Don’t Be Too Hard On Yourself!

One day, a very discouraged man visited Norman Vincent Peale. He told the good Reverend he had nothing to live for.

“Everything is gone, everything is hopeless. I’ve lost the heart for living.”

Norman Vincent Peale got a piece of paper, drew a vertical line in the middle, and said, “This is your life. Let’s write down a list of the things you’ve lost on the left side, and the things that you still have on the right side.”

The man shook his head, “You won’t need the right side. I have nothing left in my life.”

Norman Vincent Peale said, “When did your wife leave you?”

The man was shocked. “My wife didn’t leave me! She’s right here with me. My wife loves me!”

Norman said, “That’s fantastic! Let’s write that down as number one on the right side of the paper: ‘Wife with me’. Now tell me, “When did your kids go to prison…”

“Prison?” the man asked in “My kids are right here at home!”

“Fantastic! Let’s write it down here as number two: ‘Kids not in jail.’”

Norman continued asking similar questions, and the man got the point, and began to smile. He said, “I guess my life isn’t so bad after all!”

Perception Is Everything

Your perception of reality is your reality.

Your life has always two sides—a left side and a right side—the bad stuff happening and the good stuff happening.

A lot of people spend the whole day looking at the left side—the side where they list everything that’s wrong with their life. 24 hours a day, they think about it, meditate on it, analyze it, mull over it. That’s why they’re miserable.

Friend, make a decision to spend the whole day looking at the right side of your life.

I know. This is very difficult.

Especially when you fail.

There was a man who failed big time in the Bible…

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