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The Coaching With Results Self-Improvement Newsletter  	
Feb 2003

http://www.CoachingWithResults.com/
"Where We Achieve Success, Your Success"
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1. Inspirational Quote Of The Month
2. Story Of The Month (with a meaningful lesson)
3. The Road To Success Is Paved With Failure
4. Humor
5. How to recommend our newsletter to a friend
6. How to subscribe and unsubscribe to this newsletter	

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Editors note: This Newsletter has one Goal: To help you 
become a better person and get more out of life. It is 
built on the premise that "Content is King". We hope you
will enjoy it, and please feel free to pass it on to a friend. 
thanks again,
The Editor

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Section 1. Quote of the month

"Things turn out best for those who make the best of how
things turn out."
Author: Art Linkletter

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Section 2. Story Of The Month (with a meaningful lesson)

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room.
One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each
afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was
next to the room's only window. The other man had to spend all
his time flat on his back. 

The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and
families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the
military service, even where they had been on vacation. And
every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up,
he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the
things he could see outside the window. The man in the other
bed began to live for those one-hour periods where his world
would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color
of the world outside. The window overlooked a park with a lovely
lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed
their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers
of every color of the rainbow. Grand old trees graced the landscape,
and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.
As the man by the window described all this in exquisite detail,
the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and
imagine the picturesque scene. 

One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing
by. Although the other man couldn't hear the band, he could see it
in his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with 
descriptive words. Days and weeks passed in similar fashion. One 
morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to
find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully
in his sleep. She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to
take the body away. As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man
asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to
make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him
alone. Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his
first look at the world outside. 

Finally, he would have the joy of seeing it for himself. He trained to 
slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed. It faced a blank wall.
The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate
to describe such wonderful things outside this window. The nurse responded
that the man was blind for the past 10 years and could not even see the
wall. She said, Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you." 

Epilogue...There is tremendous happiness in making others happy, despite
our own situations. Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness
when shared, is doubled. If you want to feel rich, just count all of the
things you have that money can't buy. 

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Section 3. The Road To Success Is Paved With Failure

Sigmund Freud's first book The Interpretation of Dreams, sold 
only 600 copies and netted the author a mere $250 in royalties
in the first eight years after its publication.

Sigmund Freud became the father of psychoanalysis and one of
the most influential thinkers of the twenty first century. His
most widely read book, The interpretation of Dreams, is
considered the gospel of pyschoanalysis.

This was a Book Excerpt from 
The Road to Success is Paved with Failure

     

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Section 4. Humor

There's a little fellow named Junior who hangs out at the local
grocery store. The manager doesn't know what Junior's problem is, 
but the boys like to tease him. They say he is two bricks short of
a load, or two pickles shy of a barrel.

To prove it, sometimes the boys offer Junior his choice between
a nickel and a dime. He always takes the nickel, they say, because
it's bigger.

One day after Junior grabbed the nickel, the store manager got him
off to one side and said, "Junior, those boys are making fun of you.
They think you don't know the dime is worth more than the nickel. 
Are you grabbing the nickel because it's bigger, or what?"

Junior said, "Well, if I took the dime, they'd quit doing it!" 


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