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Serve Humanity Instead Of Money

Superman never made any money, savin' the world from Solomon Grundy. And sometimes I despair the world will never see another man like him. - Crash Test Dummies

Hey Bob, Supe had a straight job
Even though he could have smashed through any bank in the United States,
Well he had the strength, but he would not

Superman never made any money
For saving the world from Solomon Grundy
And sometimes I despair the world will never see another man like him

Superman's Song - Crash Test Dummies - AZ Lyrics

Embrace Your Own Place

I'm always left of center and that's right where I belong. I'm the random minor note you hear in major songs. - Janelle Monae

Sometimes a mystery, sometimes I'm free
Depending on my mood or my attitude
Sometimes I wanna roll or stay at home
Walking contradiction, guess I’m factual and fiction

A little crazy, little sexy, little cool
Little rough around the edges but I keep it smooth
I'm always left of center and that's right where I belong
I'm the random minor note you hear in major songs

I Like That - Janelle Monae - AZ Lyrics

Dream The World's A Team

Oh I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be, some day it's going to come. - Cat Stevens

Oh I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be, some day it's going to come
Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again
Now I've been smiling lately, thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be, something good has begun

Peace Train - Cat Stevens - AZ Lyrics

Appreciate How Everything Is Now

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone? They paved paradise, put up a parking lot. - Joni Mitchell

They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum
Then they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot

Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell - AZ Lyrics

Write Down And Read Goals

Think and Grow Rich is a classic motivational book. Written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by Andrew Carnegie, it was published in 1937 at the end of the Great Depression. In his introduction, Hill refers to the "Carnegie Secret", a conception which he reports is the foundation of all success and appears to be the premise of the book. Hill promises to indirectly describe this "secret" in every chapter, but never state it plainly, believing the use of the secret is only available to those who possess a "readiness" for it, a disposition Hill describes as essential to the concept itself.

Napoleon Hill talks about "The Secret" to Think & Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill - YouTube

Pareto Principle

80% of the result comes from 20% of your time, work, or activities, so realize that 80% could be good enough for many tasks or goals by focusing on the essential 20% of your habits and activities.

  • This is one of the best ways to make better use of your time.
  • The 80/20 rule - also known as The Pareto Principle - basically says that 80 percent of the value you will receive will come from 20 percent of your activities.
  • So a lot of what you do is probably not as useful or even necessary to do as you may think.
  • You can just drop - or vastly decrease the time you spend on - a whole bunch of things.

16 Things I wish they had taught me in school - Positivity Blog

80% of the results will often come from 20% of the causes, so focus on finding the vital few inputs or actions that will provide the most benefit or effect.

  • The Pareto principle states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the "vital few").
  • Other names for this principle are the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few, or the principle of factor sparsity.
  • Management consultant Joseph M. Juran developed the concept in the context of quality control and improvement after reading the works of Italian sociologist and economist Vilfredo Pareto, who wrote about the 80/20 connection while teaching at the University of Lausanne.
  • In his first work, Cours d'Γ©conomie politique, Pareto showed that approximately 80% of the land in the Kingdom of Italy was owned by 20% of the population.

Pareto Principle - Wikipedia