Thursday Theory 09/30/10

Happy Thursday everyone and welcome to the last day of September 2010. Wow, has the month flown by.

That equates to 2,592,000 seconds that have ticked away. The seconds tick by one by one and we have less than 8,035,000 till 2011 rolls in.

Make the most of your time, your seconds, it takes only seconds to share a smile, a few more for a kind word, a minute at most to improve a persons disposition and state of heart for that moment and it could last the whole day.

Take a stand and lift a spirit of another. It will make all the difference for them and just might make all the difference for you as well.

Usually I have Thursday off, but the last day of the month in the auto biz can be hectic and demanding so I have the Friday off this week. Which will be hectic and demanding with errands and to do's. Sigh. But all the to do's and appointments will be well worth it.

Friday also brings my daughter Tori's Homecoming game at her high school. Full of tradition, and pomp. Exciting times for a junior in high school. She also has 2 other girl friends over on Friday night for a sleep over. So my Friday night will be full of laughter I am sure. Bella the household dog will be in her glory as well with all the company. A dog's life at it's best.

Laughter filling the home! What an awesome sound that will be!

Any time laughter arrives two things happen, time seems to go a whole lot faster and you cherish the moments that moment brings closer to your heart.

Some quotes on laughter in the home:

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.

~Yiddish proverb

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"May laughter fill your home, relieve your stress, and strengthen your friendships. Do not let a day go buy without laughing; it is good for your health."

~Catherine Pulsifer

from Seven Gifts To Give To A Friend

Laughter makes a difference in so many lives, it has a contagious quality the same as a smile. It brings joy, cleanses the soul, makes one have a spark of energy and lasts long into the moment.

My theory for this Thursday, to add to a quote from Robert Fulghum this would be it.

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

And don't forget to smile and laugh some it will add even more balance.

That's my theory hope you hold it close to your thoughts today and laugh like you mean it!

Smiles to you all! : )

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A Wish on Wednesday ~09/29/10

Welcome to Wednesday everyone and a mid way point of the week. Some call it 'over the hump day' but to say that is to signify that there is a hump or a hill to climb to get here.

Everyday if lived with the right attitude is a breeze, swiftly moving as it always will anyway. 86,400 seconds and as I type this another second and another go by. Time keeps on ticking.

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

~Steve Jobs

Time like a gentle breeze, it flows, it touches us all in many different ways. But it can't be caught or retained, it flows by just the same. It can be used and harnessed to make our lives more productive and fulfilled. Only with failure and practice do we learn how valuable time really is. It is a wish and a prayer that this understanding is learned well before the final minute approaches and we reflect on time gone by. For at that time reflection is all we have, how will you be able to reflect on your life and the time you spent?

A Wish on Wednesday. Make a difference each day, use your time not to count down till Friday rolls around and the weekend arrives. Use the time to touch lives, share smiles, help another arrive at their destination of joy and gratitude. For that journey for that soul is perhaps the one most grasped for. Once obtained that feeling of joy and gratitude is know a learned moment and skill. It can be acquired again and again through passing it forward, and making a difference in another's life.

Share your smile, share your time and above all have a great day!

Sending smiles to you all! : )

Some thoughts on sharing a smile, your smile with so many who come within your circle of influence.

Till next time....share a smile, make a dream come true and make someone's else a bit happier.

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Giving Thanks on Tuesday ~09/28/2010

Happy Tuesday to you and yours! A great day ahead, the month winding down, as well as the rain here in western PA. But rain does a lot for us. Here is an interesting fact did you know that rain contains vitamin B12? It does, however rainwater contains pollutants, soil, plant parts, insect parts, bacteria, algae, and sometimes radioactive materials the rain/snow has washed out of the air." So maybe you should filter and boil first, just maybe.

Rain also has a very soothing sound on that porch roof and can be quite refreshing on a late summer evening walk. Rain it does a body good.

Today being Tuesday and all it is the day I set aside to give thanks.

Why is giving thanks so important lets look at some quotes and then my view point.

“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”

~Brian Tracy

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“We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country”

~ C.S. Lewis

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Psalms 136:1 O give thanks unto the LORD, for He is good,

for His mercy endureth for ever. (KJV)

We all have the God given gift to give thanks, to take a few moments, at any time during our day and just give thanks. To nature, to God, to all those around us that make a difference each day.

I give thanks many times, it works for me, it keeps me humble and aware that it can always be much worse, no matter how it is right now. Giving thanks for those who make me smile, make me laugh and give me a sense of pride just to know that I am loved by them.

Good times.

Good feelings.

Good anticipation for the future.

All from routinely giving thanks. Not a bad practice at all and simply put its very simple.

Take a moment, right now to look around, all your stuff that you have accumulated in life.

Some necessary, some not, some important some trivial.

Look at all that you hold within your spirit. Things like love, kindness, that smile, joy, laughter and above all the knowledge that there is God who we can always go to and give thanks and praise.

Sending you smiles and giving all of you my thanks and appreciation for your comments and love. Smiles to you all this Tuesday!

Some thoughts on sharing a smile, your smile with so many who come within your circle of influence.

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Monday Morning Happiness 09/27/10

A very Happy Monday everyone and welcome to a new week, and soon, this Friday a new month.

Only 13 days till the big day for me and Janice, wow is time flying.

We picked up the wedding bands today so we can cross that off our list. Yeah!!

So how was your weekend? Did your team win yesterday? Faith, Family and Football a winning combination.

This day is all yours, your choice on how to play it out. You make the difference for yourself and for others but to start the day and know your the most important person in deciding how your day goes is of upmost importance.

A poem and a quote to share:

We Are the Music-Makers

by Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy

We are the music-makers,

And we are the dreamers of dreams,

Wandering by lone sea-breakers,

And sitting by desolate streams.

World-losers and world-forsakers,

Upon whom the pale moon gleams;

Yet we are the movers and shakers,

Of the world forever, it seems.

With wonderful deathless ditties

We build up the world's great cities,

And out of a fabulous story

We fashion an empire's glory:

One man with a dream, at pleasure,

Shall go forth and conquer a crown;

And three with a new song's measure

Can trample an empire down.

We, in the ages lying

In the buried past of the earth,

Built Nineveh with our sighing,

And Babel itself with our mirth;

And o'erthrew them with prophesying

To the old of the new world's worth;

For each age is a dream that is dying,

Or one that is coming to birth.

and the quote by Robert Fulghum

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

That myth is more potent than history.

That dreams are more powerful than facts.

That hope always triumphs over experience.

That laughter is the only cure for grief.

And I believe that love is stronger than death.

I have shared the quote before but sometimes its good to share once more. May share it again in the future. To me the quote and poem speak so much about dreams and goals. Life and possibilities, and making a difference each and every day.

Good thoughts for a new week.

Great thoughts to start the morning with today.

You are the music maker and the dreamer of dreams!

Dream big today!

Laugh Loud today!

Don't let anyone steal your smile, everyday!

It all starts with you! Your dream, Your belief, Your Smile!

Deep inside that reflection in the mirror what do you see?

See good, Live Good and don't forget to share that first smile!

Smiles to all of you! : )

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Sunday Prayer and Sunday Thoughts ~09/26/10

Happy Sunday everyone! Welcome to another fun filled day of faith, family and football! My three F's for every Sunday!

Faith in God and all his Gifts. Gifts like free will to choose the right things, gifts like nature to enjoy and cherish and protect. We also have our health that we protect, we have free will to do the right thing, at the right time in the right proportions.

Family to love and behold, to cherish and enrich by our actions, words and deeds. Another blessing not just for the holidays, around the Thanksgiving turkey or the Christmas tree but everyday we should count our blessings for the love and future that every family holds.

Football, what else can I say here, you either love it or have little or no feeling. Football even at the high school and college level has so much to teach. Just watch last years pro football hall of fame induction speeches and you learn quite a bit about faith and family. The message of life can be found in some of these speeches as almost everyone gives thanks to their family and their faith in God.

Day by Day some quotes to think about and pray about this Sunday in September:

“I believe the single most significant decision I can make on

a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude.

It is more important than my past, my education,

my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain,

what other people think of me or

say about me, my circumstances,

or my position. Attitude keeps me going or

cripples my progress.

It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope.

When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high,

no valley too deep, no dream too extreme,

no challenge too great for me.”

~Charles R. Swindoll

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“With fame, you know, you can read about yourself,

somebody else's ideas about you,

but what's important is how you feel about yourself

- for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

~ Marilyn Monroe

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“For the meaning of life differs from man to man,

from day to day and from hour to hour.

What matters, therefore, is not the meaning

of life in general but

rather the specific meaning of a

person's life at a given moment.”

~ Viktor Frankl

Some thoughts to think about, maybe even work into your deep patterns of self consciousness. Take your moments yourself, those quiet moments of prayer and meditation and weave them into your thoughts. What comes out of these prayers and reflections just may be magic that one day you can look back on and say and share how grateful you did.

Some thoughts and prayers this Sunday! Smiles to you all!

Some thoughts on sharing a smile, your smile with so many who come within your circle of influence.

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Saturday Morning Reflection ~09/25/10

Happy Saturday to you all! Smiles to you this day sent with positive energy and thoughts to brighten and challenge your day. How boring life would be without challenges, if everything just went our way with no speed bumps. Sure we think we would like that constant and never ending victory, but would we get smug? Would we get lethargic in our motion and not even enjoy the process. I would think so, to enjoy the passion of victory we must also have sampled defeat.

Just some thoughts this Saturday.

My daughter, Tori was on the phone last night, the conversation filled with laughter and joy.

What a pleasant sound then to find out she was on a 3 way conversation with 2 other girlfriends, self taught 3 way conversation, heck I still have trouble with this process. Smiles across my face just to hear that laughter fill the house.

Today as usual I pick a post from the past, a reflection of a post from September 24th, 2009. Enjoy : )

Giving Thanks on Thursday 09/24/09

Happy Thursday and I hope everyone has a super day. It is a blessing to be alive and have health. So much activity in and around the Pittsburgh area with the G20 Summit here this weekend. It starts today and it looks like a military zone and thousands of police both state and local are called out to maintain order. I pray for all of their safety and that they are able to maintain order this weekend.

Watching the news is like watching a blender in action. You see lots of action but really it is not as big of a deal as it looks in the moment. Your better off doing something else while the blender is going and just turn it off when the mixture is ready.

So my three things that I am grateful for today.

* My family - - it is indeed a pleasure to have family that cares about you thoughts.

They inspire me daily to not only write but to wear that smile no matter what. My son is miles away in Houston, Texas. I pray for him daily and will be calling him Friday but I am sure he is enjoying Houston and the surroundings. I love them all.

* My memories - - I am grateful for the ability to look back and reflect on what I have been able to do over the last 46+ years. Not all things worked out exactly the way you wanted and often they will not. But I feel that I reacted the best I could and feel no regret. I hope the next 46+ years are just as fun. My prayers of thanks today were sent up and my prayers for all of you, some with surgeries coming up, some with family issues, and some with needs of employment I have faith for you and pray for you all.

* My attitude - - Growing up was not an easy journey for me. No need to trudge through all of the details, it does not equate the future or help it in any way so why bother. I believe that the true focus in life should be where you are now, and where your going and what can you do now to make a difference for yourself and others. When we take the time to truly be givers then life matters more. Not just for us but for all.

Life is like a pot of chili, no matter what all the parts play a role, it can be mild or spicy, thick or thin it always tastes good. Just remember it always tastes better when you share it with friends or family.

So what are you thankful for? I am glad so many of you stopped by yesterday for some Wednesday Wit. I have already found some things for next week.

Thanks for all your kind words and encouragement. You all are truly kind and blessed for all of the things that you share with me and others.

So I hope you find this Thursday a day to make a difference and share a smile, look for that person who just may need one of yours.

Till next time..... Smile!

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Flowing into Friday ~09/24/10

Happy Friday everyone! Last night we had no flow of electricity here, but hey thats what they make candles and flashlights for, to find your way around in the dark.

The full moon shined brightly last night which was very welcome.

I just need to install some skylights.

The weekend is at hand, memories to make and share with the future. Good times always seem to go by much faster, do they not?

However the good times should be stored away in our memory banks and brought back in our gratitude sessions. We should take the time to replay them the same way an awesome play in a sporting event is showed over and over from multiple angles. Why not replay the great events in our life.

Sense the smell of the flower garden in the dead of winter when your shoveling that snow. I know shhhh, maybe it won't snow this year. But we all know those odds.

Sense the sound of your children on Christmas morning and the excitement as they opened the gifts and sang at the Christmas Choral event at school. Do that when they seem to just be pushing your buttons, and you just want to walk away. Let the good events out play the times that make you feel angry or uneasy.

Good times need to be replayed. Let the sound, the smell, the moment relive in your life on command. Photo's are great for this and so is the gratitude journal that you use to share what good is happening in your life. Use these to enjoy life's moments that shine but pass so quickly.

Time goes, you say? Ah no!

Alas, Time stays, we go.

~Henry Austin Dobson

Enjoy each moment of the day! Enjoy each second and enjoy the moments of grandeur and tuck them away for those rainy days in life when little seems to go right.

The power can go out in our homes. The car can forget how to start. The alarm clock can fail to go off, but we decide how to react to each and we choose what channel of life we want to relive.

We do not remember days; we remember moments.

~Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand

Enjoy your Friday everyone and enjoy life's flow.

Smiles to you all! : )

Some thoughts on sharing a smile, your smile with so many who come within your circle of influence.

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Thursday Theory 09/23/10

Happy Thursday everyone and welcome to another day to enjoy, to make a difference in someone's life and to let the past be the past. Don't let the past filter into your present let today be its own gift and unwrap the possibilities with no limitations prescribed by you.

The first day of Autumn is today 9/23/10 for much of the world (Europe and Asia). North America celebrated its arrival at 11:09 pm on the 22nd so many people at least in North America welcomed it yesterday.

Fall leaves and hot apple cider. Pumpkin carving and the smell of pumpkin pie. Stores with Christmas decorations and kids trying on Halloween masks and costumes, fun days ahead of us for sure.

I write each morning to share, to inspire and to make a difference.

No, my life is not a bed of roses, and if it was all roses have thorns which come with the territory if you know what I mean. So to say that I struggle just like you or your neighbor, that my dreams sometimes fall short and reality takes a nibble out of my smile from time to time, would be accurate.

But, I catch myself and look skyward more than I fret over the speed bumps in life. I can live with that style of life. I live by the Success statement credited to Ralph Waldo Emerson, which goes as follows:

To laugh often and much;

To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;

To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;

To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;

To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.

This is to have succeeded.

This is my credo, my statement of belief and a way for me to focus on what is really important in life. My goal is to make a difference. I write because it allows me to share a part of these thoughts that stir around in my spirit. I know that much of my writing is perhaps automatic that the thoughts don't form until they are on the screen, my fingers just blaze along, (thank god I took typing in school) and form statements quicker than I think them. I thank God every prayer for this. The posts and writings help me as I try to live by them. But to say that I have perfected Victor Yakin, well that would be further from the truth about myself. I fall, I stumble, I choose the wrong setting on the toaster and burn toast from time to time and thats really not all of my failures. I always, always, always pick myself up faster than I fell and look skyward.

I do laugh often and much, sure I would love to laugh much more.

I do work at winning the respect of intelligent people, and my daughter's affection.

Always will I work at winning the appreciation of honest critics and survive the betrayal of false friends. They both come in all shapes and sizes and care little about your spirit or soul. We all must overcome this and know that 'what others think, about us is really none of our business.'

How boring my life would be if I never took time to appreciate beauty, or look for the best in others. How hurtful it would be to our spirit to not take this to task and only look at the worst of people and the gloom of any given moment. Focus on the best and you will arrive where you were looking.

To leave the world a bit better, in what ever way you can, a photo you share, a flower garden you plant, a smile you share and teach others in silence of that smile that they can pass this smile on to others and let the magic flow. To leave the world a bit better for your children and all God's children. What magic we could make aligned with this principal.

Perhaps my favorite line, to know deep in your spirit, in your heart of hearts that even one life breathed easier because you have lived. Just one.... Can you live with that sense in mind and spirit that you, yes you created something for just one soul, just one, that allowed them to enjoy life a bit easier.

I can..... Just my Thursday Theory this Thursday. Welcome to another great day in your life. Pass it on, like your smile pass this great day on.

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A Wish on Wednesday ~09/22/10

Welcome to Wednesday and a very happy last day of summer to you all! Summer officially ends at 11:09 this evening. The warm weather will continue this week but already the leaves here have brilliant colors flowing from their branches. A beautiful time of year and always some great photo's to be taken and shared.

Autumn is a very special time, cool weather, trails to hike and ride, and high school football games and homecoming parades to enjoy.

A fun time of year to enjoy with your family.

By all these lovely tokens September days are here,

With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

~Helen Hunt Jackson

A wish for you today, that your effort does not end with failure, to make a difference for someone who has need, for a smile, or a helping hand, a kind word or some laughter. That you imagine walking a mile in their shoes, just for a second or two. That they will sense your generosity and genuine concern. Their load will become lighter just because you cared. The human spirit once again rose to the occasion and took the time to share.

A simple wish for all to pass along as the week comes to an end.

So shine up your smile and open your heart and eyes as you walk on this Wednesday. With your smile, your open heart and eyes in place you just may find that you see the world a bit different but one thing is for sure that you will be glad you did see it in a new way.

"Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don't, then you are wasting your time on Earth".

~Roberto Clemente

Make a difference today, shine amongst the stars of this earth who each day, shine upon a dark moment and bring life to sad and hurting. Smile and let the joy flow from your spirit.

Till next time..... : )

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Giving Thanks on Tuesday ~09/21/2010

Happy Tuesday everyone and another great day ahead of us! How can I be so sure that today is a great day? A few things, we are alive, we are loved and we understand the power of appreciation and gratitude in our lives!

Tuesday is a day that I like to share with you the attitude of gratitude. The power of understanding that what we have right now, is more than enough!

What are you grateful for?

Some thoughts by William Carlos Williams:

“It was the love of love, the love that swallows up all else,

a grateful love, a love of nature, of people, of animals,

a love engendering - gentleness and goodness

that moved me

and that I saw in you.”

What a great understanding of being in love, of being grateful for all that is good and all that surrounds us every day. It surrounds us, even if we ignore its nature of presence.

Today take stock in that beauty, of all that God has placed before our feet.

Take a deep breath of nature, that cool, crisp air and feel it pass through your nostrils.

Breathe in deeply! Exhale slowly and recommit yourself so effortlessly for your next breath.

I am grateful for the woman in my life that loves me for who I am and encourages me to be even better. In little over 19 days, 19 days, 10 hours, and 10 minutes, but who's keeping track? We will cross over from engaged to married but the hearts and soul remains entwined. The love conquers all, the dreams go on forever and the journey starts new and fresh each day.

Janice is perhaps as I have told her over and over again, become the shore that I rest my light house on, the foundation of the shore solid and true. The light house always lighting the way for another great day of faith, hope and love but as always the greatest of these is love!

That verse in 1 Corinthians 13 is perhaps the one most known and quoted but the following is also good for some thought today:

⁴ Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud ⁵ or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. ⁶ It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. ⁷ Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. (NLV)

As love will with us, as we walk along our journey, so it will with you. If we but only let it flow and be appreciative that it does.

If you can walk with your head held high, your eyes skyward and not to the ground, your lips and voice soft and tender, your smile wide and your arms relaxed and ready to open. Then perhaps you will understand the power of gratitude.

Ready, willing and able to reach out and make a difference, to touch another's soul and to bring the light upon their darkness, what power we all hold.

Use that light today. Become someone's light house and enjoy the beacon that you carry in your heart.

Have a very happy Tuesday and as always smile! : )

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Till next time....share a smile, make a dream come true and make someone's else a bit happier.

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Monday Morning Happiness 09/20/10

Welcome to another awesome Monday everyone! Ok, I know most Pittsburgh Steeler fans are feeling good and proud as they beat the Titans 19 - 11 yesterday, but they is not a reason to look at today as awesome. Nor is it going to bring me down as the Dallas Cowboys lost to the Chicago Bears yesterday 27 - 20. The Cowboys are 0-2 and heading in the wrong direction and the Steelers are 2 - 0 and are using back up quarterbacks to get it done.

I was not always this way, I used to live and die if my team won or lost, maybe you know someone like this. Their day and week depended on if their team won. Then I woke up to the fact that my joy and gratitude does not come from a football game or another sporting event.

Nor should yours.

The fact is life is impacted by our thoughts and actions. Our habits and our intentions.

Our state of mind and our moods. Our co-operation with nature and tolerance of each other.

Those are facts.

Now life is a team sport and the Together Everyone Achieves More is spot on with the results that we achieve as a team. Some of us try to go life as a lone wolf but if you have some insight to the matter you get more done and climb higher and lift more when someone is there to cheer you on.

So think of these four letters in TEAMwhen your working your life this week. Understand its importance to getting more done and being happier along the way.

T = Teach and Talk

With your family and your friends who are in the trench with you. Let them know your teams goals, a family is the biggest team of all to your success. If you talk with them and teach them your team goals and where you want to go they will have a better understanding of what the plan is and what the end reward can be.

E = Encourage

The constant in any task is belief that the job at hand is manageable and attainable. Lift the spirit of your spouse and your children and give them the necessary encouragement to understand the task and the results that will come as the team moves on toward its goal.

A = Acknowledge

Set backs happen and to ignore them or to say your on the right track when the ball is getting dropped is plain ignorance and blind intentions. Mistakes happen and when they do you go back to the game plan and rework and practice till the mistakes get corrected. Acknowledge the fact that mistakes are part of life and they are not the end of the world.

M = Motivate and Mentor

When we walk the talk and lead by example the best motivation in the world for the team is to understand that it is very attainable. 'IT' can be many things, but IT is the ability that is proven and when others see that light they can follow the beacon. The team can model and follow its steps by the actions of those who have already had success.

Mentor the team, teach, encourage, acknowledge the mistakes and the good things along life's journey. But above all if you want to add an S to the TEAM. Use that S to always be Smiling.

Sending Smiles to you this Monday.... : )

Some thoughts on sharing a smile, your smile with so many who come within your circle of influence.

Till next time....share a smile, make a dream come true and make someone's else a bit happier.

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