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Show JUST FOR TODAY 9 1 Just for today I will try to live through this day only, not to tackle my vvhoh life problem at once. I can lo things for 12 hours t hat would appall me if I had to keep them up for a life time 2 Just for today 1 will be happy. Thi assumes that what Abraham Linnh ;i d i.s true "most folks arc about as happy aa they n ake up their minds to be." Happiness Happi-ness is from withi::: il is not a matter of externals. 3 Just for today I will try to adjust myself to what is, and not try to adju everything to my own desires. 1 will take my family, my business, and my luck as , they come and tit myself to them. -1 Just for today I will lake ea.'e of my body. I will exercise ex-ercise it, care for it, nourish it. nol abuse it nor neglect it, so that it will be a perfect machine for my bidding. 5 Just for today I will trj Pi strengthen my mind I will learn something useful. I will nut be a mental loafer. 1 will read something thai requires effort, thought and concentration. o Just for today I will oxe.cisc my soul in three ways; I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. 1 will do at least two things 1 don't want to do, as William -lames suggests, jusl for exercise. 7 Just for today I will be agreeable. I will look as well as I can, dress as becomingly as possible, talk low, act courteously, be liberal with praise, criticise not at all, nor find fault with anything and noi try to regulate nor improve anyone. 8 Just for today 1 will have a program I will write down what I expect to do every hour. 1 may not Pillow it exactly, but I will have it. It will eliminate two pests, hurry and indecision. ! Just for today I will have a quiet half hour all by my self and relax. In this half hour sometimes 1 will think of Cod, so as to get a little more perspective to my life. 10 Just for today 1 will be unafraid, especially 1 will not be afraid to be happy, 'to enjoy what is beautiful, to love, and to believe that those 1 love, love me. (Kwprinted by permission from the Christian Science Monitor) |
