"You haven't given up, have you?"

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I speak to lots of business and service groups. And everywhere I go lately, there’s talk about the recession—"Is it coming or is it already here?"

Seems to me all this talk is wasted. Some very famous and successful have proven that predicting what’s coming is very difficult.

For instance, Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment, said in 1977, "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." A Western Union Telegraph Company internal memo in 1876 read, "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication." When Gary Cooper turned down the lead role in Gone with the Wind, he said, "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." When in 1962 Decca Recording Co. rejected the Beatles, it was because "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."

"Given-up thinking" is everywhere. But don’t you give up. God has a special plan for you to enjoy the very best life offers and it can be yours. Don’t give up. Instead listen to life and make a life, not just a living.

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