BILL GATES ON LIFE

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this!

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school.
He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of
reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1 : Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world doesn't care about your self-esteem.
The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school.
You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity.
Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6 : If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault,
so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now..
They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were.
So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT.
In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer.
This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters.
You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF.
Do that on your own time.

Rule 10 : Television is NOT real life.
In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11 : Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

If you can read this - Thank your Parents & Thank your teachers!

Genuine Trust

A little girl and her father were crossing a flimsy,weak bridge.The father was concerned and so said to his daughter,"Sweetheart,please hold on to my hand so that you don't fall into the river." The girl replied,"No, Daddy,you hold my hand." What is the big difference? asked the father. "There is a big difference,Daddy," replied the little girl, "If I hold your hand and something happens to me ,chances are that I may let your hand go.But if you hold my hand,I know for sure that no matter what happens,you will never let my hand go!"

In our relationship with God,the essence of trust is not in its bind,but in its bond. So allow God to hold on to you at all times,and He will never let you go!

THE PRICE TAG WILL BE HIGHER THAN YOU EXPECT

All dreams have a price tag on them, and the cost is almost always higher than a person expects to pay. Never once in my conversations with successful people have I heard the words, " Getting to the top was much easier than I anticipated." Everybody I know who has realized a dream has different war stories to tell. When it comes to achieving dreams ,it's impossible to know the complete cost up front.You will find out what it will be only as you undertake that journey. Actor Paul Hogan,who portrayed the movie character Crocodile Dundee,was once asked how he became successful. I love his answer: " The secret of my success is that bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could." Dreams don't come cheap and they don't come easy.The bigger the dream,the bigger the price tag. but the secret to paying for your dream is just to keep chewing.

Listening to Another

A huge truck got stuck under a bridge.It couldn't move backward or forward.Traffic was blocked in all directions.An official from the company arrived and all sorts of attempts were made to get the truck free.

A few school kids were sitting on a wall nearby,looking at all this.One little lad shouted across at the official,"Do you want to know how to get the truck free,mister?" Well,for now, I don't need your advice smart guy,said the official.

The young lad was unabashed as he replied, "Just let the air out of the tires and you're alright."

The man stopped in his tracks,looked at the kid and smiled-and then proceeded to let the air out of the tires! In his heart he felt that the kid had let some air out of him,and brought him down a bit-and he knew that he deserved it.



Moral: Often our biggest drawback, is our unwillingness to ask for help in dealing with a problem,we are stuck with.

What Can we Learn from the past happenings?

I remember reading the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz, in one of his comic strips Charlie Brown is at the beach building a beautiful castle. As he stands back to admire his work it is suddenly consumed by a huge wave. Looking at the smooth sand mound that had been his creation a moment before, he says,“There must be a lesson here, but I don’t know what it is.”

That’s the way many people approach adversity. They are so consumed by the events that they become bewildered and miss the whole learning experience. But there is always a way to learn from failures and mistakes.Poet Lord Byron was right when he stated,“Adversity is the first path to truth.”

Restaurateur Wolfgang Puck says,“I learned more from the one restaurant that didn’t work than from all the ones that were successes.” He incidentally owns five critically acclaimed restaurants in California and also opened restaurants in Chicago, Las Vegas and Tokyo.

It’s difficult to give general guidelines about how to learn from mistakes because every situation is different. But if you maintain a teachable attitude as you approach the process and try to learn anything you can about what you could do differently, you will improve yourself. When a person has the right mind-set, every obstacle introduces him to himself.

Back Up

Have you ever been talking with someone who made a thoughtless remark during a conversation, and as soon as he said it, you could tell he knew he had made a mistake? Yet when you called him on it, he refused to admit it.

No matter what you said,he kept backing up and trying to justify the remark,which made him look sillier and sillier.That's what people who back up do.And if they make a habit of it,they get stuck on the failure freeway.

If you stay on the failure freeway long enough,you eventually slow up and that's when a lot of people simply give up.

Try And Try Again

In my Corporate career of 30 years, I have encountered many a people who stubbornly tried to leave their troubles behind by working faster and harder, but without changing their direction.

The end result: they came hard upon themselves.

I would say they were like people who tried to get the square peg in the round hole -they placed the peg in the hole, then took the hammer and pounded on it.

You are getting what I’m saying. They’re working hard but getting nowhere.

I have also noticed that too many people, when they make a mistake, just keep stubbornly ploughing ahead and end up repeating the same mistakes.

I am sure we all believe in the motto, Try and try again. But I guess if I read it this way it makes sense to my human mind: “Try, then stop and think. Then try again”