I am going way out on a tangent today, so forgive me if I digress. Today is about an attitude that I wish more people in the world would embody. Only a life lived for others, is a life worthwhile, powerful words especially in the light of the massive tragedy coming out of Haiti. You need to treat every second of every day like it is a treasure that you can never get back. Give if you can, I don’t care what you give or who you give it to. Make yourself a gift to every person that you see, meet, or talk to, it will return to you tenfold.

As I have watched television in horror over the last days I have been thinking about the gifts that we each possess and can give to others. What we all have to share with each other is the gift of self. Again it sounds very simple the gift of self. I looked at my wife last night and said we do not have a problem in the world in comparison to those people not only in Haiti, but the countless individuals around the world who will be touched personally by this disaster.

Please don’t get me wrong faithful reader, my wife and I have all the same problem that you do, money, stress, pressure, it’s life. Compare your problems to the people there and I think you will count yourself very lucky, I know I do. I tell people regularly when asked how I am, “Way over 40, out of bed, and everything works, that means it is a good day.” I believe that, every day I wake up is a good day, full of opportunity, and new adventures.