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"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness & knowledge never decreases by being shared." - Buddha

"Life will knock us down.. But, we can choose whether, or not, to get back up" — Jackie Chan, The Karate Kid.

"Think of yourself as an explorer. You cannot find anything new if you are unwilling to leave the shore" - Robert Greene

“Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.”
—Alexander the Great

If you only do what you can do, you'll never be more than you are, now – Master Shifu, Kung Fu Panda 3

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give in! - Eleanor Roosevelt

It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up. -Vince Lombardi

“The critical ingredient is getting off
your butt and doing something. It’s as
simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week; But TODAY.
The true entrepreneur is a Doer, NOT a
dreamer.”
–Nolan Bushnell

Every company has room for the man who has a definite plan of action which is to the advantage of that company -Napoleon Hill

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony

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"Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."


William Jennings Bryan

"Knowing you need to make a change isn't enough. You've got to find the guts to do it" - Robert Kiyosaki

15 Things You Must Do If You Want To Be Successful By The Time You’re 30 by Johnson Kee, Career Advice Entrepreneur


If you want to be successful and live life on your terms by the time you’re 30, here are fifteen things you should start doing in your 20’s to make it happen:

1. Be 1% braver everyday

Everyone has fears – it’s what makes us human. But fears hold us back from achieving our goals. If you want to be successful by the time you’re 30, identify the fears that are in your way and work towards conquering them one at a time, no matter how hard it may be.

2. Accept yourself completely

Don’t tear yourself down. You are your own gift, if you choose to see it that way. Most people look at the negatives, but it’s all a matter of perspective. Your vulnerabilities can be your greatest strengths.

3. Do high risk, high reward things

After 30, if you settle down, it’ll be harder to do this. Do it in the prime of your life instead.

4. Don’t do two things at the same time.

I was always pulled in more than one direction. The moment I focused on one big thing my chances at success dramatically increased.


5. Do something that makes you uncomfortable every day

The more you start doing things that you haven’t done before, the more you realize how much you can actually do. Every new thing changes you and adds to your identity. Doing more of the things successful people do will eventually turn you into someone successful.

6. Stop being jealous

If someone works hard and gets their results, be happy for them. They have also shown you what can be done if you put your mind to things. They have demonstrated the hard work for you. All you have to do is do what they’ve done, but in your own unique way.

7. Build laughably small habits

We all know that having good habits is what separates the successful from the aspiring. Unfortunately, most of us are too lazy to stick to good habits. The secret for success is doing really small things consistently, every day.

I do 60 push-ups every day. I started at 30. Now I can pump them out in under a minute. I also learnt French for a year, doing short, 15 minute lessons on my phone. Laughably small? Yes. Exponentially powerful? Definitely.

8. Build an audience

The fact of the matter is, you’re never going to achieve success on your own. There is always going to be a group of people who support what you do, whether it be within an inner circle — e.g. friends, family, and spouse — or an outer circle — which would be your audience.

It takes time, so it’s important to start now. Write, make videos, make music … do whatever you want. Use sites like LifeHack.org, YouTube, and SoundCloud to build your audience. Go where your people are.

9. Talk to the elderly

This is something Gary Vaynerchuk did. It helped him get perspective on his life, goals, and dreams. Hearing their regrets will make you realize how little time there really is to waste, and their experienced advice will be priceless.

10. Minimize distractions

There is way too much choice in the world to do everything. If you want to be successful by the time you’re 30, you have to cut back. Spend less, waste less, and use less. Focus on producing instead.

11. Have a mentor

Someone who’s been there and done that can lead you in the right direction and make sure you stay on the right path. It doesn’t have to be a professional mentor. It could be a family member who’s been successful, or an older friend; as long as you trust them and their counsel.

12. Fall in love with boredom

Work when it’s difficult. When it’s cold. When you’re bored. It’s during these quieter periods that you forge the work ethic that can support you and your lifestyle when you’re successful. Don’t shy away from it — lean into it instead.

13. Do side projects

If you can’t give up a stable job, don’t. It would be irresponsible to do so if you have bills to pay. Just make sure that you work on your side projects at any opportunity that you can. Make it your goal to turn them into something that can one day replace the day job.

14. Get your personal finances under control

Don’t load up on credit in your 20s. That’s possibly the worst thing you can do if you want to become successful. Pay off your personal debt and get smarter about how you manage your money.

15. Stop periodically to check your progress

While it’s good to get to work and start hustling hard towards your goals, you must make sure you’re heading in the right direction, too. That’s why you need breaks. Stop and breathe and you’ll allow yourself to re-focus and stay on track.

The late Dr Myles Munroe was a man of wisdom, he was once quoted as saying:

I was born poor, sleeping on the floor with cockroaches and rats. Today, I own my own jet. Everything I have is paid for. I am debt free; I open new businesses every year and mentor many people,”

ON UNEMPLOYMENT
Myles Munroe strongly discouraged the reliance on Government for jobs, describing it as ‘lazy thinking.’“There is no such thing as unemployment in the world. What you call unemployment is what I call lazy thinking,” he says.“The work of government is not to create jobs, but to create an environment for people to develop their own work,” he asserts.

ON GIFTS/TALENTS:
Munroe discourages employed professionals against relying solely on their jobs for income, urging them to instead create wealth using their unique talents. He also challenges aspiring entrepreneurs to develop and refine their expertise in a talent, idea, service or body of
knowledge. When you refine your gift in an area, you become valuable; people seek you out and pay you,

ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP:
Munroe said setting principles is the first step towards achieving success for any budding entrepreneur. “I will never be poor again because I have learnt the principles of business,” he asserts.“I can say without a doubt that what I have accomplished is based on principles passed on to me by my parents. You should never build your life on facts or techniques because these often become obsolete,” he cautions.“For you to survive today, you must accept the reality of partnerships. If someone emerges as my competition today, I am not supposed to kill them, but marry them,” he states.“Do not curse a crisis; use it. Every business is a solution to a crisis. Develop the capacity to solve a problem and you will become a successful entrepreneur.”

HIS 10 WORDS OF WISDOM TO AFRICA:

1. Understand crisis and use it to solve a problem. Every business is a response to a problem.
2. Initiate something; do not wait for things to be done.
3. Identify and refine your talent, skill, idea, service or knowledge to create .
4. Whatever makes you angry, you must solve it.
5. Poverty is not the lack of money, but the lack of ideas.
6. God does not give cash, but ideas on how to create wealth.
7. Be in control of your mind, thoughts, perception and mentality to respond to change.
8. Be keen and take advantage of changes brought about by technology and globalisation.
9. Leave your legacy, but in the people you train, not in products or buildings.
10. Every human being was born with a treasure. Your greatest secret to success lies in discovering your treasure.

One major challenge POOR people have is "LACK OF ACTION! They enjoy their comfort zone, dwelling and swimming in their "own type of knowledge". Anything beyond their reason "can't work, and therefore it is fraudulent"

-Unknown

TIMING
How much time out of every 24 hours do you devote to a. acquiring useful knowledge? b. your occupation? c. sleep? d. play and relaxation? e. plain waste?

"Never stop dreaming, and never stop working hard for your dreams. You never know what you can become." - Danny El

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. - Mary Kay Ash.

Don't make excuses for why you can't get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.

Things turn out best for those who make the best out of the way things turn out.

HOW TO MASTER YOUR FEARS

Did you know that perhaps the greatest challenge you will ever face in life is the conquest of fear and the development of courage? Fear is, and always has been, the greatest enemy of mankind. When Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”, he was saying that the emotion of fear, rather than the reality of what we fear, is what causes us anxiety, stress, and unhappiness. When you develop the habit of courage and unshakeable self-confidence, a whole new world of possibilities opens up for you. Just imagine—what would you dare to dream or be if you weren’t afraid of anything?

Develop the Habit of Courage.

Fortunately, the habit of courage can be learned just as any other habit is learned, through repetition.***We need to constantly face and overcome our fears to build up the kind of courage that will enable us to deal with the inevitable ups and downs of life unafraid. The starting point in overcoming fear and developing courage is to look at the factors that pre-dispose us toward being afraid. The root source of most fear is childhood conditioning, usually associated with destructive criticism.
This causes us to develop two major types of fear. These are the fear of failure, which causes us to think “I can’t, I can’t, I can’t,” and the fear of rejection, which causes us to think “I have to, I have to, I have to". Our fears can paralyse us, keeping us from taking constructive action in the direction of our dreams and goals.

The More You Know, the Less You Fear.
Fear is also caused by ignorance. When we have limited information, our doubts dominate us. We become tense and insecure about the outcome of our actions. Ignorance causes us to fear change, to fear the unknown, and to avoid trying anything new or different.
But the reverse is also true. The very act of gathering more and better information about a particular subject increases our courage and confidence in that area. You can see this in the parts of your life where you have no fear at all because you know what you are doing. You feel competent and completely capable of handling whatever happens.

Analyse Your Fears.

The major factors that cause you to feel afraid; the next step is to objectively define and analyse your personal fears. At the top of a clean sheet of paper, write:“What am I afraid of?” Remember, all intelligent people are afraid of something. It is normal and natural to be concerned about your physical, emotional, and financial safety and that of the people you care about.
A courageous person is not a person who is unafraid. As Mark Twain said, “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear".

Action Exercise.

Begin your list of fears by writing down everything, major and minor, that causes fear, stress, or anxiety. Think about the parts of your work or personal life where your fears might be holding you back or forcing you to stay in a job or relationship in which you are not happy. Once you have written down your fears, arrange them in order of importance, and then pick them apart one by one.

What we think, we become. - Buddha

In other words, we become what we think about ourselves

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Everything happens for a reason _ people change so you can learn to let go; things go wrong so you can appreciate them when they go right.

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You cannot go back and make a brand new beginning but you can start now and make a brand new ending." - Prince Ea

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