Tuesday, December 17, 2013
HO! HO! HO!
JINGLE, JINGLE, JINGLE...OMG, HERE COMES KRIS KRINGLE!
It's time for Santa, and yuletide, and spending the money,
For presents, and cookies, and egg nog so yummy,
Of your wishes, and daydreams, and caroling bright,
Will you hide in the shadows, or sing out loud in the light?
Out grumpy, out whiny, cease your complaining,
On Rudolf, on tinsel, t'is the season champagning!
Around doubters and cynics, to "believe" is so fickle,
You must now spread some cheer, and create a fun tickle!
Now if you encounter a fat man, who's jolly and cute, Wearing a beard and a smile, and a red flannel suit,
If he's chuckling, and giggling, and laughing away, While flying around in the night, in a magical sleigh,
With eight magic reindeer, to pull him along, Then perhaps it could be, that your eggnog's too strong!
Yet consider the options, make your choice unafraid,
Climb aboard Santa's sleigh, and be in the parade!
When your life is so touched, it's the way of the heart,
Be sure you touch many, right from the start!
On our sleigh ride together, measure for measure,
Instead of "not bad", it's indeed been OUR PLEASURE!
May you and yours have a VERY MERRY PERRY HOLIDAY!
MERRY MERRY FROM JM PERRY!
Cheers,
Dr. Mitchell Perry
Change Yourself First
How often do you find yourself complaining about someone you wish would change? Do you wish your spouse would simply pick up the dirty clothes and put them in the hamper? Your mother would quit being so critical about virtually everything? Your boss would throw you a bone and give you a bit of credit? Sound familiar?
Notice how much energy you spend trying to get these people to change. Your dedication to the "people fixing rehabilitation project" is quite impressive, yet, as you know, this project is destined to fail. THE MORE YOU TRY TO CHANGE SOMEONE, THE MORE THEY PUSHBACK, RESIST YOUR EFFORTS, AND STAY THE SAME.
What to do? Change yourself and your behavior FIRST. You know for certain that you have more power over changing your own behavior anyway. Furthermore, when you change your own behavior, you frequently force those around you to adjust and change as well.
Consider the following examples:
You want your wife to quit being so critical of you. Has it occurred to you that you help her remain critical because you are often critical of her? So change yourself first. Write your wife a letter telling her all the things you appreciate about her. Then watch... her behavior is likely to change. Furthermore, when she is criticizing, leave her alone with her misery. Let her enjoy her unhappiness by herself. She is more likely to choose having your company than risk losing it by continuing to criticize you.
You want your husband to pick up the laundry and put it in the hamper. Yet every time he fails to do it you jump in and take care of it yourself. You wonder why his behavior remains the same. You are teaching him how to treat you. What to do? Change yourself first. Put the clothes in a pile on his pillow. Put the hamper on the front seat of his car, or file a lawsuit against your spouse with a charge of "irreconcilable laundry differences!" Then watch... your spouse is likely to think twice about dirty laundry and expect you to always take care of it.
The message is this: When you make it policy to regularly consider what YOU can do differently, the world becomes a different place.
You can move mountains with a single thought. Change yourself and your contribution first... and watch the mountains move!
Today's Tickle
THIS IS GREAT!
You think English is easy???
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear..
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
JINGLE, JINGLE, JINGLE...OMG, HERE COMES KRIS KRINGLE!
It's time for Santa, and yuletide, and spending the money,
For presents, and cookies, and egg nog so yummy,
Of your wishes, and daydreams, and caroling bright,
Will you hide in the shadows, or sing out loud in the light?
Out grumpy, out whiny, cease your complaining,
On Rudolf, on tinsel, t'is the season champagning!
Around doubters and cynics, to "believe" is so fickle,
You must now spread some cheer, and create a fun tickle!
Now if you encounter a fat man, who's jolly and cute, Wearing a beard and a smile, and a red flannel suit,
If he's chuckling, and giggling, and laughing away, While flying around in the night, in a magical sleigh,
With eight magic reindeer, to pull him along, Then perhaps it could be, that your eggnog's too strong!
Yet consider the options, make your choice unafraid,
Climb aboard Santa's sleigh, and be in the parade!
When your life is so touched, it's the way of the heart,
Be sure you touch many, right from the start!
On our sleigh ride together, measure for measure,
Instead of "not bad", it's indeed been OUR PLEASURE!
May you and yours have a VERY MERRY PERRY HOLIDAY!
MERRY MERRY FROM JM PERRY!
Cheers,
Dr. Mitchell Perry
Change Yourself First
How often do you find yourself complaining about someone you wish would change? Do you wish your spouse would simply pick up the dirty clothes and put them in the hamper? Your mother would quit being so critical about virtually everything? Your boss would throw you a bone and give you a bit of credit? Sound familiar?
Notice how much energy you spend trying to get these people to change. Your dedication to the "people fixing rehabilitation project" is quite impressive, yet, as you know, this project is destined to fail. THE MORE YOU TRY TO CHANGE SOMEONE, THE MORE THEY PUSHBACK, RESIST YOUR EFFORTS, AND STAY THE SAME.
What to do? Change yourself and your behavior FIRST. You know for certain that you have more power over changing your own behavior anyway. Furthermore, when you change your own behavior, you frequently force those around you to adjust and change as well.
Consider the following examples:
You want your wife to quit being so critical of you. Has it occurred to you that you help her remain critical because you are often critical of her? So change yourself first. Write your wife a letter telling her all the things you appreciate about her. Then watch... her behavior is likely to change. Furthermore, when she is criticizing, leave her alone with her misery. Let her enjoy her unhappiness by herself. She is more likely to choose having your company than risk losing it by continuing to criticize you.
You want your husband to pick up the laundry and put it in the hamper. Yet every time he fails to do it you jump in and take care of it yourself. You wonder why his behavior remains the same. You are teaching him how to treat you. What to do? Change yourself first. Put the clothes in a pile on his pillow. Put the hamper on the front seat of his car, or file a lawsuit against your spouse with a charge of "irreconcilable laundry differences!" Then watch... your spouse is likely to think twice about dirty laundry and expect you to always take care of it.
The message is this: When you make it policy to regularly consider what YOU can do differently, the world becomes a different place.
You can move mountains with a single thought. Change yourself and your contribution first... and watch the mountains move!
Today's Tickle
THIS IS GREAT!
You think English is easy???
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear..
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
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