(new addition to blog each Monday and Thursday)
The Bible in 11 Timothy 1:7 tells us that, “God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind.” Jesus, the Master of love and light, this tender healer of the soul did not say “Go away ye who labor and are heavy laden. You make me depressed.” Rather read his homilies and over and over again, instead, he offers heavenly endorphins.
How to achieve some solutions for a troubled mind? Seek an emotional whiteout. Let the soft breeze of nothingness blow for awhile. To help yourself along this path of positive thinking rather than negative poundage read John 14:27 “Peace, I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
The mind is a strange mechanism. It can concentrate on only one thing at a time, so if you work at focusing on a blessing and everyone has at least one, it is almost impossible to think on something bad.
If you really are having trouble doing this, then think some silly thoughts such as:
Popping some popcorn without a lid on…or...
Read the dictionary upside down and look for hidden meanings …or…
Make up a new language and then use it to ask for directions.
Try this experiment. Walk up to a mirror and smile. Then while smiling say “I feel terrible.” Then frown and say “I feel wonderful.” The lesson is obvious.
One of the best antidotes for depression, or down days, or bad hair days, call them what you will, is activity. A dear friend of mine was slowly dying of congestive heart failure, but she was so busy talking to and helping another friend who was dying of cancer she had less time to worry about herself.
Allow yourself to be overwhelmed by divine otherness is one way of putting it.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
HOW TO REMEMBER ALL THOSE NAMES AND FACES YOU KEEP FORGETTING (2)
(new addition to blog each Monday and Thursday) *This is second installement in thiis series.
This next suggestion is a little more complicated since it has two parts; it puts your powers of observation to work and requires you to remember to make notes later on. To whatever degree you are comfortable, notice the outstanding features of the new face in front of you. Are the eyes small and hidden behind heavy lids? Do they sparkle or seem half asleep? Are they big and blue, deep and brown, almost hazy? We all have something rather distinctive about our features: square jaws or high forwards or big or thin lips. We have wavy or straight hair, or thick hair or no hair. We have bushy eyebrows or eyebrows so pale they are almost non-existent. Large noses or small noses. Big ears or small ears. Don’t stare, obviously. But also don’t fail to focus.
I realize that during this moment in time you are trying to keep up your end of a conversation but that is what memory is all about. And the more you use it, the better you’ll get at it. Soon you’ll be good enough to be able to describe the burglar who just robbed you to your local constable.
Now for part two; as soon as you can, take out the pen and little notebook you have decided to always now carry with you, write down the name and the outstanding characteristics of this person. We’re back to repetition again and your obvious desire to remember rather than make excuses. And, yes, pull out that notebook for name refreshment. It isn’t cheating, it’s reinvigorating.
Start a file in your computer with a list of places you’ve been and under each place keep adding new names with all the above suggestions to clarify them in your head. Then before you go to church, or a meeting or at work to see again the new employee check the name or names out. It’s extra work but it’s worth it. You really will be appreciated and loved for this new found ability.
Will it work? To a greater or lesser degree. But then if you remember twice as many names as normal isn’t it worth the effort?
This next suggestion is a little more complicated since it has two parts; it puts your powers of observation to work and requires you to remember to make notes later on. To whatever degree you are comfortable, notice the outstanding features of the new face in front of you. Are the eyes small and hidden behind heavy lids? Do they sparkle or seem half asleep? Are they big and blue, deep and brown, almost hazy? We all have something rather distinctive about our features: square jaws or high forwards or big or thin lips. We have wavy or straight hair, or thick hair or no hair. We have bushy eyebrows or eyebrows so pale they are almost non-existent. Large noses or small noses. Big ears or small ears. Don’t stare, obviously. But also don’t fail to focus.
I realize that during this moment in time you are trying to keep up your end of a conversation but that is what memory is all about. And the more you use it, the better you’ll get at it. Soon you’ll be good enough to be able to describe the burglar who just robbed you to your local constable.
Now for part two; as soon as you can, take out the pen and little notebook you have decided to always now carry with you, write down the name and the outstanding characteristics of this person. We’re back to repetition again and your obvious desire to remember rather than make excuses. And, yes, pull out that notebook for name refreshment. It isn’t cheating, it’s reinvigorating.
Start a file in your computer with a list of places you’ve been and under each place keep adding new names with all the above suggestions to clarify them in your head. Then before you go to church, or a meeting or at work to see again the new employee check the name or names out. It’s extra work but it’s worth it. You really will be appreciated and loved for this new found ability.
Will it work? To a greater or lesser degree. But then if you remember twice as many names as normal isn’t it worth the effort?
Thursday, October 23, 2008
How to Remember All Those Names and Faces You Keep Forgetting
(new addition to blog each Monday and Thursday)
How often have you said, “I can remember faces but I can’t remember names?”
Well, as soon as you say that you are creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. But it doesn’t have to be. There are ways to accomplish what at this moment may well seem to you a miracle with no place to happen. Never forget a name? Always be able to put a face and a moniker together? So let’s look at how to make your mind a better well-oiled machine.
First, when you are introduced to someone or they introduce themselves, repeat their name out loud. People love to hear their own name and the act of repetition is like paving a memory road so that it will be a road more easily traveled. If the name you repeat is wrong, most people will correct you, at which time their name just made its way through your memory bank for a second deposit.
Secondly, get in the habit of making a word picture out of their name. Your brain will now be getting the message that you really want to remember their name. By way of example; take the name Fairchild and picture a little child having fun at a fair. Or, you just met Mr. Parker. Picture him parking his car outside the building where you are meeting. Sometimes the more ridiculous the better. You’ve just been introduced to Miss Boyle. Now add to your memory a picture of the same individual with, unfortunately, a boil in the middle of her forehead. Again, repeat these images.
Thirdly, play word games with names. Such as the name, Kuhlman, cool man. Or Richardson, rich son. Or Oliphant, elephant. Are you thinking, this is silly. Well, it’s not if you are starting to remember a few more names, even if you still are not remembering every name. (To be continued Oct. 27th)
How often have you said, “I can remember faces but I can’t remember names?”
Well, as soon as you say that you are creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. But it doesn’t have to be. There are ways to accomplish what at this moment may well seem to you a miracle with no place to happen. Never forget a name? Always be able to put a face and a moniker together? So let’s look at how to make your mind a better well-oiled machine.
First, when you are introduced to someone or they introduce themselves, repeat their name out loud. People love to hear their own name and the act of repetition is like paving a memory road so that it will be a road more easily traveled. If the name you repeat is wrong, most people will correct you, at which time their name just made its way through your memory bank for a second deposit.
Secondly, get in the habit of making a word picture out of their name. Your brain will now be getting the message that you really want to remember their name. By way of example; take the name Fairchild and picture a little child having fun at a fair. Or, you just met Mr. Parker. Picture him parking his car outside the building where you are meeting. Sometimes the more ridiculous the better. You’ve just been introduced to Miss Boyle. Now add to your memory a picture of the same individual with, unfortunately, a boil in the middle of her forehead. Again, repeat these images.
Thirdly, play word games with names. Such as the name, Kuhlman, cool man. Or Richardson, rich son. Or Oliphant, elephant. Are you thinking, this is silly. Well, it’s not if you are starting to remember a few more names, even if you still are not remembering every name. (To be continued Oct. 27th)
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Laugh Your Way To Good Health
1. Would you have more happiness? Get a gratitude attitude. Minimize your complaints. Maximize your thanksgiving. “Earth’s crammed with heaven,” said Thoreau. Love, light, laughter. The smile of a child. The ripple of a stream. A sparkling star. A rainbow.
2. A sense of humor can over ride the worst of tragedies. Take Helen Keller, born deaf, dumb and blind. One day when someone asked her if she could feel colors she immediately responded, “Oh yes, I can feel blue.”
3. Would you have more happiness? Then daily train yourself to laugh at yourself, in particular if you have reached that point where the years are slowing you down and you are tired of being tired. Like telling the story on yourself that when you get up some mornings you feel like it’s the morning after…and you didn’t do anything the night before.
4. Would you have more happiness? Be a beacon of joy. . The next time you feel an overwhelming desire to find fault, sew your mouth shut until the feeling goes away. Or perhaps another way of putting it’ don’t needle – use one.
5. Happiness is being committed to a cause, to something that sets you on fire, that warms your very being because you are concerned with the happiness of someone else as much or more than you are for yourself. Happiness is having a principle you are willing to stand up for.
6. Did you ever see Stir Crazy? It starred Gene Wilder as a man named Harry. It was one crazy movie that exaggerated the art of accentuating the positive. First, Harry is thrown into prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Does this get Harry down? Not on your life.
7. He just keeps smiling and driving all the prison personnel crazy with his positive attitude. They hang him by his wrists for several days and he just breaks out with thanksgiving. “Thanks you. Thank you. Thank you. You just solved my back problem!”
8. The guards then lock Harry in a little hot box beneath a boiling sun. When they release him several days later he begs them to leave him there a little longer. “I was just starting to get to know myself,” he explains.
9. Finally, they throw happy Harry into a cell with a 300 pound murderer who gives a new meaning to the word crazy. Doesn’t faze Harry at all. When the guards return they find Harry and the crazy murderer laughing over a game of cards.
10. Harry may well be called a man who has pursued happiness to a crazy extreme…but why not? Isn’t it just as crazy to look only for the miserable? To fall in love with negative thinking? To argue that the glass is half empty and that what is left isn’t worth the space it’s taking up.
11. When was the last time you laughed at a tragedy? Maybe just the other day when you were relating something that happened many years ago. Now it is funny. Then it wasn’t. Time does that. It gives a new perspective.
12. What am I saying? I am saying make jokes such as “My insurance policy covered falling off the roof. It just didn’t cover hitting the ground.” A good attitude won’t make you able to laugh at every miserable moment of yesterday but it will help you to learn from it, and sometimes even enjoy the humor in it.
13. Have you smiled a few times while reading this? Are you smiling now? Good, go give your smile to someone you love before it fades away.
2. A sense of humor can over ride the worst of tragedies. Take Helen Keller, born deaf, dumb and blind. One day when someone asked her if she could feel colors she immediately responded, “Oh yes, I can feel blue.”
3. Would you have more happiness? Then daily train yourself to laugh at yourself, in particular if you have reached that point where the years are slowing you down and you are tired of being tired. Like telling the story on yourself that when you get up some mornings you feel like it’s the morning after…and you didn’t do anything the night before.
4. Would you have more happiness? Be a beacon of joy. . The next time you feel an overwhelming desire to find fault, sew your mouth shut until the feeling goes away. Or perhaps another way of putting it’ don’t needle – use one.
5. Happiness is being committed to a cause, to something that sets you on fire, that warms your very being because you are concerned with the happiness of someone else as much or more than you are for yourself. Happiness is having a principle you are willing to stand up for.
6. Did you ever see Stir Crazy? It starred Gene Wilder as a man named Harry. It was one crazy movie that exaggerated the art of accentuating the positive. First, Harry is thrown into prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Does this get Harry down? Not on your life.
7. He just keeps smiling and driving all the prison personnel crazy with his positive attitude. They hang him by his wrists for several days and he just breaks out with thanksgiving. “Thanks you. Thank you. Thank you. You just solved my back problem!”
8. The guards then lock Harry in a little hot box beneath a boiling sun. When they release him several days later he begs them to leave him there a little longer. “I was just starting to get to know myself,” he explains.
9. Finally, they throw happy Harry into a cell with a 300 pound murderer who gives a new meaning to the word crazy. Doesn’t faze Harry at all. When the guards return they find Harry and the crazy murderer laughing over a game of cards.
10. Harry may well be called a man who has pursued happiness to a crazy extreme…but why not? Isn’t it just as crazy to look only for the miserable? To fall in love with negative thinking? To argue that the glass is half empty and that what is left isn’t worth the space it’s taking up.
11. When was the last time you laughed at a tragedy? Maybe just the other day when you were relating something that happened many years ago. Now it is funny. Then it wasn’t. Time does that. It gives a new perspective.
12. What am I saying? I am saying make jokes such as “My insurance policy covered falling off the roof. It just didn’t cover hitting the ground.” A good attitude won’t make you able to laugh at every miserable moment of yesterday but it will help you to learn from it, and sometimes even enjoy the humor in it.
13. Have you smiled a few times while reading this? Are you smiling now? Good, go give your smile to someone you love before it fades away.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
How To Deal Successfully with Difficult People
I wish there weren’t difficult people. I wish I weren’t allergic to the emotional toxins they spread. Maybe if I had the patience of Job and the Wisdom of Solomon, I wouldn’t be irritated. But since I live in the river of life I must learn to make friends with the crocodiles. I must seek to make rainbows in the midst of other people’s thunder.
“It isn’t always what you must do but it is always what you must become,” a wise old minister once said to me, “Compassion is an empathetic brief exchange of souls.”
When I am confronted by a difficult person I ask myself, “When was the last time, Neil, you were difficult to deal with?” When did I last get that tone in my voice or that look on my face? Then I remind myself that when people irritate me I too can show it. Or as a l friend cautioned me one day, “We all can be patiently judgmental and that can be as bad or worse than a vocal eruption.”
DF’s (Difficult People) come in all kinds of emotional shapes and sizes. Most are sprinters, not marathon runners so wait them out until they run out of fuel. “Build on resolve and not regret,” cautioned the late Adlai Stevenson. Some DF’s blame and bluster at the top of their lungs. Some sneer softly and drop sarcasm. Others seem innocuous in their complaints but beneath lies a seething anger. Don’t throw them under the bus even when you feel like doing it. It will hurt the two of you in different ways but it will hurt the two of you.
The beginning of a solution? I long ago learned that questions rather than direct statements can smooth the edges of any debate or argument. “Would you please explain?” got the same answer as an argumentative reaction; it just wasn’t as heated.
I have also noted down through the years initiating dialogue can show concern and gain insight. “John, it seems we have been at odds recently.” The implication is that things have been better in the past. Sometimes, this is a stretch but a worthy one. “Is it something I did? Something I said?” Then speak of “stumbling blocks” a phrase that has a better connotation than “problem” “trouble” “difficulty” “disagreement.”
If verbal dialogue doesn’t seem appropriate or one is uncomfortable with this approach, a written note helps. “Dear John/Jane, I’ve been thinking a lot about what you said and you have a number of good points (praise). However, I wonder if you’ve considered my idea. As your friend (positive affirmation) I need your friendship and our ability to be able to agree to sometimes disagree.”
It is impossible to receive a positive response from everyone. Some people really are permanent DF’s Still, when friendship is hopeless, friendliness is not.
A sense of humor helps. “Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come,” counsels the ancient Chinese proverb. Overcome negative feelings toward the DF’s of the world with the wisdom of wit. Even if you do not always find spring, it will help you to withstand the winter of their discontent.
The next time someone is giving you a hard time, wherever for whatever reason, try the following experiment. “Visualize a large bucket of love. In your mind’s eye, pick up that bucket, walk over and slowly pour its entire contents over his head. Then imagine the liquid love dripping down and forming puddles at his or her feet. The ludicrousness of it will diffuse the moment at least for you…and what better place to begin.
“It isn’t always what you must do but it is always what you must become,” a wise old minister once said to me, “Compassion is an empathetic brief exchange of souls.”
When I am confronted by a difficult person I ask myself, “When was the last time, Neil, you were difficult to deal with?” When did I last get that tone in my voice or that look on my face? Then I remind myself that when people irritate me I too can show it. Or as a l friend cautioned me one day, “We all can be patiently judgmental and that can be as bad or worse than a vocal eruption.”
DF’s (Difficult People) come in all kinds of emotional shapes and sizes. Most are sprinters, not marathon runners so wait them out until they run out of fuel. “Build on resolve and not regret,” cautioned the late Adlai Stevenson. Some DF’s blame and bluster at the top of their lungs. Some sneer softly and drop sarcasm. Others seem innocuous in their complaints but beneath lies a seething anger. Don’t throw them under the bus even when you feel like doing it. It will hurt the two of you in different ways but it will hurt the two of you.
The beginning of a solution? I long ago learned that questions rather than direct statements can smooth the edges of any debate or argument. “Would you please explain?” got the same answer as an argumentative reaction; it just wasn’t as heated.
I have also noted down through the years initiating dialogue can show concern and gain insight. “John, it seems we have been at odds recently.” The implication is that things have been better in the past. Sometimes, this is a stretch but a worthy one. “Is it something I did? Something I said?” Then speak of “stumbling blocks” a phrase that has a better connotation than “problem” “trouble” “difficulty” “disagreement.”
If verbal dialogue doesn’t seem appropriate or one is uncomfortable with this approach, a written note helps. “Dear John/Jane, I’ve been thinking a lot about what you said and you have a number of good points (praise). However, I wonder if you’ve considered my idea. As your friend (positive affirmation) I need your friendship and our ability to be able to agree to sometimes disagree.”
It is impossible to receive a positive response from everyone. Some people really are permanent DF’s Still, when friendship is hopeless, friendliness is not.
A sense of humor helps. “Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come,” counsels the ancient Chinese proverb. Overcome negative feelings toward the DF’s of the world with the wisdom of wit. Even if you do not always find spring, it will help you to withstand the winter of their discontent.
The next time someone is giving you a hard time, wherever for whatever reason, try the following experiment. “Visualize a large bucket of love. In your mind’s eye, pick up that bucket, walk over and slowly pour its entire contents over his head. Then imagine the liquid love dripping down and forming puddles at his or her feet. The ludicrousness of it will diffuse the moment at least for you…and what better place to begin.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Loneliness, The Weeping Place
Loneliness! We can all remember its harrowing pain. We have ideas and can find no one who will agree. We make friends, and they pass away. We have a dream and find no one near to say, “I understand.”
There is no end to the causes of loneliness but there are solutions. One of these is to just practice common decency, one to the other. It is a vibrant antidote. Years of counseling have had me hear more often than I would like to count both husband and wives lamenting, “I start to tell my story and am interrupted before I’m even half way through.” It’s very lonely to be ignored.
We all need each other, but we need each other at our best. We need to be neighbors in truth and brothers and sisters in honesty. I need to know I have some place in your thoughts that is something more than casual
When you were young did you ever cry out, “Leave me alone.” What did you mean? You wanted privacy? Yes. You wanted to be alone permanently? Hardly. What we are talking about is the difference between loneliness and solitude.
Reading a book in quietness beneath a summer tree is solitude. Knowing no one in a crowd in a far away city is loneliness. We choose solitude. Loneliness chooses us.
Part of handling loneliness is becoming the kind of person you are happy with and from time to time want to be alone with
Sometimes it is not how many friends we have, nor how many names we can drop but rather our relationship with the great family of humanity. Joining a church, a club a group with a like hobby or sports interest really does make good sense and a better life.
Would you be less lonely and make it less for others? Then care about the loneliness of someone else. Allow someone of a different political persuasion to exist without animosity from you. Bury your prejudices. Allow someone to be bright or stupid without your meeting them with derision.
Be kind not cruel for loneliness is fed or flees by how you daily act.
There is no end to the causes of loneliness but there are solutions. One of these is to just practice common decency, one to the other. It is a vibrant antidote. Years of counseling have had me hear more often than I would like to count both husband and wives lamenting, “I start to tell my story and am interrupted before I’m even half way through.” It’s very lonely to be ignored.
We all need each other, but we need each other at our best. We need to be neighbors in truth and brothers and sisters in honesty. I need to know I have some place in your thoughts that is something more than casual
When you were young did you ever cry out, “Leave me alone.” What did you mean? You wanted privacy? Yes. You wanted to be alone permanently? Hardly. What we are talking about is the difference between loneliness and solitude.
Reading a book in quietness beneath a summer tree is solitude. Knowing no one in a crowd in a far away city is loneliness. We choose solitude. Loneliness chooses us.
Part of handling loneliness is becoming the kind of person you are happy with and from time to time want to be alone with
Sometimes it is not how many friends we have, nor how many names we can drop but rather our relationship with the great family of humanity. Joining a church, a club a group with a like hobby or sports interest really does make good sense and a better life.
Would you be less lonely and make it less for others? Then care about the loneliness of someone else. Allow someone of a different political persuasion to exist without animosity from you. Bury your prejudices. Allow someone to be bright or stupid without your meeting them with derision.
Be kind not cruel for loneliness is fed or flees by how you daily act.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Life Is Not What It is But What You Make It
Someone has described worry as a kind of mental hysteria in which the mind goes around in circles wearing holes in itself. The literal meaning of the word is “To Strangle.”
Here are a few ideas on how to handle this problem no one escapes..
1. Lean how to love. The day you capture unselfish others-centered love will be the finest moment of your life. It will cool the heat of anger, calm the jitters of fear and warm the chill of sorrow.
2. Learn a good definition of courage, Indeed, try this one, “Courage is not the absence of fear but the mastery of it.” When my friend and co-owner of our plane crashed it and killed himself I immediately took a rented plane skyward and put it through all the acrobatic maneuvers I could. I knew if I didn’t I might easily carry fear around in my back pocket for the rest of my life
3. Have a good physical every year. Don’t fight imaginary diseases. Do fight them if they are real.
4. Learn to cooperate with the inevitable and then having adjusted to a problem let it be a teacher.
Here are a few ideas on how to handle this problem no one escapes..
1. Lean how to love. The day you capture unselfish others-centered love will be the finest moment of your life. It will cool the heat of anger, calm the jitters of fear and warm the chill of sorrow.
2. Learn a good definition of courage, Indeed, try this one, “Courage is not the absence of fear but the mastery of it.” When my friend and co-owner of our plane crashed it and killed himself I immediately took a rented plane skyward and put it through all the acrobatic maneuvers I could. I knew if I didn’t I might easily carry fear around in my back pocket for the rest of my life
3. Have a good physical every year. Don’t fight imaginary diseases. Do fight them if they are real.
4. Learn to cooperate with the inevitable and then having adjusted to a problem let it be a teacher.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Whats So Great About Reading At Any Age?
The internet is full of knowledge about various health conditions, but it’s of no use to people who cannot interpret what they have just read. Practice may not truly make perfect but it sure does improve imperfection.
Directions. Driving down an expressway at 70 miles an hour while trying to interpret signs at a one-mile-an-hour retention rate is a poor combination. In short, don’t dash toward a crash because you can’t heed what you can’t read.
The more a child or adult reads the better they understand what they read and in many cases the very act of reading makes it easier and therefore more fun.
Read out loud from time to time. Not because you are in love with the sound of your own voice but because such reading is a remarkably good teacher of improved pronunciation and grammar.
Reading improves vocabulary and saves both you and your listeners from speaking skills that rate just slightly above “Duh.”
You gave your child a carpet for their bedroom. Give them a magic carpet for their minds and in case your own bedroom is bare, go for two new carpets immediately.
With movies you watch a screen. With reading you are in and on the screen of imagination.
E-books have an added advantage. They enhance anyone’s motor skills and eye hand coordination. As you pick, type, click scroll and otherwise respond to the screen all kind of little neurons start to get a smile on their faces.
Directions. Driving down an expressway at 70 miles an hour while trying to interpret signs at a one-mile-an-hour retention rate is a poor combination. In short, don’t dash toward a crash because you can’t heed what you can’t read.
The more a child or adult reads the better they understand what they read and in many cases the very act of reading makes it easier and therefore more fun.
Read out loud from time to time. Not because you are in love with the sound of your own voice but because such reading is a remarkably good teacher of improved pronunciation and grammar.
Reading improves vocabulary and saves both you and your listeners from speaking skills that rate just slightly above “Duh.”
You gave your child a carpet for their bedroom. Give them a magic carpet for their minds and in case your own bedroom is bare, go for two new carpets immediately.
With movies you watch a screen. With reading you are in and on the screen of imagination.
E-books have an added advantage. They enhance anyone’s motor skills and eye hand coordination. As you pick, type, click scroll and otherwise respond to the screen all kind of little neurons start to get a smile on their faces.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
No Title
I have decided not to give these particular miscellaneous thoughts a title because titles can sometimes slow down the process of assimilation. With that in mind, wrap your mind around the following suggestions and give them a life if you feel like they can help yours.
Pull this story out when you are down, down and downer. He had lost an eye in a terrible automobile accident and as they wheeled him into the operating room, he looked up at the doctor and said, “Hey, doc, when you put in my new eye be sure and put one in with a twinkle in it.”
It’s okay to saw wood but be careful that you don’t keep going until you are sawing sawdust. People do it all the time, sawing over and over again the same pain and problems of the past. When you have done all you can in all the ways you can, stop sawing sawdust.
Pull this story out when you are down, down and downer. He had lost an eye in a terrible automobile accident and as they wheeled him into the operating room, he looked up at the doctor and said, “Hey, doc, when you put in my new eye be sure and put one in with a twinkle in it.”
It’s okay to saw wood but be careful that you don’t keep going until you are sawing sawdust. People do it all the time, sawing over and over again the same pain and problems of the past. When you have done all you can in all the ways you can, stop sawing sawdust.
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