24 April 2007
Pittsfield Women’s Club
Bummy… David…basketti
Taught 35 years. Never done Spring cleaning. I have a lady who cleans and I just paid her extra. This year I tried it myself. Hard work.
So..since I’m now an expert…I want to talk to you about spring cleaning.. Not the kind that you’re already expert at… Our mind.
- Make clean sweep of your Negativity.
Our teacher’s lounge For once, don’t get if off your chest Teacher I know..kids drive her crazy.. ..meet her in IGA...guess what she talks about...
Corrie Ten Boom “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorry, It empties today of its strength.” Every morning I do calisthenics... Life is too precious to remind ourselves of what’s gone wrong.
- Take the barnacles off your rudder. Mom: Alcatraz …… sail boats
Sweep out your selfishness. If life’s bumming you out, chances are you aren’t giving enough of yourself. give and give. Even when they don’t have time. Even when they’re too tired.
This is the opposite of what the self-help books preach.
Self-centeredness : depression. Becky...funeral... Carl Menninger JHS girl: CFS
A. Sweitzer: “The only ones among you who will be truly happy as those who will have sought and found out how to serve.”
- Dust and Rearrange your priorities. Marie...salt and pepper shakers.
Friendships don’t have to simply be things that happen...They can be created... Nuture friends who encourage you. Tony Compello “Five years from now you’ll be pretty much the same as you are now except for two things: The books you’ve read and the people you’ve met.
Surround yourself with people who tell you how things can be done, not tell you why they can’t.
Charlie Rose show: architect Johnstone: 90 years old. Hottest place in hell for whiners and complainers ..... “If life were 100 times longer, there would still excuse for every getting bored by it.” Cultivate friends who are not bored by life.
- Rearrange the store of what’s important. James Dobson..monopoly Dad...hay ...rain....
- Take stock of who you’re trying to please. Quest...Inner-Outer Self
HINEY THE MULE
- Polish up your sense of humor. Jim Kern...MRS. BROWN
LIGHTEN UP.... ....go barefoot more often ....turn off the TV some night and pull taffy. ...eat nothing but ice cream for a whole day. ...wear underwear backwards...will break into uncontrollable giggles for no reason every time you think about it. ....walk up to biggest grouch you know and say “I just want you to know that I feel great!” It’ll throw them off all day. ...do some serious coloring ....get the preacher to serve pizza at the next communion. ...start living to succeed instead of living in fear of failing... ...break the dress code occasionally.
.....McDonnald’s “Have a nice Day” Why?
3 things in life are real...WHEN YOU’RE BORN, WHEN YOU DIE WHEN YOU REACH OUT TO HELP ANOTHER in everything else...LIGHTEN UP.
- Chances are your sense of humor is still dull, so polish it again.
Chillochothe...”probably dead”
Church lady...music at her funeral.
Jeff W...Free Spirit..Robbed and tied.
Travel LIghter...Your anxieties? Look in your purse or pocket or billfold...ME: comb.
Roger Ebert.
- Now that spring is here….stop living in winter.
The ability to live in the present. Some of you during my speech have been thinking about how long...., tomorrow, this weekend. When you drive home this afternoon, enjoy the moment you’re in. Look around you here today… When will you ever be in a room again with this many wonderful people. Heather Baccus.. New Salem.
As Americans, our live is so filled with “things” that we seldom leave time to enjoy where we are and what we’re doing.
- After you’ve scooped out the refuse of winter, Invite your Faith Inside. Make this deal with yourself. For every minute you spend worrying about things, spend a minute praying my them. We spend our life investing... Today’s paper... girl: Miss Illinois pageant... I know: Mom and Dad: $7,000 each to get as far as Springfield. We invest.
This Present Darkness… Demons.. prayer lady On behalf of our kids, on behalf of our nation, on behalf of our world, I beg you to become a prayer warrior.
Conway Twitty.
Forget the carpet and the windows…. The only part of your spring cleaning that affects the rest of us is inside your mind. Happy cleaning!
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