Tuesday, February 28, 2012

You Can If You Think You Can



It's not who we are that holds us back, it's who we think we’re not.
I have come to realise that we often model our life base on other people’s expectations for us, positive or negative.

It’s almost like we go out of our way consciously or subconsciously to validate their spoken words for our lives, and this some time determine the success in our lives or maybe the lack there of.

But if we wish to achieve success in our life we have to take a stand and break free from the negative thought patterns that as kept us captive, because our mind push our thoughts, our thoughts push our actions, while our actions push our Lives.

“Successful people don't do great things they only do small things in a great way”.

There is a story that I love about a little boy who didn’t allow other people’s negative expectation of him to dictates his life and now every one all over the world are happy that he didn’t.

The story is about little Tommy.

One day a partially deaf four year old kid came home with a note in his pocket from his teacher and the note said “Your Tommy is too stupid to learn, get him out of the school."

His mother read the note and answered, "My Tommy is not stupid to learn, I will teach him myself" And that Tommy grew up to be who we know today without a doubt is the greatest inventor scientist and businessman of the modern era, the great Thomas A Edison. 



Thomas Edison had only three months of formal schooling and he was partially deaf and was told that he was too stupid to learn but many of his over one thousand Ninety three (1093) inventions have profoundly changed the lives of everyone in the world.

Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S. patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France and Germany.


 Just to list a few of what this Kindergarten drop out gave to the world and change lives globally are.

  • The Phonograph (Record player)
  • The Light bulb
  • The Carbon microphone used in all telephones (he made the telephone easier to use)
  • Hello! (He coined the phrase HELLO!)
  • Electricity (he electrifies the world)
  • The First commercial fluoroscope (X-ray machine)
  • The Stock ticker (the Stock ticker machines are an ancestor of the modern computer printer)
  • The Motion picture camera (Thanks to Edison we now have a multi-billion dollar film industry because of is invention)
  • The Quadruplex, sextuplex and multiplex (the telegraph which turned Western Union into a million-dollar company)

Thomas Edison tried fourteen thousand (14,000) times before he got a durable working light bulb and some one said to him “so you failed 14,000 times before you got it right huh” and “Thomas Edison replied and said no I’ve discovered 14,000 ways how not to make a sustainable light bulb.”

Can you believe that? He made 14,000 attempts and still he never gave up, but what blew me away is that he never saw is attempts as failures he saw them as progress and breakthroughs that lead to greatness because with every attempt he got stronger, wiser, confident and more focus because he knew that he had to prove it to himself that it was possible and he made his critiques eat their own words.

The only difference there are between you and Mr Edison is that he never listens to people who told him that he can’t do something and that is because he was hard of hearing that was his super secret weapon to greatness but guess what you too can shut your ears to all the people that are telling you that you cant and just keep trying.

In this game call life when it comes to opportunities you will always miss 99% of the shots that you DON'T TAKE.



NEVER LET ANYONE OR ANYTHING FLIP THE SWITCH ON YOU DREAMS!

Monday, February 13, 2012

You Can Still Catch Up



Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

You are in charge of the ending; make it the one you want.
I am not telling you that it is going to be easy, but I am certainly telling you it is going to be worth it.

How many times have we found ourselves reflecting and looking at our lives even trying to compare it to other people’s life?  And we’re saying to our selves that we can never achieve what they have?

We continue to feed ourselves on a steady diet of that same bull crap until we have put ourselves at a total disadvantage.

So where did we go wrong? What should we have done to win in the race call life?

Well I have learned the hard way and I hope you avoid the same mistakes that I made because if you don’t it will break you down literally.

What I have discovered is that you can not take one person achievements and measure your life by them, you can’t look at the big house, the Mercedes Benz or BMW the yacht, the multiple degrees or even the multi-million dollar companies that a person has.

What I’ve realise is that success always leave clues and these clues are always available to the diligent success student and the clues are also scalable which means they can always be applied to any given situation.

So what does this all mean to you and I? It simply means that instead of looking at the result of some ones achievement we should focus our attention on the process that took them there.

Nothing ever comes easy in life if you are willing to be hard on your self life will be easy for you, but if you are only willing to be easy on your self life will be hard for you.

So the best way for you to use some ones life to measure yours is by looking at the road that they took to get there and if the journey took them 10 years set a goal and tell your self that you will do it in 5 years and if it took them 5years tell your self that you will do it in 2/12 year, why?  Because you are willing to work twice as hard twice as fast smarter but more importantly you are willing to be more committed and consistent than they were.

Just like the old adage say (“If you want to go some where, it is best to find some one who has already been there so they can give you directions”) the truth in this adage is that if some one travelled down that path before you did then they have discovered the many pit falls that lie in wait to take you out.

But if you learn there success techniques and how to avoid the pit falls you will achieve what they have achieve in half the time they did simply because you were more diligent.

Just remember success always leave clue so the next you see your class mate, your neighbour, old childhood friend that you grew up with or even the CEO to a multi-million dollar company that you aspire to Just ask your self what did they do to get there.

Then your job is to find out all that they did and when you do just say to your self if they can do it then so can I.

Think big, believe big, act big, and the results will be BIG!




Monday, February 6, 2012

Build a Positive Self-esteem & Self -image



A beggar was sitting at the train station with a bowl full of pencils. A young executive passed by and dropped a dollar in the bowl He then boarded the train before the doors closed, something came to his mind and he went back to the beggar, grabbed a bunch of pencils, and said, "They are priced right. After all you are a business person and so am I," and he left.

Six months later, the executive attended a party. The beggar was also there in a suit and tie.
The beggar recognized the executive, went up to him and said, "You probably don't recognize me but I remember you." He then narrated the incident that happened six months before. The executive said, "Now that you have reminded me, I do recall that you were begging.

What are you doing here in your suit and tie?" The beggar replied, "You probably don't know what you did for me that day You were the first person in my life who gave me back my dignity You grabbed the bunch of pencils and said, 'They are priced right.
After all, you are a business person and so am I.'

After you left, I thought to myself, what am I doing here? Why am I begging? I decided to do something constructive with my life. I packed my bag, started working and here I am. I just want to thank you for giving me back my dignity. That incident changed my life."

What changed in the beggar's life?

What changed was that his self-esteem went up and so did his performance. This is the magic of self-esteem in our lives.

Self esteem is when your engine is firing up on all cylinders full speed ahead, which takes you to your destination your hopes, dreams and aspirations much faster, you have to be internally driven in order to be a success.


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