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RE: Knowledge & Attitude - 8/31/2006 10:20:44 AM
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Tom_Toll
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The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. Huge desire, with persistence, bring huge results. Never allow anyone to deter you from your desire to succeed. Just do it honestly with integrity and humility.
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RE: Knowledge & Attitude - 8/31/2006 12:39:36 PM
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Tom,
Very well said...
Your posts are always a source of inspiration for me..
THANK YOU!
~M~
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RE: Knowledge & Attitude - 8/31/2006 1:44:17 PM
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Tom_Toll
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Thank you very much Meg. I have always felt that if your brain/mind was in the proper gear, that, energy is produced for you to become someone who excels at your vocation. Who wants to wake up on the wrong side of the bed and go to work. Anyone can control their mental aptitude and roar on to bigger, better things. Attitude is first, knowledge second. Without proper attitude, your knowledge gains will be minimal. With the proper attitude, your knowledge gains will be phenominal.
Some guys and gals love the Dodge Hemi. Why is that? They like the POWER to boogey. The mind is the same way. Drop a Hemi in your brain and see what power you have. It might scare you at first, but you will soon be hitting a 10 second 1/4 mile and then wondering why you had not applied that power before now. GO FOR IT.
< Message edited by Tom_Toll -- 8/31/2006 1:55:13 PM >
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RE: Knowledge & Attitude - 9/2/2006 2:21:48 PM
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Tom_Toll
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Attitude is Everything...
By Francie Baltazar-Schwartz
Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"
He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed Him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"
Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.' I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life."
"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested.
"Yes it is," Jerry said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live life."
I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.
Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body. I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Wanna see my scars?"
I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. "The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied. "Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live.
"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked. Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, 'He's a dead man.
" I knew I needed to take action."
"What did you do?" I asked.
"Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry. "She asked if I was allergic to anything. 'Yes,' I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Bullets!' Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."
Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.
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RE: Knowledge & Attitude - 9/2/2006 2:27:17 PM
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Dimechimes
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I love that story Tom and look forward to each and every one of your Knowledge and Attitude posts. You are well respected and all topic postings are always of a helpful nature and much appreciated!
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RE: Knowledge & Attitude - 9/2/2006 9:27:46 PM
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bigdog71
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My prayers will include you and your family.
I was told by my dad , don't talk about it just do it and give it 110%
if you do this no one will ever say you did'nt try.
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RE: Knowledge & Attitude - 9/3/2006 11:00:53 AM
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You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. However, you may have to work for it. In everything you do, always give a hundred percent and you'll never have to second guess yourself. Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but by then do something.
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RE: Knowledge & Attitude - 9/5/2006 6:38:55 AM
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Tom_Toll
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Most people give up just when they're about to acheive success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. Don't let this be you. Allow no one to dissuade you from your goal in life. Be all you can be.
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RE: Knowledge & Attitude - 9/5/2006 7:17:26 PM
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(Many of you may have heard this, or a version of this story, so forgive me if it's old, but I've always enjoyed this little story!)
There was a little bird flying around on a bright, winter day.
It became so cold that the little bird's wings froze, and he fell to the ground in the middle of a cow pasture.
So there he lay, freezing....dying.
After a bit, along comes a cow, and proceeds to poop all over the little bird.
Well, the poop was warm and thawed the little bird. Oh, Joy! He was saved!! He was so happy he stood up and started singing at the top of his little bird lungs!
Along comes a cat and eats the little bird.
The moral of the story....
1. Everyone gets pooped on.
2. If you're warm and safe and happy, keep your mouth shut!
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RE: Knowledge & Attitude - 9/5/2006 7:19:54 PM
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Jack Nichols
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That is a keeper!!!! I am going to forward it to about twelve people I know. Thanks for the laugh.
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RE: Knowledge & Attitude - 9/5/2006 7:39:31 PM
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Tom_Toll
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Meg, my Dad told me that story over 50 years ago. It is humorous, yet factual. Thanks for sharing it again.
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RE: Knowledge & Attitude - 9/12/2006 3:07:45 AM
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This is more knowledge than attitude:
My dad always told me that when negotiating, (after an offer has been made) the first one to speak loses.
That's a useful remembrance for all adjusters.
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Count your blessings.
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RE: Knowledge & Attitude - 9/18/2006 10:39:23 AM
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Tom_Toll
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Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse, as he is leaping.
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RE: Knowledge & Attitude - 9/21/2006 12:22:04 PM
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Tom_Toll
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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.
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RE: Knowledge & Attitude - 9/21/2006 12:30:28 PM
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quote:
ORIGINAL: StormSupport
(Many of you may have heard this, or a version of this story, so forgive me if it's old, but I've always enjoyed this little story!)
There was a little bird flying around on a bright, winter day.
It became so cold that the little bird's wings froze, and he fell to the ground in the middle of a cow pasture.
So there he lay, freezing....dying.
After a bit, along comes a cow, and proceeds to poop all over the little bird.
Well, the poop was warm and thawed the little bird. Oh, Joy! He was saved!! He was so happy he stood up and started singing at the top of his little bird lungs!
Along comes a cat and eats the little bird.
The moral of the story....
1. Everyone gets pooped on.
2. If you're warm and safe and happy, keep your mouth shut!
I love it too. The story is told in a classic spaghetti western. Excellent movie!
Rent the movie "My name is nobody" with Cast: Henry Fonda, Terence Hill, R.G. Armstrong; Directed by: Tonino Valerii
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RE: Knowledge & Attitude - 9/23/2006 12:43:05 AM
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ORIGINAL: Tom_Toll
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
In other words, don't whine, get off your butt and do something to make your life happy and full. Adjusting is a difficult profession, as it requires a lot of knowledge about many, many things. The only way to gain this knowledge is to go to schools designed for adjusting, got to semimars and similar events to meet new people and learn more about this industry. Life is short. Live it!
Big believer here. Thrive on ventures, adventures, risk whatever it takes, and trust in God (not people) to show you the way. Change is only new opportunity.
Action
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RE: Knowledge & Attitude - 9/26/2006 9:35:58 PM
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
-Horace Walpole
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RE: Knowledge & Attitude - 9/27/2006 10:35:47 AM
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nannsmith
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Mr. Toll,
Although you and your family are enduring a truly difficult time, it appears to me that you and yours have been truly blest to have had this incredible man in your life. As a survivor who has lost both parents, one through terminal cancer with years to prepare and accept the death of a mother; and one a fast and unexpected death of a father there is no easy way to get through the grief but a day at a time. 94 years is truly a blessing. Be proud to have had him in your life and honor him in your actions every day. My prayers are with you.
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RE: Knowledge & Attitude - 9/29/2006 9:01:01 AM
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Tom_Toll
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Life
~anonymous~
As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.
Don't be afraid that your life will end,
be afraid that it will never begin.
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