Inspire Me Too

Be Grateful

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Wed, 1 Sep 2010 06:32:00 -0700

Even when you feel as though things aren't going well in your life, you have reasons to be grateful. Today, take time to appreciate the gift of life and all its wonders. Count your blessings and cherish what you have.

10 Reasons Why Sex is Super Healthy

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:57:00 -0700

Do you believe that sex is super healthy too? Here are 10 reasons why. And be inspired.

   1. Sex relieves stress. Getting busy lowers blood pressure, according to researchers in Scotland. In a study, people who'd recently had intercourse responded better to stressful situations than those who abstained. In women, even a hug can lower blood pressure.
   2. Sex boosts immunity. Having sex once or twice a week has been linked with higher levels of an antibody called immunoglobin A or IgA. This can protect you from getting colds and other infections. In a study, college students who had sex once or twice a week had the highest levels of IgA, higher than people who abstained and also higher than bedroom bunnies who did it three or more times a week.
   3. Sex burns calories. Thirty minutes of sex burns 85 calories. Thinking of it this way, you could burn 3,570 calories in 42 sex sessions, and that's enough to lose one pound.
   4. Sex is good for your heart. English scientists found that having sex twice or more a week reduced the risk of a fatal heart attack by half in men.
   5. Sex boosts self-esteem. Researchers from the University of Texas found that boosting self-esteem is one of the reasons people have sex. Sex experts agree--sex with a loving, connected partner helps you feel better about yourself.
   6. Sex improves intimacy. Having sex and orgasms increases the levels of the hormone oxytocin, the so-called love hormone, which helps us build trust and bond. Higher oxytocin has been linked with feeling more generous.
   7. Sex reduces pain. As oxytocin surges, endorphins increase, and pain declines.
   8. Sex reduces risk of prostate cancer. Frequent ejaculations, especially in 20-something men, may reduce the risk of getting prostate cancer later in life. Men who had 21 ejaculations per month and five or more per week were less likely to get prostate cancer.
   9. Sex strengthens pelvic floor muscles. Do Kegels during sex to enjoy more pleasure and strengthen the area to minimize the risk of incontinence later. Basic Kegels: Tighten the muscles of your pelvic floor as if you're stopping the flow of urine. Count to three, release, and repeat 20 times at least.
10. Sex helps you sleep. The oxytocin released during orgasm promotes sleep, according to research. Getting more sleep helps you maintain a healthy weight and blood pressure.

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Seventh of Seven Self-Motivators by Brian Tracy

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:41:00 -0700

1. Get Serious.

2. Identify Your Limiting Step to Sales Success.

3. Get Around the Right People.

4. Take Excellent Care of Your Health.

5. Positive Visualization.

6. Positive Self-Talk.

7. Positive Action. Get going. Move fast. Develop a sense of urgency. A sense of urgency is the one thing that you can develop that will separate you from everyone else in your field. Develop a bias for action. When you get a good idea, do it now. Only 2 percent of people in our society have a bias for action. And if you're already in the top 10 percent, you can move yourself in the top 2 percent by resolving that whenever you have an idea or something, do it now. And the faster you move, the better you get. And the better you get, the more you like yourself. And the more you like yourself, the higher your self-esteem. And the higher your self-esteem, the greater your self-discipline. And the more you persist, you ultimately become unstoppable!

Sixth of Seven Self-Motivators by Brian Tracy

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:30:00 -0700

1. Get Serious.

2. Identify Your Limiting Step to Sales Success.

3. Get Around the Right People.

4. Take Excellent Care of Your Health.

5. Positive Visualization.

6. Positive Self-Talk. Talk to yourself positively all the time. Control your inner dialogue. And what do you say to yourself? Say, "I'm the best." Say it. Say I'm the best. I like myself. I can do it. I love my work. Yes, that's how you talk to yourself. And the more you say it to yourself, someone may say, "Well, what if you say those things to yourself and you don't believe them. Isn't that lying to yourself?" No, that's not lying to yourself. It's telling the truth in advance. Because it doesn't matter where you're coming from; all that matters is where you're going. Talk to yourself the way you want to be, not the way you just happen to be at this moment. Remember, you may have gotten where you are today largely by accident. But where you're going in the future is purely by design.

7. Positive Action...

Fifth of Seven Self-Motivators by Brian Tracy

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:52:00 -0700

1. Get Serious.

2. Identify Your Limiting Step to Sales Success.

3. Get Around the Right People.

4. Take Excellent Care of Your Health.

5. Positive Visualization. See yourself as the very best in your field. Remember, all improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures. Visualize yourself, see yourself as the best continually. You are the best. Isn't that right? So therefore, see yourself as the best.

6. Positive Self-Talk...

Fourth of Seven Self-Motivators by Brian Tracy

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:46:00 -0700

1. Get Serious.

2. Identify Your Limiting Step to Sales Success.

3. Get Around the Right People.

4. Take Excellent Care of Your Health. Take excellent care of your physical health. That means good diet, good exercise. Everybody knows they should eat better foods, get regular exercise and especially lots of rest. That's very important. If you're going to work hard five days a week, go to bed early five days a week. Get a good night's sleep. Be fully rested, and tonight get really rested. You don't have to watch the Letterman Show.

5. Positive Visualization...

Third of Seven Self-Motivators by Brian Tracy

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:41:00 -0700

1. Get Serious.

2. Identify Your Limiting Step to Sales Success.

3. Get Around the Right People. Who are the right people? The right people are the people in this room. Get around winners. Get around positive people. Get around people with goals and plans, people who are going somewhere with their lives and have high aspirations. Get around eagles. As Zig Ziglar says, "You can't scratch with the turkeys if you want to fly with the eagles." And get away from negative people. Get away from toxic people that complain and whine and moan all the time. Who needs them? Life is too short.

4. Take Excellent Care of Your Health...

Second of Seven Self-Motivators by Brian Tracy

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:33:00 -0700

1. Get Serious.

2. Identify Your Limiting Step to Sales Success. What's your limiting step? What's the one skill area that's holding you back? What's the skill? What's the quality? What's the action? Ask other people. Find out what you need to become good at. Sometimes it may be only one skill. If you became really, really good on the telephone, you could maybe double your prospecting effectiveness and double your sales. If you became very, very good at getting the order at the end from qualified prospects, you could double your sales. If you became very, very good at managing your time really, really well, you may be able to double your face time and double your income. Find out what's holding you back. What is the critical limiting step that's determining your success today?

3. Get Around the Right People...

First of Seven Self-Motivators by Brian Tracy

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:22:00 -0700

Here are Seven Self-Motivator reminders for you to review on a regular basis.

1. Get Serious. Make a decision to go all the way to the top. Up to now, you've thought about it. Up to now, it's passed your mind. Many of you made the decision, and you've made up your mind to go all the way to the top, and your lives have taken off. It's the most extraordinary thing. Like in the shadow going up the dark side of the hill until the moment you decide that "I'm going to be the best at what I do. I'm going to be in the top 10 percent." And suddenly you rose into the sunshine, and your life is forever after different—wonderful. Get serious. Don't fool around anymore.

2. Identify Your Limiting Step to Sales Success...

Sowing and Reaping

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:51:00 -0700

You must get good at one of two things: sowing in the spring or begging in the fall.

God has the tough end of the deal. What if instead of planting the seed you had to make the tree? That would keep you up late at night, trying to figure that one out.

Plant, don’t chant.

One of my good friends always says, “Things don’t just happen; things happen just.”

The soil says, “Don’t bring me your need, bring me your seed.”

When you make a mistake...

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:23:00 -0700

“When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.” —Denis Waitley

Paradox of Life

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Sun, 1 Aug 2010 04:23:00 -0700

“Peace I leave with you...” – John 14:27

Isn’t it amazing how life seems to be a paradox?
Let me enumerate:
• The skies seem to be clearest after a rampaging typhoon.
• The most beautiful diamonds come from pitch-black carbon and are formed by heat and intense pressure.
• The death of a seed brings forth a new plant.
• A caterpillar “dies” to transform itself into a new butterfly.
• Gold is refined by fire.
• Opposite poles attract. This may apply not only for magnets.
• They say that a woman is most beautiful after giving birth. After all the ugly pain, it somehow brings out that fresh womanly radiance.

In the paradox of life, wholeness comes after brokenness. For us to have the peace that surpasses all understanding and the peace that the world cannot give, Jesus went through the most unpeaceful situation the world had to offer: rejection, anxiety, ridicule, humiliation and all the negative psychological stress combined!

This peace is free. All I need to do is ask and it’s mine. He did the hard part. Thank God!

12 Don'ts to Remember

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Sun, 1 Aug 2010 01:58:00 -0700

12 Don'ts to Remember
Treasure every moment and live each day to the fullest.

   1. Don't wait for time. Make it.
   2. Don't wait for love. Feel it.
   3. Don't wait for money. Earn It.
   4. Don't wait for path. Find it.
   5. Don't wait for opportunity. Create It.
   6. Don't settle for less. Get the best.
   7. Don't compare. Be unique.
   8. Don't avoid failure. Use it.
   9. Don't dwell on mistakes. Learn from them.
10. Don't back down. Go around.
11. Don't close your eyes. Open your mind.
12. Don't run from life. Embrace and enjoy it.

"Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart." - Psalm 90:12

10 Best Love Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:36:00 -0700

Here's my list of 10 Best Love Quotes in no particular order:

We were given two hands to hold, two legs to walk, two eyes to see, two ears to listen but why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else for us to find.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
To the world you are one person, but to one person you are the world.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Without her love I can do nothing; with her love there is nothing I cannot do.
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.
Anyone can catch your eye but it takes someone special to catch your heart.
Loving is like breathing. How can I stop?
Trying to forget someone you loved is like trying to remember someone you never knew.
Some people say that Disneyland is the happiest place on earth. Obviously, they haven't been in your arms.

The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:19:00 -0700

Earl Nightingale's classic, The Strangest Secret, earned the first Gold Record for the spoken word, with sales exceeding 1 million copies.

Nightingale, known as the "dean of personal development," reveals how he discovered and lived the secret to success.

Enjoy watching and also see his famous quotes below.

Earl Nightingale's famous quotes:

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
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No Limits for Success

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:58:00 -0700

According to Brian Tracy, Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, which specializes in the training and development of individuals and organizations, all successful people do four things:

They set clear goals.
They take risks beyond their comfort zones.
They accept feedback and self-correct.
They never give up.

According to him, "You have within you, right now, everything you need to achieve almost any goal you can set for yourself. The only question is how badly you want it, and how hard you are willing to work to get it. There are no limits."
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Don’t Become a Victim of Yourself

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:22:00 -0700

Don’t become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind?

It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.

You say, “The country is messed up.” That’s like cursing the soil and the seed and the sunshine and the rain, which is all you’ve got. Don’t curse all you’ve got.

Walk away from the 97 percent crowd who, mostly complains. Don’t use their excuses. Take charge of your own life.

Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, “Since I will be no one’s slave, I will be no one’s master.”

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. You don’t have charge of the constellations, but you do have charge of whether you read, develop new skills, and take new classes.

Your paycheck is not your employer’s responsibility; it’s your responsibility. Your employer has no control over your value, but you do.

5 Rules of Relationships

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:44:00 -0700

5 Rules of Relationships

John Maxwell says relationships can fall into one of four categories. Those that add to who we are, those that subtract, those that multiply our strengths and those that divide us.

To improve our relationships with others, he offers these five rules:

Get Along with Yourself — The one relationship you have until you die is with yourself. Treat yourself with the love and respect you deserve.
Value People — You cannot make another feel important if you secretly feel that he or she is not. Recognize that everyone has innate value.
Make the Effort to Form Relationships — Chuck Swindoll said, “It’s like they say in the Army, when you dig a foxhole, make enough room for two.” Reach out, make room and enjoy new relationships.
Understand the Reciprocity Rule — What you put into the lives of others comes back into your own.
Follow the Golden Rule — If every person made decisions based on the Golden Rule, we would all make more right decisions.

Great Motivational Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:35:00 -0700

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle

The best way out is always through. - Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William B. Sprague

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein

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

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become. - Oprah Winfrey

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan

You must be the change you want to see the world. - Mahatma Gandhi

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. - Goethe

You can get evrything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. - Zig Zaglar

DON'T READ TO LEARN OR TO EARN,
BUT READ TO BECOME.

Success Motivation in a Minute

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:07:00 -0700

"Those people blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel." - Mary Kay Ash

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success." - Henry Ford

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." - John Quincy Adams

POSSESS THE FOCUS AND DETERMINATION TO TAKE ACTION ON YOUR IDEAS AND CONTINUE TO BUILD POSITIVE MOMENTUM TOWARDS A SUCCESSFUL LIFE.

Top 40 Fabulous Rules from the Life Book 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:43:00 -0700

Top 40 Fabulous Rules from the Life Book 2009

Health:

1. Drink plenty of water.
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants, and eat less food that is manufactured in plants (factory products).
4. Live with the 3 E's - Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy.
5. Make time for prayer.
6. Play more games.
7. Read more books than you did in 2008.
8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
9. Sleep for 7 hours.
10. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day - and while you walk, SMILE!

Personality:

11. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
12. Don't have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
13. Don't over do; keep your limits.
14. Don't take yourself so seriously; no one else does.
15. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip.
16. Dream more while you are awake.
17. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
18. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
19. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
20. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
21. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
22. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
23. Smile and laugh more.
24. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

Community:

25. Call your family often.
26. Each day give something good to others.
27. Forgive everyone for everything.
28. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of six.
29. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
30. What other people think of you is none of your business
31. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your family and friends will. Stay in touch.

Life:

32. Do the right things.
33. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
34. GOD heals everything.
35. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
36. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up!
37. The best is yet to come.
38. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it.
39. Your Inner most is always happy. So, be HAPPY!!!

Last but not the least:
40. Do forward this to everyone you care about.

Love The Heart

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:28:00 -0700

Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.

The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found in the heart.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the sense.

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.

Love is fire. But whether it's gonna warm your heart or burn your house down you can never tell.

Lessons On Life

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:02:00 -0700

"There are a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference. The difference between triumphant success or bitter failure lies in the degree of our commitment to seek out, study, and apply those half-dozen things.

Learn To Be Happy. Happiness is activity with purpose. It's love in practice. It's both a grasp of the obvious and the mysterious.

Discipline Yourself. Discipline is the most critical ingredient for success. It's the master key that unlocks the door to wealth and happiness. It's the glue that binds inspiration and achievement. It's the bridge between thought and accomplishment. We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

Embrace Change. Unless you change how you are, you'll always have what you've got. You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better. You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction.

Live Well. Don't just learn how to earn. Learn how to live. The good life is not an amount. It's an attitude, an act, an idea, a discovery.

Remember always...

Life is worthwhile if you TRY. Try to make progress. Try your best.

Life is worthwhile if you GIVE. Giving starts the receiving process.

Life is worthwhile if you PLAN. Design your own life or someone else will.

Let others lead small lives, but not You. Let others argue over small things, but not YOU. Let others cry over small hurts, but not YOU. Let others leave their futures in other people's hands, but not YOU." - Jim Rohn

5 Reasons Why God Uses Problems

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:20:00 -0700

The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you - depending on how you respond to them. Unfortunately, most people fail to see how God wants to use problems for good in their lives. They react foolishly and resent their problems rather than pausing to consider what benefit they might bring.

Here are five ways why God wants to use the problems in your life:

1. God uses problems to DIRECT YOU. Sometimes God must light a fire under you to get you moving. Problems often point us in a new direction and motivate us to change. Is God trying to get your attention? "Sometimes it takes a painful situation to make us change our ways."

2. God uses problems to INSPECT YOU. People are like tea bags... if you want to know what's inside them, just drop them into hot water! Has God tested your faith with a problem? What do problems reveal about you? "When you have many kinds of troubles, you should be full of joy, because you know that these troubles test your faith, and this will give you patience."

3. God uses poblems to CORRECT YOU. Some lessons we learn only through pain and failure. It's likely that as a child, your parents told you not to touch a hot stove. But you probably learned by being burned. Sometimes we only learn the value of something... health, money, a relationship... by losing it. "It was the best thing that could have happened to me, for it taught me to pay attention to your laws."

4. God Uses problems To PROTECT YOU. A problem can be a blessing in disguise if it prevents you from being harmed by something more serious. Last year a friend was fired for refusing to do something unethical that his boss had asked him to do. His unemployment was a problem - but it saved him from being convicted and sent to prison a year later when management's actions were eventually discovered. "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good...

5. God Uses problems To PERFECT YOU. Problems, when responded to correctly, are character builders. God is far more interested in your character than your comfort. Your relationship to God and your character are the only two things you're going to take with you into eternity. "We can rejoice when we run into problems... they help us learn to be patient. And patience develops strength of character in us and helps us trust God more each time we use it until finally our hope and faith are strong and steady."

Here's the point: God is at work in your life - even when you do not recognize it or understand it. But it's much easier and profitable when you cooperate with Him.

"Success can be measured not only in achievements, but in lessons learned, lives touched and moments shared along the way."

Have A Nice Day...

Humor, Humor, Humor

noreply@blogger.com (Melvin) — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:37:00 -0700

For as long as I can remember, I've enjoyed making people laugh, whether it be by telling a joke; playing with my toddlers; watching funny videos; carving a piece of wood; or by building my website.

Writing; wood carving and photography are not my passions... HUMOR is my passion because:

Humor is the best medicine to stay happy and healthy, but we all knew that already.
Humor can help to reduce stress, and can aid in the healing process.
Humor can help all of us to cope in the most depressing of situations and darkest of days.
Research has shown that the punch line, can increase the bottom line.
Humor can help to create a positive work place, which can be excellent for creativity and idea development. Humor and creativity jest seem to go together.
The ability to laugh at ourselves, at all the crazy and silly things we all say and do, is healthy for our well-being.
Humor can help bring people together, and that is important in the work place, because teamwork is a top priority.
Humor can help us all to cope with the aging process.

So, my advice to everyone out there is to take plenty of vitamin H on a daily basis.

Humor helps to make us all feel good, and can help to lift our spirits...jest for the health of it!

Love; peace; humor; trust freedom; honor; friendship...it's nice to be a part of some of the most important words in the world.