Quotes of the week
You don't really pay for things with money, you pay for them with time. 'In five years, I'll have put enough away to buy that vacation house we want. Then I'll slow down.' That means the house will cost you five years; one-twelfth of your adult life. Translate the dollar value of the house, car, or anything else into time, and then see if it's still worth it. Sometimes you can't do what you want and have what you want at once because each requires a different expenditure of time. The phrase 'spending your time' is not a metaphor. It's how life works.
Charles Spezzano
Charles Spezzano
First, recognize that you are not a sheep who will be satisfied with only a few nibbles of dry grass or with following the herd as they wander aimlessly, bleating and whining, all of their days. Separate yourself now from the multitude of humanity so that you will be able to control your own destiny. Remember that what others think and say and do need never influence what you think and say and do.
Og Mandino
Og Mandino
Meditation of the week
We're not here to lose our sense of humor.
--Richie Berlin
Being too serious is habit forming. However, many aspects of our lives are serious and need to be addressed. Our disease, for one, is very serious. Working the Twelve Step program to the best of our ability is serious too. So are being honest and loving with friends, taking responsibility for all of our behavior, and being willing to change. But we can get in the habit of being too serious in many areas of our lives where a lighter touch is called for.
Cultivating laughter, so it too can become habit forming, benefits us immeasurably; however, this may not be easy. Our family of origin taught us that some things were funny and other things weren't. If we were laughed at rather than encouraged to see the humor in situations affecting us, we may find it hard to be comfortable with anyone's laughter. But we can work on this. We can begin by spending time with people who laugh and see the humor in situations that affect them. Our families were our earliest teachers; we can pick some new teachers now.
The more often I laugh today, the lighter my spirit will feel and the healthier my emotional life will become.
--Richie Berlin
Being too serious is habit forming. However, many aspects of our lives are serious and need to be addressed. Our disease, for one, is very serious. Working the Twelve Step program to the best of our ability is serious too. So are being honest and loving with friends, taking responsibility for all of our behavior, and being willing to change. But we can get in the habit of being too serious in many areas of our lives where a lighter touch is called for.
Cultivating laughter, so it too can become habit forming, benefits us immeasurably; however, this may not be easy. Our family of origin taught us that some things were funny and other things weren't. If we were laughed at rather than encouraged to see the humor in situations affecting us, we may find it hard to be comfortable with anyone's laughter. But we can work on this. We can begin by spending time with people who laugh and see the humor in situations that affect them. Our families were our earliest teachers; we can pick some new teachers now.
The more often I laugh today, the lighter my spirit will feel and the healthier my emotional life will become.
Norman Vincent Peale
You may be surprised if you just step up and face your obstacles.
"Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have."
"The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how."
It's very easy to spend your time thinking and imagining all the horrible things that may happen if you stand up and face your obstacles and troubles in life. But if you actually do that those negative images seldom come into life. They are just huge monsters that you build in your mind. Just like you did when you were a kid and imagined monsters in the closet or under your bed.
When you actually stand up and face your obstacles you may find that the experience isn't as bad as you imagined. Sometimes it's actually a bit anti-climatic. You think to yourself: "What?! Is this it?".
So, after having done some thinking, research and planning on how you can accomplish something just stop thinking. Don't fall into the trap of overthinking and monster-building. Just go and do what you need to do instead.
Video of the week
Advice from a cartoon princess- Snow White
I know people who would watch this and believe it!
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Websites of the week
http://www.pleaseshutup.com/ No, you shut up!
And finally, the culmination of millennia of scientific endeavor
The Internet is full of wrong information, but rarely is it as intentionally wrong -- or as funny -- as the Tumblr Fake Science. The blog, whose tagline is "For When Facts Are Too Confusing," presents science lessons in the style of elementary illustrations or infographics, but gets the fundamental concepts very, very wrong.
