Posts from — October 2009

It’s not actually 100 yet. In fact, I am a long way from there. This post will have 100 motivational quotations that we will all help build. I’ll probably start with what I have and I’ll let you guys help me build the 100 motivational quotations.

In the middle of diffulty lies opportunity

-Albert Einstein

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps

-Saul Bellow

Traveler, there is no path. Paths are made by walking

-Antonio Machado

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

-Vincent Van Gogh

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

-Henry Ford

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts

-Winston Churchill

Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.

-Karen Ravn

to the stars through difficulty

-Kansas State motto

Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

-Tim Ferris

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

-Napoleon Hill

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of man as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing

-Helen Keller

You must be the change you want to see in the world

-Gandhi

Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential

- Liane Cordes

Reality is negotiable.

-Tim Ferris

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth…not going all the way, and not starting.

-Buddha

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

-George Bernard Shaw

Success is a journey not a destination

- Arthur Robert Ashe Jr

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes

-Benjamin Disraeli

As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think Big

-Donald Trump

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

- Lao Tzu

A problem is a chance for you to do your best

- Duke Ellington

The world ends with you. If you want to enjoy life, expand your world. You gotta push your horizons out as far as they’ll go.

- Anonymous

So what do you guys have for me?

Typhoon Ondoy, one of the most recent typhoons that rocked the northern Philippines proved to be one Filipinos will remember.

Some people lost their homes
Some people lost their loved ones
Some people lost their pets
Some people lost everything

Although, we all have been burnt with this awful tragedy. I think it can be argued that we have learned a lot from Ondoy and the importance of insurance.

A really bad thing that happened was that most insurance coverages do not cover acts of God. This means that anything that was ruined due to the typhoon won’t be covered by the insurance company. None. Nadda. Zit.

We’ve been pumping a lot cash right now into repairing our vehicles for business. And when I say a lot, I mean a lot.

Lesson Learned

Be aware of your car insurance coverages. Most people never knew that there was such a thing as an act of God policy.

The good thing now is that auto insurance companies are now starting to offer insurances with this type of coverage and this time, making it known to their clients.

photo credits:Dan Saavedra,irislegal

What do you want to grow up to be? I’m sure we’ve all heard of this question in one way or the other.

E-Myth Revisited, a book I’ve been reading lately with regards to my building of a home business.

The first step of building a Business Plan was to create your primary goal.

What is a primary goal? What would you want to be put on your tombstone, best describes what Gerber wants to tell us.

In Business, it’s the same thing. What do you want your business to achieve? Are its goals congruent with your personal value (or want you want to have on your tombstone)?

Most business owners go into business for a lot of reasons. It could be money, tired of having a job, being envious of a friend’s business and many other things.

While these may or may not be great reasons, most importantly they should congruent with your goals and life plan.

Here are a few things you’d want to think about:

• I want to build a home business so that I can stay at home and have the time take care of my children.
• I want to build a school business so that I can help in nurturing children’s education.
• I want to open a bakery so that I can share with my neighbors and friends the tastiest pies in the world.
• I want to build a business renting out apartments so that I can contribute to better housing for my fellowmen.
• I want to build a computer shop to serve those that don’t have the benefit of a home internet connection.

Aren’t those great reasons? Depending on what you want, you’d find the best reasons to get into business and these things can motivate you into achieving success.

Related Post:
Foundations of a Solid Business – You should read about THE MISSION part. Henry Ford’s mission—one he fulfilled with messianic fervor—was to make the automobile available to the masses. Hence his mission statement, “Democratize the automobile.” It was Ford’s ability to maintain his focus on this mission that helped fuel his financial success.

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I am a big fan of of current affairs and psychology books. They always stimulate interests. Some books are on how the human mind works and how you perceive failure. Freakanomics has been for my shelf for a while and just started reading it just before Typhoon Ondoy struck. Unfortunately, the book itself was lost and I plan to buy the book again.

The book’s authors have recently published a book on the same subject, human behavior and theories. Here’s a summary of the book from Smart Money.

The book’s larger-than-life subjects include a prostitute making six figures, a society of money-exchanging monkeys and a group of self-actualized inventors seemingly sprung from the pages of an Ayn Rand novel. While the inventors task themselves with solving the globe’s problems one at a time, Levitt and Dubner provide hope that some of the world’s biggest challenges can be solved by old-fashioned, low-cost innovation.

They tackle the question of why so many doctors prescribe chemotherapy, and how one would measure doctor effectiveness. They also look at group-think and a 1964 New York Times article about Kitty Genovese, who was murdered as up to 38 people looked on. It turns out there’s more to that story, too. The authors use that tragic tale (and the article) to address — and discredit — extreme ideas of human behavior, including both apathy and altruism.