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| QUOTES from
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| On Expectation |
On Opportunities |
| "Today
I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good." -- Ernest
Holmen
"The
real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an
expectation that they can make it work or make it better." --
Barbara Pletcher
"You
always act in a manner consistent with your expectations, and your expectations
influence the attitudes and behaviors of the people around you." -–
Brian Tracy
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"The
richness of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found
only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It is cram-packed
with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner." --
Richard M. DeVos
"The
secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity
when it comes." -– Benjamin Disraeli
"Great
minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them."
-– Colton
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The Old Person Who Will Be Me |
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I know
that I’m going to meet an old person one of these days. It will be down the road in 10, 20 or 30
years. He’ll be waiting there for me;
I’m catching up with him all the time.
What
kind of person do you suppose I’m likely to meet? That’s a significant question, it seems to me. He may be an enthusiastic person who has
grown old gracefully and is surrounded by a host of clients, associates and
friends who regard him as successful because of what his life and its work have
meant to them and to others. On the
other hand, he may be a bitter, unsuccessful, even cynical old buzzard without
a good thought about anything or anybody.
The
kind of person I meet depends entirely on me.
Actually, that old person will be me.
He will be the composite of everything I do, say and think today and
tomorrow. His mind will be set in a
mold that has been fixed by my attitudes and actions. Every thought -- positive or negative -- goes into his
makeup. That person will be exactly
what I make him -- nothing more, nothing less.
It’s all up to me, and I’ll have no one else to credit or blame. Every day and every way, I’m becoming more
and more like that old person. That’s
amazing, yet true. I’m getting to look
like that person, think like that person, and talk like that person.
A good
point for me to remember is that things don’t always tell immediately, but they
do show up sooner than we think. The
little things, like attitudes, beliefs, commitments, ambitions, dedication and
desire, are so unimportant now, but they all add up inside, where I can’t see
them, crystallizing in my mind and heart.
One day, they will be hardened into that old person, and nothing will be
able to soften or change them.
It’s
quite apparent to me that the time to take care of this old person is now --
today, this week, this month, this year.
I need to check on him carefully.
I would be smart to work that person over while he still is plastic,
still in a formative position. One day
soon, it will be too late to make any changes.
Hardness will set in, the character will have crystallized, and that
will be the last chance for him and for me.
Please call my office if we can be of
service.
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| MESSAGES from the Masters... |
EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE HAS TWO SIDES by Vic Johnson
"Your difficulty is not contained, primarily, in the situation which
gave rise to it, but in the mental state with which you regard that
situation and which you bring to bear upon it." - Byways of Blessedness
It is one of the most difficult lessons to accept, understand and learn.
Circumstances are not negative or positive,
circumstances are neutral. It is our thinking, our
mental state, our perspective, that makes a
circumstance positive or negative.
Bob Proctor does some of the best teaching on this
subject, using a universal law he refers to as the Law
of Polarity.
"Everything in the universe has its opposite. There
would be no inside to a room without an outside. You
have a right and left side to your body, a front and a
back. Every up has a down and every down has an
up. The Law of Polarity not only states that
everything has an opposite -- it is equal and
opposite. If it was three feet from the floor up to the
table, it would be three feet from the table down to
the floor. If it is 150 miles from Manchester to
London, by law it must be 150 miles from London to
Manchester; it could not be any other way.
"If something you considered bad happens in your
life, there has to be something good about it. If it
was only a little bad, when you mentally work your
way around to the other side, you will find it will only
be a little good."
Here’s a good exampleof this. While the flat tire you
have seems to be a negative circumstance to you,
it's a very positive circumstance for your local tire
dealer. Looking even further, it's possible that while
changing the tire the dealer discovers a much more
serious problem that would have cost you a large
sum of money if discovered later.
So it's even more clear from Bob's teaching that
every circumstance can be viewed two ways. It's the
way we view a circumstance that determines its
impact on our thinking and mental state. And we
know from James Allen's teaching that that
determines the quality of life that we live.
No matter how bad the circumstance appears to be,
taking another look, from another perspective,
reveals to us the good. Or, as Napoleon Hill author of
the classic "Think and Grow Rich", wrote, "Every
adversity, every failure and every heartache carries
with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater
benefit."
And that's worth thinking about.
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