1. Everyone’s meal today is on you!
2. The ’special sauce’ came from the floor!
3. Guess what our special ‘drop’ was in our Egg Drop Soup and win a free meal!!
4. Your colon will self destruct in five seconds.
5. A recent prison escapee that is sitting near by wants to love you long time.
6. Your dog Sparky…he’s no longer missing.
7. See the waiter about our new food poison life insurance policies.
8. We know where you live.
9. You will need good reading material in approximately 15 minutes.
10. MSG? NO!! Ebola Virus….maybe

Fortune: Dance is the hidden language of the soul

Explanation: In the end, all actions are justified.

No matter how heinous, there is always a reason

for all that happens. And to feel anger over such things

is as logical as being mad that apples fall to earth.

I sought to understand everything…

and even still, I’ve got a long way to go.

Fortune: Total absence of humor renders life impossible

Explanation: Too many people suffer from chronic seriousitis these days. It shows up in the faces, furrowed brows, bad hair days, impatience, up-tight behavior, and loss of perspective. We need to lighten up! We take ourselves way too serious with disastrous effects to our personal health and wellness. We need to recognize that laughter truly is ‘the best medicine.’

What most of us don’t realize is that by not laughing, we miss out on many health benefits. A good laugh massages face, shoulders and stomach muscles, reduces blood pressure, increases oxygen flow, boosts the immune system, and causes a reduction in stress-inducing chemicals. Research has shown that laughter works faster than Valium or vodka. The benefits from a good belly laugh can last up to 24 hours. Dr. William Fry, a laughter pioneer researcher found that 30 seconds of hearty laughter equals a three minute physical workout on a rowing machine.

You don’t even need a reason to laugh, even fake laughter is good for you. Thousands of ‘Laughter Clubs‘ have sprung up all over the world practicing fake laughter with the same benefits as derived from real laughter. With the downturn of the economy and the increase of personal stresses, it is important to remember that humor and laughter are powerful stress busters. It is impossible to be stressed when laughing. Laughter provides an instant vacation from our stress.

Humor and laughter clear our minds, so that we can think more clearly and become more creative in resolving our problems. Humor helps us cope with difficult time and situations. It is a known fact that there was more humor created during World War Two than any other time in history. Humor and laughter help to reduce conflict and facilitate easier communication. They quickly help lower the barriers and ease connection with people.. This is a tremendous asset for people caught up in the negative effects of the economy, when having to pursue other avenues of employment. Humor and laughter are available to each and everyone of us and at no cost, however, they still remain the most underrated and undervalued tools in society.

Fortune: Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it

Example: I think that this quote is talking about how successful people are often too busy completing tasks and making a difference to worry about the status of their success.

For instance, if a CEO of a company is in the middle of running a company and trying to make sure that the company is making money, the CEO is not likely to be thinking about the success that others will be judging him/her on.  Instead, the CEO is focused on the task at hand or the several tasks that the job forces him to do.

Another example can be anyone who is motivated to truly live life.  If you are busy doing, you can’t spend time worrying.  The more you do, the more likely you are to succeed.  So by the shear nature of doing, one would be likely to focused on what is in front of them and not the likely success that will come despite looking for it.  Those who do look for success aren’t being productive enough to find it.  I have an uncle who is constantly switching jobs looking for the next best thing instead of just working hard at whatever he’s doing.  He doesn’t like hard work and wants get rich quick schemes.  Anyone in this circumstance is NOT likely to find the success they desire.

Fortune: Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is

Explaination: You have to spend most of your life working, so if you’re unhappy at your work you’re likely to always be unhappy.

Fortune: The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened

Explanation: It’s only the middle-aged who are really conscious of their limitations–that is why one should be so patient with them. But one never is.”
“After all,” said the Duchess, “the disillusions of life may depend on our way of assessing it. In the minds of those who come after us we may be remembered for qualities and successes which we quite left out of the reckoning.”
“It’s not always safe to depend on the commemorative tendencies of those who come after us. There may have been…

Fortune: No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted

Explanation: A little bit of Kindness can go a long way, take that into consideration when you respond to blogs will you?

A Little Bit of Kindness
By Catherine Pulsifer

There are times in our life when we don’t take action because we feel the action is too little, that it wouldn’t make a difference. However, sometimes the smallest gesture can make a huge impact on someone’s life. There are many different ways we can show kindness to others, and it doesn’t have to be in a big way.

The simplest of things may make the difference. A smile, a door being held open, a handwritten note, a kind word, the list can go on and on.

I came across The story of The Lion and The Mouse. While this story has been around for a long time, it still has wisdom in its words. Below is the story:

One day a Lion was asleep when a little Mouse began running up and down his back; this soon wakened the Lion, who placed his huge paw upon him, and opened his big jaws to swallow him.
“Please don’t,” cried the little Mouse: “forgive me this time, I shall never forget it: who knows but what I may be able to do you a turn some of these days?”

The Lion was so tickled at the idea of the Mouse being able to help him that he lifted up his paw and let him go.

Some time after the Lion was caught in a trap, he pulled with all his might, but the ropes were too strong. Just then the little Mouse happened to pass by, and seeing the sad plight, in which the Lion was, went up to him, and with his sharp little teeth gnawed away the ropes, setting the Lion free.

“You once laughed at me,” said the mouse. You thought I was too little to do you a good turn. But see, you owe your life to a poor little mouse.”

While you may think the story is far fetched, the point I found in reading the story is not the size of the action that is important, but the difference that a small action made.

Fortune: “The work will teach you how to do it.”

Explanation: When trying to build or strengthen friendships for children, people often want a template, a series of steps to follow that will guarantee success. Those of us who attempt these activities with any regularity know that such a thing does not exist. What worked for one young person will not necessarily do so for another. Also, what failed in one situation may be worth trying in another.
There are a number of activities to utilize, such as a lunch bunch, service projects, outings reflecting common interests, and so on. However, simply engaging in the activity means a whole lot less than the quality of the interpersonal interactions that take place during it. This is when the adult facilitator is so important. For this is when we can help the children reflect on and learn about each other’s qualities and value. This is when they can see how much they have in common and how their differences can bind rather than divide them.
The most effective friendship facilitator – whether he or she is a parent, teacher, older sibling, or anyone else – must be an opportunist. We must recognize those moments of possibility and utilize them to bring the children together. Otherwise they float away into the dimly remembered past.
How to do this? While we can learn from each other’s experience, and utilize common activities, we really learn from doing it. Our own experience, both success and failure, is our best teacher. In order to best utilize that experience we need to be flexible.
Friendship facilitation is not like classical music, where one plays every note as written. It’s more like jazz, where you start with a certain structure and a certain number of instruments and then improvise within and from the melody. Where you take it depends upon who you’re playing with, how well you listen to each other, and how far you want to take it. Sometimes it just comes out as noise. But the longer you stick with it, and stick with each other, the more beautiful and meaningful the sound.
by Dennis Granzen
Reprinted from Family Footnotes
September 2003