"Getting Rich Now!"

Have you ever noticed how change just sneaks up on you? Yesterday a quarter out of my steering wheel, and then today as I got out of my truck at the mall I see this on the ground!



Yup! Four queens, two ships and a beaver. I felt like a rich man. Of course I then went into the mall and spent 17 bucks on a book which when I got home seemed awful familiar??

Anyway, the other kind of change tends to sneak up on you much more subtly. Like on that very same trip to the mall I wondered why I had to adjust the mirrors in the truck in the downward direction?....Oh yah...my youngest son! That's the first time I ever noticed this little thing, even though I knew he was now taller than me. The mind tends to reason that the past equals the future...which it most definitely does not.

I know that every day of my life, every minute and second for that matter, I have an opportunity to take complete charge of my life such that change does not sneak up on me. Sure there's crap that you can't see coming, but most of whatever our situation in life is, is a direct reflection of the choices we have made, and the actions we have taken. Even the way we feel is primarily a result of our actions...of what we say, and what we do.

I think it's fear that keeps us (or at least me) from doing those things that we think will bring this potential change. Fear of the future, based on what we learned in the past. That's a tough thing and it takes a lot of reconditioning.

Thirty kilometer run today. I felt great for the first hour and a half and then the wheeels fell off. I was hoping to do 37 but my heart rate monitor told me to shut it down early. I was surprised actually. I expected it to go better.

I wish to dedicate 172 to Nurse Elly from my chemo therapy days.

“Be the change you want to see in the world."---Mahatma Gandhi

“When you're finished changing, you're finished."---Benjamin Franklin

“We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude."---Charles R. Swindoll

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peter