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Thoughts and takes on the way life presents.... |
| Thoughts and takes on the way life presents.... |
| My car is possessed. I was sent on a mission to buy food. So I get to the place and decide to take two minutes to see if I am close to the address. Patting myself on the back for finding my way out of a paper bag, i get out of the car and Hell's Bells, lights flashing, horn honking, dashboard going nuts. I tried to start it but it refused. And the ermergency blinkers were just a pain in the patootie, where are those things when you don't need them? Anyway, I got out of the car, and key locked the door, and then she was happy. I was pissed, but she was content that she sent for the sheriff when there was no crime. I told this story to Paul the lawyer and he said better to be possessed than repossessed. Thanks, Paul. That puts it all in perspective. |
| Prompt: Mark Twain said, "To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence." Do you agree or disagree? What do you think is the key to success? Boy, ain't it the truth. More people get ahead just because nobody told them it could not be done than any other thing. Once you are going, and things are working out, and the negative gus comes along, you have the confidence to tell them to go blow. I think another thing that helps is that it never occurs to the successful person that the outcome would be anything other than what it is. When you fly without a plan B, you make it work and try all sundry of things to reach the goal. And you will reach it. A Navy Seal was once asked what it took to get through the testing and what was the testing. The Seal would not say what the testing was because it is personal to that person and based on psychological tests that the person had to take. His best advice was "Don't quit." He explained that the tests are so personal that you will want to quit at every stage, and the only thing that would have prevented him from completing is if he gave up or quit. So, winners don't quit. Define the win and go for it. |
| "Where have you been?"----- Make up a creative reason for being late to an important function. I had been working in the legal field for a while when I chance to meet Trudy, the perpetually late secretary for my boss. She was very creative. Dan, the office manager set up a chart and when she came in with an excuse for being late, he would put it on the chart. It became a game. "Trudy, you used that one yesterday." and she would have to come up with a different one. Sometimes, she actually had some really unique ones and he got to make a new entry on his chart. He loved those. My favorite was "My cat ate my alarm clock." That's not true, my real favorite is "Trudy, I don't want to hear it. And why are you wearing your shirt upside down?" "I spilled something on it and I felt I had to let it dry, but I put it on newsprint and it seeped through and I didn't want it to show, so I put it on like this to let it dry." I'm telling you, Trudy has you all beat. Truth is stranger than fiction and Trudy was stranger than all of you put together. |
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