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Show Suppose You Had Six Months More He handicapped himself all his life because all his life he had been on the wrong side of the fence in his thinking. In other words, he was negative in his thoughts and in his outlook on life, rather than positive. A person like that can't be very successful or happy, as you very well know. And he wasn't young he was past forty. And yet I watched a miracle happen in that man's life, watched him transform from a man who was negative about everything into one who was positive about everything. "I owe everything I've done to some advice I got from an old friend I had admired from childhood," child-hood," he told me when I asked him to outline his method. He told me to make believe that I had just six months more to live, just six months more. It was June when I saw him. 'Just pretend you won't be here January 1," he advised. Then he said, 'In that case, what would you do with those remaining six months?" I thought for a moment, for I hadn't ever been asked a question as por-tentious por-tentious as that. Then I told him: 'Why, believe me, I'd livel I'd crowd i as much into those six months as I possibly could!' " It gave him a new life really! What a wonderful thing it would bo for everyone if he or she could imagine the same thing and try living a full and complete life for just six months. Why no one would ever be content to live a less happy, less complete, less full life! |