Showing posts with label Real-Life Inspirations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Real-Life Inspirations. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Believe in Yourself



If You Try...
The next time you think you don't
measure up or that you can't do it,
remember:


Albert Einstein's parents and teachers
thought he was retarded.
He couldn't speak until he was 9-years old.
He couldn't tie his shoes.

A teacher in Munich wrote in his school report, 
'You will never amount to very much.'
This just goes to show that no one is perfect,
and that you can go far if you try.

The key is believing in yourself
even when others don't believe in you.


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Monday, October 1, 2012

The best advice I ever got - by Mike Litman (Stretch Yourself)


I was reading a recent edition of Forbes Magazine and the theme was "the best advice I ever got" and I want to share one story with you.
The magazine was interviewing billionaire Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Atlantic Airways, and he said something very interesting.
Talking about his mentor, Freddie Laker, Branson said: "At the time, I was running a little record company; I was about 17 years old. The first time I met him was some years later. I was thinking about setting up my own airline.
He gave me this advice: 'You'll never have the advertising power to outsell British Airways. You are going to have to get out there and use yourself. Make a fool of yourself. Otherwise you won't survive'."
Many people ask me, they say, "Mike, what are some tips on how to be successful?" I want to share one with you that was very tough for me; I still struggle with it today at times, but I've had my share of victories as well.
If you re-read the quote above from Richard Branson, you'll see that his mentor gave him the advice of "Make a fool out of yourself." I want to say it a different way to you.
I'll say it this way:
You're not going to unleash your greatness and reach your financial goals if you don't STRETCH YOURSELF.
Fact.
To do something great you must first be uncomfortable.
Uncomfortable always comes before comfortable.
Michael Dell, Tiger Woods, Warren Buffet, Julia Roberts all stretched themselves a ton, they took risks, and they had the COURAGE to persevere.
Here's the good news.
You don't need to stretch yourself 100%, 50% or even 25%.
This is what you need to do today. Stretch yourself 1%. Yes, that's it!
Ask yourself:
What is one action that I know I need to do today, but that is uncomfortable and tough for me to do?
DO IT!
Is it prospecting, public speaking, asking for a raise? Whatever it is, stretch yourself and GO FOR IT.
I believe in you and it's time you 'knock the ball out of the park' and live your dreams.
Richard Branson was scared also, he had a ton of fears and probably still does to this day.
He just made the DECISION to go for it and now he's one of the wealthiest people in the world.
Give yourself the gift of stretching yourself 1% today.

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Monday, August 20, 2012

Five beautiful stories of Human-Dog friendship






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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Winners never quit......

Officials rejected a candidate for a news broadcasters post. Since his voice was not fit for a news broadcaster. He was also told that with his obnoxiously long name,he would never be famous. He is
Amitabh Bachchan.
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In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the executives of the Decca Recording Company. The executives were not impressed. While turning down this group of musicians, one executive said, “We don't like! Their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.” The group was called
The Beatles.
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In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency told modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, “You’d better learn secretarial work or else get married".
She went on and became
Marilyn Monroe.
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In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, Fired a singer after one performance. He told him,” You aren’t going' nowhere son. You ought to go back to driving' a truck". He went on to become
Elvis Presley.
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A small boy--the fifth amongst seven siblings of a poor father, was selling newspapers in a small village to earn his living. He was not exceptionally smart at school but was fascinated by religion and rockets.
The first rocket he built crashed. A missile that he built crashed multiple times
And he was made a butt of ridicule. He is the person to have scripted the Space Odyssey of India Single-handedly. He is
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
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When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making a demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to see one of them?"
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When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, “I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step process".
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In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country.
They all turned him down. In 1947, after 7 long years of rejections, he finally got a tiny company in Rochester, NY, the Haloid Company, to purchase the rights to his invention--an electrostatic Paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation.
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A little girl--the 20th of 22 children, was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contracted double pneumonia and scarlet fever,
which left her with a paralyzed left leg.
At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to
walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk, which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to become a runner. She entered a race and came in last. For the next few years every race she entered, she came in last.
Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running. One day she actually won a race.
And then another. From then on she won every race she entered. Eventually this little girl--
Wilma Rudolph, went on to win three Olympic gold medals.
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A schoolteacher scolded a boy for not paying attention to his mathematics and for not being able to solve simple problems. She told him that you would not become anybody in life. The boy was
Albert Einstein

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tags : Amitabh Bachchan, Albert Einstein, Xerox, Olympics, The Beatles, marilyn monroe, William Rudolph