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YOUNG VS. OLD

“Anyone who stops learning is old…” – Henry Ford

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”– Henry Ford

Many people stop learning after school years. One of the reasons could be that they don’t have to take exams to prove their skills to someone or themselves to get an approval anymore.

Reading books used to be their daily chores. Now that they don’t have to go to school, they lost interests in learning; they want to own their freedom without being told by anyone which books to read and learn anymore.

I believe learning is one way to stay young, simulate our brain and take courage to step up to the next level.

When I grew up in Japan, the public school system made students to go to school from Monday through Saturday, following German academic culture. Actually, it wasn’t bad at all. I never got bored because school was the place where I got to hang out with my friends. I really loved going to school and learning also because we had many after-school clubs to choose from to stay either physically, mentally and socially active. The best of all, it was available free for all students — except paying some extra materials. For an example, if a student wanted to belong to a music club, s/he could just borrow an instrument from school to join the club at no cost which means the public school system gave them equal opportunities to those who wanted to learn and discover their gifts and talents.

I was fortunate to learn Japanese Calligraphy and Ballet dance as Visual Arts and Performance Arts since I was 5 years old, however, my learning experience of Ballet only lasted for two years due to the bitter experience with my teacher’s method. On the contrary, my learning experience of Japanese Calligraphy, Sho-do (shoh-doh) lasted for seven years, which ended in the final year of my elementary school due to my parent’s moving where was far away from my teacher’s house. I had to stop learning my favorite art form, but I was very happy that my parents were able to move from a small two-bedroom apartment where four of us had lived including my brother to their dream house that they had designed and built.

Thankfully, I received a wonderful opportunity to attend University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire to study Fine Arts, majoring in Oil Painting, Metal Smithing, Advertising & Design, and Art History. Since I was a child, I always wanted to learn and get better at drawing and painting, I decided to enroll myself to study Fine Arts, such as oil painting, water color painting, drawing, photojournalism, art & design, graphic design, etc.

Because English is my second language, I had to spend three times as much as native English-speakers to read textbooks in my first year of college. But with Grace of God, I graduated with honors Magna Cum Laude. I believe God is joyfully pleased to know that I discovered my gifts and talents that He had shaped in me before I was born. This is what God says in Jeremiah 1:15 (The Message Bible Version).

Jeremiah 1:5 The Message Bible Version

“Before I shaped you in the womb, 
I knew all about you. 
Before you saw the light of day, 
I had holy plans for you:
A prophet to the nations— 
that’s what I had in mind for you.”

Jokingly, I tell others that I owe to my Art History professor who brutally gave me a “C” as the final grade in my first semester of my school enrollment. That was my first Art History class, and it was Greek Mythology. Those who took this class received half credits because they didn’t spell Greek words like Mycenae* perfectly without making any spelling mistakes such as Mycene without an “a” before “e.” I remember I was so mad at the professor that I promised myself, “From now on, I will study harder to get an A or A+ in his all Art History classes and all others classes.”

*Mycenae, an archaeological site near Mykines in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece.

Soar Above the Storm Like an Eagle

Some people press on through the storm as though the Spirit inside of them was used as a fuel.

Additionally, I would say that adversity sometimes push people to the next level which is higher than it used to be –if they use the right wind at the right time– just as an eagle soars above the storm. Eagles have the high vision, so they have the ability to focus anything up to 5 kilometer (about 3 miles) away. They can fly up to 10,000 feet and soar above the storms and stretch their wings to get the highest potential.

How about you?

If you are going through a storm right now in your life, do you believe you can soar like an eagle, or you want to stay on the same spot because you are experiencing fears to fly high to dream a new dream and achieve a new goal?

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t —
you’re right.” – Henry Ford

Henry Ford

Henry Ford is one of America’s foremost industrialists, a business magnate, the inventor of the Ford Model T car and the founder of Ford Motor Company. Ford never had love for the family farm so he started his journey by working as an apprentice machinist in Detroit. Because he put passion in what he was doing, Ford became an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company, and after becoming chief engineer, he had enough money to focus his attention on personal experiments. Thus, in 1903, Henry Ford established the Ford Motor Company. He developed the assembly line mode of production, which had a huge impact on the industry. This led to selling millions of cars and made Ford Motor Company one of the most famous companies worldwide.

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Success Quotes by Henry Ford

“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.”

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”

“There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.”

“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.”

“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.”

“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.”

“Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.”

“Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.”

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”

“One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do.”

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”

“If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”

“You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn’t correct. We all start with all there is, it’s how we use it that makes things possible.”

“Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”

“Vision without execution is just hallucination.”

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”

“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t — you’re right.”

Success Quotes by Darren Hardy

“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”

“You can only control 2 things in your life: your attitude and your actions.”

“You get started by taking one small step, one action at a time.”

“Start your day with why, then get on with your what.”

“If you really want to maintain a good habit, make sure you pay attention to it at least once a day, and you’re far more likely to succeed.”

“Fear is not real. It’s an illusion, a phenomenon that resides entirely within”

“The activities that you are most afraid of are the activities that can cause a breakthrough in your success.”

Vision & Goals

“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”

“There’s nothing wrong with ordinary. I just prefer to shoot for extraordinary.”

“The first step toward change is awareness. If you want to get from where you are to where you want to be, you have to start by becoming aware of the choices that lead you away from your desired destination.”

“Everything you need to be great is already inside you. Stop waiting for someone or something to light your fire. YOU have the match.”

“It’s not what you learn or what you know; it’s what you do with what you know and learn.”

“Your biggest challenge isn’t that you’ve intentionally been making bad choices. Your biggest challenge is that you’ve been sleepwalking through your choices.”

“When you define your goals, you give your brain something new to look for and focus on.”

“Motivation without action, leads to self-delusion.”

“Everyone is affected by three kinds of influences: input (what you feed your mind), associations (the people with whom you spend time), and environment (your surroundings).”

“Hang out with those who have a common future, not a common past.”

“Your past doesn’t define you, it prepares you.”

“Choices are at the root of every one of your results. Each choice starts a behavior that over time becomes a habit.”

“It’s not enough to choose to be successful. You have to dig deeper than that to find your core motivation, to activate your superpower. Your why-power.”

“You alone are responsible for what you do, don’t do, or how you respond to what’s done to you.”

“Unsuccessful people carry their goals around in their head like marbles rattling around in a can, and we say a goal that is not in writing is merely a fantasy.”

Garden your head – pull out the weeds of excuses and plant the seeds of greatness.”

“Risk means acting without certainty.” 

“Don’t envy the achiever, BE the achiever.”

“In essence, you make your choices, and then your choices make you.”

Challenge | Progression | Success

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge.”

“Once-dominant empires have failed for this very reason. People get to a certain level of success and get too comfortable.”

“Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them down with aggressive pursuit.”

“When it comes to breaking old habits and starting new ones, remember to be patient with yourself. You’ve got to expect it’s going to take time and effort before you see lasting results.”

“If your plan isn’t working, change the plan, not the goal.”

“Falling is part of getting better.”

“Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” 

“Your adversity is your advantage. Your past has built muscles, not wounds.”

“If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.”

“There is a one thing that 99 percent of “failures” and “successful” folks have in common – they all hate doing the same things. The difference is successful people do them anyway.”

“Consistency is the key to achieving and maintaining momentum.”

“What controls your attention, controls your life.”

“Critics are bitter dreamers gone scared. Empathize and ignore.”

“Don’t wait for anyone’s permission to be successful, take it.”

Darren Hardy

Darren Hardy is an American author, keynote speaker, advisor, and former publisher of SUCCESS magazine. Hardy is a New York Times best-selling author, who wrote The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster, Living Your Best Year Ever and The Compound Effect.

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