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?

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!

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.

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

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.