An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
-Henri Matisse, artist (31 Dec 1869-1954)
Perfect Technique
The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
-Pablo Casals, cellist, conductor, and composer (29 Dec 1876-1973)
-Pablo Casals, cellist, conductor, and composer (29 Dec 1876-1973)
Gift for your family
"Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself - your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Kind and gentle
May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan
- Jonathan
Gratitude forever
"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."
-Melody Beattie
-Melody Beattie
sMile...
"Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."
- Mother Teresa
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."
- Mother Teresa
Get through...
"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."
-Mortimer J. Adler, philosopher, educator, and author (28 Dec 1902-2001)
-Mortimer J. Adler, philosopher, educator, and author (28 Dec 1902-2001)
Essential commodity
"Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump."
-Christopher Morley, writer (1890-1957)
-Christopher Morley, writer (1890-1957)
"35 Priceless Lessons 2015 Taught Me" By Robin Sharma
35 Priceless Lessons 2015 Taught Me
By Robin Sharma
#1 bestselling author of The Leader Who Had No Title
As we end another year, I wanted to offer up the 35 lessons that were of the greatest value to me over 2015.
I–with a humble and wide open heart–thank you for following + sharing + living + modeling my work (whether via my YouTube videos/Facebook posts/tweets/books/live events) over these past 12 months.
Here are the 35 insights that served me best this year…#1. Ambition is only a dirty word if it's an unclean ambition. Human beings are built to grow and progress. You are meant to shine.
#2. As you rise in authentic power, craft and impact, some will throw rocks at you. Take the High Road. And trust that the truth always wins.
#3. You can pursue shiny distractions. Or you can do epic work. You just don't get to do both.
#4. A rare-air dream requires an explosively great team. The smartest way to grow a company is to develop your people.
#5. Generosity is the cure for scarcity. Be the most giving person in every room you're in and life will reward you with uncommon blessings. Remember: doing good in expectation of some return is no gift–it's an exchange.
#6. Why worry about a disrupted economy when you can build your own economy via the pursuit of mastery.
#7. Happy people make happy leaders–which create happy teams. So work on your happiness.
#8. A smile to a stranger is a gift of vast proportions.
#9. Creativity breeds amid solitude versus noise.
#10. If world-class was easy, everyone would be doing it.
#11. A monumental vision means, en route to the summit, you're certain to experience monumental hurts. That's just the price of bravery. Stay in the game. Longer than any naysayers suggest you should.
#12. Being on time is hip. Keeping your promises is cool. Having good manners is in.
#13. Optimism is a gorgeous contagion.
#14. Busy isn't productivity. Fake work isn't real work. Fight for focus. And execute on what counts.
#15. Love is the antidote to fear.
#16. Exceptional physical fitness is a game-changer.
#17. Honor your parents as you'll miss them when they're gone.
#18. A fast-growing company is a highly-vulnerable entity. As you scale, it's so easy to stop doing the special things that made you special. Stay solid on your founding values. Work even harder to be of service. Push even more passionately for mastery.
#19. Never miss a single opportunity to help another human being. At the end, our highest honor will come from our influence on others.
#20. The illusion of safety is always more dangerous than the discomfort of innovation.
#21. You can never give others more love than you deliver to yourself.
#22. The greatest leaders build more leaders.
#23. Legendary performers are generated via their daily rituals more than their inherited talents.
#24. Life's a series of seasons. We each have our times in the sunlight, and our days in the winters. Savor the easy runs and leverage the challenges to fuel compassion, courage, creativity and decency. All is good. The universe is a friendly place [Thanks Einstein].
#25. Writing of gratitude in a journal allows you to relive the more beautiful parts of your life on a daily basis.
#26. Business is a dialogue. Lose the dialogue with those you serve and you'll lose the business. Period. And always remember who puts food on your table.
#27. Meditation is a genius practice on your pursuit towards genius. Rewires the brain, releases serotonin and lights you all up. Do it daily.
#28. Mountain biking makes adults feel like kids again. [Thanks to my new Romanian friends who took me up the mountain outside Bucharest in September; I'll always remember that day].
#29. An obsession isn't unhealthy unless it's an unhealthy obsession.
#30. A job is only a job if you fall into the trap of perceiving it as a job. All work is a spectacular opportunity to polish your craft, push your edges, transcend your fears and bring greater light into the world.
#31. Just because others don't live your values doesn't mean you shouldn't stand for your values. Martin Luther King, Jr: "Until you've found something you're willing to die for you're not fit to live."
#32. The best producers are curious, invest deeply in their growth and adore reading + going to conferences + befriending giant thinkers.
#33. Achievement without joy is failure, not winning.
#34. Watch the sunset every night in acute celebration of the gift of yet another day.
#35. Remember your heroic nature. And lift all those who intersect your life. There are no extra people alive today. You matter. More than you know.
With my truest wishes for your greatest success,
P.S. We just finished up The Titan Summit 2015 (magical!) and I just had to share the trailer with you as it brought tears to my eyes.
Watch it here for some beautiful inspiration
Appellation
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation."
- George Washington
Equal but not
"Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start."
- Harold Wilson
Pursuit of wealth
"Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery."
- Frank Herbert
S M A R T for Management
S.M.A.R.T. means
S - Specific Target
M - Meaningful Vision
A - Accessible to all
R - Reachable by the employees
T - Timely Action.
These are all the bare minimum requirements.
S - Specific Target
M - Meaningful Vision
A - Accessible to all
R - Reachable by the employees
T - Timely Action.
These are all the bare minimum requirements.
Less bridges
"Men build too many walls and not enough bridges."
-Isaac Newton, physicist, mathematician, and philosopher (25 Dec 1642-1727)
Merry Christmas
-Charles Dickens
Wealth
"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service."
- Henry Ford
TRUST
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
- James Madison
Role of Honour
"First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent."
- Stanislaw Lec
Innocent Enjoyment
"In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments."
- Rutherford B HaYes
Power of silence
"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
-John Morley, statesman and writer (24 Dec 1838-1923)
Inner world
"Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent."
- Osho
Why should I
"The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?"
- Bob Marley
Time to cherish
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
-Joseph Brodsky
-Joseph Brodsky
Lonliness is part of....
I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
-Yousuf Karsh, portrait photographer (23 Dec 1908-2002)
-Yousuf Karsh, portrait photographer (23 Dec 1908-2002)
Communication Now
"The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable."
- Barack Obama
Health is...
"Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning."
- Thomas Jefferson
Limits of possibility
"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."
- Arthur C. Clarke
Smart
"I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."
- Franklin D.Roosevelt
Many more
"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."
- Nelson Mandela
Making it Shorter
"Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time."
- Victor Hugo
Until and unless
"Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday."
- Fulton Sheen
The Noblest...
"That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim."
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Potent Weapon
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
-Steve Biko, anti-apartheid activist (18 Dec 1946-1977)
Great Help
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
-Lewis Mumford
Love & Hate
"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate."
- Sigmund Freud
Contentment
"Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence."
-Thomas Chandler Haliburton, author, judge, and politician (17 Dec 1796-1865)
Need - For and To
"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it."
- Audrey Hepburn
Quote for the day : Rules
Season's Greetings!
People dislike rules. Many encourage others to break the rules.
Yet without rules, people go broke.
Personally, I don't care for rules. My rich dad said, "Without rules there are no assets. Without rules, only outlaws and thieves get rich."
The leaders of Enron broke the rules, the company was wiped out. Employees lost their jobs, investors lost their money, and lives were ruined.
In neighborhoods without rules, property values plummet.
If a husband cheat on his wife, families are destroyed.
If you break the rules of your body by drinking, taking drugs, smoking, eating, or not exercising, your health is destroyed.
If there were no police enforcing the rules, more people would die.
Even though I don't care for rules, they're important to maintain order and value.
To making life better,
Robert Kiyosaki
Never doubt
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
-Margaret Mead, anthropologist (16 Dec 1901-1978)
-Margaret Mead, anthropologist (16 Dec 1901-1978)
If it works...
"Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid."
- Robert Fulghum
Music=Speech
The music that can deepest reach,
And cure all ill,
is cordial speech.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
Happiness lies in...
"Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."
- Franklin D.Roosevelt
Fame is...
Fame is a bee.
It has a song
It has a sting
Ah, too, it has a wing.
-Emily Dickinson, poet (10 Dec 1830-1886)
Thirukural : வெள்ளம் போல்
வெள்ளத் தனைய இடும்பை அறிவுடையான்
உள்ளத்தின் உள்ளக் கெடும்.
மு.வ. உரை:
வெள்ளம் போல் அளவற்றதாய் வரும் துன்பமும், அறிவுடையவன் தன் உள்ளத்தினால் அத் துன்பத்தின் இயல்பை நினைத்த அளவில் கெடும்.
கலைஞர் உரை:
வெள்ளம்போல் துன்பம் வந்தாலும் அதனை வெல்லும் வழி யாது என்பதை அறிவுடையவர்கள் நினைத்த மாத்திரத்திலேயே அத்துன்பம் விலகி ஓடி விடும்.
சாலமன் பாப்பையா உரை:
வெள்ளம் போலக் கரை கடந்த துன்பம் வந்தாலும் அறிவு உடையவன், தன் மனத்தால் தளராமல் எண்ணிய அளவிலேயே அத்துன்பம் அழியும்.
Explanation:
A flood of troubles will be overcome by the (courageous) thought which the minds of the wise will entertain, even in sorrow.
Now
"In life, it is not the most talented who wins - it's the BRAVEST."
Believe me: "What you do right NOW defines what you accomplish next."
- Robin Sharma
Words are
Words are like money ... it is the stamp of custom alone that gives them circulation or value.
-William Hazlitt, essayist (1778-1830)
-William Hazlitt, essayist (1778-1830)
Thought for Today
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
-O. Henry, short-story writer (1862-1910)
-O. Henry, short-story writer (1862-1910)
Heaven or Hell
"The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
-John Milton (9 Dec 1608-1674)
Sales Tip #72
Sales Tip #72
"People don't buy what you do, they buy WHY you do it. If you believe in what you do, people will buy WHY you do what you do."
If you accept the expectations
"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome."
-Michael Jordan
Story writing
"A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order."
-Jean-Luc Godard, film director (b. 3 Dec 1930
What's inside....
A beautiful Anology story by HH Bhakti Tirth Swami:-
What's Inside us and the deep rooted senses.??
"'If I were to squeeze this orange as hard as I could, what would come out?' I asked him.
He looked at me like I was a little crazy and said, 'Juice, of course.'
'Do you think apple juice could come out of it?'
'No!' he laughed.
'What about grapefruit juice?'
'No!'
'What would come out of it?'
'Orange juice, of course.'
'Why? Why when you squeeze an orange does orange juice come out?'
He may have been getting a little exasperated with me at this point.
'Well, it's an orange and that's what's inside."
I nodded.
'Let's assume that this orange isn't an orange, but it's you. And someone squeezes you, puts pressure on you, says something you don't like, offends you. And out of you comes anger, hatred, bitterness, fear. Why?
The answer, as our young friend has told us, is because that's what's inside.'
It's one of the great lessons of life. What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside. It doesn't matter who does the squeezing: your mother, your brother, your children, your boss, the government. If someone says something about you that you don't like, what comes out of you is what's inside. And what's inside is up to you, it's your choice.
When someone puts the pressure on you and out of you comes anything other than love, it's because that's what you've allowed to be inside. Once you take away all those negative things you don't want in your life and replace them with love, you'll find yourself living a highly functioning life."
SloW reflexes...
"Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand."
-Stanislaw J. Lec, poet and aphorist (1909-1966)
-Stanislaw J. Lec, poet and aphorist (1909-1966)
Without
"Without investment there will not be growth, and without growth there will not be employment."
- Muhtar Kent
MetaCHANGE
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."
- Anthony Robbins
Living it so badly
"Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly."
- Paulo Coelho
Power play
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix, musician, singer, and songwriter (27 Nov 1942-1970)
Best theology is...
"The best theology is probably no theology; just love one another."
-Charles Schulz, cartoonist (26 Nov 1922-2000)
In masses...
"We haven't yet learned how to stay human when assembled in masses."
-Lewis Thomas, physician and author (25 Nov 1913-1993)
Scientist in a lab
"A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales..!"
- Marie Curie
Never travel without a...
"I never travel without my diary. One must always have something sensational to read on the train."
- Oscar Wilde
Poetry is....
"Poetry is a sort of homecoming. "
-Paul Celan, poet and translator (23 Nov 1920-1970)
Two reasons
"A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason."
- J. P. Morgan
Words to ideas
"All words are pegs to hang ideas on."
-Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887
No Good, No Bad...
"No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart."
- Stephen King
Free to....
"The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling."
- Wendell Berry
Part of the Whole
"One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it."
-Peter Drucker, management consultant, professor, and writer (19 Nov 1909-2005)
Long term investments, benefits of
"Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research."
- Ike Skelton
Breakdown into smaller
"I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over."
- Warren Buffett
You are....
"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
- Alan A. Milne
Get better than...
"If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like."
-Soichiro Honda, industrialist (17 Nov 1906-1991)
Attractive Pricing
"Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results."
- Warren Buffett
A Thought for Today
"Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them."
- George Santayana
Thought for Today
"Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use."
-Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902)
A Thought for Today
"We should never negotiate out of fear, but we should never fear to negotiate."
- John F. Kennedy
Thought for Today
"I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received."
-Antonio Porchia, poet (13 Nov 1886-1968)
A Thought for Today
"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."
- Karl Marx
Thought for Today
"It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich."
- Frank Herbert
A Thought for Today
"Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule."
- Samuel Butler
Thought for Today
Confidence doesn't come when you have all the answers.
But, it comes when you are ready to face all the questions..!
Thought for Today
"Iwant to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."
-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., writer (11 Nov 1922-2007)
A Thought for Today
"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."
-Oliver Goldsmith, writer and physician (10 Nov 1730-1774)
A Thought for Today
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
- Maya Angelou
Thought for Today
"If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth."
-Carl Sagan, astronomer and author (9 Nov 1934-1996)
Thought for Today
"What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history."
- Warren Buffett
A Thought for Today
"When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, -- as that a sentence must never end with a particle, -- and perceive how implicitly even the learned obey it, I think: Any fool can make a rule. And every fool will mind it."
-Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
Thought for Today
"We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives"
- John F. Kennedy
A Thought for Today
"The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."
- Carl Jung
Thought for Today
Do you wish the world were happy?
Then remember day by day,
Just to scatter seeds of kindness
As you pass along the way.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet (5 Nov 1850-1919)
Thought for Today
"Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like."
-Will Rogers, humorist (4 Nov 1879-1935)
A Thought for Today
"I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward."
- Khalil Gibran
Thought for Today
"To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
- Theodore Roosevelt
A Thought for Today
"Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment"
- Dale Carnegie
Thought for Today
"My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them."
- Bono
A Thought for Today
"To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them."
- Benjamin Disraeli
Thought for Today
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
- Anton Chekhov
A Thought for Today
"The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast"
- Thomas A. Edison
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Thought for Today
"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."
-William Butler Yeats, poet, dramatist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1865-1939)
A Thought for Today
"Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells."
-J. Paul Getty
Thought for Today
"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."
- George Bernard Shaw
A Thought for Today
"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?"
- Benjamin Franklin
Thought for Today
"Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation."
- George W Bush
A Thought for Today
"He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it."
-James Boswell, biographer and lawyer (29 Oct 1740-1795)
Thought for Today
"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."
-Desiderius Erasmus, philosopher, humanist, and theologian (28 Oct 1466-1536)
Thought for Today
"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."
-Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president (27 Oct 1858-1919)
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