Ray's Daily

Laugh NOW!

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Charlie Chaplin

I have been publishing the Daily now for almost fifteen years and that amazes me. I guess the old adage that “time flies if you are having fun” applies. Of course in all honesty I too have suffered some pain and anguish but from the very beginning I have tried to use humor as an antidote to minimize the discomfort that comes from some of the things life throws at us.

I have learned that it is worth remembering that the bad days will pass and we should do our best not to let them take us down. So I have tried to include humor in the Dailies from the very beginning and hope they have brought you a smile once in a while. So my dear friends keep smiling and stay happy.

Here is something that was written many years ago that I still like, I hopw you will as well.

A Life of Positive Thinking and Laughter

Having A Sense Of Humor Can Empower You

By Jordan Richardson

Living a life of positive thinking and laughter is bound to have you feeling happier and more successful throughout your day-to-day routine. In fact, people who make positive thinking and laughter a key goal in their lives tend to experience more daily success and happiness than anyone else. There are key steps to achieving happiness by incorporating a good attitude and a sense of humor in your life: visualizing goals and maintaining the right attitude. Visualizing goals and going after them is a key component to positive thinking because it is a successful technique that helps you achieve the results you want. Keeping a good attitude towards life is a great way to make laughter a greater part of your life. Having a sense of humor can empower you, even in the most distressing situations. Instead of making a bad situation worse, a sense of humor can help you overcome any negative emotions and get you in the frame of mind to solve whatever problem is at hand.

Daily Happiness and Success

Having daily happiness and success is all about developing a habit. You’ll need to start making a few changes in your life if you want to experience positive thinking and laughter on a regular basis, and you’ll want to create an environment that encourages both those qualities. One of the first things you’ll want to do in developing your “happy habit” is to change the way you look at things in your life. It’s important to keep a realistic view about things that happen in your life, but your attitude about setbacks can make a big difference in your mood and possibly your health.  Chronic stress has been linked to a variety of health conditions, including depression, ulcers and heart disease.

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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Maya Angelou

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Signs of a Frustrated Parent

1. Your children know how to read HTML code but can’t operate a vacuum cleaner.
2. Your children tell you that you said “yes” and you don’t even remember the question.
3. You go to the grocery store and find yourself having a good time.
4. Your spouse asks how your day went and you rate it on a scale of 1-10 repeats of “stop that!” or “no!”
5. You can’t remember the last time you didn’t have to share your drink.
6. You mistakenly tell the kids it’s “sanity” time when you meant to say “bed” time.
7. The laundry seems to have taken on an evil nature and you begin to feel that it’s out to get you.
8. You dread hearing the phone ring because it’s a sure sign there’s about to be trouble amongst the children.
9. It’s finally your turn on the computer and “Touched by an Angel” is just coming on.
10. You go to sleep with “I’m bored” or “I’m hungry” still ringing in your ears.

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“Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.”

Allan Goldfein

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A recently divorced woman is walking along the beach contemplating how badly she had fared in the divorce settlement, when she spies a magic lamp washing up onshore. She rubs the lamp, and out pops a magic genie!!

The genie notices her anger and lets her vent her troubles to him. As a consolation, the genie informs her that he will give her three wishes.

But, he cautions her that because he does not believe in divorce, he will give her ex-husband ten times the amount of whatever she wishes.

The woman is steaming mad, thinking that this is hardly fair, but she makes her first wish. The first wish was for a billion dollars. The genie grants her wish and she finds herself sitting in pile of one billion one-dollar bills. The genie then reminds her that her husband is now the recipient of 10 billion dollars. The woman can barely contain her anger when she makes her second wish. The second wish was for a beautiful mansion on the shore of her own private beach. In an instant it was granted, but the genie then reminds gain that her ex-husband now owns ten of what she wished for, and points out the beach to a small development of ten such mansions. Upon hearing this, the woman takes her time to contemplate her last wish. Just as the genie was about to give up on her, the woman informs the genie that she wants to make the last wish. But, before she can do this, the genie again warns her that her ex-husband will get ten times what she wishes for. No problem, said the woman as she grinned in ecstasy. For my last wish…  “I’d like to give birth to twins.”

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“I’m Jewish but not very religious…I go to Temple twice a year.  Christmas and Easter.”

Jeffery Ross

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Morris had just had coronary artery bypass surgery a month ago and now is at the doctor’s office for his final follow up visit.  Of course Morris wants to know when he can start having sex again.

The doctor explains to Morris that he would be able to resume his sex life as soon as he could climb two flights of stairs without becoming winded.

Morris listens attentively and then says, “What if I look for the women who live on the ground floor?”

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“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”

Ray Bradbury

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One day, after a man had his annual physical, the doctor came out and said, “You had a great check-up.  Is there anything that you’d like to talk about or ask me?”

“Well,” he said, “I was thinking about getting a vasectomy.”

“That’s a big decision!  Have you talked it over with your family?”

“Yeah, we took a vote… and they’re in favor of it 15 to 2.”

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“Some say the glass is half empty, some say the glass is half full, I say, are you going to drink that?”

Lisa Claymen

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The man approached the very beautiful woman in the large supermarket and said, “You know I’ve lost my wife here in the supermarket. Can you talk to me for a couple of minutes?”

“Why?” asked the woman.

“Because every time I talk to a beautiful woman my wife appears out of nowhere.”

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She said: Advice to bridegrooms: Don’t tell your bride-to-be that you’re not worthy of her. Let it be a surprise.

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Jake came home from a hard day’s work, sat down at the kitchen table, and said to his wife, “Sadie, for once in your life don’t start with your troubles. Ask, instead, what happened to me at business. Ask, already, what kind of day I had. Go ahead, ask. Just ask.”

Whereupon Sadie said apprehensively, “So what happened, Jake?”

And Jake buried his head in his hands, groaned, and said, “What happened?  Oh, Sadie, better you shouldn’t ask!”

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Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.

Allen Klein

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Stay well, do good work, and have fun.

Ray Mitchell

Indianapolis, Indiana

Management is not responsible for duplicates from previous dailies. The editor is somewhat senile.

Ray’s Daily has been sent for more than fifteen years to people who want to start their day on an upbeat. If you have system overload because of our daily clutter, let me know and I will send you the information via mental telepathy. If you have not been getting our daily you can request to be added by e-mailing me at raykiwsp@gmail.com. Back issues are posted at https://raykiwsp.wordpress.com/ currently there are more than 2000 readers from around the world.

 

Learn how to be miserable

The man who doesn’t relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

Elbert Hubbard

Good morning everyone. I had a full day yesterday that wore me out and I have two very early appointments this morning so I am again sending you a Daily from the archives.

Ray’s Daily first published on January 12, 2006

The other day we talked about those people who seem to enjoy their unhappiness. While I don’t want to spend any time with them I thought I should share this for those wish to be miserable, if you follow the suggestions you will be sure to increase your stress level. If it works for you let me know, I’ll be the guy asleep on the beach.

You’ll have no trouble staying stressed if you practice the following clinically proven methods:

• Never Exercise – Exercise wastes a lot of time that could be spent worrying.
• Eat Anything You Want – Hey, if cigarette smoke can’t cleanse your system, a balanced diet isn’t likely to.
• Work hard at staying at least 25% over your recommended weight.
• Take Plenty of Stimulants – The old standards of caffeine, nicotine, sugar, and cola will continue to do the job just fine.
• Ignore the evidence suggesting that meditation, yoga, deep breathing, and/or mental imaging help to reduce stress. The “perpetual work” ethic is good for staying stressed.
• Let the few friends who are willing to tolerate you know that you concern yourself with friendships only if you have time, and you never have time. If a few people persist in trying to be your friend, avoid them.
• Anyone who criticizes any aspect of your work, family, dog, house, or car is mounting a personal attack. Don’t take time to listen; be offended, then return the attack!
• Be Macho. Never ever ask for help, and if you want it done right, do it yourself!
• Put work before everything else, and be sure to take work home evenings and weekends. Keep reminding yourself that vacations are for sissies.
• Schedule in more activities every day than you can possibly get done and then worry about it all whenever you get a chance.
• Procrastinate – Putting things off to the last second always produces a marvelous amount of stress.
• Worry About Things You Can’t Control – Worry about the stock market, earthquakes, the approaching Ice Age, you know, all the big issues.
• Set Impossibly High Standards – and either beat yourself up, or feel guilty, depressed, discouraged, and/or inadequate when you don’t meet them.
• Throw Out Your Sense of Humor – Staying stressed is no laughing matter, and it shouldn’t be treated as one. So…that means stop emails like this and get to WORK!

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Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

Margaret Fuller

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Sarah and Abe are out celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary. During the evening, Sarah broaches the subject of (their) life insurance, an issue she has been raising with him for at least 10 years, without success. “Abe,” she says, with tears in her eyes, “I don’t think you love me.”

“Why do you think that?” he asks.

“Because if you really loved me, you would ensure that if anything happened to you, God forbid, I would be properly provided for.”

“Sarah,” he says angrily, “I need life insurance like I need a hole in the head.”

“I know your views,” says Sarah, “but I’ve spoken to two of my friends recently and they tell me that their husbands have life insurance — and they’re not as rich as you. If it’s good enough for them, why isn’t it good enough for you?”

“I’ll tell you why,” replies Abe. “It’s because they’ve been paying high premiums month after month, and what have they got so far in return? Nothing!”

“So what if their husbands have been paying for nothing?” says Sarah. “You’ve always told me I’m luckier than my friends — who knows, maybe this time I’ll strike it rich.”

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My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.

Ed Furgol

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“I was out of town on business,” he told the doctor,” and I wired my wife that I would be coming home on Tuesday, instead of Wednesday. When I got in I went straight home as fast as I could, and when I got there I found her in bed with my best friend!”

The man then broke down into uncontrollable tears.

The doctor considered the problem for a couple of moments then said, “Maybe she never got your telegram.”

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Why are they called stairs inside but steps outside?

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I’ve been reading a new book, if any of you would like to borrow it just let me know. It’s called the “Useful Golf Book”.  It contains some really good articles such as:

* How to Line Up Your Fourth Putt

* How to hit a Nike from the rough when you hit a Titleist from the tee

* How to avoid the water when you lie 8 in the bunker

* How to get more distance off the shank

* Proper etiquette when you are playing with a complete jerk

* Crying and how to handle it

* How to rationalize a 7-hour round

* How to find that ball that everyone else saw go in the water

* Why your spouse no longer cares that you birdied the 4th

* How to let a foursome play through your twosome without getting embarrassed

* How to relax when you’re hitting five off the tee

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“Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.”

Norman Douglas

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An engineer, a physicist, and a statistician were moose hunting in northern Canada. After a short walk through the marshes they spotted a HUGE moose 150 meters away.

The engineer raised his gun and fired at the moose. A puff of dust showed that the bullet landed 3 meters to the right of the moose.

The physicist, realizing that there was a substantial breeze that the engineer did not account for, aimed to the left of the moose and fired. The bullet landed 3 meters to the left of the moose.

The statistician jumped up and down screaming, “We got him! We got him!”

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What’s the opposite of opposite?

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When I was doing telemarketing, one of our associates had a man on the phone and was pitching the product. The man rebuffed him and said his wife wouldn’t let him buy it. The associate boldly asked “Who wears the pants in your family?”

The man replied “My wife said I do?”

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George Washington never told a lie, proving that he neither liked to golf or fish.

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In the admitting office of our hospital, some patients were filling out forms, others were being interviewed and still others were being escorted to their rooms.

An elderly woman hesitantly entered my cubicle.  She had completed her admitting forms and, upon my request, handed me her insurance cards. I typed the necessary information and then asked her the reason for her coming to the hospital.

“Just to visit a friend,” she said, “but this had taken so long, I’m not sure I have time now.”

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Let no one come to you without leaving better and happier.

Mother Teresa

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Stay well, do good work, and have fun.

Ray Mitchell

Indianapolis, Indiana

Management is not responsible for duplicates from previous dailies. The editor is somewhat senile.

Ray’s Daily has been sent for more than fifteen years to people who want to start their day on an upbeat. If you have system overload because of our daily clutter, let me know and I will send you the information via mental telepathy. If you have not been getting our daily you can request to be added by e-mailing me at raykiwsp@gmail.com. Back issues are posted at https://raykiwsp.wordpress.com/ currently there are more than 2000 readers from around the world.

 

Sometimes it is not easy

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Hermann Hesse

I am still trying to make peace with my less active life style. While some of the changes are due to health restrictions the bottom line is I have made a choice to take a more practical approach to my day-to-day activities. The problem is I have yet to be comfortable with my no longer spending time with others doing good works.

Over the years I have always found that I could let go and move on to a new and more meaningful venture, My leaving the computer industry and working with Kiwanis International and UNICEF is an example. The difference now is that I am letting go and moving to a more practical and sedentary lifestyle and I feel twinges of guilt in the process. I am learning that I do no favors by promising to do more than I can do so I now send my spirit and best wishes to my friends who continue to make our world a better place while I sit back and cheer them on.

Here is a story that reminds us of why we need to be ready to let go, sometimes to be more productive and other times, like in my case, to be more realistic.

Letting Go

In exactly the same way that birds have to find the courage to let go of a branch in order to actually fly, we must also let go of our emotional branches if we are to experience the exhilaration of soaring to our highest potential in life!

The branches we hold on to are our innermost attachments: our beliefs, our bad habits and those memories which keep us stuck. And then there are the outer attachments: they are people, possessions, positions and privileges – to name but a few. We must be aware that as long as we hold onto them, we will actually live in fear (of letting go and loss) and we will never feel the freedom that we all deserve. Once you become aware of those birds and the initial courage they display when they let go of their branches just prior to flying, you will be capable of experiencing life in a totally different way.

This can be your new recipe of how to live a life where you learn to let go of one branch at a time, and learn to have new experiences, one at a time. The birds have found that by letting go of one branch, they are then able to spend the rest of their lives trying many other branches, one branch at a time, and they can enjoy the view from each new vantage point. What a way to live!

Are you actually flying and soaring in your life, or are you stuck on one branch, resenting others as they fly past?

You can do it, go on, just try letting go!

Remember this – not letting go of old stuff is the same as driving through life with a flat tire on our cars; not stopping to change it; hoping that it will fix itself; pretending that the ride is smooth; knowing that it isn’t; until one day it gets so loud and bumpy that we are forced to stop and take a look, and actually get help!

Author Unknown

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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Havelock Ellis

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There was a feud between the Pastor and the Choir Director of The Hicksville Southern Baptist Church. It seems the first hint of trouble came when the Pastor preached on “dedicating yourselves to service” and the Choir Director chose to sing: “I Shall Not Be Moved.”

Trying to believe it was a coincidence, the Pastor put the incident behind him. The next Sunday he preached on “giving.”  Afterwards, the choir squirmed as the director led them in the hymn: “Jesus Paid It All.”

By this time, the Pastor was losing his temper. Sunday Morning attendance swelled as the tension between the two built. A large crowd showed up the next week to hear his sermon on “The sins of Gossiping.” Would you believe the Choir Director  selected: “I Love To Tell The Story?”

There was no turning back. The following Sunday the Pastor told the congregation that unless something changed, he was considering resignation. The entire church gasped when the Choir Director led them in: “Why Not Tonight?”

Truthfully, no one was surprised when the Pastor resigned a week later, explaining that Jesus had led him there and Jesus was leading him away. The Choir Director could not resist: “What A Friend We Have In Jesus.”

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“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.”

Roy M. Goodman

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Her “Helpful Tips To Make Life Simpler”

Old telephone books make ideal personal address books. Simply cross out the names and addresses of people you don’t know.

Fool other drivers into thinking you have an expensive car phone by holding an old TV or video remote control up to your ear and occasionally swerving across the road and mounting the curb.

Avoid parking tickets by leaving your windshield wipers turned to fast wipe whenever you leave your car parked illegally.

No time for a bath? Wrap yourself in masking tape and remove the dirt by simply peeling it off.

Apply red nail polish to your nails before clipping them. The red nails will be much easier to spot on your bathroom carpet. (Unless you have a red carpet, in which case a contrasting polish should be selected).

Save on booze by drinking cold tea instead of whiskey. The following morning you can create the effects of hangover by drinking a thimble full of dish washing liquid and banging your head repeatedly on the wall.

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I told my wife I feel old, fat, bald, useless, and stupid. She said, “Don’t be silly you’re not old.”

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Young Larry stopped by the corner grocery store and read the following list to the clerk: 10 pounds sugar at $1.25 a pound 4 pounds coffee at $1.50 a pound 2 pounds butter at $1.10 a pound 2 bars soap at $.83 each “How much does that come to?” asked Larry.

“Twenty-two dollars and thirty-six cents.”

“If I gave you three ten dollar bills, how much change would I get?” said the boy.

“Seven dollars and sixty-four cents,” stated the clerk who appeared to be irritated by all the questions.

Larry said, as he disappeared through the door, “I don’t want to buy anything…that’s our arithmetic lesson for tomorrow, and I needed some help with it.”

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Want a little peace and quiet around your house??? Buy a phoneless cord.

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He said:

I was teaching my 6-year-old daughter how to unbuckle her seat belt. She asked, “Do I click the square?”

I said, “Yes.”

She asked me, “Single click or double click?”

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Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.

Melody Beattie

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Stay well, do good work, and have fun.

Ray Mitchell

Indianapolis, Indiana

Management is not responsible for duplicates from previous dailies. The editor is somewhat senile.

Ray’s Daily has been sent for more than fifteen years to people who want to start their day on an upbeat. If you have system overload because of our daily clutter, let me know and I will send you the information via mental telepathy. If you have not been getting our daily you can request to be added by e-mailing me at raykiwsp@gmail.com. Back issues are posted at https://raykiwsp.wordpress.com/ currently there are more than 2000 readers from around the world.

 

Enjoy the day

“Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.”

Anthony Robbins

 

Good morning everyone, I have not put a new Daily together this morning so here is another blast from the past.

Ray’s Daily first published on January 10, 2006

Boy is Robbins right or what. I feel sorry for those who start each day expecting things to go wrong, you know the ones I mean, those people who always see the rain cloud and never the rainbow. The people I like are those who share their joys and keep their troubles, unless there is something I can do to help.

I want to start a club that excludes grouches, naysayer’s, soreheads, negative thinkers, pessimists, cynics, and all others who find pleasure in making everyone else as miserable as they are. If we get it done just think how much fun we will have with our fellow members.

As many of you know I cruise often (my next is on Celebrity out of Fort Lauderdale in March). I cruise because it provides a great getaway opportunity where I can rest, relax, make new friends, see something new, enjoy good food, and be entertained. Unfortunately there are always a few fellow cruisers that do whatever they can to make sure everyone else has a bad time, so on this cruise I sent out a notice that anyone that complains to me better be ready for a bop on the nose, a shove overboard, or non-person status.

Everyday, whether cruising or not, I get up expecting good things to happen. I keep looking for the good stuff as the day goes on, I would hate to miss something good just because I was not paying attention. Fortunately there is never enough time to look for what is wrong and if something bad does happen my memory is short enough that I don’t remember what it was.

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“I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I’ve written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.”

 Shirley MacLaine

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She sent me this poem:

Things To Do TODAY…

    I don’t want to do the dishes,

    I don’t want to do the wash,

    I sprinkled clothes a week ago

    And now my iron is lost!

    I don’t wanna clean the pots,

    I don’t wanna rattle pans,

    I wanna read my e-mail,

    And chat with all my friends!

    The table needs some dusting

    and the floor could sure be mopped,

    But I know if I get started

    There’ll be no place to stop.

    The closets are so full

    Things are falling off the shelves,

    I wish for cleaning fairies

    And magic laundry elves!

    They could sprinkle fairy dust

    And twitch their little nose,

    And the windows would be sparkling

    And I’d have no dirty clothes.

    I don’t know what I’m saying,

    My head is in the sky,

    I must cook that meat that’s graying

    And bake that apple pie!

    My husband needs a flea bath,

    The dog needs some attention…

    Oh, the other way around I mean!

    My brain is in suspension!

    I am running round in circles,

    I am getting nothing done,

    I keep thinking of the internet,

    I’m missing all the fun!

    I know I’m not addicted

    Though I hear that all the time,

    But I guess this stuff will have to wait,

    Cause today I’ll be ON LINE!!!

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“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”

Oscar Wilde

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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do…   (especially when you share the same major!)

PSYCHOLOGY   Girl accuses boy of just using her as a substitute for his

mother.

SOCIOLOGY   Each claims to have been oppressed in the relationship.

ARCHAEOLOGY   One tries to bury the past, and accuses the other of trying to dig it up.

THEATRE   “OH! Life is… ENDED… as we KNOW it!”

BIOLOGY   “You just wanted to get in my genes!”

PHYSICS   Both resign themselves to the fact that what goes up must come down.

JOURNALISM “Today was the end of an era. Jack, 19, and Jill, 18, called an end to their relationship of 2 weeks…”

WOMEN’S STUDIES   “HE did it!”

BUSINESS   Both decide that they’re spending way too much money together, and that it’s simply cheaper to be single.

HISTORY   Each party argues the breakup was caused by something the other party did in the past.

GEOGRAPHY   Both people decide to simply move far away to avoid each other.

ANATOMY   “I never liked your body anyway.”

ECONOMICS   One party demands more than the other can supply.

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She said: I have a man I never could trust. Why, he cheats so much I’m not even sure this baby I’m carrying is his.

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Toward the end of our senior year in high school, we were required to take a CPR course.

The classes used the well known mannequin victim, Resusci-Annie, to practice.  Typical of most models, this Resusci-Annie was only a torso, to allow for storage in a carrying case.

The class went off in groups to practice.

As instructed, one of my classmates gently shook the doll and asked,

“Are you all right?”  He then put his ear over the mannequin’s mouth to listen for breathing.

Suddenly he turned to the instructor and exclaimed,

“She said she can’t feel her legs!”

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There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 AM… It could be a right number.

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“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”

“If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good”

Dr. Seuss

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Stay well, do good work, and have fun.

Ray Mitchell

Indianapolis, Indiana

Management is not responsible for duplicates from previous dailies. The editor is somewhat senile.

Ray’s Daily has been sent for more than fifteen years to people who want to start their day on an upbeat. If you have system overload because of our daily clutter, let me know and I will send you the information via mental telepathy. If you have not been getting our daily you can request to be added by e-mailing me at raykiwsp@gmail.com. Back issues are posted at https://raykiwsp.wordpress.com/ currently there are more than 2000 readers from around the world.

 

They Inspire

Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

James Buckham

We are coming off of a frigid weekend with subfreezing temperatures accompanied by arctic winds. Since we never got our igloo built we hibernated huddled up inside our home. I truly felt for those less fortunate.

The very fact that there are folks who everyday survive the toughest of times makes me grateful that so many of us have been spared.

I do however have great admiration for the survivors, those not just surviving the weather but surviving what life often throws at us. There is something special about these people who keep their head up and go on in spite of adversity, for me they are an inspiring.

Here is a piece that describes the burdens some folks cary my hope is that their happiness must not wait until the end.

We’ll all get our happy ending someday.

This goes out to all of the people who have been broken, but have been strong enough to let go. For the people who have hurt so badly that they felt that they could never love again, but kept their head up. For the people who learn from their mistakes and never stop moving forward, even when they take two steps back. For the people that wish loneliness wasn’t a part of them, but put up with it anyhow. For the people that are okay with taking up all of the room in the bed, even if it sometimes feels a little empty. For the people who wake up in the morning with no missed calls, but smile anyway.

For the people who periodically miss the past, but are so much more excited for the future. For the people that have wounds still healing.For the people that have so much tied to their past relationship, but break those chains to start fresh. For the people that want to look back so badly, but focus on the road ahead. For the people that pick up the phone and are tempted to call, but keep their dignity intact instead. For the people that never wanted to let go, but had to. For the people that still believe in love even after all of the hurt their heart has endured. For all the people that gave up, not because they were weak, but because most times, it’s better just to let go. We’ll all get our happy ending someday.

Author Unknown

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It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

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NEW OFFICE SLANG:

World Wide Wait – The real meaning of www.

Cube Farm – An office filled with cubicles.

Egosurfing – Scanning the Net, databases, etc., for one’s own name.

Oh-no-second – That minuscule fraction of time during which you realize you’ve just made a terrible-terrible error.

Seagull Manager – A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, dumps on everything and then leaves.

Under Mouse Arrest – Getting busted for violating an online service’s rule of conduct. “Sorry I couldn’t get back to you. AOL put me under mouse arrest.”

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Every time you lend money to a friend, you damage his memory.

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Three priests are chatting when the first priest says he’s going to give up red meat for lent.

The second priest thinks for a minute and says he’s going to give up sweets for Lent.

The third priest’s attention had wandered to a passing woman wearing 4 inch heels and a tiny skirt when the first priest asks him what he was going to give up for lent.  After regaining control of himself he returns to the conversation and replies, ‘Celibacy.’

~~~

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

Bernard Bailey

~~~

A man said to his wife one day, “I don’t know how you can be so stupid and so beautiful all at the same time.”

The wife responded, “Allow me to explain. God made me beautiful so you would be attracted to me; God made me stupid so I would be attracted to you!”

~~~

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Nikki Giovanni

~~~

She said: It was the third day my husband, Joe, had been in the intensive care unit following his fifth surgery for the removal of most of his remaining small intestine. The surgery took many more hours than expected. Joe was older and weaker, and he wasn’t responding.

As I sat beside his bed, two nurses tried repeatedly to get him to cough, open his eyes, move a finger – anything to let them know he could hear them. He didn’t respond. I sat praying to God to please help Joe respond – any sign that he might survive.

Finally, one of the nurses turned to me and suggested that perhaps if she knew something personal about our family, she could try to stimulate his response with that knowledge. She said, “Maybe you, as his daughter, could help us with such information.”

I smiled and said, “I’ll be happy to give you personal information, and thank you for the compliment, but I’m his wife of forty-three years, not his daughter, and we’re about the same age.”

The nurse looked at me and said, “The entire staff thought you were his daughter and had even commented how wonderful they thought it was that his daughter was with him all the time.”

As they were expressing how I looked so young, a little cough came from my husband, and we all turned to stare at him. He didn’t open his eyes, but loud and clear he said, “She dyes her hair!”

~~~

Don’t go to your high school reunion. There’ll be a lot of old people there claiming to be your classmates.

~~~

Bob and Bill were sitting in a bar, and Bob was looking really down in the dumps.

“What’s the matter?” Bill asked.

“I don’t’ get it,” Bob sighed. “The dating scene is so confusing. There are so many damn people you have to please. “Like this one woman, she liked me, her mom liked me, but her father hated me. “Then there was this other woman, both of her parents really liked me, but SHE didn’t like me. “And then there was this woman I met last night. She absolutely loved me, her parents seemed to really like me too, BUT her husband couldn’t stand me!”

~~~

Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he’s really in trouble with Mom.

~~~

A frustrated father vented, “When I was a youngster, I was disciplined by being sent to my room without supper. But in my son’s room, he has his own color TV, telephone, computer, and CD player.”

“So what do you do?” asked his friend.

“I send him to MY room!” exclaimed the father.

~~~

Going through difficult times augments our capacity for pleasure: it keeps us from taking pleasure for granted, reminds us to be grateful for all the large and small pleasures in our lives.

Tal Ben-Shahar

~~~

Stay well, do good work, and have fun.

Ray Mitchell

Indianapolis, Indiana

Management is not responsible for duplicates from previous dailies. The editor is somewhat senile.

Ray’s Daily has been sent for more than fifteen years to people who want to start their day on an upbeat. If you have system overload because of our daily clutter, let me know and I will send you the information via mental telepathy. If you have not been getting our daily you can request to be added by e-mailing me at raykiwsp@gmail.com. Back issues are posted at https://raykiwsp.wordpress.com/ currently there are more than 2000 readers from around the world.

 

We need them

“Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it’s what you believe, and the heck with everybody.”

Justin Cronin,

I was thinking the other day about the folks I have met who have done some amazing things. I worked with a computer industry pioneer who made design breakthroughs by his ability to think beyond the norm. I have met public health pioneers who were given credit for eliminating a disease that had run rampant years ago. I have an acquaintance who has labored in the remotest and most desolate places in the world helping to improve the lives of thousands. My latest additions to this list of my personal heroes are my two friends who soon to leave to work with the peace corp.

These are folks that don’t pay much attention to those who try to dissuade them from impossible tasks. Where so many of us see insurmountable obstacles they see opportunities to make a difference. Some of my favorite achievers are the folks I know who work in the trenches, each making a difference in the lives of others. They feed the homeless, mentor troubled children, hold the hands of the infirm and bless us each day with their kindness.

Here is a poem written by Edgar Guest who reminds me of these special people.

 

         It Couldn’t Be Done

 

Somebody said that it couldn’t be done,

But he with a chuckle replied

That maybe it couldn’t, but he would be one

Who wouldn’t say so “till he tried.”

So he buckled right in with the

trace of a grin on his face.

If he worried, he hid it.

He started to sing as he tackled the thing

That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

 

Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that;

At least no one ever has done it.”

But he took off his coat and took off his hat

And the first thing he knew he’d begun it.

With the lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,

Without any doubting or quiddit,

He started to sing as he tackled the thing

That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

 

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,

There are thousands to prophesy failure;

There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,

The dangers that wait to assail you.

But just buckle right in with a bit of a grin,

Then take off your coat and go to it;

Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing

That cannot be done, and you’ll do it.

~~~

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Helen Keller

~~~

An elderly woman from Brooklyn decided to prepare her will and make her final requests.

She told her rabbi she had two final requests. First, she wanted to be cremated, and second, she wanted her ashes scattered over Bloomingdales.

“Bloomingdales!” the rabbi exclaimed. “Why Bloomingdales?”

“Then I’ll be sure my daughters visit me twice a week.”

~~~

If you find in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Maya Angelou

~~~

A few years ago readers of the late William Safire’s “On Language” column in THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE were asked to give sports-related definitions for common words:

Superficial:  A really good referee

Beleaguered:  Stuck in the semi pros

Hermit:  Girl’s baseball glove

Saturnine:  Baseball team that plays on weekends

Truncate:  Tailgate party given by a compact-car owner

Wrinkle:  A small hockey arena

Haiku:  Signal to center from a Japanese quarterback

~~~

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.

Charles Dudley Warner

~~~

Jane says that there are seven stages to the married cold

Stage 1: Sugar Dumpling, I’ve really been worried about my baby girl. That’s a bad sniffle, and there’s no telling about these things with all the strep that’s going around. I’m going to put you in the hospital for a general check-up and a good rest. I know the food’s terrible, but I’m going to bring you dinner every night from Rosini’s. I have it all arranged with the floor supervisor.

Stage 2: Listen, Darling, I don’t like the sound of that cough. I’m going to call Doc Miller to rush over here. Now you go to bed like a good girl just for Papa.

Stage 3: Maybe you’d better lie down, Honey. Nothing like a little rest when you feel lousy. I’ll bring you something. Do we have any canned soup?

Stage 4: Now look, Dear, be sensible. After you’ve fed the kids, and gotten the dishes done, and the floor mopped, you’d better lie down for a while.

Stage 5: Why don’t you take a couple of aspirins?

Stage 6: Why don’t you just gargle or something instead of sitting around barking like a seal all evening?

Stage 7: Would you stop coughing on me? Are you trying to give me pneumonia?

~~~

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.

Chinese proverb

~~~

The first car load of Boy Scouts had left my house minutes earlier, bound for our three day wilderness trip. As I backed my own van load of Scouts out of my garage, I noticed a pair of hiking boots on the back steps, so I stopped to retrieve them.

An hour later, we caught up with the first car, which was parked at a highway rest stop. Seeing me pull up, my assistant Scout leader rolled down his window. “Your wife just called on my cell phone,” he said. “She asked if you knew anything about the plumber’s boots that were on your back steps.”

~~~

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.

Felix Adler

~~~

Stay well, do good work, and have fun.

Ray Mitchell

Indianapolis, Indiana

Management is not responsible for duplicates from previous dailies. The editor is somewhat senile.

Ray’s Daily has been sent for more than fifteen years to people who want to start their day on an upbeat. If you have system overload because of our daily clutter, let me know and I will send you the information via mental telepathy. If you have not been getting our daily you can request to be added by e-mailing me at raykiwsp@gmail.com. Back issues are posted at https://raykiwsp.wordpress.com/ currently there are more than 2000 readers from around the world.

 

I have decided

“It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

J K Rowling

If I was going to summarize my plans for 2017 it would be “Don’t sweat the small stuff.” There is so much anxiety and anger floating around these days that I have decided the wisest course is to avoid joining the fray. It dosen’t mean I don’t care it just means I will play were I can actually do something.

Recently Marc Chernoff a copy of affirmations we should make this year. I thought like I do that you might find them helpful.

20 Powerful Affirmations We Should Say to Ourselves This Year

1.“The biggest and most complex obstacle I will ever have to overcome is my mind.  If I can overcome that, I can overcome anything.”

2.“I cannot control exactly what happens in life, but I can control how I respond to it all.  In my response is my greatest power.”

3.“I have to accept whatever comes my way, and the only important thing is that I meet it with the best I have to give.”

4.“I will stop focusing on how stressed I am and remember how blessed I am.  Complaining won’t change my reality, but a positive attitude will.”

5.“Being positive does not mean ignoring the negative.  Being positive means overcoming the negative.  There is a big difference between the two.”

6.“I will not get caught up in what could’ve been or should’ve been.  I will look instead at the power and possibility of what is, right now.”

7.“I am not a product of my circumstances.  I am a product of my decisions.  It’s about not letting my fear decide my future.”

8.“I will get back up.  Again and again.  The faster I recover from setbacks, the faster I’ll get to where I’m going in life.”

9.“My next step in the right direction does not have to be a big one.”

10.“Patience is a genuine expression of confidence, acceptance, serenity, and faith in my own ability.  It’s a sign of strength.  I will practice it.”

11.“When I find that I don’t have time for what matters, I will stop doing things that don’t.”

12.“I can always feel the genuine, positive power that flows from my decision to rise above the petty drama and distractions that don’t really matter anyway.”

13.“Instead of getting angry, I will find the lesson.  In place of envy, I will feel admiration.  In place of worry, I will take positive action.  In place of doubt, I will have faith.”

14.“The longer I remain peaceful, the stronger I become.  Peace on the inside leads to real, meaningful progress on the outside.”

15.“There’s nothing selfish about self-care and self-love.  I can’t give what I don’t have.  When I enrich my own life, I’ll be life-giving to others too.”

16.“If the grass looks greener on the other side, it’s just life’s way of reminding me to water the grass I’m standing on.”

17.“From now on I will be too busy watering my own grass to notice if yours is greener.”

18.“I will focus on making myself better, not on thinking I am better.”

19.“I will practice gratitude, even in the midst of frustration and despair, so I can better see the positive possibilities around me.”  (Angel and I discuss this in more detail in the “Happiness” chapter of 1,000 Little Things Happy, Successful People Do Differently.)

20.“Happiness does not start when ‘this, that or the other’ thing is resolved.  Happiness is what happens now, when I make the best of what I have.”

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“It isn’t where you came from, its where you’re going that counts.”

Ella Fitzgerald

~~~

She said: A patient at the dental office where I was a receptionist stopped by my desk to pay her bill. She began rummaging through her purse, as so many patients did when they had a check to write.

“Do you need a pen?” I asked, offering her the use of mine.

“Yes, thank you,” she replied. She took it, put it in her handbag and proceeded to pay in cash.

~~~

“Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.”

George Santayana

~~~

Here are some quotes from people in the US during the 1950’s… Oh, how times have changed!

1) “I’ll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it’s going to be impossible to buy a weeks groceries for $20.”

2) “Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won’t be long when $5000 will only buy a used one.”

3) “If cigarettes keep going up in price, I’m going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous.”

4) “Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?”

5) “The Government is wanting to get its hands on everything. Pretty soon it’s going to be impossible to run a family business or farm.”

6) “If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.”

7) “When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 40 cents a gallon. Guess we’d be better off leaving the car in the garage.”

8) “Kids today are impossible. Those duck tail haircuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls.”

9) “Also, their music drives me wild. This ‘Rock Around The Clock’ thing is nothing but racket.”

10) “Pretty soon you won’t be able to buy a good 10 cent cigar.”

11) “I read the other day where some scientist thinks it’s possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas.”

12) “Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn’t surprise me if someday they’ll be making more than the president.”

13) “Do you suppose television will ever reach our part of the country?”

14) “I never thought I’d see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now.”

15) “It’s too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where some married women are having to work to make ends meet.”

16) “It won’t be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.”

17) “I’ll tell you one thing. If my kid ever talks back to me, they won’t be able to sit down for a week.”

18) “Did you know the new church in town is allowing women to wear slacks to their service?”

19) “Next thing you know is, the government will start paying us to not grow crops.”

20). “Thank goodness I won’t live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to congress.”

21). “Why in the world would you want to send your daughter to college? Isn’t she going to get married? It would be different if she could be a doctor or a lawyer.”

22) “There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend. It costs nearly $15 a night to stay in a hotel.”

23) “Anymore no one can afford to be sick; $35 a day in the hospital is too rich for my blood.”

24) “If a few idiots want to risk their necks flying across the country that’s fine, but nothing will ever replace trains.”

25) “I don’t know about you but if they raise the price of coffee to 15 cents, I’ll just have to drink mine at home.”

26). “If they think I’ll pay 50 cents for a haircut, forget it. I’ll have my wife learn to cut hair.”

27) “We won’t be going out much anymore. Our sitter informed us she wants 50 cents an hour. Kids think money grows on trees.”

28) “Cars that dim their lights by sensors, automatic transmissions, and who knows what else? Pretty soon they will drive themselves.”

~~~

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

Alexander Haig

~~~

Stay well, do good work, and have fun.

Ray Mitchell

Indianapolis, Indiana

Management is not responsible for duplicates from previous dailies. The editor is somewhat senile.

Ray’s Daily has been sent for more than fifteen years to people who want to start their day on an upbeat. If you have system overload because of our daily clutter, let me know and I will send you the information via mental telepathy. If you have not been getting our daily you can request to be added by e-mailing me at raykiwsp@gmail.com. Back issues are posted at https://raykiwsp.wordpress.com/ currently there are more than 2000 readers from around the world.

 

Another good day

“Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.”

Aldous Huxley ~

I am off to see my pulmonologist this morning to verify I am still breathing, I pretty sure I am but there is no harm in checking.  Today, like any other day I chose to be upbeat I just can’t stand being down. Here is a story I may have shared with you before but it is always a good reminder of the reasons to stay positive.

A Dose of Positive Attitude

Author Unknown

Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, “If I were any better, I would be twins!” He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Michael was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Michael and asked him, “I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?” Michael replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood… or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim… or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining… or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.

“Yeah, right, it’s not that easy,” I protested.

“Yes, it is,” Michael said. “Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It’s your choice how you live your life.”

I reflected on what Michael said. Soon thereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.

Several years later, I heard that Michael was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Michael was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back. I saw Michael about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied. “If I were any better, I’d be twins. Wanna see my scars?” I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.

“The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon to be born daughter,” Michael replied. “Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live… or I could choose to die. I chose to live.”

“Weren’t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?” I asked.

Michael continued… “The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read “He’s a dead man. I knew I needed to take action.”

“What did you do?” I asked.

“Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me,” said Michael. “She asked if I was allergic to anything. “Yes, I replied.” The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, “Gravity.” Over their laughter, I told them, “I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.”

“Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything. Matthew 6:34 states: Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”

After all, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Enjoy each day, each breath and mostly… each and every friend. And remember to start each day with an “attitude of gratitude!”

~~~

The best cure for our body is a quiet mind and the best cure for the mind is don’t Mind. Always look for What’s Wrong before looking Who’s Wrong. stay positive, Be happy.

Anurag Prakash Ray

~~~

For thirty years, Johnson had arrived at work at 9 A.M., on the dot. He had never missed a day and was never late. Consequently, when on one particular day 9 A.M. passed without Johnson’s arrival, it caused a sensation. All work ceased and the boss himself, looking at his watch and muttering, came out into the corridor. Finally, precisely at ten, Johnson showed up, clothes dusty and torn, his face scratched and bruised, his glasses bent.

He limped painfully to the time clock, punched in, and said, aware that all eyes were upon him, “I tripped and rolled down two flights of stairs in the subway. Nearly killed myself.”

The boss said, “And to roll down two flights of stairs took you an entire hour?”

~~~

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy.

~~~

A friend and I were lunching at a sidewalk cafe in Huntington Beach, CA. Our waitress looked like a real surfer girl:  athletic with a great tan and blond hair. Mulling over the menu, my friend asked her if the roast beef was rare.

The waitress gave us a long blank look, and then replied, “Well, no.  We have it, like, just about every day.”

~~~

“I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with ‘Guess’ on it.  I said, ‘Thyroid problem?'”

~~~

A little boy took his dog on a “take your pet to school” day. There were prizes for the smallest, the prettiest, the cutest, and the smartest pet. Determined that his dog win a prize, the boy put his pet through a whole series of tricks.

Finally the boy turned to the dog and asked, “Mindy, how much is two plus two minus four?”

The dog sat quietly, making no sound, remaining still and silent.

“Right!” exclaimed the boy.

His dog won first prize.

~~~

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.

Earl Nightingale

~~~

A man went on a ski trip and was knocked unconscious by the chair lift. He called his insurance company from the hospital, but it refused to cover his injury.

“Why is the injury not covered”? he asked.

“You got hit in the head by a chair lift,” the insurance rep said. “That makes you an idiot and we consider that a pre-existing condition.”

~~~

“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, “This is the real me,” and when you have found that attitude, follow it.”

William James

~~~

Stay well, do good work, and have fun.

Ray Mitchell

Indianapolis, Indiana

Management is not responsible for duplicates from previous dailies. The editor is somewhat senile.

Ray’s Daily has been sent for more than fifteen years to people who want to start their day on an upbeat. If you have system overload because of our daily clutter, let me know and I will send you the information via mental telepathy. If you have not been getting our daily you can request to be added by e-mailing me at raykiwsp@gmail.com. Back issues are posted at https://raykiwsp.wordpress.com/ currently there are more than 2000 readers from around the world.

 

My choices for 2017

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

Well my friends here we are at the beginning of another new year. I don’t know about you but I plan on keeping things simpler this year. I am not going to worry about what I can’t do anymore, instead I am going to be grateful that I can still do more than enough.

I have come to learn over the years that there is little use in agonizing over the fact that others are now the decision makers in organizations where I no longer have a role to play. I also have learned many times that there is no useful purpose in getting stressed over things I have no control over. So I plan on keeping things simple while concentrating on making each day a good one.

Here is an article from the Positivity Blog that I really like, you might find it useful as well.

3 Quick Questions for a Simpler and Happier 2017

by Henrik EdbergIs this useful?

Is this useful?

It’s very easy to spend a lot of time on things that do not really matter much. To spend hours, days or even weeks on being angry at someone, replaying a mistake or failure in one’s mind or to dwell on something negative and feeling more and more like a victim.

So I try to ask myself this question as often as I can to question and confront my own thoughts.  To catch myself and to wake myself up when I get stuck in negative thought loops going round and round.

By doing so I:

• Suffer less.
• Waste less time on going round in circles.
• Spend more of my time on finding a practical solution.What is one very small step I can take right now to get the ball rolling?

What is one very small step I can take right now to get the ball rolling?

This is my favorite question for when I want to get started with something or if I want to get going again with something that have fallen to the side for some reason.

Because it makes things easier. Makes them feel lighter.

This question prevents me from trying to escape into procrastination and helps me to avoid the side-effects of that such as sinking self-esteem and simply a lot of time being wasted on trying to hide.

Will this matter in 5 years? Or even 5 weeks?

This one helps me to simplify.

• To let go.
• To not make a mountain out of a molehill.
• To find the healthier and happier perspective.
• To not lose my focus and energy to crippling worries.

To find a lightness in life where I do not have to carry around 5 tons of unnecessary mental baggage.

It is a truly wonderful question.

~~~

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

~~~

A guy sees a sign in front of a house: “Talking Dog for Sale.” He rings the bell and the owner tells him the dog is in the backyard. The guy goes into the backyard and sees a black mutt just sitting there.

“You talk?” he asks.

“Yep,” the mutt replies.

“So, what’s your story?”

The mutt looks up and says, “Well, I discovered this gift pretty young and I wanted to help the government, so I told the CIA about my gift, and in no time they had me jetting from country to country, sitting in rooms with spies and world leaders, because no one figured a dog would be eavesdropping. I was one of their most valuable spies eight years running. The jetting around really tired me out, and I knew I wasn’t getting any younger and I wanted to settle down. So I signed up for a job at the airport to do some undercover security work, mostly wandering near suspicious characters and listening in. I uncovered some incredible dealings there and was awarded a batch of medals. Had a wife, a mess of puppies, and now I’m just retired.”

The guy is amazed. He goes back in and asks the owner what he wants for the dog.

The owner says, “Ten dollars.”

The guy says, “This dog is amazing. Why on earth are you selling him, so cheap?”

The owner replies, “He’s such a liar. He didn’t do any of that stuff. ”

~~~

“Whether it’s the best of times, or the worst of times, it’s the only time you’ve got.”

Art Buchwald

~~~

A concerned Father asked his daughter if her latest beau was serious about their relationship.

“I’ll say he is Daddy,” she replied… “Why just last night he asked me how much you make, what kind of meals Mom serves, and if you guys are easy to get along with.

~~~

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”

Kimberly Johnson

~~~

The Secretary of the Navy was inspecting a recently launched carrier. The entire crew stood at attention. “I suppose,” said the Secretary jokingly to the carrier’s captain, “you know the name of every man on the ship.”

“I think I do,” was the captain’s unexpected reply.

“Aha,” smiled the Secretary.  “What’s the name of that man?”  he asked, pointing to a sailor standing two rows away.

“That’s William Jones,” replied the captain.

The Secretary walked over and addressed the seaman himself.

“And what’s your name, sailor?” he asked.

“William Jones, sir,” replied Seaman Abernathy.

~~~

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

Albert Einstein

~~~

Two girls board a crowded bus and one of them whispers to the other, “Watch me embarrass a man into giving me his seat!”

Pushing her way through the crowd, she turned all of her charms upon a gentleman who looked like he might embarrass easily.  “My dear Mr. Wilson,” she gushed, “fancy meeting you here on the bus.  Am I glad to see you!  Why you are almost a stranger.  My, but I’m tired!”

The sedate gent looked up at the girl.  He had never seen her before but he rose and said pleasantly, “Sit down, Mary, my girl.  It isn’t often I see you on washday.  No wonder you are tired.  Being pregnant isn’t easy.  By the way, don’t deliver the wash until Thursday. My wife is going to the District Attorney’s office to see whether or not she can get your husband out of jail.”

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Anyone Preying On My Mind Today Would Starve To Death

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Pandora, a psychic and mystic,

Told fortunes most unrealistic,

But Walter, a nerd,

Who liked what he heard,

Was cautiously optimistic.

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That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Steve Jobs

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Stay well, do good work, and have fun.

Ray Mitchell

Indianapolis, Indiana

Management is not responsible for duplicates from previous dailies. The editor is somewhat senile.

Ray’s Daily has been sent for more than fifteen years to people who want to start their day on an upbeat. If you have system overload because of our daily clutter, let me know and I will send you the information via mental telepathy. If you have not been getting our daily you can request to be added by e-mailing me at raykiwsp@gmail.com. Back issues are posted at https://raykiwsp.wordpress.com/ currently there are more than 2000 readers from around the world.

 

 

Here we go again

 

Today is a national holiday in my country so the Daily staff is spending the day planning for the months ahead. The Daily will be back to normal tomorrow. In the meantime:

My wife amd I join with our grat-grandson and his seven cousins, our grandchildren in wishing the very best in 2017.

 

Ηappy New Year tο you!

May Εvery great Νew day Bring yοu sweet surprises

Α happiness buffet. Ηappy New Year tο you,

Αnd when the Νew year’s dοne,

May Τhe next year Βe even Βetter,

Full οf pleasure, joy Αnd fun.

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Stay well, do good work, and have fun.

Ray Mitchell

Indianapolis, Indiana

Management is not responsible for duplicates from previous dailies. The editor is somewhat senile.

Ray’s Daily has been sent for more than fifteen years to people who want to start their day on an upbeat. If you have system overload because of our daily clutter, let me know and I will send you the information via mental telepathy. If you have not been getting our daily you can request to be added by e-mailing me at raykiwsp@gmail.com. Back issues are posted at https://raykiwsp.wordpress.com/ currently there are more than 2000 readers from around the world.