“Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to becomre an excited person. Life will take on a new zest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and at yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the sme process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.” Norman Vincent Peale

“Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days … What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.” Orison Swett Marden

You are the person who has to decide;
Whether you’ll do it or toss it aside.

You are the person who makes up your mind;
Whether you’ll lead or will linger behind.

Whether you’ll try for the goal that’s afar;
Or just be contented to stay where you are.

Edgar A. Guest

“Always direct your thoughts to those truths that will give you confidence, hope, joy, love, thanksgiving, and turn away your mind from those that inspire you with fear, sadness, depression.” Bertrand Wilbertforce

“You’re alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.”…..Barbara Hall

“One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often,

whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought

in one’s mind.” Robert Collier

“In the foundation of every building or house that I have built, I have a barbell plate” These are the words of the late Ray “Thunder” Stern , a legend in professional wrestling, bodybuilding, and entrepreneurial succes.(1)  In fact, dare I say; in a world inundated with advice on how to be successful, nothing compares to the now out-of-print book Power of Thunder, co-written by Mr. Stern and Robert Wolff, Ph.D. In it, Ray Stern highlighted and explained his principles for success in such a manner that ‘authentic and effectual’ are the most forthcoming words of distinction when comparing it to  the countless books on the self-help shelves today.

And yes, the symbolic ritual within the context of edifice development was explained.  Mr. Stern, a real estate investor and pioneer of the fitness industry, cemented a big barbell plate in the foundation of the buildings and homes he developed. “I do this as a testament that anything and everything I have in life, I owe to bodybuilding”, wrote Mr. Stern.(2)

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“Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It’s no use. I can’t go on. If you do you’re licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.” Norman Vincent Peale

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” Ralph Waldo Emerson