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Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration — 272 episodes
The greatest glory of living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning
I Don't Want a Perfect Person In My Life
Building a Life Together Isn’t What It Used to Be
The Inspection - Going to a Graduation Party for my GF's Ex-Husband's family and meeting them as the New Man in her life
How Humbling Foot Surgery is, especially when shopping at Walmart
Insurance Doesn’t Have an Ethics Problem
Day 2 to You Powered, stopping at the Choo Choo Hotel in Chattanooga Tennessee
Secret bookstore corners and hidden clues
My Adventure down to YOU Powered Symposium and how to add a little extra fun and gifts into the mix
When There's No Way Around the Storm
I'm Telling a Story Thursday January 15th and You are Invited
H.I.I.T., Yoga, and the final hours of 2025
I went to yoga and ended up in a H.I.I.T. class
I'm back, after I figured out that I was poisoning myself...
Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you. Be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.
Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.
“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.”
Wow, a lot is happening around here, including dating and co-authoring a book about how stressful the holidays are and how to transform that stress back into happiness and joy.
R - Relax and let go
E - Embrace Change
B - Breathe Deeply
M - Make time to rest
“Let us so live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.”
E - Enjoy each day
“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.”
V - Value Quiet Time
“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something. You’ve understood your whole life, but in a new way.”
O - Offer Kindness
“A man is hardly blind if his eyes have no sight. Blind is he who does not want to see. To such an ignorant troglodyte, life itself is a grave, if you ask me.”
N - Notice Small Things
“If we did all the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.”
November is Men's Mental Health Month
“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.”
“Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.”
“The way you spend your time is the result of the way you see your time and the way you see your priorities.”
There is no man living who cannot do more than he or she thinks they can.
Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck leads the flock to fly and follow.
Be slow to judge and quick to understand.
Dancing the Night Away at Swing City Chicago
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
“While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important.”
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.
With clothes, the new are best. With friends, the old are best.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; Perfection is God’s business
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. If not, then make me a saxophone.
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat.
Yes, I have a dating folder
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of others.
At the feast of ego, everyone leaves hungry.
If you try to be a better dog, sometimes you get an extra cookie.
Well, I said I'd drive my car into the ground before getting another car. Let me tell you about Friday and meet my new, old car.
The universe only has one effective weapon, and that is laughter
“For man plans, but God arranges.”
Motorcycles are definitely not for perfectionists
Yes, there is nirvana. It is leading your sheep to a green pasture and in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong want
Okay, no brakes on my car is probably an issue
Quote by Ann Murrow Lindberg
My Cousin's Talk on Ukraine and Grandfather's Cufflinks
Quote by Lily Tomlin
Quote by theuniversespeaks.substack.com
Quote by The Dalai Lama XIV and H Jackson Browne
I did my first live on TikTok
Quote by Mother Teresa
Quote by Stephen Covey
Quote by Aurthur K Watson
11 pm Brownie Run
Quote by John Locke
Okay, I didn't think I was this pathetic
Quote by May Sarton
Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson
Quote by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
Quote by Meg Greenfield
Quote by Marcel Proust
Chinese Proverb on talking
Quote by Edward Eggleston
My 40th High School Reunion - One Big Love Fest
Final update on my dating life (for now)
Quote by Eric F Goldman
Quote by Nagarjuna (c 100-200 AD)
Quote by me (Robert Slayton)
Chinese Proverb about learning
Heading into 4th quarter - a mental health check in
Quote by Alice M Swain
Quote by Rita Mae Brown
A different perspective on assassination and a recommended practice to lighten your burden and pain
Quote by Paula Poundstone
Dating is not for the faint at heart
Believe in Yourself
Quote by Dorothy Neville
Two situations that need to happen before I can say they are a forever partner
Quote by Henry G Strauss
Quote by Leonard da Vinci
Quote by Daniele Vare
Quote by Dorothea Dix
Six hours and 153 miles - totally worth it
Quote by W. Clement Stone
Quote by Sallust
There have been a lot of deaths lately. What does this teach us on how to live well?
Omaha Indian Saying
I taught someone how to dance at a ribbon cutting
Quote by Beethoven
Quote by Andre' Gide
Quote from Arnold H Glosow
Quote from Florida State's Website about Learners vs Learned
I see your pain and struggle
Monday Motivation: Practice Inner Voice Journaling
Quote from Auntie Mame
Quote from an African friend about time
Quote by Marilyn Vos Savant
Quote by Kierkegaard
Quote from Nikki Giovanni
Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes on Knowledge
Quote on Nostalgia as a grammar lesson
Practice the Enhanced Pause this week
Quote from Edmund Burke
I make plans, God laughs
Quote about fearing mistakes
Now that I'm starting to date, I'm kinda scared...
Quote about experience
Quote from George Henry Lewes
Quote from Sacred Hoops book
Quote about Worrying
Quote by Miyamoto Musashi
Quote from Charles F. Kettering
Quote about Michigan Football
Quote by Alvin Toffler
Quote by Henry David Thoreau
South Haven for the 21st year
Quote from Margaret Lee Runbeck
Quote about living your life as an exclamation
American Indian proverb
Quote by Sir Francis Bacon
Quote from Marge Piercy
Quote by Charles Schwab
Well, I didn't expect to get such a big response from this quote, so let's talk about it
Quote by Albert Einstein
In the end, I'm just looking for someone to make me a sandwich
Quote from Sylvain of Athos.
What to do with Trolls on TikTok
Quote by Samuel Butler
Quote by Anna Quinlan
Quote from Charles Lindberg
Quote from George Carlin
Quote from Alexander Wolcott
Quote from Steven Wright
Quote from Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay
Quote from Oprah Winfrey
Quote by Augustus Caesar
Quote by Hans Margolius
Ethiopian Proverb - Spider Webs
Quote from Abraham Lincoln
Riding over the Mackinac Bridge with a wicked cross breeze
Quote by Robert Schuller
Quote from Author Unknown about Apologies
Day 2 of my motorcycle trip around Lake Michigan
Quote from Benjamin Franklin
Quote from Rose Lane
Quote from Bertrand Russell
Quote from Sojourner Truth
Quote from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Quote from Patricia Neal
Quote from Martin H Fischer
Quote from Herbert Gardner
Quote from William Penn
Quote from Yogi Berra
Quote from Robert Pirsig and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Quote from Libbie Fudim
Quote from John Allston
Quote from William Arthur Ward
Quote from Marcus Allen
Quote from Samuel Johnson
Quote from Erma Bombeck
Quote from Gene Brown
Quote from Christopher Morley
Quote from Diogenes
Bulgarian Proverb
Quote from André Gide
Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
Quote from Albert Einstein
Quote from Sir John Lubbock
Tantra and the World
Quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes
Quote by Alan McClashen
Quote from Ilka Chase
Quote from Josh Billings
Quote from Priscilla Wayne
Quote from Helen Keller
Quote from Margaret Mead
Quote from Boris Pasternak
Quote from Linda Neukrug
Quote from Mahatma Gandhi
Quote from Aristotle
Quote from Lewis Carroll
Quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Quote from Dandemis
Quote on Albert Einstein's rules for work
Quote from Kant
Quote from Andre Maurois
Quote from Jim Beggs
Quote from Ferris Bueller
Quote from Mahatma Gandhi
Hidden Discipline
Quote from Henry C Link
Quote by Martin Ratte
Quote from Steven Wright
Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote from George Bernard Shaw
Quote from Will Rogers
Friday Encouragement
Quote from Henry Ford (not Harvey Ullman)
Quote from Steven Wright
Ruminations for a Wednesday on Giving and Receiving Love
Quote from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote from Ivern Ball
Quote from Tim Stevens
Quote from Voltaire
Chinese Proverb Quote
Quote from Steven Wright
Quote from Steven Wright (again)
Quote from James Russel Lowell
Anger Is Your Fault. It's From Your Belief System.
Quote from Dan Quayle
Quote from Joubert
Quote from Lao Tzu
Quote from Wayne Dyer
Quote from Steven Wright
Quote from Artur Helps
Quote from Bertolt Auerbach
Quote from Babe Ruth about beer
Quote from Alfred Adler
Quote by Martin Rutte
Quote from Bob Goddard
Quote from George William Curtis
Quote from Steven Wright
Quote from William Arthur Ward
Quote from Tennessee Williams
Quote from Confucius
Quote from George Carlin
Quote from Mary Engelbreit
Quote from Karen Barber
Your Filter Determines Whether You See a World of Hope or Evil
Quote by Maurice Maeterlinck
Quote from Albert Camus
Quote from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quote from Charles Caleb Colton
Quote from Seneca
I'm Starting a Quote of the Day Series
Trump's Tariffs and Their Impact on Your Company and Your Healthcare Costs
R - Relax and let go
E - Embrace Change
B - Breathe Deeply
M - Make time to rest
E - Enjoy each day
V - Value Quiet Time
O - Offer Kindness
N - Notice Small Things
November is Men's Mental Health Month
Life Principle #3 Be Better
Life Principle #2 Feel Better
Life Principle #1 Look Better
35 Minutes before the competition
It's easy to forget the anxiety beforehand
Be the Nerd
Motion in the morning leads to action the rest of the day
Taking Time Away from Media at the Wisconsin Dells
300th Post Livestream from July 20 2024