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  A thought by Zig Zigler, from his book,  Better Than Good   (p. 45). Thomas Nelson, Kindle Edition.  (Click on the book title to go to Amazon to buy the book.) Now that sounds like a great idea. Zig says, " Next to love, laughter has been described as the second most powerful emotion we can express. It has been said that laughter is like internal jogging—it stimulates the respiratory system, oxygenates the body, relaxes tense muscles, and releases pleasure-producing chemicals in the brain. You cannot laugh and be mad, laugh and be tense, laugh and be stressed. Laughter is low calorie, caffeine free, and has no salt, preservatives, or additives. It’s 100 percent natural and one-size-fits-all." He goes on, "Laughter is truly God’s gift to humankind. You can get high on laughter but never overdose. Laughter is contagious—once it starts, little can be done to stop it. Laughter never felt bad, committed a crime, started a war, or broke up a relationship. Laughter is shared

  A thought by Zig Zigler, from his book,  Better Than Good   (p. 43). Thomas Nelson, Kindle Edition.  (Click on the book title to go to Amazon to buy the book.) So that would be a good thing to find out what it is, wouldn't it? Zig says, " I don’t mean the fear of tornadoes or black cats or roller coasters. I mean the fears that lurk inside each of us that keep us from launching ourselves into the great adventure called life! We fear failure, of course—perhaps most of all. But we also fear losing the security of our own inhibitions. We fear losing control, and we fear the future. We fear living with the tension that exists between what we know and what we don’t know—the security of the present versus the insecurity of the future. Some people just can’t handle the unknown, so they remain bottled up, confined to the reality of the past instead of the potential of the future. Life is often like having one foot on the dock and the other foot on a boat that is leaving. We want to

  A thought by Zig Zigler, from his book,  Better Than Good   (p. 39). Thomas Nelson, Kindle Edition.  (Click on the book title to go to Amazon to buy the book.) That is so true. Zig explains, " By that I mean some things in life are absolutely right and some things are absolutely wrong. There is black and white in life, and as soon as you agree with that you can relieve yourself of the stress that comes from trying to decide right and wrong every time a new situation arises. Our society today is buying into the idea that there are no universal truths—that what is right for me may not be right for you. That may be true when it comes to picking out the color shirt we’re going to wear or car we’re going to buy, but it’s not true when it comes to honesty and integrity." He goes on, "To point out the fallacy of relativism and its disastrous results, in public seminars I always ask this question: 'How many of you would hire an accountant or a treasurer who admitted that h

  A thought by Zig Zigler, from his book,  Better Than Good   (p. 38). Thomas Nelson, Kindle Edition.  (Click on the book title to go to Amazon to buy the book.) And that is so true. Zig says, " Bonnie St. John Deane was a participant in the Paralympics. She was a one-legged skier who was competing against another one-legged skier. The other skier went first, and in the final run she fell. Bonnie confidently told her associates that she knew she was going to win because she wasn’t going to fall. But she did fall and the other skier won. Bonnie’s friends tried to console her by saying, 'She was just a faster skier than you are.' To this Bonnie adamantly responded, 'No, she is not a faster skier. She just got up faster than I did.' " Zig goes on, "I’ve never heard of anybody going all the way through life and not getting knocked down. Some people never get up and some get up so slowly it takes years and a lifetime of anger and bitterness before they recover

A thought by Zig Zigler, from his book,  Better Than Good   (p. 34). Thomas Nelson, Kindle Edition.  (Click on the book title to go to Amazon to buy the book.) So give me more. Zig says,  "The thief I see robbing more people of their passion than anything else is stress—stress in all its forms." He later says, ". . . I used to see on bumper stickers a few years back: 'Life is hard. Then you die.' It’s true—life is full of stress. It takes someone deluded or in denial to believe that it’s not. Therefore, the question is not 'How do we avoid stress-producing situations?' but 'How do we learn to live without succumbing to stress?' And more specifically, in terms of the message of this book, 'How do we keep stress from stealing our passion?' He goes on, "I read a lengthy article in Reader’s Digest once that documented that 90 percent of all doctor’s visits can be attributed, directly or indirectly, to stress. Stress suppresses the body’s

A thought by Zig Zigler, from his book,  Better Than Good   (p. 30). Thomas Nelson, Kindle Edition.  (Click on the book title to go to Amazon to buy the book.) And this is very true. Zig says, " The power of the imagination is one of the greatest untapped resources in the human tool kit. It’s amazing that mental images have such power—but they do." He goes on, "One of the things that spurred me on as a rookie speaker was my imagination. I pictured myself speaking before crowds of thousands of people, knocking them dead with my humor and wisdom and humbly receiving their standing ovations. That didn’t happen overnight, but I never allowed that picture to be erased from my mind. And eventually, everything I had imagined, and then some, became reality. "Bruce Barton made an interesting observation: 'I do not like the phrase ' "Never cross a bridge until you come to it." ' It is used by too many men as a cloak for mental laziness. The world is owne

A thought by Zig Zigler, from his book,  Better Than Good   (p. 27). Thomas Nelson, Kindle Edition.  (Click on the book title to go to Amazon to buy the book.) It really is. Zig says, " You and I have three kinds of resources given to us by God that we can invest in whatever we choose: time, talent, and treasure. God doesn’t come down and dictate to us every morning how we are to use our time, apply our talents and abilities, and spend our money. From our human point of view, He leaves those choices to us. But I can tell you this: the more of your time, talent, and treasure you invest in your passion, the more you will fight for it, defend it, and protect it from everyone and everything that would attempt to steal it from you." He goes on, "Let’s say your passion is to own your own flower shop someday. Right now, you’re not involved with flowers except as a hobby and impressing your neighbors with your gorgeous gardens every spring. But the children have left the nest an