A new era has begun...

Who am I?

I am your constant companion.

I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden.

I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.

I am completely at your command.

Half the things you do might just as well turn over to me, and I will be able to do them quickly,
correctly.

I am easily managed - you must merely be firm with me. Show me exactly how you want something done, and after a few lessons, I will do it automatically.

I am the servant of all great people; and alas, of all failures as well. Those who are failures, I have made failures.

I am not a machine, though I work with all the precision of a machine, plus the intelligence of a human being.

You may run me for a profit or turn me for ruin - it makes no difference to me.

Take me, train me, be firm with me, and I will place the world at your feet.

Be easy with me and I will destroy you.

Who am I?

I AM HABIT.

-Anonymous

Taken from BY-PROD-UCT Autonomous Success In A Bold New World by Ian Prukner

What you appreciate, appreciates.

"So the question is: are you an appreciator or depreciator? The amount of joy and happiness you're experiencing in your life right now will help answer that question." - The Principle by Don Ginn.

Don't Let Your Past Hold Your Future Hostage

Don't Let Your Past Hold Your Future Hostage

It's the 3rd month of 2015 and I feel the year embracing me with huge growth and positive changes in my mindset. As I look back and realize that life has embarked me with many many challenges which has shaped me to become the person I am today. This morning I learned that fear in my subconscious has affected my daily experiences and learning to let go of past betrayals, abuses, and other baggage is key to winning in life. Grateful for the insight and having the courage to be open to the idea of self-developement. Starting fresh and excited about the future, staying present in the moment and grateful for the past, everything is in harmony with the universe. May the blessings be.

When it's all said and done, I just want to say, "I gave it my best shot."

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt

I just wanted a shot to win in life.

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known either victory nor defeat." - Teddy Roosevelt

This is dedicated to my foxhole buddies, to the people who inspired me, to my friends who have supported my dreams, to the people who came and quit, and to myself. The price to pay for the feeling I get when I look in the mirror knowing that I have made it this far is something money can't buy.

Back to the Fundamentals.

"Men do not attract that which they want, but which they are. Their whims, fancies, and ambitions are thwarted at every step, but their inmost thoughts and desires are fed with their own food, be it foul or cleans. The "divinity that shapes our ends" is in ourselves; it is our very self. Man is manacled only by himself: thought and action are the jailers of Fate - they imprison, being base; they are also the angels of Freedom - they liberate, being noble. Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose sole object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he would realize a strong and well-poised life?

The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony. The circumstances which a man encounters with blessedness are the result of his own mental harmony. Blessedness, not material possessions, is the measure of right thought; wretchedness, not lack of material possessions, is the measure of wrong thought.

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And as he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of discovering the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.

Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life. Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystalizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance. Let a man cease from his sinful thoughts, and all the world will soften toward him, and be ready to help him; let him put away his weakly and sickly thoughts, and lo! Opportunities will spring up on every hand to aid his strong resolves; let him encourage good thoughts, and no hard fate shall bind him down to wretchedness and shame. "

From As A Man Thinketh by James Allen

Now, what would've happened if this guy QUIT?

...just one more time.
-Thomas Edison