NARCOSE. Forget what you know: Jacob Barnett at TEDxTeen. 42 Positive Affirmations for Entrepreneurs. Affirmations, huh? Once a skeptic, now a believer. A few years ago, I was a serious corporate gal who would poke fun at anything that could not be proven for a fact. Affirmations were the last thing I could take seriously, and yet, funny enough, affirmations and the subsequent changes in mindset and thinking created the conditions for my transition from corporate to entrepreneurship. Positive affirmations were the seeds that enabled me to land my dream company and online businesses and partnership with my husband. Specifically, I can attribute the following to learning and using positive affirmations in my life: Healing from my past mistakes.Accepting myself for who I am.Forgiving myself for past failures.Letting go of a 12-years success career that was all wrong for me.Learning to start over in a new direction.Believing in my own eventual success.Discovering my life purpose in the process.Overcoming my fears to move in the direction of my dreams.
Well, here’s the thing. Got it? Um. TEDxWWF - Isabelle Autissier: Lessons from the Sea. How the oceans can clean themselves: Boyan Slat at TEDxDelft. Getting Stuck in the Negatives (and How to Get Unstuck): Alison Ledgerwood at TEDxUCDavis. 11 Stephen Hawking Quotes for His 71st Birthday. When Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at age 21, doctors thought he'd only survive a few more years. But the theoretical physicist defied the odds: Hawking turns 71 today. Here are 11 quotes from the Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at Cambridge and author of A Brief History of Time. Happy birthday, professor! 1. On His Schooling: "At school, I was never more than about halfway up the class. It was a very bright class. From the lecture "My Brief History," 2010. 2. "If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.
From Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking, 2010. 3. “I wouldn’t compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.” From a lecture at Arizona State University, April 2011. 4. "If you are disabled, it is probably not your fault, but it is no good blaming the world or expecting it to take pity on you. 5. To the New York Times, May 2011. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. How to Build Self-Discipline. Discipline is freedom.
You may disagree with this statement, and if you do you are certainly not alone. For many people discipline is a dirty word that is equated with the absence of freedom. In fact the opposite is true. As Stephen R. Covey once wrote, “the undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions”. And in the longer term, the undisciplined lack the freedom that comes with possessing particular skills and abilities – e.g. to play a musical instrument or speak a foreign language. Self-discipline involves acting according to what you think instead of how you feel in the moment. Work on an idea or project after the initial rush of enthusiasm has faded awayGo to the gym when all you want to do is lie on the couch and watch TVWake early to work on yourselfSay “no” when tempted to break your dietOnly check your email a few of times per day at particular times If you struggle with self-discipline, the good news is that it can be developed. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
A Musical Genius: Usman Riaz at TEDxGateway. This Is What Happens When A Kid Leaves Traditional Education. Logan Laplante is a 13 year-old boy who was taken out of the education system to be home schooled instead. Not only was he home schooled, but Logan had the ability to tailor his education to his interests and also his style of learning, something traditional education does not offer. As Logan has mentioned, when he grows up he wants to be happy and healthy. At a TEDx talk in 2013, he discussed how hacking his education is helping him achieve that goal. Logan’s story can be seen in a similar light as Jacob Barnett‘s story who was first put in Special Ed by his school until he was pulled out of standard education and is now seen as an incredibly intelligent young person who is on track to winning a Nobel Prize one day.
I also recently did a TEDx talk in 2014 about my story of leaving college for good. You can check that out here. More on Education & Homeschooling Currently about 3.8% of children ages 5 – 17 are home schooled in the US. Does Education Kill Creativity? Sources: Watch Dr. Watch: Surfing, Like Never Before.