Category: Diversity

REMEMBER

One woman complained to a friend that she couldn’t remember anything from one day to the next.

“Let me get this straight,” he said. “You can’t remember anything from one day to the next? How long has this been going on?”

She said, “How long has what been going on?”

If your memory is not what you would like it to be, it may help to focus on the few things you really need to remember.

• Remember that your presence is a present to the world.
• Remember that you are a unique and unrepeatable creation.
• Remember that your life can be what you want it to be.
• Remember to take the days just one at a time.
• Remember to count your blessings, not your troubles.
• Remember that you’ll make it through whatever comes along.
• Remember that most of the answers you need are within you.
• Remember those dreams waiting to be realized.
• Remember that decisions are too important to leave to chance.
• Remember to always reach for the best that is within you.
• Remember that nothing wastes more energy than worry.
• Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
• Remember that the longer you carry a grudge, the heavier it gets.
• Remember not to take things too seriously.
• Remember to laugh.
• Remember that a little love goes a long way.
• Remember that a lot goes forever.
• Remember that happiness is more often found in giving than getting.
• Remember that life’s treasures are people, not things.
• Remember that miracles can still happen.

— Author Unknown — Sent in by Andrew Ho — Malaysia

TABLE SET FOR TWO

A woman, by her husband’s bed,
Could only watch as he slowly died.
With tears streaming down her face she cried,
“Are You here God? Tell me why?!”

“Sweetheart”, her husband uttered,
“I have something I want to say to you…
Remember that night I asked for your hand,
At that table just set for two?”

“Of course I do,” she replied,
“That was the happiest day of my life.
You were so nervous that you cut your steak,
Using the butter knife!”

He wiped the tears from her tired eyes,
Kissed her hand and then gently smiled.
“Remember the talks on those long walks,
When it seemed we’d go for miles?”

She grinned at him as she touched his face.
“Yes, so please don’t ever leave me!”
“I won’t my love,” he softly replied,
“And so there’s something I want you to see.”

With all the strength that he had left,
He took a picture off the bedroom stand.
“When I’m gone please look at this,”
As he placed it in her God-sent hand.

She never got to say good-bye,
As her husband had passed away that night,
But she had the picture that he’d given her,
And to this she forever held tight.

While years have passed,
The yellowed photograph reminds her of his smile
And the talks and those long walks,
When it seemed they’d go for miles.

The picture is of him and her,
The one that led to her saying, “I do.”
It was taken by a waiter one night,
At that table just set for two.
— Copyright © 2000 Brian G. Jett

Twelve Points On Attitude

1. It is your attitude at the beginning of a task more than anything else that will determine your success or failure.

2. It is your attitude towards life that will determine life’s attitude towards you. Despite many people’s belief to the contrary, life plays no favorites.

3. You control your attitude. If you are negative it is because you have decided to be negative and not because of other people or circumstances.

4. Act as if you have a good attitude. Remember actions trigger feelings just as feelings trigger actions.

5. Before a person can achieve the kind of results he wants, he must first become that person. He must then think, walk, talk, act and conduct himself in all of his affairs, as would the person he wishes to become.

6. Treat everybody as the most important person in the world.

7. Attitudes are based on assumptions. In order to change attitudes one must first change one’s assumptions.

8. Develop the attitude that there are more reasons why you should succeed than reasons why you should fail.

9. When you are faced with a problem, adopt the attitude that you can and will solve it.

10. We become what we think about. Control your thoughts and you will control your life.

11. Radiate the attitude of confidence, of well being, of a person who knows where he is going. You will then find good things happening to you right away.

12. In order to develop a good attitude, take charge first thing in the morning. Do you say, “Good morning, Lord” or “Good Lord, morning?”

Read these twelve points every day for the next thirty days
and see how your life changes.

ATTITUDES ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN FACTS

— Sent in by Helene Gerber — Western Cape, South Africa

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