Tergivers Commandments

1. Take care of yourself.

2. Conserve your energy –don’t spend $10 on a ten cent problem.

3. Accept your feelings – anger, frustration and sorrow are natural emotions.

4. Develop new realistic expectations.

5. Learn and practice problem solving.

6. Avoid impulsive changes…think it through.

7. Practice becoming more flexible.

8. Learn to laugh and to love yourself.

9. Seek and accept help if you need…its okay.

10. Allow for some “me time,” and create a refuge from stress.

New Year Expression

Today I was reflecting, and I wanted [the world] to know just how much my gift means to me. I truly cherish, adore, and simply love my gift. If only my gift knew how special and precious it has become to me.

I wish my gifts fears could be dispelled, for I truly love my gift. I promise to love my gift completely and forever. I especially love the “wrapper” my gift is in, and I accept it “as is.” I am grateful to be entrusted with such a prized possession. Oh how I love, esteem, revere, and honor my gift. Why, I’d give my very own life for my gift if need be.

I love absolutely everything about my gift. Its size, its shape, its color, and its very essence. I am truly thankful for being permitted to open my gift, and to be satisfied by it. My desires have become ablaze for my gift.

How I love holding my gift through the night. Nurturing and nourishing it, and just sitting and gazing at its beauty…such a beautiful gift to behold. I’m sorry for those times I have gotten angry at my gift…I meant it no harm.

Finally, my gift matters so much to me, and I promise to esteem it above all others.

So what is this prized gift?

This gift is my loving wife…Stefi

Just For Today

We can do anything…for one day. So just for today, let us be unafraid of life, unafraid of death…which is but a shadow of life. Let us be unafraid to be happy, unafraid of sadness…which is but a shadow of happiness. Let us enjoy the beautiful, and look for the best in everyone.

Just for today, let us live for the moment. Learn to grieve over the past and what it could have been; celebrate the present for what it is; and anticipate the future for what it will become. Abraham Lincoln once said “A person is just as happy as they make their mind up to be.” May we embrace this great man’s theology…just for today.

Let us bring to focus these four R’s…family, friends, fun, and failure. Why failure? It is through failures that we learn life’s most valuable lessons.

If we cannot have what we like, why not like what we have? One of life’s hardest lessons is that we cannot always have what we want when we want it. Hello!

Just for today, let’s become a candle of contentment, and a trestle of trust in the construction business of building our lives.

Life as we know it is about choices. So, just for today, let’s choose to be agreeable, sensitive, responsible, prayerful, cheerful, and charitable.

Walk softly and praise people for what they can do, instead of criticizing them for what they cannot do. When we find fault in ourselves or others…then forgive.

Just for today!