Fantastic Inspirational Message from Actor, Will Smith

Actor Will  Smith shares his philosophy about life (see video at the end of this post.)

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph (AU Edition) Smith says the keys to his life are reading and running.

Yes, reading and running.

After a chuckle, he goes on to explain.

“There are millions and billions of people who have lived before us, and they had problems, they solved them, then they wrote it down in a book somewhere,” says Smith, nodding his head as he continues his lecture.

“So, there’s no new problem that we have that we have to figure out ourselves.

“There’s no issue we have that somebody has not already written the answer down in a book.

“The concept is bittersweet because you know it’s in a book somewhere, but you actually have to find the right one that will give you proper information.

“The running aspect is how you connect with your weakness.

“When you get on a treadmill, you deprive yourself of oxygen.

“What kind of person you are is going to come out very, very quickly.

“You’re either the person who says they are going to run three miles and stop the treadmill at 2.94 miles (4.73 km) and you call that three miles, or you get off after a mile.

“Or you are the type of person who runs hard through the three-mile finishing line and then realise, ‘I could do five miles’ and you go ahead and do it.

“That little person inside your head starts talking to you and says ‘We should stop. I think we’re really hurting ourselves. I don’t think this is healthy anymore’.”

Smith continues, comparing the voices from that “little person in his head” he hears on the treadmill to the same temptations that could ruin his marriage.

“When you get command over that little person, it allows you to get over that little person when he speaks to you in other aspects of your life,”  Smith explains.

Here is Will Smith at the 2005 Kid’s Choice Awards sharing this great advice with a multitude of kids and adults!

Quotes to Inspire & Motivate Part 1

1.  “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much.” Jim Rohn

2.  “The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.” Ben Stein

3.  “We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.” Eric Hoffer

4.  “Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”  Brian Tracy

5.  “Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.”
Walt Disney

6.  “Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.” James Allen

7.  “Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.” Wayne Dyer

8.  “Just because you are seventy is no excuse to give up and let others make your decisions for you. The fact that you are still alive is reason enough to believe that you are here for a purpose; and that purpose is to learn, to teach, and to GIVE.”  Thomas D. Willhite

9.  “There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”  Douglas Everett

10.  “I found every single successful person I’ve ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were not going to live like this anymore; they were going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50,and most people never make it all.”  Brian Tracy

11. 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

12.  “Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.”  William James

13.  “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”  Dale Carnegie

14.  “Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time. It must be a goal that is so appealing, so much in line with your spiritual core, that you can’t get it out of your mind. If you do not get chills when you set a goal, your not setting big enough goals.”  Bob Proctor

15.  “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”  Harold Whitman

16.  “In our deepest moments of struggle, frustration, fear, and confusion, we are being called upon to reach in and touch our hearts. Then, we will know what to do, what to say, how to be. What is right is always in our deepest heart of hearts. It is from the deepest part of our hearts that we are capable of reaching out and touching another human being. It is, after all, one heart touching another heart.”  Roberta Sage Hamilton

17.  “Building a habit is the process of educating the subconscious. I have said that you are responsible for changing those attitudes you do not like…and that you can do this by changing the attitude (feeling) itself or by changing your behavior.”  Thomas D. Willhite

18.  “One word of caution…the subconscious is just as apt to pick up a bad habit as a good one. Thus, if you let your consciousness dwell on frustrations, worries and failure, these are the attitude habits you will pick up.”  Thomas D. Willhite

19.  “Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”  Lance Armstrong

20.  “There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces – and success instead of eluding him flows toward him.”  Norman Vincent Peale

21.  “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”  Albert Schweitzer

22.  “No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.”  Barbara DeAngelis

23.  “If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.”  Dale Carnegie

24.  “The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.”  Brian Tracy

25.  “Developing excellent communication skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can’t get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn’t even matter.”  Gilbert Amelio

26.  “There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor.”  Alan Cohen

27.  “Nothing of great value in life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds.”  Norman Vincent Peale

28.  “In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.”  Robert Collier

29.  “Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration — of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.”
Lance Secretan

30.  “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”  Michael Jordan

31.  “I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won’t amount to anything.”  Abraham Lincoln

32.  “If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.”  Mary Pickford

33.  “Take control now. Forget about the negative thoughts which others have told you – that you are too old or too young. Stop letting the thoughts of others rule your life; stop being weak and cowardly, blaming your lack of progress on those negative programs. If you begin now and become a do-er, you will have earned your right to remain here.” Thomas D. Willhite

34.  “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way,ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”  Deepak Chopra

35.  “Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.”  Denis Waitley

36.  “It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”  Theodore Roosevelt

37.  “Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.”  Kathleen Norris

38.  “I found every single successful person I’ve ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal decision that they were not going to live like this anymore; they were going to achieve success. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50,and most people never make it all.”  Brian Tracy

39.  “My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.” Don Shula

40.  I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.  Elie Wiesel

42.  “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”  Oprah Winfrey

43.  “The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.” Brian Tracy

44.  “Worry never accomplishes anything. When you have a problem, it is best to concentrate on the solution to that problem, not the problem itself.”  Thomas D. Willhite

45.  “People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.”  Stedman Graham

46.  We’ve been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that IS America, there has never been anything false about hope.   Barack Obama

47.  “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”  George Bernard Shaw

48.  “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”  Anne Bradstreet

49.  “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. “ Elie Wiesel

50.  “Get up each morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and see yourself not as someone who is overweight or out of shape, but as the someone you will become.”  Dr. Phil McGraw

51.  “My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is within you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.”  Helen Hayes

52.  “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”  Albert Einstein

53.   “Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.”  Johnny Carson

54.  All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.  Thomas E. Lawrence

55. The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. Anne Frank

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Father’s Day Quotes

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development. – David Gottesman

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! - Lydia M. Child

It is much easier to become a father than to be one. – Kent Nerburn

By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact.

But I am prouder – infinitely prouder – to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, ‘Our Father who art in Heaven.’ – Douglas Macarthur

One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be. - Anonymous

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. - George Herbert

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee. - Margaret Courtney

It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. - Anne Sexton

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain

My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it. – Josefowitz

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong. – Charles Wadsworth

I’ve had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started. – Bartrand Hubbard

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. – Mario Cuomo

Quotes found here:

10 Quotes in Honor of Fathers Day

I was touched by this because I never knew my father.  He died when I was very young.  When I married, my father -in-law became a “Dad” to me and I am very thankful for him and that he and my mother-in-law raised the wonderful man who has been my husband for 30 years and who is a wonderful father to our two sons.

From: Dale Stuemke

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10 Quotes in Honor of Fathers Day

My wife was one of those children who grew up without a father in the house. In fact, she never knew him. When we got married almost 42 years ago, my father became her father. That was the closest she ever came to having a father. Although he is now in heaven, we think of him often.
She put together these quotes about fathers and wanted to share them with you in honor of Father’s Day:

• A father carries pictures where his money used to be. Author Unknown
• A man’s children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season. Anonymous
• Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. Author Unknown
• Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what’s been taught them. Jonas Salk
• It is a wise child that knows his own father. Homer
• I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection. Sigmond Freud
• My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways. Sarah Orne Jewett
• The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. Confucius
• The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Henry Ward Beecher
• The love of a father is one of nature’s greatest masterpieces. Anonymous

My Dad

When I was just a tiny kid,
Do you remember when,
The time you kissed my bruises,
Or cleaned by soiled chin?

You scrambled for the balls I hit,
(Short-winded more than not,)
Yet, every time we’d play a game,
You praised the “outs” I caught.

It seems like only yesterday,
You wiped away my tears,
And late at night I called your name,
To chase away my fears.

Though time has changed your handsome grip,
Your hair is snowy white,
You gait’s a little slower now,
Thick glasses help your sight.

Oh, do I thirst for years gone by,
To be that growing lad,
Re-living all of the memories,
Of growing with my dad.
Author Unknown

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Twitter Hashtag: ThanksThursday

In short, Twitter’s Follow Friday began as a way to recommend a favorite friend to others but it has evolved into more for some people.  Many (myself included) use it as a way to show gratitude for mentions and retweets during the week.   So now, instead of recommending a few of my favorite people, I’m listing hundreds of friends that were kind enough to RT or mention me.  And at least for me, this has gotten out of control.  (Read the full story of Follow Friday at Mashable.)

I’m not always good about thanking people who like what I post well enough to retweet it or who mention me and I want them to know they are appreciated!  That’s why I am using  Thanks Thursday for that purpose.    So, I will try my best to thank people every Thursday and you’ll see that hashtag #ThanksThursday.    ThanksThursday is already being used sometimes to show gratitude but maybe the concept will really take off and Follow Friday will once again be used to highlight a select few instead of (in my case) hundreds.   But, if I find it annoys people (you know, yet another day of listing people to follow!) than I’ll quit   We’ll see what happens!

Don’t know anything about hashtags?  Here is a brief intro from CIO:

The story behind Hashtags
Twitter (the company) didn’t create hashtags. The Twitter community’s early adopters came up with the idea to put a “#” in front of topics to add context to tweets. The tag would also help filter and sort them out for future readers.  Read the entire article here.

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