Love your family and lead by example !!! Respect and honor your parents and your children. Above all else love and honor yourself first and life will flow like a river ….

Don’t do what is right, do what is generous.

As a Unitarian, I would like to share our seven principles- this is what Unitarianism is all about:

The inherent worth and dignity of every person;
Justice, equity and compassion in human relations;
Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations;
A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;
The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;
The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all;
Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.

May the joy of Christmas be with you all May God bless you and your family and may the coming week be a good time to evaluate this years efforts and what goals you have for 2016. MERRY CHRISTMAS to all ..

Peace and Joy

Merry Christmas and a Healthy New Year to you and and your associates

Instead of exchanging gifts this year, my wife of 7 years and I decided that each day, we would try to serve each other in at least 1 extraordinary way. This has been difficult given that we have 3 young children and multiple jobs, etc., but it has been extremely beneficial for our marriage and has allowed us to express the spirit of Christmas more than exchanging gifts ever has. Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas…Be Great!

Merry Christmas Larry. I see Christmas as a time to share love and show gratitude to others by giving of ourselves both in time and gifts. My favorite is home cooked and home made. So I like to give home made bread. it is a gift of time as the ingredients cost but a few cents and seems to be well received.
Thank you for all you do to build and lift others.

Thanks Larry,
Merry Christmas to you and yours as well.
Thanks for all your thoughts and wisdom this year.

Hi Larry !
Spell check is the answer.
Have a great weekend!

Oh, congratulations on Baja !!!

I have to agree and appreciate the sentiment about spelling, as I sit on the side of being a good speller… and along the lines of grammar, what is a tactful way to help a friend and employee who only incorrectly uses the past tense of “seen” instead of “saw”… I have a fairly good toolbox of tact, but in the years of knowing this person, I cannot gather the right words to help him rather than to embarrass him.. :/
I always enjoy your words, Larry! Thanks to my friends, the DiGregorios for introducing me to Think Daily…

Larry, I enjoy readying your blogs especially following the BAJA triumph. Being afflicted with the bad typing bug I have had to learn to pay attention.

Typing erors,pour spelling or grammar can have a negative impact on how people judge us and how knowledgable we are about our subject matter. Giving a great presentation or in our case energy audit of a home and then presenting the customer with a pourly written report or other correspondence can loose business.

I have found that I need to proof read after I have taken a break away from what I wrote. If done too quickly after writing I often read what should be there and not what is actually written. The brain plays tricks on us and spell check doesn’t always catch mistakes in grammar or spelling.

Larry, my mother, your Grandmother Helen, at the age of 16, immigrated from Hungary, where the language is very complex. She studied vocabulary and spelling her entire life. As kids, we used to make fun of her spelling,but she never stopped trying to learn. Imagine if we had to move to Hungary and learn that most difficult language. She loved cross-word puzzles and the Reader’s Digest vocabulary page. I think the message is never stop learning or trying to improve your self. She is surely smiling down at you now.

Two things in life that should not be done — represent yourself in court and proofread your own work. There’s never any harm in asking others to review your work. And if someone hands something to you and says “it looks good to me,” leave it for a couple minutes and read it by yourself!

Best wishes for a great holiday season!

There are some great points here! Spell check does not pick up everything, as in Sheila’s example above with the incorrect use of “loose”. Carl mentioned not proofreading your own work. I actually proofread Think Daily and I catch a good amount of mainly simple typos. I’ve always been good with spelling, grammar and punctuation. Sometimes I miss a Think Daily, or sometimes one gets sneaked in over the weekend. Sometimes, my eyes and Larry’s eyes glance over the exact same mistake! You also have to imagine how Larry wants you read it – it’s not always conventional – but I can hear him in my head speaking it, so where he wants a specific break there may be a comma where there wouldn’t be from a punctuation point of view.