Success

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I just found Richard St John's short presentations (4-4 mins) on success.
Very good ones!!! ;)

(Subtitles are available on 36+ languages!)

Richard St. John's 8 secrets of success

Richard St. John: "Success is a continuous journey"

Recognition

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I can never find myself.

I am constantly creating who I am...

Motivation

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"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither
does bathing — that's why we recommend it daily."
— Zig Ziglar: Author and motivational speaker

"Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein: Was a theoretical physicist

"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."

— Henry Ford: Founder, Ford Motor Company

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
— Sir Winston Churchill: British Politician

Nick Vujicic

Nick Vujicic, No Arms, No Legs, No Worries! Part 1

Nick Vujicic, No Arms, No Legs, No Worries! Part 2

Nick Vujicic, No Arms, No Legs, No Worries! Part 3

Buffet II

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I thought a little more about this buffet thing - and about overeating. I had to realize that this kind of behavior refers to a poor mindset - which I don't want to be associate with. Eating until I cannot move is an attitude what my brain interprets as scarcity (of food). Which is not true - it's hard to imagine that my dispensary would ever go empty... :)

I can have a much balanced life when I eat only as much as my body needs - when I don't send false massages to my brain that I would run out of food (or any of my resources)... Life is much easier and better when we can tune ourselves to a rich mindset! ;)

My Favorite Serving

Buffet

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Now, I have regular access to a buffet, which is full of nice food and I can eat as much as I want - and I think I eat much more than I want! Actually, I can't stop eating! Well, thx to my parents' genes I've inherited, nobody can see these extra foods on me - but I can feel it on my mood: this tremendous food makes me really sleepy and tired!

I started to wonder why I can't stop? Though I know there is plenty of food at home and I can come back to this buffet many other times too, it's still very challenging to me not to overeat! I'm aware that I'm much more energetic when I eat less and drink more (water!) and still... I think this is a good example for the following famous saying:
I can do anything I want but not everything is good for me!

After some further investigations in my soul, I realized that I don't follow this behavior only in the buffet - I do it in other areas of my life too. Eg.: knowledge! I want to know so many things, but do I really need to know everything I want? Am I ever gonna use all this knowledge? Will it bring any good thing into my life? What would it be, if I started to focus on fewer things?

My Favorite Dessert... ;)

Lego

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I remember, one of my favorite childhood's game was the Lego. I loved building things! ;)

Now, I have a chance to do some construction work in part time. I just realized that I'm doing "in real" what I liked playing in as a child! How cool is that! ;) And it's even more exciting that the elements don't fit to each other as easily as they did in the Lego, so I have to be resourceful to "play" with the material around me in order to make everything look nice in the end!

I had a good day today as well! I enjoyed every minutes of it! ;)

Master Piece

Mirage

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I just listened to one of Deepak Chopra's audiobook: Magical Mind, Magical Body. How interesting it was!

He gives detailed explanation about the body-mind connection, tells about the aging process and how to slow it down, he explains an easy & effective way of loosing weight & being physically fit. He talks about the main personality types and about their balances. Love & Fear is also discussed as well as many other interesting things.

I really liked when he talked about the known & unknown. He said that most of the people are afraid of the unknown, however it's a mirage, and instead, people should be afraid of the known!

Why?
Because the unknown is always full of possibilities, while the known always limits and bounds us...

Mirage

Free Your Mind

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I've just heard a following story recently:

The pupil went to the master to expand his knowledge by learning from the master. In the very beginning, the master poured 2 glasses of water and told him the following presentation:

"This glass of water in front of you represents your knowledge. This one, in front of me represents mine. If you want my water (my knowledge), you have to empty your glass (your mind)!"

I wonder how many times I didn't "empty my glass" before listening to my loved ones, friends and other people?! I'm even more curious how much more open I'm becoming by understanding this profound principle! ;)

Empty Your Glass! ;)

Vicious Circles

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This week I started my trainee-ship in a residential care home where I work with elderly people. When I looked around in a nice lady's room I had to notice how gorgeous beauty she used to be a half of a century ago... And now, an elderly fragile lady sits in front of me, who is facing with physical & mental challenges.

I started to think again - I just can't stop thinking. :) How many times we stop doing exercises for some reasons (or rather, excuses?) and it results us either gaining weight or lack of energy. And the less we train our muscles the harder is to restart our workouts. We say to ourselves that we are tired or we can't exercise - while working out would be the very thing that could free us from tiredness, give us more energy and build up our muscles...

I wonder if it works the same with the mind: From our adventurous childhood we go more and more toward a secured life, avoiding risks... Until we reach a point when we realize:

If we always do what we've always done, we will get what we always got.

Then, we stop and we ask: Is that it? Is that all what life is about?

But isn't it too late by then? Will we still have the courage to take any risk to make some changes, to do something differently?

Vicious Circle

Mission Accomplished

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I wondered many times why I used to follow through my goals related to supporting other people's goal & mission while I got stuck with some of my personal goals. Finally I found the answer.

When I set up a mission which is bigger than me, then it becomes so important that I just follow through whatever it takes.

And what is my benefit from this? The same as I can get from achieving my goals: the personality change I'm going through while I'm achieving.

I'm extremely curious what will happen if I choose to follow missions that are in the very same direction where my personal goals are! ;)

My New Mission

Interactions

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I'm in a relationship with the people who surround me. These relationships take place in different contexts, eg. marriage, family, friends, associates, work, clubs, neighborhoods. If I take any kind of action toward a person I'm in a relationship with, that action comes back to me. How is that?

Let's see the following example:

Let's suppose I hurt somebody. Between this person and me there is a relationship that links us. one to another. So if I hurt that person, then I also hurt the relationship between us. But I am also part of this relationship, so therefore, I'm hurting myself as well.

Does this explain why you feel worse and worse when you hurt /argue with somebody - and why does it make you feel better and better, when you help somebody? ;)

Interaction

Dancing the TightRope

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Fast & Determined - Precipitant
Confident - Arrogant
Brave - Reckless
Optimistic - Naiv

and so on...

It's always a fine art not to cross the lines...


In what other ways can learn this tight rope dancing besides the
Trial-and-Error method?

Equilibrist

Discipline

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Today, I made 1 step toward one of my goal. I didn't like the result - I had to realize I'll need to practice this activity A LOT!!!

"But being on the ground is not failing. Your discipline, your attitude, your showing up are what count! It doesn't matter if you did it well or not! You did it perfect at the level where you were at!" - a friend -

Tomorrow, I'll try it again. It will be better for sure - even if it will be just a little better and I won't even notice the difference. I believe in this saying I've just heard a few weeks ago:

"A champion gets pinned 10.000 times before he becomes a champion."

...so I still can be turned down 9.999 times more - before I become a professional in what I do! ;)

Attitude

What's Next?

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It's such a wonderful feeling, when you can put into practice what you learn, isn't it?! You realize how knowledge can manifest itself.

When my mind steps out of the present moment and moves to the future, then it sometimes starts questioning my goals: Whether will I ever achieve it? I don't like this, so I've learned to ask myself better quality questions, eg.: What can I do now to make one step toward my goal(s)?

To make this process even easier and to avoid getting distracted, I started to recall what I learned about project management during my college years. Well, don't think anything complicated, I just checked out 1 page on Wikipedia about the PERT network chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pert_chart

PERT Network Chart

Well, this model is not very popular in business any more, because it can become very large and unwieldy; but for what I need, it's just perfect:

- I can list my milestones and indicate the relationships between them

- I can focus only my very next task(s) without getting distracted by the rest of the process
- (So far, I skipped the time estimation from my chart to keep it simple)

I learned about subdividing goals into manageable pieces about a year ago, but I haven't tried it yet (maybe because I haven't had big enough goals until now? :) ). It took me 1 year to put into practice - and now I see how effective it is!!! Every milestone I achieve makes me feel that I'm going to the right direction, I'm getting closer to my goal! ...and I'm constantly wondering: What's next? ;)

FWD: Wear Sunscreen

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I almost every day receive a forwarded email with some wise thoughts and advices. When I open these (if I open these at all, since these emails always tend to be more or less the same), I always wonder if the sender has taken any single action upon these advices. And then, the following question pops into my mind:

How would the sender make a bigger difference: If he/she forwards these advices to all of his/her friends or if he/she takes any action based on the suggestions in these very touching emails?

Wear Sunscreen

Are we afraid to open up?

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Probably I don't share a common opinion with many people about this topic.

I've never had problem with opening up with others and share my feelings and many of my secrets. At least not because of being afraid of getting hurt. Why?

Because I always thought that people are constantly changing. Me too. And if I share my feellings I'm not the same person any more who I was when I kept it inside. I'm even a different person after sharing it with someone. After opening up, sharing a part of my life with somebody, I feel free, because I'm not attached to my "secret" any more. I can move on, grow, live the presence and focus on other things. While when I'm afraid of sharing something, I feel like a prisoner of the very feeling/secret that I'm attached to. And that's not a good feeling...

So why not to open up? ;)

Shared Feelings

Angel's War

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I was suggested to free up some time and schedule some "daydreaming" time into my weekly activities. The purpose of this would be let my mind flow, to let my mind live its own creativity.

The scheduling was OK, I scheduled 3 times 2 hours for that - keeping the schedule was much less successful. I took only 1 time 1 hour for this so far. I think I aimed too "high". I'll need to schedule smaller period of times for daydreaming - but it can be more frequent.

I guess I underestimate the power of relaxation & recharging. In the last weeks I figured out the optimum sleeping hours I need - by trial & error method -, now it's time to find out the optimum period of time & frequency for my "alone time"!

It's so interesting to listen to the 2 angels arguing inside me:

- "Daydreaming? Alone time? What do you want??? It's nothing but wasting your expensive time!"

- "Do you think so?! Just Watch and Learn! Watch how much I'm going to enjoy this special time and Be Impressed how much more effective and creative I will become in problem solving in the rest of my activities!"

I can't wait to prove my 2nd angel's right! ;)

I wonder in what ways can this creativity time improve my life!!! ;)

Question Marks???

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When do I daydream? and / or Why do I daydream?

These were the questions in my mind when I finished my session with my life coach, Patricia. We spent one hour together without catching myself on daydreaming or getting distracting, which has been extremely rare in my life. So I tried to figure out what are so special about our coaching sessions. The day after I figured out that the questions are the answers. No matter how interesting the topic I read / listen to can be, I can't focus on. My mind need to be directed - by challenges. The more interesting challenges, tasks, questions are directed to my mind, the less distracted it gets.

I thought I'm missing some rock solid statements, principles in my life. Maybe I was wrong, all I need is some razor sharp question mark! ;)

Can we pretend that the men represent the statements and the women represent the questions? So indeed, all I need is a woman? ;)

Who are you? ;)

No excuses.

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I haven't posted anything for more than a half year - no excuses.

Long story in short: I enjoyed my time in Mozambique, after I had a fantastic 2 months motorbike tour visiting my friends in Denmark-Germany-Netherlands-Belgium-England-Scotland-England-Belgium-Netherlands-Slovakia.

You can see many of my pictures about this trip on Facebook...

After that I spent a few weeks with my family in Hungary.

Only Us

And now, I'm full of energy and I'm living my dream in London!
What do I do here?
I train myself into two very special fields:
1. Social Care & Youth Work
2. Internet Marketing

Why these fields?

1. Well, I will never forget how much I enjoyed working with the kids in Denmark during my volunteer program. It was like living my 2nd childhood with them!!! Most of you also know that I like helping, serving people and I like big, quality conversations. When I put all these together, I realized I must become a youth worker. Besides this, I have 2 of my friends in Hungary (graduated in Child psychology) waiting for me to return to my country and set up an NGO / Social Entrepreneurship for supporting children. So these are my motivations for this field.

2. The internet marketing. I think I don't have to explain this a lot. Most of you know that:
- I'm internet addicted,
- I like challenges,
- I like going crazy,
- I like playing around,

So I asked myself why not make some money from my passion. I couldn't come up with a single reason, and I started to realize how much money can be earned from the internet so I made a commitment:

I'm committed to earn $1.000.000 by January 2013.

I can't help, I just like challenges that seems to be impossible for the majority! ;) Anyway, that Hungarian NGO we're going to set up is going to need some financial support - and I really don't want to rely on the Hungarian Government in this issue (No Offense to Anybody :) ).

So, I'm back and I'm going to continue writing off all my thoughts that cannot stay in my head!!! ;)

Watch out!!!! The Loch-Ness Monster is Back!!!