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.  o  _   From the Desk of Greg Sears AREA: F-UNNY
. Q\_|_)   --=[ I C E-man's Oldy Goldies Book for ALL ]=--
. T> III                     Page: 21

 First of all, life is a journey. ....
    It took me a while to get that lesson, that it really is just
    about everyday experiences, teaching you, moment in, moment out,
    who you really are. That every experience is here to teach you
    more fully how to be who you really are.

Because, for a long time I wanted to be somebody else.... [snip]...
but it was a lesson long in coming, recognizing that I had the instinct,
that inner voice that told me that you need to try to find a way to
answer to your own truth was the voice I needed to be still and listen to.

    One of the other great lessons I learned taught to me by my
    friend and mentor, Maya Angelou and if you can get this, you
    can save yourself a lot of time....
    When people show you who they are, believe them, the first time.

Not the 29th time!  That is particularly good when it comes to men
situations because when he doesn't call back the first time, when you
are mistreated the first time, when you see someone who shows you a
lack of integrity or dishonesty the first time, know that that will
be followed by many, many, many other times that will at some point
in life come back to haunt or hurt you.

    Turn your wounds into wisdom. You will be wounded many times
    in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them
    failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way
    of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction."

I remember being taken off the air in Baltimore, being told that I was
no longer being fit for television and that I could not anchor the news
... [snip] ..because... I would cry for the people in the stories, which
really wasn't very effective as a news reporter ... [snip] ... it wasn't
until I was demoted as an on-air anchor woman and thrown into the talk
show arena to get rid of me, that I allowed my own truth to come through.

     Be grateful.

I have kept a journal since I was l5 years old and if you look
back on my journal when I was l5, l6, it's all filled with boy trouble,
men trouble, my daddy wouldn't let me go to Shoney's with Anthony Otie,
things like that. As I've grown older, I have learned to appreciate
living in the moment and I ask that you do, too.....

     Every night list five things that happened this day,
     in days to come that you are grateful for. What it will
     begin to do is to change your perspective of your day
     and your life. I believe that if you can learn to focus
     on what you have, you will always see that the universe
     is abundant and you will have more. If you concentrate
     and focus in your life on what you don't have, you will
     never have enough. Be  grateful. Keep a journal.

You all are all over my journal tonight.

     Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your
     life because you become what you believe.

When I was little girl, Mississippi, growing up on the farm, only
Buckwheat as a role model, watching my grandmother boil clothes in
a big, iron pot through the screen door, because we didn't have a
washing machine and made everything we had. I watched her and realized
somehow inside myself, in the spirit of myself, that although this was
segregated Mississippi and I was "colored" and female, that my life
could be bigger, greater than what I saw. I remember being four or
five years old, I certainly couldn't articulate it, but it was a
feeling and a feeling that I allowed myself to follow. I allowed
myself to follow it because if you were to ask me what is the secret
to my success, it is because I understand that there is a power
greater than myself, that rules my life and in life if you can be
still long enough in all of your endeavors, the good times, the hard
times, to connect yourself to the source, I call it God, you can call
it whatever you want to, the force, nature, Allah, the power.

     If you can connect yourself to the source and allow
     the energy that is your personality, your life force
     to be connected to the greater force, anything  is
     possible for you. I am proof of that.

I think that my life, the fact that I was born where I was born,
and the time that I was and have been able to do what I have done
speaks to the possibility. Not that I am special, but that it could
be done.

         Hold the highest, grandest vision for yourself.

Just recently [1997] we followed Tina Turner around the country
[snip]... because .... Tina Turner is one of those women who have
overcome great obstacles, was battered in her life, and like a
phoenix rose out of that to have great legs and a great sense of
herself.   Tina's life is a mirror of your life because it proves
that you can overcome.

       Every life speaks to the power of what can be done.

So I wanted to honor women all over the country and celebrate their dreams
...and Tina's tour was called the Wildest Dreams Tour. I asked women
to write me their wildest dreams and tell me what their wildest dreams
were. Our intention was to fulfill their wildest dreams. We got
77,000 letters, 77,000. To our disappointment we found that the deeper
the wound the smaller the dreams. So many women had such small visions,
such small dreams for their lives that we had a difficult time coming
up with dreams to fulfill. So we did fulfill some. We paid off all
the college debt, hmmm, for a young woman whose mother
had died and she put her sisters and brothers through school. We paid off
all the bills for a woman who had been battered and managed to put herself
through college and her daughter through college. We sent a woman to Egypt
who was dying of cancer and her lifetime dream was to sit on a camel and use
a cell phone. We bought a house for another woman whose dream had always
been to have her own home but because she was battered and had to flee with
her children one night, had to leave the home seventeen years ago. And then
we brought the other women who said we just wanted to see you, Oprah, and
meet Tina. That was their dream! Imagine when we paid off the debt, gave the
house, gave the trip to Egypt, the attitudes we got from the women who said,
"I just want to see you." And some of them afterwards were crying to me
saying that "we didn't know, we didn't know, and this is unfair," and I
said, that is the lesson: you needed to dream a bigger dream for yourself.

                   That is the lesson.
       Hold the highest vision possible for your life
                  and it can come true.

I don't know where this_one came from, use it as you like. Author unknown.

... People laughing. . . . makes it noisy in F UNNY #[;-)]

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