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Volume 22 No. 28
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July 31, 2015
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Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course! Each of us has such a bank. Its name is time. Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off as lost whatever of this you have failed to invest to a good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no over draft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no drawing against "tomorrow." You must live in the present on today's deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success. The clock is running. Make the most of today.
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by Peter Dickinson
These are actual complaints received by "Thomas Cook Vacations" from dissatisfied customer.
- "They should not allow topless sunbathing on the beach. It was very distracting for my husband who just wanted to relax."
- "On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don't like spicy food."
- "We went on holiday to Spain and had a problem with the taxi drivers as they were all Spanish."
- "We booked an excursion to a water park but no one told us we had to bring our own swimsuits and towels. We assumed it would be included in the price."
- "The beach was too sandy. We had to clean everything when we returned to our room."
- "We found the sand was not like the sand in the brochure. Your brochure shows the sand as white but it was more yellow."
- "It's lazy of the local shopkeepers in Puerto Vallarta to close in the afternoon. I often needed to buy things during the 'siesta' time -- this should be banned."
- "No one told us there would be fish in the water. The children were scared."
- "Although the brochure said that there was a fully equipped kitchen, there was no egg slicer in the drawers."
- "I think it should be explained in the brochure that the local convenience store does not sell proper biscuits like custard creams or ginger nuts."
- "The roads were uneven and bumpy, so we could not read the local guide book during the bus ride to the resort. Because of this, we were unaware of many things that would have made our holiday more fun."
- "It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England. It took the Americans only three hours to get home. This seems unfair."
- "I compared the size of our one-bedroom suite to our friends' three-bedroom and ours was significantly smaller."
- "The brochure stated: 'No hairdressers at the resort." We're trainee hairdressers and we think they knew that and made us wait longer for service."
- "When we were in Spain, there were too many Spanish people there. The receptionist spoke Spanish, the food was Spanish. No one told us that there would be so many foreigners."
- "We had to line up outside to catch the boat and there was no air-conditioning."
- "It is your duty as a tour operator to advise us of noisy or unruly guests before we travel."
- "I was bitten by a mosquito. The brochure did not mention mosquitoes."
- "My fiancée and I requested twin beds when we booked, but instead we were placed in a room with a king bed. We now hold you responsible and want to be reimbursed for the fact that I became pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room we booked."
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"The only thing better than singing is more singing." -Ella Fitzgerald"No person was ever honored for what they received. Honor was given for what they gave." -Calvin Coolidge"Don't bring negative to my door." -Maya Angelou"As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course." -Martin Luther King Jr.
"Gratitude can transform common days into Thanksgiving, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings." -William Arthur Ward
"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough." -Oprah Winfrey
"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around." -Willie Nelson
"Appreciation can change a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary." -Margaret Cousins
"If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get." -Frank W. Clark
"Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it." -Ralph Marston
"If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share." -W. Clement Stone
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -Albert Einstein
"The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest." -William Blake
"Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first or the last time, then your time on earth will be filled with glory." -Betty Smith
"When you give and carry out acts of kindness, it's as though something inside your body responds and says, 'Yes, this is how I ought to feel.'" -Rabbi Harold Kushner
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