inner change world systems

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Just for today I will try to live through this day only and not tackle all my problems at once. I can do something for 12 hours. That would appall me if I felt that I had to keep it up for a lifetime. Just for today I will be happy. This assumes to be true what Abraham Lincoln said: that most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. Just for today I will adjust myself to what is and not try to adjust everything to my own desires. I will take my luck as it comes and fit myself to it. Just for today I will try to strengthen my mind. I will study. I will learn something useful. I will not be mindless. I will read something that requires effort, thought, and concentration. Just for today I will exercise myself in three ways: 1. I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. If anybody knows of it, it will not count. 2. I will do at least two things I don't want to do just for exercise. 3. I will not show anyone that my feelings are hurt. They may be hurt but today I will not show it. Just for today I will be agreeable. I will look as well as I can, dress becomingly, keep my voice slow, be courteous, criticize not one bit, find fault with anything, nor try to improve or regulate anybody but myself. Just for today I will have a program. I may not follow it exactly but I will have it. I will save myself from too fast hurry and indecision. Just for today I will have a quiet half hour all by myself and relax during this half hour. Sometime I will try to get a better perspective of my life. Just for today I will be unafraid, especially I will not be afraid to enjoy what is beautiful and to believe that as I give to the world, so the world will give to me. Prayer for today: Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love, where there is injury pardon, where there is doubt faith, where there is despair hope, where there is darkness light, and where there is sadness joy. Divine grant, Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, and to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.