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It’s really weird how the mind plays tricks on you. I checked out my scribbled holiday diary, and see that I’d had a bad night’s sleep in Singapore and the following day I took…
That amazing future and glorious tomorrow. Always enticing us to move time forward so that we may rush what is now for a moment much more beautiful than this. A tomorrow much more gorgeous and radiant than the present. The present. What of this? What of now? What of our quest for some rare and perfect tomorrow when today is already a precious gift? Today is normal but it is here and living and present. We know not what the future holds. In fact, we know nothing but now. This moment. This treasure of breath in mouth. Today is good.
Good evening đź’•
I didn’t know they still made Jiffy Pop. I ventured into the Internet to see if it was still available. It must be in every grocery store there is! I guess after the invention of microwave popcorn, I never went back to Jiffy Pop.
This gives some interesting background that I did not know. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiffy_Pop
Frederick C. Mennen of LaPorte, Indiana, a chemist, inventor and industrialist,[1] is credited with developing the product in 1958. Mennen began marketing Jiffy Pop in 1959.[2] American Home Products purchased Jiffy Pop from Mennen that same year, and within one year the product had reached the national U.S. market.[original research?] In the 1970s, the stage magician Henri Bouton, fils, better known as Harry Blackstone, Jr., was endorsing what the television-commercial jingle called “the magic treat — as much fun to make as it is to eat.”[citation needed]
Jiffy Pop was based on a similar product…
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I don’t blame you for being tired.
You’ll never admit it but i can tell.
It drips from your words like an ominous drizzle.
It leaks from your eyes like the tears I’m not supposed to know about.
My brand of crazy burns the throat and coerces the tears.
It has claimed victims most determined.
It makes lightweights of champions
And it cripples with brutal callousness.
I don’t blame you for stepping back
When you were lacerated by my shrapnel.
I couldn’t bear to see the pain
That my monstrous volatility did cause you.
I don’t blame you for turning away.
For life has thrown you enough curve-balls,
And your feet singe from the fires you had to walk through,
And your heart too has ached on lonesome nights.
So I won’t blame you for leaving me.
You deserve to feel the healing breeze,
The perfect respite, the sudden ease,
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Aging, Families, Stupidity*Suziland
Source: most memorable “vacation”
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See ya on Monday!!
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Byron brushed the lint from his uniform as he approached the home of his last client of the day. Walking up the steps of the beautiful home in the well-groomed neighborhood, he knocked on the door and looked down at his paperwork.
“Yes?” The door swung open and a woman smiled back at him.
“Good afternoon ma’am my name…”
Byron paused, mesmerized. The woman had the most beautiful blue eyes he’d ever seen. They had to be contact lens. He could look right through them. They were lovely against her milk chocolate skin. He cleared his throat. A woman had never had him so caught off guard.
“My name is Byron Fisher with Guaranteed Insurance Co. We have you listed here as requesting a return visit.” Byron held up a hand, “I…
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I recall a conversation I had with a friend of mine a few years ago. He was upset because he was struggling financially. He had a decent job, but life's circumstances had turned against him it seemed. He had gone through a divorce that drained his savings. He had had a series of car problems that drained every extra cent he had from his last paycheck. He didn't have enough money remaining to eat and still had 10 days until his next paycheck. Needless to say this friend was down on his luck and was asking to borrow money; which I gave him. The interesting thing is that I had known this guy for a few years and I knew his problem wasn't the divorce or car problems. His problem was that he lived with a broken mind.
This guy's thinking was flawed so here's what I suggested to him–"you need money and you have money sitting right in your house. Let's go through your house and collect up all the things you don't touch and have a yard sale. I'll bet you have close to $500 sitting around." This was on a Tuesday and on Wednesday he ran a free ad on Craigslist advertising his Saturday yard sale. The end result? He made $400.
I started a vintage furniture company with almost zero cash. I went to an estate sale and bought $30 worth of old furniture which I flipped for $175 in one day. I then took and reinvested that $175 and turned it into $400 and I was off and running.
Here's my point: you don't need money! You need a revolution of your mind. Do you remember my question about giving your all? This is what I was talking about. What are you willing to do to change your current circumstances? My friend had never considered having a yard sale, yet he made $400 in 4 days from things he had lying around his house. I created $400 in profit in 2 weeks from a simple $100 investment.
If you have a mind dead set on changing, then you will find a way to change. If you have a mind set on lamenting your circumstances, then you will continue to complain and nothing will change. I can already see the comments, "I see what you are trying to say, but everyone's circumstances are different. Some people don't have anything." And this is true, there are going to be uber-extreme situations where someone in this world doesn't have anything. But I'm not talking about them, I'm speaking directly to YOU!
Here is a simple formula to make more money right now…
Monthly Result?
$100 – cable
$250 yard sale
$340 Ebay
=$690 extra money
And I know this works because I did it. I spent 2 nights per week at auctions buying things that had value and then selling them on Ebay or Craigslist. I took everything in our home that we never touched and held yard sales. I attended weekend estate sales and found items I could flip for cash. Basically I hustled my tail off to make $20 bucks here and there and turned that into a few thousand dollars per month. It was a lot of work. It resulted in me working nights and weekends. It took time. But I did it and I created an income flow. The difference was that I had a mind set on finding any way to generate extra money so I did everything I could to scrape together extra dollars to get ahead.
Imagine if you exhausted every avenue to make a few extra dollars and combined that with eliminating wasted expenses!! Everyone wastes a couple hundred dollars per month on cable, cigarettes, eating out, gym memberships, car payments, Starbucks, driving too much, etc.
The question is-which mind do you have? One set on getting ahead and finding a way or one set on accepting getting dirt kicked in your face by life and sitting around complaining? The simple truth is you have extra time and if you have extra time you can use that extra time to make extra money.
(*******even those who have nothing can find a way. Read this story about a man who traded a paperclip for a house!!)
For a while now, I’ve been partners with Danny.
Like a lot of you, I follow his blog for a daily dose of inspiration and thought provoking interaction. No wonder why he came to my mind, when I spotted this mug while waiting to pay at Winners.
And like Danny, it was the unique one! 🙂
