Category Archives: Motivational

Inspirational and motivational interview Steve Job’s two close friends

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Inspirational and motivational interview with Walt Mossberg, Dr. Ed Catmull, President of Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corp on Steve Jobs – PART 1

Ed and Larry were extremely close with the late Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple Computers.

This interview, commemorating his life contained a lot of quotes with inspiration and motivation about Steve Jobs that we can live by.

Below I have quoted and noted some of the key things from this 40 minute All Things Digital conference interview (embedded at the end of this article) that made an impact on me.

If everybody is doing this, Steve thought “What if they are wrong? What if they are all wrong?”

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Greatness Defined – Role models that provide inspiration and motivation

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I feel it is extremely important to have role models. Those that we look to for inspiration and motivation.

Someone asked me one day who my role models were. This gave me the motivation to make the following picture. I now set it as my wallpaper so I can constantly be reminded about qualities that are important to me. Can you tell me who each individual is?

Who are your role models?

The surprising thing most people don’t know about Trust

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“When people believe what you believe, trust emerges” – Simon Sinek

You feel more drawn to people who believe what we believe. Why does this happen? It’s because you feel the emotion of trust. If you look at the friends around you, you’ll realize that your best friends are those that likely share some of the fundamental beliefs that you value.

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[Video] Why we experience less and less fulfillment, and how to prevent it

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Fulfillment ONLY happens when you do something for someone else. Over 90% of people don’t feel fulfilled at work. And it’s because we don’t help anyone anymore. ~ Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek just keeps delivering great thought provoking and inspirational content:

Trust

A company, community, culture or country is a group of people with a common set of values and beliefs. When we are surrounded by people who believe what we believe, something miraculous happens: trust emerges.

When we trust someone, we are:

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[Exercise] The Misconception about Success

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Abraham Hicks’s inspirational and motivational speech (after the break) talks about Success and how most people define success from material things:

Life Quote on Success:

Success is measured, not by comparing yourself against the outside world, but by comparing yourself against what it is you want to accomplish, and feeling consistently happy on the inside regardless of where you are now and where you want to be. ~ Unknown

You can’t evaluate from outside of someone’s vibrational gap, whether they are successful.

Success is an individual coming into alignment of

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[Exercise] How dreams become reality through motivation and perseverance

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“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

The power of imagination, motivation and perseverance allowed this young 9 year old boy named Caine who loved arcade games to turn his dreams into reality: He created his own elaborate arcade using cardboard, scissors and tape from his dad’s used car parts store. The inspirational video is after the break.

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[Exercise] Do not follow your passion, follow your effort

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Whether you like basketball or not, you’ve heard of Michael Jordan. A man that found what he loved to do early in life and never gave up trying to achieve his best everyday. I think the key is if you find what you love, or what you you’ll keep trying to be the best, so that regardless of whether you are winning or losing. You are enjoying the experience.

Every time I watch the video below, I get goosebumps. It’s people like Jordan that inspire me everyday. Video after the break.

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[Video] The Blenz Coffee Guy on Success: His inspiring speech

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Inspiring speech by George Moen of Blenz Coffee:

Below I have summarized the key points of his presentation at Networking with Purpose organized by Ricky Shetty, an amazing individual (which I highly recommend you check out) enhanced with my views:

–          Most great wealth has been created during tough economic times. You can make money in both good and bad times, if you are looking for it. It’s the moment you stop looking, that you’ve given up the opportunity

–          People lower their dreams to meet their current financial income, but remember that what you think you are worth is what you’ll be worth

–          Build value and build trust first with people, before trying to

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