Sep
3
2010
Life is the best teacher of all. Most of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around. Each push is life saying, “Wake up. There’s something I want you to learn.” If you learn life’s lessons, you will do well. If not, life will just continue to push you around.
People do two things. Some just let life push them around. Others get angry and push back. But they push back against their boss, or their job, or their husband or wife. They do not know it’s life that’s pushing. Life pushes all of us around. Some give up. Others fight. A few learn the lesson and move on. They welcome life pushing them around. To these few people, it means they need and want to learn something. They learn and move on. Most quit, and a few will fight.
If you learn this lesson, you will grow into a wise, wealthy and happy young man. If you don’t, you will spend your life blaming a job, low pay or your boss for your problems. You’ll live life hoping for that big break that will solve all your money problems.
Or if you’re the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you’re that kind of person, you’ll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for some event that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man. You’ll have lots of friends who really like you because you were such a nice hard-working guy. You spent a life playing it safe, doing the right things. But the truth is, you let life push you into submission. Deep down you were terrified of taking risks. You really wanted to win, but the fear of losing was greater than the excitement of winning. Deep inside, you and only you will know you didn’t go for it. You chose to play it safe.
—Rich Dad teaching Robert Kiyosaki his first lesson
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Aug
20
2010
At times when I was in doubt as to how others might judge me when I wanted to do something that I believed to be the right thing to do, I was always reminded of what Mother Teresa had written on the wall of Mother Teresa’s Home for Children in Calcutta:
People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies.
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you.
Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight.
Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten.
Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.
Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.
Here’s a song that tells this message clearly:
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Aug
15
2010
We all talk to ourselves, whether you’re aware of it or not. These internal talks come from our subconscious mind. Sometimes, our intuition try to nudge us when there’s an important decision to make. Sometimes, without being aware of it, this voice talks us out of our dreams.
To me, the most devastating word you can use to limit yourself from getting what you want is “but”.
Have you ever come across people who told you about a great idea they wanted to venture in, and you encouraged them to take action, only to hear them say without hesitation, “yeah, but…” followed by a string of reasons why it won’t work?
These are the people who think with their “but”.
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Jul
30
2010
If you are one of the minority of people who regularly go to a gym for exercise, then congratulations! It means you have the right priorities and terrific discipline. But it’s fair to say that at times, even for committed exercisers, motivation often flags, and there are days when it requires a Herculean effort just to put on your workout clothes and walk through the gym doors.
Here are 13 ways to make your exercise routine a little easier.
- Avoid the mirrors.
- Create your own personal gym mix CDs or playlists, and listen to them as you work out.
- Think of someone who irritates you.
- Drink a bottle of water or juice on your way to the gym.
- Think you can and you will.
- Turn off the TV when exercising.
- Work out with a friend.
- Wear the right shoes for the right class.
- Set a short-term workout goal.
- Whenever you feel as if you’re out of steam, hire a trainer.
- Change your routine every three to four weeks.
- Work out during the least crowded hours.
- Invent a competition with the person on the next treadmill.
Get the full details of 13 Tips for a Better Workout at Reader’s Digest.
1 comment | tags: lose weight, procrastination, workout | posted in Health & Longevity
Jul
28
2010
“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.”
—Anthony Robbins
Today, in one of my weekly trainings, I shared about the Pain-Pleasure Principle (PPP) that was popularised by Anthony Robbins. The PPP explains that all decisions and choices that we make in life are motivated by either:
- gaining the pleasure of; or
- avoiding the pain of not
making those decisions and choices.
Think about it. You’ve made the choice of getting into that job, relationship or business at some point in time. You did it probably because of the promises you saw in it. Or you probably did it because of the pain of not having it. Either way, you were motivated by the PPP.
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Jul
14
2010
Have you ever noticed how the thermostat works?
When you have set the desired thermal range and the temperature in the room approaches the edge of your desired thermal range, the thermostat sends an electrical signal to the air-conditioner to turn it on or off. As the temperature in the room begins to change, the electrical signals continue to respond to the changes and keep the temperature within the desired range.
Eventually, the room temperature always remains at the thermal range you have set.
Your comfort zone works the same way too.
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Jul
8
2010
The world doesn’t pay you for what you know; it pays you for what you do. Even with scores of success principles we can easily find from the Internet, books, workshops, seminars, articles and many more age-old advices that tell us that taking action is the only thing that creates results, it’s surprising how many people still get bogged down in analysing, planning, organising and waiting for the right time when what they really need to do is TAKE ACTION.
The real meaning of: Satisfaction
In Latin, the word satis means “enough”. Combine satis-of-action (enough of action) and you get satisfaction. Now you know clearly that enough action ultimately produces satisfaction.
Quit Waiting
It’s time to quit waiting for:
- perfection
- inspiration
- permission
- reassurance
- approval
- acceptance
- someone to change
- something to change
- someone to buy from you
- the right person to come along
- the kids to leave home
- a better feng shui
- a better horoscope prediction
- the fear to disappear
- the risk to disappear
- someone to discover your talent
- instructions
- more self-confidence
- more courage
- the pain to go away
- the right timing
- the next New Year
- your spouse to get in the mood
- the next promotion
- the next increment
- the perfect customer to come by
- your downlines to change
- your siblings to apologise
- the interviewer to call
- your surroundings to change
- someone to understand your situation
- luck
- the next big break
- your mood to change
Just stop waiting and move on already.
Quit waiting for the next raise to afford that downpayment. Start doing something now to get you closer to affording it. Quit waiting for your mood to change to start doing something. Start doing something to get yourself in the mood. Quit waiting for that uncertain promotion from your boss. Ask him/her what does it take for you to get that promotion and start acting on it already. Quit waiting for another New Year’s Eve to start creating your resolutions. Start with one of your biggest goals and start taking actions towards it already.
Nobody says it better than Nike does:
Note: If you’re concerned about being judged by others, read this.
1 comment | tags: goals, inspiration, satisfaction, success, take action | posted in Leadership & Motivation, Life & Lifestyle
Jul
6
2010
I recently read a profound paragraph in the new book that I’ve bought. It’s called The 18/40/60 Rule. It says:
“When you’re 18, you worry about what everybody is thinking of you; when you’re 40, you don’t give a darn what anybody thinks of you; when you’re 60, you realize nobody’s been thinking about you at all.”
Surprise, surprise! Most of the time, nobody’s thinking about you at all!
They are too busy worrying about their own lives, and if they are thinking about you at all, they are wondering what you are thinking about them!
People think about themselves, not you.
All the time you are wasting worrying about what other people think about your ideas, your goals, your clothes, your hair, and your home could all be better spent on thinking about and doing the things that will achieve your goals.
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Jan
15
2010
I recently read a story about life and priorities. It’s a story of a ham radio operator who one day overheard an older gentleman giving advice to a younger man on the air.
“It’s a shame you have to be away from home and your family so much,” he said. “Let me tell you something that has helped me keep a good perspective on my own priorities. You see, one day I sat down and did a little arithmetic. The average person lives about seventy-five years. Now then, I multiplied 75 times 52 and came up with 3,900, which is the number of Sundays that the average person has in his lifetime.
“It took me until I was fifty-five years old to think about all this in any detail,” he continued, “and by that time I had lived through over 2,800 Sundays. I got to thinking that if I lived to be seventy-five, I only had about a thousand of them left to enjoy.”
He went on to explain that he bought 1,000 marbles and put them in a clear plastic container in his favourite work area at home. “Every Sunday since then,” he said, “I have taken one marble out and thrown it away. I found that by watching the marbles diminish, I focused more on the really important things in life. There’s nothing like watching your time here on this earth run out to help get your priorities straight.”
Then the older gentleman finished, “Now let me tell you one last thought before I sign off and take my lovely wife out to breakfast. This morning, I took the very last marble out of the container. I figure if I make it until next Sunday, then I have been given a little extra time.”
We can’t choose whether we will get any more time, but we can choose what we do with it. You write your own destiny. Make the most of the time and talent that God gives you.
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Nov
6
2009
Jean Chatzky says that anyone can prosper in even the toughest economic times… if they possess the key traits and abilities that will set them apart. She calls these traits The Difference, and in her new book Jean describes how you can go from the person who lives paycheck to paycheck to the person who lives in comfort.
Do you have The Difference? And, if not—how can you get it? Jean shares the eight things that matter most to help you become financially free.
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