One of my favorite quotes — one that guides much of my life and work — is a Japanese proverb: Your garden is not complete until there’s nothing more you can take out of it. A garden cannot have EVERYTHING in it. If it does, it ceases to be a garden and instead becomes a mess. A …
Florence Scovel Shinn was born Septemer 24, 1871, in Camden, New Jersey. She was educated in Philadelphia at the Friends Central School and studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1889 to 1897. It was there that she met her future husband, Everett Shinn (1876 – 1953), who was a fairly celebrated painter of …
An inquirer asked a teacher, “How can I command whatever happens to me?” “By being one with whatever happens.” “What does that mean?” “You really do not possess a separate self which is apart from anything; you are one with all of life. However, in your misunderstanding you think there is a you and an …
Right now, I want you to apply a method that will free you of lingering bad feelings that are caused by people or events in your past. Perhaps you harbor ill thoughts because you were scorned by a lover or maybe there was a family dispute. Whatever the cause, by carrying these thoughts with you, you …
Here is a peculiar passage from Week Nine of The Master Key System. Charles F. Haanel wrote: To know the Truth is the underlying condition necessary in every business transaction or social relation. The “Truth” to which Haanel is referring (that’s “Truth is spelled with a capital “T”) is the intrinsic meaning or value of something or what you …
We could all use a healthy dose of Tremendous this holiday season and Being Tremendous is just the medicine we’ve been looking for! We’ve scoured the archives and created a beautiful, full-color, hardcover book with free DVD that brings Charie Jones, one of the greatest speakers of the last 60 years, to life like never before. Charlie “Tremendous” Jones rose …
[This the transcript of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005. (Source: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html)] I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is …
http://media.blubrry.com/master_key_teleseminars/themasterkeymentor.com/podcasts/04112011-Master-Key-Teleseminar-Tracey-Jones.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:34 — 26.4MB) | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSCharlie “Tremendous” Jones was a legend in personal development. he ranked right up there with luminaries such as Norman Vincent Peale, Og Mandino, and Robert Schuller. He was great. Unfortunately, he passed away in 2008. He left us, though, …
