"Most people spend their lives
looking but not truly seeing."
— Joe Navarro
U R Abundant Because Abundance is All there
Is
See the Trees
By William Lambert
I lived in Alabama on a half-acre lot
blessed huge oak trees
that were 40 feet in diameter. They were HUGE! The
house
was laid out such that every bedroom faced the backyard.
Each bedroom had a large picture window. The view was
breathtaking. I enjoyed just looking at the trees. In the fall I
would
identify a particular leaf that was falling and watched
it for what seemed liked 5
minutes before it fell to earth.
One day I invited this married couple over to
enjoy the view
from the bedroom window. I took them into the bedroom
and excitedly pointed to the trees out of the window and
exclaimed,
"just look"!
After about 20 seconds there was no comment from the
couple. I however, noticed a big frown on the woman's face.
I
said, "What's wrong". She was reluctant to reply.
I insisted and again said,
"What's wrong?"
She relented and said, "Don't you see those fingerprints
on
the glass?"
I turned and looked and there were what seemed
to be fifty
or more fingerprints on the glass. I ran for the Windex to
clean the glass. The lady "Oh, I didn't mean for you to clean
it
now."
The morale here is this. That lady never saw the trees.
Even when I tried to point them out, She missed it! I didn't
see the
fingerprints. I was looking through the glass not at it.
When the fingerprints
were pointed out to me, I saw them
and removed them. The lady never saw the
trees. She
focused on the fingerprints and she never got passed
them.
Life is much like that. There are things in life that are good
and things that are bad. You choose which things you want
to focus
on. I focus on the trees.
With
Love & Gratitude -
Success :)
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