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Are Monday Mornings Really That Awful?

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Hate Mondays? It may be your fault…

“I’m writing this on a rainy day and Monday. According to song, that should always get me down. But I’m actually feeling rather upbeat, and that’s just one of the surprising facts about the most-maligned day of the week: Recent research suggests that Mondays may not be so blue after all.

Monday Morning Blues?

In one study by researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia, people were asked how they were feeling at the moment once a day for seven days. Then on the eighth day, they were asked how they remembered feeling on each day of the previous week. Although there wasn’t much difference in actual moods reported from day to day, people recalled hitting a low point on Monday. This suggests that their memories were biased by their beliefs. They expected Mondays to be lousy.” Go to the source: Are Monday Mornings Really That Awful? | Psychology Today.

I actually like Mondays! They are the days I get to go back to work and do what I’m really good at instead of shearing sheep on the hobby farm! :-)

Carpe Diem!!! [and be thankful you don’t have any sheep to shear today]…

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Your Life Is the Sum of Your Choices

“We can’t always choose what happens to us, but we can always choose how we respond. Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist who survived two-and-a-half years in Nazi concentration camps, made this case in his bestselling book, Man’s Search for Meaning.

It’s easy to subscribe to this in theory, but what about your specific situation? Are you willing to own it?” via Your Life Is the Sum of Your Choices | Michael Hyatt.

Now, what choices will you make today and are you willing to own them and the power to make them?

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…on Kindness

“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.” ~ William Penn via Today’s Quotes: Only Get Even With Those Who Have Helped You!.

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…on Getting Even

“The only people with whom you should try to get even with are those who have helped you.” ~ John E. Southard via Today’s Quotes: Only Get Even With Those Who Have Helped You!.

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…on Self Help

Live better? What a concept…

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Smile, breathe, and go slowly

“Smile, breathe, and go slowly.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh via Conscious Healing: Harnessing the Power of Mindfulness and Meditation | Tiny Buddha: Wisdom Quotes, Letting Go, Letting Happiness In.

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Good post. Did not know that Wisconsin held this esteemed position…

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…on Talking vs. Doing

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” ~ Mary Oliver. Get more: Talking vs. Doing [BLOG] « Positively Positive.

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Howlin’ for You

This is a test post of the new Spotify shortcode capability…

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Something interesting happened this week…

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For the first time in my 7 years of blogging, my personal blog [this one] has a higher Alexa ranking and is getting more traffic than my business blog. A couple of datapoints…

You can read more about the different version of WordPress here. My conclusion? WordPress.com is a very powerful and viable platform for ‘thought leadership‘ marketing. Why mess with the hosted version unless you really need a feature that WordPress.com doesn’t offer? WordPress is “good, fast, and cheap”…

Continue reading “Something interesting happened this week…” →

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…on fearing death

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. ~ Marcus Aurelius

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Time to shear the sheep! Have a great Sunday everyone…

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What’s wrong with our food system; an 11 year old’s perspective

“11-year-old Birke Baehr presents his take on a major source of our food — far-away and less-than-picturesque industrial farms. Keeping farms out of sight promotes a rosy, unreal picture of big-box agriculture, he argues, as he outlines the case to green and localize food production.” via Birke Baehr: What’s wrong with our food system | Video on TED.com.

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Nice post!

kewauneecares4u's avatarKewaunee Cares

An article in the New York Times once touted Kewaunee County, Wisconsin as one of the best places in the country to see a colorful and diverse growth of native wildflowers. Here are photos of some which are easy to spot and some getting harder and harder to find. Amazingly, the county feels the need to keep the paths in parks and the Ahnapee and Ice Age Trails open by spraying with chemicals that kill everything in sight. Not only does that take away yet another tourist attraction for the county, it also adds to the chemical pollution destroying the quality of our main tourist attraction, the water.

So enjoy these beautiful flowers while we still have them.

“I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air and the scenes in which pure air is found.” — John Muir, naturalist and conservationist

Spring Beauty

Bloodroot

Dutchman’s…

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What is a CAFO and why should I care?

This post may appear to be an off-topic rant, but it’s closely related to my main theme of ‘health’ and quality of life…

Part of my story…

9 years ago, my family and I left Aurora, IL in the Chicago suburbs primarily around the issue of quality of life. The year we left, there were 25 homicides in Aurora; 2/3rds due to gang-related violence and the remainder due to domestic violence. Every year 2-3 kids would get hit by a stray bullet and with 5 boys at the time, I felt the odds were against me. After a long journey, we ended up in our ‘paradise’ — the Town of Pierce in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin… It was at our annual town meeting that I first heard the word CAFO or Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation… Continue reading “What is a CAFO and why should I care?” →

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Excellent post! Thank you…

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Here’s Why It’s VITAL To Be 100% Self-Approved!

Mastin Kipp at The Daily Love has some good thoughts I’d like to amplify today…

With the uneducated approach to life, we tend to seek outward for things that are within us. Goals, intentions, desires, etc. are all well and good, but if the motive for why we want them goes unexamined, we can keep ourselves in a form of bondage.

One of the great mistakes in life is living life as an “If, then” statement. “If I get X, then I’ll be happy.” The goal is to be happy now.

So are you happy now? And if not, why not? Continue reading “Here’s Why It’s VITAL To Be 100% Self-Approved!” →

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See more @ WWI posters by James Flagg, 1914-1918 | Retronaut.

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Visual Inspiration: Grow Through It!.

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There Are Good People Out There

Here’s a good story for a Sunday morning…

“The media is filled with stories of “bad” people—people to be feared. By watching the nightly news one would assume that our world is populated by people who would rather hurt than help us; who would go to great lengths to avoid lending a helping hand.
Fortunately, we know better.

My husband and I, along with our twin sons, have spent a total of four years cycling the Americas. We’ve pedaled 27,000 miles in all, including a three-year journey from Alaska to Argentina that spanned fifteen countries.

Wonder how many “bad” people we encountered in three years, 27,000 miles, and fifteen countries? I could count them on one hand.” via There Are Good People Out There [BLOG] « Positively Positive.

Follow the ‘via’ link to read the whole story…

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