Been a while since I last posted. Some interesting events have transpired however. First of all, my family has moved not only into another location but another mortgage. I haven't "owned" one of those in over 15 years. But my wife and I have decided we will remain where we now are until our youngest child will graduate HS in 5 years and then....well who knows. Hopefully much more travel. July 25, 2009 our third child, second son was married. Very small wedding by the sound. Had to schedule around the falling tide tide to insure enough room for all in attendance.
Now this weekend is the NC Seafood Festival. Our house will be full! All of our six children, three spouses and two grandsons. Tomorrow is birthday number three for one of them. Vicky is baking and decorating a Batman cake for the occasion. Our son-in-law will be one of over 200 vendors at the NC Seafood Festival. He will be showing and selling, "Nater Tater's Teeter Totters", Traditional wooden see saws (NTteetertotters.com) designed and built by himself, our daughter and their two year old son.
Just a quick rambling to kinda get back in the swing of posting and once again pursue the world of blogging. Hope you enjoy it. Leave a comment so I'll know you visited.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Train Your Thinking For Daily Living
Too often today, too many think too little.
In the United States in particular, most television programming has trained viewers into having short attention spans with little thought for details. Requiring little to no thinking at all, just a programming of the masses to buy and believe the lifestyle being promoted.
A plethora of information relevant to "How to think" is available to Internet surfers. In most cases the type of thinking covered is of the "think like a genius" creative thinking for solving of complex problems. In this and several future posts, I'll offer information helpful for training your thinking for more effective and efficient application of daily life-skills. How to "git 'er done" as practical and pleasant as possible.
Based upon the oft used, "Use it or lose it" philosophy, I submit that the increase of mental illness today may not be so much what we eat or what's eatin' us, but possibly results from not using our minds as purposefully or powerfully as in years gone by. That is why I write this and future "Train Your Thinking" posts.
Any building must begin with a foundation. Training your thinking is no different. As simple or as silly (you decide) as the following may sound, it truly is the "unseen" foundation upon which "Training Your Thinking" builds. Remember, this is only the first of several very effective steps you will use. Take a piece of notebook paper and pen or pencil. Write your "ABC's" down the left side of the paper. After each of the 26 letters write three words that begin with each letter. In example, A= apple, ant, ask, B= boy, buy, born. Continue until you have 78 words listed. Do this each day as early as possible, once per day for 7 days without repeating any words on separate pieces of paper, keeping all previous pages but not reviewing them. (We will use them again later) Easy enough, right! Then why not do it right now and begin a simple process with amazing results. Now, after 7 days you will.....have to return to Read and Reap to learn the next incredible results producing step.
Stop by daily or subscribe with a reader, (I use Google reader) as I may post other topics prior to 7 days.
In the meantime, THINK on this:
"You can and should shape your own future; because if you don't someone else surely will".
--Joel Barker
Thanks for reading here.
In the United States in particular, most television programming has trained viewers into having short attention spans with little thought for details. Requiring little to no thinking at all, just a programming of the masses to buy and believe the lifestyle being promoted.
A plethora of information relevant to "How to think" is available to Internet surfers. In most cases the type of thinking covered is of the "think like a genius" creative thinking for solving of complex problems. In this and several future posts, I'll offer information helpful for training your thinking for more effective and efficient application of daily life-skills. How to "git 'er done" as practical and pleasant as possible.
Based upon the oft used, "Use it or lose it" philosophy, I submit that the increase of mental illness today may not be so much what we eat or what's eatin' us, but possibly results from not using our minds as purposefully or powerfully as in years gone by. That is why I write this and future "Train Your Thinking" posts.
Any building must begin with a foundation. Training your thinking is no different. As simple or as silly (you decide) as the following may sound, it truly is the "unseen" foundation upon which "Training Your Thinking" builds. Remember, this is only the first of several very effective steps you will use. Take a piece of notebook paper and pen or pencil. Write your "ABC's" down the left side of the paper. After each of the 26 letters write three words that begin with each letter. In example, A= apple, ant, ask, B= boy, buy, born. Continue until you have 78 words listed. Do this each day as early as possible, once per day for 7 days without repeating any words on separate pieces of paper, keeping all previous pages but not reviewing them. (We will use them again later) Easy enough, right! Then why not do it right now and begin a simple process with amazing results. Now, after 7 days you will.....have to return to Read and Reap to learn the next incredible results producing step.
Stop by daily or subscribe with a reader, (I use Google reader) as I may post other topics prior to 7 days.
In the meantime, THINK on this:
"You can and should shape your own future; because if you don't someone else surely will".
--Joel Barker
Thanks for reading here.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Launch of Read and Reap Blog site
With this post I begin my entry into the Weblog experience. Welcome to all who may find their way here.
I hope to post on a somewhat regular basis so be sure and return often. "Read and Reap" readers will enjoy posted topics ranging from family matters to humorous stories to one liner quotes for fun and/or inspiration. Marriage, Money, Motivation and Miscellaneous postings for making your life easier, more enjoyable, productive and efficient will be here as well. So "Read and Reap" often. You may find just what you're looking for!
Be sure and post your feedback, encouragement and "Thumbs up/Thumbs down" comments. I look forward to reading from you.
Well. that's it for now!
Until next time, remember this:
"When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day". (Marty Bucella)
So stay young! Visiting "Read and Reap" often may prevent old age :0)
Thanks for stopping by!
I hope to post on a somewhat regular basis so be sure and return often. "Read and Reap" readers will enjoy posted topics ranging from family matters to humorous stories to one liner quotes for fun and/or inspiration. Marriage, Money, Motivation and Miscellaneous postings for making your life easier, more enjoyable, productive and efficient will be here as well. So "Read and Reap" often. You may find just what you're looking for!
Be sure and post your feedback, encouragement and "Thumbs up/Thumbs down" comments. I look forward to reading from you.
Well. that's it for now!
Until next time, remember this:
"When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day". (Marty Bucella)
So stay young! Visiting "Read and Reap" often may prevent old age :0)
Thanks for stopping by!
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