SOME THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

SOME THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

PAGE 45

Principals To Live By

Tell the truth.
Honesty really is the best policy.

Perfect your ability to love.
It's the most powerful force in the world.

Pay attention to two-year-olds and puppies.
They know what's important.

Look at sunsets;
smell the flowers; listen to the birds;
touch the people you care about;

Taste life. Everything you need is there for you.

Take responsibility for meeting your own needs,
but don't do it in ways that keep
others from meeting theirs

Forgive yourself and others.
We're all doing the best we can to find our way.

Live by your own values.
Others may think they know best for you,
but you're the one who has to live
with the consequences of your actions.

Listen to your body and take care of it.
It's the best teacher you have now.

Laugh often and long. It really does help.

Hang out with people you like and admire.
We tend to imitate those around us whether
we want to or not.

Follow your dream. Life is exciting when
you're pursuing your own goals-and you can
do and have most anything you really want.

Learn from your failures and don't be afraid to fail often.

Life isn't fair, but it isn't unfair either.

When things don't seem to be working for you,
do something.
Movement is the key to change and life itself.
Author Unknown

Words to live by are just words,
unless you live by them.
You have to walk the talk.

Seize The Moment

Too many people put off something that brings them joy
just because they haven't thought about it,
don't have it on their schedule,
didn't know it was coming or are too rigid
to depart from their routine.

I got to thinking one day about all those women
on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner
that fateful night in an effort to cut back.
From then on, I've tried to be a little more flexible.

How many women out there will eat at home because
their husband didn't suggest going out to dinner
until after something had been thawed?
Does the word "refrigeration" mean nothing to you?

How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat
in silence while you watched Jeopardy on television?

I cannot count the times I called my sister and said,
"How about going to lunch in a half hour?"
She would gasp and stammer, "I can't."

Check one...........

"My hair is dirty."

"I wish I had known yesterday".

"I had a late breakfast".

"It looks like rain".

And my personal favorite... "It's Monday".

She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch together.

Because people cram so much into their lives,
we tend to schedule our headaches.
We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to
ourselves when all the conditions are perfect.

We'll go back and visit the grandparents when
we get Stevie toilet-trained.

We'll entertain when we replace the living-room carpet.

We'll go on a second honeymoon when we get
two more kids out of college.

Life has a way of accelerating, as we get older.
The days get shorter, and the list of promises
to ourselves gets longer.

One morning, we awaken, and all we have to show
for our lives is a litany of "I'm going to," "I plan on"
and "Someday, when things are settled down a bit."

When anyone calls my 'seize the moment' friend,
she is open to adventure and available for trips.
She keeps an open mind on new ideas.
Her enthusiasm for life is contagious.
You talk with her for five minutes,
and you're ready to trade your bad feet for a pair
of Roller blades and skip the elevator for a budge cord.

My lips have not touched ice cream in 10 years.
I love ice cream.
It's just that I might as well apply it directly
to my hips with a spatula
and eliminate the digestive process.

The other day, I stopped the car and bought a triple-decker.
If my car had hit an iceberg on the way home,
I would have died happy.

Now...go on and have a nice day.

Do something you WANT to....

Not something on your SHOULD DO list.
Author Unknown

Thanks to the many sources and the teachers for this knowledge
and wisdom that is helping us on our journey.

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY.