If every room stinks, check YOUR shoes!

We have all been there whether you have a dog or not. You walk all around the house wondering why every room stinks only to look down, check your shoes and realize you are tracking "it"around. Yes you. You thought that in going to a new room you would find fresh air, but then you realize it is you dragging the stink around with you. If every job. Every relationship. Every group you seek to connect with "stinks", stop, look down and check your own shoes. It may well be that you are the most common denominator in all of your life situations.  Remember, wherever you go, there you are!

If You Live Long Enough, You Will Die of Something

The one thing we know everyone will do is die and yet we really hate to talk about it or prepare for it. It is great to eat right and live a healthy lifestyle, but in the end the end comes. Are you prepared? Do you have financial and logistical plans? Do family members know what they are and how to activate them? What about your spiritual situation? When you get to the end you will only worry about your relationship to God and family. How are you doing with those now? Now while you have the time. All of us are terminal, we just don't know how long we have. Make the most of it. Make it count. Invest now in what will matter later.

The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

Erma Bombeck was right! Things over the fence in your neighbor's life may look great, but what is it really sitting over? Be careful in trying to "keep up with the Jones-es." You really don't know what it is that is making their life look so fertile and green from a distance. Many a wealthy man has a ton of debt. Lot's of those high achievers never have a meal at home with the family they are doing "it" all for.  Bloom where you are planted and seek to grow, but be careful in what you long for or covet in the life of your neighbor. The  price of a greener lawn can often really stink.