Positive nuggets - worth reading

1. When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, "I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step process."

2. Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children. She was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contracted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a paralyzed left leg. At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk, which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to become a runner. She entered a race and came in last. For the next few years every race she entered, she came in last. Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running. One day she actually won race. And then another. From then on she won every race she entered. Eventually this little girl, who was told she would never walk again, went on to win three Olympic gold medals.

3. In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the executives of the Decca recording Company. The executives were not impressed. While turning down this group of musicians, one executive said, "We don't like their round. Groups of guitars are on the way out." The group was called The Beatles.

4. In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency, told modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married." She went on and became Marilyn Monroe.

5. In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, fired a singer after one performance. He told him, "You ain't goin' nowhere....son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck." He went on to become the most popular singer in America named Elvis Presley.

6. When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making a demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an amazing Invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?"

7. In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country. They all turned him down. In 1947 - after seven long years of rejections! He finally got a tiny company in Rochester, New York, the Haloid Company, to purchase the rights to his invention an electrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation we know today.

The Moral of the above Stories:

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you cannot do. And remember, the finest steel gets sent through the hottest furnace. And even the GOLD is tested against fire.

A winner is not one who never fails, but one who NEVER QUITS!

We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way. 

culled from  : http://binscorner.com 

A LEADER'S MINDSET

The mindset of a leader is a professional thought and behavior modification program that actually retrains your mind at the deepest subconscious levels.
It works by replacing a lifetime of negative "scripts" that have been programmed into your mind with the positive and winning beliefs, thoughts, attitudes.
The process is effortless, yet the results can be spectacular.
So lt us take a peep into how you can achieve the leadership mindset......

• Start each day infused with enthusiasm and confidence instead of worry and self-doubt, and be guided by purpose and principle in everything you do.
•  Inspire people with both your words and your actions, and earn the respect and admiration of those you lead.
• Take on tough problems and confrontations rather than postponing them, and always be appropriately assertive and diplomatic at the same time.
• Make smart choices and take decisive action, instead of getting mired down in delays or making reckless decisions you'll regret. 
• Teach, encourage, and motivate your people in ways each individual needs - and always say what you need to say in the way it must be said.
• Conduct focused and productive meetings, and keep multiple projects running like clockwork instead of sliding into chaos.
• Stand up for what you believe is right, confident that you're doing the right thing for everybody - your organization, your team, your family and yourself.
• Bring out the best in everyone around you, and be totally comfortable in a leadership role-even when it puts you in the spotlight or on the hot seat.

You may not even be aware of this major shift in automatic mental processes at first, because your thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors are silently and gradually transformed from the inside out.

But they'll become evident soon enough when people begin looking to you for guidance and support, more and more.

I believe YOU are the leader the world is waiting for.

I love you all.

credit to : Mike Brescia
                  President Think Right Now! International

Put together by Lucas Rafique.