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."

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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


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

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

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

http://www.greatquotesfromgreatleaders.com/?SRC=080701
End this posting with a nice movie, friends. ope you enjoy it