Appreciate What You Have

The greatest attainment and the key to life, is making the most of what one has -- rather than desiring, and even attaining, insatiable more, which as wise people realize, always is a little more -- no matter how much they have.

That is the first consideration, and not the last, for those who want to be efficient at personal problem solving -- before one can go out and save the world.  One has to first direct that improvement to one's personal problem solving -- before it can be effectively scaled to solving the larger problems.  Obviously, solving the problems of one's own health, should be the primary director in every life.

That is what it means fundamentally, to appreciate what you have -- to make it greater.  That's the meaning of the word -- "to make greater."  That is what appreciation does.  Once we understand that, we can make a little into infinity.  But we can never do that, if we can never appreciate what we already have -- to make it more.

That is particularly the problem of health in older people -- who think they can get better, without doing anything about it.  Of course what one does makes a difference, and all of life is not just a random walk in each lifetime -- "signifying nothing."

Jesus said, "I give you talents, but you have to make them greater."  Or you lose them.  That's the difference between those in good health, and those in failing health -- whether they are getting better.  If they aren't, there is no hope -- because it is just a matter of time...  But most people can control their own health and destiny to a remarkable degree and extent -- but they have to find out themselves to know the actuality that is their reality.  Finding out for oneself, is the quest of a lifetime -- at any time of life.  That is the secret.