KEEP YOUR DREAM.....

I read this story and wanted you to read and get inspired
I have a friend named Monty Roberts who owns a horse ranch in San Ysidro. He has let me use
his house to put on fund-raising events to raise money for youth at risk programs.
The last time I was there he introduced me by saying, “I want to tell you why I let Jack use my
horse. It all goes back to a story about a young man who was the son of an itinerant horse
trainer who would go from stable to stable, race track to race track, farm to farm and ranch to
ranch, training horses. As a result, the boy’s high school career was continually interrupted.
When he was a senior, he was asked to write a paper about what he wanted to be and do when
he grew up.
“That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of someday owning a horse
ranch. He wrote about his dream in great detail and he even drew a diagram of a 200-acre
ranch, showing the location of all the buildings, the stables and the track. Then he drew a
detailed floor plan for a 4,000-square-foot house that would sit on a 200-acre dream ranch.
“He put a great deal of his heart into the project and the next day he handed it in to his
teacher. Two days later he received his paper back. On the front page was a large red F with a
note that read, `See me after class.’
“The boy with the dream went to see the teacher after class and asked, `Why did I receive an
F?’
“The teacher said, `This is an unrealistic dream for a young boy like you. You have no money.
You come from an itinerant family. You have no resources. Owning a horse ranch requires a lot
of money. You have to buy the land. You have to pay for the original breeding stock and later
you’ll have to pay large stud fees. There’s no way you could ever do it.’ Then the teacher
added, `If you will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal, I will reconsider your grade.’
“The boy went home and thought about it long and hard. He asked his father what he should
do. His father said, `Look, son, you have to make up your own mind on this. However, I think
it is a very important decision for you.’ “Finally, after sitting with it for a week, the boy turned
in the same paper, making no changes at all.
He stated, “You can keep the F and I’ll keep my dream.”
Monty then turned to the assembled group and said, “I tell you this story because you are
sitting in my 4,000-square-foot house in the middle of my 200-acre horse ranch. I still have
that school paper framed over the fireplace.” He added, “The best part of the story is that two
summers ago that same schoolteacher brought 30 kids to camp out on my ranch for a week.”
When the teacher was leaving, he said, “Look, Monty, I can tell you this now. When I was your
teacher, I was something of a dream stealer. During those years I stole a lot of kids’ dreams.
Fortunately you had enough gumption not to give up on yours.”
“Don’t let anyone steal your dreams. Follow your heart, no matter what.”

I HAVE LEARNED.....

I’ve learned-
that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The
rest is up to them.
I’ve learned-
that no matter how much I care, some people just don’t care back.
I’ve learned-
that it takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.
I’ve learned-
that no matter how good a friend is, they’re going to hurt you every once in a while and you
must forgive them for that.
I’ve learned-
that it’s not what you have in your life but who you have in your life that counts.
I’ve learned-
that you should never ruin an apology with an excuse.
I’ve learned-
that you can get by on charm for about fifteen minutes. After that, you’d better know
something.
I’ve learned-
that you shouldn’t compare yourself to the best others can do.
I’ve learned-
that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.
I’ve learned-
that it’s taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.
I’ve learned-
that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see
them.
I’ve learned-
that you can keep going long after you can’t.
I’ve learned-
that we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.
I’ve learned-
that either you control your attitude or it controls you.
I’ve learned-
that regardless of how hot and steamy a relationship is at first, the passion fades and there
had better be something else to take its place.
I’ve learned-
that heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless
of the consequences.
I’ve learned-
that money is a lousy way of keeping score.
I’ve learned-
that my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.
I’ve learned-
that sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you’re down will be the ones to help
you get back up.
I’ve learned-
that sometimes when I’m angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn’t give me the right
to be cruel.
I’ve learned-
that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true
love.
I’ve learned-
that just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to doesn’t mean they
don’t love you with all they have.
I’ve learned-
that maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you’ve had and what you’ve
learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you’ve celebrated.
I’ve learned-
that you should never tell a child their dreams are unlikely or outlandish. Few things are more
humiliating, and what a tragedy it would be if they believed it.
I’ve learned-
that your family won’t always be there for you. It may seem funny, but people you aren’t
related to can take care of you and love you and teach you to trust people again. Families
aren’t biological.
I’ve learned-
that it isn’t always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you are to learn to forgive
yourself.
I’ve learned-
that no matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn’t stop for your grief.
I’ve learned-
that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are
responsible for who we become.
I’ve learned-
that a rich person is not the one who has the most, but is one who needs the least.
I’ve learned-
that just because two people argue, it doesn’t mean they don’t love each other. And just
because they don’t argue, it doesn’t mean they do.
I’ve learned-
that we don’t have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
I’ve learned-
that you shouldn’t be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever.
I’ve learned-
that two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.
I’ve learned-
that no matter how you try to protect your children, they will eventually get hurt and you will
hurt in the process.
I’ve learned-
that even when you think you have no more to give, when a friend cries out to you, you will
find the strength to help.
I’ve learned-
that credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.
I’ve learned-
that the people you care about most in life are taken from you too soon.
I’ve learned-
that it’s hard to determine where to draw the line between being nice and not hurting people’s
feelings, and standing up for what you believe.
I’ve learned-
that people will forget what you said, and people will forget what you did, but people will
never forget how you made them feel.

THE IMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE.

A philosophy professor stood before his class with some items on the table in front of him.
When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and
proceeded to fill it with rocks, about 2 inches in diameter.
He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the
jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks.
He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.
The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up
everything else.
He then asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous “Yes.”
“Now,” said the professor, “I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The rocks
are the important things – your family, your partner, your health, your children – things that if
everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.
The pebbles are the other things that matter – like your job, your house, your car.
The sand is everything else. The small stuff.”
“If you put the sand into the jar first,” he continued “there is no room for the pebbles or the
rocks. The same goes for your life.
If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the
things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your
happiness. Play with your children. Take your partner out dancing. There will always be time
to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal.
Take care of the rocks first – the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just
sand.”

READING QUOTES

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"Reàding is a basiç tool in the living of a good life" Movtimer J. Adler.
"Literacy is the bridge from misery to hope" Koffi Annan.
“He who destroys a good book kills reason it-self" John Milton.
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free" Fredrick Douglass.
"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read" Mark twain
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10 LESSONS WE CAN LEARN FROM WARREN BUFFETT

Feeling in the dark about your
financial situation? Who better to
listen to than the third-richest
man in the world? Learn the keys
to success from someone who's
no stranger to it.
1. Spend wisely.
- Buffett still dwells in the 5-
bedroom apartment he
purchased 55 years ago.
- Money invested can earn over
20% annual return.
- Median household income: $
45,800 (2010)
- Average spent on frivolous
purchases: 15% or $6,870 -
enough money to fill up a
Hummer gas tank nearly 7x each
month for a year
2. No one cares about your
money as much as you do.
- Buffett makes all his own
investment decisions for his best
interests ? not the commission-
based interests of financial
advisors, stock brokers etc.
- Over 1 in 3 Americans works
with a financial planner
- But 45% of Americans have no
financial plans
- 7% don't even have goals or
strategies they would use
3. Do your homework: scan
thousands of stocks.
- Buffett spends 18 hours a day
working on investment capital,
saying investors should think of
themselves as partial owners.
- 'Never invest in a business you
cannot understand.' - Warren
Buffett
- 40% of Americans say they're
financially literate, but 1 in 3
Americans couldn't correctly
answer this question:
- $100 is in a savings account
with a yearly interest rate of 2%.
After 5 years untouched, how
much money is there?
- A: More than $102
- B: Exactly $102
- C: Less than $102
- (Answer: A: More than $102)
4. Overcome your fear of risk.
- Americans are afraid that
investing will cause them to lose
money, but Buffett says stocks
outperform bonds, banks and
even gold, and are safer, too.
- 'Risk comes from not knowing
what you are doing.' - Warren
Buffett
- 29% of Americans are too risk-
averse to invest in stocks
- 52% of those under age 31 feel
the same
- Yet for nearly 90 years, leading
stocks have averaged 10%
annual returns
5. Focus on the long term.
- Putting off saving/investing
means you'll need to save more
in less time for the same
outcome.
- Buffett equates life to
snowballs; think of investments
the same way:
- 'The important thing is finding
wet snow and a really long hill.' -
Warren Buffett
- Compare Scenarios:
- Saver 1:
- Starts saving at age 21
- Puts away $500/month through
age 30 through 9 years
- Gets 7% annual return
- Reaches $1 million by age 65
- Saver 2:
- Starts saving at age 31
- Put away $500/month through
age 65 - 34 years
- Gets 7% annual return
- Reaches $1 million by age 65 -
by contributing $150,000 more
over the years
6. Invest in quality businesses.
- The result of doing your
homework is determining
worthy companies. Buffett is
famously invested in Coca Cola,
Wells Fargo and IBM.
- 'An investor needs to buy the
stock as if he is buying the whole
company down the road.' -
Warren Buffett
- Remember Enron? It used to
make headlines in a good way...
- Average lifetime of a Fortune
500 company in the 1960s: 75
years
- Average now: 15 years or fewer
7. Hunt for exceptional bargains
for solid companies.
- Buffett recommends buying
stock during a crash, when even
great companies have extremely
low prices.
- Analyze performance, mission
statements, business process,
long term goals and more.
- Fewer stocks can be better, so
invest more time in more
research, rather than more
stocks.
- 5 valuable stocks can yield 71%
of the benefits of a fully-
diversified portfolio
- 15 valuable stocks can yield
87% of the benefits
8. Make decisions to invest
based on how well money is
being used by company
management.
- Buffett feels penny-pinching
indicates a profitable mindset.
Once, he acquired a company
whose owner took the time to
discover his toilet paper roll
wasn't really the advertised 500
sheets!
- Assess these for the best
picture:
- Return on Equity (ROE):
Company's net profit divided by
shareholder's equity
- Return on Capital Employed
(ROCE): Company's earnings
before interest & tax deductions
(EBIT) divided by the result of its
total assets minus current
liabilities
- Ideal condition: ROE and ROCE
are about equal
- Over 40% of Americans report
having made investment
decisions based entirely on
emotion
- Nearly 1 in 2 men have done so
- 1 in 3 women have done so
9. Be patient; wait until
everything is in your favor to
invest.
- When conditions align, buy an
appropriate amount of shares.
Buffett rec

100 MOST INSPIRING QUOTES OF ALL TIME

1. You are your own motivation-  Bolsey
2.Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs
3. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein
4. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made
all the difference. –Robert Frost
5. If you can dream it, you can do it. –Walt Disney
6. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky
7. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times
I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and
over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan
8. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth
9. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone
10. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon
11. We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale
12. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t
do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor,
catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain
13. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –John Maxwell
14. If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony
Robbins
15. The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha
16. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese
Proverb
17. An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates
18. Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen
19. Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. –Napoleon Hill
20. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi
21. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen
Covey
22. Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –
Pablo Picasso
23. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –
Christopher Columbus
24. 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. –Maya Angelou
25. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn
26. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford
27. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you
find out why. –Mark Twain
28. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and
magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
29. The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra
30. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why
we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar
31. Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. –Pablo Picasso
32. If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and
that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh
33. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –
Aristotle
34. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. –
Henry Ford
35. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph
Waldo Emerson
36. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –
Henry David Thoreau
37. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a
single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck
38. Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.  Unsuccessful
people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?” – Brian Tracy
39. Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient
Indian Proverb
40. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt
41. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair
42. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when
men are afraid of the light. –Plato
43. Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. –Christopher Reeve
44. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe
45. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down
‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t
understand life. –John Lennon
46. Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb
47. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the
closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller
48. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucious
49. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve
the world. –Anne Frank
50. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu
51. The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a
lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will. –Vince Lombardi
52. Happiness is not something readymade.  It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama
53. The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the
impossible. –Arthur C. Clarke
54. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the
necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third,
adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle
55. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb
56. You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the
ground. –Unknown
57. Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in
love is done well. –Vincent Van Gogh
58. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown
59. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life
meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine
60. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. –Walt Disney
61. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must
apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci
62. Limitations live only in our minds.  But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities
become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti
63. Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of
freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. –Jim Morrison
64. What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at
night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan
65. I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin
66. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of
failure. –Bill Cosby
67. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
68. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing
it. –Chinese Proverb
69. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach
70. It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot
71. You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey
72. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh
73. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
–Unknown
74. It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for
themselves, that will make them successful human beings.  –Ann Landers
75. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and
half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren
76. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray
77. Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. –Frank Zappa
78. Education costs money.  But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser
79. Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
–H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
80. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius
81. Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little
time to criticize others. –H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
82. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –
Dalai Lama
83. You can’t use up creativity.  The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou
84. Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan
85. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin
Luther King Jr.
86. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt
87. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
–Alice Walker
88. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem
89. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make
it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison
90. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. –Beverly
Sills
91. Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor
Roosevelt
92. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses
93. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand
94. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off
against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford
95. It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln
96. Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale
97. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin
Franklin
98. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn
99. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs
100. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar
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THE LITTLE BOY

Sally jumped up as soon as she saw the surgeon come out of the operating room. She said:
“How is my little boy? Is he going to be all right? When can I see him?”
The surgeon said, “I’m sorry. We did all we could, but your boy didn’t make it.”
Sally said, “Why do little children get cancer? Doesn’t God care any more? Where were you,
God, when my son needed you?”
The surgeon asked, “Would you like some time alone with your son? One of the nurses will be
out in a few minutes, before he’s transported to the university.”
Sally asked the nurse to stay with her while she said good-bye to son. She ran her fingers
lovingly through his thick red curly hair.
“Would you like a lock of his hair?” the nurse asked.
Sally nodded yes. The nurse cut a lock of the boy’s hair, put it in a plastic bag and handed it
to Sally. The mother said, “It was Jimmy’s idea to donate his body to the university for study.
He said it might help somebody else. “I said no at first, but Jimmy said, ‘Mom, I won’t be
using it after I die. Maybe it will help some other little boy spend one more day with his Mom.”
She went on, “My Jimmy had a heart of gold. Always thinking of someone else. Always
wanting to help others if he could.”
Sally walked out of Children’s mercy Hospital for the last time, after spending most of the last
six months there. She put the bag with Jimmy’s belongings on the seat beside her in the car.
The drive home was difficult. It was even harder to enter the empty house. She carried Jimmy’s
belongings, and the plastic bag with the lock of his hair to her son’s room. She started
placing the model cars and other personal things back in his room exactly where he had
always kept them. She laid down across his bed and, hugging his pillow, cried herself to
sleep.
It was around midnight when Sally awoke. Laying beside her on the bed was a folded letter.
The letter said:
“Dear Mom,
I know you’re going to miss me; but don’t think that I will ever forget you, or stop loving you,
just ’cause I’m not around to say I LOVE YOU. I will always love you, Mom, even more with
each day. Someday we will see each other again. Until then, if you want to adopt a little boy
so you won’t be so lonely, that’s okay with me. He can have my room and old stuff to play
with. But, if you decide to get a girl instead, she probably wouldn’t like the same things us
boys do. You’ll have to buy her dolls and stuff girls like, you know. Don’t be sad thinking
about me. This really is a neat place. Grandma and Grandpa met me as soon as I got here and
showed me around some, but it will take a long time to see everything. The angels are so cool.
I love to watch them fly. And, you know what? Jesus doesn’t look like any of his pictures. Yet,
when I saw Him, I knew it was Him. Jesus himself took me to see GOD! And guess what, Mom?
I got to sit on God’s knee and talk to Him, like I was somebody important. That’s when I told
Him that I wanted to write you a letter, to tell you good-bye and everything. But I already knew
that wasn’t allowed. Well, you know what Mom? God handed me some paper and His own
personal pen to write you this letter. I think Gabriel is the name of the angel who is going to
drop this letter off to you. God said for me to give you the answer to one of the questions you
asked Him ‘Where was He when I needed him?’ “God said He was in the same place with me,
as when His son Jesus was on the cross. He was right there, as He always is with all His
children.
Oh, by the way, Mom, no one else can see what I’ve written except you. To everyone else this
is just a blank piece of paper. Isn’t that cool? I have to give God His pen back now. He needs
it to write some more names in the Book of Life. Tonight I get to sit at the table with Jesus for
supper. I’m, sure the food will be great.
Oh, I almost forgot to tell you. I don’t hurt anymore. The cancer is all gone. I’m glad because I
couldn’t stand that pain anymore and God couldn’t stand to see me hurt so much, either.
That’s when He sent The Angel of Mercy to come get me. The Angel said I was a Special
Delivery! How about that?
Signed with Love from: God, Jesus & Me.”
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INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
“If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.”
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action
steps.”
“It is difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven’t been willing to try.”
“Little by little one walks far.”
“If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.”
“I certainly don’t regret my experiences because without them, I couldn’t imagine who or
where I would be today. Life is an amazing gift to those who have overcome great obstacles,
and attitude is everything!”
“Laugh often,
Dream big,
Reach for the stars!”
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma
– which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s
opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your
heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything
else is secondary.”
“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when
everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.”
“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.”
“A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things.”
“You won’t realize the distance you’ve walked until you take a look around and realize how far
you’ve been.”
“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight
minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.”
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a
leader.”
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it
is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
“People come into your life and people leave it… you just have to trust that life has a road
mapped out for you.”
“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates
inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.”
“I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one.”
“Don’t listen to anyone who tells you that you can’t do this or that. That’s nonsense. Make up
your mind, you’ll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school,
join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade
you that things are too difficult or impossible.”
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”

WEAKNESS OR STRENGTH

Sometimes our biggest weakness can become our biggest strength. Take, for example, the
story of one 10-year-old boy who decided to study Judo despite the fact that he had lost his
left arm in a devastating car accident.
The boy began lessons with an old Japanese Judo master. The boy was doing well, so he
couldn’t understand why, after three months of training the master had taught him only one
move.
“Sensei,” the boy finally said, “Shouldn’t I be learning more moves?”
“This is the only move you know, but this is the only move you’ll ever need to know.” – the
sensei replied.
Not quite understanding, but believing in his teacher, the boy kept training.
Several months later, the sensei took the boy to his first tournament. Surprising himself, the
boy easily won his first two matches. The third match proved to be more difficult, but after
some time, his opponent became impatient and charged; the boy deftly used his one move to
win the match. Still amazed by his success, the boy was now in the finals.
This time, his opponent was bigger, stronger, and more experienced. For a while, the boy
appeared to be overmatched. Concerned that the boy might get hurt, the referee called a time-
out. He was about to stop the match when the sensei intervened.
“No,” the sensei insisted, “Let him continue.”
Soon after the match resumed, his opponent made a critical mistake: he dropped his guard.
Instantly, the boy used his move to pin him. The boy had won the match and the tournament.
He was the champion.
On the way home, the boy and sensei reviewed every move in each and every match. Then the
boy summoned the courage to ask what was really on his mind.
“Sensei, how did I win the tournament with only one move?”
“You won for two reasons,” the sensei answered. “First, you’ve almost mastered one of the
most difficult throws in all of judo. And second, the only known defense for that move is for
your opponent to grap your left arm.”
The boy’s biggest weakness had become his biggest strength.

BE CONTENT WITH YOUR LIFE.

Wonder if any of you ever had the feeling that life is bad, real bad,…and you wish you were in
another situation. Do you find that life seems to make things difficult for you, work sucks, life
sucks, everything seems to go wrong….
It was not until yesterday that I totally changed my views about life; after a conversation with
one of my friends.
He told me despite taking 2 jobs, and bringing back barely above 1K per month, he is happy as
he is. I wonder how he can be as happy as he is now, considering that he has to skimp his life
with the low pay to support a pair of old-age parents, in-laws, wife, 2 daughters and the many
bills of a household.
He explained that it was through one incident that he saw in India……
That happened a few years ago when he was really feeling low and was touring India after a
major setback. He said that right in front of his very eyes, he saw an Indian mother chopped
off her child’s right hand with a chopper. The helplessness in the mother’s eyes, the scream of
the pain from the innocent 4 years old child haunted him until today. You may ask why did the
mother do so, has the child been naughty, was the child’s hand infected??
No, it was done for two simple words — to beg. The desperate mother deliberately caused the
child to be handicapped so that the child can go out to the streets to beg. I cannot accept
how this could happen, but it really did, just in another part of the world which I don’t see.
Taken aback by the scene, he dropped a small piece of bread he was eating half-way. And
almost instantly, flock of 5 or 6 children swamp towards this small piece of bread which was
then covered with sand, robbing of bits from one another. The natural reaction of hunger.
Striken by the happenings, he instructed his guide to drive him to the nearest bakery. He
arrived at two bakeries and bought every single loaf of bread he found in the bakeries.
The owner is dumbfolded , but willing sold everything. He spent less than $100 to obtain
about 400 loaf of bread (this is less than $0.25/per loaf) and spend another $100 to get daily
necessities. Off he went in the truck full of bread into the streets. As he distributed the bread
and necessities to the children (mostly handicapped) and a few adults, he received cheers and
bows from these unfortunate. For the first time in life he wonder how people can give up their
dignity for a loaf of bread which cost less than $0.25. He began to ask himself how fortunate
he is as a Singaporean. How fortunate he to be able to have a complete body, have a job, have
a family, have the chance to complain what food is nice what isn’t, have the chance to be
clothed, have the many things that these people in front of him are deprived of…..
Now I begin to think and feel it, too. Was my life really that bad?
Perhaps….no,… it should not be bad at all….
What about you? Maybe the next time you think you are, think about the child who lost one
hand to beg on the streets.

THE LAW OF THE GARBAGE TRUCK..

One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane
when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us.
My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches!
The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us!
My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, really friendly. So I asked, “Why
did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!”
This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, “The Law of the Garbage Truck.”
He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage
(frustration, anger, and disappointment, etc.) . As their garbage piles up, they need a place to
dump it and sometimes they’ll dump it on you.
Don’t take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don’t take their
garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.
The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life’s
too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so… love the people who treat you right &
pray for the ones who don’t. Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you
take it!
Have a blessed, garbage-free day.

10 CAREER STRATEGY TIPS

Whether you are employed or self-employed, below are 10 things to help you in your career:
1. Make time to understand what motivates your boss or your clients.
2. Give more than expected - go that extra mile and add more value.
3 . Make time to network and build stronger relationships with those you work with.
4. Invest in your own development; reading, researching and skills-swaps are cost effective
alternatives to expensive training courses.
5. Have a clear vision for your career progression and be flexible how you get there.
6. Play to your strengths - how can you utilise what you are great at to address the
challenges of your employer or clients?
7. Be creative - think outside the box.
8. Don't cruise or be complacent - look at your blind spots to come through difficult times
stronger.
9. Be proactive - people want solutions not problems and a 'can do' positive and flexible
attitude.
10. Make time for self-promotion.

25 Super Study Tips.

1. kBe in Class.
2. Don’t try skipping a class
and then trying to catch up
by reading the textbook.
Teachers often highlight
points they think will
appear on a test or exam.
You should pay special
attention to the last five
weeks in the semester
because almost 50% of the course’s work will take place in the last
part of the term.
3. Understand your teacher.
Find out your teacher’s testing format, marking scheme and
expectations. You will get better grades by meeting the teacher’s
standards.
4. Set specific times to study.
You should set a time when to review your notes so that you will be
more obligied to review at that time. Reviewing your notes also
helps you remember them through the principle of repetition.
5. Study in the same place.
When you study in the same place every time, your mind will
automatically kick into gear when you sit in that place. Studying in
one area also gives you a permanant place to keep all your supplies.
6. Have short but often study periods.
Having four short study pperiods a week are more effective than two
long study periods because : (1) frequent repetition is the key to
building your memory and, (2) long breaks between study periods
may help you forget what you studied.
7. Start study periods on time.
Delays in your schedule will affect how you study. Try to train
yourself to use every minute of your scheduled time.
8. Obviously, study when you are awake.
When you study during the day, , you are more likely to learn faster
and retain the information longer. If during your study session you
feel drowsy and are about to fall asleep, give in. It is better to learn
the rest of the information in the morning than trying to stay awake
and forgetting everything the next day.
9. Set goals to accomplish in each subject.
If you set a goal for a specific time period, you are more likely to
accomplish more of it and faster. Don’t worry if you don’t reach you
goal in your set amount of time, just reschedule or get back to it
when you have time.
10. Start assignments as soon as they are given.
If you spread the workload out, the quality of your assignment will
better. If the assignment is due near exam time, this will save
valuble study time.
11. Study your most difficult subjects first.
You are most conscious when you first sit down to study, so you
will be more capable of understanding the hard stuff. With the worst
and yucky subjects out of the way, you won’t be tempted to spend
long amounts of time on the easy subjects.
12. Review!!
Taking good notes and reviewing them is the main secret to
understanding your subject. The best way to review is to read the
information out loud. If you review at regular intervals, you will
retain up to 80% in your long term memory.
13. Take breaks.
I usually take a 10 minute break every 50 minutes, though it may
vary. Breaks help to refresh you, so don’t study through them.
14. Reward Yourself.
When you reach a goal, you feel on top of the world. Reward yourself
(ie. magazine, snack, movie or TV show). Rewards give you
incentive to reach your next goals!
15. Finish Homework.
If you don’t finish your work it will pile up. The more your work piles
up, the harder it is to catch up. Finishing homework also gives you
confidence that you can finish what you start.
The list makes studying seem hard, but it turns easier once you get used
to it. Now, If you have said any of the following quotations in the past,
fear no longer for there are answers!! coming now in a web page near
you . . .
“I can’t concentrate!”
Thinking about your date Saturday night?? Don’t worry. All you need are
a few approved concentration techniques.
1. Switch subjects frequently. If you have a short attention span or is
easily bored, switch the subjects you are studying frequently. Having
variety helps ward off boredom.
2. Avoid Distractions. Tell your family you don not want to
be disturbed or study in a room away from usual distractions (TV,
phone calls, nearby conservations).
3. Sleep well! If you don’t get enough sleep, you will be less able to
concentrate. Most people need 7-9 hours of sleep to function
normaly.
4. Sit in front of a blank wall. If you’re sitting in front of posters or
windows you will more likely to be distracted. The less your
surroundings distract you, the better you will concentrate.
“I just can’t remember!”
Trying to remember a text book for an upcoming test is hard, especially if
you don’t know what you’re doing. Try and improve your memory with
these memory techniques.
1. Reduce information to key facts If you do this, you will have less to
remember! Practice, and you will learn to take only important facts!
2. Repetition. The fastest way to transfer information from short term to
long term memory is to reherse often and out loud.
3. Have good Attitude! When you like what you learn, remembering will
be easier. If you can turn course material into personal interest, the
information will be kept longer in your memory.
4. Find Patterns. Remembering items or lists is difficult unless you
find patterns.
. . . ie. The number 123456 can be split into: odd-1,3,5 and
even-2,4,6.
5. Rhymes Rhymes are hard to forget. Try rhyming small details that
you find hard to remember.
. . . ie.“In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.”
6. Acronyms. This is a good study tool but don’t spend too much time
trying to invent them.
. . . ie.The Great Lakes – HOMES
(H uron, O ntario, Micigan, Erie, Superior)
7. Have good Attitude! When you like what you learn, remembering will
be easier. If you can turn course material into personal interest, the
information will be kept longer in your memory.
I hope these tips help you get your grades up .
Credit: This blog was taken from http://socyberty.com/advice/how-to-
learn-more-easily/

Study The Right Way

Here are a few study tips to help you get the required
result in skul;
Determination: Be determined. No study material comes with the package
of motivation. Textbooks are so boring that i searched for video tutorials
then i discovered anything that has to do with studying is automatically
redirected to that part of the brain that screams BORING!!!. I wish i knew
how to fix that easily. Determination is the KEY TO SUCCESS. No matter
how tiring and boring conclude in your heart you wanna get this done
and JUST DO IT!
Be Inspired: Inspiration goes a long way in preparing your mind for the
task ahead. So many things inspire us to do greatness. A friend’s
failure,A brother’s success,That guy in school getting all the chics cos
he helps them with their home-work . Go discover what inspires you
today!
Choose right study material: Another essential part to studying
effectively is getting the right study materials. You can’t get materials for
Geography and say you wanna study for medicine can you? lol . Get
the right books for your course,ask your lecturer for recommendations
and get them.
Get A Comfortable Environment: Get somewhere quiet and free from
distractions with good chair with great back support so you dont strain
your neck and back. NOTE: Do not get too comfortable and sleep off
oooo!
Allot 2 – 3 hours exclusively to STUDY: Getting the right materials is the
first and easiest step. Now get your hands in the mud and say
#ImGoingIn . Actually set 2-3hours to study,not read. Studying
requires a greater level of concentration to assimilate and be able to
reproduce what you just read.
Turn off TV/Cell phone: To be honest, I hate this part! No TV? No
phone calls? What if aliens are invading earth and my friends wanna
inform me? Or my favorite brand of chocolate is about to go out of
stocks?…Yeah its hard but its neccessary(i still battle with this though
). Like i said earlier Studying is different from Reading. That
concentration needs to be maximized. So go ahead turn the phone off
and watch time fly while the book engulfs you into the realm of Einstein
Give yourself a treat: I know studying is boring yup it iz! After 3hours of
blah blah blah c’mon lets have some fun! Go swim or hang out with the
crew Afterall they say all work and no play make Arab a Nerd. I dont
mind being a nerd though but for d next 5years? No sir! I got chics to
play with booze to drown in and parties to rock . I wanna sing “I
LOVE COLLEGE ” like Asher Roth too
I hope y’all find these tips helpful cos i do. Good luck on your Academic
Endeavors! God Bless Us