QUOTES ON LIFE:

1. “The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today.” ~Unknown

2. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

3. “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

4. “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long

and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell

5. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” - Steve Jobs

6. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

7. “We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” –

T. S. Eliot

8. ““There’s no next time. It’s now or never.” ~ Celestine Chua

9. “For every effect there is a root cause. Find and address the root cause rather than try to fix the effect, as there is no end to the latter.” ~ Celestine Chua

10.“When you don’t get what you want, you suffer. If you get it, you suffer too since you can’t hold on to it forever.” – Peaceful Warrior, on the fallacy of attachment

11. “Every moment you get is a gift. Spend it on things that matter. Don’t spend it by dwelling on unhappy things.” ~ Celestine Chua

12. “There are no ordinary moments. There is always something going on.” – Peaceful Warrior

13.“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

14.“Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy.” ~ Celestine Chua

15."Don’t put off living to next week, next month, next year or next decade. The only    time you’re ever living is in this moment.” Celestine Chua

16. “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” ~ Mark Twain

17. “Life is a gift. Never forget to enjoy and bask in every moment you are in.” ~ Celestine Chua

18. The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced – Art Van Der Leeuw

19. “My life is my message.” – Gandhi

20. “If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.” – James A. Garfield

21. “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” ~ Unknown

22. “In the beginning you will fall into the gaps in between thoughts – after practicing for years, you become the gap.” – J.Kleykamp

23. “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” ~ Jim Rohn

QUOTES ON OBSTACLES, FAILURE & SUCCESS :

1. “Life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing.” ~ Helen Keller

2. “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the

bricks others have thrown at him.” ~ David Brinkley

3. “You already have every characteristic necessary for success if

you recognize, claim, develop and use them” – Zig Ziglar

4. “The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your

goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

5. “History, though, shows us that the people who end up changing

the world- the great political, social, scientific, technological artistic, even sports revolutionaries- are always nuts, until they’re right, and then they’re geniuses.” ~ Dr. John Eliot

6. “Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.” – J. Gitomer

7. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.” – Sydney Smith

8. “There is no one giant step that does it. It’s a lot of little steps.” – Peter A. Cohen

9. “Problems remain as problems because people are busy defending them rather than finding solutions. Stop wasting time defending your

problems and work on addressing them instead.” ~ Celestine Chua

10.“As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the “how” will reveal itself.” – Tony Robbins

11.“Athletes visualize winning 1000s of times before they step on the track. They’ve already won. Other people just don’t know it yet.” ~ Unknown

12.“Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

13.“There is no failure except in no longer trying.” – Elbert Hubbard

14.“Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have

another go, success won’t happen.” ~ Phillip Adams

15.“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” ~ Dale Carnegie

16.“Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the

goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, atthe last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.” – Herodotus

17.“If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don’t run you’ve already lost.” – Barack Obama

18.“Greatest success comes just one step beyond the point at which defeat overtakes you.” ~ Unknown

19.“Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.” – Napoleon Hill

20.“The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.” ~ Napoleon Hill

21.“No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.” ~ Napoleon Hill

22.“A Quitter never wins – and – a Winner never quits.” ~Napoleon Hill

23.“Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; Failure is merely a pit stop between where you stand and success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; Failure inspireswinners and defeats losers.” ~ Unknown

24.“Winning means being unafraid to lose.” – Fran Tarkenton

25.“To be successful you don’t need to do extraordinary things, youjust need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.” – Jim Rohn

26.“For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.” ~Mary Kay Ash founder

27.“Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe.” – Sumner Redstone Chairman

28.“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi

29.“Success is 99% attitude and 1% aptitude.” ~ Celestine Chua

30.“It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar

31.“Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.” – Anthony Robbins

32.“Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things.” – Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture (Book)

33.“You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” – Booker T. Washington

34.“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan (Nike ‘Failure’ Commercial; 15 Amazing Commercials To Inspire the Greatness in You )

35.“In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

36.“As soon as anyone starts telling you to be “realistic,” cross that person off your invitation list.” – John Eliot

37.“I haven’t failed. I’ve found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” — Thomas Edison, when inventing the first commercial light bulb.

38.“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan

39.“I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.” – Michael Jordan

40.“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan

41.“Men are born to succeed, not fail.” – Henry David Thoreau

42.“One’s best success comes after their greatest disappointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher

43.“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill

44.“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert Francis Kennedy

45.“Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become.” – Jim Rohn

46.“The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.” – Dennis Green

47.“But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!” – Rocky Balboa

48.“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” ~ Confucius

49.~Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” ~ G. Woodberry

50.“Success is what you attract by the person you become.” – Jim Rohn

51.“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.” ~Robert Kiyosaki

52.“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” ~ Theodore Rosevelt

53.“Failure is not falling down, but refusing to get back up.” ~ Deamsian Wisdom

54.“That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

55.“I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.” ~ Pablo Picasso

56.“A diamond is a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well.” ~ Unknown

57.“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.”~ Colin Powell

58.“It is our experiences that mold us into who we are….during times of adversity our true character will show.” ~ Unknown

59.“You become stronger with every problem you face and every obstacle you overcome.” ~ Celestine Chua

60.“Winners don’t quit. That’s why they Win.” ~ Unknown

61.“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

62.“(Tool+Training+Experience) x Mindset = Goal/Success —- BUT if your mindset is zero then equation is (100 + 100 +100) x 0 = Failure.” ~Unknown

63.“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” ~ Albert Schweitzer

64.“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” ~ Teddy Roosevelt

65.“Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.” ~ Woody Allen

66.“The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.” ~ Unknown

67.“Everyone faces challenges in life. It’s a matter of how you learn to overcome them and using them to your advantage.” ~ Celestine Chua

68.“Nothing is impossible.” ~ Celestine Chua

69.“Impossible, when spelled out, stands for ‘I’m possible’.” ~ Unknown

70.“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” ~ Marilyn Monroe

OUR WORST ENEMY IS FEAR:

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good

we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. "Shakespeare

THOUGHT'S most deadly instrument for marring human lives is fear. Fear demoralizes

character, destroys ambition, induces or causes disease, paralyzes happiness in self and others, and prevents achievement. It has not one redeeming quality. It is all evil. Physiologists now well know that it impoverishes the blood by demoralizing Assimilation and cutting off nutrition. It lowers mental and physical vitality, deadens

Every element of success. It is fatal to the happiness of youth, and is the most terrible

accompaniment of old age. Buoyancy flees before its terrifying glance, and cheerfulness

cannot dwell in the same house with it.

“The most extensive of all the morbid mental conditions which reflect themselves so disastrously on the human system is the state of fear," says Dr. William H. Holcomb. " It has many degrees or gradations, from the state of extreme alarm, fright, or terror, down to the slightest shade of apprehension of impending evil. But all along the line it is the same thing" A paralyzing impression upon the centres of life which can produce, through the agency of the nervous system, a vast variety of morbid symptoms in every tissue of the body."" Fear is like carbonic acid gas pumped into one's atmosphere," says Horace Fletcher." It causes mental, moral, and spiritual asphyxiation ,and sometimes death"  to energy, death to tissue, and death to all growth."Yet from our birth we live in the presence and under the dominion of this demon, fear. The child is cautioned a thousand times a year to look out for this, and to look out for that ;it may get poisoned, it may get bitten, it may get killed ; something terrible may happen to it if it does not do so and so. Men and women cannot bear the sight of some harmless animal or insect because, as children, they were told it would hurt them. One of the crudest things imaginable is to impress into a child's plastic mind the terrible image of fear, which, like the letters cut upon a sapling, grows wider and deeper with age. The baleful shadows of such blasting and blighting pictures will hang over the whole life and shutout the bright sun of joy and happiness. An Australian writer saves :" One of the worst misfortunes which can possibly happen to a growing child is to have a mother who is perpetually tormented by nervous fears. If ^ mother gives way to fears" ^morbid, minute, and all-prevailing " ^she will inevitably make the environment of her children one of increasing dread and timidity. The background of fear is the habit or instinct

of anticipating the worst. The mother who never makes a move, or allows her children to

make a move, without conjuring up a myriad of malign possibilities, im bitters the cup of life with a slow-acting poison" I know that thousands of boys and girls are to-day tremulous, weak, passive, unalert on the physical side, simply because they were taught in the knicker bocker stage, or earlier, to see the potency of danger in all they did or tried to do. A mother assumes a terrible responsibility when from silly fears of possible

injury she forbids a child such physical abandon will promote courage, endurance, self reliance, and self-control."

" For more than twenty years I have made a study of criminal psychology and of infantile psychology," says Dr. Lino Ferriani." Thousands of times I have been compelled to recognize the sad fact that at least eighty eight per cent, of morbidly timid   children could have been cured and saved in time by means of common-sense principles of physical and physiological hygiene, in which the main factor is suggestion inspired by wholesome courage."Not content with instilling fear of possibly real things, many mothers and most nurses invent all sorts of bugbears and bogies to frighten poor babies into obedience. They even attempt to induce sleep by telling children," If you don't go right to sleep, a great big bear will come and eat you up ! *' How much sleep would a grown man get in a situation where this was a real possibility? Fear of the dark would seldom exist if parents carefully showed children that nothing is different in the dark from what it is in the light. Instead of so doing, they take pains to people the mysterious dark with every sort of ogre and monsters that human imagination has been able to conjure up. Some one has well expressed inverse this cruel but too common sin against healthy-minded childhood Go into almost any gathering, no matter how gay and happy the crowds seem to be, you will find, if you question anyone of even the gayest, that the canker-worm of fear gnaws at the heart in some form. The fear of accident, of sickness, of poverty, of death, of some terrible misfortune, still lingers during the greatest apparent gayety. Thousands

of people thus pass their lives under the shadow of fear, haunted by the dread of some vague, impending evil. Many men and women narrow their lives by worrying over what may happen to morrow-The family cannot afford to have any little, legitimate pleasure, to travel, or to take the leading magazines or papers. They cannot afford much-needed vacations. They must economize on clothes, on food even, and on every form of culture or recreation costing money, simply because times may be hard next year.

“There may be a financial panic," urges the pessimist. “Some of the children may be sick, the times may be bad, our crops may fail, some business venture may not caused. We can't tell what might happen, but we must prepare for the worst" The lives of hundreds of families are mutilated, sometimes utterly ruined, by this bugbear of misfortune just ahead.

One of the worst features of this parsimonious anxious, Un trustful way of living is that

it stunts the development of young lives, and throws its dark shadow over the future as

well as the present. A girl or boy, for instance, should go to college this year. Time flies

quickly, and almost before they realize it they will be too old to go. But the father and

mother assures themselves that they cannot afford any extra expense this year; the children must wait a little longer; and every year it is the same: ''They must wait a little

longer."How many men and women are handicapped in their life-work, robbed of their possibilities, because lacking an education which parents, in anticipation of reverses that never came, postponed until too late? No one should discourage proper economy

and frugality, but this gloomy fear that" something may happen," this postponing enjoyment, education, culture, travel, books, innocent pleasures of every kind, until the

sensibilities become hardened, until the aesthetic facilities are dead, is a disease of narrow, untruthful souls, which every sane person should combat. Think of the millions of human creatures that God has made and placed on this glad earth, endowed with every faculty possible to enable them to enjoy life, wasting precious years in worrying and fretting lest something may happen.

How pitiful are the anxious, wrinkled faces,  gray hairs, the unhappy expressions of

those who worry about possible misfortunes! Not one wrinkle in a thousand, not one gray hair in a million, has been produced by actual ills. The things which turn hair gray and plough fair faces with cruel furrows, which rob the step of elasticity, and take the buoyancy from life are bridges that never were crossed, misfortunes that never came. The sorrows and trials which actually come to us are, except in rare instances, trifling, compared with the things about which we worry, but which never come to pass. What a waste of energy and human life is involved in this pernicious habit of anticipating evil ! Think of the amount of work you could have accomplished by the mental and physical

force you have expended in fearing what might happen " but which did not. Think of the wasted hours in which you planned what you would do if misfortune should come.

If we could only rid ourselves of imaginary troubles, our lives would be infinitely happier

and healthier. Thus one of the greatest tasks in character-building is to eliminate, to uproot, to wipe out completely the baleful effects of fear in all its varieties of manifestation. No one can lead a naturally healthy, sunny, helpful, harmonious life while living in a fear environment. No one can hope to be entirely happy and successful without the destruction, the eradication, of the fear-germs. Were this done, the world would be gloriously changed for the better. It is the duty of every individual to conquer this common enemy in his own mind, and to do all he can to wrest other people, especially the young, from the dominion of this phantom monster. Happily, thinkers

and investigators have proven that this may be done, and it is a glorious prophecy that

coming generations will be taught to banish all fear, to march, clear-eyed and confident,

toward the goal of perfect happiness.

A UNIT OF MORAL POWER

We are now in the sphere of conscience. The actor is a unit of moral powers. And the thing done is therefore the work of a sole agency whose sovereign prerogatives are put to an interchangeable use between all the members, which, in turn, serve it in accordance with the scheme of subordination which prescribes their functions. However, there can be no personal responsibility until the actor has consciously informed himself of the constraint, or urgency, which signalizes the authority of moral convictions. He must be informed of their awful significance. And he must affirm, or opine, that he is bound by his conceptions of right and wrong, even though he may outrage conviction by bad conduct. The question comes up here : Whence this obligation in morals ; on what does it found ? Our answer is that man, as a unit of power over conduct, frames a judgment of the good or bad qualities in his acts, and conceives, or affirms, himself to be Personally responsible for their commission. And this power to value acts as good or bad, places him in a rank to himself among terrestrial creatures. But to be more explicit: Because of his uniquely human gifts, he is constrained (as a discoverer of moral sanctions and their stress)to act from a conviction of his personal responsibility for their employment. For, once seeing their obligatory character, the force of the obligation is felt to be a personal motor in all that pertains to conduct.

Why a conception of the moral qualities of our acts turns up a further conception, that we are personally under bonds to them, is a matter of curious interest. In other language, why does a rational witnessing of individual acts of right and wrong come back to us, as persons open to their moral pressure ?An answer might be gathered from previous discussions. We are referring to that astounding transcendence of human reason by which we alone of all God's creatures can grasp the idea of a righteous power seated in every moral conception. For he who discovers such knowledge, discovers its

power over conduct; judging himself, and others, by what he and they do ; even appraising his very thoughts by the potencies which distinguish, and emphasize, their diverse characters.

I take it that you are now aware of the estimate I put on the mind of animals. I spoke of their perspicacity being as clear as that of man, allowance being made for their narrower horizon. They reason quite knowingly, within their confined outlook. They have even ends and aims which they pursue, but they stop short of the Heaven-born distinctions, discovered and affirmed by the broader and deeper intellectual vision of man, in virtue of which distinctions, he comes to know of an austerity in moral sanctions utterly unknown to feebler intelligences. They lack power of mind to frame an articulate conception of the divine mission of right to rule in the realm of morals. And it is for this

reason that moral power, as both constructive and conceptive of the equities ,beauties, humanities, and duties, and culture of a human soul, is unknown to them. But wherein lies the diversely marked superiority of man " seeing that he also is hedged in with limitations, as inviolable as those of animals ?For, neither can demit one iota of what is peculiar to himself, or to itself. But man has committed to him the strictly human charge of doing right or wrong, in deference to a giftlier conception of the steps and extent of the obligation. He discovers the meum and tuum of our humanities, and in acquiring this knowledge he acquiresits obligatory sanctions. It is to be remembered, however, that, on a first acquaintance with this human meum and tuum, the mine and thine, the right and wrong of morals, etc., we see only the actions of the different actors. This alone is our first seeing. And let me add that it is just here that the ideas of right and wrong begin to emerge in and through their concrete relations. And it occurs in this way : On one seeing himself, and others, doing acts involving questions of mine and thine, right and wrong, he is in the attitude of conceiving the moral character of those acts. For he remarks that they are accredited by a certain tone which claims and enforces precedence over all other actions and among all men. But the thing seen is not wholly an apprehension of right and wrong in the concrete, nor even a judgment of the moral quality of the act. It is more. A further judgment of approval or censure of the act, as intrinsically good or bad in the doer, conies in to affirm the latter's responsibility for its commission.

It is to be observed, too, that the one who sits in judgment, and approves, or reprehends, is having himself so informed of the qualities in such particulars of conduct, that he can side with, or against, them. But this is an act of choice, or the affirmation of personal preference, on evidence for it. We conclude, therefore, that when one sees, or does, an

act which he conceives to be right or wrong, he is in fact adjudging himself to be a right or wrong doer; affirming choice, and, at the same time, visiting upon himself the moral reprisals of self approval, or rebuke. For the judgment is that, in as much as he is the doer of the act, he is to be personally commended, or else reprehended. In either case, he is upheld by that fealty to himself, and the accepted stress of his moral convictions by which he asserts a personal preference, or sides with what he does, and so commends

 his own acts, as good or bad, in the light of his moral conceptions, ever thus, from the hour of responsibility, when one reaches a judgment of right or wrong, he is also affirming one of praise or censure (which is an affirmative or negative choice),and he is therefore also affirming his personal responsibility for choice and conduct.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines and robots and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success. John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1955, defines it as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines."

AI research is highly technical and specialized, deeply divided into subfields that often fail to communicate with each other. Some of the division is due to social and cultural factors: subfields have grown up around particular institutions and the work of individual researchers. AI research is also divided by several technical issues. There are subfields which are focused on the solution of specific problems, on one of several possible approaches, on the use of widely differing tools and towards the accomplishment of particular applications. The central problems of AI include such traits as reasoning, knowledge, planning, learning, communication, perception and the ability to move and manipulate objects. General intelligence (or "strong AI") is still among the field's long term goals. Currently popular approaches include statistical methods, computational intelligence and traditional symbolic AI. There are an enormous number of tools used in AI, including versions of search and mathematical optimization, logic, methods based on probability and economics, and many others.

The field was founded on the claim that a central property of humans, intelligence—the sapience of Homo sapiens— can be so precisely described that it can be simulated by a machine. This raises philosophical issues about the nature of the mind and the ethics of creating artificial beings, issues which have been addressed by myth, fiction and philosophy since antiquity. Artificial intelligence has been the subject of optimism, but has also suffered setbacks and, today, has become an essential part of the technology industry, providing the heavy lifting for many of the most difficult problems in computer science.

Abraham Lincoln Was The 16th President Of The United States And One Of The Great American Leaders.

His presidency was dominated by the American Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln was born on 12 February 1809 near Hodgenville, Kentucky. He was brought up in Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois. His parents were poor pioneers and Lincoln was largely self-educated. In 1836, he qualified as a lawyer and went to work in a law practice in Springfield, Illinois. He sat in the state legislature from 1834 to 1842 and in 1846 was elected to Congress, representing the Whig Party for a term. In 1856, he joined the new Republican Party and in 1860 he was asked to run as their presidential candidate.

In the presidential campaign, Lincoln made his opposition to slavery very clear. His victory provoked a crisis, with many southerners fearing that he would attempt to abolish slavery in the South. Seven southern states left the Union to form the Confederate States of America, also known as the Confederacy. Four more joined later. Lincoln vowed to preserve the Union even if it meant war. Fighting broke out in April 1861. Lincoln always defined the Civil War as a struggle to save the Union, but in January 1863 he nonetheless issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves in areas still under Confederate control. This was an important symbolic gesture that identified the Union's struggle as a war to end slavery.

On 19 November 1863, Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address at the dedication of a cemetery at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg, a decisive Union victory that had taken place earlier in the year.

On 9 April 1865, the Confederate general Robert E Lee surrendered, effectively ending the war. It had lasted for more than four years and 600,000 Americans had died. Less than a week later, Lincoln was shot while attending a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington DC and died the next morning, 15 April 1865. His assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was a strong supporter of the Confederacy. 

Time Management For Business Owners

Time management is considered to be the art which teaches you the diverse techniques to increase your effectiveness and complete pending work. It is important to be able to control and manage time in your personal life, but in case of your business, it is critical and necessary in order to achieve success.

Time management softwares help small business owners to manage and control time effectively by using electronic calendars and planners. The ‘to do list’ is proven to be an effective tool in time management. Scheduling actions, however, is also time consuming, thus, it is an essential need to use softwares.

Success is a result of planning your goals as well as your time, implementing routines and scheduling tasks. Time management softwares can enforce the employee’s flow of work and production activities by using written or electronic reminders or the ‘to do list’ software. It is a must for small business owners to plan, prepare, prioritize and control their activities along with the activities of other members of the team, and also set the goals towards the success of the business.

This is actually an easy task once you have the adequate time management software. Many of these softwares include planning short and long term goals, data analysis, future predictions, and performance graphics. These are features that are not available in the basic to do list software. Do not under estimate the importance of the ‘to do list’ software when planning your business activities or setting your goals.

Time management is extremely important for a small business. Thus, time management gurus are common these days who give out advice on how to set about managing your time. They are best known as time managers, who after reading your business plan; prioritize activities for work teams on a daily basis.

With the help of time management software, they can provide the business owners with the detailed reports of daily activity trends, allowing the owners to rectify values, activities and priorities

Time managers are also the common name given to time management softwares and various time management solutions available in the market today for small businesses. These range from the classic paper books, to diverse ‘to do list’ softwares, organizers, reminders, calendars and planners among many other things.

THE TRAVELERS AND THE PLANE TREE

Two men were walking along one summer day. Soon it became too hot to go any further and, seeing a large plane tree nearby, they threw themselves on the ground to rest in its shade. Gazing up into the branches one man said to the other:“What a useless tree this is. It does not have fruit or nuts that we can eat and we cannot even use its wood for anything.”“Don’t be so ungrateful,” rustled the tree in reply. “I am being extremely useful to you at this very moment, shielding you from the hot sun. And you call me a good-for-nothing!”

All of God’s creations have a good purpose. It teaches us that we should never be little his  blessings.

The Right To Be Rich

WHATEVER may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich. No man can rise to his greatest

possible height in talent or soul development unless he has plenty of money; for to unfold the soul and to develop talent he must have many things to use, and he cannot have these things unless he has money to buy them with.

A man develops in mind, soul, and body by making use of things, and society is so organized that man must have money in order to become the possessor of things; therefore, the basis of all advancement for man must be the science of getting rich. The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining .Man's right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to his

fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfoldment; or, in other words, his right to be rich.

 I shall not speak of riches in a figurative way; to be really rich does not mean to be satisfied or contented with a little. No man ought to be satisfied with a little if he is capable of using and enjoying more. The purpose of Nature is the advancement and unfoldment of life; and every man should have all that can contribute to the power, elegance, beauty, and richness of life; to be content with less is sinful. The man who owns all he wants for the living of all the life he is capable of living is rich; and no man who has not plenty of money can have all he wants. Life has advanced so far, and

become so complex, that even the most ordinary man or woman requires a great amount of wealth in order to live in a manner that even approaches completeness. Every person naturally wants to become all that they are capable of becoming; this desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature; we cannot help wanting to be all that we can be. Success in life is becoming what you want to be; you can become what you want to be only by making use of things, and you can have the free use of

things only as you become rich enough to buy them. To understand the science of getting rich is therefore the most essential of all knowledge.

There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life; and that desire is praise worthy. The man who does not desire to live more abundantly is abnormal, and so the man who does

not desire to have money enough to buy all he wants is abnormal. There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the soul. No one of these is better or holier than the other; all are alike desirable, and no one

of the three--body, mind, or soul--can live fully if either of the others is cut short of full life and expression. It is not right or noble to live only for the soul and deny mind or body; and it is wrong to live for the intellect and deny body or soul.

We are all acquainted with the loathsome consequences of living for the body and denying both mind and soul; and we see that real life means the complete expression of all that man can give forth through body, mind, and soul. Whatever he can say, no

man can be really happy or satisfied unless his body is living fully in every function, and unless the same is true of his mind and his soul. Wherever there is unexpressed possibility, or function not performed, there is unsatisfied desire. Desire is possibility

seeking expression, or function seeking performance. Man cannot live fully in body without good food, comfortable clothing, and warm shelter; and without freedom

from excessive toil. Rest and recreation are also necessary to his physical life.

He cannot live fully in mind without books and time to study them, without opportunity for travel and observation, or without intellectual companionship. To live fully in mind he must have intellectual recreations, and must surround himself with all the objects of art and beauty he is capable of using and appreciating.

To live fully in soul, man must have love; and love is denied expression by poverty.

A man's highest happiness is found in the bestowal of benefits on those he loves; love finds its most natural and spontaneous expression in giving. The man who has nothing to give cannot fill his place as a husband or father, as a citizen, or as a man. It is in the use of material things that a man finds full life for his body, develops his mind, and unfolds his soul. It is therefore of supreme importance to him that he should be rich.

It is perfectly right that you should desire to be rich; if you are a normal man or woman you cannot help doing so. It is perfectly right that you should give your best attention to the Science of Getting Rich, for it is the noblest and most necessary of all studies. If you neglect this study, you are derelict in your duty to yourself, to God and humanity; for you can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of

yourself.