Are you a zombie?

I’ll stop learning when I’ll be dead.

Your environment will bring you what you need. All you have to do is to be open and let it in. Learning is not only related to school. You can learn much more from your day to day life. You only need to be open and let it in.

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

 - Benjamin Franklin

I enjoy learning. I enjoy when I understand something that I didn’t get to grasp before. I like to find inspiration where I never got any before. 

Create and build something that I haven’t done before is the most wonderful result from learning.

“It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.”

 - Claude Bernard

To have an open mind into learning something new is what will keep you alive. There are so many zombies around us; it’s wise to take only the best from those who are not learning anything new. You could end up with outdated information.

Zombies don’t like to be told what they are. Let them be and think that they don’t need to learn anymore. Invest your energy into more productive action.

Make big difference

Success is made up from a lot of little actions.

Each little action are linked to something very powerful…   Attitude

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”

- Winston Churchill

Your attitude is influenced by your action. If you consciously choose to do something, you influence your attitude.

You can choose to have a productive attitude.

Your attitude will show in everything you do.

“People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.”

- John C. Maxwell

Looking thru a filter

How do you see the world?

Are you looking at the world thru the filter of the news media?

The news media is presenting a vision of the reality. They filter the reality and show you what they choose. Yes, they’ll say that it’s what you want to see. But, as they all show the same kind of filtering vision, you end up with nothing else then that filtered information.

I know that the media will tell you one side of the story. I know because I’ve been working 13 years for a first line emergency services. What you get with the news is just what they want to share with you. They choose what you need to know. They don’t tell lies, they only place aside some of the facts.

You choose to let the junk inside your mind.

The news choose what they tell you and you choose to listen to it.

When you let negative energy into your mind, it can only bring negative though and negative return in the end.

Don't give up

Never give up. You could be close to accomplishing something great.

“Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's the one that makes the sweetest sound.”

 - Simon Sinek

Nothing great is ever done after giving up.

“I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile.”

 - Chris Burke

Bumps on the road are there to let you know that you are moving forward.

Bumps on the road are helping you staying focus. They kept you awake so you know where you are and where you are going.

Are you daily working on your business?

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."

- Walter Elliott

Slow and steady win the race.

To do it everyday takes discipline, focus and dedication.

Some people are trying to do it once a week or even once a month. The longer you take to come back to build your business, the harder it will be to do so. When you jump a day, the next day it’s harder to come back. And the more days you skip, the harder it will be.

You can’t build it in one day. If it was possible, we would all be millionaire.

“The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.”

- John C. Maxwell

I hate agenda. I hate clock. But nothing is achieved without planning. We all have to work with the time we have and use it to the best of our capacity. If you are like me, then start with planning only a few things a day. Work on them and get the job done. And don’t forget to celebrate.

Planning to celebrate is as much important as anything else in your day.

Really Dedicated?

Are you dedicated? Are you dedicated to your dream?

“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.”

- Jesse Owens

We all have dreams. The only differences between someone whose dreams become reality and someone whose dreams stays unrealized are determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort.

The door is open, you only have to take action and step in. All dreams can become reality.

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”

- Walt Disney

Follow this simple system:

-         Dream: Dare to dream. Dream without limit. Dream with all your heart.

-         Write: Put your dream on paper. Choose to build them and write a date on which you will get them. When you write it down you give yourself a very good reason to do it.

-         Do: Start to do something toward achieving your dream. You’ll adjust and change as you go along. But keep going forward your dream. Never stop.

There is no guaranty to success. There’s no way you can know when you’ll reach your dream (even if you write a date for it).

When you write your dream on paper with a date, you give your subconscious mind a command to work with you toward achieving your dream. You subconscious mind is always working on your command. Whatever you gave him, he will do.

Incarnate peace

If you want peace in the world, then become the incarnation of peace.

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

 - Mahatma Gandhi

Don’t wait for something to come up and change what you would want to change. Don’t wait, don’t expect or hope, if you want something to change, you’ll have to take action on it.

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

 - Barack Obama

Don’t fight against change, work along with it so you get the better out of it. Action can’t assure your success, but it gives you a lot more chances that you’ll get what you want.

Being idle is like surfing the wave of the ocean without any way to navigate and hoping to get where you want.

Patience to success

“Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.”

 - Joyce Meyer

Be patient, but don’t stay there waiting. Create your life, work everyday and be patient. It will become what you are working for.

“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”

 - Napoleon Hill

Success always comes to those who keep on doing what needs to be done. Persistence is the most powerful tool you can ever have.

If you keep on doing your best, you’ll end up becoming one of the best. Time always work the best for the hard worker. Giving up never provide anything great.

Patient people usually get what they want for good or bad.

“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”

 - Samuel Johnson

Being patient while doing nothing will bring what you work for and it’s nothing. You’re not getting anything done doing nothing.

Being patient in getting what you are working for is the way to success. Keep on working and not getting is the way to build patience.

Prepare for success

How much prepare do we have to be if we want to reach success?

That’s a very good question. If we want success, we need to prepare. 

But if we prepare too much, we could end up doing nothing and fail. 

So, do prepare, but never do it to the point of never doing anything. 

It’s better to do something, even the wrong one then doing nothing and fail anyway.

“Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.”

 - Confucius

One good tip about this, you prepare until you can see the result in your head. When you can see the result, you act upon it.

No preparation will make a sure success. You can still fail even if you prepare.

Leaders are crushing it!

Be the person you want your associate to be.

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

- John C. Maxwell

You can’t follow someone who’s not worthy to be followed. It’s the same for all your associate. They won’t follow you if you don’t have anything to show them.

You have to be on the road and walk the road to have any hope that someone will come and join you on your trip.

Do what needs to be done and let every ones see that you are doing it. The ones who are looking for a great leader will come to you. You have to be out there and crush it. No slacker ever gets associate that are doing more then them. If you have an associate that is doing more then you. Upgrade your game! Because, in a near future, that associate will find someone better to be around. 

Success Habit

You build your habit.

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”

 - Vince Lombardi

Do you want to be a winner or a quitter?

You have a choice in your habit. If you choose to let them become without deliberately choose what they’ll be, then you’ll be living a life that you did not choose.

“There is no influence like the influence of habit.”

 - Gilbert Parker

And what is wonderful with building your habit, it’s that you are in charge of choosing what they’ll be. Understand that you’ll have to work really hard to build the habit you want to build. Even more when you already have some habit that need to be changed. But in the end, it’s all up to you.

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

 - Aristotle

If you really want to do the right thing, then you’ll learn what is right. But if you don’t care, then you’ll never learn what is right to do. You’ll do what ever you have done before. We should always question our habits, just to make sure that they are what we really want to have.

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

 - Jim Ryun

Motivation is important and should be a continuous source of energy. But habits will prevail when the battery gets low and everything seems difficult to do. A good tip to help you fill up your battery again is to give a true compliment to someone else without any expectation to get anything back in return. You’ll see the energy that will come back to you.

Love the simple things

We all seek to add years to our life. But do we really enjoy the ones we already have.

Simple things are the basic to have a good life. If you feel good with what you have, then you already have the start to enjoy. If you focus on what you don’t have, you don’t enjoy anything. In the end, we remember the moment of joy.

“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

- Abraham Lincoln

Focus on the simple and enjoy life. You have the power to find the simple in any situation. It’s up to you to choose to find it or not. And even when you don’t find it at once, if you keep focusing on your quest to find it, you’ll feel the joy of doing so. Focusing on the simple and enjoying it will help you stay happy.

“Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'”

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Joy can come from doing simple things for others. Many people under-estimate the benefit of doing something to help others. You’ll know your limit and you should respect them.

What is simple for you can be very complicated for someone else. Always set the level of what you do with what you can do. Go along with what you feel is within your capacity.

Leader or Boss?

Work on yourself and the team will come to you.

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

 - John Quincy Adams

A leader you can become. Your own team you can build. The first thing you need to do is to choose to do the work. Then you start to work on yourself.

What you do will always take the first place in what your team will do. If you want result among your team, then you’ll have to get result by yourself first.

Do and they shall do the same.

Be and they shall become.

An imposed leader will never be the real leader until he is taken as so by his team. A leader has to gain the respect of the team. No leader can impose their leadership. Leadership can’t be forced. It has to be gain.

Forced leadership is always an illusion. It will stand as long as the team members don’t get a way out. As soon as there’s a way out, the leadership will shift.

No amount of money can buy you a team. You have to deserve them.

Your team will always be at your level. If you want to raise the lever of your team, start with your own level.

Influence in the world

You have influence in what the world will become. You are part of what is the world.

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

It all start with you. You are the first step into changing the world. Don’t wait for someone else to do it for you. Do it for you and the world will respond to it.

As soon as we are aware of what happens in the world, we can’t deny our responsibility into it. Don’t underestimate the power you have to change things that you can't physically touch. Your influence will mix with the influence of others and it will become the reality.

We don’t always become aware of the influence we have on the world. Sometimes, things change for good or bad without us knowing about it. 

Nice goes around

Be nice, it’s very cheap.

“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.”

- Richard M. DeVos

The reward is the warm feeling you get when you are truly nice with someone else. Don’t expect more.

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

- Leo Buscaglia

Would you like to earn the reputation of being a life changer? Would you like people to remember you with the good you have done in their life? To be so, you just need to make the effort to for it.

Greatness is about many occurrences. Leave a positive trace in many people life’s and you’ll be immortalize.

How can you be nice?

1.     Smile: It may seems obvious, but so many people don’t smile. This will help to be taken as a nice person. Your smile needs to be sincere.

2.     Make small talk: Don’t underestimate the power of asking how someone is doing. Again, be sincere doing so. Everyone knows if you are or not, and it will make all the difference. Small talk is the start when you want to build a relation with someone.

3.     Be polite: Simple things can earn you a very good reputation. Opening the door for someone else, leaving your seat to someone, using mister and misses when you talk to someone you don’t know and using please - thank you.

4.     Offer help: When you think someone need help, then offer to do so. A lot will not want it, but it will be taken as a very nice gesture to offer.

5.     Use their name: Make the effort to remember the name of every people that is presented to you. Instead of apologizing because you forgot the name, it will become a very positive energy into this relation as you remember the name.

6.     Don’t judge: Don’t judge people on their look. Take the time to know them a little before you choose to respond to them. Be nice to everyone, even the people who are not nice with you.

7.     Be a good listener: People who can listen are seen as nice people. You’ll need to respect your agenda and learn to stop when you don’t have any more time to give to that person. You can set another meeting for later if that person still want to share with you.

8.     Avoid gossip: Don’t play the gossip game. Be polite and let people know you don’t want to join in gossip. In the short term, people will see you as an outsider. And later, you’ll become the friend of everyone who don’t want their life expose to all. In the end you’ll win.

9.     Share: All that you share will come back to you. It could come back in some other form, but it will come back. Share all that you possess. Do it with a sincere heart.

10. Treat and treated: Always treat people the same way you want them to treat you.

11. Try to see the other side: Do your best to see the point of view of the other. Placing yourself on the side of the person in front of you will help you relate to them.

12. Keep the mood light: When you have to be with someone who’s stressing you, try to light up the mood. Don’t enter the mood of the other, impose yours with some goof or jokes that will light it up.

Usually, nice people will get more invitation to join project and activities. When choosing between two people with the same qualities, we always go for the one we think is nicer.