Saturday, July 17, 2010
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
IN THE MIDDLE OF DIFFICULTY LIES OPPORTUNITY
07/15/2010
You can not have success without dealing with problems.Look for your opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzedat the thought of difficulty in every opportunity.
Each new experience brings with it the seed of your success. Even your current difficulties have within them opportunity.
Welcome your problems as opportunities. Each moment is your greatest challenge and the best thing that ever happened to you.
The more difficult your problem, the greater the challenge
in working it out.
When it's dark enough, you can see the stars.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Ambitiously Pursuing Your Own Self-Direction by Jim Rohn
Ambitiously Pursuing Your Own Self-Direction by Jim Rohn
What is the origin of true ambition? There exists really only one place to find true ambition and that is within you—in every thought, in every movement, in every motivation. Your ambition is an expression of who you truly are, your own self-expression.
Isn't self-expression really self-direction? How you think, how you move, how you motivate yourself. Ambition is a result of self-direction, and self-direction is one of the six key principles necessary for building ambition. Positive self-direction says, "I know who I am and I know where I want to go. I'm accumulating knowledge and experiences and feelings and philosophies that will help prepare me for opportunities that I know will show up without notice or any help on my part." Because you know where you want to go, you have already been working on the parts of your personality that will make you better. Working on your attitude, working on your health, working on your time management skills. Putting it all down on paper. And you constantly see yourself in the place you want to be, going in the direction you want to go.
Direction determines destination. So here is a question you must ask yourself: "Are all the disciplines that I'm currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?" What an important question to ask yourself at the beginning of the month, the beginning of the week, the beginning of the day. Because here is what you don't ever want to do: kid yourself. Kid your neighbor, kid me and kid the marketplace, but don't kid yourself, fingers crossed hoping you will arrive at a good destination when you're not even headed that way. You have to ask yourself often, "Am I?" Am I doing the disciplines that are taking me in the direction I want to go? Don't neglect to ask these important questions, questions that help determine your direction, the set of your sail, your destination.
Is this the direction I want for my life?
Is this someone else's direction?
Is this a goal I have been ingrained with since my childhood?
Is this goal my parents', my spouse's, my boss's, my children's, or is it MINE?
Is this someone else's direction?
Is this a goal I have been ingrained with since my childhood?
Is this goal my parents', my spouse's, my boss's, my children's, or is it MINE?
Ask yourself these questions and then debate them. After you have answered these questions within yourself, then take it one step further and ask, "What am I doing that is working or not working?" Debate it all. Work with your mind to figure out the best possible direction for you—your self-direction. And then ambitiously pursue your own self-direction. Let the power of your own ambition take you where you want to go, to do what you want to do, to create the life you want to live!
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
BEFORE YOU GET YOU HAVE TO GIVE
07/13/2010
When you give to others you'll find yourself blessed.The more you sow, the more you reap.
It's a universal law: You have to give before you get.
You must plant your seeds before you reap the harvest.
The law works to give you back more than you have sown.
He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
Nature does not give to those who will not spend.
You only get to keep what you give away.
Monday, July 12, 2010
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