Greetings and may the dog 🐕 days of summer 🌞 find you in robust health, with your Medicare Insurance working properly.
Have questions or need help 🙋♂️ with Supplements, Medicare Advantage, or Part D Drug Plans🤔? Please e-mail Gray, Gray@TheBig65.com or book a time on my calendar.
If you have friends turning 65 or are getting ready to leave employer coverage, please let us know and we’ll email a video on how to get started… it’s easy to get lost in the wilderness😕🧭🌲.
We had a full moon Thursday night, a “Buck Moon.” And though I saw no mule deer up on the bluffs behind our home, I did see this little prairie dog raising his head high and calling out to the heavens.
This summer, I’m doing my best not to sweat the small stuff, but as you know, it’s easier said than done.
My appointment scheduling software went rogue last Friday😖, and I was late for an appointment with the same client, TWICE😱. Talk about embarrassing! I’m guessing my German father is rolling over in his grave⚰️🌀. It’s been bothering me all week🤔.
Of course I sent an apology (and a Starbucks card☕), but some things you can’t undo and you just have to learn to let go. That’s part of the reason I write this newsletter…
To share things with you all that I need to learn myself. You know the saying:
“When you point 👉 one finger at someone, three fingers point back at you😬.”
For me, it’s more like three times ten!
It’s way too easy to focus on what’s wrong instead of all the things that are actually right in our lives. Or as Mark Twain wrote:
“I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”
📚 That’s why the book The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky hit home this week. She’s a psychology professor who breaks happiness into three parts:
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🧬 50% of our happiness is genetic — the temperament we’re born with.
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🎯 40% is based on our choices — what we do and how we think each day.
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🌦️ Only 10% comes from life circumstances — things like money, health, or that rogue calendar app 😅.
The good news here: we have control over 40%! That’s no small thing.
So here’s what I’m reminding myself (and maybe you too): there are simple ways to move the needle, focus on the things that are working instead of on the noise and the problems.
- Call someone you love 📞👵
- Take a walk and look at the sky 🌤️🚶
- Be kind to a stranger (or yourself) 💛
- Practice letting go of mistakes (like missed appointments 😬)
- Write down one thing that went well📝
Plato suggests giving snacks to the animals you love!
So happiness is mostly in our hands, how we choose to respond, how we choose to help others.
I’m pleased to report that, after almost eleven months of blood, sweat, and tears, Quantz has gotten all the paperwork and all of the visas approved so that, starting in August, we will be hosting an orphan from Madagascar to live in our home for a year and to attend high school here in Colorado🎉.
It’s going to be a BIG change in our lives, many adventures, many learning opportunities… we’ll be parents again, for a year. Heaven help us and heaven help Mitia!
Remember to keep asking… what’s the next big thing🤔?
Keep squeezing the juice🍊 out of life and look for ways to help others.
If family or friends need help… referrals are the lifeblood of my business.
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