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
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