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Have You Investigated Great Minds?
Posted by: | CommentsAre you an idea person? What is your best idea so far this year? Once you get an idea, how long does it take you to act on the idea?
There has never been anything with more powerful potential than an idea in the mind of a single person. Einstein was a man who ate like other men and washed his face like other men. Yet, beginning with the thinking of his mind we have been able to top the ultimate source of energy in nature. Ideas are a dime a dozen. It’s the idea that is acted upon which can make a difference. I was reading a book recently about the thirty minds that shaped our civilization. How many of the Great Thinkers do you recognize:
Jesus Aquinas Newton Clerk Maxwell
Moses Columbus Rousseau WilliamJames
Confucius Machiavelli Kant Nietysche
Plato Copernicus Malthus Pavlov
Aristotle Luther Clausewity Freud
Euclid Bacon Darwin Einstein Wiener
Augustine Descartes Marx Keynes Sartre
There are also many women who have impacted the world. See how many of these Great Thinkers you recognize:
Sappho Eleanor Roosevelt
Hildegard of Bingen Karen Horney
Sacajawea Ruth Benedict
Margaret Fuller Anna Freud
Harriet Beecher Stowe Margaret Mead
Susan B. Anthony Hannah Arendt
Elizabeth Blackwell Rachel Carson
Emma Curtis Hopkins Mary Leakey
Marie Crie Virginia Satir
Maria Montessori Shirley Chisholm
Mary McLeod Bethune Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Helen Keller Barbara Jordan
There you have it – 54 great thinkers. How many of these individuals and their contribution to the world do you recognize? Whose ideas make the most sense to you? How have those ideas impacted your life? Who are some of the other great thinkers you would like to investigate? Do you want to be a great thinker? What do you want to leave behind to grow?
Every day as you decide how to be productive, evaluate all of your ideas and then take action. What career ideas will you use today to maximize your potential? What book will you read today to improve your productivity? What audio or video cassette will you play today to upgrade your competence? What education course or seminar will you experience to invest more deeply in career knowledge?
Decide now to invest in great ideas and then, watch what happens!
Affirm:
“I now invest in great ideas of great
thinkers, including mine.”
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How do you FIX yourself, marriage, family, career or business?
Posted by: | CommentsYou need to take a big and small picture view of your situation. In terms of the big picture ask yourself, what is most important to you? If you don’t do something to make it better what will it cost you and others? What is the easiest next step?
For the short term break your next steps into very practical and specific baby steps that are measurable. Like, I will communicate what I need and want to my spouse and children. Assess your progress each day, week and month. Rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10. In fact ask others for feedback on how you are doing.
Get an accountability partner, coach or mentor to help you stay on track.
Ask yourself what is the worst that can happen? If you can live with that then the best that can happen will come to you. If you want to get past the ordinary you need to intensify your activities so the extraordinary can exist.
What does “lidgttftatim” mean?
Posted by: | CommentsThe other day a graduate shared a compelling story of how after reading a book she gave to her daughter her daughter love the phrase lidgttftatim.
She was impressed with it first because she could not figure out what it was and the letter she knew mean something. She tried all kinds of words and fianlly asked her mother to explain what the letters meant.
Lord I do give thee thanks for the abundance that is mine. Wow the daugher said. Now any time either of them forget what it means they are remined to say it out load.
What is a unique story or phrase that inspires you?
