GO-GIVER

Giving Takes You Somewhere

All the great fortunes in the world have been created by  men and women who had a greater passion for what they were giving - their product, service or idea - than for what they were getting. And many of those great fortunes have been squandered by others who had a greater passion for what they were getting than what they were giving.

It's up to you who, what, where you're headed. A path of giving or greed. 

Empowering Thoughts: Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day Empowering Thoughts

A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~ Irish Proverb

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes one a mother-which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician. ~Sydney J. Harris

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~Abraham Lincoln

When you are a mother,  you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~Sophia Loren

One good mother is worth a schoolmasters. ~George Herbert

No one in the world  can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones. ~Harry Truman

Working 3 Jobs: Worth it or not?

Have you ever tried working 2 - 3 jobs a day at 12 - 18 hours/day, sleep, eat and play aren't yet included? What kept you going?

Each one of us may had gone to the point of working 24 hours a day even without sleep to reach the needs we want for our families, putting food in the table, sheltering and clothing them warmly, and the comfort of having nice things for their convenience where in the back end it will yield the results or life we want for wife and kids.

Giving is good for the Heart.

Many people had their own reasons why they need to be a slave to their time in exchange for money. Three reasons I found in general is all about GIVING:

Never again will I pity or belittle myself.

How foolish I was when I stood in despair, by the side of the road, and envied the successful and wealthy

as they paraded by. Are they blessed with unique skills, rare intelligence, heroic courage, enduring

ambition, and other outstanding qualities that I posses not? Have they been allotted more hours, each

day, in which to perform their mighty tasks? Do they have hearts full of compassion and souls overflow -ing with love that are different from mine? No! God plays no favorites. We were all fashioned from the

same clay.

Now I also know that the sadness and setbacks of my life are not unique to me. Even the wisest and

most successful of our world suffer chapters of heartbreak and failure but they, unlike me, have learned

that there is no peace without trouble, no rest without strain, no laughter without sorrow, no victory

without struggle and that is the price we all pay for living. There was a time when I paid the price willing-ly and easily but constant disappointments and defeats first eroded my confidence and then my cour -age even as drops of water will, in time, destroy the strongest granite. All that is now behind me. No

longer am I one of the living dead, remaining always in the shadows of others and hiding behind my

sorry apologies and alibis while the years waste away.

Never again will I pity or belittle myself.

Thank you, God, for playing your game with me, today, and placing in my hands these precious scrolls. I

was at the lowest ebb of my life but I should have known it is at that moment that the tide always turns.

No longer will I look mournfully to the past. It will never return. Instead, with these scrolls, I will shape the

present because it is mine and I will go forth to meet the mysterious future without fear, without doubt,

without despair.

I was formed in the image of God. There is nothing I cannot achieve if I try.

Never again will I pity or belittle myself.

What is Success to you?

suc·cess

səkˈses/

noun

1. 1.

   the accomplishment of an aim or purpose.

   "the president had some success in restoring confidence"

   synonyms:

   favorable outcome, successfulness, successful result, triumph; Hollywood ending "the success of the scheme"

   Success can be a rather abstract term and it can mean very different things to different people. Trying to define what success is is not easy.

   To most people, success means achieving a goal. In order to achieve a goal, a person usually has to work hard and believe in himself. Being successful at what you do can also be very motivating. People who are successful in one project, tend to be more successful in other projects. This is because they get the feeling that their hard work pays off and that a goal is worth their time and effort. Success usually goes hand in hand with appreciation. If someone we know succeeds at what he or she does, we will most certainly congratulate them. This will make them feel good and motivate them even further.
   

Good Friday

Good Friday is observed the Friday before Easter. The Christian holiday, also known as Viernes Santo in Spanish, commemorates the passion, suffering, crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ.

This year, the holiday falls on April 18. Many Christians will spend the day fasting, praying, repenting and meditating on Jesus’ Passion story. Good Friday falls in the middle of Holy Week. Maundy Thursday marks the day of the Last Supper and Easter Sunday celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Below are answers to common questions about Good Friday.

 What is the Good Friday story?

The holiday follows the accounts described in the Canonical gospels. The story begins when Judas the apostle betrays Jesus and is then arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus is then brought to trial where he is found guilty of subverting the nation, opposing taxes to Caesar, making himself a king and claiming to be “God's son." While the Roman governor Pontius Pilate found him innocent, Pilate feared the crowds and let them decide Jesus’ fate -- death by crucifixion. Jesus was whipped, beaten, scourged and stripped naked. Jesus was led to Golgotha, where he was nailed to the cross. Six hours passed before he died.

 Why is the holiday called Good Friday?

There are several theories behind the name of the Christian holiday. According to the Baltimore Catechism, the word “good” may signify how Jesus’ death “showed His great love for man, and purchased for him every blessing.”

Another theory points to how the word “good” may refer to "a day or season observed as holy by the church" in context of the Passion story. The first reference to Good Friday comes from a text written around 1290 that refers to the day as “guode friday.”

 How is Good Friday celebrated?

Many Christians will celebrate Good Friday by attending church services that read the Gospel accounts of the Passion story. There are also processions that replicate Jesus’ journey carrying the cross through Jerusalem to his site of crucifixion

Good Friday is also one of the two days where Catholics between the ages of 18 and 59 are obliged to fast. Fasting is defined by eating only one full meal. Catholics must also abstain from meat.

By Zoe Mintz

If Only More People Acted This Way The World Would Be A Much Better Place

ALL IN ONE PACKAGE OF GIVING.

This commercial puts into our perspective about what the world really needs these days, the virtue of unconditional love without expectations.

Survive. Save. Serve.

There are three universal reasons for working.

Its in giving that gives life.

Survive -- "to meet your basic living needs."

Save -- "to go beyond your basic needs and expand your life."

Serve -- "to make a contribution to the world around you."

"Most people spend their lives focusing on the first. A smaller number focus on the second. But those rare few who are truly successful  -- no just financially, but genuinely successful in all aspects of their lives -- keep their focus squarely on the third."

Excerpt taken from Og Mandino’s The Greatest Salesman in the World Part II The End of the Story Part 2

Continues…

Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration

are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has

been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by

particle, thought by thought, step by step.

Success, when it comes overnight, often departs with the dawn. I am prepared, now, for a lifetime of

happiness because I have finally recognized a powerful secret hidden in the years that treated me so

harshly. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery we make of what is

false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true and every fresh experience points out some form of

error which we shall afterward carefully avoid. The path I walked, often dampened by my tears, has not

been a wasted journey.

Excerpt taken from Og Mandino’s The Greatest Salesman in the World Part II The End of the Story Part 1

I was born to succeed, not fail.

I was born to triumph, not to bow my head in defeat.

I was born to toast victories, not to whimper and whine.

What happened to me? When did my dreams all fade into a grey mediocrity where average people

applaud each other as excellent?

No person is ever so much deceived by another, as by himself. The coward is convinced that he is only

being cautious and the miser always thinks he is practicing frugality. Nothing is so easy as to deceive

one’s self since what we wish is always easy to believe. No one, in my life, has deceived me as much as I

have.

Why do I always try to cover my small accomplishments under blankets of words that make light of my

work or excuses for my lack of ability? Worst of all, I have come to believe my excuses so that I willingly

sell my days for pennies while consoling myself with thoughts that things could always be worse.

No more!

It is time to study the reflection in my looking glass until I recognize that the most harmful enemy that I

have . . . is me. At last, in this magic moment with my first scroll, the veil of self-deceit is beginning to lift

from my eyes.