by Helmi Hakim | Oct 25, 2007 | Motivation
Do you realize that you have more potential that you think?
There was once an old Indian who was poverty stricken.
But one day, he strike it big when oil was discovered on his land. He became wealthy overnight and decided to reward himself by buying a Cadillac touring car.
In those days, the Cadillac touring cars had two spare tires on the back.
The old Indian wanted to be different and so he placed four spare tires at the back of his car.
He bought himself a beautiful suit and hat.
Everyday, with a cigar in his mouth he would drive into the hot, dusty, little Oklahoma cowboy town nearby.
He wanted to show off his new car. He waved and spoke to everyone that he passed by, on the right and on the left.
He sometimes turned all the way around to speak to the folks.
The strange thing is that he never ran into anybody or over anybody. He never did hit anybody or anything.
Guess why?
Directly in front of that big beautiful car, there were two horses – pulling it!
SUCCESS PRINCIPLES
There was nothing wrong with the car, but the old Indian never learned how to start the car engine.
Inside the car were a hundred horses, but the old Indian was only using two horses on the outside.
Most of us make the same mistake of looking outside of us when we already have within us the necessary power to move us forward.
Scientists said that we only use about 10% to 15 % of our full potential.
Therefore, it is up to us to tap into our own potential and awaken the
sleeping giant within us.
by Helmi Hakim | Oct 21, 2007 | Motivation
Today I am going to share with you how to catch monkeys. 😛
The way to catch a monkey is to use a box with a small opening at the top- big enough for the monkey to slide its hand inside.
Inside the box are nuts to lure the monkeys.
The monkey will grab the nuts with its hand and forms a fist. When the monkey tries to get its hand out, the opening will be too small for the fist to come out.
The monkey has a choice to either let go of the nuts in order to escape or to hang on to the nuts and get captured.
It is sad that the monkey will hold on to the nuts and risks being caught.
SUCCESS PRINCIPLES
The monkey was caught because of its greed.
Most of us behave like the monkey. We hold on to old things and ideas that can no longer help us to succeed.
We fear the uncertainties the future may bring and so we refuse to change.
We are comfortable with where we are and what we have, so we prefer to remain there. To move forward in life we have to let go of the past and move ahead in faith.
We may even have to break traditions.
Let the dead bury the dead, just press on!
by Helmi Hakim | Oct 20, 2007 | Motivation
There was a wealthy man who wanted to choose a husband for his only daughter.
One day he invited the eligible young men from the whole town.
During the occasion, when everyone was present he made an announcement, “Today, I am going to choose a husband for my daughter.
Anyone who can swim across this pool can have my daughter’s hand in marriage and inherit half of my wealth. The only challenge is that the pool is full of alligators.”
With that announcement everyone present was silent.
Suddenly, there was a loud splash, and in a matter of seconds a young man swam across the pool to the other side.
Everybody cheered at the heroic feat of the young man.
The wealthy man walked towards the young man and congratulated him.
The young man said, “Sir, I am not interested in marrying your daughter. What I
want to know is the name of the person who pushed me into the pool?”
SUCCESS PRINCIPLES
There are various types of motivation, and the one that is related to the above story is “fear” motivation.
Sometimes, to bring out the best in us or in others, we have to use fear motivation. We have potentials within us but we need to stir it up with motivation and inspiration.
However, fear motivation will only work in the short term, because people will get accustomed to it in the long run.
by Helmi Hakim | Oct 4, 2007 | Motivation
There was a man who worked for the railroad.
One day as he went into the freezer compartment to do his routine work, the door accidentally closed and he found himself trapped in the compartment.
He shouted for help but no one heard him since it was past midnight. He tried to break down the door but he could not.
As he lay in the freezer compartment, he began to feel colder, and colder.
Then he began to feel weaker, and weaker, and he wrote on the wall of the compartment, “I am feeling colder, and colder; and I am getting weaker, and weaker.
I am dying, and this may be my last words”. In the morning when the other workers opened up the compartment they found him dead.
The sad twist to the above story is that the freezing apparatus in the compartment had broke down a few days earlier.
The poor worker did not know about the damaged freezing apparatus and in his mind the freezing apparatus was working perfectly.
He felt cold, got weaker and literally willed himself to die.
SUCCESS PRINCIPLES
Our sub-conscious mind can be cheated.
The sub-conscious mind can only accept and act on information passed to it by the conscious mind.
It has no capacity to reject or decline any instructions or information passed to it by the conscious mind.
In the case of the poor worker, he consciously thought that he was getting colder, weaker and dying and the sub-conscious mind accepted the above instructions and affected his physical body.
That was how he willed himself to die.
MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE
“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.
Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.”
by Helmi Hakim | Oct 1, 2007 | Motivation
The Catalina Island is twenty-one miles away from the coast of California, and many people have taken the challenge to swim across it.
On July 4th 1952, Florence Chadwick stepped into the water off Catalina Island to swim across to the California coast.
She started well and on course, but later fatigue set in, and the weather became cold.
She persisted, but fifteen hours later, numb and cold, she asked to be taken out of the
water.
After she recovered, she was told that she had been pulled out only half a mile away from the coast.
She commented that she could have made it, if the fog had not affected her vision and she would have just seen the land.
She promised that this would be the only time that she would ever quit.
She went back to her rigorous training.
And two months later she swam that same channel.
The same thing happened.
The fatigue set in, and the fog obscured her view, but this time she swam with faith and vision of the land in her mind.
She knew that somewhere behind the fog was land.
She succeeded and became the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel.
She even broke the men’s record by two hours.
SUCCESS PRINCIPLES
Keep the vision of your goal crystal clear before you and never, never, never… give up! See the reaching, commit to it, and you will surely see your goal realized.
MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE
“I can’t do everything, but I can do something. If we all did something, we could conquer anything.”
by Helmi Hakim | Sep 29, 2007 | Motivation
Today I am going to share with you another motivational story I read 🙂
This is the story of Robby.
He was a young boy who lived with his elderly mother.
His mother wanted him to learn how to play the piano because she longed to hear
her son play for her.
She sent her son to a piano teacher who took Robby in under her guidance.
However,there was one small problem because Robby was not musically inclined and therefore was very slow in learning.
The teacher did not have much faith in the boy because of his weakness.
The mother was very enthusiastic and every week she would send Robby to the teacher.
One day Robby stopped attending the piano lessons.
The teacher thought that he had given up and in fact she was quite pleased since she did not give much hope to Robby.
Not long after, the piano teacher was given the task to organize a piano concert in town. She sent out circulars to invite the students and public to attend the event.
Suddenly, she received a call from Robby who offered to take part in the concert.
The teacher told Robby that he was not good enough and that he was no longer a student since he had stopped coming for lessons.
Robby begged her to give him a chance and promised that he would not let her down.
Finally, she gave in and she put him to play last, hoping that he will change his mind at the last minute.
When the big day came, the hall was packed and the children gave their best performance.
Finally, it was Robby’s turn to play and as his name was announced, he walked in.
He was not in proper attire and his hair was not properly groomed. The teacher was really nervous since Robby’s performance could spoil the whole evening’s brilliant performance.
As Robby started playing the crowd became silent and was amazed at the skill of this little boy.
In fact, he gave the best performance of the evening.
At the end of his presentation the crowd and the piano teacher gave him a standing ovation.
The crowd asked Robby how he managed to play so brilliantly.
With a microphone in front of him, he said, “I was not able to attend the weekly piano
lessons as there was no one to send me because my mother was sick with cancer.
She just passed away this morning and I wanted her to hear me play.
You see, this is the first time she is able to hear me play because when she was alive she was deaf and now I know she is listening to me. I have to play my best for her!”
SUCCESS PRINCIPLES
This is indeed a touching story of love and excellence.
When you have a passion and a reason to do something, you will surely excel. You may not be talented or gifted but if you have a strong enough reason to do something, you will be able to tap into your inner God given potential.
