“You can multiply happiness by dividing it.”
-author unknown
This quote doesn’t just apply to happiness. It applies to success, money, motivation…EVERYTHING.
Think abundance and you will get abundance.
Help and share with your teammates, co-workers, family members and friends…
It always comes back to you.
Instead of making a living…
Create a life. Make a difference. Be the best you can be.
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The following passage is taken from The Once and Future King by T. H. White.
Merlyn gives this advice to the young Arthur…
The best thing for being sad…is to learn something.
That is the only thing that never fails.
You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewer by baser minds.
There is only one thing for it then – to learn.
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A man was walking to his office one day and as he approached his building, he saw a penguin right outside the front door. “Very strange,” the man thought. So he took the penguin inside and showed his boss. “I found this penguin outside the building…what should I do?”
“Take him to the zoo, you idiot!” the boss barked.
So the next day at about 10AM, the manager sees the employee and he still has the penguin.
“I thought I told you to take that thing to the zoo?!@#”
The employee replied, “I did. But we had such a good time that today I’m taking him to a baseball game.”
Lesson #1 Do what you love.
Lesson #2 Sometimes you have to make your own decisions.
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Today’s message is especially dedicated to the great Valerie Chagnon.
Most people believe if they “have” a thing (more time, money, love — whatever), then they can finally “do” a thing (write a book, take up a hobby, go on vacation, buy a home, undertake a relationship), which will allow them to “be” a thing (happy, peaceful, content, or in love). In actuality, they are reversing the Be-Do-Have paradigm. In the universe as it really is (as opposed to how you think it is), “havingness” does not produce “beingness,” but the other way around.
First you “be” the thing called “happy” (or “knowing,” or “wise,” or “compassionate,” or whatever), then you start “doing” things from this place of beingness — and soon you discover that what you are doing winds up bringing you the things you’ve always wanted to “have.”
The way to set this creative process (and that’s what this is…the process of creation) into motion is to look at what it is you want to “have,” ask yourself what you think you would “be” if you “had” that, then go right straight to being. In this way you reverse the way you’ve been using the Be-Do-Have paradigm — in actuality, set it right — and work with, rather than against, the creative power of the universe.
Here is a short way of stating this principle:
In life, you do not have to do anything. It’s all a question of what you are being
-Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God: an uncommon dialogue
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Today’s message is especially dedicated to the great Yukiko Iino and everyone that came out to my presentation of Peak Performance in Business and Life yesterday for the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce Breakfast Meeting.
People often ask me what the key to success is.
When I think of success and look at all the greats of yesterday and today, I see a common theme.
I saw it recently with Tiger Woods winning the US Open.
I saw it when the Celtics beat the Lakers.
I see it in the successful business people I know and read about.
I see it in great musicians, and chefs.
When I think of success, I think of this…
“It’s not how good you are. It’s how good you want to be.”
So how bad do you want it?
Desire beats skill any day.
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Today’s message is especially dedicated to the great Karen Colimore.
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Lennox Lewis was the only boxer in heavyweight history to win the heavyweight championship on 3 separate occasions. His career record was 41 wins, 2 losses, and 1 draw and in 1988, Lewis won the Boxing Gold Medal in the Olympics.
Excerpt from It’s How You Play the Game. Powerful Sports Moments That Taught Lasting Values to America’s Finest by Brian Kilmeade…
“Even today, I’m tireless when it comes to the projects I have to get done. I go at it like I’m still that twentysomething boxer on the road, in the snow, putting in that roadwork. It’s that ‘whatever it takes’ attitude that got me through training for my fights, and now it’s what guides me through life as a father, businessman, and broadcaster. I always feel like I have to be the one to run in the rain because the other guy doesn’t. That’s probably what explains how I won.”
-Lennox Lewis
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Do you know your Roman Numerals?
With just one line, turn the Roman Numeral for the number 9 (IX) into a 6.
Answer: SIX
So go out and today and get closer to your goals, and don’t be afraid to think outside the box.
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Today’s message is especially dedicated to the one and only Vincent Tseng. Happy Father’s Day. Thank you for all your support…Every thing I do, I do to make you proud.
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
-Jean Claude Killy 1943-, French Alpine Skier
So what do you want to be good at? A sport? A job? A hobby?
It doesn’t matter what you want to do, all you have to do is…
Do what the great ones are doing.
Why spend years figuring it out on your own when you can learn from the ones that have already done it?
Hang around the best.
Interview the best.
Read the books written by the best.
Then…BE the best.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves-to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
-Stewart B. Johnson