17-07-06

Here's the real secret of success: Regardless of our mortal limitations, our potential for greatness is unlimited when we have the power of the Almighty behind us.
All God asks is that we try. Don't keep Him waiting

God made the physical world for us to enjoy.
Sleep and comfort is painless. But that is not the goal of living!
In reality, pain is the price you pay for pleasure. If you want to graduate college and get a good job, you have to study hard. If you want to become an Olympic gold-medal champion, you have to experience the pain of sore muscles.
Equating comfort with pleasure is counterfeit. Real pleasure comes only as a result of effort.
· There is no exchange rate between the various levels of pleasure.
· Watch out for counterfeit pleasures.
· For every pleasure, the price tag is effort.
The key is awareness. When you are aware, you won't lose control and allow your appetites to rule over you.
Infatuation is not love, it's just physical attraction, the counterfeit. Real love is forever. Real love takes work. You have to be willing to make the effort.
Western society has another version of counterfeit pleasure: financial success. You can be a good husband, a good friend, a loyal human being, a thinker, and an intellectual -- but if you haven't made a lot of money, you are a failure.
Don't fall for "looking" good. True goodness comes from doing the right thing.
Imagine someone who has mastered the pleasure. She enjoys enormous wealth and material pleasures, a beautiful loving family, meaning in life, power used to create good in the world. Yet there's still something missing.
An encounter with God.
No human being is totally satisfied unless she's in touch with the transcendent dimension. When all is said and done, what we each seek is to reach out of this finite world and connect with the infinite. To become one with God.

By upgrading your self-image, you can upgrade your way of speaking and acting. This improves character traits, emotional states, and your ability to make and reach worthwhile goals.
Building your self-image is a lifetime process. Every positive act that you do builds your character. Every positive goal that you set -- and reach -- raises your identity.

"My choices create me. I will wisely choose my thoughts, words, and actions."
"My immense value is a Divine gift. I have had immense value from my first moment of life and it stays with me my entire life."
"Nothing anyone says to me can take away my immense value."
"I will consistently speak to others in ways that are self-respecting and respectful."
"All needless limitations are just from my imagination. In my imagination I will see myself going way beyond these imaginary limitations."
"My thoughts are the key to my self-image and my emotions. I will focus on joyful and empowering thoughts."
"I am a person who grows from each and every challenge."
"I am building and developing my character each and every day."
"I will see the positive in other people and I will say and do what I can to help build their self-image."
"I am becoming more and more self-confident all the time.""Each and every day I will choose to speak and act in ways that keep developing my self-image."

lesson from GOD

If "success" is our only ticket to self-respect, then many of us will never get there. And those with the good fortune to achieve such "success" will always live in fear of losing it through circumstances beyond their control. We may have all the talent in the world, but we can end up tripping on the pavement and missing the interview!
"According to the effort is the reward." If you make the effort, you will find results
The answer is that effort and results are not cause and effect. Reaching great heights does not depend upon our natural talents and capabilities. Effort is our responsibility, but results are a "find" -- a gift from God. And God will give us whatever we need to succeed.

A person can thus succeed by winning a moral struggle, even if there are no tangible results.
But effort is difficult to quantify, so in our materialistic world we tend to disregard its value.
You are watching two people compete in a 100-meter dash. One runs a world record time of 9.3 seconds. The other crosses the finish line in 30 seconds.
Who attained success? The record breaker of course!
Except that the one who clocked 30 seconds had developed polio as a child, was unable to walk until he was 14-years-old, and had invested years of painful, grueling exercise until he was finally able to even run the distance.
We can never measure anyone's value based on external success, because we can never know the circumstances he has had to deal with.
We are born into a particular set of circumstances, as determined by God. We only have control over the effort that we exert. How we deal with our particular circumstances determines whether we are a success. Where we stand on the ladder is less important than how many rungs we've climbed.
Self-esteem comes from knowing you're making the effort to grow. If we're making our best effort, we can live with a deep and abiding sense of satisfaction.

Western society's focus on external accomplishment decreases the chance of developing genuine self-esteem.

Man is created with a soul, a divine spark of God. Self-respect is a birthright.

Never measure anyone's value based on external success, because you don't know his set of circumstances.

You have to want it so badly that you will cry for it.From all of this we see that even the slowest of the slow can achieve greatness. The secret? You have to want it so badly that you will cry for it.

Potential for greatness is unlimited when we have the power of the Almighty behind us.

真正爱你的人不会说很多爱你的话，却做很多爱你的事

真正爱你的人不会说很多爱你的话，却做很多爱你的事。
真正的爱人，的确不需要很多形式上的甜言密语，付诸行动去证明才是实际的。
很多时候，我们要的并不是一些美好的话语。反而，那体贴的小动作更能让我们倍感温馨及感动。
爱我，就用行动疼我。我想这是每个人都可望的爱情吧。
总好过在甜言蜜语后的冷淡、甚至那冷酷的拳头。