Lesson of Life by the Dalai Lama

“When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.” –the Dalai Lama

“Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. With that feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to get rid of suffering, and everyone has the basic right to do this. In this way, all here are the same, whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, Easterner or Westerner, believer or non-believer, and within believers whether Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and so on. Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same.” — the Dalai Lama

“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.” — the Dalai Lama

“Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.” — the Dalai Lama

Learning to Dance in the Rain Movie

"Life's not about waiting for the storm to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain." ~ Viviane Greene

We create our reality by choosing our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. For that reason, when we have bad days sometimes we might wonder what we did to bring it upon ourselves.

Sure, that's one way to look at it...

But what if we just choose, from that moment on, to look forward?

Each moment is a new opportunity to choose our internal experience of reality, regardless of all the moments that came before it. So when you're feeling stuck in a rut, remember that one secret to turning it all around is gratitude.

WARNING: THIS STORY WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE

A gripping story of a man, whose loss of his wife brings him to a stand point in life. Unable to cope, or to tell his young daughter about her mom's death the man refuses to go to the wake. However, an unlikely friend shows him a differnt path in experiencing whats known to be true and certain in his life, by diving into his own imagination. Through these "sessions" of experiencing a different world, entirely created and lived by the man himself, he finds one of life's most powerful messages.

No Arms, No Leg, No Limit. I am love Living Love, I am happy. Nick Vujicic

The Power of Words

More importantly than that, this video could empower you to change somebody else's day, maybe their week, or maybe even their entire life. This video really enlightens us to just how powerful the words are that we share with others.

Every single person on this planet has gifts and wisdom that will help others. You personally have the "Power of Words" inside of yourself and every time you give somebody advice, share your story, or help them see things from a new perspective... you are simultaneously expressing that power and helping other people discover that power within themselves.

How to Get Over Your Fear of Failure, Make Every Second Count, and Love What You Do like J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter Creator) by Evan Carmichael

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." - J.K. Rowling

J. K. Rowling (born 31 July 1965) is a British author best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series. Rowling was a single mother living on welfare. Working as a secretary was not how she had envisioned her life. She had admittedly reached her own personal rock bottom. Without even enough money to pay the electricity bill, Rowling knew she had to do something to provide a better life for her baby daughter. But what, she wondered. The answer came to her while riding the train one day; that was when Harry Potter came to life.

After completing the first Harry Potter book, twelve publishers rejected it. But number thirteen proved to be the lucky one. Within a few months, Rowling’s Harry Potter character had come to life between the pages of a book in England. A few months after that, the American rights to the novel were bought for a hefty sum. With that, Rowling finally quit her teaching job and decided to focus full-time on writing.

Today, the stories Rowling first wrote in coffee shops have become famous the world over as not only books, but also movies, computer games, music, and more. She is the world’s first billion-dollar author and the highest earning novelist in history. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, sold more than 400 million copies and been the basis for a popular series of films. In 2007, Time Magazine name Rowling runner-up for its Person of the Year and in 2010, Forbes estimated her net worth to be US$1 billion.

Action Item #1: Get Over Your Fear of Failure

Nobody wants to fail but you can't let the fear of failing prevent you from making important decisions in your life. Anything worth doing will come with a healthy dose of fear - successful entrepreneurs are the ones who can plough through that fear and come out victorious on the other side.

Rowling couldn't believe the number of different stories publishing houses gave her as to why they didn't want to print her manuscript. Her story was too long, too fantastical, and wouldn't do well selling to a mainstream audience, they said. She remained patient and had faith in her product. She continued to send it out to publishing houses until she found one who saw in her story what she did: a success. It was one year from the time Rowling finished the very first Harry Potter book to the time that a publisher finally agreed to buy and publish it.

According to Rowling: “Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve. I was determined to try. I was determined to try because, frankly, my life was such a mess at this point, what – what was the worst that could happen? Everyone turn me down? Big deal.”

Action Item #2: Make Every Second Count

You only have so much time in the day to get work done and, as entrepreneurs, we usually have too many projects on the go to keep track of. It's hard work getting a business off the ground and you need to make every second count.

Harry Potter came to life on a day that Rowling was stuck on a train between Manchester and London during a four-hour delay. The passenger sitting next to her might have used the time to catch up on some sleep, but Rowling was determined to use the time to her advantage. Whether it was a 15 minute break from her secretarial duties at Amnesty International or a 30 minute nap time break from her baby daughter, Rowling used every spare second to dream up and jot down points for her story.

According to Rowling: “Where the idea for Harry Potter actually came from, I really couldn’t tell you. I was traveling on a train between Manchester and London and it just popped into my head. I spent four hours thinking about what Hogwarts would be like – the most interesting train journey I've ever taken. By the time I got off at King's Cross, many of the characters in the books had already been invented.”

Action Item #3: Love What You Do

If you don't love what you do, you're not going to have much success and entrepreneur. You're going to quit as soon as it gets tough and you're not going to make a meaningful contribution to your community. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know it's right when you find it.

Rowling wanted to make her contribution the world, to add her unique something that nobody else could bring to the table – and that unique something was her writing. She never went searching for the kind of success she has received today. She simply wanted to do best what she loved most, and that was writing.

According to Rowling: “I just write what I wanted to write... I write what amuses me. It’s totally for myself... I am an extraordinarily lucky person, doing what I love best in the world. I'm sure that I will always be a writer.”

True Story

Harry Potter  was not an instant success. In fact, at the very first book reading that Rowling did for her first Harry Pottery novel, only four people showed up to hear her. The staff at the book store felt so sorry for her that they stood around and listened too. Rowling’s editor then advised her to "get a day job, since she had little chance of making money in children’s books.”

Seven Wonders of the World

"Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts."– Anne of Green Gables

How to Achieve Success Like Steve Jobs (Apple Co-Founder) by Evan Carmichael

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is an American business tycoon, and the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple. His current net worth is $5.5 billion.

#1) Don’t Lose Faith

“You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future,” says Jobs. “You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

When Steve Jobs was 17 years old he dropped out of university and began taking classes like calligraphy that were more closely tied to his interests. “I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out ok,” he recalls. “It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made.”

A decade later, when Jobs was designing the first Apple Macintosh computer he put his calligraphy lessons to use by incorporating the fonts he learned about. “It was the first computer with beautiful typography,” says Jobs. “If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do… Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.”

#2) Don’t Settle

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do,” says Jobs. “If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle… As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.”

When Jobs was 17 years old, he read a quote that would stay with him forever: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.” Since then, he has looked himself in the mirror every morning and asked himself whether or not he would do the same thing that day if it were his last day alive. “Whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something,” he says.

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you want to become. Everything else is secondary,” he advises. “Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking… Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.”

#3) Innovate

“Innovation is the distinction between a leader and a follower,” says Jobs.

Throughout his career Steve Jobs has been an innovator. From the Macintosh to the iPod to the iPhone and now the iPad, he is constantly pushing the envelope to put his company on the forefront of innovation.  “When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D,” he recalls. “It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it."

“Innovation comes from people meeting in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem,” says Jobs. “It’s ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea.”

True Story

When Steve Jobs was in high school he called Hewlett-Packard co-founder William Hewlett to ask for parts for a school project. Hewlett gave him the parts and a summer job where he met Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.