YOU ARE PRICELESS......REALISE YOUR VALUE

A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20.00 bill.  In the room of 200, he asked, "Who would like this $20 bill?" Hands started going up.  He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this.  He proceeded to crumple up the $20 dollar bill.   He then asked, "Who still wants it?"  Still the hands were up in the air.  Well, he replied, "What if I do this?"  And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe.

He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty.  "Now, who still wants it?" Still the hands went into the air.  “My friends, we have all learned a very valuable lesson.  No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value.  It was still worth $20.”

  

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way.  We feel as though we are worthless.  But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value.

Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who DO LOVE you.  The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or who we know, but by WHO WE ARE. You are special- Don’t EVER forget it.  Count your blessings, not your problems.  And remember: amateurs built the ark.  Professionals built the Titanic.

If God brings you to it - He will bring you through it.

what you need to be a champion

1. State of Mind. Your ability to focus on a certain task and perform that task no matter what, under any conditions with a deliberate attention, can make a huge difference not just in your athletic performance, but your daily life as well. Learn to focus and learn to stay focused and your training and racing will step up higher.
2. High Level of Perception. Perception is our ability to accept, absorb, recognize, identify, distinguish and differentiate the information that comes to us from all directions at high speed. Our perception is everything to our successful survival, but unfortunately, this one single aspect of utmost importance is virtually overlooked in today’s athletic world. Developing your perception to the highest levels will not just elevate you to the next level of performance but it will open the doors to new possibilities by default. A champion's perception allows him/her to compete on another level, because their perception of movement and what needs to happen is backed up by a state of mind that allows the possibility of going beyond the perceived limits. And then the acutely developed perception becomes a guide in swiftly choosing and taking the next required step towards breaking world records.
3. Ability to do the action. To produce the triumphant results, the athlete must possess one more quality that luckily for everyone, can be developed just like the first two. The ability to do what needs to be done, when it matters. In running it comes down to the action of falling and the action of pulling. This last, but not least characteristic brings it all together.

With a proper state of mind, a high level of awareness/perception and the ability to pull it off under pressure, you can become unstoppable! Forge ahead!

change distractions into opportunities

Have you ever been stuck in a traffic jam at the worst possible time? Did you stomp your foot, pound the steering wheel, shake your fist, lean on the horn? If so, did you find that the louder you blew your horn and the nastier you got when you shook your fist, the more quickly the traffic in front of you opened up and permitted you to go through?

If you follow that foot-stomping, horn-blowing routine often enough, you raise your blood pressure, increase your chances of having a heart attack or developing ulcers, and generally ruin your disposition and shorten your life span.

Look at that traffic jam, smile, and say, "Oh, boy! I'll bet it's going to take at least 30 minutes to get through this mess! In 30 minutes, if I listen to informational tapes, add to my vocabulary, discover new leadership principles, or increase my knowledge!" Or if you have someone in the car with you, a traffic jam is an opportunity for an uninterrupted visit. Use the time to make out a grocery list or plan a surprise for your mate's next birthday. Your options may not be plentiful, but using your time to accomplish meaningful results sure beats "stewing without doing."

You do have a choice — either you can gain or accomplish something while you wait, or you can get upset and bring on strokes, heart attacks, and high blood pressure. "People jams" in the office, home, neighborhood, school, playground, and ballpark can be handled in a similar manner. Although you may not be able to pop in a tape or read a book when other people's schedules don't conform to yours, you can still relax and people-watch or use the extra time to work on ideas. You'll be healthier and happier at the end of your day if you take that approach.

Choose optimism over pessimism

You can find at least two ways to look at virtually everything. A pessimist looks for difficulty in the opportunity, whereas an optimist looks for opportunity in the difficulty. A poet of long ago put the difference between optimism and pessimism this way: "Two men looked out from prison bars — one saw mud, the other saw stars."
Unfortunately, many people look only at the problem and not at the opportunity that lies within the problem. Many employees complain about the difficulty of their jobs, for example, not realizing that if the job were simple, the employer would hire someone with less ability at a lower wage. A small coin can hide even the sun if you hold the coin close enough to your eye. So when you get too close to your problems to think objectively about them, try to keep in mind how your vision can be obstructed, take a step back, and look at the situation from a new angle. Look up instead of down.
Pessimism muddies the water of opportunity. Anytime a new innovation comes along promising to make life easier, someone always complains that it will take the jobs of people. When Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, protesters said that it would put thousands of people out of work. Instead, the invention made the production of cloth much cheaper, and millions of people could afford more clothing, which created countless jobs. When the computer was invented, folks believed that people would lose their jobs. Some people have had to retrain themselves to stay marketable, but almost everyone agrees that computers have created — not deleted — jobs and have improved our capabilities immeasurably.

You can't do anything to change the fact that a problem exists, but you can do a great deal to find the opportunity within that problem. You're guaranteed a better tomorrow by doing your best today and developing a plan of action for the tomorrows that lie ahead. Just remember to maintain a positive mental attitude so that, as you plan for tomorrow, you're doing so with the sense of expectancy that produces substantially better results.

thanks

 LUCAS RAFIQUE