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Being Controversial to Boost Your Traffic and Sales

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:46:00 +0000

Do you consider yourself to be controversial? You might not at this point, but you may want to consider voicing your opinions and taking some controversial positions in order to increase your affiliate sales online! That’s because controversy truly does sell.

If you’re confused about why you would do this, think about the content that gets the most comments and traffic on the web. It is usually items that are very interesting and are slightly controversial. These types of topics tend to bring out all kinds of opinions and get people emotional and actively fired up.

If you are able to post this kind of “link bait” content on your blog or website, you will most likely find that your traffic starts to skyrocket! People may publish what you’ve said on niche forums, on their own blogs Being Controversial, and on social networking sites. They post links to your content because they are very interested in it. Perhaps they completely disagree with you, or perhaps they think you are making good points. No matter what, this controversial content will definitely get you some attention — and possibly many more sales!

Think about the standard content you might post to your website. You may get some comments here and there, but the controversial topics get the most comments of all. Now, you will need to have pretty thick skin because along with controversy often comes anger and disagreement. People may think that you’re completely nuts and will have no issues telling you that!

At the same time, these people will be interested in the other things you have to say and recommend. The chances are good that if you have a good link bait piece that you will gain several new followers. They will be interested in what you have to say in the future and will come back time and time again. As your traffic increases, you will probably make more affiliate sales as well!

You will probably find that people start to link to you all around the web. The chances are good that your rankings in the search engine will rise as well. This creates a cycle of even more traffic to your blog, which can help you build your list to make more affiliate sales.

How controversial you should be depends on your personality and the niche you are in. Examine the niche blogs written by others and see what has gotten the most comments on their blog. This can give you some good ideas so you can take advantage of this method on your own.

There’s definitely something to be said for being controversial — especially on the web where news travels fast!

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A Taste of Wisdom

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:42:00 +0000

A Taste of Wisdom

By: Author Unknown

An aging Hindu master grew tired of his apprentice

complaining and so, one morning, sent him for some salt.

When the apprentice returned, the master instructed the

unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of

water and then to drink it.

"How does it taste?" the master asked.

"Bitter," spit the apprentice.

The master chuckled and then asked the young man to take

the same handful of salt and put it in the lake.

The two walked in silence to the nearby lake and once the

apprentice swirled his handful of salt in the water, the

old man said, "Now drink from the lake."

As the water dripped down the young man's chin, the master

asked, "How does it taste?"

"Fresh," remarked the apprentice.

"Do you taste the salt?" asked the master.

"No," said the young man.

At this the master sat beside this serious young man, who

so reminded him of himself, and took his hands, offering:

"The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The

amount of pain in life remains exactly the same. However,

the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container

we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing

you can do is to enlarge your sense of things. Stop being a

glass. Become a lake."

A Tribute to a Baker

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:23:00 +0000

A Tribute To A Baker

"HUUP...ONE, HUUP...TWO, HUUP...THREE..."Those melodious orders sounded like the commands of a tough marine drill sergeant. However, in reality the man's name was Tom Williams and he was an executive with the Houston Oilers (of the National Football League) and a world class trainer of famous athletes -- Earl Campbell, Darrell Green, Mike Singletary, Hakeem Olajuwon -- to name but a few.

During the off season he operated a Kolache shop, baking cookies and meat filled delights.

Approximately 200 yards from this Kolache shop was his famous "Hill", a very steep embankment, which led to the bayou. Tom would have his athletes train on that hill, running up and down to build stamina or to help rebuild muscles or ligaments damaged after an injury or surgery.

As for me, I had always wanted to be a pro athlete, but early on I realized that I was not quick enoughnor tall enough to become one, so I focused my dreams on becoming an Orthopedic Surgeon, helping my athletic idols to recover from devastating injuries.

That dream, however, was smashed during my sophomore year in college when I was seriously injured as an innocent victim of a convenience store robbery. I was shot in the back of the head, and very few thought I would even survive. However, many months later, after several surgeries and lengthy hospital rehabilitation programs, I met Tom, the eternal optimist.

The first day my family and I encountered Tom he was barking out orders for his athletes on the "Hill". He told my parents he could definitely help me, but I would have to discipline myself to work four straight hours every single day, including weekends.

At first, my parents would watch Tom work with me in the back of his Kolache shop. Tom would cover the tables he would normally use to knead his dough, and now would "knead" my muscles, massage my limp right arm, and struggle with me as I learned to walk again.

Then, one day, Tom barked, "Mike, let's go to the 'Hill'."

I was scared as I limped toward the bayou, and my parents were equally petrified. The "Hill" was so steep that I thought even a Billy goat would have difficulty trying to climb it.

Initially, Tom ordered two husky athletes to lift me under my arms and "drag" me down the hill. When we got to the bottom, one of the athletes screamed up to Tom, "What do you want us to do now?" Tom calmly replied, "Drag him back up."

At that point, my father, who by profession is a rabbi, told my mother that he thought Tom was going to kill me and they should get me away from him as soon as possible.

My father, wanting to be polite, thanked Tom and stated that we had to go home. But Tom replied, "It's only 2 o'clock, and Mike is to be here until 5, and by the way, bring him a little earlier tomorrow."

Even though my father was adamant about leaving, my mother truly felt that if Tom could help "million dollar athletes" recover, he could surely help her son.

My father went home, never returning to the Kolache store because he told my mother, "Tom is going to kill Mike," and my mother never volunteered any information to my father about my progress with Tom as the days wore on.

One day, a number of weeks later, Tom called my father at home and said, "Father, this is Tom Williams and you need to get here fast!" With that, Tom slammed the phone down.

My father thought I was dead or badly injured, the victim of a severe injury while tumbling down that "Hill." He quickly sped toward Tom's shop, jumped out of his car, and noticed many people huddled near the corner of the "Hill." With great trepidation my father peered over the "Hill" and saw me slowly climbing the "Hill" -- alive. When I reached the top of the "Hill" I quickly turned around as Tom instructed me and went back down to the bottom, to the bayou. Tears welled up in my father's eyes as Tom approached him and said, "Rabbi, you might give great sermons, but you don't practice what you preach. You tell everyone to have faith, but you did not have faith -- faith in me, faith in your son, and faith in God. You simply said, 'I give up,' and you went home."

My father pondered seriously as to what Tom had just said and watched as I slowly reached the edge of the "Hill" on my return trip. At that moment, with tears of great joy, my father and I fell into each other's arms and embraced one another.

That was just one of the many lessons I learned from Tom over the next few years. Even though I still have many physical disabilities as a result of the gunshot wound, the "Hill" taught me that even the impossible could become the possible.

Everyone in life has his own "Hill" to climb, some small, some large. On that day Tom taught me the most important lesson of my life: "Never give in; never give up."

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Even though Tom was a world class trainer of athletes, he learned that his true love was helping "ordinary" people, and soon after my success on the "Hill" Tom opened a Rehabilitation Center where he worked with spinal cord and head injured and stroke patients. In the "old days," Tom would use only a simple table in the back of his Kolache shop on which he prepared his pastries to help his clients. Now, he had a state of the art, modern Rehabilitation Center along with his own man-made "Hill" so Tom could encourage many more to defy the experts.

Tom received referrals from all over the country for he had a special ability to make patients want to excel. His patients improved and his Center was a huge success.

For the next few years I would regularly go to the Center, not only to exercise but more importantly to work out for the "Master," Tom.

I had developed a strong emotional connection with Tom. He had extended to me a lifeline to enjoy life once again which many physicians and therapists stated no longer existed.

However, later Tom became extremely ill with cancer and passed away. The funeral was huge. Many of his athletes were there to say their last "good byes" and "thank yous." I was an honorary pallbearer because his family thought that our relationship was a special and unique one.

After everyone left the cemetery I went up to Tom's grave to utter my final prayer and statement of thankfulness that such a wonderful man had been a part of my life. As I glanced at the inscription on the tombstone I read:

Forever Loved In The Hearts Of Those He Touched

Tom Williams

April 11, 1927 -- June 11, 1995

At that very moment I realized why we were so deeply connected: April 11 is also my birthday!

(c)2001 by Michael Jordan Segal, MSW

Michael Jordan Segal, who defied all odds after being shot in the head, is a husband, father, social worker, freelance author (including a CD/Download of 12 stories, read with light backgroud music, entitled POSSIBLE), and inspirational speaker, sharing his recipe for happiness, recovery and success before conferences and businesses. To contact Mike or to order his CD, please visit http://www.inspirationbymike.com/ and please take a moment to check out his youtube video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNeRqpaoNpQ you will be glad you did.

How to Create Systems that Boost Productivity

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:26:00 +0000

How to Create Systems that Boost Productivity
Excerpted from The Productive Me

Last time you learned about using tools to boost your productivity. Now this time you’ll learn about using systems. Let’s jump right in…

Using Systems

First, let’s define what a system is: It’s simply a method you devise or learn to do a process more quickly. It doesn’t have to be a complex system – indeed, basic systems often work the best. But your system does need to give you some benefit.

Let me give you an example of an extremely simple system. Let’s say you’re trying to lose weight. Instead of taking the time to create healthy meals every day, you devise a system where you do all your grocery shopping and cooking for the entire week at one time. You may even do it in an assembly line style, where you line up food containers and put the meat in first, then the starch (like rice) and then the vegetable. Then you label the containers and put them in the fridge.

Again, that’s just a simple example, but it gives you an idea of what I mean by system. You can create and use systems in both your personal and professional life to get more done in less time. This includes everything from cleaning systems to organization and file systems to systems you can use to accomplish important tasks.

For example: if you sell a lot of items on eBay, then you may develop an efficient system for uploading auctions. This likely would involve using templates and other tools to upload the auctions quickly. You might also have other systems in place, such as taking digital photos in the order you intend to load the auction. And once the auction ends you likely would have a system for keeping track of payments and shipments.

Point is, no matter what you’re doing, you can probably develop a system to accomplish the task more quickly. Here’s how…

1. If you’ve never done a particular process before, then ask people with experience how they handle this particular task efficiently. For example, you may ask other business owners their process for hiring a freelancer or keeping track of their expenses.

TIP: Some experts outline their own systems in books, so be sure to run an Amazon.com search to see if there are any books on the system you’re working on.

2. Get input from those who may work on the task with you. For example, if you have a business partner then you should get his or her input. Or if you’re working with a team (such as when you outsource part of a task), be sure to get your other team member’s input.

3. Outline the steps. Now that you’ve received input from team members as well as experts who’ve done what you want to do, list out the steps in detail.

TIP: Some people prefer to create graphical representation of a process and system using process maps or mindmaps. If you prefer these sorts of graphical maps, you can flesh out your system using software like conceptdraw.com or similar.

4. Now complete the process as outlined in your system. If you got good input from the experts, your system will need very little tweaking. Nonetheless, you should examine every step of your system and ask yourself, “How can I make this step more efficient?”

If you feel your system isn’t as efficient as possible, outline it on a niche forum or directly ask an expert to give you feedback. You may also consider asking a friend who doesn’t know anything about the process, as sometimes an outsider has ideas that the insider can’t even see!

That’s it for this time. Next time’s productivity tips will be aimed at a special group of people. You’ll find out next time if you’re a part of that group!

Find out more on being more productive at http://www.theproductiveme.com/

Science to Back Meditation Up!

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:00:00 +0000

There are some people who readily accept the idea of meditation. There are others who dismiss it as some “airy fairy” New Age junk. No matter which camp you put yourself in right now, it can really help to know that there is some science behind meditation.

It’s very interesting. Meditation has been around for thousands of years, but we’ve only recently developed the technology that makes it possible to study it. We are now finding what the monks and yogi’s knew all along — meditation works!

Neuroscientists have found that meditation affects the way our brain reacts — the way it is wired, so to speak. Dr. James Austin, author of “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness” states that meditation can sculpt the brain. He is a neurologist, and knows what he’s talking about!

He’s not the only one. There have been more than a thousand peer-reviewed research studies and articles published on this topic. Some of these are correlation studies, but we now have have the ability to go further with our research!

In one such study, Harvard Medical School researchers used MRI machines to monitor brain activity while experienced people meditated. They found that, while meditating, people have very interesting changes in their autonomic nervous system. This has to do with things like digestion, blood pressure, stress, and more.

That’s right — meditation affects both our mind and our body! Herbert Benson, M.D. has also collected data that shows that meditation has a physiological affect on our body. It can do so much more for us than allow us to be stress-free for a short time! It can have real implications on our health. It’s very worth it to start meditating, and the science backs that up.

Dr. Benson calls this effect the relaxation response. He recommends that in just minutes per day, you can reverse the harmful effects things like stress have on your body. Imagine: an easy way to lower your blood pressure, reduce anxiety, eliminate anger and hostile feelings, end insomnia, remedy PMS, reverse infertility, and get rid of headaches. You can do all of this with meditation. Once again, it’s backed up with science.

Richard Davidson has done further research. He is the director of the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin. Jon Kabat-Zinn is also doing research. He is the founding director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

They have a theory that those who are dealing with stress, anxiety, and depression have an overactive right frontal cortex and an under-active left frontal cortex. Those who are calm have more activity in the left frontal cortex. Their bodies release less cortisol and are able to “bounce back” faster from negative events in life.

The tested this by gathering information about participants’ brain waves. There were 25 people in the meditation group and 16 in the control group. They took a course and were given their tests. Those who were meditating had a shift in activity to the left side! Those who did not meditate, did not.

This is just the tip of the ice burg with the research that is coming out. The bottom line is that meditation can do amazing things for you! Find out more on how meditation can benefit you and those around you. http://www.9minute-meditation.com/

Beer Brewing at Home

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:04:00 +0000

There are basically two types of beers you can create: Ales and lagers. What differentiates these two main styles of beer is the type of yeast you use to ferment your wort to turn it into beer:

Ales: This beer type is created using “warm fermenting” yeast that does its work on the top of the fermenter. This type of yeast ferments when it’s 60-75 degrees (F), so you can basically ferment your brew at room temperature. What’s more, ale yeast can consume the sugars in your wort in a matter of a few days.

The reason why we’re starting with a simple ale beer in this course is simply because it’s so easy to create these conditions. If you keep your house thermostat set at typical room temperate, then you have the perfect conditions to make a good ale. It’s easy.

Now compare this simple ale to lager…

Lagers: This beer type is created using yeast that goes to work on the bottom of the fermenter. Lager yeast requires cooler fermenting temperatures, somewhere in the range of 45 to 55 degrees (F). You may need to ferment for several weeks. A good lager may also require several weeks of conditioning at a temperature of around 35 to 40 degrees.

As you can see, fermenting a lager requires that you have a special set up that can accommodate cooler temperatures.

TIP: If you have an unheated basement, it’s likely that it maintains a temperature of around 50 degrees all year around. You’ll need to check this to be sure.

If your budget allows, you can buy a separate refrigerator for the cold conditioning process. That way you don’t crowd your regular kitchen fridge with your lager brew.

Within the general categories of ales and lagers there are a plethora of other beer styles. Some of them are specific to a local region. For example, the brewing style was developed at a time when a certain brewing process was in wide use in a specific region, so the resulting beer had its name associated with the region. The ingredients available to local brewers also had a huge impact on the type of beer styles they created.

Still other beers were brewed internationally (and these styles and recipes are still being developed today). Nearly anyone can brew these beers if they can get access to the same basic ingredients. Indeed, the Internet and its global marketplace has made it much easier for the home brewer to get his hands on specialty ingredients.

Beer styles are judged by factors such as their taste (flavor and bitterness), clarity, aroma, and gravity. These differences are based on (but not limited to) one or more of the following factors:

What type of water is used. Water chemistry is a big factor. For example, water from a well and water from a mountain spring will produce different styles of beer.

What type of yeast is used. Beyond top and bottom fermenting yeasts, there are other types of yeasts that contribute to different kinds of lagers and ales. Check your favorite brew-supply store to see the great variety.

What types of hops are added. It also depends on when the hops are added.

What type of grain is used. Is it barley? Rye? Rice? Or some other specialty grain?

How the malt is created from the grain. How the producer first germinates and then roasts the grain to create malt has a big impact on the beer style.

The conditioning process. How long you condition beer, what kind of sugar you add and the temperature of the storage location all affect style.

Now that you have a good idea of what affects style, next time you’ll learn about some of the more popular beer styles.

Changing your outlook, the start toward a more healthy you.

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:35:00 +0000

Change your outlook with the start of a healthier you, when beginning of your weight loss. Don't you want to look hotter than your friends? Are you dreaming of when you will fit into your favorite jeans? Stop going crazy about womens weight loss. You can break free of those yo-yo diets and finally stick with something that will really work for you. Dieting and improving our health will certainly show off when we get dressed up for a night out. Avoiding the confusion of the many weight loss programs may not be easy at first, but with research your success is near. The overwhelming success women are seeing with Slim Lady Weight Loss Program is showing women a way to obtain their weight loss goals.

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John Steinbeck on Teachers

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:32:00 +0000

"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit."

John Steinbeck

Times are tight and so are my jeans. Ouch that is a little insensitive.

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:12:00 +0000

Times are tight and so are my jeans. Ouch that is a little insensitive.
Healthy Weight Loss

Are you sensitive about your weight? Are your girlfriends making you jealous? Have you been eyeing those Skinny Jeans and know you just can’t fit? Stop the madness about healthy weight loss. Many moms today have been struggling with maintaining a healthy lifestyle and healthy body weight. Getting back in shape takes dedication and a solid program to achieve the desired results. Finding a quality program for healthy weight loss maintenance is now easier with the resources of the Internet. Slim Lady Weight Loss has seen much success with helping women achieve and maintain their ideal healthy body.

So when we are out running endless errands, it is not always easy to keep up on the goal of a new you, slim lady weight loss has a system to keep you on your goals and help you achieve your ideal body weight. After faith in ‘fad diets’ and ‘lose weight fast’ schemes, finding a real weight loss program like Slim Lady Weight Loss was the key to my weight loss.

We all can get caught up in our day to day activities and ignore our healthy weight. Stop feeling guilty and get active on your weight loss goals http://www.slimladyweightloss.com/ has a long success record. After multiple studies and much research, the results have been revealed. It is working for me and some of my friends; I think the others just don’t want to change for the better.

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle and our ideal weight has not always been easy, with all of the daily challenges that come our way each day. So what are you going to do about it? You know you will have to ‘Want to change’ in order to make a difference in your life. Achieving healthy weight loss will improve many aspects of you daily life and your quality of life. Staying active and enjoying the healthy ‘you’.

There are many ways to overcome that sensitivity to your weight… but the best way is healthy weight loss with a rock solid program like Slim Lady Weight Loss. Stopping the madness of those fad diets and stepping up to a proven healthy weight loss program will change you for the better. Take the initiative and get started on the ‘New You’!

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Bio-Replenishment: Taking Anti-aging to the Bone

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:08:00 +0000

Bio-Replenishment: Taking Anti-aging to the Bone
- By John Jackson, M.D.

Everybody needs healthy bones and joints. Bones store 99% of the body’s
calcium. All body organs depend on a supply of calcium from bone – the brain
150 mg., the heart 100 mg., intestines 600 mg. and kidneys 150 mg. of bone
calcium each day. This mineral management system is vital to such body
functions as conduction of nerve impulses, hearing, heartbeat and blood flow,
bowel movements, liver and kidney performance, acid-base balance and
detoxification.

In childhood, we remake the entire skeleton every 4 years, 5 times on average by
age 20. With advancing age the process slows considerably, due to a decline in
production of the mineral managing molecule we made in abundance when younger.
This is the reason, despite eating well and exercising regularly, we can start
to suffer with bone and joint problems.

Osteoporosis has been diagnosed in 10-12 million, borderline bone density or
osteopenia in 34-40 million and related joint problems, such as osteoarthritis,
in 66 million. At least one third of Americans have bone and joint problems.
The lifetime risk of brittle bone fractures, already 2 million per year and
rising, is 50% in women and 25% in men.

When joints hurt conventional approaches focus on symptomatic relief by means of
anti-inflammatory medications and pain relievers. Cures are rare and if all
else fails, surgery becomes a consideration. Common recommendations for bone
disease include calcium and vitamin D supplementation, chondroitin sulfate,
glucosamine, isoflavones and hyaluronic acid. These alone are seldom effective.
Hormones, such as estrogen and parathyroid hormone, may build some new bone AND
carry the risk of cancer. Bisphosphanates (eg., Actonel, Boniva and Fosamax)
are the most popular prescription drugs. These slow bone renewal and interfere
with calcium release to vital organs. Jaw bone damage and loosening of teeth,
as well as esophageal irritation and cancer have been reported.

Thanks to 30 years of research by Dr. Naidu, twice nominated for a Nobel Prize,
there is now a safe and effective solution for healthy bones and joints.
OsteoDenx is not a vitamin, mineral supplement or drug. It forms part of the
revolutionary new class of Bio-Replenishments. Obtained from food, OsteoDenx is
the same protein that a young body uses to remake the whole skeleton every 4
years. This mineral managing molecule also stimulates the cells that produce
and maintain cartilage. A patented Synoportin delivery system directs nutrients
to the joints.

OsteoDenx, as published in Osteoporosis International (2009), starts turning
osteoporosis and osteopenia around in just 2 weeks! Side-benefits of the
completely natural OsteoDenx, as published in Inflammation Research (2010),
include supplying bone calcium to body organs and the lowering of elevated
inflammatory markers linked to heart attack, diabetes and colon cancer.

Bone density increases can be seen in 3-6 months, 24% in less than a year for
one of my female cousins at age 83! Young people may be candidates, just like a
16-year old boy who had 8 fractures by age 14, but none since starting
OsteoDenx. Joints improve, as in the case of a 70-year old man whose amputated
thumb couldn’t bend for nearly 7 years post surgical reattachment that started
bending again 8 months after starting the natural product. Soft tissues
benefit, based on my own experience with a bad ankle sprain that healed
completely in 37 days, allowing me to run a half marathon with our daughters.
As an internal medicine specialist for 25+ years, I have found nothing safer,
simpler or more successful in securing the wellness of bone and joints than
OsteoDenx.

What are your Habits?

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:52:00 +0000

Who am I?
I am your constant companion.
I am your greatest helper or your heaviest burden.
I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.
I am completely at your command.

Half the things you do, you might just as well turn over
to me, and I will be able to do them quickly and correctly.

I am easily managed; you must merely be firm with me.
Show me exactly how you want something done, and after a few
lessons I will do it automatically.

I am the servant of all great men.
And, alas, of all failures as well.
Those who are great, I have made great.
Those who are failures, I have made failures.

I am not a machine, though I work with all
the precision of a machine.
Plus, the intelligence of a man.

You may run me for profit, or run me for ruin;
it makes no difference to me.

Take me, train me, be firm with me and I will put
the world at your feet.

Be easy with me, and I will destroy you.

Who am I?

I am a HABIT!

NowYouBeYou was started to help people grow in every aspect of their lives, habits are what make the results that we desire. Why not start a new habit today and make a difference in your life and the lives of your family? Little things that you do today can have a big result in the very near future. That is the Secret to Success. A few minutes a day can grow a business that will reward you with the success of your dreams.

Mark Joyner will give you his program for free go here http://bit.ly/2dswKI
Building a success habit one day at a time.

Seek out the guidance of other successful people doing the thing that you want to do in your lifetime. Success is waiting for you.

Stealing my Success Map

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:33:00 +0000

Have you ever noticed all the online success options that are available today?

How do you cut through the noise and make your living online?
What are the secrets to success online?

Getting focused and taking that first step is the hardest part. But, we see it every day, people just like you and me, succeeding with online businesses from the comfort of their homes. Now wouldn't it be great to find a road map to help you focus in on your path to succeeding the online money game. Certainly anyone would have a definite advantage with a good map.

As a bonus, what if that map came with a guide who knows the short cuts in the map? With all the secrets to success, written out for you how can you fail?

Think about it, a real life guide to help you succeed with an online business.What could be better than that? What you ask? How about a whole team of the top leaders in the business with skills you will need for your journey to success. One good mentor giving up their personal secrets to success that took them to the top, would be priceless.

Having one or more good mentors will have a great effect on your success online. Tapping into their knowledge on a daily basis and learning will increase your earnings. It would be like kidnapping the greatest minds in marketing, communication, real estate investing and sales, then extracting all their knowledge and injecting it directly into your very own brain. What secrets to success do they hold for you?

Want to find out? But, a good question is, how do you get them to open up their brain, so that you can benefit from their experiences and successes?

Tapping into their secrets to success will give you a great leg up on the competition and accelerate you own success. Well there are two good answers; one is to go out and buy all that they have ever written or recorded ( I bet that cost a big chunk of change) or two find out where they all hang out and get to know them personally. Both of these answer kind of leave you hanging.

Still wondering what their secrets to success are.Well that brings up other questions... where do they hang out? And what secrets do they hold for you? And most importantly how can you get them to give up their secrets?

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A Truely Mobile Lifestyle

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:30:00 +0000

Living and working any where you want, sounds like a vision come true. Others are doing it, is it your turn?
We all come up with excuses that help us feel better about not going after our goals. Well isn't it time you stop making excuses and get on with your dream?

Living the life of your dream, what does it mean to you? Isn't a dream just a journey of sorts? A place we would like to be. Step by step we can live in our utopia, living where we want and working in our dream job.
Could you be asking how can I continue my dream when I am stuck in my life?
With bills to pay, and barely making it by.

What if I tell you that, where you are is a direct result of the decisions you have made? Ouch, that one hits home.... We are where we are, as a result of what we've done or have not done. A stark reality.

Do you find yourself stressed out and off your journey? Asking yourself, can I really achieve my goals? Just like being in a strange territory without a map... we would pass by on quite a few fun stuff to see and do. A squandered life.

Most of us want success, so many have tried. More importantly so many are getting their dream life. Isn't it your turn?

What is it, that those who are living the dream are doing, that you are not? What is their secret? How can You find out? Don't you wish you could just go and ask them to show you the way? I know I do.

Spending most of my adult life studying the success and set backs of others and having had success come and go in my life, I learned a lot along the way.

A essential point I learned was, when going to a new destination... set up a good plan or even better than that, get a good mentor who knows the field. Mentors will help you save time and money when pursuing your dream, living and working your way.

How we select good guides and mentors is nearer than you think. They really do want to help you succeed with your ambition, working online. Creating your dream! I will even introduce you to my mentor Harris.

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What are their Secrets to Success?

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:31:00 +0000

Are you like me? I was always asking myself… what do successful people know that I don't?

What are their secrets to success?
What can 'They' teach me?

How is it that, some people seem to have the success that most only dream about?

But then, I changed the questions that I was asking myself.
How can I use what others know to reach my own goals?
What secrets to success can I borrow from the successful?

Woodrow Wilson America's 28th President had it right…
"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow." Success rule, surround yourself with great minds.

Here is what one of the greatest minds ever, Thomas Edison, had to say:

"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."

How much of your brain power are you really using? What secrets of success are you seeking?

When we combine the mind power of ourselves with others we create a master mind.
Which is more powerful than the sum of its parts.

This is just one of the secrets of the successful. The master mind principle has built great success throughout history. Learn how to apply this for your own success.

This bring up one my most favorite quotes: " May the force be with you" Star Wars

Now you know that the power is in you to succeed, with the help of others all things are possible. "The only limitations you have in your life are the limiting beliefs you have in your mind." -Matt Morris

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Success is Not the Key to Happiness.

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:03:00 +0000

Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." —Herman Cain.

So are you happy in your day to day efforts? Do you find your self seeking the secrets to success that up to now have eluded you? Stop procrastinating and get yourself on the road to success. Why not make today the day you decide to take control of your life and destiny?

Greatness does not come to those who wait, it is taken by those who go after it with passion. Creating a happy lifestyle and pursuing your passion is easier than you may think, so many people are living the life that they have dreamed of, why not you?

”Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.” Abraham Lincoln

Setting out this very minute will put you on the path of the secret to success: action, action, action. Yes action will start a series of events that will set you up for the life of your dreams.

My dream life has me skiing more than working, enjoying my days as I see fit. How do you see your dream life? I bet definitely not working nine to five, week after long week, slowly moving to the one day that you retire. Set your self up now to create your dream life.

Get the information you need and put it to work right away. Procrastinate no more!

"You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit." Aristotle Wow! what timeless knowledge, that is so appropriate today.

Learning from those that have created the dream life, will give anyone that become the student of the secrets to success a great advantage. Make the impossible, possible. Plan to succeed and make that life your reality. Happiness is the key to success.

"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success." Picasso

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Stop Worrying About Your Future, Create Your Future

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:59:00 +0000

What Your View Of Your Future?
Are you worried about your future? Are you working week to week and not getting any where? Would you like to be able to live your life on your terms? Well What are you waiting for. Start today to define what it is that you want your life to be. What will your future look like, how does it feel? Can you see it?

Today's business and working situations are changing rapidly, keeping up or getting ahead is becoming more and more challenging. How are you preparing for the future? Learning new skills and using new tools can help you on the road to success and a brighter future. Create a dream life of success and abundance. Discover how to start to transform your life of today and unleash your future to grow incredible wealth, health and wellness.

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Times Are Tough, The Tough Get Going

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:09:00 +0000

Today we are experiencing some difficult times and many people are getting caught on the wrong end of these economic times, but it doesn't have to be you! During the great depression many people spent their days looking for work or standing in bread lines, some actually got very rich. What was it that they were doing differently than the massses? The kept their positive attitude and stayed motivated and did something about their situation. Are you doing something about your situation? Or are you doing the same old things that you have been doing?

When economics seem to be turned upside down, the same rule no longer apply. Most start to conserve and do with out the things that they desire and many give up on their dreams. Don't be one of those, keep your dreams alive and do something that you may not have thought of before. Creating anotheor or even multiple streams of income is easier than you may think, throughout this blog there are opportunities all over. Give any one of them ninety days and see where you will be after that.

Some of the methods with cost nothing to get started and others will take a small investment. But no matter what you must do something if you want to be the change that youwant to be.

The old saying goes: If you keep doing what you been doing you will keep getting what you have been getting. And another is that famous definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

Get moving and get doing something that will make a difference to you and the people around you. The economy is about you the people, not the government. People creating a dream and creating the environment to make that dream a reality.

Great Quotes

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:36:00 +0000

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."

– Anne Lamott

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies."

– Etty Hillesum

"When you are clear, what you want will show up in your life, and only to the extent you are clear."

Janet Attwood

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough."

Oprah Winfrey

"Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more."

– Louis L'Amour

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."

– Carl Jung

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."

– Samuel Johnson

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."

– Thomas Jefferson

"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."

– Helen Keller

"You miss 100% of the shots you never take."

– Wayne Gretsky

"It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it."

Vince Lombardi

"It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be."

– Anatole France

"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them." W. Clement Stone

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

– Albert Einstein

"Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."

– Ovid

"When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."

– Katherine Mansfield

"Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them."

– Elbert Hubbard

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."

– Thomas A. Edison

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

– Aristotle

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience."

– Henry Miller

"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway."

– Mary Kay Ash

"We are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other."

– Luciano Decrescenzo

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."

– Amelia Earhart

"Only by acceptance of the past can you alter it."

– T.S. Eliot

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

– Mohandas Gandhi

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

– Sir Winston Churchill

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure."

– Jack Lemmon

"People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning."

– Lao-Tzu

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."

– Benjamin Disraeli

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."

– Will Rogers

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Edna Ferber (1885-1968) US writer

A closed mind is a dying mind.

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

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"I have always believed that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."

– Hermann Hesse

"A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project."

– Abigail Van Buren

"When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object."

– Milan Kundera

"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time."

– St. Francis De Sales

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

– Theodore Seuss Giesel

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."

– Peter Ustinov

"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."

– John Updike

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."

– Frank Lloyd Wright

"We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again."

– Shana Alexander

"The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does."

– Warren Buffett

"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."

– Winston Churchill

"Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest."

Beatrix Potter

1866-1943, Author and Illustrator

"See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea."

Guy Finley

Author of The Secret of Letting Go

"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves."

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

1767-1835, German Statesman

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

Bill Cosby

Actor and Comedian

"Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."

Samuel Ullman

1840-1924, Educator, Writer and Poet

"If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations."

Shakti Gawain

Author of Creative Visualization

"Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person."

Vernon Howard

Author of Psycho-Pictography

"Genuine kindness is not what we do. It is what we are."

Vernon Howard

Author of Psycho-Pictography

"My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces."

Wilma Rudolph

"The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty."

Theodore Parker

1810-1860, Minister

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H. G. Wells (1866-1946) English writer

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

And in the air are no streets, no channels, no point where one can say of an antagonist, "If he wants to reach my capital he must come by here." In the air all directions lead everywhere.

Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

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"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Courage is the human virtue that counts most — courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have."

– Robert Frost

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence."

– Samuel Johnson

"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road."

– Dag Hammarskjöld

"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."

– Mahatma Gandhi

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."

Lance Armstrong

Cancer Survivor and Athlete

"One day at a time - this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone: and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering."

Ida Scott Taylor

1820-1915, Author

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion."

– Abraham Lincoln

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

– Andy Warhol

"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing."

– George Sheehan

"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."

– Anna Quindlen

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."

– Robin Williams

"No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty."

– Leon Wieseltier

"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."

– Henry Van Dyke

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Samuel Adams (1722-1803) US patriot

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

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"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."

– Sarah Bernhardt

"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."

– Diane Ackerman

"Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

1749-1832

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."

– Kurt Vonnegut

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

Albert Einstein

"Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing."

– Socrates

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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Spanish artist

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

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Jonas Salk (1914-1995) US microbiologist

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

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"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change."

Barbara DeAngelis

Author

"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."

– Baruch Spinoza

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

Albert Einstein

1879-1955, Physicist

"Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes, work never begun."

– Christina Rossetti

"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."

Margaret Thatcher

Former Prime Minister of England

"Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl."

– Saadi

"I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?"

– William Stafford

"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light."

Jennie Jerome Churchill

1854-1921, Mother of Winston Churchill

"When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free."

Catherine Ponder

Author of Dynamic Laws of Prosperity

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt

1859-1919, 26th President of the United States

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you."

Henry Ward Beecher

1813-1887, Preacher and Writer

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

T.S. Eliot

1888-1965, Poet and Critic

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you."

William James

1842-1910, Psychologist, Professor and Author

"Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes. Either way, you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident."

Nancy Kerrigan

Olympic Figure Skater

"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."

Washington Irving

1783-1859, Author

"No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things."

Channing Pollock

Actor, Writer and Composer

"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."

Eleanor Roosevelt

1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist and Lecturer

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Classic Quotes by George S. Patton, Jr. (1885-1945) US general

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."

"A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end."

"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood."

"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."

"All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated."

"Always do everything you ask of those you command."

"Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle."

"Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war."

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Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968)

"All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity."

"But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?"

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."

"I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil."

"I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me."

"I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive."

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"Ruin and recovering are both from within."

– Epictetus

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."

– Freya Stark

"We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart."

– Blaise Pascal

"Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!"

– Charles Dickens

"What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers."

– Matina Horner

"Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed."

– Channing Pollack

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time."

– Anna Freud

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Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) Dutch philosopher

"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."

"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them."

"The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak"

"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward"

"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."

"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil."

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Positive Quotations To Help You Dream Bigger, Enjoy Life More, And Find Greater Success!

Topic: Achieving More

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.
–Lucinda Basset

To exceed beyond your wildest expectations you must begin with wild expectations.

–Anonymous

High expectations are the key to everything.
–Sam Walton

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fall immediately, they had better aim at something high.
–Henry David Thoreau

Topic: Perseverance

As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance… but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still – and persevere.
–Madeleine Albright

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
–Isak Dinesen

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
–Christopher Morley

Plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
–Benjamin Franklin

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done, and done right.
–Walt Disney

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
–Napoleon Bonaparte

If you don’t make a total commitment to whatever you’re doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It’s tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on.
–Lou Holz

Topic: Believe in yourself

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
–Sugar Ray Robinson

The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.
–Franklin D. Roosevelt

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
–Norman Vincent Peale

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
–John Stuart Mill

Topic: Dreams

When you cease to dream you cease to live.
–Malcolm S. Forbes

The man who has no imagination has no wings.
–Muhammad Ali

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
–Anatole France

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.
–John Ruskin

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
–Edgar Allan Poe

Topic: Taking responsibility

I made the decision. I’m accountable.
–Janet Reno

Don’t find fault. Find a remedy.
-Henry Ford

The wise person questions himself, the fool others.
–Henri Arnold

Topic: Attitude

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
-Thomas Jefferson

The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.

–Thomas A. Buckner

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
–Anonymous

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
–William James

Topic: Action

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
–Theodore Roosevelt

A person of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
–Anonymous

What we learn we learn by doing.
–Aristotle

No farmer ever plowed a field by turning it over in his mind.
–George E. Woodbury

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it!
–Jonathan Winters

Topic: Taking risks

Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?
–Frank Scully

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
–B.C. Forbes

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
–Anonymous

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
–John Shedd

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
–Indira Ghandi

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.
–Carol Pearson

Topic: Vision

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.
-Jack Nicklaus

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
–Seneca

Look for opportunity. You can’t wait for it to knock on the door… You might not be home.
–Jinger Heath

One may have good eyes and yet see nothing.
–Italian Proverb

Topic: Wisdom

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
–Sir Francis Bacon

Topic: Hard work

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
-Thomas Alva Edison

If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there’s no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.
–Joyce Chapman

Topic: Failure/Mistakes

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
–Thomas Aldrich

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
–Babe Ruth

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don’t respond with encores.
–Anonymous

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail Better.
–Samuel Beckett

To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
–James Allen

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
–Thomas Edison

The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.
–Sir Humphrey Davy

It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.
–Jane Cahill Pfeiffer

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:44:00 +0000

"I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?"
– William Stafford
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The Gift of Time

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:05:00 +0000

The gift of time
So gently it passes us
Like a breeze
It carries us through the burden of youth
Yet we barely hear the rush of the wind in our hair
Then ever so swiftly
It weighs us
Like excess baggage on our journey
And we fear the reality of passing years
Creeping
Stealing
Sneaking up behind
Like a childish game that no one dares to play
Anymore
Still, the gift sits on our doorstep
Its presence felt but never acknowledged
To the full
It sits, unrecognized for all it holds
The gift
Stares us in the eyes
The gift
There for the taking
Should we
Could we
Dare we?
Take it in both hands, rip and tear at its disguise
Revealing the beauty there within
All the while ours
All these years silent
Now open and revealed like a wound in the sunshine
Healing
Raw
Shrinking
Ours
The gift of time, always ours

Beholden, I grasp it
Wanting it so badly, for all it can offer
For just a moment
Just one more moment

Please don't steal it
I am so grateful
This gift is mine…

…the gift of time

Author: Nicole Papasidero

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:47:00 +0000

"To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions."
– William James

Don't Quit

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:08:00 +0000

Don't Quit

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won if he'd stuck it out.
Don't give up, though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victor's cup,
And he learned too late, when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are -
It may be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
It's when things seem worst that you mustn't quit.

Author Unknown

Calmness of Mind

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:30:00 +0000

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought. A person becomes calm in the measure that one understands themselves as a thought evolved being, for such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as one develops a right understanding, and sees more and more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, one ceases to fuss and fume and worry and grieve, and remains poised, steadfast, serene.

The calm person, having learned how to govern themselves, knows how to adapt themselves to others; and they, in turn, reverence their spiritual strength, and feel that they can learn of them and rely upon them. The more tranquil a person becomes, the greater is their success, their influence, their power for good. Even the ordinary trader will find their business prosperity increase as one develops a greater self control and equanimity, for people will always prefer to deal with a person whose demeanor is strongly equable.

The strong, calm person is always loved and revered. They are like a shade-giving tree in a thirsty land, or a sheltering rock in a storm. Who does not love a tranquil heart, a sweet-tempered, balanced life? It does not matter whether it rains or shines, or what changes come to those possessing these blessings, for they are always sweet, serene, and calm. That exquisite poise of character which we call serenity is the last lesson of culture; it is the flowering of life, the fruitage of the soul. It is precious as wisdom, more to be desired than gold, than even fine gold. How insignificant mere money seeking looks in comparison with a serene life - a life that dwells in the ocean of truth, beneath the waves, beyond the reach of tempests, in the eternal calm!

How many people we know who sour their lives, who ruin all that is sweet and beautiful by explosive tempers, who destroy their poise of character, and make bad blood! It is a question whether the great majority of people do not ruin their lives and mar their happiness by lack of self-control flow few people we meet in life who are well-balanced, who have that exquisite poise which is characteristic of the finished character!

James Allen
1864-1912, Author

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." --Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Living and Being in The Present

noreply@blogger.com (Joe Kennedy) — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:05:00 +0000

I was regretting the past and fearing the future.
Suddenly God was speaking, "My name is 'I am'".
I waited. God continued, "When you live in the past, with its mistakes and regrets, it is hard. I am not there. My name is not 'I was.' When you live in the future, with its problems and fears, it is hard. I am not there. My name is not 'I will be.'
When you live in this moment, it is not hard. I am here. My name is 'I am.' -- As seen on the kitchen wall of Saint Benedict's Monastery.