Maggs

@maggs224 (2320)

Alicante, Spain

Joined myLot 9 years ago

I love to write,take photos and make new friends but even more I love to interact with old friends

Discussions (59)

Maggs's Discussions

An Attitude of Gratitude

Maggs @maggs224 (2320) • Alicante, Spain 16 May 20

Even in bad times there are so many good things we can focus on, that we can be grateful for. I know that if I have an attitude of gratitude it always lifts my spirit. I don't have to look far either for something to be grateful...

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What If ?

Maggs @maggs224 (2320) • Alicante, Spain 13 May 20

Technology has and still is playing a big part in this current lock down crisis that is affecting so many countries around the world. It makes me wonder what would happen if for some reason the internet, mobile phone and the...

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Mother's Day or I Didn't Know That

Maggs @maggs224 (2320) • Alicante, Spain 13 May 20

I was on Marlina 's Mother's day post and in the comments Anna @LadyDuck mentioned that it was also Mother's day also in many European countries on the same day. I commented that this was not so in the UK as it normally falls...

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How is the Lock Down Affecting Your Generation?

Maggs @maggs224 (2320) • Alicante, Spain 4 May 20

As usual I started to respond to a comment and I felt a post coming on. This was on a post from Granny Gee about appreciating even the smallest of things. Replying to my comment she was saying that she was not doing that much...

lock down

different

generations

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How Cool is This

Maggs @maggs224 (2320) • Alicante, Spain 28 Apr 20

One of the good things that has come out of the present crisis is seeing how many people have risen to the occasion. I have seen so many acts of kindness and thoughtfulness during this time, which is very encouraging. I was...

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It Is Not Hard To Let Go of Negative Thoughts

Maggs @maggs224 (2320) • Alicante, Spain 26 Apr 20

Once again I was replying to a comment and I found a post coming on so here it is. My friend Judy Evans commenting on my latest post It's All About Perspective left this comment ...I can understand how negative thoughts...

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It's All About Perspective

Maggs @maggs224 (2320) • Alicante, Spain 26 Apr 20

I had an interesting email this morning and I thought I would share a bit of it with my Mylot friends. In it Marc and Angel shared about something they learned in their final lecture at uni. Their professor came on stage and she...

perspective

negativity

weight

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Your Call is Important to Us

Maggs @maggs224 (2320) • Alicante, Spain 25 Apr 20

Myloter BarBaraPrz wrote a post Somebody 'splain me this... Once again I started to make a comment and it kind of grew into a post all on its own lol... When I was younger if you rang someone or you rang a firm you got an engaged...

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Where Your Attention Goes Your Energy Flows

Maggs @maggs224 (2320) • Alicante, Spain 23 Apr 20

Myloter Raj wrote a post about two people that were doing everything they could to piss him off and at the end of the post he asked the question 'Is there a way to divert my attention to something else productive.' He has the...

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Same situation, different thinking.

Maggs @maggs224 (2320) • Alicante, Spain 6 Jan 19

I read this in one of my emails this morning and I thought it worth a share. How and what you think makes all the difference to how you experience things in life. “A puppy thinks: “Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me,...

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Are You A People Pleaser

Maggs @maggs224 (2320) • Alicante, Spain 5 Jan 19

We all know lots of famous sayings and they are famous or well known because often they contain a truth or a piece of wisdom. Yet it is amazing that even when we know something to be true or wise a lot of us continue to battle...

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How Neat Is This

Maggs @maggs224 (2320) • Alicante, Spain 30 Aug 17

I love to learn new things, and they don't even have to be useful things, but when they are it love it even more. I was reading an article this morning about how to improve your memory. One of the ways in the article was by...

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Look What I Bought

Maggs @maggs224 (2320) • Alicante, Spain 27 Aug 17

We went out to a big flea Market today. Usually in August we would not venture out to spend a morning wandering round an outdoor market as it is so hot. We had been out wandering the market for about half an hour and I was...

pet

pushchair

fun

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I Don't Believe It !!

Maggs @maggs224 (2320) • Alicante, Spain 26 Aug 17

I was reading and commenting on a post called Double Trouble. The post was about a place of work that was robbed twice. While commenting on this post it reminded me of a strange incident that happened to me. In my comment I said...

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I know what I was doing

Maggs @maggs224 (2320) • Alicante, Spain 18 Mar 17

Do you know what you were doing 50 years ago today. Funnily enough I know exactly what I was doing. I was getting married to my hubby who was a sailor in the Royal Navy. Now here we are 50years later still going strong. Even at...

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Whose Lift?

Maggs @maggs224 (2320) • Alicante, Spain 4 Feb 17

I thought that this might amuse some of you. Whenever I am confronted by a lot of stairs I will most likely use a lift if there is one. When I was I London we used the underground a lot to get around on. Jumping around on the...

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I love Quotes

Maggs @maggs224 (2320) • Alicante, Spain 2 Dec 16

I love quotes, especially from people who know what they are talking about. People who have done something remarkable with their lives usually say interesting things. When I was young I had a note book in which I wrote down...

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A Potato has What?

Maggs @maggs224 (2320) • Alicante, Spain 5 Nov 16

I was watching a video yesterday when I heard a throw away comment that surprised me. As always when I hear something that I didn't know and it surprises me I like to check it out before I start telling other people, OK I hear...

potato

surprise

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I'm With Groucho How about You?

Maggs @maggs224 (2320) • Alicante, Spain 4 Nov 16

The American comedian and film star Groucho Marx said “ I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today,...

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Now that's a thought

Maggs @maggs224 (2320) • Alicante, Spain 20 Sep 16

I came across this quote today, “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.– Ayn Rand” On reading this it made me stop and think. How often just a slight change in perspective can make a world of...

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