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Food For Thought For Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

Sanjay Sabarwal
BABE RUTH
                           

How many home runs did Babe Ruth hit? 714.
 How many times did he strike out? 1330.

 
Do people care about how many home runs he hit?  Did he get paid for it?  Did he get recognition and satisfaction?

 
Do people care about how many times he struck out?  Why not?

 
When he struck out he talked to himself in a positive way.  He kept the bat in his hands.   He respected the competition.  He loved where he played.  He supported his boss and teammates.  He kept himself in the ballgame mentally so he was always in a position to do what he did best.

 
Point:  Attitude control.  The power of affirmations.

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Food For Thought For Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Sanjay Sabarwal
A WEALTHY LANDOWNER
                           

A wealthy landowner discovered this when he was checking employee records and called a longtime employee into his study.

 
"Peter," asked the billionaire real estate tycoon, "how long have you been with us now?"

 
"Almost 25 years," replied the employee.

 
His employer frowned.  "According to these records, you were hired to take care of the stables."

 
"That’s correct, sir," said Peter.

 
"But we haven’t owned horses for more than 20 years," said his boss.

 
"Right, sir.  What would you like me to do next?"

 
The Executive Speechwriter News Letter
 Volume 13, Number 3

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Food For Thought For Monday, October 31st, 2011

Sanjay Sabarwal
ATTITUDE

                          
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.  Attitude, to me, is more important than facts.  It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people say or do.  It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.  It will make or break a company… a church … a home.  The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day.  We cannot change the inevitable.  The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.   I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react.  And so it is with you … we are in charge of our attitudes.

 
Charles Swindoll

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Food For Thought For Friday, October 28th, 2011

Sanjay Sabarwal
A MORNING THOUGHT

                          
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.

 
Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.

 
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or a gazelle; when the sun comes up – you’d better be running!

 
– Unknown

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Food For Thought For Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Sanjay Sabarwal
A lesson from a Mad Hatter


One of the first steps to accomplishing great things in your life is to cease dwelling on the negative things in your past. Carefully assess your present strengths, successes, and achievements. Dwell on those positive events in your life, and quit limiting your potential by constantly thinking about what you have done poorly. Alice and the Mad Hatter in Wonderland had a conversation that illustrates this concept:

Alice: Where I come from, people study what they are not good at in order to be able to do what they are good at.

Mad Hatter: We only go around in circles in Wonderland, but we always end up where we started. Would you mind explaining yourself?

Alice: Well, grown-ups tell us to find out what we did wrong, and never do it again

Mad Hatter: That’s odd! It seems to me that in order to find out about something, you have to study it. And when you study it, you should become better at it. Why should you want to become better at something and then never do it again? But please continue.

Alice: Nobody ever tells us to study the right things we do. We’re only supposed to learn from the wrong things. But we are permitted to study the right things other people do. And sometimes we’re even told to copy them.

Mad Hatter: That’s cheating!

Alice: You’re quite right, Mr. Hatter. I do live in a topsy-turvy world. It seems like I have to do something wrong first, in order to learn from what not to do. And then, by not doing what I’m not supposed to do, perhaps I’ll be right. But I’d rather be right the first time, wouldn’t you?

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Food For Thought For Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

Sanjay Sabarwal
ACHIEVING YOUR GOALS ISN’T SOMETHING THAT JUST HAPPENS
                          

In a study done at Harvard University more than 40 years ago, researchers polled the graduating class of 1953 to find out how many students actually had clearly written specific goals and a plan for achieving them.  This being a class of highly intelligent people at one of the world’s most renowned universities, you’d expect the answer to be most of them, right?

 
Not even close.  In fact, only 3 percent of the class had taken the time to write down their goals.
 Now here comes the really interesting part.  Some 20 years later, researchers polled this same group of graduates to see how they had fared in life.  It turned out that the 3 percent who had written down their goals had accumulated more wealth than the other 97 percent of their class combined!  Researchers reported that these people also seemed healthier and happier than their classmates.

 
I was in college when I first heard about this study, and I wondered if achieving your goals could really be that easy.  "Put in writing what you want and focus on it daily"?  Well, it may not be easy, but over the years I definitely have seen it work.

 
David Bach
 Smart Women Finish Rich