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A blind girl hated herself because she was blind, she hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend, who was always there for her. She told her boyfriend, 'if only I could only see the world, I will marry you'.

One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything, including her boyfriend. He asked her, 'Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?' The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind. The sight of his closed eyelids shocked her. She hadn't expected that. The thought of looking at them the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him.

Her boyfriend left her in tears and days later wrote a note to her saying: ' Take good care of your eyes, my dear, before they were yours, they were mine. '

This is how the human brain often works when our 'status changes'. Only a very few remember what life was like before, and who was always by their side in the most painful situations.

Life Is a Gift Today before you say an unkind word -Think of someone who can't speak.

Before you complain about the taste of your food - Think of someone who has nothing to eat.

Before you complain about your husband or wife - Think of someone who's crying out for a companion.

Today before you complain about life - Think of someone who went too early to heaven.

Before you complain about your children - Think of someone who desires children but is barren.

Before you shout about your dirty house someone didn't clean or sweep - Think of the people who are living in the streets.

Before whining about the distance you drive - Think of someone who walks the same distance with their feet.

And when you are tired and complain about your job - Think of the unemployed, the disabled, and those who wish they had your job.

But before you think of pointing the finger or condemning another - Remember that not one of us is without error and we all answer to the Divine.

And when depressing thoughts seem to get you down - Put a smile on your face and thank God you're alive and still around.

Friend: Have you accepted Jesus as your Lord and personal Saviour. Please do today, God Loves you and I do too.

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"Whatever you are most devoted to will determine how your life is shaped." -- Tod Bolsinger

Words of Wisdom

"Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are." -- James Allen

"Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I'll remember. Involve me, and I'll learn." -- Marla Jones

"There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men." -- Billy Graham

"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." -- Paul Valery

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." -- John Lubbock

Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of someone else." -- Judy Garland

Make Every Minute Count
By: Brian Tracy

Time management is the central skill of success. Your ability to manage your time, to focus and channel your energies on your highest value tasks, will determine your rewards and your level of accomplishment in life more than any other factor.

Save Hundreds of Hours and Thousands of Dollars in Personal Advancement
Your mind is your most precious asset. You must be continually working to increase the quality of your thinking. One of the best ways is to turn driving time into learning time. Listen to educational CDs or audio cassettes in your car. The average driver, according to the American Automobile Association, drives 12,000 to 25,000 miles each year, spending 500 to 1000 hours that you spend each year in your car. That is the equivalent of 12 1/2 to 25 forty-hour weeks. This is the same as two full university semesters spent behind the wheel of your car each year.

Use Traveling Time as Learning Time
If you did nothing but use that traveling time as learning time, this decision alone could make you one of the best educated people of your generation. Many people have gone from rags to riches simply by listening to audio programs as they drive to and from work.

Attend Every Seminar
In addition, for personal and professional development, you should attend every seminar you can. You can often save yourself 100's of hours of reading and researching by attending a seminar given by an authority in his or her field. You can learn ideas, techniques and methods that can save you hours, days, even months of hard work and research on your own.

Increase Your Earnings
Remember, to earn more, you must learn more. Your outer world of results will always correspond to your inner world of preparation. Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.

Action Exercises
Now, here are two things you can do to put these ideas to work in your life immediately.

First, purchase an audio program that can help you to be happier and more effective today. Begin listening to it immediately. Resolve never to listen to music in your car when you can turn driving time into learning time.

Second, seek out seminars and training programs given by experts in your field. Sit close to the front, take careful notes, and apply the best ideas that you learn immediately.

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Success Leaves Tracks
By Brian Tracy

When I began searching for the secrets of success many years ago, I discovered an interesting principle: success leaves tracks.

In other words, if you want to be a big success in any area, find out what other successful people in that area are doing, and do the same things, until you get the same results. By learning from the experts, you will shorten your learning curve and accelerate your results.

That's what I did. When I studied the interviews, speeches, biographies and autobiographies of successful men and women, I found that they all had one quality in common. They were all described as being "extremely well-organized." They used their time very, very well. They were highly productive and they got vastly more done in the same period of time than the average person.

I followed their paths and it made me who I am today.

Here are two things you can do immediately to put these ideas into action:

First, develop a study plan today to learn from the experts in your field. This can save you years of hard work.

Second, of all you've learned decide what is the most important thing to implement, and then decide how to do it. Then do it.

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The Law of Capital
By: Brian Tracy

The Law of Capital - your most valuable asset, in terms of cash flow, is your physical and mental capital, your earning ability.

Your Earning Ability
You may not even be aware that, unless you are wealthy already, your ability to work is the most valuable asset that you have. By utilizing your earning ability to its fullest, you can bring thousands of dollars each year into your life. By applying your earning ability to the production of valuable goods and services, you can generate sufficient money to pay for all the things that you want in life. The amount of money that you are paid today is a direct measure of the extent to which you have developed your earning ability so far.

Use Your Time Well
The first corollary of the Law of Capital says: "Your most precious resource is your time." Your time is really all you have to sell. How much time you put in and how much of yourself you put into that time, largely determines your earning ability. Poor time management is one of the major reasons for poor productivity and underachievement in every industry in America. It is the number one problem for both managers and salespeople in every field.

Invest Yourself Carefully
The second corollary of the Law of Capital says: "Time and money can be either spent or invested." One of the smartest things that you can do is to invest three percent of your earnings every month back into yourself on personal and professional development, on becoming better at the most important things you do. In fact, if you just invested as much in your mind each year as you do in your car, that alone could make you wealthy.

Invest one hour of your time reading in your field every day. Listen to audio programs in your car. Attend every course that can advance you in your career. Get personal and professional coaching to help you to get the very best out of yourself.

Get Better At the Things You Do
There is nothing that will give you a bigger and better "bang" for your buck than reinvesting a part of your time and money back into your capability to earn even more. All wealthy and successful Americans have learned this sooner or later, and all poor and unhappy Americans are still trying to figure it out.

Increase Your Return on Life
The third corollary of the Law of Capital says: "One of the best investments of your time and money is to increase your earning ability."

The purpose of corporate strategic planning is to increase "return on equity" or ROE. This requires organizing and reorganizing corporate activities so that the company is earning a higher return on the capital invested in the organization. In your work life, your personal equity is your mental and emotional capital. Your job then is to earn the highest possible return on your human capital, to increase your "return on energy." This way of viewing yourself must become a key part of your attitude throughout your work life.

Action Exercises
Here are two things you can do to apply this law immediately:

First, take a list of your output responsibilities, the things you do that represent accomplishments, not activities. Examine the list and rank the tasks by priority, on the basis of the value of the work to your company.

Second, take a list of all the things you do, day in and day out. Take this list to your boss and ask him or her to rank your tasks in terms of how valuable he or she considers them to be. Then resolve to work on your most valuable tasks every minute of every day.

This is only 1 of 149 Universal Laws of Success and Achievement
Universal Laws are at work whether you know about them or not. These laws explain why some people are more successful than others. By knowing them, you can explain and predict the workings of the world - and allow them to work in your favor.

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Indescribable

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." -- Henry James

Words of Wisdom

"Talent made a poor appearance. Until he married Perseverance." -- Arthur Guiterman

"Laughter is inner jogging." -- Norman Cousins

"As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move." -- Katharine Hepburn

"Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations." -- Richard M. DeVos

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing(,) we would literally astound ourselves." -- Thomas Edison

"If God let you hit a home run the last time up, then who struck you out the time before that?" -- Tigers’ Manager, Sparky Anderson

"If you dream it, you can do it." -- Walt Disney

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MARRIAGE

When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I've got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes.

Suddenly I didn't know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what I was thinking. I want a divorce. I raised the topic calmly.

She didn't seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me softly, why? I avoided her question. This made her angry. She threw away the chopsticks and shouted at me, "you are not a man!"

That night, we didn't talk to each other. She was weeping. I knew she wanted to find out what had happened to our marriage. But I could hardly give her a satisfactory answer; she had lost my heart to Dew. I didn't love her anymore. I just pitied her!

With a deep sense of guilt, I drafted a divorce agreement which stated that she could own our house, our car, and 30% stake of my company.

She glanced at it and then tore it into pieces. The woman who had spent ten years of her life with me had become a stranger. I felt sorry for her wasted time, resources and energy but I could not take back what I had said for I loved Dew so dearly. Finally she cried loudly in front of me, which was what I had expected to see. To me her cry was actually a kind of release. The idea of divorce which had obsessed me for several weeks seemed to be firmer and clearer now.

The next day, I came back home very late and found her writing something at the table. I didn't have supper but went straight to sleep and fell asleep very fast because I was tired after an eventful day with Dew. When I woke up, she was still there at the table writing. I just did not care so I turned over and was asleep again.

In the morning she presented her divorce conditions:

* She didn't want anything from me, but needed a month's notice before the divorce.
* She requested that in that one month we both struggle to live as normal a life as possible.. Her reasons were simple: our son had his exams in a month's time and she didn't want to disrupt him with our broken marriage. This was agreeable to me.
* But she had something more. She asked me to recall how I had carried her into out bridal room on our wedding day. She requested that everyday for the month's duration I carry her out of our bedroom to the front door every morning

I thought she was going crazy. Just to make our last days together bearable I accepted her odd request.

I told Dew about my wife's divorce conditions. She laughed loudly and thought it was absurd. No matter what tricks she applies, she has to face the divorce, she said scornfully.

My wife and I hadn't had any body contact since my divorce intention was explicitly expressed. So when I carried her out on the first day, we both appeared clumsy.

Our son clapped behind us, "daddy is holding mummy in his arms..." His words brought me a sense of pain. From the bedroom to the sitting room, then to the door, I walked over ten meters with her in my arms. She closed her eyes and said softly; don't tell our son about the divorce. I nodded, feeling somewhat upset. I put her down outside the door. She went to wait for the bus to work. I drove alone to the office.

On the second day, both of us acted much more easily. She leaned on my chest. I could smell the fragrance of her blouse. I realized that I hadn't looked at this woman carefully for a long time. I realized she was not young any more. There were fine wrinkles on her face, her hair was graying! Our marriage had taken its toll on her. For a minute I wondered what I had done to her.

On the fourth day, when I lifted her up, I felt a sense of intimacy returning. This was the woman who had given ten years of her life to me.

On the fifth and sixth day, I realized that our sense of intimacy was growing again. I didn't tell Dew about this. It became easier to carry her as the month slipped by. Perhaps the everyday workout made me stronger.

She was choosing what to wear one morning. She tried on quite a few dresses but could not find a suitable one. Then she sighed, all my dresses have grown bigger. I suddenly realized that she had grown so thin, that was the reason why I could carry her more easily. Suddenly it hit me... She had buried so much pain and bitterness in her heart. Subconsciously I reached out and touched her head.

Our son came in at the moment and said, Dad, it's time to carry mum out. To him, seeing his father carrying his mother out had become an essential part of his life. My wife gestured to our son to come closer and hugged him tightly. I turned my face away because I was afraid I might change my mind at this last minute. I then held her in my arms, walking from the bedroom, through the sitting room, to the hallway. Her hand surrounded my neck softly and naturally. I held her body tightly; it was just like our wedding day.

But her much lighter weight made me sad. On the last day, when I held her in my arms I could hardly move a step. Our son had gone to school. I held her tightly and said, I hadn't noticed that our life lacked intimacy.

I drove to office.... Jumped out of the car swiftly without locking the door. I was afraid any delay would make me change my mind... I walked upstairs.. Dew opened the door and I said to her, Sorry, Dew, I do not want the divorce anymore.

She looked at me, astonished, and then touched my forehead. "Do you have a fever?" She said.

I moved her hand off my head. "Sorry, Dew," I said, "I won't divorce. My marriage life was boring probably because she and I didn't value the details of our lives, not because we didn't love each other any more. Now I realize that since I carried her into my home on our wedding day I am supposed to hold her until death do us apart."

Dew seemed to suddenly wake up. She gave me a loud slap and then slammed the door and burst into tears. I walked downstairs and drove away.

At the floral shop on the way, I ordered a bouquet of flowers for my wife. The salesgirl asked me what to write on the card. I smiled and wrote, I'll carry you out every morning until death do us apart.

That evening I arrived home, flowers in my hands, a smile on my face, I run up stairs, only to find my wife in the bed – dead.

The small details of our lives are what really matter in a relationship. It is not the mansion, the car, property, the money in the bank, blah....blah...blah.

These create an environment conducive for happiness but cannot give happiness in themselves. So find time to be your spouse's friend and do those little things for each other that build intimacy.

Do have a real happy marriage, if you’re married.

If you’re like me…

Just believe!

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Unlocking the Giant Inside You
By: Brian Tracy

One of the most wonderful and exciting facts of your life is that, whatever has gone before is merely a prelude to what is going to happen to you in the future. There are no limitations on what you can be, or do or have except for the limitations you place on your own mind. You have enormous reserves of capacity and potential and talent that you have never even come close to using as yet. These reserves lay within you, dormant, and are waiting for you to unlock them and bring them into every part of your life.

Another wonderful fact is that you already know a lot of the things you need to know to become the person you want to become. You have your "heart's desire" deep inside of you. There is something that you were put on this earth uniquely to accomplish. There is something that you, and only you, can do. And when you find your heart's desire, you will have the key to unlocking your potential in every other part of your life. You'll have the key to happiness, satisfaction, fulfillment and the joy that is your natural birthright.

Whenever we talk about having enormous potential, the natural tendency for most people, probably including yourself, is to think in terms of your limitations. To think in terms of your bills and your obligations. Many people think about how little money they have and how much money they owe. They think about how much everything costs and how little they're earning. Many people even despair of ever getting out of debt, much less achieving all of their goals and aspirations.

You've heard a lot of talk about "positive thinking." Positive thinking is very important. A positive mental attitude goes hand-in-hand with success in virtually every area of life. However, it's far more important that you practice "positive knowing" than "positive thinking."

You see, positive thinking can very often simply be positive wishing or hoping, or even praying. Positive knowing, on the other hand, is when you absolutely know, deep inside yourself, that you have the ability to be and do anything you want. And positive knowing, only comes when you actually do the things that you say that you'll do.

When you set clear goals or objectives for yourself, to dream big dreams and then to become the kind of person who's capable of achieving the kind of goals that you want to achieve, you convince yourself, at a deep subconscious level, that you're absolutely unstoppable. You cast off the bonds of learned helplessness. You realize at last that there's nothing in the world that can hold you back except your own thinking, and you don't even let your own thinking limit your potential.

If you learn to be powerful and develop self-confidence by working progressively, every day, toward becoming the kind of person you want to become, and toward living the kind of life that you want to live, you'll unlock the giant within you and it will never go back inside.

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"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." -- Martin Luther King Jr.

Words of Wisdom

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." -- Dwight Eisenhower

"Think of the number of trees and blades of grass and flowers, the extravagant wealth of beauty no one ever sees! Think of the sunrises and sunsets we never look at! God is lavish in every degree." -- Oswald Chambers

"The person who would like to make his dreams come true MUST STAY AWAKE." -- Richard Wheeler

"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves." -- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

"Be careful of the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful of the friends you choose for you will become like them." -- W. Clement Stone

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." -- Albert Einstein

Words of Wisdom

"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes." -- Peter F. Drucker

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -- Aristotle

"The harder you work at something, the harder it is to quit. Those who don't work very hard at something, find it easy to quit. There is not much invested. People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success, because they don't know when to quit." -- George Allen

"The more you have, the less likely it is to be enough." -- Unknown

"Then he [Jesus] said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions." -- Jesus, (Luke 12:15, NIV)

"Someone has observed that no one ever built a statue to a person to acknowledge what he or she got out of life. Statues are built only to people to acknowledge what they gave. Always look for ways to put in rather than to take out. The successful man or woman is a "go-giver" as well as a go-getter." -- Brian Tracy

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." -- William Faulkner

"Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right." -- Mario Cuomo, Former Governor of New York

"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us,
as we grasp them by the blade or the handle."

- James Russell Lowell

"Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close
they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"Man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible." -- St. Augustine

Words of Wisdom

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it." -- Rene Descartes

"Every artist was first an amateur." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is not love, but lack of love, which is blind." -- Glenway Wescott

"We are safer in the storm God sends us than in a calm when we are befriended by the world." -- Jeremy Taylor

"Our aspirations are our possibilities." -- Robert Browning

"When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place." -- C. S. Lewis

Discipline

In Richard Foster's book, “Celebration of Discipline ... The Path to Spiritual Growth,” he divides discipline into three parts:

Inward, Outward, and Corporate discipline. He places simplicity under the category of the Outward Disciplines. Here are his ten ways to order our world so that we can create simplicity in our life.

First, buy things for their usefulness rather than their status.
Second, reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
Third, develop a habit of giving things away.
Fourth, refuse to be propagandized by the custodians of modern gadgetry.
Fifth, learn to enjoy things without owning them.
Sixth, develop a deeper appreciation for the creation.
Seventh, look with a healthy skepticism at all "buy now, pay later" schemes.
Eighth, obey Jesus' instructions about plain, honest speech.
Ninth, reject anything that will breed the oppression of others.
Tenth, shun whatever would distract you from your main goal: "Seek first the kingdom of God."

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"Habits are like comfortable beds; they are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of." -- Denis Waitley

"When you give someone a book, you don't give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life." -- Christopher Morley, 1890-1957, Novelist, Journalist and Poet

Words of Wisdom

"It is in the desert of Sinai that you find the mountain of God." -- Seen on Mickey's Funnies

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." -- Paul Boese

"Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free." -- Stormie Omartian

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." -- Kahlil Gibran

"Money-giving is a good criterion of a person's mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people." -- Dr. Karl Menninger

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." -- Walter Elliott

Words of Wisdom

"Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected." -- William Safire

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." -- Unknown

"Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling." -- Claude D. Pepper

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart." -- Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." -- Og Mandino

"The essence of real sport is the pursuit of victory with honor. Take away the honor and it's no longer sport." -- Michael Josephson

"Trying times are not the times to stop trying." -- Ray Owen

Everyone's A Salesperson
By Brian Tracy

I often ask my seminar attendees, "How many people here are in sales?" It's interesting to watch how people respond to that question. There are always a few people who will raise a hand at first, and then another hand goes up, and then another, and soon perhaps half the people in the room have a hand up, even though they may be in fields such as management, administration, finance and accounting.

I then smile and ask again, "Now, how many people here are really in sales?" At this point, virtually every person in the room has raised a hand. We all smile at the realization that each of us is in the business of selling every single day.

From the time you get up in the morning until the time you go to bed at night, you are negotiating, communicating, persuading, and influencing -- trying to get people to cooperate with you to accomplish the things that you want them to accomplish. So the pivotal question with regard to selling is not if you are doing it, but if you are good at it.

All top executives are excellent salespeople. All effective parents are wonderful salespeople. All effective employees use sales techniques to get their coworkers and bosses to go along with them and to cooperate with them in getting the job done. Everyone who is effective in virtually any area of life that involves other people is an excellent salesperson of some kind.

Unfortunately, over the years, a stigma has grown up around the selling profession. Many people feel that selling is a low-level type of activity and they don't like to be associated with it -- even people who are in sales! Virtually no colleges or universities have a "Department of Selling," even though almost 15 million Americans make their living by selling something to someone. It is the largest single, identifiable occupational group in the United States.

Salespeople are the movers and shakers in every business and industry. They are the key people who create the demand for all the products and services that keep everyone employed at every other occupation.

The wonderful thing about selling is that it is a learned skill. No matter what level of selling ability you possess today, by continued practice, you can become better and more persuasive. And the more effective you are at selling, the more successful you will be in every area of your life.

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"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
- Roman philosopher, Seneca.

"Nothing is so fatiguing as the hanging on of an uncompleted
task." - Henry James.

Words of Wisdom

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out." -- Jim Rohn

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." -- Calvin Coolidge

"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat." -- Napoleon Hill

"It's not how LONG you live that counts, but HOW you live." -- from Our Daily Bread

"The mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work unless it's open." -- Unknown

Words of Wisdom

"In a moment of crisis we will not rise to the occasion, we will default to our training." -- Unknown

"Everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself." -- Leo Tolstoy

"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." -- Deepak Chopra

"Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it." -- Jim Rohn

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." -- Ellen Parr

"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them." -- W. Clement Stone

Dear Friends,

THE LESSON FROM A DONKEY!

One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well.
The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do.
Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway;
it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey.

He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him.
They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well.
At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly..
Then, to everyone's amazement he quieted down.

A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well.
He was astonished at what he saw.
With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing.
He would shake it off and take a step up.

As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal,
he would shake it off and take a step up.
Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up
over the edge of the well and happily trotted off!

MORAL :
Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt.
The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up.
Each of our troubles is a steppingstone.
We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up!
Shake it off and take a step up.

Remember the five simple rules to be happy:

1. Free your heart from hatred - Forgive.

2. Free your mind from worries - Most never happens.

3. Live simply and appreciate what you have.

4. Give more.

5. Expect less from people but more from God.

You have two choices...smile and close this page,
or pass this along to someone else to share the lesson !!

Enjoy your day.

“Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence.
The extra energy required to make another effort or try another
approach is the secret of winning.”

Denis Waitley

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Read this...............

You are in your car driving home. Thoughts wander to the game you want to see or meal you want to eat, when suddenly a sound unlike any you've ever heard fills the air. The sound is high above you. A trumpet? A choir? A choir of trumpets? You don't know, but you want to know.. So you pull over, get out of your car, and look up. As you do, you see you aren't the only curious one. The roadside has become a parking lot. Car doors are open, and people are staring at the sky. Shoppers are racing out of the grocery store. The Little League baseball game across the street has come to a halt. Players and parents are searching the clouds. And what they see, and what you see, has never before been seen.

As if the sky were a curtain, the drapes of the atmosphere part. A brilliant light spills onto the earth. There are no shadows. None.

From every hue ever seen and a million more never seen. Riding on the flow is an endless fleet of angels. They pass through the curtains one myriad at a time, until they occupy every square inch of the sky.

North. South. East. West.

Thousands of silvery wings rise and fall in unison, and over the sound of the trumpets, you can hear the cherubim and seraphim chanting, Holy, holy, holy.. The final flank of angels is followed by twenty-four silver-bearded elders and a multitude of souls who join the angels in worship. Presently the movement stops and the trumpets are silent, leaving only the triumphant triplet: Holy, holy, holy. Between each word is a pause. With each word, a profound reverence. You hear your voice join in the chorus. You don't know why you say the words, but you know you must.

Suddenly, the heavens are quiet. All is quiet. The angels turn, you turn, the entire world turns and there He is. Jesus.

Through waves of light you see the silhouetted figure of Christ the King. He is atop a great stallion, and the stallion is atop a billowing cloud. He opens his mouth, and you are surrounded by his declaration:

I am the Alpha and the Omega.

The angels bow their heads. The elders remove their crowns. And before you is a Figure so consuming that you know, instantly you know: No thing else matters. Forget stock markets and school reports. Sales meetings and football games. Nothing is newsworthy.. All that mattered, matters no more.... for Christ has come.

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