Daily Inspiration 5-14-11

Perspective Week

"If the only tool you have is a hammer,

you tend to see every problem as a nail."

-- Abraham Maslow

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking

new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

-- Marcel Proust

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."

-- John Lubbock

"Advice to children crossing the street:

Damn the lights. Watch the cars.

The lights ain't never killed nobody."

-- Moms Mabley

Times are tough, or so they say (whoever they are), and they remain tough until we no longer think they are tough. It's easy to say, and harder to believe.

I know a few people who lost their positions and some were in that position a long time. It's easy to sympathize with them and commiserate with them about their unfortunate loss. Many might think me strange, but I just don't do that anymore. Instead, I rejoice in their loss. I'll explain.

If you think just about that act: commiserate with them or rejoice in their loss, which do you think helps them more? Which helps me more? I know for a fact that it isn't commiserate because that just keeps them where they are wallowing in self-pity or re-experiencing the loss again and again looking for sympathy and understanding.

As I look back on my life of 61 years, I can clearly see at this vantage point that each and every change in my life led me to a better place with more joy, not less. Even when I see how horrible it seemed like at the time and how much I wanted to wallow and even did many times. Still--each and every time--it was for the best. Many times, it was even so much better that I couldn't have imagined it to be such.

So now, I've learned that everything that happens is good in some way and so I celebrate. I get excited. I tell them how excited I am for them. You know why? Because I am! I know how so many of those so-called bummer events turned out to be spectacular successes, so I know it will be for them too. They just need a nudge to break loose.

I put the Moms Mabley quote in there because we just get hung up on the rules sometimes. We lose track of what to do without the signs. And, we need new eyes when something like losing a position comes along. Heck, I think we need eyes that see a picture of going and thanking the person that fired you and pouring blessings on them! Because the next thing is going to be so damn awesome that it will be a blessing! Damn the rules. Make your own game!

Moving on to something else after doing something for a long time is a challenge. I know. It's happened to me and I can relate to how it feels. The main thing I found was that I had to take a break and allow myself to have a different thought. After 30 years in the car business, I got fired. I've said that it was the happiest day of my life, and I think it still is, but after doing something like that for almost all my adult life up to that point, I just couldn't wrap my mind around anything else but going back to another dealership and doing the familiar thing somewhere else. I hated that idea of being stuck like that, so I took a break and just chilled. Then, I began to entertain other ideas and I began picturing myself doing something else and not only doing it, but being very good at it and so on. It worked like a magic potion.

Like the quote says, what we see has everything to do with what we look for or at. Sometimes we're just so hung up on what's happened that we can't seem to get past it and that just holds us to it like an anchor.

Ever watched trapeze artists? When they flip one person to the other person, they have to let go of them before they can be picked up. Letting go of what was can be a challenge, but it will be the only way of being able to grasp the new. Embrace the change. Change is natural, needed, and beneficial. It will not just be okay, it will be exciting, new and most excellent.

Renewal Is A Wonderful Time Of Life . . .

Spread Some Joy Today--I think Renewal comes after Spring, or is it after Summer? Well, where ever it is, it brings joy to you and there will be plenty to share.

Daily Inspiration 5-13-11

Perspective Week

"A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket

and rejoices that the system works."

-- Bill Vaughan

There is all kinds of ways to look at a thing and Bill Vaughan makes a very interesting point in how we normally look at something and how it can look so different from another perspective.

A few weeks ago, I was heading toward the freeway and got bogged down in bumper to bumper, stop and go traffic. It was very unusual. As I got up to where I could see the bottleneck, a key traffic light was out and was flashing red so that each and every car had to stop in all four directions.

That got me thinking about how ineffective this situation was. There was a crew working on the light and no one directing traffic. It was almost ridiculous to watch. But, the thing that struck me was that stop lights aren't really stop lights, but go lights. In viewing this traffic jam and how slow it moved, it was obvious as can be how valuable traffic lights are to actually move traffic along.

Many times we might see what appears to be a problem, a slow down, a bottleneck, a road block, only to find out that by seeing it from a different perspective, it is actually a benefit and something that helps things move more effectively.

As I mentally step back and watch our business growing, I see a number of things that would be very easy to think of as a problem, but from that perspective of stepping back and looking at it from the outside, it is all so perfect. Now I am practicing seeing the perfection of it all rather than the bottlenecks and road blocks.

To say that this gives me a better attitude is an understatement.

How Many Go-Lights Do You See In Your Life?

Spread Some Joy Today--Step back and take another look. You might see something so different that it creates joy instead of concern.

Daily Inspiration 5-12-11

Perspective Week

"Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold."

-- Latin Proverb

I've said in the past (and I ripped it from someone a long time ago), that you couldn't sell me a battleship for ten cents. I have no use for a battleship, nor any desire to own one. Even thinking about the scrap value, I haven't the time or energy to deal with it though it may be worth a million dollars.

As a dedicated student of management and psychology, I've used this idea in trying to move the needle in the sales department by appealing to the personalized interests of each of the people on the team. It's always been an interesting challenge to do that effectively, and at the same time is far more interesting and fun than the typical top dog routine. Those bore me to tears and I think they are also extremely ineffective.

Truth is, money doesn't motivate everyone, nor does any one thing. Each of us is unique in what lights our fire. Having someone find what that is and play to it, is an excellent strategy for success. And, we're not forthcoming with it on our own generally.

This applies in many ways. Gary Chapman's popular book, The Five Love Languages, demonstrates how different personal relationships can be when we find what motivates each of us and his theory is there are five languages to learn to speak. It's an excellent book.

Then there's the old 'one man's junk is another man's treasure.' I think that this is the easiest one to understand. Yeah. I have no interest in Elvis memorabilia, or Disney either, but I could very easily own 50 guitars or more. If nothing else, I just love looking at them. There's a guitar store in Vegas that has 5,000 of them in one place! A kid in a candy store. . .

To Each His Own. Just Like It Was Meant To Be!

Spread Some Joy Today--It's okay to be unique. It's also more interesting for others.

Daily Inspiration 5-11-11

Perspective Week

"Do not call any work menial

until you have watched a proud person do it."

-- Robert Brault

When I first read this quote, I thought of sweeping with a big broom a large area at a gas station I used to work at when I was a teenager. I remember watching this person do sweeping and made it look like an art. All the time I was growing up, sweeping to me was distasteful work, and here he was making it look so interesting and almost effortless. I was immediately drawn into trying to sweep like he did and I have to say, that from then on, it became much more interesting and rather fun instead of work.

I watch others in what they do and I am always looking for that same expertise. It is rare to find it, but a joy each time.

I love to watch shows where people play an instrument particularly well and how they make it almost effortless in their hands. What I think I love even more than this, is watching someone do something much more common and how they do it in a very similar manner to the musical artist. If you've ever seen the wonderful Australian movie, Kenny, you'll find someone who is a master at outhouses. He is passionate about something that most of us would be disgusted at. To watch someone who is an artist at weeding a flower bed, edging a lawn, cleaning a swimming pool, driving a dump truck, replacing a kitchen faucet, cleaning the carpet--these give me as much joy to watch an artist at work as any fancy profession.

I think that is one of the reasons I love that TV show with Mike Rowe called, Dirty Jobs. He finds people passionate about poop, committed to sewer maintenance, and just about every possible job that most people would hate to do. Then he gets in there with them to try it himself and sees just how good they are at it and he is usually amazed and in awe of their passion and commitment. Great show.

I don't think there is any menial work. There is just work. Our own acceptance of it and our own attitude or view of it is all that is important. With an attitude of passion and love of the job, another artist is born.

Celebrate Your Personal Artistry!

Spread Some Joy Today--As you are passionate about what you do, joy follows you as if it is a perfect shadow.

Daily Inspiration 5-10-11

Perspective Week

"The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot.

The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius."

-- Sid Caesar

I love this quote by Sid Caesar because it is funny and it is so true at the same time. Sure, the guy that invented the wheel was not so helpful, but the one who invented a way to make use of it was. Same with the Internet. The Internet was around for a while before someone came along and had a different idea of how it could be utilized and then developed software so that we could browse the Internet and it all skyrocketed from there.

Think about what good a stereo is without speakers, or even a stereo with speakers and without recorded music. How about a computer without a keyboard? A car without an engine? Or a car without a road? Or a business without a customer? What came first, the chicken or the egg, or the frying pan?

One wheel is a challenge, but relatively easy in comparison to the other three, but the other three is where all the value is--it's where the payoff is. So you have this business and it is doing that one wheel thing, and you want to add the other three. How do you do that? You know it's a game-changer to do it, but how does it happen?

I think it is all about value. Think of the value of the end result, not what it will bring you, but what it will bring others. Take Facebook as an example. Well, that's a great example, but an extreme one, so let's take something smaller in comparison, but still as powerful in value: hotmail. When MSN created free email with hotmail via the Internet, it was a game-changer for them. How about something even smaller? McDonald's. A game-changer for McDonald's was taking something already a landmark for them and making it like a rocket to Mars: they added large fries to the menu.

Can people do this as a one person band? I say, absolutely! Again, it all comes down to finding a way to provide more value, maybe even extreme value. As you are providing value, you may find that you are giving things away that your could sell. That is true, but selling them could never bring the value or create the value that giving them could bring or create. It doesn't mean giving away the farm, but it does mean being more open and free.

The value of the Internet is information. It's free and it is so plentiful that it is growing exponentially and it is becoming ever more of value. What can we do with our business, our profession, our job, our lives that can expand value?

Excellent Question!

Spread Some Joy Today--Providing value is a joyous event!

Daily Inspiration 5-9-11

Perspective Week

"Astronomers always work in the past;

because light takes time to move from one place to another,

they see things as they were, not as they are."

-- Neale E Howard

I took astronomy in college and I learned that the light that we see in certain stars may have left there 10,000 years ago, so the star may not even be there any more and we wouldn't even know about it until much later. Indeed, even nearer items in the galaxy would be longer than our lifetime to see a change. I always thought that was strange and very interesting.

As I've looked at human behavior--especially my own--I've noticed a similar perspective. My actions of today and my attitudes of today, along with my results of today are merely images of my previous thinking. In other words, my previous thoughts and beliefs, have led me here. It was not created today.

If I am liking where I am today, then my thinking and beliefs are serving me well--a happy camper, so to speak. If I am not liking where I am today, then my thinking and beliefs are not serving me well and the only thing that can be changed is that thinking and those beliefs. And, it also will not happen today, but be shown sometime in the near future.

My best guidance of where I am is how I feel about where I am at any given time. That information will then aid me in making a decision to stay on course, or make a different choice.

A lot of my life was being unhappy with what was and not changing the thinking and beliefs that brought me there. I didn't even make that correlation. Instead, I would just try to use will power to make it happen, set a new goal and go for it. Little did I know, that it doesn't require effort, but does require knowing the cause and how to correct it. Just like a rocket ship to the moon is constantly making minor course corrections, I am learning how to do that myself to achieve a life I am pleased with.

It Is Easier Than We Knew. We Just Feel Our Way.

Spread Some Joy Today--You've heard the phrase, if it feels good, do it, right? It's better advice than we thought.

Daily Inspiration 5-8-11

Perpective Week

"We don't see things as they are,

we see them as we are."

-- Anais Nin

I was talking with a friend about being what we call overweight. Somehow Oprah came in to the conversation and the latest shot of her on her O magazine and how she is apologetic to her audience about talking about health and weight issues and yet she struggles with it so. Overweight issues is a top of mind issue, and to look around us, it is obvious that a majority of people struggle with that too. And, I too have had that as a top of mind issue, but I just got a new perspective that I believe will make a huge difference.

If you're overweight, maybe this will sound familiar: you go to the bathroom to take a shower and you undress and see yourself in the mirror and think that you've just got to lose this weight. You think it looks terrible. You hardly recognize yourself. You weigh yourself every day and pride yourself on losing a half of a pound and chastise yourself for gaining an ounce, with vows to exercise, eat less, eat less fatty foods, and a very long list of should's and ought-to's and because's.

It's perfectly normal to look in that mirror and pick out all your physical faults--your lines, your sags, your spots, your hair, your posture, whatever. I used to do it every day, even many times a day as I would look in a mirror. No more.

This is the new perspective: love myself, praise myself, see the me that is inside myself. It seems so simple. It came to me by thinking about being thankful. So, in my practice in seeing things to appreciate and be thankful for, I found myself looking in the mirror. It was easy to look at the trees and the sky and be thankful and appreciative, but not so easy to look in the mirror and do the same.

So, I thought about the fat hanging on my body and I started thinking about it being perfect. And, you know what? It is! The body is a work of perfection. You take in quantities of fuel (food) that is more than the body needs, and it becomes like a squirrel storing it up for the winter or another time when it may be needed. Its design stores that extra all over the body with emphasis in certain areas near the stomach and intestines where it can be readily used quickly when needed. It is not flawed--it is operating perfectly.

This new perspective filled me with new thoughts of praise. I began being thankful for the way I looked and how perfectly my body was taking care of the environment I gave it. I began thinking of myself as handsome and with great posture and such. I began loving myself. Now, it feels foreign at first because I was so used to the other routine, but each day now it gets easier and more real. I really am thankful for my body and it really is operating perfectly.

As I think of myself the way that I am inside, rather than focusing on what I have become on the outside, I see myself as thinner, healthier, more nimble, better looking and all. As a result of that, I even FEEL thinner, healthier, more nimble, and better looking. And, that is the perspective that I WANT to have because when I have that one, I feel GREAT! And when I have the old one, I feel terrible. Feeling terrible leads to not caring about hardly anything, and you know where all that goes: to the kitchen!

Now, I am so excited and convinced of this simple change of perspective, that I am going to love practicing it every day. As I do, I can already sense a change in my body, but more than this, I absolutely adore the change in the way I feel all day!

How I FEEL Is More Important Than What Is.

Spread Some Joy Today--Begin your day appreciating yourself and how perfect you are. That joy will rub off on everyone you encounter all day.

Daily Inspiration 5-7-11

"You're only as good as the people you hire."

-- Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's

This quote of Ray Kroc's has proven itself in every business environment I have ever been in and I see it in full operation in every business I visit or deal with. This aspect, far more than any current business climate, has everything to do with the success of the enterprise. Better people will always make a better enterprise.

Any success that I have had in any operation I've been involved in was successful as a direct result of the quality of the people that I was working with. And, here's the interesting part: My own quality improved as the quality of the talent around me improved and vise versa. All the more reason to surround yourself with the most talented and highest quality people you can find.

Quality Is Contagious.

Spread Some Joy Today--When you're in joy, there are no significant problems.

Daily Inspiration 5-6-11

"Don't listen to the chatter. Pay no attention

to those rambling, disjointed images and notions

that drift across the movie screen of your mind.

Those are not your thoughts. They are chatter."

-- Steven Pressfield

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.

Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

-- Helen Keller

I've written about gratitude and being thankful many times and I found yet another way that this is of benefit.

Have you ever been driving making habitual turns on familiar roads and then realize a few miles later that you intended to go the other way and that you were going to the bank not the grocery store? It's the chatter.

Since I can't get into your head, I can only refer to mine accurately, and I find that I talk almost non-stop in my head about a million different things, floating from thought to thought, this and that, going off on tangents, what if scenarios, etc. In the last few years though, I've been practicing on controlling my thoughts, particularly when they go astray into negative scenarios, or thoughts that just don't really serve me.

In doing this, I have noticed that it requires diligence. As I mentally step in and stop the negative thinking, turn it toward the positive and then step back out, by the time I'm back out, it's off on some other tangent. It can get tedious to say the least, and sometimes it's just a challenge.

So, today I found a strategy that works extremely well to keep the focus going in a good direction. I was on a 1.5 hour drive each direction early this morning and found my mind going through that chatter, so I decided to look for things to be thankful about. I just started focusing on something like the different shades of green in the grass, bushes, trees of the scenery. So many different subtle shades of green. Then I would see a bird and appreciate the bird and think what it might be like to fly. I saw one bird today flip a u-turn mid-air at considerable speed and was amazed how it could turn and go the other direction so quickly.

I saw people pull over so I could pass and expressed my gratitude. I saw the silhouette of the horizon and thought about the tall trees that are discernable and how they add shape to that silhouette. I looked at the highway and became thankful for the people who built it and the public who paid for it and how wonderful it was to drive on them and be able to go here and there on well-maintained roads.

I could go on since I did it almost all the way in both directions. And, here's the main point: as I did this, I had no chatter! No dribble. No negative tangents. No what if's. By looking for things to appreciate, and then appreciating them, I stayed completely positive. I had no idea that I could use this as such an effective tool. It was awesome.

There Are Many Quotes That Say Something To The Effect That We Become What We Think About All day Long. . .

Spread Some Joy Today--Be an appreciator. Joy is a natural result.

Daily Inspiration 5-5-11

"If you follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has

been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought

to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be

afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be."

-- Joseph Campbell

I got to watch a class this morning where the instructor said, "very few people have a job where they love what they do. I truly love what I do and I've done it now for over 20 years!"

I thought, isn't that interesting! You can hear the joy in her voice and see the joy on her face, and you instantly know that it is true. And, at the same time, I thought about my life and how much of it was lived where I did not love what I did. It was okay, but it was not love. However, now I am in her category and loving what I do is so much a part of me now that I find it hard to imagine accepting anything less anymore.

Much of the time, I think people choose money over doing what they love, or I should say quick money, because I believe that doing what you really love will not be a poor choice financially in the long term. It seems ridiculous to think that it wouldn't. And, it seems true that we all make the choices. After all, who makes them for us? Even if others influence us, it is always our own decision.

I think also that much of the time, people are afraid to choose something that they love because they fear that it wouldn't work out somehow. Or, it is the fear of the unknown versus the comfort and security of known. Fear is a potent adversary.

Mainly I think it is the comfort zone. People are just comfortable where they are even when it is doing something they dislike doing, or working for people that they hate working with and so on. They get into a habit pattern and just keep repeating it. It reminds me of that old joke, "Dr., when I do this, this happens!" and the Doctor says, "then stop doing that!" Think about that one. . . How many times would that be great advice when going to a doctor?

So what does all this do for us? A different decision is possible perhaps. Or not. . . Nonetheless, it is in each of us purely and totally our own choice.

"The Cave You Fear To Enter Holds The Treasure You Seek." -- Joseph Campbell

Spread Some Joy Today--Ask yourself two questions: 1. What am I really afraid of? and 2. What is the worst thing that could happen?

Daily Inspiration 5-4-11

"It's good to take a longer view and think,

What would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?"

-- Laurie Anderson

"There are no limitations to the mind

except those we acknowledge."

-- Napoleon Hill

When I was younger, I would call them fantasies or daydreams. They were fanciful and not reality--just a dream, you know. . .maybe not even the slightest possibility of becoming real. And, the more I saw it not being real, or almost no possibility of it ever becoming real, the less time I spent daydreaming.

Now, I want to practice it as often as I can because I now know how powerful it can be, and how affirming it can be. It's not anything you have to share with anyone if you don't want, and in the early less confident place, that is probably wise.

Daydreaming is a tool to open the possibilities. The key I've found is to forget about any limitations and just dream. In dreams you can be anything, anyone, achieve anything, do anything. It is a limitless universe. The more that this is sprinkled into our reality, the more our reality takes on some of those limitless ideas.

Reality demands to count the cost, know how it will happen, plan for it in every way and every possible problem. Bunch of crap. This strategy will surely keep our feet on the ground full of reasonable limitations.

Letting reality have a place, but not the whole place allows us to learn how to soar. Indeed, any limitations that we think we have are beliefs we have, and beliefs are just thoughts we keep thinking. . .

There Is Far More To Life Than Reality.

Spread Some Joy Today--Smile. People will wonder what you are up to. Let them wonder.

Daily Inspiration 5-3-11

"As we let our light shine, we consciously give

other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,

our presence actually liberates others."

-- Marianne Williamson

As we grow, we allow and encourage others to do the same. As we experience and share our joy, we allow and encourage others to have joy. By the act of doing, we encourage others to do the same.

I heard through a friend that someone thought much of my writing in these Daily Inspirations is all about that "touchy-feely stuff." I take it that they are looking for more practical wisdom like if it ain't broke, don't fix it and similar. How macho the macho man can be, as if all of that which is not so practical is of the feminine side. I get that because I used to think that a long time ago.

Yet, I think we would all have to admit and agree that deep down, what we all want is to be loved, and it doesn't get more touchy-feely than love, does it?

But, it's all good. As we let our touchy-feely light shine, we consciously give other people permission to delve into and enjoy the realm of touchy-feely. It's a revolution of liberation!

Go shine your lights boldly!

We Lead By Example. Be One.

Spread Some Joy Today--Let your light shine at work! Rock on!

Daily Inspiration 5-2-11

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming

that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to."

-- W. C. Fields

When I saw this Emerson quote, I saw me for most of my life. Always very sensitive to criticism of any kind, and almost always taking it personally. I always wanted to please every one, and that was an impossibility to say the least.

The other thing that I saw when I looked at the Emerson quote, was that this is no longer me, and I don't think I really realized it until tonight. It has taken me a lifetime to learn to lay it down and walk away from it, but hallelujah! it is done.

That is not to say that I won't from time to time have an old tape play from habit, but I now know that I am in control of that and once aware it is playing, I know how to shut it off.

The change? I think it is several things. One is starting a business at 58. That was going out on a proverbial limb in most people's eyes. In the process, I have gained a great deal of strength and tenacity I didn't even know I had. You see, I owned a business when I was 30 and walked away from it after only a year and a half. I quit under pressure. With that knowledge in the background, this time, I vowed to never quit regardless of circumstances or events. That commitment has given me serious strength and courage.

Another thing is that in the last couple of years, I learned one of the most valuable lessons of my life. I've sort of known it all along, but never quite adopted it as a fact. It is as Shakespeare says, "'Tis nothing good or bad that thinking makes it so." I've learned that I don't have to be right--indeed, that there is no right--but only your way, my way and their way and they are all a way. So, my idea may seem really good to me and not to another, and that doesn't make it bad or wrong, it is just mine. But the key is allowing others to have their way too. Not that I need to go their way, but respect and appreciate that they have a way and it is just as legitimate as mine--and theirs too.

So, it doesn't matter what others think about what I do or do not do. It is my own thinking about what I do or do not do that matters. If I approve of me, that is all that is needed. If others approve too, the more the merrier, and if they don't, that's okay too. I'll celebrate their way for them. It is so empowering and comforting to be an allower.

And, the last thing about the change that I think is significant is that I am trusting in God, or the Universe to help me. What I mean by that is that I have finally bought the sign I hung on my wall three years ago: What is MY job. How is GOD's job. My job is to figure out what I want--really want, then start moving toward it confidently. Then, God or the Universe will aid me with inspiration and doors opening that I could not open myself because I couldn't see the door knob.

I wonder what it would have been like to learn these things at age 30, but I focus only on how grand it is to learn them at all. I am so grateful and in awe of this process I've been going through. What a joyful journey it has become!

Everyone Is Right. What A Concept!

Spread Some Joy Today--Do something unexpected for someone today. Buy them a latte or some drink they like, put a small gift on their desk, or a heartfelt greeting card showing you like them. These are simple and very inexpensive joys.

Daily Inspiration 5-1-11

"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble,

I would not pass it round.

Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

I don't embrace trouble;

that's as bad as treating it as an enemy.

But I do say meet it as a friend,

for you'll see a lot of it

and had better be on speaking terms with it."

-- Oliver Wendall Holmes

The more I practice calmness in the face of trouble, the more friendly I become with it. I think this is the case because trouble is purely our reaction to a stimulus. Even calling it a problem or trouble is indicative of how we think about it. Opportunity would be a healthier way to view trouble or problems, and indeed, that would be what they truly are.

As we begin with one time of relaxing and even rejoicing, each one after that becomes easier and more fruitful. I want to get to the point where I am like W Clement Stone reacting with enthusiasm and joy with every encounter with an issue. This causes more and grander opportunities to be seen that are otherwise hidden. Get excited about what may come next instead of anticipating an unhappy arrival.

I know that sounds too easy, and it is! The only thing that is required is two things: One, a decision to begin looking at problems this way, and two, practice often!

"There Is No Education Like Adversity." -- Disraeli

Spread Some Joy Today--Get excited about problems today. That will shake things up.