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How will you make this year the best year? Here are some ideas

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1. Focus on investing in yourself this year

How about before or as you invest your money, invest in yourself. It also doesn’t have to be strictly monetary but something that can enrich your soul. Learning a new skill, or reading that book you always put off. How about visiting a new place or perhaps meeting people outside of your usual circle? Or how about invest in your health by eating better and keeping active? Of all things you can do to make your year the best ever, nothing beats investing in yourself. 

The best investment you can make is in yourself quote

2.  Be positive this year. One person that can make your dreams come true is you. If there is someone who can make your dream come true, how would you treat them? How would you speak to him/her? Be aware of negative self talk. Nip it in the bud and focus on turning any selftalk into positivity and encouraging pep talk. You will find yourself better off for it. 

Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love. quote

3. If there are things you want do, Focus on GETTING STARTED. Things are scary mostly because your perception of what you do not know. Start and you will find fear is mostly never existed but in your mind. Most mistakes are not fatal and mistakes are necessary fuel to help you get you to your goal. 

The scariest moment is always just before you start quote

4. You don’t have to do it all at once. Keep moving forward if needed, inch by inch. Small things add up to being big things. Set your goal and focus on each steps to get you there.

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take a step.

Don’t criticize. Check your self.

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Do you criticize?

All of us have been in a position to criticize or put down someone. Do we ever gain by doing such a thing? Doing so is a reflection of who we really are inside. More we put down and criticize, more we become negative and spiteful. It might make us feel better by putting others down but we need to be aware that the damage being done to our target is also damaging ourselves. It blinds us.

Below is a great story illustrating the perils of criticizing not realizing the issues were really within.

 

-Unknown Author

A businessman was highly critical of his competitors’ storefront windows. “Why, they are the dirtiest windows in town,” he claimed. Fellow business people grew tired of the man’s continual criticism and nitpicking comments about the windows. One day over coffee, the businessman carried the subject just too far.

Before leaving, a fellow store owner suggested the man get his own windows washed. He followed the advice, and the next day at coffee, he exclaimed, “I can’t believe it. As soon as I washed my windows, my competitor must have cleaned his too. You should see them shine.”

 

Did you enjoy the story? More inspirational Stories below. 

The trouble tree, An Inspirational Story

Never give up. Arthur Boorman’s Inspirational Story

Inspirational story about your worth.

 

Motivational Monday Quotes to jump start your week

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Start your week right with these quotes!

“I do not know the word ‘quit’. Either I never did or I have abolished it.” -Susan Butcher

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” -Mark Twain

“A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of a sheep.” -Vernon Howard

“Sure I am of this that you have only to endure to conquer.” -Winston Churchill

“Tough times never last but tough people do.” -Robert Schuller

Check out below for more Monday Motivational Quotes!

Start your Monday with these motivational quotes.

Monday Inspirational Quotes

Randy Pausch’s Inspirational Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams 

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What would you do differently if tomorrow was your last?

Do you know Randy Pausch?

He was a professor Computer Science at Carnegie Mellion who learns that he has pancreatic cancer in September 2006 and ultimately given a terminal diagnosis.

Knowing that his time at best was at best 3 to 6 months according to his doctors, he gave a positively inspiring lecture at his school called “The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood’s Dream”. This became a wildly popular video on Youtube.

He also co-authored a booked titled The Last Lecture which became a New York Times Best Seller.

It is a truly inspirational lecture that everyone should see. Our lives are short. Our time is too valuable to waste on people, situations that are toxic to our lives.

Don’t live in the past and waste the present. Live today and don’t give a damn about other people’s opinion of you.

 

Check out Steve Job’s amazing inspirational Stanford commencement speech.

How to get lucky

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How do you get lucky? Through hard work silly!

 

Gary Player, one of the greatest players in history of golf had a great quote about heard work. 

“The harder I work

the luckier I get”

He is 25th all time in the PGA tour with 24 wins and 1st all time in the Sunshine tour with an unbelievable 73 wins. He was a PGA tour champion 19 times. His endurance and achievements are legendary. All this without being a physical specimen like Tiger Woods standing only at 5 Feet 6. 

Even in his seventies, he was traveling all over the world as a golf course architect working on 300 project sin 35 countries and five continents. He also claims to have traveled more than 15 million miles which he says is more than anyone. 

He did not become a success because he was born with it. He clearly understood the importance of hard work, 

He made his own luck and he has lived by it. 

 

 

Few more quote by Gary Player.

“You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.”

“We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.” 

 

It is never too late. Start now. Check out this hot Grandpa!

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Focus on the now. Don’t lament the past!

You have so much potential! It is never too late to start.

If you have been thinking about trying something new but think it is too late, check out the hottest grandpa in China, Deshun Wang. He was his own DJ for his 80th birthday blasting techno music for his guests. 

Here is a brief introduction to his life.

At 24, he was a theatrical actor and at age 49 decided to move to Beijing with nothing. He was penniless so he decided to make money by becoming a pantomime. Not just any pantomime but nearly naked one with metallic paint all over his body! 

He started learning English at 44 and to get his body in shape, he started working out at 50 and at 57, he came back to the stage and created a unique performance art called “Living Sculpture Performance”.

At 65, he learned to ride a horse and at 70, he got REALLY into working out.

He is also a movie star debuting when he was 67, playing a part in Warriors of Heaven and Earth (2003), The Forbidden Kingdom in 2008, Detective Dee: Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010).

At age of 78, he learned to ride a motorcycle and at age of 79, he became a model and walked a sold out runway show at China Fashion Week.

At 80, he still believes there are more for him. More potentials to be explored.

Mr. Wang says something truly profound. 

When you think it is too late

Be careful you don’t let that become your excuse for giving up.

No one can keep you from your success except yourself.

Your perspective can change your life #Video #Inspire

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Choice is yours

 

Video below is a true story of twins who were born to an alcoholic father.

One twin grew up to a successful lawyer and the other became an alcoholic.

When asked by the researcher why they were in the positions they were in, they both responded, “because my father was an alcoholic”. 

Twin

Lets unwrap this for a second. Twins with close as possible genetic makeup who grew up in the exact same household and family situation ended up polar opposite position in life.

One enjoying the success while the other living out the exact misery his Father went through and put his family through. They both point to their father’s alcoholism for their success or failures as an adult.

 

There have been many studies that have been done on this subject, for example, one done by Penn State and University of Notre Dame by Dr Robert Plomin and C.S. Bergemen titled Nature and Nurture,

it is clear that whatever hand you have been dealt in your life, your mentality and perspective of how it drives you will determine your ultimate outcome.

 

Nurture

The same can be true in an opposite.

There are many stories where a person born into prestige, wealth, fame throws it all away specifically because he/she resents that aspect of life.

For someone who doesn’t come from this, I always lament what a waste of an opportunity that person has done to his/herself.

 

Just like the fact that one can use a challenge to fuel themselves to be better, others will use it to blame their lot in life.

 

 

But many people do not realize the perspective you hold is your choice and under your control.

You control yourself.

Wouldn’t you want to be happy?

What perspective will get you there?

 

Enjoy the video below.

 

DIY your life #Quote #Motivational

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Milton Berle’s nugget of wisdom

 

Milton Berle for those who are not familiar was a comedian who was extremely popular in the 40 and 50s as Television came into prominence. he had an extremely long career working in television and in the movies almost up to his death in 2002.

As a comedian, he had a quick wit and is credited with this famous quote.

 

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”.

 

We shouldn’t blame the current situation at hand. If the opportunity doesn’t exist, make one.

 

How refreshing! Most of us forget that we do have the power to do that. Initially it might be a small creaky door but more you try at it, the door will be sturdier and nicer and nicer.

 

Here are few examples of successful folks who just this.

 

Entrepreneurs who create whole new categories that did not exist.

 

Steve Jobs at Apple did this with the Iphone. Without him, we would all still be pressing one those keypads and squinting at small screens.

 

Guy Laliberté who created an entirely new take on circus and entertainment with  Cirque du Soleil.

 

Jay-Z who couldn’t get any label to sign him decided to his own record label, Roc-A-Fella Records.

 

Make your own door if a door you are knocking on doesn’t answer. These guys and many others did and you can too.

 

 

Don’t ever give up #Quote

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What common sense!

 

Just because you lost or had a setback, why let it define you?

There are unlimited chances to succeed if you let failure pass.

 

Love this quote.

“Giving up on your goal because of one setback is like slashing your other three tires because you got a flat.”

By the way…

Even if you have four flat tires, you can ride on rims until you get to a repair station.

If you can’t ride on rims, then you have your feet.

Even if you can’t walk, you can still flag someone down to help you get to your destination.

There is always a way. Never give up. 

What is the most common reason on why people give up? Click on the link for a very helpful infographic.