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What do you do when you wake up on the wrong side of the bed?

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

— Dr. Seuss

Some days it doesn’t take much to steal away your morning cheer.  (Yeah, yeah, that’s IF you had any to begin with – some of us just wake up grumpy … something about morning does that to us.) In a recent Family Circus comic strip the Mom wakes up with a glorious stretch and a song in her heart only to be bombarded by:

• My throat hurts… cough, cough.
• We’re out of milk.
• Your cell phone battery is dead!
• The toilet’s backed up.
• More bad news from DC…

And so slumps her mood, from glad to sad… down, down, down into a grumpy, grayness in what, a nano second?  Ta-da! Gloom rules.

Why Dump the Slump?

Some of you may be asking, “Why would I want to dump a perfectly good grumpy slump???” Because glad makes the day dance, projects march and helpers help.  It greases the skids, primes the pump, makes tasks easy as pie, carries the day, charms the birds out of the trees… Oh heck, do it because I say so!

How Shall We Dump ’Em?

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