DEEPEST SENSE

RELAX

You can't and you shouldn't work all the time. You need to relax. Include others in your fun,especially your family: but be secure in yourself.

Enjoy yourself in the deepest sense.

Be active. You have God- given powers. You can walk. You can read. You can write. You can choose to bike ski, swim, play golf or tennis.. You might want to think jog, study the stars or flowers, pray, plant a garden take it easy all day.

But make it special. Why settle for a dull routine?

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LEARN SOMETHING

SPEAK OUT

Express yourself. Let your actions speak for you. Don't hoard what you are. Share.
Learn something new every day. And practice the other things you already know how to do. Don't allow yourself to be limited to a few things. Be alert.


Choose challenge, respond, appreciate, Do things for yourself. Choose to do them. Wait on yourself.


If you were on a desert island, you would do things for yourself. You would become very creative in order just to survive.


Why not do that surviving at home with a touch of class only you can give to the process?

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YOU ARE SPECIAL

BE BEAUTIFUL

Yes, you are beautiful. And your physical beauty counts. Maybe you aren't Miss America. Maybe 

you aren't the hand somest guy in town. But you have your own good looks. You are you. you are special.

Goodness and love have a way of making very ordinary persons - whether pudgy or skinny- look extremely attractive.

Don't ever be discouraged. It's the real you who is wearing those clothes and those colors with that happy posture and that expression of being glad you're alive.

Recognize your own beauty. Say to yourself"I'm beautiful" or "I' m handsome."Mean it.

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SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS

BLOOM You are someone else's environment. Looking at you may be the only beauty that person has to enjoy. So as the saying goes " Bloom where you are planted." Be a perennial. Perennials keep on blooming year after year no questions asked. Wild flowers bloom. In Texas the bluebonnets make springtime enchanting. In California it's the poppies. In your house it's you. Share your thoughts and dreams and enthusiasms. Ask others what theirs are, so they can share with you. That's mental cross-pollination. Smile as you listen. Joy is to others what sunshine is to plants.

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YOUR CHALLENGES

WRITE YOUR OWN SCRIPT The script of your life is still being writen. You are the author. Write it the way you want it to be. Of course you have challenges. If you had nothing to overcome, how could you be great? Suppose at this moment you were told to write your own obituary. Are you satisfied with your life's work ? If not remember your life is not finished. Today is just a point in time for you. Begin again. You still have the power to become your own best self. Mistakes can be wiped out. Remember, it is never too late. Never! Take your pulse. you are still alive aren't you?   Thank God for your challenges and forge ahead.

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EXACTLY LIKE YOU

STAY SPECIAL Of course you want to be special. Everyone does. That's as natural as breathing and just as legitimate. And here is the good news. You already are special! You are unique. You are one of a kind. No one in the whole world ever has been or ever will be exactly like you. And you're not finished. you are growing. you are in the process of becoming more and more special. The materials of life are all around you. You can use them to grow. To become more fully yourself. Your best self. Your unique self. Not someone else. Not a clone. But you. So let yourself grow. This very moment is your unrepeatable chance to become the person God created you to be. You have only one life. Time is short. Yesterday is over. Live today. Stay special by letting yourself grow. Begin now!

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Your Creator Is So Amazing

Appreciate your

Creator

Your Creator is so amazing, imaginative, charming, alive, fantastic, and loving that you can never appreciate him properly. But you can begin.

      You can talk and listen to him, worship and thank him, laugh with, ask, and love him for all you are worth. And remember, you are worth a lot -- especially to him. You exist because he loves you. Without him there would be no yesterday, today, or tomorrow for you. He loves you at this very moment.

       All this may make you so happy that you get lost on cloud nine. But come on down and be practical in your appreciation. Do the things he said to do. Think the thoughts he said to think. Be the wonderful you he wants you to be. That's real appreciation, and that's reason enough for you to let yourself grow.

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Just For Fun Sometime

Appreciate yourself

Just for fun some time, imagine that you are a gift you have sent to yourself. Suppose you were all crated up in straw like a beautiful piece of sculpture. United Parcel delivers this gift to you.

       As you remove the wooden slats and straw to uncover the artwork which is you, You see that this artistic marvel is alive and breathing, has a marvelous future, is fun to be with, is both practical and creative, has unlimited potential.

That's you. You really are a gift to yourself.

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Do Something Extraordinarily

Walk That

Extra Mile

Do something extraordinarily nice for someone who doesn't even know who you are. And the next time someone asks you to do something, do even more that is asked. Walk that extra mile.

       Maybe a lot of people will start asking you to do things for them when they hear about this. But don't worry. You will know when it is time to limit your efforts.

 

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The World Is Big

Keep Your

World Big

Travel and see as much of the world as you can. Do this in reality or in imagination. See how big and wonderful the world is. Don't confine yourself to four bare walls.

        Look at the people. Realize that you now have your chance to bring something special to this world and to these peioople.

      

          The astronauts went to the moon. But you don't have to go anywhere to make your contribution. You already are somewhere. And when you travel you return to this "somewhere" which is home for you. You have your own special place in this big world.

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Why Be Bored?

Be Bored

Why be bored? There are millions of things to know and to explore. You'll never exhaust them: atoms, deep-sea life, wild flowers, pinecones, space, amber, poetry, histry, music, what happens in your mind and heart when you love someone.

             The more you learn, the more there is to learn. One lifetime is far too short to learn and to experience everything.

Boredom is not only unnecessary, it's ridiculous.

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Live Your Beliefs

Be a Doer

Live your beliefs. Talking about the Bible or love or commitment will count for little unless your contemporaries can see you silhouetted against the skyline, acting out your beliefs.

          Be a believer and a doer. Look at your options. Go even beyond them and create new options. But don't overextend yourself. Just be open to life's opportunities.

Act in a fully human way.

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Your Life HAs a Pattern

Treasure your

Achievements

Your life has a pattern. Look back at the moments of grace in your life, the turning points that gave you an entirely new direction.

           Look at the decisions you have make that added a new dimension to your life. Treasure the people and events that intensified these moments of time.

          This is your history. Take courage. You're doing all right. Go forward toward your goals.

           But if, as you look at the past, it seems that everything has gone wrong and you have little to show for even your best efforts, take courage just the same. Begin now. From that dark background a bright pattern will emerge. It is never too late.

           

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Think Before You Act

Edit Your Life

A wise old grandmother once said, "Don't do or say anything you wouldn't want to see on page one of tomorrow's newspaper."

         Whether or not your actions ever become the focus of a television interview, the theme of a newspaper article, or the sunject matter of a best-selling book, they are still your very own feature story.

        Think before you act. Edit your life before it goes to press.

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Be Tough When You Have To Be Tough

Be Tough --

but Gentle

Be tough when you have to be tough. don't submit to wrong. Don't believe lies. Don't let life cut you down.

         But be gentle too. Be gentle with yourself. Be gentle with others. Be gentle with the little sprigs of Kindness that you see springing up in yourself and others.

           Nurture the good you see in yourself no matter how small its beginning. And nurture the good in others.

Look for the flowers, not the weeds.

 

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Your Health Depends On You

Stay Well

Your health depends a lot on you. You are helping to fashion yourself. What you eat, the exercise you take, the amount of sleep you get, the worry you burden your self with, the joy of heart you allow yourself, the love you put into life -- all these affect your health.

          Be wise. Keep the junk food out of your body. Keep the junk thoughts out of your mind. Keep the junk actions out of today.

           Be healthy. Eat nourishing food. Think positive thoughts. Do the things that are worth doing.

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Suppose God Will Present you ?

Value Your Time

Suppose God were to be fifteen minutes late in giving you this present moment, but didn't bother to tell you. What would happen to you? Would you be frozen in space while you were waiting? Would you be able to breathe? Would you disappear?

        Is he ever late in delivering your time to you? Is it ever true for you to say you didn't have time for something? Isn't time exactly what you do have? 

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Keep Track Of Things

Be Sharp

Sharp pencils make clear lines. Sharp wits make clear decisions. Try to understand the events that are happening in your life. Keep track of things.

          Know when you are in danger of making a big mistake. Talk to someone with experience and wisdom.

           When you note that you are in danger of losing a good friend or in danger of losing your own integrity, take action. Be sharp. Stand back and try to see things as clearly as possible.

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Be Alert!

See the Whole

Picture

When you are trying to decide between one thing and another, put on your fifty year glasses. Look closely at whatever it is.

         If it seems to you that fifty years from now it really won't matter whether you bought a green sweater or a red one, whether you ate a hamburger or a bot dog, why make a big thing of it now? Keep things in perspective.

          But while you are doing this, don't forget about others, What you think is unimportant may be very mportant to someone else. Be alert.

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The Best Thing About The World

Be Faithful

The best thing about the world is the people in it An empty world is hard to imagine and not very appealing.

 

             People mean something to you and you to them. Be faithful to your wife or husband, to your chioldren, to parents, your brothers and sisters, to the rest of your family.

             Be faithful to your friends. And be faithful to God. He is your best friend. Don't let him down for some little trifle of the moment.

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