THE BEST REVENGE Do you want to hurt someone because he or she hurt you? Do you need to get even? Are you seeking revenge? You might think the best revenge is to destroy your enemies. Make them regret ever messing with you. Prove you are more powerful. For example, Peter and his wife Samantha owned the best restaurant in town. Yet when Peter caught Samantha having an affair, he not only asked for a divorce, he decided to get even. He made sure they fought over every tiny detail of the divorce for three years. In the end, their lawyers had new Mercedes; Peter and Samantha had nothing. Fighting an enemy can take over your life and cost you enormous amounts of money and time. For example, you get into a car accident, hurt your back and sue the automobile company for an unsafe design. You then spend years proving you are a victim and suffering, when instead, you should be working on your success. Some people think the best way to get revenge is with violence. They throw a rock, punch a nose or start a war. Yet if you use violence for revenge, you hurt innocent people. You destroy lives. You might even end in up in jail. So what is the best way to get revenge? "Sometimes others seek to crush one down, to make nothing out of one's hopes and dreams, one's future and one, himself. "By ridicule and many other means, another who is evil-intentioned toward one can try to bring about one's decline. "It is sometimes necessary to handle such directly. But there is a long range handling that seldom fails. "The real handling of such a situation and such people, the real way to defeat them is to flourish and prosper. "Oh, yes, it is true that such people, seeing one improve his lot*, can become frantic and attack all the harder. The thing to do is handle them if one must but don't give up flourishing and prospering for that is what such people want you to do. "If you flourish and prosper more and more, such people go into apathy** about it; they can give it up completely. "And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper!" -- L. Ron Hubbard from The Way to Happiness (*lot: one's destiny or condition in life)(**apathy: complete failure, no feeling, no emotion) 10 BENEFITS OF GETTING REVENGE BY FLOURISHING AND PROSPERING 1. You feel powerful, not like a victim. 2. Your enemy gives up. 3. Your personal image is improved. 4. You do not waste your time or money in a fight you might lose. 5. You are more motivated to be successful. 6. Bad guys cannot pull you down to their level of evil. 7. Once you defeat your enemies by succeeding, they do not try again. Of course, if they try again, you simply flourish and prosper more than ever! 8. Potential enemies see how you succeed, despite others' opposition, and don't even try. 9. Thanks to an enemy, you end up with more money, more control and more power. 10. You are much, much happier. Learn more about "The Way to Happiness" at www.twth.org.   HAS WORK BECOME A DRAG? How do you feel going home from work after an unproductive day? "The person who studiously avoids work usually works far longer and far harder than the man who pleasantly confronts it and does it." - L.Ron Hubbard from "The Problems of Work" When one actually takes his work head on and deals with it energetically, it becomes a lot easier and you have more time on your hands. For example if you have a stack of paperwork to do.  You could simply take a few hours to do the work, instead of avoiding it for a few weeks.  The stack gets higher and now also includes requests from people who are wondering about the delayed paperwork.  Something that could have taken a few hours has now become a long drawn out project taking a few days and adding stress into it. Sometimes students leave study to the last minute and end up staying up all night and not being alert enough for the exam.  Vehicle owners, who put off maintaining their car at regular intervals, can end up with serious damage that would cost them ten times more than what the maintenance would have.  Business owners, who slack on training their staff, end up with untrained and unproductive staff that costs the business owner thousands. Avoiding things and not getting them done, by putting it off, actually ads more time and costs more money than if one were to just get things done now. RECOMMENDATIONS Write up a list of all your jobs that need to be done and if you follow the steps below you will feel and be more in control of your environment. Have a look at your list and see which item you really don't want to do.  Which job do you hate the most? Take this item and look it straight into the face and get it done as soon as possible!  Don't get too serious about it, PLEASANTLY confront it and do it. This task you need to make the most important to you.  No excuses.  Just get it done and do not stop until it is done. You will discover that:  It is not actually as difficult as you thought and, now that you have the most difficult action out of the way, the rest of your list will look like a piece of cake. This way of doing things may seem a little harsh, but it is efficient, fast and guaranteed to work. For you to create a successful future for yourself, pleasantly go about your most difficult tasks first and get them done today!   Provided by TipsForSuccess.org as a public service to introduce the technology of L. Ron Hubbard to you. For more Tips For Success go to www.tipsforsuccess.org. Copyright (c) 2010 TipsForSuccess.org. All rights reserved. Grateful acknowledgment is made to L. 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