Because most negative thoughts concern the past or the future, the author Mark Twain said “I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.” That could have come from a natural human ability to catastrophize which means worrying about something that hasn’t happened yet and might not happen at all.  Worry, by its very nature, means thinking about the future and what may or may not happen. On the flip side of worrying is ruminating, thinking bleakly about events in the past.  What you wished had been different or what you could have done or said to get a different outcome than the one you got.  This can be quite a time waster if very much time is spent on running the various different outcomes and then comparing them to the outcome you actually got. You have the opportunity to take these two skills that are part of your everyday life and expand upon them to create some very convincing stories using the what if model in the story process.  You can use these skills to the extreme or just to add some spice to your story line for your fiction characters. That will leave you more able to remain in the present in your life savoring the things that you are experiencing and being able to do that without distraction.  This is a space that will increase your happiness significantly as you are not able to add things that are not there and can give your full attention to what is there.  That can change if need be to allow you to enjoy in the present more joy, happiness and other positive emotions which can also then be added to your story lines. Using these techniques can quickly increase your writing skills and let you add to your story lines in a more believable way.  It can take those real life skills and put them to better use than worry or ruminating and just the energy savings alone from these shifts can open the way for you to become a more effective and productive writer.

“Lord, help me to bless people today.” That’s my daily morning prayer… uh, when I’m happy. And usually, I am. But once in awhile, I don’t wake up happy. And usually, it’s because of a difficult person in my life. That’s when I pray, “Lord, how can I bless this… this… this… creature?” I’m a very patient person, so this doesn’t happen too often. But it happens. Friend, do you have a difficult person in your life? And do you sometimes want to pray, “Lord, if you will allow it, let a 50,000 megawatt bolt of lightning strike (Name of Difficult Person) right now. Not to kill him, Lord. Just enough to wake him up and give him second degree burns. Just kidding Lord, but with all due respect, what were you thinking when you created this pathological human being? I don’t want to sound offensive, but were you sleeping on the job when you created this creature? He’s a mess. He’s a composite of all the villains of Spiderman put together….” Do you sometimes wonder if this difficult person heard God in the middle of the night say, “My child, your ultimate mission in life is to be difficult. That’s the entire purpose of your existence. You shall be the thorn in someone’s flesh. Do everything in your power to annoy him. Be irresponsible. Or be demanding. Or be totally negative. Or be selfish. Or be constantly angry. Or be possessive. Or be always depressed. It doesn’t matter. Your objective is to make his life hell on earth.” Yes, I must admit that I don’t like a few unlovable characters here and there, but generally, I think the Almighty has done a fantastic job inventing human beings. I also believe that God allows difficult people to come into our lives to give us very special gifts. What could these gifts be? I’m going to try something new today. Instead of writing down what these gifts are, I’m going to ask YOU to write them on the comments below. Write your thoughts and experiences and share them to the world. Thousands will be reading them. And in my next email next week, I’ll tell you what I think they are… Cool? Thank you! May your dreams come true, Bo Sanchez PS. Join now and be blessed! I created a borderless, international, non-physical community called kerygmafamily. When you join, you receive daily Bible reflections, Kerygma magazine each month, and a mountain load of other great nourishment for your spiritual life. Plus a whole world of friends who believe in what you believe in! You can also (optional) support our ministry of sharing God’s love to as many people as possible through media evangelization and our work for the poorest of the poor. PS2. Build your wealth so you can share it! Join my powerful How To Be Truly Rich Seminar. This seminar will change your financial life. To know more about it, click here. PS3. For serious students only: Do you want to become a true millionaire? Then you need true millionaire Mentors to guide you. I’m sharing to you my very own team of millionaire Mentors! Join my Truly Rich Financial Coaching Program. For more information, click here.

Creating a blog is a great way to popularize your affiliate programs because you can achieve greater results for the affiliate program you are working with. When blogging, consider the type of people who may be surfing your blog; find out if they are looking for any specific products or related accessories and find out what it is that may inspire them to make a purchase. Using these points, start a blog that generates interest in your affiliate program. This in turn helps you to make even more money through your affiliate programs. When mentioning your affiliates within your blog try to give genuine recommendations of your products and services. Blog readers or bloggers will come back if you gain their trust and respect through your own honesty. Don’t give glowing reviews of your products expecting more sales. If you provide sincere reviews, you are sure to get more orders than with fabricated reviews. This is because everyone wants to know what exactly it is that they are buying, before buying it! It is always better to use contextual deep links. There is no point in just placing some banner ads, thinking that upon seeing this banner ad, surfers will visit the site. Contextual ads prove to be beneficial only if you advertise products that are related to the blog that you write. Place links of services or products that are relevant to the content found. It is with this tactic that your blog on affiliate programs will become profitable. When placing links of products or services of affiliate programs, make sure that the links are placed on the hotspots of pages. The hotspots of a page may be the top of the left hand side bar or at the end of your comments. Basically, the parts of a page that are most likely to be read by a surfer. Never clutter all of your affiliate programs within a single blog. Don’t use too many affiliate program links within one blog, as with this, you stand to run the risk of reducing the effectiveness of your links. With this reduction of the effectiveness of your links, you only disillusion the readership of your blog. Be as transparent as possible about your affiliate programs. Don’t attempt to trap readers into clicking on links hoping that they will buy your product or use your service. Labeling your affiliate links is not that feasible an idea for your blog. However, you will have to somehow make people know what link they are clicking on by putting a note under or beside your affiliate links. This note is just to inform what the link is; and not to force them to click on the link to make a purchase for you. However, sometimes the name of the product or service is sufficient to inform the blogger on the product or service you offer. Finally, consider combining your affiliate programs with other revenue sources on your blog. The best means of finding out the effectiveness of affiliate programs on your blog would be by using some tracking package to track which links are most effective. Find out which links sell more products, and which do not. Keeping a track of the best positions for your affiliate program links, the products that sell the most and which wording works well with your links all help in improving your affiliate program blogging strategy. Did you find this article useful? For more useful tips & hints, Points to ponder and keep in mind, techniques & insights pertaining to blogging Do please browse for more information at our website:- .bloggers-guide-to-profit.com .blogging.infozabout.com

Urinary incontinence refers to involuntary leakage of urine. Urinary incontinence is a very common problem in both men and women and is considered as a distressing problem. Urinary incontinence often makes a bad impact on the quality of one’s life. In most cases it occurs as the outcome of an underlying treatable medical condition. urinary incontinence occurs when urethral pressure inside one’s body falls and the bladder pressure rises. Medical professionals broadly categorize urinary incontinence into stress incontinence, urge incontinence, functional incontinence, overflow incontinence, structural incontinence and bedwetting. Stress incontinence, which is also known as effort incontinence occurs due to insufficient strength of the pelvic floor muscles. Loss of small amount of urine due to sneezing, coughing, laughing and other movements that rise the abdominal pressure and the bladder pressure lead to this kind of incontinence. Stress incontinence is the most common form of urinary incontinence in men. in case pof women, physical changes resulting from menopause, childbirth and pregnancy often encourage stress incontinence. Urge incontinence refers to a state when the affected person suddenly feels the urge to urinate. It is a totally involuntary loss of urine that occurs for no apparent reason. Inappropriate detrusor muscle contractions are considered as the most cause of urge incontinence. Patients of urge incontinence suffer during sleep, after drinking water and even when they touch water or hear the sound of flowing water. Functional incontinence is perhaps the most distressing of all kinds of urinary incontinence. It is a state when the affected person feels the need to urinate but cannot reach the bathroom due to poor mobility. Things like, poor eyesight, poor dexterity, confusion, dementia, anxiety, anger, unwillingness to go to the toilet due to depression are some of the major causes of functional incontinence. Overflow incontinence is a state where the affected person finds that his/her bladders are constantly dribbling even after releasing urine. It occurs when the patient’s bladder is always filled with urine leading to frequent leakage. Blocked urethra and weak bladder muscles causing incomplete emptying of the bladder lead to this kind of urinary incontinence. Diabetes, multiple sclerosis, tumors, kidney stones, injuries in the spinal cord and disorders in nervous system often lead to this distressing problem. Urinary incontinence, as the name suggests is a subject associated totally with urology and is treatable only by urologists. Almost all kinds of urinary incontinence is treatable if detected in time, so one doesn’t need to worry much about it. There are different types of tests that one need to undergo for proper diagnosis of urinary incontinence. It may be bladder capacity measurement test, stress test, blood test, urinalysis, ultrasound, cystoscopy and urodynamics. Though various kinds of medicines are available, one can get relief from this distressing problem through different kinds of exercises, using absorbent products and loosing weight. Getting rid of urinary incontinence is not a big issue these days thanks to the growing numbers of urological centers all over the world and huge availability of efficient medical professionals. Dr Jano is one of the most noted names as far as urological problems are concerned. A resident of Livonia, Michigan, Dr Jano is among the best urologists in United States of America. Dr Jano has got a huge reputation as he is serving people for pover the last 25 years. Dr Jano has got a well equipped chamber and is also associated with a urological hospital where one can see him. Dr Jano deals with diseases with the highest level of professionalism and treat his patients in a eco-friendly atmosphere which helps them to recover fast. For any kind of urinary incontinence or other urological problem, feel free to contact Dr Jano.

How to Write Highly Optimized Articles As someone who’s trying to make money online, it’s important that you know how to create informative and search engine-friendly articles. This is to impress both the search engines and your target audience. Here’s how you can write highly optimized articles: 1. Perform a keyword research. Using a reliable and user-friendly keyword suggestion tool, identify the terms and phrases that are commonly used by your target market when they go online. These terms/phrases will tell you exactly what kind of information do these people are looking for. So, what you need to do is to create articles that revolve around these keywords/keyphrases so you can easily give your readers what they really want. However, ensure that you do not target those keywords that are very competitive as you’ll surely have a hard time making it on the top 10 search page results due to the number of internet marketers that you’ll go up against. 2. Use LSI technique. Defined as latent semantic indexing, this is the new process to easily impress the search engines. Aside from using popular keywords, you will also need to find and use words that are similar or synonymous to the terms that you are targeting. This process will make it much easier for search spiders to analyze your content. 3. Keyword density. Avoid loading your articles with too much keywords so you will not annoy your readers and so you will not be branded as a keyword spammer. Google and other major search engines recommend 1.5%-2% keyword density. You may insert the keywords that you are targeting on your titles (this is very important) and at least once on each of your paragraphs. How to Write Search Engine-Friendly Articles Publishers and online users are not the only ones to impress when writing articles for the web. Aside from them, you also need to keep search engines in mind, particularly Google so you can secure better page ranking for your articles. You would want your copies to show up on the first search page results, right? Here’s how you can do that: 1. Identify the best topics to target. If you think that the best keywords to target are those that are extremely popular, think again. You see, most of your competitors will surely target these terms and that will leave you with slim chances of making it on the top 10 search page results. So, it’s a smart idea to target those terms that are not extremely competitive but are still popular in your chosen niche. 2. Strategically place your keywords all throughout your articles. You can’t just put 10 keywords on your first paragraph and hope that you’ll swing it. Help search spiders in analyzing your content by making your keywords visible on all parts of your articles. I recommend that you place them on each of your paragraphs preferably on your first and last sentences. Don’t forget to use them on your titles and on your resource box (if you’re posting your articles on directories). 3. Use words that are synonymous to the keywords that you’re targeting. This technique is known as latent semantic indexing. Major search engines particularly Google are giving this technique so much weight when indexing articles so make sure that you use it. A Comprehensive Guide to Keyword Article Writing Every internet marketer must know how to write articles that are keyword-rich. You see, it’s not enough that you make your articles very informative and useful. Your effort in making exceptional articles will just go down the drain if your articles are not coming up on the search page results. Here’s your complete guide to effective keyword article writing: 1. First, identify the keywords that are popular within your chosen niche by simply performing a keyword research. Doing this will just take seconds. You’ll be able to get a list of most searched keywords in less than a minute. 2. Keyword analysis. Once you have identified the most popular keywords in your chosen niche, the next thing to do is to analyze their competitiveness. You can do this by searching them individually on Google. Those keywords that came up with fewer results are the best keywords to target as they can give you a great shot at making in on the top 10 search page results. 3. Convert your keywords to article topics. This process will allow you to give your target audience the kind of information that they are looking for. For example, if they are searching for the phrase “digital camera reviews”, you can offer them with product reviews on all digital cameras that are available in the market. 4. Strategically insert your keywords on your articles. Search spiders can easily locate your keywords if you use them on your titles and on all throughout your article body (preferably on the first and last sentences of each of your paragraphs). Sean Mize teaches coaches, consultants, and small business owners how to package their knowledge and sell it at a high price. Internet Marketing Teleseminar Basics

If you want to make easy money online, then you should try out some freelance editing jobs. In a sense, they’re less stressful than the usual blogging gigs. For one, you don’t have to be responsible for writing a completely original idea. You only have to make sure than the article or whatever it is you’re editing is grammatically foolproof. But of course, this doesn’t mean that you don’t have to work hard on your assignments. The key is still to keep clients coming back and asking you to do more work for them. Even if these are only freelance editing jobs, you have to make sure that the end result is flawless. 1) Brush Up On Your Grammar. Even if you have a good grasp on your grammar, it wouldn’t hurt to review your school textbooks. Sometimes, an article requires you to become strict with colloquial terms and other small details you wouldn’t normally pay a lot of attention to. Freelance editing jobs come from all sorts of places so you might have to consider what sort of article you’re editing and what its purpose is. 2) Edit Quickly. Some freelance editing jobs require you to look at an article more than once. After editing, you normally send it back to the client as soon as possible or on the deadline that they have set. Still, there is always a possibility that the client adds or edits something. You might be asked to look at it again. Besides, editors who submit papers fairly early or on time are usually sought out by the same clients again and again. You can’t wait for these opportunities to just knock on your door. Sometimes, you have to look for these freelance editing jobs yourself. You can advertise online or even create a calling card of sorts. If you have impeccable grammar and wonderful working habits, I assure you that you could find yourself a steady source of income in the months to come. Want to earn a 5-figure monthly income through freelance writing jobs ? Go to .20daypersuasion.com/5figurewriter.htm

There is a book called the Bible which we have all heard of as the one that is the word of God straight from him concerning all from the world’s creation to our own while not excluding how he believes we should behave toward not only him but each other. This book I speak of is of equal importance at least as far as the “Old Testament” is concerned to both the members of the Hebrew faith as it is to the members of the Judeo-Christian faith, the “New Testament” being the place where these two religions part company. The bible is also many things to many individuals to the atheist it is a mere book of fiction no different then a book of Greek mythology were characters such Jesus “Christ” (Jesus being the Latin version of his Hebrew name while Christ not being his last name but a Greek word meaning messiah) are seen in the same light as Hercules. This of course only applies to those who raise doubt not that Jesus was the “messiah” but that he ever lived as to them he is in the same category of having been a figure of myth. I personally do not share this concept but I do at least understand what brought it on. It being brought on by the fact that Jesus though well accounted for in the New Testament is not mentioned as having been born or even having been executed by crucifying in any Roman document of the time. Reasons to believe that perhaps Jesus never even walked among us go beyond this as there is no mention of him in any of the works of literature by any of the Hebrew authors of his time. This group who doubt that Jesus ever lived however has numbers that are small as most people believers and none have accepted that their was a man who once lived who bore the name of Jesus who was crucified under Rome during the reign of Tiberius Caesar (exact year unknown but calculated to have been perhaps two years after what is indicated in the Christian calendar). To the true believer as there are many who claim it but to those who truly are, it is the book that will guide them and serve them as a source of inspiration seeing them through the hardships of this world to a better one. Naturally all those who wish to gain access in to God’s kingdom should know that the bible does not claim, contrary to popular misconception that one enters immediately after one’s time on earth is done. What the bible actually claims is that one only gets the chance to enter heaven after one has spent what will probably be a great deal of time in a place called “purgatory”. Purgatory being the place where all souls must reside in regardless of weather or not they have lived according to God’s design until “Judgment Day” (this day being after the world literally comes to an end, in an event known as Armageddon) when their fate will be determined by God himself. There is only one bible like there is only one God but since the bible, “old testament” having been written originally in ancient Hebrew while the “New testament” in Greek (not Latin like many erroneously believe) this has lead to many translations and interpretations. These interpretations have lead to many a dispute and religion being formed all making the same claim that theirs is the true form of Christianity. However my intension is not to concentrate on the many Christian denominations but to do so on the way same people claim to live their life according to the bible and if they really do as they may be doing so only in their mind’s. For example, there is a group of people who believe in taking revenge when they are wronged or support capital punishment so naturally they will quote the line in the Bible from the Old Testament “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life”. They might be in the believe that the bible supports them in their ideology but it does not for in that part God also claims “Vengeance will be mine!” this meaning he is the one who will take an eye for an eye. The argument however does not end there unfortunately as some will say that punishment is in reality coming from God and that they are merely serving as the tool which God is using to bring justice to the “unrighteous”. This brings me to my point! It being that some of the people who maintain to live their life according to the bible only evoke the parts or sometimes fragments that justify their personal point of view, leaving out the rest out of ignorance or perhaps convenience. The reason I reveal these thoughts is because of those people who use the bible to justify their lust for retribution will ignore Jesus’ words “When someone smites you on the cheek offer the other cheek” or “love your enemy because if you only love those who love you where is the reward in that”. Jesus took this idea further by adding “for even sinners love those who love them”. To a large extent it has been my experience in witnessing how a number of people feel the need for a safety net like the one that can be provided by the bible to give much deeper credence to their invented hypothesis or their personal feelings some of which are as far from the bible as to make hard to even draw the slightest parallel. Examples of this can be seen scattered through out history as on many occasions actions such as “The Inquisition” and “Divine Right to Rule” were claimed as God’s will but were they? I believe that if the bible is to be the determining factor weather this dealings were of God’s will then let us analyze it as such. “The Inquisition” which those who were responsible had the effrontery to claim was God’s will was in fact a direct violation of “free will” which the bible states was given to all so they might choose for themselves if theirs shall be faith or not. The bible’s statement that claims that all were given free will goes against the notion that all that happens is the will of God for by logic it can not be both or will and his or can it? The truth is from my readings of the bible I have gathered that God’s will refers not to the activities of man but those of nature; this given that it was he who created it. By nature what I believe the bible to mean is the world we know around us from the rain that falls from the sky and all that be not man made however it should not be understood that this means that it was the hand of God that makes it rain on any particular day but that he be making it possible for this process to take place is perhaps indirectly responsible for the fact that on a particular day it rained or failed to do so. This is with regards to the natural world however if it be the deeds of man this is not the “hand of God” for the actions of man or woman for that matter is the choice of only the individual in action making us draw the conclusion that on the lighter side of this argument that it might have been in fact the hand of Maradona and not God’s in that now famous goal. “Divine Right to rule” was a practice of the “Middle Ages” which claimed that if a king or monarch ruled it was because it was God’s will that had given this power to do so however this idea contradicts what Jesus stated on many occasions through out his life time when asked to confront the secular leaders of his day which was “my kingdom is not of this earth”. I am naturally aware that this statement can be interpreted many ways but if one gives thought to the matter is it not this the difference democracies hold as separating church from state which is what makes the basis of any free society where one has the right to choose. This distinction is even marked in the bible by Jesus’ word when he is asked weather Hebrews should pay taxes to Rome to which he replies that since Cesar’s face is on the coins they should give to the emperor what is his and give to God what is his. I for my part do not claim to know what God’s will is or let alone that I live by it but what I do state is that what I am sure of which is I believe man should disregard any other will that be not his own and live not constantly in the attempt of interpreting God’s but living up to his own believes in what he or she perceives of as being in the best interest of himself and not as individuals but for what is his species and the world he lives in. As a final thought I would like to add in what be my true faith if no one else’s that if humanity were to proceed along this path perhaps the result would be one of a world that be truly “humane”.

Your thesis/dissertation proposal provides an overview of your proposed plan of work, including the general scope of your project, your basic research questions, research methodology, and the overall significance of your study. In short, your dissertation proposal explains what you want to study, how you will study this topic, why this topic needs to be studied, and (generally) when you intend to do this work. (Occasionally, you may also need to explain where your study will take place.) Here are the major parts for writing a dissertation proposal. Title Create a title that conveys the idea of your investigation Orient your readers to the topic you will research. Indicate the type of study you will conduct. Abstract Provide a brief (100-350 word) overview of the dissertation proposal that gives a basic understanding. Classify it as informative or descriptive abstract. Summarize Introduction, Statement of the Problem, Background of the Study, Research Questions or Hypotheses, and Methods and Procedures. Introduction/Background Establish the general territory (real world or research) in which the research is placed. Describe the broad foundations of your study, including some references to existing literature and/or empirically observable situations. In other words, the introduction needs to provide sufficient background for readers to understand where your study is coming from for your dissertation research proposal. Indicate the general scope of your project. Statement of the Problem State the problem clearly early in a paragraph. Limit the variables you address in stating your problem or question Research Questions/Purpose Describe the research questions and/or hypotheses of the study. Explain the goals and research objectives of the study Show the original contributions of your study State limitations of the research while writing a Dissertation proposal Review of Literature It situates the current study within a wider disciplinary conversation. It illustrates the uniqueness, importance of and need for your particular project It justifies methodological choices. It demonstrates your familiarity with the topic and appropriate approaches to studying it. Methodology Introduce the overall methodological approach for each problem or question. Indicate how the approach fits the overall research design. Describe the specific dissertation methods of data collection you are going to use Explain how you intend to analyze and interpret your results. Address potential limitations Julie Edward is a professional Educational Consultant and helping the students to accomplish their educational projects dissertation proposal since many years. She got a vast experience in her field and is ready to help students with her skills and knowledge.

Writing some words on a piece of paper is one of the easiest things that anyone will ever do. However, arranging those words so that they are not only intelligible, but worth something to posterity is entirely different. You need to know how to write an essay and make it stand out because your instructor will read a bevy that don’t because they’re the usual fare. You can make yours special, and noticeable, by adding some memorable notes to the end of the essay. When you wonder, “I’m not sure how to write my essay,” remember, a great conclusion is not written as a tag line to the rest; it is researched, well thought out and includes certain elements that will not only make your essay stand out, but will also show the teacher that you truly know how to write a superior conclusion. Restate the Thesis This is something that all writing instructors will tell you and it is imperative for concluding an essay writing assignment with a sense of completeness. The thesis is the central statement of your essay and the audience needs to be reminded of it, especially after reading a long paper, so they can see that you followed your original premise. Remember though, this should be a restatement. You should not copy the thesis that you wrote in the introduction. Short Summary The conclusion should draw everything together. Therefore, it may be necessary to make some general statements that will remind people of the main points and some of the main arguments for those points. The thesis restatement is one sentence and this summary should only be two or three sentences itself. Since most essays will only include about three supporting paragraphs. Answer Questions In most essays there will not be enough time to get to the all possible aspects of a topic. Therefore, you need to tie up any loose ends that may have been left in the topic. The best way to accomplish this is to introduce the question and then answer it or you can introduce topics for future research. However you do this, it makes people think about what you wrote and how they can continue researching this topic if they wish. What not to do The essay writing was not trivial so you should try and not trivialize it by giving the reader any apologies. The essay should stand on its own with clear research and measured opinions. The summary should be short. Not only should you not copy the thesis, you should also not copy the body of the essay. Keep the process simple so that the reader can get through it in a small amount of time, but get the full concept. Most instructors do not like you to write words like “In conclusion.” They know that the last few paragraphs are the conclusion, so no need to mention this. Understanding how to write an essay and learning what it means to write my essay is all about technique and style. End that paper so someone will remember it.

By Your Words And Thoughts, You’ll Determine If You’ll Enjoy The Journey Or Not I’m flying again. On Wednesday, I’m starting a fast, blistering, non-stop 10-day trip to US and Canada. In those 10 days, I’ll be preaching in 10 cities. No joke. From Los Angeles to San Francisco to Vancouver to New Jersey to Maryland… (invite your friends to join me. Click here for my complete itinerary.) Some people tell me that my schedule isn’t fit for a human being. But there’s nothing to it, really. I’ve done this before, so I know the drill: Fly, preach, fly, preach, fly, preach… And inhale oxygen somewhere in between. If I can also catch a small meal in between, praise God. If not, a banana will do. Now you know why I’m thin. But I’m strong. I’ve been a semi-vegetarian for the past 14 years. I also exercise daily. And I live a happy life. Everywhere I go, people ask me, “How can you do all that you do?” They say my calendar is torture. No, it’s not. I love what I do. So to me, my calendar is not torture but a thrilling adventure. Warning: People Who Complain Will Get More Of What They’re Complaining About One day, I was standing in a long line in the airport. In front of the X-Ray machines, metal detectors, and tired security personnel. Behind me was a balding middle-aged man who had so much anger in his face, a rock would melt under his gaze. He cursed, “F_ck, I can’t stand waiting. This is driving me nuts. Don’t you just hate long lines?” I smiled. My silence was enough to tell him, “You have a choice to be happy or miserable.” Because at that moment, I felt happy. Because I chose to be happy. I was at peace with God and myself and the entire universe. I ride planes a hundred times a year and I’ve long decided never to complain about the long lines. Complaining is useless. Instead, I appreciate the special gifts that long lines give me. Long lines force me to chat with a friend, to read a book, to plan for the next 50 years of my life, to pray, to be totally useless, and to do absolutely nothing. Oh what peace! Don’t complain. I know of some people who complain before the trip begins. By doing so, they “create” the misery that they’ll experience. Because their complaints become self-fulfilling prophecies. That’s just how life works. Instead of Complaining, Imagine How You Want Your Journey To Play Out Before each trip, I already make a deliberate decision and declare, “I will enjoy this amazing trip.” The Bible says, “Life and death are in the power of the tongue.” I believe that. So before leaving for a trip, I confess, “My journey will be very blessed!” I also do something that I learned from Olympic champions: In my mind, I visualize what I want to happen. Part of an Olympic athlete’s training is visualization. Each morning, before he even runs, a sprinter will imagine his 100-meter dash. He imagines everything. The sound of the gun. The leap from the starting block. The wind on his face. The cheer of the crowd. The finish line’s ribbon on his chest. The gold medal around his neck. And if it’s good enough for Olympians, I guess it’s good enough for me too. So before each trip, here’s what I imagine… o In each talk I’ll give, I imagine how my audience will receive God’s love. People will be spiritually nourished. People will experience God as never before. They’ll feel so blessed; they’ll tell their friends about the experience. (Hint for Speakers: This is what I imagine before I give any talk. I don’t go to the stage without doing this.) o In every human contact I’ll have, I imagine how I’ll learn from the fascinating people I’ll meet. I’ll be blessed by my friends, my hosts, and the organizers of each event. And I will bless them with my love and friendship too. (I enjoy meeting with KerygmaFamily members all around the world. If you’re not yet a member, sign up at .kerygmafamliy.com and get my spiritual nourishment for FREE.) o In lull times, whether standing in line or sitting on the plane, I’ll read and write and rest and pray. I imagine myself thoroughly enjoying my lull times of quiet and peace. o I’ll come home rested, energized, and blessed! My imagination is my prayer. I’m claiming that all these will happen in Jesus name. Life Is A Journey; It’s Up To You If You’ll Enjoy The Trip Or Not. Remember: Experience is not what happens to you. Experience is what you do to what happens to you. Each day, you’re moving closer to your destination. Your destination is God. Yet God is not only a destination, He also is your path. So enjoy this journey called life. At every step of the way, God is there. May your dreams come true, Bo Sanchez PS. Build your wealth so you can share it! Join my powerful How To Be Truly Rich Seminar. This seminar will change your financial life. To know more about it, click here. 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