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!

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.

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.

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.

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.