Showing posts with label Zig Ziglar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zig Ziglar. Show all posts

Sunday, April 1, 2012

I Spent Half My Life Worrying About Things That Never Happened

Looking Forward

One of my favorite quotes is from Mark Twain, he said, "I spent half my life worrying about things that never happened."  How many of us spend our time regretting the past or worrying about the future when the present moment just slips by with a kind of subtle indifference.

Why do so many of us live in fear and worry when there is a better way. We have been given the gift of life to make our mark, to share our talents, to be of service, to leave a legacy, to simply enjoy our days.  Many of us, especially in the United States, have been given the gift of freedom, of choice to be what we want to be, to do want we want to do, how wonderful is that simple gift.

Billions of people would risk their very lives to come to the United States. Our immigrant forefathers did exactly that, and we see countless examples everyday of people looking to cross our borders to enjoy the very freedoms and opportunities we take for granted.

The simple shift away from worry and fear to one of gratitude and service will help take the focus off ourselves and onto others. Zig Ziglar said that to get what you want all you need to do is help enough other people get what they want.  How true. When we help others, we stop feeling sorry for ourselves and realize that our troubles or problems may not be so significant.  The simple shift off ourselves and onto others unlocks the universal principle of "giving and receiving",  for when we give we free up space for even more wonderful things to flow into our lives.

Next time we catch ourselves worrying and fretting about ourselves and our futures, take a moment and list all of the things we have to be grateful for and look for ways to help someone else for in that moment we realize that our challenges are not so great and we can then understand and experience the joy and abundance of life.

With Love,


Coach K

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Quote of The Day

"The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient investor. Patience is an investors best friend" - Warren Buffet

"You can do all that I have done and more if you but believe" - Jesus

With God all things are possible - Matthew 

This is the day the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad- Psalm

 If you want to accomplish something you must first expect it from yourself -  Wayne Dyer

 
Practice loving yourself and others every day. Let your love grow, the more love in your life, the happier and contented you will be. Loves leads to peace, joy, and understanding. Share your love even to those that you think don't want it or need it, give it away, it comes back multiplied. Remember it doesn't cost a thing to think or say a word of kindness or love, or to simply smile, or show understanding with a compassionate glance. Be generous with your Love - Coach K

"The easy way to get what you want is to help enough people get what they want" - Zig Ziglar

"I spent half my life worrying about things that never happened" - Mark Twain

"Don't spend your time arguing with stupid people, it only drags you down to their level where they have more experience" - Mark Twain

"In all thy getting, get understanding" - Proverbs

"It is not the critic who counts...but the man who is in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at worst if he fails, fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat"  - Teddy Roosevelt

"There is a soul force in the universe, which, if we permit it will flow through us and produce miraculous results."  - Gandhi

"When the student is ready, the teacher will appear" - Buddha

"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein

"The greatest wealth is health" - Virgil

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be" - Lao Tzu

"There is nothing stronger than gentleness" - Abraham Lincoln

"When one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavors to live the life they have imagined, they will meet with success unexpected in common hours - Henry David Thoreau

"Into each life a little rain must fall" - From the poem Rainy Day Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come" - Victor Hugo

"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" - John F. Kennedy

"Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation" - Aristotle

"My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete" - Jesus

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Everyone can understand adversity, but to really test a man's character give him power" - Abraham Lincoln

"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two Impostors just the same; Yours is the Earth and everything that is in it" - Rudyard Kipling

"The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother" - John Wooden

 "Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented." - Arnold Palmer

"The harder I practice the luckier I get" - Gary Player

"Youth has no age" and "It takes a long time to become young"             - Pablo Picasso

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life" - Pablo Picasso

"To draw you must close your eyes and sing" - Pablo Picasso

" It took me four years to paint like Raphael but a lifetime to paint       like a child" - Pablo Picasso

 

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening – and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.
-Arnold Palmer

 

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening – and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.
-Arnold Palmer




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Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening – and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.
-Arnold Palmer







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