Happy Saturday, lovely people!! This morning my wife and I are driving to Las Vegas!! š² …then to Salt Lake, then Grand Tetons, Yellowstone, up to northwest Montana, then back home to California! A friend of mine commented… “That’s like 40 hours of driving time! Won’t you get bored? Why don’t you fly, it’s quicker!?”… Read more about Enjoying the journey![…]
Check out this beautiful puzzle I finished over the weekend! Pretty cool, right?… BUT, what you canāt quite see in the photo is that there are actually two pieces missing… Donāt you hate it when that happens!? Iāve been chipping away at this puzzle for 2 full weeks, and when I finally got to the Read more about Focus on your 998[…]
Dwelling on the negative is like tying your shoe laces together. It trips you with every step. Actually it’s worse… It’s also like tying your friends laces together as well as all the other people around you. Negativity slows your entire world down. So shift your perspective. Focus on the positive! Take your shoes off Read more about Shift your perspective, my friend.[…]
They say that… “beauty is in the eye of the beholderā. If this is true, it means that beauty doesn’t exist on its own… It is created by observers. Beauty is created by you, and me, and everyone else. So, really: everything in existence is beautiful…Ā Ā …it’s just waiting for the right observers to come Read more about Eye of the beholder[…]
A reader of this group, Eric Bennett, shot me this note last week. I like it because reading it makes me realize how clueless I am (in a good way š)! Check it out… Think 2-8-90 There’s 2% of what you know you know, 8% of what you know you don’t know and 90% Read more about Think 2-8-90[…]
Today on the blog, a quick story from my buddy Kurtis: When I was in 6th grade, I thought I was hot shit. Ā I was one of the ācool kidsā and there were 3 guys who were our nemeses, the āskater kidsā. Ā The skater kids would always be mean to us. Ā Acting like they were Read more about A bully’s perspective…[…]
Happiness Doors “When one door of happiness closes, another one opens. But often people look too long at the closed door, they don’t see the new open one” Close your eyes for a moment and picture 10 doors, all in a row. Each one leads to happiness. Some doors are open, some closed, Read more about Happiness Doors – Look Around You[…]
š“ A Lesson From Palm Trees… š“ There are 2 gorgeous palm trees standing either side of my house. Theyāre about 60 feet tall and are really beautiful. I love them. But sometimes, they do this… A big wind storm comes and blows off all the dead palm fronds. It creates a huge mess Read more about A Lesson From Palm Trees…š“[…]
Do you know why rose bushes haveĀ thorns? Me neither. But have you ever thought about why thorn bushes haveĀ roses? Check you perspective. Mondays around about seeing the good! Cheers, – Joel *Photo by Heidi Kaden!