When you strike out – think of Home Runs!
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on June 18th, 2009
Putting the big rocks first in Life – by “Wayne Cordeiro”
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on March 27th, 2009
Time managementwill require work if you want to succeed in life. It will require home work. It will require hard work. And it will require heart work.
A. HOME WORK
Under the topic of home work there are five principles I’m going to give you. Now you could say, “I’d rather have corporate principles.” Corporate principles are fine, but in ministry things have to start much deeper.
1. PUT IN THE BIG ROCKS FIRST
You’ve got to make sure you put in the big rocks first. Now you ask, “What does that mean?” Probably many of you know the illustration of the physics teacher who gave his students five big rocks, a wide-mouth mason jar and a container of sand. He said, “You’ve got fifteen seconds to put all of the rocks and sand in the jar. Go!” They poured the sand in and started stuffing the rocks in, fourteen seconds, fifteen seconds.
“Times up.”
“We’ve got three rocks left.”
“Times up.”
“Can’t do it. It’s impossible. We’ll break the glass.”
“No, it can’t all fit.”
“Yes it can.”
“No it can’t.”
“Show us.”
He took the rocks out and poured out the sand out and he said, “Always remember students, you must put the big rocks in first.” He put the five rocks in and then he poured some sand in and shook the jar. Then he poured some more sand in and it cascaded around the rocks and filled in all the holes and all the spaces. Finally he put the last few granules in and shook it again until it leveled out at the top. He then put the cap on and said, “It fits. It will always fit if you put the big rocks in first.”
Sucess in Life
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on March 15th, 2009
The major difference between achieving people and average people is their perception of and response to failure. The secret of moving beyond failure is to use it as a lesson and a stepping-stone. People succeed by learning how to master fear instead of being mastered by it. Positive benefits can accompany negative experiences—if you have the right attitude!
“Leadership is influence.”
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on March 10th, 2009
Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right responses from others.
Belief Systems
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on March 9th, 2009
Many people turn to self-help guru’s for inspiration and guidance. It is great to feel good about ourselves and to feel motivated to get out there and make something of our lives. The problem is that much of the advice business owners are getting from many of these well meaning self-help guru’s just doesn’t work. Millions of people have read “Think and Grow Rich” and it seems that there are a lot of people doing a lot of thinking but not a whole lot of growing rich or successful. Are you someone that falls into that category? You can succeed in life! You just need to hear the truth and seek out mentors who can lead you in the direction of truth. Conventional self-help methodologies, of the past half century, have included techniques such as goal setting, dream building, self talk, visualization, daily affirmations and positive thinking. These things, in themselves, are not necessarily bad but they are mostly psychological quick fixes. When we use them, without knowing where true success comes from, we can cause irreversible damage in our lives. If we keep repeating the cycle, of emotional highs followed by failure, after a while we just stop reaching for that better life. Too many failures will cause us to believe we do not have success within us. Many people experience this cycle of failure as they move from one opportunity to the next, expecting their current opportunity will be better than the last. They do it until they have expended all their emotional energy and finally just give up and stop trying. So, what’s the answer? What is the truth?
The truth is that success comes from within us. It is a passion that is driven by knowing what it is that we really want in life. It is a desire that comes from our heart not our mind. Knowing what it is, in our heart, that we really want will provide us with an internal motivation. This internal motivation is far stronger than the external motivation we gain from the techniques being taught by so many self-help guru’s today.
“Your present negative beliefs were formed by thought
PLUS feelings. Generate enough emotion, or deep feeling
and your new thoughts and ideas will cancel them out. “
“If you have been wrestling with a problem all day without
making any apparent progress, try dismissing it from your
mind, and put off making a decision until you’ve had a
chance to ’sleep on it.’ Remember that your creative
mechanism works best when there is not too much
interference from your conscious
I am a firm believer in ‘negative thinking’ when used correctly. We need to be AWARE of negatives so that we can steer clear of them. A golfer needs to know where the bunkers and sandtraps are – but he doesn’t think continuously about the bunker – where he doesn’t want to go. His mind “glances” at the bunker, but he DWELLS upon the green. “
“Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between
an *imagined experience* and a ‘real’ experience.
In either case, it reacts automatically to information which
you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system
reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be ‘true.
