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get people to laugh. It annoyed a few people, brothers and all. I got picked on. I think we all have at some time or another. It’s what happens to kids, it’s pretty normal.
I also worked
with people who saw me as hy- per –maybe on drugs! Over the top. They wouldn’t ask me to parties, I was seen as just ‘too much.” It was during young adulthood. It’s much different
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MARCIA: Kind of like Ru- dolph and his red nose…and yet the thing that seemed to be a fault or handicap saved the day.
PAUL: That “too much” and everything I’ve ever done has allowed me to get to this point today, so, if I could do my life over, I wouldn’t change a thing.
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18 • January 2016 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC. JOKES & Humor # 7
MARCIA: So an upbeat life is about a focus on the positives, appreciation. Being self aware, accepting. Being kind –benev- olent. Putting out a good vibe, seeing how it comes back to you. What about creativity and imagination? PAUL: I like to use those to open doors, like with my art, music, cooking recipes, The Upbeat Times –letting people experience things from unique, different perspectives…
art landscapes are an example of my creative process too.
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like to improvise paintings from memory, watch the scene evolve on the canvas, share a little of how I see things that the other person didn’t. MARCIA: Being upbeat cre- atively, then, might mean hav- ing a lot of trust in expressing yourself. –And playfulness for improvising.
What about learning from mistakes?
PAUL: That word “mistake” is messed up! It’s more about something that will continue to confront you, come into your life, until you deal with it, understand it, change your action until you get it right… Think about taking actions in a forward movement, even when doubt is there. Don’t be hard on yourself, or think you’re a failure. Think like Thomas Ed- ison, that you’re getting anoth- er opportunity to get it right, to succeed. MARCIA: Edison’s lab burned down when he was sixty-seven. He lost most of his life work, but looking at the ashes, re- marked how lucky he was that all his mistakes were gone – that he could start anew. That’s upbeatness, Doyle style. PAUL: I told Valerie if our house burned down, and I lost everything, as long as I have my life, I could re-create it, do it all again, maybe ten times as good… Do I duck from all that’s around me, or just em- brace it? Bring it on! MARCIA: Radical faith , radical acceptance of whatever your experience may be… An
‘upbeat’ quality of many spiri- tual teachers –whether you call yourself that or not…. PAUL: It gets me to peace of mind in a moment. Go from noticing an agitation to in- stantaneously knowing things will be alright. So it’s not that everything’s always perfect or feels great, but that I’ve found a common ground to work with… Beyond religious dif- ferences and the way people can get upset, I want more people just bringing more light into situation, instead of being negative. MARCIA: Taking care about what you attract back into your life, get more of… I do hear your resolve to be upbeat. Next question: what nourishes you, helps you stay positive, gives you energy, inspires you? PAUL: I eat good food, and I cook, create recipes. I practice kindness to my family and my wife –it’s her thing too… She’s helped me focus on being OK, soothe my hardness and frus- trations about the way people mistreat each other.
I’m in-
debted to my wife. When we met, I saw her being so nur- turing to her own 20 month old baby… exhibiting kindness, making that a priority over me –I admired that greatly, wanted to be like that, someone who cares. I didn’t get married un- til I was thirty-six, because I hadn’t met anyone so sincere and innocent in that way… Another thing that nourishes me –music. I’ve been playing percussion and singing since I was four, sitting on my Grand- ma’s Thomas Organ, writing my fi rst songs. I haven’t done all I’d like to yet with music, because I made my family my fi rst priority. MARCIA: Another question, Paul, about your way of saying what’s on your mind: You’re so honest, emotionally, too -?
PAUL: I don’t hold stuff in… as a kid I did, but it makes your body crumble within… So I let it out, not carrying it around,
... continued from page 22 Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey
A gentleman entered a busy fl orist shop that displayed a large sign that read, “Say It With Flowers.”
“Wrap up one rose,” he told the fl orist. “Only one?” the fl orist asked. “Just one,” the customer replied. “I’m a man of few words.” ~
Flying into an airport, my co-pilot and I re- viewed our fl ight plan for the trip back to the USS Enterprise. We were to pick up a Navy captain, and experience had taught me that even seasoned vets turn white-knuckled during carrier landings. Once the captain was strapped in, I turned around to welcome him aboard. “Sir,” I asked, “will this be your fi rst carrier landing?” Looking at me with disdain, he opened his infl atable vest to dis- play gold wings above fi ve rows of ribbons. “Son,” he said, “I have over 500 carrier land- ings in jet fi ghters.”
“That’s good to hear,” my co-pilot said, wink- ing at me, “because this will be our fi rst.
He dares to be a fool, and that is the fi rst step in the direction of
wisdom. James Gibbons Huneker
21 years or Older!
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