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Entries for the ‘Motivation’ Category

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

Chances are, you have already heard of Randy Paush, but I wanted to share his world famous speech anyway just incase someone out there has not. This is so awesome and can truly inspire anyone that watches it! Randy Pausch’s “The Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” has been viewed over 10 million times on [...]

“No Excuses” video from Nike

Inspirational Nike commercial with US basketball player Matt Scott…

Top Inspirational Videos of Michael Jordan

These 3 Michael Jordan commercials are awesome! It will take less than 3 minutes to watch these videos and I know they will inspire you! Michael Jordan on Failure: “I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the [...]

Music and Life

This short 2 minute video is by philosopher Alan Watts. He makes a great point about why we are supposed to sing or dance while music is being played… Live in the moment and enjoy the journey of your life!

Tony Robbins: Why we do what we do, and how to do it better.

This Tony Robbins TEDTalk is Awesome! (high-fives Al Gore in the front row) Tony Robbins discusses the “invisible forces” that motivate everyone’s actions and the six human needs. This 22 minute video will be well worth your time! TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where [...]

Take Responsibility for Your Own Success!

Here is a great clip of John Addison about taking responsibility for your own success. “You can either make money or make excuses… you can’t do both.”

If you’ve never failed, you’ve never lived.

Abraham Lincoln, Lucille Ball, and Michael Jordan are success stories that first began with failure… Sometimes we look at people who have achieved a great deal of success and we wrongly think that everything must come easy for them. This powerful video illustration takes us inside some the greatest failures of all time so we [...]

Take Action Today!

Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action. And action is the ingredient that ensures results. Only action can cause a reaction; to take it one step further, only positive action can cause a positive reaction. Action… The whole world loves to watch those who make things happen, and it rewards them for causing waves of productive [...]

Look for an Open Door

(Great email I just got from Success Magazine) Most of us spend so much time talking, grieving and being angry about the closed door in our lives, we don’t see the open door. Les Brown, legendary human-potential expert, says our trials and disappointments can take us all to a door of discovery and greatness. Brown [...]

Can a poor person become wealthy?

How dramatically we can change our results is largely a function of imagination. In 1960, it was a technological impossibility for man to travel into outer space. Within 10 years, however, the first man stepped out onto the surface of the moon. The miraculous process of converting the dream into reality began when one voice [...]