Rules for being human

"My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world."
- William Rosenberg, Dunkin Donuts founder

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You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it
will be yours for the entire period this time around.

You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full time
information school called Life. Each day in this school you will
have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons
or think them irrelevant or stupid.

There are no mistakes, only lessons. The "failed" experiments
are as much a part of the process as the experiment that "works."

A lesson is repeated until learned. It will be presented in
various forms until you have learned it. Then you can go on to the
next lesson.

Learning lessons DOES NOT END.

"There" is no better than "here." When your "there" has become
"here," you will simply obtain another "there" that will, again,
look better than "here."

Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate
something about another person unless it reflects to you something
that you love or hate in yourself.

What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools
and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The
choice IS yours.

Your answers lie WITHIN YOU. The answers to life's questions
lie INSIDE YOU. All you need to do is listen, look and trust.

You WILL forget this!


Courtesy: Christiam Godefroy

Effective Communication is a Two-Way street...

"Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life."
- Brian Tracy, Author

Procrastination Killer – A Guide to Simplicity

Everyone procrastinates. We put things off because we don’t want to do them, or because we have too many other things on our plates. Putting things off—big or small—is part of being human.

If you are reading this handout, however, it is likely that your procrastination is troubling you. You suspect that you could be a much better writer if only you didn’t put off writing projects until the last minute. You find that just when you have really gotten going on a paper, it’s time to turn it in; so, you never really have time to revise or proofread carefully. You love the rush of adrenalin you get when you finish a paper ten minutes before it’s due, but you (and your body) are getting tired of pulling all-nighters. You feel okay about procrastinating while in college, but you worry that this habit will follow you into your working life.

Procrastination Killer

You can tell whether or not you need to do something about your procrastination by examining its consequences. Procrastination can have external consequences (you get a zero on the paper because you never turned it in) or internal consequences (you feel anxious much of the time, even when you are doing something that you enjoy). If you put off washing the dishes, but the dishes don’t bother you, who cares? When your procrastination leaves you feeling discouraged and overburdened, however, it is time to take action.

For those of you who want to eliminate procrastination, here are 10 simple steps:


1. First make sure you really, really, really want to do it. Seriously – don’t skip this step.
2. Keep things simple – don’t mess with tools, formatting, anything, just start.
3. Make it the first thing you do today, before checking email or anything else.
4. Clear away everything that stands in the way of doing. Including turning off the Internet.
5. Just get started. Overcome the initial barrier by diving in.
6. Tell yourself you’re just going to do 10 minutes.
7. Put something you dread more at the top of your to-do list — you’ll put off doing that by doing the other things on your list.
8. Find something about it that excites you.
9. Forget about perfection. Just start doing it, and fix it later.
10. If you keep procrastinating, re-evaluate whether you really want to do it. Consider not doing it, or putting it on the backburner.

If all else fails, just take a nap or go outside and enjoy the outdoors or do nothing. Life isn’t all about productivity.

Potpourri of wise advice and other wisecracks

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."
~ Earl Wilson

"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."
~ Author Unknown

"It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final."
~ Author Unknown

"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
~ Mark Twain

"Those who understand interest, EARN IT. Those who don't, PAY IT!"
~ Albert Einstein

"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!"
~ Mario Andretti

"Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs."
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The alarm bells on our nation's fiscal condition have now become a siren."
~ Sen. Mitch McConnell

"Never bite the hand that feeds you, because it will be the same hand that chokes you to death!"
~ Donluciano Reggallo

"Rich people plan for three generations, poor people plan for Saturday night."
~ Andrew Tobias

"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."
- Thomas Edison, Inventor

"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."
- Charles Kettering, Inventor

"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."
- Muhammad Ali, boxer

"The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart."
- Robert Ingersoll, orator

"You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great."
~ Les Brown

"I have always found that if I move with 75% or more of the facts, I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy."
- Lee Iacocca, executive

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."
- Thomas Huxley, Biologist

"You can't do it unless you can imagine it."
- George Lucas, director


Courtesy: Mario Santarelli, O.C., CA. RE Broker/ Norada.com

***The surest way to become a better and more confident public speaker***

In the late Robert B. Parker's latest Spenser novel, "Cold
Service," Spenser says to Susan this about his sidekick Hawk:
"He's nearly always right. Not because he knows everything. But
because he never talks about things he doesn't know."

This is a good tip for public speakers, bloggers, writers, and
anyone else who communicates: stick to what you know and you'll
be a more effective, more persuasive, more credible communicator.

And by "knowing" a thing, I don't mean just researching and
reading about it. I mean knowing from actual experience.

The only way to ensure total credibility as a speaker is to not
speak on a subject unless you've actually done it. If you haven't
done it and an audience member challenges you, you are completely
vulnerable ... because you don't truly know what you are talking
about.


"This article appears courtesy of Bob Bly Direct Response Letter,"
www.bly.com.