Blast from the Past #2

Ok I cannot leave you with that last blogpost about "ASSPLOSIONS", as a friend so adeptly just put it...I am just not that kinda guy...
What I have also found in the journal was a list of life lessons both mine and Oprah's...Now many of you have voiced your opinion of the Orpah...yet there are many time when she does in fact speak to me on some deeper level...
I journalled her life lessons list from a post in her magazine...but I also included some of my own as well...

1. What you put out comes back all the time, no matter what.
2. You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.
3. Whatever someone has done to you in the past has no power on the present. Only YOU give it power.
4. When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.
5. Worrying is wasted time. Use the same amount of energy for doing something about whatever worries you.
6. What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for . You become what you believe.
7. If the only prayer you ever say is THANK YOU, it is enough.
8. The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
9. Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.
10. If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.
11.Trust your instincts. Intuition does not lie.
12. Love yourself and learn to extend that love to others in every encounter.
13. Let passion drive your profession.
14. Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.
15. love doesn't hurt. It feels really good..
16. Every day brings another chance to start over.
17. Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so.
18. Doubt means don't Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward.
19. When you do not know what to do, get still. The answer will come.
20. Trouble doesn't always last. This too shall pass.

See what I mean?? Some of these speak deeper than others...

Higdem-isms:
1. Be at peace.
2. Bring your light to the world and be no longer afraid of the darkness which pervades.
3. Face the world through the eyes of a child- with wonderment and renewed vision.
4. Have Hot Chocolate EVERY day!!!
5. Be Proactive instead of Reactive.A lack of planning on your behalf does not constitute an emergency on my behalf. Get your act together and then we can talk.

Mantras that I need to remind myself of daily. When life gets so crazy, so stressful, When you look in the mirror at the laughlines and the tired eyes and you forget these...a gentle reminder is always a GOOD THING!

What are YOUR mantras?

A Blast from the Past

So one of the joys of unpacking and going through all of your stuff is finding treasures you had forgotten about. One of the things I found in amongst all of my belongings were journals I had written in all the way back to 1996. It has been fun to go back a re-read the adventures, the lamentations, the struggles, and the moments where you find yourself thinking, "What the Heck? Did that really happen?"

I thought it would be fun to jot a few down in the coming months on this blog just to either brighten your day or provoke a conversation. May have been a personal revelation I came upon or a random experience. Either way, it makes me laugh just re-living it and sharing it with YOU.

So for the first of many posts...I take you to Omaha to my past job at Younkers. I wrote:

"So I am going up the escalator the other day at work. An elderly gentleman gets on in front of me and is 3 or 4 steps up from me and probably not knowing, or caring, decides that he is a going to fart on his way up. Not the light, airy, 'let it slip' kind of fart, but the dark, bubbly, juicy kind that gurgles. And the whole time I am standing there, thinking, 'REALLY'?"

"What the hell?"

"And the whole time you keep riding the thing up? And you don't turn around to apologize?"

This occurrence, as I wrote, reminded me of following Grandpa Higdem in random stores, usually hardware stores, and finding myself behind the gurgle and thinking, "Holy Hell, old man, REALLY?" Have some respect or decorum!

And what did I write that I learned from this experience?

PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR SURROUNDINGS.

You are welcome...