| Everybody has a story to share. So, have I. | | | | prayer," by Charles L. Allen changed my life |
| If reading my story inspires just one person | | | | for ever. I learned how to pray, and I prayed |
| in this world, I think my purpose will be | | | | for the first time in my life. And you know |
| solved. I was not always a positive person. I | | | | what; it was answered in just ten minutes. |
| suffered from a griping sense of discontent. | | | | That was the beginning of a new chapter in my |
| I was unable to derive satisfaction from my | | | | life, one that was filled with faith. I had |
| relationships. Though I had a number of | | | | begun appreciating this beautiful creation |
| acquaintances, I had very few friends. I was | | | | that we so often take for guaranteed. I could |
| unable to use my talents and skills | | | | now feel the hand of God working in my life. |
| optimally. A non-believer, I never used to | | | | Everything around me now inspired me. It is |
| pray and had no faith. Of course I was | | | | not that things had changed for me, but what |
| spiritually bankrupt. To top it all, I had | | | | had changed was the way I looked at them. |
| suffered heavy losses in a business venture, | | | | |
| and now I was financially bankrupt as well. I | | | | One more thing that I changed was that I |
| felt so depressed and gloomy that I could | | | | started choosing my association more |
| light up a room simply by leaving it. I had | | | | carefully. I started visiting inspirational |
| lost my self-image, confidence, and hope. In | | | | seminars and made friends with positive |
| other words I was negativity personified. | | | | people. I purposely started keeping away from |
| | | | people who could have negative effect in my |
| Playing the blame game was my favorite | | | | life. I became selective with the programs I |
| pastime. I blamed my circumstances, my | | | | saw on television or the movies I saw. If I |
| parents, my school, my wife, even my year old | | | | see negativity being glamorized in any of the |
| daughter (as if an infant could have caused | | | | programs, I would simply leave the room. I |
| my failure). Actually, I blamed everyone, | | | | was protecting my mind from negatives. |
| other than myself, the person who was really | | | | |
| to be blamed. | | | | It was as if my mind was getting |
| | | | reprogrammed. As my spiritual account filled |
| Thank God, I always loved reading. And it was | | | | up, my self-image improved. I started taking |
| through printed words that I saw light. I | | | | responsibility of my self. Now when I spoke |
| read a story about a small child who was | | | | the words that came out were positive. I was |
| disturbing his father who was trying to work. | | | | feeling happy. Not because the circumstances |
| The father tears up a world map and gives to | | | | were happy one, but because I felt more in |
| the child to put it together, thinking that | | | | peace with myself. Since, now I was accepting |
| it will keep him occupied for a long time. | | | | myself more, I could accept people more |
| Now, there was a picture of a man behind the | | | | naturally. Obviously, the relationships |
| map. The child could put the man together in | | | | improved. Now, I liked people and people |
| just a few minutes. But the map behind was | | | | liked me. It was as if I was living in a |
| right too. I realized that if I put the man I | | | | brand new world. |
| am right, my world will become right as well. | | | | |
| And that my dear friend, was the turning | | | | As I kept on growing from inside, I saw the |
| point. | | | | situations outside changing. Since I was |
| | | | taking responsibility of my actions and was |
| The first thing that I changed was my reading | | | | moving in faith, I started doing better in my |
| habit. Earlier I was reading a lot of | | | | career. I won't say that it was always a |
| fiction. I changed that to reading Positive | | | | smooth journey ever since. There were a lot |
| Mental Attitude books. I started associating | | | | of things that did not went well, or the way |
| with Zig Ziglar, Dale Carnegie, Dr. Shad | | | | I had them planed. But, with my new positive |
| Hamstead, Dr. Steve Price and so many other | | | | outlook and a faith that was stronger than |
| positive people through their wonderful | | | | steel, I could see opportunity in every |
| books. I read about dreams, faith, goals, | | | | setback. Today, I have got back much more |
| positive attitude, relationships, and self- | | | | than what I had lost earlier in material |
| image. I was also listening to recording by | | | | things as well as the things that money can |
| powerful speakers. And I realized that | | | | not buy. |
| everyone has problems and challenges in life. | | | | |
| But it is the way we respond to it that all | | | | Today, I thank God for giving all the |
| matters. It is either, we react to a | | | | challenges in past. It was the extremely |
| situation (negatively) or respond | | | | unbearable situation of being financially |
| (positively) to it and that makes the | | | | bankrupt that got me changing. Today, I know |
| difference in the result we produce. | | | | that if God gives me more challenges it will |
| | | | be to strengthen my shoulder to bear the |
| This very powerful association has already | | | | burden of greater responsibilities and |
| started changing something inside me. I had | | | | blessings. |
| started seeing things in a different | | | | |
| perspective. Now I knew that the situation I | | | | Thank you God for blessing me and my family! |
| am in was bad, but not hopeless. A wonderful | | | | God, please work in the life of this reader |
| book "All things are possible through | | | | the way you worked in my life..... |