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Using your mind as a powerful resource, now is the time to create the life you want and take charge of who you are and who you want to become.

We are all partners on a human journey, and the greatest challenge in our roadmap to personal and professional success is to cleave to our humanity, to the values of sharing and caring that make us brothers and sisters on the road of life.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.  Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it, it's only good for wallowing in.

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere.  You build on it every day. It's a result of hours, days, weeks, and years of constant work and dedication, no if, ands, or buts.

For a change of pace, Sand Animations for your amusement:

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The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones, one at a time. Remove that stone and place it in your mind as useful knowledge.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.  Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.  Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow.  But any action is better than no action at all. I do hope you are learning as much as you can during this lull in claims. When a catastrophe strikes you will be better prepared if you learn your policies and hone your estimating skills.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. I found out how many TRUE friends I had during my cancer problem and was surprised and pleased with the results. If you have a true friend, (not the fair weather type), work hard to retain that friendship.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us. Learn to control your own destiny.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

AAADD
KNOW THE SYMPTOMS......PLEASE READ!

Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder. Somehow I feel better,even though I have it!!


Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - Adjuster Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

This is how it manifests:

I decide to water my garden.
As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it needs washing.

As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier.

I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.

I lay my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full.

So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first.

But then I! think, since I'm going to be ne ar the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.

I take my check book off the table, and see that there is only one check left.

My extra checks are in my desk in the study,
so I go inside the house to my desk where
I find the can of Pepsi I'd been drinking.

I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Pepsi aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.

The Pepsi is getting warm, and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the Pepsi, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need water.

I put the Pepsi on the counter and
discover my reading glasses that
I've been searching for all morning.

I decide I better put them back on my desk,
but first I'm going to water the flowers.

I set the glasses back down on the counter,
fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote.
Someone left it on the kitchen table.

I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV,
I'll be looking for the remote,
but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table,
so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.

I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on to the floor.

So, I set the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill.

Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.

At the end of the day:
the car isn't washed
the bills aren't paid
there is a warm can of Pepsi sitting on the counter
the flowers don't have enough water,
there is still only 1 check in my check book,
I can't find the remote,
I can't find my glasses,
and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.
Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all damn day, and I'm really tired.

I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail....Nope, no claims, thank goodness. Maybe it will get better tomorrow. I wonder if my claims supervisor knows about my deficit.

As long as you are persistence in your pursuit of your deepest destiny, you will continue to grow. You cannot choose the day or time when you will fully bloom. It happens in its own time. Knowledlge is one of the fertilizers that allows the bloom to grow and open.

This was produced in 1948 by Harding College in Arkansas. It is a cartoon but explains who and what we are, and that includes our adjusting club.

nationaljuggernaut.blogspot.com/200...-1948.html

I would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, my loving family for less gray hair or a flatter belly. As I've aged, I've become kinder to myself, and less critical of myself. I've become my own friend. I don't chide myself for eating that extra cookie, or for not making My bed, or for buying anything silly that I didn't need, but looks so avante garde. I am entitled to a treat, to be messy, to be extravagant.

I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; Dave Hood being one, and I do miss him terribly. But, we all understand the great freedom that comes with aging, and death is the final end. Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 AM and sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 60 &70's, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love ... I will.

I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet set.

They, too, will get old. That is one fact of life that cannot be changed.

I know I am sometimes forgetful. However, there again, some of the life is just as well forgotten. And I eventually remember the important things. My love for my wife Janice, is very important to me and one of the highlights of my existance.

Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody's beloved pet gets hit by a car? But broken hearts are what give us strength and understanding and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and sterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect.

I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning grey, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver.

As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think. I don't question myself anymore. I've even earned the right to be wrong. I am in hopes that you that read the Knowledge and Attitude forum are deriving benefits from it. That was my hope when I started it years ago. Thank you for participating.

So, to answer your question, I like being old. It has set me free, other than the breathing problem I have. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever, but while I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or worrying about what will be. If changes to our lives need changing, we can just make the change. To all my friends at Cunningham Lindsay, thank you for the opportunities you opened for me in an occupation I have love for too many years to mention. To all my adjuster friends, thanks for being there.