Today-The Present We Get Everyday

Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery,
But today is lord’s gift
Which is why it is called the present.

The single most significant thing we can control and change is our choice of attitude. The attitude we choose either can keep us going or can cripple our progress.

It is this alone that can fuel our fire of hope or completely wash it away. More often than not, we defeat ourselves before we even begin on the path.

[More...] How often have we complained “I can’t wake up in the morning” or “I can’t stop overeating” or the ever popular, “I can’t seem to concentrate; it’s so difficult”.

The question we need to ask ourselves is: is it that we can’t or we won’t?

If we are honest with ourselves, it is the latter. The god granted us this gift of attitude with full confidence that we can and will excel. We tend to make excuses for our negativity by thinking: “it’s too late to change”. We all want love and happiness, but have difficulty in staying on track especially when faced with challenges and setbacks.

But it can be done. When we have a positive attitude, there can be no barrier too high, no dream unachievable and no challenge too insurmountable. We spend too much time in fretting over the things that can’t be changed, and not enough on the one thing that we can change- our choice of attitude.

With each new dawn, there is delivered to our door a fresh new package called today.

Enjoy it most.

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Power of Faith

If you believe in yourself, you can accomplish anything.
There is no muscle stronger than implicit faith.
It’s a power much greater than one can imagine.

Anonymous

During a crucial battle, a British officer decided to attack even though his army was greatly outnumbered. He was sure that they would win, but his men were filled with doubt.

On the way to the battle they stopped at a church. After praying with his soldiers, the general took out a coin and said, “I shall now toss this coin. If it is heads, we shall win. If it is tails we shall lose.

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Explore Your Memories

Who you are today, your personality and your values, depends on the past events that shaped you. You can always find connections between a present thought or feeling and a past event, no matter how far away it might seem.

Explanations for present events can be found by going through some memories, and this practice shows you how to do that. By trying this you will be able to reinterpret yourself, by learning not to judge your actions but to accept and understand them. Read more

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A Lesson For Happiness

Long ago I learnt one lesson and I want you to accompany me in spreading it.
Here it goes

“Remove the sting; remove the whine; remove the sigh”. They are never conducive to happiness.

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Singleness of Purpose-Part II

He thus supported himself, during his college career, entirely by his own earnings as a factory workman, never having received a farthing of help from any other source. “Looking back now,” he honestly said, “at that life of toil, I cannot but feel thankful that it formed such a material part of my early education; and, were it possible, I should like to begin life over again in the same lowly style, and to pass through the same hardy training.”

At length he finished his medical curriculum, wrote his Latin thesis, passed his examinations, and was admitted a licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons. At first he thought of going to China, but the war then waging with that country prevented his following out the idea; and having offered his services to the London Missionary Society, he was by them sent out to Africa, which he reached in 1840.

He had intended to proceed to China by his own efforts; and he says the only pang he had in going to Africa at the charge of the London Missionary Society was, because “it was not quite agreeable to one accustomed to worked his own way to become, in a manner, dependent upon others.”

Arrived in Africa, he set to work with great zeal. He could not brook the idea of merely entering upon the labors of others, but cut out a large sphere of independent work, preparing himself for it by undertaking manual labor in building and other handicraft employment, in addition to teaching, which, he says, “made me generally as much exhausted and unfit for study in the evenings as ever I had been when a cotton-spinner.” Read more

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Singleness of Purpose-Part I

We have all heard of the “Jack of all trades, and master of none.” Such men never win, though they may excite the admiration of the curious by their impractical versatility.

In early times, even in the early settlement of our own country, it was necessary for not only men, but women also, to be many-sided in their capacity for work; but the world’s swift advance has made this unnecessary. A farmer can now buy shoes cheaper than he could make them at home, and the farmer’s wife has no longer to learn the art of spinning and weaving.

A French philosopher in speaking of this subject says: “It is well to know something about everything, and everything about something.” That is general information is always useful, but special information is essential to special success.

The field of learning is too vast to be carefully gone over in one lifetime, and the business world is too extensive to permit any man to become acquainted with all its topography. A man may do a number of things fairly well, but he can do only one thing very well.

Often versatility instead of being a blessing is an injury. A few men like Michael Angelo in art, Benjamin Franklin in science and letters, and Peter Cooper in various departments of manufacture have succeeded in everything they undertook, but to hold these up as examples to be followed would be to make a rule of an exception.

Singleness of purpose is one of the prime requisites of success. Fortune is jealous, and refuses to be approached from all sides by the same suitor.

We have known men of marked ability, but want of purpose, who studied for the ministry and failed; who then studied law–and failed. After this they tried medicine and journalism, only to fail in each; whereas, had they stuck resolutely to one thing success would not have been uncertain. Read more

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