Charlotte Louise

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23 years old
San Diego, California, US

Height:	5′ 11″
Weight:	165 lbs
Bust:	38″
Waist:	28″
Hips:	38″
Cup:	C
Dress:	10
Shoe:	10.0
Hair color:	Brown
Hair length:	Long
Eye color:	Brown
Ethnicity:	Other
Skin color:	Tanned

Charlotte Louise is a beauty model, curvy model, and all around fashionable model. She’s not just a model, but an inspiration to many.

Throughout her young career in modeling, she has grown her own loyal fan base consisting of men and women who look up to her and admire her drive to make it to the top of her game in the modeling industry, inspiring females of all different looks to believe they’re beautiful too.

Connect with Charlotte Louise

Facebook:  www.facebook.com/itscharottelouise

Twitter:  www.twitter.com/curvyy_model

Booking: bookcharlottelouise@gmail.com

Source: http://itscharlouise.blogspot.com/

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20 Success Tips From Will Smith

1. If you want to become extraordinary, you have to do away with the pressure to conform. Meaning, you have to avoid being realistic. Being realistic will take you down the path so many before you have gone. So avoid it at all costs. If your dream is ‘realistic’ it’s not big enough.

“Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity.”

2. Let your own feelings dictate your life, not the viewpoints of others. This is your life and you are at the controls, don’t take actions that are the result of other peoples thinking. Drive your own car and take it to the destination you desire.

“Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions.”

3. Before anything can manifest in the world, you first have to believe in its ability to manifest.

“The first step is you have to say that you can.”

4. You’ll never make it if you’re not willing to die on the treadmill.

“The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is that I’m not afraid to DIE on a treadmill.

You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, but if we get on a treadmill together, there are two things that are going to happen:

1- You’re getting off first

OR

2- I’m gonna DIE on the treadmill. It’s really that simple.”

5. Before you can run, you first have to learn how to walk. The same principle applies to success. Greatness isn’t something that just happens; greatness is the result of exceptional work done repeatedly. So take it one day at a time and take it one task at a time. Focus on doing what is before you to your utmost ability and characterize it with excellence.

“You don’t start out saying you’re going to build a wall. You don’t start off saying “I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall ever.” You start with a brick. You say “I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.” Do that every single day and soon you’ll have a PERFECT wall.”

6. Set your expectations high. Don’t let the opinions of others drown out your own. Seek your true potential and aim to capture it.

”I don’t know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.”

7. Are you willing to die for your dreams?

“Success is not this wonderful, esoteric, illusive, god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste. It’s something that truly exists in all of us. It’s very simple: this is what I believe, and I’m willing to die for it.”

8. When your back is up against the wall, you will shine. So put yourself in this position. Time and time again, history has shown us that when people are up against the wall, they rise to the occasion and conquer all there is to conquer. So set a plan A and work at it don’t worry about a plan B. A plan B provides a cushion and hence it keeps you from going all out because you know you have something to fall back on. However, if you only have a plan A, there is no cushion. It’s do or die.

“The first step before anyone else in the world believes it, is you have to believe it. There’s no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.”

9. If you listen to those around you, you’ll never make it to where you could’ve gone.

“Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can’t do something themselves, they are going to tell you that you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.”

10. Chase dreams, not people.

“Don’t chase people. Be yourself. Do your own thing and work hard. The right people, the ones who really belong in your life, will come to you. And stay.”

11. Believe in your vision…to the point where people look at you like you’re crazy. When you see it in your mind, consider it done. Now all you have to do is work and let it take form. You have to let the world catch up. So pay your dues and be patient and before long, your vision will manifest just like you had envisioned it in your mind.

“In my mind, I’ve always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Ya’ll just didn’t know yet.”

12. In order to succeed, you have to be committed. You cannot just kind of want it. If you just kind of want it, you will crumble to pieces because the people who want it badly will outwork you. For that reason, you have to commit yourself 100%, when you commit yourself fully, there’s nothing stopping you from reaching your goals and your dreams.

“If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don’t think there’s anything that could stop me from becoming President of the United States.”

13. There are a lot of talented people out there but the world will not get the pleasure to meet a majority of them because someone else, who isn’t as talented, will want it badder and they will outwork them leaving the talented behind. Will that person be you?

“I’ve never viewed myself as particularly talented. I’ve viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. Where I excel is with a ridiculous, sickening work ethic. While the other guy’s sleeping, I’m working. While the other guy’s eating, I’m working. While the other guy’s making love, I mean, I’m making love, too, but I’m working really hard at it.”

14. It’s either one hundred percent or it’s nothing. It’s either first place or it’s nothing. Go for it all or don’t even bother.

“99% is the same as zero. If you are gonna do 99, go ahead and stay home.”

15. Its true, you need some form of luck in order to make your dreams a reality. But if you keep your head down and keep grinding away, luck has a funny way of finding you. All you have to do is keep an eye out for it.

“What we call luck, what we call chance, is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. If you stay ready, then you ain’t gotta get ready.”

16. Every single day, wake up and aim to create a better day. If you can progress from where you left off yesterday, in due time you will reach the finish line.

“I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than yesterday.”

17. Don’t let anyone keep you from doing you. Don’t let hate consume you. Be filled with love and passionate energy. This passionate energy is what gives way to great work. If someone has wronged you, remove the resentment you have for that person because it is only doing you harm.

“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”

18. Only pursue a dream if you are willing to work hard as hell without seeing the results in the early days. You have to bust your ass, if you’re not willing to pay the price, do yourself a favor and don’t begin.

“If you’re not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I’d rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.”

19. Devote your existence to your dreams.

“Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.”

20. Strive to become more than a human being. This is your world. Shape it. Mold it. Change it.

“I want the world to be better because I was here.”

Source: http://make-me-successful.com/20-success-tips-smith/

7 Traits of a Highly Effective Mindset

Once your mindset changes, everything on
the outside will change along with it.
―Steve Maraboli

An effective mindset is one that makes the best use of available resources – your time, energy and efforts – and uses them to create positive change.  It’s not about trying to do everything and be everything; it’s making the very best of what you have while enjoying the process of living.

Here are seven effective traits and behaviors of such a mindset:

1.  Enjoys and appreciates the present moment.

Happiness is a mindset that can only be designed into the present.  It’s not a point in the future or a moment from the past; but sadly, this misconception hurts the masses.  So many young people seem to think that happiness awaits them in the years ahead, while so many older people believe that their best moments are behind them.

The truth is, the greater part of your happiness or misery depends solely upon your attitude towards any given moment, regardless of the events contained within.  You need much less than you think you need to be happy, and you usually have a lot more than you think you have.  There’s always something worth smiling about.  It’s just a matter of thinking differently.  Read 1,000 Little Things.

2.  Connects inner purpose with outer effort.

The most important thing you can know is what’s most important to you.  Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give yourself to it.  As Friedrich Nietzsche so profoundly said, “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”  Your purpose is your ‘why.’

You can accomplish almost anything when what you’re trying to accomplish is what you care about.  Wear yourself out with focused, disciplined work on a purpose that connects with who you truly are.  You have a unique voice and a unique drive that are longing to be expressed.  Start living sincerely though this expression and you’ll find the joy and success you’ve been hoping for.

3.  Accepts and embraces great challenges.

The most prolific days of your life won’t likely be easy.  It’s not in the serenity of your comfort zone or the inactivity of a lazy day that drives greatness.  Great demands drive the growth of great virtues.  Contending with great challenges forms the foundation of greatness.

Think about a day from your past that ended with a sense of satisfaction.  It’s not a day when you lounged around with nothing to do; it’s a day you had more to do than seemed possible, and you did it.  When your mind is challenged by duties that engage your purpose, then those great virtues, which would otherwise lay dormant, come to life and help you grow into your greatest self.  Read Awaken the Giant Within.

4.  Self-disciplined.

Without discipline, success is impossible, period.  Discipline is choosing to do what you know must be done, as often and as long as required.  It’s doing the thing you have to do whether you like it or not.

Discipline allows you to control the course of your life.  If you do not discipline yourself, someone else – a parent, teacher, boss, society, etc. – will try to do so for you.  They will choose what they believe is the best method to instill more self-control in you.  But it’s far more advantageous to take control of your own discipline and your own destiny.

Discipline opens up a plethora of options and opportunities which otherwise would not be available to you.  With it you can make best possible use of the time and resources available to you, and employ them to create great value for yourself and your world.  Whatever you set your sights upon, discipline is the vehicle that will get you there.

5.  Remains positive and focused through failure.

Forget about failure.  Trying alone is a huge success.  Regardless of what you’re trying to do – pay off debt, get in shape, start a business, make a difference in the world, etc. – you have already achieved something wonderful simply by putting forth a worthy effort.  If things don’t work out as you had planned, hold your head up high and be proud of the progress you made.  Then make the necessary adjustments and try again.

In the end, it’s focused resilience that eventually leads you to your desired result.  Once you make a conscious decision to remain positive and persist through your failures, the universe gradually conspires to make your efforts rewarding.

6.  Filters and channels anger effectively.

Being angry is easy, and by itself anger gets nothing accomplished.  But to funnel your anger into a productive action plan, at the right time, in the right way, and for the right purpose, that’s how you can put your anger to good use.

In other words, you must direct your anger towards specific problems that can be solved, not people or generalized situations.  Look for answers and resolutions, not excuses and complaints.  Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

7.  Willingness and drive to help others.

The best antidote to gloom is constructive work.  The most curing work is found in the challenge of helping someone who has less than you do.  It’s one of life’s great paradoxes; when you serve others you end up benefiting as much if not more than those you serve.

If you feel stuck in your life because you have lost your direction, shift your focus from your circumstances to the circumstances of those around.  As Gandhi once said, “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”  Instead of asking, “What’s wrong with me?” ask, “How can I help you?”  Find someone who could use an extra hand and make an offer they can’t refuse.

When your focus shifts from your own confusion and difficulties, to the confusion and difficulties of others, and you see yourself making a positive difference, it fills you with a sense of meaning and illuminates a clear path to a brighter future.

Writer: Marc

Hillary Clinton Says She Supports Same-Sex Marriage

The former US Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton has publicly announced her support of same-sex marriage, both as a personal stance and political stance.

In a video posted on the Human Rights Council website, Clinton made the declaration.

“LGBT Americans are our colleagues, our teachers, our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones, and they are full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship. That includes marriage,” said Clinton.

“That’s why I support marriage for lesbian and gay couples. I support it personally and as a matter of policy and law.”

Hillary Clinton is expected to run for President in 2016.

This is an upgrade from her stance on gay marriage in 2008, when she, like President Obama, only supported civil unions, but non same-sex marriage.

President Obama has since upgraded his stance, stating he supported same-sex marriage last year.

Will this help Clinton get elected in 3 years?

Writer: Jordan Shepherd | Elite.

President Says Wife Is Like Beyonce: ‘She Upgraded Me’

President Barack Obama and the First Lady discuss their lives before and after the White House, being effective parents, and how they stay true to themselves in Vogue Magazine’s April issue.

RELATED: Michelle Obama Writes To NewsOne Readers: Thank You For Election Support, Volunteer For Day Of Service!!!

In an excellent interview conducted by Jonathan Van Meter, both the President and the First Lady share their experiences of what it was like as a “normal middle class family” before their meteoric rise to the White House and how they’ve been able to maintain their personalities even with all of the fame.

“We were pretty much who we are by the time I hit the national scene. We didn’t grow up or come of age under a spotlight. We were anonymous folks,” said the President. “I was a state senator, but nobody knows who a state senator is. So most of our 30s and 40s were as a typical middle-class family. . . . That really didn’t change until I was 45 years old. And there’s something about having lived a normal life and raised kids.

The President continues, “We had to figure out how to make a mortgage, payin’ the bills, goin’ to Target, and freakin’ out when . . . the woman who’s looking after your girls while Michelle’s working suddenly decides she’s quittin’. . . . All those experiences made us who we were, so that by the time this thing hit, it was hard for us to. . .”

“Be different people,” Mrs. Obama chimes in.

Obviously, there have been some changes since relocating to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Among them, the President points out, is his nice suit collection: before becoming President, Obama says he owned only two suits and an undesirable pair of khakis that he bragged about having since age 20.

President: “Now, in fairness there is one thing that’s changed.”

First Lady: “What’s that?”

President: ” Which is, I used to only have, like, two suits.”

Meter: Now you must have dozens….

First Lady: Thank God. Now, let me tell you: This is the man who still boasts about, This khaki pair of pants I’ve had since I was 20.”

Here, the President jumps in to say that, like Beyonce‘s “Upgrade U” song, Mrs. Obama — and his daughters — have improved his style:

President: “Michelle’s like Beyoncé in that song. ‘Let me upgrade ya!’ She upgraded me.”

First Lady: “The girls and I are always rooting when he wears, like, a stripe. They’re like, ‘Dad! Oh, you look so handsome. Oh, stripes! You go!’ ”

Since 2008, when Mrs. Obama’s style took the nation by storm, the First Lady has been commanding attention for her colorful, price-conscious, and inventive couture, causing women everywhere to praise and mimic her instinctive fashion sense. When asked how she determines what to wear, Mrs. Obama replied that she took her fashion cues from the inside rather than the outside:

“I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do. . . . I also believe that if you’re comfortable in your clothes it’s easy to connect with people and make them feel comfortable as well. In every interaction that I have with people, I always want to show them my most authentic self.”

You can read the rest of the interview here.

Source:  http://newsone.com/2279389/michelle-barack-obama-vogue-2013/

100 Top Entrepreneurs Who Succeeded Without A College Degree

Getting a college degree can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, yet once you are out, there is no guarantee of success. A pretty risky investment.

 

Many business-minded people decided to take the less conventional route to fame and fortune — instead of going to (or finishing) college, they chose to start their own businesses.

 

Many of these people are now considered to be the Elite of the Elite and did so all without a piece of paper stating that they were approved to be in the American workforce.

 

Here is a list of the top 100 entrepreneurs that never received a college degree. Many of them you will know while others decided to remain slightly under the radar.

 

1. Abraham Lincoln, lawyer, U.S. president. Finished one year of formal schooling, self-taught himself trigonometry, and read Blackstone on his own to become a lawyer.

 

2. Amadeo Peter Giannini, multimillionaire founder of Bank of America. Dropped out of high school.

 

3. Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist, and one of the first mega-billionaires in the US. Elementary school dropout.

 

4. Andrew Jackson, U.S. president, general, attorney, judge, congressman. Home-schooled. Became a practicing attorney by the age of 35 – without a formal education.

 

5. Andrew Perlman, co-founder of GreatPoint. Dropped out of Washington University to start Cignal Global Communications, an Internet communications company, when he was only 19.

 

6. Anne Beiler, multimillionaire co-founder of Auntie Anne’s Pretzels. Dropped out of high school.

 

7. Ansel Adams, world-famous photographer. Dropped out of high school.

 

8. Ashley Qualls, founder of Whateverlife.com, left high school at the age of 15 to devote herself to building her website business. She was more than a million dollars by 17.

 

9. Barbara Lynch, chef, owner of a group of restaurants, worth over $10 million, in Boston. Dropped out of high school.

 

10. Barry Diller, billionaire, Hollywood mogul, Internet maven, founder of Fox Broadcasting Company, chairman of IAC/InterActive Corp (owner of Ask.com),

 

11. Ben Kaufman, 21-year-old serial entrepreneur, founder of Kluster. Dropped out of college in his freshman year.

 

12. Benjamin Franklin, inventor, scientist, author, entrepreneur. Primarily home-schooled.

 

13. Billy Joe (Red) McCombs, billionaire, founder of Clear Channel media, real estate investor. Dropped out of law school to sell cars in 1950.

 

14. Bob Proctor, motivational speaker, bestselling author, and co-founder of Life Success Publishing. Attended two months of high school.

 

15. Bram Cohen, BitTorrent developer. Attended State University of New York at Buffalo for a year.

 

16. Carl Lindner, billionaire investor, founder of United Dairy Farmers. Dropped out of high school at the age of 14.

 

17. Charles Culpeper, owner and CEO of Coca Cola. Dropped out of high school.

 

18. Christopher Columbus, explorer, discoverer of new lands. Primarily home-schooled.

 

19. Coco Chanel, founder of fashion brand Chanel. A perfume bearing her name, Chanel No. 5 kept her name famous.

 

20. Colonel Harlan Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). Dropped out of elementary school, later earned law degree by correspondence.

 

21. Craig McCaw, billionaire founder of McCaw Cellular. Did not complete college.

 

22. Dave Thomas, billionaire founder of Wendy’s. Dropped out of high school at 15.

 

23. David Geffen, billionaire founder of Geffen Records and co-founder of DreamWorks. Dropped out of college after completing one year.

 

24. David Green, billionaire founder of Hobby Lobby. Started the Hobby Lobby chain with only $600. High school graduate.

 

25. David Karp, founder of Tumblr. Dropped out of school at 15, then homeschooled. Did not attend college.

 

26. David Neeleman, founder of JetBlue airlines. Dropped out of college after three years.

 

27. David Ogilvy, advertising executive and copywriter . Was expelled from Oxford University at the age of 20.

 

28. David Oreck, multimillionaire founder of The Oreck Corporation. Quit college to enlist in the Army Air Corps.

 

29. Debbi Fields, founder of Mrs. Fields Chocolate Chippery. Later renamed, franchised, then sold Mrs. Field’s Cookies.

 

30. DeWitt Wallace, founder and publisher of Reader’s Digest. Dropped out of college after one year. Went back, then dropped out again after the second year.

 

31. Dov Charney, founder of American Apparel. Started the company in high school, and never attended college.

 

32. Dustin Moskovitz, multi-millionaire co-founder of Facebook. Harvard dropout.

 

33. Frank Lloyd Wright, the most influential architect of the twentieth century. Never attended high school.

 

34. Frederick “Freddy” Laker, billionaire airline entrepreneur. High school dropout.

 

35. Frederick Henry Royce, auto designer, multimillionaire co-founder of Rolls-Royce. Dropped out of elementary school.

 

36. George Eastman, multimillionaire inventor, Kodak founder. Dropped out of high school.

 

37. George Naddaff, founder of UFood Grill and Boston Chicken. Did not attend college.

 

38. Gurbaksh Chahal, multimillionaire founder of BlueLithium and Click Again. Dropped out at 16, when he founded Click Again.

 

39. H. Wayne Huizenga, founder of WMX garbage company, helped build Blockbuster video chain. Joined the Army out of high school, and later went to college only to drop out during his first year.

 

40. Henry Ford, billionaire founder of Ford Motor Company. Did not attend college.

 

41. Henry J. Kaiser, multimillionaire & founder of Kaiser Aluminum. Dropped out of high school.

 

42. Hyman Golden, co-founder of Snapple. Dropped out of high school.

 

43. Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA, one of the richest people in the world, dyslexic.

 

44. Isaac Merrit Singer, sewing machine inventor, founder of Singer. Elementary school dropout.

 

45. Jack Crawford Taylor, founder of Enterprise Rent-a-Car. Dropped out of college to become a WWII fighter pilot in the Navy.

 

46. Jake Nickell, co-founder and CEO of Threadless.com. Did not graduate from college.

 

47. James Cameron, Oscar-winning director, screenwriter, and producer. Dropped out of college.

 

48. Jay Van Andel, billionaire co-founder of Amway. Never attended college.

 

49. Jeffrey Kalmikoff, co-founder and chief creative officer of Threadless.com. Did not graduate from college.

 

50. Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo! Dropped out of PhD program.

 

51. Jimmy Dean, multimillionaire founder of Jimmy Dean Foods. Dropped out of high school at 16.

 

52. John D. Rockefeller Sr., billionaire founder of Standard Oil. Dropped out of high school just two months before graduating, though later took some courses at a local business school.

 

53. John Mackey, founder of Whole Foods. Enrolled and dropped out college six times.

 

54. John Paul DeJoria, billionaire co-founder of John Paul Mitchell Systems, founder of Patron Spirits tequilla. Joined the Navy after high school.

 

55. Joyce C. Hall, founder of Hallmark. Started selling greeting cards at the age of 18. Did not attend college.

 

56. Kemmons Wilson, multimillionaire, founder of Holiday Inn. High school dropout.

 

57. Kenneth Hendricks, billionaire founder of ABC Supply. High school dropout.

 

58. Kenny Johnson, founder of Dial-A-Waiter restaurant delivery. College dropout.

 

59. Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com. Dropped out of college during his second year.

 

60. Kirk Kerkorian, billionaire investor, owner of Mandalay Bay and Mirage Resorts, and MGM movie studio. Dropped out eighth-grade.

 

61. Larry Ellison, billionaire co-founder of Oracle software company. Dropped out of two different colleges.

 

62. Leandro Rizzuto, billionaire founder of Conair. Dropped out of college. Started Conair with $100 and hot-air hair roller invention.

 

63. Leslie Wexner, billionaire founder of a Limited Brands. Dropped out of law school. Started the Limited with $5,000.

 

64. Marc Rich, commodities investor, billionaire. Founder of Marc Rich & Co. Did not finish college.

 

65. Marcus Loew, multimillionaire founder of Loews theaters, co-founder of MGM movie studio. Elementary school dropout.

 

66. Mark Ecko, founder of Mark Ecko Enterprises. Dropped out of college.

 

67. Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Inc. Did not attend college.

 

68. Michael Dell, billionaire founder of Dell Computers, which started out of his college dorm room. Dropped out of college.

 

69. Michael Rubin, founder of Global Sports. Dropped out of college in his first year.

 

70. Micky Jagtiani, billionaire retailer, Landmark International. Dropped out of accounting school.

 

71. Milton Hershey, founder of Hershey’s Milk Chocolate. 4th grade education.

 

72. Pete Cashmore, founder of Mashable.com at the age of 19.

 

73. Philip Green, Topshop billionaire retail mogul. Dropped out of high school.

 

74. Rachael Ray, Food Network cooking show star, food industry entrepreneur, with no formal culinary arts training. Never attended college.

 

75. Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald’s. Dropped out of high school.

 

76. Richard Branson, billionaire founder of Virgin Records, Virgin Atlantic Airways, Virgin Mobile, and more. Dropped out of high school at 16.

 

77. Richard DeVos, co-founder of Amway. Served in the Army and did not attend college.

 

78. Richard Schulze, Best Buy founder. Did not attend college.

 

79. Rob Kalin, founder of Etsy. Flunked out of high school, enrolled in art school for a time, faked a student ID at MIT so he could take classes. His professors subsequently helped him get into NYU, they were so impressed.

 

80. Ron Popeil, multimillionaire founder of Ronco, inventor, producer, infomercial star. Did not finish college.

 

81. Rush Limbaugh, multi-millionaire media mogul, radio talk show host. Dropped out of college.

 

82. Russell Simmons, co-founder of Def Jam records, founder of Russell Simmons Music Group, Phat Farm fashions, bestselling author. Did not finish college.

 

83. S. Daniel Abraham, founder of Slim-Fast, billionaire. Did not attend college.

 

84. Sean John Combs, entertainer, producer, fashion designer, and entrepreneur. Never finished college.

 

85. Shawn Fanning, developer of Napster. Dropped out of college at the age of 19.

 

86. Simon Cowell, TV producer, music judge, American Idol, The X Factor, and Britain’s Got Talent. High school dropout.

 

87. Steve Madden, shoe designer. Dropped out of college.

 

88. Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, billionaire. Did not complete college.

 

89. Ted Murphy, founder of social media company Izea Entertainment. Dropped out of college.

 

90. Theodore Waitt, billionaire founder of Gateway Computers. Dropped out of college to start Gateway – one semester before graduating.

 

91. Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb, phonograph, and more. Primarily home-schooled, then joined the railroad when he was only 12.

 

92. Tom Anderson, co-founder and “friend” of MySpace. Dropped out of high school.

 

93. Ty Warner, billionaire developer of Beanie Babies, real estate investor, and hotel owner. Dropped out of college.

 

94. Vidal Sassoon, founder of Vidal Sassoon, multimillionaire. Dropped out of high school.

 

95. W. Clement Stone, multimillionaire insurance man, author, founder of Success magazine. Dropped out of elementary school. Later attended high school, graduating. Attended but did not finish college.

 

96. W.T. Grant, founder of W.T. Grant department stores, multimillionaire. Dropped out of high school.

 

97. Wally “Famous” Amos, multimillionaire entrepreneur, author, talent agent, founder of Famous Amos cookies. Left high school at 17 to join the Air Force.

 

98. Walt Disney, founder of the Walt Disney Company. Dropped out of high school at 16.

 

99. Wolfgang Puck, chef, owner of 16 restaurants and 80 bistros. Quit school at the age of 14.

 

100. Y.C. Wang, billionaire founder of Formosa Plastics. Did not attend high school.

 

Paul Hudson 

via Young Entrepreneur

Source:  http://elitedaily.com/elite/2013/100-top-entrepreneurs-succeeded-college-degree/

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10 Things I Wish I Knew When I Was Your Age

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
–Mae West

1.  Uncertainty is certain.

There is no antidote to uncertainty.  Everything is always uncertain.  There are infinite possibilities, which is what makes miracles possible.  Life is about dealing with the question marks and making the best of them without any guarantees for what’s going to happen next.

Nobody on Earth knows how things will turn out for you, which is why you have to press forward every day on the heels of your intuition and passion.  If you give it your all, sometimes amazing things happen, but they’ll rarely be precisely what you had expected.  Read 1,000 Little Things.

2.  Life is a circle.

Everything you do, everything you say, every choice you make, comes back around.

If you want to be rich, be generous.  If you want to make friends, be friendly.  If you want to be understood by others, take the time to truly understand them.  If you want to be heard, listen.

If you want to live an interesting life, be interested the happenings around you.  If you wish to truly learn and master a skill, study what you can and then teachsomeone else what you know.

If you long for peace, act in peace and harmony.  If you want the world to change, start with the one in the mirror.

What you give is eventually what you get.  Whatever it is you hope to achieve in this life, give it, nurture it, be it, and you will enjoy a lifetime filled with it many times over.

3.  Discipline is the mother of all virtues.

Self-control is the chief element of discipline, and discipline is the chief element of bringing ideas to life.  No matter how smart, skilled, or capable you are, nothing is possible or achievable without a disciplined mind.

Discipline is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, whether you want to or not at any given moment.  It is the most important of all the virtues because without it, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.  Read Getting Things Done.

4.  You have full control of your fears.

Your fear is 100% dependent on YOU for its survival, and it is the only thing standing between you and your goals.  Deal with your fears; don’t let them deal with you.

Have patience with the thoughts and concerns that remain unsolved in your heart.  Don’t hide; live in question as you slowly uncover the answers you seek.  Replace your fears with an understanding that settles them.  Instead of wasting energy on avoiding what you don’t want, spend it on obtaining the knowledge you need to achieve what you do want.

5.  Good friends are priceless.

Friends and acquaintances come and go, but good friends are hard to come by.  You know who these people are.  They’re the ones who are always there with you in spirit – the ones who leave footprints in your thoughts and dreams.  They are the glue that binds a smile to your soul.

Hang on to them dearly.  Reach out and make an effort to stay connected.  Lend them a hand and let them lend one to you.  Don’t get so busy or tired that you neglect their existence.  Treat your good friends like royalty.

6.  It’s impossible to love someone who doesn’t love himself or herself.

When someone doesn’t love who they are, they pretend to be someone else, and others end up falling in love with their mask, instead of who they really are.  To keep the affection they keep pretending and performing behind this mask.

If you see these masked tendencies in someone you care about, confront them before it’s too late.  Because if they lock themselves behind a mask for too long they will grow attached to it – it will become their comfort zone.  They will begin to enjoy the imprisonment, and if you try removing their mask to remind them of the truth, they will feel like you’re robbing them of their dignity.

Bottom line:  Self love is the greatest gift – to live and to teach.  The best way to love someone is to help them love themselves.  Read The 5 Love Languages.

7.  It’s impossible to know exactly how another feels.

The hearts and minds of others are mysterious, dense forests, always, no matter how deep into them you venture.

Even if you have known a person for a hundred years, it is impossible to know exactly what they are feeling.  You can’t feel something for them, or know exactly how their mind is processing something.  You could invest every bit of your energy over the course of your entire life in an attempt to achieve this understanding, but in the end you will fall short.

What you can do is be a friend who listens, supports, and loves openly without judgment.  Only then will you get a momentary, unfiltered glimpse into their soul.

8.  Connecting with your purpose brings great results.

Don’t allow others to convince your heart what to do.  Your heart already knows.  Listen to it.  Don’t let anyone else distinguish what is right or wrong for you.  You’ve got to stand up for something specific, on your own two legs, or you will achieve nothing great in life.

Within you there is a formidable and undeniable sense of purpose.  Success comes from making a solid and persistent connection to that purpose.  When your intentions are supported by a ‘why’ that has meaning, you will find a way to bring them to life.  Getting anything done is a matter of continuing to remember why you have chosen to do this thing in the first place.

In the end, focused and persistent effort always brings great achievement.  When your efforts are driven by your purpose, you can keep these efforts going for as long as it takes to reach this achievement.

9.  A positive vision makes a big difference.

Don’t just see things the way they are.  Envision yourself in the place you want to be, skillfully doing what you are capable of doing.  Envision yourself in this place living the life you desire.  Allow yourself to dream in full color, and know with certainty, that this dream is achievable if you want it to be.

Envision the things you desire as being achievable and they will be.  Envision yourself doing what your need to do, operating at your very best, and then hold that image firmly in your mind, day after day, moment by moment, as you step boldly in the direction of your vision.

Give this vision all you’ve got, mentally and physically, and you’ll be amazed at the energy and excellence that comes out of you in the long run.  Read Learned Optimism.

10.  Your journey is ultimately what you make of it.

There’s no such thing as perfect happiness, just as there’s no such thing as perfect despair.  What does exist is a continuous series of imperfect moments filled with infinite possibilities and opportunities for you to interpret them and do with them as you please.

You can pave the road you travel with doubt and despair or hope and happiness. It’s your choice.  Either way, you will eventually arrive at the same destination.  The only question is:  Do you want to arrive there with a frown or a smile?

Writer: Marc

Source: http://www.marcandangel.com/2013/02/11/10-things-i-wish-i-knew/

‘Boy Meets World’ star Danielle Fishel poses for Maxim to promote her upcoming Disney channel show

High-school-aged Topanga would certainly disapprove. Danielle Fishel, who played Topanga on Boy Meets World and will be reprising the role on the upcoming Girl Meets World Disney Channel reboot, has posed for Maxim.

While the pictures are pretty NSFW, the accompanying Q&A is fairly PG. She talks about the origin of the name Topanga: “Michael Jacobs says he was driving down the highway when production called and said, ‘We need a name for this character!’” she explained. “He happened to be driving past Topanga Canyon, so he said, ‘Topanga.’ He says that if they had called him two miles later, I would’ve been named Canoga, which is the next exit.”

Most interesting may be that she shoots down the rumor that she and Ben Savage ever dated. “No! That rumor was entirely my fault because I once said, on The Tyra Banks Show, that Ben and I went on a date, and that turned into ‘Danielle and Ben dated,’” she told the magazine. “We went on one date, when I was about 15, and by the time the dinner was over we realized mutually that we were more like family than lovers.”

Unfortunately, she doesn’t discuss her actual relationships during the Boy Meets World years. (Paging Lance Bass!) But she did spill about Topanga-approved topics such as her fiancé and recently graduating from college. The most shocking revelation may be what she cops to doing during her free time: “I’m huge into ’90s rap,” she said. “It’s my jam. My all-time favorite album is Snoop Dogg’s Doggy­style. And if you ever really want to see me embarrass my­self, put on some Notorious B.I.G. and watch me grab my crotch and mouth all the words. It’s really embarrassing, but I can’t help myself.”

Source: http://popwatch.ew.com/2013/03/08/danielle-fishel-maxim-girl-meets-world/

20 Success Tips From Brian Tracy

Brian Tracy is one of the greatest motivational speakers out there. His words truly resonant with the masses and hence he has transformed a lot of average people into success stories. So without further ado, below are twenty success tips you can put to use in your own life.

1. In order to get more, you first have to be thankful for what you already have.

“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”

2. Dream big. Form a vision. Do whatever it takes to make your vision resemble reality.

“All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

3. Look at the world through the eyes of a successful person.

“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”

4. Success comes from being uncomfortable so aim to put yourself in a state of discomfort.

“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”

5. Become one with your thoughts, emotions, and feelings.

“Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.”

6. Be open minded

“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?”

7. Use the law of attraction to your advantage. Like attracts like. Focus on what you want.

“The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.”

8. Put yourself in a position to attract luck.

“I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.”

9. Write your goals down

“People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.”

10. Feed your brain

“Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.”

11. Master thyself

“If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.”

12. Your actions are the result of habits. If you have successful habits, you will succeed. If you don’t, you will fail. Therefore, form good habits and kill your bad ones.

“Successful people are simply those with successful habits.”

13. Your mind is very powerful. Whatever you feed it, it will begin to believe. Hence you need to talk to yourself with extreme care.

“Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.”

14. Stretch yourself out

“Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.”

15. Learn from everyone

“No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.”

16. Plant seeds for success. Success is small things done well. Those small things will eventually become big things.

“You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.”

17. Be relentless. Life will throw some horrible things your way, but don’t lose faith. Keep your poker face on at all times. Don’t let life break you.

“Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.”

18. Set the bar high

“We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.”

19. Success demands boldness

“Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.”

20. If you’re going to spend your most valuable asset (time) on something, make sure it’s worth your while. Set goals you believe in and take the world by storm.

“Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.”

Source: http://make-me-successful.com/20-success-tips-brian-tracy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=20-success-tips-brian-tracy