Here is an interesting question – What does it take to create a flash mob, get on the NBC News, raise $60,000 within one day and start your own foundation?
The answer is:
• An old auto parts store
• One customer
• And a very determined 9-year-old with a great idea
At least this is what happened to young Caine Monroy, who hand-built his cardboard arcade – Caine’s Arcade – in his father’s auto parts store.
His story may not be a traditional inspirational tale of entrepreneurial success, but if it is not a testament to the power of passion, creativity and determination, I don’t know what is.
It is also the kind of story that leaves you without any excuses of why YOU can not follow YOUR dreams.
Watch it and tell me what you think.
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Busy, busy, busy – that’s how most of us spend our days. We are too busy to exercise. Too busy to meditate. Too busy to sit down and actually enjoy the lunch we brought to work.
I manage to squeeze in a meditation, and if I am lucky – I actually take time to sit on the balcony and savor my lunch.
What I can’t seem to get round to is cleaning. It has got to the point where I try to walk around the house looking straight ahead. I guess I hope that doing so will make it easier to ignore the fingerprints on my glass top of my coffee table, the crumbs on the kitchen floor and the layer of dust on the bookshelves. But no matter how hard I try, I still know that all of it is there.
For the last 6 days, I have woken up and promised myself that today is the cleaning day. But every time something more urgent came up and I let myself get pulled into a whirlpool of busyness only to go to bed in a bad mood.
Today, I finally managed to fulfill my ‘womanly duties’ and now my sweet home is sweet, airy and smells of a mixture of lemon and cinnamon spice.
And it is not because I had fewer tasks on my to-do list, or because I thought I would catch up with my work on the weekends. No. I made the time. And what helped me was a Slow Down Manifesto I accidentally stumbled upon this morning.
Here is what it said:
“We shall not flag or fail. We shall slow down in the office, and on the roads. We shall slow down with growing confidence when all those around us are in a shrill state of hyperactivity (signifying nothing). We shall defend our state of calm, whatever the cost may be. We shall never surrender!”
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We all have heard about Albert Einstein – the absent-minded genius who gave the world the theory of relativity and won the Nobel Prize. Some of us have even heard that Einstein was offered the Presidency of Israel in 1952, or that there is a chemical element named “Einsteinium” in his honor. But only a few people are aware that before becoming a world-known scientist Einstein had to face repeated setbacks, failures and criticism even from people he loved most.
Who would ever guess that he had speech difficulty as a child and was considered “slow-minded” by his own parents? Or that the brightest mind of our century failed his University Entrance Exam? Or that when Einstein had applied for promotion from patent clerk third class to patent clerk second class at his first job, his request had been rejected on the grounds that he was not “fully familiar with mechanical engineering.”?
There is no doubt that Albert Einstein has been an inspiration for many great minds of Physics, but he also knew quite a bit about the Laws of Life as happiness and success.
Here are 11 Most Amazing Success Lessons from Albert Einstein himself:
1. Keep your mind opened
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
If we think we already know something, we stop learning, we stop questioning, we stop innovating, and, inevitably, we stop improving. Do not let your dysfunctional beliefs, your negative experiences or your education, keep you from moving forward. Sometimes the best way to make a breakthrough in life is to leave your heavy baggage of knowledge behind.
