This Valentine’s Day, please allow me to share a list of ten inspirational phrases said to me by the wrappers of Halls sugar free cough drops as I struggled with a cough.

• Don’t waste a precious minute.

• You’ve survived tougher.

• Fire up those engines!

• Flex your “can do” muscle.

• Dust off and get up.

• Inspire envy.

• A PEP TALK IN EVERY DROP™

• March forward!

• You got it in you.

• Don’t try harder. Do harder!

Halls actually paid someone to come up with this idea, as well as to write and/or crib these little phrases. What a world we live in.

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