Oscar Wilde once said that some people cause
happiness "wherever" they go, while others cause happiness "whenever"
they go. Which are you? A happy person is welcome just about anywhere they go,
we gravitate towards the positive. I'm of the belief that the most important
thing that you can do when presenting yourself, your products or your services
is to help the other person feel positive and happy about himself and life in
general. When we're positive, we make decisions quickly and easily, when we're
negative we seldom make a decision or if we do the decision is no. Start today
to share at least 3 positive things with everyone you talk to and you will be
amazed at the impact it can have. Both personally and professionally.
Question: What do you share more, your
happiness or your troubles? Do you brighten a room when you enter or when you
leave?
“Happiness is like a kiss... you must share it
to enjoy it.” - Author Unknown
Quote: "The more you share you happiness
with others, the more you have for yourself" - Maxwell Maltz
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single
candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases
by being shared.” - Buddha
“The secret of happiness is to count your blessings
while others are adding up their troubles” - Author Unknown
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I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Imagine,
having to set aside a day to say thank you. Ponder what miracles could happen
if we made every day a day of thanks. If we took the time to be thankful for
just the fact that we are alive and faced with so many wonderful opportunities
to make a difference.
Let's form a Thanksgiving day resolution that
every day we will take time today to say thank you and express our appreciation
to those people we treasure. That we thank at least one friend, customer, and
associates for the contribution that they make to our lives.
Question: How often do you actually express
your gratitude. Do you thank a new client for their business, what about your
long-term clients?
Quote: "When someone comes along
who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way." -
Alan Loy McGinnis
"Truly appreciate those around you, and
you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find
that you have more of it." - Ralph Marston
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. ~G.B.
Stern
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According to the Secret (law of attraction) we attract whatever we are feeling, whether it be love, fear, anger, happiness, anger, joy, gratitude, resistance etc. We attract events, conditions and circumstances which are in direct correlation to what you are feeling. This works both ways, when we worry or are fearful, we attract more of what we are worried about. If you dig deeper into the secret you will find that the most effective emotion for attracting what we want out of life is gratitude. Being, expressing and focusing those things that we have to be thankful for, attracts more of the same. I believe that if we take the time to count our blessings every day, we can only attract more blessing. If I'm wrong, at the very leaste we will go about our day feeling fantatic.
Question: When was the last time you really examined all that you have to be thankful for? Do you believe that what we send out is what we get back? If so, what are you sending out?
Quote: "In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment." - Naomi Williams
"I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude." - Benjamin Disraeli
"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough." - Meister Eckhardt
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According to Albert Schweitzer, constant kindness
can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. Think about the last time someone went
out of their way to do some small act of kindness for you, an uplifting phone
call, a quick note of encouragement, a business referral. How did that make
you feel? Now what about the last time you did a kind act for someone else,
how did that make you feel? If your like most, you probably felt great. We cannot
do a true act of kindness, one from the heart, without feeing good. In fact,
the giver almost always benefits more.
Question: When was the last time you did
a small act of kindness, an uplifting note, a compliment, listening to a friend
who needs to talk? How did that make you feel? What small acts of kindness can
you do today, tomorrow, the next day, etc....
Quote: "Love and kindness are never
wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them,
and they bless you, the giver." - Barbara De Angelis
"No act of kindness, no matter how small,
is ever wasted." - Aesop
"Kindness is the language which the deaf
can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain
"If you haven't any charity in your heart,
you have the worst kind of heart trouble." - Bob Hope
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I was thinking about a quote by Maya Angelou: “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” What a powerful thought. Imagine what could happen to our business and personal life, if we spent our time helping others feel good, rather than looking for ways to build ourselves up at their expense. This quote reminded me of another rule for creating lasting and profitable relationships, and that is to try to have every person we come into contact with say I like me better when I'm with you. Powerful. Have a wonderful week. Go out and make someone feel special.
Question: Who can you make like themselves better by being with you?
Quote: “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” - Carl W. Buechner
“People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel” - Irwin Federman
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” - William Arthur Ward
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart." - Helen Keller
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Thought For Today: Attitude is a Choice!
Being positive or being negative is very much a habit of thought. Start
today to examine your thoughts and determine which direction they are taking
you. Replace your negative habits with positive ones by training your mind to
think in terms of what you can and will accomplish.
Look for the opportunity that every challenge
brings and focus on the opportunity. Count your blessings every day and soon
being negative will be a thing of the past.
Question: Do you believe that being positive
and being negative are choices that we make about how we will react to life?
If so, what choices have you made and what is the result of those choices?
"The difference between can and cannot are
only three letters. Three letters that determine your life's direction."
- Remez Sasson
"Positive thinking evokes more energy, more
initiative and more happiness." - Remez Sasson
“Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine
less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will
be yours” - Swedish Proverb
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” - Winston Churchill
“The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels
the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” - author unknown
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A sports announcer was interviewing the captains
of the Olympic Kayaking teams. He asked one captain, what happens if there's
bad weather? What happens if there are large waves? What happens if the wind
is unusually strong? Surprisingly, he got the same answer from all of the captains.
Their answer: That's not inside my boat. That's a powerful message, these captains
knew that they could not control external forces, that they must stay focused
on the job at hand and keep rowing. Too many times we allow ourselves to be
distracted by outside forces over which we have no control and as a result,
we greatly diminish our effectiveness. Start today to determine what is most
important to you and your success and keep your focus on it.
Question: What's
inside your boat? Do you allow yourself to be distracted by forces over which
you have no control or do you have a single-minded focus on your vision and
goals?
“It's not what's happening to you now or what
has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your
decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going
to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.” - Anthony
Robbins
“Our thoughts create our reality -- where we
put our focus is the direction we tend to go.” - Peter McWilliams
“Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus
on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the
answer.” - Denis Waitley
“The key to success is to focus our conscious
mind on things we desire not things we fear.” - Brian Tracy
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Quote: “There is no more noble occupation
in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed” -
Alan Loy McGinnis
Question: Do you agree with Zig Ziglar's
quote: “You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other
people get what they want”? If so, who have you helped today?
Today's Focus: Start today to look for
ways to uplift and help the people in your sphere of influence, your friends,
family and associates. Since all of us want to be understood, valued and appreciated,
a good way to start is to really listen to the people you converse with, put
yourself in their shoes and try to see their side of the conversation. Begin
looking for ways to recognize, value and appreciate the people you interact
it. It is amazing what an impact a simple compliment, or thank you can have
on a person's day. As Ralph Waldo Emerson say's “It is one of the most beautiful
compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without
helping himself.”
“Do more than belong: participate. Do more than
care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do
more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.” - William Arthur Ward
“You need to be aware of what others are doing,
applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their
pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.” - Jim Stovall
“Help thy brother's boat across, and Lo! Thine
own has reached the shore” - Hindu Proverb
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Quote: "Reality
is the mirror of your thoughts. Choose well what you put in front of the mirror."
- Remez Sasson
Question: Do
you agree that what you think determines your reality? Who decides what you
will think?
Today's Focus: Begin
today to take control of your mind. Create the reality that you want by deciding
the thoughts that you will allow into the mirror of you mind. A simple and effective
way to monitor and control your thoughts is to focus on how you feel. When you
feel negative, powerless, down in the dumps, for sure your experiencing what
Zig Ziglar calls "Stinken Thinken" When you begin to feel down
or when you just don't feel up, stop and take a moment to count your blessings,
think of a recent happy moment, in other words, let your mind energize you by
replacing the negative with a positive. Try it, you'll like it!
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive
ones, you'll start having positive results.” - Willie Nelson
“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem
to be much use being anything else” - Winston Churchill
“You've done it before and you can do it now.
See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration
and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.” - Ralph
Marston
“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” - Herm Albright
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Quote: "When someone comes along who genuinely
thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way." - Alan Loy McGinnis
Question:
When someone does you a kindness, do you take the time to thank them? Do you
thank a new client for their business, what about your long-term clients?
Today's
Focus: Take time today to say thank you and express your apprecation to
those people you treasure and value in your life. Make it a habit to thank your
friends, customers, and associates for the contribution that they make to your
personal and business life. It's not only good manners, it's good business.
Here's a thought to ponder, when someone goes out of their way to help
you, not thanking them does more harm, then thanking them does good.
"Truly
appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly
appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it." - Ralph Marston
"Feeling
appreciated is one of the most important needs that people have. When you share
with someone your appreciation and gratitude, they will not forget you. Appreciation
will return to you many times." - Steve Brunkhorst
Silent gratitude
isn't much use to anyone. ~G.B. Stern
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focus to be informative and helpful, please share your thoughts, comments and
ideas. As always, if I can help you in any way, feel free to contact me.
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