happiness

Live your life in happiness, even though those around you lead lives which are unhealthy, and wish to spread their illness to you. Be Happiness itself. - Buddha

turn on - turn off

"You watch television to turn your brain off and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on."
-- Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer and Pixar, in Macworld Magazine, February 2004

certainly I can...

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'certainly I can!' - and get busy and find out how to do it." -- Theodore Roosevelt

how long...

"How long should you try? Until." Jim Rohn *

motivated idiot

"Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot." -- J.Rohn's treasury of quotes*

decision

`It is in the moments of decision your destiny is
created' - Anthony Robbins

don't join an easy crowd...

"Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high." Jim Rohn *

life is...

Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.--Jim Rohn*

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. - Albert Einstein

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
- William G. McAdoo

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." -- Marie Curie

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." --Viktor Frankl

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
—Buddha

"How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now. And that there will never be a time when it is not now." -- Gerald Jampolsky

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll

Time is not a line, but a series of now points. -- Taisen Deshimaru

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” -- Albert Einstein.

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough” --Albert Einstein.

"Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people." Zig Ziglar

"Some things you have to do every day. Eating seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn't going to get the job done." -- Jim Rohn*

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
- Malcolm Forbes

"I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light."
- Isaac Newton

‘The only disability in life is a bad attitude.’ - Scott Hamilton

by Portia Nelson

I walk, down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in.
I'm lost... I am helpless It isn't my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don't see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I am in the same place. But, it isn't my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I still fall in . . . It's a habit.
My eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.

I walk down another street

"...A commitment to excellence will create focus, and focus will assist you in maintaining your positive motivation and in creating a balanced life..." -- Denis Waitley

...
Başkalarını tanımak akıllılıktır
Kendini tanımak gerçek bilgeliktir
Başkalarını yönetmek güçtür
Kendini yönetmek Gerçek Güçtür.
...
--Lao Tzu

"Thought is creative. You create your entire life with your thoughts, hour by hour and minute by minute." -- Brian Tracy

"The most important three words you can say to yourself: Yes I can!" -- Denis Waitley

"Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible." -- Cherie Carter-Scott

"Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune."
- Jim Rohn*

SOON YOU’LL BE DEAD and it will all be over. Don’t settle for anything less than what you want to achieve. -- somebody.

Personal commitment (Deepak Chopra)

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"Don't worry about impressing others, impress yourself. Who are you trying to please, anyway?" -- Mark McKeon

You cannot take the mild approach to the weeds in your mental garden. You have got to hate weeds enough to kill them. Weeds are not something you handle; weeds are something you devastate. -- Jim Rohn*

Please Do These 3 Things by Ron White

I am extremely leery of any quick fix solution or overnight formula for success. In my opinion, they don't exist. With that said, the following formula is one that I have recently shared with 2 members of my family to encourage them to break through the rut they are in and experience success. Therefore, if I would share it with my family, I must believe in the principles. I suggested that they begin to regularly do these three things:

1. Surround themselves with positive people who believe that this life is not all that there is. Personally, I find this at my local church. This email goes out to thousands of people all over the world. I know we don't share the same faith in all cases. This message is not about my faith. It is about you finding a group of people who regularly meet together and have a belief that there is more to life than what we see. This is the first step to a positive outlook on life.

2. You must exercise weekly in order to stimulate endorphins and maintain an energetic life. The exercise of walking to the kitchen or curling 12 ounces does not count as exercise. I run 1 mile twice a week and 2-3 days a week do strength training. This is nothing difficult but it makes a major difference on my attitude.

3. You MUST educate yourself through reading. The average CEO in America reads 4-5 books per month. The average American reads one book per year and 60% of us don't get past the first chapter! Make a promise to yourself to read at least one book per month. Read anything!

Planning and preparation is the key to success!
--Altuğ Öztürk.

"Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely." Jim Rohn*

• Büyük kusurlara sahip olmak, ancak büyük adamların imtiyazıdır. (La Rochefacuald)


• Ben dalgın insanları çok severim. Bu onların iyi olduklarını, fikir adamı olduklarını gösterir. Zira kötüler ve boş kafalılar, her zaman uyanıktırlar. Prens de higne

• İnsanların düşünceleriyle oynaması kadar güzel bir vakit geçirme yolu yoktur. Charles D’orleans

• Akıllı adam yarışmaz, böylece kimse ona karşı kazanamaz. (Lao Tse)

• İnsanın kendini berbat hissetmesi, mutlu olup olmadığına önem verecek kadar boş zamanı olmasından ileri gelir. G. Bernard Shaw

• Eğer çocuklarınızın gelişmesini istiyorsanız, haklarında başkalarına söylediğiniz iyi şeyleri onların da işitmelerini sağlayınız. Dr. H.Ginott

• Şunu unutma ki, her şeyin yok olduğunu düşündüğün anda gelecek hala yerindedir. Bob Goddard


• Bir yetenek sükunet içinde meydana gelir, karakter ise dünyanın fırtınaları içinde. Goethe


• Dertli bir adamın tereddüt ve dumanlarla dolu bir gönül evi vardır; derdini dinlersen o evde bir pencere açmış olursun. Mevlana

• Kötü bir adama iyilik etmek, iyi bir adama kötülük etmek kadar tehlikelidir. Platus

• Parmaklarını yalamayan aşçı iyi bir aşçı değildir. Shakespeare

• Bir erkek ve ya kadının ne şekilde yetiştiğini bir kavgadaki hareketlerinden anlayabilirsiniz. G. Bernard Shaw

• Bir insan hakkında, başkalarının onun için söylediklerinden çok, onun başkaları için söylediklerine bakılarak fikir edilebilir. Leo alkman

• Büyücüler inanç sayesinde fizikçilerin hakikat sayesinde yaptıklarından daha fazlasını yaparlar. Giordano Bruno

• Bir insan söylediklerinden çok söylemedikleriyle insanlaşır. Albert Camus

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concentrate on results...

"You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done." -- Charles Yeager

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” - Albert Einstein

softest thing

Daode jing (43.):

The softest thing in the world

Will overcome the hardest.

Non-being can enter where there is no space.

Therefore I know the benefit of unattached action.

The wordless teaching and unattached action

Are rarely seen.

When people are born ...

Tao Te Ching(76.):

When people are born they are gentle and soft.

At death they are hard and stiff.

When plants are alive they are soft and delicate.

When they die, they wither and dry up.

Therefore the hard and stiff are followers of death.

The gentle and soft are the followers of life.

Thus, if you are aggressive and stiff, you won't win.

When a tree is hard enough, it is cut. Therefore

The hard and big are lesser,

The gentle and soft are greater.

"Make a list before you begin and start by deciding what you are not going to do." -- Brian Tracy

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. --Carl Gustav Jung

I Create My Day

"I wake up in the morning and I consciously create my day the way I want it to happen. Now sometimes, because my mind is examining all the things that I need to get done, it takes me a little bit to settle down and get to the point of where I'm actually intentionally creating my day. But here's the thing: When I create my day and out of nowhere little things happen that are so unexplainable, I know that they are the process or the result of my creation. And the more I do that, the more I build a neural net in my brain that I accept that that's possible. (This) gives me the power and the incentive to do it the next day.

"So if we're consciously designing our destiny, and if we're consciously from a spiritual standpoint throwing in with the idea that our thoughts can affect our reality or affect our life -- because reality equals life -- then I have this little pact that I have when I create my day. I say, 'I'm taking this time to create my day and I'm infecting the quantum field. Now if (it) is in fact the observer's watching me the whole time that I'm doing this and there is a spiritual aspect to myself, then show me a sign today that you paid attention to any one of these things that I created, and bring them in a way that I won't expect, so I'm as surprised at my ability to be able to experience these things. And make it so that I have no doubt that it's come from you,' and so I live my life, in a sense, all day long thinking about being a genius or thinking about being the glory and the power of God or thinking about being unconditional love.

"I'll use living as a genius, for example. And as I do that during parts of the day, I'll have thoughts that are so amazing, that cause a chill in my physical body, that have come from nowhere. But then I remember that that thought has an associated energy that's produced an effect in my physical body. Now that's a subjective experience, but the truth is is that I don't think that unless I was creating my day to have unlimited thought, that that thought would come."


(Dr. Joe Dispenza in What the BLEEP Do We Know!?^TM)

"If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon." -- Alan Loy Mcginnis

"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." -- Susan Ertz

Positive vs. Negative

How To Win the Battle: Positive vs. Negative Thoughts

[From Think and Grow Rich Blog]

It really is very simple.

You move toward your most predominant thought.

So, if you want to achieve your goals, you must keep your goals foremost in your mind... in a positive and energetic light.

In the chapter on "The Subconscious Mind", Napoleon says,

"You may voluntarily plant in your subconscious mind any plan, thought, or purpose which you desire to translate into its physical or monetary equivalent."

He further details,

"The subconscious mind acts first on the dominating desires which have been mixed with emotional feeling, such as faith."

In essence,

Your Dominant Thought + Feeling Behind the Thought = Your Reality

In the chapter on The Subconscious Mind, Napoleon talks about the fact that we have the choice of putting negative emotions around our thoughts, or positive emotions.

Of course, it's essential to keep your emotions positive.

The great thing is that you can "overwhelm" any negative thoughts by constantly "feeding" your mind positive thoughts (while you're in the alpha brain wave state... in other words, relaxed).

So here's what you're up against, according to Napoleon...

The Seven Major Negative Emotions:

Fear
Jealousy
Hatred
Revenge
Greed
Superstition
Anger

which you will combat by replacing them with...

The Seven Major Positive Emotions:

Desire
Faith
Love
Sex
Enthusiasm
Romance
Hope

Now that you know what you're up against...

it's time for some self-inspection.

What negative emotions are controlling you (even a little bit)?

What positive emotions can you feed your mind to replace those negative emotions?

You then need to include in your daily "6 Steps" reading, statements to yourself that you now have (faith, desire, romance, ...) and that you "own now" these positive emotions.

By repeating these positive reinforcing statements to yourself daily, you will overwhelm and override the negative emotions stopping you for reaching your goals.

“When you have nothing to say, say nothing.”

-- Charles Caleb Colton

"Little people talk about people, mediocre people talk about things, and big people talk about ideas."

• “Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
• “Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”
• “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.”
• “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

-- Dale Carnegie

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”

-- Buddha

“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”

-- Buddha

“It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.”

-- Jim Bishop

“What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists... and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want... and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.”

-- Alexander Graham Bell

“We don't have rights until we claim them.”

-- Richard Bach

“Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.”

-- Richard Bach

“We are what we repeatedly do.”

-- Aristotle

“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.”

-- Dr. Robert Anthony

"Don't let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the last ten years, I would suggest that's long enough!" Jim Rohn*

"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work." - H. L. Hunt

"A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change." - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment." -- Stephen Covey

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." -- Sir Winston Churchill

"It's a strange thing, you have said it thousands of times I am sure… you will never know what you can do until you try. However the sad truth is, that most people never try anything until they know they can do it." Bob Proctor

"Never let your memories be greater than your dreams." Doug Ivester