“i say no idea is worthwhile if it doesn’t start with ‘Wow!‘ ” – Robert Schuller
you always hear “go above and beyond.” but what does that really mean? it means to go “above and beyond” what is normal. greeting someone happy birthday on Facebook is normal, but calling them and greeting them happy birthday (which would take ~20 seconds) is going “above and beyond.”
be different. be good.
“mentoring is your true legacy. it is the greatest inheritance you can give to others. and it should never end. it is why you get up every day. to teach and be taught… an individual needs to be open to being mentored. it is our responsibility to be willing to allow our lives and our minds to be touched, molded and strengthened by the people who surround us.” – John Wooden
live and learn and share.
“Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.” – H. Jackson Brown
when things go differently than what we had planned or expected (in any aspect of our lives: health, love life, work, school, etc.), we must be resilient and keep moving forward. first we must accept that there will always be hardships and struggles and bs. then we must embrace the fact that without these things, we wouldn’t know what love, beauty, or strength were.
i believe that without hate, we wouldn’t know or appreciate what love really is. im not saying hate is ok or that we shouldn’t work towards a world without it, because I do believe that a world with less hate is something very feasible (especially now that our world has experienced so much of it). for instance, in the future i see “hate” being talked about the same way “once being able to smoke on an airplane” is talked about now. whenever i think about how smoking was once allowed on airplanes, my mind just explodes. they really allowed that? how could someone do that? what were they thinking? if someone were to light up on a plane today, that person would be scolded and definitely imprisoned! i see the same thing happening to hate. there will definitely be hate in the future, but it won’t be as prominent as it is today.
as bad as the world may seem right now to some people, i believe that we are taking steps in the right direction, and blogs like this and people like YOU are the ones moving it.
“My Lord tells me that for every 1 bad thing in this world, there are 1 million good things. Trust in Him and EVERYTHING will be ok.” – me
embrace the struggle and always keep moving. <– as you can see this applies to your job, your workout program, your relationships and everything else.
“success is a journey, not a destination. material abundance, in all its expressions, happens to be one of those things that makes the journey more enjoyable…. even with the experience of all these things (material possessions), we will remain unfulfilled (and unhappy) unless we nurture the seeds of divinity (the spirit) within us… true success is therefore the experience of the miraculous. (true success) is the unfolding of “the spirit” within us. it is the perception of “the spirit” wherever we go, in whatever we perceive — in the eyes of a child, in the beauty of a flower, in the flight of the bird.” – Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (2-3)
i post this because i believe there is a science and an art behind a lot of things, if not everything.
a lot of my posts have been about the science of success, but the art of success, for me, lies in spirituality. science has its purpose, but my purposeinvolves things such as beauty and love and forgiveness, all of which originates from my spirituality and faith (in Him). so i understand that i will be successful once i feel that i have fulfilled my purpose.
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