A celebration of life and love

Here is a story that is attributed to Socrates about how to handle negative people giving you “news”.

One day, a man rushed up to Socrates saying, “I have some news to tell you!”

Socrates put up his hand up to the excited man.

“First, let me ask you three questions,” said Socrates.

“Ah, er, OK,” said the man.

“Is the news you are about to tell me something that you personally know to be true?”

“Well, no,” was the reply. “I heard it from a good source, though.”

“Then, lets go to the second question,” Socrates said. “Is the news you want to tell me about someone that you know personally?”

Again the reply was “well, no.” And he went on “but I think you know the person.”

“I see” said Socrates. “Then let me ask you one final question. Is this news positive or negative.”

“Well, it is negative.”

“Let me see,” said Socrates. “You want to tell me some news that you don’t know personally to be true about someone that you do not personally that is negative.”

“Well, it sounds bad when you put it like that.”

“I think that I will pass,” said Socrates.

If we ask these questions about news our friends want to share, and follow the suggestion of Socrates, we will feed our minds a lot better information.

One of the easiest and quickest ways to start improving and changing your life is to do something that you’ve always done a little differently. It doesn’t have to even be related to the goal that you may have in mind.

The idea of making changes in your life is to get things rolling. To get things moving along, try changing small things in your life today.

Have you ever arrived at work or home and not remembered how you’ve gotten there? This is not only a scary notion, but it can also can be a great lesson that you should become aware of your surroundings. Look around you realize how how your daily life may be getting in the way of your self-improvement.

Here are some simple suggestions to help change up your routine today:

• Change your route to work
• Eat a meal during a different time of day (i.e. eat breakfast at dinnertime)
• Change the order or time of your exercise routine
• Get up a little earlier or later than you normally do
• Do some different chores around the house or ignore chores that you always do

The real point of this exercise is for you to realize that while we may feel comfortable in our lives, it can be that this comfort, the ‘settling’, that might be getting in the way of the changes that we want or need to make.

Start making the bigh changes in your life right now by changing some other, not-as-important parts of your life. You will be surprised at how different the world looks. You will start to believe that bigger changes are indeed very possible.

Life is as good as I allow it to be.

In the next few days, I will be giving you some suggestions to change your life.

If you have a dull life or one that does not get your juices going, some of these things will help.

If you just want to add a little spark or get some new ideas, these items might just be what you are looking for.

They are suggestions that I consider on a daily basis.

And remember, Life is as good as you allow it to be.

One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry.

He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door.

Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water! . She thought he looked hungry so brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it so slowly, and then asked, How much do I owe you?”

You don’t owe me anything,” she replied. “Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a kindness.”
He said … “Then I thank you from my heart.”

As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but his faith in God and man was strong also. He had been ready to give up and quit.

Many year’s later that same young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where they called in specialists to study her rare disease.

Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes. Immediately he rose and went down the hall of the hospital to her room.

Dressed in his doctor’s gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once.

He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life. From that day he gave special attention to her case.

After a long struggle, the battle was won.

Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it, then wrote something on the edge and the bill was sent to her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked, and something caught her attention on the side of the bill. She read these words ….

“Paid in full with one glass of milk”
(Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly.

Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart prayed: “Thank You, God, that Your love has spread broad through human hearts and hands.”

There’s a saying which goes something like this: Bread cast on the waters comes back to you. The good deed you do today may benefit you or someone you love at the least expected time. If you never see the deed again at least you will have made the world a better place - And, after all, isn’t that what life is all about?

Life is as good as I allow it to be.

Clear the Economic Fear - EFT with Brad Yates