Motivational Story

Optimist vs. Pessimist

Like taking a morning shower, make the planting of positive thoughts a daily practice. ~ Neil Eskelin

A family had twin boys whose only resemblance to each other were their looks. Opposite in every way, one was an eternal optimist, and the other was a doom and gloom pessimist.

Just to see what would happen, on the twins' Birthday their father loaded the pessimist's room with every imaginable toy and game. The optimist's room he loaded with horse manure.

That night the father passed by the pessimist's room and found him sitting amid his new gifts crying bitterly.

"Why are you crying?" the father asked.

"Because my friends will be jealous, I'll have to read all these instructions before I can do anything with this stuff, I'll constantly need batteries, and my toys will eventually get broken," whined the pessimist twin.

Passing the optimist twin's room, the father found him dancing for joy in the pile of manure. "What are you so happy about?" he asked.

To which his optimist twin replied, "With all this manure, there's got to be a pony in here somewhere!"

There is only one small letter between the words CAN and CAN'T...and that one letter will T-OTALLY change your destiny. ~ Doug Firebaugh

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