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=1-1See More

"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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"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!

        “You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”

        --Johnny Cash

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"Awesome Success Principles

and

Quotations"

 

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"WE HAVE CHOICES IN LIFE- DON'T EVER FORGET THAT!!!"

"WE HAVE CHOICES IN LIFE- DON'T EVER FORGET THAT!!!"
“Here is something that appeared in Harper's Weekly:
‘It's a gloomy moment in the history of our country.
Not in the lifetime of most men has there been so much grave
and deep apprehension.
The domestic economic situation is in chaos. The dollar is weak
around the world. Prices are so high as to be utterly impossible.
The political caldron seethes and bubbles with uncertainty. Russia
hangs as usual like a cloud - dark and silent upon the horizon. It's
a solemn moment. Of our troubles, no man can see the end.’
Does that sound familiar? Well, that article was written in October 1857, just four years before the Civil War. There were poor crops, bank closures, social problems, business failures and government debts.”
There will always be negative situations, events, and attitudes surrounding you. The world and the people in it are not perfect. Negatives can become “good” or “useful,” if those negatives motivate you to change your negatives into positive results and to accomplish something great.
Negativity always has to be kept in proper prospective. Learning to overcome life's problems and setbacks will help you to reach a new greatness. Strive to be different and greater than your setbacks.
Does the average person give in to defeat and negativity? How can you be different? How can you be successful? Start by minimizing the attention you give to worrying.
There’s a great saying: “Don’t sweat the small stuff, and it’s all small stuff.”
"Abundance of Opportunities"
Consider, too, how times have improved over the centuries. If you lived in the 1700s, it might take you three days to go 300 miles. It's no wonder that many people grew up living and dying in
the same general area where they were born, having seldom traveled.
Ben Franklin was different. At the early age of seventeen, he set out to find a life for himself. He left Boston, his birthplace, and hitched aboard a ship headed to New York, a very rough three-day trip in his day. Unable to secure work, he moved on to Philadelphia, where he started his new life.
Today, you can simply take a jet plane to a warm climate within hours. It’s a better life by far than what life was like two or three hundred years ago. Also, what we consider toys today, were unthinkable fifty years ago. Today you can buy your son or daughter a $1,000 computer toy. Some toy!
If you wanted to, you could drive a car from New York to beautiful Florida. You have the freedom to travel. Nice country, America, isn't it?
You don't have to ask permission to leave your home. There is no immediate threat of attack from a foreign country; no tanks are in our streets fighting a war. I imagine this is the best time in the history of America when there has been this much freedom and money so easy to come by.
Today is a great time to be alive. You can go or do almost anything you wish. I know people who quit their jobs and take off for months to do whatever they want, while they live off their savings.
You have the freedom and the opportunity to choose to do whatever you wish, at anytime you wish to do it. Few other countries in the world offer you as many opportunities to be great and to excel as America does.
In 1915, you had to be rich to own an automobile. Now, some families have four cars, most of which are fairly new. We have food in such abundance in this country; so much so that obesity is becoming a severe problem. There are fast food restaurants providing meals for only ninety-nine cents. Food is affordable.
With the abundance of opportunities around us, what you do with your life is entirely up to you. Thousands of people are risking their lives to cross the border illegally to have the same opportunities we have.
So many obstacles have been moved out of the way for you. As the Army states, you can “be all that you can be,” but you need to acquire an all-consuming “desire” for whatever you want. Your subconscious mind has the power to do the rest to help your conscious mind carry forth its goal.
So, learn to use your mind as a filter in a positive way.
C-2005 J, Carinci
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ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING!!

ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING!!
“A man came across three masons who were working at chipping chunks of granite from large blocks. The first seemed unhappy at his job, chipping away and frequently looking at his watch. When the man asked what it was that he was doing, the first mason responded, rather curtly, “I’m hammering this stupid rock, and I can’t wait ’til 5 when I can go home.”
”A second mason, seemingly more interested in his work, was hammering diligently and when asked what it was that he was doing, answered, “Well, I’m molding this block of rock so that it can be used with others to construct a wall. It’s not bad work, but I’ll sure be glad when it’s done.”
”A third mason was hammering at his block fervently, taking time to stand back and admire his work. He chipped off small pieces until he was satisfied that it was the best he could do. When he was questioned about his work he stopped, gazed skyward and proudly proclaimed, “I…am building a cathedral!”
“Three men, three different attitudes, all doing the same job.”
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"I BELIEVE"

**"I Believe"** from my upcoming self help book J. Carinci (soon to be released)
"I have my own strong beliefs. I believe in God. I believe that we were all created to be great. Some of us along the way have gotten off track with our thinki...ng, but we can once again get back in the game.
I believe that we were each put on earth to make a difference of some kind. We were put here to help, to be a positive influence, and touch other lives. We are here to give back, not to keep taking. To lift someone up and never tear them down.
I believe that life on earth is very short. Shorter than what the average age of 85 works out to be in our minds. In other words, eternity is what we will ultimately have after life on earth.
I believe that we are given the opportunity to build a life here on earth, and one day we each will have to make a full accounting of that life, answering completely.
What if, my beliefs hold true? What if we all get to spend an eternity in the hereafter with all our loved ones? What if we get to review in precise detail, with our loved ones, each second of our lives? We have a scorecard here on earth, one most of us seem to ignore. But what if I am right, and we have to explain all of our actions, achievements, good deeds, charity, and help extended to others? What if?
I believe that everything on earth happens for a reason. Though sometimes sad things in life are very hard to understand and explain, they are here for our learning. When a child dies so young. When I come across a paralyzed man named Ken, who has been in a wheelchair for over 20 years, and can’t move most of his body, it is for a reason. When I hear just the other day that a 36 year old woman, eight months pregnant, is run down and killed in a parking lot by a plow removing snow, and the baby is delivered, but may be brain damaged.
When I lose a school friend of mine Gil, who dies in a car accident at age 19, and I have to deliver my first insurance death claim as a first year life insurance agent. It is all for a reason. I believe.
I believe that everything that happens on earth is God’s plan to help us stay on track. To remind us that life on earth is but a second in time compared to the eternity we will all have after our life here is closed, and the diaries of our lives are each passed up to the place we will consider Heaven.
My belief is strong, but it is my own belief. It gives me peace. It drives me forward, motivating me to do more, to be more, to help more. But more than anything, I believe, with all my heart that all my loved ones that have passed are rooting loudly for me in the hereafter. I believe I have an audience that I will once again be reunited with. But, I mostly believe that my biggest fan, from above, is God, and I cannot, I dare not disappoint Him. He created greatness when you and I were born, I will not insult him by giving Him back anything but greatness in return."
C-2014 J. Carinci
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"Enthusiasm"

 from my upcoming book

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Rudyard Kipling

The truly enthusiastic individual is a very special breed. Oh, sure, there are ...those individuals who may appear to many as being enthusiastic. But the really special individual has a way of maintaining their enthusiasm no matter what is thrown at them. That is the person that attains greatness. That is the person that stands out from the crowd. That is the person that will amaze everyone with achievements that are normally considered impossible.
I like to think of the truly enthusiastic individual as someone who has the ability to apply Mental Blinders on themselves. Just like the race horse that is sometimes equipped with blinders that will block out all distractions all around them, the person that applies their own Mental Blinders, blocks out all the negativity all around themselves.
It is estimated that over 80% of all talk around us is negative. Many people are dweling on the negatives in the world rather than the positives. Ther have always, from the beginning of time, been negative things in the world. The true winner knows how to block out the negative influences all around them I know I have made a practice of secretly raising my protective Mental Blinders whenever I hear that poisonous negative talk that someone will continue the spew. I cannot change every person around me, and I have no right to limit someone’s opinions and frustrations, but I can block the absorbance of that negativity from penetrating my subconscious mind.
This is what I have practiced over my lifetime. So, try to apply your own Mental Blinders the next time someone is relentlessly talking and active negative around you. It is like a shield. My secret shield protects and maintains my positive drive to achieve my current goal.

“Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world...if you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
― Bill Gates

“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.”
― Victor Frankl
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Derek Jeter all-consuming desire to win

(Excerpt from my upcoming self help book. THIS PART IS about Derek Jeter)
As I am writing this book I have been just informed that one of my favorite baseball players of all time will be retiring this year. Derek Jeter, the Yankee shortstop... for some 20 years announced today that he will call it quits with the close of the 2014 baseball season. Derek has always been a fan favorite, and the picture perfect player that Yankee fans had come to expect.
Derek never had any kind of controversy surrounding him. He never had any bad press. And even the umpires loved him, and that says something about a baseball player after 20 years.
Derek is the perfect example of a truly enthusiastic individual that is driven to reach his goals, unaffected by negativity that surrounds all of us.
Derek was born on June, 26, 1974, in N.J. He was drafted by the N. Y. Yankees in 1992. He began playing major league on May, 29, 1995. On June 3, 2003, Yankee owner, George Steinbrenner, named Derek the captain of the Yankees baseball team. Derek was one of his favorite baseball players ever.
Over his almost 20 year Yankee career, Derek played in 38 World Series games. He won 5 separate World Series championships. He was selected 13 times to play in the annual All-Star games. To date he has 3,316 hits, which places him at #10 on the list of players with the most baseball hits ever.
On October 13, 2012, Derek breaks his ankle, but not his spirit. Derek, with that all consuming desire to succeed still fought back, like the winner he has always been.
He played very few games in the 2013 season because of the ankle, and has been rehabilitating since. He expects in the 2014 season to be able to play. All fans will keep their fingers crossed for the player we all admire. The player we all wish we could be , for the best of all the baseball teams ever, the New York Yankees.
Part Of Derek’s announcement to fans
“I want to start by saying thank you.
I know they say that when you dream you eventually wake up. Well, for some reason, I’ve never had to wake up. Not just because of my time as a New York Yankee but also because I am living my dream every single day.
Last year was a tough one for me. As I suffered through a bunch of injuries, I realized that some of the things that always came easily to me and were always fun had started to become a struggle. The one thing I always said to myself was that when baseball started to feel more like a job, it would be time to move forward.
So really it was months ago when I realized that this season would likely be my last. As I came to this conclusion and shared it with my friends and family, they all told me to hold off saying anything until I was absolutely 100% sure.
And the thing is, I could not be more sure. I know it in my heart. The 2014 season will be my last year playing professional baseball.”
I’ve experienced so many defining moments in my career. Winning the World Series as a rookie shortstop, being named the Yankees captain, closing the old and opening the new Yankee Stadium. Through it all, I’ve never stopped chasing the next one.”
--Derek Jeter
C-John Paul Carinci 2014 from an upcoming self help book (ALMOST FINISHED!)
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**What’s It All About Alfie?**

(from my NEW self help book - soon be released)
It seems like everyone’s life today is so busy. It’s like we’re all riding on an out of control train that is speeding down a track, so fast we can’t get off. N...o one seems to have any spare time for anything, its rush here and rush there. People drive so fast these days, not because they are late, but rather they have too much going on in their lives.
People wonder, “What’s It All About Alfie?” What am I doing here? What is my purpose? And what happens after life on earth?
I study people closely. Many people today seem uncertain, frustrated and scared about the times we are in. They are looking for answers. Religion of any kind can help.
I Believe
I have my own strong beliefs. I believe in God. I believe that we were all created to be great. Some of us along the way have gotten off track with our thinking, but we can once again get back in the game.
I believe that we were each put on earth to make a difference of some kind. We were put here to help, to be a positive influence, and touch other lives. We are here to give back, not to keep taking. To lift someone up and never tear them down.
I believe that life on earth is very short. Shorter than what the average age of 85 works out to be in our minds. In other words, eternity is what we will ultimately have after life on earth.
I believe that we are given the opportunity to build a life here on earth, and one day we each will have to make a full accounting of that life, answering completely.
What if, my beliefs hold true? What if we all get to spend an eternity in the hereafter with all our loved ones? What if we get to review in precise detail, with our loved ones, each second of our lives? We have a scorecard here on earth, one most of us seem to ignore. But what if I am right, and we have to explain all of our actions, achievements, good deeds, charity, and help extended to others? What if?
I believe that everything on earth happens for a reason. Though sometimes sad things in life are very hard to understand and explain, they are here for our learning. When a child dies so young. When I come across a paralyzed man named Ken, who has been in a wheelchair for over 20 years, and can’t move most of his body, it is for a reason. When I hear just the other day that a 36 year old woman, eight months pregnant, is run down and killed in a parking lot by a plow removing snow, and the baby is delivered, but may be brain damaged.
When I lose a school friend of mine Gil, who dies in a car accident, at age 19, and I have to deliver my first insurance death claim as a first year life insurance agent. It is all for a reason. I believe.
I believe that everything that happens on earth is God’s plan to help us stay on track. To remind us that life on earth is but a second in time compared to the eternity we will all have after our life here is closed, and the diaries of our lives are each passed up to the place we will consider Heaven.
My belief is strong, but it is my own belief. It gives me peace. It drives me forward, motivating me to do more, to be more, to help more. But more than anything, I believe, with all my heart, that all my loved ones that have passed are rooting loudly for me in the hereafter. I believe I have an audience that I will once again be reunited with. But, I mostly believe that my biggest fan, from above, is God, and I cannot, I dare not disappoint Him. He created greatness when you and I were born, I will not insult him by giving Him back anything but greatness in return. C-2014 John P. Carinci
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Great Quotes:

Great Quotes: "If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth... will pause to say, here lived a
great street sweeper who did his job well.
--Martin Luther King Jr.

"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 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

"People are always blaming their circumstances
for what they are. I don’t believe in
circumstances. The people who get on in this
world are the people who get up and look for
the circumstances they want. And if they can’t
find them, they make them."
--George Bernard Shaw
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The Power Of Being Different - a success formula

Top 11 Perseverance Quotes!

“One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.” ~ Napoleon Hill

 #10

“It doesn’t matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.” ~ Charles Kettering

 #9

“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.” ~ George E. Allen

 #8

“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.” ~ Alan Schoenfeld

 #7

“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.” ~ Albert Einstein

 #6

“Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.” ~ Brian Tracy

 #5

“Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.” ~ Unknown

 #4

“So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.” ~ Og Mandino

 #3

“Its not how hard you hit, but how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.” ~ Rocky Balboa

 #2

“It’s hard to beat the person who never gives up.” ~ Babe Ruth

 #1

“The fatigue was there, but some people understood that putting it aside was the single most important factor in succeeding.” ~ Seth Godin

Desire To Stand Out From The Crowd

"Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from the 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 (1923-1996), American motivational author
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Desire Leads to Success
*******************
"When he was still a boy, Og Mandino’s mother dropped dead in
their kitchen right in front of him. Og passed on college to join the
Army and became a bombardier pilot. After the war, he married and
had a daughter. He had trouble paying the bills with a young family,
sold insurance, and became an alcoholic. He destroyed his marriage,
traveled the country, and couldn’t hold down a job.
With his last thirty dollars in hand, he contemplated buying a
handgun in a Cleveland pawnshop he had passed and taking his own
life. Instead, he walked on and wound up in a local library. He sat
down and began reading self-help books and decided at that moment
to change his life.

He went to work as a salesman for W. Clement Stone, the author
of one of the self-help books he had read. He quickly rose through the
ranks and began writing for the company. Og’s mother had always told
him that he would be a great writer; this remained in his mind for many
years. Years later, Og began working as the editor for W. Clement Stone’s
new self-help magazine, Success Unlimited. The rest is known history. Og
penned a small book, The Greatest Salesman in the World, which went on
to sell many millions of copies in many languages.

Og became the most-read self-help author in the world. He penned
twenty-two books and has sold nearly forty million copies. His books
are easy to read and will motivate one to improve his life. I have read all
of his books. Unfortunately, Og passed away in the 1990s.

Og proves to us that success brews within each of us, that we can
turn on that intense-desire button when we are prepared to get serious
and stick with it. Og was convinced that he could be a great writer
one day because his mother realized that her son had a special talent
and made sure that thought was etched into Og’s mind. Later in life,
knowing he had a talent, Og came up with a very unique type of book
to communicate his self-help messages to the reader. When he was ready
to press his own intense-desire button, there was no stopping him"
C-2011 J. Carinci from the book AN ALL CONSUMING DESIRE TO SUCCEED
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My Success Affirmations

Today I am born anew. Today is the most important day of my life
because it represents the glorious and first day of my new life.
I now understand that I alone control my destiny, my success or my
failure in this wondrous world of opportunity. Am I now capable, too,
of greatness and fortune like those highly successful individuals I have
learned about? For now I truly understand that I can accomplish anything
I carefully program into my mind. Does not the immigrant cherish fully the
American opportunity, knowing they must succeed and that failure is not
an option in their newfound world? I will adopt a similar burning desire,
and I will excel.
 
I am born anew. For now I realize that I am the greatest miracle in the
world, unique to anyone ever born. No longer will I count the obstacles and
drawbacks in my life. I now realize that, like the inventor who welcomes
each new failure on the road to victory, so, too, shall I. For now I understand that each failure only brings me closer to the success I know will be mine.
 
Never again will I allow self-pity, doubt, or negativity to penetrate my
new power-mind, protected by a new negativity-shield, for now I realize
that 80 percent of all talk and actions around me will be negative. I now
realize that negativity has been around since the caveman, and yet successful people always prevailed. I, too, shall prevail. I, too, will stand out from the crowd. I am a king and the world is my new kingdom, for now I realize that the knowledge I possess is worth more than all the riches of the world.
 
Today I possess an immense knowledge of how to change my life forever.
It is a true celebration indeed because now I realize that the best is yet to be.
 Just like the wind that graces the earth, never will I look back. Never will
 I revisit yesterday’s problems and heartaches. They are dead. I will always
look forward with a newfound, childlike excitement and energy.
 
Never again will I allow my life to be likened to a casino game of chance
because I now understand that I alone take full responsibility for my results
along the long road to success, and I vow to apply the principles I have
learned along the way. It is a joy to travel the long road to success. I will savor every step, enjoying the rough as well as the easy road I encounter.
 
Today and everyday forward I will welcome each new day as a blessing
from above, and I vow never again to squander such a precious gift, knowing that the richest king can never buy one more day of life. It is truly a gift from the Creator and shall never again be wasted.
 
Enthusiasm, I have learned, is contagious. And I know that if I project
an enthusiastic, positive attitude to all whom I encounter each day, they, too, will be enthused and will spread it to others. And like all wealth shared with love, it no doubt will inspire me all the more.
 
I realize that I have choices in life:
I can feel happy, or I can feel sad.
I can act positive, or I can act in a negative manner.
I can succeed greatly, or I can settle for failure as an end result.
I can love all others I encounter, or carry around baggage of doom and
gloom and aversion.
I choose to be different, to stand out and set an example that others will
admire and want to emulate.
 
This is my new life. I am like a newborn, pure in heart and mind from
prejudice, hatred, failure, or fear. And like a newborn, full of life and hope,
I now understand that I, too, am unspoiled now in my mind. I now possess
the great knowledge of the ages. For now I know that the mind controls
the body, and the subconscious controls the conscious. As long as I feed the
subconscious mind good, pure, and positive thoughts, the subconscious will
radiate like the rays of the sun, thus renewing, invigorating, and warming
me each day like the powerful rays of the sun. For this little-known secret of
my subconscious is now part of my life, part of my daily routine. And with
each new day that I take a breath of air, I, too, will begin it with positive
self-suggestion statements.
 
My newfound positive-attitude shield will protect me from the arrows
of negativity that kill off the spirit and drive off so many other people. I am
different; I am new. I will apply the newfound knowledge I possess.
No longer will that negativity seep into my mind. I will not allow
negativity to affect the computer-mind God gave me. I was born to be great.
Greatness is my destiny.
 
From this day forward I will never again worry, for now I know that 92
percent of all worry is useless, self-defeating, and draining.
Like the seasons that change, I now understand that my emotions, too,
change, and though I may not feel as happy one day, I know that in a day or
two I could possibly be ecstatic. Like the cycles of the world, emotions change, and now my newfound knowledge is power I will be able to use.
 
With love in my eyes and heart, I will greet everyone I meet with sincere
kindness. For now I understand that love alone will soften the coldest hearts of enemies and friends alike. And if I am to help others along the road to success, I must set an example of pure love and inspiration for all to follow.
 
My new attitude will be my shield that will protect me from the dreaded
arrows of negativity that kill off the spirit and drive off so many others. I am
now different; I am new; I am driven.
 
And as someone who loves himself, I now vow to allow only good things
to enter my mind and body, and to eliminate anything harmful from
affecting me. I will ignore the surrounding negativity and indulgences that
can harm this masterpiece-body that I have been born with. I now know
that I am the greatest work of art in the world, a masterpiece that no money
can ever duplicate.
 
I now vow that each new day will be carefully unwrapped and savored
for the precious gift it represents. And in the end, I will know that I have
made my Creator proud of what I have accomplished, and I will be able to
look back, knowing that I have set a truly inspiring example and have made
a lasting, positive difference in this great world of ours.

 

C-2011 John Paul Carinci from the book : An All-Consuming Desire To Succeed

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"Greatest living miracle in the world!"

"You are the greatest living miracle in the world!" (from my book)
No one else in the world has your exact eyes, hair, fingerprints, personality, or DNA. The odds of your being born into the specific person and personality you are have been estimated at one in 225 billion.
You are the most unique person in the world.

By the age of seventy, the average human heart will have beaten twoand-a-half billion times. Your heart pumps over fifty-seven thousand gallons of blood every month. The heart is an amazing organ! There are people alive today who have lived 115 years—you do the math....
Suffice it to say that we are each a phenomenal working mechanism that still
cannot be duplicated.

No matter what our financial status at this particular moment, whether we have fifty cents to our name or $50 million, each one of us is an equally great miracle in the world.

We all may say we are special, but do you believe it with all your heart?

You are the greatest living miracle in the world. Once you realize this, you will begin to appreciate just how very special you really are.

Your eyes, if we could place value on them alone, are worth at least a billion dollars to a person who can’t see. Your hearing ability and your ability to stand up and walk are awesome blessings.

The question is, are you acting like the greatest living miracle in the world?
Each of us was created by God. A true miracle took place in those nine months of gestation in order for you to be born. Now think about the following question very carefully:

If God presented Himself to you right now, and He just stared at you without saying a word, just studying you for a few precious seconds, would you feel proud about your accomplishments thus far in life?

Would you feel that you have used the miracle of your life to the best of your ability, or would you feel that you have cheated God, slightly or drastically, in return for the miracle He allowed to be performed through your birth?

What if, just possibly, we do live on in a special afterlife? What if we are left to reflect upon our lives in minute detail, second after second, and we must ponder this life for eternity? I don’t know about you, but I already want to accomplish much more. You see, I do believe there is an afterlife. I also believe that all your relatives, friends, and acquaintances who have passed on to this afterlife are observing you, rooting for you,
and anxiously waiting for you to achieve greatness.
YOU ARE THE GREATEST LIVING MIRACLE IN THIS WORLD! Don't ever forget that!

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You don’t have to be brilliant to have brilliant ideas and outcomes

At the age of nineteen, a Russian, Igor Sikorsky, almost had a working model of the first helicopter. By the age of forty-nine in 1940, Sikorsky’s successful VS-300 became a model that others based theirs on, and Sikorsky was considered the father of the helicopter.

At the age of thirty-seven, Mary Anderson had the first patent for a windshield wiper. Her goal was to clean snow, rain, and dirt off car windshields years before Henry Ford’s Model T automobiles were in production. On a visit to New York City in 1902, Anderson got the windshield-wiper idea while on a trolley car whose front window could not be kept closed because sleet made it impossible to see through it. 

In 1829, at the age of thirty-seven, William Austin Burt invented the typographer, the predecessor to the typewriter. He worked at that  time in the Michigan territorial legislature and later became a county Circuit Court Judge.  

A fifteen-year-old grammar-school dropout from Maine invented an important and useful item. In 1873, while he was ice-skating with a new pair of skates, Chester Greenwood’s ears were very cold. He went home and asked his grandmother to sew some fur onto wire shaped in the form of ears and attached to a metal band. Thus, the first set of earmuffs! The rest is history. Greenwood would ultimately establish a factory and produce earmuffs of a style still in use today.  

Was Chester the most book-smart child of his day? No. But Chester was driven to greatness by dissatisfaction. He was dissatisfied by his present situation and was motivated to the action of changing it for the better. Initially, Chester probably had no intention of becoming an inventor whom the world would notice and recognize for something quite useful. Chester merely wanted to keep his ears from freezing.  

Many other people before 1873 had freezing ears, but they did not have the foresight and drive to work at the problem without stopping until they fixed it.  

We each have the ability to excel. We can be great, and we can each be driven to fix a problem, right a wrong, or invent the seemingly impossible invention. Our mind can handle anything that is requested of it. But do we want something so badly that we will not stop until its completion?
 
Will we be driven so intensely that we think about it endlessly?

Let’s each learn to develop that powerful drive, that positive mental attitude needed to succeed.

Do you want it badly enough? Because, you know, you have wanted something badly enough in your past that you refused to give in until you achieved success. It’s all in the programming

of that inner mind, that subconscious mind, that works magic whenever it is impressed strongly enough by the importance of a special goal.

Is There Gold at the Foot of the Rainbow?

I didn’t know enough to quit. 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.

—King Camp Gillette (1855-1932), Inventor

The gold at the foot of the rainbow—what a great analogy. The great inventors and highly successful have the ability to focus on the gold at the foot of the rainbow. They have vision. They have fortitude. They keep their minds focused on the finish line, not on all the obstacles

they encounter along the long, winding, and bumpy road to that finish line. The bumps and failures don’t even faze the tremendously driven person. The failure is almost welcomed because the successful thinker knows in his heart that he will achieve success—it is only a matter of time.

So, throw whatever distractions and obstacles you can at me, because I will prevail.

 

From the book: An All Consuming Desire To Succeed

 

 

 

 

 

 

Highlights From John's Book: "The Power Of Being Different"
"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 bec...omes determined to do something, and blocks out all external negative thoughts, that person usually succeeds in his or her desired goal.”

"People who are nonchalant about life are insulting their parents, who may have scrimped and saved, worked extra jobs to put them through school.”

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. --Thomas Jefferson”

"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.”

"We have it in our power to convince anyone to do what we want them to do as long as we believe without a doubt that it is in his or her best interest to do it.”

"They buy only because I disturb them.”

"William Patterson: Energy and time are precious, limited entities. Therefore, you need to use them wisely, focusing on what is truly important."

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. --Vince Lombardi Football Coach (1913-1970)”

“There are two days in every week about which we should not worry - two days which should be kept free from an apprehension. One of these days is yesterday with its mistakes and cares, its aches and pains, its faults and blunders. Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot undo a single act we performed; we cannot erase a single word we said; yesterday is gone! The other day we should not worry about is tomorrow with its possible adversities, its burdens, its large promise and poor performance. Tomorrow also is beyond our immediate control. Tomorrow’s sun will rise either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds, but it will rise! Until it does, we have no stake in tomorrow, for it is as yet unborn. That leaves only one day - today.”

"When you are successful, people will notice the difference.."

"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”

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

"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. --John H. Rhoades Edgar Allan Poet/Philosopher”

"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.”

"You can excel at anything, but you must be willing to make the tough choices, and put forth the extra effort.”

"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.”
C-2005 John Paul Carinci
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