Don't let small minds tell you that your dreams are too Big.
Tuesday, 17 January 2017
Saturday, 14 January 2017
Story of the Day #7 | Of The Day
Laughter😄 is The Best Medicine
Many years ago, Norman Cousins was diagnosed as “terminally ill”. He was given six months to live. His chance for recovery was 1 in 500. He could see the worry, depression and anger in his life💗 contributed to, and perhaps helped cause, his disease.
He wondered, “If illness can be caused by negativity, can wellness be created by positivity?”
He decided to make an experiment of himself. Laughter was one of the most positive activities he knew. He rented all the funny movies he could find – Keaton, Chaplin, Fields, the Marx Brothers. (This was before VCRs, so he had to rent the actual films.) He read funny stories. He asked his friends to call him whenever they said, heard or did something funny.
His pain was so great he could not sleep. Laughing for 10 solid minutes, he found, relieved the pain for several hours so he could sleep.
He fully recovered from his illness and lived another 20 happy, healthy and productive years. (His journey is detailed in his book, Anatomy of an Illness.) He credits visualization, the love of his family and friends, and laughter for his recovery.
Some people think laughter is a waste of time. It is a luxury, they say, a frivolity, something to indulge in only every so often.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Laughter is essential to our equilibrium, to our well-being, to our aliveness. If we’re not well, laughter helps us get well; if we are well, laughter helps us stay that way.
Since Cousins’ ground-breaking subjective work, scientific studies have shown that laughter has a curative effect on the body, the mind and the emotions. So, if you like laughter, consider it sound medical advice to indulge in it as often as you can. If you don’t like laughter, then take your medicine – laugh anyway.
Use whatever makes you laugh – movies, sitcoms, Monty Python, records, books, cartoons, jokes, friends.
Give yourself permission to laugh – long and loud and out loud – whenever anything strikes you as funny. The people around you may think you’re strange but sooner or later they’ll join in even if they don’t know what you’re laughing about. Some diseases may be contagious, but none is as contagious as the cure. . . laughter.
Tuesday, 10 January 2017
Saturday, 7 January 2017
Story of the Day #6 | Of The Day
The loser who never gave up
When he was a little boy👦 his uncle👨 called him “Sparky”, after a comic-strip horse named Spark Plug. School🏫 was all but impossible for Sparky. He failed every subject in the eighth⑧ grade. He flunked physics in high school, getting a grade of zero. He also flunked Latin, Algebra and English. And his record in sports wasn’t any better. Though he did manage to make the school’s golf team, he promptly lost the only important match of the season. Oh, there was a consolation match; he lost that too.
Throughout his youth, Sparky was awkward socially. It wasn’t that the other students disliked him; it’s just that no one really cared all that much. In fact, Sparky was astonished if a classmate ever said hello to him outside of school hours. There’s no way to tell how he might have done at dating. He never once asked a girl out in high school. He was too afraid of being turned down… or perhaps laughed at. Sparky was a loser. He, his classmates… everyone knew it. So he learned to live with it. He made up his mind early that if things were meant to work out, they would. Otherwise he would content himself with what appeared to be his inevitable mediocrity.
One thing was important to Sparky, however — drawing. He was proud of his artwork. No one else appreciated it. But that didn’t seem to matter to him. In his senior year of high school, he submitted some cartoons to the yearbook. The editors rejected the concept. Despite this brush-off, Sparky was convinced of his ability. He even decided to become an artist.
So, after completing high school, Sparky wrote to the Walt Disney Studios. They asked for samples of his artwork. Despite careful preparation, it too was rejected. One more confirmation that he was a loser.
But Sparky still didn’t give up. Instead, he decided to tell his own life’s story in cartoons. The main character would be a little boy who symbolized the perpetual loser and chronic underachiever. You know him well. Because Sparky’s cartoon character went on to become a cultural phenomenon of sorts. People readily identified with this “lovable loser.” He reminded people of the painful and embarrassing moments from their own past, of their pain and their shared humanity. The character soon became famous worldwide: “Charlie Brown.” And Sparky, the boy whose many failures never kept him from trying, whose work was rejected again and again,… is the highly successful cartoonist Charles Schultz. His cartoon strip, “Peanuts,” continues to inspire books, T-shirts and Christmas specials, reminding us, as someone once commented, that life somehow finds a way for all of us, even the losers.
Sparky’s story reminds us of a very important principle in life. We all face difficulty and discouragement from time to time. We also have a choice in how we handle it. If we’re persistent, if we hold fast to our faith, if we continue to develop the unique talents God has given us, who knows what can happen? We may end up with an insight and an ability to inspire that comes only through hardship. In the end, there are no “losers” with God. Some winners just take longer to develop!
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Tuesday, 3 January 2017
Saturday, 31 December 2016
Story of the Day #5 | Of The Day
Different Viewpoints
A famous writer was in his study room. He picked up his pen🖊 & started writing📝:
**Last year, I had a surgery🏥 & my gall bladder was removed. I had to stay stuck to the bed due to this surgery for a long time.
**The same year I reached the age of 60 yrs & had to give up my favourite job🏢. I had spent 30 yrs of my life in this publishing company.
**The same year I experienced the sorrow of the death of my father😢.
**And in the same year my son failed in his medical exam because he had a car accident👦💥🚗. He had to stay in bed at hospital with the cast on for several days. The destruction of car was another loss.
At the end he wrote: Alas! It was such bad year!!
When the writer's wife entered the room, she found her husband looking sad lost in his thoughts. From behind his back she read what was written on the paper. She left the room silently & came back with another paper & placed it on side of her husband's writing.
When the writer saw this paper, he found this written on it:
**Last year I finally got rid of my gall bladder due to which I had spent years in pain.
**I turned 60 with sound health & got retired from my job. Now I can utilize my time to write something better with more focus & peace.
**The same year my father, at the age of 95, without depending on anyone or without any critical condition met his Creator.
**The same year, God blessed my son with a new life. My car was destroyed but my son stayed alive without getting any disability.
At the end she wrote: This year was an immense blessing of God & it passed well!!
The same incidents but different viewpoints. If we ponder with this viewpoint that what could have happened more, we would truly become thankful to the Almighty. In daily lives we must see that it’s not happiness that makes us grateful but gratefulness that makes us happy.
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Tuesday, 27 December 2016
Thought of the Day #47 | Of The Day
If you want something you never had
You have to do something you've never done.
Saturday, 24 December 2016
Story of the Day #4 | Of The Day
The Dirty Laundry
A young couple💑 moved into a new neighborhood.
"That laundry is not very clean", she said, "she doesn't know how to wash correctly☑. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap." Her husband looked on, but remained silent. Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same comments.
About one month later, the woman was surprised😲 to see a nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband:
"Look👁! She has learnt how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this."The husband said: "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows!🌆".
And so it is with life:
"What we see when we are watching others, depends on the purity of the window through which we look. Before we give any criticism, it might be a good idea to check our state of mind and ask ourselves if we are ready to see the good rather than to be looking for something in the person we are about to judge."
"Our life is a creation of our mind…"
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Tuesday, 20 December 2016
Saturday, 17 December 2016
Story of the Day #3 | Of The Day
Reaching Goals!🎯
One
day a son👦 came to his father👨 for an advice:
Dad, I can’t do it, - he said, - those practices only
exhaust me, and the result doesn’t change. It must be not destined for me to
play football⚽ and my dream will never come true.
The father looked at his son with loving eyes👀 and said:
You know son, every person in life has a
dream, a goal🎯, a wish. They are the ones who make us do what we are doing,
because it’s what we should do. We have to fight for what we believe in, what
we feel. In other case, you will simply break. Once - and for all. As thought
you were never there. The easiest way is to quit everything and not go until
the end, because the path is difficult and we are not used to inconveniences.
We want everything to be easy and at once. But the wishes are fleeting! This is
how our dream dies, and the goal becomes unreachable. Gradually, life becomes a
routine without depth and meaning.
"Life goes on! Your biggest enemies are
hiding in you
– laziness, fear, doubt, indecision.
Be a warrior of your dream,
a knight of your goal and a soldier of your wishes."
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