This is a new one for me, got me thinking even further about what I feed my brain. One can find all the junk food your brain could ask for on T.V. Or one could feed it a little better and learn more by reading, exploring or yes watching tv, even though there is bad there is also good educational things to watch. Thank you for accepting me into this daily email.

Fights that end in positive results are those worth fighting! When they end negatively over and over again, choose a different fight. “you want something different, do something different”. Where I grew up, you either fought or you got your butt kicked, fighting was not optional. Thankfully, today, I have the power to choose my fight based on my priorities. I like todays fight a lot better than those where I grew up! 🙂 I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving weekend!

It always amazes me when I hear someone say “I wish I had that”. To me, everything happens for a reason. What I found out was that in most cases, at some point it becomes very clear that you probably didn’t need that to begin with. I say goals !

Great thought!…
Thou shalt not covet. Or better yet. We get to not covet.
This thought brought my mind to the character of God, which is so misrepresented in the world today. A world view of everyone being handed what others have worked hard for or one which dictates what the citizens must do is very similar to the way satan has deceived many people into thinking that God is a tyrant and He should stop all suffering and bad things if He really is God. The Bible says God is love, He created us in His image, that means we have been created as humans with the ability to reason and to love, to name a few. Love can not be experienced without freedom. The freedom of every individual to make their choice to do good things or to do bad things. In all actuality God has shown so much love to the human race, trying to attract every human without interfering with their freedom to choose their own way. In an effort to prove His dedication to the freedom of the human race and wanting the human race to be able to experience love, He even gave up His Divinity and became human, Jesus Christ, then suffered the wages of sin in our place so that we can all be sons and daughters of God and live in perfect harmony with one another and with Him one day soon (building successful lives on an earth made new, reaping what each individual sows) after everyone has expressed their freedom to choose eternal life with no sin or suffering as our Creator intended it or death.
Would you rather live in a world with a chance to experience love or one where we would never know the feeling of being loved or loving God, our spouse, our kids, our neighbor or our pets, etc?

I was told this years ago by an employee that I worked really hard to change. He said, “just because I don’t do it exactly like you do doesn’t make my way wrong, as long as we come to the same conclusion that is all that matters, right?” I had to take a step back and really listen to what that meant. But, he was right and was a great employee for me. I could always count on him to do the right thing and he’d work day and night for me. I gave him freedom and he loved it!

These are great quotes! I forwarded them to my sons with these comments: “This is good advice. One of the things I have realized the older I get is that deficiencies in those closest to us are often a reflection of some sort of deficiency in ourselves. Either we don’t know how to communicate with the other person, or we don’t understand their view point, or we are holding them to a higher standard than ourselves, or we gave them poor instructions and got poor results, or many other things. So, when you see a deficiency in someone else you should first look at yourself and see if there was anything in the past that you could/should have done differently that could have changed the outcome. Only after you have eliminated the things that you could have done differently then should you ask them to do something differently.”

Love these words.

Race fast, race safely

Good luck on the race, we travelled about 500 miles of the course with Victor, Arturo and Oscar in late October – Baja is a great place. Enjoy the challenge

All the best! We are cheering you on to the finish line….True Level Concrete, Vancouver, BC

Great job!! Saw your finish line interview! Way to go!

Great point and a very cool movie

Also, to follow up. I crawl under houses and mix concrete and do a lot of dirty work. Please leave this pretentious garbage to yourself.

As for first impressions, It is our nature to size up people based on what we see. Over time we may change our impression as we get to know the person but if a decision is made on that first impression to walk away or avoid someone then we will all lose out on the missed opportunity….. Human nature cannot be changed over night…..

Thank you Larry for your Weekly Words of Wisdom, I look forward to each and every phrase, we need people like you in our lives to see the light and seize the moment. I am retired and do not work anymore but all stages of our lives can be difficult in other ways, thank you so much for being such an inspiration, just like my parents who were school teachers too, Steve H.