Life is all about choices.

When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice.

You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood.

The bottom line: It’s your choice how you live life.

Received from Though for the Day

Here is a sweet little song that I found amusing, given my dislike of politicians.  It is sung to the tune of "Sing a Song of Sixpence"

SING A SONG OF PARLIAMENT,
POCKETS FULL OF CASH,
FRAUDULENTLY CLAIMING
AND ADDING TO THEIR STASH;
WITH THEIR PLOY DISCOVERED
THEY SAID THEY’LL GIVE IT BACK.
IF YOU OR I HAD DONE THE SAME
WE’D PROMPTLY GET THE SACK.

SING A SONG OF FREEBIES,
SNOUTS ALL IN THE TROUGH.
GIVING BACK THEIR ILL- GOT GAINS
IS JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
SPONGING OFF OUR EARNINGS
WITH A LIKELY TALE,
IF WORKING FOLK HAD DONE
THE SAME
THEY’D SOON END UP IN JAIL.

SING A SONG OF FRAUDSTERS
COUNTING OUT THEIR MONEY.
THEY SMILE AND LOOK QUITE
UNASHAMED,
AS THOUGH THEY THINK ITS FUNNY;
SITTNG IN A SECRET PLACE,
COUNTING OUT THEIR DOSH,
ON PLUGS FOR BATHS AND
CLEANING MOATS,
FOR CRISPS AND ORANGE SQUASH.

SING A SONG OF MP’s
WHO TOOK US FOR A RIDE.
IT’S UP TO US ELECTION TIME
THEIR FUTURE TO DECIDE.
IT’S GONE TOO FAR TO BRING BACK TRUST
OF ANYONE IN POWER.
TO MOST OF US THEY’LL ALWAYS BE
A SHIFTY, CROOKED SHOWER.

200 days down only 200 to go!

I have now completed half of my 400 x 400 challenge!  It seems such a long time ago that I started to do 400 sit-ups each day and I have now reached the halfway mark!

It has become easier to do the sit-ups in terms of physical effort and I have noticed a dramatic improvement in core strength.  However the motivation needed to keep going has become harder.

For me the most impressive thing is that I have lost 22lbs in weight (10kg) and 2.5 inches (7cm) from my waist!  I am starting to be able to see the 6 pack that I had lost of a few years…..

I can recommend this challenge in one form or other to anyone who needs to tone up.  It is working for me.

I don’t know about you but this is a really funny take on the way we often get treated in business. Shame it isn’t a lesson the client understands…

A new variant of swine flu was discovered today that has put all the UK politicians at risk. 

After weeks of investigation the new variant of Swine flu was discovered in the Houses of Parliament. 

It is though that this flu has become particularly virulent because of the sudden discovery of a large number of greedy pigs who reside in this building. 

Doctors advise that the public should avoid contact with all the political greedy pigs as it could do serious damage to your health.

“The problem with socialism is that eventually run out of other people’s money”

Margaret Thatcher

In these times of worry when the talk of everyone dying of a type of flu caught from pigs, it is good to know that someone is coming up with a specific remedy.

Good old Gordon Brown, in your attempt to clarify how the expenses should be better paid to MP’s you have managed to show us just how not to promote the idea of being an MP as a good career choice for the honest people in the UK. 

Your insincere  smile and wobbling performance just reinforces the idea as to why we should not vote for you or your party of morally bankrupt individuals who have managed to ruin the economy in this country, while enriching themselves.

Your time is quickly coming to an end as an MP.  Goodbye Gordon.

For anyone earning between £100,000-£112,950 will be facing a 60% marginal tax rate due to the withdrawal of the personal allowance.  While companies meeting tax costs on certain employee benefits face an effective tax rate of up to 126%

Football fans are waking up to the reality that they will be funding the tax rises announced in yesterdays budget.  For all those fans who support their favourite clubs by purchasing tickets or shirts will be starting to see an increase in costs as the players salaries are made up to cover the shortfall due to the tax rises.

The unintended consequence of Alistair Darling’s tax grab from the rich is going to impact the very people he was trying to win over, the working man & woman.  In a ploy to appease the vast majority of the UK population by targeting the rich, he has managed to make another raid on the limited budgets of the average working person in the UK. 

In terms of tax, for anyone earning over £100,000 there has been at least a 5% tax rise with the removal of the personal tax allowance, for those over £150,000 there has been an additional 10% tax rise.

But for the rest of us we will see the cost of fuel rising by 2p per litre. Alcohol is up by 2% and tobacco is up by 2%.   Sneaky little tax grabs that mask the true cost the individual.

Those in charge of the Labour party must be held to account.  No amount of spin should be allowed to save them from severe punishment.