5-10 Minutes A Day For the Fun of it

Posted on May 11, 2016 by dfolstad58
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I was wondering why comedians like Seinfeld are so successful.  I suspect it is because we are a tad jealous of their ability to let loose, to be over the top.

Not only does it seem like a good idea, it pays well and it makes us feel better.

Why am I hesitant to raise my hands over my head to stress a point?  or talk with funny voice?  Why shouldn’t I be expressive? use my voice and hands to their full extent? I’m not angry, not upset, I just want to be unrestricted.

When it is hot outside, shall I not cool off by running through the sprinkler? It is fun, it cools me off,  and I’m barefoot! Laughing, wet and barefoot.  Isn’t those three things the trifecta for soul medicine?

I loved telling stories to my son and daughter before they went to sleep. It was my licence to be creative, to retell the stories my own way. To be silly to the point of giddiness and sore aching ribs. Yes, I was useless at helping them settle down and go to sleep, ahh sleep is over rated, we all know that.

brainReally, why not be silly and fun for 10 minutes a day, 600 seconds? That is like 2 commercial breaks so break it up if you have to. Sing a silly song, make sure you memorize the words so you can really enjoy it; personally I love “If I only had a brain” CLICK HERE from Wizard of Oz, but there are loads of others “Swing On a Star” CLICK HERE is super fantabulous also.

Be silly, for your health.

Be silly 600 seconds a day and let yourself relax deep inside. The pharmaceutical companies may hate us for it, but we will laugh it off, won’t we?

I’m way ahead of you in the silly department, but I’ve had lots of practice.

Thanks for reading. So many wonderful encouraging likes and comments lately. Thank you!

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Again, and Again, and Again

Posted on May 9, 2016 by dfolstad58

snoopy 1Sometimes I read too slow due to distractions and am forced to read over a chapter in a book several times; have you ever done that?

You really want to progress when reading a book, the excitement of a book is in the new thoughts, and emotions generated by the author.

If you bought a book of twelve chapters and it was the same chapter twelve times,  how would that go over for you?

You might read the same chapter once or twice, but would you re-read the same chapter twelve times?

time 4The book I am referring to is your life.  Is one month pretty much identical to the last? Not too much risk,  kind of bland, semi-flavorful, semi fulfilling?

We wouldn’t settle for a book that was repetitive, why would we settle for a life that is?

I don’t eat the same foods every day, and neither do you. You don’t repeat the same conversations over and over.

Time to write a new chapter for yourself, and encourage one friend also to step out of their rut as well. Helping someone else forge a new chapter will also add pep to your life! My buddy did exactly that for me.

 

Here’s my call to action in the next 24 hours!

Talk to a friend, one who needs help also, together tag team something different, something challenging.  Finalize your plan right away. Plan when you will start, drive there together. Invest some cash in your plans i.e. new runners, or club fees.

Envision how  both of you in a month will be congratulating each other for your accomplishment because you helped each other, because you acted within 24 hours to provoke a new chapter.

Don’t hesitate to try something you are not good at for awhile, and fail, and then improve. Bravo for being willing to experience that! Others will be inspired by you!

Afraid of public speaking? Visit a Toastmasters Club in your area.

Doing the same exercise routine? – hire a trainer to whip your butt a little.

I predict that  the next chapter in your life, the next chapter you will create, will inspire you, and you will inspire others.

Let’s write together. Change is good, I’m on board also.

 

Thanks for reading! Comments welcome.

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Big or Small – We all need to take them

Posted on May 6, 2016 by dfolstad58

If you are curious this is what I was thinking two years ago.

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2005-11-18 12.56.08Sometimes we forget.  Almost everything we can point to in our life,  jobs, friendships, skills,  we have them because we took big or small risks.

Some of those small risks paid out big time.

When you invite a person you hardly know to go for a walk or coffee, you took a risk.  small risk. Big possible gain. I look at some friendships I have, and if either of us had never taken that risk, there would not have been that friendship.

I took a risk asking my wife out for a date 34 years ago, see how that turned out!  But there was a risk she was not the one, a risk I took that she was going to shoot me down or see me as a waste of her time.

Look ahead to what you want in your life,  it will take some risk to gain your vision.

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Never was, and never will be.

Posted on May 6, 2016 by dfolstad58
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In Turkey with my squeeze!

There was a time when I at least thought of myself as attractive, or at minimum I never transformed any gals into pillars of salt if they “checked me out”. Oy vey, those days are gone; perchance never to return. Still, my sweetie loves me.

However I admit I was never a party person,  I liked to get up early, go for a bike ride and enjoy the peace of early mornings even when I was decades younger on my timeline. Part of that could be that although I enjoy music,  all the good music ended for me in the 1970’s.

I loved the songs on the radio then and periodically even tried to dance.  The dancing experiment however was given the big thumbs down as the opposite sex confirmed to me my dancing skills were the same as a dolphin’s ability to ride a bike and juggle a chainsaw.

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Wanna dance?

I seem to recall being asked to clear the dance floor by the proprietor, something about causing day-mares.

Nope, I never was a dancer and never will be a night owl neither.

Fortunately my enjoyment of 1970’s music though never fades and I now I can just claim to be a retro dude and say I prefer the “oldies”.  All the best music was then and some of it was even earlier imo.

Sending out a wave of thanks to everyone who reads my blog and ask you to add a comment of one of your favorite songs or bands. For example Thin Lizzy – Romeo and the Lonely Girl or The Wings – Band on the Run with Mamunia. 

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Life’s Stories take planning

Posted on May 2, 2016 by dfolstad58
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Pizza in Rome – Let’s eat 🙂

I was reading in the travel section of the Globe & Mail a few days ago and the writer commented “Don’t plan life. Live it.”

This struck me because an outgoing friend of mine says the opposite ” You don’t plan to fail. You fail to plan!”

I bumble ideas around in my head, and this one has finally slowed down for me to share.

First I remembered a trip I took with my family to Rome. I love memories like this and they are locked in my heart. But that trip took planning.  We didn’t just get up in the morning and show up at the airport saying – where do you get excellent gelato?

Now that trip involved planning, and passports, reservations, time off work, yada yada. It was planning that made the holiday and the memories happen.

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At the Coliseum with my wonderful family

But not the whole trip was planned. There were moments that each of us will recall that are especially meaningful, part of our stories we share to each other. Those moments are all unplanned, they are moments lived.

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Riding a bus in Rome with no roof! 

So what have I decided?   Yes, I do need to plan if I want to have a holiday, if I expect to do anything significant but once the day is launched, once the wheels leave the tarmac; then I need to let go and celebrate the wrong turns, the unexpected meal across from the Coliseum, the individual moments that fill the menu of our lives.

 

 

Bless you as you plan and live your stories.

“It’s snowing still,” said Eeyore gloomily.
“So it is.”
“And freezing.”
“Is it?”
“Yes,” said Eeyore. “However,” he said, brightening up a little, “we haven’t had an earthquake lately.” – A.A. Milne

 

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Beguiling Baltic Doors: What’s the Message?

Posted on May 2, 2016 by dfolstad58

The doors in this post are wonderful, enjoy and add your like! Isn’t there something, a message or symbolic about doorways?

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Tallinn Painted Carved Oak Door

We’ve always been fascinated by doorways and what they have to say. It doesn’t take an architect or etymologist to know that the facade is the face of a building, and if this is so, then the door can be the beguiling lipstick that enchants visitors.

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