Utmost Living

1 Finding a Place for Your Dreams M y hometown diner is a classic, with double-wing steps leading up to an entryway ornamented with arcade games, an aquamarine and silver starburst facade, booths upholstered in oxblood, a counter along one side, and sunshine spilling all over everywhere. Anyone who comes in here for breakfast can't help feeling they've made a good start on the day. I come here once or twice a week when I'm in town, but I'm not a real regular like Larry King, two booths down. He's here nearly every day that he's not taping his show in New York, usually with three friends. I bet more of the world's problems get solved at that table than at cabinet meetingssolved at least long enough for them to finish their eggs, that is. Steven Spielberg drops in fairly often, looking like he's thinking about the world that's inside his head. I don't need to tell you I enjoy seeing these people, sitting in the same diner they sit in, just like I belong there. Me, a kid from a lower-income family in Whittier, California. Is this cool or what? I'm thinking. I mean, I've spoken all over the world, I've addressed the U.S. Congress, I've met stars in all sorts of fields, and I'm still just tickled by the whole thing. By life. You wouldn't believe it. Unless, of course, you believe that anything is possible. And that's what I'm here to tell you. Anything you can think of can become real. In fact, it will become realthat's the law of attraction. Anything is possible. It really is. Go ahead, say it to yourself. Say it out loud. Say it like you mean it, because before you finish reading this book, you are going to mean it. You are going to mean it about yourself and you are going to live it. Anything is possible. And it will feel great. Life Is Yours for the Taking I am the number one fan of the Anything Is Possible NetworkAPN for short. One time I was watching football with a friend of mine who lives out in the country. Way out. And like me, he is a big football fan, so he was really excited about his new satellite dish and what it could do for him. "Tim, watch this," he said. "Wherever I shift the dish, that's what I pick up. I can watch games on the East Coast, in the Midwest, or anywhere." Listen to that again: "Wherever I shift the dish, that's what I pick up." We need to have a dish like that in our hearts and in our heads. Because you could be picking up the I'm So Stupid Network or the It's Too Hard Network or any one of hundreds of other networks that are going to get you down when you pick them up. When you tune in to APN, you are going to pick up something that is going to pick you up. One of my most interesting friends is Duane Chapman, better known as Dog the Bounty Hunter. I was introduced to him many years ago, when he was a bounty hunter, but before he became famous and made famous mistakes. He was working in Hawaii and in Denver, but he wasn't happy. He knew there was more to life than what he had then. With Beth, his common-law wife, Dog and I began to spend quality time together. I talked to them a little about corners in life. A corner is a bend or a curve that you can't see around. Sometimes your life just seems like it's moving in a straight lineyou're ordering up the same thing every day, every week, every month. But if you shift your dish, you will come to a corner, and you never know what wonderful things may lie around that corner. Dog had faith, and he turned that corner. Just around the corner he was offered a show with A&E, which is now that channel's mostStorey, Tim is the author of 'Utmost Living' with ISBN 9780307341778 and ISBN 0307341771.