Positive thinking.

Positive thinking and Motivational messages.

The first motivational message I ever read was when I was 16 years old and one of those ‘fill-in’ pieces in the Reader's Digest magazine.

It read:  Two men looked out through prison bars.

             One saw mud, one saw stars.

As I got older, there were other messages coming through - of course there were the religious ones, once I ceased to go to Church. it was when we joined the American Network Marketing Company that they flooded in - words from the stage given by the American in a white suit:

If it is to be - it’s up to me.

And, of course, it is correct, only you can live your life and responsible for it.

Another one is: If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.

A short time later, we tiring of the Americans’ hype, we joined an English Company, you will all know Kleeneze, the Catalogue Company, it is more than a Catalogue, you can build teams of distributors, their income contributes to yours. It is a wealth creation business. There we found, after training, we were the ones speaking from the front, or from a stage, giving out the motivational messages of:

Goals, plans, achievement, reward.

Perhaps the most well known one is:

                                                                     S- M-A-R-T. =

Specific-Measurable-Achievable-Reasonable-Timely.

A totally silly one: Nothing will suck seeds like a budgie with a broken beak.

(Suck seeds = succeeds - get it?)

Now in retirement, we are getting the rewards of a lifetime of self-employment, there is time to sit and watch the Rhubarb growing, smell the roses and enjoy our leisure.