Wake Up Your Life!

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Years ago,when I started looking for my first job,wise advisers urged,"hey,be enthusiastic!Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience." How right they were!Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure,extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends."Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm,"wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.An enthusiastic attitude enables us to hang in there when the going gets tough.It's the dinner that whispers,"I can do it!"when others believe it can't be done. We are all born with wide-eyed,enthusiastic wonder-as anyone knows who has ever seen an infant's delight at the jingle of keys or the scurrying of a beetle.It is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiasitc people such a youthful air,whatever their age.As poet and author Sameuel Ullman once wrote,"Years may wrinkle the skin,but to give up enthusiastic wrinkles the sole."We need to live each moment wholeheartedly,with all our sense-finding pleasure in the fragrance of a backyard garden,the crayoned picture of a six-year-old,the enchanting beauty of a rainbow. It is such an enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes.