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The incredible Power of Positive Thinking! Hi, my name is Howard and I would like to take you on a short journey, the journey of a life filled with filled with struggle and triumph.
After having had a very tough childhood due mostly to having an above your average alcoholic abusing father, I had carried on into my teens making bad decisions of my own.
I was only 18 years old when my son was born and this lead to an early marriage in life.
Even though my start to life wasn't that great I had made a decision that I would overcome all the adversity and build a successful life for my young family.
I had read an article on personal development and the power of positive thinking and from that moment on I became 100% dedicated to learning all I could in that field.
I researched it everyday because I was determined to give my family a successful life. I believed in the power of positive thinking and I used that to help me face many problems.
When my son was four months old everything seemed to just fall apart.
I came home from work early one day because I was very sick and I found my wife in bed with another guy while my son was upstairs crying.
Due to my immaturity and not really knowing how to handle the situation I ended up in jail for two weeks for handling the situation very poorly.
At this stage of my life I was in perfect physical condition due to being a competitive boxer and I worked out all the time. My two weeks in jail were spent working out and reading about the power of positive thinking and other personal development books.
When I was released I got my head together found a good lawyer, sold my prize 1965 Mustang to pay for the lawyer and I fought for custody of my son.
I ended up winning the custody battle and since that very day in court we have never seen his natural Mother again. To this very day we have never heard from her or physically seen her even though I know she lived within 30 minutes of us.
At any rate I had decided that I wasn't going to let my past dictate my future.
I had learned so much about the power of positive thinking. I knew that I could give my son the successful life that we both deserved.
At this point though I had so much hurt in my life from both my Father and now my wife. I was young, confused and somewhat desperate.
I knew that I had to be strong for my son. I worked hard at putting all the pain from my alcoholic Father and now my wife as far behind me as possible.
I became completely devoted to learning all I could in every area of personal development.
I had read and learned a lot about the power of positive thinking and I made this the main stay of my character in life.
In my early 20's I met the most wonderful woman in the world and we have been married ever since.
With my wife's encouragement I left a very good paying job and I started my own business out of my basement as a wholesale florist.
It was a very daring and scary move but the courage and confidence I had gained from all my studies of personal development gave me what I needed to become very successful.
Within four years the business was making over a million dollars a year in sales, I had rented a location in the city and had put three trucks on the road.
Life was good! I was living a successful life, that was my goal and I had made it.
At this point I attributed all my success to my unrelenting study of personal development and the power of positive thinking. I had decided that I somehow wanted to work in the field of personal development.
I kept journals on everything, I treasured those journals. I thought that it might be possible for me to someday write a book about the power of positive thinking and overall personal development.
However. writing a book would be some wheres done the road, right now I was still competing and even at my age I was getting better, I opened a small gym and started training some young athletes.
You wouldn't think things could get any better, I had a beautiful home, a son I loved, the perfect wife two successful businesses now and I was in great shape.
This was truly the American dream, I had worked through adversity, learned the power of positive thinking and was living a successful life.
But then, there is always a "but" I was hit with a major setback.
It started out with small but continual headaches. Then the headaches got worse and vomiting accompanied them.
So I was soon at my doctors getting checked out and after a number of tests and an MRI my doctors broke it to me that they had found a brain tumor and it wasn't a good situation at all.
I was basically told that it was fast growing and inoperable which meant it all boiled down to a waiting game.
My doctor told me to "get my affairs in order."
I could not believe what was happening, I could not break it to my wife and son so I made a very stupid decision to not tell them what it really was.
I delved further into my research of personal development, I really needed something to keep my mind strong. I practiced the power of positive thinking non-stop, I wasn't throwing in the towel.
But I had to be somewhat realistic so I took the time to write letters to everyone in my family and my closest friends and I gave those letters to my attorney to hand out if I passed.
I got together with my accountant and made sure everything was set for my family.
I felt so alone at this point but I could not put my wife through months of heartbreak, I wanted her just as she was.
All this time I threw myself into my books and programs, I had found some of the best material out there for getting me through these trying times.
Then out of the blue my doctor calls me and says there is a surgeon that wants to examine me because he thinks he can remove the tumor.
By now I was sick everyday I had given up my boxing and workouts and I had to hire a manager for my business but the gym I shut down completely. But I still practiced and believed in the power of positive thinking. I had convinced myself that if there was a way to beat this I would find it.
All I had told my wife and family to this point was that the doctors could not zero in on what was causing all my problems.
To shorten things up a bit I ended up having brain surgery and they were able to remove 75% of the tumor.
I was told that everything could go well from that point. I was blown away, I convinced myself that it was the power of positive thinking that had saved my life. I truly believed in the strength of my sub-conscious mind and the thoughts I was feeding it, to help me overcome these problems.
Of course now I had to come home from a supposed "three day business trip" with a shaved head that was half bandaged.
Needless to say my wife was not happy. She was so upset that I kept her and everyone else in the dark and I realized what a stupid decision that was.
I vowed to her that I would never do anything like that again. It was a very lonely time for me because I really did need someone for support. All I truly fell back on was my belief in the power of positive thinking.
"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway." Mary Kay Ash
"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one." Mary Kay Ash
"We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you." Mary Kay Ash
"No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important." Mary Kay Ash
"Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist." Mary Kay Ash
"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour." Mary Kay Ash
"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one." Mary Kay Ash
"People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps." Mary Kay Ash
"The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang." Mary Kay Ash
"We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared." Mary Kay Ash
"Give yourself something to work toward--constantly." Mary Kay Ash
Jim Rohn
Motivation is a mystery.Why does one salesperson see his first prospect at seven in the morning and another salesperson is just getting out of bed at eleven?I don't know.It's part of the mysteries of life.
Jim Rohn
Give a lecture to a thousand people.One walks out and says,I'm going to change my life." Another one walks out with a yawn and says,"I've heard all this before."Why is that? Why wouldn't both be affected the same way?Another mystery.
Jim Rohn
The millionaire says to a thousand people,"I read this book and it started me on the road to wealth."Guess how many go out and get the book?Very few.Isn't that incredible?Why would everyone get the book?A mystery of life.
Jim Rohn
Mysuggestion would be to walk away from the 90% who don't and join the 10% who do.
Jim Rohn
In order to be able to motivate other people, you first have to be motivated yourself.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person Always do what you are afraid to do.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism the way you play it is free will.
To accomplish great things we must not only act but also dream not only plan but also believe.
Success is not final failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.
1 best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Magnificent promises are always to b suspected.
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.
Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.
Success is the prize for those who stand true to their ideas!
You can have everything in life u want if u will just help enough other people to get wat they want.
He who jumps to conclusions falls to their death.
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.
The fear is worse than the pain.
Sometimes you cannot believe what u see. You have to believe what you feel.
Don't look down on anyone unless u are helping them up.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
If u do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
The only way of finding the limits of that possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Nothing ll ever b attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
If u can imagine it, you can achieve it; if u can dream it, you can become it.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
To find what u seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says
Leave no stone unturned.
Man is what he believes.
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done
A positive attitude ll kindle the hearts of good people to do great things.
People who don't succeed r the ones who give up. I'm not giving up.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
I have always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best.
Enthusiasm is excitement wit inspiration, motivation & a pinch of creativity.
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
Every accomplishment start with the decision to try.
"Death comes to all. But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold." George Fabricius If you're sincere, praise is efective.
If you're insincere, it's manipulative.
Zig Ziglar
"Mere longevity is a good things for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity." Gabriel Heatter
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only way around is through." Robert Frost
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
Vincent Van Gogh
"I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more." Jonas Salk
You've got to be before you can do, and do before you can have.
Zig Ziglar
"If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy." A. P. Gouthey
"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success." Helen Hayes
"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses." Napoleon Hill
The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the"love account."
"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a questions he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve." Oliver Wendell Holmes The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank account, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the"love account."
"High achievement always takes place in a framework of high expectation." Jack Kinder
"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him." Golo Mann
"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." Foster C. Mcclellan
"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them." Pablo Picasso
"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune." Plutarch
"The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way." Anthony Robbins
All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.
Zig Ziglar
"Nothing is as difficulty as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas." Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential? these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." Eddie Robinson
"The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are." Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the high road to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. "
Brian Tracy
-Dale Carnegie
"Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."
-- Chinese proverb
Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
Zig Ziglar
"A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change." Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished." Confucius
"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests." Epictetus
"We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best."
David Bailey
"Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."
Orison Swett Marden
Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent is gone forever.
Zig Ziglar
"The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary."
-- Thomas Edison
"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."
Norman Vincent Peale
"It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude."
Zig Ziglar
Marquis de Vauvenargues
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." Woodrow Wilson
"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends." Brian Tracy
"You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be." Robert Collier
"Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well." Henry David Thoreau
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." Winston Churchill
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." Hyman Rickover
"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe." Winston Churchill
"Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage." John F. Kennedy
"He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'" Martin Luther King Jr.
"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king." John Milton
"Only in growth, reform and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found." Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. "Mencius
"I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet."Ogden Nash
"So when a great man dies
For years beyond our ken
The light he leaves behind him lies
Upon the paths of men."
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
"If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill."Theodore Roosevelt
"Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons."John Ruskin
"In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not." Marya Mannes
"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude." Arthur Schopenhauer
"Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great." Harry S. Truman
"The price of greatness is responsibility." Winston Churchill
"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary." Lou Holtz
"The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself." Billy Mills
"It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age."Joseph Addison
"Don?t wait until you?re a man to be great. Be a ?great? boy."Anonymous
"Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things."Lawrence D. Bell
"Greatness after all, ion spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small."Phillips Brooks
"Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket."Andrew Carnegie
"The price of greatness is responsibility."Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
"Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions."Benjamin Disreali
"Every great man is unique."Ralpho Waldo Emerson
"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To be great is to be misunderstood."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Let us consider the nature of true greatness in men. The people who can catch hold of men?s minds and feelings and inspire them to do things bigger than themselves are the people who are remembered in history. . . . those who stir feelings and imagination and make men struggle toward perfection."Henry Eyring
"Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs."Sherman Finesilver
"True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind."Froude
"A great man will not trample upon a worm, nor sneak to an emperor."Thomas Fuller
"Recipe for greatness ? To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate hate and to love love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great."Zane Grey
"There would be no great ones if there were no little ones."George Herber
"A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time."Eric Hoffer
"The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment."Elbert Green Hubbard
"Greatness of name in the father oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first."Ben Johnson
"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."John Fitzgerald Kennedy
" . . . I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."Abraham Lincoln
"If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both."Horace Mann
"Creativity means believing you have greatness."Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet." William F. Halsey
"Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down." Hitopadesa
"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be."
Henri Frederic Amiel
"Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them." William Shakespeare
"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
Thomas Carlyle
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