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2015;  DO YOU BELIEVE? I know my answer to this.  It’s a new year, but my answer is the same.  Giving my best!!!  As the greatest NFL coach, (George Halas of the Chicago Bears) said, “win or lose, no one who gave their best, ever regretted their effort”.  Give your best, in whatever your New Years resolution is, or the change that you’re working on.  Think of this image; Every person is going to leave a legacy.  What kind of legacy do you want to leave?  How about we add to that image; giving your best!  Then you can’t lose, you can’t!  If you gave everything you could give, you…

Christmas is a beautiful time of our lives.  It is a very spiritual time, the birth of Jesus Christ has come upon us.  Hopefully, this is where our thoughts should be, something far away from the materialistic world. So much of our attention, and, at this time of year, our thoughts tend to go to other people.  This is a good idea, but something that I think is also a good idea, too, is to think about YOU.  You are SO very important; to yourself, to others, to people you don’t even know.  You are so important, that a few, (or several) nice thoughts should be directed at yourself, because…

We are a terrific people.  Sometimes, don’t you wonder what a person’s history is?  Any person?  What’s their life’s story?  What they had been through, and what did they do in this world?  Did they make it better, or even better than better?  We could probably go deep on this, but sometimes when you let your mind go, it can GO!  I don’t have a word to use that can describe a situation that I’ve been through this past week; this is positive, by the way.  As I’ve mentioned before, I do a lot of volunteer work at RONALD REAGAN HOSPITAL at UCLA.  I talk to a lot of patients…

JOURNEY; n.  a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time. Let’s take a look at the last part of this definition; “usually taking a rather long time”.  WOW.  To me, that’s a heavy statement!  Usually taking a rather long time, to me, means a lot of commitment, a lot of effort, and a LOT of perseverance in times of failure.  To you, what does the word “failure” mean?  Is it a one time affair?  Does it mean that you hit a wall, and that’s it?  Journey is now done???  NO!  Not even close!  Everything we do, there is some kind of failure; we just need…

When was the last time that you felt the euphoria that you feel after a great workout, or a great event that you couldn’t get out of your head?  Something that makes your heart explode, like it’s too much for you inside?  Something that just wants to burst out?  Like taking a steroid?  By the way, I HATE steroids, but sometimes, medically, you must take them, so that’s why I mentioned them here.  After both of my surgeries, I was given steroids, to keep my “activity” going, after coming off the “other” meds that I had to take, while I was in the hospital.  I’ll tell you what, the steroids…

HOPE:   n/ 1) the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out.  2) a   person or thing  in which expectations are centered. What is unique about this first definition?  Does it define your feeling of “hope”?  Or does it define your definition of “can”?  Can would go either way, I think the word “can”, in this meaning of the word “hope”, is the key word; it doesn’t mean “will”.  The communication of “will” means that you have to do something, to make that hope come true.  That’s something that I try to put out there every day.  We all have hope, as we should,…

Question; who sang this song, and when? DRIVE: v. / to strive vigorously towards a goal or objective. We all have had some sort of “drive’ in us, but how much?  It seems like a question that would have a simple answer, but sometimes there’s a catch.  We have all had a dream, which we should still have, by the way, but we should also be able to recognize if our little journey of life changes that dream.  By the way, that’s o.k.  Think about that dream, really put some thought into it, and then think about how much “drive” you put into it, let’s just call it effort.  It…

Who sang this song? Do you have a Sunday?  Do you have any day?   Do you OWN any day?  A “yes” would a fine answer to all of these, but I’ll take a yes to any one of these.  You can, and should, own a day; preferably every day.  I know, I know, weekends are “lazy” days, “relaxing” days, days to unwind.  One question, though; does that mean that we had a party-hardy on Friday or Saturday night?  That’s fine, by the way, just don’t let the hangover lead you into your day.  If you want to “relax”, do it because that’s how you want your day to be; your…

Isn’t that beautiful/  Turn Mom upside down and it’s it just one simple word, “WOW”.  Wow:  n. “an extraordinary success.  Also: excitement, interest, and great pleasure”.  This past weekend, we had a surprise party for my mother, who turned 80.  When I say surprise party, it was a week before her REAL birthday, (7/03), but my brother’s wife ( Ginna ) had her birthday on the June 28, and said she really wanted to have dinner with my Mom/Dad for her birthday.  Sooooo, as they were having dinner, we finished up the decorations for her party, and they came home< (7:30ish), and  SURPRISE!  It was great, because we had relatives…

This would be HAPPY FATHERS DAY, to everyone involved.  Certainly I was thinking of my father as I started to write, but there’s a lot of fathers out there, that I don’t know, that deserves this, also.  I knew that I should write SOMETHING, but the words weren’t coming.  I would sit there, type and delete, type and delete, on and on…. So I said I’ve got to get out of the office, go outside, and just sit there, and regroup.  As I was sitting there, getting completely relaxed, it hit me: if my Dad was sitting here with me, we would both be sitting in that same spot, probably…