That doesn't just apply, course to baseball or football. It applies equally to business and life. The Colts thought they were going to win. So did everyone else, except The Saints.
After the game, the Saints QB, Drew Brees, said it all: “We just believed in ourselves and we knew that we had an entire city maybe an entire country behind us… what can I say?”
Funny what a difference belief in yourself can make.
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( 5 / 1 ) Click a star 1-5, left to right, to rate.Since texting doesn’t come naturally to me, it took a moment to figure out what the billboard on the subway platform said.
N e v e r l i m i t y o u r s e l f again…. on so many levels technology is changing how we communicate; even, it seems, how we spell. This was an ad for a mobile phone. But as I stood there, waiting for the next train, my mind went to a video that only last night I watched on the PBS Network.If there are any children in your family (even if there aren’t) and you think, even for a nanosecond, things aren’t going to change, log on www.pbs.org. and peer into the future. It’s coming down the track at breakneck speed. Click on FRONTLINE/Digital Nation. It’s totally amazing.
Avatars on Second Life? That’s just for openers…
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( 0 / 0 ) Click a star 1-5, left to right, to rate.Since I’m a student of personal leadership, I want to tell you about Greg Mortenson (he's such a sterling example) and his one man mission to promote peace in remote areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, one school at a time.
For those of you who may not be familiar with the story, I heartily recommend his autobiography, Three Cups of Tea. Without giving the story away, let me just tell you that it is about his decision to build a school in a remote village in Pakistan and what it took to accomplish that feat.
After his near death experience climbing on the slopes of the notorious K2 mountain peak in Pakistan, he was nursed back to health by the inhabitants of a poor, remote village at the foot of the mountain. When he was well enough to return home to the USA he asked the elders what he could give them in appreciation. They wanted a school for their children.
He had no money and no idea how to he was going to do it, but he promised to return and build one.
You’ll have to read the book to find out how he accomplished it. Back home, as he went about the task of raising funds for the school, he was so short of money himself that he slept in the back seat of his old car to save as much money as he could. But he raised the $12,000 he needed.
Over the next decade he built not just one, but fifty-five schools – especially for girls – in the forbidding territory that gave birth to the Taliban.
His story is a testament to the power of the human spirit… and what can result from belief in yourself, commitment and personal courage. You just have to start. Like Greg, you’ll figure it out.
To learn more about Greg and his work click on to www.gregmortenson.com
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“Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Life is a series of choices. One of the most important you can make is to decide how you see life… and the proverbial half a glass of wine. Is it half empty? Or is it half full?
It’s easy to be a pessimist and a cynic – and way harder to be an optimist. But it’s worth working at, because there is so much about life that is precious… and time is too short to waste it barking against the bad.
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( 3.9 / 10 ) Click a star 1-5, left to right, to rate.“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is important that you do it.” Mahatma Gandhi
A few days ago, a group of about 200 people sailed off the coast of South Africa and sprinkled some of Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes on to the Indian Ocean to mark the 62nd anniversary of the Indian independence leader’s assassination.
Upon his death, Gandhi’s body was cremated and his ashes were distributed among family, friends and followers. No one knows with certainty how many people received a portion of his ashes. A family friend decided to keep some of Gandhi’s ashes as a memento and on her death bed gave the container to her daughter-in-law who, in turn, gave it back to the Gandhi family.
In keeping with the Hindu custom, Gandhi’s great grandson poured the ashes on to the sea. As the onlookers threw flowers as a sign of their final goodbyes, Gandhi’s 69 year granddaughter, herself a respected South Africa activist, spoke of the late leader’s legacy:
“I think one of the important messages of his death is the intolerance that goes on in this world, the intolerance of people for other people on the basis of religion, on the basis of race, on the basis of ethnicity, of class and caste and so on… all these intolerances end up in violence and in wars and so on.”
Hmmm…
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