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16 Simple / Inspirational Rules Of Life

I recently was in Memphis eating breakfast at the Blue Plate Cafe (I highly recommend) and came across the following rules of life.

1. Wake up. Show Up. Pay Attention.
2. Be happy and have fun! - Life is a trip - enjoy the journey.
3. Learn, master, and play by the rules.
4. Get an education. - Knowledge and wisdom are the key.
5. Work hard. Work smart. Never quit. - Nothing good comes easy.
6. The "Circle Theory" is in effect. - Integrity. Never lie, cheat or steal, especially yourself.
7. Know your weakness and overcome them. - Power is when you ask for help and use it.
8. Learn a skill, trade or profession you love and master it.
9. Deadly Sin - Doing wrong when you know right.
10. Don't judge and learn how to forgive. - Surrender to win.
11. Never sweat the small stuff. - Most of it is small stuff.
12. Treat all with dignity and respect. - Especially yourself.
13. Acquire patience and serenity. - Learn to be still, be quiet, be at peace and meditate.
14. Make a negative a positive and learn from the past.
15. Develop self discipline. - Do what you're supposed to do, not what you want to do, until what you're supposed to do is what you want to do.
16. You got to believe in yourself.

What do you think about the rules?

Also if you like this you may like an article I posted a while back - 10 Instant Way To Improve Yourself.

Cheers!

7 Inspiring Principles of Management

I recently came across an inspiring article about David Ogilvy. Mr Ogilvy arguably was one of the most influential advertising man in history. Below are seven of his principles.

1. Remember that Abraham Lincoln spoke of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. He left out the pursuit of profit.
2. Remember the old Scottish motto: “Be happy while you’re living, for you are a long time dead.”
3. If you have to reduce your company’s payroll, don’t fire your people until you have cut your compensation and the compensation of your big-shots.
4. Define your corporate culture and your principles of management in writing. Don’t delegate this to a committee. Search all the parks in all your cities. You’ll find no statues of committees.
5. Stop cutting the quality of your products in search of bigger margins. The consumer always notices — and punishes you.
6. Never spend money on advertising which does not sell.
7. Bear in mind that the consumer is not a moron. She is your wife. Do not insult her intelligence.

Source: Fortune

Playing For Change: World Collaboration Of Stand By Me

From the award-winning documentary, "Playing For Change: Peace Through Music", comes the first of many "songs around the world" being released independently. Stand By Me was recorded by completely unknown artists in a street virtual studio all around the world.

Watch it from beginning to end—you will not regret it.

Join the Movement to help build schools, connect students, and inspire communities in need through music.

Source: Playing For Change

What Some Of The Greatest Minds Of History Say About Imagination

"Imagination is more important than knowledge" 

                                                            - ALBERT EINSTEIN

 

"Imagination makes man the paragon of animals"

                                                    - SHAKESPEARE

 

"Imagination governs the world"

                                         - DISRAELI

 

It Is All About Our Attitude

A favorite quote by Charles R. Swindoll:

ATTITUDE

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.

And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.

 

Inspiring Words For This Day And Time

Recently I read a very inspiring poem and wanted to share this with you. The poem is by Rudyard Kipling and is called "IF". It is written from the perspective of a father to a son, however I feel the words really are timely for this day and age and remind us to try to keep our wits during hard times.

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

                                                    --Rudyard Kipling

Inspiration and Philosophical Quotes

Below is a list of some of my favorite quotes. Please feel free to share any you may have.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.        - Mark Twain

 

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

 

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.  - Buddha 

 

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

 

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. - Nora Roberts

 

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain

 

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. - Joseph F. Newton Men