Monday, June 20, 2022

Adversity is not here to destroy you. It is here to bring the best out of you.


Franklin D. Roosevelt was paralyzed from the waist down by polio before running for the office of President of the US.


Oprah Winfrey was born into poverty to a teenage single mother. She was raped at age nine and became pregnant at 14.


Sylvester Stallone was born through the use of forceps that accidentally severed a nerve and caused paralysis in the lower left side of his face, including parts of his lip, tongue, and chin.


Frederick Douglass was born into slavery, violence, and separation from his parents.


Albert Einstein didn’t speak at all for the first three years of his life and many of his teachers assumed he was lazy because he was always distracted by abstract concepts. He couldn't get a job in physics for two years after graduation. Worked as assistant patent examiner, passed over for promotion until he "fully mastered machine technology".


Jim Carrey dropped out of school when he was fifteen, to support his family. Soon after, he and his family were living in a van. Despite these challenges, he continued to follow his dream of becoming a comedian.


Michael Jordan was cut from the varsity basketball team in his sophomore year.


Viktor Frankl was imprisoned at several concentration camps by Nazis, including Auschwitz. His wife and family were killed by the Nazis.


Thomas Alba Edison was fired from his job, when a chemical experiment leaked acid on to his boss’ desk. However, despite being almost penniless, Edison rose to be the most prolific inventor of his generation. He failed more than 1,000 times before he invented the light bulb. Instead of quitting, however, Edison tried and tried again until he achieved success.


Benjamin Franklin was ten-years-old, when his parents could no longer afford to send him to school. However, that didn’t stop him from pursuing an education. Through reading, he was able to educate himself, and the fruits of his knowledge include the lightning rod and bifocals and a successful political career.


Bethany Hamilton was just thirteen years old, when she had her left arm bitten off by a shark during a surfing accident. Instead of admitting defeat, she went back to her surfboard one month later and continued to practice. Two years later, she was able to win first place in the Explorer Women’s Division of the NSSA National Championships.


Walt Disney was fired from his first job at the Kansas City Star after his newspaper editor told him that he didn’t have enough imagination or creativity. A few years later, he drove Disney’s animation studio, Laugh-O-Gram, into bankruptcy. Only when he moved to California to produce cartoons did his career ultimately take off.


Nelson Mandela worked very hard to train as a lawyer, despite the South African apartheid system making this very difficult for a black man. Against the odds Nelson Mandela was able to practice law, helping many black South Africans to survive in the apartheid system. When Nelson Mandela was sent to jail for his opposition to apartheid in the 1960s, there seemed no end in sight to the all-powerful apartheid system of South Africa. But, against the odds, Mandela played a critical role in bringing about the end of apartheid and the first truly democratic elections.


Helen Keller A became deaf-blind before her second birthday. Despite this debilitating disability, she learned to read and write, and became the first deaf-blind person to gain a bachelor degree. She campaigned on issues of social welfare, women’s suffrage, disability rights and impressed many with her force of personality.


Mahatma Gandhi was put into jail several times for his non-violent protests against the British domination of India. Militarily, India could not hope to defeat the British Empire, but through his policy of non-violence he awoke the spirit of fellow Indians and helped to create a climate for Indian Independence which came in 1947.


Rosa Parks could have easily been just another statistic in the American system of racial segregation. In the Deep South, black Americans were systematically discriminated against, but on one famous day in 1955, Rosa Parks made a stand and refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. Her brave action sparked a widespread boycott of buses in Montgomery, Alabama.


Marie Curie became one of the most important scientists of her generation, in an age where few women were able to be educated. Her discoveries enabled the development of modern radiation and X-Ray. She was one of the few people to receive a Nobel prize for both medicine and physics.


Olaudah Equiano was taken into slavery and transported to America when he was 11 years old. However, after obtaining his freedom he wrote a book ‘The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano‘ which played a pivotal role in turning public opinion in Britain against slavery. It was also well received for its literary merit.


Ludwig Van Beethoven lost his hearing and that is the greatest possible misfortune for a musician. Yet, despite the inevitable frustration, it didn’t stop him from composing some of the most sublime pieces of music in the history of man.


Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin. He taught himself to read and trained to become a lawyer. Despite numerous setbacks both personal and political, he was elected 16th President of the US from 1861-1865. In difficult circumstances Lincoln led the Union forces to victory preserving the United States and against vehement opposition passed a bill to abolish legal slavery.


Harriet Tubman was born into slavery, however she managed to escape and begin a new life. She returned on many dangerous missions to Maryland where she helped lead slaves to freedom. She also served as agent and leader during the Civil War. She became a symbol of the abolition movement.


Stephen Hawking has helped popularize scientific concepts and make ground-breaking discoveries, despite suffering from motor neuron disease.

Friday, June 17, 2022

It Is Now... or May Be Never.


Focus on what you can do. Concentrate on your area of influence. The Past? That is over and there is nothing you can do about it. The future? Too many factors with excessive possibilities and uncontrollable probabilities, and you can’t even be sure you will get there.


You can only focus and concentrate on influencing the present, and by that I mean, “the now”. You can act now to change the trends you created in the past and also, you can act now, to improve your potential for success in the future. You must act now to build the life you want.


What are you waiting for? If you don’t start now, it may never happen.

Thursday, June 16, 2022

If you learn from defeat, you will never lose.


You may encounter defeat, but you must never feel defeated. You will achieve this when you understand that life has given you a learning opportunity. Seize it!

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Life Is To Thrive

Empower your life with actions not just intentions. Don't accept your current situation if you don't like it. Empower your life. Remember: Intentions don't change things actions do.

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Do You Know Why?


You must know "why" you are here, in this life, in this world. If you manage to answer that, you will find what to do and how to do it.

Sunday, June 12, 2022

There Is No Passion Without Belief


Success, results from believing without doubt, that you will achieve your goal. When you believe, you have passion and enthusiasm, and you will never give up. Do you have enough passion? or are you about to give up?

Thursday, June 2, 2022

The Way To Success Starts Inside You


Your values are the things you believe are important in your life. They will determine your priorities and will measure if you are achieving your goals. We all have a different set of values. Your values could be external for you to hold and look at, like: financial security, wealth, power, fame and material possessions. Your values could also be internal, like: love, knowledge, creativity, personal growth, spirituality, your connection with God, your self-esteem, your personal development and growth, your temperance, liking yourself, being honest, being disciplined and being true to your word. The thing is: If you cultivate and grow your internal values, the external values will be an automatic result. But it doesn't work the other way around.

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Focus On The Task That Leads To Success


Focus on the task that takes you farthest and fastest towards your goal. That is the best way to succeed.

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

We Are Here To Fulfill Our Purpose


The energy of the universe Powers the Change. Everything in the universe is constantly changing, developing, transforming, growing, transitioning and shifting. People are also meant to change. In fact, our purpose in this life is to change ourselves into something greater than what we were before. You must accept this change to become better and transcend. Are you willing to do this?

Change Begins With You


The only thing you can really change is yourself. Whatever you need from others, from life or from the world, you must do it and give it yourself first. Your action is the little seed you plant to obtain a full harvest back.

Monday, May 30, 2022

Value Is True Success


Don't strive to be successful. Strive to achieve value and provide value. Success will follow you.

There is no greater love than risking and giving your life for the person next to you, whether they are strangers or acquaintances. Let us remember today those who have done it.

Saturday, May 28, 2022

Achieve To Build


Focus your mind to achieve. If you think about doing things, you will get very busy doing things. But if you think and concentrate on achieving, you will build your life.

Friday, May 27, 2022

Only You Can Make Yourself


You can improve yourself and grow by changing your beliefs, through your own learning and doing efforts, and through the input of others. Don't try to impress anyone, just work to improve yourself. Your current results only say where they are today, not where you will be tomorrow, or where you will end up.

Thursday, May 26, 2022

You Better Believe In Yourself



The foundation for your success is not your personality, intelligence, or talent, but the way you view yourself and what you think about yourself.

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

It Is Coming. Carpe Diem.


Embrace change, because you can't avoid it. If you are up, you can go down. If you are doing good, things could go sideways. The important thing is your attitude to face change. Have a positive, optimistic, growth and abundance mindset and you will get the best part out of change.

Violence

We need to fix the root of the problem. We need to heal people's minds. This includes the question: Is our society, culture and leaders, affecting people's minds? Are we becoming a Pro-Violence society?

Mass Shootings

I agree with gun control, but we need to think deeper. The question is: Where is this kind of violence coming from? If we take the guns away, that will not change the prevailing violence. They will probably use bombs or something else.

We Must Try Harder

How is it possible that a Country that wins complex and difficult wars, shoots people and machines into outer space and is a science and technology leader, can't protect children in their schools?

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Please, Don't Be Average.


Don't follow the crowd. Don't waste time adopting cultural trends. Work hard each day to become a better person.


What, how, where, when and who, are important. However, to achieve a solid advance, you need to know "Why".

Pay Attention!

We need to stop paying attention to trivialities and vicarious living, to pay more attention to the real issues we face: hate, violence, divisionism, and intolerance.

Our Roots

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness—That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted.

Left or Right?

Left? Right? Who believes they have the solution? What happened to one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all?

How Do You Feel Today?

Our thoughts can control how we feel. We just need to practice it everyday. Yes, it is challenging at the beginning, but we can do it if we really try.

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

The Big Question: Continue or Stop?


What can stop you? I tell you: Advance no matter what obstacles you face, because to worry about the obstacles will not get you anywhere, but making a decision and acting upon it, is the only solution.

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Who Is Your Best Friend?


You must feel comfortable with yourself and be the best friend of yourself. When you love yourself and take good care of yourself, then you have achieved success and will be able to help others.

Change Begins With Me


We must change our thinking and beliefs. To change our world we must first change ourselves. One by one.

Sunday, May 15, 2022

You Need To Trust Yourself and Someone Else


Trust is the firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something.

Friday, May 13, 2022

Need Less To Have More


8 oz of water will fill 100% a regular cup or tumbler, but will only fill 6% of a gallon container.

Only Your Mind Can Empower Your Life.


 

Thursday, May 12, 2022

Your Mind Will Help You Succeed


 

Never Neglect Time


Time can be stolen from you and you may also waste it. Also, adversity can take big chunks of it. However, time is your most valuable possession, use it wisely and never neglect it.

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Build On Who You Are


 

Express Yourself


 

Monday, May 9, 2022

When you let your Ego grow, it will make you close in on yourself.


 

Focus Always On The Positive


 

Friday, May 6, 2022

Never Stop Learning


 

What you Read, Listen and Watch, shows where you will be in 10 years.


 

Thursday, May 5, 2022

Forever Persevere


 

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Start Working On Your Goal Today


 

Sunday, May 1, 2022

New Beliefs New Life




 

Saturday, April 30, 2022

People Need Our Help More Than Our Politics


 

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Focus on What May Impact You


 

The Root of Wealth


 

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Your Future Is Born In Your Mind

Your Future Is Born In Your Mind

  1. Think about what you want in your future, but don't think in words or images. Rather, think in a video format, like a video thought.
  2. Add to that video thought the feelings and emotions you will have when you reach that future you want.
  3. That video thought with feelings should be kept in your mind, day and night, everyday, permanently.

That will tell your subconscious mind that is safe to go there, because you want it and it makes you feel great.

Your subconscious mind will help your conscious mind to make the right choices to reach your goal.

Monday, January 17, 2022

Emotions From Mental Models


Emotions From Mental Models


We all know that when an architect is going to create a construction, he makes drawings, calculations, plans, and finally makes a model, to see how the construction will look. By viewing the 3D model of the building, the Architect can assess whether there are things in the design that need to be improved, added, removed or changed. In other words, the model is the visualization of the future construction. While the Architect builds the model, he is visualizing the future construction and that visualization rekindles his creativity to perfect his project Finally, the Architect uses the model to sell or promote his project, because seeing the model produces emotions that are important to the success of the project by providing credibility and feelings of accomplishment.


Just as the Architect creates a model to visualize what he wants to build, you must also create a mental model to visualize what you want to achieve. When you visualize in your mind what you want to build in your life and you visualize it in 3 dimensions, like a video with audio, then the mental model will also produce emotions in you that are important for you to evaluate your project and be able to sell it to yourself. Not really selling, but you have to convince your subconscious mind that the goal of your project is good, makes you happy, is credible and you can accomplish it. You forge your goals and projects in your rational conscious mind, but you need the automatic responses of your subconscious mind not to sabotage your goal. The visualization of your mental model fulfills that function.


Visualizing your accomplished goal in your mind, like a model, communicates to your subconscious mind what you want to achieve and how that achievement makes you feel. Without feeling the emotion, your visualization is weak, because your subconscious mind does not understand rational communications, but emotional ones. You need to live in your mind the feelings and emotions produced by achieving your goal. Creating a mental model of what you want to achieve aligns your conscious mind with your subconscious and that Empowers you for Success.


Empower Yourself Aligning Your Mind

Monday, January 3, 2022

Moving Forward Without Fear


Moving forward without fear of the path I left behind, because it can't be changed and more importantly, because my future doesn't depend on the path I left behind, but in the path I choose Today.

Looking Straight Ahead


Looking straight ahead to the new paths that are opening up before us today. There is no better day than today, to undertake and continue on our new path.

 

Happy New Year 2022


 

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Merry Lovestmas




 

Monday, December 20, 2021

Believe In Yourself To Succeed


You Will Be Successful When You Accept Yourself


You need to be aware of your strengths and weaknesses. You must accept yourself for who you are and work with what you have. The fact is that you have received all you need to be successful. However, what you believe,  creates your reality. If you believe and accept that you can’t be successful, you will not be. So, believe and accept that you can be successful and you will be.


Successful people accept and work with their personalities, capacities and abilities, because they don’t try to be something they aren’t. When you spend your life regretting everything you don’t have, you will never enjoy the fruits of what you have and was given to you at birth.


Your imperfections make you strong

and your doubts make you wise.

Go forward without fear because success is not final

and failure is not fatal.

Monday, December 13, 2021

Success Is Just A Bit Beyond

 

Success Is Just A Bit Beyond


Once Desmond Tutu was talking about very big tasks, and said: “There is only one way to eat an elephant: one bite at a time.” That is a good image to bring to mind when we are facing overwhelming projects that may seem daunting, and even impossible. The lesson from the saying is that any task, no matter the size, can be accomplished gradually by doing just a little at a time.


A similar image is created by the concept: Baby Steps, that  are tentative actions which are the first stage in a long or challenging process. You can also refer to concepts like bit by bit, brick by brick, inch by inch. The key concept here is action, that refers to something done so as to accomplish an aim or a purpose. While inaction, is lack of action where some is expected or appropriate.


Most successes are due to action and most failures are due to inaction. You may have the Goal, the Strategy and the Plan, but without action you have nothing. Whether making a phone call, sending an email or physically maneuvering to achieve the next steps, take action. Execution will bring you one step closer to your desired outcome.


Whatever you do, just go forward.

Saturday, December 11, 2021

You Have Great Goals… and Now?

You Have Great Goals… and Now?


I know many people that have great and very inspiring goals and they are always talking about their goals… year after year… and nothing happens. Defining your Goals is awesome, but that’s only the first step for success. Your Goals represent what you want to achieve, which defines where the finish line is and what Victory is. The question is: How are you going to reach your Goals? How will you get to the finish line? How will you achieve Victory?


You need to have a strategy to win, and by winning I mean achieving your goal. A sound strategy will successfully ignite your passion and move you forward. Start by dividing your Goal into smaller segments and phases, to simplify the process of thinking about how to get into action, to achieve what you want. The strategy is not the plan, it is the seed or embryo of your plan. Your Goal is what you want to win. Your Strategy shows how you are going to win; and your plan shows where and when each segment and phase of the strategy will happen.


Goal… Strategy… and Go!!!

Friday, December 10, 2021

Mindset To Win

Mindset To Win


What is the difference between Self-determination and Determination? Can they act separately? Should they act together? 


Self-determination is your power to make your own life decisions without interference from others, truly being in control of your life, including choosing and setting your own goals. Self-determination means you have the power and the right to choose and decide what you will do with your life and with whom you will do it.


Determination involves persevering towards a difficult goal in spite of obstacles and is very important because it enables you to persist in the face of difficulties, because you go ahead with faith until you achieve your goal. Determination is the inner strength that keeps you on the track toward your goals and that is why successful people act as if success or failure is totally within their control.


Self-determination and Determination are both great concepts.

Together they create the synergy that achieves success.

Thursday, December 9, 2021

Be Ballistic


Be Ballistic


I am not talking about your mood, but about your intentions and goals. You must aim not too low and not too high, for your shot to reach the farthest. What you believe about yourself sets your mind to navigate your personal goals to success. If you expect too much or too little of yourself, your Mindsetting will be weak because you will not believe in yourself and you will not have enough fuel to go the distance.


You must challenge the status quo, think bigger and push past your comfort zone, but you need to feel comfortable being uncomfortable, because that’s where real growth happens. That is, don’t get to the point of feeling uncomfortable for going too far out of your comfort zone or feeling comfortable because you never left your comfort zone. Middle point and balance are good concepts.


Believing is a big part of success.