Signs That You Need a Vacation.

Your accumulated vacation hours let you retire 10 years early.

• You've begun to enjoy the elevator music.


• Tylenol stock takes a nasty drop every time you take a weekend off.


• The radiation from your monitor has burnt your shadow onto the wall


• Your wife has more and older children than you can account for.


• Wastebasket in your office is full of the ripped-off faces of people who came to you with a question or problem...


• You get on the down elevator on floor six, push the sixth floor button and become irritated that you are not going anywhere.


• Your kids call 911 and report a burglary when you come home at early one night (8pm). They didn't recognize you ...first time you have been home before their bedtime in months.


• You look at the clock...it shows 6:00...you can't remember if it's AM or PM.


• The little leprechaun, that only you can see, who keeps telling you to, Burn it, burn it all.


• You spend too much time in front of the microwave before noticing it's not your TV.


• You begin to explore the possibility of setting up an I.V. drip of espresso.


• What shall I do today? Pretend to work ...take a hostage ... pretend to work ...take a hostage ...


• Road rage in the supermarket resulting in broken bones from the canned yams.


• Whenever your boss asks how the project you've been working on 14 hours a day, 6 days a week, is coming along, you laugh uncontrollably for 3 minutes, then break into a medley of show tunes.


• A growing need to DO something about the guy in the next cube. You know, the one that makes all those annoying sounds and smells. Yeah, something...something permanent. Yeah...


• Spend day staring at the squirrels on the front lawn of the building. (There aren't any squirrels at your building. There's not even a lawn). Adopted from http://www.funmeme.com/ If you are not laughing, You Need A Vacation!
  

“Happen To Life” Tips!

“Life ‘happens to you’ when you ‘throw in the towel.’ You ‘happen to life’ when you ‘get up again’ after you’ve been ‘knocked down.’ Sure, you may have made mistakes; but nobody’s perfect.”

Solution: So let’s stay in the ring and not give up. Keep a great attitude and don’t look back. Blessings abound all around you. Before you close your eyes tonight think over your day. You will find blessings you didn’t know about.

We have a brand new day. What we do with it depends on our attitude. Embrace life with gusto. Happen to life. I’ve discovered six important concepts to help get a good start each day for ways to “happen to life.” They are:

1. AGE IS NOT A FACTOR. Be thankful for whatever age you are. Run with it. Many times the youth think they are too young to be useful or they are worried about peer pressure. It takes real strength of character to do the right thing in spite of the crowd. Conversely there are elder ones who put themselves down with self-destroying words, “I’m not what I used to be.” I hear many times, “Those were the good old days.” Well, I disagree; today is the “good now day.” The younger generation profits immeasurably by the wisdom and experience of the older populace.

2. DON’T BE ASHAMED OF YOUR IMPERFECTIONS. A cracked and broken pot allows light to shine through. Be a vessel for light to shine. Blessings given are blessings returned.

3. DEVOTE YOURSELF TO HELPING OTHERS. Volunteering brings happiness to others and to you. Many community activities need volunteers and before you know it your work has made you happy.

4. FORGET THE PAST AND LIVE IN THE PRESENT. The “past” is just that. It’s over. Today is here “right now.”

5. KEEP A RIGHT ATTITUDE. No one likes to be around a “Scrooge.” So encourage yourself to happen to life. Be alive. Life is “delicious.”

6. SMILE AND PUT ON A HAPPY FACE. Say a “Thank You” today to a person you see. Find something to be thankful for. It will make you happy!