JOHN GRAY (born 1951 in Houston, Texas) is an Americanauthor on relationships and personal growth, best known for his 1992 book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, and other "pop psychology" books offering relationship advice.
He was married to fellow self-help author Barbara De Angelis, but they divorced in 1984. He is currently married to Bonnie Gray and has three daughters, Lauren, Julie and Shannon.
Gray's books teach that men and women are intrinsically different in their biology and psychology. He writes that harmony between the sexes is achieved by recognizing and accepting these differences rather than trying to erase them. Critics have accused him of over-simplifying human psychology into stereotypes that fail to adequately describe many people. His books however have sold over 40 million copies world-wide and continue to receive international acclaim to this day.
CHRISTOPHER HOWARD is the Founder and President of The Christopher Howard Companies, and he is one of the world’s leading authorities on the psychology of wealth and accelerated personal achievement. Described as “The Richard Branson of personal and professional development,” Chris is an electrifying speaker who has captivated audiences in the United States and worldwide. Chris is also an International Best Selling Author of his book, Turning Passions into Profits and of 9 best-selling audio programs.
From the companies’ humble beginnings in 2002, Chris has developed The Christopher Howard Companies into a multi-million dollar international success. Within four years, Chris conducted vast amounts of research into the lives and success strategies of the world’s greatest business, philanthropic and spiritual leaders. As a result, he has developed a system to replicate the success strategies of the world’s most legendary leaders and billionaires; from Branson to Buffett, and Gates to Gandhi.
Chris is known to practice what he preaches; therefore he used his propriety system in his own life, and the results speak for themselves. Now he shares his secrets of success with growing audiences world wide, and you can often hear him say, “If I can do it, you can do it!” Chris has assisted tens of thousands of individuals and businesses worldwide to achieve long-lasting, breakthrough performance results. As an entrepreneur and Performance Consultant over the past decade, he has personally led, managed and turned around numerous organizations and businesses. His personal clients include politicians, celebrities, and Fortune 500 companies in addition to thousands of people from all walks of life dedicated to reaching their full potential.
ANTHONY(TONY) ROBBINS(born February 29, 1960) is an American self-help writer and professional speaker. He became well known through the use of firewalking in his seminars. He initially studied Neuro-Linguistic Programming but went on to develop his own methods.
For the past three decades, Anthony Robbins has served as an advisor to leaders around the world. A recognized authority on the psychology of leadership, negotiations, organizational turnaround, and peak performance, he has been honored consistently for his strategic intellect and humanitarian endeavors. His nonprofit Anthony Robbins Foundation provides assistance to inner-city youth, senior citizens, and the homeless, and feeds more than two million people in 56 countries every year through its international holiday “Basket Brigade.” Robbins has directly impacted the lives of more than 50 million people from over 100 countries with his best-selling books, multimedia and health products, public speaking engagements, and live events.
JIM ROHN, born to an Idaho farming family in the mid 1900s, Mr. Rohn began his early adulthood without acclaim, leaving college after his first year, starting a family, and trying to get by as best he could as a salaried worker. By age 25, according to his accounts, he was in a personal rut familiar to many middle class families - in debt, unable to see a way that would lead to his personal ambitions. Around this time, he was introduced to John Earl Shoaff, an entrepreneur who impressed Mr. Rohn with his wealth, business accomplishments, charisma, and life philosophy. Mr. Rohn joined Mr. Shoaff's direct sales organization and began a process of personal development that culminated in his becoming a millionaire by age 31. It was a source of sorrow to Mr. Rohn that Mr. Shoaff, who had challenged him to reach for this goal, died one year before he achieved it. In the years that followed, Mr. Rohn discovered a demand from people outside his industry to hear his rags to riches story and the personal development philosophy that he felt had led to his accomplishments. His seminars have a span of over 39 years. He has addressed over 6,000 audiences and 4 million people worldwide. He was the recipient of the 1985 National Speakers Association CPAE Award and is the author of 17 different books, audio and video programs. Mr. Jim Rohn has been internationally hailed over the years as one of the most influential thinkers of our time. (Edit: This claim is heavily disputed by numerous experts.)
BRIAN TRACY (born in Canada in 1944) is a self-help author who has recorded many of his works as audio books. His talks and seminar topics include leadership, sales, managerial effectiveness, and business strategy.
When he was 30 he attended the University of Alberta, eventually earning a master's degree in business; he is now the Chairman of Brian Tracy International, a human resource company based in Solana Beach, California, with affiliates throughout the United States and in thirty-one other countries.
In 1981 Brian assembled his "success system" called The Phoenix Seminar. Three years later he released the seminar as a self-help audio tape called "The Psychology of Achievement".
He has recently launched Brian Tracy University, an online syllabus designed to focus primarily on entrepreneurs, business owners and sales professionals. The Brian Tracy College of Management and Entrepreneurship at the distance learning school Andrew Jackson University is named after him.
DENIS WAITLEY is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers in the nation. He has inspired, informed, challenged and entertained audiences for over 20 years, ranging from "Fortune 500" top executives to professional associations.
A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, and former Navy pilot, he holds a doctorate degree in human behavior.
Each year he is more in demand, receiving ten requests per day to deliver his provocative insights from the board rooms of corporate America to the control rooms of NASA's space program; from the locker rooms of world-class athletes to the meeting rooms of thousands of conventioneers throughout the world. Recently, he was voted "platform speaker of the year" and inducted into the International Speakers Hall of Fame.
Dr. Waitley has counseled winners in every field from Apollo astronauts to Superbowl champions, from sales achievers to government leaders. During the past decade, he served as Chairman of Psychology on the U.S. Olympic Committee's Sports Medicine Council, responsible for performance enhancement of all American Olympic athletes. Currently, American Olympians competing in the Sydney 2000 Games attend his video training seminars.
With over 10 million audio programs sold in 14 languages, Denis Waitley is the most listened-to voice on personal and career achievement. He is the author of 12 non-fiction books, including several national bestsellers. His audio album, "The Psychology of Winning" is the all-time best selling program on self-mastery.
RON WHITE is considered to be the world's foremost memory expert and trainer. He has memorized the names of 200 people in 15 minutes even more times than he can remember! Audiences have long marveled at his ability to memorize a 60 digit number in less than 90 seconds or memorize a deck of shuffled cards in a flash. Every audience Ron shares his talk with leaves laughing, amazed and empowered that they can do the same thing!
He has delivered tailored workshops for General Motors, Microsoft, Toyota, Honda, American Airlines, Cisco Systems, Boy Scouts of America, Lexus, Coldwell Banker, Pfizer, Century 21 and thousands more around the world.
Ron has appeared on over 200 radio programs, FOX television, newspapers and magazines all over the world. In August of 2003, Ron was the guest on the British television program, 'Simply the Best' in which he demonstrated how anyone could train their mind to think more effectively. In July of 2005, he appeared on CBS television's Great Day San Antonio and The Trinity Broadcasting Network. In January 2006, was a guest on the Discovery Channel's 'Dr. Know' series discussing memory myths.
Ron is the author of 2 books and over a dozen personal development audio programs including his best selling 'Memory in a Month' 6 CD album sold around the world everyday. Ron promises to memorize a 40 digit number live for your group that the group creates and he never sees and then teach them memory skills to do the same and catapult their business!!
He is also a proud member of the US Navy currently serving as a reservist and returned December 2007 from serving a tour in Afghanistan.
CHRIS WIDENER is an example of how anyone can overcome any odds to achieve a successful life and help others achieve the same. Chris has overcome many obstacles... living through his father dying suddenly when he was four, being sent away from his family to live with relatives at age nine and becoming involved with drugs and alcohol by the age of twelve.
Chris overcame those obstacles and has been speaking professionally since 1988 and has shared the stage with US Presidential candidates, nationally known television news anchors, best-selling authors, and professional athletes. He has spoken on leadership to some of America's finest organizations such as General Electric, Cisco Systems, and the Harvard Business School.
Chris has written over 150 articles and 4 books and has produced 20 audio programs on leadership and motivation. His articles appear monthly in over 100 publications. Chris is also the featured contributing editor of the Jim Rohn One Year Success Program.
Chris' newsletter, Made for Success, has subscribers in 105 countries, making it one of the world's most widely distributed newsletters on success and leadership. His upcoming book is Leadership Rules of Engagement: 25 Rules Guaranteed to Create Fully Engaged Followers.
ZIG ZIGLAR was born in Coffee County, Alabama, United States, North America. His parents were John Silas and Lila Ziglar. He was the tenth of twelve children.
In 1931, when Ziglar was four years old, his father accepted a management position at a Mississippi farm, and his family moved to Yazoo City, Mississippi, where he spent most of his childhood. In 1932, his father died of a stroke, and his younger sister died two days later, leaving his mother to raise the remaining eleven children alone.
Ziglar served in the Navy during World War II (circa 1943 to 1945). He was in the Navy V-12 Navy College Training Program, attending the University of South Carolina.
Ziglar later worked as a salesman in a succession of companies, during which time his sales skills improved and his interest in motivational speaking grew.
In 1968, Ziglar became a vice president and training director for the Automotive Performance company, moving to Dallas, Texas, where he still lives today.
In 1970, Ziglar went into the business of motivational speakingfull-time. He often incorporates his strong Christian values into his enthusiastic speaking.
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Inspirational Videos
Zeitgeist + Addendum (they are pretty lengthy) The movement is aimed at expanding human awareness and fixing society, since it is obviously broken. It aims to guide humans to a new level of society, one that improves upon the mistakes we made before. It is a cultural evolution.
Principles of FUN
Part 1 Paul Potts 'Britain got Talents'
Part 2 Paul Potts 'Britain got Talents'
If you never failed you never lived
Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things
A nice motivational speech of Steve Jobs
Dick & Rick Hoyt
What’s our deepest fear ?
Tapping
Michael Jordan'Failure'
Failure to succeed ...
Vince Papale
Vince Papale 2
Get Real or Get Started
What will be your symphony?
Patrick H Hugues
Kyle Lagrasso 1
Kyle Lagrasso 2
Joy Happiness
Mister G...
Oprah's Best Advice to Stanford Graduates
Pierre Dulaine (see the movie 'Take the lead')
W. Mitchell Super Humans (caution strong burns shown)
Rocky 4
John Bramblitt Blind Painter
Coach Ken Carter
Garrison Wynn
Keith Banfield
Andy Dooley