Success In Life

Positive thinking brings inner peace, success, improved relationships, better health, happiness and satisfaction. It also helps the daily affairs of life move more smoothly, and makes life look bright and promising.

Positive thinking is contagious. People around you pick your mental moods and are affected accordingly. Think about happiness, good health and success, and you will cause people to like you and desire to help you, because they enjoy the vibrations that a positive mind emits.

In order to make positive thinking yield results, you need to develop a positive attitude toward life, expect a successful outcome of whatever you do, but also take any necessary actions to ensure your success.

Effective positive thinking that brings results is much more than just repeating a few positive words, or telling yourself that everything is going to be all right. It has to be your predominant mental attitude. It is not enough to think positively for a few moments, and then letting fears and lack of belief enter your mind. Some effort and inner work are necessary.

Are you willing to make a real inner change?Are you willing to change the way you think?Are you willing to develop a mental power that can positively affect you, your environment and the people around you?

Here are a few actions and tips to help you develop the power of positive thinking:

Always use only positive words while thinking and while talking. Use words such as, 'I can', 'I am able', 'it is possible', 'it can be done', etc.

Allow into your awareness only feelings of happiness, strength and success.

Try to disregard and ignore negative thoughts. Refuse to think such thoughts, and substitute them with constructive happy thoughts.

In your conversation use words that evoke feelings and mental images of strength, happiness and success.

Before starting with any plan or action, visualize clearly in your mind its successful outcome. If you visualize with concentration and faith, you will be amazed at the results.

Read at least one page of inspiring book every day.

Watch movies that make you feel happy.

Minimize the time you listen to the news and read the papers.

Associate yourself with people who think positively.

Always sit and walk with your back straight. This will strengthen your confidence and inner strength.

Walk, swim or engage in some other physical activity. This helps to develop a more positive attitude.

Think positive and expect only favorable results and situations, even if your current circumstances are not as you wish them to be. In time, your mental attitude will affect your life and circumstances and change them accordingly.

Success Quotes

When the mind thinks of success, the outside world mirrors these thoughts.

Success is the outcome of thinking, visualizing, planning and taking action.

Your mind is the generator of failure, and also the generator of success.

What you think today is what you live tomorrow.

Happy thoughts make your life happy. Miserable thoughts make your life miserable.

The image you have of yourself is responsible for the way people see and treat you.

Choose your thoughts carefully; they are the builders of your life.

Success manifests also in small daily events, not only in the accomplishment of great ambitions.

The mental movie in your mind is the cause of everything that happens to you.

Nurturing a feeling of success attracts it into your life.

Nothing can stand in the way of absolute belief and confidence.

Your inner world controls your outer world. Learn to improve your inner world, and your outer world would be affected too.

The mental movie that you play in your mind is the life that you will live tomorrow.

When you rehearse failure in your mind, you meet failure.

When you rehearse success in your mind, you experience it in your life.

Thoughts fuelled by desire and motivation make things happen.

What you get is determined by the scope of your thoughts.

Success is not only more money, promotion and social status. It is also more happiness, harmonious relationships and spiritual growth.

Change the mental movie that you keep viewing in your mind to one that you like. Keep playing it in your mind, and before you know it, the movie turns into reality.

Do not undervalue the importance of success in small matters. It proves to you that with persistence, greater success is possible too.

Play a movie of success in the projection room of your mind, and soon this movie will turn into reality.

Your mental movies are the trailers of the future.

Your thoughts and mental images create your circumstances. Master your thoughts and mental images, and you gain power over your circumstances.

Attaining peace of mind, happiness, satisfaction, inner strength, spiritual enlightenment and realizing the inner self is spiritual success.

Attaining good health, love, good relationships, promotion, status, money and possessions, and realizing desires and ambitions is material success.

Your outer circumstances are the mirror of your inner world. Change your inner world, and you change your outer world.

Ambition is the fuel the feed your thoughts, visualization and actions.

Willpower, persistence, patience and work bring your desires into manifestation.

Visualize your goals clearly, add desire and faith, and you will surely achieve them.

Positive Thinking Quotes

The difference between can and cannot are only three letters. Three letters that determine your life's direction.

Being positive or negative are habits of thoughts that have a very strong influence on life.

Positive and negative are directions. Which direction do you choose?

Positive thinking is expecting, talking and visualizing with certainty what you want to achieve, as an accomplished fact.

Riches, mediocrity and poverty begin in the mind.

Reality is the mirror of your thoughts. Choose well what you put in front of the mirror.

The mind is the decisive factor in your life, but who decides for the mind?

A positive attitude brings strength, energy and initiative.

To think negatively is like taking a weakening drug.

Positive thoughts are not enough. There have to be positive feelings and positive actions.

When you say, "I can't" and expect the worst, you become weak and unhappy.

When you say "I can", and expect success, you fill yourself with confidence and happiness.

Being resolute, decisive and courageous in small matters and in big ones is being positive.

You can close the windows and darken your room, and you can open the windows and let light in. It is a matter of choice. Your mind is your room. Do you darken it or do you fill it with light?

Positive thinking and negative thinking are attitudes. They are points of view, and show the way people handle their affairs.

Suppose you stand at a crossroads, one way leads to a desert and the other one to lush meadows, which way do you choose?

Clear thoughts produce clear results.

Positive thinking evokes more energy, more initiative and more happiness.

Visualize and Achieve

Learn how to visualize and achieve your dreams and goals!

Train your mind to think in terms of 'possible' and 'can be done'.

When you have control over your thoughts, you have control over your life.

Happy thoughts attract happy people into your life.

Happy thoughts fill your life with happiness.

When you change your habitual thoughts, it is like changing the direction of a train.

Affirm the positive, visualize the positive and expect the positive, and your life will change accordingly.

When there are difficulties and you feel down, this is the time to visualize, think and expect the positive.

Do not let circumstances influence your thoughts and moods. By rising over them mentally, you will eventually rise over them materially.

Fill your mind with light, happiness, hope, feelings of security and strength, and soon your life will reflect these qualities.

Reading inspiring quotes uplifts the mind.

Repeating inspiring quotes during the day, helps to better cope with every situation that arises.

The power of positive thinking is like a car with a powerful engine that can take you to the summit of a mountain.

Quotes On Laziness

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.Lord Chesterfield

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.Robert Half

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.Thomas a Kempis

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.Grenville Kleiser

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.Walter Annenberg

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.Walter Chrysler

The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer.Henry Clay

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.Albert Einstein

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.Voltaire

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends.Cyril Connolly

Quotes On Self-Control

Self control is the rejection of anger, intolerance and impulsiveness.

Whoever is able to rise above anger, gets closer to inner peace.

Self control ultimately leads to detachment and peace of mind.

Who controls who? It is the Spirit controlling the lower nature.

Discipline is the rejection of instant gratification in favor of something better and higher.

Controlling the lower nature is of great importance to anyone desiring to have good relationships.

Letting anger and impatience run riot create trouble, unpleasant situations and the loss of friends.

You don't control negative habits with force. You do so by developing new, good habits.

Transform your negative habits into positive ones, through affirmations, visualization and positive behavior.

Impatience leads to regret and unhappiness.

Patience and perseverance lead to success and achieving your goals.

Self control saves you of mistakes, embarrassment and loss.

Quotes on Self-Discipline

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life.Tenzin Gyatso

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first.Harry S Truman

Discipline really means our ability to get ourselves to do things when we don't want.Arden Mahlberg

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.Grenville Kleiser

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.Buddha

Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.Napolean Hill

If you're not willing to accept your own discipline, you're not going to accomplish two percent of what you could - and you're going to miss out on 98% of the good things you could have.Tom Hopkins

One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with your luck.Carl Zuckmayer

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.Abraham Joshua

Your mental attitude is something you can control outright and you must use self discipline until you create a positive mental attitude - your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.Napoleon Hill

Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.Paramahansa Yogananda

Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.Vince Lombar

Discipline is remembering what you want.David Campbell

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer.Rob Gilbert

Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear-and doubt. Self-discipline allows a pitcher to feel his individuality, his inner strength, his talent. He is master of, rather than a slave to, his thoughts and emotions.H.A. Dorfman

Quotes on Responsibilty

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.Tom Robbins

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.Jim Rohn

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.Joan Didion

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.Josiah Charles Stamp

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.Erica Jong

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.Thomas Jefferson

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.Louis Armstrong

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.William Penn

The price of greatness is responsibility.Winston Churchill

A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.Confucius

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.Confucius

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.Lao-Tzu

Quotes on Motivation

Motivation awakens excitement, happiness, positive expectations and energy.

Getting motivated is like starting the engine of a car and beginning to move.

Getting motivated is one of the most important steps toward getting what you want.

A persistent strong desire pushes your goal into manifestation.

Success requires that you have a motivating inner power to push you forward.

Motivation, backed by good planning and correct action leads to success.

It is important that you motivate yourself only towards worthy and positive goals that will benefit you and others.

Motivation is the electrical power that activates the engine of success.

Emotions, feelings and desires are the powers that push people to take action.

Both positive and negative emotions lead to action and fulfillment. Choose positive emotions and be wary of the negative ones.

The power of ambition is the power behind every achievement, big and small.

Laziness, indifference and lack of ambition are the results of lack of motivation.

Focusing your whole attention on your goal, moves you steadily toward achieving it.

Put your goal constantly before you, and you will always have the energy to do something about it.

Your inner focus, intent and faith lead you to the accomplishment your desire.

Reading inspiring and motivating stories awaken the desire to take action and do things.

Stories about people who have achieved their goals, material or spiritual, evoke the desire to do the same.

The moods and mental states of energetic, highly motivated people, are contagious. They can awaken in you the desire to be like them.

Association with energetic, highly motivated people, awaken dormant energies and powers in the people who associate with them.

Visualizing your desire as already accomplished and enjoying the feelings of accomplishment, awaken in you energies that drive you to do whatever it takes to make your desire come true.

Affirmations awaken the power of your subconscious mind into action.

First motivate yourself, and then it will be easier to motivate others.

Motivation is important, but you need persistence and self discipline to get to the finish line.

Reading a few quotes on motivation in the morning is like drinking a good cup of coffee that awakens and energizes you.

Quotes on Leadership

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.John Quincy Adams

Good leaders must first become good servants.Robert Greenleaf

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.Rosalynn Carter

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.Herbert B. Swope

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.Theodore M. Hesburgh

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.Tony Blair

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.John Buchan

If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.Miyamoto Mursashi

Leadership is action, not position.Donald H. McGannon

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.Harry Truman

The word impossible is not in my dictionary.Napoleon Bonapart

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.John C. Maxwell

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.Blaine Lee

A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, his troops will feel they did it themselves.Lao Tzu

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.Mahatma Ghandhi

If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.Morita Akio

Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself - your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers.Dee Hock

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.Theodore Roosevelt

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.Vince Lombardi

Quotes on Love

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.Mother Teresa

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.Charles Kingsley

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.Alexandra Penney

Love is the only thing you get more of by giving it away.Tom Wilson

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.Voltaire

Where there is love, there is God also.Leo Tolstoy

People need love even when they don't deserve it.Nikki Ledbetter

The love we give away is the only love we keep.Elbert Hubbard

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.Alexander Smith

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.Dr. Karl Menninger

Where there is love there is life.Gandhi

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.William Shakespeare

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Allan K. Chalmers

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.Barbara De Angelis

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.Sarah Ban Breathnach

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.Buddha

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.Louise Hay

Love is like a river, always changing, but always finding you again somewhere down the road.Kelly Elaine

Quotes of Patience

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.George Savile

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.Franklin P. Jones

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.Mac McCleary

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.Moliere

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?Paul Sweeney

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.Lao Tzu

Patience is the companion of wisdom.Saint Augustine

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.Buddhist Proverb

Endurance is patience concentrated.Thomas Carlyle

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.Ovid

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.Epictetus

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.Joseph De Maistre

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.Titus Maccius Plautus

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.St. Francis de Sales

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.Soren Kierkegaard

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.William Cobbett

One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.Chinese Proverb

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.Leonardo da Vinci

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.Ralph Marston

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.Jean De La Bruyere

Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the

other.John Christian Morgenstern

Quotes of Parenting

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.Josh Billings

Some authority on parenting once said, "Hold them very close and then let them go." This is the hardest truth for a father to learn: that his children are continuously growing up and moving away from him (until, of course, they move back in).Bill Cosby

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.Abigail Van Buren

Children have more need of models than of critics.Carolyn Coats

Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.Gary Smalley

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.C. Everett Koop

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.Jodie Foster

To me parenting is all about trust. If you don't live by your words or actions how do you expect your kids to listen to you?Kevin Heath

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen.Paul Tillich

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.Richard L. Evans

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.Shakespeare

A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad.John Andrew Holmes

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.Pearl Buck

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.Henry Ward Beecher

Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him.Dr. Henker

Parents: People who spend half their time wondering how their children will turn out, and the rest of the time when they will turn in.Eleanor Graham Vance

Parenting tip: complement your child on something well done when they don't think you are looking!Kevin Heath

When you have children yourself, you begin to understand what you owe your parents.Japanese Quote

Parenting is an important job. Parents are providers, teachers, supervisers, friends, protectors, referees and enterntainers.Remez Sasson

We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.Henry Ward Beecher

Quotes on Anger

He who angers you conquers you.Elizabeth Kenny

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.Cherie Carter-Scott

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.Joan Lunden

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.Buddha

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.Eric Hoffer

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.John Dryden

The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.Buddha

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.Buddha

We boil at different degrees.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.Marcus Antonius.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.Epictetus

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.Mario Puzo

The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get.Bertrand Russell

When anger rises, think of the consequences.Confucius

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.Thomas a Kempis

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?Khalil Gibran

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.Thomas Jefferson

Anger always comes from frustrated expectations.Elliott Larson

A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.Garrison Keillor

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.Chinese Proverb

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.Seneca

Quotes on Kindness

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness Kindness in giving creates love.Lao-Tzu

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.Albert Schweitzer

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.Martin Luther

Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.Deepak Chopra

It's so easy to laugh. It's so easy to hate. It takes strength to be gentle and kind.Stephen Morrissey

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.Mother Teresa

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.Blaise Pascal

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.Mother Teresa

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.The Dalai Lama

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.The Dalai Lama

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.Leo Buscaglia

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.Harold Kushner

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.Kahlil Gibran

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.Buddha

Love and kindness are never wasted.Barbara DeAngelis

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.Emma Goldman

Quotes on Peace of Mind

Peace of mind is experienced when the stormy waves of the mind quell down.

Real peace of mind is the companion of the silence of the mind.

You get peace of mind not by thinking about it or imagining it, but by quietening and relaxing the restless mind.

Your nature is absolute peace. You are not the mind. Silence your mind through concentration and meditation, and you will discover the peace of the Spirit that you are, and have always been.

The mind is like a TV screen. There is always movement and action there. As you can switch off your TV, so you can switch off the TV screen of your mind.

When you sleep, you entertain no visitors at your house, and your windows and doors are closed. When you want to enjoy peace of mind you have to let your thoughts go, and close the windows and doors of your mind.

You switch off the engine of your car, so why don't you switch off the engine of your mind?

Inner peace creates outer peace.

The mind is like a room that is always full with all sorts of stuff. There is no free space there. When it is emptied, it becomes filled with peace of mind.

Give your brain some rest by switching off the movements of the mind.

Stop your thoughts, but stay awake, and you will experience the great ocean of peace beyond the mind.

You are the consciousness beyond the mind. By stilling the mind you realize this fact. Then peace of mind will be always be with you.

True peace of mind is not dependent on circumstances. It comes from the inside.

The wind causes waves to arise at the sea. Restless thoughts are the winds that bring waves and storms into the mind.

Learn to calm down the winds of your mind, and you will enjoy great inner peace.

Worries, fears, desires, restlessness, nervousness drive peace of mind away.

When you sleep deeply, nothing worries you. You enjoy peace. You can enjoy this same peace while awake and active.

Through concentration and meditation, you become the boss of your mind, and gain the ability to tell it when to be active and when to stay silent.

Constant meditation awakens the ability to enjoy peace of mind while talking, eating, walking, working and throughout any other activity.

Negative feelings and negative thoughts keep peace of mind away.

The presence of a true spiritual teacher, reading inspiring words and letting in inspiring thoughts, tend to make the mind peaceful.

Meditate regularly, think only positively, aspire to find the consciousness beyond the mind, and peace of mind will be yours.

Do you need or enjoy fear, worries and restlessness? If you don't, then why do you keep inviting them into your mind?

As the house is cleaned, so the mind can be cleaned. As you enjoy a clean house, you will enjoy a clean and uncluttered mind.

When you unclutter your mind, you enjoy peace of mind.

Quotes on Wisdom

God helps them that help themselves.Benjamin Franklin

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.Lao-Tze

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.Wayne Dyer

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.John Maxwell

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.Oliver Wendell Holmes

Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is" I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are.Wayne Dyer

We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.May-lin Soong Chiang

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.Lao Tzu

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.Glenn Clark

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.Martin Fischer

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.Mohandas K. Gandhi

Anything truly revolutionary is created by a few who see what is true and are willing to live according to that truth; but to discover what is true demands freedom from tradition, which means freedom from all fears.Krishnamurti

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.Samuel Coleridge

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.Mahatma Ghandhi

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.Dale E. Turner

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.Plato

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.Albert Einstein

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.Marcel Proust

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.Robert Green Ingersoll

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.Wayne Dyer

Quotes on Time-Management

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.M. Scott Peck

Living your life without a plan is like watching television with someone else holding the remote control.Peter Turla

All time management begins with planning.Tom Greening

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.William Penn

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.Kin Hubbard

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.Sydney J. Harris

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.Paul Hawken

Those who make the worst of their time most complain about its shortness.La Bruyere

The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.Leo Kennedy

Time is the scarcest resource; and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed.Peter F. Drucker

To do two things at once is to do neither.Publius Syrus

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.Ted W. Engstrom

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.Henry Ford

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.Napoleon Hill

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.Buddha

Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.William Shakespeare

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.Margaret Bonnano

Effective management always means asking the right question.Robert Heller

Quotes on Mind and conciousness

The mind is like a machine that never shuts down. Does the engine of your car or your vacuum cleaner work incessantly, twenty four hours a day? Why does your mind work this way?

Learn to be aware and conscious of your consciousness, and you will find who you really are.

Concentration is the ability to focus the mind on one point.

There is consciousness of the ego and the world around you, and there is consciousness of the Real Self, the Real You.

Stop your agitated thoughts, and find out who it is that stops them.

Concentration and meditation lead to the ability to be without thoughts, but yet retain full consciousness.

In full calmness and peace you experience the unchanging, eternal pure being that you are.

You, the real you, are eternal, not the ego, body, feelings or thoughts, but the spirit beyond them.

You are the consciousness and awareness beyond words and thoughts.

Upon Self-Realization, you will burst into laughter. You will be amazed how simple and different it is from what you have thought it is.

To realize your inner self is pure simplicity. You do not have to do anything; yet you have to work hard to get it. It may seem a paradox, but it is not.

Freedom is won by throwing away your mental illusions and attachments.

Thoughts are not a necessity; most of the time they are just distractions that obstruct your

inner vision.

It is possible, through proper means, to teach the mind to think only when it is necessary, for the period of time you decide.

Without incessant thinking, you become more conscious and alive.

People's experience of the no-thinking state is limited to times of deep sleep or unconsciousness, as in a swoon or under anesthetics.

Being fully conscious, yet without thoughts, is like sleep, but yet being awake.

To understand what inner freedom means, imagine the state of the happiness, calmness, relaxation and peace of mind of deep sleep, but combined with full awakening and awareness.

The waves of the mind lose their power to disturb and distract you, when you still the mind and rise above its desires and whims.

To use the mind when needed, and to switch it off afterwards, is a great art and science.

Cleanse your mind with the soap of concentration, and wash it with the water of meditation.

Consciousness of your real nature dawns, as you start gaining the ability to still your mind.

Quotes on Decision Making

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.Elbert Hubbard

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.Robert Fritz

As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.William Joseph Slim

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.Robert H. Schuller

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.Napoleon Bonaparte

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.Keri Russell

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.Amelia Earhart

Vacillating people seldom succeed. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching their decisions, and very persistent and determined in action thereafter.L. G. Elliott

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.John H. Patterson

It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.Anthony Robbins

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.Edward de Bono

Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.Peter Drucker

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.Henry Ford

When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A revised decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.William B. Given

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.A. C. Benson

The moment a question comes to your mind, see yourself mentally taking hold of it and disposing of it. In that moment... you learn to become the decider and not the vacillator. Thus you build character.H. Van Anderson

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.William James

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow, or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us.Herbert B. Prochnow

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.Jim Rohn

Quotes on Happiness

Inspiring quotes and phrases are like vitamins to the soul.

Happiness is within you. When you stop the chatter of the mind and expel your worries and fears you find out that happiness surfaces from within you.

Happiness is not something far away and unattainable, and its manifestation does not depend on circumstances.

Happiness is one of the most important treasures. It is within your soul. All you have to do, is dig it out and enjoy it.

There is no need to search for happiness or to create it. There is no need to undergo all kinds of external experiences in order to enjoy it. It is always here, deep within your soul.

Happiness is always here, but covered by thoughts, desires and fears.

Happiness comes from within.

Your attitude decides whether you are happy or not. You can change your attitude.

Happiness is a state of mind. More correctly put, it is the state beyond the mind.

It is our attitude that makes us feel happy or unhappy.

Your thoughts and worries hide away your happiness.

If you smile while you talk, you make people happy.

A calm and detached mind is the gate to true happiness.

Happiness is experienced after a problem has been solved, a fear has disappeared or after realizing a desire. At this moment the mind is released from it fears, worries and desires and becomes quiet, letting the happiness emerge.

Look at the happy side of life, and you will develop the happiness habit.

Learn to laugh. This will make you feel better.

Focusing your mind on everything that you do, increases your control over your mind, which makes it easier for the inner joy to manifest.

Your inner nature is bliss and joy. Clean your mind of thoughts and worries and you will find this treasure within you.

When you wake up from deep sleep you feel happy. This is because the mind was quiet. If you are able to make your mind quiet during your waking hours, you will experience happiness.

Each day do something to make you feel happy, until this becomes a habit.

Cheerfulness is contagious. Choose cheerful people for your friends and you become cheerful too.

Sharing and accepting other people's happiness increases our own happiness.

Choose happiness, concentrate on happiness and you will find it everywhere.

Let the joy in your heart overflow and water everyone you meet.

Pleasure comes from the outside, happiness from the inside.

A good word to a friend or stranger can bring light into their day.

When you have a positive frame of mind, you broadcast positive thoughts and feelings to the world around you.

Quotes on Goals

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.Robert Heinlein

Nothing happens unless first we dream.Carl Sandburg

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.Michelangelo

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.Goethe

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.Brian Tracy

Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.Cecil B. DeMille

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.Lloyd Alexander

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.Eric Butterworth

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.Author Unknown

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.Helmut Schmidt

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.Louis Pasteur

Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.Hannah More

Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.Les Brown

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.Mark Caine

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.W. Clement Stone

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.Vince Lombardi

I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.Kurt Thomas

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.Henry David Thoreau

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.Andrew Carnegie

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.W. Clement Stone

Quotes on Courage

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.Anais Nin

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.John Quincy Adams

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.Eddie Rickenbacker

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.Robertson Davies

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.Winston Churchill

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.Bernadette Devlin

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.Dorothy Thompson

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.Dale Carnegie

All our dreams can come true...if we have the courage to pursue them.Walt Disney

All serious daring starts from within.Harriet Beecher Stowe

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.James Freeman Clarke

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.Keshavan Nair

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.Theodore H. White

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.Ambrose Redmoon

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.Clare Boothe Luce

Quotes on Confidence

Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.Samuel Johnson

Confidence can get you where you want to go, and getting there is a daily process. It's so much easier when you feel good about yourself, your abilities and talents.Donald Trump

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.Marcus Garvey

Self confidence is the power that makes you dare, try and do.Remez Sasson

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.Henry Ford

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear.William Jennings Bryan

You can determine how confident people are by listening to what they don't say about themselves.Brian G. Jett

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.Robert F. Kennedy

What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.Norman Vincent Peale

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.Napoleon Hill

Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.Stewart E. White

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe.Norman Vincent Peale

Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be.Brian Tracy

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.Jesse Jackson

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.Peter T. Mcintyre

Quotes on Hope

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.Dale Carnegie

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.Robert Ingersoll

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them.Louisa May Alcott

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.Erik H. Erikson

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.Samuel Johnson

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.Orison Swett Marden

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.Winston Churchill

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.Emily Dickenson

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.Charles Sawyer

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.Confucious

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.William James

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.Richard David Bach

Hope is the dream of a waking man.Aristotle

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.Samuel Smiles

Quotes on Inner-Peace

If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.Mary J. Blige

Inner peace is beyond victory or defeat.Bhagavad Gita

When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.The Dalai Lama

When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.Sri Ramana Maharshi

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.Norman Vincent Peale

When your daily activities are in concert with your highest priorities, you have a credible claim to inner peace.Hyrum Smith

When the restless activity of your mind slows down, when your thoughts stop rushing like waves on a windy day, then you will start getting glimpses of the sweet taste of inner peace.Remez Sasson

Spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.Susan Taylor

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.Gerald Jampolsky

A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part.Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.Paramahansa Yogananda

When we are unable to find tranquillity within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Constant meditation awakens the ability to enjoy peace of mind while talking, eating, walking, working and throughout any other activity.Remez Sasson

Meditation gives you an opportunity to come to know your invisible self. It allows you to empty yourself of the endless hyperactivity of your mind, and to attain calmness. It teaches you to be peaceful, to remove stress, to receive answers where confusion previously reigned.Wayne Dyer

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.James Allen

Peace is not achieved by controlling nations, but mastering our thoughts.John Harricharan

When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world.Maha Ghosananda

Everything you do can be done better from a place of relaxation.Stephen C. Paul

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.Pythagoras

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.Swami Sivananda

Spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.Susan Taylor

Quotes on Inner Silence

An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.Walter Bagehot

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.Margaret Lee Runbeck

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.Thomas Carlyle

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.Deepak Chopra

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Silence is the mother of truth.Benjamin Disraeli

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.Leroy Brownlow

There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.Margaret Atwood

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.Mahatma Gandhi

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.Mark Helprin

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.Pythagoras

Spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and createorder.Susan Taylor

Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.Norman Vincent Peale

Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence.Mother Teresa

21 SUGGESTIONS FOR SUCCESS? by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

1. Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your success or misery.2. Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent.3. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.4. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.5. Be forgiving of yourself and others.6. Be generous.7. Have a grateful heart.8. Persistence, Persistence, Persistence.9. Discipline yourself to save money, even on the most modest salary.10. Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated.11. Commit yourself to constant improvement.12. Commit yourself to quality.13. Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power, or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.14. Be loyal.15. Be honest.16. Be a self-starter.17. Be decisive, even if it means you'll sometimes be wrong.18. Stop blaming others. Take responsibility for every area of your life.19. Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.20. Take good care of those you love.21. Don't do anything that wouldn't make your mom proud.

WHAT IS LIFE ALL ABOUT?

You'll be a richer person for taking the time to read and practice this.

Life isn't about keeping score.It's not about how many friends you haveOr how accepted you are.Not about if you have plans this weekend or if you're alone.It isn't about who you're dating, who you used to date, how many people you've dated, or if you haven't been withanyone at all.It isn't about who you have kissed,It's not about sex.It isn't about who your family is or how much money they haveOr what kind of car you drive.Or where you are sent to school.It's not about how beautiful or ugly you are.Or what clothes you wear, what shoes you have on, or what kind of music you listen to.It's not about if your hair is blonde, red, black, or brownOr if your skin is too light or too dark.Not about what grades you get, how smart you are, how smart everybody else thinks you are, or how smartstandardized tests say you are.It's not about what clubs you're in or how good you are at "your" sport.It's not about representing your whole being on a piece of paper and seeing who will "accept the written you."LIFE JUST ISN'T ANY OF THESE.

BUT, LIFE IS about who you love and who you hurt.It's about who you make happy or unhappy purposefully.It's about keeping or betraying trust.It's about friendship, used as a sanctity or a weapon.It's about what you say and mean, maybe hurtful, maybe heartening.About starting rumors and contributing to petty gossip.It's about what judgments you pass and why; and who your judgments are spread to.It's about who you've ignored with full control and intention.It's about jealousy, fear, ignorance, and revenge.It's about carrying inner hate and love, letting it grow, and spreading it.But most of all, it's about using your life to touch or poison other people's hearts in such a way that could havenever occurred alone.Only you choose the way those hearts are affected, and those choices are what life's all about.

Top 10 Keys To SuccessFebruary 24th, 2008 (35,359 views) by Pinny Cohen

I was reading through Automotive News last week and they were profiling a very successful dealer group owner named Rick Hendrick. He managed to build up a dealer empire of 60 dealerships, 80 franchises, and over $4.3 billion in revenue last year. But the path to there has been filled with hardship, including: a plane accident killing his son and several relatives, a felony fraud conviction, and leukemia.

How did he manage, despite all of the challenges, to build up one of the largest dealer groups in America today? Rick swears by his 10 Keys to Success:

1. Optimism. Think positive.2. Faith. Believe in yourself, God and your country.3. Planning. Know what’s important

each day; set your priorities accordingly.4. Determination. Have the courage to stand alone when taking the big risks in life.5. Vision. Think big, dream big, keep success in your mind.6. Attitude. If you think you can’t, you’re right. Winners have positive attitudes.7. Goals. Set goals. Plan how to achieve them.8. Perseverance. Try and try again until the goal is achieved. Never give up.9. Knowledge. Learn to accept your mistakes, but make them only once.10. Enthusiasm. Choose work you like. Enjoy the challenges.

Isn’t it great when successful people share their secret formula? I always like reading about other’s success stories, you never know when someone else has a great idea that can be added to your personal success list.

Success doesn’t just have to be defined by money, or your career; for example, there are plenty of successful mothers who raised wonderful children. To them, the definition of success might be very different than a CEO who just got a big deal signed.

A great way to check if you are lining yourself up for success is to print up this list of keys to success, post it on your wall, and take a look at it weekly or monthly. It will keep you motivated and on your path to success.

The Key To Success In Life

I know the answer already, but let me ask the question anyway: Do you want to realize success in life? Who in his or her right mind is going to say he wants to be a failure, right. On the other hand, some people who answer yes in words say no by their actions. “Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth,” the Bible says (Proverbs 10:4).

Talk is cheap. Realizing success in life requires that we conscientiously do the things that enable us to avoid failure. And according to the verse above, lazy hands make one poor. Note that the verse is not job-specific. Lazy hands make one poor, no matter what the person’s goal in life is. Similarly, “Diligent hands bring wealth,” no matter what you aspire to do.

Some people are amazingly naïve about life. They seem to think that success in life is happenstance. But this is an extremely competitive world in which we live. Even finding your so-called dream job these days is much harder than it used to be. Regardless of your aspirations, however, you can become a success in life. It’s called being diligent: doing what’s required to gain the competitive edge; never giving up; refusing to accept defeat; living a life of integrity.

There is no substitute for diligence. You can attend multitudes of conferences and listen to all the subject matter experts you want to, but if you persist to be lazy, you don’t have what it takes to become a success in life (sorry about being so brutally honest). You may be a person of faith and you can pray to God for success all night long, but if you have lazy hands, you are destined for failure.

Be it far from me to suggest that prayer does not work. But remember, the verse I quoted is from the Word of God. He is the one who says that lazy hands make a man or woman poor. All the praying in the world won’t compensate for laziness.

Finally, please understand that when I talk about success in life, I am not necessarily talking about monetary gain or climbing the corporate ladder. The point is that regardless of the area in which you want to realize success in life—parenting, running a business, college life, etc.—the key to success is diligence. Unfortunately, my observation is that many people, including Christians, who talk about realizing success in life are not willing to pay the price.

Keys to Successful LivingBy Swami Rama

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Keys to Successful LivingSwami Rama

Everyone wants to be successful in life, but where are the keys to success? Do we have to go out and search for those keys, or do we have those potentials already within ourselves? When we begin to examine life, we can see that it is divided into two aspects -- life within and life without; internal life and external life -- and we can see that these aspects are of equal importance. Even if we have renounced the world, gone far away from civilization, and live in the wilderness doing nothing but meditation, we cannot ignore external life. We still have to see that we eat, do our ablutions, and perform our practices on time. So life in the external world is as important as life in the internal world. Even one who has renounced the world has to understand the word relationship properly, because life itself is actually relationship. The body is related to the breath, and the breath is related to the mind. The body, breath, senses, and mind all function together as a unit. So life virtually means relationship, and thus the art of living and being requires an understanding of one's relationship to the external world and the relationships within oneself.

All human beings have inner potentials, but many people are not aware of those potentials and do not know how to use them to have a successful life. Those who are not happy internally can never be happy externally; those who are not happy within themselves can never make others happy. Those who do not love themselves can never love others.

If we are not happy, how can we be successful in life? Success lies in our happiness. The keys to happiness lie within us, but our modern education does not teach us how to find them. It is helpful to have a few formulas to practice in daily life to make it more successful. I have not created these formulas; they are derived from observations based on experience. There are five points to remember: first, how to decide things on time; second, how to study personal habit patterns; third, how to conduct ourselves in the external world; fourth, what attitude to take; fifth, where to find happiness. To attain success in life, one should learn and apply these five points.

Deciding Things on Time

The first point to understand is the philosophy and science of decision -- how to make decisions on time. The most successful person is that person who knows how to decide on time. There are many extraordinarily brilliant people who understand things very quickly, but when the time comes to make a decision, when an opportunity comes, they withdraw and are not able to act. They do not know how to decide. They know they should learn to decide on time, but they don't do it. They always say, "Well, I knew it. I understood the key, but I did not act in time." Though they may think correctly, and accurately understand the situation properly, they suddenly lose confidence. This is a world of competition; someone else is always trying to attain the same thing we are. So if we do not decide on time, someone else will attain what we want. Time is valuable in the external world. A tender bamboo can be easily bent, but if we try to bend a mature bamboo, it will break. That which we

have to do today, we should not postpone for tomorrow, but we should also not make decisions in haste.

We may have a setback if we make a wrong decision, but our mistakes will teach us. Many people avoid making decisions their whole lives, so their decisive faculty of mind, the faculty of discrimination, becomes rusty and dies. Such people become totally dependent on others. When we study the four functions of the mind -- buddhi, the faculty of decisiveness; ego, the principle of identity; chitta, the storehouse of impressions; and manas, the importer and exporter of sensations and experience -- then we become aware of the power of the will. Will power is that something within us that comes forward and says, "Do this. It will be helpful for you." Training the internal functions helps us to understand the decisive faculty of the mind, without which we cannot be successful. [See also the article on the Four Functions of Mind]

We should understand our capacities and potentials, and then we should express ourselves in the external world with full confidence, acting without any reservations. Thus there are three steps in performing an action: first, forming an opinion within ourselves; second, expressing our opinion to others; and third, executing our opinion in action.

Understanding Habit Patterns

The main thing that one should learn in life -- and it is not taught in the home or in the schools -- is self-analysis. We should learn to analyze ourselves. If we really want to understand ourselves, we can analyze our personality by understanding our habit patterns. This is not difficult. We should simply try to be consciously aware of every action we perform and realize that our actions are virtually our thoughts. Without thought there can be no action. Habit patterns and thoughts are revealed through behavior.

There is a branch of psychology called behaviorism that is based on this concept. But one should understand that external behavior alone cannot reveal everything about a person. Laughter, for example, cannot be analyzed behaviorally. If I were to laugh, you might also laugh with me simply because I was laughing but without understanding why I was laughing. Your laughter is out of sheer reaction. Then you might laugh a second time, this time at yourself because you did not understand why you were laughing and yet you laughed. You might also laugh a third time because you finally understand what I was laughing at and you now also find it funny. All three times your laughter might seem the same to others, but each time it had a different motivation. So internal states cannot be understood through behavior analysis alone. Only a small part of oneself and others can be understood through observing behavior. But knowing our habit patterns can help us to analyze and understand our personality.

What is personality? The word "personality" comes from the root persona, which means "mask." Our personality is a mask that we wear. We don't have to wear a mask when we are by ourselves; we wear a mask to express ourselves to others. Our personality is a character, and that character is composed of certain habits. Each of us has numerous habits; so when we want to understand our personality, we should understand our habit patterns. A habit pattern is a conscious thought or action that one repeats again and again. This creates a groove in the unconscious mind and forms an unconscious habit. Unconscious habits are stronger than conscious habits. All habit patterns are self-created. When we sit down and try to understand which of our habits control our life, we see that there are many deep-rooted habits within us.

We should learn to study them. Once we become aware of harmful thoughts and emotions that have created deep grooves in the mind, we can begin to change them by creating new grooves. Then the mind will stop flowing to the old grooves and start flowing to the new ones. In this way we can change our habits.

You should also learn to execute your intentions. For instance, many people have very good intentions to do something nice for their neighbors, and they think about it all the time, but then those thoughts are never executed, they are never allowed to become actions. We have many thoughts that have never been executed, and that is why we are miserable. If we learn to select those thoughts that are helpful and then allow ourselves to execute them, that brings fulfillment, and life will be happy. We create misery for ourselves when we do not bring our good thoughts into action. One of the French writers has explained this concept beautifully: "All good thoughts that are not brought into action are either treachery or abortion." Good thoughts are those that help others and that help us also. Bad thoughts are those that obstruct our progress and create barriers for others.

Deep-seated habits can keep you from doing that which you know would be good for you to do. You become helpless because of the obsessions and addictions that are caused by your habits. You may continue in a habit that you know is not good -- that is neither healthy nor helpful and that should not be done -- because the habit has become so deep-rooted that you are powerless to change your behavior. Society does not help you change your bad habits, and there are very few places where you can get help. Many people who are in the penitentiary know that what they have done is a crime, but the force of habit led them to act improperly. Their faculty of discrimination within functions -- they understand what is right and what is not right -- but their deep-seated habits have motivated them to do something that is not good, that is not acceptable. Actually, no one should be considered either a good person or a bad person. In traditional English law, when someone was punished, he was told, "We are not punishing you for yourself. We are punishing you for your bad habits."

Controlling the Primitive Urges

Habit patterns are very strong motivations in life; we should not ignore them. We should not create a defense mechanism and say, "Well, so what if I have this habit?" We should learn to study our habit patterns and work with our habits to change them. There are very few basic habits, and they arise from four fountains: food, sex, sleep, and self-preservation. By understanding these four primitive fountains, we can understand our habit patterns, and then we can learn to change them and to transform the personality.

Food is the first basic urge. If a husband tells his wife, "Don't overeat," she may say, "I overeat because of you. You don't pay attention to me, so I have to overeat." Sometimes when the sexual appetite is not dealt with properly, people overeat. This is the universal law of compensation. If we maintain a nutritious diet, we will not have any problem from the primitive fountain called food. Food goes through the body and then affects the mind, but sex originates in the mind and then is expressed through the body. If our mind is balanced and we have attained emotional maturity, then we can deal competently with the sex urge. For it is the mind, not the body, that deals with sex. The poor body cannot handle the rush, the flood, of mind, and so almost no one is sexually happy. To have a balanced sex life, one should understand that a calm, tranquil mind is very helpful.

Sleep is another primitive fountain. We consider ourselves to be extremely knowledgeable and highly advanced, but we do not know anything about how to sleep. It is very important to understand the anatomy of sleep. If you wanted to go to sleep right now, you could not do it because you need many accommodations to create the proper atmosphere for sleep, but yogis know how to go to sleep voluntarily, remain conscious, and then wake up at the exact moment they had determined they would. People go to sleep just out of habit, but we should learn to train our will so we can go to sleep or wake up anytime we want to. And when we sleep, we should be conscious. This is possible. There are methods for going to deep sleep, recording what is going on around us, and then waking up and remembering it. Yogis know these methods and have demonstrated them scientifically. People do not need to sleep as much as they are in the habit of doing. We can go to the state of deep sleep for just two hours and awaken totally refreshed. This has been observed by scientists who have done research on the anatomy of sleep. If we know how to sleep, we can give complete rest to the body and to the conscious mind anytime.

The fourth fountain is self-preservation. Fear comes from the urge for self-preservation, and when fears are deepened, they create phobias. People are always trying to protect themselves; they are always afraid. It is good to protect ourselves from the physical world, but it is not good to protect ourselves from the mental world -- that is very dangerous. People should learn to face their inner fears and to understand why they are afraid. People always want to avoid unpleasant things, and so they never examine their fears. That is why they have innumerable fears within them. Most fears are unexamined, and they are imaginary; they are not valid. "My husband has not come home. Perhaps he has had an accident. Perhaps something awful has happened!" Why imagine only the negative; why not imagine the positive also? "My husband has not come home. Perhaps he has won the lottery today. Perhaps he has become a millionaire!" People are in the habit of creating imaginary fears, and when they don't come true, they forget them. They don't go back and analyze those fears. Even when people know that their fear is imaginary, that self-created fear still makes them miserable.

Even when people are in love, they are afraid of the beloved. "Perhaps she is angry. Perhaps I have done something wrong and made her unhappy." People are also always afraid of their enemies. People form a strong habit of being afraid of everything. But when they learn to examine their fears, they realize that all fears are imaginary. Imaginary means there is an image within. We receive an image from outside, from our relationship, and then we create an image within; we have millions of images within us. To be free from all fears, we must learn to face fearsome images and to examine them. Fears are extremely dangerous, but they are all self-created. Learning to live free from the fears that arise from the urge of self-preservation is very important.

Living in the External World

How can one live successfully in the external world? It is very difficult to live in the external world, to put up with the world, to deal with the whims of many people, to please everyone. So it is helpful to have a few principles to apply to the various situations and circumstances we find ourselves involved in. Then alone is it possible for us to be successful. We have numerous experiences every day -- some pleasant, some unpleasant. But there is one category of experience for which we long: the kind of experience that guides us, that motivates us to do something helpful for others and for ourselves. But such experiences are very rare.

We waste our time and energy. Even the time and energy that we think we are spending in pleasure we do not enjoy, because we do not really know how to enjoy the things of the world. But we can learn how to do this; all the things of the world can be enjoyed. The renunciates say, "Your world does not have anything. It's not a good world. All things are fleeting, all things are changing. All things are momentary, and nothing makes you happy. Why are you in this world? Why do you not renounce?" But they are wrong. We can live in the world and learn to use the things of the world as means. As St. Bernard says, "Learn to use the things of the world, but love God alone." The things of the world should not be loved. Their nature should be understood, and they should become means, but they should not be loved. When we use them, we tend to get attached to them -- that is not healthy. We should love God alone, and we should learn that all the things of the world are to be used solely as means for attaining the center of love. The Lord of life is called love. We should learn to love our responsibilities and to discharge our duties lovingly, without any attachment.

Western students think that it is not possible to love someone without attachment. But perhaps the word attachment is not understood. Love is different from attachment. In love we give -- we do our duties lovingly -- and that is entirely different from attachment. Attachment is unauthorized. In attachment we become blindfolded and selfish. In attachment we expect all the time and we are never fulfilled, and thus we become miserable. There is not one single thing that we can say is really ours. We can have things -- and we should learn to look after them properly -- but we should not try to possess them. In attachment people are afraid. "This is mine. What will happen to me if it dies? What will happen to me if it is destroyed?" People remain constantly under the pressure of the fear of losing what they have or of not gaining what they want. The whole problem of fear arises from these two sources.

Most people are not aware that they are on a voyage. They are in the habit of collecting useless garbage, and it creates problems for them. People should learn to understand that needs and necessities are different from wants and desires. If we need something, we should have it, but we should not uselessly want to have unnecessary things. In studying the lives of great people, we find they share one trait that has made them successful: they do not take what they do not need. Once when Buddha was going as usual from door to door with his begging bowl to beg for alms, housewife shouted at him, "You idiot! You are so healthy, so strong, and so handsome. You were a prince! Why did you renounce your home and start troubling us? Every day you come with your begging bowl. It has become too much for us." She was very angry because the whole city was full of renunciates, and there were very few householders; it was a problem for the householders to feed all the monks. She became so angry that she picked up some filth and tried to give it to him. He smiled and said, "Mother, I don't need it." He started to go on his way, but one of his disciples got angry and told the woman, "I am going to kill you for behaving like this with my Lord!" Buddha turned back to him and said, "You are not my disciple. You have not learned anything from me. If somebody wants to give you something undesirable, don't take it. If somebody says you are bad, don't accept such a negative suggestion." We should learn to understand this point, and then we can go through the process of life unaffected.

But instead of remaining unaffected, people allow their cultural values to make them dependent on external suggestions. We are blasted by suggestions all the time, and the power of suggestion is immense. If ten people say that we look ill, then we begin to feel sick. If someone says "You ugly person," then your whole day is ruined. But if someone says "Oh, you look beautiful then you say "You have made my day." You

are already beautiful, but if nobody appreciates you, you don't believe in your beauty. You should learn to appreciate and admire yourself; you should learn to understand and come in touch with that beauty which is within you all the time. You are already beautiful just as you are! You do not need others to tell you are beautiful. You should not become dependent on others' opinions; you should not try to know yourself through others.

There is a very dangerous characteristic in this culture: people make themselves dependent on each other. People live on suggestions; they are swayed by whatever anyone says. People are in the habit of always wanting and expecting attention from others, and this is very dangerous, because then life becomes totally dependent on others. This is the worst trait I have seen in Western culture. Wives nag their husbands and husbands criticize their wives because they expect too much from each other. When people become dependent on their relationships, when they expect too much from their relationships, then they are bound to suffer.

When a girl goes to school, the thought that constantly lives in her mind is that she will meet a good boy, get married, and be happy. But there is no Bible in the world that says marriage will make someone happy. Marriage does not make anyone happy; it is only a means for happiness in life, and if this is understood, then it is very good. But if one expects too much and thinks that marriage is the answer to all the vital questions of life, then that person will find only disappointment. People grow up with unreal expectations about marriage, and the philosophy of marriage is not taught. What is the purpose of marriage? What is the philosophy of remaining single? If a single person does not know how to use his time positively, and if he has no personal philosophy of life, then he becomes perverted. Those who are unmarried are not happy, and those who are married are also not happy. Marriage is like a fortress: those who are inside cannot come out, and those who are outside are rushing to get in. So I have not seen anyone who is happy. This does not mean that people should not get married; the institution of marriage is very necessary. If it crumbles, all of society will crumble. This is a great discipline for human society.

Developing the Proper Attitude

What should our attitude in the world be? It should be that relationships and all the things of the world are means. The world has never given anyone enlightenment, but at the same time it is impossible for one to get enlightened if one does not live in the world. What helplessness! The world does not give enlightenment, and yet we have to live in the world. Therefore let us understand that the world should be a means for enlightenment. There are two ways of using the world for this purpose: first, you can have the attitude that you will not allow the world to disturb you, so that you can thereby get enlightenment; and second, you can have the attitude that you can use the world to help you, so that you can thereby get enlightenment. Both attitudes should be applied. One should have the same attitudes toward relationships: "I will behave in such a way with my spouse and children that they don't disturb my inner peace; I will behave in such a way that they become helpful to me and that they also grow."

You should first have the attitude that no matter what happens, you will not be disturbed. Otherwise, when you get something, you become emotional and imbalanced, and when you don't get something, you become depressed and disorganized. This means that you do not have the proper attitude behind your thinking and behavior. Great leaders like Moses and Jesus had to face many serious problems, but they had the proper attitude. That attitude can be built only when you

consider all relationships in the external world and all the objects of the world simply as means, not ends. Then it doesn't matter if today you expect something to become your means, and tomorrow you see that it will not. When your attitude toward the external world is that all the things of the world are means, and not disturbances, then you can find happiness.

Where Is Happiness?

If happiness were external, Americans would have it. Americans have many things, but they are not happy. Many people are very nice to others, but they are not nice to themselves. They have a mechanical way of behaving nicely with others, but they do not know how to be happy within themselves. They are creating a great conflict, a split personality, by pretending to express a happiness that is not there. Happiness is not in the external world; it is not attained through objects. People spend their whole lives wanting to have this and have that; they love objects, and they cannot love without objects. But the day you learn to love without an object, that will be the day of greatest happiness. When one learns to love God, that is love without an object. God is not an object; God is beyond all objects. So love without an object is love for God.

Happiness lies within you, and you should learn to use all things and apply all means to attain that happiness. This inner happiness is in a dormant form; you have to unfold yourself to experience it. Therefore you should learn to be still, so that the godly part in you can reveal itself to you. "Be still and know that I am God." What a great promise! This is the greatest aphorism. Many Christians and Jews think that there is no meditation in the Bible, but this one sentence reveals the entire philosophy of meditation.

Every human being should learn to be calm and quiet, and to see God in others. Then you can be detached from the nongodly part, and you will be loving the godly part. You are a shrine of God. I should love you because I should love God in you. It's good to love people because everyone is a temple of God. People do not worship the walls of a temple; their love is directed toward that which dwells inside it. So whomever you love, love God in that person.

I pray to the divinity within you.

Do you know what are the keys that will make you successful in life?

You’ll discover the 10 keys to living a successful life below…

1. Clear Vision

Having a clear vision of the kind of successful life you want is the fundamental step to achieving

it. If you don’t even know what kind of successful life you want, you can never achieve it.

Unfortunately, this is what happening with most people. Most people don’t know exactly what they

want in their life. They will tell you that they want to be successful, but they cannot give you the

clear definition of what they mean.

It is the same for those who say that they want to be rich. How rich do you want to be? You need

to have a measure and a deadline for it.

2. Persistence

What you need is persistence to achieve your dreams. Never give up even if you fail to achieve

the goals you set. Do you know that Thomas Edison failed more than 10,000 times before he

finally succeeded inventing the light bulb?

If you give up in the middle of the journey, you’re going to waste all the effort that you have

previously poured in.

Persistence is the key that you must master if you want to be successful in life.

3. Commitment

Have the commitment of doing what you have set out. Most people know that if they want to

make more money, they will have to make more sales, but they just don’t do it.

Just like you know that if you want to score A in a subject, you need to study and do exercise for

that subject. However, most student will just never do that.

Therefore, you need to have the commitment to carry out or to take action to make your

goals come true. If you are not committed, you will procrastinate and just let it be.

4. Find A Mentor

Learn from someone who has already achieved the kind of results that you want in your life. For

example, if you want to be rich, who are you going to listen to, your teachers and friends who tell

you that investing is risky? Or are you going to take the advice from successful investors such as

Warren Buffett and Peter Linch?

Don’t listen to the wrong advice given by those who are not successful. Your friends may

care about you but if they don’t know a thing about investing, don’t listen to them. Just be friend

with them but listen and take advice from other successful investors.

This is what I mean by finding a mentor. If you can learn from someone who is credible or are

able to teach you what you want, achieving the outstanding in your life is not something difficult.

My success mentor is Adam Khoo. He is the one who showed me what I can accomplish in my

life. And I’m planning to attend one of his workshop this year. Adam is one of the top successful

people in Asia and he is teaching the how you can master your mind and design your destiny for

success. To learn more about him, visit him at Master Your Mind.

5. Think Positively

This is one of the most common but powerful techniques to live a successful life. Try to notice

your thinking pattern, are you thinking the negative or are you thinking about the positive.

Some people will think the negatively and this block them from using their full potential to achieve

what they want. It is just like when your boss ask you to go in his room, what do you think he is

going to tell you? Are you thinking good thought or negative thought?

You can control your thought by breaking your old thinking habit. First you will have to identify or

get conscious about the thought that you are thinking. And if you found that you are thinking

negatively, try to focus on positive thoughts.

6. Dare Venture Out Of Your Comfort Zone

Some gurus say that if you want to be rich and successful, you need to do things differently.

What I think is, you don’t necessarily need to do things differently from others, but you must dare

to venture out of your comfort zone. If you’re someone who is shy and timid, try to get out of

this comfort by getting to know more people.

Some people don’t dare to do this and this causes them to stuck in where they are forever. Just

like if you’re living in a small city and you know that you will not have much opportunity if you stay

there. And if you want to make some big business deals, you must go to big city.

Do you have the courage to do so? Get to a place where nobody knows you and you’ll be all

alone to strive for your future. Are you willing to do that? Do you dare? You need courage to go

against the norm and expand your comfort zone to be successful.

7. Network With Other Successful People

Birds of the same feather flock together. How true this is. People who are successful will network

and be together with other successful people. Of course, I’m not suggesting that you leave all

your friends, but what I’m telling you is to join and get to know more successful friends.

The more you mix with successful people, the more you are going to learn how they think and

how they act. Just like if you mix with a bunch of street punks, you’ll eventually think just like

them and act like them.

When you see all the people around you are making more than $1 million a year, you will feel

unsatisfied and you will feel that you can accomplish much more. When all your friends are

making $10,000 a month, but you’re only making $2,000 a month, what will you feel?

This is the importance of mixing with other successful people. You want to create the feeling, the

emotion of being the same with them. This is why reading and learning are so important to

improve the quality of your lives. My top recommendation, go through Master Your Mind to learn

how to design your destiny today.

8. Be Willing To Fail And Turn Failure Into Success

If you’re not someone who is willing to fail, you can never be successful. People learn more

from their failures than their successes. Without failure, you can never achieve success.

Babies will learn from failure such as falling from trying to walk. But do they give up? Or did you

try to stop them from falling? No! You’re not! You tell them to keep trying until they learn to walk.

And this is the reason everyone in this world walks.

However, when doing business or investing, what do you tell yourself? You tell yourself that you

cannot afford to fail! Can you see the difference? It is the same in school. Teachers will punish

and scold those who fail in school. This is one of the early conditioning that put you to think that

failing in life is not something good.

You have to be willing to fail and turn failure to success. Don’t be afraid of failure, learn from

your failure and make more wiser choice without giving up. This is how you learn and be

successful in life.

9. Rest And Enjoy Life

What is the meaning if you have all the money in the world but have no time or freedom to enjoy

life. You don’t need to be a millionaire to enjoy life. You can be happy and enjoy life right now.

This is what separate successful people from ordinary people. Successful people always are

passionate with their work. For them, they are enjoying their work. In fact, it is not work to them,

it is play, it is fun.

On the other hand, ordinary people will think that it is boring to work. They need to work for living

and it is not something fun or enjoyable. This is what kills their passion and they lose the

motivation to be the best in their field. You can be successful in every field as long as you have

the passion and motivation to be the best.

10. Discover The Final Key By Yourself

You don’t have to learn everything from a book or from here. Sometimes, you can review back

what you have done and maybe you will discover the ‘a-ha’ moment by yourself.

Looking back at your results will give you a good indication of what is working and what is

not working. You just need to do what is working and improve your strategy to get even more

and better results.

Secret keys to success

True spirituality - developed within - leads to knowledge of "secrets" and hence to the wisdom to know how to achieve all your goals.

When you select the right goal in life, all steps of your work to be successful in achieving your goal will be easy.

Definition of success

Success is defined as when you reach a goal you have set once. True success is spiritually defined however to you reach a goal in a loving way for the holistic benefit of all mankind, all planet and all creation without causing even the smallest damage to anyone or any part of the entire creation.

Reaching a goal at the expenses of others, of nature, animal kingdom, environment or greater parts of God's creation never can be called success. True success never creates any victims - true success creates only winners because true success is achieved by means of true divine love only and only for the purpose of loving all !!!

Financial success

True success of course also includes financial success. However as you progress more and more on your spiritual path of love - money and all material become less and less important to you. You learn to be happy with whatever you have. The more you spiritually progress the more you learn to focus on the really important steps in life - making investments or overhead expenses smaller and smaller to achieve true satisfaction and happiness in your life. However as a direct result of your spiritual development and progress, you will be able to earn whatever amount is needed to accomplish all important tasks in life efficiently and successfully.

True success always preserves the full divine freedom of all involved

Success at the expense of your freedom or the freedom of others can never be success - it is slavery and leads to suffering and loss of freedom. Example:

A farmer having cattle - no matter how many - no matter how many millions profit he makes, he possesses free animals, taking their freedom

and ...

he loses his freedom as well as he has to take care of all animals day and night, to be present without having the freedom to travel within minutes or hours when needed for greatest spiritual benefit of all or for greatest family happiness.

Secrets of success

The secret is in the amount of resources to be invested - success requires ALL resources - ALL means more than 99% of available resources it means A L L !!! If you are too stingy to invest ALL in your goal - then you fail or struggle.

Whether you strive for financial success, success in sport or recreational activities or spiritual success - the secret for all success is always the very same and very simple. If you invest ALL or very nearly all efforts for a sufficient duration of time into achieving skills and knowledge in that particular area you want to achieve success - then you succeed !

Sufficient duration of time = means until you have achieved successfully your goal independent of time, efforts, money and other resources ! The right goal being in harmony with God - hence blessed by God - ALWAYS will be achieved by you.

Wrong goal on path of selfishness however always will kill you before you have achieved it. Ego always is self destructive - for the protection of creation.

Those who achieved success ...

To achieve success all those who have achieved their goals have one in common in any field of success:

1. They all reduced all other activities and focused on the field of activity they wanted to be successful in. Be it business or sport or music or on their spiritual path to God.

2. They limited investment of time, life force, money and any other resources to the minimum possible to have all available resources of time, money, life force working in full toward achieving their goal.

3. They withdraw from lots or most or even all other activities, distractions, recreation - even from having relationship or family - for the sake of achieving their goal. They all did so for years or decades - focusing on the goal all the time rather than focusing on the earthly things they temporarily or permanently had to drop to achieve their goal.

4. Those who really were successful on the highest level were ready and willing to give ALL they had to achieve what they wanted to achieve. They wanted to give all and they GAVE ALL - and for that reason only they achieved success in their field.

Success of Saints and God realized humans

They did exactly the very same - they withdraw from all distraction and focused in FULL on God and love and did all necessary steps to focus ALL available resource toward achieving that one and only eternal goal - achieve oneness and eternal freedom in God. Be out of the cycle of reincarnation - once and forever.

They KNEW about God and eternal life - they knew about the relativity of all earthly matter, life and activities and the temporary nature of ALL on earth - hence they never wasted the limited resources given in ONE lifetime for temporary goals of material career - the FULLY invested ALL they had into eternal treasures - jewels of the divine soul - they all invested in full in spiritual development. By means of Yoga or devotion to God in combination with actions of love for all humanity and particularly for poor and needy ones.

To do so and achieve so - they all:

Worked harder and more than most persons involved in worldly affairs, business or sports

Gave ALL to God to fully focus on their divine goal and love and work themselves out of this dark material world

Steps to success

Learn to select a goal that is in harmony with God's love and his goals to create or maintain peace, love and harmony among all creation.

Learn the spiritual laws and follow them Learn how to remain open for God all the time - God shall be

your guide and counselor in business and family life - all the time !!!

Avoid any karma and remain free from attachment whatever goal you do - devote and surrender all work to God

Study the goal and how to achieve the goal before investing into that goal - be sure your innermost being agrees with your plans

Key to success

True spiritual development and the free flow of divine love within YOU and from you toward all is the key to success. he more you progress spiritually the easier all is in your life and the easier you achieve all your goal. very particularly because you have learned to select a goal that is in full harmony with God and hence you receive full support from God in achieving your goals. Whenever you work WITH God - in full harmony with God - then success always is guaranteed !!

Your very own spirituality is the key to your success - missing spirituality will have to be compensated by increased expenses, increased number of possible mistakes, increased occurrence of problems or accidents, increased waste of time and valuable resources.

Your true spirituality however gives you wisdom and the capability to KNOW by the power of intuition. To know when to do what to do and how to do. God knows all - those of you having learned to fully listen to God's loving guidance - know that God has a solution to every single problem that deserves to be solved. Deserves to be solved ... ? YES by far only some problems deserve to be solved - because most of the problems that exist are problems created on wrong path - on wrong path of life all steps are wrong and the problems occurring there never need to be solved - the path itself needs to be changed !!! Then on path of love - all steps loving and all results are products of

love - making all happy and hence attracting support, bliss, advice and guidance from God !!

Never waste time on wrong path - always focus on solutions of love

Never waste time, strength, money or resources of any kind to solve problems on wrong path of life - change path and all problems are gone !

Spiritual laws ALWAYS are above all human laws

To be really successful in life - in eternal life - you need to learn and know spiritual laws as defined by God. Then you have full control of all your life because you then know how to manage all your activities, all your life in full harmony with God and how to make adjustments for the benefit of all - always in harmony with God and hence for the benefit of ALL !

Read Better - Your Key to success in life and career

Reading is your key to survival. Why? Every day we have a lot of reading material to handle; memo, meeting minutes, magazines, newspapers, books, etc. How well you master the reading skill determines how well you incorporate new knowledge into your work.

Think about these questions:

How many books sitting on your bookshelf have you not read through or even the first three chapters?

How many times you have difficulty recalling the details of a book after you have read through carefully, page by page from the beginning to the end?

On the contrary:

Can you imagine that you can grasp more than 50% of the ideas brought about by a book within the first few minutes of reading?

Have you ever thought of the possibility that you can master the concepts and ideas from the author without having really started to read his/her book?

If you want to know more, continue reading.....

I regularly hold reading skill seminars teaching university students how to do "active reading". It is against the traditional passive reading (or linear reading) that is taught in our school life.

I invented the term "layered reading" to describe this technique. Instead of reading linearly from beginning to the end, we should treat reading as a "chaotic" reading process. "Chaotic" means you can read the book upside down, from the end to beginning or starting anywhere in the middle of the book and ending wherever you think it is appropriate.

Does this seem crazy? No.

Tony Buzan, the famous English psychologist, regards that our brain functions the best in relating different things together when learning something new. That is, we have to relate the knowledge to our existing know-how in order to digest and memorize well the new substances. Reading linearly inhabits this process.

Let me share my experience of using this method with you. I constantly have more than 100 different books on my bookshelves. I read them many times. Each time I look into different chapters or different sections of a book, I make notes and jog down my thoughts.

Surprisingly, I've found that I get different ideas and opinions every time. They are just the same books. And I think I can better comprehend the materials and gain more insight in this style of reading. And I've never been afraid of reading a thick book because I know I can start reading anywhere and stop anywhere. Whether the book is thick or thin does not bother me.

For the past ten years, I have read more than 500 books using the layered reading method. They are all of different subjects and titles. To my surprise, I can even cross-relate the ideas of different authors on different subjects. This exercise helps me build my own knowledge by incorporating different ideas of different thinkers. Sometimes, you are excited to find that you can apply an idea from a medical book to your day-to-day company management work. Or you can borrow an idea from an art book to apply to people-to-people communication skills.

The layered reading method is totally contrary to many people's reading habit. They read linearly and slowly line by line and page by page. They think this is the best way to comprehend "everything" in a book. I watch people reading in bus, train, or underground and it is not uncommon for many of them to use the linear reading method.

But the fact is this method lets you lose most of the valuable materials -- author's idea in the book! I don't know if you have that experience. You try to read a book slowly and carefully going through it line by line and page by page, hoping that you can understand more and gain more insights from that book. When you have finished reading the last sentence, you've found that you can hardly recall most of the details of the book.

This is just because you cannot relate the stuff you have read to your vast knowledge of related experience. You tend to forget the new ideas and contents as soon as you turn your pages from beginning to the end. At the very moment you have finished reading a book, you have lost most of the ideas in the book. To make things even worse, your memory quickly fades away as time goes by. Try to pick up a book you have read several months before, you might find yourself hardly recalling anything. Your mind goes totally blank about the book.

There is one point at which I think you need linear reading. That is the time when you are reading a novel. You certainly don't want to know what is going to happen at the end before you go through the beginning. Otherwise, practice active reading in your daily life.