Just one

It always start with one. Just one.

When you feel good about doing something, don't delay, do it now.

It only takes one moment to get the feeling that it wasn't such a good idea.

Then a few month later, you see someone doing exactly what you imagined and making it big.

How many times will you let someone else get the fame for an idea that you got?

How many more do you need to take action?

Don't wait! Go on and do it!

Now

Don’t wait for tomorrow. Go for it now!

« Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. »

- Wayne Dyer

From mistake, we learn.

From inaction, we bitter.

Do you want to build regrets or learn to make it better?

No one else will do it for you.

Results!

Imagine,  you've  come  up  with  an incredible  concept  for  a  new  business  or  product.  This amazing idea will absolutely change the world and make you immensely happy. In fact, this idea has the potential to make you a gazillion dollars and create world peace. You are clearly inspired. You could care less that the economy is turbulent. You set a huge goal. You cannot sleep that night because you are so excited. You finally peel yourself off the ceiling and get a couple hours of sleep. You wake up in the morning and you love the idea even more than you did the night before. And then, about an hour or so later, you ask yourself a question. You ask the question. You ask the question that crushes more intentions than any other. 

You ask, ― How am I going to do it?

 

You ask ―how and then, all of a sudden, what happens? It all starts to fall apart, doesn't it? You have this great idea — this  great  intention— and  all  of  a  sudden,  you  start wondering,  ― How  the  hell  am  I  going  to  do  that? Getting stuck in the "how" will always kill good intentions.

The antidote to this kind of stuckness is another equation: 

Intention = Results

If  you  want  to  get  out  of  your  head,  just  refocus  your thoughts on what  you want. 

Let go of how your outcome is going to occur, and focus on the results you desire knowing that your intention equals your results.

One of the most powerful thoughts I can share with you is  that when you decide what  you want,  it has  to manifest, but  it  can only  manifest  at  the  level  of  your  belief.  

You  have  the  power  to create,  attract,  and manifest  anything  that  you want  in  your life.  I firmly believe that you are that powerful. When you decide what you want, it will start coming to you.

No safety

There is no safety in knowing. It’s an illusion.

The unknown is not trouble. It’s a source of possibilities to what you really want to get.

The ones who have powers don’t want you to explore the unknown. They want you to stick to what it is that gives them their powers. That’s why they spread the illusion that you are safe in what you already have.

Are you living your dream?

If not, then what are you waiting for?

Action is what gives you the power to build your dream.

Don’t expect the illusion of safety to bring your dream if you are not living it.

There’s no safety in being idle. Things will happen with or without your approbation.

Action rules!

Having the right information, is it crucial with your success?

No, it’s not. Action is always the best things to get any success. Information is always a little bad. Depending on how you look at it, you can find bad things on any information. Reality is always on how you look at it.

The quantity of information is not the best way either.

“Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.”

- Bill Gates

In our internet age, we are flooded with information. You can find good stuff, but you can also find some very bad one. What ever, if it fuels your creativity and helps you to build your business, it’s ok.

“The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.”

 - Sydney J. Harris

When you communicate, you have a message to get to others. When you inform, you give something that you have without the need to get a message through.

“Information is not knowledge.”

 - Albert Einstein

Information is always something you gather. It doesn’t mean that it’s good, it just mean that you have it and give it away without any hope in return. Knowledge is something you know is good, because you have tested it or someone tested it for you.

Action Rules!

We have influence in our life and the life of others. With or without putting our will into it.

We are exposed to an average of 5000 ads every day. Those ads are influencing us in our choices. If you could choose the ones you want instead of the ones they want, maybe you could change the way you make your choices.

There’s 3 main level of influence you can generate:

-         Thought: You generate an enormous amount of thought in a day. Some of them are oriented and others are less oriented. Your mind will use the highway instead of building new ones. What it means, the thought that you have been using on and on will come back easily. To change those, you have to put some will into it. You can build new connection in your brain and choose to let go of old thought for new ones. Your thought are influencing your life and the life of others.

-         Speak: When you speak you give more energy to the thought you send in the air. When you will yourself to change your thought, you will also find out that it will change what you say.

-         Action: Actions are the top level of influence. Actions are like throwing a rock in a puddle of water. You don’t have any control on the influence it will have all around. Things will happen in relation with your action without you knowing about it.

Get it!

Know what you want and you’ll find a way to get it. It’s not how to get it, it’s more about what you want to get.

If you don’t know what you want, you can’t know what you’ll get.

“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”

 - Ayn Rand

When you are clear about your goal (and dream), your energy is focus into a smaller point. As it is focus, it’s more powerful. So, you have to be sure of what you want.

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”

 - George Bernard Shaw

It all starts with a dream. But without action it will stay a dream.

Do or not

Learning is the key to success.

Doing is the door leading to success.

You need the key to open the door easily. You can open the door without the key, but it’s a lot more work.

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

- Confucius

Take action on your dream.

Imagine

The more you’ll be using your imagination, the better you’ll be at using it.

The more imaginative you are, the better chances you have to become rich.

It’s a starting point, not the end of it. Even the best ideas without action will never make you rich.

« Ideas, the product of the imagination, are the starting point of all fortunes. »

- Napoleon Hill

Idea are the starting point on the road to fortunes.

As you get an idea, start to take action. Some will work well and some won’t. The more you’ll do, the better you’ll get and the better your result will be.

Playing games could help you build your imagination. But gaming is only a training, you’ll still have to use that imagination to build something real of you want any fortunes.

A better place...

As soon as you are in knowledge of a mistake and do nothing to rectify it, then it becomes your mistake.

Being concerned is doing something. 

Send positive though or being empathetic is doing something. 

You can change the world with your good intention, with your good words and with your good feeling toward others.

“Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.”

- Daniel H. Pink

Doing nothing. 

Resent the pain of others or ridiculing it will bring the same to you. 

It will stack up and make it hard for you. 

Coldness will bring coldness.  

“Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.”

- Richard Eyre

Look for it!

Don’t wait for the right moment to do something. You’ll end up doing nothing.

Result will come to you that you take action or not. But if you take action, you’ll have at least some influence on the result. Your action will not always bring what you want, but it will bring some of it.

Every fail has some part of success in it. You just have to look for it.

Being positive is not being dreaming, it’s choosing to look for the good in everything.

Look for the good and you’ll find it. 

Success in action

We all want a successful business. On line or off line.

If I can give you one tip on how to build a business, "Take action".

Some will say: “Hey, I take action and I don’t get the results! Why would I keep taking action if I don’t get what I want?”

-       To that I will say this: “If you stop taking action and wait to see the result, you will never get what you expect.”

And the reason why…   As you stop taking action, you destroy any progress you did make with the previous action you took. And doing so, you don’t get half as much as you expected.

Yes, you need to look at your results, but you need to do this while you keep taking action. Never stop! If your results are not what you want, adjust your action to get better results.

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”

- Albert Einstein  

The best way to fail all the time is to take no action at all.

You want result; you need to take the shot.

“You miss 100% of the shots you never take.”

- Wayne Gretzky

Some will say: “Hey, I don’t know what to do? I don’t know how to start my own business! Can you show me the way?”

-       To that I will say this: “There’s a lot of ways to start a business. There’s as many ways as there’s people on the planet. And maybe even more… Whatever I can give you will never be perfect. You have to make it your own. That way, it will be perfect for you. I’ll give you one suggestion. A business that will show you how to build itself in 30 days. Simple and efficient if you can keep it going on for 30 days.”

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Build a positive business

Take positive action.

They’ll have an impact on your life.

You first need to know yourself. Then you need to change what is negative to something positive.

Actions will make you feel good and it will help you creating a momentum in your life toward good things.

Good actions brings good reaction. If you keep on doing it, they’ll keep coming.

“Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.”

- Shiv Khera

When you do good actions, you bring others into realising that it can be done. And some of them will follow your example. Doing good bring good. Keep working on it every day. Do your best to do one good action every day.

Most over estimate what we can do in a day and under estimate what we can do in a year.

Action

Doing and mistaking goes together. People that are doing are the ones involve in mistake. But they are also the ones involve with success.

Successful people have all been making mistakes.

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

- George Bernard Shaw

Success is directly associated with mistakes.

Your capacity to adjust and keep going on is directly linked to your success.

Mistakes are only steps onto success.

You have to keep on doing and adjust.

If you keep on doing the same thing again and again without adjusting to make it better, you are doom to keep on making the same mistakes.

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

- Albert Einstein

Creativity without fear

How many good ideas have you left uncreated?

How many times have you left someone else earned a lot of money with a product that you thought wasn't good enough for the market?

The reality is that you were afraid. What ever you choose to justify not taking action, it is all come down to being afraid.

How can we learn to go over our fear so we can be as successful as we should be?

-         The first thing to do is to acknowledge there’s a fear involve. If you don’t acknowledge your fears, you can’t work on them

-         The second thing is to identify the fear. Don’t skip this step.

-         The third thing is to understand why you have that fear. You need to understand the root of that fear. This is one of the hardest parts. On top of that fear, there’s a lot of justification that has been put there. For most of us, justifications are seen as good. But, when we think about it, we can understand that they’re just tools to not taking action and face our fear.

-         The last thing is to face your fear. Among all these steps, this is the hardest one. Look at all the people that are successful, they all do what most won’t. If you want to be among them, you’ll have to face your fear.

 This is not a miracle process! The stronger the fear, the harder it will be to overcome them. You could be in need of the help of someone else to take care of them.

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

 - Pablo Picasso

Take action to get out of the fear zone. It’s better to start and work on it then to put it on the side for another day. Taking action now will make all the difference in the end.

“To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.”

 - David Joseph Schwartz

Things can go wrong

When things are not going like we would want them to go, why do we focus on the outside and spend our energy whining?

We have a limited amount of energy that we can use; it’s up to us to use it wisely. The wise will always invest his time and energy in what he thinks will bring back the best return.

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”

 - Jimmy Dean

Let me tell you a little story.

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Marc was working in a big jeans factory. He was in his 15 years over there and things were great. He was earning a good salary and he spent most of it every month. He did put some on the side for bad time. He was living a good life without much worry.

Joe was also working at the same factory and earning the same salary as Marc. He did not put more on the side and was living a good life without much worry too.

Things weren’t going as good as they did, but the factory was still running at 75% of its capacity. So, Joe and Marc weren’t worried that something bad would happen.

Then someday, the factory closed. Bang! No warning! Joe and Marc just showed up to a lock door with a note indicating that the factory was in bankruptcy. They got a compensation for one month salary and it was all.

Marc got really angry and started a group to protest against the bankruptcy of the factory. He got into the media and worked really hard to build a public response to what they were living. He got a lot of fellow feeling from a lot of people. He got a lot of energy, but he did also spend a lot. He spent also a lot of time. That campaign didn’t bring him anything more then a moment of fame. 3 months later, he was still without a job or income.

Joe got angry about what happened. But he didn’t join Marc on his campaign of sympathy. He took a few days to think about his option and what he could do to find a way to make as much as he did with his old job. Joe started to apply for job the next week. It was hard, he wasn’t alone applying to those jobs, but he didn’t give up. He kept going on, investing a lot of time and energy toward finding a new job. 3 months later, he was still without a job.

Marc found out that he would not get his job back with the old factory. He would not get anything back with his anger campaign. People just got tired of him and he could not find a media to publish anything about his fight anymore. His fame was fading fast. So Marc started to look around to see what he could do to change his situation. He started to apply for new jobs. 4 month later he was still without a job.

Joe didn’t give up and kept applying for new job. He was getting more and more chances to get an interview and sell himself to a lot of good company. He didn’t know what would happen, but he kept on applying daily for new jobs. 4 month later he was still without a job.

Marc didn’t have enough energy to really keep himself motivated. His past 3 month of campaign drained a lot of his energy. He’s doing his best to apply to new jobs, but he’s doing it with what he has left of motivation. 5 month later he was still without a job.

Joe finally found a good job in a good company. He’s motivated and looks behind to what happen as a great opportunity to find a job with this great company. He’s positive about the future. 5 month later he has found a great new job.

Marc just can’t put enough energy into his job search. His results are low and his interview results are even worst. Some of the new employer recognises him for the protest campaign he did for his old job. Some of those new employers didn’t agree with Marc and discard him as a trouble maker. Marc is discouraged; he’s talking all the time about the way he lost his job and how bad it is for him. He wants others to take care of him and give him a new job. He think he deserve it because he lost a lot. 12 month later he was still without a job.

Joe is happy in his new job. He’s investing a lot of energy to make his mark and gain the respect of his fellow worker and employer. 12 months later he’s happy in his new job.

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Marc and Joe are two good people. They didn’t deserve to loose their job. Between the two, Joe got the better.

Why Joe did get the better result?

-          First, he took the time to look around for his options.

-          Second, he chooses the action that would bring him what he wanted (a new job).

-          He worked hard. Investing a lot of energy into that project. He kept himself motivated and positive to reach his goal.

-          He didn't give up even if the result were long to come.

Marc did what a lot of people would have done. He got angry about something that he could not change. He worked hard to change that and he lost time and energy that would have been best invested into something more positive. In the end, he had to take the same road as Joe, but when he got on that road he didn't had the energy he had when he lost his job. With less energy, he couldn't do a good job as did Joe. And it’s the main reason why he never got half of the result that did Joe.

We all have choices to make. We all have battle to choose. What ever you choose, you’ll have to live with it.

Yes, maybe Marc could have won something with his campaign. But let’s be real, the company gave him what the law ask them to give, and it was money because they closed the factory. Bankruptcies are under law. You can do a lot of noise about it, but it will not make much more then that…   noise…

Choose your fight! You are the one to choose where you should invest your energy. And choose wisely, because when your energy is spent, it’s gone. You can’t change the past.

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

 - Aristotle Onassis

Don’t focus your energy on negative action.

Look to the future and invest your energy to make it better.

Doing good feels good

Doing good will make you feel good.

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”

 - Plato

You’ll feel good and you’ll get what you did to others. Doing good things will always bring good things to you.

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

 - Winston Churchill

Smile when you give, it will change a lot of things inside you. Give with a good heart and without any means to get anything back.

When I say don’t think about getting anything back, I do mean it. If you expect something to come back, it won’t. Sorry, but giving without expecting anything back, it means without expecting anything back. Now you’ll say, how can I know if this is working if I don’t look out for what shall come back. If you need to know, then you haven’t done it without expecting anything back.

This is simple, but a lot of people don’t believe in this and just don’t trust it to work. So they end up destroying anything good they’re doing because they expect it to come back.

Here’s a news I found on www.huffingtonpost.com

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An unidentified man is being hailed as a hero for rushing into a burning building in Fresno, Calif., to rescue a senior citizen who was trapped inside.
“As I got out of the car, this woman came up with this baby and said, ‘My dad is in there! My dad is in there!’ I didn’t know what to do. I felt so helpless," Beth Lederach, who recorded the footage of the successful rescue, told the Fresno Bee.
Lederach said the hero seemed to come from nowhere.
“He just calmly walked right in there and then came walking right back out with this guy," Lederach told the newspaper.
The video shows the man walk into the smoke and flames. At one point, a crash or explosion sends other would-be rescuers fleeing, but not the hero, who emerges from the blaze with the 73-year-old man draped over his shoulder.
Little is known about the rescuer except that he seems to be a Dodgers fan, at least based on his cap. ABC News reports that he was checked out at a local hospital after the rescue. But then, he seems to have vanished.
The man who was rescued, Robert Wells, told KFSN-TV that he was connected to an oxygen tank and had difficulty escaping the fire. He said two people tried to help him, to no avail.
"I wasn't going fast enough, so a guy picked me up and carried me out there. He was kind of in a half a run," said Wells, who was treated for smoke inhalation. "Thank you from the bottom of my heart, that I made it out."

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That story is an extreme example of giving without expecting anything in return.

Here’s another nice story I found.

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Doing Good for Others, Does Good for You

I slipped through the revolving door of the office building I worked in and stepped onto the cracked sidewalk that lined Broad Street in Newark, New Jersey. A light drizzle and a depressing grey sky enhanced the depravity of the area. The buildings on both sides of the street were old and in need of repair or, in some instances, a wrecking ball.

A few seconds later, a woman wearing a coat four sizes too big for her - probably a throw away from the used clothing store down the street - stepped up to me, displayed a smile of many gaps and begged, "Mister, can you help a person out? I haven't eaten in almost two days."

I handed her a few quarters and watched her saunter off. She held her hand out as she walked and counted the change she'd collected on that dreary afternoon. I guessed food was the furthest thing from her mind - crack was more her line of nutrition.

That area and most of Newark were poverty stricken and ruled by drugs and crime.In the few short months I worked there, I'd witnessed a stolen car, pursued by police, turn a corner and hit another car head on. The thieves leapt from the wreckage and ran off with the police in hot pursuit. A month after that, a man's car was stolen from the parking lot behind our building while he negotiated the fee with the attendant. This was a place where you held your belongings tightly and didn't venture far after dark.

I walked to the corner, stopped by the door of the ATM machine, checked to be sure no one followed close and quickly slipped my bank card into the slot. There was a buzz and click as the door unlocked. I walked inside and made sure no one stepped in behind me.

I put my card into the machine and deposited my paycheck with a sigh of relief. As I turned to leave, I saw a wallet sitting on the counter. It sat next to a pen on a chain so thin a kitten could have snapped it. The wallet was brown, well used and contained three dollars, a driver's license, two credit cards, a bank card and a work permit from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. The name on the license was one I would not attempt to pronounce, but whoever he was, he was going to be in a panic over a wallet with his identification on it being lost in this city.

I put it in my pocket, walked to Penn Station and took the train home to Jersey City. In my apartment, I checked the online phone book and found no one to match the name on the cards in the wallet. I wanted to help the guy. If it had been my wallet, I would have been sick to my stomach with worry. I picked up the bank card and had a thought. On the back was the number to his bank.

"Thank you for calling Wachovia Bank. My name is Cindy, how may I help you?" "Hi, Cindy. I found a man's wallet at one of your bank machines today and am trying to track down the owner to return it to him."

"That's very nice of you sir. Can you give me the number on the card please?" I gave her the number. "Sir, that card has been reported stolen."

"I'm sure it has, but what he did was leave it on the shelf in the room where the ATM is. Can you give me his phone number? I want to arrange to meet with him to return his wallet."

"I'm sorry, sir, but we cannot give out the personal information of our clients."

"I understand. Can I give you my contact information? You could call him and tell him who I am."

"I can certainly do that, Sir."

I gave her my information and hung up.

I'd done all I could.

Two days later, a very thankful gentleman appeared at our front desk and received his belongings. He never dreamed he would see his wallet again, not one left at a bank machine in Newark.

Me?

I smiled all day long.  Doing good for others, does good for you.

~ Michael T. Smith ~
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http://www.skywriting.net/inspirational/stories/doing_good_for_others.html

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When you do something without any expectation on getting anything back, you don’t feel the need to know if anything will come back to you. And it will come back.

The good felling of doing it is what a lot of people will take as the return in doing it, but it’s only a part of what’s coming back. In the Wicca they have a rule of three. It means that what ever you send outside will come back to you three times. What this means, is that you’ll get back more then what you give away. It doesn’t mean you’ll get it back right away. It means that it will come back. If you do something with an egocentric mind, then you’ll get people treating you as that. Egocentric will do things for other because they expect to get back more.

Don’t be egocentric and give away without expecting anything more then the good feeling of doing it.

Believe or not?

Do you believe in yourself?

Do you really believe in yourself? Not just words, but true feeling of knowing what you can do. The guts feeling that you can do it.

Then, you’re halfway there.

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

 - Theodore Roosevelt

But, it’s only half of the way. The other half needs your action.