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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

THE MENTAL DIET - By Brian Tracy

One of the most powerful personal programming activities you can engage in is positive self-talk. Be your own cheerleader and talk to yourself positively all of the time.

Think About Your Dreams
As it happens, the average person talks to himself in a negative way. As much as 94 percent of your inner dialogue tends to be about the things you fear, your worries, the people you're angry at, your problems, your concerns and so on. You have to consciously keep your words, your inner dialogue, consistent with what you wish to accomplish.

The Most Powerful Antidote
Psychologists have proven that the words, "I can do it," are the antidote to the fear of failure that often holds you back from trying. Repeat these words over and over to yourself whenever you feel fearful or doubtful about anything that you want to attempt. Say very enthusiastically to yourself, "I can do it, I can do it, I can do it!" When you start saying, "I can do it, I can do it," you drive that message deep into your subconscious mind. This message lowers your fears and builds your self-confidence.

Make A Million!
Another thing you can say to yourself is, "I make a million. I make a million." Impress that message into your subconscious mind. Whenever you think about your work, say over and over again, "I'm the best, I'm the best, I'm the best." Making any one of these three statements, or anything that is positive makes you feel good about yourself and causes you to be more motivated. You become more focused, more determined. Wealthy, successful people have a continuous inner dialogue that is positive and constructive and uplifting and consistent with their goals and objectives.

Feed Your Mind Continually
Feed your mind from morning to night with words, pictures, information and ideas consistent with your goals for financial success. Develop the habit of thinking positively and confidently about wealth accumulation. Read stories, books and articles about other successful people. Think about how you could be like them. Visualize yourself, imagine, fantasize, pretend in your mind that you are like the kind of people that you admire and respect and want to be like.

Select A Role Model
Psychologists have proven that role models are essential for magnetizing your mind with the qualities and characteristics that you wish to develop in yourself. Pick a person that you admire. Whenever you face any kind of difficult situation, ask yourself, how would this person act in this situation? What would this person do? How would this person behave? You'll find that when you think about how someone you admire might behave, your own thinking becomes better and you tend to act at your very best.

Become An Expert
Read everything you can find about your business. Become an expert in your field. The more you learn about your profession, your trade and your craft, the more confident you will become that you can do well in it.

Action Exercises
Here are two things you can do to put yourself on the new mental diet for financial success:

First, repeat to yourself, over and over again, the wonderful words "I can do it! I can do it! I can do it!" Whenever you are anticipating any new goal or opportunity. This affirmation builds your self-confidence and conditions you for success.

Second, monitor your mental diet the way you would your physical diet. Be sure that you feed yourself throughout the day with positive stories, words, pictures and conversations about the things you want to have in your life. Refuse to read, watch, listen to or discuss things that are negative or depressing. This will make a tremendous difference in how you feel and how you act. Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

Friday, April 25, 2008

QUOTES By Marie Curie (1834 -1934)

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.


Marie Curie, née Maria Sklodowska (1867-1934), was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867 , the daughter of a secondary-school teacher. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father.

In 1903, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Pierre Curie, Marie Curie, and Henri Becguerel the
Nobel Prize in Physics, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel."

Curie was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize. Eight years later, she received the 1911
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element".

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY

Webster defines hope as “the confident expectation that a desire will be fulfilled.” What a powerful statement! Have you ever said, “I sure hope things will change?” Did you then have a confident expectation that this desire would be fulfilled?

Hope is a very powerful emotion. It’s the gas that drives our positive actions and behaviors. Conversely, the lack of hope is the brakes that stop us and cause a lack of action and analysis paralysis. Hope by itself, though, isn’t the key to success. You Can’t “Positive Attitude” your way to success; you must “Positive Action” your way to success. Hope is not a strategy. Developing a well-thought out plan of action for your life will have a profound impact on your results. As your results improve, your attitude will become more positive. If you’re spinning your wheels right now and aren’t where you “hoped” you’d be in your life, it’s because your goals aren’t clearly defined.

Ask yourself these questions, as you develop your goals and share this with your children:

WHAT DO I REALLY WANT IN MY LIFE?


WHY DO I WANT IT?

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR IT?

IF THAT IS WHAT I REALLY WANT, WHY DON'T I ALREADY HAVE IT?

WHEN WILL I START?

Visualize everything you have ever wanted to have or to be in your life. Set goals with specific action steps and target dates. Ger started today on your plan, and move forward with “the confident expectation” that your desire will be fulfilled. This strategy will never fail you, and what started as hope will become a reality!

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Friday, April 18, 2008

ARISTOTLE

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

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

We are what we repeatedly do.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

A student of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, Aristotle shared his teacher’s reverence for human knowledge but revised many of Plato’s ideas by emphasizing methods rooted in observation and experience. Aristotle surveyed and systematized nearly all the extant branches of knowledge and provided the first ordered accounts of biology, psychology, physics, and literary theory. In addition, Aristotle invented the field known as formal logic, pioneered zoology, and addressed virtually every major philosophical problem known during his time. Known to medieval intellectuals as simply “the Philosopher,” Aristotle is possibly the greatest thinker in Western history and, historically, perhaps the single greatest influence on Western intellectual development.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

THE BLACK DOOR - Earl Nightingale


There is a Middle Eastern story about a spy who had been captured and sentence to death by a General of the Persian Army. The General had fallen on a strange and rather bizarre custom. He permitted the condemn person to make a choice he can either face the firing quad or pass through the Black Door.


As the moment of execution drew near, the General order the spy to be brought before him for a short final interview. The primary purpose which to receive the answer of the doom man to the question which shall it be, the firing quad or the Black Door?

This was not an easy question and the prisoner hesitated, but soon he made it know that he much prefer the firing quad. Not long there after a volume of shoots in the courtyard announced the grim sentence has been fulfilled. The General staring at his boots turned to his aid and said you see how it is with men, they will always prefer the known way to the unknown. It is characteristic of people to be afraid of the undefined and yet I gave him his choice.

What lies behind the Black Door asked the aid?

Freedom replied the General and I have known only a few men brave enough to take it. Like so many of the stories out of the Middle East, this one carries a pretty hefty message.

The first is of course that we will often choose the familiar even if it is undesirable over the unknown, which might be a wonderful opportunity. And second only a few people are brave enough to choose freedom even if they recognized it as freedom. I am not saying we should reject the familiar not by any means, but we should question the familiar. Just because it’s familiar doesn't make it good necessarily or best or the best thing to do.

When you read the story about the Black Door, you probably said to yourself I would of chosen the Black Door, I would had nothing to loose. The firing quad was certain death and most people would say the same thing. But actually faced with the choice would you?

How many doors to freedom have we passed up during our lives because we tend to cling so fiercely to the familiar? How many times have events come about, that you worried and stewed about and even thought calamitous at the time and later proved to be blessings in disguised? Each of them was really a Black Door through which we passed to greater freedom, but at the time we would have chosen to keep things as they were if we have been given a chance.

This is one of those storied that makes for interesting discussion at the dinner table along with friends, tell the story of the Black Door and see what sort of reaction you get.

Remember if we can, that it is often those things that we worry about and most fear, that turns out to be blessing in disguise.


Thursday, April 10, 2008

QUOTES By Eleanor Roosevelt


The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift; that's why they call it the present.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

A shy, awkward child, starved for recognition and love, Eleanor Roosevelt grew into a woman with great sensitivity to the underprivileged of all creeds, races, and nations. Her constant work to improve their lot made her one of the most loved--and for some years one of the most revered--women of her generation.

She was born in New York City on October 11, 1884, daughter of lovely Anna Hall and Elliott Roosevelt, younger brother of Theodore. When her mother died in 1892, the children went to live with Grandmother Hall; her adored father died only two years later. Attending a distinguished school in England gave her, at 15, her first chance to develop self-confidence among other girls.


Eleanor Roosevelt was in real demand as a speaker and lecturer, both in person and through the media of radio and television. She was a prolific writer with many articles and books to her credit including a multi-volume autobiography. In late 1935, she began a syndicated column, "My Day," which she continued until shortly before her death. She also wrote monthly question and answer columns for the Ladies Home Journal (1941-49) and McCalls (1949-62).

In her later years, Mrs. Roosevelt lived at Val-kill in Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York. She also maintained an apartment in New York City where she died on November 7, 1962. She is buried alongside her husband in the rose garden of their estate at Hyde Park, now a national historic site.

Monday, April 7, 2008

The Law of Compensation - By Brian Tracy

You Get What You Give!
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his essay, "Compensation," wrote that each person is compensated in like manner for that which he or she has contributed. The Law of Compensation is another restatement of the Law of Sowing and Reaping. It says that you will always be compensated for your efforts and for your contribution, whatever it is, however much or however little.

Increase Your Value: This Law of Compensation also says that you can never be compensated in the long term for more than you put in. The income you earn today is your compensation for what you have done in the past. If you want to increase your compensation, you must increase the value of your contribution.

Fill Your Mind With Success: Your mental attitude, your feelings of happiness and satisfaction, are also the result of the things that you have put into your own mind. If you fill your own mind with thoughts, visions and ideas of success, happiness and optimism, you will be compensated by those positive experiences in your daily activities.

Do More Than You're Paid For: Another corollary of the Law of Sowing and Reaping is what is sometimes called the, "Law of Overcompensation." This law says that great success comes from those who always make it a habit to put in more than they take out. They do more than they are paid for. They are always looking for opportunities to exceed expectations. And because they are always overcompensating, they are always being over rewarded with the esteem of their employers and customers and with the financial rewards that go along with their personal success.

Provide the Causes, Enjoy The Effects: One of your main responsibilities in life is to align yourself and your activities with Law of Cause and Effect (and its corollaries), accepting that it is an inexorable law that always works, whether anyone is looking or not. Your job is to institute the causes that are consistent with the effects that you want to enjoy in your life. When you do, you will realize and enjoy the rewards you desire.

Action Exercises: Here are two things you can do immediately to put these ideas into action.

First, remind yourself regularly that your rewards will always be in direct proportion to your service to others. How could you increase the value of your services to your customers today?

Second, look for ways to go the extra mile, to use the Law of Overcompensation in everything you do. This is the great secret of success.


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Flight Plan -- The Real Secret of Success"

You need a flight plan to succeed. I'm always amazed at how many people fail because they just don't have a plan. And having a plan isn't enough. Just like an airplane pilot you must make course corrections to arrive at your destination - your goals.

When you learn to create your flight plan - Your life will become a success.

Friday, April 4, 2008

WHATS DRIVING YOU?

An Idea For Action...
Any change you make should be motivated by your desire to become the best you can be. With true desire, you can become anything you want to be.


In order for a personal change to succeed, it must first start. So, start now and stay with it.

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING THREE QUESTIONS

If you could change anything in your life, what would be first?

What changes to your present self would bring your "best self" closer to the surface?

What one thing will you commit to today that will bring you closer to what you want to become tomorrow?

"Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them..."~ Edgar Watson Howe

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Wednesday, April 2, 2008

QUTOES by Amelia Earhart

Adventure is worthwhile.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Earhart, Ameliaâr'härt, 1897–1937, American aviator, b. Atchison, Kans. She was the first woman to cross the Atlantic by airplane (1928) and the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic (1932). She was the first person to fly alone from Honolulu to California (1935). In 1937, she attempted with a copilot, Frederick J. Noonan, to fly around the world, but her plane was lost on the flight between New Guinea and Howland Island. In 1992, a search party reported finding remnants of Earhart's plane on Nikumaroro (formerly Gardner Island), Kiribati, but their claims were disputed by people who worked on Earhart's plane, and her fate remains a mystery.