Monthly Archives: November 2010

Start working!

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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Joseph Joubert

You think you have some good ideas? Well I think you are probably right about that, especially if they are crazy as hell. So start working on them untill they become reality! It is your responsibility to bring your dreams into the real world!

Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality.
PRACTICAL DREAMERS DO NOT QUIT!

Napoleon Hill

By the way: D-D-D-D-ouble quote 🙂

/phil

Wondering why so many people don’t like your plans?

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The man who makes a success of an important venture never wails for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticized. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can’t be done.
C. V. White

Don’t be let them demotivate you! In fact, even if people see that you will succeed, some of them won’t let you know that, just because they are envious or they don’t know better.

/phil

Motivated by the Reaper

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It’s the deathly important which acts as the catalyst for change. You might do a lot of things to get what you want in life, but you’ll do so much more to avoid immediate death.

Philipp Kleidt

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A strong motivating question!

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Hey guys, today I have one of my personal “top 5 motivating things” for you! It is a question, that you ask yourself in situations in which you are not sure wether you should do something or how you should do it. Then you ask:

Will I regret this when I’m 80?

And you picture you, being 80 years old, sitting on a chair, thinking about your life, what you have done, what you have not done, what you should have done and what you should not have done. Would the 80 year old “you” be happy and satisfacted or would it think “Why did I do that?”, “Why this hestitation?” and so on. Usually, when I ask this question, I give myself answers that motivate me to do the harder attempt, to go through the tougher part and especially to do it directly instead of waiting days, months or years before starting.

What is your 80 years old self going to think of your life?

Another good question or idea, which is like the one above is:

How would YOU change your livestyle if you knew people had only 40 years to live instead of 70, 80 or sometimes even 90+ years?

We always think we have so much time in front of us, so many years, in which we will achieve stuff. But why don’t we try to achieve those things we dream of now? What gives us the feeling, that we should hestitate? I’m too young, I will do this in some years blablabla. Would you act differently if noone, not even you, knew your age? Would you realy live everyday to the fullest and do what you wanted to do? If the answer is yes, then cancel your damn birthday out of every fucking calendar and start living your live now! Believe me, you won’t regret this. Not when you are 80 and not when you are 40. Not tomorrow and not when you are dead!

/phil

Do you please everybody?

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Fitting to the sentence from the “The social network” commercial “You can not make 500 Million friends without making some enemies”, I like this quote:

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is:
Try to please everybody.

Herbert Bayard Swope

Make yourselves a happy weekend, pals 🙂

/phil

Are you taking respnsibillity for your happiness?

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There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.

David Burns

When it comes down to happiness you can only rely on yourself. This may seem egocentric at the first glance and I don’t want to say that another person or situation can’t possibly make you happy. I’m rather seeing this with a greater distance, I take a look at a longer span of life.

Let’s take a happy couple for example. Of course they make each other feel good in thousands of ways and you could definitely say that they can rely on each others caring for happiness. But what happens if one of the persons dies? Is the other one commited to be sad, is the other person commited to be a victim to fate and circumstances? I don’t think so and since you and only you in person are the only one you will live your whole life with, from birth to death, you should rely on yourself when it comes to deep and infinite happiness. I’m talking fullfilling, everlasting, strong happiness, not entertaining, relatively short happiness. See the difference?

Also this applies to your responsibility for other peoples happiness. It is good to give other people a good feeling, to “make them happy”. But you are in no way responsible for the happiness of other people and you can’t possibly be, how could you be so powerfull? You are just responsible for your own happiness!

By the way I brought this quote up today because of an event this morning. A little child was crying in its baby buggy and my co-worker directly adressed this child, which he did not know, and said: “Why do you cry? You are just destroying your own good mood, don’t do that!” Than he continued talking to the child, which went silent during the talk, listening to the words he could not probably understand, whith eyes wide open. Not really a special event, but it was nice and suprised me so I remembered this quote 🙂

/phil

Are you afraid?

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It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What is Leadership?

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One brilliant quote about Leadership, I have nothing to add:

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Keep it up!

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The good thing about success is, that you don’t have to get it in one shot

Philipp Kleidt

What I like a lot about success is that you don’t have to get it right in one try. The world wasn’t build in one day neither was any house any company or any successfull business. You don’t have to achieve all of your dreams in no time. But as soon as you start doing a little bit every day, it is just a question of time untill you finally succeed. Every task, it may seem impossible, can be split up into many little things that have to be done and if you are persistend and determined, you will make it!

On the contrary there are some gaps that you can’t cross with little steps, there are some tasks in life that require making a big step, having courage, having the guts. Neverthelesse, as long as you keep trying and won’t let failures tear your intentions down, you will eventually get what you want!

/phil

A bit of Sunday Thinking

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Today I thought about thinking. Sounds weird? Well, read and decide if it really is weird 😉

In combat, as in life, when we start thinking too much, we’re dead.

Michael Bookbinder

Don’t get me wrong here, I don’t want to state that thinking in generel is bad. But it has two big problems. The first one is that thinking is slow! Of course on first thought you might say ‘Hey, thinking is super fast, look what mah brainz can do!!1’, but also you would agree that taking action based on intuition and reflexes is way faster, would you not? As soon as you start to think about stuff, about risks, about chances, about the outcome, you lose time you could invest DOING what you are just THINKING about. Remember: A lot of thinking can not come close to a bit of action. Of course there are situations where you have to think and where it is right to think, but don’t let your brain slow you down in your life because you are scared of making decisions!

Are you a couch potato and a great thinker? Do you live inside your head?

That brings me to the second problem of thinking. Thinking reveals excuses. Let me make an example. You have the idea that you want to go out and take a short run. What does your brain do? It brings you in some handy excuses. It is cold – Your feet hurt – It is dark outside – You could damage yourself – You are tired blah blah blah. You start thinking what could happen if you run and what could happen if you don’t do it and so on. But guess what? If you had just stopped thinking right at the first excuse and instead stepped in your shoes and got your lazy ass out of your chair you would have known what would happen if you had taken the run. You would KNOW if it was a good decision or not and no thinking in the world could have brought you that Knowledge.

It seems to me that people often want things in the beginning and they can be real passionate about it, but instead of just starting what they have in mind, they think about it so long that they get scared in the end by all the negative things that could happen. Blah blah blah, fuck that, you are not meant to sit at home, thinking about how life could be or how life should be in theory, your are made for LIVING life and experiencing it by yourself. That is not something you can do by thinking or watching others doing it for you. You are responsible for yourself and only for yourself so why don’t you just stop thinking and doubting for a moment and just do what you got in your mind?

I’m sure some of you got something they really want to do, something they really want to say, SOMETHING!

So Just Do It!

/phil