“Here is something that appeared in Harper’s Weekly: (from my book)
‘It’s a gloomy moment in the history of our country.
Not in the lifetime of most men has there been so
much grave and deep apprehension.
The domestic economic situation is ...in chaos. The
dollar is weak around the world. Prices are so high as to
be utterly impossible.
The political caldron seethes and bubbles with
uncertainty. Russia hangs as usual like a cloud - dark
and silent upon the horizon. It’s a solemn moment. Of
our troubles, no man can see the end.’
Does that sound familiar? Well, that article was
written in October 1857, just four years before the
Civil War. There were poor crops, bank closures, social
problems, business failures and government debts.”
There will always be negative situations, events, and
attitudes surrounding you. The world and the people in it
are not perfect. Negatives can become “good” or “useful,”
if those negatives motivate you to change your negatives
into positive results and to accomplish something great.
Negativity always has to be kept in proper prospective.
Learning to overcome life’s problems and setbacks will
help you to reach a new greatness. Strive to be different and
greater than your setbacks.
Does the average person give in to defeat and negativity?
How can you be different? How can you be successful? Start
by minimizing the attention you give to worrying.
There’s a great saying: “Don’t sweat the small stuff,
and it’s all small stuff.”
Abundance of Opportunities
Consider, too, how times have improved over the
centuries. If you lived in the 1700s, it might take you three
days to go 300 miles. It’s no wonder that many people grew
up living and dying in the same general area where they
were born, having seldom traveled.
Ben Franklin was different. At the early age of
seventeen, he set out to find a life for himself. He left
Boston, his birthplace, and hitched aboard a ship headed to
New York, a very rough three-day trip in his day. Unable to
secure work, he moved on to Philadelphia, where he started
his new life.
Today, you can simply take a jet plane to a warm climate
within hours. It’s a better life by far than what life was like
two or three hundred years ago. Also, what we consider
toys today, were unthinkable fifty years ago. Today you can
buy your son or daughter a $1,000 computer toy. Some toy!
If you wanted to, you could drive a car from New York
to beautiful Florida. You have the freedom to travel. Nice
country, America, isn’t it?
You don’t have to ask permission to leave your home.
There is no immediate threat of attack from a foreign
country; no tanks are in our streets fighting a war. I imagine
this is the best time in the history of America when there
has been this much freedom and money so easy to come
by.
Today is a great time to be alive. You can go or do almost
anything you wish. I know people who quit their jobs and
take off for months to do whatever they want, while they
live off their savings.
You have the freedom and the opportunity to choose
to do whatever you wish, at anytime you wish to do it. Few
other countries in the world offer you as many opportunities
to be great and to excel as America does.
In 1915, you had to be rich to own an automobile. Now,
some families have four cars, most of which are fairly new.
We have food in such abundance in this country; so much
so that obesity is becoming a severe problem. There are fast
food restaurants providing meals for only ninety-nine cents.
Food is affordable.
With the abundance of opportunities around us, what
you do with your life is entirely up to you. Thousands of
people are risking their lives to cross the border illegally to
have the same opportunities we have.
So many obstacles have been moved out of the way
for you. As the Army states, you can “be all that you can
be,” but you need to acquire an all-consuming “desire” for
whatever you want. Your subconscious mind has the power
to do the rest to help your conscious mind carry forth its
goal.
So, learn to use your mind as a filter in a positive way.
All the great inventors have learned to do this. They had to
filter out all the negative comments, influences and defeatist
attitudes that surround them every day. Edison had to get
past the derision of others to perfect the light bulb. He could
have chosen to give up on his inventions and be an average
person, but would we have the electric light bulb today?
What are you capable of? Will your new accomplishments
influence others and maybe the whole world?"
C-J. Carinci from the book: The Power Of Being Different
http://www.amazon.com/Power-Being-Different-success-ebook/dp/B002C75GY4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297365248&sr=1-1
‘It’s a gloomy moment in the history of our country.
Not in the lifetime of most men has there been so
much grave and deep apprehension.
The domestic economic situation is ...in chaos. The
dollar is weak around the world. Prices are so high as to
be utterly impossible.
The political caldron seethes and bubbles with
uncertainty. Russia hangs as usual like a cloud - dark
and silent upon the horizon. It’s a solemn moment. Of
our troubles, no man can see the end.’
Does that sound familiar? Well, that article was
written in October 1857, just four years before the
Civil War. There were poor crops, bank closures, social
problems, business failures and government debts.”
There will always be negative situations, events, and
attitudes surrounding you. The world and the people in it
are not perfect. Negatives can become “good” or “useful,”
if those negatives motivate you to change your negatives
into positive results and to accomplish something great.
Negativity always has to be kept in proper prospective.
Learning to overcome life’s problems and setbacks will
help you to reach a new greatness. Strive to be different and
greater than your setbacks.
Does the average person give in to defeat and negativity?
How can you be different? How can you be successful? Start
by minimizing the attention you give to worrying.
There’s a great saying: “Don’t sweat the small stuff,
and it’s all small stuff.”
Abundance of Opportunities
Consider, too, how times have improved over the
centuries. If you lived in the 1700s, it might take you three
days to go 300 miles. It’s no wonder that many people grew
up living and dying in the same general area where they
were born, having seldom traveled.
Ben Franklin was different. At the early age of
seventeen, he set out to find a life for himself. He left
Boston, his birthplace, and hitched aboard a ship headed to
New York, a very rough three-day trip in his day. Unable to
secure work, he moved on to Philadelphia, where he started
his new life.
Today, you can simply take a jet plane to a warm climate
within hours. It’s a better life by far than what life was like
two or three hundred years ago. Also, what we consider
toys today, were unthinkable fifty years ago. Today you can
buy your son or daughter a $1,000 computer toy. Some toy!
If you wanted to, you could drive a car from New York
to beautiful Florida. You have the freedom to travel. Nice
country, America, isn’t it?
You don’t have to ask permission to leave your home.
There is no immediate threat of attack from a foreign
country; no tanks are in our streets fighting a war. I imagine
this is the best time in the history of America when there
has been this much freedom and money so easy to come
by.
Today is a great time to be alive. You can go or do almost
anything you wish. I know people who quit their jobs and
take off for months to do whatever they want, while they
live off their savings.
You have the freedom and the opportunity to choose
to do whatever you wish, at anytime you wish to do it. Few
other countries in the world offer you as many opportunities
to be great and to excel as America does.
In 1915, you had to be rich to own an automobile. Now,
some families have four cars, most of which are fairly new.
We have food in such abundance in this country; so much
so that obesity is becoming a severe problem. There are fast
food restaurants providing meals for only ninety-nine cents.
Food is affordable.
With the abundance of opportunities around us, what
you do with your life is entirely up to you. Thousands of
people are risking their lives to cross the border illegally to
have the same opportunities we have.
So many obstacles have been moved out of the way
for you. As the Army states, you can “be all that you can
be,” but you need to acquire an all-consuming “desire” for
whatever you want. Your subconscious mind has the power
to do the rest to help your conscious mind carry forth its
goal.
So, learn to use your mind as a filter in a positive way.
All the great inventors have learned to do this. They had to
filter out all the negative comments, influences and defeatist
attitudes that surround them every day. Edison had to get
past the derision of others to perfect the light bulb. He could
have chosen to give up on his inventions and be an average
person, but would we have the electric light bulb today?
What are you capable of? Will your new accomplishments
influence others and maybe the whole world?"
C-J. Carinci from the book: The Power Of Being Different
http://www.amazon.com/Power-Being-Different-success-ebook/dp/B002C75GY4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297365248&sr=1-1
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