QUOTES BY HENRY FORD

Henry Ford with a Model T in 1921.

About one million Model T's were produced that year.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, was the first of William and Mary Ford's six children. He grew up on a prosperous family farm in what is today Dearborn, Michigan. Henry enjoyed a childhood typical of the rural nineteenth century, spending days in a one-room school and doing farm chores. At an early age, he showed an interest in mechanical things and a dislike for farm work.

In 1879, sixteen-year-old Ford left home for the nearby city of Detroit to work as an apprentice machinist, although he did occasionally return to help on the farm. He remained an apprentice for three years and then returned to Dearborn. During the next few years, Henry divided his time between operating or repairing steam engines, finding occasional work in a Detroit factory, and over-hauling his father's farm implements, as well as lending a reluctant hand with other farm work. Upon his marriage to Clara Bryant in 1888, Henry supported himself and his wife by running a sawmill.

In 1891, Ford became an engineer with the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit. This event signified a conscious decision on Ford's part to dedicate his life to industrial pursuits. His promotion to Chief Engineer in 1893 gave him enough time and money to devote attention to his personal experiments on internal combustion engines.

These experiments culminated in 1896 with the completion of his own self-propelled vehicle-the Quadricycle. The Quadricycle had four wire wheels that looked like heavy bicycle wheels, was steered with a tiller like a boat, and had only two forward speeds with no reverse.

Although Ford was not the first to build a self-propelled vehicle with a gasoline engine, he was, however, one of several automotive pioneers who helped this country become a nation of motorists.

After two unsuccessful attempts to establish a company to manufacture automobiles, the Ford Motor Company was incorporated in 1903 with Henry Ford as vice-president and chief engineer. The infant company produced only a few cars a day at the Ford factory on Mack Avenue in Detroit. Groups of two or three men worked on each car from components made to order by other companies.

Henry Ford realized his dream of producing an automobile that was reasonably priced, reliable, and efficient with the introduction of the Model T in 1908. This vehicle initiated a new era in personal transportation. It was easy to operate, maintain, and handle on rough roads, immediately becoming a huge success.

By 1918, half of all cars in America were Model Ts. To meet the growing demand for the Model T, the company opened a large factory at Highland Park, Michigan, in 1910. Here, Henry Ford combined precision manufacturing, standardized and interchangeable parts, a division of labor, and, in 1913, a continuous moving assembly line. Workers remained in place, adding one component to each automobile as it moved past them on the line. Delivery of parts by conveyor belt to the workers was carefully timed to keep the assembly line moving smoothly and efficiently. The introduction of the moving assembly line revolutionized automobile production by significantly reducing assembly time per vehicle, thus lowering costs. Ford's production of Model Ts made his company the largest automobile manufacturer in the world.

QUOTES BY MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land.

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor.

At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.

On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.

THE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT FORMULA

Put Your Career on the Fast Track
There are many things you can do to put your career onto the fast track. You can set clear, specific goals for each area of your life and then make plans to accomplish them. You can plan your work and work your plan.

Ask For Greater Responsibility
You can accept 100% responsibility for everything you are and everything you become. You can refuse to make excuses or to blame others. You can tell your boss that you want greater responsibilities and then when you get them, put your whole heart into doing an excellent job.

Utilize Your Inborn Talents
In the parable of the talents in the New Testament, Jesus says, "Oh good and faithful servant, you have been faithful over small things. I will make you master over large things."If you too will carry out every assignment to the very best of your ability, you will be given larger and more important things to do and you'll be paid more as a result.

Dedicate Yourself to Continuous Improvement
The key to long term success is for you to dedicate yourself to continuous improvement. If you become one tenth of one percent more productive each day, that amounts to 1/1000th improvement per working day. Is that possible? Of course it is!

Improve a Little at a Time
If you become one tenth of one percent more productive each day, that amounts to one half of one percent more productive each week. One half of one percent more productive each week amounts to two percent more productive each month and 26% more productive each year.

The cumulative effect if becoming a tiny bit better at your field and more productive amounts to a tremendous increase in your value and your output over time.

How to Double Your Productivity
Twenty-six percent more productive each year, with compounding, amounts to doubling your overall productivity and performance every 2.7 years. If you become 26% more productive each year, with compounding, times 10 years, you will be 1004% more productive over the next decade. That is an increase of ten times over ten years.

The Reason For All Great Successes
This is called the Law of Accumulation, or the Principle of Incremental Improvement. It is the primary reason for all great success stories. By the yard, it's hard. But inch by inch, anything's a cinch!

Become A 1000% Person
Make a decision, right now, to be a 1000% person. Commit yourself to continuous personal and professional development. Read, listen to audio programs and take additional courses. This process will completely transform your life.

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

First, make a plan to become a little bit better every single day. Learn and apply one new idea each day to help you to become more productive and effective at your work. The incremental effect will amaze you.

Second, be patient. Don't expect overnight changes or instant results. Remember the story of the tortoise and the hare. Become a little bit better each day and your future will take care of itself. "The Continuous Improvement Formula" By Brian Tracy
BREAKING THE SUCCESS BARRIER - By Brian Tracy

Quotes by Winston Churchill

I like things to happen; and if they don't happen, I like to make them happen.

Perfectionism spells paralysis.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

When I look back on all the worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

There are plenty of good ideas if only they can be backed with the power of action.

Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965), the son of Lord Randolph Churchill and an American mother, was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst.

After a brief but eventful career in the army, he became a Conservative Member of Parliament in 1900. He held many high posts in Liberal and Conservative governments during the first three decades of the century.

At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty - a post which he had earlier held from 1911 to 1915. In May, 1940, he became Prime Minister and Minister of Defence and remained in office until 1945. He took over the premiership again in the Conservative victory of 1951 and resigned in 1955. However, he remained a Member of Parliament until the general election of 1964, when he did not seek re-election. Queen Elizabeth II conferred on Churchill the dignity of Knighthood and invested him with the insignia of the Order of the Garter in 1953. Among the other countless honours and decorations he received, special mention should be made of the honorary citizenship of the United States which President Kennedy conferred on him in 1963.

7 SIMPLE PRINCIPLES OF WINNING THE GAME OF SUCCESS.

RULE #1: WINNING REQUIRES VISION.

Winners have a strong sense of purpose, mission and clarity of VISION—with the ability to turn their dreams and goals into solid EXPECTATIONS upon which they can take ACTION.

Successful people know WHO they are... WHY they are here... and WHAT they are going DO with the only life they have to live.

They have given themselves PERMISSION to EXPECT success rather than to FEAR failure. They then PROMISE themselves to live up to those EXPECTATIONS.

Yes, winners set huge goals for themselves—directly from the HEART—and fully expect to achieve them.

RULE #2: WINNING REQUIRES RESULTS.

Winners are successful, because they are able to transform their EXPECTATIONS into tangible RESULTS over Time. They LIVE their vision rather than just DREAM about it. They quickly turn their hopes and dreams into crystal-clear GOALS and focus their efforts on achieving their PLANS—not just once in awhile—but consistently... day-in-day-out.

Winners NEVER quit until their actual RESULTS meet or exceed their EXPECTATIONS. They live the old adage: Quitters never win... Winners never quit.

RULE #3: WINNING REQUIRES POWER.

Winners produce better RESULTS, because they have the POWER to consistently PERFORM better. Consistency of performance is what leads to consistency of winning.

RULE #4: WINNING REQUIRES POSITIVITY.

Winners have more POWER, because they have fewer NEGATIVES and more POSITIVES driving their performance at any point in time. You can SEE it in their performance.

Successful people are highly Energetic, Passionate, Enthusiastic, Self-directed, Focused, Supportive, Systematic, Organized and Action Oriented.
By contrast, how successful can you be if you are frequently Drained, Directionless, Pessimistic, Rash, Vague, Critical, Haphazard and Hesitant?

Yes, winners have far more POSITIVES, and far fewer NEGATIVES than people who just dabble at it.

Why?

Winners take ACTION to put these positive characteristics into play. They WORK at it. When they see a NEGATIVE, they take ACTION to transform it into a powerful POSITIVE.

It is no more complicated than this: When they see DISCOURAGED entering their performance, they quickly take a positive ACTION to once again become PASSIONATE.

RULE #5: WINNING REQUIRES YOUR 10 COLORS TO BE BURNING BRIGHTLY.

Successful people have more POSITIVES driving their performance, because each of the 10 COLORS in their Performance Spectrum is consistently burning brighter.

Think about it. What NEGATIVE stands a chance to undermine your performance when each of your 10 Colors is burning at maximum intensity. Since you can't be Energetic and Drained at the same time, the Positive always trumps the Negative. If you commit to keeping your 10 colors burning brightly, you will have have a power reservoir of amazing positivity.

RULE # 6: WINNING REQUIRES SKILL.

Winners' COLORS burn brighter, because they have the SKILLS to transform any Negatives holding them back into Positives that produce the Results they Expect.

In "TQ Speak" we call this taking a Factor Action... the 100 sequenced actions that drive the intensity of your 10 Colors.

What happens when you get DISCOURAGED?

This negative will dead-stop you in your tracks if you let it. However, learn to take Attitude Factor Action 3E "I look for the best in every situation, and the opportunity in every problem." and you will instantly move from Pessimistic to Optimistic.

RULE #7: WINNING REQUIRES CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT.

Winners Consistently produce superior Results over Time, because they consistently IMPROVE their Power of TQ over Time—which, of course, leads to bigger dreams, goals, visions and EXPECTATIONS.

Winners don't just win once in awhile. They do it consistently. They are constantly honing their edge, looking for small changes in their performance that lead to a serious advantage.

Little-by-little, day-by-day, they see minor improvements that combine to make them champions.

You can too.

Winning is not just a "once in awhile" event. It is a way of life.

It's May 13, 2008. Today, I want you to think about your WIN/LOSS record one last time. Not to dwell on your losses, but to discover issues in your performance that, when corrected, will allow you to WIN a great deal more frequently.

I want you to think about the last 10 years of your life. You have the scars. Your achievements have gotten you this far. Be proud of your accomplishments, however small you might think they are.

Large or small, they have defined your life thus far.

Now, look out 10, 20, 30 years or more to your last days here on Earth. How do you want to be remembered? You have the POWER to define your life any way you want.

Write Out Your Top 3 Personal Goals:

Look at your 3 goals. What will it take for you to WIN these by the time the Old Croaker or Grim Reaper comes calling for you.?

Believe Emerson. Believe Larry Bird. Believe Ali. Believe Kerrigan. Believe me. No one is going to just hand you these 3 goals anymore than they will hand you a prize for just showing up.

The best advice I can give you right now is this: Stop dabbling at it. Give it all you've got. -- E.R. Haas, CEO

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THE LAW OF CAUSE AND EFFECTS

The law of cause and effect: If you do what other successful people do, you will eventually get the results that other successful people get." ~ Brian Tracy

Study Brian's quote carefully. Successful people DO things differently from those who continue to struggle.

Find out what you need to DO differently—then DO IT. You will start moving faster in the direction of your dreams and goals. Don't, and you will be stuck running in place... until you DO!

You cause success to happen in every THOUGHT you think... and every ACTION you take. Thus, becoming the success you desire can be reduced to this simple two-step process:

THINK: Create Clear Expectations.

ACT: Execute Beyond Expectations.

When your Power to Execute exceeds the size of your Expectations, you produce exceptional RESULTS. You move closer to the success you desire. No question, the success you desire depends on the RESULTS you produce.

Want greater success?

Expect More—Execute Better.
Rising Expectations lead to a life of RESULTS. Falling Expectations lead to a life of REGRETS. You will either grow old and successful—or old and cynical. It's your choice.

What's Driving YOUR Performance?

Want to know what's driving your successes and failures right now? Is it what you have given yourself the right to Expect... or is it your power to Execute?

Take a few minutes to spot-check your performance again this morning, by taking the Quick Quiz for a few Colors. You will find this to be a truly illuminating experience!

Your Expectation Colors:
How's your sense of purpose and Mission?
Is your Attitude positive and proactive?
How well do you turn dreams into crystal-clear Goals?
Do you have Plans to support each of your goals?

"High Expectations are the key to everything." - Sam Walton, Founder Wal-Mart

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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

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".

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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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.

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.

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.

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.



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.

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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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.

THE GOLDEN HOUR - By Brian Tracy

You become what you think about most of the time. And the most important part of each day is what you think about at the beginning of that day.

Start Your Day Right Take 30 minutes each morning to sit quietly and to reflect on your goals. You'll find when you read the biographies and autobiographies of successful men and women that almost everyone of them began their upward trajectory to success when they begin getting up early in the morning and spending time with themselves.

Feed Your Mind With Positive Ideas This Is Called The Golden Hour. The first hour sets the tone for the day. The things that you do in the first hour prepare your mind and set you up for the entire day. During the first thirty to sixty minutes, take time to think and review your plans for the future.

Use Your Quiet Time Effectively Here are four things that you can do during that quiet time in the morning.

Number one is to review your plans for accomplishing your goals and change your plans if necessary.

Number two is think of better ways to accomplish your goals. As an exercise, assume that the way you're going about it is totally wrong and imagine going about it totally differently. What would you do different from what you're doing right now?

Number three, reflect on the valuable lessons that you have learned and are learning as you move toward your goals.

Practice Daily Visualization

Number four, calmly visualize your goal as a reality. Close your eyes, relax, smile, and see your goal as though it were already a reality. Rewrite your major goals everyday in the present tense. Rewrite them as though they already existed. Write "I earn X dollars." "I have a net worth of X." "I weigh a certain number of pounds." This exercise of writing and rewriting your goals everyday is one of the most powerful you will ever learn.

Fasten Your Seatbelt

Your life will start to take off at such a speed that you'll have to put on your seatbelt. Remember, the starting point for achieving financial success is the development of an attitude of unshakable confidence in yourself and in your ability to reach your goals. Everything we've talked about is a way of building up and developing your belief system until you finally reach the point where you are absolutely convinced that nothing can stop you from achieving what you set out to achieve.

Make Something Happen and Take Action Today!

BECOME A POSSIBILITARIAN

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there." ~ Norman Vincent Peale

If you could bottle the positivity of Dr. Peale or Robert Schuller, the Number 1 Possibilitarian in the world, you would see life in an entirely different light. Possibility thinking is better than impossibility thinking for one simple reason: When you think something is impossible, you tend to STOP.

Thus, a lack of ACTION becomes the self-fulfilling prophecy of FAILURE. This is not PHILOSOPHY. It's PHYSICS: A body at rest tends to remain at rest. But when you believe something is POSSIBLE, you will pursue it with PASSION and zeal... taking ACTION in spite of fear, uncertainty and doubt. Which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of SUCCESS!

Because a body in motion tends to remain in motion. It is your ATTITUDE that keeps your BODY in MOTION! No question, consistently maintaining a positive, potential-driven attitude (while difficult for many) is a major element of long-term success.

Without it, you are defeated before you even get started. With it, you will persist with passion and enthusiasm until you succeed or find a better way. Fail to take actions when required, your attitude sinks—causing a flood of negatives to drive your performance... moving you AWAY from success.

The message is simple. In the ebb and flow of life, the positives and negatives driving your attitude determine if you will find success or experience failed expectations over time.

Is your ATTITUDE sabotaging your Success?

Do you have the self-confidence and inner-drive to put your performance into over-drive?
A positive, powerful and uplifting attitude not only makes it easier to achieve your goals—it makes it fun!

Please take some time today to think about your Number One PERSONAL Goal. This is a goal just for YOU... only YOU!

While SMART, this goal will not come EASY. Look at this goal in light of the next 2 years attempting to GRIND you down. What are you going to do to maintain POSITIVITY and FORWARD motion?

My Number One Personal Goal...
Specific:
Measurable:
Achievable
Realistic:
Tangible:

The Bottom Line...
Without a POSITIVE and PROACTIVE ATTITUDE, you are just spinning your wheels, confusing effort with results.

Tune IN to your ATTITUDE. Turn it ON. Turn it UP!
As you go through the rest of the month, take a hard look around your life. Don't filter your observations through the "good enough" lens. Expect more! Imagine what your life will be like when you are actually living what's most important to you.

COMMIT TO PASSIONATELY LIVING WHAT YOU VALUE.

Look at your Number 1 Personal Goal through the lens of positivity and possibility thinking. Assume anything is possible. Because, given enough Time and Energy, it is. -- E.R. Haas, CEO

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QUOTE - George Bernard Shaw

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them. -- George Bernard Shaw, Playwright

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born in Dublin, the son of a civil servant. His education was irregular, due to his dislike of any organized training. After working in an estate agent's office for a while he moved to London as a young man (1876), where he established himself as a leading music and theatre critic in the eighties and nineties and became a prominent member of the Fabian Society, for which he composed many pamphlets. He began his literary career as a novelist; as a fervent advocate of the new theatre of Ibsen (The Quintessence of Ibsenism, 1891) he decided to write plays in order to illustrate his criticism of the English stage. His earliest dramas were called appropriately Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898). Among these, Widower's Houses and Mrs. Warren's Profession savagely attack social hypocrisy, while in plays such as Arms and the Man and The Man of Destiny the criticism is less fierce. Shaw's radical rationalism, his utter disregard of conventions, his keen dialectic interest and verbal wit often turn the stage into a forum of ideas, and nowhere more openly than in the famous discourses on the Life Force, «Don Juan in Hell», the third act of the dramatization of woman's love chase of man, Man and Superman (1903).

THE POWER OF THE GOAL.

AIM HIGH AND REACH FOR THE STARS.

"You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals." ~ Sir Edmund Hillary First to climb Mt. Everest

The Power of The Goal.
Part One by E. R. Haas, CEO ThinkTQ, Inc.

Are you unwittingly screwing up your own success? If you're like the average bear, there's no question. Just look at the stats below.

Less than 24% have the power to turn their dreams into tangible milestones and objectives. This means that 76% of the population permit their dreams and goals to die a slow, agonizing death from a lack of attention. What a total waste of time and life.

Over the years, The Power of The Goal has been one of the biggest contributing factors driving my career and personal success. Once you too understand The Power of The Goal, it will change your life.
The importance of turning your hopes, dreams and wishes into a series of crystal-clear, do-or-die goals cannot be overstated.

It affects every decision you make and action you take -- and ultimately -- how many opportunities come your way instead of going to the "other" guy.

This Skill Alone... Differentiates the winners from the whiners. Ever heard anyone complaining about achieving their goals? No, I haven't either!

If you struggle with career or money issues -- you need look no further. If you score less than 6-7 in this area of your performance, the next few years are going to be rather unpleasant. Perfect this skill now.

Drives your company's competitive advantage... especially if your organization has a number of "stretch goals" it must achieve to insure economic viability and/or survivability.

In today's global economy, a company is measured by how well it achieves its stated objectives. If people within are "goal-centric" -- and are able to communicate what needs to be done to achieve the goal -- there is tremendous forward movement. If not, there's lots of running in place, burning up valuable time, money and resources.

Adds a good 40% -- or more -- to your paycheck. People who understand how to consistently meet or exceed growing expectations are the "keepers" in this survival of the fastest global economy. They earn more because they are worth more. There is a direct correllation between earning power and the power to set realistic goals.

The message?

Improve your ability to set goals -- or learn to settle for what life hands you.

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QUOTES - Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) Champion of Positive Thinking

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself - so always think positively.

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.