Exploring;
Finding Wisdom and making it my own;
Polishing Success Principles;
Empowering people; helping people move ahead.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Message to Congress on January 6, 1941:
"The first is the freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world.
The second is the freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in
the world.
The third is freedom from want--which, translated into world terms, means economic
understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its
inhabitants--everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide
reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation
will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any
neighbor--anywhere in the world."
Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924) "We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
--- Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success."
Napoleon Hill (1883 - 1970) "First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality.
--- The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination."
Florence Scovel Shinn (1869 - 1940)
Émile Coué (1857 – 1926)
Charles Haanel (1866 - 1949)
Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904)
Ralph Waldo Trine (1866 - 1958)
Wallace D. Wattles (1860 - 1911)
My maternal grandfather
My paternal Great Grandfather and his father
Jazz to Mo-Town to Bluegrass.
Kenny Rankin; Blood, Sweat and Tears; KT Tunstall; Aselin Debison; Renee Fleming;
Stan Kenton; Bagpipes; Gaither; Evie; Sting;
anything with a driving brass section; Chase; Phil Driscoll;
Nicole C. Mullen - "Talk About It"; Glad;
Driving, soaring movie themes like
"Pirates of the Caribbean".
The Theme to "Mannix";
Stephen Curtis Chapman. I'll Fly Away; Be Thou My Vision; Holy Ground; The Great Adventure.
AMERICA, My Country, 'tis of Thee
Rudy; We Were Soldiers; Head of State; Miracle; The Last Samurai; The Day the Earth Stood Still; Soylent Green; Wallace and Gromit;
Jim Henson's "The Tale of the Bunny Picnic"; Braveheart.
MacGyver; Firefly;
Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears; Fraggle Rock;
Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks.
The Bible;
"The Miracle Of Right Thought", Orison Swett Marden;
"The Law of Success" - Napoleon Hill;
"Master Key to Riches" - Napoleon Hill;
"Success! The Glenn Bland Method";
"Acres of Diamonds", Russell H. Conwell;
"The Magic of Thinking Big", David Schwartz.
"How To Win Friends and Influence People", Dale Carnegie;
"The Resilient Power of Purpose" by Larry DiAngi;
"How to Be Purpose Driven" - Larry DiAngi;
"Cashflow Quadrant:
Rich Dads Guide to Financial Freedom", Robert Kiyosaki;
"Lower Your Taxes - Big Time", Sandy Botkin;
Og Mandino books. Tolkien, Asimov, Anne McCaffrey.
My Dad
Robert Morris (1734-1806)
......financier of the American Revolution
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)