Who's Packing your Parachute?

Charles Plumb was a US Navy jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile.

Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist Vietnamese prison. He survived the ordeal and now lectures on lessons learned from that experience!

You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk

You were shot down!"

"How in the world did you know that?" asked Plumb.

"I packed your parachute," the man replied. Plumb gasped in surprise and gratitude. The man pumped his hand and said, "I guess it worked !"

Plumb assured him, "It sure did. If your chute hadn't worked, I wouldn't be here today."

Plumb couldn't sleep that night, thinking aboutthat man. Plumb says, "I kept wondering what he had looked like in a Navy uniform: a white hat; a bib in the back; and bell-bottom trousers.

I wonder how many times I might have seen him and not even said 'Good morning, how are you?' or anything because,you see, I was a fighter pilot and he was just a sailor.

Plumb thought of the many hours the sailor had spent at a long wooden table in the bowels of the ship, carefully weaving the shrouds and folding the silks of each chute, holding in his hands each time the fate of someone he didn't know.

Now, Plumb asks his audience, "Who's packing your parachute?"

Everyone has someone who provides what they need to make it through the day. He also pointsout that he needed many kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot down over enemy territory - he needed his physical parachute, his mental parachute, his emotional parachute, and his spiritual parachute. He called on all these supports before reaching safety.

Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important. We may fail to say hello, please, or thank you, congratulate someone on something wonderful that has happened to them, give a compliment, or just do something nice for no reason. As you go through this week, this month, this year, recognize people who pack your parachutes.
Thank you for your part in packing our parachute. And I hope you will send it on to those who have helped pack yours!Sometimes, we wonder why friends keep for-warding jokesto us without writing a word. Maybe this could explain it:When you are very busy, but still want to keep in touch, guess what you do -you forward jokes. And to let you know that you are still remembered, you are still important, you are still loved, you are still cared for, guess what you get?

A forwarded joke.

So my friend, next time when you get a joke, don't think that you've been sent just another forwarded joke, but that you've been thought of today and your friend on the other end of your computer wanted to send you a smile, just helping you pack your parachute.

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Success Is A Matter Of Expectatiion

You must first expect to succeed if you want to succeed.When you expect good things to happen,strangely enough, they will happen.
Your expectation energizes your goals and gives them momentum.Since your life will always respond to your outlook, set your goals high.
The dreams you choose to believe in will come to be.You can't expect to succeed beyond your wildest expectationsunless you begin with some pretty wild expectations.
©2005 by Max Steingart

Gratitude

"Feeling Gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

by: William Arthur Ward

Be grateful for what you have and grateful for things to come.

Dreams of Freedom

It started out as a terrific idea, didn't it? You certainly had pure intent. You just wanted to provide everything your family had never had. You really wanted more time to spend with them. And you wanted to help others just like you to have success in life. How could such a good idea go so bad?

And then some MLM expert came into your life, to help you achieve your dreams. What they said sounded great. Fire your boss, work for yourself, make your own hours, go to your kids' school plays or sporting events instead of working overtime, take your family on exotic vacations, spend your life with the most engaging and successful people. It's hard to imagine even now that those successful people drained your wallet dry and then dumped you.

It was the freedom you really wanted, not the money. Unfortunately, the people who were leading you on really wanted the money. Yours, actually. And you trusted them because they were so successful. You thought they'd help you reach financial freedom, because that would benefit them. The problem was, the way those guys got the good things in life was by fleecing people, not by building them.

So how can you really build a good MLM income? That's what we'll talk about here, several times a week. Hope you'll stick around.

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