It's OK to be STUPID!!

 

Winners Mindset

No matter how talented someone is, how privileged they are... You can beat anyone on any day if you keep yourself consistent with the efforts towards your goal..

You Will Never See Me Fall

You may see me struggle 

but you won't see me fall. 

Regardless if I'm weak or not 

I'm going to stand tall. 

Everyone says life is easy 

but truly living it is not.

Times get hard, 

people struggle

and constantly get put on the spot. 

I'm going to wear the biggest smile 

even though I want to cry. 

I'm going to fight to live 

even though I'm destined to die. 

And even though it's hard 

and I may struggle through it all. 

You may see me struggle...

but you will NEVER see me fall.

© Joyce Alcantara

Giving Our Best

Every day that we are alive,
We should be asking ourselves whether we,
Are we giving our best to each day,
This is something we may not all see.

See each day we are given is a gift,
And to waste it would be very wrong.
But our lives are just that,
Ours to do with and hope our life's long.

But that's just it, our lives may not be long,
And come to an end before we are ready.
Don't be that person, who regrets,
Live your life full and steady.

Close your eyes and go to sleep,
Knowing you've conquer your day.
You'll life will be very successful,
And you'll be happy to look back when you're gray.

by  Julie Hebert, © 2012 

Don’t Give Up

Don’t let today’s troubles

Bring you down,

Or allow you to question

Your ability

Don’t let life’s little obstacles

Keep you from trying,

Or become the reason

For defeat

Don’t let your fears

Keep you from dreaming,

Or from chasing

your dream

Don’t give up for any reason

Believe in yourself,

And in yourself

You’ll find strength

You Can Do Anything

There’s a mountain before you

One you feel you can never climb

The distance is frightening,

but I know you can make it to the other side

If only you try

I’ve seen the strength

that you carry inside

I’ve seen the will, the passion

the fight in your eyes

I’ve witnessed your ambition

I know you can do it one more time

You can do anything

You can be anyone

You can be happy, too

But first you must believe

in the power of you

You’re powerful,

valuable, beautiful and brave

And I know that you know

you can make it through tomorrow

if you can get through today;

I will be there for you

every step of the way

The Optimist Creed

Promise yourself . . .

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. 

To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel that there is something in them. 

To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. 

To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. 

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. 

To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

Failed Dreams

My dreams are like a book, way up on the shelf.

Far to high above me, for me to reach myself.

So I form a ladder, each rung a minor goal.

And slowly I get closer, through every step and pull.

But my arms get heavy, and I'm struggling to climb.

The book I thought was easy, is taking too much time.

Maybe it's not worth it, it's taking far too long.

I don't think I can reach it, maybe I was wrong.

And then I see below it, a book almost the same.

A few different colors with a slightly different name.

It's just a little lower, but still up so very high,

This book and the other could be brothers in my eye.

So I resume my climbing, excited at the change,

This one's a bit closer, and easily in range.

But that's quickly fleeting, there's so much more to go,

With all the work I've done I have nothing yet to show.

As I catch my breath, my gaze drops a little more,

who cares if it is lower, I've done it once before.

There's a book a little closer, I go for that instead,

Until the books I'm seeking are right above my head.

I reach out and touch it, and feel a little proud.

Until I look and see, that I'm barely off the ground.

I'm left to sit and wonder, what changed within myself,

As I stare with longing, at the book up on the shelf.

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Author Notes

I feel like my goals were set so high when I was a kid and I've steadily lowered them over the years for instant gratification. Now I'm nowhere near where I thought I'd be at and I have no one to blame but my own laziness. Don't lower your expectations because you get frustrated with your progress or get depressed, always give it your all because it's no one else's future but your own.

© Derek. All rights reserved

Who Am I ??? I am the Champion..

I am the Champion. I am the Champion. I am the Champion.

Trust your struggle...

In such times of great transition,

Don't get stuck in one position.

Be supple, be bold,

Be strong, don't fold.

Hold your nerve

Through the swerve,

Retain your verve,

And all will be well,

As far as I can tell.

If in doubt,

Or afraid you'll go without,

Say, 'all change is good', over and over

And before you know it, you'll recover

Your composure

And will stop fearing exposure

To the new, so much.

Use a light touch

In your push-and-pull,

And always remember empty and full

Alternate in a cycle like day and night,

Then everything will be alright.

That's my wish for you,

As you do what you do,

Today and tonight.

If you can..

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too:

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;

If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same:.

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings,

And never breathe a word about your loss:

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much:

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son! 

by

Rudyard Kipling

A Creed to Live By

Don’t undermine your worth by comparing

yourself with others,

It is because we are different that each

of us is special.

Don’t set your goals by what other people

deem important,

Only you know what is best for you.

Don’t take for granted the things closest

to your heart

Cling to that as you would your life, for without

them life is meaningless.

Don’t let your life slip through your fingers by living

in the past or the future.

By living your life one day at a time, you live all the

days of your life.

Don’t give up when you still have something to give

Nothing is really over until the moment

you stop trying.

Don’t be afraid to admit that you are less

than perfect,

It is the fragile thread that binds us to each other.

Don’t be afraid to encounter risks,

It is by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.

Don’t shut love out of your life by saying it’s

impossible to find.

The quickest way to receive love is to give love.

The fastest way to lose love is to hold on too tightly,

And the best way to keep love is to give it wings.

Don’t dismiss your Dreams. To be without

dreams is to be without hope.

To be without hope is to be without purpose.

Don’t run through life so fast that you forget

where you’ve been,

But also know where you’re going.

Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored

every step of the way.

'Inspirational: I know how to fly'

The Snake was crawling on the ground. The Eagle flew to her and said:
- How unfortunate you are, doomed to crawl all your life. Not like me - I am destined to fly.
The Snake looked at the Eagle and said:
- You are right Eagle, I can’t fly. But only I know what it means to fly.
- How can you know that? – The Eagle smiled, - you don’t have wing!
- Thoughts are my wings, - said the Snake proudly, - Dreams are my heaven. While crawling on the ground I close my eyes and I see the heaven. I image that I’m crawling in heaven not on the ground. Yes, it’s impossible to crawl in heaven, you can only fly. It means that in those moments I am flying. In my free thoughts I am learning to fly, Eagle. With my soul I rise to the high heaven, so when my time comes and my life as a snake comes to an end, I could ascend into the blue heaven, into the endless heaven and fly, to fly and not think about anything, enjoying my freedom. And I won’t be afraid to fly, because it won’t be a new thing for me. For you Eagle, the wings were given as you were born, but not for me. But the heaven will make us equal. We will be flying together one day, Eagle, under the clouds. Only I will be stronger and freer than you, because I have learned how to fly without having wings, simply crawling on the ground. Both things are available for me. I am not afraid to lose my wings because I know how to crawl, and I am not afraid to gain wings because I know how to fly. And what will you do, Eagle, if you lose your wings?

How failures resulted in great success

1. Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he finally succeeded.
2. Beethoven handled the violin awkwardly and preferred playing his own compositions instead of improving his technique. His teacher called him hopeless as a composer.
3. Colonel Sanders had the construction of a new road put him out of business in 1967. He went to over 1,000 places trying to sell his chicken recipe before he found a buyer interested in his 11 herbs and spices. Seven years later, at the age of 75, Colonel Sanders sold his fried chicken company for a finger-lickin' $15 million!
4. Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor for lack of ideas. Disney also went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland.
5. Charles Darwin, father of the theory of evolution, gave up a medical career and was told by his father, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat catching." In his autobiography, Darwin wrote, "I was considered by my father, a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard in intellect.
6. Albert Einstein did not speak until he was four years old and didn't read until he was seven. His teacher described him as "mentally slow, unsociable and adrift forever in his foolish dreams." He was expelled and refused admittance to Zurich Polytechnic School. The University of Bern turned down his Ph.D. dissertation as being irrelevant and fanciful.
7. The movie Star Wars was rejected by every movie studio in Hollywood before 20th-Century Fox finally produced it. It went on to be one of the largest grossing movies in film history.
8. Louis Pasteur was only a mediocre pupil in undergraduate studies and ranked 15 out of 22 in chemistry.
9. When NFL running back Herschel Walker was in junior high school, he wanted to play football, but the coach told him he was too small. He advised young Herschel to go out for track instead. Never one to give up, he ignored the coach's advice and began an intensive training program to build himself up. Only a few years later, Herschel Walker won the Heisman trophy.
10. When General Douglas MacArthur applied for admission to West Point, he was turned down, not once but twice. But he tried a third time, was accepted and marched into the history books.
11. After Fred Astaire's first screen test, the memo from the testing director of MGM, dated 1933, said, "Can't act! Slightly bald! Can dance a little!" Astaire kept that memo over the fireplace in his Beverly Hills home.
12. The father of the sculptor Rodin [The Thinker Statue] said, "I have an idiot for a son." Described as the worst pupil in the school, Rodin failed three times to secure admittance to the school of art. His uncle called him uneducable.
13. Babe Ruth, considered by sports historians to be the greatest athlete of all time and famous for setting the home run record, also holds the record for strikeouts.
14. Eighteen publishers turned down Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull, before Macmillan finally published it in 1970. By 1975 it had sold more than seven million copies in the U.S. alone.
15. Margaret Mitchell's classic Gone with the Wind was turned down by more than twenty-five publishers.
16. Richard Hooker worked for seven years on his humorous war novel, M*A*S*H, only to have it rejected by 21 publishers before Morrow decided to publish it. It became a runaway bestseller, spawning a blockbusting movie and highly successful television series.
17. When the first Chicken Soup for the Soul book was completed, it was turned down by thirty-three publishers in New York and another ninety at the American Booksellers Association convention in Anaheim, California, before Health Communications, Inc., finally agreed to publish it. The major New York publishers said, "It is too nicey-nice" and "Nobody wants to read a book of short little stories." Since that time more than 8 million copies of the original Chicken Soup for the Soul book have been sold. The series, which has grown to thirty-two titles, in thirty-one languages, has sold more than 53 million copies.
18. In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, fired Elvis Presley after one performance. He told Presley, "You ain't goin' nowhere… son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck." Elvis Presley went on to become the most popular singer in America.
19. Dr. Seuss' first children's book, And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street, was rejected by twenty-seven publishers. The twenty-eighth publisher, Vanguard press, sold six million copies of the book.

Never give up believing in yourself!!!

If you want it, do it now....

Don't let your dreams die due to fear of failures or uncertainity. If you really want them, face your fears and achieve them now as if there is no tomorrow...

Don't be a victim, be a veteran.

You Can Be Whatever You Want To Be!

There is inside you
All of the potential
To be whatever you want to be; 
All of the energy
To do whatever you want to do. 
Imagine yourself as you would like to be, 
Doing what you want to do, 
And each day, take one step
Towards your dream. 
And though at times it may seem too
difficult to continue, 
Hold on to your dream. 
One morning you will awake to find
That you are the person you dreamed of, 
Doing what you wanted to do, 
Simply because you had the courage
To believe in your potential
And to hold on to your dream.

The Victor

If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't. 
If you like to win but think you can't, 
It's almost a cinch you won't. 
If you think you'll lose, you're lost. 
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will. 
It's all in the state of mind. 
If you think you are out classed, you are. 
You've got to think high to rise. 
You've got to be sure of your-self before
You can ever win the prize. 
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man. 
But sooner or later, the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.

by: C. W. Longenecker

Why Not You?

                                             

                                            Growing up we are told many things,

One being, you can do anything.

But somewhere between child and adult,

Things change and we no longer sing.

Life takes on a whole different meaning,

From what we may have first believed.

We all get so caught up in what life expects,

And forget what we all could achieve.

Whoever told you, you weren't allow,

To follow all of your dreams?

Was it someone who took away your dream,

Or was it you who was afraid of your schemes.

Whatever the reason, I now must ask,

Why not you, don't you think

It's time for you to take control of your life,

So you'll be happy to look back with no regret.

by

Julie Hebert,

Take a chance for doing what you love...

Impossible says I M POSSIBLE

Winning is an attitude. It can only be developed by hardwork, dedication and courage.