- Seed of self esteem
- Seed of creativity
- Seed of responsibility
- Accept situations as they exist
- Or accept the responsibilities to change them
- The greatest security is to plan and act in order to be self reliant
- The greatest risk is to cooperate in ones own downfall
- Understanding cause and effect
- Seed of wisdom
- Sincerity
- Combination of honesty and knowledge applied in experience
- Honest knowledge in action
- Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow
- Seed of purpose
- If you don't know where you want to go any road is just as good.
- The reason so many people fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never had goals in the first place.
- Most people don't reach their goals because they don't define them.
- Seed of communication - Empathy & Love
- Empathy: relative viewpoints rather than absolutes
- Be more open and sensitive to the needs of others.
- By looking for the good in others you are communicating Love.
- L: Listen - unconditionally without prejudice
- O: Overlook
- V:Voice your approval
- E: effort - make a constant effort to spend the time, to go the extramile for them
- A touch is worth a thousand words.
- Manifestation of non verbal communication
- Warmth, friendliness and a general touch are always strong than force and fury.
- Seed of faith
- Faith is the key to unlock the door of success for every human being or vice versa.
- As a positive power , faith is the promise of the realization of things hope for or unseen or the premonition of our deepest fears
- There is no such thing about the presence or absence of faith just the replacement of faith with its direct opposite - despair.
- The seventh best kept secret is that, life is a self fulfilling prophecy, you will not always get what you want but you will get what you expect.
- Action steps
- Fly with the eagles; don't run around with the turkeys - optimism and realism go hand in hand; pessimism and cynicism are two enemies. As you help others in life, develop an inner circle of close associates in which the mutual attraction is not sharing problems and needs but the mutual attractions is values and goals.
- Change your scenery
- Listen to upbeat music; have breakfast with an optimist.
- Get high on your thoughts and your goals.
- Engage in positive recreation and education.
- Remember what the minds harbors the body reflects
- Seed of adaptability
- The good old days are here and now. Most people don't learn from history that problems are normal. Most people make excuses for their present condition on the economy, their jobs etc… something external to them because we all find it convenient to blame others instead of confronting the ourselves.
- The Chinese definition of crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.
- Seed of perseverance
- Test of faith based on a belief in God.
- A miracle is faith in action
- Winners work at doing things the majority of the population are not willing to do.
- Ray Croc1 favorite quotes
- As long as you are green you are growing, as long as you start to ripe to start to rot.
- “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race” Calvin Coolidge (30th President of the United States)Pasted from <http://thinkexist.com/quotations/Persistence/>
- Seed of perspective (perspective is seeing from within)
- Be a producer, a contributor not just a collector or consumer.
- Life cannot be collected; happiness cannot be traveled to, or worn, or owned, or earned, or consumed. Happiness is the experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
- The responses and attitude developed from seeing the world clearly.
1 Ray Croc: Built McDonald corporation into a multi-million dollar franchise.
