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Daily self-motivation

I view the development of affairs with an optimistic attitude.

Daily short articles: Two stories

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A sad businessman came to the wise old man.

"Sir, I am in urgent need of your help. Although I am very rich, everyone treats me coldly. Life is really like a fight full of intrigues."

" Then stop fighting," the old man replied.

The businessman felt at a loss for such a warning, and he left the old man disappointed. Over the next few months, he fell into a bad mood, arguing and fighting with everyone around him, and made many enemies as a result. A year later, he became physically and mentally exhausted and could no longer compete with others.

"Hey, sir, I don't want to fight with you now. But life is still so heavy---it's such a heavy burden."

"Then you can Take off the burden," the old man replied.

The businessman was very angry at this answer and walked away angrily. Over the next year, his business suffered setbacks and he eventually lost all his possessions. His wife left him with the children, and he became impoverished and isolated, so he once again asked the old man for advice.

"Sir, I have nothing now, I have nothing, and there is only sadness in my life."

"Then don't be sad." The businessman seems to have expected this. This time he was neither disappointed nor angry, but chose to stay in a corner of the mountain where the old man lived.

One day he suddenly felt sad and burst into tears - crying for days, weeks, and even months.

Finally, his tears dried up. He raised his head, and the warm morning sun was shining on the earth. So he came to the old man again.

"Sir, what is life?"

The old man looked up at the sky and replied with a smile: "When you wake up, it's a new day. Didn't you see that?" Is the sun rising every day? "

Is life heavy? Or is it easy? It all depends on how we look at it. You will encounter all kinds of troubles in life. If you can't get rid of them, they will accompany you like a shadow, and life will become a heavy burden. "When you wake up, it's a new day. Doesn't the sun rise as usual every day?" Let go of worries and worries, and life can be so simple.

2.

There was an old mother who had three children. Two daughters were extremely capable and filial, and one son was somewhat incompetent.

The two daughters often gave their old mother money to buy delicious food, but the old mother loved her grandson very much, so she often gave the money given by her daughter to her son and asked him to give it to her grandson. The grandson buys food.

The neighbor was so angry that she told her eldest daughter the secret. The eldest daughter said that she gave her mother money just to make her mother happy. She could spend it however she wanted. If her mother saves the money for her son and grandson, If it can bring her happiness and dignity, then the money will be well spent. The old mother was very happy after hearing what her eldest daughter said. She said that watching her grandson eat it was much more popular than her own.

A month later, the second daughter came back. She was very angry after knowing the secret, so she stayed at home every day to teach her old mother, and asked her to buy food and drink for herself, and she must I had to watch her eat it, and the old mother was so angry that she couldn't eat anything, and finally died of depression. "

A person is happiest when he has what he wants. Among all things in life, people's wishes are the most important.

What is the most important thing in a person’s life? When a person does a good deed, others may consider whether it is worth it. Is the effort rewarded? However, these are not important. A person is happiest when he has what he wants. Among all things in life, people's wishes are the most important.

Daily book excerpt: "Positive action" is a good way to deal with adversity

There is a friend who encounters misfortune one after another. Let's call him Herod here. His misfortune was great enough to take a man's life. But he had a strong faith and faced the hardships that attacked him with a strong attitude. He can think calmly and will not emotionally blame others for things that go wrong. And I think that the cause of a lot of suffering is myself.

He said: "A person should realize that he will always encounter pain several times in his life."

He thought about his situation strictly and rationally, exhausting himself. Think carefully about finding better ways, analyze your own mistakes, and then eliminate them. Indeed, he did everything a smart man could think of. But the thought of disappointment still clung to him. He was slowly and completely defeated by disappointment. Disappointment seeped into his controlling mind and began to corrode his strong faith. It was at this point that he suddenly took "corrective action," not his term, nor mine, but a phrase I often borrow from my friend Jim Knapp. That is to say, no matter what kind of failure situation you want to get rid of, you must take corrective actions with tolerance and the guidance of trying faith. The key is "action". It’s important to take the right actions to correct mistakes. The question is not what will happen to you, but how to think about what happens to you. If you can be objective rather than emotional, and think positively and correctly instead of negatively, you will be able to take corrective actions with strong will.

Thinking can influence what happens in the mind with the power of will. The accumulation of dark thoughts will create a spiritual atmosphere of frustration and depression, so it is entirely up to you to keep this matter in your heart or discard it.

This is the realistic conclusion my friend came to. Say to the disappointed command:

"Get out of my heart!"

This will really be the result. Of course, you will encounter resistance, but as long as you face it with a firm will, you can eventually overcome disappointment. He said proudly: "What I took was a completely ordinary and ancient action. I am disgusted by the dissatisfaction or self-pity that often occurs in people who think nothing. I just want action, action and action! Corrective action! ”

“Can you tell me what kind of action to take? What exactly is the corrective action?” I asked him.

The first thing he took was physical action.

He no longer sat there in despair, thinking passively in his mind: "Why did I end up in this situation?" Instead, he went outdoors to walk or swim, and he also started playing golf again. . Such actions remove pressure from the brain centers responsible for thinking and shift oneself from thinking to action.

Soon his mind became clearer, his mental state gradually improved, his blood circulation became smoother, and his heart function was strengthened. All kinds of ideas started to spring up in my mind. One day he finally said happily: "I got rid of my disappointment."

He regained his original vitality. Although it didn't happen in a short period of time, it returned to its original vitality faster than imagined.

As long as positive actions with strong corrective power are taken, the situation can be improved. After physical action, mental and thought processes will also be significantly improved.

He faced every problem and difficulty and thought about what everything could teach him. At this time, he also reached the state of thinking described in the famous saying of W. Clermont Stone that I quoted elsewhere: "Every adversity has its relative advantages."

After he understood the truth that good and evil depended on each other, everything no longer seemed so bad. Things were starting to look up for him too. The feeling of powerlessness caused by a negative attitude is completely eliminated by a positive attitude and action.