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Art Fettig’s Monday Morning Memo
October 10, 2011
In This Issue
- Make Someone Happy
- Say Something Good
- Points To Ponder
- A Little Humor
- Quote of the Week
Make Someone Happy
The famous psychologist, Karl Menninger, might have given us a magic key to handling stress and unhappiness in our lives. What would you advise a person to do, one man asked, if that person felt a nervous breakdown coming on? Menninger’s answer: Lock up your house, go across the railway tracks, find someone in need, and do something to help that person. In other words, when you have problems of your own, put some of your efforts into helping someone else solve his problems.
Whenever I get to feeling blue or stressed or just plain in the mood for a pity party I take that message out and read it and then I examine what I have done for someone else recently. Almost always I find that I have been thinking mostly about me and very little about the other guy. Most times, as a great song lyric says, “I pick myself up, brush myself off and I start all over again. Give it a try and let me know if it works for you and if somebody volunteers to help you with a problem, let them. They might have come from a way across the tracks just to make the offer.
Say Something Good
Andy Rooney. On October 2nd, 2011 Andy Rooney from the TV Show 60 Minutes retired. He was an inspiration too me because he always spoke his mind and then let the chips fall where they may. When it came to military things Andy was in the know because although he was a writer for Stars and Stripes, the military newspaper. it was not a desk job, Andy was with the troops on the front lines during World War II and perhaps that is why I have so much respect for him. In many ways, to me, he represented sanity in an insane world and truth in a world full of liars. God Bless Andy and may God bless America and keep our troops from harm.
Points to Ponder
You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.Zig Ziglar
A Little Humor
A man was driving when a traffic camera flashed. He thought his picture was taken for exceeding the speed limit, even though he knew he was not speeding. Just to be sure, he went around the block and passed the same spot, driving even more slowly, but again the camera flashed. He thought this was quite funny, so he slowed down even further as he drove past the area, but the traffic camera flashed yet again. He tried a fourth time with the same result. The fifth time he was laughing when the camera flashed as he rolled past at a snail’s pace. Two weeks later, he got five traffic fine letters in the mail for driving without a seat belt.
Quote of the Week
October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again. Hal Borland
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