LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS | |||
There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures. --William Penn | |||
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS | |||
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. --Bill Cosby | |||
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION | |||
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. --Helen Keller |
Saturday, November 21, 2009
food for thot
Thursday, November 19, 2009
food for thot
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS | |||
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. --Dr. Wayne Dyer | |||
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS | |||
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. --David Brinkley | |||
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION | |||
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. --Henry David Thoreau |
food for thot
"What I've found over the years is that most companies want to do the right thing. They know how they would like to treat their customers and their employees, but they have a difficult time communicating the message in a way that is both inspirational and understood by all."
~Mac Anderson
Customer Love
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
food for thot
*The nest of young eagles hung on every word as the Master Eagle described
his exploits. This was an important day for the eaglets. They were preparing
for their first solo flight from the nest. It was the confidence builder
many of them needed to fulfill their destiny.*
*
"How far can I travel?" asked one of the eaglets.
"How far can you see?" responded the Master Eagle.
"How high can I fly?" quizzed the young eaglet.
"How far can you stretch your wings?" asked the old eagle.
"How long can I fly?" the eaglet persisted.
"How far is the horizon?" the mentor rebounded.
"How much should I dream?" asked the eaglet.
"How much can you dream?" smiled the older, wiser eagle.
"How much can I achieve?" the young eagle continued.
"How much can you believe?" the old eagle challenged.*
*
Frustrated by the banter, the young eagle demanded, "Why don't you answer my
questions?"
"I did."
"Yes. But you answered them with questions."*
* "I answered them the best I could."
"But you're the Master Eagle. You're supposed to know everything. If you
can't answer these questions, who can?"
"You." The old wise eagle reassured.
"Me? How?" the young eagle was confused.
"No one can tell you how high to fly or how much to dream. It's different
for each eagle. Only God and you know how far you'll go. No one on this
earth knows your potential or what's in your heart. You alone will answer
that. The only thing that limits you is the edge of your imagination. "*
* The young eagle puzzled by this asked, "What should I do?"
*
*"Look to the horizon, spread your wings, and fly."*
his exploits. This was an important day for the eaglets. They were preparing
for their first solo flight from the nest. It was the confidence builder
many of them needed to fulfill their destiny.*
*
"How far can I travel?" asked one of the eaglets.
"How far can you see?" responded the Master Eagle.
"How high can I fly?" quizzed the young eaglet.
"How far can you stretch your wings?" asked the old eagle.
"How long can I fly?" the eaglet persisted.
"How far is the horizon?" the mentor rebounded.
"How much should I dream?" asked the eaglet.
"How much can you dream?" smiled the older, wiser eagle.
"How much can I achieve?" the young eagle continued.
"How much can you believe?" the old eagle challenged.*
*
Frustrated by the banter, the young eagle demanded, "Why don't you answer my
questions?"
"I did."
"Yes. But you answered them with questions."*
* "I answered them the best I could."
"But you're the Master Eagle. You're supposed to know everything. If you
can't answer these questions, who can?"
"You." The old wise eagle reassured.
"Me? How?" the young eagle was confused.
"No one can tell you how high to fly or how much to dream. It's different
for each eagle. Only God and you know how far you'll go. No one on this
earth knows your potential or what's in your heart. You alone will answer
that. The only thing that limits you is the edge of your imagination. "*
* The young eagle puzzled by this asked, "What should I do?"
*
*"Look to the horizon, spread your wings, and fly."*
Comes The Dawn By Veronica A. Shoffstall
Comes The Dawn | |||
After a while you learn P And you begin to learn P And you learn P After a while you learn P And you learn
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Saturday, November 14, 2009
eat that frog
An Excerpt from
Eat That Frog!
by Brian Tracy
The 80/20 Rule is one of the most helpful of all concepts of time and life management. It is also called the "Pareto Principle" after its founder, the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who first wrote about it in 1895. Pareto noticed that people in his society seemed to divide naturally into what he called the "vital few", the top 20 percent in terms of money and influence, and the "trivial many", the bottom 80 percent.
He later discovered that virtually all economic activity was subject to this principle as well. For example, this principle says that 20 percent of your activities will account for 80 percent of your results, 20 percent of your customers will account for 80 percent of your sales, 20 percent of your products or services will account for 80 percent of your profits, 20 percent of your tasks will account for 80 percent of the value of what you do, and so on. This means that if you have a list of ten items to do, two of those items will turn out to be worth five or ten times or more than the other eight items put together.
Number of Tasks versus Importance of Tasks
Here is an interesting discovery. Each of the ten tasks may take the same amount of time to accomplish. But one or two of those tasks will contribute five or ten times the value of any of the others.
Often, one item on a list of ten tasks that you have to do can be worth more than all the other nine items put together. This task is invariably the frog that you should eat first.
Focus on Activities, Not Accomplishments
The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous. For this reason, you must adamantly refuse to work on tasks in the bottom 80 percent while you still have tasks in the top 20 percent left to be done.
Before you begin work, always ask yourself, "Is this task in the top 20 percent of my activities or in the bottom 80 percent?"
The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you will be naturally motivated to continue. A part of your mind loves to be busy working on significant tasks that can really make a difference. Your job is to feed this part of your mind continually.
Motivate Yourself
Just thinking about starting and finishing an important task motivates you and helps you to overcome procrastination. Time management is really life management, personal management. It is really taking control of the sequence of events. Time management is having control over what you do next. And you are always free to choose the task that you will do next. Your ability to choose between the important and the unimportant is the key determinant of your success in life and work.
Effective, productive people discipline themselves to start on the most important task that is before them. They force themselves to eat that frog, whatever it is. As a result, they accomplish vastly more than the average person and are much happier as a result. This should be your way of working as well.
something to tickle yr mind
Enjoy!
Excerpt from:
Goals...The 10 Rules for Achieving Success,
by Gary Ryan BlairOn everyone's short list of things to do during their lifetime are the accomplishment of worthy goals and the fulfillment of one's purpose.
Achieving a goal is like opening a combination lock. You need the correct numbers in the correct right, left, right sequence. There are thousands of possible combinations; and if you are aware of the settings but not the sequence, your efforts will prove futile.
The Ten Rules of Goal Setting is the combination that opens the lock of success. Each rule is one piece of the combination; each seamlessly integrates with the other nine; each one counts!
This book provides the goal setting information you need in a straightforward and systematic manner. You will be hard pressed to find a goal that does not require each of these ten rules.
Not all goals are equal, but all goals contain the same foundational elements. When it comes to setting goals, we often don't know what we don't know. And, what you don't know can - and most likely will - hurt you by limiting or compromising your success. Each rule calls for and requires know-how of multiple disciplines. No one is born with all the talents to achieve a goal - you learn as you go on the fly!
If I could carve ten rules for achieving a goal into the walls of your mind, they would be the ones contained in this book. The ten rules work because they are simple, and they are simple because they work.Success, of course, is individual. Your definition of "the good life" may be very different from mine. Yet the underlying steps toward that end are the same. That similarity helps you to understand what success really is.
Success is the ability, first, to recognize opportunity; second, to form plans and strategies that leverage opportunity; and, third, to develop the necessary skills needed to execute those strategies. The ten rules, like anything else in life, operate best if they are self-enforced!
Success is beautiful because of how it looks to you, how it works, how it feels and how it represents the fulfillment of goals pursued. Grow accustomed to prosperity and confident in the process of achieving a goal. Embrace these ten rules of goal setting and give witness to a powerful transition in your life.
And finally, my goal for this book is to simply...help you reach yours.
remmeber this
"Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us free - our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our intelligence, our love of family and friends and country. All of these priceless possessions are free."
~Earl Nightingale
~Earl Nightingale
good thots
Excerpt from: Living a Five Star Life,
by Betty Mahalik
In this day and age, we are surrounded by messages that virtually scream, "Your life would be perfect if..." My life would be perfect if I had a different job, a different house, car, nose, spouse, bank account (fill in the blank). Or my life would be perfect if I could be like some celebrity whose life appears so well-ordered and perfect-o. This week I encourage you to stop playing "my life would be perfect if," and start playing "my perfect life." What's the difference? Three things: being in the present, an attitude of gratitude, taking action with what's available now.
When we're caught up in the "my life would be perfect if" trap, we've lost touch with the present. And the moment we detach from the present, we can no longer practice gratitude. Think about it: it's difficult to be grateful for what you don't have...and what you don't have is always somewhere out in future-ville.
Look around you right now. Think of 10 things you're grateful for. Do you have a roof over your head and food to eat? I'm guessing the answer is yes. Do you have at least a few good friends or close relationships? Then appreciate them too, right now. Keep going, and practice being in the present and being grateful for what is here and now at least a couple times a day.
You're also probably sitting there thinking "yes but." Yes, but I want more money, a better relationship, more time to travel, to be thinner, happier or whatever. It's one of the great mysteries I'll never figure out. The minute you stop focusing on what you lack, start focusing on what you've already got, and add the "magic" ingredient of action, you actually begin to attract more of what you want. It's an amazing formula for really living your perfect life!
Let's say you want to lose weight or get in better shape, but you don't have an hour a day to spend exercising at the gym. Therefore, you've pretty well resigned yourself to not losing weight or getting in shape. What if you had five minutes though...just about everyone can find five minutes to exercise, stretch, walk around the block or walk the dog. Would you be willing to be grateful for five minutes and make the best possible use of it? Therein lies the beginning of your perfect life!
A simple formula may help you remember how to apply this principle:
- The present
- + an attitude of gratitude
- + positive action
- = my perfect life.
Try it for a day.
Each time you start dreaming about how perfect your life would be if...come back to this moment, give thanks for what is, and do one thing to perfect what you have and who you are right now. There's a saying that "when the student is ready, the teacher appears." If you're ready to start perfecting your life, your teachers are all around you.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Monday, March 09, 2009
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To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS I go by instinct...I don't worry about experience. LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS The purpose of life is a life of purpose. INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness. LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS Loyalty is what we seek in friendships. LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity. INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION Strength is the matter of the made-up mind. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you. TRANSCRIPT OF CUSTOMER SERVICE INQUIRY AT LOVE SOFTWARE,INC. |
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Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller | |||
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS | |||
If you are lucky enough to have done well, then it | |||
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION | |||
Personal responsibility begins with ME. Why are some people more successful than others? Why do some people make more money, live happier lives and accomplish much more in the same number of years than the great majority? I started out in life with few advantages. I did not graduate from high school. I worked at menial jobs. I had limited education, limited skills and a limited future. And then I began asking, “Why are some people more successful than others?” This question changed my life. Over the years, I have read thousands of books and articles on the subjects of success and achievement. It seems that the reasons for these accomplishments have been discussed and written about for more than two thousand years, in every conceivable way. One quality that most philosophers, teachers and experts agree on is the importance of self-discipline. As Al Tomsik summarized it years ago, “Success is tons of discipline.” Some years ago, I attended a conference in Washington. It was the lunch break and I was eating at a nearby food fair. The area was crowded and I sat down at the last open table by myself, even though it was a table for four. A few minutes later, an older gentleman and a younger woman who was his assistant came along carrying trays of food, obviously looking for a place to sit. With plenty of room at my table, I immediately arose and invited the older gentleman to join me. He was hesitant, but I insisted. Finally, thanking me as he sat down, we began to chat over lunch. It turned out that his name was Kop Kopmeyer. As it happened, I immediately knew who he was. He was a legend in the field of success and achievement. Kop Kopmeyer had written four large books, each of which contained 250 success principles that he had derived from more than fifty years of research and study. I had read all four books from cover to cover, more than once. After we had chatted for awhile, I asked him the question that many people in this situation would ask, “Of all the one thousand success principles that you have discovered, which do you think is the most important?” He smiled at me with a twinkle in his eye, as if he had been asked this question many times, and replied, without hesitating, “The most important success principle of all was stated by Thomas Huxley many years ago. He said, 'Do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.'” He went on to say, “There are 999 other success principles that I have found in my reading and experience, but without self-discipline, none of them work.” Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity. In the pages ahead I will describe seven areas of your life where the practice of self-discipline will be key to your success. These areas include goals, character, time management, personal health, money, courage and responsibility. It is my hope that you'll find a few “nuggets” that will help make your dreams come true. Today, I'm pleased to offer a special price of $10.00 per book, including a free 3 minute DVD with each book. Our regular price is $15.95, a savings of over 35% Note: This offer expires at 11:59 PM CST on 3/3/09. To learn more on The Power of Discipline just click here. |
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I cannot always control what goes on outside. | |||
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Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is | |||
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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. |
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Sunday, September 28, 2008
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The value of a man resides in what he gives LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS Love never claims, it ever gives. LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION Experience is a hard teacher because she gives The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. “Customer service is not a department...it's an attitude.” LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS One word frees us of all the weight and LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS The best thing about the future is INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION We were born to succeed, not to fail. LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS Love is perfect kindness. LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION In times of change, the learner will inherit the earth while the LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION The point of power is always in the present moment. LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION It may be that the satisfaction I need depends | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thursday, August 21, 2008
something to ponder
I will be there.
......If one day you feel like crying...Call me.
I don't promise that I will make you laugh,But I can cry with you
If one day you want to run away--Don't be afraid to call me.
I don't promise to ask you to stop...But I can run with you
If one day you don't want to listento anyone...Call me.
I promise to be there for you.And I promise to be very quiet.
But if one day you call...And there is no answer...
Come fast to see me.Perhaps I need you.
The True meaning of Life is to Plant Trees under whose shade you do not Expect to Sit.
......If one day you feel like crying...Call me.
I don't promise that I will make you laugh,But I can cry with you
If one day you want to run away--Don't be afraid to call me.
I don't promise to ask you to stop...But I can run with you
If one day you don't want to listento anyone...Call me.
I promise to be there for you.And I promise to be very quiet.
But if one day you call...And there is no answer...
Come fast to see me.Perhaps I need you.
The True meaning of Life is to Plant Trees under whose shade you do not Expect to Sit.
quotessssss n movies toooo
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
A friend is someone who you can tell your complaints; a good friend is someone you can tell your dreams. --Dale Dauten
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice. --Max DePree
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Death comes to all. But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. --George Fabricius
http://theblueskymovie.com/?SRC=MIAM080812
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
The true measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do them absolutely no good.
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
It's one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no person can help another without helping themselves.--Emerson
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision. --Helen Keller
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Friends are treasures. --Horace Burns
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.--Jonas Salk
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires sooner or later always leads to bitter disappointment. --Albert Einstein
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. --William James
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. --Mother Teresa
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
You've got to be before you can do, and do before you can have. --Zig Ziglar
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
...a friend ought always to do good to a friend and never evil. --Plato
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative. --Zig Ziglar
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us. --Samuel Johnson
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
The best relationship is the one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results. --Stephen Covey
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.--Anthony Robbins
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.--William Thackeray
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.--Albert Einstein
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.--Benjamin Franklin
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love. --Basil
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
They can because they think they can.--Virgil
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who you can tell your complaints; a good friend is someone you can tell your dreams. --Dale Dauten
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice. --Max DePree
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Death comes to all. But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. --George Fabricius
http://theblueskymovie.com/?SRC=MIAM080812
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
The true measure of a person is how they treat someone who can do them absolutely no good.
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
It's one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no person can help another without helping themselves.--Emerson
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision. --Helen Keller
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Friends are treasures. --Horace Burns
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.--Jonas Salk
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires sooner or later always leads to bitter disappointment. --Albert Einstein
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. --William James
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. --Mother Teresa
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
You've got to be before you can do, and do before you can have. --Zig Ziglar
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
...a friend ought always to do good to a friend and never evil. --Plato
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative. --Zig Ziglar
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us. --Samuel Johnson
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
The best relationship is the one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results. --Stephen Covey
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.--Anthony Robbins
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.--William Thackeray
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.--Albert Einstein
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.--Benjamin Franklin
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love. --Basil
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
They can because they think they can.--Virgil
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saturday, July 12, 2008
down is the best place to be
Down Is The Best Place To Be
By Bob Perks
"I've really hit bottom," the young woman said. "You'll still find hope there," I told her. "How could I? I'm down so low in life I can't see a thing." "Down is really a great place to be. Everything is always looking up!" I told her and then went on to explain.
I had been so depressed at one point in my life that I prayed to God to take my life. Every morning when I woke up, I'd curse the day. I was unemployed and in great debt.But it wasn't until I crashed, literally hitting the floor that my life would change. My life became very predictable. I had been desperately looking for a job. Each morning I woke up I'd grab the local newspaper from my porch. Bypassing the news, which during that time was depressing enough, I immediately looked for the want ads. Running my finger slowly down the page, I'd carefully scan for something new. Anything that caught my attention would be circled. It was early in 1990. There was little to circle.That day there was nothing at all. By this point I had already sent out hundreds of resumes to every conceivable employer within a 100-mile radius of my home. Of course, because of the economy, so did thousands of other unemployed mid-lifers.I remember that day as clearly as I can see today. Sadness and despair washed over me like sweat on a hot, humid day. I stood up from the kitchen table and walked, no, dragged myself into the living room. The paper slipped from my hands as I lost all touch with reality. My heart, my mind, my soul, my spirit, suddenly just gave up on life.I looked up at the ceiling and tears gushed from my eyes. With every last bit of energy I screamed, "God help me!" and fell to the floor on my knees. I wept openly for a few minutes and rolled over on my side. I lay there crying still, now curled up in a fetal position. I don't remember much of my time lying there on the floor, but I do remember waking up and finding my Old English Sheepdog next to me.I, too, was as low as I could be. You might think, "How sad!" or "How very depressing!" It actually saved my life. Jim Rohn, professional speaker and inspirational writer would call such an event, "The day that turned my life around." Despair and anguish were like an infection running through my system. Hopelessness and thoughts of being a failure were lies raging within my very soul. That moment, my crashing to the floor was one of the greatest moments in my life. I was down so low that "up" was the only option. I believe, that my cry to God that day told Him that I was ready for Him to take over. Up until that very moment, although I may have prayed for help, I was never really willing to accept it at all.There is a story about a man in search of an audience with a great Sage. The day they met the man began to tell his story, never ceasing, never yielding to the Sage's input.
Finally the Wise Man raised his hand to stop the conversation.
"Would you like a cup of tea?" he asked the man. "Yes, that would be fine," the man replied and continued speaking. The Wise Man placed the small tea cup in front of the man and began to pour from the tea pot. He continued pouring until the cup was filled beyond capacity and now overflowing onto the table.
"Stop!" the man shouted. "It is more than full!" The Sage set the tea pot down on the table and said, "You came here for guidance but, like the cup before you, you are overflowing, unwilling and unable to add anything to your life."Before I emptied myself by letting go of it all that day, I too, was much too full of myself to permit God to take over. If you are struggling with life and find yourself face down on the floor, remember two things. "Down is a great place to be, because everything is always looking up." And..."You can't fall off the floor."
By Bob Perks
"I've really hit bottom," the young woman said. "You'll still find hope there," I told her. "How could I? I'm down so low in life I can't see a thing." "Down is really a great place to be. Everything is always looking up!" I told her and then went on to explain.
I had been so depressed at one point in my life that I prayed to God to take my life. Every morning when I woke up, I'd curse the day. I was unemployed and in great debt.But it wasn't until I crashed, literally hitting the floor that my life would change. My life became very predictable. I had been desperately looking for a job. Each morning I woke up I'd grab the local newspaper from my porch. Bypassing the news, which during that time was depressing enough, I immediately looked for the want ads. Running my finger slowly down the page, I'd carefully scan for something new. Anything that caught my attention would be circled. It was early in 1990. There was little to circle.That day there was nothing at all. By this point I had already sent out hundreds of resumes to every conceivable employer within a 100-mile radius of my home. Of course, because of the economy, so did thousands of other unemployed mid-lifers.I remember that day as clearly as I can see today. Sadness and despair washed over me like sweat on a hot, humid day. I stood up from the kitchen table and walked, no, dragged myself into the living room. The paper slipped from my hands as I lost all touch with reality. My heart, my mind, my soul, my spirit, suddenly just gave up on life.I looked up at the ceiling and tears gushed from my eyes. With every last bit of energy I screamed, "God help me!" and fell to the floor on my knees. I wept openly for a few minutes and rolled over on my side. I lay there crying still, now curled up in a fetal position. I don't remember much of my time lying there on the floor, but I do remember waking up and finding my Old English Sheepdog next to me.I, too, was as low as I could be. You might think, "How sad!" or "How very depressing!" It actually saved my life. Jim Rohn, professional speaker and inspirational writer would call such an event, "The day that turned my life around." Despair and anguish were like an infection running through my system. Hopelessness and thoughts of being a failure were lies raging within my very soul. That moment, my crashing to the floor was one of the greatest moments in my life. I was down so low that "up" was the only option. I believe, that my cry to God that day told Him that I was ready for Him to take over. Up until that very moment, although I may have prayed for help, I was never really willing to accept it at all.There is a story about a man in search of an audience with a great Sage. The day they met the man began to tell his story, never ceasing, never yielding to the Sage's input.
Finally the Wise Man raised his hand to stop the conversation.
"Would you like a cup of tea?" he asked the man. "Yes, that would be fine," the man replied and continued speaking. The Wise Man placed the small tea cup in front of the man and began to pour from the tea pot. He continued pouring until the cup was filled beyond capacity and now overflowing onto the table.
"Stop!" the man shouted. "It is more than full!" The Sage set the tea pot down on the table and said, "You came here for guidance but, like the cup before you, you are overflowing, unwilling and unable to add anything to your life."Before I emptied myself by letting go of it all that day, I too, was much too full of myself to permit God to take over. If you are struggling with life and find yourself face down on the floor, remember two things. "Down is a great place to be, because everything is always looking up." And..."You can't fall off the floor."
creating opportunity
Creating Opportunity
By Jim Rohn
An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.
To be enterprising is to keep your eyes open and your mind active. It's to be skilled enough, confident enough, creative enough and disciplined enough to seize opportunities that present themselves... regardless of the economy.
A person with an enterprising attitude says, "Find out what you can before action is taken." Do your homework. Do the research. Be prepared. Be resourceful. Do all you can in preparation of what's to come.
Enterprising people always see the future in the present. Enterprising people always find a way to take advantage of a situation, not be burdened by it. And enterprising people aren't lazy. They don't wait for opportunities to come to them, they go after the opportunities. Enterprise means always finding a way to keep yourself actively working toward your ambition.
Enterprise is two things. The first is creativity. You need creativity to see what's out there and to shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different.
What goes hand-in-hand with the creativity of enterprise is the second requirement: the courage to be creative. You need courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.
And lastly, being enterprising doesn't just relate to the ability to make money. Being enterprising also means feeling good enough about yourself, having enough self worth to want to seek advantages and opportunities that will make a difference in your future. And by doing so you will increase your confidence, your courage, your creativity and your self-worth, your enterprising nature.
By Jim Rohn
An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.
To be enterprising is to keep your eyes open and your mind active. It's to be skilled enough, confident enough, creative enough and disciplined enough to seize opportunities that present themselves... regardless of the economy.
A person with an enterprising attitude says, "Find out what you can before action is taken." Do your homework. Do the research. Be prepared. Be resourceful. Do all you can in preparation of what's to come.
Enterprising people always see the future in the present. Enterprising people always find a way to take advantage of a situation, not be burdened by it. And enterprising people aren't lazy. They don't wait for opportunities to come to them, they go after the opportunities. Enterprise means always finding a way to keep yourself actively working toward your ambition.
Enterprise is two things. The first is creativity. You need creativity to see what's out there and to shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different.
What goes hand-in-hand with the creativity of enterprise is the second requirement: the courage to be creative. You need courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.
And lastly, being enterprising doesn't just relate to the ability to make money. Being enterprising also means feeling good enough about yourself, having enough self worth to want to seek advantages and opportunities that will make a difference in your future. And by doing so you will increase your confidence, your courage, your creativity and your self-worth, your enterprising nature.
FURTHER QUOTES FOR YR PLEASURE
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Confucius
Strength does not come from winning.
Your struggles develop your strengths.
When you go through hardships
and decide not to surrender,
that is strength."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The price of excellence is discipline.
The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
William Arthur Ward
If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.
Anthony Robbins
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw
I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win. If you don't you won't.
Bruce Jenner
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but by perseverance.
H. Jackson Brown
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
Mark Twain
The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.
Thomas Dreier
If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.
Joseph Marshall Wade
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
Ann Landers
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars. or your legs. or your hands. or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.
Dale Carnegie
There are two primary choices in life;
to accept conditions as they exist,
or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Denis Waitley
Confucius
Strength does not come from winning.
Your struggles develop your strengths.
When you go through hardships
and decide not to surrender,
that is strength."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The price of excellence is discipline.
The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
William Arthur Ward
If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.
Anthony Robbins
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw
I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win. If you don't you won't.
Bruce Jenner
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but by perseverance.
H. Jackson Brown
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
Mark Twain
The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.
Thomas Dreier
If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.
Joseph Marshall Wade
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
Ann Landers
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars. or your legs. or your hands. or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.
Dale Carnegie
There are two primary choices in life;
to accept conditions as they exist,
or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Denis Waitley
A TOUCHING STORY
Just Five More Minutes
Author Unknown
While at the park one day, a woman sat down next to a man on a bench near a playground.
"That's my son over there," she said, pointing to a little boy in a red sweater who was gliding down the slide.
"He's a fine looking boy" the man said. "That's my daughter on the bike in the white dress."
Then, looking at his watch, he called to his daughter. "What do you say we go, Melissa?"
Melissa pleaded, "Just five more minutes, Dad. Please? Just five more minutes."
The man nodded and Melissa continued to ride her bike to her heart's content. Minutes passed and the father stood and called again to his daughter. "Time to go now?"
Again Melissa pleaded, "Five more minutes, Dad. Just five more minutes."
The man smiled and said, "OK."
"My, you certainly are a patient father," the woman responded.
The man smiled and then said, "Her older brother Tommy was killed by a drunk driver last year while he was riding his bike near here. I never spent much time with Tommy and now I'd give anything for just five more minutes with him. I've vowed not to make the same mistake with Melissa.
She thinks she has five more minutes to ride her bike. The truth is, I get Five more minutes to watch her play."
Life is all about making priorities, what are your priorities?Give someone you love 5 more minutes of your time today!
Author Unknown
While at the park one day, a woman sat down next to a man on a bench near a playground.
"That's my son over there," she said, pointing to a little boy in a red sweater who was gliding down the slide.
"He's a fine looking boy" the man said. "That's my daughter on the bike in the white dress."
Then, looking at his watch, he called to his daughter. "What do you say we go, Melissa?"
Melissa pleaded, "Just five more minutes, Dad. Please? Just five more minutes."
The man nodded and Melissa continued to ride her bike to her heart's content. Minutes passed and the father stood and called again to his daughter. "Time to go now?"
Again Melissa pleaded, "Five more minutes, Dad. Just five more minutes."
The man smiled and said, "OK."
"My, you certainly are a patient father," the woman responded.
The man smiled and then said, "Her older brother Tommy was killed by a drunk driver last year while he was riding his bike near here. I never spent much time with Tommy and now I'd give anything for just five more minutes with him. I've vowed not to make the same mistake with Melissa.
She thinks she has five more minutes to ride her bike. The truth is, I get Five more minutes to watch her play."
Life is all about making priorities, what are your priorities?Give someone you love 5 more minutes of your time today!
some quotes
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
The greater things in life are unseen thats why youclose your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream...--Anonymous
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. –Dale Carnegie
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
When you know what you want, and you want it badly enough,you'll find a way to get it. --Jim Rohn
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
-- Bruce Fierstein
The greater things in life are unseen thats why youclose your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream...--Anonymous
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. –Dale Carnegie
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
When you know what you want, and you want it badly enough,you'll find a way to get it. --Jim Rohn
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
-- Bruce Fierstein
Friday, July 11, 2008
its golden
Remember Rule #1...It's Golden An excerpt from The Power of Attitude by Mac Anderson
I grew up in Trenton, a west Tennessee town of five thousand people. I have wonderful memories of those first eighteen years, and many people in Trenton influenced my life in very positive ways. My football coach, Walter Kilzer, taught me the importance of hard work, discipline, and believing in myself. My history teacher, Fred Culp, is still the funniest person I've ever met. He taught me that a sense of humor, and especially laughing at yourself, can be one of life's greatest blessings.But my father was my hero. He taught me many things, but at the top of the list, he taught me to treat people with respect...to live the Golden Rule. I remember one particular instance of him teaching this "life lesson" as if it were yesterday. Dad owned a furniture store, and I used to dust the furniture every Wednesday after school to earn my allowance. One afternoon I observed my Dad talking to all the customers as they came in...the hardware store owner, the banker, a farmer, a doctor. At the end of the day, just as Dad was closing, the garbage collector came in.I was ready to go home, and I thought that surely Dad wouldn't spend too much time with him. But I was wrong. Dad greeted him at the door with a big hug and talked with him about his wife and son who had been in a car accident the month before. He empathized, he asked questions, he listened, and he listened some more. I kept looking at the clock, and when the man finally left, I asked, "Dad, why did you spend so much time with him? He's just the garbage collector." Dad then looked at me, locked the front door to the store, and said, "Son, let's talk."He said, "I'm your father and I tell you lots of stuff as all fathers should, but if you remember nothing else I ever tell you, remember this...treat every human being just the way that you would want to be treated." He said, "I know this is not the first time you've heard it, but I want to make sure it's the first time you truly understand it, because if you had understood, you would never have said what you said." We sat there and talked for another hour about the meaning and the power of the Golden Rule. Dad said, "If you live the Golden Rule everything else in life will usually work itself out, but if you don't, your life probably will be very unhappy and without meaning."I recently heard someone say, "If you teach your child the Golden Rule, you will have left them an estate of incalculable value." Truer words were never spoken.
I grew up in Trenton, a west Tennessee town of five thousand people. I have wonderful memories of those first eighteen years, and many people in Trenton influenced my life in very positive ways. My football coach, Walter Kilzer, taught me the importance of hard work, discipline, and believing in myself. My history teacher, Fred Culp, is still the funniest person I've ever met. He taught me that a sense of humor, and especially laughing at yourself, can be one of life's greatest blessings.But my father was my hero. He taught me many things, but at the top of the list, he taught me to treat people with respect...to live the Golden Rule. I remember one particular instance of him teaching this "life lesson" as if it were yesterday. Dad owned a furniture store, and I used to dust the furniture every Wednesday after school to earn my allowance. One afternoon I observed my Dad talking to all the customers as they came in...the hardware store owner, the banker, a farmer, a doctor. At the end of the day, just as Dad was closing, the garbage collector came in.I was ready to go home, and I thought that surely Dad wouldn't spend too much time with him. But I was wrong. Dad greeted him at the door with a big hug and talked with him about his wife and son who had been in a car accident the month before. He empathized, he asked questions, he listened, and he listened some more. I kept looking at the clock, and when the man finally left, I asked, "Dad, why did you spend so much time with him? He's just the garbage collector." Dad then looked at me, locked the front door to the store, and said, "Son, let's talk."He said, "I'm your father and I tell you lots of stuff as all fathers should, but if you remember nothing else I ever tell you, remember this...treat every human being just the way that you would want to be treated." He said, "I know this is not the first time you've heard it, but I want to make sure it's the first time you truly understand it, because if you had understood, you would never have said what you said." We sat there and talked for another hour about the meaning and the power of the Golden Rule. Dad said, "If you live the Golden Rule everything else in life will usually work itself out, but if you don't, your life probably will be very unhappy and without meaning."I recently heard someone say, "If you teach your child the Golden Rule, you will have left them an estate of incalculable value." Truer words were never spoken.
some quotes
When you blame someone else for your loss or pain, you crucify yourself more than them.
-- Alan Cohen
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
We love because it's the only true adventure.--Nikki Giovanni
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. - Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.--Lucretius
-- Alan Cohen
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
We love because it's the only true adventure.--Nikki Giovanni
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. - Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald's
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.--Lucretius
If you pick the right people and give them the opportunityto spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.::: Jack Welch :::
People often say to me, 'Zig, motivationis great but it doesn't last.' I just tell them, Bathing doesn't last either,that's why I recommend it daily."—Zig Ziglar
http://miammovies.com/dash/ (interesting movie for all)
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
some quotes
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.--Stephen Levine
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. - Mary Pickford
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Fortune favors the brave.--Publius Terence
"It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions." - Jim Rohn
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Love makes everything that is heavy light.--Thomas P Kempis
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on. - Walter J. Lippmann
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
The best way out is always through.--Robert Frost
When you deny someone their good, you deny yourself yours. When you allow someone their good, you allow yourself yours.
-- Alan Cohen
Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.--Stephen Levine
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. - Mary Pickford
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Fortune favors the brave.--Publius Terence
"It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions." - Jim Rohn
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Love makes everything that is heavy light.--Thomas P Kempis
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on. - Walter J. Lippmann
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
The best way out is always through.--Robert Frost
When you deny someone their good, you deny yourself yours. When you allow someone their good, you allow yourself yours.
-- Alan Cohen
dreamzzzz
A New Relationship with Time(An excerpt from Dreams Are Whispers from the Soul)
Probably no other complaint is voiced more often than not having enough time.“I don’t have time to pursue my dreams or to even know what my dreams are. I don’t have time for me, for my family and friends. Basically, I don’t have time to live my life.” Passion is the ultimate time management tool for two reasons. First, when you are doing what you love, who cares about time? When you are with someone special, or listening to a great piece of music, or painting or volunteering, doesn’t time just fly by? Second, when you are doing what you love it often gets done faster. The way we spend our time is the way we spend our lives. Can you slow down enough to get “in synch” with life, nature, and most importantly, yourself? Tune in to your rhythm and natural pulse. Take off your watch and give yourself a day off. Eat when you’re hungry and sleep when you’re tired so you can discover who you are, what you need and what works best for you. Make a date with yourself, every day if possible. Even if for only a half hour, carving out time for you is a great act of generosity. Your work can usually wait a half hour, but your soul can’t. Whether we like it or not, the clock keeps ticking so live fully, every single second of every single day. Learn the true joy of doing less and having more as you experience each day as priceless. Fill your life with as many precious moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. When you “catch yourself in the act” of doing something that doesn’t serve you, you can choose to change it. And, when it’s a repeating pattern, you can literally change your life
Probably no other complaint is voiced more often than not having enough time.“I don’t have time to pursue my dreams or to even know what my dreams are. I don’t have time for me, for my family and friends. Basically, I don’t have time to live my life.” Passion is the ultimate time management tool for two reasons. First, when you are doing what you love, who cares about time? When you are with someone special, or listening to a great piece of music, or painting or volunteering, doesn’t time just fly by? Second, when you are doing what you love it often gets done faster. The way we spend our time is the way we spend our lives. Can you slow down enough to get “in synch” with life, nature, and most importantly, yourself? Tune in to your rhythm and natural pulse. Take off your watch and give yourself a day off. Eat when you’re hungry and sleep when you’re tired so you can discover who you are, what you need and what works best for you. Make a date with yourself, every day if possible. Even if for only a half hour, carving out time for you is a great act of generosity. Your work can usually wait a half hour, but your soul can’t. Whether we like it or not, the clock keeps ticking so live fully, every single second of every single day. Learn the true joy of doing less and having more as you experience each day as priceless. Fill your life with as many precious moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. When you “catch yourself in the act” of doing something that doesn’t serve you, you can choose to change it. And, when it’s a repeating pattern, you can literally change your life
Sunday, July 06, 2008
quotes for your mind
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.-Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the Untied States of America
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESSI
t is only by doing things others have not that one can advance. -General George S. Patton
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
We and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do,would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.--Franklin Rooservelt, 32nd President of the Untied States of America
A mind stretched by a new idea never shrinks back to its original proportions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.--Washington Irving
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet musttalk the language of the visionary and the idealist. - Eric Hoffer
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Fall seven times, stand up eight. --Japanese proverb
It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. From true joy your service is maximal.
-- Alan Cohen
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.--Benjamin Franklin
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Every artist was first an amateur.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.::: Og Mandino :::
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.--Mother Teresa
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Lead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead. - Ross Perot
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.--Leon J. Suenes
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. --Michael Leunig
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity - George Patton
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. - James Baldwin
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We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.-Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the Untied States of America
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESSI
t is only by doing things others have not that one can advance. -General George S. Patton
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
We and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do,would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.--Franklin Rooservelt, 32nd President of the Untied States of America
A mind stretched by a new idea never shrinks back to its original proportions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.--Washington Irving
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet musttalk the language of the visionary and the idealist. - Eric Hoffer
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Fall seven times, stand up eight. --Japanese proverb
It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. From true joy your service is maximal.
-- Alan Cohen
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.--Benjamin Franklin
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Every artist was first an amateur.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.::: Og Mandino :::
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.--Mother Teresa
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Lead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead. - Ross Perot
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.--Leon J. Suenes
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. --Michael Leunig
LEADERSHIP & SUCCESS
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity - George Patton
INSPIRATION & MOTIVATION
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. - James Baldwin
http://www.greatquotesfromgreatleaders.com/?SRC=080701
End this posting with a nice movie, friends. ope you enjoy it
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