70 Year Old Man Staying Fit. How long Do You Expect to “Live Strong and Long” to?
Yesterday is history, tommorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, thats why they call it “The Present”.
Learning how to be in the now is challenging. You see with the “fast pacedness” of today’s society and the high speed which information travels now it is very difficult to “be in the moment”.
You see, what I see around me and what I used to experience my self is that when I was at work, I thought about my family. And when I was at home, I thought about my work. I was not that effective with my time. Always in a hurry but not really accomplishing to much. Even though I thought I was working hard my “to do list” never shortened. My clients and my family seemed to only get 1/2 of me.
This is not good. When you learn to focus a 100% at your task you will start to get so much more accomplished.
Below is a little story that may help you get the most of each moment no matter if you are at work, or in a work out, or with family, or at play. It helped me.
The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday & Sunday mornings. Perhaps its the quiet solitude that comes with being the first to rise, or maybe it’s the unbounded joy of not having to be at my fitness club at 5 a.m. Either way, the first few hours of a Sat. or Sun. morning are most enjoyable. I am sure you can relate.
A few weeks ago, I was shuffling toward the kitchen, with a steaming cup of green tea in one hand and my laptop in the other. What began as a typical Saturday morning turned into one of those lessons that life seems to hand you from time to time.
Let me tell you about it. I turned the volume up on my radio in order to listen to a Saturday morning talk show. I heard an older sounding chap with a golden voice. You know the kind, he sounded like
he should be in broadcasting himself.
He was talking about “a thousand marbles” to someone named “Tom”. I was intrigued and sat down to listen to what he had to say. “Well, Tom, it sure sounds like you’re busy with your job. I’m sure they pay you well but it’s a shame you have to be away from home and your family so much. Hard to believe a yourng fellow should have to work sixty or seventy hurs a week to make ends meet. Too bad you missed your daughter’s dance recital. He continued, “Let me tell you semething Tom, something that has helped me keep a good perspective on my own prioritities.” And that’s when he began to explain his theory of a “thousand marbles”.
“You see, I sat down one day and did a little arithmetic. The average life expectancy now for Americans is around 78 years old (depending on who you talk too). I know that some live more and some live less, but on average, folks live about 78 years.” “Now then, I multiplied 78 time 52 and came up with 4056 which is sthe number of Saturdays that the average person has in their entire lifetime.
Now stick with me Tom. I’m getting to the important part. “It took me until I was fifty-five years old to think about all this in any detail”, he went on, “and by that time I had lived through over twenty-eight hundred Saturdays. “I got to thinking that if I lived to be seventy eight, I only had about a thousand of them left to enjoy. “So I went to a toy store and bought every single marble they had. I ended up having to go to three toy stores to round up the 1000 marbles. “I took them home and put them inside of a large, clear lastic container right here in my workshop next to the radio. Every Saturday since then, I have taken one marlbe out and thrown it away.
“I found that by watching the marbles diminish, I focused more on the really important things in life. There is nothing like watching your time here on earth run out to help get your priorities straight. “Now let me tell you one last thing befire I sign-off with you and take my lovely wife and daughters out for breakfast. This morning, I took the very last marble of of the container. I figure if I make it until next Saturday then God has blessed me with a little extra time to be with my loved ones…. you can sure bet I am going to take advantage of every momement; “it was nice to talk to you Tom, I hpe you spend more time with your loved ones, and I hope to meet you again someday. Have a good morning!”
You could have heard a pin drop when he finished. Even the show’s moderator didn’t have anything to say for a few moments. I guess he have us all a lot to think about. I had planned to do some internet work that morning and right a few articles. Instead, I went into the bedroom and woke up my wife with a kiss and a caress.
“C’mon honey, I’m taking you to and the kids to breakfast.” “What brought this on”, with a smile she asked. “Oh, nothing special,” I said. “It has just been a long time since we spent Sat. morning together with the kids. Hey, can we stop at a toy store while we are out? I need to buy some marbles.
Since you are reading this blog and are proactive on standing up and taking control of your health, lifestyle, and life though making healthier fitness choices, and you do understand how powerful your mind is; and with all the advances the medical community has made and is going to make in the next 20 years; I am going to up the average life expectancy for “us” to 100.
This story could impact you enough to dramatically change your life. Or not. You could read it and get emotional and then forget about it tommorrow. I highly suggest that you print the story off and go out and buy your marbles and container and throw “your marble” out each week. I did.
You see, life is about a lot of things. But in the end, the cars, the money, the vacations, the houses all fade away. What matters most is the relationships you built. Whose life is better because of you?
What did you leave behind that will have a lasting impression?
We all have the ability to live a life of significance. But we have to be aware and we have to work at it.
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Five of My Top Mentors who have guided me are:
Tom Venuto,
Bill Phillips,
JOE MERCOLA,
Tony Robbins,
Joel OSteen
This is a follow up to my last post on goal setting. My clients and I have accomplished some incredible things through living the Fatloss Lifestyle.
Goal setting and visualization has always been a part of my athletic career and now my career as a fitness professional.
In fact I believe it to be so important; every client that hires me must utilize my goal setting and visualition exercise. I want you to use it too.
One client dropped 11 inches off his waist in a year while gaining 20 lbs. of muscle. Another client stopped all symptoms of Myotonic Dystrophy dead in its tracks while taking 3 inches off his waist. Another client lost 7 inches off her waist and 5 off her hips (all from 3 hours of exercise per week) and went from fat to slim and sexy. She also started her own business and left her dead end job. You see, when you change your body, you also change your mind and your life.
I have achieved some pretty lofting goals because of goal setting and visualization.
I have:
Been a full time fitness professional for the last 9 years (after being a full time truck driver
for UPS for 18 years)
Been a professional “Drug Free For Life” competitive body builder in the WNBF for 12 years.
(and I have bad genetics for body building; thick joints, and a slow metabolism and I only
have one kidney).
5 Fitness Business’s that are profitable. 4 of them are on-line that make money while I sleep
(I was raised by a blue collar father and was a blue collar laborer for 18 years. I thought the
the only way to make a living was to put in hours (sweat) for money.
I am more balanced between business, relationships, and health & fitness than ever before at
the age of 44.
(At times in the past I was so out of balance that I almost went crazy. I actually went on an
anti-depressant med for a while)
I am now more in love with my wife than ever before. We have been married for 15 years.
I am now a better father than I have ever been to my two daughters Kiana and Lexi.
(I fell out of love with my wife and was not a very good father in the past)
I had a 14 year football career. One year of semi-pro and tried out for the 1988 Chicago
Bears. I still hold the All Time Tackle Record (532 tackles) for Olivet Nazarene Univ. and
I was inducted into the Olivet Sports Hall of Fame (22 years after I graduated.
(I am slower and less athletically inclined than most other athletes)
I am in the best fitness condition of my life and I have more real energy (no caffiene) than
I ever have before. And I look younger than I did 5 years ago.
I am more confident than ever that I am going to live long and strong to the age of 125
I tell you these things not to impress you, but to impress upon you that your mind is so much more powerful than you know.
One of the keys to having anything and everything that you want in life is to you believing that you can and do deserve it. Because when you believe something deep down in your core with an absoulute sense of certainty; then it will most likely become true for you. Even if it goes against the
laws of nature, God, or science.
Below is a simple form that I want you to fill out and personalize for you.
Commitment Sheet (This is a commitment to yourself)
A pact that you will do everything within your power to peak your health & fitness
So you will thus be able to peak in all the other areas of your life: Your mind body & soul are directly connected.
I _________; am very excited about my NEW, HEALTHY LIFESTYLE that Darin & I have created together.
On ___________ (6,5,4,3,2,1) weeks away from my retest and photo shoot I will have:
Goals
1. Lost _____ lbs. of fat
2. Gained ___ lbs. of muscle
3. Lost ____inches of my waist (at navel)
4. Gained ____ inches on each arm
5. Lost ____ inches off of buns
6. ____________ ( improve any physical issue that you may have with your body)
Emotional Reasons
So that: 1.) I can get off blood pressure medication
2.) I can attract a soul mate
3.) I can have more real energy and productivity
4.) I can improve my sex life
5.) I can increase my body and self image and hold my head up high
The emotinal reasons above are generic. Think of your own emotional reasons why you want to peak your fitness and your health. It is the why to the what. If you want to change your body and your life you must see what you want and fell the emotions of already having it in the theatre of your mind.
Cut out a physique of body out of a fitness magazine and tape your head on it. Keep it around. Put it on the fridge, put one on your work station. You need to be able to close your eyes and see the lean body as it is your body. See the body while you are reading your committment sheet outloud (with a strong positive voice).
You must do this exercise right before bed and first thing in the morning. These two times are most important because you are in the “alpha” wave state. Everything that you think of at these two times will be replayed 15-20 times in the middle of the night when your brain is “cleaning the files during REM”. Experiences outside the alpha wave state will be replayed only 3-5 times.
So when you focus on “What You Want” in the alpha wave state you will be using self hyptonsis or auto suggestion. Do not go to bed and focus on what you don’t want or being mad at someone or something. This is a big no no.
In summary, you do have the power to change. You do have the power to stand up and take control of your body, health, business, and life. No matter what age. I left UPS and took a 100% commision job as a personal trainer at the age of 36 with a stay at home housewife, 2 kids, living paycheck to paycheck. You can do anything that you want to do. But the mind is the first place to start exercising.
YOUR BODY CAN NOT GO WHERE YOUR MIND HAS NOT YET BEEN!
Use this commitment sheet. It works.
Your healthy lifestyle coach,
Darin Steen
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Below are my favorite mind bending slogans. I highly suggest that you print them off, highlight the ones that you like and refer to them every day.
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Your vision for your life will become “crystal clear” only when you look into your own heart; He who looks outside, dreams. He who looks within; awakes!!
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending
IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO GO ALL THE WAY; THEN WHY GO AT ALL?
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
TO KNOW; & NOT YET DO; IS TO NOT YET KNOW
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more in life there is to celebrate!
Oprah Winfrey
One of the most brilliant minds that ever lived, Albert Einstein, said, “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Adulthood is defined by the willingness to accept full responsibility for where you are at in life; no longer blaming others or circumstances.”
Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”
Mary Tyler Moore
WE ALL HAVE THE ABILITY TO STAND UP, TO DO THE RIGHT THING, TO BUILD SOME TRUE CHARACTER, NOT TO CHANGE THE WORLD, BUT TO BE THE CHANGE IN THE WORLD.
ONE HEALTHY BODY/MIND/SOUL @ A TIME!
DARIN L. STEEN
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People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.”
Stedman Graham
Speaker, Author and Educator
• GOOD DECISIONS COME FROM WISDOM
• WISDOM COMES FROM EXPERIENCE
• EXPERIENCE COMES FROM MAKING BAD DECISIONS
WE WOULD RATHER BE RUINED BY PRAISE; RATHER THAN SAVED BY CRITICISM
THE #1 ABILITY IS RESPONSIBILITY
• NEVER SAY I CAN’T
• SAY I WON’T
• YOU ARE IN CONTROL
ALWAYS AVOID SAYING NEGAGATIVE THINGS ABOUT YOURSELF IN THE PRESENT OR FUTURE TENSE. THIS IS NOT LYING BECAUSE ALL YOUR FAILURES HAVE BEEN IN THE PAST. FORGET THE PAST, FOCUS OPTIMISTICALLY ON THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE!!
• Stand Guard, be careful who you hang around, what you read, what you listen to, what you watch
• Because the above will influence your thoughts; Garbage in, garbage out
• Your thoughts will become words
• Your words become actions
• Your actions become habits
• Your habits become character
• Your character becomes your destiny
• What direction are you headed? We need to be aware!
Success must be attracted, not pursued. Personal value is the magnet that attracts all good things into our lives. The greater our value, the greater our rewards, Since the solution for having more is becoming more, we must be in constant search for new ways to increase our value. It is the acquisition of more value that we must pursue, not more valuables.
Success in anything is largely due to those who can hold on longest while the others let go.
The 10 most powerful two letter words in the English Vocabulary;
IF IT IS TO BE, IT IS UP TO ME!
People think I’m disciplined. It is not discipline, it is devotion. There is a great difference.
Luciano Pavorotti
1935-2007
Follow Your Heart
Virtue (Latin virtus; Greek ἀρετή) is moral excellence of a person. A virtue is a character trait valued as being good. The conceptual opposite of virtue is vice.
According to its etymology the word virtue (Latin virtus) signifies manliness or courage. Taken in its widest sense virtue means the excellence of perfection of a thing, just as vice, its contrary, denotes a defect or absence of perfection due to a thing. In its strictest meaning, however, as used by moral philosophers and theologians, virtue is an operative habit essentially good, as distinguished from vice, an operative habit essentially evil. The four cardinal (hinge) virtues are Justice, Courage, Wisdom, and Moderation. These were enumerated by the Greek philosophers. The three supernatural virtues of Faith, Hope and (unselfish) Love are part of the Christian tradition. Both the natural and supernatural virtues depend on a person’s understanding that truth can be discovered. Modernist views are at odds with this idea.
“Happiness depends upon the quality of your thoughts. Entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
Marcus Aurelius Marcus Aurelius
121-180, Roman Emperor
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”
Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.
If you sow, you shall reap. If you don’t sow you shall weep.
The level of thinking that has gotten us to where we are is not what’s going to get us to where we want to go. — Albert Einstein
We always need to grow, or we die. A content man is a dead man.
Master of all, genius of none/Albert Einstein
If we are not getting to where we want to go, it is not for a lack of resources, it is a lack of resource-fullness. Everything we need to live our dreams is right around us. Let’s break out of our daze and recognize them and use them.
I should work-out, I should focus on my relationships at home, I should eat better, I should drink less alcohol. Come on people, stop shoulding all over yourselves. Most of us are lying (or have lied) to ourselves in the past. We need to communicate better with the number one most important person, OURSELVES!!
LIFE IS A WONDERFUL GIFT. WHAT YOU DO BETWEEN BIRTH AND DEATH IS A GIFT YOU GIVE BACK!!
PARALASIS BY ANALISIS
INCH BY INCH IT’S A CINCH
YARD BY YARE IT’S HARD
MILE BY MILE; IT’S FUTILE
Keep doin what you been doin and you’ll keep gettin what you been getting!
“Learning is remembering”, SOCRATES
DRIVE IT LIKE YOU STOLE IT. LIVE LIFE LIKE YOU ONLY HAVE TWO MORE MONTHS
Obstacles are those more frightening things that become visible when we take our eyes off of our goals.” -Henry Ford-
”If the mind can contribute to heart disease, then the mind can contribute to healing heart disease,” said Dr. Robert Sneider, the study’s principal investigator.
PLAY LIKE YOU ARE #1, TRAIN LIKE YOU ARE #2
HE WHO WOULD LIKE TO HAVE SOMETHING HE NEVER HAD, WILL HAVE TO DO SOMETHING WELL, THAT HE HASN’T DONE YET
LIFE IS NOT ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF BREATHES THAT YOU TAKE, IT’S ABOUT THE MOMENTS THAT TAKE YOUR BREATHE AWAY!!
INCH BY INCH IT’S A CINCH, YARD BY YARD IT’S HARD, MILE BY MILE IT’S FUTILE’
I WILL TRY (MY ASS) THERE ABSOLUTELY IS NO TRY, EITHER YOU DO OR DON’T DO, IF YOU ARE TRYING YOU ARE DO DOING (SHITTING) ALL OVER YOURELF, STOP LYING TO YOURSELF, GET TO THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM, AND LIKE NIKE SAYS JUST F’ING DO IT!!
LIVE LONG:) (:LIVE STRONG
IT’S NOT WHAT WE LEAVE OUR KIDS, IT’S WHAT WE LEAVE IN OUR KIDS!!
FACE YOUR FEARS, AND BE SET FREE, BECAUSE THE DEATH OF YOUR FEAR IS AN ABSOLUTION
YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO BE A PRISONER OF YOUR PAST OR A PIONEER OF YOURE FUTURE. IT IS UP TO YOU. JUST DO IT!! CREATE A NEW YOU IN 2006; YOU WILL TURN INTO WHO YOU HANG AROUND.
EARLY TO BED, EARLY TO RISE, MAKES A MAN HEALTHY WEALTHY AND WISE BEN FRANKLIN
THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE LIVE AS IF THEY ARE NEVER GOING TO DIE THEREFORE DIE AS THOUGH THEY HAVE NEVER LIVED
YESTERDAY IS HISTORY, TOMMORROW IS A MYSTERY, ALL WE HAVE IS THE NOW. TODAY IS A GIFT, THAT IS WHY WE CALL IT THE PRESENT.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE BEYOND OUR COMMITMENT TO GROW
LOSERS FOCUS ON INSTANT GRATIFICATION, WINNERS FOCUS ON HOW TO LEARN AND GROW FROM SHORT-TERM DISCOMFORT IN ORDER TO ENJOY LONG TERM RESULTS. WINNERS LIVE WITH THE OUTCOME IN MIND (DELAYED GRATIFICATION). RATHER THAN HOPING THAT ALL WILL GO WELL. WINNERS FOCUS MORE ON CHARACTER AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT THAN ON THEIR COMFORT AND ENTERTAINMENT. THE REASON IS BECAUSE WE DO NOT ATTRACT WHAT WE WANT IN LIFE; WE ATTRACT WHO WE ARE (LIKE ATTRACTS LIKE). BY GROWING IN OUR CHARACTER AND IN OUR PERSONAL AND SPIRITUAL LIVES, WE WILL NATURALLY ATTRACT A FUTURE OF PLEASURE AND PURPOSE
ONE SURE FIRE WAY TO MAKE A DREAM COME TRUE IS TO WAKE UP!!
LIFE IS A JOURNEY. IN THE END, EACH OF US WILL BE JUDGED BY OUR STANDARD OF LIFE, NOT BY OUR STANDARD OF LIVING.
“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.’” Thomas Paine
QUOTES FROM CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL:
I found these in a book I was looking through called “Chicken Soup for the Dieters soul” and thought you could use them if you have not already. If you want to toss, no problem either.
This life is yours: Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
Susan Polis Schutz
Flatter me and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
William Arthur Ward
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Calvin Coolidge
Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
William James
Trials, temptations, disappointments – all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strenthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
James Buckham
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
Gail Sheehy
The first wealth is health.
Emerson
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Sir Winston Churhill
Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash
Have you strength enough to take this first step? Courage enough to accomplish this small act?
Phillipe Vernier
A Waist is a terrible thing to mind.
Tom Wilson
Those of you who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.
Earl of Derby
That which we persist in doing becomes easier-not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health is not a condition of matter, but of mind.
Mary Baker Eddy
In the long run men hit only what they aim for.
Henry David Thoreau
Let’s take the bouldering mistakes of the past, And the road blocking challenges of the present, And buld them into stairs that support our climb into the future.
Mattie J. T. Stepanek
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Author unknown
Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.
Robin Norwood
TRUE NEVER SAY NEVER QUOTES;
Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances.
> — Dr. Lee DeForest, “Father of Radio & Grandfather of Television.”
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> “The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives.” – -
> Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project
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> “There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.” — Robert
> Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923
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> “Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” — Popular
> Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
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> “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers .” — Thomas
> Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
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> “I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the
> best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won’t
> last out the year.” — The editor in charge of business books for Prentice
> Hall, 1957
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> “But what . is it good for?” — Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems
> Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.”640K ought to be enough
> for anybody.” — Bill Gates, 1981
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> ” This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a
> means of communication. The device is
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> inherently of no value to us,” — Western Union internal memo, 1876.
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> “The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay
> for a message sent to nobo dy in particular?” — David Sarnoff’s associates
> in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
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> “The concept is interesting and well-formed , but in order to earn better
> than a ‘C,’ the idea must be feasible,” — A Yale University management
> professor in response to Fred Smith’s paper proposing reliable overnight
> delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
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> “I’m just glad it’ll be Clark Gable who’s falling on his face and not Gary
> Cooper,” — Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in
> Gone With The Wind.”
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> “A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say
> America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make,” –
> Response to Debbi Fields’ idea of starting Mrs. Fields’ Cookies.
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> “We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out,” — Decca
> Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
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> “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible,” — Lord Kelvin, president
> Royal Society, 1895.
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> literature was full of examples that said you can’t do this,” – - Spencer
> Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M “Post-It”
> Notepads.
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> “Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You’re
> crazy,” — Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to
> drill for oil in 1859.
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> “Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.” – - Irving
> Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.
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> rdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre, France.
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> “Everything that can be invented has been invented,” — Charles H. Duell,
> Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899.
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> “The super computer is technologically impossible. It would take all of the
> water that flows over Niagara Falls to cool the heat generated by the number
> of vacuum tubes required.” — Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York
> University
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> “I don’t know what use any one could find for a machine that would make
> copies of documents. It certainly couldn’t be a feasible business by itself.
> — the head of IBM, refusing to back the idea, forcing the inventor to
> found Xerox.
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> “Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.” — Pierre Pachet,
> Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
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> “The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the
> intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon,” — Sir John Eric Ericksen,
> British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.
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> > “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” — Ken
> Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them – they achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing what comes naturally and they don’t stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.’”
John William Gardner
1912-2002, Psychologist, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Are you successful? Are you happy?
If success is strictly viewed as getting what you want, then Americans and most others in industrialized societies can certainly be viewed as successful. Yet, when viewing happiness as wanting what you get, then it would appear that we came to a proverbial fork in the road and didn’t take it!
Paul Check
GET MORE CONTROL BY CONTROLLING LESS, FOCUS ON THE TRULY INMPORTANT THINGS IN LIFE, HEALTH AND RELATIONSHIPS
Whatever your goal will be and however big it may seem, remember how much more of a person you will be each and every day you move closer to it. “It’s not the goal that makes us grow; it’s the efforts we make in pursuit of the goal.” Tony Robbins
We owe it to our creator, to our families, to ourselves; to live a truly fulfilled life through fitness. Be all you can be! Take care of your body and the mind and soul will follow. A well designed, time efficient work-out/nutrition plan will give you energy, confidence, the body and the life that you have always dreamed of! JUST DO IT!! DARIN L. STEEN
EGO- Edging God Out LET GO OF THE EGO DARIN L. STEEN
LIVE LONG:) (: LIVE STRONG!!
Are you ready for your check up from the neck up to prevent the hardening of you attitudes?
63% of disease is psychosomatic (in your head) The rest is genetics and environment (even a major portion of your environment is psychosomatic)
“The mental toughness process is not about going from good to very good, it’s about going from good to great. Anyone who settles for good is destined to spend their golden years bathed in a sea of regret, wondering why.”
- Steve Siebold
“The law of attraction says that you are a living magnet, and you inevitably attract into your life the people, circumstances, ideas, and resources in harmony with your dominant thoughts. People who think and talk continually about what they want seem to attract more and more of those things into their lives. People who talk about what they don’t want, the things they fear or worry about, continually attract negative and unhappy experiences into their lives as well.”
- Brian Tracy
“If you spend too much time learning the ‘tricks’ of the trade, you may not learn the trade. There are no shortcuts. If you’re working on finding a short cut, the easy way, you’re not working hard enough on the fundamentals. You may get a way with it for a spell, but there is no substitute for the basics. And the first basic is good, old fashioned hard work.”
-John Wooden
“As soon as an error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered. Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process. Once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. If we constantly dwell upon the errors, then the error of failure becomes the goal.”
- Vince Lombardi
“Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.”
H. Ross Perot
“You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it, you become someone worth becoming.”
- Jim Rohn
“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it I say. What ever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows”
- Michael Landon
Action: “Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the
fastest lion or it will be killed…every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it
must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter
whether you’re a lion or a gazelle…when the sun comes up, you’d better be
running.” –Anonymous
Attitude: “It’s our attitude in life that determines life’s attitude toward us.”
–Earl Nightingale
Balance: “Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.”
–Van Goethe
Belief: “The only thing that stands between a person and what they want from life is often
the will to try it and the faith to believe it’s possible.” –Rich Devos
Challenges: “Kites rise highest against the wind…not with it.” –Winston Churchill
Commitment: “The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.” –Anonymous
Courage: “Courage is the door that can only be opened from the inside.” –Terry Neil
Discipline: “To get what we’ve never had, we must do what we’ve never done.” –Anonymous
Excellence: “It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.” –Somerset Maugham
Failure: “Failures are divided into two classes-those who thought and never did and
those who did and never thought.” –John Charles Sak
Habits: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit.” –Aristotle
Integrity: “Wisdom is knowing the right path to take…integrity is taking it.” –M.H. McKee
Knowledge: “Knowledge is like climbing a mountain; the higher you reach, the more you
can see and appreciate.” –Anonymous
Passion: “Many things will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart…
PURSUE THOSE.” –Anonymous
Perseverance: “In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always
wins…not through strength but by perseverance.” –H. Jackson Brown
Responsibility: “EXCUSES are the nails used to build a house of failure.” –Don Wilder
Risk: “You will always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” –Wayne Gretzky
Service: “It is one of the greatest compensations in life that no one can help another
without helping themselves.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” Charles Darwin
Whatever works, whatever is useful
Find out what works and keep doing more of it
Doing more of what doesn’t work is also known as insanity
Do what you always did, get what you always got
There’s no such thing as failure, only feedback (only results)
The person with the most choices and most flexibility has the most power
The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it’s conformity
Consistency: It’s what you do every day, not every once in a while, that counts
By their fruits, you will know them
Habit power is 10,000 times stronger than willpower
Accept everything as a challenge
Some people need a good phobia… of mediocrity
Every behavior has a positive intention at some level
The meaning of your communication is the response that you get
The meaning of your actions is the results that you get
Results are what counts
You can make excuses or you can get results, but you can’t do both
Let your results dictate your approach
The map is not the territory
Better your best
Raise your standards
Banish the doubt
Success is goals, all else is commentary
Nothing happens until something moves
Don’t complain, don’t explain
Use the word “impossible” with the greatest caution
The difficult can be done immediately, the impossible takes a little longer
You can’t give away what you don’t have
You cannot teach what you haven’t already done yourself
Be open to everything and attached to nothing
Don’t die with your music still in you
You can’t solve a problem at the same level of thinking that created it.
Everything happens for a reason
Whoever comes along is the right people
Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened
When one door closes another door opens
When it’s over it’s over
This too shall pass
It’s not how hard you fall, it’s how high you bounce
Fall down six times, get up seven
Every low precedes an all-new high
Every adversity contains the seed of greater or equal benefit
You become what you think about
Thoughts are the cause, behaviors are the effect
You move towards what you focus on
Where attention goes, energy flows
Motion creates emotion
Whatever your mind can conceive and believe it can achieve
All growth takes place outside your comfort zone
The pain of every change is forgotten when the benefits of that change are realized
You can’t get something for nothing
The best way to get started is to get started
No one ever drowned in sweat
If you don’t have control over it, then why worry about it
If you do have control over it, then why worry about it
Stand on the shoulders of giants
The first key to getting what you want is knowing what you want
Think positive, but move your ass, too
Lead from the front
Walk your talk
Set the example
BE the change you want to see
do it now
There may be some limits, but we can act as if there weren’t
Be a student not a follower
Repetition is the mother of skill
You mind is like a parchute, it only works if it’s open
Find your why
The purpose of a goal is not to get something, it is to become something
No one knows HOW to do something until after they’ve done it
Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever
Try not! Do or do not. There is no try
Life isn’t about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself
Get brilliant on the basics
Never compromise your primary objective
How bad do you want it?
Never confuse activity with progress
Get busy living or get busy dying
Act As if It were Impossible To Fail
never take counsel of your fears
And my all time personal favorite…
“Train hard and expect success”
-Tom Venuto
Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749-1832, Poet and Novelist
“Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.”
William Hazlitt
1778-1830
We do have plenty of time, money, and energy. Go live a life that’s full. Live, love, laugh, and inspire those around you!
LIVE LONG AND STRONG
Darin L. Steen
1965- ?
What crown are you training for? Accolades of man or of God. We as Christians need to constantly remind ourselves that we are striving for HIS crown and this requires:
TRAINING: am I “sweating” in my relationship with Jesus? ie: my study into His Word and LIVE it.
“Your focus determines your reality – The life you’re striving for determines the life you will live.”
Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864
The great essentials to happiness and longevity in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. We can stay young at heart forever.
Do you know what happens to wildlife when left alone from intellectual minds? It thrives, because thriving is its default setting. Just look at a forest.
And do you know what happens to wildlife when given just a little direction by intellectual minds? It still thrives, because thriving is its default setting. Just look at a rose garden.
And do you know what happens to wildlife when there is too much thinking? Yeah, what wildlife?
Same for human beings.
Your Healthy Lifestyle Coach,
Darin
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From the way most people live, one would never guess that humans are beings of free will. Repetition can be a choice, but often it isn’t. The athlete or pianist who practices the same routine day after day, year after year, has their eye on a goal. The unending repetition is a conscious choice in the pursuit of a life dream. But what about the sameness of most lives? Observe the morning commute, the after-work drink, the Sunday football game or religious service – how many of those people are consciously following their dream, training their mind, body, and spirit through that daily repetition? And how many are mindlessly slogging through each day out of habit and boredom?
You can take charge of your own life – today. Here are 9 secrets to get you started:
1. Believe in yourself. A daily affirmation may seem to be a silly idea, but give it a try anyway. Write your own affirmation about your abilities, and repeat it each day before you leave your home. Start with the following, and modify it until it fully expresses your commitments, beliefs, and intents.
I am unlimited.
I take responsibility for my life.
My every action is a conscious choice.
I can accomplish anything good that I truly set my mind on.
I keep focus, and persevere.
2. Make peace with your past. In the words of William Shakespeare, “What’s done is done.” You can’t change the past. You can’t undo any actions you took or failed to take. Your only choice today is either to waste energy and emotion on regrets and resentments, or to treat your own past like a history book – an interesting, but emotionally neutral, recitation of ancient times.
3. See each day as a new beginning. Don’t project your past onto your future. Suppose you won the lottery yesterday, would that mean you will win the lottery again tomorrow? Usually, we are fairly realistic about not expecting a run of good fortune to continue, but when we hit a streak of bad luck, we tend to project that failure into our future and think times will never get better. So you stepped on a banana peel and slipped yesterday, does that mean it will happen again tomorrow? If you got fired or your lover left, it’s unfortunate, but there’s always tomorrow – a tomorrow that can shine so long as you don’t project yesterday’s shadow upon it.
4. Look for the best in people. Everyone has good points and bad. Everyone will please you at times and annoy you at others. While there is power in choosing to associate mostly with positive people, there is even more power in seeing the best in everyone. Everyone has a lesson to teach us. Let the impact of an unkind or thoughtless word last only a moment, but bask for a whole day in gentle words and insightful thoughts. The happiest among us have no enemies.
5. Make a gratitude list, and review it often. Not everything has gone well in your life, but much has. Too often we focus on the negative and forget our great blessings – health, friends, family, beauty, nature, our body, our mind, Spirit, life itself. Perhaps you have arthritis or your spouse just moved out. Yes, those are big negatives, but your list, anyone’s list, of blessings is vastly larger than any list of problems.
6. Design your future. Visualize being in the future you desire. Make that vision so real you can taste and smell it – a three-dimensional full-color motion picture with surround-sound. That is your goal – your destination. Never forget it – never lose track of it. Let what you do every day be done with that vision in mind. Be the aspiring athlete or musician whose every day moves them one inch closer to that three-minute mile or perfect concerto.
7. Either learn how to enjoy your work, or get a new career. Make a list of what you like and what you dislike about your job. Perhaps you enjoy your customers and co-workers, but find your boss annoying. Limit your awareness of the annoying times to the moment in which they occur, but let thoughts of the service and camaraderie permeate your day. If you find that the frustrations of your job outweigh the enjoyment, get a new career. Whatever your interests, there is a way to do something you enjoy, make a difference in the world, and get well paid at the same time. Make a list of all your interests and abilities, and think big. Don’t let anyone else’s small and limited thinking deter you from your goal.
8. Enjoy everything you do, or don’t do it. Yes, you have to file your taxes and stop at stop signs whether you like it or not. This secret refers to those things you do merely out of habit or to avoid embarrassment. Enjoy that party, or don’t accept the invitation. Feel fulfilled by that volunteer committee, or don’t join. Believe in that particular charitable cause, or don’t contribute. Everything in life is a choice – make wise choices that maximize your happiness.
9. Feel Unity with Spirit and all creation. You are never alone. Your Higher Power, whatever that means to you, is a constant support – never hesitate to ask for guidance and blessing. Remember that Spirit knows better than you what is best for you, so ask for comfort and affluence rather than the affections of a particular person or a higher paying job. Whatever your circumstances, and however often you may have felt rejected, there are many people in this world who live in the tradition of the “Good Samaritan.” When troubles weigh upon you, do not hesitate to find and rely upon these people – they are far more numerous than you think.
Everyone Does Have The Power To Change.
Your Best Days Are in Front Of You; or NOT! The Power is Within You! Make it Happen!!
Your Coach,
Darin Steen
Date: 12/01/09
