!!! Message from my friend Karim!!!!

This is serendipity: I just got this message in my inbox: (I took part of it out for you, the message itself is bigger)

How do you see the people around you?

How do you view your friends,family, colleagues, associates, strangers, sales people, etc?

Do you see some of them as positive influences and others as negative influences? Do you think some of them are a pain, annoy you, are difficult, frustrate you or out to get you? Or do you see them as friendly, warm, caring, affectionate, loving, understanding, positive people.How you see people is what you bring out of them. For example if you see a sales person as annoying you're going to always find and attract annoying sales people. If you see a family member as a pain, your always going to bring out the side in that person that is a pain towards you. If you see your colleagues as jealous, competitive or vindictive then you're always going to bring out those qualities in them because that's what you see in them and that is what you believe is their character. What you believe is what you get. Now I know some of you are going to say: "Karim, these people are that way - I'm not making this stuff up. They really are nasty." Sure they are, and you keep bringing out the worst in them by focusing only on seeing the dark side of their character. Everybody around you has some redeeming qualities: look at those positive qualities within in them and you'll get them to display those qualities more often. Next - ask yourself: "Is that really the way they are?" Challenge your perception and see if you can choose to see things differently. Chances are when you look really closely most people are not as mean and unkind as you think they are. They probably think that they're being very nice but since you only see the negative qualities in them, anything they do will be deemed negative. Once you've perceived them to be a certain way there's nothing that they can do to change your mind. The only way you will truly see the good in the other person is to focus on and see their good qualities then you'll actually see them displaying these qualities more often. Look for the good in someone and you will only attract good things to you. Change the way you see people. Change the way you see life. Begin to believe that good things can happen and you begin to use the Power Of Perception. Get started today - visit: http://www.creatingpower.com/news.htm