not writen by me but good.

Food For Thought
You cannot ever have what you want, unless you learn to want what you have. When you're thankful and appreciative for the things you have, you begin to live abundantly.
Life isn't about getting, it is about being. Nothing you get will make you happy. Happiness comes from you. Only you can make yourself happy.

When you constantly focus on getting more, then you are acknowledging and fostering a mindset of lack and limitation. By contrast, appreciating what you have will keep you focused on abundance, and that will bring you all the good things you truly desire.

There's nothing wrong with ambition, but it won't get you anywhere unless it has a context and a purpose. Being frustrated and resentful about the things you don't have, won't get you very far. Enjoying every moment, without qualification, will give you the positive focus you need to achieve your goals.

Appreciate what you have by nurturing and building on it. Take good care of your body, your home, your family, your relationships, your environment, your skills, your mind, your values, of life itself.

Like a doting relative, life will give you more when you show appreciation for what you've already received.
Here's a paradox: those people and businesses that are the most competitive are the ones that don't compete.
Real winners set their own standards, instead of focusing on the competition. They don't care about winning a victory over someone else. Rather, their concern is with doing their absolute best.

When you're winning a race, and you look back, you begin to lose. When you start comparing yourself to your competition, the you allow someone else to set your standards for you. You drop back to their pace. Comparing yourself and your performance to others will only limit you. Don't do it.

In every industry there is a leader. In every group of humans there is a leader. The leaders don't worry about what everyone else is doing. The leaders have their own vision, and because of that they have no competition.

The best way to eliminate your competition is to stop competing. Do your best and stop worrying about the rest.
We all have a tendency to get into routines, doing things the same way over and over, just because that's how we've always done them. Routines can be a trap that prevent us from seeing opportunities and experiencing life.
Have you ever been stuck on a problem, then left if for a few days, and when you come back to it, the solution is immediately obvious? Often we get so wrapped up in something, so closely involved, that we need to step back for a while just to regain a realistic perspective.

Here's a sobering thought -- what if you're so intimately involved in your LIFE that you have lost perspective? Like a frustrating problem that you can't walk away from.

The way out of that trap is to get out of your routine. Make an effort to experience something new, really new and different, every day. Read a magazine that you know you'll disagree with, eat lunch at a different time, try something you know you're no good at. Make it a point to take alternate routes to familiar places: the office, the grocery store, the health club. Try a new kind of food. Make friends with someone new. Wake up an hour earlier. Adjust the lighting in your office differently. Re-arrange your furniture.

What habits or routines do you have that rob you of your perspective? Step back, look at the things you do every day, and ask yourself "why?" Then look at the things you've never thought you could do, or never considered doing, and ask "why not?"

The only way you can take control of your life is to switch off the auto-pilot.

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