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
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 🙂
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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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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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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!
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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!
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Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Maori Proverb
Again, it all comes down to your perspective and your attitude. Alter your perspective towards your goals and the good things in live and the “bad” things – if you want to use that word – just fall out of perspective, they don’t matter anymore. Or are you concerned about what your shadow does? I don’t think so!
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Your focus determines your future.
Star Wars
What you focus on today determines the destination, where you will land in the future. Not exactly of course, but it gives a very clear direction 🙂
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Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
This is one of my favourite quotes about happiness so far, because it represents a fact that I have realised by myself often. In times when you are busy all the time, when you wake up, and the next moment you have for yourself is when you go to bed, those are the times, when you are certainly very happy. Why? Because you have a purpose to fullfil, you have something t odo, to achieve, what keeps your mind away from troubling, negative thougts. That is, what you are made for. Not for worrying about your life, but for living it to the fullest!
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When people say to me: “How do you do so many things?” I often answer them, without meaning to be cruel: “How do you do so little?” It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
Philip Kleidt
Think about it!
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