Wednesday Wonderment

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a perfectly crappy photograph...

Perfectly Crappy…

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Are you letting the crappy parts of life darken an otherwise perfectly crappy day?

If some area of your life sucks – do something else. Life is too short – and too long – to spend it being miserable. Life may indeed be short but it is for a fact wide. It is high time we started settling for more.

— Jill Conner Browne
author of Fat is the New 30: The Sweet Potato Queen’s Guide to Coping with (the crappy parts) of Life

Kudos to photographer, Diana F. who managed to see past the “crappiness” of her photo which is shown above; she boldly published it to Flicker®, tagging it “a perfectly crappy photograph… taken with a perfectly crappy camera.” Sounds pretty negative doesn’t it. But please note: she didn’t delete this sweet but flawed photo of a mountain meadow scene. Instead she Continue reading » Perfectly Crappy…

Which Path

The Happy Path

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I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

— Martha Washington

Most of us say that we want to be happy, and to some extent we do.  Getting to happy requires that we consciously choose the “happy path.”  To do that, we have to figure out what happy looks like to us.  Then, when we come to a fork in the road, we need to consciously choose the path that heads toward our version of happy.

I believe that we all have the potential to be happy.  For some of us, our view of happy looks like our family life when we were kids.

One of the things that we absorbed when we lived at home was Continue reading » The Happy Path

Exercise room

How to Get a Woman to Burn More Calories

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Contrex – Ma Contrexpérience – 97s from Marcel on Vimeo.

Remember, it Wacky Wednesday around here.  Do you know of a special way to induce women to “burn those carbs?”

Laughing

Have a “Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee” Kind of Day!

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Need an excuse for a good belly laugh?

The more you laugh
The more you fill with glee
And the more the glee
The more we’re a merrier we!

— from the movie Mary Poppins

But is a “merrier-we” a good thing? YES!! So say gelotologists – people who study laughter and its effects on the body from a psychological and physiological perspective:

… laughing decreases stress [and] does the body good… A UC Irvine College of Medicine study… found that even looking forward to a funny event increases endorphins and decreases detrimental stress hormones.

DailyPilot.com

And apparently, laughing comes more easily when Continue reading » Have a “Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee” Kind of Day!

Cup o’ Inspiration

cup with steam swirl

Take a short break and consider the following:

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

Confucius

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