April 11, 2016

HOW SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE THINK

John Maxwell

1. Big picture, then focus target.

Clear target, clear feedback (like golf)
2. Possibility thinking - counter balance to realistic thinking (and discipline + hardwork + hustle)
Very difficult, but not impossible.
3. Anxietivity. Anxiety and Creativity! Use anxiety into WISE ACTION! Failure is part of success.
4. TELESCOPE. Challenge common thinking. Do not conform. Don’t be afraid. Society will displease you, but don’t worry. Be honest.
5. REPEAT. Strategic thinking. Systems are good strategies repeated. What works for you? Make it a habit.

April 12, 2016

8 HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEUR

Robert Kiyosaki

HABITS

1. ALWAYS BE LEARNING.
Always a student of business, technology, human nature.
Business: stay updated to latest refinements and introductions
Human nature: why people do things, their basic needs, how to structure your business to meet them; meeting rooms, coffee shops,
airports, any place where people gather
Technology: use new technology, try new tools, follow the markets, attend seminars, and obtain expert advice
NEVER THINK YOU KNOW IT ALL. LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES, AND OTHERS’ MISTAKES
2. DON’T LET LACK OF MONEY STOP YOU
Leverage. Borrow.
3. FOCUS FIRST ON YOUR LONG TERM MISSION
4. DON’T CONFUSE BEING BUSY WITH BEING IN BUSINESS
a. All day long work that doesn’t improve business effectiveness or few hours on high impact work
b. When you are working the register, handling service calls, or cleaning the bathrooms, you are doing work that needs to be done.
But you are working in your business and not on your business. When you are examining the bills for ways to cut costs or refining
 your strategy for developing new products, you are making your business better, not just being busy. Don’t be busy. Be in
business.
5. CREATE ASSETS THAT CREATE INCOME
a. Earn money while you do something else
b. Income generating assets: investment portfolios, real estate, business
c. When you are working, let your goal be to create assets: thru that you free yourself from having to work. Assets that create cash
flow. WORK TO CREATE INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS, CASH GENERATING BUSSINESS, CASH FLOWING
PROPERTIES.
6. DON’T QUIT YOUR DAY JOB – YET
a. you need to pay your living expenses.
7. BE OKAY WITH NOT GETTING A PAYCHECK
Reinvest profits in the business, not in your personal bank account or lifestyle.
8. DELEGATE TO FREE YOURSELF
a. Only 10-15 is the accepted maximum number of subordinates that one person can oversee. Exceeding this, effectiveness of
supervisor and supervised fail.
b. The new tasks should be higher-value ones involving policy, planning, or strategy.
c. Delegating involves trusting others to do work—if not as well as you— then at least well enough. It involves giving others a
chance to grow
d. Those who can delegate give themselves and their businesses a chance to grow into something extraordinary.

To obtain financial freedom, one must be a business owner, an investor, or both generating passive income, particularly on a monthly basis." –
Robert Kiyosaki

NOAH’S ARK – Faith - the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Obey God because He wants what’s best for you
because He loves you. 

April 18, 2016

1. Everyday habits make out your success!

2. Choose the best – God’s best.
3. Your first calling is not to do or be something, but to receive God’s love.
4. Love – a fruit where are known who we follow, who we live for.
5. Love – always wins. Good always win. Be on that side!
6. Create healthy boundaries.
7. Do things out of love. Be that person out of love. Love is the greatest.
8. Do it one at a time. One priority at a time. One project at a time. One person at a time. Small things make up the big things.
 9. Quality over quantity. When there is quality, quantity follows.
10. Be the person who INITIATES. Take courage! Everyone is afraid like you, but just do it anyway.
11. Invest on people. Love people! They grow. <3
12. Your personal relationship with Jesus,
what a privilege. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Let God love you daily,
may His love The Richest Man in Babylon manifest in your life.
13. Have a vision Lunch and Learn by John Maxwell and live one day at a
time. Follow thru!
14. You remember the dead, and love the
living.
15. Challenge your thinking, your beliefs –
so what is left when everything is
shaken is the truth.
16. 20 pages per day!
17. SPEAK THE LOVE LANUGAE OF OTHER PEOPLE!

Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch Alboom

1. If I can’t give them the right attention, I can’t help them. Thus, give the right focus at the rights matters!
2. Love is how you stay alive, even after you are one. (Forever doesn’t last, only love lasts)
3. When Morrie was with you, he was really with you! He looked you straight in the eyes and listened as if you were the only person in the
world.
4. I believe in being fully present!
5. When I’m talking to you now, I must keep focused only on what’s going between us. I am not thinking about something we said last week.
I am not thinking of what’s coming up this Friday. I am not thinking about doing.
6. When I am talking to you, I am thinking about you
7. So many people with far smaller problems are so self-absorbed, their eyes glaze over if you speak for more than thirty seconds. They
already have something in mind. They only snap back to full attention when you finish talking at which they say Uh-huh or yeah, really
and fake their way back to the moment.
8. Part of the problem is that everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking
for it. They keep running.
 9. We are so great at small talk. What do you do? Where do you live? But really listening to someone, without trying to sell them something,
pick them up or recruit – how often do we get this anymore?

April 19, 2016

1. Love is the fulfillment of the law

2. Strive not just to be successful, but fruitful.
3. Love each other or perish
4. Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.

5. You can follow him on twitter here. “In these bodies we will live. In these bodies we will die. And where you invest your love, you invest
your life. – Steve Wiens

6. If you want to be full of life, you need to invest in the things you love. And if you want to be full of love, you need to invest in the things
that give you life.
7. Despite what you might think and the devil might want you to believe, this world, this life, is a gift. It’s a series of fortunate events
designed to turn you into something awesome. And the only way to go through life and be fully alive is if we begin to realize this truth and
start living it out in our lives.
8. Friends are great, but friends are not going to be here on a night when you’re coughing and can’t sleep and someone has to sit up all night
with you, comfort you, and try to be helpful.
9. People are only mean when they are threatened.
10. Believe in the inherent good of people. See what they could become.
11. Every society has its own problem. They way to do it isn’t to run away. You have to work at creating your own culture.
12. No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be
looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.
13. Death ends a life, not a relationship.
14. As long as we can love each other and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away. All the love you
created is still there. You live on- in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.

April 20, 2016

SPIRIT ROUTINE MIND BODY/HEALTH EMOTIONS FINANCE RELATIONSHIPS LEADERSHIP CAREER CREATIVITY HOME
CHRISTIAN WOMEN LEADERS
SCEINCE/ BUSINESS/ ENVIRONMENT ARTS/ ENTERTAINMENT/ SPORTS
Jennifer Wiseman Astronomer Mavi Staples – Gospel Singer
Nancy Sleeth: Environmental Advocate Bethany Hamilton – Professional Surfer
Katharine Hayhoe atmospheric scientist Roberta Green Ahmanson – Philantrophist, Arts Patron; Funds several
faith-related groups
Bonnie Wurzbacher VP Coca Cola - Business Sara Groves – Food for the Hungry and International Justice Mission;
Faith and Arts
Dorothy Chappell Roma Downey – Children’s Book author, Operation Smile (Cleft Lip
Dean of natural and social sciences and Palate)
Tracey Bianchi – Motherhood, Justice Advocacy, Environmental Care, Jordin Sparks – American Idol Winner; Music Education in Schools;
Women Support in Developing Countries Fighting Malaria in Ghana and earthquake victims in Haiti
Ann Voskamp: Author, Blogger
Margaret Feignberg – Personal Relationship with God. Scouting the Social Justice
Divine: she asked to comment on biblical passages, not from
theological perspective, but from those who are experts in their trade.
Touch, taste, smell, see God in everyday life!
Rachel Held Evans: Author Blogger. We’re not looking faith for Brenda Salter McNiel – Reconciler; calling people of different races,
answers but for freedom in asking questions ethnicities, genders, and cultures to take the first steps toward
reconciliation and justice.
Marilynne Robinson – Author of Gilead Joni Eareckson Tada- despite the difficulties—anger, depression,
suicidal thoughts, and a severe crisis of faith—has testified to the
deepest truth that God is present in the darkest of nights.
Elisabeth Elliot – Author/ Passion and Purity
Lauren Winner-
Lucy Shaw - Poet

1. We get angry over the things we don’t have and over the things we can’t have. Thru this we learn to be grateful of what we actually have
and content. But always hoping, persevering, faithfully doing. 
2. Prayer. The most powerful of all weapons. Our advantages.
3. To live life in its fullest- fill your mind with thoughts that are true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable--if anything is excellent or
praiseworthy--think about such things.
I feel like my best version of me when…
How I feel about myself when I’m the best version of me…
It’s easier to be my best version of me when…
I’m a poor version of me when…
What can I learn from these insights? What new habits can I create to make it easier to be my best version of me?
Inspired actions I will take this week:

April 21, 2016

1. Sylvia Earle – it’s not a problem being beautiful and smart.

2. The way to teach you is different from the other five.
3. FOCUS. Discipline. Control.
4. TO MAKE SOMETHING SPECIAL, YOU JUST HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT IT’S SPECIAL. KUNG FU PANDA
5. There is no secret ingredient, it’s just you!! <3 love itttt!!
6. Run your life like a CEO. Your life is a corporation and you’re the CEO.
7. If you’re not growing, you’re dying. Remain open to learning and to new experiences.
8. Apply Kaizen (Japanese Philosophy): focus on continuous improvement in all aspect of life. When something in life is good or works
well, remain open and challenge yourself as how it can be improved.
9. Focus Matters. We can do more, if we do less. – Apple
10. Make something that people will love.
11. Think different – Apple
12. If I can fulfill what you need, I can get your money. OMG!
13. Strong vision. Strong leadership. Wonderful thinker. Exceptional Influence. Survivor of tough times. Ready to embrace failure. Serial
Reformer.
14. Set one overall goal and have all life choices, personal or career, somehow serve this goal.

May 3, 2016

1. Learn How Much You Matter to God by Rick Warren:

May 27, 2016

1. True love dates

a. Dating outward involves transparency, timing, communication, healthy boundaries. It is a give and take that must never
desperately give too much nor fearfully give too little
b. Dating upward proposes that to fully engage in the exchange of love with another human being, you must first experience it within
the context of a relationship with God
c. You are loved by Him
d. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. Do you have awareness of yourself in the same way that your creator has an
awareness of you?
e. Love your neighbor as yourself. Loving others is contingent on the ability to love yourself. Loving yourself requires that you
know, value and respect the person you are while moving toward the person God has made you to be.
f. Dating inward requires a change of perspective. Who you are, not who you are with. Commitment to yourself

2. SELF DISCOVERY
a. Where do I come from: middle class family. Christian influences. Period of doubt, depression, defeat. Victory moments. Humility.
Grace. Love.
b. Where and who am I now? Mlybly. Changed and changing perspectives. Breaking bad habit. Forming new good habits.
c. Where am I going? Rest.

3. KNOWING WHAT YOU NEED IN A PARTNER IS KNOWING WHO YOU ARE.

4. Colors of our past: knowing your past is crucial to succeeding in your present.
5. Our family of origin plays a role in determining who we are.
6. Considering broken relationships that have lead anxiety and mistrust. Understanding can lead to liberation.
7. What to do with past: a. accept your past, no matter how dark or difficult.
8. UNDERSTAND YOUR PRESENT: God has placed where you are today, for such a time as this. Find your purpose, identify your
passions and live for the present.
9. ENVISION YOUR FUTURE: Where there is no vision, the people perish.
10. NOT PERFECTION, BUT A HEALTHY PERSPECTIVE.
11. We look for the perfect mate not realizing that we have neglected the perfecting of ourselves.

FIVE LANUGAGES OF APOLOGY – GARY CHAPMAN

LEARN HOW TO APOLOGIZE

 1. There is no perfect relationship, parent, child, career.
2. We often say and do things that hurt our relationships. We often fail to say the right things, do the right things.
3. Be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving one another as God in Christ has forgiven us. / WE ARE TO FORGIVE, JUST AS HE
HAS FORGIVEN US.
4. God forgive those who confess their sins. Those who apologize.
5. There is an offence committed – there is apology made – and there is forgiveness.
6. Prov 28:13 He who conceals his sins will not prosper. But He who confesses and renounces finds mercy.
7. If we act like it’s okay to not act right, our relationships will not prosper. But if we are willing to apologize and confess them, chances are
we are going to be forgiven.
8. Life finds meaning in God. Then, family. Then expanding to friends and community.
9. 3:43, when we sin against God we put a barrier into our relationship. Same with human relations. That barrier stops wholesome
communication.
10. Be reconciled to your brother, before you offer your sacrifice.
11. People learn how to apologize and some don’t. Habits.
12. Be a model of apology. 5:53 even if you need to start from level 0
13. When you apologize, be sincere. But if insincere, we have difficulty forgiving.
14. 5 TYPES TO APOLOGIZE.
a. REGRET. Tell them what you are sorry for. I’m sorry for ________________. (Don’t add BUT). Don’t blame them of your poor
behavior.
i. The prodigal son. I am no longer worthy to become your son.
ii. I am hurting, because I’ve hurt our relationship.
b. ADMITTING WRONG. I was wrong. I should have not done that. (If you have sinned, you don’t want to be seen/ discovered by
people just like Adam and Eve. We want to hide)
i. God is faithful when we ask forgiveness
c. RESTITUTION. What can I do to make this right?
d. REQUESTING FORGIVENESS: Please forgive me. I hope you find in your heart to forgive me.
15. When you learn to apologize, forgive. Forgiveness does not remove the memory nor painful emotions nor the consequences of wrong nor
rebuild trust. But it opens the door for the possibility of rebuilding trust.
16. Don’t spend all your time preparing for a career. Spend time for preparing for marriage.
17. The time to prepare for marriage is NOW!

JULY 1, 2016

1. Love or die
2. Love is the only rational act. Let it come in.
3. We need others to survive
4. In between we need each other
5. When we learn how to die, we learn how to live
6. REGRETS: Pride, vanity, hardness of heart
7. Forgive everybody now, there is no time!
8. The tension of opposites. We learn much as what hurts us and what loves us much.
9. Death ends a life, not a relationship
10. More powerful than the fear of death, is love.