【正文】 with barns and warehouses filled, with shelves and larders laden they are empty and hungry. No man need envy them。ve remembered with a keen sting what it felt like to be in the eighth gradea time when it was as easy to try on different approaches to life as it was to try on a coat. The whole world, the whole future is stretched out ahead, a vast panorama where all the doors are open. And if I were there right now, I would picture myself walking through those doors wearing my wonderful, magical coat. 9． What?s Your Recovery Rate? What is your recovery rate? How long does it take you to recover from actions and behaviors that upset you? Minutes? Hours? Days? Weeks? The longer it takes you to recover, the more influence that incident has on your actions, and the less able you are to perform to your personal best. In a nutshell, the longer it takes you to recover, the weaker you are and the poorer your performance. You are well aware that you need to exercise to keep the body fit and, no doubt, accept that a reasonable measure of health is the speed in which your heart and respiratory system recovers after exercise. Likewise the faster you let go of an issue that upsets you, the faster you return to an equilibrium, the healthier you will be. The best example of this behavior is found with professional sportspeople. They know that the faster they can fet an incident or missed opportunity and get on with the game, the better their performance. In fact, most measure the time it takes them to overe and fet an incident in a game and most reckon a recovery rate of 30 seconds is too long! Imagine yourself to be an actor in a play on the stage. Your aim is to play your part to the best of your ability. You have been given a script and at the end of each sentence is a full stop. Each time you get to the end of the sentence you start a new one and although the next sentence is related to the last it is not affected by it. Your job is to deliver each sentence to the best of your ability. Don39。s a survival mechanism. This is why I say to first work on yourself, then your family, and then the rest of the world. From this powerful core and support system you will have better resources, mental, material, and spiritual, in order to make breakthroughs with hundreds, thousands, or millions of people around the globe. 8． Criteria of Excellency My l4yearold son, John, and I spotted the coat simultaneously. It was hanging on a rack at a secondhand clothing store in Northampton Mass, crammed in with shoddy trench coats and an assortment of sad, woolen overcoats—a rose among thorns. While the other coats drooped, this one looked as if it were holding itself up. The thick, black wool of the doublebreasted chesterfield was soft and unworn, as though it had been preserved in mothballs for years in dead old Uncle Henry39。s natural yearning. If only I got my way. If only I ruled the world. An even greater truth is that none of us is going to bee the king of the world anytime soon. It would probably be a very lonely job, anyway. Too many responsibilities, too much on one person39。 you can live as if everything is a miracle. When nothing is a miracle, you gain the power of doing anything you want and you have no limits. And when everything is a miracle, you stop by to appreciate even the smallest of beautiful things in the world. Thinking both ways will give you a productive and happy life. 7. When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I e to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. Dreaming about all the great things that you can achieve is the key to a life filled with positivity. Let your imagination run amuck and create the world that you would wish to be in. 8. In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself. If you want to bee a very successful entrepreneur, you must start a business right away. Wishing to bee one, but fearing the consequences will not help. The same applies to everything—in order to win a game, one must above all play the game. 9. You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. Learn the rules of your game and start playing it best. Keep peting like your life depended on it. And after a while you will have no one else but you to pete against. At that point, better your best. 10. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. Intelligent people ask. Keep questioning yourself and others to find solutions. This will help gain knowledge and analyze your growth in all walks of life. 6． Relish the Moment Tucked away in our subconscious is an idyllic vision. We see ourselves on a long trip that spans the continent. We are traveling by train. Out the windows, we drink in the passing scene of cars on nearby highways, of children waving at a crossing, of cattle grazing on a distant hillside, of smoke pouring from a power plant, of row upon row of corn and wheat, of flatlands and valleys, of mountains and rolling hillsides, of city skylines and village halls. But uppermost in our minds is the final destination. On a certain day at a certain hour, we will pull into the station. Bands will be playing and flags waving. Once we get there, so many wonderful dreams will e true and the pieces of our lives will fit together like a pleted jigsaw puzzle. How restlessly we pace the aisles, damning the minutes for loitering—waiting, waiting, waiting for the station. When we reach the station, that will be it! we cry.When I39。t use the power of imagination correctly. If you do not recognize the importance of the power of the imagination, and let it run riot, your life