Reflections From a Country Girl

I admit I’m hooked on this show – Deal or No Deal.  I think Howie is as “cute as a button” and am intrigued by the banker that no one sees except in the dark shadows of his station above the audience.  The contestants agonize over winning or losing lots of money….when it really is all about chance.  

It reminds me that real life is a deal or no deal situation.  It’s made up of a series of decisions we make surrounded by circumstances we sometimes have little control over.  The choices we make everyday take us one way or the other … sometimes in good places and sometimes in bad.  

So what kind of deals have you made lately?  Are you quick to make decisions without little thought or do you take hours of evaluating before you make your decision? 

I remember my father taking weeks with me to pick out a car.  I was ready immediately to get the first 1965 Mustang I saw – doing my best not to show my Dad that I knew that eight cylinder four barrel car would really move on the highway and I would be the envy of some of my friends who had “grandma cars.”  However, we had to look at MANY other cars as well as take that mustang and several others to our trusted mechanic for a closer look under the hood.  All that when we could have gotten that mustang weeks earlier and I could have been out on the road.  We made the deal five weeks later and I was on my way to monthly car payments and a super car that lasted me through my college years.  

You are probably thinking of some of the deals you’ve made along the way.  Good ones and bad, we’ve all have them.  When it comes down to it, dealing with life on a daily basis is a common occurrence for all of us. Call it dealing, call it decision making, call it whatever. 

My wish for you today is that you are surrounded by people that help you make good decisions and deals throughout your life.  Yes, some of it may be chance alone, but hopefully you’ll be making good deals most of the time. 

~ Joellen

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