Sunday, October 14, 2007
5 X
In October of 1979, yes some 28 years ago, I was fortunate enough to attend a 16 week Dale Carnegie course sponsored by Michigan Bell Telephone my then employer. I found a lot of confidence in myself that I didn’t know I had. I can remember one session we worked on doing things five times better or trying five times harder to achieve a goal. I remembered I had stickers with 5 X plastered all over. They were on my sewing machine, my notebook at work, the dash board of my car, and every where I felt I needed to try harder. Some years later as I smiled to myself I scraped the ones off my sewing machine.
This training however faded sometimes when difficulties, worry, or illness intervened. It wasn’t until a while ago that I felt the need to reinforce those positive feelings again. My first attempt came from a friend’s blog post.
After I read this I printed, and frame it to hang somewhere. Wanting to see it every day I hung it in the bathroom next to the mirror. But I wasn’t happy with it there so I moved it to the wall right across the toilet stool. Now every time I go in to sit I reread this positive thought.
Just a couple of months ago I came across another positive thought. I copied this into green cardboard and it hung on the wall at my right shoulder when I was at the computer until I could get it framed.
Now it hangs at the head of my bed and every morning as I put my shoes on I read it.
Why do I do this you ask? I don’t really know but maybe it is because as I age many things I used to do I can’t do as well any more. Some things I can’t do at all. So I must think of the positive things I can do. Then like the 5 Xs I must find, copy, frame and hang them all over the house.
