Only a person who risks is free.

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk despair. To try is to risk to failure. But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow,But he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live. Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom. Only a person who risks is free.

Being true to yourself is the goal, and only you know if you’re giving 110% and if you can reach down inside yourself and pull out more.

The path to success is a challenge; one of the strategies that are useful is giving yourself a written list. To create a successful list, you must give yourself a goal; make it a small goal, at first, just to prove to yourself that it is possible to succeed, then increase it daily and you will find the goals get a life of its own and will grow and grow.

Deadlines and time constraints are a pain in the butt, but if you set them up and work to accomplish them, they can be very useful tools.

Looking at my time in school I always waited to the last minute to finish my homework or work on the school project, I always maintained a solid C average, much to my parents displeasure, and after my report card arrived, mine too. I didn’t learn till much later in life that if something is important, you have to give it the importance in your mind also. When we are faced with a difficult task, one that we are not sure how to complete, we find excuses not to do it till later, why do today what can be put off till tomorrow.

Get a piece of paper and a pen, don’t use your computer, writing something down gives the idea power, and you need all the power you can get, write it down on several sheets of paper, then post them all over the house, do this for two reasons, one writing it down makes your mind remember it better, two if you take those several sheets of paper and post them all over the house, where you will see them several times a day, then you never have the excuse you forgot. It helps keep the desire alive,

List what you need to do next, try not to jump ahead to something that needs to be done next week, it is important you place the items in the correct order. If you don’t follow the steps in order, then it is just a test of your writing skills, and a waste of your time.

If you don’t find fixes, your dreams will be nothing more than pipe dreams.

Waiting is a trap.

Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait...The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don’t count.

Embarking on a new idea is a frustrating and daunting task, you will run into problems and more problems. One fix is to call on your friends and family, yes I know I said earlier not to tell them, but if you use your head and go about it in a way that keeps the fundamental nature of the project to yourself, then you can use all the people around you to get more ideas.

There is an old principle call the Master Mind, it states that the more minds you have working on one idea the better the idea will become, and the more feasible that you will have a positive outcome.

Just realize most of your friends and family would never intentionally put you down, or your idea down, it is the unintentional words that make you doubt yourself. So never let yourself be placed into the defensive mind set where you feel you have to defend your idea.

We can only win by

We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression.

The bottom line, that wonderful thing that all companies and people look at, some time in your life you will encounter it. No matter how good an idea or request is, or even how the person you are talking to feels about it, they have a responsibility to make sure they give nothing that isn’t going to give a return, to their or the companies bottom line.

You will be told no more times in your life than you will ever be told yes. One interesting fact, there are 946 billionaires in this world, two-thirds of them started with nothing, and 50 of them were high school or collage dropouts.

If you can reach down into yourself and find the drive that comes from your burning desire to win, and the persistence to keep at it, no matter what obstacles life throws at you, winning is within your reach. I can promise one thing you will hear more no’s than you ever thought existed, but one yes makes up for a lot of them.

You will get what you ask for

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.”

When things go wrong, are you one of the people that just know, it is someone else’s fault. I have run across people my whole life that, every time something goes wrong it is never their fault. And the problem doesn’t just include the person that is whining, it is passed down from generation to generation. How many parents do you know, that their child can do no wrong, why someone else told or made him/her do what ever it is they did wrong, it is the other persons fault, not my child he/she is perfect, they would never do that. We can see the results of this in the disrespect and total disregard of you or your property by so many of the kids running the streets. How many times have you heard you can’t tell me what to do your not my parent. I am so tired of people blaming the school system, the police or anyone in authority. You only have to look at the children of the movie stars, how many make the front page after being arrested, our prison system is packed with perfect children, and the statistics are appalling.

If you’re one of the people who are being picked on and it is never your fault then, you need to realize, you are doomed to failure, because you can not correct a fault that you don’t even know exists. You have blinded yourself to your own faults.

If your willing to overcome this defect in your character, you can succeed, it all comes down to how hard your willing to look within yourself and make the changes that are necessary, because if it is to hard for you to accomplish then you can plan on failure. You will get what you ask for.

Every day you may make progress

"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."

I take great joy in the journey that is life, the wonders that are there for the taking. They are the small things, a walk in the rain, a beautiful snow covered mountain, any sight or touch you can find enjoyment in. A true love is perhaps the most wondrous of things; to know that a person in this world has your back, no matter what comes.

Without doubt having another person in your life makes things easier, but if you don’t then you must reach down inside yourself, find the strength that is there and make life happen for you. They say there is a person in this old world for everyone, and at times you will doubt that, but take heart, in time all things are possible.

I have had friends that came to me and told me of their loneliness, but in time they found the one that was their destiny. The amazing thing is, it didn’t take very long for it to happen.

So keep your focus on your idea and keep plugging away at it, love and friendship will take care of themselves.

Without change, something sleeps inside us

"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."

Have you ever done something that just didn’t work out, no matter how hard you try? Sometimes it is really hard to give up on an idea, one that has torn your heart out, it happens in all things.

Did you give 110%, only you know if you have given all you have, or not. We all have a little voice inside of us; call it conscious or what ever name you have given it. This little voice always tells the truth, the key is to listen to it, even if you don’t like what it is telling you.

the present comes as no surprise

"For a person who lives 100 years in the future, the present comes as no surprise."

Have you ever notice, when the new gadget comes on the market, your first thought is good idea. Your not surprised, if anything, jealousy might be the emotion that you feel, not a bad kind of jealousy but the, aw shit I wish I would have thought of that, kind of envy.

When those great new items surface, the one that awes the public, we as inventors are not surprised, maybe because, we think in tomorrow.

When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, I will bet that there were a few people around that just were not surprised. Those of us that realize, that by nature, mankind is an inventive soul; we find solutions, no matter what the problem.

If your one of those that is surprised by all that happens around you then start using your imagination, you will find that you can have new ideas that are your very own. This will set you one a path to fulfillment.