Here is your Tuesday STORY on:
SELF DEVELOPMENT:
The biggest test anyone can have to aid self development is to observe how they overcome problems.
Firstly problems seem to have a never ending supply of energy and occur throughout each day. These facts we cannot alter; but we can change the way we face them.
Instead of fearing the next problem, face it with clarity of mind. Such sharpness will take the sting out of the problem and then the remainder of the difficulty will be easy to resolve.
Okay… I’m aware such suggestions are obvious, but the point remains valid because we rarely put such succinct advice into practice.
I’ve been tussling with a wobbly toilet seat for the last few months. I replaced the seat but the same problem arose again. I introduced an extra washer to the hinges in the early stages to add a bit of strength; or so I thought. The washers turned out to be too big and didn’t lay flat to the underside of the toilet basin, thus allowing the toilet seat to move slightly until it became loose.
Continually frustrated with the continuing occurrence of this problem I bought some new hinges. Strangely I had a gap in by daily schedule that allowed a two hour period of time should I need it. This allowed the task some clarity as I wasn’t trying to fit repairing the toilet seat into ten minutes.
Bingo! Allowing slack in my day had given me the clarity to see how and why the toilet seat was becoming loose. Beforehand I was trying to tighten the seat from above the toilet working blind. I find the time to look underneath to see the fastening procedure; of which I’d assumed fastened in a particular way before. Simple but now back in perfect working order. Time taken: ten minutes.
No extra time is needed just to focus your full attention. Try it on the smaller problems and see the success; you’ll be glad you did.
THINGS TO REMEMBER
I find what I look for in people. If I look for God, I find God. If I look for bad qualities, I find them. I, in a sense, select what I expect, and I receive it. A life without challenges would be like going to school without lessons to learn. Challenges come not to depress or get me down, but to master and to grow and to unfold thereby.
In the Father's wise and loving plan for me, no burden can fall upon me, no emergency can arise, no grief can overtake me, before I am given the grace and strength to meet them.
A rich, full life is not determined by outer circumstances and relationships. These can be contributory to it, but cannot be the source. I am happy or unhappy because of what I think and feel.
I can never lose anything that belongs to me, nor can I posses what is not really mine.
To never run from a problem: either it will chase me or I will run into another just like it, although it may have a different face or name.
To have no concern for tomorrow. Today is the yesterday over which I had concern.
To never bang on a closed door: Wait for it to open and then go through it.
A person who has come into my life has come either to teach me something, or to learn something from me.
(Unknown Author)
QUOTE: "Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement." (Henry Ford, 1863-1947, Founder of the Ford Motor Company)
