The Transformation Journals

I have heard some of these before and have seen one of them used a lot in chat/blog/email signitures but either didn’t know or had forgotten who that one was by. 

Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never
been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.

You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you
got to dress for all of them.

Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no
man got to be common.

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.
Leroy "Satchel" Paige, 1906 - 1982

and a side note.  I made a reference to the Waffle House calender in the office and their scattered etc hashbrowns.  Well guess what happens to be the food item pictured for July.  The WH food and fitness "expert" is making comments about simple and complex carbs.  Okay, potatos fit there, but what about all the cheese and chilli on top of them in the picture? Frying them?

Hope those that celebrate it had a happy 4th.  Be well and safe.  ~!~

ps:  um?…pettifogger…A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer.  There is a word for this?  Who knew? 

(disclaimer)  This is not directed at any specific lawyer or lawyers in general and that is not the only use of that word, just the one I find most humerous.

A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent. 
Proverbs 15:5

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up 
children the more they have come to the conclusion that what 
good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for 
their babies is the best after all. 
Benjamin McLane Spock, 1903 - 1998 

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, 
he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong. 
Charles Wadsworth  My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me  watch him do it. 
Clarence Buddinton Kelland  John Elway is a great football player. He used to be my son.  Now I’m his father. 
Jack Elway 

I had to

REJECTED SLOGANS FOR FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS

McDonald’s - Still The Best Choice When You Haven’t Got Time for Anything Better!

Starbucks - Now with 0.9% Financing on a Tall Frappucino!

KFC - Open to Suggestions on Keeping the Word "Fried" Out of Our Name.

Burger King - Ask for it Your Way and Get it Any Way We Make it.

Jack-in-the-Box - We put the dot in E.Coli!

Wendy’s - Hey, if Dave Didn’t Care About His Cholesterol, Why Should You?

Taco Bell - Working Around the Clock to Invent New Ways to Combine the Same Five Ingredients.

all from Mark Raymond’s Humor http://mrhumor.net/

And a bonus quote

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt  

Be Well and Safe   ~!~

Here is an excerpt from Dave’s newsletter on 05Mar2008

Crimes against one’s self, sins against man.

Take pride in your weighty endeavor, your iron diversion, your steely
sport or heavy pastime, whether you’re an aspiring fireman, policeman,
taxman, doctor, lawyer or Indian chief. What you do is good…
brilliant, perhaps. Go. Aspire.

Before moving on, you must face the four naked truths: discipline and
perseverance, courage and forbearance. These are prerequisites and
byproducts of building muscle, might and brights. Ya gotta have them,
or, at least, be ready, willing and able to develop them. Be prepared.

Yes I get these too…

idee fixe (noun) [ee-day-FEEKS]

A fixed idea that becomes an obsession.

Too much of a good thing?…as usual early morning random ponderings…Be well and safe.  ~!~

I am sure many have seen or heard this one before.

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be well and safe.  ~!~

Someone put up a Waffle House calendar up in the office.  It talks about healthy lifestyles.  Ummmm?  I just noticed that Waffle House has a job position "Health and Fitness Expert".  Who came up with double order scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, topped, diced, etc…romped on stomped on already chomped on hashbrowns?!?!?

Be well and safe.  ~!~

Q: Back in the 1970s bodybuilders training at Gold’s seemed to encourage one another more, and camaraderie between the athletes was more evident then it is today. How would you explain this different mentality? 

A: The activity has become extraordinarily popular and busy, the sport sharply competitive and crowded, the diversion commercialized and usurped and the world swifter and tighter, more jaded and impersonal. Today, it’s not who you are; it’s who you are compared to him or her. It’s not who you are; it’s what you’re worth.
Excerpt from a Dave Draper news letter February 13, 2008.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Arthur Charles Clarke

No fine work can be done without concentration and, self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Max Beerbohm, 1872 – 1956

The willingness to sacrifice is the prelude to freedom. 
The Pesach Seder

"It’s not what’s happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it’s your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you’re going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny."
Anthony Robbins