Truth is funnier than fiction

The other day my mobile phone died. So I took it into AT&T and asked what they could do. The answer was simple, buy a new one. Silly me I asked if they could repair my present phone. I won’t say my service agent was disrespectable, but he sure looked at me in strange way.

You know what came next, what kind of phone you want. You know I hadn’t really thought about that question on till he asked.

Will I had to get thinking and while I was thinking he, the service agent, started to show me what could replace my defunct phone. There was a great variety of shapes and colors. Then I asked the big question, which was ,do these get e-mail. The answer was no.

Here are the ones that can give you E-mail and by the way we have this great offer on the newest Blackberry. You know I always wanted a Blackberry. Maybe it is because I wanted to feel important. Like I have to check me E-mail, yes that what I say to show other that I am important.

You know I never had many calls on my other mobile and when I did I was on the golf course and was a wrong number. I am not kitting anyone I just wanted a new toy.
Here is when the fun started. I started to try to use my new Blackberry. With directions in hand I started. You know I can understand any directions let alone mobile phone ones.

You know what I did I start pushing buttons’ and to see what would happen. As you might expect things were happening, I just didn’t know it.

Our phone rang and Micki picked it up and thought it was Todd, our son in Dallas, and started with many questions. Then the person on the on the line finally got a word in and said he was not our son, but wanted to know why we called him.

Micki handled it will and so did the guy on the line. He said he hoped our son was fine and said he was sorry he wasn’t Todd and hung up.

Since that first night I have tried to be more care full, but I have called my daughter-in-law and other and I didn’t even know I did.

I do have a plan for not doing that any more. I’ll only checking my E-mail with my Blackberry and when I actually know what I am doing I’ll use it to call people.

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Let the ideas flow

Some days my mind is flowing with ideas and some day the ideas aren’t there, that is alright. The many reason for days of lots of ideas and day with not many is your mind needs to take to time to digest and refine the ideas that you have been working on.

We have something called a subconscious mine and if we let it can help us. If we try to force our mind to hard we tend to slow it down. It is like getting your car stuck on a muddy road. The more you step on the accelerator the further you tires dig down in the mud.

If we can learn to let ideas float around for awhile, something happiness and I call crystallization. If you haven’t kept pouring over the ideas endlessly, but as some say you sleep on it and things start to happen.

Sometimes it happiness like magic and ideas just start pouring out. It might be good when that happens is to write them down. You don’t have to make them perfect, but I would suggest that you write them so you can read them.

You might find out the answer is there, but it is not the one you thought of first and that as it should be. The reason is your subconscious mind is so powerful it sees things that our conscious mind can’t. Thus you many times come up with a much better solution.

Crystallization is an important tool to help you to deal with issues that seem impossible.

One thing you should do on regular bases it to get away from the daily routine and relax. I am not talking about taking a two hour nap, but setting quietly, closing your eyes for a few minutes and clear your mind.

You can meditate or just let you mind flow. Whatever you call it is healthy for your body and your mind.

By doing this you will find that what was an issue becomes an opportunity. Or said in another way a problem is just opportunity staring you in the face.

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Doing the things you have just put off

I think there is difference between procrastination and putting things off and here is my definition.

Procrastination, to me, it something that needs to be done at certain time and you either don’t do it at all or wait till the last minute to get it done.

Putting things off are thoughts thing that really don’t have any time limit when they have to be completed.

So the thing I did today were things that I put off, but the list keep getting longer and longer. One of the things was a haircut and my hair kept getting longer and longer so that was on the list to do today.

There was these electronic thinks setting by the door of my office waiting to be recycled and how you do that is take it to Best Buy. Also my one printer was out of yellow ink, but my other printer had plenty so I could put off getting some for a while.

Instead of going out to lunch I picked up my soon to be lighter body. Yes I have lost almost eight pounds, sense January 1, 2010.

The first stop was to Office Depot for the ink and also noticed I need 44 cent stamps and it is much easier to get them there than waiting in line at the post office. Who know they might close the post office near me, so Office Depot works.
Then I zipped to Best Buy to turn in my old electronic items to be recycled. A very nice man at the front door of Best Buy told me where to take my electronics to be recycled.

Can you believe there was a line? So being the friendly guy I started talking with the guy in front of me. Somehow I told him why I was in line and he said he would turn the items for me, wasn’t that nice.

So I gave him one of my eight steps of happiness cards and on the way out I gave the nice man at the front door one to.

Here’s something else that I have been putting off, learning how to pay my bills electronically. I’ll have to learn to pay my bill electronically, because they could close our post office and take away our mail box.

I think I put off more that I procrastinate.

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The score was 3 to 2

It was alumni day for me. The Eastern Michigan University girl’s soft ball team was playing University of Conn. My Alma Mater lost, though it was a good game.

I guess I could stop there and that would be the end of the story, but there is more.
You see the EMU Alumni Association invited us EMU alums to the game so we could meet fellow alums and maybe kick I in some financial support to the University. I got even more because I met some real nice people

One was retired NFL player. Real good guy and I think I can help him and his friend. You see Lional and Cory are starting a talk radio station and they want help in telling their story. As a card caring member of Florida Speakers Association I promptly mentioned to them that the South Florida Speakers association was having a workshop this coming Saturday.

As soon as I got home I E-mailed them information about the workshop. I hope they can attend, because they will pick up a lot of good information. They will also meet one of most helpful group I have ever been involved with.

There was a nice size group at the gathering, so I went about meeting as many as I could. One lady came up to me and asked if I was an author and of course I said yes.
She let me know that she is going to write a book and that it was going to fiction. She told me she had been taking some classes on fiction writing. Her background was that she was a hostess for Southwest Airline for twenty years, then got in to customer service and eventually was the assistant to the Chairman and did most of his writing. I wished her luck.

Then I met this nice lady that asked me when I graduated. I felt honored that she thought that I was a graduate. Will I told her and she smiled as said she graduated ten years prior than me. I guess that is what alumni gathering are for, to meet fellow alums and I saw that they come in all sizes and ages.

My recommendation is attend affairs like the one I just did and get into the spirit. You might even have a good time, I did.

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I was an extra good boy today

I am always a good guy, but today I did some things extra that I have been putting off for months. It good be getting close to a year, but do day I did it and I added some bonus projects as will.

Do you feel real good about yourself when you clean up the list that has been hanging over your head, I do. I couldn’t wait to tell Micki what it did.

Maybe you want to know what I did that I thought was such a big deal. Before I tell you it is important to know that this project needed a lot of planning and engineering. Thus for the length of time it took me to start the project.
When I finally engineered what need to be done I had to get into the planning stage. As you can imagine planning can take some time and it did. After the planning I needed to go over the engineering again.

Today was the day to implement the plan. The first part of the plan was to go to the hardware store. You know I love going to hardware stores, there is so much to look at. So it normally takes me an hour or more to get some screws. You know there is so much to see in a hardware store.

I found what I needed went to the cashier, paid up and start for home to tackle the project that has been waiting for me all these months or it could be a year.

It is now for all my engineering and planning to take this project to completion.
I was not afraid any more; actually I was never afraid of this project but reluctant to get started. So I started and that was my first big step.

To the patio and assess the patio chairs that need repair. Yes I said patio chairs. What happened was the plastic screws that hold the strapping broke on some of the straps. It was my responsibility to replace them and I was up to the challenge.

At the hardware store I purchased some self threading screws and plastic anchors that I could put in the hole that the broken plastic screws were in.

There is one other think when replacing the plastic straps you have to heat them to 400 F for about 5 minutes. At 400 F the strapping is too hot to handle without heavy cloves. That I had, but it you ever tied to hold a screw with heavy cloves.

I learned a lot about how to fix the strapping, so I can’t wait to repair the next patio chairs.
Oh, I did couple of bonus projects to so I am ahead of the list, I think.

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Is Santa healthy?

Here is one of the topics I love to talk about, because by helping people be happy I am helping them be healthy. You are not going to hear from me today all the clinical reasons why happiness helps make people healthy, but I am going to tell a stories that will wet your appetite for happiness in your life.

Let’s just say there is a real Santa Clause, I know he is. Have you ever seen Santa looking down in the dumps, I think not. He is always smiling and laughing.

That is a tip off that he is a happy man. Another big tipoff is he is making others happy. Just think of all the children he makes happy each year and those of us that know he is real.

Did you ever hear of Santa not being able not to deliver presents because he was sick, I never have? Oh, I have seen pictures of him looking sick and Mrs. Clause bring him hot tea, but I am sure that was just the idea of some marketing person.
Don’t get me wrong advertising and marketing people get paid to get people to do something, and that is good, so at times they stretch the truth to make a point I believe Santa wasn’t sick, but might have been a little bushed from making all the toys.

Santa also stays happy by staying in shape. He might look over weight, but in reality, he isn’t. The reason behind this is cameras make you look heavier than you are and we only see Santa in pictures, so he must not be as heavy as the picture portrays him.

Now back to Santa being in shape. Could you go up and down all those chimneys?
I rest my case; Santa is a happy and healthy man by using all my eight steps for happiness. Try them there good for you

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DHL’s thoughts on wealth builders

I have been meaning to tell you about this for a long time and that is what wealth is. Yes, wealth has to do with monetary things. But, wealth is so much more than money.

Study after study show that money is not what make us happy. So why do some people that have more money that can every spent, end up having miserable lives. It is because there missing one of the important building blocks of wealth, friend ships.

Money can give you many creature comforts, but it can’t give the comforts of the heart. The heart is more than a part of our body that pumps blood throughout us so we can survive. The inter heart is our conscious, our center of feeling. It is what tills us what is the right thing to do.

If we listen to our heart we’ll have the wealth in life that makes life worth living.

Have you ever at a time when you weren’t sure what direction to take in life? I would think we have all had this experience. What do most of do, we listen to something is side us which is our heart. It never stirs us wrong, but if we ignore it that is when we get into trouble.

To build wealth in our lives, we have to do the right thing and as mentioned before when we listen to your heart it is easy to do.

Building strong and lasting friendships is important ingredient to having wealth in your life. When you have real friends you can lose everything else, but you are still a wealthy person.

Interesting enough with the wealth you have in friendships, things turn around and you will find you will always be able to gain back monetary things. Your friends have been there to help you.

Wealth is so many things and friendships are an important one. They are your wealth builders, so treasure your friends because they are as important to you as you are to them.

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