Create the life you want for yourself

 Purpose: What do you want to provide meaning and engagement in your life.  What meaning do you want to give to your life? The meaning of life is the meaning you give to it.

 First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus

Whatever you do, do with all your might. ~ Cicero


 The energy of the mind is the essence of life. ~ Aristotle


Be clear about what you want and make the appropriate decisions and choices...



There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. ~ William James

Persevere and Persist...

When something of an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
~ Rousseau





The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. ~ Seneca



“When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice.
You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone.
Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.”
– Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics





Learn from your mistakes...

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
- Robert T. Kiyosaki (Rich Dad Poor Dad)





Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. ~ Descartes 

   
When you’re ready to quit, you are closer than you think.
– Bob Parsons (Founder Of Go Daddy)



As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
- William Hazlitt

  
"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity."
~Albert Schweitzer



Being true to our own set of values and always remembering to live our life and to give it the meaning we want by the actions we take and the choices we make will provide us the greatest satisfaction in the long run.

We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.
– Pete Cashmore (Founder Of Mashable)






“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”    -- Steve Jobs



"And in the end it's not the years in your
life that count. It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln






Be Here Now...

Projecting our thoughts far ahead of us, instead of adapting ourselves to the present, is cause of fear. Foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is also a curse.
~ Seneca, Roman philosopher and politician, Letters to Lucilius



Creating something from nothing is the meaning of being an entrepreneur...
 
Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration - Thomas Edison, inventor and scientist


 
Timing, perseverance and 10 years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
– Biz Stone (Twitter)



“It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because all that matters in business is that you get it right once.  Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.” 
 - Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, co-founder of Broadcast.com, founder of HDNet


 

   The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. 
      A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. 
      Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

- Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese’s

Quotes

 


Whatever you do, do with all your might. ~ Cicero



When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
~ Rousseau
 

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. 
~ John Locke 
  



All things deteriorate in time. ~ Virgil





Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. ~ Descartes 



Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. ~ Marcus Aurelius 


    



You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. ~ Rousseau


No one is laughable who laughs at himself. ~ Seneca


The energy of the mind is the essence of life. ~ Aristotle


It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. ~ Thomas Hobbes



If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. ~ Marcus Aurelius


 Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. ~ Aristotle




You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. ~ Rousseau




The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity. ~ Seneca



He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it. ~ Seneca

 By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man. ~ Kant




A man of courage is also full of faith. ~ Cicero 




We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. 
~ Epictetus 




The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. ~ Cicero 






There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. ~ William James





You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. ~ Marcus Aurelius 

Quotes

“The conditions under which we are born would be favourable if only we did not abandon them. Nature's intention was that we should need no great equipment for living in happiness: every one of us is capable of making himself happy.”

 –Seneca, *Dialogues and Essays*  

 

 

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; 

you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."
- James Allen

 

 

 

 A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.

~ Bertrand Russell

BOXING One disputed scorecard earned three New Jersey boxing judges indefinite suspensions and no clear route back to ringside - NYPOST.com

 Maybe we need to see more suspensions for hotly disputed decisions...

One disputed scorecard earned three New Jersey boxing judges indefinite suspensions and no clear route back to ringside - NYPOST.com


Al Bennett hasn’t been ringside since July 9, 2011.

That’s when he was one of three judges suspended indefinitely after working the junior middleweight fight between Paul Williams and Erislandy Lara at a ballroom in Boardwalk Hall at Atlantic City.

Four days after Williams was awarded a controversial majority decision that drew boos from most in the crowd, all three judges — Bennett, Donald Givens of Linden, N.J., and Hilton Whitaker III of New Jersey — were put on indefinite suspension by Aaron Davis, the commissioner of the New Jersey State Control Board.

 

In announcing the suspensions, Davis said in a statement, “we feel that we did not provide our best officiating on July 9.” Davis did add there was no evidence of any corruption on the part of the judges.

Nearly 11 months later, the three judges remain suspended, unable to work in any jurisdiction. Bennett, a judge for 25 years, and Whitaker, a 69-year-old who has been in boxing since age 15, say they feel like scapegoats. In interviews with The Post, they charge Davis with initially lying to them and ruining their reputations and careers.
 

Williams-Lara was televised on HBO, and the broadcast team, including former judge Harold Lederman, favored Lara after the 12-round fight. But Whitaker scored the fight for Williams (115-114), as did Givens (116-114). Bennett saw it a draw (114-114), giving Williams a majority decision. It was the 20th title fight for Bennett, the eighth for Whitaker and the first for Givens.

There was outrage over the decision. HBO broadcaster Bob Papa told his audience, “This is a joke.” Four days later, Davis announced the unprecedented decision to put the judges on indefinite suspension.

Nearly a year later, Whitaker is frustrated after following Davis’ recommendation to attend judging seminars held by the Association of Boxing Commissions in Washington and Raleigh, N.C., where he passed both tests and was recertified on Jan. 21, 2012.

Bennett attended the seminar in Washington, but failed the test. Bennett said he didn’t properly prepare for the test because he was angry over his suspension. He plans to retake the test at an upcoming seminar.

Davis admitted the suspensions have been “long,” but offered no hint of ending the suspensions.

“Those tests are not that hard to pass,” he said. “I’d like for all our guys to pass the test with no problem. I’d like them to have some more ongoing training before I fully reinstate them. Then, after training, I’d probably like them to shadow a judge and come back with those scores.”

Suspending judges is nearly unheard of in boxing, but Davis defended his actions.

Davis said all the judges are “good guys,” but hopes the suspensions send a message to other judges in New Jersey and regulatory commissions around the country.

“We can’t be satisfied with subpar performances,” he said. “We don’t accept that from fighters. We shouldn’t accept it from our officials either. If people know they’re going to be accountable for their actions, hopefully they’ll take better actions.”

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/boxing/sit_in_judgment_tr29jCEHqRjtVpZxSuJiKN#ixzz1xLALXULB

I'll Have Another Scratched from Belmont Stakes Horse Race | Keeping Score | TIME.com

I'll Have Another Scratched from Belmont Stakes Horse Race | Keeping Score | TIME.com


It’s a Triple Crown bust before the gates even open. I’ll Have Another, the thoroughbred gunning for a win at Saturday’s Belmont Stakes in hopes of clinching the first Triple Crown win since 1978, will not run in the race.  
 

The injury is thought to be the onset of tendinitis that will likely end the career of I’ll Have Another.

  ... dashing the hopes of the more than 100,000 fans expected to pack the Elmont, N.Y., track this weekend. It’s an announcement also sure to dent the wallets of millions of bettors worldwide, as I’ll Have Another was the 4-5 favorite to win the Belmont Stakes.

I’ll Have Another was consistently underrated throughout its racing career.

The horse was sold last year for a mere $35,000.

 After winning two small-stakes races in California, it took to the track in Louisville as a 15-1 long shot to win the Kentucky Derby.
 

At a Friday-afternoon press conference, I’ll Have Another was officially cast into retirement. 

Affirmed clinched the most recent horse-racing Triple Crown in 1978. In the 34 years since, 11 horses have won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes but fell short at Belmont. Looks like there’s now “Another.”

Read more: http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/2012/06/08/ill-have-another-scratches-from-belmont-triple-crown-watch-called-off/?xid=newsletter-newsfeed#ixzz1xL5MQZMm

Leopard Injures 13 in India During Daylong Rampage

Wild leopard mauls 13 people on day-long rampage in Indian oil compound

By Suzannah Hills
A wild leopard was shot dead after injuring 13 people during a day-long rampage in an oil company compound near an Indian village.

The fully grown male leopard managed to get inside the Oil India Limited field headquarters campus at Duliajan in the Dibrugarh district where he attacked several staff members.

The shocking photos show the animal attacking a security guard after he tried to rescue his colleague.

 Forest guards were called to the scene and eventually managed to shoot the animal with a tranquillizer but were forced to kill it when the drug didn't take effect.

P Shiv Kumar, divisional forest officer of Digboi forest division, said: 'We were informed about a leopard straying into a bungalow of an Oil executive on Sunday morning.

'I accompanied a team of veterinary doctors from the Centre for Rehabilitation and Conservation of the Wildlife Trust of India to the spot.
'By the time we got there, the leopard had attacked five people. We tried to tranquillize the leopard, but it got agitated - which is normal before sedatives takes effect - and pounced on the large crowd gathered at the spot. 

'The security personnel were left with no option but to shoot it.'
A forest official said leopards were often spotted on the Oil campus because of its proximity to the Joypore reserve forest.
Another leopard, a female, was caged by the forest department in neighbouring Sivasagar district early this morning.
Sivasagar divisional forest officer Ranjan Das said: 'At least four leopards have been sighted in the area in the past few days. The leopard family had killed several cattle in the area, as such we have placed a cage using a goat as a bait.'
He said the female leopard was later released at Abhayapur reserve forest and officers were trying to track down the remaining leopards.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154296/Wild-leopard-mauls-13-people-day-long-rampage-Indian-oil-compound.html#ixzz1xGsYFagO

 



Leopard Injures 13 in India During Daylong Rampage | Outdoor Life


 http://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/newshound/2012/06/leopard-injures-13-india-during-day-long-rampage

June 05, 2012

Leopard Injures 13 in India During Daylong Rampage -

by Gayne C. Young

An adult male leopard injured 13 people in a bizarre daylong attack in India on Sunday. The incident occurred at the Oil India Limited field headquarters campus at Duliajan in the Dibrugarh district near the Joypore reserve forest. It is believed that the leopard initially came from the reserve.

Divisional forest officer P Shiv Kumar told the Mail Online, “We were informed about a leopard straying into a bungalow of an Oil executive on Sunday morning. By the time we got there, the leopard had attacked five people.

We tried to tranquillize the leopard, but it got agitated--which is normal before sedatives takes effect--and pounced on the large crowd gathered at the spot. The security personnel were left with no option but to shoot it.”

In this photo you can see an official trying to net the leopard while it mauls one of the bystanders.

This leopard was the fifth big cat to be spotted (no pun intended) in the area in the past several days. Leopards are protected in India where hunting has been outlawed since the late seventies.

While serial leopard attacks are not common, they're not unheard of either. In fact a handful of leopard attacks have made headlines in just the last few years. See the links below.



More leopard attack stories

- Leopard Attack! A True Story of Survival in the African Bush

- Leopard Attacks Indian Village, Injures 11 People

- Graphic Image Warning: Leopard Scalps Man in Brutal Attack 

 

Over the weekend a man-eating leopard crept into Gauhati, a city in eastern India, and tore through the streets pouncing on unsuspecting pedestrians. It killed one person and mauled four others, including this man who had his scalp torn off in the horrific attack.
Photos taken by a local newspaper photographer show the man bracing just as the leopard pounces, it's left paw making a sweeping hook toward the man's head. The next photo shows the man after the swipe, his scalp sliced to the bone.
Fortunately the man survived and the leopard was eventually captured. Wildlife officials told the Associated Press that it would be released at a wildlife park 120 miles west of the city.
Leopard's are one of the most dangerous animals on the planet. And some experts even consider them more dangerous than other big cats like lions and tigers because of the leopard's speed, power, stealth and ferocity toward humans. These photos illustrate the incredible quickness of a leopard. Its swipe of the paw was so fast, it happened between frames.
In India, it's not uncommon for leopards to wander into cities or villages.  Last July a leopard stalked into the Indian neighborhood of Prakash Nagar and mauled seven people before it was captured. That leopard was also captured and released into a wildlife area.


Find the details of that story and information on how to avoid a leopard attack here.

Quotes

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
---Friedreich Nietzsche


"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
-- William Blake, A MemorableFancy


I love to doubt as well as know."
--Dante Alighieri



To see a World in a Grain of Sand 
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, 
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand 
And Eternity in an hour.
-- William Blake, Auguries of Innocence



"We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know."
-- W. H. Auden



"Without contraries is no progression.  Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence."
-- Wiliam Blake, The Argument



"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed."
-- Herman Melville, US novelist & sailor (1819 - 1891)



"It’s better to believe in what you know than to know what you believe in."
-- HL Gaskins




“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
 – Epicurus circa 300 BC