Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Success Principles

(excerpt from my upcoming book "Success Principles"
"The world is full of success stories from the beginning of time. But we admire the truly successful people who fight back from failure and become successful, setting positive examples tha...t inspire us to work through the many setbacks we all will surely face.
Here are some of the successful achievers who have persevered through it all:

R.K. Rowling: the Harry Potter author’s first book was originally turned down by 12 publishers, including major houses like Penguin and HarperCollins. Bloomsbury, a small publisher, accepted the novel after the CEO’s eight-year old daughter convinced him of its value.

John Grisham’s first novel, A Time to Kill, was rejected by a dozen publishers and 16 agents before being accepted by a publisher and thus starting his writing career.

Walt Disney’s first animation company went bankrupt, and he was fired by a news editor because he lacked imagination. It is also believed that Disney was turned down 302 times before he finally received financing for creating Disney World.

Colonel Harland David Sanders, the founder of KFC Chicken franchise, was barely getting by before taking his new idea for fried chicken to the public at age 65.

R. H. Macy had a history failing businesses, including the store Macy's in NYC, but he persevered and he soon had the biggest and most successful store in the world.

Fred Astaire: In his first screen test, the testing director of MGM noted that Astaire “Can’t act. Can’t sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.” Astaire went on to become an incredibly successful actor, singer and dancer and kept that note in his Beverly Hills home to remind him of where he came from.

Henry Ford failed many times before perfecting his Model T car and turned them out on an assembly line. On May 26, 1927, Henry Ford watched the 15 millionth Model T Ford roll off the assembly line at his factory in Highland Park, Michigan.
Stephen King’s first novel, Carrie, was rejected dozens of times. It is said that he was so frustrated with his first novel, Carrie, that he threw it in the trash. King's wife found the manuscript in the trash and took it out, and convinced her husband to resubmit it. To date his more than 50 books have sold 350 million copies.

Mark Cuban, the billionaire and owner of the basketball team the Mavericks, admitted that he failed many times before succeeding and selling his computer company to Yahoo for 5.9 billion dollars in stock. He once said, “I’ve learned that it doesn’t matter how many times you failed,” Cuban says. “You only have to be right once. I tried to sell powdered milk. I was an idiot lots of times, and I learned from them all.”

Even Vincent Van Gogh, who couldn’t sell his paintings, forged on. He completed more than 800 pieces, and now his most expensive painting is valued at more than 140 million dollars.

The Beatles were originally rejected by many record labels, including Decca Records, who said: "Guitar groups are on the way out" and "The Beatles have no future in show business.” After that, the Beatles signed with EMI, brought Beatlemania to the United States, and became the greatest band in history.

The great Michael Jordan was a failure at basketball for years at the beginning of his career, but turned out to be the best in the game. He once said, “I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Charles Swindoll summarized a positive attitude the best:

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill.
It will make or break a company, a church, a home.”
--Charles Swindoll"

C-2014 John Paul Carinci http://www.amazon.com/Power-Being-Different-success-ebook/dp/B002C75GY4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1297365248&sr=1-1
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

"Lift Someone Up Today"

"Lift Someone Up Today"     (to be included in my new self help book)
Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room's only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.
The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation. And every afternoon when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window. The man in the other bed began to live for those one-hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the outside world.
The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake, the man said. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Lovers walked arm in arm amid flowers of every color of the rainbow. Grand old trees graced the landscape, and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance. As the man by the window described all this in exquisite detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene.
One warm afternoon the man by the window described a parade passing by. Although the other man couldn't hear the band, he could see it in his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words. Unexpectedly, an alien thought entered his head:
Why should he have all the pleasure of seeing everything while I never get to see anything ? It didn't seem fair. As the thought fermented the man felt ashamed at first. But as the days passed and he missed seeing more sights, his envy eroded into resentment and soon turned him sour. He began to brood and he found himself unable to sleep. He should be by that window - that thought now controlled his life.
Late one night as he lay staring at the ceiling, the man by the window began to cough. He was choking on the fluid in his lungs. The other man watched in the dimly lit room as the struggling man by the window groped for the button to call for help. Listening from across the room he never moved, never pushed his own button which would have brought the nurse running. In less than five minutes the coughing and choking stopped, along with the sound of breathing.
Now there was only silence ----- deathly silence.
The following morning the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths. When she found the lifeless body of the man by the window, she was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take it away -- no works, no fuss. As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.
Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look. Finally, he would have the joy of seeing it all himself. He strained to slowly turn to look out the window beside the bed.
It faced a blank wall.
- Author Unknown
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

"LIFE IS"


Life is...


“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.


Life is beauty, admire it.


Life is bliss, taste it.


Life is a dream, realize it.


Life is a challenge, meet it.


Life is a duty, complete it.


Life is a game, play it.


Life is a promise, fulfill it.


Life is a sorrow, overcome it.


Life is a song, sing it.


Life is a struggle, accept it.


Life is a tragedy, confront it.


Life is an adventure, dare it.


Life is luck, make it.


Life is too precious, do not destroy it.


Life is life, fight for it.”


            --Mother Teresa


 

 

 

 

Sometimes Struggles Are Exactly What We Need In Our Lives

 

The Butterfly

            A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could go no further.

            So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.

            The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time. Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.

            What the man, in his kindness and haste, did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were God's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

            Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If God allowed us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. We could never fly!


        --Johnny Cash

fROM MY SOON TO BE REKEASED SELF-HELP BOOK

"Awesome Success Principles

and

Quotations"

 

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