It would at times seem a crime to take what educated individuals complicate and turn it into a simplistic explanation.
I suppose in one sense, that this is my challenge with institutionalized education. While long winded and complex explanations are being forged in the minds of the experts – a swift interpretation is otherwise being ably provided by another who lacks the credentials and yet still provides solutions.
For to me it is not simply the path of argument that should always be formulated, but rather the ready application to daily life. If what I learn I cannot apply – then why learn?
Books are wonderful – but if it doesn’t teach me what I need to do on a day to day basis, then for what purpose has that book been read?
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Vulnerability is an amazing place to be. Is it a nice place? Not at all. But it is a choice place.
It is a place where you can choose to hide under a rock, or a place where you can stand on the mountain top and declare, ‘I may be vulnerable. I may be on my last legs. Opportunity may seem to be avoiding me at every turn, but I choose to stand up in my nakedness, stripped of all pride and potential, in the eyes of others, and yet I hold on to a number of assets that to me are worth millions: character, integrity, talents, gifts, ideas, and of course my dream.’
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I recently came across a new ’seven-star’ hotel that is being built in Dubai. Now being a lover of the Sheraton Hotel chain for many years, it was a surprise a few years ago when the Versace Hotel was built directly across the road from the Sheraton here on the Gold Coast, and especially when it was heralded as the first ’six-star’ hotel to be built in Australia.
So when it comes to living, don’t settle for ‘three-star’, ‘four-star’, ‘five-star’ or even ’six-star’. Let’s aim for ’seven-star’ living! So how do you achieve this?
Well here are seven tips to consider and apply immediately to your life.
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When I think of ideas, I think of Thomas Alva Edison.
Edison, the greatest inventor the world has ever known,had only three months of formal education and was considered by his teacher to be retarded. By the time he died, though, he had filed over a thousand patents and was an extremely wealthy man.
Edison perfected and patented everything from the first phonograph player in 1877 to the first practical light bulb in 1879. He set up the first electricity-distribution company,contributed to the development of the movie camera and the projector, and made improvements to the telephone,telegraph and the typewriter.
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‘The wise only possess ideas…the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.’ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Throughout the history of mankind, ideas, and the ready application of those ideas have always separated those who ‘were’ from those who ‘will be’. Only those who have embraced fresh ideas have soared on to greatness. Only those who have had faith and have seen the obstacles as opportunities, have become the heroes of the generations.
It is the dreamers, the risk takers, the men and women of action, who have paved the path to a better life for all mankind. It is the believers and the conceivers who have married the past with the present, and produced its offspring: the future.
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