【正文】 Series, buoyed my back on that horrible summer,I soon understood that all succeeding good things merely offset the than normal wouldn?t last long. I am owed and savor the halcyon reinvigorate me for the next nasty surprise and offer assurance that I can 、旺盛 The 50percent theory even helps me see hope beyond my Royals? recent slump蕭條期、陷落 ,a field of struggling rookies sown so that some year soon we can reap an October harvest. 7 Searching for a WinWin Solution Recently I have had a dilemma I39。t felt that there was a winwin I do one thing, I39。m also missing the way I feel like a loser, not a morning I got an that directly addresses this dilemma:A Thinking TestYou are driving along on a wild, stormy pass by a bus stop, and you see three people waiting for the bus: 1. An old lady who is sick and about to die. 2. An old friend who once saved your life. 3. The perfect man or woman you have been dreaming about. Which one would you choose to pick up, knowing that there could only be one passenger in your car?The candidate who was hired simply answered:I would give the car keys to my old friend, and let him take the lady to the would stay behind and wait for the bus with the woman of my dreams.Sometimes, we gain more if we are able to give up our stubborn thought limitations and think outside the , like me, you are looking at a decision that makes you feel forced to choose between plan A or plan B,and neither plan by itself seems like the right decision, stretch your mind to consider plans C or D,to a third option that solves the problem in a whole new that there is a solution you haven39。most of the time you are the victor looking at the situation from the wrong view! The view is yours to choose. 8 The Folly of Anxiety Half the people on our streets look as though life was a sorry business. It is hard to find a happy looking man or woman. Worry is the cause of their woebegone appearance. Worry makes the wrinkles。 worry is the worst disease of our modern times. Care is contagious。 no matter how heavy our loads may seem to be we have no right to throw their burden on others nor even to cast the shadow of them on other hearts. Anxiety is instability. Fret steals away force. He who dreads tomorrow trembles today. Worry is weakness. The successful men may be always wideawake, but they never worry. Fret and fear are like fine sand, thrown into life39。 they cause more than half the friction。 but happiness es in definite ways. It is the casting out of our foolish fears that we may have room for a few of our mon joys. It is the telling our worries to wait until we get through appreciating our blessings. Take a deep breath, raise your chest, lift your eyes from the ground, look up and think how many things you have for which to be grateful, and you will find a smile growing where one may long have been unknown. Take the right kind of thought—for to take no thought would be sin—but take the calm, unanxious thought of your business, your duties, your difficulties, your disappointments and all the things that once have caused you fear, and you will find yourself laughing at most of them. 9 My Perfect House My house is perfect. By great good fortune I have found a housekeeper no less to my mind, a lowvoiced, lightfooted woman of discreet age, strong and deft enough to render me all the service I require, and not afraid of loneliness. She rises very early. By my breakfasttime there remains little to be done under the roof save dressing of meals. Very rarely do I hear even a clink of crockery。 just that superfluity of inner space, to lack which is to be less than at one39。 the work in wood and plaster tells of a more leisurely and a more honest age than ours. The stairs do not creak under my step。 I can open or close a window without muscleache. As to such trifles as the color and device of wallpaper, I confess my indifference。s home is fort。 but never till now with that sense of security which makes a home. At any moment I might have been driven forth by evil accident, by disturbing necessity. For all that time did I say within myself: Some day, perchance, I shall have a home。 but, if I did, even so long should I have the money to pay my rent and buy my food. I am no cosmopolite. Were I to think that I should die away from England, the thought would be dreadful to me. And in England, this is the place of my choice。 he39。t follow the catastrophe on the Gulf Coast as closely as I might have,but those weeks taught me some things about catastrophe and about the kindness of catastrophes are in the Gulf Coast sought survival。 some prayed upon the hospital, we watched our son Owen the tubes dripping and the monitors beeping, he still slept his baby wife asked for the pastor。s health should not ruin us,upon the doctors and clerks and ambulance depended upon a mitment made to helping others. This mitment is a web that holds us together in times of need. By the time we took Owen home, the worst effects of Katrina were watched the images from the Gulf Coast, images of munities,lives and families whose fabric had been torn thought of that web of strangers that had embraced my family in our time of need,and that it is the most fortunate among us who are served best by can only hope this web will be strong enough, that it will be spun wide,that it will hold and care for many,that we can all depend upon the kindness of strangers. 11 “Packing” a Person A person, like a modity, needs going too far is absolutely little exaggeration, however, does no harm when it shows the person39。s exuberance enough to retain selfconfidence and pursue pioneering work, you are unique in your natural qualities, and your charm and grace will people are beautiful if their river of life has been,through plains, mountains and jungles, running its course as