DDDS...

... Or in other words, "Don't Do Dumb Stuff". I had the opportunity of being the senior patrol leader for a group of boy scouts as we hiked more than 70 miles through the mountains of Philmont, in northern New Mexico. Our adult leaders, being the wise and intelligent beings that adulthood had turned them into, came up with this motto that would become the foundation of our time during those two weeks together. I can remember many occasions when an important difference in the outcome of events had been changed due to the heed that we all gave to this one simple little phrase. In the Book of Mormon, another testament of Jesus Christ, we are also counseled that it simple and easy to give heed to the word of God, the which will lead us on to eternal life and everlasting happiness. So "Don't Do Dumb Stuff" by cheating yourself out of everything that you could have had for the rest of forever because you were too caught up in instant gratification. Happiness is really so easy to obtain, the reason why it perhaps isn't as much as a large part of our lives as we would like is because there are dumb things that we don't want to give up.