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Positive believes

Worry free day

There are two days in every week about which we should not worry:One of these days is Yesterday with all its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders,its aches and pains.

We cannot undo a single act we performed; we cannot erase a single word we said.Yesterday is gone forever.

The other day we should not worry about is Tomorrow with all its possible adversities,its burdens, its large promiand its poor performance; Tomorrow is also beyond ourimmediate control.

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immediate control.

Tomorrow's sun will rise, either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds, but it will rise.Until it does, we have no stake in Tomorrow, for it is yet to be born.

This leaves only one day, Today. Any person can fight the battle of just one day.It is when you and I add the burdens of those two awful eternities Yesterday andTomorrow that we break down.

Live one day at a time !

Fill your bag

Fill a baggie with a Toothpick, Rubber band, Band aid, Pencil, Eraser, Chewing gum,Mint, Candy kiss, Tea bag...

1. Toothpick - to remind you to pick out the good qualities in others.

2. Rubber band - to remind you to be flexible: things might not always work out theway you want, but it will work out.

3. Band aid - to remind you to heal hurt feelings, yours and someone else's.


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4. Pencil - to remind you to list your blessings everyday.

5. Eraser - to remind you that everyone makes mistakes, and it's OK.

6. Chewing gum - to remind you to stick with it and you can accomplish anything.

7. Mint - to remind you that you are worth a mint!.

8. Candy kiss - to remind you that everyone needs a kiss or a hug every day.

9. Tea bag - to remind you to relax daily and go over your list of blessings

Heart is beautiful garden

Once a Junior School teacher asked her students to bring some potatoes in a plastic bag toschool. Each potato will be given a name of the person whom that child hates. Like this, thenumber of potatoes will be equal to the number of persons they hate.

On a decided day the children brought their potatoes well addressed. Some had two, some hadthree and some had even five potatoes. The teacher said they have to carry these potatoes withthem everywhere they go for a week. As the days passed the children started to complain aboutthe spoiled smell that started coming from these potatoes. Also some students who had manypotatoes complained that it was very heavy to carry them all around.

The children got rid of this assignment after a week, when it got over. The teacher asked, " Howdid you feel in this one week? “ The children discussed their problems about the smell and


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did you feel in this one week? “ The children discussed their problems about the smell andweight. Then the teacher said, This situation is very similar to what you carry in your heart whenyou don't like some people. This hatred makes your heart unhealthy and you carry that hatred inyour heart everywhere you go.

If you cannot bear the smell of spoiled potatoes for a week, imagine the impact of this hatred thatyou carry throughout your life, on your heart?"

Morale:Our Heart is a beautiful garden that needs a regular cleaning of unwanted weeds. Forgive thosewho have not behaved with you as expected and forget the bad things. This also makes roomavailable for storing good things.

Focus on getting a solution

Faith enables one to bring solutions to problems.

When problems come, we tend to overreact to it or exaggerate it to such anextent that it becomes a trap for us, Instead of working on the problem wefall prey to it making all our thoughts negative.

Once we ore caught up in negativity we will neither look for, nor findsolutions.


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Each thought of ours is important when working on a problem. Instead ofmaking our thoughts negative, we need to remind ourselves that what we aregoing through is a test which we must pass with honor.

When we have this thought, all our energy will be focused on working tobring a solution.

Ant’s philosophy

All of us tend to look up to big people for lessons on how to get better. We are keen to learn the secrets oftheir success. But we forget that sometimes the biggest lessons in life come from the smallest folks around us.Now that’s a good lesson to remember! Take ants for instance. Would you believe those small creatures canteach us how to live a better life? Here are the four lessons from ‘Ants Philosophy’.

1.Ants never quit. how ants always look for a way around an obstacle? Put your finger in an ant’s path and itwill try and go around it, or over it. It will keep looking for a way out. It won’t just stand there and stare. It won’tgive up and go back. We should all learn to be like that. There will always be obstacles in our lives. Thechallenge is to keep trying, keep looking for alternative routes to get to our goals. “Never, never give up!”

1.Ants think winter all summer. Remember the old story of the ant and the grasshopper? In the middle ofsummer, the ant was busy gathering food for the winter ahead – while the grasshopper was out having a goodtime. Ants know that summer - the good times – won’t last forever. Winters will come. That’s a good lesson to


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time. Ants know that summer - the good times – won’t last forever. Winters will come. That’s a good lesson toremember. When the going is good, don’t be so arrogant as to believe that a crisis or a setback cannothappen to you. Be good to other people. Save for a rainy day. Look ahead. And remember, good times maynot last, but good people do.3. Ants think summer all winter. As they suffer through the unbearable cold of the winter, ants keepreminding themselves that it won’t last forever, and that summer will soon be here. And with the first rays ofthe summer sun, the ants come out – ready to work, ready to play. When we are down, when we go throughnever-ending crisis, it’s good to remind ourselves that this too shall pass. Good times will come.4. Ants do all they possibly can. How much food does an ant gather in summer? All that it possibly can!Now that’s a great work ethic to have. Do all you can! One ant doesn’t worry about how much food another antis collecting. Nor does it complain about the poor pay! Ants just do their bit. Success and happiness areusually the result of giving 100% - doing all you possibly can. If you look around you, you’ll find that successfulpeople are those who just do all, they possibly can.

Find True Joy Using Your Potential

Your greatest success and happiness in life will be found when you use yournatural abilities to their fullest extent. Happiness Is not having or being. It's inthe doing.

The essence of true wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life isactivity, laughter, and love.

You were created to conquer your environment, to solve problems, and toachieve goals. You’ll find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without


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achieve goals. You’ll find no real satisfaction or happiness in life withoutobstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Yes, there is true happiness. It's found in doing a job well done, in achieving aworthy goal, in putting your childto sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

Your personal growth itself contains the seed of happiness.

Enjoy the dance

Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round Or listened to the rain slapping onthe ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight Or gazed at the sun into thefading night?You better slow down, Don't dance so fast, Time is short - The music won't last

Do you run through each day on the fly? When you ask "How are you?"Do you hear the reply?When the day is done, do you lie In your bed with the next hundred chores runningthrough your head?You'd better slow down, Don't dance so fast Time is short - The music won't last


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You'd better slow down, Don't dance so fast Time is short - The music won't last

Ever told your child, We'll do it tomorrow And in your haste, not see his sorrow?Ever lost touch, Let a good friendship die ‘Cause you never had time to call and say"HI"?You'd better slow down, Don't dance so fast, Time is short, The music won't last

When you run so fast to get somewhere You miss half the fun of getting there.When you worry & hurry through your day, It is like an unopened gift ..Thrown awayLife is not a race, Do take it slower…Hear the music before your song is over.

Power of love

There is no thinking person Who can stand untouched todayAnd view the world around us drifting downward to decay

Without feeling deep within them a silent unnamed dread,Wondering how to stem the chaos that lies frightfully ahead .. .

But the problems we are facing cannot humanly be solvedFor our diplomatic strategy only gets us more involved

And our skillful ingenuity, our technology and science


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Can never change a sinful heart filled with hatred and defiance ...

So our problems keep on growing every hour of every dayAs man vainly tries to solve them in his own SELF-WILLFUL WAY ...

But man is powerless alone to CLEAN UP THE WORLD OUTSIDE ...Until his own polluted soul is CLEAN and FREE INSIDE ...

For the amazing power of love is beyond all comprehensionAnd it alone can heal this world of its hatred and dissention

Persistence not failure

Everyone meets failure in their journey through life. To overcome failure,you need to concentrate and focus your energy on your goal. If you don'tsucceed the first time, try another way.

We are easily distracted or side-tracked by working on areas that bear norelation to our goal. Keep your goal focused in your mind at all Times.

Put your energy and effort into completing Tasks that move you closer toyour goal. Even if you set aside only 30 minutes a day, you are being


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your goal. Even if you set aside only 30 minutes a day, you are beingpersistent and consistently moving closer and closer to your goal.

Ask yourself if you have been defeated by your own lock of persistencewithout realizing it.

Step back and take a hard look at how persistent you have really been.

Go .. get more…

You do not grow old simply by living a certain number of years. You growold only when you stop filling those years with new substance and value.

Don't spend all your time and energy merely confirming again and againwhat you already know. That will make you too old too soon.

Instead, put your effort & energy into learning, discovering & experiencingwhat you do not yet know. That will keep your life young, fresh & vibrant,even as the years continue to progress.


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There are all kinds of new things you can learn today. There are all sorts ofgreat ways to challenge your assumptions and increase your wisdom.

If you think you know it all, you're cheating yourself out of the opportunityto continually build upon your knowledge If you refuse to challenge yourbeliefs, those beliefs will begin to imprison you rather than support you.

Treasure the knowledge you possess and all the rich experiences you'vehad. Then get up, get out there and get a whole lot more.

Is laziness holding you backNow, I'm not insinuating that you're lazy - just by reading this you're far from it. But thinkfor a moment how your success would be affected If you were more energetic - ifmoments of tiredness, fatigue, low energy, and low motivation weren't part of your dailylife. Would you be more successful? How would your life change?

When you look around, it appears that those most successful people seem to have notonly supreme focus, but they also seem to have found a way to beat the "couch potato"gene in all of us. They have retired their excusesand adopted a "do it now" attitude.


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There are many ways you can enhance your life by simply "not being lazy." Take sometime today to identify some of those ways in your own life.

Once you do, you can put the "lazies" behind you and look forward to active andenergetic days ahead.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. Once of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have us to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy. - Denis Waitley

Just for today

...smile at a stranger

...Iisten to someone's heart

...drop a coin where a child can find it

...Iearn something new, and then teach it to someone

...tell someone you're thinking of them

...hug a loved one

...don't hold a grudge

...don't be afraid to say "I'm sorry"

...Iook a child in the eye and tell them how great they are


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...Iook a child in the eye and tell them how great they are

...Iook beyond the face of a person into their heart

...make a promise, and keep it

...call someone, for no other reason than to just say "Hi"

...show kindness to an animal

...stand up for what you believe in

...smell the rain, feel the breeze, listen to the wind

...use all your senses to their fullest

...cherish all your TODAYSAttitude is a little thing that makes a big difference..! - Sir Winston Churchill

Garbage lawHow often do you let other people's nonsense change your mood ????Do you let a bad driver, rude waiter, curt boss, or an insensitive employee ruin your day?However, the mark of a successful person is how quickly one can get back their focus on what'simportant.

Experience: We were driving in taxi in the right lane when, all of a sudden, a black car jumpedout of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, andmissed the other car's back end by just inches! The driver of the other car, who almost caused abig accident, whipped his head around & he started yelling bad words at us. My taxi driver Justsmiled and waved at the guy. And I mean .. . he was friendly. So, I said, "Why did you Just dothat? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!" And this is when my taxi drivertold me, "The Law of the Garbage Truck.“


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told me, "The Law of the Garbage Truck.“

"Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full ofanger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it. And ifyou let them, they'll dump it on you. When someone wants to dump on you, don't take itpersonally. You just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. You'll be happy you did.“

I started thinking, how often do I let Garbage Trucks run right over me? & how often do I taketheir garbage & spread it to other people: at work, at home, on the streets? It was that day I said,"I'm not going to do it anymore.” Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. Love thepeople who treat you right. Forget about the ones who don't. Believe that everything happens fora reason. Never let the garbage truck run over you .....

Happy new year

May God make your year a happy one!

Not by shielding you from all sorrows and pain, But by strengthening you tobear it, as it comes;

Not by making your path easy,’ But by making you sturdy to travel any path;

Not by taking hardships from you, But by taking you unbroken sunshine, Butby keeping your face bright, even in the shadows;


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by keeping your face bright, even in the shadows;

Not by making your life always pleasant, But by showing you when peopleand their causes need you most, & by making you anxious to be there to help

GOD's LOVE, PEACE, HOPE & JOYTo you for the year ahead.

Family

What makes a family grow through the years? - share the good times, thebad times, the laughter, the tears.

What binds family members that fill us with love, that give hope to our future,with God's help above.

It's a feeling inside that connects to our hearts, It's the lord's own promise,we never will part.


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We're loved and we're guided from God up above, we're truly a family, whenwe're filled with God's love.

It's a choice that we're given to trust and believe, In loves one binding truth,We're God's family.

Prescription of happiness

• Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.• Make the best of your circumstances. No one has everything and everyone

has something of sorrow intermingled with the gladness of life.• The trick is to make the laughter outweigh the tears. Don't take yourself too

seriously.• You can't please everybody ; don't let criticism worry you.• Don't let your neighbor set your standards .• Do the things you enjoy doing, but stay out of debt.• Don't borrow trouble. Imaginary things are harder to bear than the actual


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• Don't borrow trouble. Imaginary things are harder to bear than the actualones.

• Since hate poisons the soul, do not cherish enmities and grudges.• Don't hold post-mortems. Don't spend your life brooding over sorrows and

mistakes.• Don't be one who never gets over things .• Do what you can for those less fortunate than yourself.• Keep busy at something. A very busy person never has time to be unhappy.

Slow down

If you live inside an out-of-control- schedule, like trying to cram threedays of work into one, the personal toll is high. Undoubtedly, your stresslevels are high and you feel overwhelmed.

It's ok to slow down & pace yourself. The truth is you'll accomplish more ifyou set a reasonable pace; one that you can maintain for the long haul.

Don't forget to schedule time to relax and refresh your body, soul, andspirit. Dinner with friends, a long walk or even a relaxing bubble bath will


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spirit. Dinner with friends, a long walk or even a relaxing bubble bath willdo wonders in letting go and grounding yourself.

You deserve balance in your life. It's up to you to make it happen.

Words of strengths

Think about getting rich, friendships are priceless, time is invaluable,health is wealth, and love is a treasure.

Create a nest egg of beautiful memories that you can dip into from time totime to ease any sorrows.

Have the kind of remembrances that raise you up with their worth andkeep you there with their wonder.


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Always have a secret supply of hopes on hand to help you plan yourtomorrow. Remember that when you invest in your dreams it isimpossible to overpay.

Give away smiles, & watch them come back to you a hundred times over.

Stuff your pockets with kindness and optimism; there is nothing moreprecious in the world.

Build a future

The more you take action, the more good things you'll have coming your way.You'll come across more and better opportunities, learn more things, andbecome more skilled at getting the results you want.

Yes, you're going to make mistakes, and you'll regularly need to adjust yourapproach. But that's no reason to avoid action.

In fact, that's a good reason to get started as soon as possible. If you're goingto make mistakes, It's better to get out there, get the mistakes over with, andlearn from them.


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learn from them.

Don't sit around wondering and worrying about what might happen. Use yourown actions and your own energy to determine what will happen.

Don't sit around building a list of complaints and regrets. Instead, take real,focused action and build a positive, fulfilling future for yourself.

Figure out what you want to create, where you want to go, what you want toexperience, and who you want to become. Then get yourself in action and keepmoving in the direction you've chosen.

Seeds of success

People often handle life as they do bad weather, They while away the timewaiting for It to stop. Yet the tide of opportunity comes to everyone.

Opportunity knocks all the time, But you've got to be ready for it. When yourchance comes,You must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

The race is not to the swift Or the battle to the strong, For time and chancehappen to everyone.


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Take a second look at what appears To be someone's "good luck."

You'll find not luck but preparation, Planning and success-producingthinking.

When you're prepared for opportunity Your chance for success is sure tocome.The season of failure is the best time For sowing the seeds of success.

Gautam Buddha says

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that only exists only as an idea.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If


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the present moment. All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

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