The Power of Your Positive Mind
It's hard to believe that the father of positive thinking, Norman Vincent Peale, was once a young boy plagued by an inferiority complex. But through faith, and his realization that people take you at your own self-appraisal, Peale began a journey to a new way of thinking.
If your self-appraisal needs some refinement, incorporate Peale's timeless truths into your life:
Start thinking you can do things. When people believe in themselves they learn the first secret of success.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Get fired up with enthusiasm.Those fired up with an enthusiastic idea, and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts, find that new worlds open for them.
Stretch beyond your current limits. We can do just about anything that we really want and make up our minds to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Practice happy thinking.Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Like attracts like. If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
Maintain enthusiasm through tough times. Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong.
Believe things will turn out well. Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
All Excuses Abolished - You CAN Achieve Success At Any Age!
14 Oct Posted by: Darren Hardy in: SUCCESS
I’m too old, too young or too poor. I don’t have the education. I’m not from the right family. I don’t have the connections, etc., ad nauseam.
I feel one of our jobs here at SUCCESS is to abolish the excuses we were fed to believe for why we are not living up to our potential and achieving the dreams we imagine.
In previous issues we’ve shown that the greatest entrepreneurs and achievers throughout history have come from varied backgrounds—whether born into wealth or poverty, the children of slaves or immigrants, college dropouts or intellectual giants, men or women, black or white or Asian or Hispanic. We’ve shown there is no particular cloth from which achievers are cut; they create their own destiny.
In this issue we set out to prove you can find success at any age. In the forthcoming pages we will demonstrate, through the examples of others, that there is no timeline for success—no invisible clock that says you have to be a certain age before you can achieve your goals, or that says your chance has passed, regardless of how many candles grace your birthday cake.
Having fought age discrimination myself as a young entrepreneur I can tell you firsthand, age is an illusion—for both the doer and the viewer. Like most things, age is a mindset, an attitude. You are as old as you think you are, and thus act, project and interact with the world around you. This projection is what everyone sees and feels from you, thus they respond accordingly. I have seen 80-year-olds (Paul J. Meyer, featured in the June/July issue, comes to mind) act more vivacious, youthful and energetic than most 18-year-olds. I have also met 18-year-olds more sensible, resourceful and seemingly wiser than many “veterans” in executive positions. Age is not the limitation; one’s attitude about age is.
Don’t believe me; believe Ani Patel, a 13-year-old social entrepreneur who is doing what adult onlookers thought was impossible. Then there is Dara Torres, the 41-year-old mother and Olympian who competed in Beijing against women young enough to be her children. And there is the great Tony Hawk, who has defied age on both ends of the spectrum. A pro athlete at 14, the best in the world at 16, and now, at 40 (considered “grandpa” age in skateboarding), he remains not only relevant, but in fact at the very top of a multibillion-dollar industry he helped create (hear a snippet from my interview with Tony)
So, the age card is shredded. You are free to achieve your greatest dreams no matter what age you start after them. Hey, why not start now?
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have always imagined.” —Henry David Thoreau
Darren Hardy
SUCCESS Publisher and Editorial Director
I’m too old, too young or too poor. I don’t have the education. I’m not from the right family. I don’t have the connections, etc., ad nauseam.
I feel one of our jobs here at SUCCESS is to abolish the excuses we were fed to believe for why we are not living up to our potential and achieving the dreams we imagine.
In previous issues we’ve shown that the greatest entrepreneurs and achievers throughout history have come from varied backgrounds—whether born into wealth or poverty, the children of slaves or immigrants, college dropouts or intellectual giants, men or women, black or white or Asian or Hispanic. We’ve shown there is no particular cloth from which achievers are cut; they create their own destiny.
In this issue we set out to prove you can find success at any age. In the forthcoming pages we will demonstrate, through the examples of others, that there is no timeline for success—no invisible clock that says you have to be a certain age before you can achieve your goals, or that says your chance has passed, regardless of how many candles grace your birthday cake.
Having fought age discrimination myself as a young entrepreneur I can tell you firsthand, age is an illusion—for both the doer and the viewer. Like most things, age is a mindset, an attitude. You are as old as you think you are, and thus act, project and interact with the world around you. This projection is what everyone sees and feels from you, thus they respond accordingly. I have seen 80-year-olds (Paul J. Meyer, featured in the June/July issue, comes to mind) act more vivacious, youthful and energetic than most 18-year-olds. I have also met 18-year-olds more sensible, resourceful and seemingly wiser than many “veterans” in executive positions. Age is not the limitation; one’s attitude about age is.
Don’t believe me; believe Ani Patel, a 13-year-old social entrepreneur who is doing what adult onlookers thought was impossible. Then there is Dara Torres, the 41-year-old mother and Olympian who competed in Beijing against women young enough to be her children. And there is the great Tony Hawk, who has defied age on both ends of the spectrum. A pro athlete at 14, the best in the world at 16, and now, at 40 (considered “grandpa” age in skateboarding), he remains not only relevant, but in fact at the very top of a multibillion-dollar industry he helped create (hear a snippet from my interview with Tony)
So, the age card is shredded. You are free to achieve your greatest dreams no matter what age you start after them. Hey, why not start now?
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have always imagined.” —Henry David Thoreau
Darren Hardy
SUCCESS Publisher and Editorial Director
super cool photo from auction by Ann
She said the young men were all over the place there.. in and out of the old cow pens, all over bare foot! just a truly awesome shot by Ann!
small wall along the front two...
total value of just the 2 walls.. 85,000.00 plus land at 150000.00 before they start on home.. about 3000 sq ft.. looking south ...
front of property.. home will be east to west beween to walls....
big mound of dirt on the left will have to be moved.. might take two semis weeks to move out..
who knows.. have a great day
Friends of ours are building a home in Steeple Chase in Perkins.. this is the retaining wall alone.. on back of property
getting ready to build the retaining wall... two this is the back one
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