The Family Goes to Village

One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the village with the express purpose of showing him how poor people live.
They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family.

On their return from their trip, the father asked his son, “How was the trip?”

“It was great, Dad.”

“Did you see how poor people live?” the father asked.

“Oh yeah,” said the son.

“So, tell me, what you learned from the trip?” asked the father.

The son answered:
“I saw that we have one dog and they had four.

We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end.

We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night.

Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon.

We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond our sight.

We have servants who serve us, but they serve others.

We buy our food, but they grow theirs.

We have walls around our property to protect us, they have friends to protect them.”

The boy’s father was speechless.

Then his son added, “Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are.”

Isn’t perspective a wonderful thing? Makes you wonder what would happen if we all gave thanks for everything we have, instead of worrying about what we don’t have.

Appreciate every single thing you have God has blessed you with, especially your sincere friends!


“Life is too short and friends are too few.”

Try Something Different

Most people are stuck right where they are. The reason they're stuck,
however, isn't usually due to circumstances, incompetence, or lack of
opportunity, but a simple unwillingness to change, to try new things.
   
We can make smaller, inner changes on a day-to-day, moment to moment
basis - changes in our attitude, reactions, and expectations. I'm talking
about being willing to take new risks, and face old fears.

Over and over again I hear people saying things like "I've always done
things that way" or "That's just the type of person I am." These things are
said as if they are carved in stone. It is amazing what you can learn by
simply opening your mind and trying new things.

 Starting today, tell yourself that you are going to do something, however
small, a little differently. Perhaps you can be more friendly to the people
you work with. Maybe it's not too late to overcome your fear of asking
others to help you, or for their advice whoever you are, whatever you do,
there is always something you can do a little differently.

 You may find that you love the tiny changes you make and that you can open
exciting new doors by making relatively small adjustments. If you're okay
with the changes, you might want to try some other changes as well.

9 self-created rules in order to stray positive and live a stress free life

1-      I must develop the power of not looking back in the past to read the old chapters of life again and again because I cannot go back to my past to fix things. Whatever has happened has happened. Now is the time to review the lessons learnt once and then focus on to improve my present and future.  

2-      I have to stay away from negative souls which means I have to avoid spending time with people doing backbiting, criticizing, cursing, complaining, conspiring, corrupting and complicating.

3-      I have to stop judging others for their actions. I must mind my own business instead of interpreting their actions and commenting in negative way. Thinking and speaking about others pollutes my thoughts and steals my peace of mind.
4-      I must develop the habit of gratitude. Which means that at the end of each day I must refresh the fact that I am better than billions of the people of the world. Being healthy, not in debt, sleeping on the bed, eating 3 times a day and using internet are the great blessings billions of people don’t enjoy. People possessing high level of gratitude strengthen positive powerful thoughts.  
5-      I must spend time in reading good books, visiting websites on positivity, liking Facebook pages containing quotes and reading inspirational stories on daily basis. This will help remove negative impurities from my personality and empower my positive personality trait.

 

6-      I must stop being explosive and reactive to people and situations. I must stay positive about other’s feelings and respect their opinions because every soul is unique in thinking so I should avoid imposing my thoughts to others. I must confess the fact that I can be wrong at times so understanding other’s perspective be being empathic is very important for me to avoid building stress reducing my self-positivity-index.

7-      I must be positive about my circumstances even if they are not so good. I have to understand the fact that time does not stop so I have to start taking the necessary actions to expedite the change process. One thousand plans cannot be equal to the power of one great step taken right now!!!
8-      I must of focus on spiritual awakening acts such as a) frequent attacks of smiling, loss of ability in conflicts, loss of ability to judging others, ability to react to things as they happen instead of living in fears and so on.  

 

9-      I must focus on improving the quality of my thoughts because quality of thoughts determine the level of peace of mind.