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Good evening. Getting towards the end of today’s great seminar that we have attended, 2 00:00:15 --> 00:00:22 I believe that we’ve all have come to realize that if one and only conclusion was to come out
from all these wonderful things we’ve heard, that would be that in order to gain a better life
we need to start everything from the inside,
from the way we, in the first place, deal with the situations and from the way we get to our interpersonal relationships
so that those we co-exist and do all these wonderful things in our everyday life could also understand us.
Well, when I was invited to present the next speaker,
the first thing I was told was that I had to talk a little about myself
so that I could make an introduction.
This meant that I should create a ‘self- branding’, to promote what I am so as to make my introduction.
So, I had the chance to reflect on how I should promote myself,
with which of my attributes I should presented myself so that I would sound interesting.
Because my name is Mina Zoulovits and at the same time I am a lawyer, I am Margarita and Corina’s mum,
Costa’s spouse, Jill, Eliza and Christina’s friend, Vasili and Rita’s daughter
which means that I have a lot of different personalities,
which means that I need to brand myself each time
depending on the people I refer to in a different way
and to cultivate my relationships with others while I am one and the same person in a different way each time.
This made me appreciate the luck of being here with you and of having the ability and the chance
to listen to all these great things coming from a person who for 30 years
has literally dedicated his life to the anthropocentric development. He has basically trained,
from what I can see on his leaflet, a great number of executives in corporations,
how to deal with their personal branding, to bring it forth
and to become, to develop themselves better and better and I believe he is the most suitable person to conclude this wonderful meeting,
Dr. Giannis Kalogerakis who is the CEO of JMK company
and who is with us tonight to talk about personal branding and personal development.
Thank you very much! All the best to you, too!
Good evening from me, too and I want to thank you very much for staying up till now!
Truly, I believe that you, that stayed up till now, do not need to listen to anything from all about to be said.
All those who have gone should have been here!
ow to conquer your future developing your personal image.
So, I will support that our personal image is in here
therefore our future is in here!
Of course all those who know me can see where I am heading for and what I am talking about.
Thank you for attending once more!
So, I am Giannis Kalogerakis, I own JMK,
for 30 years now I have been doing what you are about to see me doing right here in the next minutes.
Michelangelo used to see a chunk of marble
and dreamt that if he worked with it something would be revealed.
But, guys, when I see a piece of marble, this is all I see!
That man used to see a piece of marble and imagined that a masterpiece was hiding in there that he had to reveal!
Certain people have this ability!
Those of you who are used in travelling, especially if you visit Corfu, I am used to travelling to various places for training,
and of course, it is possible that you may go to Corfu and happen to meet George Katsaros.
It just so happened that I met him, too.
For those of you who do not know, he is a saxophone player of my era!
Feeling very happy I came up to him and said,
‘I love the saxophone. Mr. Katsaros, your performance is amazing; I am moved each time…’
adding that, ‘I have always liked and wanted to learn how to play the saxophone!’
And then he turned to me saying, ‘I don’t think so!’…ahh! ... ‘I don’t think so!’…ahh! ...
‘I don’t think so!’…there! We have translation!
And I said, ‘What?’ I was frozen stiff… what to say to him, my mouth was dry!
He turned to me and said, ‘If you had really wanted, you would have learnt!’
Oh, my God! He was so right! If I had really wanted, I would have learnt!
Maybe I just wanted, because of how it looked, of its curves… I just liked it… I don’t know…
But if I had wanted it, I would have really learnt! This is so true!
You very often listen from people of my profession telling that you should be yourself,
to try and always do what you like the most in life, to do what suits you best…
Wait a minute, guys, who am I actually? What are you talking about? Just like that, find ourselves?
And who am I? And what do I like? And what suits me? If we knew, we would all be millionaires!
But we don’t! We need to search and find it out!
Well, today, we have heard attending Better Life Day,
out of the whole meeting some people have found something interesting, some others haven’t…
That’s it! There is not just one thing suitable for everyone!
But let’s start and look for it!
‘Know Thyself’ is not an easy thing! But this is a one-way street!
And this is finally the only way if we seek happiness and have a better day in this life!
Loumidis has found it, coffee!
All right! That was easy!
Each one… and Loumidis coffee expert! All right!
Konstandinidis, cake expert! Mmm… makes you mouth water, no? With the addition of piano players now, very nice!
Great, they have found it!
Germanos thought about batteries, power… that would be profitable!
And there! He created his battery empire! He found it, adored it, loved it…
Kotsovolos, the exact same thing!
You see, some people have found something.
If you ever happen to meet Nick Kaklamanakis you will agree
that this man was finally born to be on top of a windsurfing!
Guys he adores it, he loves it!
He watches the windsurfers and he loses control, it’s in his blood!
And there is someone wondering: what about me, what is the one thing that would drive me crazy?
All right, I projected both photos at the same time because each one is different compared to the other…
You can see Papahelas, you can also see Eleni Menegaki.
They are experts, each one in his, her own field!
Ahh! ... He is an expert in his field!
And he gets off on doing it, and he is happy, and he makes money out of it, and he is happy!
What do you know! Do you think that these people ever get tired, that they work watching the time?
They get crazy, passionate… Because they have found it!
Well, here I am in front of you to let you know:
do not let this make you feel frustrated, we do not have to become just like them!
Each one of us is different!
Each one of us in here is different compared to the other!
Some of you have got a Mac, some of you a PC… never mind… Each one is different!
A kid raises his hand in class and says, ‘Sorry, miss, I didn’t quite get that.’
Then the teacher repeats it.
And the kid says once more, ‘I didn’t say I didn’t listen to it, I said I didn’t get it!’ 97 00:07:12 -> 00:07:13 Then the teacher repeats it for the third time and the kid says,
‘All right, all right, I listened to you the first time, too, but like I said, I didn’t get it!’.
A teacher is not supposed to explain things in a certain way and whoever gets her way to be awarded with ‘excellent’.
She is supposed to figure out how she can be understandable to each and every student and explain things this way.
Not using her same way and whoever follows to get high marks!
The teacher needs to understand that each one is different but what do we do in class? ...
there, he is worth of a 13, there, he is worth of a 14, there, he is worth of a 15…
A mark follows us in our lives… my mum has framed my high school diploma awarded with a 13.
‘Hey, mum, will you please take off the frame from my diploma!’…
Just a frame, hanging up there!
Do you know what it literally means,
I have been a teacher for so many years, do you know what this 13 or 14 means;
what a student cries out?
He cries out, ‘Hey, teacher, if you think you are so smart make me deserve ‘excellent’!
What are you talking about that I am worth of a 13 or a 14? I know that!
Make me worth of ‘excellent’!’
Let us help the others! And today I will let you know how to help ourselves!
And I will share this with you since I have helped a lot of people and I know how to do it! And it can be done!
And there is some other teacher and she tells me, ‘Oh, my God! There is this kid in my class and he yawns, and he is so bored! ...’
I had only been talking to her for 3 minutes and felt like saying, ‘But I am also bored all this time!’ but how to let her know that?
And then I say, ‘Really? And I suppose your teaching must be exquisite!’ She stares at me and says, ‘Sure, anytime time I feel like it…’
And then I say, ‘Ahh, … certainly…’ I tried to make it clear to her… this is called coaching! ...
So, we are all different. This is a major truth!
Well, I wouldn’t like to give you any kind of exercise at this moment, but guys, please, do me a favor
and write down just one profession that you would ideally, ideally you would like to be doing in your life.
Ideally, no matter how crazy would that be, astronaut, whatever,
singer, dancer, chef, whatever would that be… Anything!
Well, we experience hardships in life…
Certainly, we have our ups and downs…
But, listen to this… If there are not any ups and downs in your life that means that you do not leave anymore,
don’t get crazy, this is a part of our life! There certainly have to be ups and downs!
But let me tell you something:
once you are up, it does not mean that your whole life will be like that and once you are down it doesn’t mean…
You get down again and you turn back and you go down again… And that’s the beauty of it!
We learn to live with it! We don’t want any flat line, either up or down. That can’t be!
An *** lasts for seconds, if it lasted 3 hours we would die! Anyway!
Well… I am… Sorry! Will you please delete that last comment!
Here I am during a congress in the United States and there comes Ken Blanchard and he says,
‘Every night before going to sleep, the Pythagoreans,
ahh, there is a Greek guy in here, John, where are you John?’
‘What did the Pythagoreans use to say? The hypotenuse square equals to the square of…’
Oh, no! I had cribbed it while at school, how can now remember it?
I ‘accidentally’ dropped the lid of the pen and then kneel and start looking for it…
and the guy next to me says, ‘Hey, John, he is looking for you!’
The only Greek in Atlanta World Congress Centre, 17,000 trainers from all over the world,
the only Greek, kneeling on the floor, hiding, I’ve lost the lid…
They tell me, ‘Yes, but it’s for you!’… All right, but what about the lid? ...
Fine, since John is nowhere to be found I will let you know what the Pythagoreans used to say!’
And then I say, ‘Yeah, big guy, do tell us cause it slips my mind at the moment!’
And then he turns and tell us is fluent Ancient Greek
that every night, before going to sleep the Pythagoreans used to say,
‘Πη παρέβην; Τι δ΄έρεξα; Τι μοι δέον ουκ ετελέσθη;’
That is, ‘What have I done that I shouldn’t have done?
What have I done but I can do better?
What have I done properly but I still can do better?
What I have done but not as good as I can?
Maybe I have done something wrong?
Which means that the Pythagoreans every night, before going to sleep went through a self-diagnostic check
and questioned themselves and had the chance of becoming better persons!
The best trainer is you yourselves, not me! You yourselves!
This is the only way to move forward, to improve ourselves!
And I learnt this from an American in Atlanta!
I felt embarrassed that I had not deepened in studying the Ancient Greek writers!
But then I found my balance marrying to a person who lets me know every now and then, all right!…
But I didn’t know about any of this! ...
We have heard today about loving what you do.
Well… I will rephrase it a little and I will tell you:
If the path to Happiness is to do what you love, for Happiness
the path to Success is to love what you do!
There is this difference if you want to succeed!
I will soon be finishing! In a few minutes I will be done!
My job is to be 8 to 10 hours standing every day, holding a microphone.
Do you believe that my back aches? It doesn’t!
As soon as I finish, I get back home and drop dead!
It doesn’t hurt!
Sometimes, I do get back home completely exhausted… Having had a seminar from 9 to 5 and then from 5 to 9 in the evening …
And then I get back home and my son who is a little boy tells me,
‘Come on, dad, I had been waiting for you so that we can play with the swords!’
What swords? I am exhausted!
And then he says, ‘Do not drop down after only the first clash! You need to fight!’ What? ... Eh! I then start tak, tak, tak…
My wife puts him to bed, and then she comes back, she finds me having fallen asleep in the corridor…
But you know what? She tells me, ‘He had been waiting for so long for you to get back!’
And you know what I have learnt in life? Do you know what my son tells me that very moment?
‘Dad, I miss you!’
‘So, now that you have come back, you need to spend some time with me!’
If I don’t consider that, you see, I am the best trainer of myself,
if I don’t consider that, and not arrange for us to spend the weekend together
go skiing, scuba diving, anything, I have no chance!
In case I am unable to understand…
We’re sitting in front of the TV and my wife asks,‘Are you thirsty?’ and I say,‘No.’
So many years have gone by and what have I learnt?
That she is the one who’s thirsty!
And I have to get her a glass of water!
And then she tells her friend, ‘How do you know? My husband can read my mind!’
I just understand her! It took me some time to do so, I must admit…
You know, if you ask a man, ‘What’s wrong?’ and he replies, ‘Nothing!’
and then ask a woman, ‘What’s wrong?’ and she says, ‘Nothing!’ ,
the man means ‘Nothing!’ indeed while the woman means, ‘You need to ask me again!’
‘I won’t make it that easy for you!
If you are interested, if you care you will ask me again, you will insist!’
You learn all of that while in a wedding, that’s the only way!
Well, Konstantinos Kintzios reminded us, in a recent article in CareerBuilder, of
what Thomas Friedman has said,
‘Those who expect the recession to come to an end’
so as to get a job, a promotion and so on,
‘will probably have to wait long enough. But those who have the ability
to envision new services, new opportunities, new ways of doing jobs of the past,
energy ways of offering new services so as to save the planet from power waste,
new ways of attracting clients of the past or new ways to combine current technology advancements’,
this is creativity I am talking about, ’these people will prosper and advance in life!’
I very often refer to this article because I’ve liked it a lot.
So far I have been talking to you about the personal image
explaining that our personal image is in our minds, what our opinion is about ourselves.
While issuing an ID at the police department I was told that I am 1,65m tall.
And I said, ‘What? Am I 1,65m, are you sure? Because I feel as I am 2,10m tall!’
‘No’, they repeated, ‘you are 1,65m!’ Guys, I don’t believe it! I’ve never had!
Our personal image actually means what we think of ourselves.
But what is the effect of it? It influences the way the others see us!
And what does this mean? It creates our brand!
And if we mean for ourselves to prosper, we’ll create and sell our brand!
Which is neither cunning nor cheating, not a trick, not something meaningless.
It’s the whole essence of our soul and our life!
‘Go brand yourself!’ Kostas says.
Hey Konstantinos! Go brand yourself.
And he talks about at least 10 different ways,
and Ethel, thank you very much for bringing it in the public eye…
So, now I will talk to you about the first point.
Prepare a short response; it is also called ‘positioning statement’
for those of you who have followed marketing studies, of this question:
‘What’s your job?’ Since morning it has been said at least 100 times…
What is your job?’ At least I’ve heard it…
In case our capacity as a professional, for someone that is currently without a job,
is not active, we have this feeling that we cannot answer this question!
But our profession does not define who we are!
Our knowledge, education and skills define that!
The article includes a lot of other practical points.
But I just want to refer to this one and talk about it;
anyway it was in my agenda for the today’s presentation.
When someone asks, ‘Ah! Nice meeting you! Your name is… What is your job? What do you do for a living?
What is your occupation?’ or any of these,
please, if you have liked everything that you have heard today,
that means yourself, you have to learn without any hesitation, without eh… eh… ah… hem… and things like that;
please notice, in 10 seconds, the ‘positioning statement’ has to come out naturally,
you have to learn how to say it in 10 seconds,
learn how to say it in 1 minute and you also have to learn how to say it in 10 minutes
and you will 3 versions in hand.
Depending on the person in front of you… and you will reply with the 10 minute version or the 1 minute…
There is also another one but we don’t have much time for that one;
learn how to do it in an hour’s time.
In case someone asks you to get up on stage and talk about how you have managed in life!
Well, 10 seconds, 1 minute and 10 minutes, you must have 3 versions available.
Very practical, all three of them. Here is an example.
There is a young woman saying, ‘I teach little kids how to tidy their toys, their clothes…’
Boom! Time’s up!
And some mother turns to her asking, ‘Come on! How do you do that?’
And the young woman replies that she is a teacher at Technoplus schools, she teaches the Excel…’
Excel is very practical and kids get very excited
once they learn how to place their shoes in order based on color, based on size, based on…
And the Excel is used with photos and then they also create a board…
And she looks at her like that… and says, ‘Where do you learn to do this?
So that I could bring my kid, too!’
Because children also learn how to use the Excel at school but all they hear about is numbers.
What has the teacher managed to do in 10 seconds?
To arrange for a new enrolment in a school that teaches the use of computers!
And there are plenty of other examples that I could share with you!
If we don’t pore over this 1, 10 and…
if you don’t work so as to have the positioning statements ready in hand, there will be a problem in life!
There will be a problem because you will hesitate to let the others know
who you are, what you do, what you are worth of!
How will you sell yourself now?
I suggest you dare it, try it, go ahead and do it!
Two are the options now! You will either do well or you not do well!
You will either succeed or not succeed!
Why not succeeding, why finally NO is YES… let me tell you why it’s a YES…
Because you will have gained in experience and knowledge!
It is a YES eventually, wherever you go, you will gain!
You will gain! Whatever the situation!
You will be creating, what we call it, a bypass of happiness.
This is how the body works as well, according to special doctors.
When there are artery stenosis then bypasses are creates,
the artery finds its way so that no stenosis will occur and you end up leaving this world!
I am telling you, our body itself manages that! It is a YES finally!
I keep trying and trying! I am not letting it go! s!
I keep improving my life! I struggle to make it! I reach the top of my potential!
I create the bypasses! This is what makes sense!
We are not letting it go!
So, here is what I ask from you: transcendence must be made;
we need to work transcendence out in here where we have gathered.
Each and every one of us must do it!
So, what is this? Here’s a proposal of some ideas that you could try.
Now listen to the most difficult words that a Greek can utter, coming from a survey.
So, here comes the first one: try and say ‘well done!’ to yourself;
will that take you down a peg or two?
Do try and say: there’s my boy, well done!
There’s my girl, well done, you’ve done… well done!
Ken Blanchard used to mention in his books that managers some years ago
were used in trying to trace any mistake.
They would say: ‘Ah!’ They would rub his nose in that mistake! ‘Here’s a mistake!
Do you know what a manager would do nowadays?
They look for what’s right and say, ‘Well done! Thank you!’
Not to underline the mistake! A mistake would not help anyone evolve!
Do try and say ‘I’m sorry!’ to anyone you ought to!
So that you will feel the whole thing deep down inside, be filled in with joy, energy.
Do try and say ‘I’m sorry!’ An apology can liberate you!
Do try and say ‘I love you!’
Once I tried to say that to my mother and do you know at what point did I stop?
At ‘I’! I said, ‘I’… I’…’ I was so scared!
Do try it! It will have a liberating effect on you!
Do try and say ‘thank you!’ to someone! It is so important!
Hey, we see it happening all the time abroad!
And all we do is a mmm… Why won’t you spit it out?
This is of major importance because
we have the chance to fight and triumph over this monster!
Do try and say to someone ‘You know, I could use some help. I cannot make it!’
Here’s the thing. Listen to me;
Nick, you are aware of things in life that I know nothing of.
Eh! He is the Human Resources Manager for a big company.
But I am also aware of things you don’t know.
So, instead of rubbing my nose in all that I am not aware of
and instead of me rubbing your nose in all that you aren’t,
let’s spend time together and exchange info!
It will work to our mutual benefit! 319 00:19:26 --> 19:27 I’ll learn something from you and you, in turn, will learn something from me!
What’s the use of me bragging about how clever I am
and there is no point in you telling me how much you are aware of that I am not!
We will argue, we will slight one another, we will fall out.
Instead, if I try to offer something critical to you and you do the same,
I’ll adore you, my friend! All right! ...
Well, there are certain people that would never board a plane,
they are afraid of flights.
There are certain people who never fly! That last group over there…
All right, there are plenty of them.
There are certain people who fly, they board a plane and go from destination A to destination B.
And what do they do? Just sit. They just remain seated.
That is, they remain passive.
There are times when such position can be uncomfortable but at least they fly.
On the other hand, there are some others who are the pilots
sitting in front of the plane.
They have control of the plane following, of course, a specific air route,
they will go from here to there.
Following the same air trips mainly.
But the thing is that they look happy, full of joy.
They have control of things compared to me who I’m just sitting waiting to reach my destination.
There are also some others who are air force pilots
that they themselves decide where and for what reason they will fly to.
It’s up to them what certain moves they will have to make,
victory is also up to them;
they get their adrenaline pumping; they experience the adventure…
Well, it’s tragic to be an air force pilot
wanting to turn into an airliner pilot!
It’s tragic to be a commercial flights pilot
wanting to be simply a passenger!
It’s tragic to be a pilot wanting to be a simple passenger!
It’s tragic to be a passenger, thought, wanting to be a pilot.
That is… Please notice!
We have to move on; we have to struggle for whatever that is that we want in life!
I don’t mean that we should all turn into air force pilots by that
but you have to choose what you want to be!
Could it be that what you are today is not what suits you?
Is it that maybe you can move forward?
Let me tell you something.
Despina, do you happen to write poems?
I am telling you, you were born a natural poet.
How do we know that Despina is not a natural born poet?
Is it because she doesn’t write any poems?
Has anyone ever tried to develop her? Has anyone ever tried to educate her?
Has anyone ever tried to teach rhyme to her?
Has anyone ever given poetry to her so that she could read it?
Has anyone ever approached her in times when she felt sad, bitter, in love
to give her a blank piece of paper and a pencil and urge her,
‘Here, write something down so that we can see what will come out of it!’
Go to her and help her, develop her, inspire her
and then see if she has what it takes or not!
Looking at you I can’t… Looking at you, you look like a poet to me,
you fit into my idea that there is something poetic about you!
But cannot make it out by just looking at someone else’s face!
We have to work with the other person, our kid, our associate, ourselves…
You cannot just look in the mirror and decide I am born to be someone!
How do you know what you are born to be if you don’t struggle, if you don’t work on it?
A lot of people in here might think, ‘I cannot climb up that mountain!’ How do you know?
Well, the enemy of ‘I develop’, ladies and gentlemen is ‘I rest on my laurels’!
That same curse as it used to appear in the old black and white Greek films:
‘… and then you can just sit back!’
That’s a tragic mistake!
It’s a curse for someone to just sit back and relax watching things happening around him!
Here are some actual examples of what I’m trying to say.
You park your car, because it is certain that your way of thinking will come out, into action!
What you see is an actual view at the entrance of my office.
It is supposed to be for the disabled and there is someone who has parked on this very space!
Wait a minute, pal; what about the emergency fire brigade call, ambulance,
the pram, the baby, the disabled, the street market? …
Why don’t you care about any of this?
Can you now see how people’s indifference comes into light?
If we start and turn deep into ourselves
we will certainly find what the solution is.
I now come to you suggesting something else that is practical
and I consider it to be also liberating.
I recommend it to you, too.
Help other people! Help! …
Help them to do something themselves!
At that very moment, you can feel you are worth of something!
Help other people, say something nice to them!
You will feel better, too! But mind that:
when you talk to and encourage someone, listen to it, too!
Say something nice and listen to it yourself, too!
I very often say things so that I can listen to it, too!
Ask them about something! You will learn something!
Like I said, you don’t have to say to the other person,
‘I know about it, you know nothing!’
Ask him! ‘Why are you doing this?’ ‘Ah!’ ‘What does this mean?’
Learn about something! That’s how we move on in life!
If I give you 1€ and you give me 1€, what have we got?
We’ve exchanged our euros, we’ve got by 1€.
But if I give you an idea and you give me an idea,
each one will then have by 2 ideas!
Because each time people co-operate, they achieve more!
We can co-operate and achieve more in life!
Now, what are the greatest obstacles?
The greatest obstacles that I have found out
during all these 30 years that I’ve been doing this job
is that people live with guilt deep inside!
Guilt that either dates back to their childhood,
or it is recent or it goes back in time, it doesn’t matter, we will not conduct psychoanalysis …
they live with guilt!
They live with guilt and they cannot move forward, their past holds them back like counterweight.
People live in fear, they are afraid,
they are afraid of taking a risk, of moving forward.
They live in fear. And the third one that I have found out,
they get angry.
And while being angry they say things that can ruin their carrier,
their personal life… while in anger!
It took me quite some time to realize that the Holy Confession
and the Holy Communion finally mean and my 7 year-old-son explained it to me,
‘Ah!’ he said, ‘It’s just like that small button- reset!’
That’s it, finally! It’s ‘reset’!
You have to learn how to reset or else
you will fall behind like a counterweight and that holds you back in life.
This is the reason why I have released some DVDs
in which I talk about anger management, about guilt management, about fear,
how to stand up for things in life…
’ve heard to some certain questions today and I know where they come from…
I could give him that DVD so that he could change his life!
It can be done! But if you don’t want to learn about something
is as if you want to be a bad luck volunteer!
I hope that you want to move forward.
Well, maybe you have seen the leaflets out there, too…
Well, 20 seminars available in DVD,
each DVD having also a CD; the CD is for use in the car,
don’t tell me it’s too American! …
So as to listen to the seminar even while in the car; why not?
There are times that you can get stuck in traffic on Kifisias Avenue…
Well, I have brought here with me one DVD, number 18;
it is called ‘The Challenge of Excellence’. By the way, it was filmed in here.
‘The Challenge of Excellence’; it was filmed in here.
I want to give it to someone. Does anyone want it?
Does anyone want it? Hurry up! I’ve only got one with me!
You will have to pay for the rest, 150€! Who wants …
My boy, what’s your name? What’s your name? What?
Elias! Well done, Elias, it’s yours! Well, listen to me!
Everybody wanted it, you stood up second; I am sorry, Elias stood up first.
Everybody wanted it, Elias stood up! He got out of the comfort zone!
The rest of you went, ‘Yes, I want it! Send it home by courier! I want it!’
Elias stood up!
Why did I do this? So, that you will keep in mind
that if you don’t get out of the comfort zone you will not win in life!
However, in this life, while sitting in the comfort zone,
we believe that we have a living and we complain about how things go wrong!
Get out there! Do something!
The Chinese say, ‘If you don’t like the darkness, get up, light up a candle!’
but don’t just sit and think about how ill-fated you are!
Do something about it!
Guys, if we don’t break the eggs, we won’t get any omelet, we all know that!
Don’t just look at them! Move on, go ahead, do something!
You know, there’s a theory that says that the dinosaurs became extinct
because meteorites had fallen and destroyed their food. OK!
There’s also another theory that says:
that they missed Noah’s deadline!
‘Was it today? Oh! Crap!’
Well, no more delays! Nature will eliminate us!
That’s tragic! When someone’s mother passes away,
he then learns how to talk to her.
When someone loses his legs, he then learns how to park his car!
I sometimes see people having parked their car on the disabled parking space and I ask them,
‘What are you doing? And they reply, ‘It’s only for a while! …’
How do you mean ‘for a while?’
If you lose your legs … But then again, it will be permitted to them!
Anyway! If someone’s mother passes away, he will then say, ‘Oh! Mum’
What? Now that she’s gone?
When someone loses his job, he then says, ‘Now I know how I should be working!’
When someone loses all his money, he says,
'Now I know how and where I should invest!’
Hey, pal, are you wise now?
Well, here’s the thing! ‘Later’ is for the silly ones!
‘Later’ is for the dumb!
For me, the smart guys move ‘Now’! 492 00:27:17--> 00:27:19 ‘Now’ that you are lucky to be having your legs and park your car!
‘Now’ if you are lucky to talk better to your mother!
Once she’s gone, it’ll be too late!
‘Now’ if you are lucky to be having a job, check out how you work!
‘Now’ if you are lucky to have money, check on what you should invest it!
‘Now’ if you are lucky, because I can see you, you look lucky to me! … 498 00:27:31,10 -->00:27:31,90 ‘Now’ if you are lucky and you are breathing,
and you are standing on your feet and you are smiling 500 00:27:34 --> 00:27:35 because there are people that have none of these that I’ve mentioned!
It’s ‘Now’ what you will do! ‘Later’ you will have turned into a wise guy!
But you may be with a catheter inserted by then and who knows what else!
‘Now’! ‘Now’ stand up and do something! There’s no other way!
Each person hides a GOOD and a BAD self inside.
All of you that know me well,
you know that I support the idea that a person does not change, a person chooses.
You cannot change but you can choose which of the two will come out.
Each person hides a STRONG and a WEAK self inside!
Each and every one possesses a strong self so we can everything that we’ve heard of today!
Each and every one possesses a weak self that says,
‘Hey! You are not capable!’
Well, choose which of the two you want to bring forth!
It’s a choice, not a change! I choose how I want to leave my life!
Because ‘good’ co- exists with ‘evil’!
Both of them; they come in a pack; they go together.
Hey, people do not change! People choose how to behave!
Every day!
Right in front of my eyes two cars drive into one another, boom,
and one of the drivers comes out saying,
‘Mmm! …’ I cannot refer to his exact words, there’s a recording going on,
I cannot repeat any of this, words beyond understanding.
And there comes the other driver crossing himself and saying, ‘Thank God!’
And the first driver then says, ‘What God! We have just driven into each other!
God should have stopped it!’ And the other guy replies,
‘My friend, had I been 10cm further you would have run over my legs!’
I was socked! And reflected on how each one of them thought about the incident!
Choose, either to swear at what is happening to you
or choose to just say, ‘Thank God! I’ve made it! I’m good!
I am standing on my feet! I am moving forward!
And just maybe this has taught me a lesson!’
You see, what I am describing can be found in us!
Love, hatred can be found in us! Telling the truth, a lie, 533 00:29:01 --> 00:29:03 they will come from us from deep inside.
The light, the darkness, the good, the evil, creativity, destruction,
you see, the complete opposite ends.
Ladies and gentlemen, there is a lot of dopamine in us which we can let go
but there’s also spleen! The brain can produce these substances!
We will give the order so that they will come out!
Once endocrinologists explained to me that we are made
to produce dopamine, I just couldn’t believe it!
For those who can’t, of course, it is also available in injections, in pills …
The best thing would be though to learn how to do it using your brain, though!
Now look at this! This that you see… this gold stuff is dopamine!
Now if you manage to drop it in the receptor, this blue stuff here is the receptor…
It depends on your thoughts, I am explaining it in a little plain,
common and fast manner and your thoughts are this red stuff…
You may think of something and feel rejoicing all of a sudden deep inside!
Our thinking does all of this!
You may not bring forward this transporter, not bring this transporter out if you want
and not feel good.
But if you want, you can do it…
Guys, are you following me? We are made to be feeling good!
Because if you feel like a mess, you’ll bring out the evil and much more than that.
We are not made to leave too soon.
We are made to leave as Methuselah but we are not aware of that
and we go narrowing our aortas with all that we eat and do…
It can be done! Yes, it can be done!
Peter Economides first conceived it, ΝΑΙ, yes, it can be done!
To choose a certain though over some other!
If you can’t afford ‘Stress Management’ DVD,
this is what ‘Stress Management’ is about…
You make some other though in turn.
There are ways to do it but, basically, this is what it is all about.
Make some other though instead.
Well, you see that a beloved one is late…
I can see several people in love in here! Well, the one you love is late…
What will you think about that very moment?
‘Ah! He/ She has forgotten about me!
He doesn’t love me; he doesn’t even care about me!’
What is actually happening?
My mother, ‘There’s something wrong with my son!’
and she will then starts with hospitals, phone calls… Right away!
‘Should I look for him in a hospital? Now, the phone will ring and the news will be tragic!’
And what is happening? There is an escalation of fear;
your body experiences all of it!
Your mind has created all of it, though!
But your mind could not possibly have known the truth!
Do you know what your mind has been listening to?
Your negative thoughts. And what happened consequently?
Suddenly, your body obeyed your mind! This is called stress!
An aorta may then block, to put it plainly and commonly,
and clog and then drop dead on the spot!
But the mind is responsible for doing it!
If I suffer, knock on wood, from cancer and I come kiss you you will not be harmed.
Cancer is not a disease that I can infect you with.
It is a wrong brain order!
Let’s stay clear from any wrong orders; this is what we have said today
so as to have a better day tomorrow.
Let’s stay clear of any wrong orders!
Economic crisis! Economic crisis! ...
Poverty, ladies and gentlemen, is an economic indicator and a countable one,
but misery is a psychological one and this is what I am talking to you about!
Because if this one gets into you, you cannot make any money!
Because you will be feeling miserable and once you go have an interview
and I lay my eyes on you and once you say, ‘Good morning!’ I will say,
‘Where is he heading? He is almost ready to slit his wrists!
Are we hiring him? It’s not possible!’
It’s like ruining ourselves all alone!
Well, a lot of people pray to God.
Yes, but listen, the answers,
I have a relatively good relationship with those above,
the Mount Athos, The Holy Sepulcher; well listen to this…
There are three answers. The first one is, ‘Yes!’
Eh? How many have had a ‘Yes’ for an answer and something actually has happened, eh? A few.
The other one is, ‘Not yet! Not yet! Wait a little longer!’
And the third one is, ‘I’ve got something better in my mind for you!
You will have to struggle a little more!’
All in all, there are three answers. Why not see it like that, positively?
After so many years I’ve decided to release a DVD and talk about where this strength is,
the love when I need it? Where this one thing that would make me feel better is?
And it is deep inside!
It took me so long to realize how much do we need to find out where this is!
I am telling you its deep within and if you understand it
you will also listen to how I go and find it and touch it!
But that’s it! It’s deep within!
What do all these people have in common; does anybody know?
So as to tell us... What do they have in common?
Lady Gaga with Aguilera with Aniston with Steve Jobs and the rest of them?
What do they have in common?
Well done! They don’t have a college degree!
They are all College drop outs!
And there are a lot more, I have just used some photos of those who are more recognizable!
They have never been to college
or they dropped out after the 2nd, 3rd year of studies.
They have never been to college!
One of the best books I’ve ever read, and if I was to recommend just one book,
take Ken Robinson’s ‘The Element’, your element.
What is this book about?
He says in this book that if we don’t find out about our element
we won’t be able to find happiness and make money and what he actually says is:
you need to find your skill, the aptitude, make sure you’ll find your passion,
that is love what you do, you then need to have the right stand, the attitude,
and then finally you will realize that there are opportunities
and you will jump at it because you will look for the opportunities, there are opportunities!
There are opportunities! Let me quote something that I love:
‘Luck’, because I don’t believe in luck,
‘Luck is God’s artistic nickname!’
He has got something for us!
But we need to struggle, go ahead and find it!
So many had been looking at the apple falling down the apple tree!
This is the apple tree that Newton used to look at.
So many had been looking at it…
And here’s another apple tree at the university where he used to teach.
But it was Newton who came up with the law of Gravity.
So many had been looking at the apples falling of the apple tree… thank you… that’s my girl, ladies and gentlemen!
So many had been looking at the apples falling off the apple tree
but he came up with the law of Gravity.
So many had been looking at the worry beads (komboloi) but it was that guy in Nafplio who became a millionaire, eh?
By the way, for those of you who do not know why Steve Jobs
had placed his hand like that in his last photo it’s because he imitated Newton.
That’s what he’s been meaning to tell us, that’s why his company is called Apple. 652 00:35:07 --> 00:35.10 Anyway, I thought I just might answer to some question since I am also a trainer… 653 00:35.11 --> 00:35.12 Well, if we see no solution, we have not fully understood what the problem is;
because all problems have a solution. All problems have a solution.
some people ask me, ‘Gianni, is chocolate any good?
Or maybe it’s bad for you? Is it fattening?
Maybe it would be better if I didn’t have any!
What about wine? Wine delights one’s heart… Is it all right if we drink? …
Or maybe it is bad for you? Elevated transaminases… maybe it’s harmful? ...
-What about the wine, finally, is it good or bad for you?
A glass, a bottle of wine, which is preferable?
Coffee? A cup of coffee a day will be all right? Maybe two?
Three cups of coffee is the limit and then it gets harmful? Maybe it makes you feel on edge?
What about coffee finally? How much is good?
Red meat is good; will benefit a kid!
Once every 15 days or every week? Twice, three times; what is the right thing?
Grapes? Maybe the make you put on weight? Fruit?
It is said there’s much sugar in a banana!’
I have a friend who follows a grape therapy for a week every year!
Only grapes for a whole week!
He’s then got the runs, everything gets cleaned up and he then turns into someone new!
Grapes therapy for a week!
‘Milk? Is milk good for you? Well, yes, but it produces mucus… carcinogenic…
it’s good for osteoporosis… well, no… I should be careful with fats at my age!
Better not too much fat for the kid! What is finally the answer?
Is it good, is it bad, is it good, is it harmful or is it…’
Hey guys, Ancient Greeks passed it on to us long ago!
Moderation is best. In moderation! Who we are trying to fool?
Do not ask questions that you know the answer of!
In moderation! Everything is good for you!
Follow a course of food… and we will manage!
There are dozens on offer!
Google on ‘what should I eat?’ and you will see about 25 million references!
Hard to say you don’t know!
‘Suzy, you eat a lot!’
This is how this expression has come out! ‘Suzy, you eat a lot!’
And then she turns to her and says,
‘I am warning you, Suzy; you both eat and lie!’
‘No’ she replies, ‘I don’t!’
-‘Certainly do, Suzy, you eat a lot!’
Well, we shouldn’t lie to ourselves! How is this possible?
Will I ever turn to no. 1 and lie to his face?
It’s only recently that the Harvard University has published a study
and guess what it reminded us of?
Aristotle!
And you know what? And this is the most up-to-date thing that you could possibly read.
Because us, my guild, used to teach time management.
Do you know what we now teach? Energy management, not time!
Time is finite; it will come to an end.
Energy levels can raise, drop, raise, drop numerous of times in a day.
Once it is raised you can do a lot of crazy stuff when it is low you do nothing
and tic, tac, there goes the time!
You cannot fool with time!
It is only a matter of do you know how to ‘get high’?
And what did Aristotle say that the Harvard has only recently found out about?
Of course, the study refers to Aristotle’s work.
Learn how to manage our emotions; and this is now called EQ!
In Greece, we have exported Aristotle and Socrates and have imported EQ!
Learn how to manage your sociability,
that… social or spiritual quotient, indicator;
learn how to manage your creativity, creative quotient.
IQ is genetically determined but you have to reach as far as your DNA.
Shall I explain it once again?
It may be genetically determined but it could be here, there, who knows?
Do we come out from the maternity hospital having a seal, IQ 132?
We must work on it and reach the maximum of our potentials.
We can’t possibly know where we are genetically determined
that’s why we make the most of it and work.
CQ, on the other hand, Creative quotient, is what I teach
because for that I need to train you through a special workshop
so as to make your mind work. It can be done!
Both EQ and SQ can be taught. IQ is genetically determined.
A little Pilates, hands up, hands down…
It takes a little physical training, too! The body also…
Fine! What’s new about it?
I’m telling you guys, there’s nothing more up-to-date than that!
That’s it! And it is Aristotle!
Don’t let anyone come near you and say whatever crosses his mind! 729 00:38:35 -> 00:38:36 What do I mean by that?
For those of you who are not much into religion, it doesn’t mind,
I will just explain something.
In the icon of Nativity, down there either on the left or on the right,
there stands Joseph, we know who his is, we can trace him in the icon,
a halo surrounds his head; a halo does not mean that Saints shine like bulbs;
this is their aura, their way of thinking which is full of love;
and there is also another guy, without a halo, holding a wooden stick.
And he turns to him (Joseph) and says,
‘Only when this wooden stick bears leaves and nuts,
will a *** be able to bear a child! ’
My son then turns to me and says,
‘Does this mean that he called him a cuckold, dad?’ You can say that!
But ever since then, my boy, in all languages of the world,
he who comes and spreads false words,
is considered to diavali (slander);
Dia-bo-lo; Devil!
It does not mean aiming against Dias (Zeus),
it means spread false words!
So, do not let anyone come and say to you that you are not capable!
Don’t let anyone say you are not beautiful, you are attractive!
You are handsome! You look great!
You might as well keep a photo of you today so in 2 years’ time
you can see how handsome you used to be!
It’s out of the question!
Don’t let anyone, let alone yourself, tell you you aren’t…
What are you talking about? Don’t let anyone slander the… this is devil’s work!
What do you think devil is?
Having a pointed beard, two little horns, holding a red trident?
It is merely negative, bad thoughts!
It’s the evil that we bring on!
Now, the prerequisite for being happy,
the prerequisite for experiencing a miracle is to have faith!
If you don’t have faith, what is there to see?
Having faith, guys, is the big secret!
Even those who don’t believe God exists, still have faith I something!
They believe there is no God. That’s fine!
I won’t be the one to tell you what’s wrong and what’s right!
Having faith, though, is the strong ingredient in here!
Some said, 2012 will be the end!
What to say to them?
That the Maya had been playing and said, ‘Forget it! Do not move any further!
It’s only till 2012! There will be a day when someone will freak out! ...’
Well, some said in 2012. Now, ’18 has come forth!
The Second Coming! If we were to know about it,
we would have been told!
We don’t know! And we must not know!
This is how brain is made!
At Heaven’s Gate they say,
‘Guys, let’s slit our wrists at that time, ride the comet and go to Heaven!’
And they committed mass suicide, if you remember that.
For God’s sake!
So, what do they do? Every now and then some guys,
calling themselves worshipers, get together and climb up a mountain and start with,
‘Habala, houbala, habala, houbala…’ and pray!
After realizing that the end of the world has finally not come,
do they come down feeling embarrassed? No!
Do you know what they say once they have come down the mountain?
‘Our prayers have saved you!’
Because they had faith! End of story!
Having faith, guys!
Having faith in yourself, your potentials!
Having faith in you!
Each and every person feels the need to believe in something!
I’ve seen my brother,
I’ve seen Konstantinos paying homage to the Greek flag and I am deeply moved!
You should his arm and his eyes;
because this man is ready to offer his life to Greece;
because he believes in it! 798 00:41:22 -> 00:41:24 Some others believe in the 12 gods… suit yourselves!
They climb up Mount Olympus, out of breath, habala, houbala, habala… that’s fine!
They have faith! Guys, it does them a world of good!
They get back and they have been healed, they are cured!
Because having faith, supposedly they have seen something,
who knows who they have seen up there, but they have seen someone!
Some others have believed in something else!
All right! I won’t be the one to tell you what to believe in!
I will only say that having faith is the main ingredient!
Some others believe in something else, no?
Some others believe in something else!
Now, listen to this! My son tells me,
‘Panathinaikos gets beaten all the time; why are we still Panathinaikos funs, dad?’
‘Through thick and thin, my boy, we stay together!’
You told me that once, when you were very little.
Through thick and thin we stay together!
Some others believe, eh, Kouli are you in there?
Are you in there, eh? There you are!
Some others believe in something else!
And, guys, he has such faith, 818 00;42:09 --> 00:42:11 that every time I travel to Salonika I buy him ‘Sports of the North’;
I can’t help it! Why? Because I can see he loves this team!
This is the reason, my boy! Because you love it!
You support it! No matter if the team goes well or not!
Let the funs teach us something;
this faith is the ingredient I am talking to you about now!
What should anyone say to Agrinio’s team Panetolikos?
What should these poor fellows say? But they have faith in their team!
What should Juventus say that were relegated to division two?
Their funs didn’t turn their back to the team; they are now back to the first division.
Because they had faith!
And what should Doxa Pefkou Warriors say
that hardly anyone has ever heard about them?
His mum turns to him and asks,
‘What is the name of the team you are playing, my son, once again?’
‘Doxa Peflou Warriors, mum!’
‘Ah! It slips my mind all the time!’
Yes, but the kid has faith, that’s why he scores baskets!
Because he has faith in this team! 837 42:54 --> 00:42:56 Well, have faith in the product, have faith in yourselves, have faith…
Or else go, quit, go someplace else!
You’ve got to have faith, that’s the only way!
I am right here to let you know that to make it work, this driving force, 841 00:43:06 --> 00:43:08 can be done! It can be done, like Economides has said!
It can be done!
The reason why today we don’t speak Persian,
the reason why we don’t speak Venetian,
Italian, Turkish, German, and Bulgarian is
because our ancestors got up from sitting on the couch.
They were not outraged, they were determined!
They stood up, they cried out!
They didn’t just sit there saying, ‘Whatever may please you!’ to IMF!
They stood up and went into action!
Only those who stand up… my boy… will win!
Now you want me to bring another one out so that you can all stand up, is that right?
Guys, no, they cost a lot!
Well, the whole story is about 10 billion cerebral cells
are waiting for your order so as to go into action or not, just stay put.
So, what will your order be?
That is, what are you thinking about? Because this is your brand!
Are you feeling crummy; Are you short; you are not able?
What? Are you useless?
What will your order be?
Are you short, tall, having a big nose, big ears? I’ve heard so much!
What will your order be?
Because these are orders!
Go stand in front of a mirror… ‘My boy!’ tell yourself.
These are orders!
And then I turn to Evaggelia and tell her how much believe in your abilities, in your skills…
I don’t know what she says every morning she wakes up…
‘Hey, you are such a cute chick!’ she must say, no?
She should because she is a capable person!
Now, look, this is what I believe.
But if you, too, don’t believe nothing is going to happen!
I am only here to keep reminding it to you, my girl, because you deserve it!
Think of some person you trust and some person you don’t.
What has he done for that? How he has done that?
There’s no time now to write it down so don’t…
I just want to say that what you have thought of…
if I was to ask you,
‘What do you consider to be important so that the others would put their trust in you?’
what you have thought of
is finally what you consider to be important
so that the others would put their trust in you!
This means, trust can be built! It is not being given!
If you want to earn somebody’s trust, you need to keep in mind some things that have…
and say, ‘Ah! I like that one!’
Let me ask you something else: has anyone ever helped you in your carrier?
In your life; has anyone ever helped you? What did he do to help you with?
Has anyone ever helped you? Has he done…
Write them down once you get back home!
And then, after having written down what he has done and how he has done it…
If I was to ask you, ‘Have you done any of these for anyone else?’
Someone has helped you, in your career…
and you will write them down. After that the question will be,
‘Have you done any of these for anyone else?’
Or have you accepted this help and then just split?’
Guys, take note! I’ve just explained practically
what principles, values, ethics… That’s it!
Ethics is not theory! It’s not theory!
It’s everyday deed and it is for us!
If someone once helped you,
if someone has ever sat net next to you and showed how Excel, Power Point,
whatever, how the cash register works,
you, too, sit by other’s people side and teach them!
Sit next to others and help them!
Because this is the power in the universe and it comes and goes!
Do not stop it! You have to make it move!
It’s a power that gets multiplied once shared!
There is a guy that goes to the old monk and asks him,
‘Holy monk’, his wife made him do the washing up,
‘who should normally do the washing up at home?’
His wife would make him do the washing up,
so he though to go to Mount Athos and ask to be absolved!
And the old monk turns to him and says,
‘He who makes it first, my boy!’
Overwhelm the person next to you!
Become an example of group collaboration!
Teach your kid something! Do it you yourself!
You know, many times, to whatever company you go to get a job,
you will find placed on the wall points for the company’s culture.
You will see, ‘The company you have come to requires you to have reliability,
honesty, respect, esteem, responsibility…’ this all come from such framed posters,
‘…integrity, trust…’ Hey guys, why?
Don’t I possess them; should the company tell me about them?
Wasn’t I taught about them at home; hasn’t my mother…
What are you talking about now?
I will… just a moment…
Well, my brother is a discharged admiral.
My brother when entering a restaurant, look what he does,
he does like that…
‘What is this cable doing here? Pick it up!
That, over there, what is it? Pick it up!
You, what are you laughing at? Two days in the defaulter’s book!
You… what did you do… Call the chef…’
He calls the police… this and that…!
My brother is strict! He can get into an unfamiliar house, once he gets in, he goes…
My wife, on the other hand, when entering a restaurant, she greets…
My brother stops like that in the corridor…
He looks at the waiter; which one of us will now move forward?
The waiter will then step aside and my brother keeps on walking!
Because he has learnt how to inspect!
Other than that though, guys, he is a terrific person!
I believe that if there is just one place in Heaven for us two brothers,
it will be for my brother, not for me!
An incredible person, ready to give his life for his family, for Greece!
Let me know tell you about my wife!
My wife, when entering a restaurant,
she acts as if she were a Member of Parliament!
‘Hello! Hello! ... Enjoy your meal! ... Ah! Delicious! …’
And in case she sees a waiter coming towards us, she immediately goes,
‘Please pass!’
If he holds any dishes, ‘Shall I help you?’
‘Hey, leave the man alone… ‘It’s only for not dropping them!’
‘But he won’t drop them…he knows how…!’
‘No! Only for not dropping them!’ My wife is overjoyed!
Do you now see what I am talking about? I’ve described two different people, there they are!
Two different people!
We adore them in the family, while being completely different!
Why… what you see is what you get!
These people are being themselves!
They don’t play tricks! They don’t lie!
What you see is what you get! There are no tricks!
After having spent 15 years in England,
I got back here and this lady just struck me! Boom, like that! Why?
Because I had learnt that there are people who play tricks and tell lies.
This lady doesn’t lie!
My brother doesn’t lie! He is an honest, ethical man!
We don’t have to be, that is a copy of what the framed poster says so that…
but it is necessary to take a look inside and then we’ll find out
about remarkable principles… it’s not that we possess them in our DNA.
Our parents, our grandparents have taught us…
Politeness, kindness, caring about the others…
may be traits of genetic predisposition, OK.
But listen to what I’ve got to say:
in case parents do not cultivate them properly, they will be eliminated!
What should I do with your good DNA?
The fact that you come from a good family if you don’t work with it in your life?
In case you are a parent, it’s for your children;
in case you are a child, it’s for you!
It’s gone to waste! You have to work with it!
The best way to raise our kid’s levels of emotional intelligence
is raising ours! You act as their model!
You know, plenty of times I have taught emotional intelligence
and at the end I explain, in practice,
how this comes to be in day to day, in every day’s work
and out there there’s a lady who tells me,
Eh, I cannot do what you are explaining!’
I had just happened to say that the best way to teach love to your child
is by loving your partner.
How to teach love to your kid… And a lady tells me,
‘My husband has passed away!’
Some other lady tells me, ‘I’ve got a divorce!’
And I turn to her and say, ‘You’re screwed up! You’ve got to love them both now!’
I said to the one her husband had passed away,
‘In his memory, you must not say anything like- what a loser!
Because your kid will make a God out of him now that he has passed away!’
That is, if you don’t get to be a living example…
I’ve just mentioned two actual examples. If you don’t get to be a living example
for that thing called ‘love’, we cannot move forward.
My son turns to me and say,
‘Hey dad! You’ve told me about that again! You’ve told me like 1000 times! Aaa!! ...’
And I then tell him,
‘My dad, too, would tell me things that he had told me before again and again! ...’
Eh!’ my son says!
And then I turn to him and say, ‘Come here! I wish he were here today;
I wouldn’t care about how many times he would have told me that! …
’My son then hugs me, I feel moved, he does, too…
and says, ‘Go on! What was it about?’
A month later I tell him, ‘Let me tell you something… Maybe I‘ve told you before…’
He looks at me and says, ‘Go on! Speak up!’
I then tell it to my brother, he tells it to his daughter
and she, in turn, tells him, ‘I don’t give a ***!’
And then my brother says to me ‘It doesn’t work!’
‘What do you mean? I was moved the moment I said it!
You’ve told that as if it was an order!
Guys, no order is necessary either to a woman, a kid or an employee.
It is all about telling it and be a part of this team…
Now, out of all that you have heard today
either you believe you can do something or you don’t believe you can do anything,
you are right!
What do you believe, that you can? You are right!
Do you believe you can’t? You are right!
What do you believe; that you can do something out of all that you have heard today;
you are right!
Do you believe you can’t? You are right!
What do you believe? You are right!
What do you believe, you can’t; maybe it’s hard?
You are right!
Do you believe you can? You are right!
What do you believe… You are right, anyway! 1030 51:00-51:02 Whatever you believe; that’s the whole thing!
Do you know what I’ve talked to you about?
About a new life attitude!
If you visit a Walt Disney Park and ask what time does it close,
they have been trained, their life attitude is as follows:
‘The park,’ they will never say the time it closes.
‘The park stays open until that time’!
Because they have been trained to think positively!
And, as they’ve told me, they are using it in their personal life, as well.
That’s it! I have been training executives for 30 years now
who learn something that then put into practice in their personal lives, too.
Because, finally, happiness and how we will move forward is up to us!
Philip Kotler has said, ‘In the New Economy
we have to differentiate, to specialize and do it fast’!
Signed by Philip Kotler.
‘I often get to see people who don’t manage,’ says Zig Ziglar,
‘but I rarely see anyone who cannot make it’!
Guys, we can; we can!
But not everyone knows what finally is the one thing that suits me.
That’s why I’ve told you;
the whole thing is to look for it, look for it! …
You may find it!
Or else, in case you don’t, to create this bypass,
to create this bridge we referred to earlier.
And this will certainly be good for us!
Because you will then have lived a life which you have chosen to lead,
not by accident. Live a life by design, not by default!
Isn’t this Ithaca, or what?
He wasn’t referring to the island! We all know that by now.
‘…even if you have found it to be poor, Ithaca didn’t make a fool out of you;
such a wise person that you have turned into,
you have already figured what the Ithacans mean!’
We have to become Ithacans! We have to search!
But that doesn’t mean there is only one destination!
It is a life attitude!
That’s how it goes throughout the centuries, the eternity!
Every day is merely a second chance!
Have you watched ‘Gone with the wind’?
This is what is heard in the end: it’s a second chance!
Whatever you say, whatever you don’t say, whatever you do, whatever you don’t do;
all of it create your brand! They brand you!
The phone rings, you pick it up, you create your brand;
you don’t pick it up, you create your brand!
Others say, ‘What do you know!’; they don’t care.
You pick it up, how to speak… whatever you do, you create your brand!
If I say something to you, I create a brand; if I don’t say something…
And exactly as Konstantinos have put it, ‘Go on! Go brand yourself, at last!
Go brand yourself!’ Hey there, Konstantinos!
Go brand yourself and let’s get over with it! This is what the whole story is about!
To do… Don’t be embarrassed, my friend!
Don’t be embarrassed because I love you very much!
And the Means of Brain Infection (Mass Media) do not help us!
What is the problem with them?
They do not promote the right models!
Ann, you are an exception with your TV program ‘Remarkable Greeks!’
The rest of the TV programs are about God knows what!
They don’t help us; they don’t promote the right…
There are exceptions, of course, very few exceptions…
They do not promote the right models and they do not enhance our strengths!
They do not help us psychologically. They very often ‘serve’ us with wrong models!
Wrong models! Do you know that my DVDs are…
now… not to… are charged with VAT… and Julia’s are charged with 4% VAT
because her DVD is of educational content!
What about mine; aren’t they educational?
Forget it! No way to persuade them!
To forgive, ladies and gentlemen, is another thing I suggest you do.
Forgiveness liberates you! Liberates us!
It sets us free, to relish, to make the most of today…
It’s no use crying over spilt milk; that’s how things should have happened!
So that we could improve!
We’ve learnt our lesson! But what have we done with it?
I am here today and I am quoting from George Mavroudis’ book,
entitled ‘Today I am changing my life!’
And George says in his book, ‘Guys, our ego is the one that’s hurt, not us!’
What a major truth this is! But we are not our ego!
Accepting that this is true, you will be able to forgive;
and once you forgive the others and you quit keeping it as a counterweight,
ou will be liberated! It is certain that if I had spoken based on theology,
you would have all gone away!
But it is written, to the Corinthians, never mind now…
You cannot make someone love you
but you can make yourself worth to be loved!
I wish that you will be made worth to be loved
because that will mean that you have managed it, everything we’ve talked about today!
And you will be able to make it!
The real power, ladies and gentlemen, is this button,
my 7 year-old son told me about! The real power!
This button is the power of forgiving!
I wish that you will turn it into a banner! Banner!
That small button, ‘Reset’!
Press ‘reset’ and move forward! That’s the whole thing!
There are times in life that you don’t just have to turn the page;
you need to change the whole book!
Change the whole book if this is what it takes, why shouldn’t you?
But we will move forward in this life!
Instead of worrying now about what happened in the past,
let me see what I can do NOW, TODAY! Now!
In conclusion, I suggest we should change our life attitude.
Here is some practical advice: Start now seeing other friends!
Turn back to nature!
Mind to have 6-7-8 hours’ sleep at the most!
Mind to exercise yourselves; walking is what it takes!
Use on-line banking; do not spend so much time in the bank;
arrange it through the internet!
Keep out all noise… put some music in your lives!
Switch off the TV set a little more!
Care about the other person!
Make the weight of your bag less! We will weigh the bags!
You will all leave here half of what’s inside and then go!
Weigh… make the weight of your bag less!
Press ‘delete’ and sometimes ‘reset’ like I’ve told you!
Meditate, relax, pray if you believe!
But do something towards this direction!
Choose a healthy diet; mind what you choose to eat!
Today, both olive oil and fish was perfect, that’s it!
Did you like it? You see, that’s what it is about!
There is taste in it and it is healthy to eat!
Amazing! Congratulations to ‘Nireus’!
eep away from the use of anything that’s chemical!
Keep away all negative thoughts and laugh!
Laugh or else we’ll all go to waste, laugh!
Tomorrow is only today that we cared for yesterday!
Then, what will you do now? Please note!
There will come a tomorrow… Today, will we do something about it?
Concluding, I will leave you with these thoughts:
if anyone has make you feel bitter in this life,
if you have made anyone feel bitter;
if there is anyone you love, appreciate, admire
and haven’t yet told him, ‘I am sorry! I love you!
Thank you! I admire you!’…
if an ill-fated moment was to come,
what would you do?
Because if you are thinking about going to him and say,
‘I am sorry; thank you; I love you!’ my question is,
‘What are you waiting for now?
For this ill-fated moment to come?’ It will be late!
Go and do right now!
Well, without lecturing you about EQ, SQ, CQ
would you like to know how you will get high?
Those of you who will go ahead with such transcendence,
and exceed yourselves and you will say,
‘I am sorry, my love! Mum, I am sorry! I am sorry brother!
I am sorry sis! I love you!’,
those of you who will exceed them
and take the five words that we find it difficult to use,
you, guys, will get in high levels and certainly,
I guarantee that, you will have a better day in this life
those of you who will be scared to do so… failed in class,
you will have to come to Monterrey,
not sure where the next one will be, in Mexico;
maybe we can promote the whole thing there!
Some people say,
‘Gianni, all that you said is nice but,
you know, I am not that kind of guy, I can’t do such things…’
and I turn to him and say, ‘You didn’t use to be!
You weren’t able!
Do not predetermine how things will go on from…;
do not ruin yourself all alone!’
‘No’ he says, ‘I am not’ ‘You didn’t use to be; no that you aren’t!’
Take note of what tense you use in here.
Only the one who fights the darkness deep within himself
will he have tomorrow his one place under the sun!’
Odysseas Elytis.
How deep and significant this is! This is our legacy.
Ah! And about the thing I asked you to write in the beginning
as the ideal profession… sorry, but it’s what you have to do!
ake a plan because there lies happiness and there lies money.
my apologies to the companies, I know you all work in some place,
but what you have written down is what you have to do!
Fight for it, you will find both money and happiness!
Finally, in this life, we are our choices!
I am what I choose to do.
I am not what I think I am but I am what I choose to do.
The best, ladies and gentlemen, is not yet to come, according to some people…
WE will bring the best! You! It can be done!
Thank you very much for listening to be for so long!
Take care! …
I wish you to be strong, to hang in there,
I wish that you will effectively apply all that you believe is correct
but I don’t wish you ‘good luck’!
I consider ‘luck’ to be there where preparation meets opportunity!
There are plenty of opportunities;
are you prepared to grab them? 1213 00:58:57 --> 00:58:57,90 Be well prepared, then!