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Here I go again! I don’t know about you but it seems like every year, a few days after Christmas I get all antsy and I feel compelled to write down a whole bunch of impossible resolutions. At ninety I am tempted to sum up all of my goals by singing the Bee Gees song “Stayin’ Alive! Stayin’ Alive!” and that would lead me to a discussion on The Quality of Life. And that might lead to the subject of Being Useful. I don’t want to live a useless life. People keep telling me, “Art, I always find at least one thing in your Memo that helps me in some way.”
I wish I could find something useful in everything that I read. When I go out and make a presentation I can tell that I am doing something useful from the smiles on the faces in the audiences, in their laughter or their applause. If they quit acting that way then I would know that what I was doing was not useful. I would sit down and shut up. I don’t think I need a list of resolutions I can just say it this way. “To be loving and useful.” That ought to do it.
Recommended Reading
The Platinum Rule by Art Fettig
The Age Old Secret to Happiness and Prosperity. If you believe in the Golden Rule then, just maybe, you are one of those fortunate few who are ready to take a giant step forwaqrd in your lives to fame, fortune and a great new plateau of personal satisfaction.
Art Fettig has identified a little known key to wealth and happiness in his book The Platinum rule. I hope that millions of people discover this little book and apply this giving formula. Trul their lives will be enriched and certainly this will be a better world.” – The Wickman Formula, Executive Press 1991
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