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The best way to Find something you have Lost is to Stop Looking for it.
I have always had the kind of personality that drives me to complete a thought or task
as quickly as possible, whether it be to finish college or a project at work. The results
from completion and oftentimes the competitive nature of the event is satisfying. Many people
who know me would say that I am a workaholic as they know how much I have accomplished.
I prefer to label myself as an overachiever, a person who makes the best use of his time
to get the most out of living. That being said, it would be expected that
if I needed something, I would focus to obtain that as quickly as possible. After sixty years
of goal achievement, it is my learned opinion that the best way to find something that you
have lost is to stop looking for it. Whatever "it" is, "it" will find you. Move on with
your life's goals and create new opportunities and improve existing environments and relationships.
The lost will be found without any effort on your part.
For example, my wife lost her watch over the holidays and worried that it had been dropped
at a restaurant or parking lot. The jewelry is valuable for its monetary and memorable
value. She fretted and looked everywhere she could and was convinced the watch had been
found by others and that her irreplaceable watch was forever gone. Using my recently
learned strategy, I suggested repeatedly that she stop looking for it. Sure enough, the
watch was found near the dining table at home in the most unlikely part of the house (not
the restaurant) as possible! She had misplaced a set of car keys last summer,
and again worried herself sick in repeatedly retracing her steps and looking in every possible
location for those keys, never finding them. I told her to stop looking for them, which
she eventually was forced to do as her repeated efforts were unsuccessful. Several weeks later
I found them while sitting in a reclining chair while poking my fingers into the seams
looking for some coins that I knew had fallen from my pants pocket moments before.
There is a saying that a sign of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again,
yet expecting a different result. While working for JCPenney, I could not remember
where in the vast parking lot my car was! I walked back and forth repeatedly without
success. For more than an hour I had thought my car had been stolen and was on the verge
of filing a police report and asking for a ride home. My solution was to wait until after
the store had closed and most employees had gone home. With an almost empty parking lot,
I found my car to be exactly where I had left it.
Whatever life hands you, the best advice when you have already done your best is to give
it a rest. Solutions are just as likely to present themselves when you least expect it.
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