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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Personal philosophy is like the set of the sail
- We have all experienced the blowing winds of disappointment, despair and heartbreak. Why, then, would each of us, in our own individual ship of life, all beginning at the same point, with the same intended destination in mind, arrive at such different places at the end of the journey? Have we not all been blown by the winds of circumstances and buffeted by the turbulent storms of discontent?...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Maintaining honesty and integrity
- (Excerpted From Cultivating An Unshakable Character)For a leader, honesty and integrity are absolutely essential to survival. A lot of business people don't realize how closely they're being watched by their subordinates. Remember when you were a kid in grammar school, how you used to sit there staring at your teacher all day? By the end of the school year, you could do a perfect imitation ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The ant philosophy
- Over the years I've been teaching kids about a simple but powerful concept - the ant philosophy.I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy, and here is the first part: ants never quit. That's a good philosophy. If they're headed somewhere and you try to stop them; they'll look for another way. They'll climb over, they'll climb under, they'll climb around....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Doing the remarkable
- When it comes to meeting and conquering the negativity in your life, here is a key question: what can you do, starting today, that will make a difference? What can you do during economic chaos? What can you do when everything has gone wrong? What can you do when you've run out of money, when you don't feel well and it's all gone sour? What can you do?Let me give you the broad answer first. ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 5 simple tips on using your senses
- 1. Breakfast in Bed.Imagine a lavish breakfast arrives brimming over with sweet cream pancakes, an assortment of berries and raspberry syrup, complete with a steaming mug of latte and a tender handwritten note of gratitude. You can already taste it. For sure, 'It is an elegant breed of person who treats breakfast in bed as a lifestyle.' says, Mr. Breakfast, in his defintive guide to enjoyin...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Tighten your connection
- It was my first and last experience with a pneumatic drill, which is a jackhammer with a star bit instead of a chisel bit. We four volunteers were to dig a septic tank for the caretaker's house at a Christian camp. After three feet of digging we hit bedrock--pre-Cambrian limestone. That's when they showed us how to use the drill.We bored a hole for a dynamite charge to break up the rock. Th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Whats your reason for waiting?
- The fever had been high late into the night, but at 2:30 A.M., it broke. The little girl's mother breathed out in relief. She'll be O.K. in the morning, she thought.Harry shifted into second as he approached the top of the hill. It's 2:45 and 330 miles to go before Tulsa, he told himself, as he started imagining the hotcakes and sausages at Dolly's Diner. He looked to the eastern horizon. S...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Lock in your legacy
- You, my friend, are going to die.What? What kind of motivational tool is that? Real inspiring!In fact, it is. Our mortality may perhaps be the ultimate inspiration and motivation! If we lived on this earth eternally, we could be procrastinators extraordinaire! We would never have to get anything done because there would always be tomorrow. But alas, we pass on and all we leave are th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Once in a lifetime
- A subscriber recently wrote to me and asked me to consider this common phrase ? Once in a lifetime."Isn't every moment of our lives, once in a lifetime?" he asked. Touché! Indeed, he is correct. Every moment of our lives is the last chance we get to live that moment.What happens though is that we figure we will be able to live another moment in the same way...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What in the world are you doing?
- Here is the typical life ? typical, though not everybody does it this way. But for the most part, lives generally go something like this:Born Eat and sleep Play with toys Go to school Play little league Go to schoolLearn to drive Go to school Leave high school Go to more school, but pay for it now ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Winning the thought battle
- If you have read my articles or heard me speak, you know that I always come down to action. We need to act if we are going to be successful!Yet, our success starts long before our actions. In fact, our success begins in our thoughts.The process is that thoughts become actions and actions produce results. So the equation starts with the thoughts. So the key to success is to start with...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Life goes on
- Boy, do I feel old. Or at least older.No, I didn't just have a birthday (well, it was last month). I am thirty-seven years old. No, my oldest child just had a birthday ? he turned 13 last Friday (I have four kids ? 13, 11, 9, and 8).Sure, I am not old, and neither is he. But this birthday ? the 13th ? is significant and is cause for reflection. "They don't get any younger,"...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Live the adventure!
- Think of an adventure that you might like to take. Maybe it is a trip to a foreign country or a major destination in your own country. Maybe it is to climb a mountain or float down the Amazon. Whatever works for you, picture what that would take. Got it?Good, now let's see what are common characteristics of a good adventure and apply them to our lives. In doing so, you will shift your persp...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Learn from failure and confirm with success
- Both failure and success are good... if you know what their specific purpose is.Of course we know that success is good, but why? Success is good because it confirms things for us.Success confirms our plans. Success confirms our decisions. Success confirms our resources. Success confirms our strategies. Success confirms our hunches. Success confirms our teamwork....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - All you want is within your reach
- If there is one thing that I believe with all my heart it is that you can have any life you choose to. You can live the life you have always dreamed of.We live in a period of unparalleled opportunity in human history. Think about it: Just one hundred years ago, most people really only had five or six options when it came to deciding what they would do with their lives. For most, they didn't...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Seven things you must give to others if you want to achieve success!
- A major part of the process of achieving success and living the kind of life that you dream of is to give. Many people think that to get what you want you have to take it. There is a universal truth though that the true path to get what you want is to give. When you give, you get. What you sow, you shall reap. If this is true, then what is it we must give? I'll show you the way...Give Other...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The art of giving
- In the pursuit of the life we dream of, this journey we are on for successful living, the focus is usually on figuring out what it is exactly that we want and then setting ourselves on course for going and getting it. This is very important: Know what you want to get for your life and then pursue it.But there is another aspect of achieving the life you dream of that seems on the surface to ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to guarantee a great day every day!
- I have a standing interview every Monday morning on a radio station in the southeast that I enjoy very much. You can imagine though that it can become routine. So to make it a little more fun, the host nowadays doesn't even tell me the topic before we go live on the air - that puts some excitement into it!This past week he asked me the following question cold at the beginning of the show: H...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 7 keys for joyful living!
- Here are some thoughts for finding and experiencing joy in your life. If there were one thing I could wish upon my family, friends and the readers of this Ezine, it would be joy in everything they do!Know your purpose. Nothing will bring you joy more than knowing what it is that you are about on this earth. Not knowing brings sadness, wondering, fear and lack of fulfillment. Above all, find...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Principles that govern my life
- The strength and durability of a building is found in its foundation. The same is true in a life. What we accomplish and the effect we have on those around us is not only in what we do, but also in who we are. In fact, what we do is driven by who we are, what we believe and value and by the principles that we live by.Principles give us direction in whatever circumstances we find ourselves i...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Trust the lord and go to the hole
- This is my new favorite quote. Now to understand it you must know what "go to the hole" means. Go to the hole is a basketball term for going forcefully to the basket to score a goal. It in essence means "Take it to 'em!"Vince Carter in considered by many to be the next Michael Jordan. He plays for the Toronto Raptors and is a staple of the evening highlight shows.A few weeks back his...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Re-developing your vision
- One of the most important things we can do for our businesses, schools, and organizations is to have vision. Vision being a clear picture of a desired end result that you are aiming for.However, sometimes, no matter how big our vision was originally, we find ourselves focusing in on the daily events that require our attention but have nothing or little to do with our ultimate vision....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Accelerate your abilities
- In today's fast-paced life, the wins usually go to those with exceptional skills and abilities. The old quote is true, "The race is not always won by the swift and the strong, but that is the way to bet."With this in mind, and with your desire to become increasingly successful, here are some ways to accelerate your abilities, thus enabling you to achieve greater and greater things.Be...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The finer, and finest, things in life
- In America, we have a saying: The finer things in life. These are the things that most people talk about when they are speaking of thing of high quality. In fact, much of that which propels people to pursue success, particularly financial success, is the desire to participate in the finer things in life.Let's face it, increased finances enable us to do more things and enjoy things that we o...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Using failure to further your future
- "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." Margaret ThatcherFailure. Even the word sounds bad, doesn't it? That is because since the time we were just young children we were taught that failure was bad. But is that true? Is failure bad? Let's consider some things.I like a baseball analogy. Do you know what the record is for a season batting average (That means how man...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Eight choices you can make today that will change your life forever
- The direction of our lives is determined by the choices we make every day. They accumulate and add up to our ultimate destiny. Here are eight choices you can make - choices that will create for you a life of abundance and prosperity in all areas of your life.1. Choose to grow personally. This sounds simple but many people only wish to grow personally. They never choose to grow by taking act...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - You reap what you sow
- There is an old principle: You reap what you sow. In fact, it is about as natural of a principle as you can get. When you put an apple seed into the ground, you always get an apple tree. You reap what you sow.Even as this principle works in nature, it also works in our businesses, schools and organizations. Everything that we do is what we are sowing. And while we may not see immediate gain...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Surefire ways to develop a thankful attitude
- Spend some time thinking about how good you have it. We know this, but we don't often spend time pondering it. Doing so will shape and mold your attitude and develop healthy thought patterns that will make you more thankful all of the time.As the old hymn goes, "Count Your Blessings, Name Them One By One." Take some time and write down every single thing you have in your life to be thankful...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The inspiration factor
- The first thing that an aspiring leader must realize is that they must be inspiring! That is, they must be capable of, and willing to inspire people on to greater things than if the leader were not in their lives.So, is this too grandiose an ideal for the average local business owner? Absolutely not. The people who work at your business, school or organization need to be inspired by you on ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Tending the fire
- In old buildings there was a boiler room where men stood shoveling coal or wood into a furnace to keep the whole building warm. If they didn't tend to the fire, the place went cold. The same is true in our lives. We need to tend the inner fire so our lives do not go cold.Made for Success is based on the fact that humans are made up of three parts: The body, the soul and the spirit. The Body...