Why Not?

If you know who you are and what you want, you are ready to realize your wants!

Or, are you headed in the right direction or do you need to make a turn?

It’s up to you.

Afterall, it is your life and you must put the rest of your life in your hands,

Don’t be a “What if I had only done…” person.

That’s living your life with regrets.

Do you have the courage to do what you’d really love to do?

Put your future in YOUR HANDS!

If not today, when?

Jose’ (Pepe’) Mujica has lived an amazing life.

In his young years, he lived in the mountains and was a leftist urban guerilla.

He spent 15 years in prison.

Some of those years, he lived in a hole in the ground with his only companion, a FROG!

He eventually became President of Uruguay.

He believes that we spend too much of our lives buying things we don’t need.

Why do we need a new car or refrigerator?

He drives a 1987 model car.

He didn’t live in the four-story Presidential Palace, but in a small tin-roofed house with his wife and a 3 legged dog.

He thinks our technology has grown, but not our values.

He is dying of cancer at the age of 89.

He is very wise. We should listen to him!

If not today, when?

(Mahatma Gandhi)

Many examples of MISINFORMATION are on display during election season.

Whatever happened to honesty?

Whatever happened to the truth?

And to make matters worse, AI can really mess things up.

How do we help our kids find their way through this malaise?

It begins with us as parents and grandparents.

We must be the role models.

And what is the connection of truth and trust?

The only way to earn trust is a continuing habit of telling the truth.

If not today, when?

Oklahoma State football players’ helmets will feature a QR code linking to a “general team fund” for student-athletes during the 2024 season, the program announced Tuesday.

The initiative is “believed to mark the first time that a college football team will wear QR codes in regular-season games to promote players’ earning potential,” according to the school.

The QR codes will take up 1.5 square inches of the helmet.

The codes are expected to be scannable in “close shots during broadcasts,.

Also, as well as postgame photos posted to social media,” according to OSU. (CNN)

The commercialization of college sports continues.

Ford on Wednesday acknowledged America’s electric vehicle market just isn’t what the automaker expected it to be:

Customers are increasingly price-conscious and range-anxious.

So, Ford is making big changes to its EV plans, focusing on hybrids and affordability.

Ford ditched plans for its next lineup of all-electric SUVs, replacing them with hybrid models.

That plan alone will cost the company at least $400 million because it needs to write down the manufacturing equipment it had put in place to build the EV SUVs it no longer plans to build.

Ford said the change in plans could ultimately cost it upwards of $1.5 billion. (CNN)

Sometimes, we all have to make difficult decisions!

Ford had one of those times!

Long lines have been forming at gas stations in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, amid fuel shortages and a price spike in recent months.

But electric vehicle driver Mikial Belayneh avoids them completely.

“I no longer line up for petrol on the road,” Belayneh, an Addis resident, told CNN.

A full charge of his imported Toyota bZ4X – a popular EV in the country – “is more than enough for two days.”

This blog is intended for husbands.

I’ve always believed that marriage is a lifelong courtship.

With that as a goal, here are some surprises for your spouse:

Clean up the table after a meal.

Make the bed.

Take out the trash.

Clean out the car(s).

Look for the opportunity to pay a compliment.

When you’re going out, open the door for her.

Do you catch my drift?

If not today, when?

Do you realize the impact of a compliment?

The receiving person gets an immediate boost to their self-image.

They might have been having a bad day.

And you turned it into a good day!

Do you think that giving a compliment is old-fashioned?

WRONG!!!!

If there was ever a time when kindness is needed, it’s now.

And one of the kindest things you’ll ever do is pay a compliment!

If not today, when?

Today’s world probably upsets you on a regular basis.

The irony is that you usually become more angry with loved ones.

That’s because you spend more time with loved ones than anyone else.

A temper can undermine your relationship with family members.

And most importantly, your spouse.

You must ALWAYS keep your emotions under control.

Remember, you can’t take back words spoken in anger.

If you feel your temper rising, walk away and give yourself a moment to calm down.

You owe it to your loved ones!

If not today, when?

Eating an anti-inflammatory diet of whole grains, fruits and vegetables instead of an inflammatory diet lowered the risk of dementia by 31%, a new study found.

An inflammatory diet is focused on red and processed meats and ultraprocessed foods, such as sugary cereals, sodas, fries and ice cream,

That benefit held true even for people with existing diagnoses of cardiometabolic conditions such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease or stroke, said Abigail Dove, lead author of the study published Monday in the journal JAMA Network Open. (CNN)