God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today.  Have you used one to say “thank you?”  ~William A. Ward

It is another beautiful day here in Las Vegas, and I just spent my breakfast / meditation, outside on the back porch.  What a way to start the day.   If this is a precursor of what is to come, then I’m in for another day full of blessings.

Yesterday, Friday, was payday and my day off.  I had made some plans to go walking with Jim, and to hang out with my sister and nieces at some point.  Neither plan happened, but that was a good thing.  I had already decided that for both of my days off, Friday and Saturday, they would be spent with me being a bit “selfish.”  I was going to do what I wanted to do, nothing more, and nothing less, so that is exactly what I did.

Ed gave me a coupon to Great Clips (thanks Ed!), and I had planned on getting a haircut.  So right then and there I saved almost $6.00 on that alone.  After that, I went to Vons and picked up my paycheck, and then headed over to Sam’s Club to pick up a new DVD, The Secret Things of God.  I had seen it last week, and it had piqued my interest, so that was just one of my guilty pleasures for the day.

I then headed over to Borders books because I was also wanting a book on CD to listen to in my car during lunch breaks from work.  I saw a number of titles I wanted, but I was just unwilling to spend $20-$40 on them, so I figured the next best thing to do would be to head over to the public library and see what they have available.  A visit there was already on my list, so I could turn in an overdue book.

Well needless to say, it was a good thing I went there, because they had two of the titles I had seen at Borders, and a few more that I went ahead and picked up.  I was excited, ready to get back to the house and start listening when I was hit with yet another blessing.  I apparently had racked up over $4.00 in fines over the last few months.  Not much mind you, but the librarian gave me some news, next week when I came in, all I had to do was ask, and they would erase those from my account.  Of course this is not only available to me, but all Clark County Library patrons.

In my bundle of electronic media goodies, I also picked up a DVD of Jack Canfield’s (Co-author of the Chicken Soup For The Soul series) The Success Principles.  This is an hour long presentation of the most important principles from his book of the same name, and I have to tell you, this DVD blew me away.  I immediately went on line to see if they had any copies of the book available at the public library, and yes they did.  Not only do they have the book, but the audio book on CD as well, so I requested both of them, and will run down there as soon as they pull my order.

I then spent the rest of my evening finishing Chapter 4 of Eckhart Tolle’s book, A New Earth, Awaken to Your Life’s Purpose.  This chapter is on role playing, and the roles our egos choose.  This is such an interesting book, and the video web casts are something I look forward to after each chapter.

Well that is my day in a nutshell, it was spent doing the things I love to do, and for some reason that seems to be always centered around books.  Today is shaping up to be another one of those kind of days, and it is hard to just be right here in the now, when all I can think of, is how excited I am to jump right in and get onto chapter 5, and start listening to all of these CDs.

I hope today you too will take some time, and do something you truly enjoy.

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