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
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.
* "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
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.
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.
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.
