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10 Questions: Do You Have What It Takes?

What follows is some great advice on what it takes to succeed. Take the questions asked below seriously, because the time you take with them, and the answers you come up with can help you to attain what you set out to achieve.

Do you have what it takes to be really successful?

Have you ever thought about what you must be prepared to endure and do in order to be successful in business or your career?

I think I have been asked at least 5,000 times what it really takes to be successful in business, so I jotted down 10 questions you can use to gauge whether you already have what it takes, or if you need to do a little "work" to get there.

Many years ago I heard Jim Rohn say that you either pay the price of discipline or the price of regret. Discipline weighs ounces... regret weighs tons!

With that said, here are 10 questions to ask yourself:

1. Are you disciplined?

2. Do you take rejection personally? What about criticism?

3. Do you bounce back quickly from making errors or failing over and over again?

4. Are you a planner or do you do things by the seat of your pants?

5. Are you prepared to take risks? Moderate or Big?

6. Do you stay focused on one thing and one thing only until the result you want is achieved?

7. Do you have the stamina to keep going long after everyone else is tired?

8. Can you delegate well, or are you the only one who can do things right?

9. Do you wait for things to happen or do you aggressively go after what you want?

10. Do you do whatever it takes to achieve your goals or just what's convenient?

These questions are critical for you to ask yourself in order to get a true picture of your nature and behavior.

What I have found is that successful people are aware of the consequences of not being efficient in these areas, and find other ways, resources or people to manage for them.

The Hormone Guide

7 Ways to Peace & Happiness

Rule 1:

Let's fill our minds with thoughts of peace, courage, health, and hope, for "our life is what our thoughts make it."

Rule 2: 

Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

Rule 3:

A. Instead of worrying about ingratitude, let's expect it.

B. Let's remember that the only way to find happiness is not to expect gratitude - but to give for the joy of giving.

C. Let's remember that gratitude is a "cultivated" trait; so if we want our children to be grateful, we must train them to be grateful.

Rule 4:

Count your blessings - not your troubles!

Rule 5:

Let's not imitate others. Let's find ourselves and be ourselves, for "envy is ignorance" and "imitation is suicide."

Rule 6:

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.

Rule 7:

Let's forget our own unhappiness - by trying to create a little happiness for others. "When you are good to others, you are best to yourself."

Amazing art with Food

Do You Know?

• People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.
• People with blue eyes see better in dark.
• Money isn’t made out of paper, it is made out of cotton.
• A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it go mad instantly and sting itself to death. 
• Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
• A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river above.
• The USA uses 29% of the world's petrol and 33% of the world's electricity.
• Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear By 700 times.
• The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
• Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
• We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.
• Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.
• Our brain is more complex than the most powerful computer and has over 100 billion nerve cells.
• When a person dies, hearing is usually the first sense to go.
• There is a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. It Covers 3.4 square miles of land and is still growing.
• German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
• The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing. 
• Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left.
• The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.
• It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
• The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
• The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.

The original bridge below the water surface

Original way, not an easy task decide Dutch architects. During the reconstruction of the XVII century fort on them needed to throw a pedestrian bridge over a water-filled moat, but do it in such a way that it was practically invisible. The transition has been decided to erect a wooden tunnel submerged in water. The bridge was named Moses Bridge, a bridge is named after the prophet Moses.The Dutch Association of Architects awarded the title of best design structure 2011.