Every 365 days we get a chance to start anew.... when you think about it though, we start anew every morning we wake up.  What we chose to do with our day is ours to decide - waste it or work it well.  I know I tend to waste a few to many but then how does one define wasting a day.... I simply do things that I enjoy.... I don't clean every day, I don't create or finish something all the time but I at least enjoy what I did.  If that is wasting then I suppose I waste most of my days. LOL

 

Anyway, I hope you have days that are wasted as well!!

Now wasn't that phylisophical...... NOT!!

Once again the holiday season is upon us.  We shop and shop looking for the special gift that will say I know you, I care about you.  Retail business increases to it's all time high for the year.  We find this.... it's good, I like it..... we shop more .... we find something better.... we discard the first by simply setting it down anywhere..... Ka Ching! the price just went up!  We really like this item, but does it ..... so we open the package, with disregard.... oh it does, I will get this instead..... we abandon the second item, and the opened packaged one of the third, take a nice new one and we are on our way... Ka Ching! Ka Ching! the price just went up!  In retail there is a word called overhead cost, it refers to the cost of getting product to the consumer, not simply the cost of the merchandise itself.  Everytime a shopper leaves a mess in their wake the retailer has to pay someone to clean it up, that isn't a free process.  Working in retail has made me a much more conscientious shopper myself.  I spend a minimum of 2 hours out of my 8 hour day simply cleaning up after such examples as above.  Returning merchandise to their proper homes, repairing packaging, finding and reporting stolen or empty packages..... Ka Ching! the price just went up!

 

So think about it..... then next time you are wondering why prices are so high... stop and remember.... what did you do with that item you changed your mind about? When you didn't want the opened package, why would anyone else? Did you pay for that one you broke or hide it on the shelf?  We all pay in the end..... Ka Ching! the price just went up!

Two Wows! - an I suspected - what next?

 

Isn't it interesting how our minds tend to fret over nothing?  How the actual event is never as bad as we percieve it will be.  We are our own worst enemy, are we not?  That, combined with fear of the unknown is a deadly combination.  When will we learn that and stop worrying.  I guess we are all still to young.

WOW!!!!        (backwards) !!!!WOW

It confuses me sometimes the light hearted way we treat what we say.  There use to be a time when someone said something, implied or promised to do something, you could count on "their word".  "Their word"....... they give you "their word"....... you can count on "their word".  Who's word is it anyway? Once it is given does it not change ownership? If you give me "your word", does it not then become mine?  Would you not treat my belongings with the utmost respect? Of course...... if you give me "your word", I would then expect you to "keep your word". So it never truly belongs to me.  It is and always will be "your word".  So what is "your word" worth? The value of "words" is only valued by the receiver yet the value is set by those that give it.  Some "words" are a dime a dozen..... Others are priceless.  It does not matter what "the word" is, if it is given...... then keep it, those not kept are sometimes the ones that harm the most.  Don't diminish the value of "your word" or soon you will find that "your word" is of no value to anyone, and they will no longer believe what you say.

 

Long story short ~ Can people RELY on what you say?