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  • Time!

    • Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day.

     

    What would you do? Draw out every cent? Of course !! Each of us has such a bank.

    It's name is TIME.

     

    Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds.

     

    Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose.

     

    It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft.

     

    Each day it opens a new account for you.

     

    Each night it burns the remains of the day.

     

    If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours.

     

    There is no going back.

     

    there is no drawing against the "tomorrow".

     

    You must live in the present on today's deposits.

     

    Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success!

     

    The clock is running.

     

    Make the most of today!!!

     

    To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.

     

    To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a pre-mature baby.

     

    To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.

     

    To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train.

     

    To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident.

     

    To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics.

     

    Treasure every moment that you have! And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special

    enough to spend your time.

     

    Time waits for no one.

     

    Yesterday is history
    Tomorrow is mystery
    Today is a gift
    That's why its called the present....

    • DETERMINATON

    In 1883, a creative engineer named John Roebling was inspired by an idea to build a spectacular bridge connecting New York with the Long Island. However bridge building experts throughout the world thought that this was an impossible feat and told Roebling to forget the idea. It just could not be done. It was not practical. It had never been done before.

     

    Roebling could not ignore the vision he had in his mind of this bridge. He thought about it all the time and he knew deep in his heart that it could be done. He just had to share the dream with someone else. After much discussion and persuasion he managed to convince his son Washington, an up and coming engineer, that the bridge in fact could be built.

     

    Working together for the first time, the father and son developed concepts of how it could be accomplished and how the obstacles could be overcome. With great excitement and inspiration, and the headiness of a wild challenge before them, they hired their crew and began to build their dream bridge.

     

    The project started well, but when it was only a few months underway a tragic accident on the site took the life of John Roebling. Washington was injured and left with a certain amount of brain damage, which resulted in him not being able to walk or talk or even move.
     

    "We told them so."
    "Crazy men and their crazy dreams."
    "It`s foolish to chase wild visions."

     

    Everyone had a negative comment to make and felt that the project should be scrapped since the Roeblings were the only ones who knew how the bridge could be built. In spite of his handicap Washington was never discouraged and still had a burning desire to complete the bridge and his mind was still as sharp as ever.

     

    He tried to inspire and pass on his enthusiasm to some of his friends, but they were too daunted by the task. As he lay on his bed in his hospital room, with the sunlight streaming through the windows, a gentle breeze blew the flimsy white curtains apart and he was able to see the sky and the tops of the trees outside for just a moment.

     

    It seemed that there was a message for him not to give up. Suddenly an idea hit him. All he could do was move one finger and he decided to make the best use of it. By moving this, he slowly developed a code of communication with his wife.

     

    He touched his wife's arm with that finger, indicating to her that he wanted her to call the engineers again. Then he used the same method of tapping her arm to tell the engineers what to do. It seemed foolish but the project was under way again.

     

    For 13 years Washington tapped out his instructions with his finger on his wife's arm, until the bridge was finally completed. Today the spectacular Brooklyn Bridge stands in all its glory as a tribute to the triumph of one man's indomitable spirit and his determination not to be defeated by circumstances. It is also a tribute to the engineers and their team work, and to their faith in a man who was considered mad by half the world. It stands too as a tangible monument to the love and devotion of his wife who for 13 long years patiently decoded the messages of her husband and told the engineers what to do.

     

    Perhaps this is one of the best examples of a never-say-die attitude that overcomes a terrible physical handicap and achieves an impossible goal.

     

    Often when we face obstacles in our day-to-day life, our hurdles seem very small in comparison to what many others have to face. The Brooklyn Bridge shows us that dreams that seem impossible can be realised with determination and persistence, no matter what the odds are.

     

    Even the most distant dream can be realized with determination and persistence.

    • Value

    A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, "Who would like this $20 bill?"

     

    Hands started going up.

     

    He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this." He proceeded to crumple the dollar bill up.

     

    He then asked, "Who still wants it?"

     

    Still the hands were up in the air.

     

    "Well," he replied, "What if I do this?" And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe.

     

    He picked it up, now all crumpled and dirty. "Now who still wants it?" Still the hands went into the air.

     

    "My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20.  

     

    Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way.

     

    We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value. You are special - Don't ever forget it!

     

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