Be all that you can be

It is amazing how you affect other people without speaking a word. The people who carry a stormy winter's night in their heart, cloaking anyone who gets close enough and those who beam like rays of sunshine on a frosty morning, projecting love, trust and friendship.

Everybody has problems. The only place you find people without them, is a cemetery. Be different, let go of your troubles and start to shine. Be all that you can be.

“What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”

Anne Frank

Giving & Receiving

There is only one way to truly receive, to truly enrich yourself and enjoy prosperity and that is to first give. It is just one of those universal laws, like the law of gravity and there is really no way around it.

If you went to college, you did not first seek proof of a job, but gave of your time and money to enrich yourself so that you would be ready when a job came your way. In the same way, you did not wait to be loved before loving, you gave love and in return were loved. You gave trust and in return were trusted.

“Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.”

Jim Rohn

"One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered."

Proverbs 11:24-25

To See Opportunity, You Need A Clear Mind

I love the old tale about the two shoe salesmen going to a remote part of Africa. One, completely discouraged by what he saw, called his company and said: "It's a complete waste of time, bring me home, they don't like shoes here". The other, bursting with enthusiasm said "Get a shipment ready, you are not going to believe this, there is no competition here. Nobody has any shoes."

To really see opportunities we have to step away from our paradigm, the believe system we have created through our past experience. We have to clear our mind of any prejudice. Only then can we really see what is laid out before us.

"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone."

Orison Swett Marden