The Best Advice I Ever Received

The Best Advice I Ever Received 

    By Rex Barker

You're at the top when you clearly understand that
failure is an event, not a person. That yesterday ended
last night. and today is your brand new day.

You're at the top when you've made friends with your
past, are focused on the present, and optimistic about
the future.

You're at the top when you know that success (a win)
doesn't make you; and a failure (a loss) doesn't break
you.

You're at the top when you're filled with faith, hope,
and love, and live without anger, greed, guilt, envy or
thoughts of revenge. When you're mature enough to delay
gratification and shift your focus from your rights to
your responsibilities.

You're at the top when you know that failure to stand
for what is morally right is the prelude to being the
victim of what is criminally wrong.

You're at the top when you are secure about who you are
so that you're at peace with God and in fellowship with
man.

You're at the top when you've made friends with your
adversaries and have gained the love and respect of
those whom you know best; when you understand that
others can give you pleasure, but genuine happiness
comes when you do things for others.

You're at the top when you're pleasant to the grouchy,
courteous to the rude, and generous to the needy. 

You're at the top when you love the unlovable, give
hope to the hopeless, friendship to the friendless and
encouragement to the discouraged.

You're at the top when you can look back in
forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion, and
up with gratitude.

This is Rex Barker C.S. (Compassionate Servant) saying,
"You're at the top when you know that he who would be
the greatest among you must become the servant of all."

  -- Cited on andychaps_the-funnies Andychap@aol.com