Do it with Passion or don't do it at all!

1.  To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.
 – Sister Mary Lauretta

2.  Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose a career. Trust what inspires you. – The Lazy Person’s Guide to Success

3.  You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances 
are you’ll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.
 – Bob Black

4.  I believe you are your work. Don’t trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That’s a rotten bargain. – Rita Mae Brown

5.  Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood . . . Make big plans; aim high in hope and work. – Daniel Burnham, American architect (1846 – 1912)

6.  You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. 
- Mark Twain

7.  A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night. – Marilyn Monroe

8. I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. – George Burns

9.  I’m sick of people sittin’ in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape… then we have our experts on the topic… I’m in the ‘What’s next?’ phase of my career.  – Oprah Winfrey

10.  Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true. – Brian Tracy, American Author

11. If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld, French Author

12.  The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else…The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career! – Earl Nightingale, Motivational Speaker

13.  The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.
 – George Bernard Shaw

14.  If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all. 
- Michelangelo

15.  Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. 
- Buddha

16.  If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. 
- Katherine Hepburn

17.  My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general, if you become a monk you’ll end up as the pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
 – Pablo Picasso

18.  Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures. – Joseph Campbell, American Mythologist, Writer, and Lecturer

19.  Any human being is really good at certain things. The problem is that the things you’re good at come naturally. And since most people are pretty modest instead of an arrogant S.O.B. like me, what comes naturally, you don’t see as a special skill. It’s just you. It’s what you’ve always done. 
- Stephen Jay Gould, Evolutionary Scientist

20.  If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. – Michael Evans

21.  There’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos. – Jim Hightower, Radio Commentator and Author

22.  He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. – Nietzsche

23.  Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What if we invested more time and attention to our own experimentation? We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us. 
- Margaret Wheatley, Author and Management Consultant who studies organizational behavior

24.  Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
 – Abraham Lincoln

25.  We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian born American Anthropologist and Author

26.  Desire! That’s the one secret of every man’s career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
 – Bobby Unser, Retired Car Racer 

27.  People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
 – Brian Tracy, Author

28.  A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.
 – Fats Domino

29.  What if “the hokey pokey” is REALLY what it’s all about?
 – Curtis Spencer 

30.  There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.  – Federico Fellini, Italian Film Director (1920-1993)

31.  Would I ever leave this company? Look, I’m all about loyalty. In fact, I feel like part of what I’m being paid for here is my loyalty. But if there were somewhere else that valued loyalty more highly, I’m going wherever they value loyalty the most. – Dwight Schrute, from the television show ‘The Office’ 

32.  I am not young enough to know everything. – Oscar Wilde

33.  In fifty years, he never worked a day. To him, nine to five was odds on a horse. – Archie Bunker, from the television show ‘All in the Family’

34.  When you’re following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves. – Shakti Gawain, Pioneering Author & Teacher in the field of Personal Growth 

35.  I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. – Jerome K. Jerome, English writer and humorist

36.  Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable…Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

37.  Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot. – D.H. Lawrence, English Novelist (1885-1930)

38.  Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade.  Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. – Robert Sternberg, American Psychologist and Psychometrician

39.  Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive ‘nows.’ – Sue Halpern, Author 

40.  They  may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. – Carl W. Buechner, Author 

41.  We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. – Che Guavara

42.  Rest in reason; move in passion – Khalil Gibran, Lebanese American artist, poet and writer 

43.  Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing…If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.  – Frank Sinatra 

44.  If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. – Benjamin Franklin 

45.  I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. – James Joyce, Irish Novelist

46.  If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are—if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time. – Joseph Campbell, American Mythologist, Writer, and Lecturer

47.  I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. – Lou Holtz, American football coach and author

48.  If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. – Brian Tracy

49.  One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar. 
- Helen Keller

50.  The belief that you can have a meaningful career is the first step to finding one.  – Sean Aiken, Author and Creator of the One Week Job Project

Social Media - > a tool 4 Life

- Visionary Entrepreneur -

I have to thank my parents for giving me a luxury life. I had everything. When I started traveling, I discovered that people were not like me. They had absolutely nothing. I met people from many cultures smarter than me who could have a brilliant career, but they did not have the financial resources for it. In 2010 I came back to Spain from an around the world trip volunteering for children with cancer and I started up a charity called Fundacion Sanders with Robert Sanders, an American who was working at Banco Santander Madrid by that time. The more I visited countries the more sad I was. The last places I visited were Turkey, Maldives, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Oman, UK, Scotland, Switzerland, Singapore, Austria, Italy, Germany, Portugal and Dominican Republic. In 2011, I came up with the idea to research the job market, the investment and entrepreneur's market, and the social media market. Only in February 2015, I realised how much talent gets lost. I could not stand watching brilliant minds giving up on their dreams without having the chance to work where they where meant to be and grow professionally. But on the other hand I also realised you how many recruiting companies do not reach out onto the right candidates by the time it is required to fill up potential job posts.

So, in March 2015 I started to work on an idea to develop a universal platform to connect the right people with the right audience for their cause. My idea is to develop a social media app to connect people who share same interests. 

In May 2015 I started to put my ideas into paper creating therefore a business plan, a financial plan, an investment term sheet, a platform demonstration about the website and its content, a revenue model and a marketing strategy to achieve our goals. 

In June 2015 I went public on existing social media platforms asking for investment and sharing my ideas. It went well cause I reached 30.822 followers in a time record and my profile on LinkedIn got viewed by 93.000 people. But then LinkedIn thought I was a fake profile and decided to terminate my account not even letting me open a new one under any other email address or phone number linked to the new account. 

In January I got offered 2 Million Euros to start my business. Due to a big amount of stress, I decided to back up and rethink and therefore I had to stop the project before finalising the investment deal. 

For now all I can disclose is that I found the right business partner who is investing in me so that I can develop a new social media app for individuals to find the right persons, at the right moment, at the right place. It will be a great APP to find real interesting people easily and interact online! I am planning to launch in July 2017. I am very excited cause my app will be a Big surprise for all of you! ;)

I found the best team to make things happen and to bring the best product into the market! 

I love helping people, cause it is in my nature! I love Freedom and that's why I decided to take a job which allows me to work from my laptop and phone. That gives me freedom to travel the world and relocate at any wished time. 

Fundacion Sanders is up and running. Our app is under a succesful development. The prototype is looking really good. The goal is to eradicate bullying in schools globally and forever. We aim to reach the minimum 50.000€ we need to finish our proyects within the charity. We are creating a really nice interactive video that we will launch in June to raise funds in generosity.com !! If you want to be part of my proyects, work with me from home and be rewarding with experience, knowledge and growth with in the best international organisations in the world; then you may want to contact me via email to be able join my multilingual global team. 

- I believe that everything is possible -

I am very excited, passionate and enthusiastic - I am learning everyday a bit more about Entrepreneurship and today I see what Social Media can really offer for the Business and Networking world!! 

At some point we should have an app where each person can post in their own preferred language, with a translation system incorporated like Facebook does, allowing people to show the message in their preferred language.

I love languages and learning them, I believe in a connected universe, that's why a universal translating social networking app would be neat.

LimitlessNetworking: defn. building high potential, interactive communities through the connection of ideas generated by anyone, anywhere, at anytime. 

The ability to connect people, that's the true art and science of Social Media Networking!

Next Stop - The Moon !!

I am a connector :)

Thank you. 

Sincerely, 

Marta Guilabert

Founder at Oraseya S.L. 

Visionary Entrepreneur

The Future is Today!

         - LIMITLESS NETWORKING - 

Best online conversation about religion

That's how the conversation started: 

Cuca: I just found out that gambling is forbidden in Islam... 

Email from Sheik Yusuf Estes:

Bismillah salam alaykum Marta,

I hope you were joking with the comments about the "lottery".

As you know, this is a form of gambling and any type of gambling is absolutely forbidden in Islam.

The act of buying or selling tickets for the lottery, any winnings from it and even receiving anything out of it at all, is forbidden.

Please tell the believers and good people to stay away from this horrible thing. It is not a good thing even for charities (churches, bingos, drawings and lotteries).

Thanks again for the updates. Keep them coming.

Salam alaykum,

Yusuf Estes

I posted on Facebook and chat below by two people who doesn't know each other and have a completely different life experience therefor also different beliefs:

D: All these so-called "rules" are rather stupid I say. Simply walking down the street and avoid getting hit by a car is taking a "gamble" every day lol

M: That was the most stupid metaphor i have heard in 30 years of living

D: Finally someone with some brains acquired after 30 yrs of living that can explain these stupid rules 😊

M: Ask and i shall answer you .. is it only the gambling part which is "stupid " to u or u have any other rules u dislike and i shall answer u

1. The Islamic teachings urge the Muslim to follow Allah's directives for earning a living, to use natural laws and direct means for the attainment of his objectives, and to employ such causes to produce the desired effects. Gambling, which includes raffling or the lottery, on the other hand, makes a person dependent on chance, 'luck' and empty wishes, taking him away from honest labor, serious work and productive effort. The person who depends on gambling loses respect for the laws of causation which Allah has established and commanded people to use. 

2. In Islam, an individual's property is sacred; it may not be taken from him except through lawful exchange or unless he gives it freely as a gift or in charity. Accordingly, taking it from him by gambling is unlawful. 

3. It is therefore not surprising that gamblers develop hatred and enmity towards one another, although they may claim that losing does not trouble them. There is always a winner and a loser. The loser may seem composed but behind his composure is frustration, anger, and regret: frustration due to disappointment, anger at the loss of money, and regret for not having played a winning game. 

4. Gambling has its own compulsion. The loser plays again in hope of winning the next game in order to regain his earlier losses, while the winner plays again to enjoy the pleasure of winning, impelled by greed for more. Naturally, luck changes hands, the loser becomes the winner and the winner the loser, and the joy of winning changes into the bitterness of loss. Thus the gamblers may persist at playing the game, unable to bring themselves to leave it; this is the secret of the addiction to gambling. 

5. Because of this addiction, gambling is a danger to the society as well as to the individual. This habit consumes gamblers' time and energy, making them non-productive idlers and parasites on society, who take but do not give, who consume but do not produce. Moreover, due to his absorption with gambling, the gambler neglects his obligations towards his Creator and his duties towards his community. It often happens that a gambling addict sells his honor, religion, and country for the sake of the gaming table, since his devotion to this table dulls his sense of values and kills all other devotions.

D: Well as you ask I do dislike that Islam forbids the drinking of alcohol and eating pork. As the expert scholar can you enlighten us?

M: Before i tell u why islam forbids them . Im not the best muslim . As i drink.  But i know its forbidden and here is why . Would u like to tell me how many people kill . Die .dui and cause harm under the influence of alcohol ?

Whats thw only good coming from alcohol ? Profit right ? Can u be a good father or husband drunk?  Can you work drunk ? And by the way Christianity forbids alcohol before islam . Read your bible well brother . And i can prove it to u

D: Humankind don't need alcohol to commit those atrocities. Besides, who made up these rules? Mohammed? And explain why Christians forbids alcohol yet as their sacraments serve wine at mass and claim it's the "blood of Christ?"

M: And when it comes to pork . Science already proved that pork is the most unhealthy.  Full of parasites meat ever . Because pork lives on his feces

What God commands Christians regarding alcohol is to avoid drunkenness (Ephesians 5:18). The Bible condemns drunkenness and its effects (Proverbs 23:29-35). Christians are also commanded to not allow their bodies to be “mastered” by anything (1 Corinthians 6:12; 2 Peter 2:19). Drinking alcohol in excess is undeniably addictive. Scripture also forbids a Christian from doing anything that might offend other Christians or encourage them to sin against their conscience (1 Corinthians 8:9-13). In light of these principles, it would be extremely difficult for any Christian to say he is drinking alcohol in excess to the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31).

Alcohol, consumed in small quantities, is neither harmful nor addictive. In fact, some doctors advocate drinking small amounts of red wine for its health benefits, especially for the heart. Consumption of small quantities of alcohol is a matter of Christian freedom. Drunkenness and addiction are sin. However, due to the biblical concerns regarding alcohol and its effects, due to the easy temptation to consume alcohol in excess, and due to the possibility of causing offense and/or stumbling of others, it is often best for a Christian to abstain from drinking alcohol.

There u go

D: You do realize it's all a bunch of religious propaganda and rhetoric right? Lol

Let's divide and conquer the mass. These people are all idiots - no different than sheep that needs to be led.

M: U asked and i shall answer . Im not here to force beliefs as i said im not the best example

Thats why the human follows logic . If the good is more than bad u do it . If its the opposite u dont . Simple rule

D: Mohammed was one of the greatest conqueror in the world, even though he was illiterate he was smart enough to figure out that religion can be use as a tool and a means to an end. 😊 Hundreds of years later we're still squabbling about religious superiorities. Isn't it astounding that in the 21st century we still behave like barbarians? Why can't we park these doctrines and attempt to all get along?

Thanks for the chat. Good banter. Have a good day/night. We can continue some other time 😊

M: Yes any time . Was a good chat

Cuca: WOW!!!!! Best conversation I have read in years... 

Congratulations to both of you! 

Dereck  & Moe 

D: Moe was a good sport and I was egging on the situation. Of course by now, those who know me, knows I lean towards atheist but gravitate to spirituality. On that note, I will share an excerpt from a book I'm writing based on experience and knowledge gained over MY 30 years of living :) See below:

Think for a moment about the astronomer of the past’s universe. Gone is that picture, held for the greater part of man’s history, of a universe with our earth as its centre, around which the heaven with its fixed stars rotated. Gone too, is that of a universe of fixed stars, with our solar system as its centre. Gone too, is the regard that the sun is the centre of a stellar system of millions of stars, distributed to the extent of space which would take twenty thousand years to traverse. 

We are now bidden by modern astronomers to envisage a universe so vast that the human mind faints in its attempt to grasp its immensity. The light-waves which now reach us from the Andromeda nebula, we are told have travelled through space for two million light years; those from the cluster of galaxies in Hydra two thousand million light years. Not only this earth of ours, but also the solar system of which it is a part, have, in the light of modern astronomical knowledge, faded into complete insignificance. The whole of our solar system is only a tiny minute part of the Milky Way, a galaxy of some two hundred billion stars, across which it would take a hundred million light years to travel. The Milky Way is only one of countless number of billions of galaxies, separated from each other by immeasurable vast stretches of inter-galactic space, each one made up of thousands of millions and billions of stars. 

This is the astronomical picture of the universe. Against this awe-inspiring background what significance has this earth, this unimportant speck in the immensities of space? What significance can be given to human history, this so brief story of civilizations that have risen and flourished, quickly to become dim memories and to be forgotten? Is it more than…. a tale, told by an idiot, full of fury, signifying nothing?

If that is true of the whole of human history, what of each individual person with their hopes and fears, their dreams and noble strivings? Place each little life, place all the lives of all organisms that ever were, are or will ever be, against the astronomer’s immensities of space and time. They are as nothing, individually and in totality, as fleeting and meaningless as a mayfly on a summer stream.

If we are honest, must we now acknowledge, perhaps regretfully, that mankind’s dreams about his noble stature and destiny have been, after all, only the result of insufficient knowledge? That his immortal longings and belief that behind everything there is a “Supreme Being” with whom it was possible to have communion, have been an illusion? If there is indeed a Creator and Sustainer of this huge universe – and some astronomers doubt whether the concept of creation can any longer be upheld - can He have any interest in, or communion with, an insignificant dweller on a minute speck in the immensities of time and space? How can such a Creator-God, if indeed such exists, be “Our Father”? If these doubts are justified, there may be some psychological interest as a study of a particular aberration of the human mind. That the high claims of the priests and theologians are demonstrably false. Their so-called “knowledge” is founded on delusion. They can tell us nothing which will enable us to find the truth of the universe.