Emotion drive

Don’t underestimate the power of emotion. When emotions are involved everything you do is more powerful. For good or bad, it will change your life.

When you invest yourself into building your dream, you invest your emotion and your passion into that dream. This will bring a lot more energy and power to your action. But if you start to rage about the lack of result, that emotion will destroy all you invested before into building that dream. You are your worst enemy.

“Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.”

-         T. S. Eliot

Do you invest yourself into building your dream? Do you want it bad enough? Do you let negative energy destroy what you have already done?

“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.”

-         Napoleon Hill

When you want something really bad, you invest a lot of energy into getting it. But if you start to doubt you’ll get it, then you are moving into a destructive direction. Doubt will destroy all the work you have done before.

Doubts are hard to overcome. One thing you can do that will help is to focus on the dream and how happy you will be when you’ll get there. Attach real feeling to that dream and you’ll have more power to overcome doubts.

There’s no easy way. You’ll have to work on your motivation to keep going on.

Dream Big

Dream big dream and don’t stop there!

We all have the chance to build something with our dream. The biggest excuses for not building our dream is always coming from us.

“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.”

 - Joel A. Barker

Dreamers are not always doers. Dreams should never stop there. The dreams need to find their way into reality.

Your dreams are as great as anyone’s dreams. Don’t under estimate how great your dreams are. As long as they are great within you, they’ll become great for the lives of others too.

“Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.”

 - Marlon Wayans

Dream needs to become reality. And to become reality, they’ll need lots of work from you. No one else will build your dream, you have to do it.

If you don’t work on your dream, someone else will hire you to work on theirs.

Break the limits

Most people think that the limit they have comes from outside. But they come from them. What you think you can do, is the limit to what you can do.

“Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”

- Mary Kay Ash

You have the key to your success. You have the power to achieve your dream.

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

- Napoleon Hill

What ever happens outside, you have the choice on how you react to it. How you react is you’re most powerful key to impose your will on what will come next.

Your limit is not what happens outside; it’s how you react to it.

Success is never about luck. It’s all about doing what you think is best. Taking action is always the best way. Sometimes you choose the wrong things, but it should never stop you. Adjust and keep going on.

Forgive and move on

You can’t change the past. You can’t change what did happen. You can only change how you choose to react to it right now.

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

 - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Forgiveness is not for others, it’s for you. It will liberate you from the burden of hate that is gripping your heart.

Forgiving is clearing the negative energy poisoning your life. That poison will drag you down if you keep drinking from it.

“When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.”

 - Bernard Meltzer

Forgiving is not for the week. It takes a lot of courage to forgive and move on.

“You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it'.”

 - Maya Angelou

You just can do your best right now.

“Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.”

 - Les Brown

“Forgiveness means letting go of the past.”

 - Gerald Jampolsky

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

Blog story!

Having a blog is not a walk in the park. You have to be ready to give more then just a piece of yourself. Having a blog is being ready to open your heart and put it into words.

“Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.”

 - Louise Brown

Don’t treat your blog as an advertising platform. It can provide advertising, but it must have content before you put any ads in there. With a blog, content isn't about fact, it’s about the words that you wrote. Yes, it’s simple, wrote what you think about. Put your soul in each and every post.

“I think there's plenty of room for blogs that exist to pay the blogger, or blogs that exist to turn a profit. That's just not the kind of blog I'm writing, and I'm not the kind of blogger that could do that.”

 - Seth Godin

Earning from a blog can be done, but if you write a blog to earn a living then you’ll have to find a way to be creative and promote it all around. You have to become a reference in what you write and talk about.

“I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative.”

 - Steve Ballmer

When you want to get a pulse on a subject, you have to take in as many sources as you can about it. Representative or not, each blog talking about the subject you’re interested in can bring you useful information.

Myself, I like to write timeless info. I like to write without any time label. I like to write without any direct link to what is happening in the world at that moment. I like to write about a subject in a way that would be interesting in 5 or 10 years from the moment of post.

No one can become successful with a boring blog. You have to deliver good stuff if you ever want to have any success with your blog. You can fool people with one or two post, but in the long term you’ll have to prove your creativity. Don’t believe that you can hide behind some pre-created post and build an audience.

Build your blog with your own stuff. Don’t pay someone else to write your post.

For you or for someone else?

“If you don’t build your dream, someone will hire you to help build theirs.”

 - Tony Gaskins

Do you feel like you could do much better at your job? Do you think that you are stopped from achieving what you should be doing?

Maybe you should start to think about making it on your own. Maybe you should start to look around for option that would let you make it better.

Working for someone else in the end it’s only that. You help someone else building their dream. You can’t impose your dream to replace theirs. So, if your dreams are much larger then theirs, you end up frustrated because you know it could become so much more.

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”

 - Harriet Tubman

Dare to dream and work to build them. No one can do it for you. You are the only one who can really grasp what is the essence of your dream. You are the only one who feels that way about it.

Working for someone else could go along with building the dream you have at the same times as theirs, but most of the times you end up giving up on the ones you have to build theirs.

Do you fear to take action?

Have the courage to follow your dream.

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

 - Nelson Mandela

We all have the choice when we face our fear. Overcome them or find a good reason for letting the fear win.

Which type of person are you?

“If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”

 - Dale Carnegie

Getting busy, so simple and so hard to do.

Most will let the fear keep them from taking action. And this is the main difference between someone successful and someone who’s not.

Yes, everyone makes mistakes. But you’ll never get any success if you don’t take any action.

Learning is always good, but without any action it’s not worth anything.

Be different!

Be special! Be different!

« Normality is a paved road. It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it. »

Vincent Van Gogh

Among the mass, you are no ones.

Among the mass, you don’t get tagged. There’s less risk. But there’s less possibilities.

When you choose to hide among the mass, don’t whine about your situation. You choose to have what you get; you haven’t done anything to get anything more.

Take a step when everyone stands still. Take the risk and join the few who go ahead to reach their dreams.

Being among the mass is easy. 

Benefit from adversity

We all have to face adversity. The difference between each of us is how we react to it and what we do or don’t after.

“Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.”

 - Og Mandino

Those who succeed in life have been in many situations where they face adversity. Success is not the absence of adversity; it’s only a step further.

“Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique.”

 - Kevin Conroy

We tend to say that we know how it is because we did face something close to what others are facing, but in reality each of us are facing adversity in a different way. No one can really relate to what we experienced as we can’t for others.

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

 - Napoleon Hill

When we understand that from adversity will grow benefit, we can face them with more strength.

Don’t fear adversity, it will come into your life what ever you do. Prepare yourself and hope for the best.

The ones who keep going on after adversity are the ones who are seen as successful.

Don't get too comfortable!

The source of greatness is in you, but you’ll understand it with the help of others. Read and listen to people who inspire you to find all the greatness you have.

Think about what you learned and learn how to think. It’s a work in progress. The two need to go along.

“He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”

 - Confucius

Work is mandatory for anyone who wants to be great. Good can be easy, but great is always hard.

Learn to love to work. It will always pay in the end.

When you are too comfortable in doing something, it’s a good indicator that you are no longer reaching for greatness. Uncomfortable is always the road to greatness

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.

The Shark

I think that it’s great for us to help someone else. But I don’t like when people use others to get what they want without giving back.

The great philosopher Andre Moreau once told me about a shark waiting under our happiness. The shark is lurking deep under your level of happiness. When you are living a happy moment, give a happy moment to others. If you don’t, then the shark comes from under, grab you and bring you back down into unhappy land.

“Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.”

 - Arnold Schwarzenegger

“The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.”

 - Brian Tracy

Give without any hope of getting anything back and you shall get 3 times what you gave.

Mind to everything

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”

 - Buddha

You are what you think. If you let the outside influence you, then you choose that to be your reality. Nothing outside can force your thinking. It’s always about your will to resist the influence and make your own choices. Too many people don’t take the time to think before they choose.

“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”

 - Swami Vivekananda

Too many people think they think, but in fact they only reproduce what they were told. Make up your mind on your own. Take the time to build your thinking and choose what is of value to you. Don’t become one among the many that think they know what they should think because many think like them.

“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 others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”

 - Steve Jobs

Learn to listen to your intuition. Not what others have told you to think, but the little voice inside of you. That little voice is there for you and you alone.

“There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.”

 - Albert Einstein

Your intuition will help you understand what lies behind the appearance. It will guide you into the world of the real under the seams.

“Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.”

 - Florence Scovel Shinn

It’s a little weird to talk about thinking and intuition in the same text.

Lucky

Luck, I think I’m a lucky man. I've been winning lottery a lot in my life. Not the big buck, but a lot of small one. I found out that most people don’t win that often. So, I guess that I’m a lucky guy.

Are you disturbed by my first statement in this post? If not, that first part of my post didn’t disturb you. Don’t you think that it’s a little disturbing in itself that you think it’s a good statement? Luck doesn’t exist. It’s a concept that is base on nothing.

Luck is like a religion, a lot of people are thinking that luck will come to them if they pray for it. This is wrong, luck doesn’t exist. And nothing will ever happen if you don’t take action.

“I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.”

- Brian Tracy

…“Show up more often.”

Are you among the ones who get ups in the morning with the rush to start the day and a smile on your face? If you are, then you don’t need luck. You’re doing what is good for you, you have something that drives you to get up and smile. You have more then most of the people that are waiting on luck.

Find something that you love and work your ass in that until you’ll earn a living out of it. This is a simple concept that 98% of the populations in the world do not apply. Yes, it can be hard. Yes, you could have very difficult time. Yes, you could be earning little money for many years. But when things start to fly, there’s no telling where it will go.

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”

 - Ray Kroc

Sweat more then the competition and you’ll be more lucky then them.