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Good Deeds No act of power goes without its reward. A good deed brings back good in return. Be gracious, my , in your power And bless the common people, So that your reign may continue forever.  If U were mine I'd be yours 4ever!  |
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At the end of the day At the end of the day we have to feel good about ourselves. Today a friend said this to me. Sometimes we do things just because at the end of the day we have to feel good about ourselves. Sometimes we do things just because they need to be done. And because we need to do them. Forever's not enough for me to love you!
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I don't know. Today I felt like I had to get some things accomplished. I did my best but I did not complete my tasks. I did some good things; worked on my bike which sorely needed it, worked on my programming tasks, took a nap, Ate lunch with the guys at the bike shop, and watched a movie. But I did not finish my programming task.  Forever's not enough for me to love you!
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I planned on going into work and implementing this small program on Sunday, but it doesn't look like it will work out the way I planned. I will spend all day on Sunday working on it. I just don't get why this is so difficult to understand.  I'm so close to understanding but so far away. Tomorrow I will solve this problem. Forever's not enough for me to love you!
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And on Monday I'll implement it and save dozens of hours of work time. And in the long run, this software automation will be reused for other tasks. It will help me meet my deadlines for the project I'm working on. So at the end of the day, I have to feel good about myself. A few years ago I could have written this program in a matter of hours. Now I do not understand what I have forgotten. Forever's not enough for me to love you!
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Now I will relearn and feel good about it.  But it's kind of stressful to put myself under this kind of pressure.  But sometimes solving problems under pressure is part of the solution to feeling good about ourselves when it's all said and done isn't it? Forever's not enough for me to love you!
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When the day is over, did we do our best? If not, then tomorrow we have to. At least that's who I am. I have to. Forever's not enough for me to love you!
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I'm happy with the results of the day, but I'm also looking forward to solving the problems I did not resolve today. At the end of the day we still have to feel good about ourselves. It leads to the next present moment of existence we will go through. Forever's not enough for me to love you!
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Maybe we need to rethink our whole approach. We often become reactionary thinkers. We go down a path like a chain-reaction ‒ one thing leads to another, one choice is based on a previous choice and we find ourselves in the current position and what we have created and what we are choosing now is situation-based. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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Where is the line between accepting who you are and working to change/improve yourself? Basically we should have love for our self. Which means sometimes we have to do what is good for us. And we can learn to define our choices based on who we are verses defining who we are based on our choices. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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It doesn’t mean you are a bad person because you chose a certain path to go down. By necessity choices have to support our current path or we are on a different path. But maybe getting off our chosen path is not so bad. Sometimes the time is right to take a new approach. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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Our value and self-worth as a human being goes along with us on whatever path we choose. We are no less valuable to God if we are a Dentist or Delivery Driver. Sometimes we can make better choices in life though, and this is where change/self-improvement comes in. We should continue to love ourselves no matter what. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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This is why we should always be in the process of changing/improving ourselves. We should always be involved in the process of change. It’s not something we order up that someone else prepares for us and accept or reject it. In our social traditions we are constantly in the process of becoming enlightened and we should not stop seeking this. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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Really enlightenment is the process of self-improvement, or purification and like purifying water there is a process we go through to do this. It’s not something we arrive at by accident. Change is essential and ongoing regardless of what activities we are doing in these bodies. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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Everything in life becomes an education. School never ends and we are perpetual students. How good of students are we? I don’t think self-acceptance really means being satisfied with where we are at in life. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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I think true self-acceptance, is acceptance of ourselves no matter what path we are on, and loving ourselves no matter what path we are on. Change comes when we accept who we are and try to make better and more loving choices for ourselves. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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If I am mean to others and I become aware that I am, do I accept that as who I am? Or do I try to change? The loving thing to do would be try to change. I accept myself as a human being and don’t bash myself and counter-act what is good for me. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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It’s good for me to be kind to others. I feel better when I do and it’s good for my soul. So I seek to change how I treat others. I feel like we confuse our choices with who we are as a human being and spiritual being, all part of God. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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When we make bad choices we tend to be hyper critical of ourselves and devalue who we are. We stop accepting our own value and self-worth. But really it’s our bad choices that we should stop accepting and make better choices. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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Since choices are often based on a chain reaction in life, one choice leading to another, down a specific path, sometimes we need to rethink the whole approach. To arrive at a new, creative choice, we have to look at the big picture and choose a path that will have the desired chain reaction of choices. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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But no matter what path we choose, we still (lovingly) carry ourselves down the path and constantly learn and improve who we are, making better and better choices. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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This also means (lovingly) we don't need to correct things that are working and that are good and right. We make choices based on who we are and it works. CHEERS to the HAPPY VALLEY PEOPLE!
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4/16/2007 11:52 pm |
"Love Yourself" Today ---------- Today I took care of myself. I was headed out for a training ride, but my knee hurt. This morning when I woke up I had this pain which wasn't there the night before. But I thought it might work it's way out when I started riding my bike. It persisted. GOD saw U w/o a Pretty Friend: so He created ME 
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4/16/2007 11:53 pm |
I looked at my watch and saw that I still had time to make it to Jim's shop for his Saturday morning ride. All in all I rode about 35 miles today, but most of it was a leisurely pace and it felt good. I also met some new people and had fun hanging out with them for the morning. GOD saw U w/o a Pretty Friend: so He created ME
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4/16/2007 11:55 pm |
Then I stopped by the 7-11 corner and chatted with the Pedicab drivers. they were just getting started and I helped them fix a problem with a front derailer not working on one cab. After chatting for a while, I rode up the block(very slowly) and then on to home. It was about 11:30am by then and I ate a late breakfast, showered and promptly took a nap. Ohhh and it was a goooood nap. GOD saw U w/o a Pretty Friend: so He created ME
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4/16/2007 11:56 pm |
When I woke up it was time for lunch already, haha, so I ate again. Then I did some work around the house, took another nap and it was time for dinner. After dinner I did a little work on the computer and watched an Alfred Hitchcock movie called Marnie, starring Sean Connery. GOD saw U w/o a Pretty Friend: so He created ME
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