Thanksgiving Remembered

I am posting this on Thanksgiving Day.   It is easy to lose track of all that we have to be thankful for, but our abundance is overwhelming.  It reminds me also of my post from July 13, 2013, in which I noted that there are two types of people:

1. Those who are thankful for all that they have, regardless of how little "all" may be.

2. Those who are unhappy because of what they don't have, regardless of how much they do have.


At the time I wrote, "Most of us know which is our own predominant 'type'"  but I am not so sure about that.  I suspect the thankful know themselves, but the others may not recognize themselves for what they are.

Click to read about the first Thanksgiving  which was celebrated by the Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower. 

I am a Mayflower Descendent, from Richard Warren.   My maternal grandmother did a lot of genealogy research in the 1950's and 1960's to complete an extensive family tree.    But, The Mayflower Society notes on their website that "Today, tens of millions of Americans have at least one ancestor who was among this group of early settlers."  Thus, being a "Mayflower Descendent" is not really such a big deal.

CLICK HERE to read about Richard Warren      from Wikipedia



   


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Happiness is Positive Cash Flow

This slogan was from Boardroom Reports, a business newsletter to which I subscribed for many years.  "Watch the cash" became sort of a mantra for me by necessity, because a lot of times there was not any too much.  Frederick Adler was the author of a book by the same name (which I never bought) which was published by Boardroom Reports.  I did not buy the tee shirt either, but I did buy  the concept. The founder of Boardroom Reports recently died. The original newsletter is no longer published.


No matter how much profit you are making (on paper), if you do not have positive cash flow, sooner or later you will be in trouble.

 

This is an original 1982 tee shirt

The Janesville volleyball team won the State Championship in Class 1A last Friday evening.  My Congratulations to them. Coach Shelly Sorensen attributes it, in part, to hard work on the team's part which began when the current seniors were in fourth grade.  I have been planning a "Secrets of a Master Coach" post for a number of months and this makes it even more compelling.  Whatever all the reasons are, it points out once again:  

Success takes hard work!     

(By both the team and the coaches).

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Errors -- Errors -- Errors

Every time I decide to read back through old entries to this blog, I find errors.  Many of my regular readers have probably already spotted them, but said nothing.  Just today I removed a "before" where I had a "before before" and changed "morale" to "moral" (as in the moral of the story).  There are more, I am sure.

That is why I usually asked someone to proofread important things before I considered them final.  (They usually found errors too)  Most of the time, I know better, but it is hard to proofread your own work, at least for me.

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BTW      US Senator Chuck Grassley  sometimes uses   -30-  in his website, especially if he is publishing a Senate Floor speech he has made.