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Farmer Jones needed to plow his field but his plough was broken.
I know what… I’ll ask my neighbor, farmer Smith to borrow his plow. He’s a good man and he’ll certainly not mind helping me out.
So he set out across the four fields that would finally allow him to reach Smith’s farm.
He had hadly passed through the first field when he began talking to himself with negative thoughts, “I hope Smith has finished plowing because otherwise he won’t be wanting to lend me his plow.
After a few more minutes of walking and worrying, wearing now a perpetual frown he said to himself, “And what if Smith’s plow is old and on it’s last legs…he’ll never want to lend it to me.”
As he crossed the third field and they were big fields and he was growing tired…even more so because of all of his negative thoughts…he said to himself, “Smith has never been a very heopful person. I doubt if he’s going to want to lend me his plow…even if it is in perfect working order…and even if he’s finished his plowing and it is just sitting there.”
Finally, as he approaches Smith’s farm he is angry as he can be and his thoughts are bitter in their anger, “Smith is a mean old fellow and always has been. He’ll tell me “No” and enjoy telling me “No.” Probably think I ought to have taken better care of my equipment.”
With the finish to these last thoughts he has reached the front door and he begins to pound on the door. When Farmer Smith comes to the door he asks Farmer Jones what he can do for him.
Farmer Jones shouts back, “You can take your plow and keep it. I wouldn’t think of bothering you by asking if you would loan it to me.” And Farmer Jones turns on his heels and stamps away.
Fields don’t get plowed. Lives get ruined and shortened. Health gets ruined. And for all the good healthy opportunities around us…they don’t do half the good they could if our attitudes aren’t up to snuff.
I, who am writing this column, and you, who are reading it, will most likely live longer than did our ancestors. Indeed, in the last 40 years those 65 and older have increased more than fourfold.
Why?
Because we do not so often freeze in winter or boil in summer, while a growing parade of medical remedies stand ready to help us live longer and better. But if we are not careful we can get overheated by anger and freeze out possible friends by negative attitudes.
Unless we think positively and allow ourselves to enjoy silver without worrying about tarnish.
Indeed, the way to court disaster is to predict it with such phrasing as
“I’ve got to take it easy. My father had heart trouble and I’m sure it’s hereditary. ” Or “I just know I’ll die of cancer. Everybody in my family gets it. ” I call these “shower soliloquies” or “sunshine losses. ”
The power of positive thinking.
I hesitate to use the words since they have been overused but that’s the point. There’s so much power in them. Keeping a list of goals and checking them on a regular basis. Goals are indeed reasons to live by and live for. Not visualizing enemies where they don’t exist.
And who do you associate with? You will be like the ones whose shadows most often fall on you. Or that one who’s sunshine spirit enliven you.
"For myself, I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else." -Winston Churchill
"We are injured and hurt emotionally - not so much by other people or what they say or don't say - but by our own attitude and our own response." -Maxwell Maltz
"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured." -Mark Twain
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"Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it (the heart) are found the issues of life. For as a man thinketh in his heart so is he." Proverbs 4: 23, Proverbs 23: 7
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Brain Power Rather Than Brain Powerless
I often ask some older friend I haven’t spoken to for awhile, “Well, we are older, are we wiser?” Inevitably they reply “No!” and I respond back, “Oh yes, I am wiser and so are you. We haven’t wasted all this living and not learned something. ”
Yes, there is Alzheimer’s disease, but the percentage of those afflicted is small. So pull out those crossword puzzles, write that family memoir, read books as often as you CAN AND SHOULD.
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