As young adults we all tend to whine and complain a lot. Listen to this poem I heard from Og Mandino. It will change how you think about whining and complaining…

Today upon a bus I saw a lovely girl with golden hair. I envied her – she seemed so gay – and wished I were as fair. But suddenly she rose to leave. I saw her hobble down the isle, she had only one leg and wore a crutch, but as she passed, a smile…

Oh, God forgive me when I whine,

I have two legs, the world is mine.

I stopped to buy some candy. The lad who sold them had such charm. I
stopped to talk to him, he seemed so glad – if I was late could do
no harm. As I left he said to me, “I thank-you, you had been so
kind. It’s nice to talk to folks like you, you see,” he said, “I am
blind.”
Oh, God forgive me when I whine,

I have two eyes, the world is mine.

Later while walking down the street, I saw a child with eyes of
blue. He stood and watched the others play, he did not know what to
do. I stopped a moment and said, “Why don’t you join the others,
dear?” He looked ahead without a word and then I knew, he couldn’t
hear.
Oh, God forgive me when I whine,

I have two ears, the world is mine.

With feet to take me where I go, with eyes to see the sun-set glow,
with ears to hear what I would know.
Oh, God forgive me when I whine,

I am blessed indeed, the world is mine!

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Hello there. Today I will like to share with you briefly on why many people never achieve their goals. The reason is because they have not found their why.

This is a concept I learnt from John Di Lemme and it is very important that you find your why!!!

Now what do I mean by finding your why? There is a saying that says he who has a strong why can bare almost any how!!!

What I am trying to say is that the reason why most people never achieve their goals is because they don’t have enough reasons as to why they need to achieve their goals. That is their why!!! If we have enough reasons why we want to achieve it and they are strong we will go after the things we want without worrying about failure.

How many times have you started something and stopped when you met the first sign of failure. It was because you did not have a strong enough why. If you focus on the process you will be discouraged but if you focus on the benefits you will be able to achieve your goals.

The people who achieve greatly are those who focus on the ‘why’ and not on the ‘how’.

Here is your homework for today.

1. Make a list of everything you want to achieve.

2. Write all the reasons why you want to achieve those things.

3. Take a look at the reasons why everyday especially when you feel like giving up.

This exercise will help you decide whether something is worth pursuing or not. Many times you will realise that you are going after things that you don’t really care too much about and you shouldn’t waste your time on those things.

If you look at this couple you can see how excited they are. They found their why. They even make the shape of a Y as well. Their why must have been to have a great relationship together and they are having that right now by the beach.

Go after the things that you have a strong why for. This is one of the great benefits of finding your why!!!

Let me know what you think of this post!!!

Have you found your why? is a post from: Brian's Motivational Blog

Hi there. Today I will like to talk on the greatest power that everyone possesses right now. If you can truly grasp the meaning of this concept your life will be totally transformed and you can achieve and become almost anything you want to become.

Now what can be this power that everyone possess? Is there really such a power? I assure you that there is such a power. I don’t care if you are fat, thin, black, white, smart, dumb, deaf etc. Every human being possesses this power.

Ok I know that right now you are probably very curious as to what I mean. With this power you can be the smartest person on the earth or not, you can be the wealthiest person on the earth or not. You can be the happiest person on the earth or not.

Ok, enough Brian what is this power you are talking about!!!

The greatest power that every human possesses is the POWER OF CHOICE!!!

Yes, that’s right. All of us have the ability to choose to do something or not do something. If someone insults us we have the power to choose to be angry at them or not to be angry at them. IF we are hungry we have the power to choose to eat something or not to eat something.

If we want to live a healthy life we can choose to eat properly or not eat properly. If we aren’t living the life we want to live right now, we have the power to choose right now to take steps to make out life better whether it be by attending a gym, reading a book, taking a class, talking to someone close to us….

Oh we have such a tremendous power in our hands that we take for granted. If we as humans can really grasp this simple concept that our life is really a product of the choices we have made, we will choose to make different choices right now…

This is the greatest power that every human being possesses and that is the power to choose.

So here’s what I want you to do right now.

1. Think about some areas in your life right now that aren’t where you want it to be.

2. Now list the choices that you have made in that area. It will usually be bad choices

3. Now right down what you can choose to do in those areas to make it better.

4. Then start doing those things

Remember that right now you can choose to do this exercise or not. You can choose to become a better person or not because at the end of the day the greatest power that a human being possesses is the power of choice!!!

The greatest power that every human possesses is a post from: Brian's Motivational Blog

There is a saying that says that ‘Leaders are readers’. I am sure you have probably heard that and I believe it is true.

I want to ask you a simple question. Do you read? What’s your response. Most people today do not like to read. We spend all our time watching tv, listening to music and going on facebook that we refuse to read but I want to let you know that reading can change your life.

If your answer was yes to the last question then I have another question for you. What do you read? It was Mark Twain who said that ‘he who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.’ Now there are lots of people who read and love to read and while that is commendable I want to let you know that what you read is also important to changing your life.

You see many people read the newspapers, read a magazine, read a novel, a story book and there is nothing really wrong with reading such things but I believe that the best books to read are books that can help you to change your life around by changing the way you think. This can fall into the category of how to books, self help, spirituality, financial, business etc.

Now I am not saying not to read novels or other such books but I believe that you should in addition to reading such books, read books that can help change your life around. Some books I’ll recommend are the bible, Think and Grow Rich, Rich Dad Poor Dad, The Richest Man in Babylon, How to win friends and influence people.

These are just a handful to get you started. I grew up reading story books like Enid Blyton and I still love those books but I have learnt a lot from reading some of those other books that I mentioned before.

Charlie tremendous Jones said that 5 years from now your life will be the same except for 2 things the books you read and the people you meet.

Start reading a few pages each day and have a journal and pen with you and see your life change for the best.

Take care!!!

How reading can change your life is a post from: Brian's Motivational Blog

Good day my fellow readers. How are you doing today. I hope all is well with you today. So what are you doing right now to change the world? Has someone ever asked you such a question? If they have, then congratulations. You have some cool friends!

So I ask once again. What are you doing to change the world? Some people may reply that it is impossible for one person to change the world or the world doesn’t want to be changed or no one can change the world!!! But I’ll ask still one more time. What are you doing to change the world?

I was looking at this movie recently called Pay it Forward and you will see the trailer for it at the bottom of this post and it asks the question what are we doing to change the world?

So how can we change the world? How can I a mere human being living in a small Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago change the world? Well I can change the world by ‘paying it forward.’ Now what do I mean by that statement?

Well every human being has two needs that I will like to share today and I must give credit to my mentor John Maxwell for this. We have the need :-

1. For help and
2. To help

That’s right. No one is so gifted that they can do everything and no one is so ‘ungifted’ that they can’t do anything!!! We all need help and we all should desire to help others.

A simple act of kindness on your part is your way of paying it forward; it’s your way of returning the help you got from someone else. By using your gifts and talents and opportunities that come your way each day to help someone who cannot help themselves that is your way of changing the world.

If you do one good thing each day for one person you would have played a part in changing 365 people in this world and if they in turn touch someone else who then touches others we all be playing a massive part in  changing the world.

The world is calling for you, the world needs you and it wants what you can offer to it to make it a better place. So once again, what are you doing to change the world?

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What are you doing to change the world? is a post from: Brian's Motivational Blog

The Secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda- John Maxwell

Okay in today’s post I will like to talk to you on the importance of ‘Today’. Dr. John Maxwell wrote a book called Today Matters and if you do not have a copy of that book I strongly recommend that you get it because he shares a lot of wisdom you can apply in your daily life in order to achieve success tomorrow.

You see if we want to achieve success tomorrow, we need to take action today because what we do today is what will determine what happens tomorrow. Someone once said that yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery but today is a gift which is why we call it the present! So what are you doing with ‘Today’.

Are you using it wisely or just going with the flow? Just allowing time to just fly by and take its course on its own. We need to use today wisely. Anyone who wants to achieve anything tomorrow will have to use the days before the tomorrow to achieve the results. We look at those Olympic Athletes that take the stage every 4 years and when we see a Usain Bolt or other great athlete, we wonder how they got so strong.

It’s all because they took advantage of today!! For years upon years they have been training and practising each day for the olympics and they had to make each day count in order to become as good as they are. That’s why they become so great. It’s not because of talent or ability but it’s because of dedication to a cause that needs to be prepared for each and every day and they needed to make each day count. We see the glory but we don’t know the story!!!

If someone takes an axe and just strikes it 5 times each day on a tree, it will eventually fall down. The day that it falls down is not the greatest day but it was the combination of striking the tree 5 times each day that cause it to tumble down!!

So my question to you is what are you doing with ‘Today’. Are you using it wisely? Remember that Today Matters and if you want to be successful start taking action today and each day after that and in due season your ‘harvest time’ will appear and everyone will be asking themselves how did you get to become so great and you will just simply reply that ‘Today Matters’!!!

Making Each Day Count is a post from: Brian's Motivational Blog

Ok today I have a really serious post that I want to talk about. It is on the concept of love. How do you know when someone really loves you? I am not talking about boyfriend-girlfriend love. I am talking love of each other in general because many people do say they love you but when put to the test they sure fail the love test.

Now tell me what exactly is love? How do you know if someone really loves you? When I look at society today I see an absense of real love!!! Everyone says they love you, they are your best friend but at the times when you need them most they betray that love!!!

I am a Christian and I live by that standard but I see a lot of people in churches and other religious institutions who fail the love test when put to the test. Now what exactly is this love test I am talking about???

I am talking about the ability to love someone unconditionally!!! If I call you friend then I should love you ‘no matter what’!!! What do I mean by that statement?

Let me give you some examples to illustrate the point. If I am your parent and you are my child and you are an A Student and you continue to do well in school and I am always boasting in you and letting you know how much I love you etc. What happens if your grades begin to drop? Do I stop loving you? For some parents that is the impression they give their children?

If I am a church member and the whole of our faith is centered around love, how do I react to a fellow church member who gets caught in sin. Do I stop loving them and calling them my brother? If I do then my whole religion was in vain and I am a fake!!!

You need to love the child whether they are passing their exams or not, whether they are on drugs or not, whatever the reason I believe Love that is Unconditional will conquer everything else. Ancient wisdom says to hate sin but love the sinner!!!

I will really like to hear your comments on this post!! What is real love and is it demonstrated today and most importantly do you demonstrate it!!!

What is Love? is a post from: Brian's Motivational Blog

Have you ever achieved something in your life? Something worthwhile? Something that took a lot of hard work to accomplish but you did it? I am sure that everyone reading this has achieved something worthwhile.

It probably could be making it into a band, learning to play the guitar, achieving your degree, getting married etc. I am sure there are millions of other examples I can list here. Now you are probably wondering what does achieving all these things have to do with a turtle on a fence and the answer is ‘Everything!!!’

I remember sometime aback I was reading a book by John Maxwell and he shared this story which I am about to share with you and I hope you get to understand the moral of the story. I will tell the story in my own words.

There was a very successful and rich business man in a certain part of America. Now this man had made it through very hard times to get to where he was at right now and everyone admired him for how successful he was. Any conference or any speaking engagement he went to, he will always be the talk of the town after he had left. Everyone admired him and wanted to be like him.

Now in his office where he worked he had a picture of a turtle on a fence and once you entered his office there was no way that picture could have escaped your eye. Every time people saw the picture they would ask him what was the significance of that picture. He would then look at them and this is what he would say.

“In order for a turtle to make it on to a fence it would mean that someone would have to take the turtle and place him on that fence. There is no way a turtle can make it on to a fence by himself; he needs to get help in order to make it there. Every time I look at that picture it helps me to put things into perspective. I begin to remember that just like that turtle I did not make it to where I am today without the help of other people!!!”

Did you understand the moral of that story? No matter what we have achieved in our life, we need to be grateful for the people who helped us to get to where we are in life. We did not make it on our own. Don’t forget to thank all those people who helped you to reach where you are today.

Just remember there is no such thing as a self made man because NO ONE MAKES IT ALONE!!!

Feel free to bookmark this content in your favorite bookmarking site. Have a great day!!!

What can a turtle on a fence teach you about success? is a post from: Brian's Motivational Blog

Today’s post I will like to tell a joke that I heard a while back but it has tremendous value in it? So without further ado let me tell you the story of the leopard, the dog and the monkey.

A wealthy man decided to go on a safari in Africa. He took his faithful pet dog along for company. One day the dog starts chasing butterflies and before long he discovers that he is lost. So, wandering about he notices a leopard heading rapidly in his direction with the obvious intention of having lunch.

The dog thinks, “Boy, I’m in deep doo doo now.”

Then he noticed some bones on the ground close by, and immediately settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat.

Just as the leopard is about to leap, the dog exclaims loudly, “Man, that was one delicious leopard. I wonder if there are any more around here?”

Hearing this the leopard halts his attack in mid stride, as a look of terror comes over him, and slinks away into the trees. “Whew”, says the leopard. “That was close. That dog nearly had me.”

Meanwhile, a monkey who had been watching the whole scene from a nearby tree, figures he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from the leopard. So, off he goes.

But the dog saw him heading after the leopard with great speed, and figured that something must be up.

The monkey soon catches up with the leopard, spills the beans and strikes a deal for himself with the leopard.

The cat is furious at being made a fool of and says, “Here monkey, hop on my back and see what’s going to happen to that conniving canine.”

Now the dog sees the leopard coming with the monkey on his back, and thinks,” What am I going to do now?”

But instead of running, the dog sits down with his back to his attackers pretending he hasn’t seen them yet.

And just when they get close enough to hear, the dog says, “Where’s that monkey. I just can never trust him. I sent him off half an hour ago to bring me another leopard, and he’s still not back!!”

Ok so what can we learn from the story? We see the importance of filtering what people are saying to us! If we believe everything people are saying about us, it can have serious consequences in the way we decide to live our life. That leopard could have eaten that dog so easily if he had only learnt to think for himself. Another thing we can learn from this story is that not everyone who comes to tell us something good may have the right intention as well!! The monkey went to talk to the leopard primarily so that he can be saved from the leopard! He wasn’t concerned about the leopard, all he was concerned about was not being eaten by the leopard! It’s the same way with people. Some of us may have friends or associates who may appear to be really nice to us but we aren’t sure what there true intentions are!!!

We need to be careful of the voices that we allow to enter our mind. One of my mentors said that you can’t stop  the birds from flying over your head but you sure can stop them from building a nest there!! What he meant by that is that you can’t stop people from speaking about you but you do have the power to decide whether you allow what is being said about you to impact you or distract you from what it is you are trying to achieve!!! So my question to you is whose voice are you listening to?

Whose voice are you listening to? is a post from: Brian's Motivational Blog