| Recently Google had featured an article entitled "How | | | | - US Economy: Consumers, Business Are Less |
| to Maintain Romance" and it occurred to me that idea | | | | Optimistic |
| behind a maintenance program (I used to be a Copier | | | | - And the list goes on ... |
| Technician and our maintenance contract was to | | | | Observe the results that those same thoughts - those |
| make sure that the customer's machine would | | | | same focus points - are bringing us. How does it make |
| continue to work efficiently) is often viewed as | | | | you feel when you read those statements? |
| standing still in life. To maintain literally means "to | | | | Back in 1983 there was a popular song on both the |
| protect from harm, loss, decay or destruction". That | | | | Pop and Country charts entitled A Little Good News |
| takes me to the adage "if you're not moving forward | | | | performed by Anne Murray. Part of the Lyrics included |
| you're standing still". It begs the question, "Why would | | | | the lines, "How I wanna hear the anchor man talk |
| anyone want to maintain a romance?" | | | | about a county fair, And how we cleaned up the air, |
| In football the strategy of "prevent defense" is an | | | | how everybody learned to care..." How would it feel if |
| offensive formation to prevent long gains by the | | | | we focused on the good news, the solutions, instead |
| offense and usually near the end of the game. It is | | | | of the problems? |
| geared toward stopping the other team's pass. Any | | | | Consider the choice of always expanding the things |
| game that I've seen where that strategy was | | | | that you DO want, an alive, passionate, vibrant |
| employed by a team - you knew that same team | | | | romance, a winning gold medal performance, the |
| was likely to lose. I've never seen it work to the | | | | energy to play with your grandchildren, to feel alive and |
| defense's advantage. They wanted to make sure that | | | | vibrant, to see clearly the choices in front of you, to |
| they didn't lose their advantage, they had the lead and | | | | have the business that provides quality products and |
| they didn't want to loose it. | | | | or services. That's where you focus. |
| "To keep from losing, no matter what the premise is," | | | | Two thousand years ago there was an instruction |
| is a great way to make sure you do lose. Nothing in | | | | given that, paraphrased, goes like this; Whatever things |
| nature is static. It's all energy and it all is either growing | | | | are true, just, pure, lovely and of good report - if there |
| or it's dying - it will never stand still. Even the universe | | | | is any virtue or praise - think on these things. |
| according to Hubble's Law is constantly expanding. | | | | What we focus on expands and our choices |
| Those galaxies that are furthest away from us (and | | | | emphasize the Law of Attraction. |
| our gravitational pull) are moving away with space, not | | | | Choose the freedom, the passion, the joy, the |
| through space. There's a great analogy in baking raisin | | | | happiness in every moment. Play the "Glad Game" as |
| bread, as the dough rises the raisins move farther | | | | Hayley Mills shared in Pollyanna. I still remember the |
| apart moving with not through the dough. There is no | | | | feeling when she said that she had received a pair of |
| edge to the universe. | | | | crutches instead of the dolly she asked for and the |
| Look at today's headlines and see what we are | | | | thing to be glad about was "she didn't need them". |
| thinking about; | | | | How much freedom would there be in this world is we |
| - Highway Kidnapping: 40 Iraqui Shiites Snatched | | | | all chose to find a reason to be glad instead of sad? |
| - Northe korea ready to talk, no yeild | | | | What's your choice? |
| - Heckler Subdued At Virginia Senate Event | | | | |
