This is just fun – and funny.
It’s worth the four minutes. Enjoy.
Believe in Yourself as Much as you Believe in Others
We are incredibly supportive of our friends and our family.
When they doubt themselves, we are easily able to inspire, encourage, and invigorate them up with all sorts of compliments. As importantly, we truly believe what we’re telling them too.
Yet, when we are talking about ourselves we are not as good of a friend.
Video: Starbucks Customers Pay it Forward 378 Times
This video is way too cool.
One customer decided to pay for the drink for the next customer in the drive through and each subsequent customer did the same for 11 hours.
Double Standards Anyone?
Recently, a male “news” commentator on a national “news” network was referencing Michelle Obama’s cause about better childhood nutrition and made a rather insulting remark — while sitting on a couch surrounded by four women no less. One of the female panelists berated Mrs. Obama’s initiative saying, we don’t need “the federal government projecting these standards upon us.”
The man augmented her opinion with,
“How well could she be eating? She needs to drop a few.” After a shocked reaction from the women, he went on, “No, let’s be honest…who are we taking nutrition advice from? There’s no french fries happening? That’s all kale and carrots? I don’t buy it.”
Okay, where to begin? Step one; reassemble my exploded head.
I’ve said before, and will most likely have opportunity to say again, that I don’t get the thing about putting down the First Lady’s attempt to make our next generation healthier. Sugar is still as aplenty as sand in the desert and shadowy men wearing trench coats do not yet sell chocolate candy in dark alleys. Can we have a reality check? Our kids are getting fatter; it’s undeniable. Something has to be done and whether your like her or not, the First Lady has propelled the conversation into the spotlight so that unto its own is already a success. You don’t like her ideas? That’s fine. Step to the plate and come up with something else, but we need to adjust the vector of this country’s future health, and we need to do it yesterday. All hands on deck.
Additionally, if hypocrisy were water, he’d drown.
Take Responsibility for Something New
Take responsibility for something new today.
If there’s something in your life that you do not like, take responsibility for it – even if it feels like it’s out of your control.
Ask yourself, “If I could could control this situation, what might I do differently?”
It’s not a guarantee that you will be able to change it, but abdicating responsibility guarantees that you will change nothing.