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Вспомнили детство :-)

mistakes are nothing more that gorgeous opportunities to make things even better. And a mistake is really only a mistake if you make it twice.

We just received a giant gift: a fresh, virgin new year - utterly open to it being made into anything you choose it to become. Forget the doomsayers. Block out the fear-mongers. Shout down those voices of mediocrity encouraging you to play small with your days amidst the dramatic changes in our world. This is a time to dream, to shine - to lead.

It's a great time to be alive - regardless of how bad your life might appear (things always get better don't they?).

You just got 12 fresh months (I needed to repeat that because it's such an inspiring thought to me). Some amongst us don't have that time. You do. You are blessed.

So what will you do with 2009? Will you spend it wisely - reaching for excellence and outright greatness, regardless of where you work and who you are? Will this year be the year you leave behind all your victim stories about why you can't be in world-class health and lead in your field at work and love your family like there's no tomorrow? Will this year be the year you have the courage to catch a glimpse of how extraordinary you are and then assume the personal responsibility to let that talent see the light of day? And will this new year be the 12 months that you give back to the world, by lifting others up and by being honest, ethical and downright good?

Just wondering. Because the clock is ticking. And this very moment is a fine time to begin.

Source: http://www.robinsharma.com/scripts/ic_blog.php?id=505

".....Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom." - Buddha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8XI2Chc6uQ

Mrs Smith, do you have happy family?

Oh, YES! I have three sons and great husband!

Where are they now?

My youngest son John is now in Iraq
My second son Mike is now in Iran
My oldest son Bill is now in Georgia.

Where are your husband, Mrs Smith?

He is travelling around the world with the lecture:  "Stop Russia from invasion  to other countries"

How did we get to be a world built around a sense of entitlement? So many of us want a great career and a gorgeous life but we're not willing to unleash the creativity/self-discipline and self-sacrifice to get there. I deeply believe that you can have so much of what you dream of having. The question isn't can you get there but are you willing to do what you need to do to arrive that your mountaintop?

Makes me think of an elite athlete, say Michael Jordan. He'd be up at dawn doing his drills and training his body/mind/character to get to remarkable. It's expected that an athlete who wants to win needs to get up early, train, eat superbly and condition their mind. But when it comes to businesspeople, getting up early and devoting ourselves to self-improvement and doing our "drills" doesn't seem as important. I fiercely believe it is. Success doesn't just show up via luck. It's created. By hard work.

cited from RS’s blog

"If you can't handle the truth, don't ask. Make up your own, like everybody else."

I believe that the purpose of life is twofold: first, we have a human duty to discover who we truly are and access our highest abilities (self-actualization). Second, once we discover who we truly are I believe we have an obligation to present our gifts to the world in a way that adds value to the human beings around us. So, step one in fulfilling your life’s purpose is to understand that the doorway to success does not open outward but inward. In other words, the first step to claiming your destiny is to begin the journey of discovering your best self.

Less is More from Robin Sharma's Blog

The person who does too much accomplishes very little. Less is more. The most effective people in business (and life) have the discipline (and brilliance) to focus on doing just a few things spectacularly well.

Just home from a speaking engagement for a large group of project managers. One of the insights I offered was that the best amongst us (the Picassos, the Edisons, the Disneys) were specialists. They found their dream, detailed it with striking clarity and then, while the rest of the world tries to be all things to all people, they woke up every day and focused on doing one thing.

Less is more. You can actually be more productive doing fewer things. Please think about that. As Peter Drucker said: "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently, that which should not be done at all."

Your thunking creates your reality

The degree of success that you achieve in business will ultimately come down to the degree of depth of your conversations. Business is, essentially, nothing more than a conversation. If you lose the conversation with your customers, you will eventually lose the business. And if you lose the conversation with your teammates, you will eventually lose the business. And if you stop engaging in personal conversations with yourself through silent reflection, eventually your business life will suffer. The more you can keep engaging in thoughtful and stimulating conversations with all those you surround yourself with, the more you will find the business success you deserve as well as the personal satisfaction that is your birthright. The primary block to us having necessary conversations at work is technology. While technology is a wonderful servant, in many instances it has become our master. Rather than walking down the hall to have a "belly to belly" conversation with a member of our team, we fire off an e-mail. Rather than making the time to have a lunch with a valued customer to further deepen our relationship, we leave a voicemail to save ourselves time. All this reliance on technology severs our human connections and human connections are the primary driver of business growth. People love doing business with people who care about them. People love doing business with people they trust.

There are three types of people:


1) First are those that make things happen.
2) Second are those that watch things happen.
3) And third are those people who wake up one  day, at the end of their lives, and ask "What Happened?"