Many people have one thing in common, they dread failures or loss. Failures and losses indeed cause a great amount of emotional pain, but further thought reveals that by failing and losing we gain more than what we lose. We gain more for life than mere success.
failures are nature's way of correction. We got to learn the most important lessons that can alter every aspect of our life.
What many of us don't do is take time to assess and think over it and pick up the lessons that are essential for life ahead.
When failures occur we should be firm in our conviction and vision. We must pursue our goals and goals can be achieved.
My brother, william lost an election on 27th Dec 2009 and was disappointed and felt that he had lost everything. But in deeper sense, he gained a lot in that defeat. Sure, his ego melted, became humble and then his priorities shifted, family responsibilities took precedent. He decided to mend some of his bad habits and embrace a life of abundance, hope, love, freedom and happiness. He began minding his own business.
So loss or failures aren't bad in itself, rather they are bad or not worthy if we fail to learn something from it. It is good if we accept the failure and move on ahead.
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Our Universe Is As Big As Our God!
So so big is our Universe that in the eyes of the Universe all the planets and stars are tiny dusts floating in the space and the humans may seem to be totally non-existent. According to my imagination, the planets are only dust particles if you view from the universe perspective. We are all very tiny cells that can't be detected easily with naked eyes. The universe will be able to see us only with a very high resolution microscope, which may take years for humans to develop it.
I am writing this because I always wanted to know how does God whom we humans claim to worship sees us from billions of light years away? His eye sights might be very powerful that nothing goes undetected, not even a single cell in our body.
I am curious to know why do people claim to understand God who is unfathomable? When we sit aboard an aeroplane and attempt to see through the window down, we don't detect easily the movements of humans on earth . Everything seems grounded with the earth. How does God see us the little creatures on this earth? It makes me wonder that God may not be staying very high up in the space. He must be having a condo or villa somewhere near just above the earth.
It is very strange for people to think that God is something knowable when he is not. God is as big as the universe and his power controls the whole universe. We live and exist in his consciousness and the universe is conscious too. The universe is full of life substances. We can't detect them through our senses but we can use our consciousness to understand its vastness.
Just know today that nothing goes waste, everything is accounted and we are living in the consciousness of the universe, some call it God or gods. We are connected by our consciousness or instinct to the universe.
Saints and sages had the spiritual consciousness to recognize God who abounds everywhere. If God goes for a sleep one day, then the universe will stop its operation like a machine. The countless energy forms in the universe move because there is always God or consciousness which is energetic and vibrational in nature.
There is no better name to call that energy, for our understanding let's call Consciousness. If we accept the 'big bang' theory of existence, then it is equally important to accept that the planets and stars are blown up dusts from the big bang event. The big bang event may have occurred because the massive collective force of consciousness (God) which wanted to create itself into several pieces through the process of disintegration and got distributed into the vastness of the universe. There many not be an end to this consciousness because it is a very creative and expansive force.
Can humans be ever wiped off from the face of the earth? It won't happen anything like that because the consciousness never dies, it is infinite. It is there to exist by nature. Some people call this spirit or soul. Soul or spirit does resemble the consciousness I am referring to. Here on earth people do believe that once the physical body disintegrates itself or dies, the spirit or the soul of the person lives on.
When people die, they die from the physical existence and never from the consciousness that pervades the universe. The consciousness is always there. We humans are on a mission and that mission is not started by us, the mission was initiated by the consciousness and because of that consciousness we are still existing here on earth.
Many humans have been able to reach the level of high consciousness and they have spoken about this spiritual power as sublime but we equate the spirituality with our invention of religions. Spirituality is of higher consciousness and religion is some kind of pious thing. Karl Marx understood the religion as opium which has the power to indoctrinate people to be less conscious beings.
Religions only equivocate the truth and confuse people to think for themselves. While the spirituality makes people conscientious and allows them to enter into total consciousness.
Our universe is conscious and it is spiritual where we live, move and die in the universe which is filled with consciousness. We are a part of that consciousness.
Alwed EKka
Guide Coach Mentor
I am writing this because I always wanted to know how does God whom we humans claim to worship sees us from billions of light years away? His eye sights might be very powerful that nothing goes undetected, not even a single cell in our body.
I am curious to know why do people claim to understand God who is unfathomable? When we sit aboard an aeroplane and attempt to see through the window down, we don't detect easily the movements of humans on earth . Everything seems grounded with the earth. How does God see us the little creatures on this earth? It makes me wonder that God may not be staying very high up in the space. He must be having a condo or villa somewhere near just above the earth.
It is very strange for people to think that God is something knowable when he is not. God is as big as the universe and his power controls the whole universe. We live and exist in his consciousness and the universe is conscious too. The universe is full of life substances. We can't detect them through our senses but we can use our consciousness to understand its vastness.
Just know today that nothing goes waste, everything is accounted and we are living in the consciousness of the universe, some call it God or gods. We are connected by our consciousness or instinct to the universe.
Saints and sages had the spiritual consciousness to recognize God who abounds everywhere. If God goes for a sleep one day, then the universe will stop its operation like a machine. The countless energy forms in the universe move because there is always God or consciousness which is energetic and vibrational in nature.
There is no better name to call that energy, for our understanding let's call Consciousness. If we accept the 'big bang' theory of existence, then it is equally important to accept that the planets and stars are blown up dusts from the big bang event. The big bang event may have occurred because the massive collective force of consciousness (God) which wanted to create itself into several pieces through the process of disintegration and got distributed into the vastness of the universe. There many not be an end to this consciousness because it is a very creative and expansive force.
Can humans be ever wiped off from the face of the earth? It won't happen anything like that because the consciousness never dies, it is infinite. It is there to exist by nature. Some people call this spirit or soul. Soul or spirit does resemble the consciousness I am referring to. Here on earth people do believe that once the physical body disintegrates itself or dies, the spirit or the soul of the person lives on.
When people die, they die from the physical existence and never from the consciousness that pervades the universe. The consciousness is always there. We humans are on a mission and that mission is not started by us, the mission was initiated by the consciousness and because of that consciousness we are still existing here on earth.
Many humans have been able to reach the level of high consciousness and they have spoken about this spiritual power as sublime but we equate the spirituality with our invention of religions. Spirituality is of higher consciousness and religion is some kind of pious thing. Karl Marx understood the religion as opium which has the power to indoctrinate people to be less conscious beings.
Religions only equivocate the truth and confuse people to think for themselves. While the spirituality makes people conscientious and allows them to enter into total consciousness.
Our universe is conscious and it is spiritual where we live, move and die in the universe which is filled with consciousness. We are a part of that consciousness.
Alwed EKka
Guide Coach Mentor
Monday, June 28, 2010
Negative people are highly venomous with their words
Negative people are indeed highly venomous with their words. So be watchful and try to avoid any encounter with such people. There are very well meaning friends, relatives or close associates but the words they speak can create a rift in your mind and you will wonder why you behave negatively. So don't seek the company of negative people, lest you will become one of them.
I have come across many people who were able to create a rift in my mind with their negative remarks or negative talks. Negative energy seems to attract our attention faster and stronger than the positive energy. Just observe for yourself, the media at large knows what really catches the attention of people and they bombard us with negative news. It appears from outside that people live by feeding on negative information more than positive news.
Practically, it is hard to avoid negative information because they exist every corner of the world. However, we can still live a positive life if we make some extra effort. For instance, I stopped to subscribing the daily newspaper and it has been one past and I feel much better with it. When I want to know the news, I use now the internet where I can view selectively the news I want to read. It is better for me than going through the pages of newspapers.
In the same way, you can minimize the association with your associates and friends and it will turn to be a good decision. When you happen to share your ideas or plans to your close associates, without much thinking they would snub your thoughts and give thousands of reasons why you couldn't do or achieve and they will cite some examples to prove their points and ultimately they will have succeeded in creating a rift in your mind. By listening to them you will begin to believe in their opinions. And your dreams, ideas or plans would have been washed away by the time you have some solitude time to think over it.
It is wise to avoid sharing your goals, dreams, ideas and plans to others but do share them to the 'select few' because nobody knows you better than you do yourself. Others don't know how much time and energy you have invested in order to think over that idea and within a fraction of second your friends can talk you out of that idea or dreams. Remember to keep your dreams and goals within your heart and if you want to talk, talk to the power higher than you; consult that power and you will be surprised to learn that the higher power thinks that your ideas and plans are excellent and great.
Find out for yourself whether people who are negative and speak doubt, fear and disbelief are highly venomous or not. These toxic venom can be neutralize only by positive information, positive talks, positive beliefs.
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
I have come across many people who were able to create a rift in my mind with their negative remarks or negative talks. Negative energy seems to attract our attention faster and stronger than the positive energy. Just observe for yourself, the media at large knows what really catches the attention of people and they bombard us with negative news. It appears from outside that people live by feeding on negative information more than positive news.
Practically, it is hard to avoid negative information because they exist every corner of the world. However, we can still live a positive life if we make some extra effort. For instance, I stopped to subscribing the daily newspaper and it has been one past and I feel much better with it. When I want to know the news, I use now the internet where I can view selectively the news I want to read. It is better for me than going through the pages of newspapers.
In the same way, you can minimize the association with your associates and friends and it will turn to be a good decision. When you happen to share your ideas or plans to your close associates, without much thinking they would snub your thoughts and give thousands of reasons why you couldn't do or achieve and they will cite some examples to prove their points and ultimately they will have succeeded in creating a rift in your mind. By listening to them you will begin to believe in their opinions. And your dreams, ideas or plans would have been washed away by the time you have some solitude time to think over it.
It is wise to avoid sharing your goals, dreams, ideas and plans to others but do share them to the 'select few' because nobody knows you better than you do yourself. Others don't know how much time and energy you have invested in order to think over that idea and within a fraction of second your friends can talk you out of that idea or dreams. Remember to keep your dreams and goals within your heart and if you want to talk, talk to the power higher than you; consult that power and you will be surprised to learn that the higher power thinks that your ideas and plans are excellent and great.
Find out for yourself whether people who are negative and speak doubt, fear and disbelief are highly venomous or not. These toxic venom can be neutralize only by positive information, positive talks, positive beliefs.
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
The Big Secret of Success
Earl Nightingale in 'The Strangest Secret' cites an example of 100 individuals who start off early in life to become successful but by the age of 65, only five out of 100 make the grade. And then Nightingale raises some questions; "Why do so many fail? What happened to the sparkle that was there when they were 25? What became of their dreams, their hopes, their plans... and why is there such a large disparity between what these people intended to do and what they actually accomplished?"
It is about the failure, the unfulfilled dreams and goals of 95 people out of 100 and why only 5 people make it that I want to talk about.
The reason for failure is obvious. Those 5 people who become successful found what Jack M. Zufelt talks about in 'The DNA of Success, "Core-Desires." People who succeed know their 'core- desires' which is fully 100 percent and not 50-70 or 80-99. But those 95 people who fail to accomplish their goals, did not possess the core - desire that is always 100 instead they had desires which had no strength enough to stir the soul.
Napoleon Hill through his long years of search found that 'burning desire' is the foremost motivating factor that drives the individual to a great height of success. Napoleon Hill's desire was not a weak desire, it was his 'burning desire', the 'core-desire' which measured 100 percent led to complete the success secrets of most successful men and women.
Bill Gates dropped out of college when he found his 'core-desire' and pursued it with whole heart, mind and soul. Though Bill Gates called his desire, a 'love'. Whatever name people call it, it doesn't matter; what matters is the discovery of one's ultimate longing and passion.
Wright Brohters faced a lot of opposition and discouragement from people who thought they could never succeed in flying an object heavier than air, but those detractors didn't know what those two brothers had. Wright brothers knew their core-desires and it was pure 100% desire. They invested all their skills, time, energy, experiences and mind. Seeing the birds fly in the sky, it was an intense desire to fly in the sky and see for the first time how and what one felt and observed. It was the 'core - desire' that led them to realize their dreams. The 'core-desires' will never fail people if they only follow and take the necessary actions.
If you ask what is wrong with people today, then it is right to say that people don't seek to know their 'core-desires' and if they do know their core-desires they don't make sure that their desires are fully 100% pure emerging from within.
The 5% of people seem to have the "magic touch," everything they touch becomes gold. These people know their core-desires that become their ultimate goals in life and thus they succeed because people with goals succeed as they know where they are going.
Rollo May, a distinguished psychiatrist says in his book, Man's Search for Himself: "The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice... it is conformity."
The majority who don't make the grade fall into a disease of conformity. They conform to the standard and values of those who seem to go nowhere. They are in a rat race. They get up in the morning and go to work for their employers in exchange of their precious time, energy and talents making their employers richer and richer.
This is another reason why many fail to become successful in their chosen field. They conform to the crowd. They don't become individuals. They don't know their individual DNA and they believe their self is less talented or capable.
People who succeed are those who get up in the morning and go to work for themselves, they invest their time, energy, mind and money in the development of their expertise and capacity. Earl Nightingale gave the best definition of success: "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal." The ideal here is the 'core-desire' that becomes so worthy of pursuit that an individual has no choice other than to realize it by making a constant progress. When an individual progresses towards realizing his ideal there is a growth and that progressive growth promises one a success.
What is the simple requirements of yours, if you are looking for a success or abundance in life? What you need to do is very simple. You must search and find your 'core-desires', the things that you want and the things that you love to have, do and be. Once you realize your core-desires, make sure that your desires are 100 percent strong and make it your definite life purpose or direction by taking persistent action.
When you know your core-desires, you will definitely achieve your ideals and dreams.
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
It is about the failure, the unfulfilled dreams and goals of 95 people out of 100 and why only 5 people make it that I want to talk about.
The reason for failure is obvious. Those 5 people who become successful found what Jack M. Zufelt talks about in 'The DNA of Success, "Core-Desires." People who succeed know their 'core- desires' which is fully 100 percent and not 50-70 or 80-99. But those 95 people who fail to accomplish their goals, did not possess the core - desire that is always 100 instead they had desires which had no strength enough to stir the soul.
Napoleon Hill through his long years of search found that 'burning desire' is the foremost motivating factor that drives the individual to a great height of success. Napoleon Hill's desire was not a weak desire, it was his 'burning desire', the 'core-desire' which measured 100 percent led to complete the success secrets of most successful men and women.
Bill Gates dropped out of college when he found his 'core-desire' and pursued it with whole heart, mind and soul. Though Bill Gates called his desire, a 'love'. Whatever name people call it, it doesn't matter; what matters is the discovery of one's ultimate longing and passion.
Wright Brohters faced a lot of opposition and discouragement from people who thought they could never succeed in flying an object heavier than air, but those detractors didn't know what those two brothers had. Wright brothers knew their core-desires and it was pure 100% desire. They invested all their skills, time, energy, experiences and mind. Seeing the birds fly in the sky, it was an intense desire to fly in the sky and see for the first time how and what one felt and observed. It was the 'core - desire' that led them to realize their dreams. The 'core-desires' will never fail people if they only follow and take the necessary actions.
If you ask what is wrong with people today, then it is right to say that people don't seek to know their 'core-desires' and if they do know their core-desires they don't make sure that their desires are fully 100% pure emerging from within.
The 5% of people seem to have the "magic touch," everything they touch becomes gold. These people know their core-desires that become their ultimate goals in life and thus they succeed because people with goals succeed as they know where they are going.
Rollo May, a distinguished psychiatrist says in his book, Man's Search for Himself: "The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice... it is conformity."
The majority who don't make the grade fall into a disease of conformity. They conform to the standard and values of those who seem to go nowhere. They are in a rat race. They get up in the morning and go to work for their employers in exchange of their precious time, energy and talents making their employers richer and richer.
This is another reason why many fail to become successful in their chosen field. They conform to the crowd. They don't become individuals. They don't know their individual DNA and they believe their self is less talented or capable.
People who succeed are those who get up in the morning and go to work for themselves, they invest their time, energy, mind and money in the development of their expertise and capacity. Earl Nightingale gave the best definition of success: "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal." The ideal here is the 'core-desire' that becomes so worthy of pursuit that an individual has no choice other than to realize it by making a constant progress. When an individual progresses towards realizing his ideal there is a growth and that progressive growth promises one a success.
What is the simple requirements of yours, if you are looking for a success or abundance in life? What you need to do is very simple. You must search and find your 'core-desires', the things that you want and the things that you love to have, do and be. Once you realize your core-desires, make sure that your desires are 100 percent strong and make it your definite life purpose or direction by taking persistent action.
When you know your core-desires, you will definitely achieve your ideals and dreams.
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
Sunday, June 27, 2010
A Flying Feather
One day, while travelling across the woods,
I saw a feather up in the sky.
I said to myself, "I am blessed to see it."
As the wind blew in its rhythm,
The feather neared the earth and
It landed on my palm.
I gazed it keenly,
Touching it gently I held it with care.
I turned it around and admired it,
I guessed it had a message for me.
With good faith, I kept it in my diary,
For fear it might get lost.
As I saw it each day,
I became fond of it.
There arose again a fear in me,
That I might lose the feather.
So I deposited it in the bank of my heart;
Before it could get lost.
The feather remained in the bank thence.
I tried to imagine,
Which bird had dropped its lovely feather?
To know that, I visited the woods daily,
And to my surprise, I found the bird.
For it had left a clue in its feather.
And thus through the feather,
I traced the bird.
I was thrilled to know the bird.
It looked so nice and cute to my eyes.
Once having a glimpse of it,
My heart, all the more pined to see
The lovely bird over and over again.
For fear of losing a sight of the bird
I treasured it in my Heart.
For I know, heart is a storehouse
With strongly built walls.
No moth can ever destroy it,
Nor any thief can steal it away.
At times I am amazed,
How I sighted the bird
Through a flying feather.
The bird may either take another flight
To some distant isles,
Or it may stay with me till the end,
However it cannot fly away from my heart,
For I have treasured it.
If the bird takes another voyage
One thing is clear, it can't leave me alone.
For I have inscribed it in my memory,
With an indelible ink.
At death, I may only set apart in body,
But never in spirit...
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
I saw a feather up in the sky.
I said to myself, "I am blessed to see it."
As the wind blew in its rhythm,
The feather neared the earth and
It landed on my palm.
I gazed it keenly,
Touching it gently I held it with care.
I turned it around and admired it,
I guessed it had a message for me.
With good faith, I kept it in my diary,
For fear it might get lost.
As I saw it each day,
I became fond of it.
There arose again a fear in me,
That I might lose the feather.
So I deposited it in the bank of my heart;
Before it could get lost.
The feather remained in the bank thence.
I tried to imagine,
Which bird had dropped its lovely feather?
To know that, I visited the woods daily,
And to my surprise, I found the bird.
For it had left a clue in its feather.
And thus through the feather,
I traced the bird.
I was thrilled to know the bird.
It looked so nice and cute to my eyes.
Once having a glimpse of it,
My heart, all the more pined to see
The lovely bird over and over again.
For fear of losing a sight of the bird
I treasured it in my Heart.
For I know, heart is a storehouse
With strongly built walls.
No moth can ever destroy it,
Nor any thief can steal it away.
At times I am amazed,
How I sighted the bird
Through a flying feather.
The bird may either take another flight
To some distant isles,
Or it may stay with me till the end,
However it cannot fly away from my heart,
For I have treasured it.
If the bird takes another voyage
One thing is clear, it can't leave me alone.
For I have inscribed it in my memory,
With an indelible ink.
At death, I may only set apart in body,
But never in spirit...
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
Saturday, June 26, 2010
You Can Make Millions and Billions Today.
"I studied the lives of great men and famous women," and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work." ex-President Harry S. Truman
Here is an article I came across today and it is worth sharing. It is written by John Paul Getty, the world's first American oil billionaire. It is an excerpt from the book "How to be Rich."
There are no absolutely safe or sure-fire formulas for achieving success in business. Nonetheless, I believe that there are some fundamental rules to the game which, if followed, tip the odds for success very much in the businessman's favour. These are rules which I've applied throughout my entire career—and which every millionaire businessman with whom I am acquainted has followed. The rules have worked for them—and for me. They'll work for you, too.
1. Almost without exception, there is only one way to make a great deal of money in the business world—and that is in one's own business. The man who wants to go into business for himself should choose a field which he knows and understands. Obviously, he can't know everything there is to know from the very beginning, but he should not start until he has acquired a good, solid working knowledge of the business.
2. The businessman should never lose sight of the central aim of all business—to produce more and better goods or provide more and better services to more people at lower cost.
3. A sense of thrift is essential for success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy wherever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs. "Make your money first—then think about spending it," is the best of all possible credos for the man who wishes to succeed.
4. Legitimate opportunities for expansion should never be ignored or overlooked. On the other hand, the businessman must always be on his guard against the temptation to over expand or launch expansion programs blindly, without sufficient justification and planning. Forced growth can be fatal to any business, new or old.
5. A businessman must run his own business. He cannot expect his employees to think or do as well as he can. If they could, they would not be his employees. When "The Boss" delegates authority or responsibility, he must maintain close and constant supervision over the subordinates entrusted with it.
6. The businessman must be constantly alert for new ways to improve his products and services and increase his production and sales. He should also use prosperous periods to find the ways by which techniques may be improved and costs lowered. It is only human for people to give little thought to economies when business is booming. That, however, is just the time when the businessman has the mental elbow room to examine his operations calmly and objectively and thus effect important savings without sacrificing quality or efficiency. Many businessmen wait for lean periods to do these things and, as a result, often hit the panic button and slash costs in the wrong places.
7. A businessman must be willing to take risks—to risk his own capital and to lose his credit and risk borrowed money as well when, in his considered opinion, the risks are justified. But borrowed money must always be promptly repaid. Nothing will write finis to a career faster than a bad credit rating.
8. A businessman must constantly seek new horizons and untapped or under-exploited markets. As I've already said at some length, most of the world is eager to buy American products and know-how; today's shrewd businessman looks to foreign markets.
9. Nothing builds confidence and volume faster or better than a reputation for standing behind one's work or products. Guarantees should always be honored—and in doubtful cases, the decision should always be in the customer's favor. A generous service policy should also be maintained. The firm that is known to be completely reliable will have little difficulty filling its order books and keeping them filled.
10. No matter how many millions an individual amasses, if he is in business he must always consider his wealth as a means for improving living conditions everywhere. He must remember that he has responsibilities toward his associates, employees, stockholders—and the public.
Do you want to make a million? Believe me, you can— if you are able to recognize the limitless opportunities and potentials around you and will apply these rules and work hard. For today's alert, ambitious and able young men, all that glitters truly can be gold.
John Paul Getty
The world's first billionaire
Here is an article I came across today and it is worth sharing. It is written by John Paul Getty, the world's first American oil billionaire. It is an excerpt from the book "How to be Rich."
There are no absolutely safe or sure-fire formulas for achieving success in business. Nonetheless, I believe that there are some fundamental rules to the game which, if followed, tip the odds for success very much in the businessman's favour. These are rules which I've applied throughout my entire career—and which every millionaire businessman with whom I am acquainted has followed. The rules have worked for them—and for me. They'll work for you, too.
1. Almost without exception, there is only one way to make a great deal of money in the business world—and that is in one's own business. The man who wants to go into business for himself should choose a field which he knows and understands. Obviously, he can't know everything there is to know from the very beginning, but he should not start until he has acquired a good, solid working knowledge of the business.
2. The businessman should never lose sight of the central aim of all business—to produce more and better goods or provide more and better services to more people at lower cost.
3. A sense of thrift is essential for success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy wherever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs. "Make your money first—then think about spending it," is the best of all possible credos for the man who wishes to succeed.
4. Legitimate opportunities for expansion should never be ignored or overlooked. On the other hand, the businessman must always be on his guard against the temptation to over expand or launch expansion programs blindly, without sufficient justification and planning. Forced growth can be fatal to any business, new or old.
5. A businessman must run his own business. He cannot expect his employees to think or do as well as he can. If they could, they would not be his employees. When "The Boss" delegates authority or responsibility, he must maintain close and constant supervision over the subordinates entrusted with it.
6. The businessman must be constantly alert for new ways to improve his products and services and increase his production and sales. He should also use prosperous periods to find the ways by which techniques may be improved and costs lowered. It is only human for people to give little thought to economies when business is booming. That, however, is just the time when the businessman has the mental elbow room to examine his operations calmly and objectively and thus effect important savings without sacrificing quality or efficiency. Many businessmen wait for lean periods to do these things and, as a result, often hit the panic button and slash costs in the wrong places.
7. A businessman must be willing to take risks—to risk his own capital and to lose his credit and risk borrowed money as well when, in his considered opinion, the risks are justified. But borrowed money must always be promptly repaid. Nothing will write finis to a career faster than a bad credit rating.
8. A businessman must constantly seek new horizons and untapped or under-exploited markets. As I've already said at some length, most of the world is eager to buy American products and know-how; today's shrewd businessman looks to foreign markets.
9. Nothing builds confidence and volume faster or better than a reputation for standing behind one's work or products. Guarantees should always be honored—and in doubtful cases, the decision should always be in the customer's favor. A generous service policy should also be maintained. The firm that is known to be completely reliable will have little difficulty filling its order books and keeping them filled.
10. No matter how many millions an individual amasses, if he is in business he must always consider his wealth as a means for improving living conditions everywhere. He must remember that he has responsibilities toward his associates, employees, stockholders—and the public.
Do you want to make a million? Believe me, you can— if you are able to recognize the limitless opportunities and potentials around you and will apply these rules and work hard. For today's alert, ambitious and able young men, all that glitters truly can be gold.
John Paul Getty
The world's first billionaire
Friday, June 25, 2010
Create Your Own Future.
Inspiring quote
"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves." Thomas Edison
Inspiring question
Why don't I do all the things I am capable of doing? Do I believe I am capable?
Let's suppose you recognize yourself as highly capable and you did all you were capable of doing. What would it look like, what would you have achieved, what would you have become and what would you be doing by now? The results would be really amazing, beyond your imagination. You would literally be surprised of yourself.
According to the research, the average people use only 10% or 3% of their brain capacity and scientists like Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison could use only 12% of their capacity. This information teaches us that we can stretch ourselves further and further.
Majority of people don't believe they are highly capable of doing anything worthwhile. They think people can do many impossible things, they wish for others but they never consider that they can as well do.
If poor people use their strength, time and mind in a right way, they can overcome from poverty and enjoy the great rewards of the world. If the governments of the world act cohesively they can put easily the maximum and best use of the natural resources for the betterment of their citizens.
Anybody can create their own unique lifestyle, if they truly know what they want. Almost all things are within our reach to be somebody valuable or successful.
Guide Coach Mentor
Alwed Ekka
"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves." Thomas Edison
Inspiring question
Why don't I do all the things I am capable of doing? Do I believe I am capable?
Let's suppose you recognize yourself as highly capable and you did all you were capable of doing. What would it look like, what would you have achieved, what would you have become and what would you be doing by now? The results would be really amazing, beyond your imagination. You would literally be surprised of yourself.
According to the research, the average people use only 10% or 3% of their brain capacity and scientists like Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison could use only 12% of their capacity. This information teaches us that we can stretch ourselves further and further.
Majority of people don't believe they are highly capable of doing anything worthwhile. They think people can do many impossible things, they wish for others but they never consider that they can as well do.
If poor people use their strength, time and mind in a right way, they can overcome from poverty and enjoy the great rewards of the world. If the governments of the world act cohesively they can put easily the maximum and best use of the natural resources for the betterment of their citizens.
Anybody can create their own unique lifestyle, if they truly know what they want. Almost all things are within our reach to be somebody valuable or successful.
Guide Coach Mentor
Alwed Ekka
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