Unit 1 Living in Harmony [00:04.00]Listen and Respond [00:06.78]Smile
[00:10.76]I am a mother of three and have recently completed my college degree. [00:16.57]The last project the professor assigned us to do was called “Smile.”
[00:22.95]The class was asked to go out and smile at three people and then write down their reaction.
[00:30.42]I am a very friendly person and always smile at everyone I meet and say “hello.”
[00:36.54]So I thought that it would be a piece of cake for me. [00:41.52]Soon after we were assigned the project, my husband,
[00:45.47]the youngest son and I went out to the local McDonalds on a cold March morning.
[00:51.63]Just when we were standing in line, waiting to be served,
[00:55.66]I smelled a horrible “dirty body” smell, and there standing behind me were two poor homeless men.
[01:03.96]As I looked down at the shorter gentleman close to me, he was smiling. [01:09.48]His beautiful sky blue eyes were searching for acceptance. [01:14.19]He said, “Good day” as he counted the few coins he had. [01:19.73]The second man was mentally retarded.
[01:23.65]The young lady at the counter asked the shorter man what they wanted. [01:28.38]He said, “Just coffee for the two of us.” [01:32.48]Obviously, it was all they could afford.
[01:35.94]To sit in the restaurant and warm up, they had to buy something — they just wanted to be warm.
[01:44.01]Then I was suddenly filled with sympathy.
[01:47.18]All eyes in the restaurant were set on me, judging my every action. [01:52.74]I smiled and asked the young lady behind the counter to [01:56.79]give me two more breakfast meals on a separate tray.
[02:00.93]I then walked to the table where the two men were sitting.
[02:05.09]I put the tray on the table and laid my hand on the blue-eyed gentleman’s cold hand.
[02:12.07]He looked up at me and said, “Thank you.” [02:15.98]I leaned over and said, “Just help yourselves.”
[02:20.22]I started to cry when I walked away to join my husband and son.
[02:25.10]As I sat down, my husband smiled at me and held my hand for a moment. [02:32.03]I returned to college, with this story in hand.
[02:35.74]I turned in “my project” and the professor was touched and read it to the whole class.
[02:43.20]The whole class was touched.
[02:45.34]I graduated with one of the biggest lessons I would ever learn — UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE.
Unit 2 Optimism and Positive Thinking [00:05.81]Listen and Respond [00:08.87]Attitude Is Everything
[00:12.53]Michael was a natural optimist.
[00:15.46]He was always in a good mood, always up and always had something positive to say.
[00:22.52]If an employee was having a bad day,
[00:25.29]Michael was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.
[00:31.51]Seeing his optimism really made me curious, so one day I went up to Michael
[00:37.44]and asked him, “I don’t get it. [00:39.70]You can’t be positive all the time. [00:42.52]How do you do it?”
[00:45.24]Michael replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself: Mike, you have two choices today.
[00:53.41]You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.
[00:58.89]I choose to be in a good mood.
[01:01.46]Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or choose to learn from it.
[01:08.30]I choose to learn from it.
[01:10.88]Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept the complaining
[01:16.56]or I can point out the positive side of life, I always choose the positive side of life.”
[01:23.05]“Yeah, right.
[01:24.25]But it isn’t that easy.” [01:25.94]I said.
[01:27.13]“Yes, it is easy,” Michael said. [01:30.30]“Life is all about choices.
[01:32.75]Every situation in life is a choice.
[01:35.67]You choose how you react to situations; you choose how people will affect your mood; you choose how you feel.
[01:43.93]The bottom line is: It’s your choice how you live your life.”
[01:49.18]From Michael I have learned that every day we have a choice to live fully. [01:54.09]So I will choose to be an optimist.
[01:56.80]If I am an optimist I may feel better, enjoy life more, and maybe have more chances of success.
Unit 3 The Road to Success [00:05.83]Listen and Respond [00:08.68]Follow Your Dream
[00:12.62]One day in a high school, a senior named Monty Roberts was asked to write
[00:18.50]a paper about what he wanted to be and do when he grew up. [00:23.83]Monty Roberts was the son of a horse trainer. [00:27.54]He loved horses.
[00:29.55]That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of someday owning a large horse ranch.
[00:37.49]He wrote about his dream in great detail and he even drew a picture of a 200-acre ranch.
[00:45.22]He put a great deal of his heart into the dream ranch [00:48.88]and the next day he handed the paper in to his teacher. [00:53.10]Two days later he received his paper back. [00:56.41]He got a large red F for his paper. [01:00.81]He went to ask the teacher why.
[01:03.42]The teacher said, “The dream is impossible for you. [01:07.50]You have no money.
[01:09.06]Owning a horse ranch needs a lot of money.
[01:12.73]You have to buy the land, the house, and the machines for your ranch. [01:18.49]There’s no way you could ever do it.”
[01:21.86]Then the teacher added, “If you will write this paper again [01:26.28]with a more realistic goal, I will reconsider your grade.” [01:31.32]The boy went home and thought about it long and hard. [01:35.09]He asked his father what he should do.
[01:38.24]His father said, “Look, son, you have to make up your own mind on this. [01:44.59]However, I think it is a very important decision for you.”
[01:50.55]Finally, after sitting with it for a week, the boy turned in the same paper, making no changes at all.
[01:59.39]He said to the teacher, “You can keep the F and I’ll keep my dream. [02:04.34]I will follow my heart, no matter what happens.” [02:08.55]Now years have passed.
[02:10.70]This young man’s dream has finally come true. [02:14.52]He is the owner of a large horse ranch.
Unit 4 Being Creative
[0:5.15]Listen and Respond
[0:8.23]Creativity Is the Essence of Life and Nature [0:13.75]Creativity is the essence of life and nature.
[0:17.65]The world itself is in a constant act of creation, so we human beings should ask ourselves — Why,
[0:25.57]in such a creative world, do some people sometimes appear to be stupid, dull, and uncreative?
[0:33.31]— Are people really dull?
[0:35.38]Or are we all, in fact, creative? [0:39.12]To answer this, let’s look at a baby.
[0:42.24]The whole essence of a baby is creative — it is creative in learning to walk, talk, sing, and play.
[0:51.37]Just imagine, a child can create a world of its own imagination and play with it for hours.
[0:58.85]A scientist who creates a theory is just like that — it is a play of ideas within the mind.
[1:5.57]It is hard to stop creativity in a young child. [1:10.51]You can’t make your child creative. [1:13.57]It simply is creative.
[1:16.96]Then, how can our children be still more creative?
[1:21.67]I would suggest that the first step is to allow ourselves to be creative.
[1:26.96]If we ourselves are creative, we can guide our children in a way that is free and unconditioned.
[1:34.70]We should give our children a free and safe surrounding for them to explore, make mistakes and create.
[1:42.06]If we know a better way to do things, we should guide or “help” the child.
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