First, you have to stop and smell roses. You can't be thankful for something you don't notice or enjoy. Roses really do smell great, by way.

Then, you need to make this appreciative approach to roses and life a habit. There's no need to ignore ugliness in world, but you have to habitually see beautiful things.

Start writing down every positive thing that happens to you, and all things you like. Do this until you start automatically seeing good things in life. If you've ever bought a white car, and started seeing white cars all over, you know how awareness can alter your perception of reality. To see wonderful things all over, train yourself to look for them.

Wnen you are in habit of "counting your blessings," gratitude, and a much richer experience of life is natural result.

I think of my oldest daughter. She is eight and already is very good at playing piano… like my wife. She's a musical genius. The piano keys do exactly what she wants them to do. She's a genius in playing piano; but not more then a few weeks ago she asked me…

“What does inside of a piano look like?”

She knew exactly what keys to press to make piano do what she wanted yet she had no idea how piano made noise.

It would be as wise to trust my yellow lab Titus to repair my piano then to leave it to my friend's daughter. Although my daughter Gayle plays piano successfully, she knows noth­ing of inside parts which determine its action.

There's something left out in many of those books we read… You need to know process of succeeding, and means to be used. But, first you need to know which factors deter­mine success.

"I've been thinking of advice which most successful people have given us. They think that factors which deter­mine success are hard work, enthusiasm, honesty, persistency, and so forth.

These are valuable assets, but they are not determining factors.

"Knowledge, for instance, is a valuable asset, but it does not determine success- for there are thousands of men of knowl­edge who fail. Being industrious is a valuable asset, but not determining factors- for thousands of industrious workers fail to become successful men. We must dis­cover determining factors first. Then, we'll know factors which will always insure success-which will always make suc­cess certain."

What are factors then?

They are: health, good ap­pearance, hard work, enthusiasm, industry, persistence, sincerity, earnestness, self-confidence, concentration, determination, honesty, good memory, self-control, tact, patience, and imagination.

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