By a positive thinker - got this on the net....

[dilip kumar]

Success has less to do with hard work and more to do with massive focus on your few best opportunities.

Why resist change when it’s the main source of your growth?

The more you invest in growing and developing your mindset and way of seeing the world, the more everything you touch transforms in a breathtakingly positive way.

Pursuing perfection really does matter (in a world highly accepting of mediocrity).

Spending full days with zero technology to refuel or do important work is a game-changer.

Doing something super-nice for at least one stranger a day gives them a gift and an even larger one to yourself.

Adore your parents. You’ll miss them when they’re gone.

The smartest thing you can do to grow a great company is to first sweat getting A-players only onto your team and then sweat training and developing them so they play their A-game.

Most tv is toxic.

Have the discipline to clean out all the energy-draining people in your life. You really do rise or fall to the level of your associations.

Doing huge dreams we have never done can be frightening. Yet when we push to the edges of our limits, our limits expand.

If you don’t make the time for yourself to get inspired, no one around you will ever be inspired.

Your diet affects your moods. Eat like a superstar.

Talk less. Do more.

Integrity is more valuable than income.

Model Mandela and you’ll find at the end of your life you lived an awesome one.

Learn to love yourself. It’s the great rule for being loving with other people.

When your dominant business focus is to deliver outrageous amounts of value to your customers every time they do business with you, they become fanatical followers who tell the world about what you do.

Money invested in personal development and professional growth generally has a 30X plus return on investment (I went to more high-level seminars and programs than ever before and the ROI made them all free).

Real leaders have the guts to have the hard conversations.

Your environment (your home, your office, the magazines you read etc.) dramatically affects your levels of achievement.

The quality of your practice affects the caliber of your performance.

Reviewing your Big 5 annual goals every morning and working on your plan every day is an exceptionally powerful way to breed unbeatable focus and drive.

Measure your success via your influence and impact versus only by your income and net worth.

To become successful, first learn how to be happy. Too many think that the route to happiness is to get successful. Untrue.

Getting ultra-fit lifts every other area of your life.

Self-belief is so incredibly important. Because if you don’t believe you can achieve a vision/goal, then you won’t even start to do the work needed to achieve that vision/goal.

Our biggest enemy is our own self-doubt. We really can achieve extraordinary things in our lives. But we sabotage our greatness because of our fear.

Drink more water.

Watch the documentary “Searching for Sugarman”.

Join a mastermind group. It’s just remarkable what being in a room full of people who are smarter than yourself does for your performance.

Related to the above, remember what Dennis Kimbro once said: “If you’re the smartest one of your friends, you need new friends.”

Dopamine is the elite performers best friend. [i really dug deep into the neurobiology of high-achievement in this past year and discovered that this neurotransmitter is the key to motivation...and it is released when we push our envelopes and do things that are difficult].

You rarely go wrong when you trust yourself.

Writing learning down works so much better than typing things down on a computer.

If you try to do it all yourself you get very little done. The most productive people set the dream and then hand it over swiftly to a project manager to execute with precision.

Become one of the rare people who don’t know how to quit (unless it really is time to quit).

Smile. It truly makes a difference to the people around you.

Just because excellent manners are not so common doesn’t mean that excellent manners are not incredibly important.

Always remember that there’s food on your table thanks to the customers you are privileged to serve.

It’s so much better to fail trying than to not even get into the game.

Music just makes life a whole lot better.

You can change the world or you can worry about fitting in but you just can’t do both.

Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and beautiful at the end.

The real key to getting great things done is stop doing so many good things.

Small little details done excellently and consistently stack up into something the world sees as Mastery.

Spend time in nature to renew and refuel.

Less entertainment, more education.

Gratitude is the antidote to misery.

We become happier not by accumulating more things but by creating richer experiences.

Your self-identity is what really determines your income, influence, impact and lifestyle. Retrain that and your bigness comes out to play.

The more you serve, the more joyful you’ll become.

Life’s short. Have fun.

- See more at: http://www.robinsharma.com/blog/12/the-53-greatest-lessons-2013-taught-me/#.dpuf

[And_Ray]

1) Pursuing perfection really does matter (in a world highly accepting of mediocrity).

2) Adore your parents. You’ll miss them when they’re gone.

3) Measure your success via your influence and impact versus only by your income and net worth.

4) Getting ultra-fit lifts every other area of your life.

5) Related to the above, remember what Dennis Kimbro once said: “If you’re the smartest one of your friends, you need new friends.”

6) You rarely go wrong when you trust yourself.

7) Life’s short. Have fun.

 

Keep in mind the scripture from the daily text for today, 12th of January. Although many of those advises appear to be good, to make our life better etc.. keep in mind that that's Satan's wisdom!

About the points that i chose above.

1) Romans 12:5. Enough said.

2) Although the first part is advised in the Bible ( Eph. 6:1-3), the second takes away the hope of ressurection.

3) YOUR influence and YOUR impact. January broadcasting was talking about this... SELF-IMPORTANCE. That's the contrary of humility.

4)Getting ultra-fit requires extensive training and a lot of time and devotion. If you ask me, i don't have couple of hours daily for training. I'd rather get ready for the meeting. 1. Tim. 4:8

5) So, if you are smart, you deserve smart friends... Bye bye humility.

6) 1.Chor 10:12. Prov. 3:5,6 You ALWAYS go wrong when you trust yourself.

7) just NO! Of all the scriptures Matthew 24:37-39. And then Ps. 37:29.

 

I don't mean to be rude by saying this, but we must be extremly careful when reading advises from the so called experts from this Satan's world. We already know what true success is. We don't need advises from imperfect human!

Edited January 12, 2015 by Andrejrulz

[And_Ray]

Edit above. 1) It's Romans 5:12 

[feather]

 appreciate your post brother Dilip 

 when worldly wisdom is help up to the light of Jehovah's inspired word,

 it is interesting how worldly advice occasionally reflects wisdom found in the bible(often spoken words of Jesus)

  yet most times it contradicts.

     in either case, we know the source of true wisdom  ~ Rom 16:27

 

Success has less to do with hard work and more to do with massive focus on your few best opportunities.

       "and you must read it in an undertone day and night, in order to observe carefully all that is written in it;

         for then your way will be successful and then you will act wisely. ~ Jos 1:8

 

Why resist change when it’s the main source of your growth?

       "continue to be made new in your dominant mental attitude,  

        and put on the new personality that was created according to God’s will" ~ Eph 4:23,24

 

The more you invest in growing and developing your mindset and way of seeing the world, the more everything you touch transforms in a breathtakingly positive way.

          "Keep your minds fixed on the things above, not on the things on the earth.” ~ Col 3:2

 

Pursuing perfection really does matter (in a world highly accepting of mediocrity).

     "Let your reasonableness become known to all men."  ~ Phil 4:5

 

Doing something super-nice for at least one stranger a day gives them a gift and an even larger one to yourself.

The more you serve, the more joyful you’ll become.

       "There is more happiness in giving than there is in receiving."  ~ Acts 20:35

 

Adore your parents. You’ll miss them when they’re gone.

      "Honor your father and your mother"  ~ Ex 20:12

 

The smartest thing you can do to grow a great company is to first sweat getting A-players only onto your team

and then sweat training and developing them so they play their A-game.

      "On one of those days he went out to the mountain to pray, and he spent the whole night in prayer to God.

      and when it became day, he called his disciples to him and chose from among them 12,

       whom he also named apostles..." ~ Lu 6:12,13

 

Spending full days with zero technology to refuel or do important work is a game-changer.

Most tv is toxic.

      "make sure of the more important things" ~ Phl 1:10

 

Have the discipline to clean out all the energy-draining people in your life. You really do rise or fall to the level of your associations.

      "Bad associations spoil useful habits" ~ 1Co 15:33

 

Your diet affects your moods. Eat like a superstar.

      "Man must live, not on bread alone, but on every word that comes from Jehovah’s mouth." ~ Matt 4:4

 

Talk less. Do more.

     "Everyone must be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger." ~ Ja 1:19

 

Model Mandela and you’ll find at the end of your life you lived an awesome one.

    "Become imitators of God"  ~ Eph 5:1

  

Learn to love yourself. It’s the great rule for being loving with other people.

     "I tell everyone there among you not to think more of himself than it is necessary to think,

      but to think so as to have a sound mind" ~ Rom 12:3

 

When your dominant business focus is to deliver outrageous amounts of value to your customers every time they do business with you, they become fanatical followers who tell the world about what you do.

     "All things, therefore, that you want men to do to you, you also must likewise do to them.” ~ Matt 7:12

 

Money invested in personal development and professional growth generally has a 30X plus return on investment (I went to more high-level seminars and programs than ever before and the ROI made them all free).

     "For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God" ~ 1Co 3:19

 

Real leaders have the guts to have the hard conversations.

     "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! 

      Woe to you, blind guides 

      Serpents, offspring of vipers" ~ Matt ch 23

 

The quality of your practice affects the caliber of your performance.

      "Whatever you are doing, work at it whole-souled as for Jehovah" ~ Col 3:23

 

Getting ultra-fit lifts every other area of your life.

      "For physical training is beneficial for a little, but godly devotion is beneficial for all things" ~ 1Tim 4:8.

 

Our biggest enemy is our own self-doubt. We really can achieve extraordinary things in our lives. But we sabotage our greatness because of our fear.

       "Jesus asked him: “Why did you give way to doubt?” ~ Matt 14:31

       "There is no fear in love, but perfect love throws fear outside, because fear exercises a restraint.

         Indeed, he that is under fear has not been made perfect in love." ~ 1Jo 4:18

 

Join a mastermind group. It’s just remarkable what being in a room full of people who are smarter than yourself does for your performance.

        "do not forsake the gathering of yourselves together..." ~ Heb 10:34

        "The one walking with the wise will become wise" ~ Prov 13:20

 

Related to the above, remember what Dennis Kimbro once said:

“If you’re the smartest one of your friends, you need new friends.”

      "Now when they saw the outspokenness of Peter and John,

       and perceived that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were astonished.

       And they began to realize that they had been with Jesus" ~ Acts 4:13

 

 

Dopamine is the elite performers best friend. [i really dug deep into the neurobiology of high-achievement in this past year and discovered that this neurotransmitter is the key to motivation...and it is released when we push our envelopes and do things that are difficult].

        "the sky grew dark with clouds, the wind blew, and a heavy downpour fell;

         and Ahab kept riding and made his way to Jezreel.  

         But the hand of Jehovah came on Elijah,

        and he wrapped his garment around his hips and ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel" ~ 1Ki 18:45,46

 

You rarely go wrong when you trust yourself.

  "Trust in Jehovah..." ~ Prov 3:5

 

If you try to do it all yourself you get very little done. The most productive people set the dream and then hand it over swiftly to a project manager to execute with precision.

  "the Lord designated 70 others and sent them out by twos ahead of him

   into every city and place where he himself was to go" ~ Lu 10:1

 

Gratitude is the antidote to misery.

  "Always be rejoicing. Pray constantly. Give thanks for everything." ~ 1Thes 5:16-18 

 

Life’s short. Have fun.

  "The righteous will possess the earth, and they will live forever on it." ~ Ps 37:29

 

 

[Beggar for the Spirit]

I liked this 1 Sister Renee! 

 

You rarely go wrong when you trust yourself.

  "Trust in Jehovah..." ~ Prov 3:5

 

[dilip kumar]

Dear Brothers and sisters

I know all this points and scriptures.

Why I posted the above points was in the intention

That when we will be working towards our field service goals ,we should attain success.

Not cool down.

In my country I see many brothers and sisters neglecting their parents in the name of Spritual works. So( a )part would apply.

I just didn't edit it. Because I thought we will be taking the good points from this guy's views.

Surely I will be not promoting Mandela. Yeah good points can be seen from him.

I was in fact surprised that scriptures were put in to differentiate points.

Each and every thread well then would have to be religiously trimmed. Lol.

Anyway very loving of you to go thru it .

My thoughts (when I first went thru it)

Were that this has many good points as a reminder. Any way

Let's move on .

Agape

[dilip kumar]

Added a intro

There are many points in this forwarded post which I thought could be applied to our Spritual life. Pls don't compare it or apply for business or selfish ambitions (which I am sure none of us will do)

Edited January 12, 2015 by dilip kumar

[Ahuvah]

"if you're the smartest one of your friends - get new friends" ??

 

This gets me quite hmmm ... not sure if its angry or sad ... Jehovah draws people of all kinds ...  I remember a dear sister in Masterton congregation - that wordly way of thinking would have probably put her at the bottom as far as that quote is concerned.

 

But we had a saying about her - if her mind was as large as her heart she'd be a genius.  - all our brothers and sisters have black spots if we want to see them ... but their white spots are more. I'm sorry I'm not really wording this right I don't think, but I couldn't sit by and say nothing about that comment. All our brothers and sisters are beautiful.

[Varinia]

Love this.