Sober 23 years since around 2/15/1974, soon to be 24 years, Jimmy is sharing at a group speaker meeting.
The member who donated the recording went with Jimmy and a few others to the meeting.
I would like to have had the opportunity to take a long drive like that with Jimmy.
He was a Golden Gloves boxer, Irish mob enforcer, con-man and inmate at Attica Prison at the time of the riot 9/9/1971.
He was given the gift to transcend that life style through a new design for living.
He speaks here about three forms of Gratitude:
Some of his sayings I have adopted in my life:
"Living with an absence of inner turmoil."
"You cannot act angry unless you first think angry."
He published a little pamphlet in 1993 called:
Spiritual Success Systems: How to Live With A Trouble Free Mind
On the first page he states:
"The most hurting and frustrating times of my life were those times when my own thoughts were my own worst enemies. I now begin each new day in joyous celebration because when I changed my thinking, I changed my entire life."
Jimmy E from the back cover of his book circa 1993