Holiday Time

Dear Friends,

If you have not already know, I will be away for a month. Going to Florida for holidays. I will try to keep up on the blog but otherwise, I should be back again in May.

Cheers！

Job At The Zoo

Times were tough so when a job came up at the zoo, Jon was the first one there. On arrival he was told that the gorilla had just died and he was to wear a gorilla suit and pretend to be a gorilla until another one could be found.

Jon loved his job - eating bananas, swinging from branch to branch, entertaining visitors, lying about in the sun. Then one day he swung a bit too far and ended up in the lion enclosure. He jumped to his feet when he saw two lions growling fiercely and ran to the fence and screamed for help.

Then as he turned back to face the lions, one said, “If you don't stop screaming and shouting we’ll all lose our bloody jobs!”

The secret of success

The secret of success is constancy of purpose. - Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis

The secret to success is setting your mind to the task. Eventually persistence and determination will triumph. Unknown

Self-trust is the first secret of success. Unknown

The secret to success is never to give up. Unknown

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. - Colin Powell

The measure of success

To a large extent, the measure of your success is also your definition of success. We all use different yardstick to measure success. Let’s take a look at how other people measure success.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one’s origins and one’s final achievement. - Michael Korda

If you can achieve ten significant things, you are not successful when you only achieved two. Success should be measured against your ability. - Unknown

The man is indeed a success who can look back and say not that he has accomplished more than any man, but who can look back and say “I have inspired more men to accomplish.” - Unknown

You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal. - Chuck Carlson

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. - Earl Nightingale

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered, and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. - Orison Swett Marden

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. - Booker T. Washington

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard - reaching for the highest that is in us - becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. - Zig Ziglar

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task, who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauties, nor failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had; whose life is an inspiration; whose memory a benediction. - Robert Luis Stevenson

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Unknown

Requisites For Success

How does one achieve success? Whatever you say about success and however you define success, no one will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties, and prepared to assume responsibilities.

Perseverance

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. - Unknown

Most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. - Michael Korda

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. - William Feather

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this (show) business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply did not give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you. - Harrison Ford

Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts. - Unknown

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. - Napoleon Hill

Have the ability to recognize an opportunity when it presents itself and to seize it

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand. - Bruce Barton

The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity. - Joseph Sugarman

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. - Benjamin Franklin

Set realistic goals

If you want a certain type of fruit, you must choose to climb the right tree. If you want real success, choose the right path to walk or the right wall to climb. - Unknown

The successful person is not only goal-directed; he chooses the right goal to pursue in the first place. - Unknown

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: he knows where he is going. - Mark Caine

Do not be not afraid to fail

Successful people are not afraid to fail. They have the ability to accept their failures and continue on, knowing that failure is a natural consequence of trying. The law of failure is one of the most powerful of all the success laws because you only really fail when you quit trying. - Unknown

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success. - B. C. Forbes

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure. - Napoleon Hill

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed. - Gordon Parks

Do what you enjoy doing

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. - Charles Kendall Adams

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful. - Malcolm Forbes

Enthusiasm

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. - Charles M. Schwab

The first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. - Sir William Osler

Work Hard

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you have not planted. - Unknown

A successful person is one who went ahead and did the thing the rest of us never quite got around to. - Unknown

Do not give up

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown. - H. Ross Perot

When you feel like giving up, hold on just a little longer. Many a times, success come to those who held on a little longer. - Unknown

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. - Thomas Edison

About Success

Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey. The journey towards success should be enjoyed as much as success itself. - Unknown

Success is achieved by those who try. Where there is a lot to gain and little to lose, try. - Unknown

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. - Florence Griffith Joyner

Real success is not an outward show but an inward feeling. It begins inside, and probably its first inkling is the feeling, even the knowledge, that one is worthwhile. That is quite a discovery. Regardless of how the rest of the world may value us, there is no fooling the inner Bureau of Standards. - Howard J. Whitman

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. - Unknown

The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity. - Victor Chasles

Success is often achieved by those who do not know that failure is inevitable. - Coco Chanel

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. - Henry David Thoreau

The road to success starts when you are inspired to make the effort. Inspiration starts when you are motivated to dissatisfaction with things as they are. Therefore, inspirational dissatisfaction is the strongest single force in your success system. It never fails. - Unknown

When people say they learned more from failure than success, they have forgotten that the success already included many failures – hence a better teacher. - Unknown

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Unknown

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work. - Unknown

Success is more dependent on the backbone than the wishbone. - Unknown

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. - George Patton

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. - Sir Walter Scott

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats. - Amos Bronson Alcott

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out. - Robert Collier

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. - An Wang

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well. - Denis Waitley

A successful man is one who is able to build a solid foundation with the bricks that have been thrown at him. - Unknown

Success without honour is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. - Joe Paterno

Success in your life or business isn't magic or luck - it is the result of knowledge of the right things to do. - Stephen A. Matuszak

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. - Ayn Rand

Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck. - Grenville Kleiser

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams. - Og Mandino

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met. - W. Clement Stone

No matter how well informed he may be, no person can make an entirely accurate estimate of your chance for success in any understanding. Success depends so much upon your optimism and steadfast determination. Don’t pay too much attention to the eternal pessimists, whether a close friend or an eminent authority, who assures you that you are doomed to failure. If you put your very best into an attempt to reached your goal, who says you can’t make it? - Henry N. Gerguson

For true success, it matters what our goals are. And it matters how we go about attaining them. The means are as important as the ends. How we get there is as important as where we go. - Tom Morris

Success

Our society place a lot of emphasis on success. Hence, everyone of us strive to succeed in whatever we undertake to do. No one dares to fail, no one wants to be known a failure, and certainly, no one wants to be left behind in this rat race.

Inadvertently we created a very competitive climate for ourselves. We are pressured to excel. We feel the stress of competing, of having to be amongst the top, if not the best in our field. However, not everyone can be number one. And success is more than being the best in your field, or being number one.

Basically, success is working towards a goal and attaining it. But, the measure of success does not end once the goal is attained. When one goal is attained, another should be set, and worked towards. This means that we are daily engaged in striving towards a goal that we have chosen and feel is worthy of us as persons. Hence, a person’s success is the objectives he set for himself and the way he attained these objectives.

In this respect, as long as we have not taken our last breath, as long as we do not give up trying, we can still be successful. Just bear in mind that success does not come to us unless we work hard for it. If we seek success, we have to make things happen.

There is no such thing as a born successful-man. One is born rich – yes, but one cannot be born successful. To be successful we must have a goal, and we need to accomplish that goal.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Many men and women succeed in a big way, yet do not possess extraordinary intelligence or ability. If we take a closer look at their success, we can usually see that they are startlingly different from others, even those far more gifted than themselves, in that they have the utmost confidence in their ability to accomplish whatever they set out to do.

Success comes in many facets. Success does not necessarily mean that we must earn a great deal of money and live in a big house. Success is living up to your potential. Some would say the man who has done his level best is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

I guess all of us have our own definition of success, and it will reflect in our outlook, in the way we live our live. Our own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

Personally, I feel the biggest success is one who has lived well - one who is contented, happy and has peace of mind.

Satan And Santa Claus

Two boys were walking home from Sunday school after hearing a strong preaching on the devil. One said to the other, “What do you think about all this Satan stuff?”

The other boy replied, “Well, you know how Santa Claus turned out. It’s probably just your dad."

The Ant Philosophy

Ants never quit

When they’re headed somewhere and you try to stop them, they’ll look for another way. They will climb over, climb under, or they will climb around. They keep looking for another way.

Lesson. Never quit looking for a way to get where you’re supposed to go.

Ants think Winter all Summer

You can’t be so naïve as to think summer will last forever. So ants are gathering their winter food in the middle of summer.

Lesson. It is important to be realistic. Think ahead.

Ants think Summer all Winter

During the winter, ants remind themselves, ‘This wont’ last long; we’ll soon be out of here.’ At the first warm day, the ants are out. If it turns cold again, they’ll dive back down, but then they come out the first warm day.

Lesson. Stay positive at all times.

Ants do all they possibly can

How much will an ant gather during the summer to prepare for the winter? All that he possibly can.

Lesson. Do all you can… and more.

In a nut shell, there is this four part philosophy:-

Never give up

Look ahead

Stay positive

Do all you can

Eight Gifts That Do Not Cost A Cent

The Gift of Listening

Really listen. No interrupting, no daydreaming, no planning your response. Just listen.

The Gift of Laughter

Share jokes, articles and funny stories. Spread some humour and laughter around.

The gift of a Compliment

A simple and sincere, “You look great in….,” “You did a super job” or “That was a wonderful meal,” can make someone’s day.

The Gift of Solitude

There are times when we want nothing better than to be left alone. Be sensitive to these times and give the gift of solitude to others.

The Gift of a Cheerful Disposition

The easiest way to feel good is to extend a kind word to someone. Really, it is not that hard to say “Hello”, or “Thank You.”

The Gift of Appreciation

We all need to feel we are appreciated. A simple, “Thanks for the help” or "Your concern meant a lot to me" will make a person feels he is appreciated.

The Gift of Affection

Be generous with appropriate hugs, kisses, pats on the back and handholds. Let the small actions demonstrate the love you have for family and friends.

The Gift of a Smile

Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So, smile. Spread some sunshine as you go about your day.