Welcome to
SELF DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL
number 21
I hope you will receive a
fortnightly dose of motivation, inspiration, laughter and thought-provoking
quotes. If you find yourself bogged down in our competitive, stressful work
world, take a few minutes to read and then think about the positive messages
you will receive.
1. Inspirational Quotes
2. Find of the week
3. Affirmations for Setting Means Getting
4. Wild Trivia
5. Metaphor
6. Leadership Skills
7. Jokes
8. Motivational
1. Inspirational
Quotes
I
believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best
both for the body and the mind. -Albert Einstein
I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally. - Zelda
Fitzgerald
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are
looking for the experience of being alive. - Joseph Campbell
I don't pretend to tell people how to live their lives other than to do the
right thing and work hard. Everything else should take care of itself. - Dave
Anderson
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the
length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. - Diane Ackerman
2. Find of the week
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3. Affirmations for Setting Means Getting
by Tom
Hopkins
The average human being has the ability to achieve almost anything. Lack of
basic capability is rarely the problem, but rather finding our what you
want and being willing to sacrifice, change, and grow to satisfy the want. Here
it is:
1. If it's not in writing, it's not a goal. An unwritten want is a wish, a
dream, a never-happen. If it's in writing, it's a commitment.
2. If it's not specific, it's not a goal. Broad desires and lofty aims have no
effect. It must be concrete.
3. Goals must be believable. If you don't believe you can achieve a goal, you
won't pay the price for it.
4. An effective goal is an exciting challenge. It must demand your best and a
bit more or it isn't going to change your ways and elevate your lifestyle.
5. Goals must be adjusted to new information. Adjust them down if they become
unbelievable or up if they're too easy.
6. Dynamic goals guide our choices. If you want it badly enough, you'll turn
off the TV and get to it. Goals will show you the right way to go on most
decisions.
7. Don't set short-term goals for more than 90 days. If you set a short-term
goal that takes more than 90 days, you may lose interest.
8. Maintain a balance between long-term and short-term goals. Long-term goals
tend to be hidden in a fog of the future, so have some short-term goals... like
clothes, cars, vacations - to keep your excitement up.
9. Include your loved ones in your goals. Involve them and they'll buck you up
when you need encouragement.
10. Set goals in all areas of your life. Have other goals besides career
objectives.
11. Your goals must harmonize. Whenever you detect a conflict, set priorities
that will eliminate the conflict.
12. Review your goals regularly. Remember, long-term goals can only be achieved
if they are the culmination of short-term goals.
13. Set vivid goals. Define not only what you want but by when you want it, and
concentrate on it for a few moments every day.
14. Don't chisel your goals in granite. Sometimes you have to change goals to
conform to your growing awareness of what's really important in your life.
15. Reach out into the future. The idea of goal setting is to plan your life
rather than taking it as it comes. Begin by setting 20-year goals. Then
10-year, five-year, 30-month,
12-month, monthly, weekly, and finally goals for tomorrow and each day for the
coming week.
16. Have a set of goals for every day, and review results each night.
17. Train yourself to crave your goals. Visualize yourself possessing what
you've set your goals for.
18. Set activity goals, not production goals. Activity will lead to production
by itself.
19. Understand luck, and make it work for you. Expect good things to happen,
and they probably will.
20. Start now. Give goal-setting two hours of concentrated focus through today.
Then set aside 10 minutes a day for the next 21 days to review and revise.
After that, two minutes a
day and one hour a week is all it will take to keep you on track.
Try
this system if you want to achieve your goals and within 21 days you'll be well
on your way to an immensely greater and richer future.
____________
Tom Hopkins International
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great "Tip of the Day"
4. Wild Trivia
ENGINEERING
TRANSLATIONS
Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter:Eskimo Pi
2000 pounds of Chinese soup:Won ton
Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement:1 bananosecond.
Weight an evangelist carries with God:1 billigram
Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour:Knot-furlong
365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling:1 lite year
Half of a large intestine:1 semicolon
1000 aches:1 kilohurtz
Basic unit of laryngitis:1 hoarsepower
Shortest distance between two jokes:A straight line. (think about
it for a moment)
1 million microphones:1 megaphone
1 million bicycles:2 megacycles
2000 mockingbirds:Two kilomockingbirds (work on it....)
10 cards:1 decacards
1 kilogram of falling figs:1 Fig Newton
1000 cubic centimeters of wet socks:1 literhosen
1 millionth of a fish:1 microfiche
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Sometimes it DOES take a
Rocket Scientist (true story) Thanks Lyn MacIntosh
Scientists
at NASA built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of
airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all travelling at maximum
velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with
airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields. British engineers heard
about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high
speed trains. Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the British
engineers. When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken
hurled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to
smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the engineer's
backrest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin, like an
arrow shot from a bow.
The horrified Brits sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment,along
with the designs of the windshield and begged the US scientists for
suggestions.
NASA responded with a one-line memo: "Defrost the chicken."
5.
Metaphor
"In my new house, there is a staircase of oak, leading up to
the bedroom. Everyone notices it as soon as he or she enters the house.
I will not call it grandiose, but the oak staircase
is indeed very beautiful. Almost everytime that I step on it, I admire its
solidness, the grain of the wood, and its rich sparkle - and I derive a certain
pride from it. The staircase might never be built in a palace, but we
enjoy its majestic presence in our home.
In our family we have an uncle who boasts of having expertise in many
things, including cabinet-making. When he visited us in the new house for the
first time, like everyone else, he too noticed the staircase. Most people
who visit us admire the staircase, either out of politeness or out of genuine
appreciation. But my uncle, instead of expressing admiration, to our surprise,
bent down and started examining it.
After a few seconds, he got up with a smile, as if happy about a
fabulous discovery. It looked as though he was already enjoying what he would
tell us, and we were misled by the curve of his lips. My wife and I waited
expectantly to hear the compliments that he would pay. But instead of
sharing his admiration, the uncle (who specialized in thousands of things)
observed, "It is extraordinary! Come and see!" Intrigued, we
approached. We bent over to examine the staircase (which I had never before
taken time to do).
"Look!" he exclaimed, "I can't get over it... A staircase
that is obviously so costly, yet they did not take care to conceal the heads of
the nails!" I leaned over to examine it more closely because the
heads of the nails were very small, and I realized that he was right. Yes, he
was right; the tiny heads of the nails had not been properly hidden as, I
guess, they could have been.
My uncle was right, but at the same time he was also wrong. Not so much
because he lacked tact when he might have instead congratulated us for the
beautiful staircase of oak which everyone noticed. I didn't care about it.
Knowing him for a long time, I never expected much appreciation from him. But I
think he was wrong because he did not see the staircase, but instead saw the
small heads of the nails which had been left exposed. And my uncle wasted no
time telling us which product could have been used to cover them. He
missed the beauty of the staircase. And what is more surprising is that he
noticed only the tiny heads of the nails which had not been properly hidden. In
proportion to the total area of the staircase, the nail heads are negligible.
No doubt, they are not even one thousandth of the total area, yet these
miniscule imperfections were all that my uncle has noticed. How many
people see only the nails and fail to miss the magnificent Staircase of Life?
I was not
unhappy by his remarks - on the contrary. This uncle taught me one obvious
thing. Each person we meet could be one of our teachers. Since that day, in
fact, when I am hurt by someone's unpleasantness, I think of this spoil-sport
uncle and his remarks about the invisible nails on my beautiful staircase, and
I ask myself whether I am not going to do the
same thing.
For example, while on holiday, if I am upset because everything is not
perfect - perhaps a small thing has gone wrong, the room is maybe not so big[,
or it does not have as much light as I would have liked, etc., I recall that I
should not forget to "see the staircase." Then I remember that
outside is the beach where I shall spend most of the time, and there is always
the infinite sea..."
(Taken, with the permission of the author, from the French book,
"Le Bonheur et autre mysteres" by Marc Fisher, published by Un Monde
different.)
7.
Jokes
Hi Lyndall Well, these make me laugh anyway....... Always enjoy your
newsletter. Lisa Scott - India Survivor
LIFE LESSONS FROM
THE LITTLIES...
1. Never trust a dog to watch your food. - Patrick, age 10
2. When your dad is mad and asks you, "Do I look stupid?", don't
answer him. - Michael, 14
3. Never tell your mom her diet's not working. - Michael, 14
4. Stay away from prunes. - Randy, 9
5. Never pee on an electric fence. - Robert, 13
6. Don't squat with your spurs on. - Noronha, 13
7. Don't pull dad's finger when he tells you to.- Emily, 10
8. When your mom is mad at your dad, don't let her brush your hair. - Taylia,
11
9. Never allow your three-year old brother in the same room as your school
assignment. - Traci, 14
10. Never try to baptise a cat. - Eileen, 8
11. You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk. - Armir, 9
12. Felt markers are not good to use as lipstick.- Lauren, 9
13. Don't pick on your sister when she's holding a baseball bat. - Joel, 10
14. When you get a bad grade in school, show it to your mom when she's on the
phone. - Alyesha,13
15. Never hold a dust buster and a cat at the same time. - Kyoyo, 9
****
"So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me "Can you
give me a lift?" I said "Sure, you look great, the world's your
oyster, go for it."
****
"You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They
left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.' So that was
nice."
****
"So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's
speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are."
****
"So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my
house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'
****
The Washington Post's Style Invitational asked readers to:
* Take any word from the dictionary, and then Alter it by adding,
subtracting, or changing one letter, and
* Supply a new definition. Here are some recent winners.
Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
Hipatitis:Terminal coolness.
Osteopornosis:A degenerate disease.
Glibido: All talk and no action.
Dopeler effect:The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at
you rapidly.
Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realise
it was your money to start with.
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Thanks Irene Colville
An old man lived alone in Minnesota. He wanted to spade his potato
garden, but it was very hard work. His only son, who would have helped him, was
in Prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and
mentioned his predicament.
Shortly, he received this reply, "For HEAVEN'S SAKE Dad, don't dig up that
garden, that's where I buried the GUNS!"
At 4 A.M. the next morning, a dozen police showed up and dug up the entire
garden, without finding any guns. Confused, the old man wrote another note to
his son telling him what happened, and asking him what to do next. His son's
reply was: "Now plant your potatoes, Dad. It's the best I could do at this
time."
******************
A couple was waiting for their food at a Chinese restaurant when an elderly
waiter set chopsticks at their places. The woman made a point of reaching into
her purse and pulling out her own pair.
"As an environmentalist," she declared, "I do not approve of
destroying bamboo forests for throwaway utensils."
The old waiter inspected her chopsticks. "Very beautiful," he said
politely. "Ivory."
8. Motivational
May this inspire your day!
A
few years ago, at the Seattle Special Olympics, nine contestants, all
physically or mentally disabled, assembled at the starting line for the 100-yard
dash. At the gun, they all started out, not exactly in a dash,
but with a relish to run the race to the finish and win. All, that
is, except one little boy who stumbled on the asphalt, tumbled over a
couple of times, and began to cry.
The other eight heard the boy cry. They slowed down and looked back.
Then they all turned around and went back . . . every one of them. One
girl with Down's Syndrome bent down and kissed him and said,"This
will make it better." Then all nine linked arms and walked together
to the finish line.
Everyone in the stadium stood, and the cheering went on for
several minutes. People who were there are still telling the story. Why?
Because deep down we know this one thing:
What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves.
What matters in this life is helping others win, even if it means slowing
down and changing our course. "A candle loses nothing by lighting
another
candle."
......And they say that these people are disabled??????
And a thought for to-day How old would you be if you didn't know how old you
are?
Satchell Page
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Another Motivational Article
His name was
Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a
living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He
dropped his tools and ran to the bog.
There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming
and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could
have been a slow and terrifying death.
The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse
surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself
as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.
"I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my
son's life."
"No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish
farmer replied, waving off the offer.
At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family
hovel.
"Is that your son?" the nobleman asked. "Yes," the
farmer replied proudly."
I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my
son will enjoy. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to
be a man we both will be proud of."
And that he did.
Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, he
graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to
become known throughout the world as the noted
Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.
Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was
stricken with pneumonia.
What saved his life this time?
Penicillin.
The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill.
His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill.
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