What Do You Appreciate In Life? - From the Heart, with John Willard on CNA-TV
Channel: CNA TV - NAHCA Broadcasting Network
Date: 24/09/2019

Hi friends, John Willard here. Another great show for you today and if you’re not already subscribed please hit the button below for our CNA-TV. 
Our journey is a process, our journey shows us not only the world but our purpose in it.
Our journey is a discovery of our struggles our beliefs and our passions.
Our journey brings us face to face with ourselves, it brings us together with our relationships.
The past comes most colorfully alive when it’s told through the memories of those who really lived it! Discover the peace you’ve been searching for and begin to understand and experience what true happiness really is.
My hope is that by sharing with you- my fellow traveler, I will have enriched your journey.
Enlarge my heart with a story and change me by the characters I meet there. 
Pups and I were up at 4 AM this morning. After food for the pups and oatmeal and coffee for me, we took in the sights and sounds of the Ozark‘s.
A saleswoman caught in a traffic jam looked out of her car window into the window of a music store where a piano was on display. In it sat a man who, by the rapt expression on his face, was playing some music that he obviously loved.
The saleswoman couldn’t hear a note, but she was fascinated as she watched him play. When he finished, she caught his eye, held her hands up and applauded, mouthing the words, Bravo! Bravo!
The pianist stood up and bowed deeply. Then they both laughed, the traffic light changed, and the saleswoman drove off, pleased with herself, humankind, and life in general.
Look for the good in life and you will find it. That may seem like a cliché these days, but it is just as true as it ever was. 
One man who believed it was Edward L. Kramer of St. Louis, Missouri. Back in 1948 Kramer sought to teach this principle to his three children. 
He asked them to deliberately look each day for the good in at least three people, people to whom they could be thankful. “It can be in your playmates, your teachers- anyone with whom you come in contact,” he told them. 
Each evening, after dinner, Kramer would sit down with his children and ask them for an accounting of the good they had found in people that day. Then postcards expressing their appreciation were mailed  to those individuals.   
At first the children found the job difficult. But as they began to train themselves to look for acts of kindness, trust, and generosity, they found it easier and easier to do.
After a time their thoughtfulness, their gratitude, was returned to them tenfold in the warmth and thankfulness of the people who received the cards. The family found themselves mailing so many they designed their own card. It was patterned after the yellow telegram of Western Union. They called it a Thank-U-Gram.
During the next 15 years or so, Kramer supplied people all over the country with millions of Thank-U-Grams. Such diverse people as President Eisenhower, Robert Frost, Leonard Bernstein, Bob Hope, Walt Disney, Henry Ford II, Jack Benny, and thousands upon thousands of others, Both great and small, used Kramer’s Thank-U-Grams an idea that grew out of a father’s desire to teach his children a moral principle about life.
We can’t think of anybody who lived a more hectic life than Theodore Roosevelt. But even during his campaign trips, when the demands upon him might have excused him from thinking of others, he always left his private train to stop and thank the engineer and firemen for a safe and comfortable trip. It only took a minute or two of his time, but it earned him friends for life.
This is good human relations too. And it’s so easy to do. 
On the way to work you can thank total strangers with a gesture of the hand, a nod of the head, a grateful glance. Thank the driver who stops to allow you to cross the street. Thank the person who holds the door for you. Thank everyone for everything. It works wonders. 
Many things will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart- pursue those.
My final thought- we can learn these things from our dog- to listen without judgment, to love unconditionally, to guard faithfully the interest of those who care for you, and to be faithful until death!
You can reach me on Twitter @JohnWillard47 
Until next week friends, this is John Willard From the Farm!  

      
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