When is the last time you laughed so hard you couldn’t breathe? The kind of laughter that made you scramble for a tissue and made your ribs hurt the next day. The average four-year-old laughs 300 times a day, a 40-year-old, only four. If you doubt those figures, watch this clip of my four-year-old grandson, Tyler. Time it! Then do …
20,000 Days and Counting!
I met Robert D Smith about five years ago. He greeted me at the door as though I was a long lost friend. I looked behind me to see if he might be talking to someone else. He was talking to me. We have been friends since that day. Since high school Robert has worked full time to help his …
When You Fall! A new Twist on Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the kings horses and all the kings men Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again Remember that poem? Kind of a bleak picture isn’t it. Every body falls at one time or another. Whether it is a financial mess, a moral failure, a relationship breakdown or a personal …
Two Words that can Keep You from Experiencing Life!
I’m back after a week of vacation trying to keep up with six grandchildren with the stamina of a herd of energizer bunnies. I returned with compelling evidence that I am fully alive. 1. I have bruises from head to toe 2. My body aches all over. I water skied until I literally dropped. I dived into the water from …
What a Wheelchair Wheelie Taught me about Attitude.
Live with expectancy instead of expectation that’s the challenge I give in almost every presentation I make. Smile and the world smiles with you! Happy face, Happy place. I write about it! I challenge other people to live it! But in a split second I can slip into the same old patterns I so badly want to shed.