"WE HAVE CHOICES IN LIFE- DON'T EVER FORGET THAT!!!"

"WE HAVE CHOICES IN LIFE- DON'T EVER FORGET THAT!!!"
“Here is something that appeared in Harper's Weekly:
‘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.
C-2005 J, Carinci
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