John Paul Carinci pens another book

August 26, 2014 (STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE - news story about John Paul Carinci) John Paul Carinci pens another book STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — John Paul Carinci has penned his eighth book: "Defying Death in Hagerstown." Based on a 1923 diary, it is set to be published early next year by Morgan James Publishing. The idea for the book of fiction happened quite by accident, when John won a diary from eBay, about a young woman from Hagerstown, Md. The 90-year-old diary of 365 pages, was fully handwritten by a woman known only as Lolita. "I knew there was a story there somewhere, but more importantly I was drawn into the time, the young woman, the love interest she had throughout the year," said the insurance executive from Eltingville. "I was consumed with finding out who and whatever happened to this Lolita from Hagerstown. It took years to find out who she was, that she married the love interest, and when she passed on. So, I wrote a novel, based on a character from Hagerstown, named Lolita," he added. The story revolves around a young newspaper reporter, who is rapidly self- destructing after a bad breakup with his fiancée. He has a drinking problem, is a real mess at work, and is about to be fired. His last chance assignment is to go to Hagerstown and interview a centenarian wonder woman of 110 years old, named Lolita, who resides in a nursing home. The reporter later uncovers the diary from 1923, and that Lolita, in 1923, lived through a mass murder spree of three of her young girlfriends remains unsolved. The reporter sees a real story in the murders, and is consumed with investigating and solving this 90-plus-year-old mystery. But someone in town is rattled by his nosing around — bullets fly, and someone is killed. The book will be available soon on Amazon. John has also published his non-fiction book, a self-help book entitled: "Awesome Success Principles and Quotations," released through AuthorHouse publishing. C-2014 Staten Island Advance newspaper www.johncarinci.com

EXCERPT from new book: "AWESOME SUCCESS PRINCIPLES & QUOTATIONS by John Paul Carinci

People Who Change the Way We All Think Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson was born on July 18, 1950, in Surrey. Branson was the founder of the Virgin Group, which is made up of more than 400 companies. It was in the 1970’s that Branson opened up Virgin Atlantic Air, and expanded to Virgin Records. Branson was listed as the sixth richest citizen of the United Kingdom, with an estimated net worth of $4.6 billion by Forbes in 2002. What I found intriguing about Branson was on December 7, 2009, he unveiled SpaceShipTwo at Mojave Spaceport, California. His company, SpaceShipTwo is in the planning stages, and is going to one day soon, fly his paying customers into space for the first time. Branson’s company, Virgin Galactic, has been working on this unique vision for many years. Only a man with real vision and dreams can carry out such an elaborate project of carrying every-day citizens into space for the first time. What kind of man could dream so big? Who is Richard Branson? Branson is a billionaire who raised the funding himself. He has already booked over three hundred passengers at $200,000 each to fly in his space machines. He has collected over $42 million in ticket sales thus far. Branson, at the age of sixteen, was publishing a student magazine. In 1972, he began a recording label called Virgin Records. He sold the successful record company in 1992 for $1 billion. Then he started another record company in 1996 and has owned an airline, a credit card company, stores, a book publishing company, and more. Branson loves doing the unheard of and has gone on to become very successful and respected in many industries. “For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, to create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.” --Richard Branson Human Settlement on Mars Innovators have come along since man first graced the earth. There is always someone who comes up with an impossible idea that is thought to be foolish. For many centuries people refused to eat tomatoes for fear of being poisoned. That was until someone was brave enough to eat one and find out that it was in fact not poisonous. The first men who tried to fly a metal machine were thought to be insane. After all a heavy piece of metal can’t possible fly and stay airborne, can it? Penicillin is one of the earliest discovered and widely used antibiotic agents. In 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming observed that colonies of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus could be destroyed by the mold Penicillium notatum. Imagine that? Mold used to kill bacteria, and put inside the human body? Fleming’s principle later led to medicines that could kill certain types of disease-causing bacteria inside the body. Buy a Ticket To Mars? Mars One, a non-profit organization, is taking reservations now for their permanent human settlement on Mars. Starting in 2024, there will be crews of four that will depart every two years. It will be a one way trip, so they will build their on colony on Mars. How amazing is that? According to Mars One, on their website, “While complex, the Mars One Mission is feasible. The science and technology required to place humans on Mars exists today. Much of what was learned from Skylab, Mir and the International Space Station has resulted in vital data, experiences with systems and related know-how, all of which are applicable to living on Mars. The Mars One crews are people who want to settle on Mars. Absence of a return mission reduces the mission infrastructure radically...” “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.” --Robert Kennedy “At age 22 he failed in business. At age 23 he ran for State Legislature and was defeated. At age 24 he failed once more in business. At age 25 he was elected to the State Legislature. At age 26 his sweetheart died at an early age. At age 27 he had a nervous breakdown. At age 29 he was defeated for Speaker. At age 31 he was defeated for Elector. At age 34 he was defeated for Congress. At age 37 he was elected to Congress. At age 39 he was defeated for Congress. At age 46 he was defeated for Senate. At age 47 he was defeated for Vice President. At age 49 he was defeated for Senate. At age 51 he was elected the 16th President of the United States. He was Abraham Lincoln.” --Author Unknown The Most Inspiring Achievers Who Changed Our World Mother Teresa lived from 1910-1997. As a Roman Catholic nun she devoted most of her life to serving the poor all around the world. She founded the Missionaries of Charity, a religious congregation, while in India, where she worked for many years helping the poor. In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2003 she was beatified in 2003, the first step on the path to sainthood, within the Catholic church. When awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitutes a threat to peace,” She instructed that the money the award carried, of $192,000, be given to the poor. She has said: “The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.” --Mother Teresa “God gave every single human being a certain amount of talent, and unless you utilize that talent to the utmost of your ability 24 hours of every day of your life, you deceive your God, your family, and above all yourself. This is what life is all about, this is my religion.” --George Allen 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.” “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 “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 Dedication I recently joined a fitness club for the first time. Of course I was new to the entire regimented workout scene, and felt somewhat out of place as a new member, trying to find a good healthy routine for myself. But after a few weeks I got the hang of the various machines and times I needed on each machine that wouldn’t hurt my sensitive back and knees. As I studied the real veterans of the fitness center, the regulars who show up many times per week and for years, I saw the dedication of these participants. I saw people working out so hard and long that I marveled at their drive to stay in tip top shape. There were the massive bodybuilders that had muscles I could never imagine on myself. And there were also the really overweight individuals trying their best to lose weight and stay healthy. I give these individuals a lot of credit for their commitment to success. Their effort in their workouts put my workouts to shame, as I was trying to control and not hurt my troubled parts. Still, they impressed the heck out of me. There also was a blind man in his sixties, a new member that would be helped to the stationary bike by a fitness employee. I observed this man for a couple of weeks. He clearly needed help traveling to the center, and then assistance to work out on the various machines. He was fine once the employees set him up on the machine. He too outperformed me on the stationary bike. The blind individual could have very easily stood home, and no one would ever blame him. Yet he chooses to go out of his way, as a member, and workout at the fitness club. You can tell that the employees love the guy, as they carefully help him and admire him every time. Dedication, inspiration, or intense drive, whatever it is it is a motivating force to everyone that witnesses this individual. It makes me work harder and longer than before. “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 “You can achieve greatness. You must be willing to pay the price to attain such success. What do you want? What is the burning desire deep inside you? When you get very serious about achieving a goal, write it down, and plan how to attain it. The burning desire starts to become more real, and an all-important drive to accomplish that goal takes over. Be careful not to turn all your wants and small goals into burning desires. Keep your burning desires open to only those special dreams and goals. Focus on the major burning desires and success will be yours each and every time.” --John Paul Carinci C-2014 JOHN PAUL CARINCI

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******NOW ON KINDLE!!****** JUST PUBLISHED: "Awesome Success Principles & Quotations" EXCERPT: *************** Uniqueness to me means standing out from the crowd and being different. To be different means much more than merely looking or acting different at certa...in times. It means standing up and being your own person, not just in style but in business, in life, in everyday actions. We live in a society where most people want to follow the follower. One person comes up with a new idea, and everyone suddenly has to fall in line and follow the new and latest trend. Tattoos are a great example. People had been getting tattoos for many decades. Usually the tattoos were popular with servicemen who went to war. They would get a tattoo to show their love for their family or love interest. The tattoos for the most part were simple and not too elaborate. But now, suddenly, like the latest trend, everyone desires tattoos, but not just a simple tattoo. Many individuals have tattoos covering entire arms, legs, faces, backs, etc. Why? Well they want to be part of the latest trend and fit in. Once again, follow the follower. Never once thinking that the large area tattoos are very difficult to remove if they ever change their mind about being someone else’s billboard. “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember, that’s where you will find success.” —Thomas J. Watson We were each born into this world destined for greatness. Maybe our upbringing taught us to take few risks along the way, and go the route that has already been forged for us. In my studies of inventors I see that inventors are very unique. They are risk takers; they are unfazed by failure. The inventor realizes that failures must be plentiful before any real breakthrough in their new invention or idea is achieved. The real key to success for an inventor is not being thrown by all the numerous failures they are presented with, but rather keeping their eyes fixed firmly on the finish line. And the finish line is always the final successful working invention or idea. An author is much the same as an inventor, because to write a full manuscript it takes the average writer a few years. And all along those many months there are many doubts and problems that will present themselves to the writer. But the burning desire to finish an acceptable manuscript, the finish line, is what drives the writer onward. The obstacles that present themselves to the writer are dealt with. They don’t throw the writer, because the prize is the motivator, and the prize is always at the finish line, just like the inventor. I recently observed at the local mall a large flock of geese. They always seem to rest on the grass of the mall parking area. On this particular occasion I wanted to get close up and study them. They are huge. I learned that they can grow as big as 40 inches and weigh as much as 15 pounds. As I studied them there must have been a hundred hanging out on the grass. I moved in real close and they were unfazed. I realized that people were much like the geese; they follow one another behind some kind of leader. The geese at this mall usually graze in one section at a time. And when the leader takes off, they all follow to some other area. Never ever did I see one goose or even two by themselves. Rather they were always all grouped together. Do you dare to stand up, stand out, and be different, even for an extended period of time? Be like that inventor who must travel down a lonely risk-filled road in order to achieve greatness. Greatness comes to those who dare to be different, those who are not afraid to be made fun of in order to follow their own dreams. What is your dream? Is it writing a book? Higher Education? Landing a new job? Do you want to relocate to a different state or country? It will take a real commitment to achieve a new goal. But, like writing a book from scratch, you must keep your eyes focused on the finish line and not on all the obstacles that will surely arise along the long and bumpy road to success. “The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far-between souls who devote 100%.” --Andrew Carnegie People Who Change the Way We All Think Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson was born on July 18, 1950, in Surrey. Branson was the founder of the Virgin Group, which is made up of more than 400 companies. It was in the 1970’s that Branson opened up Virgin Atlantic Air, and expanded to Virgin Records. Branson was listed as the sixth richest citizen of the United Kingdom, with an estimated net worth of $4.6 billion by Forbes in 2002. What I found intriguing about Branson was on December 7, 2009, he unveiled SpaceShipTwo at Mojave Spaceport, California. His company, SpaceShipTwo is in the planning stages, and is going to one day soon, fly his paying customers into space for the first time. Branson’s company, Virgin Galactic, has been working on this unique vision for many years. Only a man with real vision and dreams can carry out such an elaborate project of carrying every-day citizens into space for the first time. What kind of man could dream so big? Who is Richard Branson? Branson is a billionaire who raised the funding himself. He has already booked over three hundred passengers at $200,000 each to fly in his space machines. He has collected over $42 million in ticket sales thus far. Branson, at the age of sixteen, was publishing a student magazine. In 1972, he began a recording label called Virgin Records. He sold the successful record company in 1992 for $1 billion. Then he started another record company in 1996 and has owned an airline, a credit card company, stores, a book publishing company, and more. Branson loves doing the unheard of and has gone on to become very successful and respected in many industries. “For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, to create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.” --Richard Branson Human Settlement on Mars Innovators C-John Paul Carinci "AWESOME SUCCESS PRINCIPLES & QUOTATIONS http://www.amazon.com/Awesome-Success-Principles-Quotations-Carinci-ebook/dp/B00MRLXK9S/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=1-1&qid=1408317252

(from my NEW published self help book) "AWESOME SUCCESS PRINCIPLES" JOHN PAUL CARINCI " 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 http://bookstore.authorhouse.com/Products/SKU-000691037/Awesome-Success-Principles-and-Quotations.aspx " Awesome Success Principles and Quotations " By John Paul Carinci In this age of hustle and bustle and stress filled days, the never ending question is: How can I ever get ahead and rise to the top? Welcome to the latest motivator that will help you to stand out from the crowd, change your life, your attitude, and maintain a newfound uniqueness that will last a lifetime. Awesome Success Principles and Quotations will encourage you through real life examples from many of the truly successful that have excelled in their chosen fields. Together we will analyze the principles that help the top achievers who have ignored the negatives to rise to the top. Along with the finest quotations of all time you will feel like you have a friend that will encourage you on to your own greatness. Start today to change your life with some of the following lessons in success: • The Magic Of Believing • Faith • Understanding The Mind • Affirmations For Success • Enthusiasm • Hope • Vision And Determination • The Will To Succeed And Change

NOW AVAILABLE: "Awesome Success Principles & Quotations" EXCERPT: ********************* Uniqueness to me means standing out from the crowd and being different. To be different means much more than merely looking or acting different at certain times. It means standing up and being your own person, not just in style but in business, in life, in everyday actions. We live in a society where most people want to follow the follower. One person comes up with a new idea, and everyone suddenly has to fall in line and follow the new and latest trend. Tattoos are a great example. People had been getting tattoos for many decades. Usually the tattoos were popular with servicemen who went to war. They would get a tattoo to show their love for their family or love interest. The tattoos for the most part were simple and not too elaborate. But now, suddenly, like the latest trend, everyone desires tattoos, but not just a simple tattoo. Many individuals have tattoos covering entire arms, legs, faces, backs, etc. Why? Well they want to be part of the latest trend and fit in. Once again, follow the follower. Never once thinking that the large area tattoos are very difficult to remove if they ever change their mind about being someone else’s billboard. “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember, that’s where you will find success.” —Thomas J. Watson We were each born into this world destined for greatness. Maybe our upbringing taught us to take few risks along the way, and go the route that has already been forged for us. In my studies of inventors I see that inventors are very unique. They are risk takers; they are unfazed by failure. The inventor realizes that failures must be plentiful before any real breakthrough in their new invention or idea is achieved. The real key to success for an inventor is not being thrown by all the numerous failures they are presented with, but rather keeping their eyes fixed firmly on the finish line. And the finish line is always the final successful working invention or idea. An author is much the same as an inventor, because to write a full manuscript it takes the average writer a few years. And all along those many months there are many doubts and problems that will present themselves to the writer. But the burning desire to finish an acceptable manuscript, the finish line, is what drives the writer onward. The obstacles that present themselves to the writer are dealt with. They don’t throw the writer, because the prize is the motivator, and the prize is always at the finish line, just like the inventor. I recently observed at the local mall a large flock of geese. They always seem to rest on the grass of the mall parking area. On this particular occasion I wanted to get close up and study them. They are huge. I learned that they can grow as big as 40 inches and weigh as much as 15 pounds. As I studied them there must have been a hundred hanging out on the grass. I moved in real close and they were unfazed. I realized that people were much like the geese; they follow one another behind some kind of leader. The geese at this mall usually graze in one section at a time. And when the leader takes off, they all follow to some other area. Never ever did I see one goose or even two by themselves. Rather they were always all grouped together. Do you dare to stand up, stand out, and be different, even for an extended period of time? Be like that inventor who must travel down a lonely risk-filled road in order to achieve greatness. Greatness comes to those who dare to be different, those who are not afraid to be made fun of in order to follow their own dreams. What is your dream? Is it writing a book? Higher Education? Landing a new job? Do you want to relocate to a different state or country? It will take a real commitment to achieve a new goal. But, like writing a book from scratch, you must keep your eyes focused on the finish line and not on all the obstacles that will surely arise along the long and bumpy road to success. “The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far-between souls who devote 100%.” --Andrew Carnegie People Who Change the Way We All Think Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson was born on July 18, 1950, in Surrey. Branson was the founder of the Virgin Group, which is made up of more than 400 companies. It was in the 1970’s that Branson opened up Virgin Atlantic Air, and expanded to Virgin Records. Branson was listed as the sixth richest citizen of the United Kingdom, with an estimated net worth of $4.6 billion by Forbes in 2002. What I found intriguing about Branson was on December 7, 2009, he unveiled SpaceShipTwo at Mojave Spaceport, California. His company, SpaceShipTwo is in the planning stages, and is going to one day soon, fly his paying customers into space for the first time. Branson’s company, Virgin Galactic, has been working on this unique vision for many years. Only a man with real vision and dreams can carry out such an elaborate project of carrying every-day citizens into space for the first time. What kind of man could dream so big? Who is Richard Branson? Branson is a billionaire who raised the funding himself. He has already booked over three hundred passengers at $200,000 each to fly in his space machines. He has collected over $42 million in ticket sales thus far. Branson, at the age of sixteen, was publishing a student magazine. In 1972, he began a recording label called Virgin Records. He sold the successful record company in 1992 for $1 billion. Then he started another record company in 1996 and has owned an airline, a credit card company, stores, a book publishing company, and more. Branson loves doing the unheard of and has gone on to become very successful and respected in many industries. “For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, to create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.” --Richard Branson Human Settlement on Mars Innovators C-John Paul Carinci "AWESOME SUCCESS PRINCIPLES & QUOTATIONS http://bookstore.authorhouse.com/Products/SKU-000691037/Awesome-Success-Principles-and-Quotations.aspx

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A Positive Attitude
“The last great freedom we have is the freedom to choose our attitude under any given set of circumstances.”
—Viktor Frankl


Researchers over the years believe that people who routinely maintain a positive mental attitude may enjoy many benefits such as:
• Increased life span
• Lower rates of depression
• Lower levels of distress
• Greater resistance to the common cold
• Better psychological and physical well-being
• Reduced risk of death from cardiovascular disease
• Better coping skills during hardships and times of stress

I have studied people for many years, and have come to the conclusion that some people have a positive attitude, while some others maintain an attitude of doom and gloom. I believe that we are all born to be great successes. We are each born daring and fearless. But somewhere in our upbringing some people change.
We each possess the ambition, aggressiveness, and mental attitudes to succeed. And even if we have turned off some of the elements needed, we can switch those elements back on, but it will take much practice and work to get in the groove. Some people would rather go with flow, and follow the follower than go the extra mile to achieve greatness.
There are those whom I enjoy being around, because of their positive outlook on life and many of its problems, and those whom I merely tolerate. Those who practice an attitude of doom and gloom about life are unfortunately stuck in a rut. The habit they have developed is hard to break and turn around. And even if they become ecstatic about a sudden turn of good fortune, it will be short lived at best. They can, though, change their attitude, if they practice working on a newfound positive attitude for 20 days. You see, it takes approximately 20 consecutive days to form a new habit.
Practice makes perfect, we all know that line. Reading and practicing positive self help is a great way to begin to change. When I say change, I mean separate yourself from the average person that is doing fine with job and life. But they are not in the top of their field, and not earning the top of their earning potential.

Faith And Appreciation

Dr. Robert Schuller, minister, author, and lecturer on positive thinking, told a story in Insight Publication, about his father and how his father's attitudes have remained with him to this day. Schuller, born and raised on a farm in Iowa in the 1930s, lived during a very difficult time for farmers. In one year, his father would normally harvest 10 wagons of corn from their farm, but in one particularly bad year his father harvested only half a wagon. Schuller remembers his father's feelings at the time this way: “I'll never forget how, that night, seated at the dinner table, his calloused hands folded in prayer, my father looked up and thanked God. He said, 'I thank you, God, that I have lost nothing, I got a half a wagon load back. I have regained the seed I planted in the springtime.'
“His attitude of gratitude was that he had lost nothing.”
In another example of his father's “Attitude of Gratitude,” Schuller tells of the time a tornado hit their home without any warning, and how they all managed to escape in the family car without harm, but the tornado did destroy all nine of their buildings on the farm.
The next night at a gathering in the country church he heard his father pray: “Oh God, I thank you that not a life was lost, not a human bone was broken. We have lost nothing that cannot be recaptured, regained and replaced. And through the storm, oh God, we have kept everything that would have been irreplaceable - the lives of the children and our own faith.”

Rev. Robert H. Schuller was born on September 16, 1926 and is now a retired American televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and author. Rev. Schuller is the founder of Southern California's Crystal Cathedral, a huge church with a congregation of 10,000, and he was the host of the "Hour of Power" televangelism broadcast. He once said: “Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.”
“When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you are trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest, if you must—but don’t you quit!
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don’t give up, though the pace seems slow—
You might succeed with another blow. . . .
Success is failure turned inside out—
the silver tint of the clouds of doubt—
And you can never tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you are hardest hit—
It’s when things get worse that you mustn’t quit!”
—Edgar A. Guest

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THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT ALL

"The Long And Short Of It All" (article taken from John's new book "AWESOME SUCCESS PRINCIPLES" avail. in OCT.)
"I am convinced, after many years, that our lives on earth should not be taken for granted. And a healthy, long life, if we are ...so blessed to have one, is not our right, but rather a special gift from our Creator. Our lives seem to be lived in a rushed pace every day. I see people in a mad rush to drive from here to there, sometimes at a dangerous pace. We are so busy these days that most of us don’t take the time to be thankful for a healthy long life.

Life is not guaranteed to anyone. And no matter wealthy or poor, everyone has the same opportunity at a long life. In my long life thus far, I have been given a wakeup call every so often. You see I have witnessed death far too soon in friends, loved ones and acquaintances. From early on in my insurance career I had to deliver death benefit checks to several beneficiaries of insured clients who had died far too soon. One such instance was a child of five. Another was a nineteen-year old client who had also been a classmate of mine.

Early on I realized that life was meant for living, but also it should be maximized to one’s fullest potential. The Army says it best: “Be all you can be.” And just when I slack off and stop pushing forward with
planning and achieving worthwhile goals, I get a sudden jolt
of a new wakeup call.

I remember one day, walking for exercise in my local mall, and coming across a man in a motorized wheelchair who wheeled himself up to me. He must have been 40 years of age. I was seated and he spoke to me, but I couldn’t understand him at first. Finally I understood that he wanted me to lift his paralyzed leg up and place it better on the footrest of the wheelchair. His speech was affected, as was most of his body, I found out, from a car accident when he was only nineteen. He had suffered paralysis and brain
injury. Now, all he could move was his fingers to operate the toggle switch of the motorized chair, and some facial muscles.

I wanted to learn more about this man, who evidently motored through the mall on a regular basis. My heart ached for him, as I tried to put myself in his place, just for a short time. It took me three tries to lift his dead-weight
leg up enough to place it back on the footrest.

I later found out that the accident from 21 years earlier had been the result of drinking and driving, which made me feel even worse. I learned a great lesson from Ken that day. I learned that every day must be lived to the fullest. I also realized that we are shown many disturbing things in life so that we can learn from them and become better and more productive
individuals.

I believe in God, in the hereafter, and that we will meet all our loved ones in the hereafter. I believe that life is a very special and precious gift that must not be squandered. And lastly, we will be asked one day, by our Creator, to recount in minute detail, all of our achievements and good deeds. That is what drives me on. How can I explain to my Creator that
I didn’t feel up to achieving more than I did?

Now the positive take on the hourglass. People on average are living far longer than before. Eighty years old today is no big thing, while eighty from just 50 years ago was a big thing, and the people today are much healthier at their advanced ages.

A growing number of Americans are living to age 100. Nationwide, the centenarian population has grown 65.8 percent over the past three decades, from 32,194 people who were age 100 or older in 1980 to 53,364 centenarians in 2010, according to latest Census Bureau data. As reported
in US News & World Report, by Emily Brandon.

Jeanne Louise Calment, until August 4,1997, was the oldest living person in the world. She lived to the extended age of 122 years, 164 days. Calment was born on February 21, 1875, and lived in Arles, France.

I currently follow a woman who once lived in Staten Island who is over 105 years old and is sharp as can be. She is on Facebook every day, communicating and ending videos of herself out to all her friends online.
C-2014 John Paul Carinci from the soon to be released book: AWESOME SUCCESS PRINCIPLES See More

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(Excerpt) from my soon to be published self help book: *Awesome Success Principles and Quotations*
"Let’s look at Henry Ford, who in his early years began working on inventing a gas-driven engine. Ford had a study done by a leading college ...to see if the gas engine could be invented. After extensive study, the college’s technical department determined that the idea could not be done. A piston could not be made to move by gasoline-ignited power.
Henry Ford still believed he could build such an engine. He purchased his own parts and with help from his wife, he got the first makeshift piston powered by droplets of gasoline ignited by a spark. The rest is history.
The horses and the steam engines of the day were gradually replaced with the internal combustion engine in the early 1900s. Henry Ford then developed the first successful automobile assembly line, building cars faster than anyone had imagined.
A man with vision, determination, and fortitude, Henry Ford proved himself a true visionary who would not let his ideas be extinguished by the negativity and ridicule of others.

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
—David Beckham

“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.”
--Henry Ford

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
--Henry Ford

Attitudes Of The Highly Successful

I have studied athletes and inventors, and businessmen who have achieved greatness against all odds. Some have failed miserably, lost everything, then have managed to come back from failure and achieved success far greater than many others. There are certain mindsets that these highly successful possess that I feel separate them from the crowd. They are:
• Never allowing failure to affect their intense drive to achieve that all-important goal.
• Accepting from the start that there will be hundreds, if not thousands of failures, before they succeed.
• Never allowing the negativity that others have about their goal to penetrate their thinking or deter them from their unending drive to make it to their finish line.
• Understanding that the “Impossible” has been achieved time and again by men with vision since the beginning of time.
• Never, ever allowing themselves to get sidetracked from that all-important goal at hand.
• Understanding that each and every failure is their stepping stone and brings them closer to achieving their goal.

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”
--Thomas Edison

“The inventor looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.”
--Alexander Graham Bell

““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 Poet/Philosopher

**You Are the Greatest Living Miracle in the World**
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."
C-2014 John Paul Carinci See More

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Excerpt From New Self Help Book

***NEW*** An Excerpt - from my soon to be release self help book: "Awesome Success Principles and Quotations"
******* "Let’s look at Henry Ford, who in his early years began working on inventing a gas-driven engine. Ford had a study done by... a leading college to see if the gas engine could be invented. After extensive study, the college’s technical department determined that the idea could not be done. A piston could not be made to move by gasoline-ignited power.
Henry Ford still believed he could build such an engine. He purchased his own parts and with help from his wife, he got the first makeshift piston powered by droplets of gasoline ignited by a spark. The rest is history.
The horses and the steam engines of the day were gradually replaced with the internal combustion engine in the early 1900s. Henry Ford then developed the first successful automobile assembly line, building cars faster than anyone had imagined.
A man with vision, determination, and fortitude, Henry Ford proved himself a true visionary who would not let his ideas be extinguished by the negativity and ridicule of others.

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
—David Beckham

“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.”
--Henry Ford

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
--Henry Ford

Attitudes Of The Highly Successful

I have studied athletes and inventors, and businessmen who have achieved greatness against all odds. Some have failed miserably, lost everything, then have managed to come back from failure and achieved success far greater than many others. There are certain mindsets that these highly successful possess that I feel separate them from the crowd. They are:
• Never allowing failure to affect their intense drive to achieve that all-important goal.
• Accepting from the start that there will be hundreds, if not thousands of failures, before they succeed.
• Never allowing the negativity that others have about their goal to penetrate their thinking or deter them from their unending drive to make it to their finish line.
• Understanding that the “Impossible” has been achieved time and again by men with vision since the beginning of time.
• Never, ever allowing themselves to get sidetracked from that all-important goal at hand.
• Understanding that each and every failure is their stepping stone and brings them closer to achieving their goal.

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”
--Thomas Edison

“The inventor looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.”
--Alexander Graham Bell

““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 Poet/Philosopher

**You Are the Greatest Living Miracle in the World**
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."
C-2014 John Paul Carinci

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(Excerpt) from my soon to be published self help book: *Awesome Success Principles and Quotations*
"Let’s look at Henry Ford, who in his early years began working on inventing a gas-driven engine. Ford had a study done by a leading college ...to see if the gas engine could be invented. After extensive study, the college’s technical department determined that the idea could not be done. A piston could not be made to move by gasoline-ignited power.
Henry Ford still believed he could build such an engine. He purchased his own parts and with help from his wife, he got the first makeshift piston powered by droplets of gasoline ignited by a spark. The rest is history.
The horses and the steam engines of the day were gradually replaced with the internal combustion engine in the early 1900s. Henry Ford then developed the first successful automobile assembly line, building cars faster than anyone had imagined.
A man with vision, determination, and fortitude, Henry Ford proved himself a true visionary who would not let his ideas be extinguished by the negativity and ridicule of others.

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
—David Beckham

“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.”
--Henry Ford

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
--Henry Ford

Attitudes Of The Highly Successful

I have studied athletes and inventors, and businessmen who have achieved greatness against all odds. Some have failed miserably, lost everything, then have managed to come back from failure and achieved success far greater than many others. There are certain mindsets that these highly successful possess that I feel separate them from the crowd. They are:
• Never allowing failure to affect their intense drive to achieve that all-important goal.
• Accepting from the start that there will be hundreds, if not thousands of failures, before they succeed.
• Never allowing the negativity that others have about their goal to penetrate their thinking or deter them from their unending drive to make it to their finish line.
• Understanding that the “Impossible” has been achieved time and again by men with vision since the beginning of time.
• Never, ever allowing themselves to get sidetracked from that all-important goal at hand.
• Understanding that each and every failure is their stepping stone and brings them closer to achieving their goal.

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”
--Thomas Edison

“The inventor looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.”
--Alexander Graham Bell

““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 Poet/Philosopher

**You Are the Greatest Living Miracle in the World**
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."
C-2014 John Paul Carinci See More

 

 

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The Power of Being Different

 

A Success Formula

 

 

 

by

 

John Paul Carinci

 

 

 

Edited by Donald MacLaren

 

© Copyright 2004 John Paul Carinci

 

 

 

Dedication

     

 

To my father - one of the greatest inspirations in my life, the person I strive to emulate.  He was what we all should be - loving and unselfish to the very end.

            To my mother – who taught me that I was capable of much more than an average effort.

            To my wife, Vera – the love of my life, who tamed a wild bull.

 

 

 

 

Contents

 

 

Chapter 1                                 Uniqueness Leads to Great Success

Chapter 2                                Time is a Precious Gift

Chapter 3                                The Little Things That Make All The Difference

Chapter 4                                A Positive Attitude

Chapter 5                                The Miracle of Life

Chapter 6                                It’s a Great Day to Be Alive

Chapter 7                                The Mind Over the Body

Chapter 8                                The Subconscious Mind

Chapter 9                                Positive Reaffirming

Chapter 10                              Perseverance: A Trait To Learn

Chapter 11                              Positive Visualization

Chapter 12                              Your Mind As a Filter

Chapter 13                              Happiness – It’s All Around You

Chapter 14                              The Magic of Believing

Chapter 15                              Preventing Success

Chapter 16                              Understanding Negative Habits

Chapter 17                              The Magic In Selling

Chapter 18                              Getting Enthusiasm Back Into Your Life

Chapter 19                              Faith In Yourself

Chapter 20                              Burning Desire

Chapter 21                              Remembering Where You Came From

Chapter 22                              Don’t Be Nonchalant About Life

Chapter 23                              The Power of Belief

Chapter 24                              Dissatisfaction Accomplishes More

Chapter 25                              Death Can Be A Motivating Force

Chapter 26                              I Must Be More Now!

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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

                                                                                      30^th President of the United States

                                                                                      (1923-1929)

 

 

 

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 twenty-plus 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.

 

 

 

 

God gave every single human being

                                                   a certain amount of talent, and unless

                                                   you utilize that talent to the utmost

                                                   of your ability 24 hours of every day

                                                   your life, you deceive your God, your

                                                   family, and above all yourself. This is

                                                   what life is all about, this is my religion.

 

                                                                                                            --George Allen

                                                                                                               Football Coach

                                                                                    (1918-1990)

 

 

 

The Little That Make All The Difference

 

 

 

Do your work - not just your work and

                                                 no more, but a little more for the

                                                 lavishing's sake; that little more

                                                 which is worth all the rest. And if

                                                 you suffer, as you must, do your work.

                                                 Put your heart into it, and the sky

                                                 will clear. Then out of your very doubt

                                                 and suffering will be born the supreme

                                                 joy of life.

 

                                                                                                  --Dean Briggs

                                                                                Spiritual Writer

 

 

 

No More Just An Average Person

If you look at the average worker, you will see that too many people do only what is expected of them and no more. How many people do you know who are enthusiastic about their work? Do most of the people you know only dream about getting off work in order to be free to have their “fun time?”

            Since the average person will only do the minimum amount of work, you can distinguish yourself and achieve greater opportunities by investing your “extra effort.” Your extra effort will develop new opportunities for you, provide you with financial rewards, and help you to excel. To excel in your field should be one of your goals.

Remember the old cartoon Yogi Bear? His motto was, “Smarter than the average bear.” That’s a good motto for all of us. Being average does not guarantee success. Being average is boring. Be different by being above average, and you will excel.

The real challenge is in being different.

 

 

Excel Beyond the Average

The annual New York City Marathon draws at least 20,000 runners. The race is a little over 26 miles long. After running 26 miles, the first runner may be ahead of the second runner only by 30 seconds and 50 yards. Such a small window of time over 26 miles may make the difference between winning and losing the race. The first-place runner did a little bit extra that made all the difference in winning the race.

It's said that if the average baseball player were to get only one more hit out of every 10-15 times that he comes to bat, that player then would be guaranteed a spot in baseball’s Hall Of Fame.  In addition, that player would have earned millions of dollars extra over the average player. Average? Anyone can be average. Ted Williams, an outstanding player who qualified for baseball’s Hall of Fame, showed what it meant not to be average. There may seem to be small differences in players, but the results are profound.

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

I remember starting out as a young salesman for a major company when the vice president of the company came to our office for a sales meeting. After the meeting, I walked up to him and shook his hand. Before letting go of our handshake, I said, “Mr. Posa, I'm going to be one of your district managers one day. I don't know exactly when, but you are going to promote me to that position one day.” Two years later I fulfilled that prophecy I had made to him and the promise I made to myself to advance quickly in the company. At age 27, I became the company’s youngest manager.

            I knew I would be promoted in the company because I was totally consumed by the desire to be a district manager. Every day I thought about it.  I pictured myself as the manager of the agency and acted as if I’d already had the position. I knew in my heart I would be promoted; I just didn’t know when.

When you have a burning desire to accomplish something, nothing can stop you. You accept the hardships and disappointments. You separate yourself from the average workers by your consuming desire to reach your goal.

 

 

Small Efforts Can Pay Off In Big Ways

Assuming you get eight hours of sleep, imagine if you could get by with 7 1/2 hours of sleep from age 35. Over a lifetime you would end up with an extra 7,720 hours of waking time. Can you imagine how much more you could achieve in your lifetime with all that time?

A little extra effort can result in greater rewards.

You may have to start by sleeping five minutes less every day, until you are comfortable with that goal. After that goal is achieved, you can get up another five minutes earlier. Gradually, you will be giving yourself anywhere from ten minutes to thirty minutes of “extra time” that will help you reach a greater goal.

If you heat water to 211 degrees Fahrenheit, you simply have hot water. By heating the water to 212 degrees Fahrenheit, you have boiling water. That one degree makes the difference that can move locomotives, and steamships, while also even melting certain compounds.

Are you operating at the 211 degree level? Are you willing to give that extra one-degree effort? With just a little bit extra effort and creative imagination, you could improve yourself and the world around you.

Horse races, sometimes, are won “by a nose.” In a photo finish, that may mean that the first place horse was a hundredth or one-thousandth of a second faster than another horse.

Roger Maris, a former New York Yankees ballplayer and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, became famous when he broke Babe Ruth's home run record. In 1961, Maris hit 61 home runs, breaking Ruth’s home run record of 60 home runs held since 1927.

            In 1982, Rickey Henderson guaranteed himself a spot in Baseball’s Hall of Fame by setting a new record for stolen bases. He stole 130 bases in one season, breaking Lou Brock's old record of 118, set in 1974.

Since the first Olympic games many centuries ago in Athens, Greece, records have been shattered and new ones made. The brain often wills the body to accomplish the record-breaking feat.

 

 

The Mental Attitude To Doing More

Sports records have been broken by those willing to make the extra effort.

In Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude, a self-help book by Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone, a story about Roger Bannister appeared:  “In 1954 Roger Bannister set a new world record by running the one-mile race in less than 4 minutes. It had never been done in the history of track and field competition. How did he do it when no one else in history could do it? Here's how: his trainer Dr. Cureton came up with a training plan of action: 'Number one, Train the whole body. Number two, push yourself to the limit of endurance, extending the limit with each workout.' Dr. Cureton said, 'The art of record-breaking is the ability to take more out of yourself than you've got.'

“Roger Bannister trained in the following manner: Since the quarter of the mile can be run faster per quarter than the full mile, he trained so that each quarter of the mile was a race in itself, and if he ran them at quarter mile paces, he could put four of them together and run the mile faster than he normally could.

“Bannister would run all out a quarter of a mile at a time to the point of collapse, and each time he would push the point of collapse a little further along the way. Well, on May 6, 1954 Roger Bannister ran the mile in 3 minutes 59.6 seconds, the fastest time in the world.”

After Bannister broke the four-minute mile, many other runners started breaking the four-minute mile barrier. They had learned that they had to develop the power of positive thinking in order to produce greater results. Once they learned to set their minds to accomplish a new goal, more and more runners began learning that their minds could be used to help them break the old records.

            Your mind is capable of many more things. All you have to do is break through your own mental limitations.

It was William James who said, “The first and most important factor at the beginning of any project is belief.”

 

 

The Power Deep Inside

I believe your subconscious mind stores information you can use to be successful. Use that information by following Dr. Cureton’s advice and take yourself “to the limit of endurance.” With a little bit of extra time and effort invested in yourself, you will surprise yourself at what you will achieve.

            Did you ever notice in sports, such as baseball, the American pastime, that many times, if a team scores two quick runs on another team, the opposing team coincidentally catches up by scoring back those two runs themselves? In basketball, one team will seem to score 10 points quickly. Amazingly, the other team rebounds with a surge of 8-10 points quickly.            Have you seen in hockey where both teams will go scoreless most of the game? When one team scores, the opposing team will rebound with a goal to tie the score. Why is this so common?

Your subconscious mind is a great powerhouse to help you do whatever you have to do. The subconscious mind is constantly sending thoughts to your conscious mind. I believe your subconscious mind can force you to accomplish greater results.

I am convinced that if we were to take a baseball team into a room midway through a game, even if that team was winning the game, we could convince them through hypnosis that they were losing by 5 runs. At that point, the subconscious mind of each player would start sending signals to his conscious mind that he had to play harder in order to win the game. There is an amazing power going on in the subconscious that can force the conscious mind and eventually the body to perform either aggressively or lackadaisically.

Since you know this power exists, be very careful what you feed your mind. I believe that your subconscious mind is like a sponge, absorbing information, only to reappear later as positive or negative impulses.

            Don't let your subconscious draw in negative thoughts. Someone once said, “We are what we think about.”

            What are you feeding your mind lately? Remember the computer user’s phrase, “Garbage in, garbage out” can hold true for your mind. The better phrase to live by every day is “Positive in, positive outcome.”

Never forget: A successful person never lives a nonchalant life!

 

 

 

 

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

                                                                              Poet/Philosopher
 

 

 

A Positive Attitude

 

 

 

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

                                                                       3^rd United States President

                                                                       (1743-1826)

 

 

The Creative Fire In You

Don't let anyone stomp on your dreams, kill your inspirations, or put out your fire of aggressive creativity with gratuitous negativity.

Inspiration is the creative fire of phenomenal ideas.

Thankfully, the great inventors through the ages were not quitters. They did not let negative public opinion sway them from accomplishing their endeavors.

You are capable of great ideas. What is your great idea? Could one of your ideas become a useful invention? Could one of your ideas be turned into a great book? Could one of your ideas help save the lives of millions of people? You have such great potential. Just dream it, be consumed by it, and it will be yours.

You may have decided you would rather forget your idea than subject yourself to others laughing at you and embarrassing you. Ridicule from others is not easy to accept and something you don’t want to hear. You become scared about your ideas when others tell you “you’re wasting your time.”

            Do you remember the Dick Tracy detective comics in the newspapers years ago? Remember how Dick Tracy would talk into his wristwatch telephone? It sounded crazy then, but the idea became a reality once an inventor developed the microchips needed for such a telephone. To the average person, the idea seemed too big and too difficult to comprehend. How could a big telephone be reduced to the size of a wristwatch? For the person who uses his creative imagination, the questions became, ‘How can I miniaturize the telephone circuitry and make it work?’ and ‘How can I make the telephone work over the airwaves without a connecting wire?’

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

Thanks to a lot of inventions in technology and satellite communications by many people and companies, you can now talk to people around the world from a small portable phone just like Dick Tracy.

 

 

Conceive, Believe, and Achieve

Notice how the airplane looks like a bird. Man observed, conceived, believed, and then achieved flying according to the same principles by which birds fly.

The first television set came out in the 1940's. If I told people in 1940 that I was going to invent a one-inch by one-inch color television, they would have laughed behind my back by calling me the biggest fool on earth. That miniature color television set now exists. And not only that, you can now have your color video telephone to go along with your miniature color television.

I’ve become aware how miniaturized everything has become. Our western culture has become a culture of miniaturized, technological devices. Inventors, scientists, and researchers have used their creative imagination to find ways to put volumes of books on a CD, to scan billions of bits of information in less than a second, and to incorporate whole libraries of books into small memory boards. Researchers, applying their creative imagination, are trying to develop future computers that use atoms for storing information, not just chips. These new inventions will lead to further miniaturizing computers, cameras, telephones, and all kinds of electronic and communication products.

            You can certainly see that technology keeps changing and improving. If you don’t start working on your creative ideas now, someone else may have the persistence to accomplish what you wanted to accomplish.

Thank God there are individuals who have the vision, determination, and drive to forge ahead through failure after failure. You may only have the mental picture of a given idea or invention, but that mental picture can be enough to keep you working on your idea. Thousands of new inventions are being patented every day. When will people see the completion of your idea?

Imagine somewhere that there should be a monument to lost ideas. It’s not a junk heap. It’s the should-have-been heap. It’s a pile of the best ideas that were never tried or fulfilled. It’s the unfulfilled patents or never-written books or never-created ideas because somebody was afraid to try or somebody ridiculed the idea to death. Is that where you want your ideas to end up?

Look at Henry Ford, who in his early years began working on inventing a gas-driven engine. Ford had a study done by a leading college to see if the gas engine could be invented. After extensive study, the college’s technical department determined that the idea could not be done. A piston could not be made to move by gasoline-ignited power.

Henry Ford still believed he could build such an engine. He purchased his own parts and with  help from his wife, he got the first makeshift piston powered by droplets of gasoline ignited by a spark. The rest is history. The horses and the steam engines of the day were gradually replaced with the internal combustion engine in the early 1900s. Henry Ford then developed the first successful automobile assembly line, building cars faster than anyone had imagined. A man with vision, determination, and fortitude, Henry Ford proved himself a true visionary who would not let his ideas be extinguished by the negativity and ridicule of others.

 

 

Steps To Securing Your Vision

First, don't stop yourself from dreaming; dreaming is the starting point.

Second, don't let others stifle your creative imagination. Your ideas are greatest when you feel free to use your imagination.

Third, don’t let your problems stop you. It’s been said that going to sleep with a problem can be a good thing. During your sleep, your brain can quietly think about the problem. You can actually wake up with a new solution to your problem. Allow your

subconscious mind to work on the problem.

Your mind is a tremendous tool when given the opportunity to prove itself.

Researchers believe people use only about 5% of the brain’s capacity. That leaves 95% room for your creative imagination. You can use that extra part of your brain to keep telling yourself, “I’m going to do it!  I’m going to do it!  I’m going to be successful!”  Let yourself be different and think! Use your brain and think! There is so much more you can be doing with your brain capacity than you imagined!

Wilber and Orville Wright first flew a heavier-than-air machine in 1903. But they were successful only after repeated failures. The average person around them dismissed the idea that any human could fly. Once the Wright brothers proved flight in machines to be possible, the world quickly picked up the pace and improved the design. Today, we’ve gone from flying a few feet off the ground to flying into space.

It amazes me how it takes a major breakthrough before all the rest of the people in the world believe what is possible.

It’s always easier to say, with the average person, that something is impossible than to use your creative imagination, work hard, and let your subconscious bring about a breakthrough, a new invention, or to turn a new idea into reality.

 

 

What the mind of man can conceive

                                                    and believe it can achieve, through

                                                    a positive mental Attitude.

 

                                                                                              --Napoleon Hill

                                                                                Motivational Author

                                                                                (1883-1970)

 

 

There are some race horses who can not run a good race because they're distracted by the commotion at the starting gate. The trainers usually try to fix the problem by putting blinders on a horse’s eyes to block out the distractions and keep the horse focused directly in front. The blinders in some horses can make a difference between winning and losing a race.

All of us occasionally need to put on mental blinders to block out too much negativity and skepticism. You don’t need bad comments, bad thoughts, and people emphasizing your failures at a time when you are very close to succeeding.

You have to keep focused, stay positive, and eliminate dwelling on any comments from others that are not helping you to find solutions you need to succeed.

Anyone criticizing you should also try to help you find success. The last thing you need is to have one or more people telling you what a failure you are. You can always find someone who will want to kill your idea, inspiration, perseverance, and drive. Remember, success is not easy to achieve. It’s a long road that many refuse to walk.

            As for the negative people around you, you will have to work around them or avoid them. You don’t want their negativity to register inside and overpower your subconscious.

I believe most of the great inventors and achievers have had to use mental blinders and have had to get past a lot of negative comments. Just as a bodybuilder works hard to build up his or her muscles, so too, you have to build up your mind to learn to sidestep all the negative influences and stay focused on your goal of success.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Remember:

 

      1- Determine clearly what it is you want to accomplish.

 

      2- Write it down in detail.

 

      3- Write down why you wish to accomplish this goal.

 

      4- Write down how long it will take to accomplish the goal. Write down exactly the time needed and how you will invest yourself daily and weekly to reach your goal.

 

      5- Write out a complete statement to the effect that under no circumstances will you allow anyone to alter your attitude toward the accomplishment of the desired goal.

 

 

Success seems to be connected with

                                                   action. Successful people keep moving.

                                                   They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

 

                                                                                                  --Conrad Hilton

                                                                                       Hotel Owner

                                                                                       (1887-1979)

 

 

I read an inspirational story that I will never forgot. It came from the aforementioned Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude by Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone. They told a story about a farmer named Milo C. Jones, who for most of his life had owned a small farm in Wisconsin. He had been barely able to provide enough for his family and himself year after year, never making a great living.

            One year Jones was struck down with paralysis that left him bedridden and incapacitated. Though paralyzed, he had a very sharp mind. He believed in being responsible and strengthened his determination not to quit or give up on life. Jones knew he had to do something to help his family. He called his family together around his bed for a meeting at which time he told them his new plan of action.

“I am no longer able to work with my hands, so I have decided to work with my mind. Everyone of you can, if you will, take the place of my hands, feet, and physical body. Let's plant every tillable acre of our farm in corn. Then let's raise pigs and feed them the corn. Let's slaughter the pigs while they are young and tender and convert them into sausages.  Then we can package and sell the sausages under our own brand name. We’ll sell them in retail stores around the country. They'll sell like hot cakes,” Jones told his family enthusiastically.

This was the founding idea that began Jones’ Little Pig Sausages. The family members followed the plan and the sausages sold in stores and the business thrived. That was in 1889 and the recipe is still used today.

Milo C. Jones could have given up on life very easily and nobody would have blamed him because of his disability. But Jones was a man who did not want to lie in bed doing nothing. He took what he had left, his mind, and used it to the very best of his ability. He used his creative imagination. I'm convinced that his mind actually got sharper after he became paralyzed.

A blind person learns to hear differently than a person who has the ability to see. People have learned to work through their physical limitations without being defeated by the limitations. We may call it compensating for the limitation, but it’s more than plain compensation. There’s a new way of thinking. The limitation forces some people to think differently in spite of the limitation.

All of us have limitations of some type – physical or financial. Your goal is to achieve your dreams in spite of your limitations. Limitations are no longer limitations; they are no longer an excuse for failure. Limitations are simply a set of problems that you have to solve in order to go forward to find success. Your creative imagination is the spark, and hard work is the piston driving you forward. You can achieve your goals in spite of your problems.

Imagine what you could do if you went from using the five percent of your brain to using ten percent of your brain. Every percentage point that you increase in using your brain could yield incredible results in your life.

 It's our attitude at the beginning

                                                       of a difficult task, that will more

                                                       than anything else determine it's

                                                       outcome.

 

                                                                                                     -- William James

                                                                                         Psychologist

                                                                                         (1842-1910)

 

 

 

The Miracle of Life

 

 

 

Thank God every morning when you get up

                                             that you have something to do which must

                                             be done, whether you like it or not, being

                                             forced to work, and forced to do your best,

                                             will breed in you a hundred virtues which

                                             the idle never know.

 

                                                                                                                        --Charles Kingsley

                                                                                                Author/Clergy

                                                                                                (1819-1875)

 

 

 

Your Uniqueness Creates Your Success

As you get older, you most likely learn to appreciate life more - the miracle of life, the latent powers within the mind, and the meaning of your own distinctive personality.

While sitting in the car waiting for my wife, I noticed a flying insect on the window next to me. It appeared to be no bigger than the eye of a large sewing needle. I watched it walk slowly up the window. As I studied it, I thought, All the different varieties of life on this planet are amazing.

I noticed this miniscule insect had half of its body covered by wings. I was always intrigued  how insects and birds could fly and defy gravity. This insect had lightweight wings, which were strong enough to carry the insect away quickly.

I had an epiphany about the miracle of life. Although this insect was not the smallest form of life on earth, I had been mesmerized thinking about this creature with its own heart, brain, nervous system, lungs, stomach, arteries, and, oh yes, six legs. That insect impressed me.

I’ve read that the human body has approximately 70,000 miles of blood vessels. When the heart beats, it circulates the blood through the entire system of vessels once every minute. Another amazing fact is that the human brain weighs only about three pounds, yet it holds an estimated eighty trillion electrical cells.

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