Monday Morning Motivations Tenacity Pays

Published by Robert A. & Vicki L. Prentice of Professional Development Systems
September 11, 2006 Issue 215

From the Desk of Bob

Let me encourage you to take the time today to show some extra appreciation to those that you love. We all know that in an instant everything can change. Each of us should take just a moment today to count our many blessings.

I know that I am going to take the time to contact those that I love and care about and let them know that they are special to me. I can not think of anything more important to do than this with my time today.

Success to you and all your endeavours today and all this week.

Dream BIG dreams! Bob

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"To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all. But to believe in the unseen is both a triumph and a blessing.
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"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision."
~Ayn Rand~

"There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less."
~Kurt Hahn~

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Seeds of Success: Paint the Vision

By Robert A. Prentice

Do you have vision? If you are able to read this, then obviously you can see, but I am not talking about that kind of vision, today. I am talking about the kind of vision that your mind sees down the road, around the corner, and up the street. Really, we all have the incredible potential to see into our future. Many of us have never been taught how to be visionary. I would like to share with you the process that I have applied for several years in my life.

I pretend for a moment that I have a telescope and I am peering through it–not at the stars or the window across the street, but off into the distance. What am I looking for? I see a faint image of my life in the future. I capture the image that I see. The image that I see is what my heart's desire and my mind's eye picture bring into focus.

I know for a fact that each and every one of us are very capable of doing this exercise, though it may take a little practice. How do you see your life down the road two to three years from now? How about three to five years from now? Or how about ten years from now? What do you see yourself doing? Are you achieving your goals and how are you doing it? Are you happy? Successful?

I should mention that it really helps if you're a little bit of an optimist. Being a visionary takes practice. It is really worth it. It will stretch you. I know that it has stretched me. So get out your paintbrush and with broad strokes paint your vision. Don’t worry about the details. Just paint.

Unpolished Diamond

How a person reacts to criticism often means the difference between success and failure. Take the case of Ole Bull, the famous Norwegian violinist of the past century.

His practical father, a chemist, sent him to the University of Christiania to study for the ministry and forbade him to play his beloved violin. He promptly flunked out and, defying his father, devoted all his time and energy to the violin. Unfortunately, though he had great ability, his teachers were relatively unskilled, so that by the time he was ready to start his concert tour he wasn't prepared.

In Italy, a Milan newspaper critic wrote: "He is an untrained musician. If he be a diamond, he is certainly in the rough and unpolished."

There were two ways Ole Bull could have reacted to that criticism. He could have let it make him angry, or he could learn from it. Fortunately he chose the latter. He went to the newspaper office and asked to see the critic. The astounded editor introduced him. Ole spent the evening with the 70-year- old critic, asked about his faults, and sought the older man's advice on how to correct them.

Then he canceled the rest of his tour, returned home, and spent the next six months studying under really able teachers. He practiced hours upon hours to overcome his faults. Finally, he returned to his concerts and, when only 26, became the sensation of Europe.

~Author Unknown~

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