Ray’s Daily
October 23, 2017
Change before you have to.
Jack Welch
I ran into a friend the other day who I have known for many years. I first met her when she was working in an entry level job for our cities most successful restaurant conglomerate. She was the single mother of a young child who I found to have a big heart. It was not long after we first met that she decided that she was going to make a commitment to a successful and caring life. To make a long story short she excelled and rose in the ranks of her organization to a key management position.
What I discovered the other day was that she made the choice to leave the consuming roles she was playing and accept a lower position in her company’s organization. She decided that there was more to life than letting her vocation consume all her time and energy. She now gets to spend more time with her teenage daughter as well as the opportunity to see the things along the way that she has been missing while she did her previous job. She again has taken charge of her life and I am proud of her once more.
If you want to make a change in your life the following tips may help. They are from the Live Bold and Bloom blog.
How To Easily Get Unstuck From Your Rut And Make Positive Change
Abridged
Start small – Whatever it is you want to achieve, break it down into the smallest possible actions. Don’t begin a running program by attempting to run 5 miles the first day. Just start by putting on your shoes and getting out the door and run for 5 minutes. Make it profoundly easy to accomplish your new action at the beginning. Do this for several days before increasing your time. Build up to your optimum time for your new behavior very slowly over a period of weeks.
Reward yourself – Find some small way to acknowledge your efforts every day. Find out what feels like a reward to you, and give it to yourself immediately following your new habit. Remember getting gold stars in elementary school? Well they are still surprisingly rewarding. Watch them line up on your calendar as you accomplish your small goal every day.
Create accountability – If someone else is paying attention to what you are doing, you are more likely to follow through. So announce your plans for your new positive habit to other people. You can use social media, email a friend, or have your spouse serve as your accountability partner.
Prepare for disruptions – Life has a way of getting in the way of our plans and preparation. If you miss a day of completing your habit because of travel, emergencies, etc. don’t use that as an excuse to quit. Just pick back up as soon as you can. In fact, try to anticipate possible interruptions to your new habit and create an alternative plan.
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I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Retirees: The Whole Truth, Nothing But…
Question: How many days in a week? Answer: 6 Saturdays, 1 Sunday
Question: When is a retiree’s bedtime? Answer: Three hours after he falls asleep on the couch.
Question: How many retirees to change a light bulb? Answer: Only one, but it might take all day.
Question: What’s the biggest gripe of retirees? Answer: There is not enough time to get everything done.
Question: Why don’t retirees mind being called Seniors? Answer: The term comes with a 10% percent discount.
Question: Among retirees what is considered formal attire? Answer: Tied shoes.
Question: Why do retirees count pennies? Answers: They are the only ones who have the time.
Question: Why are retirees so slow to clean out the basement, attic or garage? Answer: They know that as soon as they do, one of their adult kids will want to store stuff there.
Question: What do retirees call a long lunch? Answer: Normal.
Question: What is the best way to describe retirement? Answers: The never ending Coffee Break.
Question: What’s the biggest advantage of going back to school as a retiree? Answer: If you cut classes, no one calls your parents.
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Lead me not into temptation. I know my way.
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To impress his date, the young man took her to a very chic Italian restaurant. After sipping some fine wine, he picked up the menu and studied it with an appraising eye.
“We’ll have the Giuseppe Spomdalucci,” he said finally.
“Sorry, sir,” said the waiter. “That’s the owner.”
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We are not Human Beings having a spiritual experience.
We are Spiritual Beings having a human experience.
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
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Every morning for years, at about 11:30, the telephone operator in a small Sierra-Nevada town received a call from a man asking the exact time. One day the operator summed up nerve enough to ask him why the regularity. “I’m foreman of the local sawmill,” he explained. “Every day I have to blow the whistle at noon so I call you to get the exact time.” The operator giggled, “That’s really funny,” she said. “All this time we’ve been setting our clock by your whistle.
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Procrastinators Unite… Tomorrow!
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Last month, after much deliberation, I bought a magnolia tree from our local nursery. After only a few weeks I noticed that the leaves had started to shrivel and the tree appeared to be on its last legs in spite of my tender care. So I took some leaf samples and marched back to the nursery to demand an explanation or get my money back.
“I know exactly what’s wrong with your magnolia,” said the manager.
“Good!” I exclaimed. “What’s it suffering from?”
You can imagine how stupid I felt when he simply said, “autumn.”
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An American lawyer asked, “Paddy, why is it that whenever you ask an Irishman a question, he answers with another question?”
“Who told you that?” asked Paddy.
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
Gail Sheehy
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Ray Mitchell
Indianapolis, Indiana
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