Celebrate

I had a wonderful corporate date earlier this week and I was dressed in my seersucker Matlock jacket and I did some comedy on not being Andy Griffith and it was mostly fun but I started my program by doing a very poor imitation of the band Rare Earth celebrating their all time hit song with the lyrics that said, "I just want to celebrate, yeah, yeah.  Another day of living.  I just want to celebrate another day of life. And the world goes around and around and around and around.  And the meeting was a special Bar B Q luncheon with all the fixins to celebrate a really special safety record.  So often, in my long career as a professional speaker I was called in following a tragedy. I was always thrilled when some wonderful organizations brought me in just to celebrate the fact that all of their workers were whole and alive and able to celebrate another year of safe working.  The world needs more celebrations like this.  We need more occasions to celebrate life and it sure was a thrill for Almost Andy to join in then fun.

I’ve seen this quote posted in a number of places this past year.  It tells us that if we’re unhappy with our lot in life, we can’t just push a magical button to change things.  In reality, however, there is a magic button that we can push if we want to change things--it’s called our attitude.  Whether a hill is steep or gradual, whether a glass is half-empty or half-full or whether a dream seems impossible or doable all depend on our attitude.  

You've probably heard it a thousand times. "He's waiting for his ship to come in." The problem with such folks is that they never sent a ship out or if they did the ship was not equipped with a destination or a rudder to steer it. It is impossible for that ship to stay the course.  When you set goals in your life you might like to make them small attainable goals at first and when you start achieving them you might try something more difficult. With small goals make them short term and with big ones extend the time set. A few small successes will inevitable lead to bigger achievements. When I finally started setting goals and visualizing them coming true I was amazed at how quickly some of them were achieved. 

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A study recently reported in the Psychological Bulletin, found that optimism--seeing a glass as being half-full rather than half-empty--is good for your heart.  Researchers Julia Boehm and Laura Kubzansky from the Harvard School of Public Health found "...that factors such as optimism, life satisfaction and happiness are associated with reduced risk of CVD (cardiovascular disease) regardless of such factors as a person's age, socioeconomic status, smoking status or body weight."  For example, they found that "...the most optimistic individuals had an approximately 50 percent reduced risk of experiencing an initial cardiovascular event (stroke, heart attack, etc.) compared to their less optimistic peers." 

I'm sitting here working on a talk for the North Carolina Purple Heart Assn. Annual Meeting Banquet and I have fifteen minutes following the Keynoter. I've done many hundreds of banquet presentations and twice now in the past I have looked out on the audience and spotted a member who was wearing a Congressional Medal of Honor. 

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