Persistency: the key to success of “the Colonel”

Colonel Sanders

How many times in your life you had an idea, but you didn’t take action? How many times in your life, after some “no”, did you give up? Persistency, having 100% faith in you is the key factor to success. That is what makes the difference between all successful people and all others, who had a great project/idea and didn’t even have the courage to tell anybody else. Not all people exercise their “guts”, embracing their fears, giving them a deadly embrace. How many times do we take excuses for not achieving our goals? I am too old, I don’t have enough money, I don’t live in the right place and I don’t have a title and many more, the most creative ones for not achieving our dreams, for the fear of failure.

I came across a story of a very famous man, whose face is very familiar to me, although I have never been in one of his restaurants. I think I am one of the few on Earth. I think you are familiar with the face of an old man on a big basket of fried chicken. The smiling visage of Colonel Sanders has been the face of KFC (also known as Kentucky Fried Chicken) for many years. Even nearly thirty years after his death, the image of the jovial southern gentleman (Sanders himself was born in Indiana) still stands as the public face of the company he started in the midst of the great depression.

He was 65 years old, when he received his first cheque of $ 99 for his retirement, when he decided he wanted to do something, starting his business. He realized, although he didn’t have a lot of money, he was 65 years old, he was in the midst of the great depression, to have something important: a great recipe to cook the best fried chicken. He started to go one after another to propose his fantastic recipe. And guess what? He received a no, another no and then another no and so on. He collected 1009 no.

His persistency was his success, because at 1010 was a YES. And then it is history the big success he achieved. He died in 1980, leaving a great legacy: His image remains iconic in KFC; a foundation he established in his later years aids charities and funds scholarships with over a million dollars in grants a year.

“The Colonel” is a great example of someone who didn’t care about his age, money availability, depression…We create our destiny with our decisions we take every minute of our life. We are the creators of our fortune or misfortune. Only when we believe 100% in ourselves we can succeed and when we run towards our fears. Only when we are strong enough to face 1000 no, we can win. That’s the Soul’s Expansion. By the way, we are on this planet for this reason, to give us the most beautiful gift: the gift of the experience. No mistakes exist, only experience exists.

Remember “to exercise your guts”.

Linda Lattuca

L.E.A.D.E.R.S.

I came across a small book from Deepak Chopra, who inspired me a lot many years ago, when I started to work on my self-discovery with awareness. The title of the book is “The Soul of Leadership”. In this book, he told about the meaning for him of the acronym L.E.A.D.E.R.S. After I read something from this book, I was meditating about this acronym, too and my meaning of it. That is what I would like to share with you in this blog post.

L = Law of Attraction of Attraction and Law of Karma:

True leaders know the universal laws and especially these two. They know how to play at the best in their lives, exploiting of the universal laws. They know very well that the Universe is conspiring to make their dreams come true. The Law of Attraction works 24 hours a day in everyone’s life, but only few people know it. True leaders study the principles which govern nature and they apply what they have learnt in their life on a daily basis. They pay attention to their thoughts, feelings, words they speak and actions. True leaders know also the Law of Karma; they know that what they put out, they will receive back. They take responsibility for everything they do.

E = Empowerment

True leaders love empowering themselves. They do it reading books written by great souls; they listen to audiobooks even when they drive, commute or doing their workout. True leaders attend seminars on line or live to expand their knowledge and ultimately their soul. They know that if they don’t have, they can’t give others. Only if they empower themselves in many ways, they are able to empower other souls.

A = Action

True leaders love the process of creation and they have guts to take action to make their dreams come true. They love shipping projects, they love having new experience. And if they “fail”, they stand-up again, carrying on in what they do, learning from their experience. Many human beings stop themselves at the phase of creation, because they don’t overcome their fears: fear of success, of failure or to be judged.

D = Dream

True leaders love dreaming BIG. They know that they are not limits in dreaming and that the only existing limits are the ones we create by ourselves (the bars of our “golden cage”). They dream new projects, new connections, a new life style…They dream to inspire others, to grow other leaders. They have 100% faith their dreams come true; that is why they manifest what they desire. The Universe is their best friend, which supplies them everything they want, just because they “know the rules of the game” and they play at their best.

E = Embracing fears

True leaders embrace their fears. This way, they embrace their life. They know they have the command, that they are the captain of their soul. They use fears to boost their courage. It is also exciting embracing their fears. In doing that, they expand their comfort zone, increasing their confidence.

R = Responsibility

As captain of their soul, true leaders know they are responsible for everything happens in their lives. If they don’t like something, they have the courage to change it.

S = Self-Discovery

True leaders understand that the most fascinating, wonderful, interesting journey is the one in their within. Only when we discover who we truly are and our infinite power, we start thinking, speaking and acting in a very different way. Magically, our outer world changes for better, because we have changed our inner world. We can travel around the world and this is fantastic to be open- minded, but if we miss the journey in our within, we miss the main purpose of our life on this planet: our soul’s expansion.

Keep leading from Within!

Linda Lattuca

Flying High

A snap I took on the flight London-Bologna

I don’t know at how many feet I am, but I know I am flying very high. I am on a flight from London to Bologna (Italy). I love creating, while I am flying and I decided to write this blog posts to share my thoughts with all of you.

As I sit here, many thoughts come to my mind. First of all, all my gratitude to Brothers Write for sticking with their dream to fly. I express my gratitude to them every time I am on a plane. First lesson we need to learn: let’s stick with our dreams, although our families, people, friends are telling us “you are crazy”, maybe laughing at us.

Another thought: Pilots are following a flight plan and they are continuously doing a check about the route and the instruments. Second lesson to learn: we need to set up goals (yearly, monthly, weekly, daily), checking every single day we are doing what is necessary to achieve our goals. We need our “flight plan to fly high!” ;)

As I look outside my window, I see the sun is shining above the clouds and the sky is always blue. Third lesson we need to learn: let’s be above our clouds, I mean above what we call problems (they are opportunities). Let’s think the sky is always blue above the clouds. Look at what you are facing like great masters, which are serving you for your soul’s expansion. Be detached to see the truth.

In front of me, I see a picture of all the emergency procedures and there are other two lessons we need to learn from it. One of the procedures says “put the oxygen mask on your nose for first and then help others”. Only if we have, we can give others. Only if we put ourselves on the top of the list, we can give others. It is not selfish; it is wise. Another procedure says: “abandon your bag in case of emergency”. That means: don’t be attached to what you got. Everything is borrowed in this dimension. We have “only” our Soul. Is it few?

Now, the pilot is telling passengers we are at 37000 feet and that we are above Germany and going to be above France very soon. Another thought come to my mind: we born in a place, we defined borders, but the best thing we can do is considering us “citizen of the world”.

Gosh, another thought: be a traveller of this dimension and not a simple tourist. I mean: it is important to understand who we truly are and act from our True Self. Another thought, again: how much it is important to travel to be more open minded, to meet people of other cultures, to try new food, to know other traditions. This enriches our soul. I feel very lucky to have this chance.

Here you are only some thoughts and lessons I learnt and wanted to share with you.

Keep leading from Within!

Linda Lattuca

Pearls of Wisdom from John Wooden

John Wooden: much more than a Coach

If you love basket, maybe you are familiar with the name of John Wooden. He was (he died last June) one of the greatest basketball coaches of all history, who guided the Bruins to 10 national championships over two decades. Those who had the great gift to have met him or having him as a coach, they told about the great impact John Wooden had in their lives. It was more than a coach: he was a father figure, a teacher, a mentor and a master motivator.

I read an article about him, who was called “Wizard of Westwood” and I wanted to share with you some pearls of wisdom from him. His life changed at 12 years old, when his father gave him a piece of paper in which there was the creed to follow:

“Making the Most Oneself

Be true to yourself.

Make each day your masterpiece.

Help others.

Drink deeply from good books.

Make friendship a fine art.

Build shelter against a rainy day.

Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.”

Since then, he followed what was written in that piece of paper, that he kept in his wallet. He told he wasn’t perfect like all other human beings, but once he said: “Every day, I will still try to live up to the creed.”

Another thing I want to share with all of you is about his strategies to find happiness, which for him comes from making and keeping 9 promises:

1. Promise yourself that you will talk health, happiness and prosperity as often as possible.
2. Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special that you value.
3. Promise to think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best in yourself and others.
4. Promise to be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
5. Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
6. Promise to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to greater achievements in the future.
7. Promise to wear a cheerful appearance at all times and give every person you meet a smile.
8. Promise to give so much time improving that you have no time to criticize others.
9. Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.

Although John Wooden is passed away, his words are still inspiring people all over the world. Me for first!

Keep leading from within

Linda Lattuca