Do What You Love To Do and Make a Difference By: Steve Jobs, Founder of Apple Computers.

Find your true passion and do what you love to do.

“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”

Make a difference.

“When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

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12 Pillars Of Success by Jim Rohn :

1. Personal development

2. Health and total well-being

3. Building strong relationships

4. Goal setting

5. Time management

6. Finding people that will help you succeed

7. Learning skills

8. How to influence people

9. Financial planning

10. Communication skills

11. Leadership

12. Leaving a legacy

“You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
Jim Rohn quote

“The body forces you to experience emphaty, hate, remorse and all other emotions,
together with desires and passions, to confuse you, make you forget yourself, become a
dumbed-down version of yourself.
They have their foundation in this material/physical world.
The more you let them be your masters, the stronger you will chain yourself to this
world, which is contrary to your duty, yet do not loath them, respect.
I channel them to a place where they can be used for something substantial.”

- the Insider

Turning Failures To Opportunities: 3 Steps - by Vadim Kotelnikov

1. Get rid of all negative emotions – and lean: There is no failure, only feedback!

“I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.” – Thomas Edison

2. Go into a fresh-start mindset – more intelligently: Given the situation you are in now as a starting point, consider various options: what opportunities for and a roadmap to ultimate success can you see or imagine?

3. Take different views of the situation: Having looked at the scene from your view, look at it from different perspectives, try each of these views:

an optimist’s view;

a pessimist’s view;

an anarchist’s view;

an architect’s view;

a child’s view;

a poet’s view;

a strategist’s view;

a competitor’s view;

a customer’s view;

a supplier’s view;

Salvador Dali’s view;

Charles Darwin’s view.

“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” Henry Ford

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I recieved this from a friend of mine some years ago, when I was going thru some tough personal issue, it was a wake up call for me. I thought I would share it.

Jim,
Your life is now. I tell you this from the bottom of my heart. It is not what you did yesterday. It is not what you will do tomorrow or in your future. It is now.

Today is your opportunity to live the real life. Today is your time to get out of the swamp of the status quo. You need to be different on purpose:

• Don’t sit around your house and watch TV.
• Don’t sell your soul for a great benefits package.
• Don’t buy things to have a cooler image.
• Don’t hang around with people aiming low in their lives.
• Don’t chase money and stuff.
• Don’t let the majority shape you.

You are a great-spirited person; it shows in your ambitions and dreams. However, you are not taking your potential seriously. You are trading invaluable days for mere “good times,” and “getting-by.” Because you are letting your fears get the best of you. You fear the time is not right, the resources aren’t there, and you don’t have what it takes. And now, your fear is slowing you down like an anchor that slips overboard and drags along the bottom.

The only fear you need is the fear that you will continue living a life much smaller than your spirit and awake someday to find yourself a shell of a person, a product of hundred small mediocre choices. Or worse yet, you might die unexpectedly tomorrow, next week or next month with your music still in you. Your life is now. Your life is now, or never. You can’t choose money over your real dreams, without a negative consequence on your spirit.

You can’t keep putting your true talents on hold, without ending up talentless. You can’t keep putting off your big move, without, bit by bit, killing your desire to make a move. You can’t go on trading away your true power for comfort, without someday ending up weak. You possess unfathomable strength and ability, but you are rarely calling on your tremendous mental and physical resources. They demand to be stretched, exercised and challenged. They demand to be used to their full capacity. The reward your abilities promise is nothing short of greatness and excellence.

Let me be blunt, in hopes of making my true point: Everyday you do not commit yourself to greatness; you are falling asleep, allowing yourself to suffocate on an atmosphere of mediocrity. Is the spirit-killing atmosphere I reference real? You only need to look at the newspaper or TV to know we are surrounded by negativity that cares little about inspiring greatness. You are never far from people who care nothing about being different, trying harder, or aiming higher. And you are exposed to a constant stream of products and services and efforts where average makes the grade. Yes indeed, you live in an atmosphere of mediocrity, and like poison gas it will dull you, bore you, disillusion you and lessen you if you don’t wake up and do something about it. My friend, your life is now. Take a stand against mediocrity. Make your greatness non-negotiable. Put it into higher gear.

My thoughts are with you,

“Do not pay attention to the “world events”, they are all orchestrated to make you pay attention to them.
The struggle you should pay attention to is on a personal level.”

- from Revelations of the Insider

Dream is implanted into brain.

Dreamer becomes thrilled.

Dreamer becomes terrified.

If no action is taken, terrifying thoughts grow into flesh-eating monsters. Dream is considered unrealistic.

If action is taken, terrifying thoughts are revealed to be paper tigers. Confidence soars, miracles unfold, and dreamer begins to saunter.

“The World is yours, go out and take it.”

-Author Unknown

Trust only the God-within you.

“There is just 1 struggle and it is now, here on this planet and on a personal level….meaning you only.
There is no enemy you can attack except yourself.
If you are busy attacking something else, you are wasting precious energy and you will fail.
If you succeed, there will be no struggle anymore.”

-the insider