090 – Celebrate The Good Things

CELEBRATE THE GOOD THINGS… Happy Friday to you all!  I am your host, my name is Alf Herigstad…and today is kind of a special day. Sometimes, when things are going good you just need to talk about it and share it with other people…I’m sharing it with you right now. First of all, today is episode 90!  That is pretty amazing to me, because it seems like just yesterday I was putting this thing together and getting ready to launch, and now here I am at 90 episodes…just 10 more and we’ll be at 100.  Wow. You know when I started this, I wasn’t sure if it would stick or not.  I didn’t know what to expect really, but since then the fantastic feedback I have received from you listeners has really made me feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing.  So, thank you. The other cool thing that happened, kind of in the same vein…is that at the beginning of this week I went over 100,000 downloads.  That’s one tenth of a million!  That is a number I have been looking for since I started this, and now we have made it…again, thanks to all of you listening.  Really, I’m just one guy sitting here in the secret man cave talking into a mic…and without all of you listening, that’s all I would be.  Without you guys, there would be no podcast.  I would just be being a better man all by myself…it’s so good for me to know you guys are on this journey with me, and I really can’t thank you enough. The other cool thing that has happened is this last Monday, the 15th of August 2016, My ninth Grandchild, a girl named Roux,  was born to my son Clinton and his wife Lyndsay.  They are way over in Michigan so I won’t get to meet her for a while, but I’m really looking forward to it.  You may remember Clinton, he was my first guest way back on episode 5.  So that’s what going on with me today and that’s why I’m in a good mood.  That’s kind of what I’m going to talk about today, the importance of celebrating the good things that happen in your life. What is life?  It’s a series of struggles and challenges interspersed with a few good things that happen, if you make them happen.  We spend our whole lives trying to create the good things, striving towards those moments that will elate us, the moments that become memorable and cherished. The rest of the time we are kind of trudging through life, going to work, taking out the garbage, paying bills, waking up and doing it all over again.  There is a lot of drudgery that goes along with life, you can’t deny it, that’s just part of life.. Aside from the drudgery, there are also the crappy things that happen…the horrible things, the tragedies.  There are things that make you feel like you want to die, and things that just piss you off and wreck your day, and everything in between. ...