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Date: | Thu, 5 Aug 1999 10:02:48 -0500 |
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Ken,
This is excellent, if we could just live it. Some of us carry more
useless baggage from the past. I am at my best being me. Sometimes though I
feel
like I must be what someone else wants me to be and I can't. By the grace
of God, I don't have to do that any more.
Bobby
>I THINK this is pretty good.
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>> You can't be all things to all people.
>> You can't do all things at once.
>> You can't do all things equally well.
>> You can't do all things better than everyone else.
>> Your humanity is showing just like everyone else's.
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>> SO...
>> You have to find out who you are, and be that.
>> You have to decide what comes first, and do that.
>> You have to discover your strengths, and use them.
>> You have to learn not to compete with others,
>> Because no one else is in the contest of "being you."
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>> THEN...
>> You will have learned to accept your own uniqueness.
>> You will have learned to set priorities and make decisions.
>> You will have learned to live with your limitations.
>> You will have learned to give yourself the respect that is due,
>> And you'll be a most vital mortal.
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>> DARE TO BELIEVE...
>> That you are a wonderful, unique person.
>> That you are a once-in-all-history event.
>> That it's more than a right, it's your duty, to be who you are.
>> That life is not a problem to solve, but a gift to cherish.
>> And you'll be able to stay one up on what used to get you down.
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