Anything that is too rigid can be quickly fractured by sufficient force. By contrast, anything that is flexible can experience blow after blow from every direction and still keep springing back into place.
When you're willing and able to bend, you're much less likely to break. By adapting to changing situations, you can successfully make your way through even the most difficult challenges. Being flexible does not mean giving in or giving up or being any less firm or being any less committed to the outcome you seek.
Being flexible means being more understanding, more creative, more open to new and better ways of achieving the results you wish to achieve. A tree that bends with the wind does not get carried off by the wind, but in fact stands firmly in its location.
Flexibility enables you to remain strong, to remain true to your position, and to successfully handle whatever challenges come along. If you're overly rigid, you may appear strong on the surface, yet any kind of strength that is not willing or able to adapt is extremely vulnerable.
Seek to develop real and lasting strength, the kind that is flexible enough to respond to a wide variety of challenges. Be steadfast about your most treasured values, and flexible about how you express and fulfill them.
With a firm will and a flexible approach, truly great things are possible.
Ralph Marston
Good Morning !
Hope you all are wide awake and ready for a new day. I sure am. After work yesterday I did manage to get 1 of the four beds made up with fresh sheets for my weekend company and that’s about it. At this rate I may just get donein time.
My boss let me switch one of my Christmas vacation days to this coming Friday, so that I’ll be able to be home for a long weekend and enjoy my company. Of course, at Christmas time I’ll have a long weekend end there too, as Christmas is on Tuesday I’ll have Monday off for another vacation day.
The next 2 months are going to fly by faster than ever.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
LIFE’S TUG OF WAR
Life can seem ungrateful ~ and not always kind.
Life can pull at your heartstrings ~ and play with your mind.
Life can be blissful ~ and happy and free.
Life can put beauty ~ in the things that you see.
Life can place challenges ~ right at your feet.
Life can make good ~ of the hardships that we meet.
Life can overwhelm you ~ and make your head spin.
Life can reward those ~ determined to win.
Life can be hurtful ~ and not always fair.
Life can surround you ~ with people who care.
Life clearly does offer ~ its ups and its downs.
Life's days can bring you ~ both smiles and frowns.
Life teaches us to take ~ the good with the bad.
Life is a mixture ~ of happy and sad.
So.....
Take the life that you have ~ and give it your best.
Think positive, be happy ~ let God do the rest.
Take the challenges ~ that life has laid at your feet.
Take pride and be thankful ~ for each one you meet.
To yourself give forgiveness ~ if you stumble and fall.
Take each day that is dealt you ~ and give it your all.
Take the love that you're given ~ and return it with care.
Have faith that when needed ~ it will always be there.
Take time to find the beauty ~ in the things that you see.
Take life's simple pleasures ~ let them set your heart free.
The idea here is simply ~ to even the score.
As you are met and faced with Life's Tug Of War.
May JOY find your
heart and warm your
soul
MA
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7 comments:
yeah seems like you say IM giong to enjoy each day adn savor it then bam seems like there was not time to do that completely. they are here and gone. With Hanukkah so early this year and so close to thanksgiving it really messes me up big time
Thankyou so much for all your wonderful advise in this post today.I realy enjoyed it once again Lovely verses lovely quotes lovely person it is sent from.Take things in your stride too I will.I have a feeling if all those beds arn't made.You have such a dear family, who will help you make them.Don't be doing tooo much and making yourself ill for the week/end.I want you to enjoy your company.Have a lovely Tuesday How nice the boss has let you switch days and you have Friday off.ENJOY.Take Care God Bless Kath
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I like...."Take life's simple pleasures and let them set you free." How wonderful that is if we can do it!
I hope you enjoy your day!!
Pam
Love your advice tidbits. They really help. Have a great time with your company :)
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Beautiful entry and so glad that you get Friday off. Don't work too hard and be too tired by the time your company gets there. lol I do that sometimes. lol Have a wonderful week with blessings, Janie
Hello there....awww wish I was there to help you get those beds changed out. We'd get it done in a heartbeat one on each side. LOL
Then you could have helped me with my chili. LOL
Hope you have a great Halloween. Not everyone celebrates. I don't get into the "horrors" of it any more b/c it has been made to be associated with evil in recent years, which I had never even thought of as a kid. I always just thought of it as a fun candy event with scary overtones. You know...fun going into a haunted house holding your boyfriends hand as the guy with the chainsaw comes near. LOL REgardless, have a super day and have fun the rest of the week.
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