Monday, October 8, 2007

Article

Do You Mind Your Mind ?
By Gamy Rachel

Can I ask you a question? If one day you need to hire a programmer to work for you to program all the software in your company, what kind of software programs would you want this programmer to create and put in for you?

Do you think it will vastly affect your company’s business if he is to create junks to put into your computer system, which your company’s life line depends on it? The answer is obvious isn’t it? You would want the programmer to create the best system that will work for you is that right? I know I would, and I will make every effort to ensure that it is so. I would not want anybody to put in programs and software that will be detrimental to my whole computer system.

I would relate this to our Brains, Minds and Thoughts. The commonly used term for computer is GI GO – Garbage In Garbage Out. I would say that this should also be used for our Minds and our Thoughts. As these saying goes

“Nothing is either good or bad but thinking make it so” –Shakespeare
“The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind” -Winston Churchill
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body” -Joseph Addison


Every thing begins with A Thought, the computer you are seeing right now began with a thought. The light bulb invented by Thomas Edison, began with a thought and so is the Wright Brothers who saw the plane flying way before it has flown, it all began with A THOUGHT. First we have to start with A THOUGHT, next comes VISION, then comes PLANNING and finally – TAKE ACTION = POSITIVE RESULTS.

When I first wanted to have a blog that focus on Mind Development, Self Help, Brain Wave Technology, Motivational and Inspirational topics, I began with A Thought in my mind. My thoughts has now become a reality. I now have two blogs.Mind Think Success and Make A Living Honestly.

If you look back at the careers of successful people, like Bob Proctor, Anthony Robins, Joe Vitale, Randy Gage, Jack Canfield just to name a few, you will find that almost every one of them first visualized in their minds what they wanted long before they actually achieved success.

Be careful what you put in your mind, when you dwell on certain things long enough over and over again until it set in your sub-conscious mind and set it to auto-pilot, it will manifest eventually. So I would advise you only dwell on good stuffs.

How do we do that? You know the minute we wake up each day, we are being bombarded by all the bad news, negative things and nonsense, it just come to us from all directions. We really have enough of these bad news daily, and we don’t have to help to add in more ourselves, it is enough supply for our entire life.

But what we don’t have enough of are positive energy, good news, positive news, positive things that will lift up our spirit, motivational things that will bring us up rather then pull us down.
Why? It’s because it is natural that human beings are easily swayed towards negative.

Have you come across a new born baby that just come out from the mother’s womb laughing heartily? like “Haaaaaaaaaa” to announce to the world he or she has arrived? What do you hear? it’s always a big crying baby’s voice that sounds like this ”Waaaaawww…..” didn’t I tell you, it is so easy to be negative? :) So to feed our minds with positive thoughts, it does take some effort.

“If you don’t invest in you, why should anyone else?” - Randy Gage

Invest in You, because You are the reason the birds are singing, You are the reason the sky is brighter, You are the reason there will be more good news. So start investing in You.

My Best To You & Your Best Is Yet TO Be
Gamy Rachel

Author's Bio
Gamy Rachel has obtained I.T.E.C (UK) Diploma in Diploma in Anatomy Physiology and Diploma in Aromatherapy. Also a home based business entrepreneur. You can find information on brainwave, visualization, self-help and more.

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Today's Inspiration Words

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
-Mother Teresa

Article

BE STREET SMART EVERY DAY
by Tony Alessandra

Because street smarts are so important to every part of your life, here is a quick review of the major elements that go into street smarts.

Print this list out and keep it with you, for a regular reminder to be street smart every day.

I. Heightened Awareness
A. Trust your intuition
B. Develop perceptiveness and ability to anticipate
C. Size up people quickly and accurately
D. See the big picture

II. Confidence
A. Fake it till you make it
B. Use chutzpa when necessary
C. Believe in yourself - Be confident

III. Healthy Skepticism
A. Don't believe everything you see and hear
B. Be hard to take advantage of
C. Use your "mental categories" and generalizations to keep you on guard
D. Give people the time and rope to either hang themselves or prove their integrity/sincerity

IV. Resourcefulness
A. Think quickly on your feet
B. Be persistent
C. Be prepared
D. Be flexible
E. Change your surroundings or adapt
F. Surround yourself with experts & contacts

V. Risk-taking
A. Be willing to take risks
B. Minimize the possible down side
C. Cut your losses and get out if you're wrong
D. Learn by your mistakes

Here's to more personal insight,
Tony Alessandra
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Dr. Tony Alessandra helps companies build customers, relationships, and the bottom-line. Tony has a street-wise, college-smart perspective on business, having fought his way out of NYC to eventually realizing success as a graduate professor of marketing, entrepreneur, business author, and consultant. Dr. Alessandra earned his MBA from the University of Connecticut---and his PhD in marketing from Georgia State University. He was inducted into the Speakers Hall of Fame in 1985.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Daily Inspiration Quotes (2)

  • Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. -Suzanne Somers
  • I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. -Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. -William Saroyan
  • What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. -Ellen Burstyn
  • Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set on fire. -George Matthew Adams
  • I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure—try to please everybody. -Herbert Bayard Swope
Don't Adopt Wrong Views

Ashamed of what's not shameful,
not ashamed of what is,
beings adopting wrong views
go to a bad destination.

Seeing danger where there is none,
and no danger where there is,
beings adopting wrong views,
go to a bad destination.

-Dhammapada
Flowers in the Sky

A hundred thousand worlds are flowers in the sky,
a single mind and body is moonlight in the water;
once the cunning ends and information stops,
at that moment there is no place for thought.

-Han-Shan Te-Ch'ing in The Clouds Should Know Me By Now

TODAY'S QUOTE

If you want to know the past, to know what has caused you, look at yourself in the present, for that is the past’s effect.

If you want to know your future, then look at yourself in the present, for that is the cause of the future.

-Majjhima Nikaya

Monday, October 1, 2007

Vitamins for the Mind by Jim Rohn

DESIRE/MOTIVATION

  • Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a "must" and a "want."
  • The best motivation is self-motivation. The guy says, "I wish someone would come by and turn me on." What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life.
  • When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
  • Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.
  • Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

SKILLS/SALES

  • Don't wish it was easier; wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges; wish for more wisdom.
  • You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.
  • You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.
  • The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things.
  • Learn to hide your need and show your skill.
  • To succeed in sales, simply talk to lots of people every day. And here's what's exciting – there are lots of people!
  • Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.
  • Selling is a person-to-person business. You cannot send the sales manual out to make the sale. Sales manuals have no legs and no voice.
  • In the sales profession the real work begins after the sale is made.
  • Sales people should take lessons from their kids. What does the word "no" mean to a child? Almost nothing.
  • Even if you are new in sales, you can make up in numbers what you lack in skills.

STEWARDSHIP

  • How much should you earn? As much as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether you earn $10,000 a year or $100,000 a year as long as you've done the best you can.
  • The man says, "If I had a fortune, I'd take good care of it. But I only have a paycheck and I don't know where it all goes." Wouldn't you love to have him running your company?
  • If you wish to have power and influence over the many, be faithful (disciplined) when there are just a few. If you have a few employees, a few distributors, a few people, that's the time to stay in touch and be totally absorbed - when there is just a few.
  • Start from wherever you are and with whatever you've got.
I Believe
by Brian Tracy

I believe every person has within themselves inexhaustible reserves of potential they have never even come close to realizing.

I believe each person has far more intelligence than they have ever used.

I believe each person is more creative than he or she has ever imagined.

I believe the greatest achievements of your life lie ahead of you.

I believe the happiest moments of your life are yet to come.

I believe the greatest successes you will ever attain are still waiting for you on the road ahead.

And, I believe through learning and application of what you learn, you can solve any problem, overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal that you can set for yourself.

ARTICLE

Three Keys to Greatness
by Jim Rohn

Several years ago I went into the studio and recorded a 56-minute video for teenagers called "Three Keys To Greatness." Although my focus was for teenagers, the principles I shared certainly apply to adults as well.

Recently I was asked to list these three things using one to two sentences for each. Now for your benefit here they are again.

1) Setting Goals. I call it the view of the future. Most people, including kids, will pay the price if they can see the promise of the future. So we need to help our kids see a well-defined future, so they will be motivated to pay the price today to attain the rewards of tomorrow. Goals help them do this.

2) Personal Development. Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives. I suggest having a minimum amount of time set aside for reading books, listening to audiocassettes, attending seminars, keeping a journal and spending time with other successful people. Charlie “Tremendous’ Jones says you will be in five years the sum total of the books you read and the people you are around.

3) Financial Planning. I call it the 70/30 plan. After receiving your paycheck or paying yourself, simply setting aside 10% for saving, 10% for investing and 10% for giving, and over time this will guarantee financial independence for a teenager.

If a young person, or for that matter an adult, focused on doing these three simple things over a long period of time I believe they will be assured success!

ARTICLE

Four Words that Make Life Worthwhile
by Jim Rohn

Over the years as I've sought out ideas, principles and strategies to life's challenges, I've come across four simple words that can make living worthwhile.

First, life is worthwhile if you LEARN. What you don't know WILL hurt you. You have to have learning to exist, let alone succeed. Life is worthwhile if you learn from your own experiences - negative or positive. We learn to do it right by first sometimes doing it wrong. We call that a positive negative. We also learn from other people's experiences, both positive and negative. I've always said that it is too bad failures don't give seminars. Obviously, we don't want to pay them so they aren't usually touring around giving seminars. But that information would be very valuable – we would learn how someone who had it all then messed it up. Learning from other people's experiences and mistakes is valuable information because we can learn what not to do without the pain of having tried and failed ourselves.

We learn by what we see so pay attention. We learn by what we hear so be a good listener. Now I do suggest that you should be a selective listener, don't just let anybody dump into your mental factory. We learn from what we read so learn from every source; learn from lectures; learn from songs; learn from sermons; learn from conversations with people who care. Always keep learning.

Second, life is worthwhile if you TRY. You can't just learn; now you have to try something to see if you can do it. Try to make a difference, try to make some progress, try to learn a new skill, try to learn a new sport. It doesn't mean you can do everything, but there are a lot of things you can do, if you just try. Try your best. Give it every effort. Why not go all out?

Third, life is worthwhile if you STAY. You have to stay from spring until harvest. If you have signed up for the day or for the game or for the project - see it through. Sometimes calamity comes and then it is worth wrapping it up. And that's the end, but just don't end in the middle. Maybe on the next project you pass, but on this one, if you signed up, see it through.

And lastly, life is worthwhile if you CARE. If you care at all you will get some results, if you care enough you can get incredible results. Care enough to make a difference. Care enough to turn somebody around. Care enough to start a new enterprise. Care enough to change it all. Care enough to be the highest producer. Care enough to set some records. Care enough to win.

Four powerful little words: learn, try, stay and care.
What difference can you make in your life today by putting these words to work?

HEAR THROUGH YOUR EYES ...

Do you want to know what my body is? My body is the same as the whole earth.

Do you want to know what my mind is? My mind is the same as space itself.

Do you want to know what my vision is? I see there is nothing to see.

Do you want to know what I hear? I hear the unheard.Since I have been seeing and hearing, why then do I speak of the unheard? "If you listen with your ears, after all you cannot understand; when you hear through your eyes, only then will you know."

-Ssu-hsin

WISDOM WORDS

All Is an Illusion

Empty and calm and devoid of self
Is the nature of all things.

No individual being
In reality exists.

There is no end or beginning,
Nor any middle course.

All is an illusion,
As in a vision or a dream.

All beings in the world
Are beyond the realm of words.

Their ultimate nature, pure and true,
Is like the infinity of space.

DAILY HEALTH WISDOM

Joy is not in things; it is in us.
-Richard Wagner
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
-Thich Nhat Hanh

KESAN & PESAN : MOONCAKE CELEBRATION 2007 (1)

Akhirnya datanglah waktu yang di tunggu-tunggu...

Kurang lebih 3 bulan, semua tenaga dikerahkan pada persiapan acara "Mooncake Celebration 2007", teman-teman di The Organizer dan Ikatan Koko Cici Jakarta yang pontang-panting menyelesaikan segala urusan administrasi, marketing, promosi dan penyebaran undangan, tanpa memikirkan rasa lelah, akhirnya menyelenggarakan acara "Mooncake Celebration 2007" dengan spektakuler. (Thanks guys .... excellent jobs ... ngak kapok kan diomelin saya melulu)

Undangan 350 orang tercapai. Para pejabat tinggi dan para petinggi paguyuban komunitas Tionghoa, tokoh agama Khong Hu Cu, Kristen dan Muslim (termasuk bapak Gus Dur), para sponsors, partners dan media partners yang membantu terselenggaranya acara ini, datang berpartisipasi.

Untuk lebih jelasnya, liputan detail akan di posting besok hari.....................

BUKA PUASA BERSAMA ANAK-ANAK GRIYA ASIH

Tanggal 22 September 2007 jam 7.00 malam, saya dan teman-teman mengadakan buka puasa bersama dengan anak-anak Yayasan Griya Asih. Kebetulan teman saya berulang tahun, Reynol, berulang tahun yang juga sekaligus acara syukuran karena telah bergabung di Choice Management Consultants sebagai Marketing Communication Manager.

Buka puasa bersama-sama dengan anak-anak GA terasa berbeda karena kedatangan beberapa donatur baru yang khusus kami undang untuk melihat keadaan di GA sendiri. Micky AFI juga datang dan anak-anak senangnya bukan kepalang.

Nyanyi, ngeband, joget dan tentunya makan bersama dengan makan yang berlimpah ruah, membuat anak-anak kekenyangan. Tidak ada batasan lagi antara anak-anak dengan para "tamu".... senang banget melihat anak-anak begitu gembira .. mudah-mudahan acara seperti ini terus berlanjut.

Sayangnya, kegembiraan tidak bisa bertahan lama, karena Fatimah 'sakit'. Sepertinya sekarang sudah baikan (jangan suka ngelamun ya Fatimah).

Jam sudah menunjukkan pukul 22.45, semua rombongan akhirnya pulang kerumah masing-masing dengan membawa seberkas harapan dan cinta.......

Oh yeah, GA sedang berbenah diri... ngecet dan memberikan rumah sedang dilakukan..

Salam sayang buat kalian... tunggu kedatangan saya nanti..... tapi ingat..
Oh yeah, Desember kita outing lagi yah .... tapi dengan catatan .... be good

Lina Patuwo

JUST ASKING !

Apa yang akan terjadi apabila kita mengikat roti mentega di punggung kucing dan menjatuhkannya dari meja ? Roti atau kaki kucing yang terlebih dahulu menyentuh lantai?

ARTICLE

"Telling others is the key to changing your wishes into dreams."

You know that "dream" you have?
The one that nobody else knows about?
That isn't a dream. It is a wish! We all have things we secretly wish would happen.

But those aren't dreams. In order to change that wish into a dream, you have to tell somebody about it!

That gets it out into the realm of something you are actually pursuing, rather than something you are just hoping or wishing for.

"But what do I do, just walk up to somebody and say, 'Hey, want to hear my dream?'"

Well, sure, that works. But you could also start the conversation by saying, "I have a question for you: What is your dream?"

Two things will happen. One, you will foster their wish into a dream and secondly, when they finish, they will say, "So, what's yours?" BINGO!

Action Point:
Have at least two conversations today about your dream. Then do the same tomorrow and the next day - with different people!