The four laws of happiness and success. (Truth Contest)
• Count your blessings.
You are rich! Together we have just counted your wealth. Study the list. Count them again. Tally your assets!
• Proclaim your rarity.
On that reasoning you are the most valuable treasure on the face of the earth, for you know who created you and there is only one of you. Never, in all the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you. Never, until the end of time, will there be another such as you.
You have shown no knowledge or appreciation of your uniqueness. Yet, you are the rarest thing in the world.
• Go another mile.
To go another mile is a privilege you must appropriate by your own initiative. For there is a pendulum to all life and the sweat you deliver, if not rewarded today, will swing back tomorrow, tenfold.
• Use wisely your power of choice.
Choose to love ... rather than hate.
Choose to laugh ... rather than cry.
Choose to create ... rather than destroy.
Choose to persevere ... rather than quit.
Choose to praise ... rather than gossip.
Choose to heal ... rather than wound.
Choose to give ... rather than steal.
Choose to act ... rather than procrastinate.
Choose to grow ... rather than rot.
Choose to pray ... rather than curse.
Choose to live ... rather than die.
And one more, to fulfill the other four. Do all things with love ... love for yourself, love for all others, and love for God.
