With Two Weeks Left Until November 8........

Early Voting has already begun here in the United States.    Voting is going to be quite personal as polls continue to show Mrs. Clinton Ahead.    As I checked Five Thirty-Eight within the past 10 minutes (as I do daily for The Daily Outsider), they had not done any updated forecasts yet--although Mrs. Clinton seems to be dominating in all the polls.     This is as Mr. Trump touted that Investors Business Daily and Rasmussen showed him close.    

What I only yearn for is 100% turnout as all need to remember that there are many around the World who have died or are in prison for simply wanting to have the right to vote.   This is why I view this that was sent out by +Jonathan Huie in his daily outreach was so timely as we in the United States and the World await the results of elections throughout the United States:

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone,

and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

- John Quincy Adams 

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;

what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

- Albert Pike

Create the legacy of a better world.

Leave this world a better place than you found it.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 

On the Eve of The New Week: #MotivationMonday :)

Enough said...onward to the new week:

“You have this one life.
How do you want to spend it?
Apologizing? Regretting?
Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting?
Running after people who don’t see you?
Be brave.
Believe in yourself.
Do what feels good.
Take risks.
You have this one life.
Make yourself proud.”
~ Author Unknown

As the Week-End Dawns.....

This was a very touching note I received from my Aunt that has lessons to be learnt by us all which I hope all enjoy--as I wish all the very best of weekends:

Inspirational Story of an Old Man's Joy

Everyone has their own personal outlook on life. Many of us don't choose it - we just follow our feelings,

shaped by circumstance and experience. Others decide to choose what their outlook will be,

and follow their minds instead.

The old man in this story shows us that it takes some wisdom to be able to live happily...

A 92-year-old man, short, very well-presented, who took great care of his appearance,

was moving into an old people’s home one day. His wife of 70 years had recently died,

and he was obliged to leave his home. After waiting several hours in the retirement home lobby,

he gently smiled as I told him his room was ready.

As he slowly walked to the elevator, using his cane, I described his small room to him,

including the sheet hung at the window, which served as a curtain.
"I like it very much", he said, with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old boy who had just been given a new puppy.
"Sir, you haven’t even seen the room yet. Hang on a moment, we are almost there."

"That has nothing to do with it," he replied. "Happiness is something I choose in advance.

Whether or not I like the room does not depend on the furniture, or the decor – rather it depends on how I decide to see it.

It is already decided in my mind that I like my room. It is a decision I make every morning when I wake up.

"I can choose. I can spend my day in bed enumerating all the difficulties that

I have with the parts of my body that no longer work very well,

or I can get up and give thanks to heaven for those parts that are still in working order.

Every day is a gift, and as long as I can open my eyes, I will focus on the new day,

and all the happy memories that I have made during my life.

"Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw in later life what you have deposited along the way. "

For a moment, I thought about the old man's words, and it all made sense.

He made me realize that in life, we have to deposit all the happiness we can in our bank account of memories.

Like this, we will always have a trove of them to cherish.

I would like to thank you for your part in filling my account with happy memories,

which I am still continuing to fill…

And I remind you, that to live a happy life, you have to free your heart from hate,

free your mind from worry, live simply, give more, and expect less.

That's what the wise old man lives by.

Have a blessed day!