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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
Eight brilliant ways to have a positive attitude:
1. Count every single blessing you have.
2. Learn to not count on tomorrow.
3. Live in a way that leaves no room for regrets.
4. Also live so that if someone says something bad about you, no one will believe it.
5. Remember that life is not a dress rehearsal.
6. Make sure your core convictions are crystal clear to those you love.
7. Ban shoulda, woulda, coulda from your lips.
8. Be an example and not a warning.
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Why should our standards be amazingly high? Because what we accept by default becomes our standard. I’ve learned from addiction that really important things most often require an all or nothing attitude.
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Insight: Mediocrity is an insidious habit that blinds people to their potential and creates a lifelong battle with bitterness….shoulda, woulda, coulda.
Know why most people really aren’t as positive as they claim? We simply don’t have enough patience. We want to always be positive, but sometimes, it’s just well, hard. This is when I tell myself, “Put up or shut up”.
The long way is the short cut to an amazingly positive mental attitude.
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Top five things to do when your attitude clashes with another’s:
1. Think long and hard, and cover every benefit of your attitude
2. Think long and hard, and cover every benefit of their attitude
3. Let it sit and simmer, in direct proportion to it’s importance
4. Pray
5. Wait
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Locavore is a phone app for finding Farmer’s Markets and local growers…
There’s nothing better than buying food from a market that is well within eyesight of the farm on which it was grown.
As we age, we tend to do what is easy. No children left at home, we sometimes grab what is convenient and call it a meal. I say, what can be more convenient than a juicy peach, a steaming pot of freshly husked sweet corn and a ripe, juicy tomato?
City living is hardly an excuse. Most cities now have farmers markets and co-ops.
There is something relaxing about getting out a few canning jars and making homemade jam. It’s really not that difficult, and when the metal lid is popped off in the middle of winter, revealing the luscious aroma and taste of the past summer season, any effort that was spent on the process melts away with the oozing jam on hot toast. It takes hardly any time or effort to blanch a dozen of so ears of corn and cut the kernels into freezer bags, and the difference it makes when served at a holiday meal is more than enough reward.
Sometimes we tend to forget how food is supposed to taste. While it’s a treat to be able to purchase watermelon in the Northeast in the middle of winter, it’s not the same as eating one in season. Out of season produce that has been trucked halfway across the country really doesn’t have the same flavor.
In an age where so much is available to us for little of no effort, getting local fresh foods is one thing that really does give huge paybacks in both taste and nutritional value. There is also something very grounding and almost therapeutic about getting in touch with where our food comes from and taking a hand in preserving a bit of it for later in the year.
“Man, despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication and his many accomplishments- owes his existence to a 6 inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.”