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The Way You Wake Up

Success in life can be as simple as looking at the way you wake up. If you can wake up in a happy, peaceful and positive frame of mind, then you will reclaim your confidence, your love for life, your desire to succeed. The mood with which you start the day sets the tone for the rest of the day.

One way of ensuring that you wake up in a positive and powerful frame of mind is to change your ritual before you go to sleep. Look back over your day. How are you describing what happened to you today?

Are you focusing on those incidents that drained you or the actions, feedback and feelings that amde you feel good? You should concentrate on issues that give you power, what made you feel good. You see, what you focus on is what you get. So if you continue to focus on the negative and the draining issues then you have no choice but to feel sluggish and drained all the time. If you can allow yourself to drift off to sleep while thinking positively of your successes then you have the opportunity of being recharged through sleep and waking in a dynamic frame of mind.

It may sometimes be impossible to see successes of the day. Maybe one particular day, everything seemed to go wrong for you. What can you do then? Well, think about it this way --- it doesn't matter how bad the experience is; work with it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. Nothing can happen to you that isn't for your benefit. Even though when it is happening it doesn't feel like it. Do not just accept the draining incident and make youself tired and discouraged but refocus your mind. Imagine that whatever happens to you is meant to happen to you and coming through it can only improve you.

And throw away your alarm clock. For many people this sounds ridiculous. How would you ever get up in the morning if it weren't for your alarm clock? But have you ever stopped to wonder what it is about your life that requires you to shock yourself awake? Can such regular rude awakenings be good for you? If you need some assistance in waking up by a particular time, try waking up to music, or use a more subtle method like a Zen Clock which gives a soft tone of increasing frequency, that will slowly and gently wake you up.

Wake up 5 to 10 minutes earlier, sit quietly and plant the seeds of peace and love in your mind. Listen to soothing music. Cultivate a feeling of warmth and peace. A feeling of love and acceptance. When you do this, you are connecting with your natural power of peace and love which naturally bring freedom and positivity to your life. The result is a feeling of harmony and contentment.

Now you're ready to face the world!

Adapted from "A Slice of Life" by Eugene Loh.

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馆主觉得这篇分享很适合大家。我们每天忙忙碌碌的，很可能不小心就迷失了自己；更轻易沮丧。我们不妨试试这个新的乐观理念，看看成效如何唔？

加油哦！

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有一天我老了，也會 ...

周六一大早，还在赖床，电话铃声打断了我的清梦，原來是妈：「中午要不要帶孩子回來吃肉羹？」

「可是我答应孩子今天去麦当劳吃早餐耶！」
妈仍不放弃：「把那个钱省下來啊！开车回來才十分钟。」

我心里想：孩子一定喜欢吃汉堡，不要吃肉羹。果然，在我犹豫时，老大、老二一个摇手、一个做拜托状，大家都期待一周难得一次的早餐会。

於是我告訴媽：「等我们讨论好再打给妳好吗？」
妈有点幽幽地回：「好吧！」
电话一掛，孩子们同声说：「不要啦！我们说好去麦当劳的。」

我告诉孩子：「外婆的目的根本不是要我们去吃肉羹，她是想看我们。」
「可是我们上星期不是才回去给她看过？」

我知道单以这个理由要更改原计划有点不合理，便告訴孩子：「有一天我老了，也会打电话給你们说：
『儿子啊！要不要回來？我烤了蛋糕哦，帶孩子回來吧！』如果兒子回答我：『蛋糕到处有得买，我今天沒空啦！』那我会很伤心。」
四岁的小女儿马上说：「我不会。我会说好。」结果我们协议：早餐照原计划，晚上去外婆家。

妈妈知道了好高兴：「那我晚上再煮肉羹。」

下午加完班，赶回家和孩子、老公会合，爸妈看到我们好高兴。我们鱼贯进入厨房盛肉羹，大人小孩叽叽喳喳地聊天，妈妈开始诉说她的五十肩每天折磨着她。我问她：「有沒有去做复建？热敷？」

「有啊，都沒有用！」 ... 於是，我深深了解到妈妈要的不是医疗资讯，而是儿女的关心。

走进厨房，看到一向爱干净的老妈心爱的锅子盖都沾了厚厚一层油垢，便用铁刷用力把它们刷洗干净，一面刷一面想到：妈妈一定是沒力气刷它们了。

她曾经用双手一手抱我、一手拿铲子炒菜，也曾用双手刷遍家里每一个角落。

她那双手还曾经握着汽车方向盤赚钱 ── 她是台中第一位女计程车司机 ── 如今年纪大了，她的手累了，却仍然忍着痠痛煮我们爱吃的肉羹面、炒米粉，然后打电话叫我们回家。

我再忙再累，都要常常回娘家洗锅子；也希望有一天党我年纪大了、手也不再灵光时，孩子们记得回家帮我刷刷锅子。

不要只关心小孩，有天我們也会老唷！

记得在花莲门若医院长廊上看见的宣导海报：「记得宝宝是一岁又... 個月长第一颗牙齿，却不记得父亲最后一颗牙是什么时候掉的。」

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有点儿长的故事。但是，重点是，我们要学习体会长辈的心思。他们所要做饭给我们吃，并不是单单要我们吃饭，而是想要我们多陪陪他们、多看看我们。知道了吗？感谢月莉小姐和我们分享的这篇故事。

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