeding their doll for the thousands time.

A friend of mine father told me, watch a baby looking at a blank wall. It can do it for hours. Who knows what they see, but to them is all new.

Here is another one. Your’ driving some place for the first time and let’s says it takes one hour. The first time it seems to take forever, but if you have to take that same trip over and over again the time goes by so fast you can hardly remember driving it.

As we grow older we experience so many different things that our mind shouts out most of it, thus when we take the same trip over and over, we see it ,but our mind blocks most of the trip out.

Here is why observing children is so healthy for us, that is if try to apply the things we learn from watching them.. One thing that we should learn that even in old thing we can always find new things. You might give youself a challenge, start trying to find new thing in the regular things you do.
At first you say there is nothing new here, but after you work on this for awhile you will start to see new things that you hadn’t seen. This will help you to enlarge you ability to be aware of what going around you.

As I started out with by observing and particularly observing children you will learn how to expand and appreciate life. Doing this will help you to re-expand your imagination. With increased imagination you enjoy life more than you can imagine.

Happy children watching.

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