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A Daily Seed of Truth: What's New!
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Failure is not...
“Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. We do not fail overnight. Failure is the inevitable result of an accumulation of poor thinking and poor choices. To put it more simply, failure is nothing more than a few errors in judgment repeated every day.”
Jim Rohn
Something to deeply ponder:
How can you tell if your thoughts and beliefs are accurate? How can you tell if the information you have is corrrect or incorrect?
As a wise person once said, "The proof is in the pudding." In other words, what kind of results are you producing?
By being aware of the quality of the results we're producing, we can get a feeling about the quality of our thoughts and beliefs.
If we're producing undesirable results, those undesirable results are an indication that our thoughts and beliefs are based in error and need to be addressed. On the other hand, if the results we're producing are desirable, they're an indication that our thoughts and beliefs are based in truth, for truth is "the way things really work."
It's been said that "insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." I would add that "insanity is thinking the same thing over and over again expecting different actions," for thinking is the starting point of all action.
Therefore, I encourage you to begin to look at the results you're producing. However desirable or undesirable they may be begin to seek awareness of the thoughts and beliefs that produced these results.
This is how we learned to not touch a hot stove burner or that serving others is a great way to experience joy.
Be willing to examine your experiences, for they all hold the insight and understanding you need in order to refine and change your personal philosophy.
Dave Sharp, Savor the Fruits TM
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The Wisdom of the Ages: What's New!
The timeless laws and principles upon which all highly successful individuals are developed
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by Dave Sharp (added 05/27/09)
Earlier I discussed how man is a goal-driven machine. As we consider the setting and accomplishing of goals, what are the steps involved in the process?
As I'm sure you're aware, the first step to accomplishing anything is to identify the purpose, “the why” of the goal. The second step is to determine the objective, “the what.” The third step is to develop a strategy for achieving the objective, “the how.” The fourth step is to identify the step-by-step tasks that are involved in executing the strategy. The fifth step is to determine how to best measure progress in executing the action plan. The sixth step is to execute the plan, monitoring progress according to the specified methods included in the plan.
While all of these steps are essential, the objective, strategy and tactics are meaningless without a way to monitor progress.
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by Russell Conwell (added 05/26/09)
The best thing I can do is to illustrate by actual facts well known to you all. A.T. Stewart, a poor boy in New York, had $1.50 to begin life on. He lost 87½ cents of that on the very first venture. How fortunate that young man who loses the first time he gambles. That boy said, “I will never gamble again in business,” and he never did.
How came he to lose 87½ cents? You probably all know the story how he lost it-because he bought some needles, threads, and buttons to sell which people did not want, and had them left on his hands, a dead loss. Said the boy, “I will not lose any more money in that way.” Then he went around first to the doors and asked the people what they did want. Then when he had found out what they wanted he invested his 62½ cents to supply a known demand. Study it wherever you choose--in business, in your profession, in your housekeeping, whatever your life, that one thing is the secret of success. You must first know the demand. You must first know what people need, and then invest yourself where you are most needed. A.T. Stewart went on that principle until he was worth what amounted afterward to forty millions of dollars, owning the very store in which Mr. Wanamaker carries on his great work in New York. His fortune was made by his losing something, which taught him the great lesson that he must only invest himself or his money in something that people need. When will you salesmen learn it? When will you manufactures learn that you must know the changing needs of humanity if you would succeed in life? Apply yourselves, all you Christian people, as manufactures or merchants or workmen to supply that human need. It is a great principle as broad as humanity and as deep as the Scripture itself.
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by Orison Swett Marden (added 04/16/09)
"Opportunity has hair in front," says a Latin author, "behind she is bald; if you seize her by the forelock, you may hold her, but, if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again."
But what is the best opportunity to him who cannot or will not use it? "It was my lot," said a shipmaster, "to fall in with the ill-fated steamer Central America. The night was closing in, the sea rolling high; but I hailed the crippled steamer and asked if they needed help. 'I am in a sinking condition,' cried Captain Herndon. 'Had you not better send your passengers on board directly?' I asked. ‘Will you not lay by me until morning? ' replied Captain Herndon. 'I will try,' I answered, 'but had you not better send your passengers on board now?" 'Lay by me till morning,' again shouted Captain Herndon. "I tried to lay by him, but at night, such was the heavy roll of the sea, I could not keep my position, and I never saw the steamer again. In an hour and a half after the Captain said, 'Lay by me till morning,' his vessel, with its living freight, went down. The Captain and crew and most of the passengers found a grave in the deep."
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by Elbert Hubbard (added 04/21/09)
(From the Forward)
This literary trifle, “A Message to Garcia”, was written one evening after supper, in a single hour. It was on the 22nd of February, 1899, Washington's Birthday: we were just going to press with the March Philistine.
The thing leaped hot from my heart, written after a trying day, when I had been endeavoring to train some rather delinquent villagers to give up their the comatose state and get “radioactive.”
The immediate suggestion, though, came from a little argument over the teacups, when my boy Bert suggested that Rowan was the real hero of the Cuban War. Rowan had gone alone and done the thing -- “carried the message to Garcia.”
It came to me like a flash!
Yes, the boy is right, the hero is the man who does his work -- who carries the message to Garcia.
I got up from the table, and wrote “A Message To Garcia.”
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by Joe Vitale (added 2/2/09)
During dinner the other night, one of the people in our group looked at me and asked the question I didn't want to hear -- "How did you become homeless?"
By now most people have heard my story of being on the streets of Dallas in the late 1970s and struggling in poverty in Houston for many years after that. Some of it is explained in my new audioprogram, "The Awakening Course."
But I had never explained exactly how I ended up in such dire circumstances.
When I answered the question at dinner, everyone at the table stared at me.
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by David Breslow (added 2/2/09)
Everybody has one. Its effect on us can be subtle to the point that we are not even aware of it. Everybody's is different and it can change from situation to situation! What is it? It's called a comfort zone.
Whenever we take on a new project, try something new, attempt to set new goals or standards for ourselves we will, at some point, come face to face with our comfort zone. It's not a matter of “if” it will happen it's a matter of “when” it will happen.
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Move On Up With Laughter: What's New!
A daily dose of positive energy through the power of laughter
A Speaking Part
A little boy came home from school, excitedly telling his father, "Daddy! Daddy! I'm going to be in the school play!"
The father said, "That's great! What part are you going to play?"
"I'm going to play a husband!"
"A husband!" the father exclaimed. "Son, you march right back down to that school and tell them you want a speaking part!"
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