February 19, 2025

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BG’s Positively Speaking

Do You Want To Know A Secret?

Have you ever noticed, that when the conversation gets around to talking about “successful people,” someone in the group will always ask, “I wonder what his, or her, secret is?” We would all like to be successful. Success is different for each person, but we still want to achieve our own goals.

Well, there is a secret. But it’s not really a secret, it’s open for everyone to see. The problem is that we get so wrapped up in “what” we are doing, we forget “why” we’re doing it. It’s in the “why” that the secret is found. There have been many books written about how to be successful, and most of them recognize that there is more than one “secret”. After all, success itself is different for each of us. There is however one basic “secret” that lies at the core of all success.

The Secret Of Success Is Having A Dream; (the bigger the dream, the better).

A dream contains all the power we need to lift us up when the world is putting us down.

A dream will fill our lives with energy and passion, it will sharpen our focus.

A dream will shield us from criticism and negative thinking.

A dream will renew our strength and purpose.

No matter what area of your life you wish to become successful in, having a dream is the secret to unlocking the success that lives within you. A dream is the basic requirement to be successful, however there are other elements. Probable the most important one, following the dream, is action! Action will make your dream come alive, until you act it remains just a dream. You can achieve great things if you get a dream, a big dream and act on it.

I Challenge You, No, I Dare You…To Dream Big

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Editors Quote Book

“The living owe it to those who no longer can speak, to tell their story for them.”

— Czeslaw Milosz 

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Between Friends

Two friends, one an Optimist and the other a Pessimist could never quite agree on any topic of discussion. One day the Optimist decided he had found a good way to pull his Pessimistic friend out of his continual Pessimistic way of thinking. The Optimist owned a huntin’ dog that could walk on water. His plan? Take the Pessimist and the dog out duck hunting in a boat. They got out into the middle of the lake, and the Optimist shot down a duck…the dog immediately walked out across the water, retrieved the duck, and walked back to the boat.
The Optimist looked at his Pessimistic friend and said, “What do you think about that?”
The Pessimist replied, “That dog can’t swim, can he?”

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First Wedding

A little boy was attending his first wedding. After the service, his cousin asked him, “How many women can a man marry?” “Sixteen,” the boy responded. His cousin was amazed that he knew the answer so quickly. “How did you know that?” “Easy,” the little boy said. “All you have to do is add it up, as the preacher said: “Four better, four worse, four richer, four poorer.

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Trivia Quiz

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The Most Patriotic Canadian TV Commercial Ever

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Your Horoscope

For Amusement Only

Aries Mar. 21 – Apr. 19:   An unexpected visit results in an unusual offer. A positive approach to a negative situation nets a good result

Taurus Apr. 20 – May 20:   Don’t give up on your ideas about a special project. Stay with it and you will be listened to.

Gemini May 21 – June 20:    Your ability to stay calm in the middle of an explosive situation will win the day. Keep your composure.

Cancer June 21 – July 22:   As a goal you have been striving for nears fruition don’t become overanxious. Avoid costly and careless mistakes.

Leo July 23 – Aug 22:    This is the week to catch up on some neglected chores. Make sure you give yourself some extra time.

Virgo Aug 23 – Sept 22:      Be firm with younger people. They will try to push the envelope so you will need to exercise diligence.

Libra Sept 23 – Oct 22:  Invest conservatively and don’t take unnecessary risks. Listen to the advice of others and get a better return.

Scorpio Oct 23 – Nov 21:   Try looking for that new relationship in new places. Community,  theatre and hobby groups are a good start place.

Sagittarius Nov 22 – Dec 21:    Putting your thoughts into words could help you later. Open up to your creative side and let your light shine.

Capricorn Dec 22 – Jan 19:   Spend more “Quality” time with your family. They will appreciate it and you will feel rewarded by it.

Aquarius Jan 20 – Feb 18:   You need not take good advice but you should consider it seriously. Never just brush it to one side.

Pisces Feb 19 – Mar 20:   Someone you care about needs moral support. Contact them and offer to help where you can. Give them your blessing.

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Sportsmanship

At one point during a game, the coach said to one of his young players, “Do you understand what cooperation is? What a team is?” The little boy nodded in the affirmative. “Do you understand that what matters is whether we win together as a team?” The little boy nodded yes. “So,” the coach continued, “when a strike is called, or you’re out at first, you don’t argue or curse or attack the umpire. Do you understand all that?” Again the little boy nodded. “Good,” said the coach. “Now go over there and explain it to your dad.”

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They Are Out There!

I was at the airport, checking in at the gate, when the airport employee asked, “Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge?” I said, “If it was without my knowledge, how would I know?” He smiled and nodded knowingly, “That’s why we ask.”

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The stoplight on the corner buzzes when it is safe to cross the street. I was crossing with an intellectually challenged coworker of mine, when he asked if I knew what the buzzer was for. I explained that it signals to blind people when the light is red. He responded, appalled, “What on earth are blind people doing driving?”

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At a good-bye lunch for an old and dear co-worker who is leaving the company due to “right sizing,” our manager spoke up and said, “This is fun. We should have lunch like this more often.”  Not another word was spoken. We just looked at each other like deer staring into the headlights of an approaching truck.

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I worked with an individual who plugged her power strip back into itself and for the life of her could not understand why her system would not turn on.

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Rocket Scientists

Scientists at NASA have developed a gun built specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity.

The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields. British engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high speed trains. Arrangements  were made. But when the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurtled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, crashed through the control console, snapped the engineer’s backrest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin. Horrified Britons sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield, and begged the U.S. scientists for suggestions.
NASA’s response was just one sentence, “Thaw the chicken.”     

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The Disputed Island

Hans island is a half mile square barren island located in the 22 mile wide Nares Strait, which separates Greenland, a territory of Denmark, from Canada. Under international law, all countries have the right to claim territory within 12 miles of their shore. Because of the narrow channel, the island falls within 12 miles of both countries. The dispute has led to a bizarre decades long”war” In 1984, Canadian troops made a voyage to Hans Island. In addition to planting Canada’s flag in the rock, they also left behind a bottle of Canadian whiskey. Just one week later the Danish escalated the “war”, a Danish official visited the island, replacing Canada’s flag with Denmark’s and replacing the whiskey with a bottle of Danish brandy. He also upped the ante a bit, leaving a note that wryly welcomed visitors to Denmark. The Canadian military then escalated things even further. Along with uprooting the Danish flag and destroying the note of welcome, they planted the Canadian flag along with a sign saying “Welcome to Canada”, took the Danish brandy and left a bottle of Canadian Club. This practice has been periodically repeated by both sides in the dispute

This is what happens when “nice” countries fight!

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The Church Restoration

There was a tradesman, a painter named Jack, who was very interested in making a dollar where he could. So he often would thin down his paint to make it go a wee bit further. As it happened, he got away with this for some time. A local church decided to do a big restoration project. Jack put in a painting bid for painting the outside of the church and, because his price was so competitive, he got the job. And so he started, erecting the trestles and putting up the planks, and buying the paint and thinning it down with turpentine.  Jack was up on the scaffolding, painting away, the job nearly done, when suddenly there was a horrendous clap of thunder. The sky opened and the rain poured down, washing the thin paint from all over the church and knocking Jack off the scaffold to land on the lawn. Jack was no fool. He knew this was a judgment from the Almighty, so he fell on his knees and cried, “Oh, God! Forgive me! What should I do?”  From the thunder came a booming voice …….

“Repaint! Repaint!  And thin no more!”

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The Last Word

Some people are boldly going….. Nowhere

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