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Are You Giving Others Permission To Kill Your Dream?

Vincent — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:38:01 +0000

Protect Your Dream

This is a scene taken from The Pursuit Of Happiness. I totally love this movie and I had watched it twice. The story is based on a true story of Chris Gardner, a homeless salesman to a millionaire stock broker. If you have not watched it, I recommend that you go borrow it from your friends or get it at Amazon.

I believe many others have allowed others to kill off their dreams. Many people are fearful of going in the opposite direction of where the crowd is going. Hence, the social pressure can make one to give up their dream just for the sake of going with the crowd.

I believe some of you may have faced friends who had failed in their business and tried to convince that you can’t succeed. Or maybe you have friends who are overweight and think that it is ok to be overweight and convinced you not to make any changes? Maybe there will be people out there who are telling you that blogging is a waste of time?

Are you doing something that is different from others and they are disapproving of it and tell you to stop dreaming?

If so, are you allowing their words to get to you and kill off your dream?

I would love to hear your comments at the comment section below.

Vincent

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Facing The Giants: Are You Really Giving Your Best?

Vincent — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:32:36 +0000

What Is Your Best?

What is the best you can give to turn your life around, make that that million dollars or lose that 30 lbs? Sometimes we appear to say that we are giving our best but in reality we are not putting in our best effort to get what we want.

When you say that you are going to give your best yet you harbor thoughts that says it is too hard to accomplish something or it will take too much effort or time to do it, most likely you will not be able to give your best effort.

In the video clip above taken from Facing The Giants, the team dread the death crawl and it seems to them that 10 yards is the best that they can give. However the coach called up Brock, instructed him to give his best effort and Brock manage to cover almost the whole football field. The coach also blindfolded him so that Brock will not stop until he really gave his best and totally can’t take it anymore.

When someone is really committed into giving his best, unbelievable results happen. What you think that you can’t achieve (limiting beliefs) became possible when you give your best effort.

What you need to know after watching this video is that most of us are not really giving our best every day. There are limiting beliefs that stop us from giving our best. Many of us can say that we gave our best effort but we don’t really mean it when we say it.

Saying that you gave your best effort is easy and truly giving your best effort is hard. Make it a point to say what you mean. When you say that you are going to give your best effort, make it happen. Also remember that it isn’t possible to give your best when all you think about is how hard things is going to be.

Decide now to give your best everyday and be prepared to see unbelievable results happen.

Cheers,
Vincent

**P.S** What do you think is holding you back from giving your best? Self doubt? Fear? Or any other factors? I would love to hear from you in the comment below.

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Discover How This Impossible Dream Is Made Possible

Vincent — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:01:16 +0000

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell

Mental Barriers

The above video remind us how Roger Bannister refuse to accept the belief that it is impossible to complete a mile under 4 minutes and finally achieved it. He completed a mile under 4 minutes which no body thought was possible because he relentlessly trained to achieve it without giving regards to the thoughts of others.

There are many times when we let down ourselves by listening too much to others. Others may had failed in their ventures and they will tell you that they had tried doing something that doesn’t work. The worst scenario is that we believe so strongly in them and adopt their negative mindset which create huge obstacles for ourselves.

Beliefs are not 100% true

I believe many of us will hear about running a business is hard, creating an online business is just a scam and the stock market is only for the rich. These are just beliefs of others that had previously failed and did not try again to make it work. Why am I so sure about it? Because I see others have created successful businesses, there are successful online business being created and there are also people who start out from nothing and got rich by investing in the stock market.

If you are procrastinating on doing something that you truly love and believe that it will work, why let others stop you from doing it? Others may not have even walk down the path that you intended to walk and they may just be telling you that it is not possible because they failed to achieve it or they are telling you what they have heard in the cafe. Can you even believe in the chatters that they had overheard in the cafe?

If you want to do something but others are telling you not to do it, first of all, look for successful evidences. If there are others who have walked down the path you intended to walk and succeeded, it means that what you plan on doing is possible. The second step you would need to do is to seek them out and learn from them. Tap into their brain and know what is the blueprint for their success. Their knowledge will help you to cut short your learning curve.

Parting Words

Even if you plan on doing something that no others had succeeded, such as the example of Roger Bannister, you can always try it out and see how it goes. If Thomas Edison and the Wright brothers have never tried to create the light bulb and build the air plane respectively, we will not have the luxury of having light in our house at night or traveling to other countries by plane.

Do not allow beliefs of others to stop you from doing what you want to do. If you want to know whether anything will work out, the only way for you to verify it is to take action and do it. I hope you pick up something from this article and the most important lesson of today is to remember that you are your biggest obstacle and choose carefully who to listen to.

Vincent
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Discover How Susan Boyle Turn Out To Be An Overnight Success

Vincent — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:37:41 +0000

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Susan Boyle

The video of Susan Boyle in Britain’s Got Talent had been watched over 40 million times. She turned into a celebrity overnight after her sensational performance in Britain’s Got Talent.

Before her performance, the judges and audience do not have high expectations from her due to her looks. But when she started to sing, she surprised everyone. No one thought that someone with an appearance so ordinary like Susan Boyle can come out with such an amazing vocal performance.

You can watch the video here.

How Susan Boyle Achieve Her Success

1. Hard work

Sometimes people thought talent do not need to be polished. But talent only shines when there is hard work and effort. Susan practices her singing since she was 12 and her overnight is due to her 35 years of training.

2. Courage

It takes great courage to stand up the on the stage to perform. There are many talented people in the world but how many have the courage to stand up on the stage and perform for thousands of people. Majority of the people are held back by fear. Fear is stopping them from achieving what they truly want but Susan did not allow that to happen. She have the courage to stand on the stage to strive for her dream, to become a singer.

3. Ignoring The Cynics

How many people do you think encourage Susan to take part in the competition? I doubt there are many. Most people judge the book by its cover. Take a the look at the first reaction of the audience and judges when they saw Susan. They were all skeptical towards her.

I believe that there are many people who tried to discourage Susan from taking part in Britain’s Got Talent because they think that Susan does not have the appearance to become a star. However she is able ignore them and took part in the show to become a success.

There are people around us who do not like others to be doing things that are off the beaten path. They also discourage others from doing things that they cannot achieve. Cynics are always there to discourage you, it is your job to tune out to them and listen to what you want and strive for it.

4. Faith In Ability

It is important to have faith in your own ability. Your beliefs are your limiters. The more negative beliefs you have, the more your potential is limited and vice versa. Susan have faith in her ability and that is why she have the courage to step onto the stage. If you do not believe in yourself, you have already lost half the battle.

5. Have A Dream

Nothing would have happen if Susan does not dream of becoming a singer. If you want to achieve, you need to have dreams and goals. They serve as a target board for you to aim for. When you have an aim, than you can start to work towards it.

Parting Words

Susan is an overnight sensation but she achieve this by working hard and preparing for 35 years and it is definitely not overnight transformation. Susan had finally achieved her dream and she is a role model for everyone who have dreams and is someone that we can learn from and look up to.

Vincent
Personal Development Blogger

**P.S** You can read more about Susan over at Wikipedia.

**P.P.S** What do you think of Susan’s success? Can you think of any additional factors that contribute to her success? See you in the comment section and I will talk to you there.

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Amazing Speech By Al Paccino

Vincent — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:48:46 +0000

A truly inspiring video that I would like to share with everyone. I had watched this video for countless times and I think that we can learn alot of lessons from it. The scenario is the team is losing after the half and the coach is giving his talk to his players. Watch the above video and refer back to the below lessons.

First Abstract

“We can stay here and get the shit kick out of us or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb out of hell, one inch at a time.”

Lesson 1

No matter what is your situation in life, you always have the choice to choose to either pick yourself up or just let yourself suffer in despair and keep free falling in life. You have a choice. You, and only you can make the choice and nobody can take it away from you or help you make the choice unless you choose to let them do it. Make the choice, choose what you want in life and create your destiny.

Lesson 2

You don’t aim to make dramatic changes into your life. I don’t believe that anyone can change into a better person with a snap of the finger. Make improvement inches by inches, learn to walk before you run and always remember to make the inch happen.

Second Abstract

“When you get old in life, things get taken from you, but that’s part of life. But you only learn that when you start losing stuff”

Lesson 3

Live consciously and always be aware of what is happening around you. We humans tend to take things for granted when it is just in front of us and we regret only after people or things that we should cherish are gone. It is too late when it is gone, because sometime some things just can’t be replaced. Show gratitude in life, be happy for the little things happening around you and cherish it.

Third Abstract

Life or football, the margin for error is so small. I mean one half a step too late or too early and you don’t quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast you don’t quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. There are inches in every break in the game, every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tell ourselves and everyone else around us to piss us for that inch. We crawl on our fingernails for that inch! Because we know when we had all those inches, that’s going to make the f***ing difference between winning and losing, living and dying.

Lesson 4

In this world, there are countless of opportunities, whether it is to be successful, wealthy or meeting the dream guy or girl that you want to spend the rest of your life with. The key is to be ready for the opportunity. Always be prepared and work hard to be prepared to welcome the opportunities with open arms when they come. There are no lack of opportunities, only lack of people who are well prepared to accept the opportunity. Every small opportunity counts in life and don’t ever think of forfeiting small opportunities in wait of bigger one.

If you want to be a successful stand up comedian, you need to start to entertain 5 audiences before you can manage to entertain 100 audiences. It don’t work the other way round. Accepting small opportunities and preparing yourself ensures you that when the big opportunity comes, you are well prepared to catch it.

Fourth Abstract

In any fight, it’s the only guy who is willing to die who is going to win that inch”

Lesson 5

The above abstract can be summarize by one word, commitment. How committed are you to achieve something? It is the guy with the most commitment that is able to achieve excellence. You don’t see people who say, “I try”, achieve great results. We see excellent results and achievement from people who say, “I will do it no matter what it takes”. The difference in the level of commitment determines what you get, mediocrity or excellence. Choose your take.

Hope you enjoy the video. Leave any comments or suggestion on some good motivational videos that we can learn from.

Cheers
Vincent
Personal Development Blogger

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Be A Better You

Vincent — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:49:57 +0000

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Do you want to be successful? Do you want to be rich? Do you want to be fit and healthy with that body so well toned that you would leave people in awe when they see it.

Who doesn’t?

But why are you still drinking that Coke in your hand or stuffing yourself with junk food and wasting your time before the TV when you should really get yourself off the couch to get some serious work done. You knew that exercising is good for you, upgrading your skills will earn you better money or start a successful business will get you the wealth that you could enjoy and still you are procrastinating about doing the necessary things.

We can conclude from here that the biggest opponent in your life is you!

Human are creatures of comfort and habit and we naturally avoid pain and move towards pleasure. We find that eating the chocolate is pleasurable rather then lifting weights. We want to be wealthy but feel that the re run program on the TV is more interesting then working on your skills.

Things like exercising and upgrading your skills are important but human sometimes find that the journey towards success is not enjoyable. They dream about results but they hate the specific details and grueling work that they need to do in order to achieve success.

If you are having a junk food diet and watch the TV for 8 hours a day and one day I tell you to start to work out. Maybe you can tell me,” But I don’t like to exercise.” So what if you don’t like to exercise? Do you like to have a heart attack? No way!

We tend to make drastic changes when we are facing a serious problem. Imagine if you are diagnosed with blocked arteries in your heart, will you still stuff yourself with burgers and fries? If you are a facing bankruptcy, will you still splurge $1000 a night on fine dining? I bet there will be a 180 degrees change from you. Maybe you will start to convert into a raw vegan and start exercising everyday and bargain in a wet market for a discount of 50 cents to buy groceries to cook at home.

Drastic change isn’t it?

What do we learn from the above examples? We live by Choice. You choose to be a better you or you choose to fail in your life. Whatever the results, it happens from what you choose in your daily activities.

“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice”

George Eliot

One more inspiring quote for you.

“If you limit your choices to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect from what you truly want, and all that left is a compromise”

Robert Fritz

Think big and dream big. Don’t ever self doubt when you never even try. Hope this article will help inspire you to be a better you.

If you need help on time management and making the best out of the day. I greatly recommend this book, First Thing First by Stephen R.Covey. You can get it here for only $10.88.

To your success,

Vincent

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Excuses? What are your excuses?

Vincent — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:35:30 +0000

Excuses or results? How many times have we complained about we we are too young, too old, too poor or too tired to do something? We got such a long list of excuses to prevent ourselves from achieving what is the best for us? We are doing the damage to ourselves when we are using excuses.

So after watching the video above, what do you think? Is the guitarist above making an excuse for not playing the guitar because he is without his hands? No way, when you see the way he play. He proves to us that it is not a matter of facts, it is the matter of attitude that counts. It is how hungry you are for something that makes you strive to achieve it.

Instead of looking for excuses for why you can’t do it, what about looking for reasons that proves to you why you can do it. How many times have we seen failures that turns into success?

Michael Jordan cut from his basketball team in his sophomore years and he turns out to be the greatest basketball players of all time.
Donald Trump resurgence from bankruptcy.
Oprah Winfrey after so much ordeals ( abuse, rapes, so poor in her younger days that she wore dresses make from potato sacks ) became so successful and influential.

These are some of the examples that shows great determination and perseverance to fight against all odds to reach their goals. May their stories inspire and empower you.

Vincent
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