Saturday, March 31, 2012
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Testimonial Re: Etiquette Networks
Just want to give a testimonial and sing the praises of Ramon Morales and his team members Eric Tay and Rhonda ... http://p.ost.im/p/e4pGhJ
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Vets on Set Event
Picture of set of 1st Vets on Set Event : John Duffy hosting and speakers Producer/Director Bryan H. Carroll ... http://p.ost.im/p/eVFCEk
Monday, March 26, 2012
Act of Valor Screening
Just saw Act of Valor for the 2nd time. Liked it even more than the first viewing. A powerful film. The screeni ... http://p.ost.im/p/e4vRaV
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Friday, March 23, 2012
Thought for the Day - Vince Lombardi Week - Man's Finest Hour
"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious."
-- Vince Lombardi
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Thought for the Day - Vince Lombardi Week - Winning is Not a Sometime Thing
"Winning is not a sometime thing: it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do the right thing once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."
-- Vince Lombardi
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
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Thought for the Day - Vince Lombardi Week - Power of Your Will
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." -- Vince Lombardi
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Thought for the Day - Vince Lombardi Week - Commit to Excellence
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."
-- Vince Lombardi
Monday, March 19, 2012
Thought for the Day - Vince Lombardi Week - Give More Than Anyone Else
"All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else."
-- Vince Lombardi
-- Vince Lombardi
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Happy St Patrick's Day
I have very fond memories of going to the St Patrick's Parade in New York every year with my mother Ann when I was a kid living in the Bronx. Four years ago I spent St Patrick's Day in Foxford Ireland at a very special reunion of my family. It was my first time in Ireland and very magical. A few months before, my cousin Sharon in the UK found us through the Internet and reunited us with our family that we never thought we would ever find. A St Patrick Day miracle. So here's to my newly discovered and large family.
I now have family in Ireland, England, Germany, Australia, Canada, and here in the USA.
So on this St Patrick's Day....Up the "O'Donnell's, Duffy's, Gavin's, Burton's, Cassini's, Quinn's, Prescott's, Foran's and Up the Irish
and Slainte........
Friday, March 16, 2012
Thought for the Day - Lessons I Learned - A Prayer - John Duffy
A Prayer
"May I grow and become more and become bigger. May I contribute more, learn more, experience more, do more, achieve more and yet always be grateful and satisfied with all I am, have, done and am already. I have been blessed and lived a blessed life that keeps getting better. I am thankful for my journey from poverty in the South Bronx to success today. I am grateful for all that I have experienced in life including the good and bad."
-- John Duffy
"May I grow and become more and become bigger. May I contribute more, learn more, experience more, do more, achieve more and yet always be grateful and satisfied with all I am, have, done and am already. I have been blessed and lived a blessed life that keeps getting better. I am thankful for my journey from poverty in the South Bronx to success today. I am grateful for all that I have experienced in life including the good and bad."
-- John Duffy
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Thought for the Day - Lessons I Learned Life is Not Fair So What - John Duffy,
Life is Not Fair, So What.
Somewhere we all got the idea that life is supposed to be fair. Maybe we learned it in school. I know I learned it somewhere and it gave me the excuse when I was young to complain, whine and blame others for where I was or wasn't in life. How can it be fair?
We all start out in different places and different starting points. I started out in the Bronx as the second son of two Irish immigrants. They had a third grade education at best and came to America during the Great Depression to make a better life. My mother worked as a maid and factory worker and my father as a butcher in a meat plant. My dad died when I was four and I grew up living on two check. My mother supported us on my deceased dad's social security check and his VA check for the time he served in the Army. We were poor but how could we be anything else?
That's where we started out and where we were. Yes, there were so many more who were rich and privileged and it wasn't fair. Or so I thought at the time as I came to resent and envy those who were successful. Of course that left me in the same place I was.
Luckily I began to be exposed to ideas about personal responsibility leading to success and I came to recognize that we all had opportunities but we had to find them or make them. We had to be the driving force for making a better life for ourselves and our families just like my parents tried by coming to America.
So life isn't fair, never was and never will be. Yet we can choose to NOT complain, whine, blame and hate others who are successful but instead strive to make a better life for ourselves and our families and contribute to making a better life for others as well. Your choice...
-- John Duffy
Somewhere we all got the idea that life is supposed to be fair. Maybe we learned it in school. I know I learned it somewhere and it gave me the excuse when I was young to complain, whine and blame others for where I was or wasn't in life. How can it be fair?
We all start out in different places and different starting points. I started out in the Bronx as the second son of two Irish immigrants. They had a third grade education at best and came to America during the Great Depression to make a better life. My mother worked as a maid and factory worker and my father as a butcher in a meat plant. My dad died when I was four and I grew up living on two check. My mother supported us on my deceased dad's social security check and his VA check for the time he served in the Army. We were poor but how could we be anything else?
That's where we started out and where we were. Yes, there were so many more who were rich and privileged and it wasn't fair. Or so I thought at the time as I came to resent and envy those who were successful. Of course that left me in the same place I was.
Luckily I began to be exposed to ideas about personal responsibility leading to success and I came to recognize that we all had opportunities but we had to find them or make them. We had to be the driving force for making a better life for ourselves and our families just like my parents tried by coming to America.
So life isn't fair, never was and never will be. Yet we can choose to NOT complain, whine, blame and hate others who are successful but instead strive to make a better life for ourselves and our families and contribute to making a better life for others as well. Your choice...
-- John Duffy
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Thought for the Day - Lessons I Learned Responsibility - John Duffy
Responsibility
Who is responsible for your life? Who or what is the cause of the good, bad and ugly in your life? Is it your parents, the government, the rich, politicians, your race, sex, class or is it the man in the mirror?
I can't say exactly when I took 100% responsibility for my life but it was a major turning point when I did. No it wasn't magical but I became empowered to create the best life I was capable of creating.
I was introduced and exposed to the idea of being 100% responsible for your life in books I read and listened to tape programs from a series of self help authors and speakers. I remember attending a seminar in Hawaii with Tony Robbins where he had a series of speakers on stage who overcame some of the worst adversities and disabilities imaginable and created lives that inspired others. Maybe it was then that it really hit home and I had a light bulb, Aha moment. I realized that I was blaming others for my situation and the lack of results and success in my life instead of taking full responsibility. I decided that I would never again give away my power or believe that others were responsible for my life.
So I suggest you take on the belief that you are indeed 100% responsible for all the good, bad and ugly in your life and you can create more good and less bad and and hopefully very little or no ugly if you choose to.
So if it's to be it's up to me. I am 100% responsible for my life and you should be 100% responsible for yours...
-- John Duffy
Who is responsible for your life? Who or what is the cause of the good, bad and ugly in your life? Is it your parents, the government, the rich, politicians, your race, sex, class or is it the man in the mirror?
I can't say exactly when I took 100% responsibility for my life but it was a major turning point when I did. No it wasn't magical but I became empowered to create the best life I was capable of creating.
I was introduced and exposed to the idea of being 100% responsible for your life in books I read and listened to tape programs from a series of self help authors and speakers. I remember attending a seminar in Hawaii with Tony Robbins where he had a series of speakers on stage who overcame some of the worst adversities and disabilities imaginable and created lives that inspired others. Maybe it was then that it really hit home and I had a light bulb, Aha moment. I realized that I was blaming others for my situation and the lack of results and success in my life instead of taking full responsibility. I decided that I would never again give away my power or believe that others were responsible for my life.
So I suggest you take on the belief that you are indeed 100% responsible for all the good, bad and ugly in your life and you can create more good and less bad and and hopefully very little or no ugly if you choose to.
So if it's to be it's up to me. I am 100% responsible for my life and you should be 100% responsible for yours...
-- John Duffy
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Thought for the Day - Lessons I Learned Perspective - John Duffy
Perspective
There's a Bette Midler song "From a Distance" that captures how we see things differently from a distance or with a different perspective. Most of us get caught up in seeing things from just one perspective. Our perspective. Of course we assume we know everything and all our views and opinions are total truth. Rarely do we make an effort to step outside ourselves and attempt to look at life and ourselves from a different perspective.
I remember the first time I was confronted with an opportunity to step outside myself and see things from other perspectives and it changed my life for ever, In the late 80"s I attended a two week Tony Robbins seminar in Maui. I attended to change my life. Tony Robbins introduced us to a group of speakers who had to deal with some serious challenges in life. They included one man who was a paraplegic, another who was a prisoner of the Viet Cong, another woman who was deaf and became a comedian and another who suffered multiple life threatening accidents and was burnt over 90% of his body. All of them were living successful meaningful lives and were role models of possibility.
For the first time I saw my life's challenges from their perspective and it shifted me. It put my challenges into perspective and it gave me a tool that I would use many times in the future to always put the obstacles and problems in my life into perspective.
Today I use the metaphor from "A Distance" to give myself a new point of view and perspective to view my problems. It helps to minimize my challenges and gives me strength to move forward.
So I suggest you find ways to see yourself and your problems from different perspectives and see how that can help you....
-- John Duffy
There's a Bette Midler song "From a Distance" that captures how we see things differently from a distance or with a different perspective. Most of us get caught up in seeing things from just one perspective. Our perspective. Of course we assume we know everything and all our views and opinions are total truth. Rarely do we make an effort to step outside ourselves and attempt to look at life and ourselves from a different perspective.
I remember the first time I was confronted with an opportunity to step outside myself and see things from other perspectives and it changed my life for ever, In the late 80"s I attended a two week Tony Robbins seminar in Maui. I attended to change my life. Tony Robbins introduced us to a group of speakers who had to deal with some serious challenges in life. They included one man who was a paraplegic, another who was a prisoner of the Viet Cong, another woman who was deaf and became a comedian and another who suffered multiple life threatening accidents and was burnt over 90% of his body. All of them were living successful meaningful lives and were role models of possibility.
For the first time I saw my life's challenges from their perspective and it shifted me. It put my challenges into perspective and it gave me a tool that I would use many times in the future to always put the obstacles and problems in my life into perspective.
Today I use the metaphor from "A Distance" to give myself a new point of view and perspective to view my problems. It helps to minimize my challenges and gives me strength to move forward.
So I suggest you find ways to see yourself and your problems from different perspectives and see how that can help you....
-- John Duffy
Monday, March 12, 2012
Thought for the Day - Lessons I Learned Identity - John Duffy
Who are you? How do you identify yourself? Are you a husband, wife, father, worker, employer, athlete ?
When someone asks you who you are how do you respond? Identity is one of the most powerful forces in our lives. How we are identified or how we choose to identify ourselves can either empower us or limit us. We have a choice to create a more powerful empowering identity.
I learned this distinction from Tony Robbins at one of his seminar and my decision to create new more empowering identities help me make the transition from who I was or thought I was at the time to who I have become and who I cam continuing to become.
At the time I took his seminar I saw myself as a postal worker, a struggling actor and an average person. I decided to step into a larger vision of myself and my life as a leader, a motivator and that journey led to my taking on many new identities as a counselor, public speaker, actor, writer, producer, motivator, husband , father. The large picture identity I stepped into was to see myself as a leader and a role model of possibility.
So I suggest you expand your identity and your vision of who you are and can become. It doesn't matter where you start but where you end up.
-- John Duffy
When someone asks you who you are how do you respond? Identity is one of the most powerful forces in our lives. How we are identified or how we choose to identify ourselves can either empower us or limit us. We have a choice to create a more powerful empowering identity.
I learned this distinction from Tony Robbins at one of his seminar and my decision to create new more empowering identities help me make the transition from who I was or thought I was at the time to who I have become and who I cam continuing to become.
At the time I took his seminar I saw myself as a postal worker, a struggling actor and an average person. I decided to step into a larger vision of myself and my life as a leader, a motivator and that journey led to my taking on many new identities as a counselor, public speaker, actor, writer, producer, motivator, husband , father. The large picture identity I stepped into was to see myself as a leader and a role model of possibility.
So I suggest you expand your identity and your vision of who you are and can become. It doesn't matter where you start but where you end up.
-- John Duffy
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Friday, March 09, 2012
Thought for the Day - Song Quote Week - Hero
Hero lyrics
Songwriters: Kroeger, Chad;
There's a hero
If you look inside your heart
You don't have to be afraid
Of what you are
There's an answer
If you reach into your soul
And the sorrow that you know
Will melt away
And then a hero comes along
With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you'll finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you
It's a long road
And you face the world alone
No one reaches out a hand
For you to hold
You can find love
If you search within yourself
And the emptiness you felt
Will disappear
And then a hero comes along
With the strength to carry on
[From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/m/mariah-carey-lyrics/hero-lyrics.html ]
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you
Oh ho, Lord knows
Dreams are hard to follow
But don't let anyone
Tear them away, hey yea
Hold on
There will be tomorrow
In time, you find the way, hey
Then a hero comes along
With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you
That a hero lies in you
Mmm, that a hero lies in you
Songwriters: Kroeger, Chad;
There's a hero
If you look inside your heart
You don't have to be afraid
Of what you are
There's an answer
If you reach into your soul
And the sorrow that you know
Will melt away
And then a hero comes along
With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you'll finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you
It's a long road
And you face the world alone
No one reaches out a hand
For you to hold
You can find love
If you search within yourself
And the emptiness you felt
Will disappear
And then a hero comes along
With the strength to carry on
[From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/m/mariah-carey-lyrics/hero-lyrics.html ]
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you
Oh ho, Lord knows
Dreams are hard to follow
But don't let anyone
Tear them away, hey yea
Hold on
There will be tomorrow
In time, you find the way, hey
Then a hero comes along
With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you
That a hero lies in you
Mmm, that a hero lies in you
Thursday, March 08, 2012
Thought for the Day - Song Quote Week - Hope You Dance
Writer: TIA SILLERS, MARK D. SANDERS
I hope you never lose your sense of wonder
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger
May you never take one single breath for granted
God forbid love ever leave you empty handed
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance
I hope you dance
I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Livin' might mean takin' chances, but they're worth takin'
Lovin' might be a mistake, but it's worth makin'
Don't let some Hellbent heart leave you bitter
When you come close to sellin' out, reconsider
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance
I hope you dance
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along)
I hope you dance
I hope you dance
(Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder, where those years have gone?)
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
Dance
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along)
I hope you dance
I hope you dance
(Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder, where those years have gone?)
I hope you never lose your sense of wonder
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger
May you never take one single breath for granted
God forbid love ever leave you empty handed
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance
I hope you dance
I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Livin' might mean takin' chances, but they're worth takin'
Lovin' might be a mistake, but it's worth makin'
Don't let some Hellbent heart leave you bitter
When you come close to sellin' out, reconsider
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance
I hope you dance
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along)
I hope you dance
I hope you dance
(Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder, where those years have gone?)
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
Dance
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along)
I hope you dance
I hope you dance
(Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder, where those years have gone?)
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Thought for the Day - Song Quote Week - Never Give Up on a Dream
(Rod Stewart, Bernie Taupin / Jim Cregan)
If there's doubt and you're cold,
don't you worry what the future holds.
We've gotta have heroes to teach us all
to never give up on a dream.
Claim the road, touch the sun,
no force on earth could stop you run.
When your heart bursts like the sun
never never give up on a dream.
Shadows fall, daylight dies,
freedoms never got a place to hide.
Search forever finish line
but never give up on your dream.
Crazy notions fill your head,
you gotta break all the records set.
Push yourself until the end
but don't you ever give up on your dream.
Now listen to me
you don't need no restrictions yeah
Oh, sing it again
you can't live on sympathy.
You just need to go the distance,
oh the distance
that's all you need to be free,
to be free, to be free, to be free.
Sing a song for me children
you don't need no restrictions yeah
you can't live on sympathy.
You just need to go the distance,
that's all you need to be free,
Now listen to me!
Inspiring all to never lose,
it'll take a long long time before they fill your shoes
it'll take somebody, somebody, who's lot like you
who never gave up on a dream.
No, you never gave up on a dream
no, you never gave up on a dream.
You never, never, never,
never gave up on a dream.
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Thought for the Day - Song Quotes Week - Eye of Tiger
Risin up
straight to the top
had the guts got the glory
went the distance now I'm not gonna stop
just a man and his will to survive
It's the eye of the tiger
its the cream of the fight
risin up to the challenge of our rivals
and the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night
and he's watching us all with the eye of the tiger
The eye of the tiger......
The eye of the tiger......
The eye of the tiger......
straight to the top
had the guts got the glory
went the distance now I'm not gonna stop
just a man and his will to survive
It's the eye of the tiger
its the cream of the fight
risin up to the challenge of our rivals
and the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night
and he's watching us all with the eye of the tiger
The eye of the tiger......
The eye of the tiger......
The eye of the tiger......
Monday, March 05, 2012
Thought for the Day - Song Quotes Week - Proud
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
It's never too late to try
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
You could be so many people
If you make that break for freedom
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
-- Proud
It's never too late to try
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
You could be so many people
If you make that break for freedom
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
-- Proud
Sunday, March 04, 2012
Saturday, March 03, 2012
Friday, March 02, 2012
Thought for the Day - Empowering Questions Week - Growth
How can I learn and grow from every situation I encounter?
-- John Duffy
-- John Duffy
Thursday, March 01, 2012
Thought for the Day - Empowering Questions Week - Perspective
What is good about this problem or how can i learn and grow from this problem? Why are obstacles and challenges really a great thing?
-- John Duffy
-- John Duffy
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