Thought for the Day - Luck

“I have not been any more lucky or unlucky than anyone else. The difference is when luck came my way, I took advantage of it.”

—Richard Branson

Thought for the Day - Shortcomings

"To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else."

~ the Dalai Lam

Thanks Gloria Morrison

Thought for the Day - Miracles

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

- Albert Einstein

Thanks Gloria Morrison

Thought for the Day - Don't Knock Success

"Celebrate Success. Don’t follow the culture and knock success and the successful. Create your own success."

- John Duffy

Sunday's Eclectic Music Videos # 2 - Living in America

Sunday's Eclectic Music Videos # 1 - Mr Jones

Saturday's Motivational Video - Pursue Your Passion

Thought for the Day - The Death of Fear

"Do what you fear and the Death of Fear is certain!"

- Tony rRobbins

Thought for the Day - The Race is with Yourself

"Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself. "

- Unknown

An Irish Toast

"May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future"


"May your troubles be less, And your blessings be more. And nothing but happiness come through your door."



Here's a toast to Friends Of Ireland on Linkedin and James Hayes the Founder

St. Patrick's Day Music

Happy St Patrick's Day

Happy Saint Patrick's Day 2010

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. Two 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........

Thought for the Day - You Always Have a Choice

" It’s all about Choices. You always have choices, make the right ones."

- John Duffy

Thought for the Day - Be a Leader

" Be A Leader. Step Up. Life needs more leaders not followers."

- John Duffy

Sunday's Eclectic Music Videos # 1 - Anyway

Saturday's Motivational Video - Date with Destiny

Thought for the Day - Never Quit

"Never Quit. - Promise yourself you will never give up."

- John Duffy

Thought for the Day - Get in the Game

"Take Action and then takes some more. Get in the game."

- John Duffy

Thought for the Day - Daily Improvement

" Daily Improvement (DI) - Decide – Resolve – Act. Everyday do
just 1 more thing to improve. What if you improved 1 thing every day? "

- John Duffy

Thought for the Day - Solutions

"Solutions, Solutions, Solutions. Okay, I heard the problem
now what’s the solution? There’s always a way and an answer.
Your job is to find it."

- John Duffy

Thought for the Day - Service = Rewards

"We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service."

~ Earl Nightingale

Sunday's Eclectic Music Videos # 2 - A Moment Like This

Sunday's Eclectic Music Videos # 1 - This Is My Now

Saturday's Motivational Video - Topher Morrison

Thought for the Day - True Greatness

"To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them."

~ Charles de Montesquieu

Thought for the Day - Dream in the Daylight

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

- - Edgar Allen Poe

Thought for the Day - Make a Life

"Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life."

- Les Brown

Thought for the Day - Touch Someone's Life

"In the end, it doesn't matter what you Drive, How big your house is, or what you have for money, it only matters how you touched another person's Life."

- Thanks Lisa Tavana FB

Thought for the Day - One Step Past Giving Up

"The Best Results ALWAYS Occur One Step Past Where Most People Give Up."

- Chris Guerriero

This is true in exercising, dieting and in life. Push a little harder, go the extra step or the extra mile. You will be rewarded for the slight difference between being a winner or a loser in the game of life......

John Duffy

Sunday's Eclectic Music Videos # 2 -Do I Make You Proud

Sunday's Eclectic Music Video 2010 # 1- Can't Touch This

Saturday's Motivational Video - Steven Covey

Thought for the Day - Life is Uncharted Territory

“Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.”

- leo buscaglia

Thought for the Day - An Inadequate Life

"Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life."

~ Bertolt Brecht

Thought for the Day - Don't Treat Every Thing as a Nail

"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. "

~ Abraham Maslow

Thought for the Day - The Human Spirit

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

-William Channing

Thought for the Day - Get Ready

"Whatever you're ready for is ready for you."

-Mark Victor Hansen

Sunday's Eclectic Music Video 2010 # 2 - Blame it on the Rain

Remember where you were when this aired? Milli Vanilli and Lip Singing..... A time of less than authentic music.......
Yet this was one of their better ones.....

Sunday's Eclectic Music Video 2010 # 1 - Ice Ice Baby

Remember where you were when this aired? A time of less than authentic music.......

Saturday's Motivational Video - 21 Laws Of Leadership

Thought for the Day - One Must Be Willing to Learn

"To be taught, one must be willing to learn. One must be willing to change, sometimes in fundamental ways, because to learn is to change.:

Bill Roorbach

Thought for the Day - Who We Become

" I Believe....That our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, But, we are responsible for who we become. "

- Unknown

Thanks Sharon.....

Thought for the Day - Hang with the Best

"You will become the combined average of the five people you hang around the most."

- Jim Rohn

Thought for the Day - Results Require Action

"Resolutions' ONLY require WORDS... But RESULTS require ACTION! Commit & Win"

- Tony Robbins

Thought for the Day - Make Yourself Happy

"If you expect another person to make you happy, you'll be endlessly disappointed."

~ M. Scott Peck

Sunday's Eclectic Music Video 2010 # 3 - I Could Fall in Love

Sunday's Eclectic Music Video 2010 # 2 -Feel The Love

Sunday's Eclectic Music Video 2010 # 1 - I Will Always Love You

To the 2 Special Women (Wife and Daughter) in my life Happy Valentine's Day

Saturday's Motivational Video - Prime the Pump

Thought for the Day - Begin with the End in Mind

"Begin with the End in Mind"

- Steven Covey

Thought for the Day - Planning is indispensable

" No plan ever survives first contact with the enemy'

- Old Military Axiom

"The plans were useless, but the planning was indispensable'


- General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Thought for the Day - Stuff happens

"Sh!t happens.... so be ready to deal with it"

- Darren Hardy

Thought for the Day - Goal Achieving

" Goal achieving is a delicate balance between planning and improvisation"

- Darren Hardy

Thought for the Day - Life is an Experiment

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunday's Eclectic Music Videos # 2 - Empire State of Mind

Sunday's Eclectic Music Videos # 1 - Dead and Gone

Saturday's Motivational Video - Leadership

Thought for the Day - Help People Get What They Want

"You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough people get what they want."

Zig Ziglar

Thought for the Day - Hear What isn't Being Said

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said"

Thought for the Day - Your Present and Future

"If you want to know your past - look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future - look into your present actions."

~ Chinese Proverb ~

Thanks Jason C Allen

Thought for the Day - Become Someone You Have Never Have Been

"To achieve something you have never achieved before you must become someone you have never beeen.'

- Les Brown

Thought for the Day - Become More

"If you want to have more, you must become more"

Sunday's Eclectic Music Videos # 2 - People Get Ready

Sunday's Eclectic Music Videos # 1 - Wish You Were Here

Saturday's Motivational Video - ABC's

Thought for the Day - Expectations

" Expect little and, as a result receive little. Have great expectations."

Unknown

Thanks Darren Hardy - Success Magazine

Thought for the Day - Wisdom

There is an Irish saying “Ní thagan ciall roimh aois” (sense comes with age)

Definitions of Wisdom

* accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
* the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight
* ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
* the quality of being prudent and sensible

I know the saying is true in my life. When I was younger I thought I knew everything and as I matured I realized how little I knew. I still have strong views but now I know they are just my opinions and not necessarily truth and I remain open to questioning them.

Thought For Day - Get Up 8 Times

"The secret to success? It's simple "Fall down 7 times get up 8 times! "

- proverb

Thought For Day - Always Do What You Are Afraid Of

"Always do what you are afraid to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thanks Tony Robbins.....

Thought For Day - Tomorrow a Vision of Hope

“Yesterday is a dream. Tomorrow is a vision. But today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.”

Unknown

Thanks to Michael Josephson @ Character Counts

Sunday's Eclectic Music Videos # 1 - King of Sorrow

Sunday's Eclectic Music Videos # 1 - Mother

Saturday's Motivational Video - Your Calling

Thought For Day - What's Important in Life

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."

-Pericles

Thought For Day - Climb the Right Ladder to Success

"If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG BUILDING."

-Stephen Covey

Thought For Day - Do it Now

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

~Michael Landon

Thought For Day - You Aren't Born With Character

"Character isn't something you were born with and can't change,
like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with
and must take responsibility for forming."

— Jim Rohn

Martin Luther King Day - I Have a Dream

MLK - A LEADER WITH A DREAM - AMERICA A COUNTRY OF DREAMS

Thought For Day - Face the Music

"Real leaders today face the music all the time, even when they do not like the tune."

Jason Binn

Sunday's Eclectic Music Videos # 2 - Sade

Sunday's Eclectic Music Videos # 1 - Alicia Keyes

Saturday's Motivational Video - Nido Qubein

Thought For Day - You Need to Have Great Depth

"If you want to achieve great height you will need to have great depth"

Jason Binn

Thought For Day - The Difference Between Obstacle and Opportunity

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.
– J. Sidlow Baxter

Haitian Tragedy

The incredible, unpredictable and almost incomprehensible loss of life in Haiti brings home the reality of how precious and fleeting life is. The world feels the sorrow for the losses in Haiti. A truly tragic situation. Life is Precious.... Take a moment to be grateful for the gift of life and make a contribution to those in need in Haiti....

Thought For Day - Dreams Bring Us Together

"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."

~ Eugene Ionesco

Thought For Day - You're Best

"Only the mediocre are always at their best."

Jean giraudoux

Thought For Day - No Drama, Mama

"I refuse to be an actor in your drama,when I did not audition for the part."

Thanks Gen Hersey (FB)

Sunday's Eclectic Music Videos # 2 - What a Feeling

Sunday's Eclectic Music Videos # 1- Roan Inish

Saturday's Motivational Video - Zig Ziglar

Thought For Day - What Mark Will You Leave ?

"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever."

Francois Muriac

Thought For Day - What's the Solution

"You always pass failure on your way to success."

Mickey Rooney

Thought For Day - What are You Going to Tell Your Brain?

"Your brain has one function—to do exactly what you tell it to do."

Jean Houston

What are you going to tell it to do?

Thought For Day - A Little Umph

"The difference between try and triumph is a little umph."

— Unknown Author

Thought For Day - Have Greater Dreams

"Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.”

Doug Ivester

Thanks Tony Robbbins

Sunday's Eclectic Music Videos # 2 - Change

Sunday's Eclectic Music Videos # 1 - Stairway to Heaven

Happy New Year 2010 - Make This Your Best Year Ever

A Happy New Year to all my family in Ireland, England, Australia, Canada, Germany and the United States, and to all my friends, colleagues and to everyone who reads my blog. Best wishes for a happy, successful, productive and prosperous New Year.....

Make This Year Be Your Best Year Ever.............

New Year New You John Duffy's 15 Rules to Master Your Life

To start off the New Year. My Fifteen Rules to Master Your Life

1. Solutions, Solutions, Solutions. Okay, I heard the problem
now what’s the solution? There’s always a way and an answer.
Your job is to find it.

2. Daily Improvement (DI) - Decide – Resolve – Act. Everyday do
just 1 more thing to improve.
What if you improved 1 thing every day?

3. Take Action and then takes some more. Get in the game.

4. Never Quit. - Promise yourself you will never give up.

5. Be A Leader. Step Up. Life needs more leaders not followers.

6. It’s all about Choices. You always have choices, make the right ones.

7. Gratitude, Gratitude, Gratitude and then some more Gratitude.
We all have so much to be thankful for.

8. You can either get Results or make Excuses. You can’t do both. Your choice.

9. Put everything in Perspective. Things can always get better and
they can always get worse. So no whining, just make it better.

10. Laugh at life, laugh at yourself. Life ain’t all that serious until it is.

11. Celebrate Success. Don’t follow the culture and knock the successful.

12. You are responsible for your life, so take responsibility.

13. Go for your Dreams. No, I mean REALLY go for them.

14. Understand Life is not Fair. So what, just more challenges
to overcome. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees.
Be Strong

15. Master the 3 F’s (Family, Fitness & Finances) and the 1 C (Career)
and you”ll get an A at Life. And life will reward your effort.
So, Just Do It!!!!!!