The 10 Tools
These proven tools can help you feel stronger and more hopeful. Check out each page for specific, easy-to-follow tips.
- Connect with others
- Stay positive
- Get physically active
- Help others
- Get enough sleep
- Create joy and satisfaction
- Eat well
- Take care of your spirit
- Deal better with hard times
- Get professional help if you need it
Sleep
Without enough sleep I find myself struggling—moving
through my day the way it feels to move through water. Everything is
harder and slower and I feel stressed all day because I have to push
myself to focus and be alert. Besides the headaches this gives me, I
have much less energy, am less creative, and can only concentrate on one
thing at a time instead of being able to handle several things at once.
Moreover, when I am so low on energy, I tend to isolate myself and not
interact as much with coworkers or to participate spontaneously in
conversations. I'll usually resort to having coffee to try and boost my
energy and alertness levels but the caffeine high only works for a short
period. Afterward, I'll be even more tired because my body has been
running on overdrive. It's not a good way to operate.
Over the
years, I've learned that the best thing I can do for my health and for
enjoying my life is to get at least eight hours of sleep a night
(individuals vary in the number of hours for optimal sleep). Even a
deficit of half an hour a night makes a difference. Because I know this
about my body and because I cannot enjoy the moments of my days—ordinary
or otherwise—if I am not fully present, there are other areas of my
life I will skimp on before I skimp on sleep. For example, I will
consciously choose to give up late-night or early-morning activities to
make sure I get enough sleep. If a project requires long hours to
complete, I can work for long periods and skip meals. This isn't the
best way to operate either but the discomfort I feel never equals how
bad I feel to have to slog through on too little sleep. In terms of
affecting the quality of my life, sleep is the single most important
tool I have.
—H.C., Washington, DC
Meditation
I'm
now 33 and have been meditating for almost nine years. I started
because friends kept telling me it would be helpful for the anxiety and
compulsive eating that resulted from a traumatic incident. I honestly
didn't want to meditate because I assumed it would be "New-Agey" and
weird. However, the difficulties with food made me willing to at least
try.
I practice secular Mindfulness Meditation, which means I
focus on being aware of the present moment. Of course I get lost in
thoughts-like planning something for work-and then I realize I'm
thinking and instead just watch the thoughts pass by like clouds in the
sky. Over time, I found that, as I became curious about my anxiety and
food cravings-rather than thinking they had to go away-I was able to be
calmer and more compassionate about them.
Not only has meditating
helped me deal with emotional and physical pain and stress, but it has
also helped me feel more comfortable in my own skin. My inner-critic no
longer has a strangle-hold on me. As I become more compassionate toward
myself, I'm also more sure of myself and kinder when relating to others.
I am finding that the world is a safer and more beautiful place to be.
—Klia Bassing
Top 10 entrepreneurship quotes to live by from 10 distinguished personalities from across the world.
1. Dare Mighty Things
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious
triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with
those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they
live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” –
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States
Theodore Roosevelt was
born in New York and belonged to one of the old Dutch families who had
settled in America in the seventeenth century. He was an historian, a
statesman, a naturalist, an effective orator whose exuberant personality
and leadership of the Progressive Movement made him to be most
influential person and symbol of strong masculinity. Throughout his
life, he wrote twenty-six books, more than a thousand magazine articles,
delivered thousands of speeches and letters. In 1906, he received The
Nobel Peace Prize. At the age of sixty in 1919, he died in his sleep.
2. Explore, Dream, Discover
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by
the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off
the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain, author
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (nick name – Mark Twain) was an American
author and humorist who is best known for his widely popular works ‘The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ in 1876, its sequel ‘Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn’ in 1885 and the latter called “the Great American Novel”. His
wit, humors and satire earned him worldwide fame, huge appraisal from
critics and his readers.
Twain was in deep depression in his later life when in 1896 his
daughter Susy died of meningitis, in 1904 his wife Olivia and in 1909
Jean died and in 1909, one of his close friends Henry Rogers died.
Finally he died on April 21, 1910 at the age of 74.
3. Ambition and Persistence
“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” Bill Bradley
William Warren Bill Bradley is a renowned American basketball
player and an author of seven non-fiction books and a three-term
Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey. From the very early age he was
very passionate about basketball and excelled in the same through
hardwork and perseverance. Besides being an all-county and all-state
basketball player, he was academically very sound. He received over 75
college scholarships, and finally attended Princeton University. In
1964, he won a gold medal as a member of the Olympic basketball team and
was the NCAA Player of the Year in 1965 but left the NBA draft to
continue his MA from
Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. In 2008 he was inducted into the
New Jersey Hall of Fame.
4. Drudgery and Triumph
“Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its
stages of drudgery and triumph: a beginning, a struggle and a victory.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is considered to be the most
pioneering leader of the Indian independence movement. He is widely
remembered for employing the non-violent civil disobedience that
inspired India to protest non-violently for their freedom. He spent
twenty years in South Africa during which he worked against
discrimination and it was then he made the idea of satyagraha, which is a
non-violent way of protesting against injustices. While in India,
Gandhi’s obvious virtue, simplistic lifestyle, and minimal dress endeared him to the people.
After returning to India, he worked hard to fight against the British
rule and strived to improve the lives of the poor and destitute. He
became an inspiration of great leaders across the world including Martin
Luther King Jr.
5. Do the Job you have in Hand
“I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I
found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the
jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm
and hard work.” – Harry Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States
from 1945 to 1953. On April 12, 1945 Truman succeeded to the presidency
after the death of Roosevelt. He successfully led the U.S to conclude
World War II. In 1917, at the First World War, he was enlisted in the
army and served on the Western Front and achieved the rank of captain.
After returning from the war he concisely owned a haberdashery, which
was unsuccessful, and later attended the Democratic Party political
machine of Tom Pendergast in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1922, he was
elected a county judge and remained in the position until 1924. In 1934
he became the U.S. senator.
6. The Man who Thinks He Can
“If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you
dare not, you don’t! If you want to win, but think you can’t, It’s
almost a cinch you won’t. If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost; For out
in the world, we find success begins with a fellow’s will; it’s all in
the state of the mind. Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger
and faster man, but sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who
thinks he can.” – Walter D. Wintle
The following quote is taken from a poem called ‘Thinking’, which is
also known as “The Man Who Thinks He Can”, written by Walter D. Wintle.
Walter D. Wintle is a poet who lived in the late 19th and early 20th
century. He is little or least known poet for publishing his poems in
pseudonym. The accurate date of the first and original publication of
“Thinking” is also unknown.
7. Mistakes are the Best Teachers
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart
enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” – John
C. Maxwell
John Calvin Maxwell is an evangelical Christian priest and
The New York Times,
The Wall Street Journal, and
BusinessWeek best-selling author who has written over 60 books on leadership and
personal success.
As of now, more than nineteen million copies of his books have been
sold across the world in over fifty languages. Some of his notable books
are which were sold more than a million copies each. His current title is
Talent Is Never Enough.
8. Happiness is the Key to Success
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the
key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer was a German (later French) philosopher,
organist, physician, and medical missionary born into an Alsatian family
on 14 January 1875. His family had been into religion, music, and
education for generations. From early childhood, he showed his talent
for playing the organ and became the world’s leading expert on organ
building. He excelled in several respects; he was a doctor and surgeon,
writer of many reputed scholarly books, commentator on contemporary
history, administrator of a village, pastor of a congregation,
superintendent of buildings and grounds, and musician. He received many
honors that included the Goethe Prize of Frankfurt and honorary
doctorates from many universities. In 1952, he received The Nobel Peace
Prize.
9. Consistent Growth And Progress
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as
improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin
Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
is notable for being a multi-talented personality. Besides being the
Founding Father of the United States, he was a renowned author,
political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, a successful
newspaper editor and printer, musician, satirist, statesman, and
diplomat among several others. Lightning rod, the glass ‘armonica’, the
Franklin stove, bifocals, and a carriage odometer are some his
significant inventions. Franklin was also famous as “The First American”
for his important role in campaigning for colonial unity.
10. Do what you Love
“When you do what you love, the seemingly impossible
becomes simply challenging, the laborious becomes purposeful resistance,
the difficult loses its edge and is trampled by your progress.” ― Steve
Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Dr. Steve Maraboli, the Executive Director of the Michael
Thomas Research Center for Social & Behavioral Science, is an
accomplished speaker, and bestselling author. He is widely known for his
impactful and powerful speeches. He is hugely popular in media for his
fun loving nature. His works have been published in over 20 languages
across the world. Besides all, he is the creator of original field of
breakthrough science,
Psycho-Neuro-Actualization.
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