A small boy, wandering in the forest lost his way, and before he realized, it became pitch dark. The boy saw an old man sitting under a tree. He went to him and said, "I am lost in the forest and it is night now. Can you guide me how to reach home?"

The old man had a lighted candle. He gave it to the boy and said, "Here is the light. Take it. Guided by its light, you can reach your home."

The boy exclaimed, "But the candle light is very dim and small. How can I cross this dense forest?"

The old man replied, "My dear child, the candle light, though dim and small, will light one step at a time. Taking one step at a time, you will reach home?"

The boy followed the old man�s advice and proceeding through the forest one step at a time in the candlelight, could overcome the obstacles on the way and safely reached his home safely.

 

How to achieve your greatest expectations

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If you have great expectations of great good, then there is a great tendency that good will come to you, when you become receptive to the good. Remember that you are all the time creating an atmosphere favourable to the development of your expectations. If you constantly think negative thoughts and have negative expectations, negative results will tend to flow back to you. A positive mental attitude comes only through practice. So, if you want to have a positive mental attitude, you must practice it diligently.

Get up early morning, stretch your arms high above your head and say: �Thank God, I am alive!"

Wash yourself on the inside by singing a hymn of faith and love. A hymn is the most therapeutic music known to man, and it will help wash out all the old, tired, dead, pollutants of yesterday.

�Norman Vincent Peale