Think positive

This is nice - finding positive out of every negative - which we don't always manage to do.


I am thankful...


1. For the husband who snores all night, because he is at home asleep with me and not with someone else.


2. For my teenage daughter who is complaining about doing dishes, because that means she is at home & not on the streets.


3. For the taxes that I pay because it means that I am employed.


4. For the mess to clean after a party because it means that I have been surrounded by friends.


5. For the clothes that fit a little too snug because it means I have enough to eat.


6. For my shadow that watches me work because it means I am out in the sunshine.


7. For a floor that needs mopping, and windows that need cleaning because it means I have a home.


8. For all the complaining I hear about the government because it means that we have freedom of speech.


9. For the parking spot I find at the far end of the parking lot because it means I am capable of walking and that I have been blessed with transportation.


10. For the noise I have to bear from my neighbours because it means that I can hear.


11. For the pile of laundry and ironing because it means I have clothes to wear.


12. For weariness and aching muscles at the end of the day because it means I have been capable of working hard.


13. For the alarm that goes off in the early morning hours because it means that I am still alive.

Think differently and positively

A blind boy sat on the steps of
a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: "I
am blind, please help." There were only a few coins in the hat.



A man was walking by. He took a
few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the
sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that
everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A
lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the
man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized
his footsteps and asked, "Were you the one who changed my sign this
morning? What did you write?"



The man said, "I only wrote
the truth. I said what you said but in a different way."

What he had written was: "Today
is a beautiful day and I cannot see it."

Do you think the first sign and
the second sign were saying the same thing?

Of course both signs told people
the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The
second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should
we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?




Moral of the Story: Be thankful
for what you have. Be creative. Be innovative. Think differently and positively.


Invite others towards good with
wisdom. Live life with no excuse and love with no regrets. When life gives
you a 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1000 reasons to smile.
Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare
for the future without fear. Keep the faith and drop the fear.


Great men say,


"Life has to be
an incessant process of repair and reconstruction, of discarding evil and
developing goodness"