The Urge for Adventure - February 2017

HEY GUYS,

THIS FEBRUARY’S GUIDE OF GREAT FUN IDEAS TO USE IN ORIGINAL, FUN WACKY WAYS IS OFF THE CHARTS FOR A DAY OR THE MONTH CELEBRATION OF LOVE AND REVELRY ABOUNDS. GIVE A LOOK THROUGH AND FIND SOME NEW FAVORITES FOR YOURSELF – COULD IT BE THAT WITH ALL MYTHOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS CONVULSIONS FOUND IN THIS MONTH IS WHAT MAKES IT SO WILD.  WE CERTAINLY HAVE INGREDIENTS FOR A SPIRITED IF NOT, MAGICAL MONTH.

So get out there and Discover ideas and techniques for transforming your life within the enchanted world, find a trusted companion or two, for a wide variety of shares stories, wisdom, and spells of lust or love exploring everything from blades of grass in the pavement to the starry sky. Begin with February 1, it's the work naked day, and NO, No Politics Day! A full week of Flirting, or celebrating, then there’s the Special day to celebrate being “Single”, or the day that Activates your senses like Super Bowl Sunday, or Oscar Night! food choices all month with new taste to try, smells of aromatherapy, sights, and sounds of Mardi Gras & Fat Tuesday or using your little grey cells by rethinking Social Evolution on  Darwin Day, or How did St Valentine get involved with EROS and Cupid, Or  Ireland, the Neolithic Monuments, Rising Sun, Groundhogs and Bears -oh my- have to do with February? all that can be found in an articles written by Arthur George in his Mythology Matters Colum.  February a short month but a bridge to spring and new life celebrated like no other.

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FEBRUARY 2017 MONTH LONG ACTIVITIES

• American Heart Month

• An Affair to Remember Month

• Black History Month

• Canned Food Month

• Creative Romance Month

• Great American Pie Month

• National Cherry Month

• National Children’s Dental Health Month

• National Grapefruit Month

• National Weddings Month

FEBRUARY 2017 WEEK LONG ACTIVITIES

·         3rd Week of February- International Flirting Week

FEBRUARY 2017 DAY ACTIVITIES

         1 Work Naked Day

         1 National Freedom Day·  

·         1 Hula in the Coola Day

·         1. No Politics Day

         2 Ground Hog Day

·         2 Day of the Crêpe

·         2 Candlemas

·         3 Feed the Birds Day

·         3 Carrot Cake Day

·         3 The Day the Music Died - Holly, Valens & Big Bopper

·         4 Create a Vacuum Day

·         4 Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day

·         4 Stuffed Mushroom Day

·         4 Thank a Mailman Day

·         5 National Weatherman's Day

·         5 Super Bowl Sunday

·         5 Chocolate Fondue Day

·         6 Lame Duck Day

·         6 National Chopsticks Day

·         7 Wave All you Fingers at Your Neighbor Day

·         7 Send a Card or E-mail to a Friend Day - obviously created by a card company

·         8 Boy Scout Day - celebrates the birthday of scouting

·         8 Kite Flying Day - in the middle of winter!?!

·         8 Laugh and Get Rich Day

·         9 National Pizza Day

·         9 Toothache Day

·         9 Bagel and Lox Day

·         10 Umbrella Day

·         11 Don't Cry over Spilled Milk Day

·         11 Make a Friend Day

·         11 National Inventors Day

·         11 White T-Shirt Day

·         12 Abraham Lincoln's Birthday

·         12 Darwin Day

·         12 Plum Pudding Day

         13 Clean out Your Computer Day

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     13 Get a Different Name Day

     14 Organize Your Home Day

·    14 Ferris Wheel Day

·    14 National Organ Donor Day

14 Valentine's Day

·         14 Library Lovers Day

·         15 Candlemas - on the Julian Calendar

·         15 National Gum Drop Day

15 Singles Awareness Day

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16 Do a Grouch a Favor Day

·         17 Random Acts of Kindness Day

·         18 National Battery Day

18 National Drink Wine Day

·         19 National Chocolate Mint Day

·         20 Cherry Pie Day

·         20 Hoodie Hoo Day

·         20 Love Your Pet Day

·         20 President's Day - third Monday of month

·         21 Card Reading Day

·         22 George Washington's Birthday

·         22 Be Humble Day

·         22 Walking the Dog Day

·         22 Single Tasking Day

·         22 International World Thinking Day

·         23 International Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day

·         23 Tennis Day

·         24 National Tortilla Chip Day

·         25 Open That Bottle Night - last Saturday of month

·         25 Pistol Patent Day

·         25 World Sword Swallowers Day

          26 Carnival Day

·         26 National Pistachio Day - it's a nutty day!

·         26 Oscar Night - date varies

·         26 Tell a Fairy Tale Day

·         27 Polar Bear Day

·         27 No Brainer Day - this day is for me!

         28 Mardi Gras / Fat Tuesday - date varies

·         28 Floral Design Day

·         28 Public Sleeping Day

·         28 National Tooth Fairy Day - and/or August

New Year Humor

We are told diet and exercise are keys to long life

The Urge for Adventure - January 2017

HEY GUYS, THIS JANUARY ISSUE, I AM PASSING ON GREAT IDEAS FOR FUN, WACKY, AND TRIVIAL DAYS TO CELEBRATE. TO GIVE REASONS TO LET GO OF SOME OF THAT HOLIDAY WEIGHT YOU GAIN BECAUSE YOU JUST COULD NOT PUT DOWN THAT KNIFE AND FORK. YOU SHOULD FIND SOME OPPORTUNITIES TO EMPOWER YOU NEW YEARS RESOULTIONS OR JUST TO BE OUT AND ABOUT. GIVE A LOOK THROUGH AND FIND SOME OF YOUR FAVORITE DAYS – COULD IT BE THE 1ST  New Year's Day, OR 2ND  Buffet Day (GET AWAY FROM THAT TABLE) OR Science Fiction Day …oh you are cheeky aren’t you with that - Run it up the Flagpole and See if Anyone Salutes Day. I’m claiming the 3rd and no not because its Fruitcake Toss Day. Please don’t tell me it’s the 28th because its fun at work day, Oh its Chinese New Year. YOU SEE, IT WILL BE UP TO YOU TO CHOOSE HOW TO MAKE THAT DAY YOUR OWN. THIS MONTH, IN THIS WINTER SEASON, YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO BE FRONT AND CENTER, TO GET INVOLVED, READ MY OTHER ARTICLES TO SPRUCE UP YOUR STLYE AND ATITUDE TO INSPIRED YOU TO BE YOUR AWESOME BEST.
 

January 2017 Month Long Activities

• National Bath Safety Month

• National Blood Donor Month

• National Braille Literacy Month

• National Hobby Month

• Hot Tea Month

• National Oatmeal Month

• National Soup Month

 
January 2017 Weekly Events

2nd Week - Letter Writing Week

 

 

 

 

January 2017 Fun, Special and Wacky Days

1 New Year's Day
1 Polar Bear Plunge Day
2 Buffet Day
2 Science Fiction Day
2 Run up the Flagpole and See if Anyone Salutes Day
3 Festival of Sleep Day
3 Fruitcake Toss Day
3 Humiliation Day
4 National Spaghetti Day
4 Trivia Day
5 National Bird Day
6 Bean Day
6 Cuddle Up Day
7 Old Rock Day
8 Bubble Bath Day
8 Male Watcher's Day
8 Earth's Rotation Day
9 Play God Day
9 Word Nerd Day
9 Static Electricity Day
10 Houseplant Appreciation Day
10 Peculiar People Day
11 Clean Off Your Desk Day
11 Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day
11 Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friend's Day
12 Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day
12 National Pharmacist Day
12 Marzipan Day
13 Friday the 13th
13 International Skeptics Day

13 Make Your Dream Come True Day
14 Organize Your Home Day
14 Dress Up Your Pet Day
15 National Hat Day
15 Strawberry Ice Cream Day
16 Appreciate a Dragon Day

16 Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday
16 National Nothing Day
16 Soup Swap Day
17 Kid Inventors' Day
17 Benjamin Franklin Day
17 Ditch New Years Resolutions Day
18 Thesaurus Day
18 Winnie the Pooh Day  
19  Tin Can Day
19 National Popcorn Day
20 National Buttercrunch Day
20 National Cheese Lover Day
20 Penguin Awareness Day
21 National Hugging Day
21 Squirrel Appreciation Day
22  Hot Sauce Day
22 National Blonde Brownie Day
23 National Pie Day
23 National Handwriting Day
23 Measure Your Feet Day- we only ask...."Why!?!" 
24 Beer Can Appreciation Day
24 Compliment Day
25 Opposite Day
26 Spouse's Day
27 e-Day
27 Chocolate Cake Day
27 Punch the Clock Day

28 Chinese / Asian New Year
28 Data Privacy Day
28 Fun at Work Day
28 National Kazoo Day
29 National Puzzle Day
29 National Corn chip Day
30 Croissant Day
30 Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day  
30 National Inane Answering Message Day
31 Backward Day
31 Inspire Your Heart with Art Day

ReImaging 2017 the Evolution of Your Goals and Resolutions

2016 has been a year of growth, a year of solutions and a year of change. Not in that particular order, As we start moving towards our New Year's resolutions and goals, three tips I would like to pass on to you in reimaging 2017, with success where it may not have been before. Needless to say, you will need to be resolute to your goals and resolutions, to help with this endeavor you may want to make a commitment to a plan to help create a solution to those detractors (yourself included) such as tuning out the noise and diversions both internally as well as externally that would steal your focus and vision.

• Trust your conviction: It could get very lonely when everyone says you're going to fail. You just got to trust the power of your own conviction. That does not mean that you have not consciously dig deep to examine and figure out what you truly believe in, what you truly are passionate about, and when you have, then is when you trust your gut and move towards your conclusions.

• Be practical: practical meaning being frugal with your spending both with currency and time. Take a hard look and get help if needed to really understand your goals be it personal and or business and or both. Get a handle on the cost structure be it in time money, patience, and endurance. Be willing to pay the price of focused attention to eventually turn a profit. Make sure you’re very focused on your time and currency flow so that you’re in control of your own destiny and can create balance where needed.

• Stay focused: Know what you're trying to attain, solve or accomplish will be reach because you are applying a flexible conscious focus. That is adaptive insights, making changes or corrections to your plan through fly efforts. Don’t get distracted by the big picture, trying to solve too big a problem at one time, instead you work on a segment of the project until you’ve really done it well, then build on that success.

All success is working the process, your outcome may morph and change but that is because you have embraced the infinite possibilities of the Unknown and your life in turn will surprise you. 

You see what a man does for pay is of little significance. What he allows himself to reveal and manifest along the way, such as being a sensitive instrument to direct and respond to the world's beauty, is profitable.

Fortunately what cures stupid and broke is not turning from failure, but continually learning from your mistakes and making the corrections, rectifications and then having the courage to do the next thing. That’s all you have to do. Regret of the past or anxiety of the future are the thieves of the present and your success. Welcome to reimaging you.

- Calvin

Does Time Exist

Why our gut feelings are no match for physics
Discourse by James Gleick, author and science historian.

Article reported on by MIKE ZONTA for the BathtubBulletin.com

Physics often makes a fool of our gut feelings. James Gleick, author of Time Travel: A History makes this point using the most elemental example. You, sitting or standing to read this now, your gut feeling and experience tells you that you’re sitting or standing on a flat plane, on an immobile surface. Science has some news for you though, in Gleick’s words: “You’re actually on the surface of a giant sphere that’s spinning at high speed and hurtling through space, and by the way there’s no difference between up and down except an illusion that’s created by the force of gravity.”

Radical readjustments of accepted perception is central to the nature of physics – even if something isn’t proven, our mind has to stay open to the possibility that maybe, things aren’t as we see, feel or intuit them to be. This is particularly relevant to the debate surrounding time. Does time exist, or doesn’t it? Is time only inside our minds, or is it a force acting upon us? It might seem ridiculous to question the existence of something that radically shapes our lives – our days, hours, minutes, our life span, our grandparents, our grandchildren.

Einstein’s teacher and contemporary Hermann Minkowski offered his vision of space-time as a single thing, a four-dimensional block in which the past and the future are just like spatial dimensions, with a north and a south. Some physicists say there is no distinction between the past and the future, and that time is a dimension just like space.

This seems at odds with what we feel, which is that the past has happened and the future is not yet determined. The future and the past are different to us, but in physics they’re the same. Gleick’s realization in the face of the multiple hypotheses on time is that just as our feeling about the stability of the surface we walk on is not so simple, our perception of time may also be radically more complex than we think. At this point, every expert’s ideas in this debate are provisional, but we have an obligation to take these ideas seriously.

Christmas Discovery

Thank you for Being Late

An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
by Thomas L. Friedman

By Calvin Harris, HW,M

I ran across a review of a book called: “Thank You For Being Late.”  Which resonated with me, being that, I was someone who had been stranded 30 miles from home due to a ‘Bro’s’, feeling that I was not moving fast enough for him, so he drove off and left me in the dust. Needless to say, the Book title, ‘Thank You for Being Late’, caught my interest and I wanted to hear what the reviewer had to say about the book and what I called “Making time for leisure.”

The author of the book, Thomas L. Friedman, seems to hint at validating my notions about ‘conscious leisure living’ and concepts of time. Friedman’s discourse is about the paces of change in technology, globalization, and climate. The core argument Friedman has is “simultaneous acceleration in the Commerce Market, the Natural World, and Moore’s law (the principle that the power of microchips doubles every two years) constitutes the “Age of Accelerations.”

The upshot of all of this is ‘acceleration creates fear and unmoors people.’ This causes panic or the fight, flight, or freeze response, a sign of many people becoming out of touch with themselves. Rather than panic such as reacting with fear and anger, Friedman, like myself, offers personal recommendations for coping with accelerations, such as to slow down, “pause and reflect” on your self-motivation, your lifelong learning, and the need to encourage more people to follow the Golden Rule.

Rather than having societies of people feeling fearful or unmoored from their sense of self, have them take time for leisure, meaning time for themselves to get anchored to Truth and to Source. Our Job is to find Source in our living and the value it provides, then to make it available to others. That can mean taking time to reach deep and discovering in yourself, the value you must share with the world. If you would like a more in-depth consultation, please contact me directly at things2cal@gmail.com

Side Notes About This Book
     
Friedman’s intriguing facts and ideas, can be all unburied in the 496-pages of this book. There are many a reader or researcher who is interested in the many autobiographical anecdotes and lengthy recollections about the circumstances of interviews he conducted and research he completed. Thus the reader is getting the recipe and history of all the ingredients along with the meal. You can obtain the book Thomas L. Friedman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 ISBN 978-0-374-27353-8 or as an Ebook - 978-0-374-71514-4. For those interested in the book but time is an issue it is also on
Compact Disc - 978-1-4272-7466-3

The Urge for Adventures - December 2016

December Month and Daily Events

HEY GUYS,

This December issue I am passing on great ideas for engaging with others through fun and wacky days to celebrate. It will be up to you to choose how you will engage and put your unique spin on these opportunities. Go ahead move front and center, get involved, read my other articles to spruce up your style and attitude to inspire you to be your awesome best.

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December 2016 Month Long Activities

•    Bingo Month
•    Write a Friend Month

December 2016 Fun, Wacky & Trivial Days

Dec 1    Eat a Red Apple Day
Dec 1    World Aids Awareness Day
Dec 2    Fritters Day
Dec 3    Make a Gift Day
Dec 3    National Roof over Your Head Day
Dec 3    Advent begins
Dec 4     Santas' List Day - we hope you are on the "Nice" list
Dec 4    Wear Brown Shoes Day
Dec 5     Repeal Day - 21st Amendment ends Prohibition.
Dec 5     Bathtub Party Day - Gin I'll drink to that!
Dec 6    St. Nicholas Day
Dec 6    Microwave Oven Day
Dec 7    Letter Writing Day
Dec 7    International Civil Aviation Day
Dec 7     National Cotton Candy Day
Dec 8    Pretend to Be a Time Traveler Day
Dec 8     Take it in the Ear Day
Dec 9    Christmas Card Day
Dec 9    Official Lost and Found Day
Dec 9     National Pastry Day
Dec 10     Human Rights Day
Dec 10    Dewey Decimal System Day
Dec 10    Jane Addams Day
Dec 11    Noodle Ring Day
Dec 12     National Ding-a-Ling Day
Dec 12    Gingerbread House Day
Dec 12     Poinsettia Day
Dec 13     Ice Cream Day    
Dec 13    Christmas Jumper Day
Dec 14    International Monkey Day
Dec 14     National Bouillabaisse Day
Dec 14     Roast Chestnuts Day
Dec15     Bill of Rights Day
Dec15     National Lemon Cupcake Day
Dec 16    Chocolate Covered Anything Day
Dec 16    Free Shipping Day
Dec 17     National Maple Syrup Day
Dec 17    Wright Brothers Day
Dec 18     Bake Cookies Day
Dec 18     National Roast Suckling Pig Day
Dec 19     Look for an Evergreen Day
Dec 19     Oatmeal Muffin Day
Dec 19    Underdog Day
Dec 19    Ugly Sweater Day
Dec 20    Sangria Day
Dec 20     Go Caroling Day
Dec 21    Crossword Puzzle Day
Dec 21     Forefather's Day
Dec 21     Humbug Day

Dec 21     Look on the Bright Side Day
Dec 21     National Flashlight Day
Dec 21     Winter Solstice - shortest day of the year.
Dec 22    Date Nut Bread Day
Dec 23    Festivus
Dec 23     Roots Day
Dec 24    Eggnog Day
Dec 24     National Chocolate Day
Dec 24     National Egg Nog Day
Dec 24     Channukah
Dec 25    Gray Mass Day
Dec 25    A'phabet Day or No "L" Day
Dec 25     Christmas Day
Dec 25     National Pumpkin Pie Day

Dec 26     Boxing Day
Dec 27    No Interruptions Day
Dec 27     Make Cut Out Snowflakes Day
Dec 27     National Fruitcake Day
Dec 28    Card Playing Day
Dec 29    Pepper Pot Day
Dec 30     Bacon Day
Dec 31     Make Up Your Mind Day
Dec 31     New Year's Eve
Dec 31      National Bicarbonate of Soda Day
Dec 31    Make Up Your Mind Day

Take it to the next level and make if off the chain
Happy Holiday and a great New Year.