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Blog: Life is about choices

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Blog: Life is about choices

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Blog: A little piece of me

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Blog: A little piece of me

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Many years passed and the young man was very successful in business.He had a beautiful home and a wonderful family, We Are One but realizing his father was very old,he thought perhaps he should go to see him.He had not seen him since that graduation day.Before he could make the arrangements,he received a telegram telling him his father had passed away,and willed all of his possessions to his son.He needed to come home immediately and take care of things. Take your smile When he arrived at his father's house,sudden sadness and regret filled his heart. He began to search through his father's important papers and saw the still new Bible,just as he had left it years ago.With tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages.As he was reading,a car key dropped from the back of the Bible.It had a tag with the dealer's name,the same dealer who had the sports car he had desired.On the tag was the date of his graduation,and the words..."PAID IN FULL". 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How many at-bats do you think you'll need to get the 78 hits?"Without hesitation, Pete just stared at the reporter and very matter-of-factly said,"78."The reporter yelled back, "Ah, come on Pete, you don't expect to get 78 hits in 78 at-bats, do you?"Mr. Rose calmly shared his philosophy with the throngs of reporters who were anxiously awaiting his reply to this seemingly boastful claim."Every time I step up to the plate,I expect to get a hit!If I don't expect to get a hit,I have no right to step in the batter's box in the first place!If I go up hoping to get a hit, Peinture beauté "he continued,"then I probably don't have a prayer of getting a hit.It is positive expectation that has gotten me all of the hits in the first place." 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Thanks, Mr. Rose There was once a farmer who had a fine olive orchard.He was very hardworking,and the farm always prospered under his care.But he knew that his three sons despised the farm work,and were eager to make wealth,trough adventure.When the farmer was old,and felt that his time had come to die,he called the three sons to him and said,"My sons,there is a pot of gold hidden in the olive orchard.Dig for it,if you wish it."The sons tried to get him to tell them in what part of the orchard the gold was hidden;but he would tell them nothing more.After the farmer was dead,the sons went to work to find the pot of gold;since they did not know where the hiding-place was,they agreed to begin in a line,at one end of the orchard,and to dig until one of them should find the money. They dug until they had turned up the soil from one end of the orchard to the other,round the tree-roots and between them.But no pot of gold was to be found.It seemed as if someone must have stolen it,or as if the farmer had been wandering in his wits.The three sons were bitterly disappointed to have all their work for nothing.ykl]]>