Even if nobody asked……
1. A man looks out the widow to see his trash barrels have been emptied all over his front lawn. He gets dressed to head out and clean it up but finds his next-door neighbor finishing up the job for him. As he later drives off to work he scowls at the kids playing in the street, as he does with a few of the less friendly neighbors he sees along the way. Which one did this to him, he wonders. He’s certain it has to be one of them! Now let’s consider a small change in our story: when he gets dressed and heads outside everything is back in the barrels, but he doesn’t see who cleaned it up. So he has to wonder, who did this simple act of kindness? As he makes that same drive to work he now sees the kids in the street and his neighbors along the way and wonders, which one cleaned it up? His SCOWL is now a SMILE. His anger is now gratitude – and it extends to EVERYONE he sees. The magical power of giving anonymously. (HT: Randell Wallace)
2. When a problem is raised, a WISE man searches to see if any of it is on him. To a FOOL, the problem is never in the same room.
3. Networking advice: stay away from the person who enters a room five minutes before they get there. You know the guy. I know you do. 😎
4. Outrage is a finite resource. Don’t spread it around too much.
5. “They’re predominantly Hibernian, a race that never let prudence or reason cloud its judgment. Time and again, throughout history, the Irish have boasted their way into apocalypse. I find no cause to think they’ll do any different in Boston.” Dennis Lehane in his great book, The Given Day. #guiltyascharged
6. Trivial Pursuit is.
7. Lots of fans like to scream that superstar athletes are all about the money. But as soon as that player makes a bad play or doesn’t come through, that same fan screams that the star shouldn’t fail “making that much money!” Tell me again who makes it about the money?
8. Basketball was better when plays started with PASSING, not DRIBBLING.
9. “Crestfallen”. Three syllable word right there. Your mouth is full enough with two syllables so leave it alone. ‘Read and not said’ is where it belongs.
10. One of my better friends growing up died with esophageal cancer at age 48 in 2008. He passed away on August 25th, the SAME day my mother passed 19 years earlier, also at age 48. He was a pallbearer at her funeral and both their funerals were at the same church. A week ago that friends’ only child, his precious daughter, died of esophageal cancer. She didn’t make it to 48. She was gone at 34. Man, life can be so ironic, but it can also be so, so brutal. Shed a tear and say a prayer today for the families who suffer from such tragedy’s. 👏
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