Daily Inspiration

Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers; in the right order; so you can have anything you want.

- Brian Tracy

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

- Thomas A. Edison



If a man for whatever reason has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

- Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Its time to start living life the way you've imagined

- Henry James



You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances; the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.

- Jim Rohn

Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.

- George Washington Carver

Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

- Brian Tracey



The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

- Michelangelo

You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

- Napoleon Hill



You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. That's what makes you a winner.

- Venus Williams

If you are bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

- Lou Holtz



You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

- Rosalynn Carter

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible.

- Dale Carnegie

You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming.

- Jim Rohn



We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope that we get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.

- Bob Proctor

We have an innate desire to endlessly learn, grow, and develop. We want to become more than what we already are. Once we yield to this inclination for continuous and never ending improvement, we lead a life of endless accomplishments and satisfaction.

- Chuck Gallozzi



If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do.

- Unknown

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson




These are especially helpful right before you go to the gym. ;)

You've Won the Lottery!

Listen, if you are reading this blog right now - chances are that you use a computer. Am I right?

Well, one thing you should know about if you are a computer user is that in the computer security world the biggest security weakness is the human being. Thats right, its you. It just so happens that your firewall and secure passwords and whatever else you have going on, cannot protect you when you are on the computer clicking away like a maniac on links in emails, downloading things from god-knows-where, and filling out a mysterious log-in form that popped up on what you don't realize is a site that you were redirected to by malware. Unless you read security news daily like myself - you may not know these things.

Infact, when I lived with my parents my dad thought "cookies" were destroying the computer. Mind you, he barely evolved to the cordless phone (I love him <3) style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">1. If you receive an email from someone you don't know - just delete it. I'm serious. If it happens to be from a friend then ... oh well. God forbid you open the email and are tricked into believing that you have won the lottery (when you haven't entered) or that some random person needs to use your bank account to transfer money or that you are the next of kin and will inherit 8 million billion dollars. Its all lies. I'm a serial deleter. I don't even open that forwarded joke junk - it bothers me - don't send it, I don't want to read that stupid joke or see those adorable pictures. Don't know the sender? Don't read the email.

2. Do not click on links in emails. I cannot stress this enough. It has happened to me and it will happen to you. There is something about a little blue link that hypnotizes you and almost forces you to click on it...don't do it. Links are evil. Stop being lazy, look at the URL address and go to it directly.

3. Do not download random junk off the internet. Unless its a vulnerability patch, from a known vendors website - don't download it. Why? Because you may be installing malware on your computer. If you download things online without taking the right precautions, then you could have a very tricky situation on your hands. I will explain....

Listen, you may think "who cares about malware and viruses and all that other stuff" but what you may not understand is that malware and viruses can be used to steal your information. A hacker could be notified everytime you log onto your banking website and your information could get jacked, or you could have all your passwords saved on your computer - guess who will have that handy information now. Or you could use your credit card online - do you want someone to have your credit card numbers? The best scenario ever is when you get malware and viruses on your computer at work - lets hope your company doesn't suffer from a huge security breach because you wanted to see a video of Britney Spears naked.

If you are afraid that your computer is already hacked - then I would suggest that you completely reinstall your computer, change all your passwords to something strong (not any words from the dictionary - read about how to create a strong password online), and last but not least - don't open email from people you don't know, only go to trusted websites, stop downloading junk, and no clicking on links in emails. You could be more hardcore about it, but these are just some basics. =)

How True...

"There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it."

- Dale Carnegie