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negative people all I can. We talked about positive thoughts, but

negative ones do as much harm as positive ones do good. My dad was a
guitar player and singer, and as a kid I recall an old song he sang:

"Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, latch on to the
affirmative, don't mess with Mr. In-between." It's good advice.

Appreciation Grows a No-Limits Attitude

Often we think in terms of what we can’t do. I have never been
mechanical. Eileen says I’m mechanically challenged. I say retarded. But
I do several things well, and this is my focus and attitude in life.

Psychologist Wayne Dyer has a book: The Sky Is the Limit.” The book is
fairly good, the title is even better. He has another book I like better:

“Gifts from Eykis.” It’s about, negative, a limited type of thinking we
engage in and how to overcome it. It was funny when I heard him say

that he said he wanted to title it “Get Your Head out of Your Anus,” but
the publisher wouldn’t allow it.

But his point is solid: the sky is the limit. We have no limits on our
thoughts, and on what we can accomplish, except bad thoughts we

produce in ourselves that cripple us more than enable us.

What I used to believe about the Bible 30 years ago. I’m amazed they
didn’t put me in jail for lying. It wasn’t intentional: I was just ignorant.

But our testimony is simply about where we have been in life, where
we have been, and where we are going.

I’m a singer. A song I like to sing is: “Don’t Ask Me What I’m Gonna Be,
Ask Me What I Am.” This says a lot about being grateful, and having a

right attitude in the present moment. Psychology says that most of us
spend way too much time thinking about the past, or the future.

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