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Would you laugh at your misfortunes more and spend more time counting blessings than blemishes?

Would you spend more time playing with your children and grandchildren and less time watching performers in the arena?

Would you spend more time enjoying what you have and less time thinking about the things you don’t have?

If you could live your life again, would you walk in the rain more without an umbrella and listen less to weather reports?

Would you spend more time looking at trees and climbing them and less time flipping through magazines made from dead trees?

Would you spend more time fully involved in the present moment, less time remembering and anticipating?

Would you smile more and frown less?

Would you be more spontaneous and active than less hesitant and subdued?

When some spur of the moment idea come up to go hiking, play Frisbee, color Easter eggs, sing in a chorus, go kayaking, or watch an eclipse, would you be less likely to sit in your chair objecting, “It’s not in our plan!” Or would you be inclined to jump up and run out the door next time and say, “Yes, we can!”

Although we can’t live our life again, we can still choose to live a new way every day anyway.

We’ll never have all the moments we’ve missed, but we do have all the time remaining.

Source: Denis Waitley

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