A woman walks into a theater and seats herself in the back row. There is no one else there yet and she's just getting settled when she notices a shadow in the front. She gets up to investigate and finds a man laying down across five of the seats in the front row. "Sir," she says to him. "Not to be rude or anything, but it's not fair of you to take up five seats like that. When more people arrive, they're going to need them!"

"Oh " he replies.

"I'll ask you again to move! You don't need five seats!" the woman persists.

"Oh...." he replies again.

"Well that does it! I'm fetching the manager!" she snaps, and storms out of the theater. A moment later she returns with a manager in tow and points accusingly at the man who has refused to move.

"Sir, this lady has lodged a complaint and I'm afraid I have to agree. There is no reason for you to take up five seats." the manager informs him.

"Oh......" the man replies again, not moving.

"Just where do you come from that you think you can take up five seats anyway?" the manager inquires.

".....the balcony......"

You see, things may not always be what they seem. That is true of things in your life, too. I don't know how many times I thought I had failed, only to find, surprisingly, I didn't.

Life is like that. We are all taught as youth that, in our minds, we do not always mean what we say. We grow up that way, not having had proper instruction as to how important it is to stick to our word, or our ideas, for our sake only.

The result is we grow up with minds that don't believe us when we get older. Our minds are much too used to hearing one thing and then we go do another. So we get surprised when we succeed at something when we thought we were failing.

Worse, we too often set our goals, read them every day, but deep down inside we don't believe we will attain them. We have been too long schooled in not reaching our goals and objectives, so we just assume we will fail.

Yet, things are not what they seem. Your mind is just waiting for you to take a hard objective, set your sights, and go for it until you reach it - accepting NO ALTERNATIVE.

Once you do this you will find nearly everything else in your life happening as you say, also. The reason is you have shown your mind you mean business. You have shown your mind you will not stop until you reach what you have decided upon.

That is why the admonition to "keep on keepin' on". Like Churchill said, "Never, Never, Never quit."

Regardless what you see, you must remember YOU set your goals as something reasonable, honest and worthy. There is nothing wrong with your goals. You simply haven't found the right road yet. Someone once told me "There are many roads that lead to the town square. If one is blocked, use another. You will get there."

Don't like where you are in your plans?

Things are NOT ALWAYS WHAT YOU THINK!

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