CHARACTER, NOT KNOWLEDGE, IS POWER

CHARACTER, NOT KNOWLEDGE, IS POWER

True character is priceless. Your life is bound to be remarkable, if you manage to keep your good name. Not every character is the genuine article, which is dangerous for the unwary. Character is the result of years of trial and error, so don’t worry if you fear the lack of it for now. It is something formed over time, in spite of constant temptation to abandon your commitments. Character building requires patience and self-discipline and that project in itself is genius. You may live in a ‘knowledge society’, but all the data and information become meaningless, if trust is missing.

Those, who can be trusted, achieve lasting success. You will make a fortune, if you are considered dependable. You should never yield to pressure to take ‘shortcuts’, because it will be hard to make right, what is clearly wrong. True character avoids the ‘road to ruin’. Also, integrity is an essential condition to keep your whole show on the road. Otherwise, your tenacity to achieve success will be in vain and all your talents will be wasted.

The brightest and most creative minds produce masterpieces only, if they have managed to bring order to chaos, while ensuring greatness by never losing their true character. Conformity can lead to quiet desperation and therefore, total freedom of mind may well be necessary, before you become aware of the best way to become the person you could be.

RICK SCHMULL

19th September, 2014

WESTCLIFF-On-SEA, Essex, U.K.

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OPTIMISM BREEDS SUCCESS

OPTIMISM BREEDS SUCCESS

Despite all the talent and desire, failure can still occur if optimism is missing. Not blind optimism, but optimism with a keen eye for reality. That is why you will be able to bounce back after inevitable setbacks. You have to teach yourself, that defeat does not have to be permanent. Pessimism does not have to be ‘normal’, when disaster strikes. Pessimism drags you down and could cause depression. Habitual optimism should be developed over time, because you may well lack that trait. No, prescription drugs are not the answer!

Optimism makes you persevere. You will view all obstacles as challenges, which will encourage you to succeed and never ‘give up’. As you become a better dreamer and you visualize your future, you have just turned yourself into an unbeatable force! Of course, your positive attitude has to be repeated over and over again, because ‘stuff happens’, that will threaten to throw you off course all the time.

As this world offers such a privileged existence for those, who succeed, any apparent failure could be devastating. That’s why there seems to be such an epidemic of depression around. But you can actually change the way you think! There are times, that a rapid personal change is called for in order to avoid a free fall into the abyss. Fortunately, you are able to devote precious time towards self-improvement, because you’re not a robot! Your behavior ultimately depends on yourself, not on others or on ‘circumstances’. In addition, the world couldn’t care less about you and your ‘issues’, therefore you better get moving and sort yourself out. If you don’t, nobody else will.

RICK SCHMULL

17th September, 2014

WESTCLIFF-On-SEA, Essex, U.K.

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REINVENTING YOURSELF

REINVENTING YOURSELF

Reinvention should be the basis of life of anyone. If you’re not happy with the way things are, change them. Move on from everything, that you no longer are prepared to tolerate! Your past should not control your present and future. Look forward to your personal transformation. Ignite your boundless energy to start living your dream. Seize the day! Your new life cannot wait. All it takes, is to do away with your illusory limitations. All problems are temporary and should therefore not affect your nervous system permanently. Why shouldn’t everyone have a shot at being on top of the world? If so, then you will truly feel alive.

You may feel trapped in jobs or relationships, that have become dead-end. You should question your present situation at all times. If you are close to thinking: ‘Enough is Enough’, you may have done yourself a great favour. You may be on the way to living your dream. Nothing should be considered unrealistic. Why don’t you make a list of your most outrageous dreams? Guess what: you will feel compelled to do whatever it takes to fulfill your dreams! There should be no limits to your imagination, ever. Many people will try to put you down. Don’t lose your confidence, if you are at the receiving end of this common practice. Choose a thought, that honours you, who you are and you are about to get back in control of your environment. Over time, you will be treated with respect, because you will prove to the world, that you deserve recognition.

Your mind determines nearly everything and may therefore need regular ‘surgery’. Reinventing yourself is an absolute requirement to keep going. If you don’t change with the world around you, you will get left behind, big time. Don’t wait for your future to find you, because you’ll wait in vain. Moving forward, is what counts, even with baby steps. Just imagine the future, that you want and you’re feeling better already! If you’re feeling fear, that’s O.K., as long as you act anyway. That’s called COURAGE.

RICK SCHMULL

September 6th, 2014

WESTCLIFF-On-SEA, Essex, U.K.

YOU CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS TOO

YOU CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS TOO

If you really believe in something, there will be no room for fear. If you master fear, you can move mountains too. Faith eliminates all limits to deal with difficult situations. Positive thinking works! Especially in the face of defeat and rejection. Try to expect the best instead of the worst. Try to tell yourself at all times, that you deserve the best. Never doubt yourself, because otherwise you will cease to function the way you should. A winner attracts a good outcome! Defeat is never permanent. You make life harder than it really is, by imagining things, which should not be considered realistic anyway. Try to minimize things, that tend to sap your energy. Your immediate goal in life is to get rid of cynicism and hopelessness.

Don’t deny yourself the rewards, that are rightfully yours. Who said so? You did! You are intent on clearing the way to the fulfillment of your potential. You need a constantly renewable source of energy in order to be able to restore your life again and again. You certainly want to avoid ‘burnout’, so make sure, that you are surrounded by people, who are better than you. That’s the only way to feel challenged, which is a condition to improve your situation time and time again. Without feedback from rivals, you will hit the rocks. Don’t act like a blind man, walking near a cliff.

The vital question you have to ask yourself is, if you are ready and able to jump into the unknown. Without such seemingly terrifying experiences, you won’t grow. You have to find a way of overcoming personal limitations. You sometimes have to see life as an adventure, breaking new frontiers in order to discover your real self. Life is a race against time and you may have no choice than to make things happen yourself. The world owes you nothing and couldn’t care less, if you don’t manage to rise above yourself. But once you do, then magic happens.

RICK SCHMULL

28th August, 2014

WESTCLIFF-On-SEA, Essex, U.K.

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MONEY AND POWER

MONEY AND POWER

The drive for money and power often leads to unspeakable horrors. Nature is quite unforgiving, if both seem to be big enough, to risk all. Eat or be eaten, leaving all considerations of ethics aside! But mankind has not yet found a way to become immortal and therefore, each human being will eventually have to justify life’s actions on the day of reckoning at the end of life’s road. Life will become a lot easier if regrets in life can be limited to a bare minimum. This would mean restraining the ‘natural’ urge to do things, which may be regretted later.

Greed is good. Wouldn’t that benefit society as a whole and ‘feed the kids’? Not, if accompanied by cheating. Decency and integrity should always be part of the culture, otherwise society will eventually turn against those, who try to infect its moral fabric.  There is no hope of getting away with dishonesty. It only lasts for so long and muddles the waters. Losing a reputation can be much worse than losing any possessions. A stain on your good name is nearly impossible to get rid of.

Are the unpleasant consequences of money and power grabs therefore ‘unstoppable’? How do you deal with a ‘no more mr. nice guy’ attitude? Fact is, that survival remains uppermost in the minds of us all. We do go along with dubious policies for far too long. However, the threat to those with money and power cannot be underestimated as well. Nature has a way of upsetting the apple cart in more ways than one! Nothing is permanent. No, Sir.

RICK SCHMULL

August 15th, 2014

WESTCLIFF-On-SEA, Essex, U.K.
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IT'S NOT OVER, UNTIL IT'S OVER

IT’S NOT OVER, UNTIL IT’S OVER

Are you a quitter? Have you stopped pushing yourself? Are you losing your optimism? Why don’t you look in the mirror and ask yourself: if today were the last day of my life, what would I do, besides getting my things ‘in order’? You sure wouldn’t want to waste one more minute of that day! And since you never know if today is your last day, merely looking at yourself in the mirror every day will change your life. Your life will never be the same again! It’s hard changing your life, but now you have given yourself no choice. This is it. No ifs or buts. Nothing will stop you now, neither the fear of failure, nor the fear of success. Just do it. Just deal with it. There is no more time to lose. If life knocks you down, get up. You want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe. Remember, you have a lot of people to prove wrong, especially yourself. The biggest enemy could be you. There’s a lot of work to do!

Say YES to your potential. Do you really know yourself? You may know other people better than yourself. Tell yourself, that you ARE phenomenal. You’ll discover, that you’re much better than you ever thought you were. That’s because magic happens, when you continue to believe in yourself. Faith and passion in what you love doing, will lead to wonderful things and keep you going. That’s the way life works. EVERYBODY is talented in certain things. Your mission is to pursue, what works best for you, and you will be in great demand. You will be rewarded tremendously. You don’t have to be perfect, nobody is. This may not be the perfect time, either, but that is most often the case. Therefore, CREATE what borders on perfection, while making every second count. Live your dream! The bigger and scarier your dream, the better.

Never become satisfied. You may think, that you’ve reached your goal, but focus on what will keep you in the game. Don’t talk yourself out of the competition. There will be plenty of time later, if mind and body no longer cooperate, to succumb to ‘slowing down’.

RICK SCHMULL

August 12th, 2014

WESTCLIFF-On-SEA, Essex, U.K.

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YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR FUTURE, NOT YOUR PAST

YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR FUTURE, NOT YOUR PAST

It’s high time you stopped looking back. The past is full of issues, which seem to be cropping up if you fail to move on. Focus rather on where you can make a difference. It’s the Present and the Future, never the Past. Living in the past may be tempting, even irresistible, but what really matters is Today, which is the first day of the rest of your life. If you feel you have enough time to look back at all, by all means concentrate on dear memories:

My left hand remembers

The feel of your right hand;

Now that we’re apart, I remember that warmth

I’ll never forget it

(‘Dear Memories’ - Tomiko Van)

This is a great time to be alive (Martin Luther King), because today, the opportunities in technology, biotechnology, robotics, bionics (rebuilding the human body) and communication seem endless. Mankind may be at the beginning of another incredible revolution. Our lives will be transformed, again. Don’t be discouraged by the confusing economic and political crosscurrents, because there’s nothing new under the sun. These too will pass, so don’t despair. You will survive and grow stronger, just like your forefathers before you. To become part of such an exciting future should be foremost in your mind. Don’t let the present reality ever stand in the way of the dream you think you deserve. Remember, you are unique. There really is no one like you in the whole wide world! Who knows, what life has in store for you, over time. Patience, like the penguin, and a positive mental attitude, are all that’s required to stay afloat.

What about being beamed from one location to another by teleportation? O.K., not around the corner yet, but technological developments are accelerating. The current generation probably never heard of VCR, which rapidly became obsolete, even before it really took off. Could we one day transform the brain into a supercomputer? Could we one day become ‘superhuman’, as we perceive wavelengths of light, frequencies of sounds and other types of energy, which had hitherto been considered beyond the reach of human beings?

So, this promises to become a ‘hot’ party. Be there or be square!

RICK SCHMULL

August 10th, 2014

WESTCLIFF-On-SEA, Essex, U.K.