February 2012 Blog Posts (21)

“I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.

Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”

Santosh Kalwar,

Yesterday was really busy and also rewarding. It started with my meeting a friend who has spent the last few years often away from home because…

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.

Richard Cech

If you are like I am you find it really hard to say no when someone asks you to do something. Regrettably saying yes when you should say no can create major problems. Too often when we think we are already loaded down we agree…

For what the flesh desires is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit desires is opposed to the flesh...

St. Paul

One of my all-time favorite people is Gene Glick who is an old acquaintance of mine. Gene has been one of our…

Be safe! Have fun! But more importantly; just live your life to the fullest!

Hey we have a weekend coming up, how about we have some fun and enjoy the next couple of days. I’ll even do all your worrying for you so you can set your problems aside for a while. Don’t be like those who have convinced themselves that they are too busy…

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Horace

I am off to another full day of meetings and adventures. My day reminded me that a friend will be offering a…

"This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good."

Author Unknown

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“Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.”

Keri Russell

Decisions, decisions, decisions − if you are like so many of us you are faced with more and more decisions each year. For some of us they are like a stone hanging over our head that grows larger the longer we avoid making a…

"A day will never be any more than what you make of it. Practice being a "doer"!

Josh S. Hinds

You’ve heard me talk a lot lately about avoiding the trap of isolation which can result in permanent stagnation. I have discovered that many of us hold back not because…

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Author Unknown

I have had a pretty good week, I hope you have as well. My weight loss continues apace and I have become use to hearing the pounds falling off, fourteen of them so far. I also…

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

EDMUND BURKE

I attended a great meeting yesterday where we discussed how we might help retirees have more fun in their lives even if they don’t live on a golf course or in a retirement community. As I thought about the…

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

John F. Kennedy

Hi all, it is another one of those days for me. Last night I attended a reception held by one of my favorite…

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself

George Bernard Shaw

I had coffee with a friend yesterday morning that recently left her job. What I liked about our conversation was hearing that she viewed her leaving as a great opportunity to…

It’s not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.

Zig Ziglar

I think I told you last week that I had been in a meeting with some smart people where we discussed a number of things. There were many…

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find that a whole new life has opened before you.

Agatha Christie

I was at a meeting a couple of days ago where some of our town’s smart people were talking about how they could help those of us who are up in years discover the joy available to us if…

Our bodies are our gardens - our wills are our gardeners.

William Shakespeare

I have great news, yesterday I delivered a 10 pound weight loss and I feel less pregnant then I did two weeks ago. My frugal food intake must continue however since my docs are asking me for at least triplets. If I see you, don’t…

"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change."

Barbara De Angelis

I have found that as I have aged and looked back that I really did not have to miss as many…

I've been to the dentist several times so I know the drill.

I am off to a three hour dentist experience that will include an extraction. That will be followed by a blood test and then later I am supposed to attend a lecture at Butler University. I am not sure if I will be up to creating a new Daily, so here we go again, a return to…

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Maya Angelou

It’s over; the Super Bowl fans are clogging the highways and our airport as they depart what has been reported to be the best planned and executed Super Bowl week in history.…

"Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season.

One word and one word only: Super Bowl."

Coach Bill Peterson

As I am sure most of you know my city is hosting this year’s Super Bowl. After years of planning and the training of our cities hospitality industry employees, cab drivers…

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future."

Deepak Chopra

A few years ago I talked to a favorite server of mine in one of our cities top restaurants. She shared with me that she did not like the life she had been living and…