Saturday, August 16, 2014

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate... Nelson Mandela speech


Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

Used by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 inaugural speech…

A Return to Love - Marianne Williamson

Try chanting this every morning 10 times and not being motivated beyond belief

“Above & within me there is a spirit stronger than them all”

(Do this with the most riveting & psyched up physiology
I’ve ever displayed in my entire life – Chant with Eye of the Tiger) x 10!!!

I am the most determined & driven person on the planet

I vow to do whatever it takes!
I will keep trying my absolute best until I succeed!

This is my time… The losing stops here…
The pain…
the hurt…
the unhappiness…
The frustrations…
My life changes here…
Right now! TODAY!!!
There is no tommorow…

I believe in every ounce of my soul that I will succeed!
I will succeed beyond my wildest dreams over the next six months…
and it begins with succeeding today!

I summon all of my powers to exceed my greatest ability today.
TODAY IS MINE! I OWN IT!

Imagine I have already achieved my goals –
Picture what I had to do to get there…

I have to take more action than what’s necessary to achieve my goals –
Push myself like never before
Like those who have gone before me – I will dominate!

Find that driving spirit within… It is alive!
I can feel it through the essence of my being!

I am my (instruction: fill in with your 2014 goal) by the end of this year!!!
I am my (instruction: fill in with your 2014 goal) by the end of this year!!!
I am my (instruction: fill in with your 2014 goal) by the end of this year!!!

100 of my favorite inspirational quotes


Inspire yourself by reading some or all of my favorite inspirational quotes:
  1. Small opportunities are often the beginnings of great enterprises - Demosthenes
  2. Perserverance and determination alone are omnipotent - President Calvin Coolidge
  3. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success - Elbert Hubbard
  4. Men succeed when they realise that their failures are the preparation for their victories - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  5. A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm - Charles Schwab
  6. I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works - Alexandre Dumas
  7. We ourselves must walk the path - Buddha
  8. The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well - John D. Rockefeller
  9. The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work - Sarah Knowles Bolton
  10. Talk doesn't cook the rice - Chinese Proverb
  11. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit - Aristotle
  12. If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes - Andrew Carnegie
  13. The ancestor of every action is a thought - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  14. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for - Socrates
  15. Opportunites multiply as they are seized - Sun Tzu
  16. Reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves. Self-discipline with all of them came first - Harry S. Truman
  17. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life - Confucius
  18. Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  19. The King is the man who can - Thomas Carlyle
  20. Men are born to succeed, not fail - Henry David Thoreau
  21. There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it? - Kin Hubbard
  22. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up - Thomas A. Edison
  23. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for - Oscar Wilde
  24. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain - Helena Petrova Blavatsky
  25. You will find the key to success under the alarm clock - Benjamin Franklin
  26. If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory - William Hazlitt
  27. Men freely believe that which they desire - Julius Caesar
  28. Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind - Leonardo da Vinci
  29. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work - Aristotle
  30. Success produces confidence - Ben Jonson
  31. You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club - Jack London
  32. Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration - Thomas A. Edison
  33. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds - Sir Francis Bacon
  34. What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims… - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
  35. Success… cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work - Anna Pavlova
  36. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work - Thomas Edison
  37. If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants - Isaac Newton
  38. Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action - Benjamin Disraeli
  39. Victory belongs to the most perservering - Napoleon
  40. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams... he will meet with success unexpected in common hours - Henry David Thoreau
  41. What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise - Oscar Wilde
  42. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal - Thomas Jefferson
  43. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective... - Aristotle
  44. In the long run, men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high - Henry David Thoreau
  45. The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do - James Allen
  46. All that we are is the result of what we have thought - Buddha
  47. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph - Thomas Paine
  48. There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control  the firm resolve of a determined soul - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  49. Our strength grows out of our weaknesses - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  50. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance - Confucius
  51. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication - Leonardo da Vinci
  52. If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there - Lewis Carroll
  53. Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish - Jean de La Fontaine
  54. None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to the whisper which is heard by him alone - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  55. Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense - Buddha
  56. Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library - Henri Frederic Amiel
  57. Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment - Thomas Carlyle
  58. Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fail - Oliver Goldsmith
  59. If I had eight hours to cut down a big tree, I'd spend 6 hours sharpening the axe - Abraham Lincoln
  60. Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door - Emily Dickinson
  61. Out of difficulties grow miracles - Jean de la Bruyere
  62. The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time - Abraham Lincoln
  63. Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake - Henry David Thoreau
  64. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  65. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant - Robert Louis Stevenson
  66. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning - Benjamin Franklin
  67. The heights of great men reached… were not attained by sudden flight, but while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  68. Winners never quit and quitters never win - Anon.
  69. Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born - Seneca 
  70. The secret of success is consistency of purpose - Benjamin Disraeli
  71. ...the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love - Henry Drummond
  72. You have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself - Leonardo da Vinci
  73. When... it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn - Harriet Beecher Stowe
  74. It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome - William James
  75. The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people - Theodore Roosevelt
  76. The first and the best victory is to conquer self - Plato
  77. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music - Mary Anne Evans
  78. A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step - Ancient Chinese Proverb
  79. This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication - Western Union internal memo 1876
  80. Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have - Woodrow T. Wilson
  81. Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline - Mary Anne Evans
  82. The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind - William James
  83. ...the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them - Lord Chesterfield
  84. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  85. Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings - Samuel Johnson
  86. … today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow - Harriet Martineau
  87. … remember what you now have was once among the things only hoped for - Epicurus
  88. I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature - John D. Rockefeller
  89. There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing - Kahil Gibran
  90. That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well - Abraham Lincoln
  91. Know what you want to do... and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal - Elbert Hubbard
  92. You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction - George Lorimer
  93. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better world - Anatole France
  94. Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes - Buddha
  95. The virtue of deeds lies in completing them - Arabian Proverb
  96. All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim... one which sometimes seemed impossible - Orison Swett Marden
  97. Patience and perserverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish - John Quincy Adams
  98. Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor - John Milton
  99. To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first - William Shakespeare
  100. He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor - Menander of Athens
I hope you enjoyed them as much as I did!!!

Till next time...


100 tips to motivate yourself right now

I just thought I'd provide 100 tips to motivate yourself right now:

  1. Simply just do it
  2. Know that you can do it
  3. Simply begin doing a little and soon you'll being doing a lot
  4. Block out all other thoughts other than just doing that which you know you must or want to do
  5. Listen to an inspirational song - this can motivate you quicker than almost anything else
  6. Watch a motivational video - sometimes we need a little more inspiration
  7. Use affirmations to get yourself to act like: "Do it... Do it... Do it... Do it" - & repeat
  8. Read a motivational quote
  9. Don't over-think things... simply do it
  10. If you know you should be acting - why not just do it now?
  11. You are not getting any younger
  12. You are the only you that will ever exist in the entire history of the universe
  13. You are capable of more than what you could ever imagine
  14. What are you waiting for?
  15. The only time is now
  16. You were born to do this
  17. There is nothing you cannot accomplish if you set your mind to it
  18. I believe in you
  19. Imagine if you did everything you needed to do right now - how would you feel?
  20. How would it feel if you just got the thing done?
  21. Reward yourself after completing the thing you need to do
  22. To motivate yourself is simply to get yourself to do it
  23. You do not need to be 'motivated' - you just need to do it
  24. Don't waste anymore time reading this list - strike whilst the iron is hot
  25. Try writing down 100 things to motivate yourself
  26. If you have trouble at 26 to come up with ideas it is probably time to do the thing as there is nothing left but the task at hand
  27. Procrastination cannot exist in the world of achieving what you want
  28. There is no need to analyse why you are not acting... just act
  29. Talk to a friend about your problem
  30. Sometimes things can be a little more complicated... so write out a plan
  31. Think with your heart & mind
  32. What have you got to gain by taking action now?
  33. What have you got to lose by not taking action now?
  34. You believe in yourself. Deep down you truly do.
  35. Take a quick break if it is needed.
  36. Go out and try something new
  37. Do you need an action plan... or do you simply need to act?
  38. How could you win today? How about try winning at life for one day?
  39. If you can achieve success over a day there is nothing that can stop you from achieving success day after day
  40. Think whatever you have to think to get yourself to act right now
  41. Do you need to read an inspirational book?
  42. Why is it that some people are successful and some are not? Is it simply the power of thinking yourself into action?
  43. You need to win... and you need to win now
  44. What is the one thing you need to say to yourself to act right now
  45. How motivated do you need to be to achieve what it is you are setting out to achieve? Be that motivated full stop!
  46. Do you have a list of clearly defined goals with realistic plans to achieve them?
  47. Do you want to live in the top 10%?
  48. Do what the bottom 90% don't do
  49. Realize that you are allowed to trick yourself into acting right now
  50. There is really nothing stopping you from acting right now
  51. Get someone who is in a position of authority to check up on whether or not you have done what you said you were going to do
  52. To win today is simply to know that you did everything you could to win today
  53. What is the number one thing you need to do right now?
  54. What do you truly want from life?
  55. Is there anything on this list which made you think I need to do that - then do that!
  56. Get of your chair... Go to a mirror and look yourself deep in the eyes and tell yourself "I am going to do it! I am going to do it now!"
  57. Whatever level of motivation you need to act right now - you will find it
  58. Master the art of motivating yourself to act by acting fast and on that which you truly know you want to
  59. Take all distractions out of the picture by doing the thing which you know you must
  60. Your motivation is the result of the way you think... Think action now. Take action now.
  61. Why would you need to read anything more on this list before taking action?
  62. Even just thinking is acting... do this right and you will act right
  63. When do you want to do it? Why not now?
  64. How long are you going to wait before you live the life of your dreams?
  65. If you were on your death bed - what would you have done differently? What would you do differently right now?
  66. How much time do you need before you can be motivated?
  67. Do you need to be an expert on motivation to get yourself to consistently act?
  68. Everything you need to do everything you want to is already sitting right in front of you. You are using it to read the words on this page.
  69. You are the best you I have ever had the pleasure of writing to
  70. You have the power
  71. You have the will
  72. There is more in you than what you think you've got
  73. There is nothing that can stop you
  74. You are unstoppable
  75. You are invincible
  76. There is a power within you stronger than your wildest dreams
  77. You were born to win
  78. You are a champion
  79. All that is left is to do the thing you need to do
  80. You are special beyond what you could even pretend to imagine
  81. You are an amazing individual
  82. Everything you want is achievable
  83. Start doing now
  84. When does the time come to stop thinking and start acting?
  85. Is that time now?
  86. You were put on this earth for a reason
  87. Coach yourself to success
  88. Take control of your mind
  89. Are you truly able to do whatever you want to?
  90. If you can think to act... then you can 
  91. You can make yourself act right now
  92. Step by step anything is possible
  93. Start at step 1
  94. Do whatever you must to get yourself to be motivated right now
  95. If you are not motivated then do whatever it takes to become motivated
  96. There is a solution to every problem
  97. What could you do right now if you knew you were going to win?
  98. Do it right now
  99. Do it!
  100. If you have read this list to 100 you were motivated to act to read to 100... Now just do what you have to... immediately... no delay... Now is your time!!!
Positively change your life forever... by taking action right now.

Why do people search for the secret to success?

Hi everyone!

I just wanted to explore the topic of 'why do people search for the secret to success'?

What is it that is so fascinating about finding that one secret and then achieving success beyond your wildest dreams?

There have been many books which have tried to detail what that secret is. One such book that has become very well known is The Secret by Rhonda Byrne.

It would seem that everyone is out there in life to find the elusive pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

When that pot of gold is what you are using right now to read these words.

It is what you think about on a consistent basis that determines your consistent results.

I mean to illustrate this point more simply try this exercise.

Touch the tip of your finger on one hand with the tip of another finger on your other hand.

How you spoke to yourself just now determined whether or not you did it or not.

How you speak to yourself is your key to all success.

Because it determines the actions you take.

If a result is what you are after for a specified goal then you must think in ways that determine that you will take the actions necessary to achieve that goal.

The Self Coaching Theorem

What makes the difference between those Michael Jordan's of the world and everyone else? 

Is it based entirely upon their internal processes - think carefully about this one!



If you think very carefully about this question you will know that it is a universal truth that your actions result from the way you think. And how do you think?

Your thoughts are more often than not a result of the way you talk to yourself inside your head.

Napoleon Hill in his book Think & Grow Rich went to great lengths to hide the secret to all success. Or as he has put it another way to uncover for yourself what is known as The Master Key to Riches.

The Master Key is to control the way you think in such a way as to determine the results you get from the consequent actions you take.

Therefore, the way that you speak to yourself inside your head is absolutely crucial to your success in anything in life.

After being heavily involved in the personal development industry for a long time I strongly feel as though this is the one factor that separates those who are successful from those who are not.

You need to push yourself to succeed. You need to motivate yourself on a consistent basis to do that which you were born to do. You need to kick ass! Quite simply you need to coach yourself to success.

You are with you every waking moment of your entire life. And it is not the outside circumstances that you have control over. Pretty much the only thing you have control over is the way you think and thus the resulting actions you take.

You cannot be successful in anything without action. Even if that action is just thinking. For example, to be happy - be happy. Think happy thoughts.

I would love to discuss this with all of you who happen to stumble upon this article.

I know in my heart of hearts that this is the sole determinant in any successful venture.

Feel free to post any comments and I will respond to you all as soon as I can.


Is self coaching the master key to all success?

Hi everyone!

Is self-coaching the master key to all success?

Think about it.

Seriously.

Try this practical theory... you can call it The Self Coaching Theorem - even if it has it's origins from many sources.

1. Assume that all your actions come from your thoughts.
2. How do you think? Is it not most often when you speak to yourself inside your head. Like your talking out aloud but in your head? (This is the way it works for me).
3. If this is so then what you say to yourself on a consistent basis determines your consistent actions and thus your results.

SELF-COACHING then would be the key to all success.

Drive your own inner thoughts by using repetitive positive statements that support & drive you like a coach and you will find a surge of energy you never knew existed.

I stumbled upon this whilst researching what is the recipe for success with a motivational speaker / newly acquired friend.

I had renewed my passion for watching Michael Jordan and finding out what he's doing at the moment... and watched a couple Youtube videos of him. 

It made me realise quite clearly when he was playing that he was speaking to himself and firing himself up to a point which few other athletes do.

I am 100% certain of this theorem as I have found it evident in every great success I've ever had.

And even in every action I take, good or bad - a result of the way I talk to myself in my head.

For example you could choose to control that voice by saying:

"Today is Kick Ass Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday etc"

"I am the best"

"I am going to Kick ass"




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I hope that in some way you see the magic in what I have shown you! 

Until next time, take care of yourselves!

How to work from home full time?

Hi everyone!

I wanted to discuss a working lifestyle that many, many people on this planet would love to do... To work from home.

I would firstly like to ask everyone a very important question?

How many people on this planet do you think work from home full-time?


  • A. 1
  • B. 100
  • C. 1,000
  • D. 10,000
  • E. None of the above
I would suggest that the number would exceed any of those listed above. The point is that there are at least hundreds of thousands, if not millions who work from home on a full-time basis.

How did they do it?

They look up online work websites that are reputable such as: Elance.com, Odesk.com, Guru.com, Fiverr.com to name a few.

There are also many other ways to work full time from home.

You could sell over Amazon.com, Ebay.com, Alibaba.com, Aliexpress.com.

The opportunities are literally endless.

But, you need to become an expert in your field if this is what you truly want to do.

As the majority of people work for other people and do not work from home you will need to do what they don't do in order to succeed in this goal.

I myself have been working from home full-time in a number of different niches.

Particularly through selling my books.

I would love to hear what you guys and gals all think on this topic - comment below...

Friday, January 10, 2014

The Success Study Program 2

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to let you know that there are motions in the works for a new book The Success Study 2.

If you loved the first book and got a lot out of it - you will love this new one.

So far there have been 17 reviews all of which are 5-star positive reviews for the first book in the series.

It contained exclusive interviews with the likes of Dr. Stephen R. Covey - US presidential adviser and best-selling success author, Catherine Ryan Hyde - writer of the book which became the blockbuster movie Pay it Forward with Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt, Justice Kirby - Australia's highest court judge and many more.

The book itself was a culmination of a 5 year success study that I undertook.

As a couple more years have pasted I wouldn't mind stepping it up a notch and really delivering success to all you guys and gals out there.

In order to do that I have to be crystal clear in what makes the major difference between someone who is successful and someone who is not.

There are a lot of factors at play if you actually did a controlled environment scientific study where you could actually control a lot of these factors. And of course the world itself is not a controlled environment. But your mind is. If that leaves any clues...

Until next time,

To positively change the world forever...

James


Thursday, January 9, 2014

The lacking ingredient of success

I just thought I'd check in to let you all know that yes I am still pursuing my quest to become a full time author. In this post I'd like to shortly discuss an ingredient that many people are lacking in the quest to live a successful life.

When people talk about a successful life these days at a truly deep level, most people if they are honest with themselves and others will say that it involves being happy, great relationships, wealth, health and the majority of things we feel in our hearts and see around us.

I'm going to narrow the key to success to simply one true goal.

Happiness.

If you lived your life as a life full of happiness in the majority of instances you would probably be very satisfied with how you lived.

Now if the major goal of life is to be truly happy as most people will testify to - then what is it that can make you happy on a consistent basis whilst you are on the journey to achieving goals in other areas which in turn should make you happy.

The answer ladies and gentlemen as simply as it sounds is fitness.

Fitness not as its source motivator in looking good, being strong, having self-confidence, having great health and all the other plethora of benefits that it offers.

Fitness with its source motivator in providing more happiness in your life on a day to day basis and for life.

Think about it this way - the way you think determines the actions you take. True or not true?

You really don't need 100 reasons why you should do something to get you motivated to do it.

Because if you do - when you make the decision about whether or not to do it you will have to think too much before acting.

All you really need is a bulls-eye focus with 100 different reasons supporting it.

I am suggesting that if your true life goal is to be truly happy as consistently as you can for your life then try exercising regularly. Not to lose weight. Not to become a hulk. Not to get better at a sport. Not for your health. Not for any other reason other than it will make you feel fantastic overall.

I have found that the majority of people who are in the top 10% of successful living do this on a regular basis.

I have thoroughly compared those who trained regularly to those getting started out, to those going through phases to those who did not train consistently or never really got started.

The difference was without a doubt what their main motivation for training was.

Make happiness your bulls-eye target for fitness.

Make happiness your bulls-eye target for lifelong success.

Of course I am talking about true happiness in this instance.

To positively change the world forever.

James.