The Zen of Success – Visualize the Achievement of Your Success
Published August 17, 2010 | 
Although most people understand this because the concept isn’t new, it can be difficult, if not impossible for some, the importance of being able to visualize not only your success at reaching goals, but how you are going to achieve them. Of course, it takes time for many to develop the level of understanding of the components of your success you need to see the success. After all, how do you know when you reach success if you don’t know how it is going to look?
Now unless you have had some experience with developing insight into success, a technique you can use to start the process is to begin by writing about the general idea you have for success, and don’t worry about writing much detail at this point, as you will start to think about it more and more. This is a direct result of you taking the first actions toward defining your success, and you might even make changes as your visualization becomes clearer before you go on to the next step.
To continue the process, sit down and write everything on paper in as much detail as you can possibly come up with, and should find that you will continue to add to the detail and it might even take you a few hours to a few days, or even a few weeks to complete. 
The length of time does not matter to the success of defining your visualization of success. You must understand that here’s what you’re doing…
By allowing yourself to get VERY clear, concise, exact and thorough, you are going through the process of complete immersion in this new reality. If you can relax and not try to force what you are trying to accomplish, you might notice that a deep spiritual ability we all share to make the real world match the reality which WE create for ourselves. The truth is most of us never realized or just forgot we have the ability within each of us, and some are able to develop it more than others.
You must understand the exterior world is a collection of illusions that our senses experience every day, but individually WE can create our own worlds that we can exert great control over, and through this extremely important exercise, YOU are creating your world and doing it thoroughly.
With time and will power to continue, you will begin to THINK in this new reality, and it will become a part of your spirit, who you are, and the tapestry of life YOU weave.
And then one day in the not too distant future, you’re more than likely to pull out that sheet of paper, read exactly what you wrote, and simply be amazed at just how much of it happened as you visualized. But, you won’t be surprised, and you will know very well it wasn’t luck, because YOU created the world around you, and you just did it according to a design spec which YOU made.
The Zen of Success – Successful Thoughts on Kindness
Published August 16, 2010 | Kindness is a conscious act we often perform without completely understanding our individual motivations nor the impact of the results that kindness can have on individuals, groups, households, families, villages, towns, counties, cities, states, and countries. 
Lasting relationships are often built on simple acts of kindness that often change the world, providing evidence of the powerful force that is KINDNESS.
One of the most important and effective ways to gain knowledge, enlightenment and understanding about the act of KINDNESS and the great importance of it to our lives, is to learn from Successful people in history that have gone before us and become a priceless part of our past and positive, and who were and are generous with their thoughts, experience and understanding.
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. – Thomas Carlyle
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. – John Ruskin
A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness. – Bryant H. McGill
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. – Joseph Joubert
A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness. – Joseph Lancaster
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. – Saint Basil
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. – William Arthur Ward
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. – George Dennison Prentice
An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity. – Saadi
And as I’ve gotten older, I’ve had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things. – Martin Scorsese
As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency. – Caroline Kennedy
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world. – Annie Lennox
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. – Og Mandino
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. – Princess Diana
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. – Albert Schweitzer
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. – Evelyn Underhill
Everyone responds to kindness. – Richard Gere
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. – Audrey Hepburn
The Zen of Success – Successful Thoughts on Positive
Published August 12, 2010 | Yin and Yang, left and right, good and evil, positive and negative, represent one of the most powerful aspects of human nature and life, the forces that can have a direct impact on the quality of life and the choices people make that determine their actions causes 
and effects not in only their lives but sometimes in the lives of many others including the entire world, depending on who the people are and their positions in life.
One of the most important and effective ways to gain knowledge, enlightenment and understanding about being POSITIVE and the great importance of it to our lives, is to learn from Successful people in history that have gone before us and become a priceless part of our past and positive, and who were and are generous with their thoughts, experience and understanding.
If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes. – John Wooden
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. – Albert Einstein
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. – Albert Einstein
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. – Zig Ziglar
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life. – Joel Osteen
Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. – Michael Jordan
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. – Henry David Thoreau
Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. – Pablo Picasso
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. – Alexis de Tocqueville
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. – W. Clement Stone
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. – W. Clement Stone
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. – Brian Tracy
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. – Robert H. Schuller
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges. – Pat Riley
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. – Franz Kafka
Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you. – Les Brown
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. – Robert Collier
I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. – James A. Baldwin
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. – William James
Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn’t take any brains to complain. - Robert A. Cook
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. – Wade Boggs
Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients – foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes – contribute to greater energy and positive emotions. – Marilu Henner
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount. – B. F. Skinner
I do believe we’re all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other. - Harvey Fierstein
So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way. – John Newcombe
The Zen of Success – Successful Thoughts on Present
Published August 11, 2010 | One of the most important and effective ways to gain knowledge, enlightenment and understanding about the PRESENT and the great importance of it to our lives, is to learn from Successful people in history that have gone before us and become a priceless part of our past and PRESENT, and who were and are generous with their thoughts, experience and understanding.
Do not dwell in the past, and do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. – Buddha
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. – Buddha
If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? – Thomas Jefferson
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted. – Thomas Jefferson
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. – Albert Einstein
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. – Albert Einstein
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. – Abraham Lincoln
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. – Maya Angelou
For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. – Maya Angelou
If we open a quarrel between past and present we shall find that we have lost the future. – Winston Churchill
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following. - Mohandas Gandhi
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. – C. S. Lewis
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. – C. S. Lewis
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. – Benjamin Franklin
There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past. – George Carlin
The future influences the present just as much as the past. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. – Friedrich Nietzsche
When they call the roll in the Senate the Senators do not know whether to answer “Present” or “Not guilty.” – Theodore Roosevelt
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. – Theodore Roosevelt
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. – Bill Cosby
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present. – Bill Watterson
I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. – John Maynard Keynes
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. – John Maynard Keynes
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made. – Bill Watterson
The future is keeping you out of the present time. – Van Morrison
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. – Barbara de Angelis
The Zen of Success – Successful Thoughts on Freedom
Published August 10, 2010 | One of the most important and effective ways to gain knowledge and enlightenment about FREEDOM and the importance of it to our lives, is to learn from Successful people in history that have gone before us and become a priceless part of our past and present, and who were and are generous with their thoughts, experience and understanding.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. – Thomas Jefferson
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. – Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. – Ronald Reagan
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. – Winston Churchill
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. – Ronald Reagan
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. – Mohandas Gandhi
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living? – Mohandas Gandhi
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself. – Mohandas Gandhi
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery. – Wayne Dyer
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. – George Washington
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. – Nelson Mandela
There is no such thing as part freedom. – Nelson Mandela
Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will. – Nelson Mandela
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long. – Thomas Sowell
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. -
Thomas Sowell
I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land. – Harriet Tubman
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. – Robert Kennedy
Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. – Robert Kennedy
It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. – Samuel Adams