Positive Thoughts for a New Year

“Great things happen to those who don’t stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.” ― Roy T. Bennett

“Optimism is a huge asset. We can always use more of it. But optimism isn’t a belief that things will automatically get better; it’s a conviction that we can make things better.” — Melinda French Gates

“Confidence isn’t optimism or pessimism, and it’s not a character attribute. It’s the expectation of a positive outcome.” — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“The most important step a man (or woman) can take. It’s not the first one, is it? It’s the next one. Always the next step.” ― Brandon Sanderson

“The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.” — Marcus Aurelius

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” — Omar Khayyam

You can live a happier, healthier, more joyful, and successful life in the New Year by embracing positive thinking and thoughts!😀😀😀

Positivity refers to your tendency to be optimistic in life and believe that tomorrow will better than today.  When have have positivity, you think positive, have positive emotions, and do positive things.

Studies have shown that being optimistic can affect your health and well-being. Positive thinking and optimism are effective and proven ways to manage stress. And effective stress management has many health benefits.


References:

  1. https://bestlifeonline.com/positive-quotes/
  2. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/in-depth/positive-thinking/art-20043950

Persistence

Persistence – Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.  Calvin Coolidge

Three simple rules in life.

  1. If you do not go after what you want, you’ll never have it.
  2. If you do not ask, the answer will always be no.
  3. If you do not step forward, you will always be in the same place.” 

Three simple habits. Go, ask and do.  Austin Miller, VP of Talent Management at Sorenson Capital Partners

Give Your Best Anyway

“If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.”

Mother Teresa


“Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”

Mother Teresa

Albert Einstein Best Quotes

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein, a German-born physicist, has been widely regarded as one of the greatest minds and physicists of all time. In December 1932, he emigrated to the United States, renouncing his German citizenship after Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany.

In 1921, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to theoretical physics and discovery of the photoelectric effect.

Einstein was best known for developing the theory of relativity and the mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc2, often dubbed “the world’s most famous equation”.

During his life, he made many sayings about science, education, religion and life that continue to resonate today:

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”

“Logic will get you from A to Z, imagination will get you everywhere.”

“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.”

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”

Einstein’s words have inspired generations around the world to live life fully, and in a more positive, self aware and rewarding manner.


References:

  1. https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/remembering-albert-einstein-inspirational-quotes-of-the-nobel-laureate-on-143rd-birth-anniversary/ar-AAV19qr
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

Quote of the Week

“So smile when you read a headline that says ‘Investors lose as market falls.’ Edit it in your mind to ‘Disinvestors lose as market falls—but investors gain.’ Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other.” Warren Buffett, billionaire investor, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Berkshire-Hathaway

“The most common cause of low prices is pessimism—some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It’s optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.” Warren Buffett

Additionally, Buffett said, “We don’t have to be smarter than the rest, we have to be more disciplined than the rest.”

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FedEx’s Fred Smith Quotes on Leadership

  • What follows are Fred Smith, Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO of FedEx, quotes on leadership.
    1. “Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.”
    2. “Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves—and by which they are willing to be judged.”
    3. “The greatest leadership principle I learned in the Marine Corps was the necessity to take care of the troops in a high performance based organization.
      The Marine Corps’ strong emphasis on this overriding leadership requirement has been of inestimable importance to me in developing FedEx over the years.  In the main, people want to be commited to an organization and to do a good job.  The principles of leadership taught by the USMC, and based on two centuries of experience, will produce outstanding organizational results in any setting, if those principles are studiously followed. In short, FedEx owes its success to this simple truth.”
    4. “I’m not afraid to take a swing and miss.”
    5. “The riskiest strategy is to try to avoid risk altogether.”
    6. “Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.”
    7. “A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.”
    8. “My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.”
    9. “You can’t make people do what’s right. You can lead them, and you can empower them to make the right decision, but if you don’t produce a culture that allows them to do that, then all the rest is just bumping your gums as one of my old business partners used to say.”
    10. “If you’re going to run a high service organization, you have to get the commitment of the people working for that organization right at the start. If you don’t, you’ll never be able to deliver at the levels of expectations of the customer.”

    —Fred W. Smith, Chairman, CEO, Entrepreneur and Founder of FedEx