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If you want to know how rich you are, here is a suggestion from Dale Carnegie:

Would you sell your eyes for a billion dollars?
What would you take for your two legs?
Your hands?
Your hearing?
Your children?
Your family?

Add up your assets, and you will find that you won't sell what you have for all the gold ever amassed by the Rockefellers, the Fords and the Morgans combined.

But do we appreciate all this? Ah, no. As Schopenhauer said: AWe seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Thinking of what we lack has probably caused more misery than all the wars and diseases in history.

About 90% of things in our lives are right and about 10% are wrong, says Dale Carnegie. If we want to be happy, all we have to do is to concentrate on the ninety percent that right and ignore the ten percent that are wrong. If we want to be worried and bitter and have stomach ulcers, all we have to do is to concentrate on the ten percent that are wrong and ignore the ninety percent that are glorious.

Source: Dale Carnegie, How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job. Pocketbooks, Simon & Schuster Inc., 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y., 10020, U.S.A.