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Sunday, September 26, 2010

There is always a solution (Posted by Priya Deelchand)

    Wishing to encourage her young son's progress on the piano, 
  a mother took her boy to a Paderewski concert. 
  
    After they were seated, the mother spotted a friend in the 
  audience and walked down the aisle to greet her. Seizing the 
  opportunity to explore the wonders of the concert hall, the 
  little boy rose and eventually explored his way through a door 
  marked "NO ADMITTANCE." 
  
    When the houselights dimmed and the concert was about to begin, 
  the mother returned to her seat and discovered that the child was 
  missing. Suddenly, the curtains parted and spotlights focused on 
  the impressive Steinway on stage. 
  
    In horror, the mother saw her little boy sitting at the keyboard, 
  innocently picking out "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."
  
    At that moment, the great piano master made his entrance, quickly 
  moved to the piano, and whispered in the boy's ear, "Don't quit. 
  Keep playing." Then leaning over, Paderewski reached down with 
  his left hand and began filling in a bass part. Soon his right arm 
  reached around to the other side of the child and he added a 
  running obbligato. 
  
    Together, the old master and the young novice transformed a 
  frightening situation into a wonderfully creative experience. 
  And the audience was mesmerized. 
  
    Whatever our situation in life and history--however outrageous, 
  however desperate, DON'T QUIT. There is always a solution.
  You have the power to transform any problem into a way to
  mesmerize your audience...


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Posted by Priya Deelchand

The Smiling Old Lady (Posted by Priya Deelchand)

   I know a smiling old lady, who says she has made 
  it a life habit to expect, every morning when she 
  awakes, to have a glorious day. 
  
    She says she looks toward the coming day as she 
  would toward a journey she was taking, and she is 
  always expecting some new delight, some wonderful 
  experience. 
  
    She says that the very thought that the day holds 
  beautiful things in store for those who expect them, 
  for those who believe they are coming to them, has 
  been a constant inspiration. 
  
    It has helped to bring her the very things she expects.
  
    If we want to be happy, we must hold the mental 
  attitude which will produce happiness. If we want 
  to be strong, we must refuse to harbor these forebodings, 
  these pet superstitions, these haunting fears which 
  weaken us. 
  
    We must flood our minds with such a current of faith 
  and courage and expectation, that there will not be 
  room for the negative thoughts. 
  
    We must march straight ahead secure in that faith 
  which casted out fear.
  
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Posted by Priya Deelchand

Trust Yourself (Posted by Priya Deelchand)

A young man, a graduate of a large university, after searching 
  for several months for a job, became discouraged. 
  
    He was too proud to ask for assistance. He had worked his way 
  through college and had no reserve capital; he had practically 
  nothing but his diploma and his courage; and now his courage had 
  left him. 
  
    He had gone 2 days without food, and had been obliged to give up 
  his room because he couldn't pay his rent. He had slept upon a park 
  bench for several nights. It seemed to him that the bottom had 
  dropped out of everything. He didn't see any use in a college 
  education, and felt that the world didn't have any use for him 
  or any place for him. 
  
    He was completely obsessed by discouragement, and by a frightful 
  fit of the "blues," which had stuck by him for days, balking his 
  efforts at hunting for a job. He couldn't see any light in the future, 
  or any prospects ahead. 
  
    He had a horror of finally drifting into the ranks of the unfit 
  and the failures. His clothes became faded and wrinkled from 
  constant wear without change. He couldn't keep himself in a 
  presentable condition, and he was turned down everywhere. 
  
    At last he got a job washing dishes in a cheap restaurant, which 
  at least provided him with his meals; but he continued to sleep in 
  the park.
  
    One night, in the midst of his wretchedness, he had a sort of 
  vision. He saw emblazoned in letters of fire across the sky these 
  words:  
  
                          "Trust yourself." 
  
    He slept no more that night. At dawn he got up from the bench, 
  went to a watering trough and washed his face and hands and shaved 
  himself as best he could. He made friends with a bootblack who 
  allowed him to polish his shoes. 
  
    Then he set forth determined to get a position that very day. 
  Fortified by his vision he did not go slinking into any office 
  as though he had been a thief; but he entered with an air of 
  confidence, of expectation. 
  
    There was grit in his very expression. 
  
    That day he got a place. 
  
    It was not what he wanted, but it was something, an opening wedge. 
  Best of all, he had solved a problem; he had learned the great 
  lesson of trusting himself, of believing in his own powers. 
  
    The vision of that night never left him.
  
    This young man has climbed to an enviable position today, and 
  he says he owes it all to his vision, "Trust yourself." All his 
  early life he had been a victim of diffidence. He had suffered 
  greatly in school and college. 
  
    The calling of his name for recitation was like sticking a knife 
  into him. He had never dared get up in any public meeting. 
  
    It paralyzed him to think of being singled out, of having attention 
  called to him. Although he had ability, he gradually became so 
  disheartened that he didn't believe he could succeed under any 
  circumstances. 
  
    He accepted as a fact the estimate that discouragement pointed 
  out to him. It kept whispering to him that he could never do that 
  which he was undertaking, that there was no use in trying.
  
    But once with his feet on the upgrade, he began to awaken to 
  his powers. He began to trust himself more and more, instead of 
  standing back or relying upon others. 
  
    This self-trust has grown until now this man is so self-reliant 
  and has such a vigorous initiative, that no one would dream he had 
  ever been a victim of timidity and discouragement.
  
    The "Know yourself" of the Greek sages is but another expression 
  of this universal truth. We say today, "He can who thinks he can."
  "Didn't dare to begin" would make a good epitaph for multitudes 
  of people.
  
  "He was discouraged" is on the tombstones of countless others.



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Posted by Priya Deelchand

A true friend... (posted by Priya Deelchand)

    An ordinary friend has never seen you cry. 
  
    A true friend has had a wet shoulder from your tears. 
  
    An ordinary friend does not know your parents' first names.
  
    A true friend probably has their phone number written down 
  as well.
  
    An ordinary friend brings a bottle of wine to your party. 
  
    A true friend shows up early to help you prepare... 
  and stays late to help clean up. 
  
    An ordinary friend gets upset when you call late.
  
    A true friend asks why you weren't able to call earlier. 
  
    An ordinary friend likes to listen to your problems. 
  
    A true friend likes to help you solve them. 
  
    An ordinary friend behaves like a guest and waits to be 
  served when he or she visits. 
  
    A true friend goes to the fridge and serves himself. 
  
    An ordinary friend thinks your friendship is over after a 
  quarrel. 
  
    A true friend knows that friendships get stronger after a 
  quarrel. 
  
    An ordinary friend always expects you to be there to help out.
  
    A true friend is always there to help you out.
  
    A true friend? 
  Someone who sticks with you when everyone else abandons you. 
  
    
  "A friend is someone I can be sincere with, someone I can 
  think out loud to." 
  Ralph Waldo Emerson


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