Thursday, December 25, 2014

Francois Pinault – Rising from Poverty to Becoming Luxury Retail King

Believing in what negative people think of you or giving in to self-limiting thoughts is the biggest obstruction to success. People who channelize negative comments into changing their lives are winners; French business mogul and art collector Francois Pinault is one of them.
                    Things went worst for Francois Pinault when he was consistently teased for being poor in high school by his fellow students and he finally opted to drop out. He turned the negative experiences of his life into a stream of positive energies, altered those negative words made against him into positive ones and proceeded in life with determination, consistency, and hard work. Difficult life situations made him learn to deal with them head on and he ended up becoming the man behind some the world’s famous high-fashion houses including Stella McCartney, Alexander McQueen, and YSL.
                               After quitting his high school in 1947, he joined his family’s business – timber trading. In the 1970s when he already had the knowledge of how to keep going on with business he started buying smaller firms and transforming them into giant enterprise. His strategy in taking over small enterprises and turning them into mega brands has helped him to establish the sprawling empire. Today his net worth stands over $15 billion.
                            His story is inspiring for those who believe in dreaming big and keeping faith that they do come true with perseverance and sincere hard work. Critics or doubters can’t take your courage away if you stay strong enough to stand firm, regardless of circumstances

Life lessons to learn

Life itself is an opportunity to make it meaningful and significant; some become explorer and dive deep to take out the treasure while the others just sit, watch, and applaud for them.
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t doesn’t matter if you’ve been a C or D grader throughout your school/college life. At any point in time, you can evolve as ‘the greatest’ provided you feel determined for something worthy and work diligently.

Never give up on life. If at any point in life you feel losing the battle, think about the people  and many others; read their stories, recharge your soul and continue the journey. It’s you who can help yourself to emerge a winner!

Bruce Lee on Succeeding in Whatever Field You Choose

We are the result of our thoughts; success follows those who act upon their ‘right’, ‘pure’ and ‘positive’ thoughts that determine the outcome. A single negative thought can devour your body’s flesh, consume mental strength and vigor and drive you insane. Watch your thoughts, they are as powerful as sunlight and as dangerous as poison.
All dreamers may not be winners but all winners are certainly big-dreamers who are not bothered of failure; failure that carries the seeds of greater reward. They are bothered of affording a low aim. People with low aim surrender their hopes and dreams to self-limiting beliefs and reside within the blinkered outlook of the life but people with great vision embrace failure with open arms and arise on their way to success. Demand for success and live for your dreams; let failures come and go.
Cast aside all fixed patterns that limit your true potential and try to restrict in the circle of illusion where you end up in your same starting point. Fixed pattern never works out neatly or clearly specially for those who desire to evolve with their distinctiveness they have dreamt of. so just create a pattern on your own. Innovative ideas are often found outside the box, which is why creative people feel uncomfortable in the small fixed patters. They struggle, stumble upon and face gruesome circumstances but come out at the end.
When you are fenced in by the skeleton of your rigid habits, you actually close yourself from all form of probability that could have been taken you to the era of freedom where you can move like water, respond like an echo, and withstand the storm where trees get uprooted. Break the underlying layer of rigidity in your personality to grow while letting things happen in their way and adjusting to them

God, in reality, is no external being who does magic (as most of us think) when you’re at your knees praying for you wish. It’s actually impossible to find HIM outside of yourself, even if you try for your whole life; therefore derive bliss within your inner-self. When you demand everything from none but yourself you accomplish every bit of things you’ve ever wished.
“There is one Supreme Ruler, the inmost Self of all beings, who makes His one form manifold. Eternal happiness belongs to the wise, who perceive Him within themselves – not to others.” Vedas

A lifetime isn’t forever, it is to be felt to the fullest and explored to its full potential in your own interpretation; so, don’t adjust it in others’ concepts, squeeze it within any traditional or patterned ideas or discipline it in systems that don’t work for you.

Doubters are the greatest destroyers of self esteem and self confidence, they fill your aspirations up with gibberish and debris by showing you how everything is theoretically impossible. Remember, there will be doubters, non-believers but there will always be you to prove them wrong by shining in the morning glow with your positive beliefs.

We all have 24 hours a day but what makes the difference is what we do with this precious time. If you are spending time sleeping or imaging something or doing funny stuffs, you are really not wasting time but if you are spending time looking for the key to happiness or worrying at something, then you really are. The time wasted never come back, so invest it in every possible means.

Life is a series of punches and challenges and they will blow you off regardless of whether you wish for it or not. Difficulty or challenge is the passageway to engagement and improvement in life; therefore, develop the strength and vitality to endure and overcome them. The joy of overcoming difficulties is divine, don’t miss it.

You are born talented and gifted! It just is that you haven’t explored your true potential. If you’ve ever felt to copy someone (may be your role model), then take inspiration from how he/she dealt with difficulties, how they were strong and held their head high in front of struggles and overcome challenges. When you try to be the other version on someone, you will ultimately become Mr. NOBODY.