The 405 Coffee Break with O.K. Solberg

Today O.K. ponders on the idea that as we live, things happen, we change. We can suffer from the loss, or cooperate with the inevitable. remember, whatever that was, it's in the past now.

What is The 405 Coffee Break with O.K. Solberg?

Greetings and Welcome to The 405 Coffee Break with O.K. Solberg

New episodes tend to air over the local KMMR radio station @ 5 minutes past 4PM each M-F. And have been doing so, nearly every week since Sept 2018.

I'm D.J. Rasmussen, O.K.s friend since junior high, possibly your neighbor & this websites maintainer, whom strives to get each episode's show notes written, the transcript proofed and the audio posted to the internet within a few hours of that days KMMR air time. NOTE: recently been publishing most new releases by 4:30PM.

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OK Solberg:

I want to again welcome you to The 405 Coffee Break. Guys, weekends coming. Gonna let the class out early if I talk fast. Get your cup of coffee. Sit up. Let's see what's happening.

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OK Solberg:

Okay. Today, I'll be sharing from a book I am deeply fond of. Dale Carnegie or Carnegie, however you'd like to pronounce it, and his book, How To Stop Worrying and Start Living. 1st off, do you ever worry? Do you ever have any anxious thoughts? Do you fret over things that are, well, are out of your control?

OK Solberg:

Listen as I read from one of my favoritest chapters titled cooperate with the inevitable, and I quote. The author says, when I was a little boy, I was playing with some friends in an attic of an old abandoned log house in Northwest Missouri.

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As I climbed down out of the attic, I rested my feet on a windowsill for a moment and then jumped. I had a ring on my left forefinger. And as I jumped, the ring caught on a nail head and tore off my finger.

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I screamed. I was terrified. I was positive, I was gonna die. But after the hand healed, I never worried about it for one split second. What would have been the use? I accepted the inevitable.

OK Solberg:

Now I often go for months at a time without even thinking about the fact that I have only 3 fingers and a thumb, on my left hand. Few years ago, I met a man who was running a freight elevator in one of the downtown office buildings in New York. I noticed that his left hand had been cut off at the wrist. I asked him if the loss of that hand bothered him.

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He said, no. I hardly ever think about it. I'm not married, he said, and the only time I ever think about it is when I try to thread a needle. It's astonishing how quickly we can accept almost any situation if we have to and adjust ourselves to it and forget about it. I often think of the inscription on the ruins of a 15th century Cathedral in Amsterdam, Holland.

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The inscription says, It is so, It cannot be otherwise. As you and I march across the decades of time, we're gonna meet a lot of unpleasant situations that are there as well. They cannot be otherwise. We have our choice. We can either accept them as inevitable and adjust ourselves to them, or we can ruin our lives with rebellion and maybe end up with a nervous breakdown.

OK Solberg:

Here's a bit of sage advice from one of my favorite philosophers, William James. Be willing to have it so. Accept what has happened is the 1st step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. There I end the quote.

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Yes. Love it. Cooperate with the inevitable. Like I say myself, it's if it's gonna make you mad that the sun comes up tomorrow, you better get used to it, buddy. Nothing you or I can do to change it.

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Now, guys, my dear friend Shirley Reynolds had a life coping tool that I heard and saw her use when details that were less than ideal were discussed about something that had happened yesterday or last month in her life, Shirley would smile a gentle smile and softly say, that's in the past now.

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Here's a bible verse to support the theme. The book of Philippians, and it's actually 3 verses. Chapter 4 and verses 4, 5, 6, and 7. I think that's 4 verses.

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Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I say rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus, Philippians 4:4-7

OK Solberg:

So, again, cooperate with the inevitable. Remember, that's in the past now.

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So until next time. As you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.