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Welcome back to my newsletter!
Take a deep breath and enjoy. I have received many emails for the first one, along with requests and ideas for topics. Don't be shy, send me a note and let me know what you think. I try to keep each issue short so you have time to read it. Take care!
Beth
Beth's Brain Food:
What are you doing for the rest of your life?
"How old is your little girl?" I ask. "She is 21 days old." Parents of young ones always seem to answer in months or days. The miracle that brought the child into the world is still fresh and new, so we count it out carefully. What if we always thought that way? "How old is your son?" "He is 5,479 days old today. Just 365 more days and he will be driving!"
Think about it… the teenagers in your life that drive you up the wall have only been on the planet between 4,700 and 6,500 days. They are still puppies! Never mind that they look and occasionally act like adults. Thinking in days rather than years helps to put their age into perspective (and keeps YOUR sanity in check… trust me, parents, some day you will look back and laugh at all of this…) Those teenage "puppies" still have much to figure out.
And so do you. If you just passed your 40th birthday, you have been here 14,610 days. Doesn't seem like much when you put it that way, especially compared to your 16-year old's 5,844 days...
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"You're aware the boy failed my grade school math class, I take it? And not that many years later he's teaching college. Now I ask you: Is that the sorriest indictment of the American educational system you ever heard? [pauses to light cigarette.] No aptitude at all for long division, but never mind. It's him they ask to split the atom. How he talked his way into the Nobel Prize is beyond me. But then, I suppose it's like the man says, It's not what you know... "
-Albert Einstein's former teacher, Karl Arbeiter, on his surprise that Einstein had made something of himself…
Trivia for today:
With a little imagination, you too can become a millionaire:
That Weedeater you use was invented in a car wash. Thirty-three years ago, as George Ballas was driving his car through the wash, he noticed how the strings of the brushes flew out straight, but were flexible enough to get into every nook and cranny on his car. He decided to try using a nylon cord rotating at high speed to cut the weeds in his yard. He punched holes in a popcorn can and threaded the holes with cord. Then he took the blade off his edger and bolted the can in place. His crude invention tore up the turf and made a terrible noise, but it whipped off the weeds just as he knew it would. The first twenty distributors turned him down - saying it was impossible to cut weeds with nylon. So George invested $12,000 in TV advertising, and within days, was swamped with orders. Today, Weedeater Inc. is a multimillion corporation and its clones fill the aisles at home improvement stores all across the globe. (From The Speakers Sourcebook, Glenn Van Ekeren)
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News You can Use
Thinking about taking a trip to/from Hawaii? First, go to my web site and click on the "Hawaii Insider" page. You will find numerous links to get started. Currently, Hawaiian Airlines is offering some incredible inbound rates from September 1- December 14. If you want to do business in Hawaii, it is a good idea to check in with the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau. Read their newsletters here.
Another interesting e-zine is the Hawaii Information Reporter. Get the inside skinny on politics in the southernmost state in the "US of A".
Got other questions? (Send me an e-mail.)
Today's Chuckle
"The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it." Andy Rooney
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