Quotes Of The Day

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

John Quincy Adams

 "One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement."

Og Mandino

BE MORE, THINK DIFFERENTLY

“Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.”
  Og Mandino
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 “It's not enough to have a dream unless I'm willing to pursue it. It's not enough to know what's right unless I'm strong enough to do it. It's not enough to join the crowd, to be acknowledged and accepted. I must be true to my ideals, even if I'm excluded and rejected. It's not enough to learn the truth unless I also learn to live it. It's not enough to reach for love unless I care enough to give it.”
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“The lucky or successful person has learned a simple secret. Call up, capture, evoke the feeling of success. When you feel successful and self-confident, you will act successful. Define your goal or end result. Picture it to yourself clearly and vividly. Then simply capture the feeling you would experience if the desirable goal were already an established fact. Then your internal machinery is geared for success: to guide you in making the correct muscular motions and adjustments; to supply you with creative ideas, and to do whatever else is necessary in order to make the goal an accomplished fact.”
MAXWELL MALTZ, Psychocybernetics
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AMAZING QUOTES

1. It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

—Albert Einstein

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2. Eighty percent of success is showing up.

—Woody Allen

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3. I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

—Wilson Mizner

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4. The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.

—Daniel J. Boorstin

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5. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

—William Arthur Ward

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6. If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.

—Frank Wilczek

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7. You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.

—Eric Hoffer

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8. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

—Albert Einstein

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9. Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

—Alfred A. Montapert

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10. I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

—Bill Cosby

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11. Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

—Spanish Proverb

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12. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

—Oscar Wilde

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13. There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.

—Harold Stephens

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14. It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

—Alfred Adler

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15. I hear: I forget / I see: I remember / I do: I understand

—Chinese Proverb

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16. Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

—Unknown Author

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17. The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.

—Wallace Wattles

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18. Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

—Barry LePatner

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19. When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

—Abraham Lincoln

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20. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

—Winston Churchill

 

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ALBERT EINSTEIN QUOTES

ALBERT EINSTEIN QUOTES:

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Appreciate Life

I had the blues because I had no shoes until, upon the street, I met a man who had no feet. —Ancient Persian saying

Edison Quotes

• "Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a  'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."  

• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

• The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it....
  
• I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident.... Almost none of my inventions were derived in that manner. They were achieved by having trained myself to be analytical and to endure and tolerate hard work.
  
• Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.
  
• Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
  
• Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking all day from one laboratory table to another.  I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
  
• If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves....
  
• Our schools are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work....
  
• The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.....
   
• I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.... 

• Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
   
• Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
  
• Unfortunately, there seems to be  far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
  
• Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless....
    
• Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward....

AWESOME - Quotes Fom John's Self Help Book

Popular Highlights From John's Self-help book: The Power Of Being Different:
John Quincy Adams said, “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” 
“I develop men exactly the same way you mine gold. In order to get an ounce of gold, you move tons and tons of dirt. But you don’t go looking for the dirt; you go looking for the gold.” 

“The first and most important factor at the beginning of any project is belief.” 

“Dream it; believe in it; be consumed with it; and it will come to fruition.” 

"Do more than exist, live. Do more than touch, feel. Do more than look, observe. Do more than read, absorb. Do more than hear, listen. Do more than think, ponder. Do more than talk, say something."

"Success means you have to be willing to risk not listening to your common sense." 

"The secret to change is, first, to tell yourself that you want to change. Tell yourself every day you want to improve something in your life. Work on small goals that lead to your greater goals." 

"Today is the only day to live, to dream, and to act. The present time is all you have as your “guaranteed time.” You need to say to yourself, “I cannot allow my dreams and goals to lie dormant inside me. From this day forward, I will write down all the things I want to accomplish. I must plan and set into motion the actions that will accomplish my great goals.” 

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."
"Anyone who stops learning is old whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
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Make Today Your Best Day Ever!

W. Clement Stone said, “Do what you’re afraid to do.

When you run away because you are afraid to do something

big, you pass opportunity by.”

The idea was stated very nicely in Whitney Houston’s

song, “One Moment In Time,” with the words: “Give me

one moment in time, where I’m more than I thought I could

be, where all of my dreams are a heartbeat away, and the

answers are all up to me.”

The writer Jack London, wrote

something similar:

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would

rather that my spark should burn out in a

brilliant blaze than it should be stifled

by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor,

every atom of me in magnificent glow, than

a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper

function of man is to live, not to exist.

I shall not waste my days in trying to

prolong them. I shall use my time."

--Jack London

American Author

Let’s discuss wealth. Most people want to become

millionaires. It doesn’t sound too difficult, does it? Well,

here are the statistics, as delivered by the U.S. Census

Bureau: As of 2002, there were 2.22 million high net worth

individuals. The definition of a high net worth individual is

someone with financial assets of at least 1 million dollars,

excluding real estate. So, just over two million people in

the United States are classified as high net worth. The

population of the United States is just over 292 million.

It is clearly very difficult to become a millionaire. But

it is far easier than it was years ago. After all, a person

earning $50,000 a year will have earned $1 million dollars

in twenty years.

If we can’t be millionaires, we can each strive to be

millionaires in our attitudes and the ways we think.

Remember, attitude is a state of mind.

"When everything seems to be going against you,

remember that the airplane takes off against

the wind, not with it."

--Henry Ford

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"THE POWER OF BEING DIFFERENT" (sample chapters of the self help book)

1

Uniqueness Leads To Great Success

Some men see things as they are and say ‘why?’

I dream things that never were, and say, ‘why not?’

--George Bernard Shaw

English Dramatist

(1856-1950)

Time Moves Faster Than Us

The older one gets, the faster time seems to move. It

is my observation that life goes by too fast. Most young

people feel it is taking an eternity to become 18 and then

21, so strong is the urge to be considered an adult man or

woman. The young man of 21 will soon discover that time

seems to move at a faster speed than he realized when he

becomes a 35-year-old man. That childhood urge to speed

up time will now change into a wish to slow it down when

the man reaches 45 and 50. Where are you in your life’s

journey? Is time speeding up or slowing down for you? At

what stage are you?

Do your days seem crammed full of obligations, tasks,

deadlines, with a lot less spare time? Are there days when

you are so stressed that you would like to drop out of

society? Dropping out of society, and disappearing from all

the stresses is basically a fantasy, one we all experience at

one time or another.

You cannot control the speed of time, but you can control

what you accomplish within your limited time. The proper

use of work in a time period creates greater success.

Turning A Small Amount of Time Into A Lot of Time

To accomplish more of your personal goals, whether

writing, reading, painting, participating in sports, or

exercising, you can start by thinking of giving yourself

more time in small amounts and forgetting about trying to

give the world all your time.

Consider the importance of a 15-minute block of time

a day to do something meaningful for yourself. Those

“extra” 15 minutes a day would amount to 105 minutes, or

1 3/4 hours a week. If you continue squeezing out those 15

minutes a day, they would equal more than 7 hours a month

and more than 91 hours a year. What could you accomplish

with your “extra” 91 hours per year?

You could have jogged approximately 350 miles in that

year, read approximately 10 new books, or taken a course.

You could have prepared for an entirely new field of work

or a great new hobby.

It’s a lot easier than you think to capture these valuable

15 minutes a day. How you use your time determines what

you accomplish in life.

If you allow eight hours sleeping, you are left with 16

hours for working and thinking. And of these 16 hours,

you have to allow time for travel, eating, and socializing.

If budgeted properly, you can squeeze out that extra 15

minutes a day that you can call “your time.”

Suppose you have been given a $10,000.00 fee as a “time

consultant” whose job it is to find those extra 15 minutes

every day that can be your time. For the $10,000.00, you

can start to write down the wasted minutes. Where are the

wasted minutes every day?

Here are some ideas: Can you take a more direct route

to work that would give you extra time? Can you take 15

minutes less for lunch? Can you get up 15 minutes earlier to

accomplish something? Can you have a lighter dinner that

would free up those 15 extra minutes at night?

Once you figure out how to capture that little block of

time, you can write the findings down and make 10 copies

of how you will always give yourself an extra 15 minutes

per day. You can be persistent in finding those extra 15

minutes, so you can keep reminding yourself that these are

your “new” minutes for you to accomplish something new.

The second step requires that you write down what you

want to accomplish in those 15 minutes.

A good habit will take approximately 20 days to

form. Your new block of time will change your life, if you

accomplish something greater in those 15 minutes!

If a man does not keep pace with his

companions, perhaps it is because he

hears a different drummer.

Let him step to the music which he hears, however

measured or far away.

--Henry David Thoreau

Author/Naturalist

(1817-1862)

Be Different

Be unique. Be different. Stop following the crowd.

Listen for the sound of that distant drum. The successful

person and the average person approach life differently.

The average person, it seems to me, likes to take the easy

way out. It’s almost as if the average person wants to get

through work just to rush home to do very little, or nothing

at all.

Television is often a thief of your time and can easily be

the source of your losing 15 minutes a day that could be used

to accomplish more worthwhile goals. Perhaps watching

one less television show will create better opportunities for

yourself. Why watch other people become successful when

you can apply yourself to those extra 15 minutes every

day?

People can too often fail because they do not “stay

focused.” Remember that staying focused on the small

goals is the way you accomplish the final goal. Think for

a moment about a movie camera. Until the lens focuses

on a particular object, everything is blurry. Although you

may want to accomplish many different things in unrelated

fields, you may be dabbling in many fields at the same time

and not putting enough energy into one goal.

Instead, remain focused, as if you are trying to line up

a photo of a rose, capturing it in sharp detail. The camera

lens has to stay focused or everything becomes blurry.

You must stay focused and not try to do everything at

once. To hit a home run in baseball, you must have the bat

make contact with the baseball at precisely the right part

of the bat, hitting the right part of the ball exactly with the

right force of the swing. Any deviation from these elements

can result in a complete miss or a pop-up. It takes minute

differences to hit the ball just right for a home run.

Focus. You may find it hard to stay focused at first.

Remember this rule: a new habit takes about three weeks

to form.

In a 1985 monthly publication of Insight, there is an

article about Andrew Carnegie, the great steel maker, who

was asked by a reporter, “How is it possible to have 43

millionaires working for you at the same time?”

Mr. Carnegie answered, “They weren’t millionaires

when they started working for me.” The reporter asked,

“Well, what happened?” Mr. Carnegie replied, “We believe

in rewarding excellence in performance, and these men have

developed themselves to the degree that they have become

millionaires.”

The reporter asked, “How do you develop so many

people?”

Andrew Carnegie replied this way: “I develop men

exactly the same way you mine gold. In order to get an

ounce of gold, you move tons and tons of dirt. But you don’t

go looking for the dirt; you go looking for the gold.”

When interviewed by Success Magazine in 1898

Thomas Edison was asked, “What’s the first requisite for

success?” And Edison answered this way: “The ability to

apply your physical and mental energies to one problem

incessantly without growing weary. You do something all

day long, don’t you? Everyone does. If you get up at 7 A.M.

and go to bed at 11 P.M., you have put in 16 good hours,

and it is certain with most men that they have been doing

something all the time. The only trouble is that they do it

about a great many things and I do it about one. If they took

the time in question and applied it in one direction, to one

object they would succeed.”

Leadership

Why are very few people leaders? Many people are

followers in general and in most all aspects of life. Many

seem to follow others, much like all the mice that fall in line

to follow behind the Pied Piper.

I believe many people are too shy to lead, in whatever

situation they are in. The average person, when entering

a department store, will follow the person who previously

entered the store. People will follow other people through

the same exact door, no matter that other doors are more

accessible. People tend to follow the path of a predecessor.

People do the same thing because it’s easier that way. It takes

more commitment, work, and determination to find and to

independently accomplish something new and better.

In a casino, if there is an empty roulette or blackjack

table, people will usually walk right by it. But as soon as

one person sits down at the table, it’s amazing how the table

fills up with new people following the lead of the person

who first sat down. Why? Maybe people think that they

would miss out on something good, so they join the lone

player.

It has been known that in the former Soviet Union,

people were so used to standing on line that, once a line

formed, other people automatically joined on the long line.

They didn’t want to miss out on whatever was for sale.

Who can be the leader of the pack? Anyone. With just

a little imagination and determination, anyone can come up

with new ideas to lead the way.

Remember, many people we know will be the followers,

and will expect us to follow the followers also. I’m in no way

saying this to degrade or make fun of people, but merely to

bring out a point of truth. The average person is often not

aware of the strong urge to “follow the crowd.”

Being Different In Order To Accomplish Greater Goals

Being different means standing up, standing out, and

leading. Too many people are content to be followers. Do

you dare to be different?

One must plan to be different. You can start to love

being different so that “being different” will become a good

habit. You can make a plan and practice being different.

You do not have to be like everyone else. You can mentally

note each and every time that you are different. You can go

out of your way to do something that makes you stand out

from the crowd.

Be different – be better! You can’t miss with that

attitude. With a new modified success attitude, you will

become successful.

John Quincy Adams said, “If your actions inspire others

to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you

are a leader.”

The inventor of the disposable Gillette razor blade,

King Camp Gillette, was a traveling salesman who sold

bottle stoppers. He got the razor idea one morning in 1895

while shaving with a dull razor. It took 8 years of pure

struggle and frustration to market the first double edge

disposable shaving blade to the public. He had to find the

right combination of metal alloy and tempering.

He also had to find the financial backing needed. In the

process, he experienced tremendous ridicule and failure. It

was almost too much to bear.

In 1903 the first Gillette blade and razor were sold to

the public, and since then more than 100 billion Gillette

blades have been sold.

“I didn’t know enough to quit,” the inventor once said.

“I was a dreamer who believed in the gold at the foot of the

rainbow. I dared to go where wise ones feared to tread.”

Gillette had absolutely no experience in inventing, in

engineering, or in working different forms of metals and

alloys.

He had not the slightest idea of what he would encounter.

But he had an idea, a dream, an inspiration and a belief that

it could be done and, despite all the obstacles, he achieved

his goal.

Don’t you think there were more experienced and

knowledgeable experts, engineers, and inventors than Mr.

Gillette who could have invented this fantastic razor? No

doubt there were thousands of people who had the potential

to invent a new and better razor. What held them back?

Apparently no one else had the foresight, imagination,

or the burning desire to replace the antiquated shaving

instrument that everyone accepted as sufficient. Others

couldn’t visualize a piece of metal as thin as paper, yet

strong enough to slice through tough whiskers.

At times, your common sense will interfere with your

creative imagination. Your common sense will tell you all

the reasons you cannot do something and all those reasons

are likely true. But then you have to stop to realize your

brain has something greater than common sense.

We are each born with creative imagination. Successful

people are the ones who have learned how to apply their

creative imagination in order to achieve greater goals.

Being successful can mean being more imaginative, not

necessarily being smarter than someone else.

If your common sense says no, that’s the time to test

your options. It’s your creative imagination that has the

ability to overcome every it-can’t-be-done attitude and

common sense worry.

Consider how much any inventor has had to endure

ridicule during the development stage of the invention. The

criticism and the negativity from others could easily have

defeated all the major inventors. Imagine the world without

all the major inventions if the inventors had given up. Too

many people give up on their ideas, telling themselves, “I

can’t do it.” That amounts to accepting defeat before they

have even tried.

Thomas Edison was laughed at when he tried to sell

the idea of the light bulb. People did not understand the

concept; they were happy using their gaslights. His skeptics

kept asking, “How does Edison expect to light anything

without using a flame or a fire of some kind?”

Skeptics have a difficult time in accepting change.

Thomas Edison is a great example of someone who did

not give up. From his creative imagination and hard work,

we have his legacy of the electric light bulb, motion pictures,

the telephone transmitter, the stock ticker, the phonograph

and the electric pen for the mimeograph.

Thank God, Thomas Alva Edison did not let his skeptics,

his common sense, and all his failed experiments defeat

him. I wonder how many times his common sense started

telling him, “It can’t be done.” Success means you have to

be willing to risk not listening to your common sense.

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone,

had a difficult time convincing others the telephone invention

would work. People accepted the telegraph as the means

of communication because that already worked and people

follow what works. Bell used his creative imagination to

go to the next step: imagining that people could speak into

a piece of metal and their voices would travel across the

country over a wire in a split second.

To use your creative imagination will require research

and hard work.

You can succeed in your ultimate goal if you have the

conviction to persevere through all the negative attitudes

and through your failed attempts.

Your goal may not come easily, but success usually

comes to those who persist, those who choose to be

different.

The spirit, the will to win,

and the will to excel are the

things that endure. These qualities

are so much more important than

the events that occur.

--Vince Lombardi

Football Coach

(1913-1970)

Time Is A Precious Gift

When it’s all over, all said and

done, What impact will your life

have had on the world?

--John Paul Carinci

Insurance Executive

The Question of a Lifetime

Your life is such a great asset. As you grow, you learn to

protect your life, to take care of your health, and to nurture

your mind. But, do you really put the right effort in making

the most of this gift called life? You don’t have to discover a

new invention or be the president of the country, but you do

have the responsibility to ask yourself, Do you consciously

try to make the world better?

How have you made it a better place in which to live? In

what ways have you had positive, lasting effects on others?

What special innovation will you be remembered for? Will

people think of you as a doer, a visionary, a leader who

accomplished something better? Or, will people remember

you for having wasted your abilities?

These are tough questions. Most people may not want

to think about these questions. The average person tends

to ask, “How can I get as much as possible for me?” and

seldom asks, “How can I give to the world?”

Be honest with yourself. Are you content with what

you’ve done thus far? Have you done enough for others?

What will you ultimately be remembered for? If you truly

would like to change your future, you can. You simply have

to be willing to modify the way you think.

My premise is this: You have the capacity to do great

things by the use of your creative imagination.

The secret to change is, first, to tell yourself that you

want to change. Tell yourself every day you want to improve

something in your life. Work on small goals that lead to

your greater goals.

Those who have benefited from attending Alcoholics

Anonymous have had to start with an admission: “I have a

problem.” The admission of a problem creates the mental

attitude that brings about a new result.

The first step in bringing about positive change is to

admit that you want to change. Be specific about what you

want to change. Will power is a tremendous tool. Once a

person becomes determined to do something, and blocks

out all external negative thoughts, that person usually

succeeds in his or her desired goal.

The more you tell yourself that you want to improve,

the more your subconscious will begin thinking of ways

to achieve that goal. You can train your mind to think

positively.

Your Mortality

Most of us come to admit that life is short. Once you

reach the age of forty the fact that life is short sticks in your

mind.You can use your own mortality as a way of staying

focused.

The awareness of your mortality can even motivate you

to quicken your pace of accomplishments.

You have 24 hours in every day, 168 hours in a week,

and about 16 waking hours every day. That’s 112 waking

hours every week.

If you are a 40-year-old man with a normal life

expectancy, you have approximately 16,425 more days to

live, assuming you live to age 85. Women live three years

longer on average. If you decided to find 20 minutes a day

over a five-year period, you would accumulate about 609

hours of “extra time” to do what you wanted. Those 609

hours could change your life.

If I were to invest my 609 hours into learning to

paint, don’t you think after 609 hours I would be pretty

knowledgeable about painting? Imagine what new things

you could accomplish if you improved your life twenty

minutes at a time every day.

Leo Tolstoy, the famous Russian writer, said, “Everyone

thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing

himself.”

In the entertainment field, an actor with as few as five

years acting experience can become a director because of

what he has learned about directing on-the-job.

In Working Smarter, a cassette program by Michael

LeBoeuf, Ph.D., published by Nightingale Conant Corp.,

the following story appeared: “Charles Schwab, when he

was President of Bethlehem Steel many years ago, called in

Ivy Lee, a consultant, and said to him, ‘Show me a way to

get more things done with my time, and I’ll pay you any fee

within reason.’ Lee replied, ‘Fine. I’ll give you something

in 20 minutes that will step up your output at least 50%.’

With that, Lee handed Schwab a blank piece of paper and

said, ‘Write down the six most important things you have to

do tomorrow and number them in order of importance. Now

put this piece of paper in your pocket. First thing tomorrow

morning look at item one and start working on it until you

finish it; then do item two, and so on; do this until quitting

time and don’t be concerned if you’ve only finished one or

two. You’ll be working on the most important ones anyway.

If you can’t finish them all by this method, you couldn’t

have done it by any other method either, and without some

system you’d probably not even have decided which was the

most important.’

Then Lee said, ‘Try this system every working day.

After you’ve convinced yourself of the value of this system,

have your men try it. Try it as long as you wish, then send

me a check for what you think it’s worth.’

Several weeks later Schwab sent Lee a check for $25,000,

with a note, proclaiming the advice, ‘the most profitable

he’d ever followed.’ The concept helped Charles Schwab

earn 100 million dollars and turned Bethlehem Steel into

the biggest independent steel producer in the world.”

Charles Schwab thought enough of this idea to pay

$25,000 for it, but only after he and his workers used it and

proved it worthwhile.

Since early on in my career, I have used a similar “To

Do List.” I’ve found that the list helps me accomplish more

and accomplish it faster. The to-do list keeps me focused

and I avoid wasting time on the less important things.

I’ve presented you with a system worth $25,000, a gift

for organizing your time. Try this system for four weeks.

Then, look back and see how much you have accomplished.

How much would you pay for such a system? I’ve found the

system worth thousands of dollars to me over my twentyplus

years in sales.

Anyone who stops learning is old

whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone

who keeps learning stays young. The

greatest thing in life is to keep your

mind young.

--Henry Ford

Inventor/Automobile Manufacturer

(1863-1947)

One Sunday morning I felt shocked to see in the local

newspaper an obituary of a 24-year-old man who had died

in an automobile accident. He was to be married in less than

a month to my cousin’s daughter. I felt shock, sadness, and

utter desperation in searching for a reason why we had lost

the young man in a freak, arbitrary accident. I thought of my

cousin’s daughter, who had celebrated her wedding shower

a few weeks earlier and had received beautiful gifts.

I wondered about this young man’s sudden death and it

finally sank in: there are no tomorrows guaranteed to any

of us.

You know what you expect and what you want to

happen tomorrow, but you don’t know what other events

will change your life, change your future, or whether you

will even be alive.

Today is the only day to live, to dream, and to act.

The present time is all you have as your “guaranteed

time.” You need to say to yourself, “I cannot allow my dreams

and goals to lie dormant inside me. From this day forward, I

will write down all the things I want to accomplish. I must

plan and set into motion the actions that will accomplish my

great goals.”

Writing Leads to Accomplishing Your Goals

Begin by writing down what you specifically want to

accomplish.

No matter how complicated a project, desire, or want,

write it down. Although you may be writing a rough draft,

you will have begun to formulate your end goal. The act of

writing your goals places the desire to accomplish this goal

into your subconscious mind.

Step one: write out what you want in life. You can

organize your ideas as short-term goals and long-term goals.

This may be the first time you seriously set down goals. If

you have already done this exercise at one point in your life,

do it again. It may have been a long time since you last did

this and you need to focus on your new goals.

The writing helps you to identify goals and, in turn,

your creative imagination will be stimulated to find new

ways to accomplish these goals.

Writing your goals is a necessary step to accomplishing

them.
C-J. carinci 2005
http://www.amazon.com/Power-Being-Different-success-ebook/dp/B002C75GY4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297365248&sr=1-1

YOU CAN DO ANYTHING!!!!

"Can’t Do It?" - (excerpt from my book)
"I’ve often heard the phrase used for athletes and
musicians, “They were born with natural talent.” I know
that some people can sing better than others and some can
play baseball better than many others. Granted, some people
are born with physical advantage that may be better suited
for certain sports, such as above average height, weight, or
bone structure ...

which will make it a little easier for a person
to succeed in a given sport.

More importantly though is the athlete who loves his
given sport and has a desire to succeed. When a person
has a true burning desire, he can compete against the best.
A burning desire drives an individual, pushing him to
greatness.
It’s a well-known fact that many Olympic athletes
practice ten to twelve hours every day for many years in
preparation for the Olympic games. Now think about this:
If you were to practice a given sport with the proper attitude
for ten hours a day and were strengthening your body over
the years, don’t you think that you, too, could excel in the
sport? Maybe you would not be the best, but perhaps you
would be in the top ten percent of all the players in the
game.

This brings to mind a professional baseball player
named Jim Abbott who played for the New York Yankees.
Jim was born with only one hand – his left. Picture yourself
trying to play professional baseball with the great players
in the major leagues and being able to use only your left
hand.

Jim Abbott was a starting pitcher for the Yanks. He
usually pitched about eight innings a game. Not only could
he play the game, which is remarkable in itself, but Abbott
was also a very good pitcher.

How did he do it? Well, what he did was catch the ball
from the catcher with his glove on his left hand. He then
held the glove against his right limb, the stub with no hand.
Then, with the limb resting against the glove, he’d wind up
and pitch the ball. As soon as he had thrown the ball, he
would slip his left hand into the glove. Abbott, believe it or
not, could actually pitch the ball with one hand and field the
ball very well if it was hit back to him.

Talk about “burning desire” and faith in oneself! He
was in the Major Leagues for many years starting in 1989,
and in September 4, 1993 he even pitched a no hitter against
the Cleveland Indians. It’s amazing what some people can
do when they want something badly enough.
If you think you can’t do something, think about Jim
Abbott. “All things are possible as long as you long for it
enough!” By changing your attitudes, you will change your
results."
C- 2005 John Paul Carinci -from the book The Power Of Being Different
http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Of-Being-Different/dp/1420846981/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1297550537&sr=1-1

I have often thought that the best way to define a man’s character would

be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it

came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive.

At such moments, there is a voice inside which speaks and says: “This is the

real me!”

—William James

"To protect their livestock from cattle rustlers, cattlemen would

put their own markings onto their cattle by branding them. This

guaranteed that, if the cattle were stolen, they could prove which were

their own cattle.

Similarly, we can put our own enthusiasm-branding into the

subconscious minds of other individuals. This enthusiasm can last

within other individuals for their lifetime.

Attitude is paramount when we discuss the long road to success.

Without maintaining a positive attitude throughout the long journey,

we will never achieve success. It is the powerful emotion of enthusiasm

that carries us forward and across the finish line of any worthwhile

goal—indeed, that carries us through a lifetime of success. We each have

choices in life. We choose a positive or a negative attitude. We choose

to be enthusiastic or blasé. And we subconsciously choose failure or

success. Because we radiate our emotions to everyone with whom we

come in contact, we, in turn, can influence others with our enthusiasm

and zest for life, or tear others down with a negative attitude. We may

not be fully aware of what we are projecting to others.

Sometimes our attitudes are influenced by all the actions and

activities we encounter each day. But our attitude is still our

choice, and

that must remain in the forefront of our conscious mind. The enthusiastic

person clearly stands out from all others. The enthusiastic person attracts

others the way a light source attracts insects. And over time, it is the truly

enthusiastic person who has a lasting effect on other individuals."
C-2012 J. Carinci
http://www.amazon.com/An-All-Consuming-Desire-Succeed-ebook/dp/B0053VLUKU/ref=ntt_at_ep_edition_2_2?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2

OG MANDINO QUOTE

"Nothing in the world can take the
place of persistence. Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful
men with talent. Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

Education will not; the world is full of
educated derelicts. Persistence and
determination alone are omnipotent."
--Calvin Coolidge
30th President of the United States

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‎"I will persist until I succeed.
I was not delivered into this world in
defeat, nor does failure course in my veins.
I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my
shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to 

walk, to sleep with the sheep. I will hear
not those who weep and complain, for their
disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep.
The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.
I will persist until I succeed."
--Og Mandino
Motivational Author
(from my book)
http://www.amazon.com/Power-Being-Different-success-ebook/dp/B002C75GY4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297365248&sr=1-1