Rod's Daily Encouragement

From the Bhagavad Gita: "You have the right to work, but for work's sake only.  You have no rights to the fruit of your work. Desire for the fruits of your work must never be your motive in working. Never give way to laziness either.... Be even-tempered in success and failure; for it is evenness of temper which is meant yoga. Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in calm self-surrender.... Those who work selfishly for results are miserable. In the calm of self-surrender, the seers renounce the fruits of their actions, and so reach enlightenment....When your intellect has cleared itself from delusions, you will become indifferent to the result of all action, present or future."  CLICK HERE TO BY THE BHAGAVAD GITA AND OTHER BOOKS  

This is Encouraging! What & Why FII? What is FII? The Family Independence Initiative is a national center for innovating new strength based approaches for economic and social mobility that put people in the driver’s seat of their own change. Over this last decade FII has demonstrated that investing in people’s strengths and initiative delivers more powerful, sustainable, and cost effective outcomes for low-income families. Our strength-based approach, as radical and as old as our democracy, is inspired by the historical successes of poor communities in the U.S. See the  Strategies for Change  section for more about our work. Why FII? Because the Welfare System isn’t Enough For the last five decades the only support systems available to low-income families respond to people’s needs, not their strengths. The “safety net” approach is critical for those in crisis. But it is not a springboard out of poverty. As people make progress their “need” decreases and ...

From 10/2/2011 4:36 PM YOU ARE SUCCESSFUL!! Success begins before you feel successful. Success begins when you desire to be successful. No matter your current situation, if you are desirous of personal change, of making improvements in you life, and of taking on new challenges, then you are successful. Since you are willing to take up the challenge of change, regardless of you present circumstances, then you are thriving. Success is a willingness to face tomorrow with a renewed boldness of purpose. You are successful. CLICK HERE TO GET ENCOURAGING BOOKS CLICK HERE TO GET Mindset:The New Psychology of Success FEATURED BOOK: Blurb from Amazon.com  In a fixed mindset, people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits. They spend their time documenting their intelligence or talent instead of developing them. They also believe that talent alone creates success—without effort. They’re wrong. In a growth mindset, peop...