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When times are tough… Think of the others
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It’s a tough time for everyone. Every day can be a struggle, especially when you have a bad day on top of your bad day. I left work early yesterday with flu like symptoms, feeling miserable around 11:00 pm, as I work second shift. By the way I live in Fort Wayne Indiana and have been shoveling snow and ice for about 2 weeks straight temperature right now is -15 degrees not counting the wind chill. Exhibit A if you live where there is Sunshine you just found something to be thankful for.
Back to the story, I get home and decide against my better judgement to do one load of laundry before going to sleep to get some much needed rest. I’m now about 3 minutes away from covering up with my warm soft blanket. Just one thing left to do, put the clothes into the dryer from the washer. It sounds simple until I open the door to the laundry room and find the entire floor flooded from a frozen drain pipe on my washer. To make a long story short 10 soaking wet towels and about an hour later, wet feet and all I sat down at my computer and listened to a song that I always listen to when I feel life has dealt me a bad hand.
The song is a country song by an artist named Joe Diffee titled Ships That Don’t Come In. At the time of this post you can hear the song at www.joediffie.com his myspace page. It just reminds me that sometimes our problems can be so small in the whole scheme of things. There are so many people out there who don’t have the chance to live a life like ours. The young soldiers that have died fighting for our freedom or constantly leaving their families for the front lines. The homeless who don’t know where they will spend their next night. We have people starving to death that would do anything for one piece of bread and as I dry my feet with a soft towel, dim the lights, plug in my ipod and pop open my perrier I close my eyes and take a moment to think of the others, who don’t have the chance for a life like mine, whose ship may never come in. If you’re having one of those days take a minute and make a list of all the things you are thankful for. The simple things, food to eat, shoes to wear, a bed to sleep in. Do a good deed or something nice for someone who may be a little less fortunate and say a prayer for the others. Mike Fuller
Running Out Of Time…
I am running out of time, you see I have 2 main profession’s… I am a Dreamer and a procrastinator. The whole year I have been putting things off until next week, and then next week becomes next month which in turn becomes where we are today which is about 2 weeks from a New Year! That’s good for most people but for me its panic because I have put everything off till the New Year comes, A FRESH NEW START, the problem is I have so many things, so many projects, so many goals and only 2 weeks to figure out how on January 1st, 2009 I am going to be able to accomplish every goal, and every project I have set out for myself. Usually I am so overwhelmed I just fold and don’t even attempt anything except the going on a diet which only lasts a few days anyway. If you go back to my first entry you will notice I honestly didn’t know my age, well some good news and some bad news I am only 35 years old, that’s great huh? well yes but the bad news is it took me so long to write this second entry (procrastination) I am now 36! Life’s clock keeps on ticking the battery never runs out, It doesn’t matter what we are doing, sleeping, laughing, crying or working the clock keeps ticking it seems like just yesterday I was in my early 20’s with dreams and Goals of where I would be by the time I was in my mid 30’s and before you know it here it is and your not where you thought you should be. Well the time is now, It starts today, not January 1st, TODAY we need to slow things down and make baby steps, back to the basics little personal victories each and every day. Set tiny goals and focus on those not the big picture. Get Started, and never ever quit. One man asked how do you eat an elephant… one bite at a time. …Mike Fuller
Drum Roll
Drum Roll,
August 5th 2008
Michael Lee Fuller
Two sayings always stuck out in my mind as I was growing up, “Tomorrow never comes” and “When you’re my age you don’t keep track of birthdays.” As a little kid expecting a gift I always thought it was a funny joke, “how could you not know how old you are”. Today as I write this introduction I honestly don’t know how old I am; I think I’m 36 but there’s a slim chance that I’m 35. I will have to ask my wife, but I have a bad feeling I am 36 and my birthday is only a few months away which will put me at 37 and that’s depressing. So for now I just don’t keep track of birthdays.
For the last three, six, nine months, im not sure exactly; I’ve been meaning to write this introduction tomorrow. For the last 20 years I”ve been going on a diet tomorrow; yet for some reason the other day I realized tomorrow never comes. Now I’ve heard the songs and joked about the thought that tomorrow would never come, yet for some reason it took me 35 or 36 years to realize it. Imagine being on a diet for over 20 years waiting for tomorrow to come and it never comes, that sucks! Jokes aside I’m not a professional writer. I hate to disappoint you, however I am a professional person who has experienced a nice dose of what life can throw at you. In this blog I’m going to share some of my life experiences with you. I consider myself one of the luckiest people on earth, yet when I share my story with some people they feel differently; I guess it is all in how you look at it. I have learned to take the positive out of the negative and I understand not all people can do that; that’s why I have chosen to share my stories and life adventures. My goal, (and I know you’ve heard this a billion times) is to touch 1 person’s life. Over the next year or ten years who knows, I’m going to share my childhood, teenage years and adulthood with you. I will share life experiences as well as my views on life and happiness. If you are looking for perfect grammar or punctuation you have come to the wrong place English was never my strong suit, but I’m a hell of a person with a hell of a story that I will start writing tomorrow. Don’t hold your breath.
Welcome Mike!
Welcome Mike Fuller my newest writer from Fort Wayne, Indiana. He will be writing on topics such as healing, grief, relationships, family and love. Come back often to share in what Mike, a husband and father has to say. His insights and experiences will offer a man’s touch.
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Drum Roll
Drum Roll,
August 5th 2008
Michael Lee Fuller
Two sayings always stuck out in my mind as I was growing up, “Tomorrow never comes” and “When you’re my age you don’t keep track of birthdays.” As a little kid expecting a gift I always thought it was a funny joke, “how could you not know how old you are”. Today as I write this introduction I honestly don’t know how old I am; I think I’m 36 but there’s a slim chance that I’m 35. I will have to ask my wife, but I have a bad feeling I am 36 and my birthday is only a few months away which will put me at 37 and that’s depressing. So for now I just don’t keep track of birthdays.
For the last three, six, nine months, im not sure exactly; I’ve been meaning to write this introduction tomorrow. For the last 20 years I”ve been going on a diet tomorrow; yet for some reason the other day I realized tomorrow never comes. Now I’ve heard the songs and joked about the thought that tomorrow would never come, yet for some reason it took me 35 or 36 years to realize it. Imagine being on a diet for over 20 years waiting for tomorrow to come and it never comes, that sucks! Jokes aside I’m not a professional writer. I hate to disappoint you, however I am a professional person who has experienced a nice dose of what life can throw at you. In this blog I’m going to share some of my life experiences with you. I consider myself one of the luckiest people on earth, yet when I share my story with some people they feel differently; I guess it is all in how you look at it. I have learned to take the positive out of the negative and I understand not all people can do that; that’s why I have chosen to share my stories and life adventures. My goal, (and I know you’ve heard this a billion times) is to touch 1 person’s life. Over the next year or ten years who knows, I’m going to share my childhood, teenage years and adulthood with you. I will share life experiences as well as my views on life and happiness. If you are looking for perfect grammar or punctuation you have come to the wrong place English was never my strong suit, but I’m a hell of a person with a hell of a story that I will start writing tomorrow. Don’t hold your breath.
Welcome Mike!
Welcome Mike Fuller my newest writer from Fort Wayne, Indiana. He will be writing on topics such as healing, grief, relationships, family and love. Come back often to share in what Mike, a husband and father has to say. His insights and experiences will offer a man’s touch.
|caring for yourself|
Welcome Mike Fuller my newest writer from Fort Wayne, Indiana. He will be writing on topics such as healing, grief, relationships, family and love. Come back often to share in what Mike, a husband and father has to say. His insights and experiences will offer a man’s touch.
|healing|
|relationship|
|writing on life|
Drum Roll
Drum Roll,
August 5th 2008
Michael Lee Fuller
Two sayings always stuck out in my mind as I was growing up, “Tomorrow never comes” and “When you’re my age you don’t keep track of birthdays.” As a little kid expecting a gift I always thought it was a funny joke, “how could you not know how old you are”. Today as I write this introduction I honestly don’t know how old I am; I think I’m 36 but there’s a slim chance that I’m 35. I will have to ask my wife, but I have a bad feeling I am 36 and my birthday is only a few months away which will put me at 37 and that’s depressing. So for now I just don’t keep track of birthdays.
For the last three, six, nine months, im not sure exactly; I’ve been meaning to write this introduction tomorrow. For the last 20 years I”ve been going on a diet tomorrow; yet for some reason the other day I realized tomorrow never comes. Now I’ve heard the songs and joked about the thought that tomorrow would never come, yet for some reason it took me 35 or 36 years to realize it. Imagine being on a diet for over 20 years waiting for tomorrow to come and it never comes, that sucks! Jokes aside I’m not a professional writer. I hate to disappoint you, however I am a professional person who has experienced a nice dose of what life can throw at you. In this blog I’m going to share some of my life experiences with you. I consider myself one of the luckiest people on earth, yet when I share my story with some people they feel differently; I guess it is all in how you look at it. I have learned to take the positive out of the negative and I understand not all people can do that; that’s why I have chosen to share my stories and life adventures. My goal, (and I know you’ve heard this a billion times) is to touch 1 person’s life. Over the next year or ten years who knows, I’m going to share my childhood, teenage years and adulthood with you. I will share life experiences as well as my views on life and happiness. If you are looking for perfect grammar or punctuation you have come to the wrong place English was never my strong suit, but I’m a hell of a person with a hell of a story that I will start writing tomorrow. Don’t hold your breath.
