Determination and amulets
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Determination and amulets
Determination…
Life improves immensely when you stop letting things happen and start making things happen.
Rather than being a victim, be someone who does.
Rather than looking for someone to blame, look for what you can do.
Instead of asking, “Why did this happen to me?” ask, “What can I do?” Set your priorities and focus on your goals.
No situation can defeat you when you live with determination.
The things that happen to you are of lesser importance than what you can do with them.
Your sense of direction, your focus, your commitment and effective action will guide you in any situation, no matter what. Be responsible – in your thoughts, your words, your beliefs, your actions – for the things that happen, and they will be very more to your liking.
Make life happen and it will happen for you too.
Amulets…
A farmer asked a sage to help him improve his farm, which had low yields.
The sage wrote something on a piece of paper and placed it in a box. He closed it and handed it to the farmer, saying:
-Take this box to all sides of your farm, three times a day, for a year.
So did the farmer. In the morning, when he went to the field holding the box, he found an employee sleeping when he should have been working. It woke him up and caught his attention. At noon, when he went to the stable, he found the cattle dirty and the horses without food. At night, going to the kitchen with the box, he realized that the cook was wasting food. From there, every day, as he walked around his farm with his amulet, he found things that needed to be corrected.
At the end of the year, he met the sage again and told him:
-Leave this box with me for another year, my farm has improved its performance since I have the amulet.
The sage smiled and, opening the box, said:
-You can have this amulet for the rest of your life. On the paper was written the following sentence: "If you want things to get better you must keep up with them constantly.“