Motivational: LIVIN' ON SOMEDAY I'LL

LIVIN' ON SOMEDAY I'LL

Written by Terry L. Sumerlin

LIVIN' ON SOMEDAY I'LL

by Terry L. Sumerlin

One of repparttar nice things about our 47-year-old barbershop is that we get to see customers go through repparttar 123163 various stages of life. In some cases, we even give first haircuts to those whose grandfathers got their first haircuts at J.B.’s.

It’s quite interesting to watch repparttar 123164 little fellows, as they become accustomed to repparttar 123165 new experience. Generally, we find they get more worked up over repparttar 123166 second haircut than they do repparttar 123167 first. Yet, after they settle into repparttar 123168 routine, they start looking forward to playing with repparttar 123169 toys and to receiving gum or a lollipop after their haircut. Then they simply display repparttar 123170 happy, carefree disposition of little boys. They don’t worry about being happy. They’re just happy. At this stage of their lives, repparttar 123171 hokey pokey is pretty much what it’s all about.

However, as these little boys become teenagers, their upbeat attitude often changes. Some of them become infected with repparttar 123172 same attitude that plagues most adults. It’s an attitude that postpones happiness through a “someday I’ll…” approach.

With such a mindset a person feels that happiness will come someday, when certain conditions are met. The boy (or girl) may feel that happiness will occur when he graduates. Then repparttar 123173 thought changes to, “When I go off to college.” In college, he wishes he could get through, and get on with life. Then he realizes that, for happiness, he needs a JOB to go with his Ph.D. Following that, he would be happy if he could just get married, have children, own a business, get out of debt, retire or travel. Someday, everything will be great!

Two Very Forgotten but Crucial Words - Thank You

Written by Tracy Lyn Moland

Thank you -- wonderful words that we all love to hear but forget to say. Do you write thank you notes? I remember when I was a child my Mother always made my brother and I write thank you notes to our friends, family, and each other. I recall thinking that it was a lot of work. What was repparttar

point? We already had said thank you in person or on repparttar 123162

phone. But Mom insisted it had to be done and we did it. Before long she didn’t have to enforce it, we knew what to do. If we were given something, we sent off repparttar 123163

thank you notes.

As I got older, I started to see it from a different side. A dear elderly Uncle was very generous with us and said it was because we were always so thankful. He appreciated our notes. The more thankful we were, repparttar 123164 more he felt like giving. We learned a powerful lesson. We learned repparttar 123165 power of gratitude! We learned to be thankful. I feel so good when I receive a sincere thank you note that I want to send one back to repparttar 123166 sender! We also learned to look for times to be thankful – not just when we received gifts. We learned to be thankful for repparttar 123167 things going on around us.

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