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Create a Life You Can’t Wait to Live

by Zig Ziglar

You are about to experience the life you can’t wait to live—one filled with passion, peak performance and purpose.

After twenty-plus books on motivational subjects, and countless speeches and seminars on living the abundant and fruitful life, I’ve got some things to share with you that I believe will motivate you the same way they have motivated me.

Creating a life you can’t wait to live is experienced by living with genuine passion, striving for peak performance, and fulfilling one’s purpose.

I don’t care what the field of endeavour is—sports, business, science, medicine, education, ministry, public service—I don’t believe that anyone will perform at his or her peak without passion. Life’s too tough to get to the top without passion. You’re going to fail, be taken advantage of, be disappointed by people you trust, disappoint yourself, run out of resources—almost every day you’re going to encounter a good, solid, logical reason why you ought to give up. And without passion, you just might. That’s why passion is the prerequisite for peak performance.
Peak performance is dependent on passion, grit, determination, and a willingness to do something poorly until you can do it well. True peak performance is influenced by the condition of your physical, spiritual, business and family life.

The third part of the equation—purpose—is something I have come to believe is a key to the whole dynamic of motivation.

I’ve met people all through my life who had passion of a sort. But because their passion wasn’t fueled by purpose, it would come and go in bits and pieces. They were trying to generate their passion out of their own energy day after day, something that’s ultimately unsustainable. Scientists have yet to invent the world’s first perpetual-motion machine— everything runs down or runs out of gas eventually, including human beings trying to maximize their peak performance day after day.

I believe this book can help motivate you to connect the dots in life, little by little. The end result will be a picture of beauty, purpose and fulfillment—a life you can’t wait to live.

– Zig Ziglar

“Deal with the difficult while it is yet easy; deal with the great while it is yet small.”

— Tao Te Ching

Encouragement is the act of encouraging.

“Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement.”

Colby Dorr Dam –

Success Will Make You Satisfied
Failure Will Make You Wiser

Success

Fools & Fanatics Close Eyes for Success

Since wise are doubtful, they Plan for Success

ESPNcricinfo:

The uncharacteristic dismissal

Misbah may be averse to triple-figure scores, but like a 21st century Allan Border, he has been the king of fifties in 2013 – particularly in losing causes. Having hit eight fifties in his last 11 ODI innings, Misbah was cruising towards another half-century, with almost no pressure enforced by the match situation. At 31, though, Misbah found an odd way to get out. Wayne Parnell delivered a wide half-volley and, instead of hitting it through the covers as he should have, he opened the face and lifted the ball straight into du Plessis’ hands at point.

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The omen

Madness often follows Shahid Afridi to the batting crease, but today, insanity ensued even before he faced his first ball. Umar Akmal had been batting well but, with Afridi now at the other end, played a ridiculous shot to a straight ball, to become the second victim in Pakistan’s six-wicket collapse. Shaping first to play a sweep, then backing out because the ball was too short, Akmal offered an awkward, angled prod that got nowhere near a ball that, by right, probably deserved to be whipped through the leg side. To make matters worse, although Akmal was struck flush on the pad in front of middle and off, he used a review, after conferring with Afridi, which of course, confirmed he was undoubtedly out.

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The wild slog

Afridi had hit Imran Tahir for four in his previous over, but in the 44th over, he played a shot that constituted Pakistan’s biggest step on the path to destruction. With only seven needed to win, and three wickets remaining, Afridi could probably have hit another Tahir long hop safely for four, but instead he attempted to tie the match with a six. Swinging wildly across the line, and connecting only with the top half of the bat, Afridi sent one straight into the hands of deep midwicket. The dismissal had South Africa truly believing they could win the match, for the first time.

The sole responsibility of repeated batting failures of the Pakistani batting lies on its head coach, who looks like the biggest nincompoop, PCB ever hired, as a head coach, for the Pakistani cricket team.