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Motivational Tip Of The Day

Your Job

Wherever you're working - In an office or shop

And however far you may be from the top

And though you may think you're just treading the mill

Don't even belittle the job that you fill

For however little your job may appear

You're just as important as some little gear

That meshes with others in a big machine

That helps keep it going - Though it never is seen

Your job is important - Don't think it is not

So try hard to give it the best that you've got

And don't even think you're of little account

Remember, you're part of the total amount

If they don't need you, you wouldn't be there

So always, my friend, keep your chin in the air

A digger of ditches, mechanic or clerk

Think well of your country, yourself and your work! 

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So you want a day off. Let's take a look at what you are asking for. There are 365 days per year available for work. There are 52 weeks per year in which you already have 2 days off per week, leaving 261 days available for work.

Since you spend 16 hours each day away from work, you have used up to 170 days, leaving only 91 days available. You spend 30 minutes each day on coffee break which counts for 23 days each year leaving 68 days available. With a 1 hour lunch break each day, you used up another 46 days, leaving only 22 days available for work.

You normally spend 2 days per year on sick leave. This leaves you only 20 days per year available for work. We are off 5 holidays per year, so your available working time is down to 15 days.

We generously give 14 days Vacation per year which leaves only 1 day available for work and I'll be damned if you are going to take that day off.

Motivational Tip Of The Day

Thousands of years ago, a slave named Aesop who wrote simple fables that illustrated certain principles of thought and behavior. They continue to affect people's lives because the applications remain relevant. One such fable is that of the deer and the hunter.

The deer was admiring his reflection in the pool. "Ah," said he, "where can you see such noble horns as these, with such antlers? I wish I had legs worthy to bear such a glorious crown. It is a pity they are so slim and unsightly."

At that moment, a hunter appeared and sent an arrow flying towards the deer. The deer bounded off and by means of his nimble legs that he was just complaining about was quickly out of range of the hunter.

Prize yourself. Stop tearing yourself down. Build on your strengths. Don't dwell on your weaknesses. Act and think in ways that make you like yourself. Don't compare yourself to other people or compare what you are to what you think you should be.  Celebrate who you are and be the best you can be.

- Excerpt from Speaker's Sourcebook II by Glenn Van Ekeren 

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He who is silent, is forgotten; he who does not advance, falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed, outdistanced, crushed; he who ceases to grow, becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end.

- Henri Frederic Amiel 

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To be successful, you have to believe you can change the conditions in your life. You have to get out of the back seat of someone else's car and get behind your own steering wheel.

You can't wish away the things in your life that make you unhappy and you can't daydream your hopes into reality.

You have to consider options, reach decisions, take steps, make moves. Make things happen.

In other words, "Go out and make something happen."

       - Buck Rogers

Motivational Tip Of The Day

A worthy ideal along with continuing to do with what you've got are solid foundations for success. 

For example, baking cookies was always just a hobby for Debbi Sivyer, the youngest of five girls in a working-class family from Oakland, California. That is, until she decided to go into business for herself using a chocolate chip cookie recipe she had perfected.

According to a USA Weekend report, Debbi never knew she would be going into the cookie business. "I was really struggling with what I wanted to do with my life. I wanted to be married and have children, but I needed something for me. Baking cookies is something I love. It was my way of having fun."

Friends and family discouraged her, saying starting a business "was a stupid idea." But they all agreed she made wonderful cookies. "I really believed in my product."

Her husband, Randy Fields, and her local Small Business Administration gave her the encouragement and support she needed. Randy, then an investment advisor and economist, helped her get a $50,000 bank loan, and the first "Mrs. Fields" store opened in 1977 in Palo Alto, California.

The secret to her early success: When people wouldn't buy, she marched into the streets of Palo Alto and gave her cookies away. Customers soon beat a path to her store. Fields and her husband, the firm's chairperson, now oversee a company with 600 stores worldwide. Her latest concoction: oat bran cookies, now available in Mrs. Fields stores across the USA.

Debbi Sivyer believes in using what she has toward a worthy ideal.

- Excerpt from Speaker's Sourcebook II by Glenn Van Ekeren 

Motivational Tip Of The Day

Malcolm Forbes said people often asked him how to become successful. Forbes simply replied, "Whatever you like to do, just find a way to do it. The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy."

That's dynamite advice. First, decide what you like to do. Then, determine how to be successful doing it.

       - Excerpt from Speaker's Sourcebook II by Glenn Van Ekeren 

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One of the most important problems in being an entrepreneur is the problem of happiness after success. Many people might say, "Hey, Baby, give me the success, and I'll worry about the happiness afterwards." Unfortunately, it doesn't happen that way. Unless you consider happiness before you consider success, then the manner in which you achieve your success will be something that will destroy you at some later date.

Many people, in their rise to success, are so busy running to the top, stepping on their competitors, stepping on their enemies, and saddest of all, stepping on their friends and loved ones, that when they get to the top, they look around and discover that they are extremely lonely and unhappy.

They'll ask me, "Where did I go wrong?"

My answer has always been, "Probably at the beginning."

- Berry Gordy

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If you don't have a vision for your life, then you probably haven't focused in on anything.

   - Dr. David Burns 

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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet not withstanding, go out to meet it.

   - Thucydides