Advice to start 2020 off right!
Right before the clock strikes midnight on December 31st make sure you raise your left leg, that way you will start the year off on the RIGHT FOOT! 🙂
Are you ready for the New Year? Just a couple days away. We are getting together with dear friends this evening, they are on their way as I type. Always look forward to seeing them, good conversation and laughter is a guaranteed thing! Friendship is a blessing that I intend to carry on into the New Year!
I have a simple fun exercise for you all to do, to help prepare for 2020. It requires no physical exertion! Leave a word or a phrase below of cheer or wisdom to take into the New Year. Words that will help to start the year off with a SMILE, for that is one way of starting it off on the right foot! There is only one catch, which may make you think just a little bit harder. Let the word or the the phrase begin with the first letter of your first name.
I will start it off with a phrase that came to my mind right away that always brings me a smile.
CARPE DIEM!
Your turn now!
Nuggets of Gold 
Forgive yourself
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That is a great one!!
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💗💗💗
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Cherish your health.
If it is good, preserve it.
If it is unstable, improve it.
If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
(George Carlin)
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Well said! We only get one body.
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That is true, and what else can you think of from which you can reasonably expect 80 – 90years of life?
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Nothing. 🙂 So yes, an important reminder! And its not just about what we put into our bodies. Carrying around a lot of worry and stress can be the root of many physical ailments as well. Our arteries don’t need clogged in order to have a heart attack, sadly stress is responsible for a lot of them.
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They say an Apple a day keeps the Dr away but a laugh a day and a song a day can help lessen stress and keep the Dr away too. A good thing I have the “dynamic duo” and the “3 stooges.” to help with that!
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Do as you would be done by.
Happy New Year
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Good one. 😉
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Change what can be changed, accept what can’t be… And be wise enough to recognize which is which 😉
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Oh yes, another wonderful nugget. ❤
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oh Carolyn, the love and generosity of spirit that you have is priceless! such a wonderful exercise to usher in the new year. here’s mine – “Give generously”!
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Thank you Gina for your sweet words and giving is always a great thing to do!
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Tabula rasa.
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JR – For your benefit, that is Latin which loosely translates to “smooth or erased tablet” Get it? 🙂
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Thanks for your translation. We wouldn’t want her to use that phrase in reference to a table full of raisins or something.
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“Haha!”
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Of course not! 🙂
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Thanks for being so helpful, you even pointed out that it was Latin. And yes, I get it. It means “Laurel and Hardy” have a clean slate come January, right? 🙂
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Not really … but go with it!
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Yes, I know, what am I thinking…the clean slate for “Laurel and Hardy” probably won’t even last 24 hours. 😃
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Quite … if you say so.
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That is very fitting for the New Year….now that I know what it means. 🙂
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And so is standing on one’s left leg, at midnight. If I happen to wake up at that witching hour, I’ll be sure to get out of bed and engage in this exercise.
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It is the left leg right? Perhaps the right leg is the left one?
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Oh gosh! Read my answer to Tippy and perhaps you will understand. Its not in Latin.
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No, it will be the left leg. Because I will be too tired to remember that I have to actually lift the left leg. Thus, I will start the year off on the wrong foot.
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Right! (or ……………. Left!)
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Maybe you 2 should just stand on your heads instead, than you don’t have to worry about left or right. 🙂
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TG – She thinks there are no lefts and rights when upside down! Poor Brad (her husband).
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Thats not what I meant! …mmm…!
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Ummm…..you hold up your left leg and stand on your right, for your right foot is on your right leg. Funny how that works, eh!
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Would you please give me a call at 11:59 pm, so I can remember all of that?
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I will send you a letter. 🙂
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Please write the right address on it, otherwise it will be left somewhere else.
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Oooh….”No comment!”
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No problem! Thats a no-brainer. Tippy said he is sure he has the correct address so problem solved. 🙂
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Left up to him and with you doing the writing (right?) is a recipe for disaster. You are right out in left field when it comes to such matters, or perhaps you’re just left out of the right field?
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Ooooh perhaps I will just …..smack my head!
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Okay. I’ll check my mailbox right before midnight.
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Sounds like a plan! No worries I will have the correct address.
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Not worried at all. I know I have the correct address.
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Just remember if you don’t find a letter in your mailbox, its not my fault. You know how the postal service can be at times! 🙂
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That’s all a bunch of lies, spread by UPS and FedEx.
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Thats Ok, i just remembered something. I don’t need to send you a letter. Did you see my comment esrlier? Being that you and Colin have so much trouble with your right and lefts, forget about standing on your right leg. All you and Colin need to do is stand on your heads! May shake up those marbles a bit. 😄
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If I stand on my head, I doubt I’ll be able to read a letter anyway. I can’t read upside-down.
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Oooh why do I try?? 😜
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just do it…
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Yes!!
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Count your blessings ❤
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Something very important! 😉
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Now . . . Be Here!
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A great one for sure, Be present in the moment. 🙂
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Rejoice!
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Hi Ruth! A great word for the New Year!
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Make it great! Happy New Year.
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😊🎉🎉🎉😊
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Compassion
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A lovely word. Compassion is something we can never have too much of! ❤
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Kill hate
Kindle love
Kiss and make up
Know truth
Keep the faith
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Awesome thoughts! I have such a smart sister, which is why we share the same brain, right! 😉
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Share the same brain? Really? I didn’t know that was possible except perhaps in a Siamese twin situation, but it does explain something – Given that various parts of the brain handle specific functionality, I must conclude your sister has the deductive part? The part that handles logic?
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Oooh aren’t you clever! Though there may be a problem with what you conclude.
We share the logic, but somedays she just takes it all from me, for she needs it more. 🙂 “Haha!”
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Nope! You have separate brains. She has a fully functioning one. You?
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“Very funny!”
You are just batting 100 aren’t you!
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