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Introduction
My old website (that I no longer have), launched on 01
February 2012 (1-2-12), although I did a couple of “trial” blog posts before this. I passionately want to help people
live much more fulfilling working lives. I want them to get
out of the bed in the morning enthused and fired up
ready to enjoy their working day and have fun. I call this
state “Working Wow!” and I have been enjoying this working life experience for years now. I want to share it
with you.
I want you to get out of the bed in the morning enthused
and fired up ready to enjoy your working day and have
fun. I call this state “Working Wow!” and I have been enjoying this working life experience for years now. I want
to share it with you.
As many of you may know, getting a website set up takes
a bit of knowledge to do, you need to spend a little cash
and get a little help. I knew nothing on 07 November 2011
on how to do this but I got it up and running by 01
February 2012, the date I had set myself. Thanks in no
small part to Chris Farrell.
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One of the methods that is outlined by Chris Farrell and
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1. “It's always too early to quit” - Norman Vincent
Peale
2. “Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain cool and unruffled under
all circumstances.” - Thomas Jefferson
3. “Be a role model not a critic. Don’t tell your children, your peers, or your subordinates what to
do - show them. And when the lesson is over, keep
showing them by demonstrating that your actions
are part of your character, not part of their
curriculum.” - Denis Waitley
4. “By constant self-discipline and self-control you can
develop greatness of character.” - Grenville Kleiser
5. “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” - Aldous Huxley
6. “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” - Viktor Frankl
7. “The first step toward change is awareness. The
second step is acceptance.” - Nathaniel Braden
8. “When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and
diamonds are made under pressure.” - Peter
Marshal
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9. “Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst
are your own fears” - Rudyard Kipling
10. “You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow” –
Anonymous
11. “The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.” - Arnold H. Glasgow
12. "Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere
imagination." - Ramana Maharshi
13. “Hurry up...and wait.” - John Oswald
14. "Patience and perseverance have a magical
effect before which difficulties disappear and
obstacles vanish." - John Quincy Adams
15. "One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come
now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were
not fashioned by those who were realistic. They
were fashioned by those who dared to look hard
at their wishes and gave them horses to ride." -
Richard Nelson Bolles
16. "Be not afraid of changing slowly; be afraid only of
standing still." - Chinese Proverb
17. “Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. . . . As you
grow older you will discover that you have two
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hands. One is for helping yourself, the other for
helping others” - Audrey Hepburn
18. “People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would
probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning person
until they learned whether that person fell in
through his or her own fault or not” - Sydney J.
Harris
19. “Happiness is the greatest paradox in nature. It can grow in any soil, live under any conditions. It
defies environment. The reason for this is that it
does not come from without but from within.
Whenever you see people seeking happiness
outside themselves, you can be sure they have
never yet found it.” - Forman Lincicome
20. “Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch
or that which others do for us which makes us
happy; it is that which we think and feel and do,
first for the other person and then for ourselves” -
Helen Keller
21. “It seems necessary to completely shed the old skin
before the new, brighter, stronger, more beautiful
one can emerge. . . . I never thought I'd be getting
a life lesson from a snake.” - Julie Ridge
22. “Success means doing the things you don't want to do.” - Rory Vaden
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23. “Commitment with accountability closes the gap
between intention and results.” - Sandra Gallagher
24. "Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…it’s about learning how to dance in the rain… “ –
Unknown
25. “Although wishing to be rid of misery, they run toward misery itself. Although wishing to have
happiness, like an enemy they ignorantly destroy
it.” - Santideva, "Bodhicaryavatara"
26. "If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for
circumstances or other people to create
perspective expanding experiences. You can
consciously create your own." - Stephen Covey
27. “Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other
person. Ask questions instead of giving direct
orders. Make the fault easy to correct. Make the
other person happy about doing what you
suggest.” —Dale Carnegie
28. “To get your ideas across, use small words, big
ideas and short sentences.” - John Henry Patterson
29. “Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.” - Anne
Morrow Lindbergh
30. "You gain strength, and courage, and confidence
by each experience in which we really stop to look
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fear in the face. You must do that which we think
we cannot." - Eleanor Roosevelt
31. “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” -
Oscar Wilde
32. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” - Woody
Allen
33. “People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well,
neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it
daily.” - Zig Ziglar
34. "And as we let our own light shine, we
unconsciously give other people permission to do
the same" - Nelson Mandela
35. "To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that
the prisoner was you." - Lewish B. Smedes
36. "I reject your reality and substitute it for my own." -
Adam Savage
37. “Challenges are what make life interesting;
overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” - Joshua J. Marine
38. "Success is not built on success. It's built on failure.
It's built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe." - Sumner Redstone
39. "The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that
does not grasp." - John Berry
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40. “Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent
out of shape.” - Dr. Michael McGriffy
41. “You can’t have everything... where would you put
it?” - Stephen Wright
42. “Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis.
But wisdom comes by putting things together.” -
John A. Morrison
43. "It is important to acknowledge a mistake instantly,
correct it, and learn from it. That literally turns a
failure into a success. Success is on the far side of
failure." - T.J. Watson
44. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you
strength while loving someone deeply gives you
courage." - Lao Tzu
45. “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees
all others.” - Sir Winston Churchill
46. “If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave
man, it is the man who dares to look the devil in the
face and tell him he is a devil.” - James A. Garfield
47. “Someone told me life is a water wheel. It turns. The
trick is to hold your nose when you're under and
not get dizzy when you're up.” - James Baldwin
48. "Habits are like comfortable beds; they are easy to
get into, but difficult to get out of." - Denis Waitley
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49. "Nothing needs reforming so much as other
people’s habits." - Mark Twain
50. "Being miserable is a habit; being happy is a habit;
and the choice is yours." - Tom Hopkins
51. “In the confrontation between the stream and the
rock, the stream always wins-not through strength
but by perseverance.” - H. Jackson Brown
52. “He that is afraid to shake the dice will never throw
a six.” - Chinese Proverb
53. “I studied the lives of great men and women, and I
found that the men and women who got to the
top were those who did the jobs they had in hand,
with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm
and hard work.” - Harry S. Truman
54. "Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we
will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means
to meet ourselves in a new way - in the newness of
each moment where all is possible and nothing is
limited to the old." - Stephen Levine
55. “Then give to the world the best you have, and the
best will come back to you.” - Madeline Bridges
56. “Remember, happiness doesn’t depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely on
what you think.” - Dale Carnegie
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57. “How far that little candle shows his beams! So
shines a good deed in a naughty world.” - William
Shakespeare
58. "Changing what you have, comes from changing
who you are. And changing who you are comes
from changing how you think."
59. “Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of
listening when you'd have preferred to talk.“ -
Doug Larson
60. “Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the
morning.” - Barbara Kingsolver
61. “Often the difference between a successful
marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving
about three or four things a day unsaid.” - Harlan
Miller
62. "If you don't take care of your body, where will you
live?" - Unknown source
63. "I’ve learned that making a 'living' is not the same
thing as making a 'life'." - Maya Angelou
64. “Ideas are the root of creation.” - Ernest Dimnet
65. “Write the bad things that are done to you in sand,
but write the good things that happen to you on a
piece of marble.” - Arabic Proverb
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66. "You can't base your life on other people's
expectations." - Stevie Wonder
67. “First comes thought; then organization of that thought into ideas and plans; then transformation
of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will
observe, is in your imagination.” - Napoleon Hill
68. “This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.” -
Henry David Thoreau
69. “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” -
Stephen Covey
70. "Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.” - Peter T
McIntyre
71. “The question of success is not will it? Or even will there be? Or even will it ever? The question is. Will
you?” -Doug Firebaugh
72. “Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.” -
Aldous Huxley
73. "Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action
alone." - Thomas Carlyle
74. “Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.” -Susan Ertz
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75. “We cause as much pain by taking offense, as by
giving it.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
76. “Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way
down.” - Wilson Mizner
77. "Those who do not move do not notice their
chains." Rosa Luxemburg
78. "Each indecision brings its own delays and days are
lost lamenting over lost days. What you can do or
think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic,
power, and genius in it." - Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe
79. “To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than
that of the person who begs his or her daily bread.” - Charles C. Colton
80. ”Send love in some form to those you believe have
wronged you, and notice how much better you
feel and how much more peace you have." - Dr.
Wayne Dyer
81. "Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the
way one thinks and acts, thought by thought,
action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger
take possession of the mind, they become self-
forged chains." - Helen Douglas
82. “A humble person never stops learning. - Todd
Blackledge
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83. “The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.” - Polish Proverb
84. “Life can be lived more fully if people simply quit pretending to be who they were told to be, and be
who they really are…” - Doug Firebaugh
85. “The hardest thing to believe when you're young is
that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get
out of one.” - Ellen Glasgow
86. “Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege
of doing so too.” – Voltaire
87. "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." -
Edmund Hillary
88. "Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an
ocean." - Ryunosuke Satoro
89. "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is
accomplished." - Lao Tzu
90. "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." -
William Shakespeare
91. “If you want something you've never had before,
You've got to do something you've never done
before.” - Drina Reed
92. "Few things help an individual more than to place
responsibility upon them and to let them know that
you trust them." - Booker T. Washington
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93. “A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.” - Charlotte
Bronte
94. "You may have a fresh start any moment you
choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the
falling down, but the staying down." - Mary Pickford
95. "The great thing in the world is not so much where
we stand, as in what direction we are moving." -
Oliver Wendell Holmes
96. "What we see depends mainly on what we look
for." - Sir John Lubbock
97. "The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not
getting started." - Dawson Trotman
98. "How soon and not now, becomes never." - Martin
Luther
99. "Talk does not cook rice." - Chinese proverb
100. "Do you know what happens when you give a
procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!" - Donald
Gardner
101. “It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that
tells what kind of life you have lived.” - Helen
Walton
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