1. Just for today, I will be happy. Happiness is from within, it is not a matter of externals.
2. Just for today, I will try to adjust myself to what is, and not try to adjust everything to my own desires. I will take my family, business, and my luck as they are and fit myself to them.
3. Just for today, I will take care of my body.
4. Just for today, I will try to strengthen my mind.
5. Just for today, I will exercise my soul in three ways; I will do someone a good turn and not get found out. I will do two things I don't want to do, as William James suggests, just for exercise.
6. Just for today, I will be agreeable.
7. Just for today, I will try to live through this day only, not to tackle my whole life problem at once.
8. Just for today, I will have a program.
9. Just for today, I will have a quiet half-hour all by myself and relax.
10. Just for today I will be unafraid, especially I will not be afraid to be happy, to enjoy what is beautiful, to love, and to believe that those I love, love me.
Written by Sybil F. Partridge
If we want to develop a mental attitude that will bring us peace and happiness, here is Rule 1:
Think and act cheerfully, and you will feel cheerful.
Friday, November 23, 2012
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
My Dad Used to Say
She makes me nervous - gets on my nerves...
I wonder if this was his way of expressing feelings of anxiety...
I wonder if this was his way of expressing feelings of anxiety...
Thursday, November 1, 2012
What to keep and what to toss
Toss Immediately
Credit Card Solicitations
Marketing materials included in bank and credit card statements
Throw out after one month or when you reconcile with a bill or bank statement
ATM receipts
Prospectus and other information about investments you are considering making (if you are not going to read them, toss immediately)
Receipts for purchases (assuming you're keeping them or there's no warranty)
Throw out after one year or when end-of-year consolidated statements come in and you have filed the taxes for that year:
Bank statements
Brokerage statements
Cell phone, cable, telephone, and Internet statements (except when deducting for work-related expenses)
Pay stubs
Social Security Statements
Utility Bills
Throw out after seven years (when no longer needed for tax purposes)
Child-care records
Flexible spending account documentation
401(k) and other retirement-plan year-end statements
IRA contributions
Purchase records for investments
Records of charitable donations
Records on houses you've sold
Tax returns and backup documentation
Keep as long as you have the underlying asset (such as a house or a car)
Insurance policies
Receipts for important purchases like technology, art, antiques, rugs, jewlery (or anything else you may need a rider on your insurance policy to cover)
Receipts for renovations or other investments made in the property.
Titles
Warranty Papers
Keep forever in a safe or safe-deposit box; keep a second copy-if possible-in your attorney's office or another safe location off-premises:
Adoption papers
Appraisals
Birth certificates
Citzenship papers
Custody agreements
Deeds
Divorce papers
Financial aid documents
List of credit car numbers, bank and brokerage statements, and insurance policies, and toll-free contact information.
List of important contacts (lawyer, accountant, doctor, children, parents, etc)
Military records
Powers of attorney (medical and financial)
Intermittent upkeep
Every time you open a new account, take out a new insurance policy, or do something that requires record keeping, immediatly make a new folder. Print a label, and figure out where the folder goes. The first thing in the folder is the new contract you've signed so if you every have to refer to it you know exactly where to go.
Annual upkeep
Every year, after you've filed your taxes, remove last year's manila folders from the file box and place them in another set of hanging files in a filing cabinet or drawer.
Credit Card Solicitations
Marketing materials included in bank and credit card statements
Throw out after one month or when you reconcile with a bill or bank statement
ATM receipts
Prospectus and other information about investments you are considering making (if you are not going to read them, toss immediately)
Receipts for purchases (assuming you're keeping them or there's no warranty)
Throw out after one year or when end-of-year consolidated statements come in and you have filed the taxes for that year:
Bank statements
Brokerage statements
Cell phone, cable, telephone, and Internet statements (except when deducting for work-related expenses)
Pay stubs
Social Security Statements
Utility Bills
Throw out after seven years (when no longer needed for tax purposes)
Child-care records
Flexible spending account documentation
401(k) and other retirement-plan year-end statements
IRA contributions
Purchase records for investments
Records of charitable donations
Records on houses you've sold
Tax returns and backup documentation
Keep as long as you have the underlying asset (such as a house or a car)
Insurance policies
Receipts for important purchases like technology, art, antiques, rugs, jewlery (or anything else you may need a rider on your insurance policy to cover)
Receipts for renovations or other investments made in the property.
Titles
Warranty Papers
Keep forever in a safe or safe-deposit box; keep a second copy-if possible-in your attorney's office or another safe location off-premises:
Adoption papers
Appraisals
Birth certificates
Citzenship papers
Custody agreements
Deeds
Divorce papers
Financial aid documents
List of credit car numbers, bank and brokerage statements, and insurance policies, and toll-free contact information.
List of important contacts (lawyer, accountant, doctor, children, parents, etc)
Military records
Powers of attorney (medical and financial)
Intermittent upkeep
Every time you open a new account, take out a new insurance policy, or do something that requires record keeping, immediatly make a new folder. Print a label, and figure out where the folder goes. The first thing in the folder is the new contract you've signed so if you every have to refer to it you know exactly where to go.
Annual upkeep
Every year, after you've filed your taxes, remove last year's manila folders from the file box and place them in another set of hanging files in a filing cabinet or drawer.
Don't Worry About Things
Don't worry about things. Don't push. Just do your work and you'll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, and to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow. All you should worry about is whether you're doing it every day and whether you're doing it every day and whether you're having fun with it. If you're not having fun, find the reason. You may be doing something you shouldn't be doing.
The gift is part; it's there, but you have to rehearse it for many years. Doctors don't suddenly become doctors overnight. They have something in there that comes out for some of them but it takes ten or fifteen years of rehearsal. Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
Ray Bradbury
January 1986
The gift is part; it's there, but you have to rehearse it for many years. Doctors don't suddenly become doctors overnight. They have something in there that comes out for some of them but it takes ten or fifteen years of rehearsal. Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.
Ray Bradbury
January 1986
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