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YOUR BANK ACCOUNT A 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with his hair fashionably combed and shaved perfectly, even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today.. His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, he smiled sweetly when told his room was ready. As he maneuvered his walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of his tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on his window. 'I love it,' he stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy. 'Mr. Jones, you haven't seen the room; just wait.' 'That doesn't have anything to do with it,' he replied.... ' Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time... Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged ...it's how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it. It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do.' 'Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open, I'll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I've stored away. Just for this time in my life.' Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw from what you've put in. So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories! Thank you for your part in filling my Memory bank. I am still depositing. Remember the five simple rules to be happy: 1.. Free your heart from hatred. 2. Free your mind from worries.. 3. Live simply 4. Give more. 5. Expect less. Thanks for sharing Virginia People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered --- forgive them anyway! If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives --- be kind anyway! If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies --- succeed anyway! If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you --- be honest and frank anyway! What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight --- build anyway! If you find serenity and happiness, many people may be jealous --- be happy anyway! The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow --- do good anyway! Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough --- Give it the best you've got anyway! by Mother Teresa What do you want? And what are you actually doing about it? Whatever things you are actively working toward are the things you truly want. Anything else is what you merely say you want. As each day unfolds, you use your time, energy, creativity and resources to bring certain things to reality. Those are the things you truly desire. You can, of course, reconsider, re-prioritize, add to and subtract from what you want. Yet the fact remains that whatever you really want is clearly evidenced by what you commit the whole of yourself to. And so it is also true that whatever you sincerely want, you will have, you will achieve, you will become. Nothing can stand in your way when you have focused all that you are on a particular set of objectives. So choose with care those things you truly want. For your life is always making them real. Ralph Marston

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