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Miki’s Rules to Live by: Great Attitude for Women

Wednesday, March 25th, 2020

Looking for a good first-thing-in-the-morning thought to get you going?

Here’s my favorite.

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Miki’s Rules to Live By: Today

Wednesday, September 4th, 2019

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Does today matter all that much when there’s a tomorrow in the wings?

Yes, no question about it.

Setting aside the fact that tomorrow doesn’t come with a guarantee, what about a more personal take on the idea.

Eleanor Roosevelt summed up the importance perfectly.

“Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.”

Probably one of the most important sentences you’ll ever hear.

Don’t forget it — live by it.

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Miki’s Rules to Live By: Protection

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019

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“Change is the only constant” is an oft-quoted idea first uttered around 500 BC by Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher (those Greeks really knew what they were talking about).

The only difference between then and now is that change happens a whole lot faster.

In these days of fast change I try to keep two rules firmly in my conscious mind.

The first is something I heard many years ago, although don’t remember where.

The only thing free is the cheese in the mouse trap.

For whatever reason it really sank in and proved to be protection, preventing me from falling for the lure of free as social media, Google and other services rose to overwhelming prominence.

It kept me from being parsed, productized, and sold.

The second isn’t new and has been said many ways over the decades. This is how I’ve thought about it for decades.

Personality reaps more acclaim than talent or accomplishments.

I find it especially true in these days of personal branding and self promotion.

I’m grateful I absorbed both ideas; they’ve made my life much simpler, safer and easier these days.

And I’m not missing a thing.

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Miki’s Rules To Live By: Choice of Friends

Wednesday, December 19th, 2018

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Last year I shared a couple of pretty good Rules at the start of the holiday season.

This year I have another that may ease some of your holiday stress.

Ethel Watts Mumford said, “God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.”

The first part is the root of stress for those people who believe that family should be a constant source of all things good. They twist themselves into pretzels to effect that outcome and tear apart their psyches when it doesn’t materialize.

Worse, they completely ignore the second part of the quote, thus losing the sweet solace of good friendships.

Hugh Kingsmill, a contemporary of Mumford, provided the corollary that many need to let go of the stress of missed expectations and embrace the solution.

Friends are God’s apology for relatives.

Enjoy your friends this holiday season and all year ‘round and, if you are lucky, those relatives who also qualify as friends.

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Miki’s Rules To Live By: Two For The Holidays

Wednesday, November 29th, 2017

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Here are two little attitude tweaks that can make a very large difference in your holidays.

The first is a minor mind tweak that I can tell you from personal experience works extremely well.

Don’t let your mind play second fiddle to your assumptions.

And this from Michael Jackson (and others throughout time).

If you want to make the world a better place look inside yourself and make a change.

Of course, both require a level of self-knowledge and self-discipline that many of today’s connected, distracted humans don’t have.

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Miki’s Rules To Live By: A Word To The Wise

Wednesday, September 27th, 2017

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And sometimes it’s completely absent.

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Miki’s rules to Live By: Mastering Your Spoken Word

Wednesday, November 16th, 2016

https://www.flickr.com/photos/scottchene/7330424504/Words are incredibly powerful.

If you’ve ever doubted that the recent election is absolute proof.

Words reflect who you are.

Words can bring people together or drive them apart.

Words can wound or empathize; they can build or destroy.

You are the only person responsible for your words, there is no way to pass the blame for things you say — or don’t say.

Knowing that, I kept these Anon quotes foremost in my mind, until they became unconscious habit.

The first

Be quicker of mind than of tongue.

leads directly to the second

I am the master of my unspoken words and a slave to those that should have remained unspoken.

There is a third, that is far less eloquent, but sums things up nicely.

Be sure to start brain before putting mouth in gear.

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Miki’s Rules to Live by: A Quick Reminder

Wednesday, July 20th, 2016

You may find this surprising, but the phones you texted to arrange getting together for dinner are not sentient.

In reality, they are the property of sentient beings whose face2face company you enjoy (or did at one time).

Since you planned a meal with them, I’ll assume you still do and suggest you follow the advice below.

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Buon appetito or, if you prefer, bon apetite.

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Miki’s Rules to Live By: Who is Normal?

Wednesday, May 4th, 2016

GoatMan

I am an inveterate article-sender, although to a very select list.

I sent the story of the guy who took a vacation from being human by becoming a goat to my sister.

After some discussion, she asked me if I thought he was normal.

I responded that years ago someone I knew said that normal = average = the top of the bottom of the well.

Based on that I am not normal nor do I have any desire to be so.

And I added one of my Rules.

We are each of us our own normal, i.e., he is his normal, as I am mine.

And its corollary.

We are all kinked and our friends are those who are kinked synergistically.

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Miki’s Rules to Live by: My Way

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016

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A mistake is simply another way of doing things. –Katharine Graham

I make a lot of them, I’m told, because I do it my way.

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