~ Vince Lombardi
This weekend the NFL playoffs begin with the first round of gams Saturday and Sunday. Four games in all. The Pittsburgh Steelers play Sunday afternoon and trust me it will be a popular TV audience all over the burg, my home town. They will be rabid fans even in front of a TV. They will enjoy with a passion a game that they have no impact in from such a far distance.
All will dress in the fan colors and all will be in a frenzy at kick off.
If they win pure jubilation, psst. They will win just to let you know.
If they lose it will be sadness, psst... no worries, they will win. LOL
Just saying positive thoughts bring positive results, right? Sounds great!
But my thought about this weekend, this game, football is just that, just a game.
Oh sure, nobody likes to lose....win, win, win is a much better thought and goal. I understand that. I really do, but what if your team does lose? Is it really worth getting that worked up about. Its only a game. Why should you sadness be enhanced. Why?
Ok when the Steelers win, and they will. Does extreme happiness cause any problems with our psyche? Maybe if when they lose that same excitement is countered with extreme disappointment and sadness.
Don't let that extreme carry over into the negative. Just get over it, your not getting paid from them if they win or lose are you? From them not Vegas, just saying....lol.
By the way I never gamble on my Steelers don't want to jinx them.......It's only a game, LOL
The new affirmation for the week fits nicely here:
I embrace this new year and I am grateful for everything that is shared with me. I succeed with ease because the energy flows with me, this energy aides me as I step further into the year. I effortlessly acquire moments of kindness and love. Love is all around and I am blessed to share my love and kindness with others. I choose to share my smile and my laughter as it improves upon the landscape of life. I always have the power of choice. I choose to make a difference I succeed in making a difference daily.
This week 98 words to inspire and to affirm each day. Say these words of magic a few times and allow them to flow into your mind and subconscious.
Watch the power of these words. The power of I choose. The power of now and today.
Use these words to make your day and the day of others a bit better.
Smiles as always sent your way. Today and always. : )
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On this day in history
1558 – France takes Calais, the last continental possession of England.
1608 – Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
1610 – Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able distinguish the last two until the following day.
1782 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
1785 – Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
1797 – The modern Italian flag is first used.
1894 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
1904 – The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established – from New York, New York to London, England, United Kingdom.
1931 – Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
1940 – Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
1942 – World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
1945 – World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
1950 – A fire at the Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, kills 41 people.
1952 – President Harry S. Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb.
1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: the first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
1959 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
1960 – The Polaris missile is test launched.
1968 – Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
1973 – Mark Essex fatally shoots 10 people and wounds 13 others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
1979 – Third Indochina War – Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
1980 – President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
1989 – Prince Akihito is sworn in as the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Hirohito
1990 – The interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns.
1993 – Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
1999 – The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
2010 – Muslim gunmen open fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians leaving church after celebrating a midnight Christmas mass, killing eight of them as well as one Muslim bystander.
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Your Daily Prayer
Lord, thank you for today and all the possibilities that lay in front of me
Thank you for this year and another day of life and a chance to make a difference
Thank you for the gift of family, of love, of understanding.
Bless our families, our friends, those in need of hope and faith may be in some way help to inspire their lives.
Help them to construct a plan for a path of increased gratitude, enhanced desire to create a environment of more laughter and smiles.
May we have the insight to understand that we are in charge of our product that we produce
May we also understand that worry must always be replaced faith and understanding in our abilities
May we also understand that worry must always be replaced faith and understanding in our abilities
We have the ownership of the thoughts and actions and may we realize that strengths that we do possess that can make the most difference in the lives of others.
May I choose to make a difference in the lives of myself and others.
May I share a smile, a sincere smile and perhaps a kind word or deed.
May I give thanks more.
Show appreciation more.
To share to be that beacon of light.
To share a simple sincere smile.
Help me to understand that a balanced emotional status and let me always produce and perform at a more positive state.
Help me to understand that a balanced emotional status and let me always produce and perform at a more positive state.
With humility and gratitude I thank you
Today I will enjoy what gifts and blessings have been given to me.
Today I will share my gifts with others.
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