"If I fail more than you do, I win."
-Seth Godin
Determined soul
"What stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul."
-Orison Swett Marden
Light of Love
"Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most."
-Ruth Carter Stapleton
Change is...
"Change isn't made by asking permission.
Change is made by asking forgiveness, later."
-Seth Godin
Meaningful contribution
"You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life."
-Stephen Covey
Courageous break
"Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking."
-Stephen Covey
Time = Life
"Time = Life. Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life." ~ Alan Lakein
Risks are by-products
We don't take risks just for the sake of taking risks. Risks are not the point. They're just by-products of doing stuff that matters!
Changing ourselves
"We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us."
-Stephen Covey
Continuous improvement
"Unless you're continually improving your skills, you're quickly becoming irrelevant."
-Stephen Covey
Managing change
"The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it."
-Peter Drucker
Something New Vs. Old
"If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old."
-Peter Drucker
Happiness Vs. Profitable
"In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable."
- Seth Godin
Truth and Facts
There's a world of difference between truth and facts.
Facts can obscure the truth.
- Maya Angelou
Most perishable
"Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions."
~ John Randolph
Tidier & put together
"Some seasons (of your life) will be tidier than others. Some may even feel downright put together. And then some will look like your smoothie-splattered kitchen after you forget to put the lid on the blender!" - Sari Harlow |
One step at a time...
"If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone."
~ Donny Osmond
Change is...
"Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later."
-Seth Godin
Goals & Life
When goals go, meaning goes.
When meaning goes, purpose goes.
When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.
-Carl Jung
Sincere Thanks
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Small in a great...
"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Appreciate around
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Soil of appreciation
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Thrive...
"We can either choose to sit on the sidelines and watch life pass us by, or get out of our comfort zones and thrive!" - Victoria Cummings |
Stop doing something Old
"If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old."
-Peter Drucker
Who you are
"The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you."
-Carl Jung
Change the way
"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
- Wayne Dyer
Infidel & Traitor
Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor" -- infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
-Wendell Phillips, human rights activist and attorney (1811-1884)
Real mistake
"A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."
-B.F. Skinner
Learnt from...
"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
-Kahlil Gibran, poet, and artist (1883-1931)
-Kahlil Gibran, poet, and artist (1883-1931)
Patriotism & Nationalism
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
-Charles de Gaulle, French president (1890-1970)
Life is for
Life is for the making.
Life is for the taking.
Life is beckoning you forward.
What will you create your life to be?
Life is for the taking.
Life is beckoning you forward.
What will you create your life to be?
Love all
The best theology is probably no theology; just love one another.
-Charles Schulz, cartoonist (26 Nov 1922-2000)
Self worth
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Starting something
"The only thing worse than starting something and failing...is not starting something."
-Seth Godin
Settling for less
"How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"
-Seth Godin
Doing the right things...
"Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won't create your success; doing the right things will."
-Jeff Olson
For better
"Letting go of inner resistance, you often find circumstances change for the better."
- Eckhart Tolle
- Eckhart Tolle
Thoughts & actions
I always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- John Locke
Fear of not following...
"Regret is what you should fear the most. If something is going to keep you awake at night, let it be the fear of not following your dream."
-Chris Guillebeau
Create your asset
"In the long-term, security comes from an asset you create or acquire, not a position in someone else's asset."
-Chris Guillebeau
You will know
Stop thinking... Start doing.
Think less... Do more.
Do the thing... And you will know the way.
-Hal Elrod
N O W
"The number one cause of unfulfilled potential is never deciding that NOW matters more than any other time in your life."
-Hal Elrod
Be YOU
Be YOU. Seems obvious but so often we are in constant pursuit of being someone else that we forget that who we are is absolutely AWESOME!
Be who you are
"Give up being perfect for being authentic. Be who you are. Love who you are. Others will too."
-Hal Elrod
Lighten the...
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."
- Charles Dickens
Everyone is blessed
"When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed."
- Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou
Passion is to...
"The secret to finding your passion is to bring it to everything you do. (Yes, even doing the laundry!)"
-Marie Forleo
Great inventions?
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
-J.B.S. Haldane, scientist (5 Nov 1892-1964)
Will miss learnings
"If you could avoid all your mistakes, you'd miss everything you learned from them."
-Marie Forleo
Set boundaries
"Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it."
- Anna Taylor
- Anna Taylor
Lighten the...
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."
- Charles Dickens
Hurting the planet...
"If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children. You hurt me. You hurt the planet."
-Steven Pressfield
...nothing possesses all
Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
-Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, poet (1 Nov 1636-1711)
How can you learn...
Like a cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can you learn wisdom unless you first empty your cup?
- NyogenSenzaki
Receipe for successful...
"What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team."
~ Benjamin F. Fairless
Tears not shed
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
-Natalie Clifford Barney, poet, playwright, and novelist (31 Oct 1876-1972)
Everyone my age is...
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
- Margaret Atwood
Reinforces our purpose
"When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose."
-Steven Pressfield
Work is the same
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Chase the fear away
"Often times in order to capture your dreams, it will require you to chase your fears."
-Neil Patel
Seeking the solution
"Self-empowerment is seeking the solution rather than fixating on the problem."
- Coach Bobbi
More fear
"The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul."
-Steven Pressfield
More sure
"The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it."
-Steven Pressfield
Keep your ______ positive
"Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Soft Advice
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet and philosopher (21 Oct 1772-1834)
Man & Tools
"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools, he is nothing. With tools, he is all."
- Scottish Philospher
Perspective
You think you are a wave.
Distinct and separate.
Experiencing your own ride.
But you are not a wave.
You are the entire ocean.
Persistence
To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you've decided to lay siege to in your own life — that's persistence."
-Ryan Holiday
Distance yourself from
Distance yourself from people who:
1. Speak poorly about others
2. Have problems for every solution
3. Enjoy complaining
4. Always feel entitled
5. Blame others for losing
6. Take more than give
7. Make you feel bad about yourself
8. Cheat or lie
9. Bully or troll
10.Nitpick as a hobby
10.Nitpick as a hobby
- Vala Afshar's tweet
Main competitors...
"Your main competitors are not others in your industry. Your main competitors are distractions. Don't let them beat you - stay focused."
- Darren Hardy
Learn to hate?
"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. For love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite." – Nelson Mandela |
Beautiful mystery
We are living within our very own beautiful mystery. Life itself.
Life has always felt like an adventure to me - a crazy, beautiful ride, with twists and turns. We are the stars of our own movie. We are the detectives on the case of our greatest potential. We are exploring meaning and purpose... piecing together like a jigsaw puzzle a sense of who we are and our place in this infinite Universe. |
Single obstruction
"Believing in negative thoughts is the single greatest obstruction to success." - Charles F Glassman |
Contribute to advancement
"Those who take up any subject with an open mind, willing to learn anything that will contribute to their advancement, comfort and happiness, are wise." - Roger McDonald |
Next step
"Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another."
- Dan Poynter
- Dan Poynter
Way will become clear
When you genuinely don't know what to do or where to go, you are in a blessed position. If your mind is still, your heart is open, and you are patient... the way will become clear. |
Which One...?
You can be right or you can be peaceful, but you can't be both.
Which would you choose?
Which would you choose?
Spend as much time as possible
"If you know exactly what you want to be, you need to spend as much time as possible with people who are actually that already."
-Gary Vaynerchuk
World Sight Day
World Sight Day (WSD) is an annual day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October, to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment.
You are to BE IT
"If you inherently long for something, become it first.
If you want gardens, become the gardener.
If you want love, embody love.
If you want mental stimulation, change the conversation.
If you want peace, exude calmness.
If you want to fill your world with artists, begin to paint.
If you want to be valued, respect your own time.
If you want to live ecstatically, find the ecstasy within yourself.
This is how to draw it in, day by day, inch by inch."
― Victoria Erickson
Remain Open
Shout out to life...
"I know this ride is an adventure. I'm choosing to be the Indiana Jones of this story. I'm ready and willing and delighted to be surprised. Bring it on!"
Convertible terms?
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependants upon popular opinion?
- William Lloyd Garrison
- William Lloyd Garrison
Question to ask
"The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?"
-Tim Ferriss
Power of belief
"Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do."
-Orison Swett Marden
Whole World Blind...
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Just a framework
"You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream."
– Michael Dell
Felt with Heart
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
- Helen Keller
- Helen Keller
Edge of knowledge
"Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken."
- D. H. Lawrence
Become what we wish
"Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire."
-Orison Swett Marden
Knowing the self
"Your worth as a human being is not measured in likes. It isn't measured in comments or followers. It is measured in your ability to love, to lead and to share. The people who care most about you care about you as the person you are, not the person you are on Facebook."
- Adam Blackford-Mills
Make them Great
"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities.
Seize common occasions and make them great.
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."
-Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924)
Meeting the success...
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
- Henry David Thoreau
Great Changes - Easy
"Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy."
– Bill Blackman
Cultivate Dream
"Your dream was given to you. If someone else can't see it for you, that's fine, it was given to you and not them. It's your dream. Hold it. Nourish it. Cultivate it!"
-Les Brown
Positive Thinking
"Change your thinking. Change your life! Your thoughts create your reality. Practice positive thinking. Act the way you want to be, and soon you will be the way you act."
-Les Brown
Make a ...
"You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers."
-Les Brown
It's you who can
"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place."
- Nora Roberts
Valuable part
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
-Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (18 Sep 1709-1784)
Be calm in your heart
"Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of these things and still be calm in your heart."
- Unknown
You have never...
"To achieve something you have never achieved before you must become someone you have never been."
-Les Brown
Not only at the end...
"Life isn't meant to be experienced and celebrated only at the end of a self-imposed finish line. Instead, appreciate the life that is yours in all its complexity and imperfection."
- Dr. Danielle Dowling
- Dr. Danielle Dowling
Fail not because...
"Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit."
-Les Brown
Who you were...
"The seed you sow today will not produce crop till tomorrow. For this reason, your identity does not lie in your current results. This is not who you are. Your current results are who you were."
-James Arthur Ray
Obstruction to success
"Believing in negative thoughts is the single greatest obstruction to success." - Charles F Glassman |
Jack Ma's Resignation Letter
Alibaba Jack Ma's recognition is a statement of three intertwining principles:
- You can't do everything by yourself,
- you won't last forever, and
- for real success, your undertaking should be able to continue without you.
Never ever stop dreaming
"Epic things start with small humble steps. Pay respect to your beginnings. And if you're just starting out, know that it's OK to be sucky. To be small. To be messy and chaotic. Just make sure to never ever stop dreaming."
-Vishen Lakhiani
Little things... Big Difference
There was a man taking a morning walk at or the beach. He saw that along with the morning tide came hundreds of starfish and when the tide receded, they were left behind and with the morning sun rays, they would die. The tide was fresh and the starfish were alive. The man took a few steps, picked one and threw it into the water. He did that repeatedly.
Right behind him there was another person who couldn't understand what this man was doing. He caught up with him and asked, "What are you doing? There are hundreds of starfish. How many can you help? What difference does it make?" This man did not reply, took two more steps, picked up another one, threw it into the water, and said, "It makes a difference to this one."
What difference are we making?
Right behind him there was another person who couldn't understand what this man was doing. He caught up with him and asked, "What are you doing? There are hundreds of starfish. How many can you help? What difference does it make?" This man did not reply, took two more steps, picked up another one, threw it into the water, and said, "It makes a difference to this one."
What difference are we making?
Big or small, it does not matter. If everyone made a small difference, we'd end up with a big difference, wouldn't we?
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