Friday 19 September 2014

"Eleven Hints for Life"

1. It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return.
But what is more painful is to love someone and never
find the courage to let that person know how you feel.

2. A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who
means a lot to you, only to find out in the end that it was
never meant to be and you just have to let go.

3. The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a
porch swing with, never say a word, and then walk away
feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.

4. It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose
it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been
missing until it arrives.

5. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an
hour to like someone, and a day to love someone-but it
takes a lifetime to forget someone.

6. Don't go for looks, they can deceive. Don't go for wealth,
even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you
smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day
seem bright.

7. Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go,
be what you want to be. Because you have only one life and
one chance to do all the things you want to do.

8. Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it
hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.

9. A careless word may kindle strife. A cruel word may wreck
a life. A timely word may level stress. But a loving word may
heal and bless.

10. The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best
of everything they just make the most of everything that comes
along their way.

11. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, ends with
a tear. When you were born, you were crying and everyone
around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die,
you're the one smiling and everyone around you is crying.

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Friday 12 September 2014

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Quotes

"You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight”

"When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.”

"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

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Thursday 11 September 2014

Wealth & Personal Development Quotes

Making money and creating wealth is one of my weakest areas – knowledge wise – when it comes to self-improvement.

So I thought it would be useful for me – and hopefully for you too – to put together a list of some of the best quotes on wealth and money that I have come across.

I especially like the ones by William A. Ward, Benjamin Franklin, Gandhi and the last one by Henry Ford.

Enjoy!

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
William A. Ward

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Seneca

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
Ayn Rand

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Erich Fromm

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
Jim Rohn

The person who doesn’t know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn’t know where his last dollar went.
Unknown

I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
Robert Bosch

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.
Kahlil Gibran

It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages.
Henry Ford

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
Gandhi

When a fellow says it ain’t the money but the principle of the thing, it’s the money.
Artemus Ward

He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.
P.T Barnum

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Norman Vincent Peale

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
Simone Weil

It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.
George Lorimer

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
Benjamin Franklin

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.
Maya Angelou

Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are.
James W. Frick

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn

Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That’s not just a catchy slogan. It’s the very essence of successful investing.
J. Paul Getty

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford

http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2007/06/06/25-inspirational-quotes-on-wealth-and-money/

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Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

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If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

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7 Top Books To Read

Labor Day has passed, and for millions of young Americans, another school year has begun. For many, after a summer break, it's time once again to "hit the books."

However, that's not necessarily the case with most American adults.

According to a 2002 presentation by Jerrold R. Jenkins, Chairman and CEO of The Jenkins Group, in which he cited statistics from various sources...

One-third of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.

42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.

80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book in the past year.

70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.

57 percent of new books are not read to completion.

More recent research has painted a similarly bleak picture of our collective intellectual laziness.
I come into contact with thousands of entrepreneurs every year when I host my own events, speak at others and attend still more. Many of the most successful business owners I meet are voracious readers and consumers of information. I tend to gravitate toward this more interesting, upbeat, positive minority. And so does prosperity.

As legendary basketball coach John Wooden famously said:

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."

For most of my adult life, I had made it a point to read about a book a week. Then I completed a speed learning course by Guinness Book of World Records "World's Fastest Reader," Howard Berg, in which I tripled my reading speed (and also improved my comprehension). Now I routinely read four or five books in a weekend afternoon.

So for me, fall doesn't mean "back to school" -- because I make it a point never to stop learning. I have my own saying: "Lifetime Learners Are Lifetime Earners."

If you're the type of person who is always looking to improve yourself and your business, here's a partial list of my favorite "personal development" books (in no particular order). I've read every one of these multiple times over the years, until virtually every page has a highlight, underline or dog-ear:

Dr. Maxwell Maltz, The New Psycho-Cybernetics First published over 50 years ago, this ground-breaking work is appropriately sub-titled, "The Original Science of Self-Improvement and Success That Has Changed the Lives of 30 Million People." Fans of Tony Robbins and other "self-help gurus" will recognize in the pages of this book many of the principles and techniques they teach as their own.

Napoleon Hill, The Law Of Success If you're one of the millions of entrepreneurs who has read Mr. Hill's classic "Think And Grow Rich," you may want to tackle this MUCH more comprehensive, 16-lesson manifesto upon which the more famous book was based.

Dale Carnegie, How To Stop Worrying And Start Living Not nearly as well-known as his also-a-must-read "How To Win Friends And Influence People," this book helped me get through an extremely difficult time in my life just after I had mismanaged a multimillion-dollar business into oblivion. Chapter 2: "A Magic Formula for Solving Worry Situations" instantly and profoundly changed my life.

Wallace Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich An easy, quick read that Rhonda Byrne credits with her discovery of "The Secret" nearly a century after its publication. You may not agree with everything Mr. Wattles writes, but you practically can't help but be inspired.

Dr. David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big When I first read the part where the author explains that "important people" are only bothered by important things, I wanted to throw the book across the room in disgust and shout "Who are you calling an unimportant person?" Profoundly practical, thoroughly thought-provoking and consistently compelling, this book taught me specific strategies that have made me happier, healthier and wealthier.

Robert Collier, The Secret of the Ages One of the greatest copywriters of all time published this seven-volume masterpiece 85 years ago, and it's still transforming lives today. Contrary to those who believe that the "Law of Attraction" means all you have to do is think about something and the universe will bring it to you, Mr. Collier explains that only those who follow thought with action can experience success.

Dr. Denis Waitley, The Psychology Of Winning A practical, step-by-step guide to creating winning thoughts, taking winning actions, forming winning habits and developing winning character traits. In the final paragraph, the author urges the reader to take action on ANY self-improvement book or course - if not his own, than any of the "literally thousands" of others out there. Powerful, caring advice.
These are just a few of my favorite "personal development" books that have helped make me and my clients more successful throughout the years.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-sipress/back-to-school-for-entrep_b_5753896.html?utm_hp_ref=personal-development

Wednesday 10 September 2014

Quote Of The Day


“Part of abandoning the all-or-nothing mentality is allowing yourself room for setbacks. We are bound to have lapses on the road to health and wellness, but it is critical that we learn how to handle small failures positively so that we can minimize their long-term destructive effects. One setback is one setback—it is not the end of the world, nor is it the end of your journey toward a better you.”

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Tuesday 9 September 2014

Quote for today

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

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Our Emotions Are Our Navigational System

You know many people never really think about their emotional health and well-being until they hit a point of crisis or breakdown.

In reality our emotions are our navigational system, and yet many people have not been well equipped to relate to their emotional experiences. They struggle to understand the way that they are feeling and lack an emotional language. This leaves them uncertain and afraid of any intense emotional experiences, sometimes even the good ones. But the reality is that everything that we feel is vital to us and of value. We have this extraordinary navigational system and it's made up of all of our emotions. Every single emotion that we have, we need and we would be incomplete without the full range.

Sometimes the most difficult times in our lives actually create a kind of doorway to a greater level of awareness, a place in time when we shift to greater level of consciousness and understanding.

Whatever is going on, I guarantee that your emotions are informing you and whatever your feelings are telling you, whether it's comfortable or uncomfortable, whether it's easy or uneasy, it's good information. Our emotions connect us to the deepest parts of ourselves. They are invisible and yet powerful beyond measure. Sometimes we can look really OK on the outside and yet be really not ok on the inside. No one sees how we are really feeling.

Historically, we live in a culture that reinforces the perception that any uncomfortable feelings are wrong, or bad. If you feel unease, then you have some kind of disease, some kind of illness.
If you are stressed and experiencing intense, difficult and challenging emotions and you seek medical help it is highly likely that the very first line of support that you will be offered will be some form of medication. Sometimes this is valuable; however, this is not always the case. Whilst I am not actually anti-medication, what I am longing to see is an appropriate and thoughtful system of diagnosis, with an appropriate level of interest and inquiry.

It is essential that we develop a culture of what I call "non-judgmental inquiry," an emotionally aware culture of interest and inquiry, without judgement and criticism, with a desire to look deeper. Without this we are fueling a climate which reinforces the perception that any form of emotional difficulty is a bad thing, indeed something to be frightened of.

To my mind the solution is not to take a pill so that you can continue to be stressed, but do it better; or to take a pill to enable you to develop a tolerance to something that isn't actually ok. When this happens our navigational system is being shut down.

Human beings are 100 percent relational. We live in a continual state of relationship, both with ourselves and with everything around us. We are in a continual relational flow both internally and externally. Our emotions give voice to our deepest inner needs, they let us know when things are going well for us, and in no uncertain terms, they let us know when they are not. So many of us have never learned any kind of emotional language or developed an ability to really listen to ourselves. We have this extraordinary navigational tool and yet we haven't learned to use it, let alone value the full range of our emotional experiences.

So many of our emotions get labelled as bad or negative and yet this good/bad, positive/negative kind of definition is a very narrow description, and one that doesn't recognize how important all of our feelings actually are. I'd like to reclassify these headings with a new definition. I'd like us to consider our emotions as falling into, either the easy comfortable camp, full of joyful happy relaxed emotional experiences, or the uneasy uncomfortable camp, full of the more challenging and difficult experiences.

None of the above states of being are bad. If you're feeling something in the uneasy, uncomfortable camp, this is informing you, it's telling you that something is going on and we need to learn to listen to this and to use this valuable information.

Our emotions are the vehicle that enables us to be fully relational, our emotions are continually informing us and they give us the information we need to navigate our lives. This emotional information then generates highly charged emotional energy. This energy gives us the drive and the power to fuel thought into action. The intensity of our emotional experience can literally rocket from 0 to 1,000 miles an hour in seconds. If we are unable to listen to ourselves then we are unable to take charge of these highly charged actions. They become re-actions, rather than reflective choices.

Learning an emotional language is absolutely at the core of emotional health and emotional well-being. It's also at the core of any healthy cultural and social system of living. We cannot possibly generate external relationships that are responsive and healthy until we have a responsive and healthy relationship with ourselves.

When you have a healthy, vibrant, alive, emotional relationship with yourself. You can also then have a healthy, vibrant, alive, emotional relationship with everyone and everything else.

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