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© David Leonhardt, 2003, 2004 Inspiration & Motivation To Go! Welcome to Inspiration and Motivation To Go. This is a collection of the 60 most-loved editions of A Daily Dose of Happiness from the first year and a half. How do I know they are the most loved? Well, I love them. And these are the editions that received the most feedback, as well. One quick acknowledgement: To my wife, who sometimes proofreads A Daily Dose of Happiness. (You can tell on those days when she doesn't!) To sign up for Your Daily Dose of Happiness, just go to http://thehappyguy.com/daily-happiness-free-ezine.html or click on the banner above. Enjoy your Daily Doses. David Leonhardt The Happy Guy P.S.: All the links in this ebook should be still working. Feel free to follow them. 1 © David Leonhardt, 2003, 2004 Inspiration & Motivation To Go! MY TOP 5 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MOTIVATION Although I know you will benefit from the motivation in this free ebook, there are many other good sources of motivation on the Internet. Here are my top 5 recommendations (just click on the blue titles for more information): Forward Living helps you climb out of a slump and rediscover the path you want to be on. Get Organized Now is an easy organizer with hundreds of tips, tools, logs, checklists, forms and ideas to get your daily life organized and back on track. Conversations ...

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© David Leonhardt, 2003, 2004

Inspiration & Motivation To Go!

Welcome to

Inspiration and Motivation To Go

.

This is a

collection of the 60 most-loved editions of

A Daily Dose of

Happiness

from the first year and a half.

How do I know they are the most loved? Well, I love them.

And these are the editions that received the most feedback,

as well.

One quick acknowledgement:

To my wife, who sometimes proofreads

A Daily Dose of

Happiness

. (You can tell on those days when she doesn't!)

To sign up for

Your Daily Dose of Happiness

, just go to

http://thehappyguy.com/daily-happiness-free-ezine.html

or

click on the banner above.

Enjoy your Daily Doses.

David Leonhardt

The Happy Guy

P.S.: All the links in this ebook should be still working. Feel

free to follow them.

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MY TOP 5 RECOMMENDATIONS

FOR MOTIVATION

Although I know you will benefit from the motivation in

this free ebook, there are many other good sources of

motivation on the Internet.

Here are my top 5

recommendations (just click on the blue titles for more

information):

Forward Living

helps you climb out of a slump and

rediscover the path you want to be on.

Get Organized Now

is an easy organizer with

hundreds of tips, tools, logs, checklists, forms and

ideas to get your daily life organized and back on

track.

Conversations With Millionaires

offers you the secrets

of those people who found the motivation to get

where they want to be.

Self-improvement: the Top 101 Experts

is the ultimate

collection of wisdom from the most famous

motivational speakers and gurus. Get inspired and

get motivated with this one.

How to Be a Red Hot Persuasion Wizard in 20 Days

or Less

helps you reach your goals at the office, in the

sales room, when negotiating a new car or house

purchase or when applying for a job.

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PERSPECTIVE

Here's a quiet thought for a Sunday, borrowed from a

Toastmasters friend of mine:

We go to school and toil, hoping to learn the skills that will

give us the chance to toil even harder for the rest of our

lives. This leads to the mistaken notion that all good things

require work.

Here's wishing you a restful and enjoyable Sunday.

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ATTITUDE

I read this story, and I just had to pass it on. It is the classic

how to make lemonade out of lemons tale:

I went to breakfast at a restaurant where the special was two

eggs, bacon, hash browns and toast for $1.99. "Sounds

good," I said. "But I don't want the eggs."

"Then I'll have to charge you two dollars and forty-nine cents

because you're ordering a la carte," the waitress warned her.

"You mean I'd have to pay for not taking the eggs?" I asked

incredulously. "I'll take the special."

"How do you want your eggs?"

"Raw and in the shell," I replied. I took the two eggs home

with me.

Please forward this email to someone who could use a little

inspiration today.

One final note, you might recall an edition about bananas

and expectations in early April. I received a lot of positive

feedback about it. I have expanded it into a satirical article

(as I often do), which is available at this link:

http://thehappyguy.com/expectations-and-happiness.html

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In fact, here is the article mentioned on the previous page. If

you like it, you can subscribe to receive one like it in your

inbox once each week:

http://thehappyguy.com/positive-thinking-free-ezine.html?

.

Or find out how to get the free ebook of 27 similar columns

at the end of this article.

What?!? No Bananas?

By David Leonhardt

"Where are your bananas?"

It seemed like a

logical question to ask. For all of my forty trips

around the sun, bananas were a key item to place

in the grocery cart.

For the first time I could

recall, the banana bin was empty. So I asked a

store worker where the bananas were.

"We don't have any," he replied. "We'll be getting

some in tomorrow."

It took me a few moments to absorb this

information. "What do you mean you don't

have

any?" I thought.

"

Every

store has bananas."

True, sometimes they are almost green enough to

pass for bent cucumbers. And they occasionally

appear to have lost an arm-wrestling match with a

watermelon.

But there are always bananas of

some sort in the store.

Then it dawned on me just how foolish my

expectations were.

I live well north of New York

City.

Even if somebody invented a way to

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cultivate them in the Great White North, it was

early April, and they would not bear fruit at that

time of year. For goodness sake, outside the

snow was falling and inside I was expecting

tropical bananas!

If you commute in a big city, you might have

noticed traffic grinding to a halt. Why? Look to

bananas for the answer. Just as I was frustrated

by my grocery expectations not being met,

millions of commuters are frustrated daily by their

traffic expectations not being met.

Consider some of the major machines in your life,

such as television. Twenty years ago, we would

watch a TV show.

Ads would come and ads

would go, but we would watch it from start to

finish. Who does that these days?

Reality shows

"What were you watching, honey?"

"I dunno. But I think I caught 412 channels."

And if ever you should lose the converter ... I

know, I know, this is a family publication, so we'll

cut the profanity.

And what about the Internet? If a web site takes

more than five seconds to load, where are we?

"Did you order that book from Amazon for me?"

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"I dunno. But I think I reached warp speed with

my clicking finger. Ouch! I think I sprained it."

If fancy TV gadgets and high-speed Internet feed

our

impatience,

what

about

car

ads?

Vrroooooommm. See how fast this car can go?

Wow. It does zero to 60 in 5.2 seconds ... in the

ad. And zero to zero in half an hour stuck on the

Santa Monica Freeway.

As we expect our machines each day to break

yesterday's speed record, our cars seem to be

slowing to a crawl.

That's because more and

more people are squeezing onto the same road

space trying to zoom faster and faster and

honking their horns louder and louder (because

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horns get honked, right? Especially when they

get honked LONG and LOUD, right?).

Is it just me, or is this poor math? A realist would

expect traffic to get a little slower each year,

which just proves how rare realists really are.

Every one of us expects to move faster and

faster.

And I expect bananas on the store shelf even

when it is snowing outside. So what can we do?

Easy, we can grumble and complain.

We can

shout abusive words at store clerks and other

drivers.

We

can

honk

our

horns

(not

recommended in the fruit section).

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Or we can step back and ask ourselves logical

questions about what we should realistically

expect.

For instance, "Can I really expect

bananas on my grocer's shelves in the middle of

winter when I know the truck is stuck in traffic?"

Get an article just like this in your inbox once each week:

http://thehappyguy.com/positive-thinking-free-ezine.html?impc07

Or

pick up the ebook

Life's Funny

as a free bonus with

Climb

Your Stairway to Heaven: the 9 habits of maximum

happiness

.

Click

here

for more information.

EDITOR'S NOTE:

You'll find the original Daily Dose on

which this article is based later in this ebook.

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RELAXATION

POP QUIZ:

What's the difference between finger pointing and finger

painting?

ANSWER:

Finger painting is more colorful. Other than that, they're both

childish games.

Can you get through the day without blaming anyone for

anything? That's tougher than it looks ... not blaming a

colleague or friend or the government or the weather. Try it.

It's a very liberating experience.

(The Pop Quiz is an excerpt from

Climb your Stairway to

Heaven: the 9 habits of maximum happiness

,

http://thehappyguy.com/happiness-self-help-

book.html?impc07

)

Click

here

for more information.

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REGRET

Here's a great quote from motivational speaker Bob Proctor:

"Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping to make it

safely to death."

Think about what he says. Sorry if the thought is unsettling,

but are there important things you would want to do before

you die? Things for your children? Things for yourself?

Things for the needy? Things for the community?

Don't put off until tomorrow what you may not be around to

do. Start today.

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