205. Levels of Thinking

Here are two propositions you should consider carefully :

1. "The significant problems you face cannot be solved with the same level of thinking you were at when you created them." - Albert Einstein.

2. You cannot talk your way out of a situation that you behaved yourself into.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/einstein-bio.html

204. Excellence and Right Living

"There is no real excellence in this world that can be separated from right living." - David Starr Jordan.

http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/davidstarrjordan.html

203. Self Belief

Believe in yourself and in your work. Build and maintain a good reputation

202. Support for Your Vision

Like Bill Gates, surround yourself with people of diverse talents who support your vision. Make them into your Mastermind Group. It is vital that your vision has support. Negativity has a very damaging effect on your morale and lack of support is not neutral, it is highly negative.

201. Ivan Misner's Game Plan

Ivan Misner is a master networker and founder of the worldwide business group called Business Network International (BNI). The philosophy on which this group is based is summed up in the two words "Givers Gain". This is a co-operative group and an excellent model for how you should treat other people. His Game Plan or strategy for networking is as follows :-

1. Remain Curious. Ask questions and listen to the answers. People love a good listener who is interested in what they do.

2.Learn from everybody. Talk to people at all levels because everyone can teach you something.

3. Cultivate contacts with people in power. They can bring you ideas, support and opportunities. Cultivate people who enjoy making money. Cultivate those whose hearts and interests are like your own.

4. Enjoy the journey

200. Superiority and True Nobility

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. True nobility lies in your being a superior person to your own former self. This is the practice of CANI or Kaizen. You must run your own race against yourself. It does not matter what other people say about you. What is important is what you say to yourself. You can do whatever you want to do so long as it is correct according to your conscience and your heart. Therefore you have a duty to keep your conscience informed and sharp and your heart open.

Never be ashamed of what is right. Decide what is right after appropriate study and stick to it.

Never get into the petty habit of measuring your self-worth against other people's. All such comparisons are odious. Every second you spend thinking about someone else's dreams is time taken away from your own. Always plough your own furrow and keep your nose out of other people's business.

199. Mental Gymnastics

Study well the book "The Mind Gym" by Octavius Black and Sebastian Bailey

198. Abundance, Lack of Limitation, Action

Be ever abundant, unlimited. The ancestor of every action is a thought. For that reason guard your thoughts well.

197. Growth and Beauty

Learn to be beauty always. Be ever expansive, always growing, intellectually emotionally and spiritually.

196. Co-operation

Love is co-operation rather than competition.