One of the Greatest Motivational Speeches Ever
Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
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"you can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards.
So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference."
"I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.
The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again. Less sure about everything."
"I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.
You’ve got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle.
As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
So keep looking. Don’t settle."
"Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
Because almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure,
these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
"It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous.
Beneath it were the words, stay hungry, stay foolish.
It was their farewell message as they signed off, stay hungry, stay foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay hungry, stay foolish."
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Be Less Negative than More Positive
An interesting interpretation by Dr. Price Prichett, on how positive and negative thinking affects us
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Which is more important? Where do you get the most mileage? More positive thinking or
less negative thinking?
And the studies are unequivocal. It's less negative thinking.
Now the thing that gets us tangled up is that I guess pretty much all of us think of it
is, okay, you've got this linear scale here, you know, and we'll say at the high end, the
good end is optimism and the low end is pessimism.
Negative thinking. Well studies show thatthey're actually two different scales. And this is just fascinating to me. You should positive thinking is important. Keep it up. Keep it high. But if you want to get your real knowledge, just cut down on the negative thinking.
Cut it down, cut it down, cut it down.
That's the villain voice. That's the critic in your head. That's the demotivator.
That's the discounter. That's the one that raises the doubts.
And you can shut it up.It takes practice. It takes some discipline.
But people say, well, I think I'm aware of my negative thinking, but they're not. About 70% of our negative thinking goes unperceived bias. It is so embedded in our day to day behavior. We're not even aware of it. About 70%. It is so much just ingrained in the way we go about living.
Yes. And so let me show you how it shows up.
I'll talk about the five C's. The sneak attack of the five C's.
Okay, the first one is "complaining". Graping, graping, graping. You know, it's too hot in Dallas.
It is. But that's not going to change if I grab about it.
Okay. So the first one is complaining.
The next one's "criticizing". Well, the grid went down today in Texas. We had brownouts,
my air conditioners. Yeah. And there's always someone to criticize. So we've got complaining.
We've got criticizing.
The next one is "concern". And I'm not talking about being empathic here and having concern for some other person. I'm talking about garden variety worry. I'm concerned about this.
Well, I'm concerned about inflation. Well, I'm concerned about, you know, the news.
All right.
The next one is "commiserating". We come in and I sat down with this person. And they start their C's, their C talk.
And I say, I get it, man. Yeah, I understand. I'm not doing anybody any good. When I start commiserating, I'm not doing anyone any good. It's destructive to both of us.
And then the last one is catastrophizing, which is just, when you're really down, you just blow things all out of proportion. But those things sneak in. If you start watching people, watching ourselves, how much we do this, and of course, we're surrounded by so much negativity, you know, you go, you listen to the news, you get on social media in, on and on.
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Manifest Anything You Want
Bob Proctor, Dolores Cannon and other Gurus talk about how to manifest anything successfully. They reveal the real secrets behind power of manifestation
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Sharing the incomparable silent beauty of our Planet
Captured by NASA astronauts
Sergey Ryazanskiy, Paolo Nespoli, and Commander Randy Bresnik,
the video features stunning footage of Earth and outer space
from the International Space Station in low-earth orbit
during the months of August through October in 2017
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Successful People Cultivate Decision Making Habit
Bob Proctor shares his wisdom on decision making
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Forgive and be Free
When we forgive others we benefit more than the person we forgive. We free up the energy to do awesome good
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Gratitude - The Key to Abundance and Riches
Being Grateful for What You Already Have Opens Floodgates of Abundance
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