Always Think Positively

Positive thinking is the key!

* "Face the fear and do it anyway." - Anon

* "If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney

* "You become what you think about." - Earl Nightingale

* "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but the seeds you sew." - Robert Louis Stevenson

* "Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill

* "If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed." - David Viscott

* "It doesn't matter if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards." Abraham Lincoln

* "Experience is not what happens to a man,  but what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley

* "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." - Martin Luther King Jr.

* "Sometimes we stare so long at the door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open." - Alexander Graham Bell

* "Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." - John Updike

* "Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin." - Robert Collier

* "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle

* "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve." - Napoleon Hill

* "Success is a consequence and must not be a goal." - Gustave Flaubert

* "The first step to becoming is to will it." - Mother Teresa

* "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden

* "Arrows are shot by dragging the bow back, similarly, if life is dragging you back with problems, be patient. It's getting ready to shoot you to new heights." - Anon

* "Cherish yesterday, dream about tomorrow, live for today." - Anon

* "Think about what you are going to achieve, not what you haven't achieved yet." - Anon

* "Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to face fear and win." - Anon

* "When you walk to the edge of all the light that you have, you must believe that one of two things will happen.That there will be floor to walk on, or you will be taught how to fly." - Patrick Overton

So what have you done today to make you feel proud?

A younger Steve Jobs on Life

In this never before seen interview, a younger Steve Jobs gave a rare glimpse of his vision of the world...

Steve Jobs:
When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money...

That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader. Once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around you that you called life was made up by people who were no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use...

Once you learnt that, you'll never be the same again.

Jonathan Rosenberg On Rules To Foster Innovation

Jonathan Rosenberg was Google Inc. Senior Vice President. Prior to joining Google in 2002, he was a founding member of @Home's product group and served as Senior Vice President after the merger of @Home and Excite. Prior to that, he managed the eWorld product line for Apple Computer. And prior to that, he was the director of product marketing for Knight Ridder Information Services.

Jonathan Rosenberg:

Fostering innovation, 5 rules. So how do we foster this innovation? Most companies manage creativity in order to manage risk, that just doesn't work. Do we have an artist here today? Go do your art from 10 to 12 and be very creative, 12 to 4 is the management meeting. It doesn't work. Innovation comes from creativity, creativity cannot be managed, it can be allocated, it can be budgeted, it can be measured, it can be tracked and encouraged, but it can't be dictated.

Innovation rule 2. Create a culture of yes based on optimism and big thinking. Organizations developed anti-bodies to change, that's why big companies stop innovating. If you're the innovator you're like the virus, the anti-bodies wanna kill you. Many people think it's their function to do nothing but say "thou shalt not". Leaders protect people from anti-bodies, your focus should be thou shalt. Create a spirit of optimism, pessimist don't change the world.

Innovation rule 3. Never stop someone from moving forward with their good idea because you have a better one. There's a bull market for innovation, and a Darwinian process for reading out the bad ideas. You will do best by simply encouraging all of them. The best will win and the others will fail. Thomas Edison said: " Have a great idea, have a lot of them."

Innovation rule 4. A leader's job is not to prevent risks but to build the capability to recover when failures occur. There is no such thing as a good failure and a bad failure. Or there is such a thing as a good failure and a bad failure. A good one happens quickly, and it provides plenty lessons. Sometimes you have to look at these lessons in the data. A bad failure takes a long time and you don't learn anything. Leaders don't prevent failures, they prevent bad failures.

Innovation rule 5. A good crisis is a terrible thing to waste. Whenever the public endorse a crisis, ordinary citizens start to wonder how and whether our institutions really work. We no longer take things for granted. It is only then change becomes possible. Many management challenges are in fact teaching moments. The crisis is the built-in narrative, so use it.

Richard Branson talks about Learning from Failure

 

Seth Godin:

I've been struggling with this business for two years, the economy seems to be falling apart, I'm ready to give up. What does Richard Branson tell me to do?

Richard Branson:

Do everything you can to survive and not to give up. As long as you tried everything you can, then if you fail, you'll sleep okay and you'll pick yourself up and when things are better you'll start again. If on the other hand, you give up too readily you will forever kick yourself. I wish you all the best in your quest, because I'm afraid there's a lot of people who will fail.

And I think the other important thing is not to take failure too seriously. It's something that happens to... something like 80% of all small business people fail. They either go into chapter 11 or actually go bankrupt and that's a lot of people and some people take that really badly and they should realize that the important thing is just to learn from it and come back and start again.

An awful lot of really big multimillionaires and billionaires who have been through 2 or 3 bankrupt companies in their lives have learnt from them and have come back stronger. It is what limited companies were designed for by governments. It was to say to people... try things, and if you fail, it shouldn't affect you personally, people know the risks in dealing with you.

Don't be embarrassed about your failures as long as you tried everything you can to avoid it, don't take it too personally.

Everything Happens For A Reason

Sometimes people come into your Life and you know right away that they were meant to be there to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson, or to help you figure out who you are or who you want to become.

You never know who these people may be, a roommate, a neighbor, a professor, a friend, a lover, but when you lock eyes with them, you know at that very moment they will affect your Life in some profound way.

Sometimes things happen to you that may seem horrible, painful and unfair at first, but in reflection you find that without overcoming those obstacles, you would have never have realized your potential, strength, will power, or heart.

Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness, and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul.

Without these small tests, whatever they may be, Life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere. It would be safe and comfortable but dull and utterly pointless.

The people you meet who affect your Life and the Success and downfalls you experience help to create who you are and who you become. Even the bad experience can be learned form. In fact, they are sometimes the most important ones...

If someone hurts you, betrays you, or breaks your heart, forgive them for they have helped you learn about Trust and the importance of being Cautious to whom you open your heart to.

If someone Loves you, Love them back unconditionally, not only because they Love you, but because they are teaching you to Love.

Make every day count. Appreciate every moment and take from it everything that you possibly can, for you may never be able to experience it again.

Talk to people you have never talked to before, and actually listen. Let yourself fall in Love, break free and set your sights high. Hold your head up because you have every right to.

Tell yourself you are a great individual and believe in yourself: for if you don't believe in yourself, no one else will believe in you, either.

You can make of your Life anything you wish.

Create you own Life and then go out and live it with absolutely no regrets.

Have a Fighting Spirit and never hesitate to get back in a struggle!

Most importantly, if you Love someone tell them, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.

And learn a lesson in Life each day you live. Someday everything will all make perfect sense.

So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, and keep reminding yourself that Everything Happens For A Reason!

Li Ka Shing: Knowledge Changes Fate

Li Ka Shing:

I am Li Ka-Shing, I became an apprentice at the age of 12. By the time I was 15, I had to support my entire family, thus depriving me of a formal education.

At the time I was very certain that I must work hard and acquire knowledge to have good prospects.
I bought second-hand books whenever I had spare money and absorbed them before trading them for more books.

Even today I still read every night before going to sleep.

Knowledge does not guarantee a life of riches, but it does open up more opportunities. And recognising opportunities is really the best that you can expect.

The Secret to You... A Gift from the Secret Scrolls

The Secret(book) is the best selling self help book in 2006, written by Rhonda Byrne. The book has been translated in 44 languages and sold an amazing 21 million copies worldwide. This video, created by the Secret team, allows you to play and read to yourself everyday. Enjoy!

Today is the Beginning of my New Life

I am Starting Over today

All Good Things are coming to me today

I am Grateful to be Alive

I see Beauty all around me

I Live with Passion and Purpose

I take time to Laugh and Play every day

I am Awake, Energized and Alive

I Focus on all the Good Things in Life... and Give Thanks for them

I am at Peace and One with everything

I feel the Love, the Joy, the Abundance

I am Free to Be Myself

I am Magnificence in human form

I am the Perfection of Life

I am Grateful to be... Me!

Today is the Best day of my Life

THE SECRET...

Arnold Schwarzenegger's Rules of Life

Back from my long break! Hope people are still around. This video that I just uploaded is an edited Commencement Address by Arnold Schwarzenegger, the 38th Governor of California, at the University of Southern California on Rules of Life. Enjoy!

Arnold Schwarzenegger:
People ask me all the time, they say to me "What is the secret to Success?"
The First rule is Trust Yourself, but what is most important is that you have to be dig down, dig deep down and ask yourselves who you want to be, not what but who. And I'm talking about not with your parents and teachers want you to be, I'm talking about favoring out for yourselves, what makes you Happy, no matter how crazy it may sound to the people.
Rule number one was trust yourselves no matter how, what anyone else thinks.

Rule number Two is Break the Rules. We have so many rules in Life about everything. I say break the rules! Not the law, but break the rules. It is impossible to be maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and not want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this Earth if all you want is be like by everyone and avoid trouble?
The only way I ever got anyplace was by breaking some of the rules.

Rule number Three: Don't Be Afraid to Fail. Anything I've ever attempted, I was always willing to fail. You can't always win, but don't be afraid of making decisions. You can't be paralyzed by fear or failure or you will never push yourself. You keep pushing because you believe in yourself and in your vision and you know that it is the right thing to do, and success will come. So don't be afraid to fail.

Rule number Four which is Don't Listen to the Naysayers. How many times have you heard that you can't do this and you can't do that and it's never been done before. I love it when someone says that no one has ever done this before, because then when I do it that means I'm the first one that has done it. So pay no attention to the people that say it can't be done. I never listen that, "You can't!" I always listen to myself and say, "Yes You Can!"

Rule number Five, which is the most important rule of all: Work Your Butt Off. Believe in leaving no stone unturned. Mohammed Ali, one of my great heroes, had a great line in the '70s when he was asked, "How many sit-ups did you do?" He said: "I don't count my sit-ups, I only count when it starts hurting. When I feel pain, that's when I start counting, because that's when it really counts." That's what makes you a champion. That's the way it is in everything. No pain, no gain. When you are partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard. Someone is getting smarter, and someone is winning, just remember that. If you want to win, there is absolutely no way around hard, hard work.
None of my rules by the way of success will work unless you do.I've always figured out that there's 24 hours a day. You sleep six hours, and have 18 hours left. I know that there are some of you out there that say well, wait a minute, I sleep 8 hours or 9 hours a day. Well then, just sleep faster I would recommend.

Rule number Six which is a very important rule: It's About Giving Back. Whatever path that you take in your lives, you must always find time to give something back, something back to your community, give something back to your state or to your country. Let me tell you something, reaching out and helping people will bring you more satisfaction than anything else you have ever done.

Remember those Six Rules:
Trust Yourself, Break Some Rules, Don't Be Afraid To Fail, Ignore The Naysayers, Work Like Hell, and Give Something Back.

40 Ways to Live Life Without Regrets

* 1. Realize that it's okay to make mistakes
Just make sure to learn from your past mistakes, forgive yourself and move on.

* 2. Make your Health and Wellness a top priority
and always take care of yourself so you're ready to take care of others.

* 3. Follow your own Path
not one that others want you to follow.

* 4. Find the Humor in Life
and Laugh like there is no tomorrow.

* 5. Relax and Move with the Flow
of Life by being Unafraid of Change.

* 6. Be Adventurous
by trying New Things and taking more Risks.

* 7. Have more Intellectual Curiosity
and Embrace Creativity.

* 8. Try to find Happiness
with as many different people as you can.

* 9. Think for Yourself
instead of letting other people's opinions influence you too much.

* 10. Try not to judge people
before you get to know them.

* 11. Be Thankful for what you have now
instead of think about what you don't have.

* 12. Wish Well upon everyone Equally
and try to admire with envy.

* 13. Share your Happiness with others
instead of hoarding it all for yourself.

* 14. Don't try to change someone
Love who they are now.

* 15. Enjoy the Journey,
not just the destination.

* 16. Know that Happiness is Bigger
than any bank account.

* 17. Control negative thoughts
so that they don't contribute to the outcome of your life.

* 18. Use your Energy Wisely
because spending energy complaining, worrying or being impatient is just wasted energy.

* 19. Be Bold.
Find the Courage to change things that should be changed and accept that there are some things that cannot be changed.

* 20. Love your Work
If you don't currently Love what you do, figure out what you would Love, and take the First Step toward that Life.

* 21. Turn your discontent into a mystery
and enjoy trying to solve it.

* 22. Face problems from different angles
in order to find Solutions.

* 23. Gain Independence 
by realizing that on this Earth we are all Dependent upon each other.

* 24. Change your Perspective
by taking on a Wider view of things.

* 25. Don't waste time
trying to bring disagreeable people around to liking you.

* 26. Become the person
who would like to spend the rest of your Life with.

* 27. Be Honest with yourself
and others by saying what you mean and meaning what you say.

* 28. Treat people with Respect
and Compassion.

* 29. Live in the Now
by Loving the Present and being Aware of your Thoughts and Actions.
Think Happy Thoughts and Speak Powerful Words.

* 30. Try not to put things off
until later.

* 31. Never hold grudges.

* 32. Face your fears head on
and try to do the things that you think you cannot do.

* 33. Spend time with people who make you happy
while also not depending on other people for your own Happiness.

* 34. Stand up for Yourself
and others and don't let anyone or anything hold you back.

* 35. Be Yourself
and Love who your are now.

* 36. Be a Participant in Life
rather than an observer.

* 37. Do the things that you Love to do
as much as you can.

* 38. Write out a list of Goals
and achieve them by doing them Step by Step.
Don't Give Up when things get difficult.

* 39. Do something everyday that makes you feel Proud of yourself
commit random acts of Kindness whenever you get the chance.

* 40. And always

Keep on Moving Forward.

HAPPINESS!

Happiness!! That's what I want to achieve in every day of my Life! =)

Be HAPPY!

* Think, Act, Be... Think Happy, Act Happy, Be Happy - David Baird

* Happiness is when what you Think, what you Say, and what you Do are in Harmony - Gandhi

* Happiness is a way of travel, not a destination - Roy Goodman

* People are as Happy as they make up their minds to be - Abraham Lincoln

* Think of all the beauty still left around you and be Happy - Anne Frank

* The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is Laughter - Mark Twain

* Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart - Anthony J D'Angelo

* If you never did, You should. These things are Fun, and Fun is good - Dr Seuss

* The hours that make us Happy, make us Wise - Mark Mansfield

* It is only possible to live "Happily Ever After" on a day to day basis - Margaret Bonnano

* Smile, it enhances your face value - Dolly Parton

* From there to here, and here to there, Funny things are everywhere - Dr Seuss

* Don't worry, Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin

Connie Dieken: How Leaders Can Communicate with Influence

 

Business communication coach Connie Dieken is interviewed by the Global Leaders Network at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. Connie is a multiple Emmy® award-winning and Telly® award-winning journalist and her excellence has led to her induction to the Radio/Television Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Connie has represented more than 50 companies as their spokesperson, including Intel, Sealy, GE, American Greetings, Ernst and Young and Goodyear.

Global Leaders Network:
Tell us a bit about why communication is so important to Success.

Connie Dieken:
Ok I believe that Communication is critical to Success because as a leader, what that really boils down to is getting your message so that it's heard, understood, and then add to the point. And so real leaders today have to be able to cut through all of the clutter at the top there and have their voice be the one that people listen for, and respond to, Positively. And that is really the crops of leadership.

Because today there are so much what I call communal clutter, meaning there's so many messages bombarding people. That if you are a high performance communicator, you can get your message across no matter what the difficulties may be, which could be people with short attention spans, have you noticed that today? Short attention spans people who are resistant, and people who are just too busy to stop to listen to you.

Global Leaders Network:
What advice would you give to future business students and current business students on how to develop their communication skills?

Connie Dieken:
Learn to be a high performance communicator. And what I mean by that is not to just yak yak yak....talk, that is not communicating. Communicating is the ability to get somebody to hold in on you, really engage them, have them clearly understand what you're trying to communicate with them about, and then having them do something and be committed to you. A lot of people make the mistake of when they're in a leadership roles for going for compliants. Compliants and commitment are two completely different things.

Compliants you will get somebody to do something one time because they have to, but if you're a really Great Communicator people will be committed to you, it's a short cut and will do more things for you. Also Purpose and Passion, two things. If you find something that you really love to do, whatever your business may be, you'll have a Purpose and then you'll have Passion for it. And when you communicate on that level, people just see you're genuine, and that you're not some phony-baloney and they'll follow you.

Source: http://conniedieken.com

Frank Gehry: Be Yourself

Frank Gehry is a Pritzker Prize-winning Architect based in Los Angeles, Califonia. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Architecture at Columbia University and teaches advanced design studios at the Yale School of Architecture. His best known works include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles; Experience Music Project in Seattle; Dancing House in Prague; and 8 Spruce Street in New York City.

Frank Gehry:

I tell kids and I tell my students that they should not look over their shoulders, they should be themselves and find their own way. They will slowly realize they will become the expert in their work and nobody else is expert in their work and that they will have... and so don't matter what somebody else said. Maybe they won't like it, at least you are still in control and you're the expert in your work. And over time if it's any good it will find it's way into the bigger picture. And it may be Great and not find it's way into the bigger picture, like Van Rohe didn't when he was alive. Who's to say what's good and what's bad in the end so for once only in life. I think that's where you go. You find your own thing, you relate to it, it's your Strength, and you'll have a pretty Good Life. Don't try to look over your shoulder and try and be what the next person is, because you can't be what they are anyway. So, that's what I tell my kids, and I do that myself.

Live Life to the Fullest! Very Inspiring...

* "Your Personal Philosophy is the Greatest determining factor in how your Life works out." Jim Rohn

* Combine your Knowledge. None of us is Smarter than All of Us.

* Welcome Greatness... it Lives all around you.

* Choose to: Think the Best about others. Believe the Best about others.

* Be Enthusiastic!

* Put people up, not down.

* Develop the Ability to find the Ability in others. It's Priceless!

* Help others... Be Liked... Be Right... Be Comfortable... Be Winners.

* Get your ego out of the way.

* Replace the word "I" with the word "We".

* Inspire someone to be the Best they can be.

* Be an Exception, not an exemption.

* Think like a person of Action, act like a person of Thought.

* Commit to something  bigger than yourself.

* Act as if what you do makes a Difference. It does!

* Go for it!

* Start an Epidemic of Enthusiasm.

* Throw your Heart over the bar, and your body will Follow.

* Don't waste time waiting for Inspiration. Begin, and Inspiration will find you.

* Be on a Mission.

* Never let weeds grow under your Dreams.

* Never mistake Knowledge for Wisdom.

* Never chase a lie.

* Never laugh at anyone's Dream.

* Never make excuses.

* Celebrate what you want more of.

* Make promises Sparingly. Keep them Faithfully.

* Develop a Tolerance for failure.

* Have no Limits.

* Keep your Promises.

* Never kill an Idea.

* Pursue Character before Prosperity.

* Be Loyal.

* Ask, "What if?"

* Give so much time to the Improvement of yourself that you don't have time to criticize others.

* Create an Atmosphere of Forgiveness.

* Make your word your Bond.

* Don't belittle, Be BIG!

* Learn to say NO! to the good... so you can say YES! to the Great.

* Be unpopular when necessary.

* Never be ashamed of what you Believe.

* Never let up when you are Ahead.

* Don't blow your own horn or you might miss the music.

* "Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." Jim Rohn

* You're Alive... Live it that way!

Oprah Winfrey & Steve Jobs Speeches at Stanford

Oprah Winfrey:
Your calling isn't something that somebody can tell you about, it's what you feel, it is a part of your life force, it is the thing that gives you juice.

And always take a stand for yourself, your values, you're defined by what you stand for.

Honor your calling, don't worry about how Successful you will be. Don't worry about it, Focus on how significant you can be in service and the Success will take care of itself.

I think about one of the greatest compliments I've ever received: I interviewed with a reporter when I was first starting out in Chicago. And then many years later I saw the same reporter and she said to me, "You know what? You really haven't changed. You've just become more of yourself."
And that is really what we're all trying to do, become more of ourselves. And I believe that there's a lesson in almost everything that you do and every experience, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It's how you enrich your spirit. And, trust me, I know that inner Wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your Power to your Passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart and Success will come to you.

You have to live for the present. You have to be in the moment. Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because Life is now.

Steve Jobs:
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose Faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your Life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you Believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.


Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the Courage to follow your Heart and Intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

29 Ways to Stay CREATIVE!

Here are 29 Ways to keep your Brain Working  and Stay CREATIVE! I find these very Useful. Take a look at the List and start making your own!

1. Make LISTS

2. Carry a NOTEBOOK Everywhere

3. Try free WRITING

4. GET AWAY from the Computer

5. Quit Beating yourself up

6. Take BREAKS

7. SING in the Shower

8. Drink COFFEE

9. LISTEN to New MUSIC

10. Be OPEN

11. Surround yourself with CREATIVE PEOPLE

12. Get FEEDBACK

13. COLLABORATE

14. DON'T GIVE UP

15. PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE

16. ALLOW yourself to make MISTAKES

17. Go Somewhere New

18. Count Your BLESSINGS

19. Get Lots of REST

20. TAKE RISKS

21. BREAK the RULES

22. Don't Force It

23. READ a Page of the DICTIONARY

24.CREATE a FRAMEWORK

25. STOP trying to be Someone Else's Perfect

26. Got an IDEA? WRITE it Down

27. CLEAN you Workspace

28. Have FUN

29. FINISH Something

Steve Jobs's Mentality

Arthur Rock:

Well, he wore sandals and he had long, very long hair and beard and mustache, but very Articulate. I think at one time in his life and it was probably when I first met him that he ate nothing but fruit.

Bob Taylor:

So as a mainline venture capitalist, is this...

This is not the norm. This is not the norm...

Steve Jobs:
And I'm also one of these people that I don't really care about being right, I just care about Success.

One year after LISA, we are introducing the third industry milestone product... Macintosh.

Ultimately it comes down to taste, it comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done, and then try to bring those things in to what you're doing. Picasso had a saying, ' Good artist copy, Great artist steal.' And we have always been shameless about stealing Great ideas.

Philosophy of LIFE

A man with one watch knows what time it is; A man with two watches is never quite sure.

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.

Look at Life through the wind-shield, not the rear-view mirror.

Nothing brings you peace but yourself.

People may doubt what you say, but they will Believe what you do.

Be Nice to people on your way up, because you'll need them on your way down.

Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted.

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it.

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

Courage is not a lack of fear, but the ability to to act while facing fear.

You've got to do your own Growing no matter how tall your father was.

The best way to predict your future is to Create it.

It is better to be hated for what you are then to be loved for what you are not.

Don't worry about the people in your past, there's a reason they didn't make it to your future.

Happiness has one advantage over wealth; no one can borrow it.

Everything happens for a Reason.

Forgiveness is not something we do for other people, We do it for ourselves to get well and move on.

What's different in you makes you Beautiful.

Billy Cox - The Power of having GOALS and DREAMS

Billy Cox is a Motivational speaker, an entrepreneur, an author, Success coach and direct sales expert who has dedicated his adult life to helping others achieve their Dreams and Goals. At the age of 17, he started his sales and marketing career. He worked his way to the very top of every sales and management level in his company over a 10 year period. Take a look at his speeches on Dreams and Goals below.

Billy Cox:
You got to know what you're doing. My sales manager came in and he pulled me aside one day and he said: 'Billy, quit joking yourself, quit kidding yourself, you don't have any Real Goals, you don't have any Real Dreams, those are wishes. You've got to set a dateline, you've got to know what you want, and you've got to have a target, you need to find what successes to you.' He said: 'I want you to write down your goals, I want you to put them on paper, and I want you to give me a copy of them.'

That took some thought, that took some decision, and also took a commitment. But I did my list and I gave him that list. He took the list and he put it in an envelope and he put it in his drawer, and we forgot about it.
The strange thing is around five years later he was moving offices, and he called me up, and he said: 'Billy you'll never guess this, I have a copy of your Goals and Dreams you wrote five years ago and I'm going to fax them to you. You're going to be very surprised.' He faxed me a copy of those Goals and Dreams and every single thing I had written down on that list, I have accomplished!

The strange thing about that is the time I wrote those dreams down I was broke, I lived in a small apartment. Five years later I had a new home, I had a new car and I was financially free. That's the power of having Goals and Dreams. Dreams and Goals help you know where you're going.

When you set Goals and Dreams you move in that direction. You'll move like a powerful, magnetic force but here's the thing about the power that we have as human beings. Not only will you move in the direction of your Goals and Dreams, but they will move in your direction, they'll be pulled towards you as you move towards them. And eventually, at a certain destination, you'll end up, you and your Goals and Dreams will cross paths.

When you have a Dream, when you have a Vision, when you decide to make changes in your life and take your business or your life to a different level, the first thing that happens is that an opponent shows up. That's why I tell everybody to fasten your seat belts! Get ready for the ride! Because there's going to be some bumps.

The 'G' on the letter is Goals because when you set your Goals and Dreams you can see farther. I can see everyone from here but I can't see part of everyone. When you have a Goal and a Dream and you start to take action on that Goal and Dream, you can see farther.

Donald Trumps Advice on Choosing a Career

Donald Trumps:
If I were going to give career advice to somebody it would be that you have to love it! You have to really want it! You have to really love what you're doing! There are so many people that are forced by family pressure or something into doing something that they don't believe in, that they don't like. You've got to go after the kind of job you like. You may love the airline business, the airline business is a terrible business, but you probably do better within the airline business if you love it than you were better in other businesses than the airline business if you don't, so you have to go into something that you like. There are many stories of people who became successful later in their life by doing other things and they got out of something that they didn't like, and one of them is a friend of mine.

He was a failure in Wall Street, his family was really important and big on Wall Street but he wasn't cut out for it, he wasn't tough enough for it, he probably wasn't smart enough for it and he was a failure on Wall Street. And all of his life he was just borne to be on Wall Street but it didn't work out that way. So he stayed and he didn't do particularly well but he stayed and stayed and I used to tell him just go out and do something else. But then what happened is at his golf course they made him the head of the greens committee. They were doing all of the fairways, all of the greens and they did it all because they felt sorry for him and nobody else wanted the job. And he did a spectacular job, he was there at 5am in the morning with the contractors, he worked really hard, he wouldn't get home until 8.30 in the evening, he loved what he was doing. And I told him: 'you're going out there to build golf courses, this is what you're good at.' And he laughed at me said: 'I can never do that, I have to be on Wall Street, I'm expected to be on Wall Street.' I said: 'Yeah but you're not happy and you're not good at it.' He said: 'it doesn't matter, I'm expected to be there.'

Well he went back, he was miserable, and ultimately about five years ago he developed a gold course building business where he renovates and build golf courses, he's doing a spectacular job. It couldn't be better, he couldn't be happier, it's the first time in his life he's doing well and the first time in his life he's happy.

The Best Advice Warren Buffett ever received

Billionaire Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett has always been regarded as one of the most successful investor in the world. He was ranked as the world's wealthiest person in 2008. He is known for his personal frugality despite his immense wealth. In an exclusive interview with Yahoo! News and the Huffington Post, Buffett said that all parents can make a “better human being” by simply offering their children Unconditional Love. 

Willow Bay:
You have given a lot of fabulous advice but what is the best advice you have ever received?

Warren Buffett:

Well I received in a variety of form from my father when I was very young but basically I think he taught me how to live, he was giving me lessons but he wasn't doing it by preaching to me he was doing it by example. But basically, while the biggest lesson in the sense I got is the power of Unconditional Love. There's no power on Earth like Unconditional Love, and I think if you offer that to your child, I mean, you are 90% of the way home. There may be days you don't feel like it, it's not uncritical love, that's a different animal, but to know you always can come back, that is huge in life. That takes you a long, long way. And I would say that every parent out there that can extend that to their child at an early age, it's going to make for a better human being.

Willow Bay:
And you felt like you've got that kind of Unconditional Love from your dad?

Warren Buffett:

I absolutely did!

Willow Bay:
That's a powerful thing.

Warren Buffett:

It is a powerful thing!

Nick Vujicic: Author of Life Without Limits

Nick Vujicic is an Australian preacher and motivational speaker. At aged seventeen, he started his own non-profit organization, Life Without Limbs. A longtime resident of Australia, he now lives in southern California. It was in recent years that Nick made the move from Australia to Southern California from where he now continues to passionately travel around the world, spreading a message of hope to all people.This is a short edited clip from one of Nick Vujicic's talks.

Nick Vujicic:
Thank you, thank you very much! Good Morning everybody. Morning. How you doing? All fine? All sweet? Nice to see you! My name is Nick Vujicic and it's a pleasure to be with you. I have no arms and no legs and I was actually born this way. I have no limbs but I have a chicken drumstick. We call this a little chicken drumstick because first of all it looks like one and second of all sometimes my dog thinks it's one. And I tell you, man, it's so funny, he comes up to start biting on it and I have to hit him in the head a couple of times.

So with my little foot I can also write. This is my pen here. I can actually write and type with my foot and I learned how to draw and all this sort of thing, so that's pretty cool.
I play drums. Do you believe me?
You like that? Wouldn't it be really cool if I could get this on my wheelchair and play it while I'm driving? And get some techno going like, here we go... one, two, three, four...

But honestly, along the way, you might fall down like this, alright? So what do you do when you fall down? Get back up! Everybody knows to get back up, because if I start walking, I'm not going to get anywhere. But I tell you there are some times where you fall down, you feel like you don't have the strength to get back up, so you sort of put a mask on your face and come to school and pretend that everything is okay when it's not and you go home, and lay in your bed when no one's looking at you, when you don't have to impress anybody and you're yourself.

And fear comes in. You know the fear that you have as soon as you walked into the doors of your house? Maybe it's a broken home. Maybe you have doubt in your life. Maybe you don't know for sure what's going to be happening in the future and it scares you.Maybe you're worried about what people think of you, what people say about you. Just that fear that paralyzes you and I just wan to ask you today, do you think you have hope?

Because I tell you I'm down here, face down, and I have no arms and no legs, it should be impossible for me to get up. I mean, you go home and tie up the legs and arms of your brothers and sisters and like push them down and see how long it's going to take them to get back up.You know what I mean? You know you can tell them that you'll see them tomorrow. You know what I mean? But this is the thing - it should be impossible for me to get back up. But it's not.You see, I'll try 100 times to get up and if I fail 100 times - if I fail and I give up, do you think that I'm ever going to get up? No. But if I fail and I try again? And again and again? For as long as I try there is always that chance of me getting up. Does that make sense? And it's not the end until you've given up. And just the fact that you're here, should persuade you that you have another chance to get back up.

There's still hope.I'm not here today to tell you that I understand your pain.I don't know how it feels to be abused.I don't know how it feels  to feel quote "fat" or you've got an eating disorder.I don't know how it feels to have a broken home. I don't know how it feels. But I know how it feels to have a broken heart. And I know how it feels to be alone. And I want you to know that I've found  my strength in Jesus Christ and you're going to find your strength in whatever you find in it. But I just want you to know that it's not the end. It matters how you are going finish. Are you going to finish strong?And you will find that strength to get back up, like this...

Don't give up. And you know that there is always someone out there who believes in you and who loves you just the way that you are.

Will Smith's views on LIFE

Will Smith:
I have a great time with my life and I wanna share it.

Shares his WISDOM on Life

I love living, and I think that's infectious, it's something that you can't fake.

GREATNESS exists in all of Us

Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, illusive, God-liked feature that only the special among us will ever taste. It's something that fully exist in all of us. Very simple, this is what I believe and I'm willing to die for it. I know who I am and I know what I believe, and that's all I need to know, so from there, you do what you need to do. And I think what happens is we make the situation more complex. It can be that easy.

YES it can

We didn't grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were gonna be. We grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn't matter because we will becoming something greater.

There's no shortcut to SUCCESS

The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who were trying to excel, who have dreams, they want to do things. Talent you have it naturally, skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.


I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented, where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work effort. You know while the other guys sleeping, I'm working, while the other guys eating, I'm working.


There's no easy way around it, no matter how talented you are, your talent is going to fail you if you are not skilled. You know if you don't study, if you don't work really hard, and dedicate yourself to be better every single day, you will never be able to communicate with people, with your artistry the way that you want.


The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill. You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, but if we get on the treadmill together, there's two things - You are going to get off first, or I'm going to die. It's really that simple.

Lay one Brick at a TIME

One summer his dad tore down a brick wall in front of his business, and told twelve year old Will and his nine year old brother to rebuild it, the job they said was impossible. It took them a year and a half... but they did it.   
Will Smith: And he said: "Now don't you ever tell me there's something that you can't do."


You don't try to build a wall, you don't set out to build a wall, you don't say "I'm going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that's ever been built." You don't start there. You say, 'I'm going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid." You do that every single day. And soon you have a wall.

FOCUS on making a difference

You know there's an idea that my grandmother always said, "If you gonna be here, then there's a necessity to make a Difference." She always instilled the spiritual responsibility that you have to make every group you come contact with better.


I want to do good. I want the world to be better because I was here.


I want my life, I want my work, my family, I want it to mean something. If you're not making someone else's life better then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.

Represent an IDEA

I want to represent an Idea. I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent the Idea that you really can make what you want. One of my favorite books is the Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo... and I just believe that. I believe that I can create whatever I want to create.

You have to BELIEVE

The first step before anybody else in the world believes it is you have to Believe it. There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A. I think that there's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. You have to believe that something different than what has happened for the last 50 million years of history... you have to Believe that something different can happen.

Confucius said, "He who says he can't and he who says he can't are both usually right."

NOTHING is Unrealistic

Being Realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity. Why would you be Realistic? What's the point of being Realistic? I'm going to do it! It's done! It's already done. The second I decide it's done it's already done, now we just got to wait for you to see.

It's unrealistic to walk into a room and flip a switch and the lights come on, that's unrealistic! Fortunately Edison didn't think so. It's unrealistic to think you're gonna bend a piece of metal and fly people over an ocean. That's unrealistic! But fortunately the Wright Brothers and others didn't believe that, and it just seems like such a ridiculous idea to me to embrace the idea that it's not going to happen and that's not real for that to happen. As soon as you say it, now you just made that real.

Our THOUGHTS are Physical

Our Thoughts, our Feelings, our Dreams, our Ideas are physical in the Universe, that if we dream something, if we picture something, if we commit ourselves to it ... that is a physical thrust towards realization that we can put into the Universe. That the Universe is not a thing that's going to push us around.  That the world and people and situations are not something that push us around. That we are going to bend the universe and command and demand that the Universe becomes what we want it to be.

I study the patterns of the Universe.

There's a redemptive power that making a Choice has, you know rather than feeling like you're an effect to all the things that are happening. Make a Choice! Just decide, what it's going to be, who you're gonna be, how you're gonna do it. Just Decide! And from that point the Universe is going to get out of your way, it's like water. It wants to move and go around stuff.

You know there's a flow of the Universe that I've grown to know just how to go with it.

You really gotta FOCUS 

I  realised that to have the level of success that I wanna have it's difficult to spread it out and do multiple things. It takes such a desperate, obsessive Focus. You've really gotta Focus with all your fiber, and all of your heart, and all of your creativity.

Attack your Fears

I'm motivated by fear. Fear of fear! I hate being scared to do something, and I think what developed in my early days was the attitude that I started attacking things that I was scared of. 

Be WILLING to die for the TRUTH

You can't be scared to die for the Truth. The Truth is the only thing that is always going to be constant.
 

Protect your DREAM

Don't ever let somebody tell you you can't do something. Not even me, alright? You got a Dream? You've got to protect it! People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. You want something? Go get it! Period.

Source of Video: Thomas Jungblut

A Motivational video created by a 13 year old

QUOTES FROM THE VIDEO:

Ernest Hemingway: Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.

Abraham Lincoln: Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Emily Dickinson: Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Dale Carnegie: People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they're doing.

Albert Einstein: Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

G. K. Chesterton: I owe my success to having  listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Arthur C. Clarke: The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Confucius: Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Thomas J. Watson: Encouragement is a necessary part of supervison.

Aristole: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in the kingdom of the blind.

George S. Patton: Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."

Thornton Wilder: Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment everyday.

St. Clement of Alexandra: If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

Albert Einstein: Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Steve Jobs on SUCCESS

Killion Rob:

I’m wondering what would be the single most valuable piece of advice you’d give us to even attempt to create some of the value that you guys have done in both your very impressive companies.


Steve Jobs:
People say you have to have a lot of Passion in what you're doing, it's totally true, and the reason is because it's so hard, and if you don't, any rational person would give up. It's really hard, and you have to do it over a sustain period of time, so if you don't love it, you don't have fun doing it, you don't really love it, you gonna give up.

That's what happened to most people actually, if you look at the ones that being successful in the eyes of society and those that didn't, oftentimes it's the ones who were successful love what they did so they can persevere, when it got really tough, and the ones that didn't love it quit, because they're sane, right? Who would want to put up with this stuff if you don't love it?

So it's a lot of hard work and it's a lot of worrying constantly, and if you don't love it, you gonna fail, so you've got to love it, you've got to have passion and I think that's the high-order bit.

Li Ka-Shing and his Two Dollar Coin

A lesson we can learn from Li Ka-Shing.

Li Ka-Shing:

I was driving one morning, while reaching for my car key I dropped a two dollar coin. The coin rolled its way to the wheel of my car. I bent down and try to retrieve it as in not to waste it. A guard saw me and asked me what happen, I replied that I dropped a coin, hence the kind guard helped me. The coin was retrieved, and I got back two dollars. I then gave the guard a hundred dollars. Why did I do that?

If I didn't retrieve the two dollars, the coin would have dropped into the drain the moment I drove off. This coin would be gone forever, but now I got back two dollars and I gave the guard a hundred dollars, all this money will never be gone, it'll be circulated. Money can be spent, but it cannot be wasted.

Google's Larry Page & Sergey Brin on Stanford's Tradition of Innovation

Larry Page:

I'm Larry Page, I'm Co-founder and CEO of GOOGLE. I was at Stanford from 1995 through 1998. I studied computer science. I was in the PhD program there at Stanford. I did not quite graduate, but I did get my Masters degree.

Sergey Brin:

I'm Sergey Brim, I'm from GOOGLE, and prior to that I was a PhD student at Stanford. Larry and I first met when he came to visit during the PhD recruitment weekend, he started a couple of years after I did, and we became good friends. When he actually agreed to join and came on-board, we experimented a variety of things, we had some shared interest, and Larry had this crazy idea that he was gonna download all the links on the web and then do something with them. It wasn't entirely clear, what we did find that the world create applications, and one of them was SEARCH, which eventually became GOOGLE.

Larry Page:

GOOGLE, it's an interesting story actually, and it's a good example of the benefits of really having pure research. We had no idea of what we wanted to do, we were interested in doing research and I had lots of crazy things I wanted to do, and my adviser actually turn to one of us, why don't you link the sites on the web, that sounds like a good thing to work on.
I think the culture of Stanford with regards to entrepreneurship and high tech industry have been really amazing, and I was really attracted to Stanford for that reason, but I also... just tremendous expertise and how to make companies, how to get invasions out into the world, that i think has really meaningful impact.

Sergey Brin:

I think Stanford is a really unique place, and if you look it at an entrepreneurial point of view, the history, looking at Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, Yahoo!, Excite, it's really braided an enormous number of very important companies in the technology world, and I don't think it's an accident, I think that there's a culture of entrepreneurship at Stanford on a scale that I haven't seen elsewhere. 

Larry Page:

Universities have struggled a lot of times to get these tremendous discoveries and advancements, out from academia into the real world, and that was one of the things I guess for me, while I was really excited to be at Stanford, that's something Stanford's been really successful at, and has changed the world many times.

Sergey Brin:

I personally I love New York City, I'm there pretty often. It has an energy and dynamic to it that I think my mind kind of resonates with the different kind of energy and dynamic that Stanford has. But I think one of the things that is missing is this top notch university industry symbiosis. I don't think I've seen the same kind of scale in research and commercialization, pretty much unaware outside of Stanford, and I think that this is really a great opportunity for both the city as well as Stanford University to broaden it's horizons.

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