Category: Words of Inspiration & Motivation
Google recognizes a San Antonio 6th grader
| May 21, 2009 | Posted by Angela under Business & Technology, The Arts, Film, Music, Fashion, Why I like San Antonio, Words of Inspiration & Motivation |
I am sure everyone has already heard about this but I had to post about it because I just think it’s so cool. Google runs a contest called “Doodle 4 Google.” It’s a competition that invites K-12 grade students to reinvent Google’s homepage logo around a preselected theme.
Doodle 4 Google is a competition where we invite K-12 students to reinvent Google’s homepage logo. Both our country and our world are undergoing significant change and this year we invited students to doodle around the theme “What I Wish for the World”. At Google we believe in thinking big, and dreaming big, and we can’t think of anything more important than encouraging students to do the same.
And the winner? Christin Engelberth, a 6th grader from Bernard A. Harris Jr High School right here in San Antonio Texas. She titled her’s a “A New Beginning”:
The logo is being displayed today on Google’s homepage where millions of visitors come from all over the world. Christin will receive a $15,000 college scholarship, a laptop, and a $25,000 technology grant for her school.
She has been featured on many news websites including CNN:
Good job Christin! Way to represent San Antonio, your school and most importantly, yourself. This is awesome news and news we need to hear about more often. There are kids doing wonderful things out there and they need to be recognized.
I applaud Google for developing a program that recognizes our youth for their talent and creativity. We need more companies to be doing things like this. We also need to encourage our youth to search for competitions, programs and contests that challenge them to use their brains.
I am going to print this story and take it my class at Garner middle school, where I am a Junior Achievement volunteer. I want our kids to know that there are programs out there where they can get recognized for their talents. I hope this story will inspire them.
To be Successful (in times like these) requires Creativity
| March 4, 2009 | Posted by Angela under Why I like San Antonio, Words of Inspiration & Motivation |
Erik Darmstetter from Salesby5 was interviewed today on the Kens 5 Great Day SA show. He talks about how you can start your own business and you don’t need a lot of money upfront, just a lot of creativity. You have to find what will be a true benefit to the end user. If the uniqueness is absent, you will be forced to compete on price.
You also have to be able to pitch your solution in less than 10 seconds. Nowadays, people are so consumed by so many various distractions – Blogs, iPhones, Blackberrys – you need to gain that interest right away for it to be worth their time.
I have personally met with Erik and my company, PEER 1, will actually be working with him and his company, Salesby5. How did I find out about Salesby5? Twitter! I was doing a search for something and came across the Salesby5 blog. I found the topic at hand interesting and I began to look at what Salesby5 offered. I was instantly impressed. I then come to find out that they are located right here in San Antonio; even more impressive!
I had the pleasure of meeting with Erik and his colleague, Nan Palmero, Chief Inspiration Officer. Nan is a strengths coach, a writer for Blackberry cool, and and an avid Twitterer (is that a word) with l775 followers as of today. I am looking forward to working with both of them.
I’d also like to add that in order for you to be successful, you not only need to have a creative idea but a creative way of getting your idea out there. It is imperative for start ups to embrace social networking. Traditional forms of advertising are expensive and not cost effective for start ups. Further, you need to rely on word of mouth, the best form of marketing, and what greater way then to use the free social networking tools out there. You’d be surprised by the power.
Below is Erik’s interview:
Erik Darmstetter Interview on Great Day SA
A Note about Love
| February 15, 2009 | Posted by Angela under The Arts, Film, Music, Fashion, Words of Inspiration & Motivation |
Image via Wikipedia
Love isn’t about the bouquets of flowers
or mushy love cards
It’s not about the chocolates
or about dinner and a movie
It’s about discovering beauty in someone you didn’t see before
It’s about opening your arms to someone that needs it more than you do
It’s about recognizing differences in others and appreciating them
It’s about seeing a piece of you in someone else and smiling
Love brings people together
Love is stronger than the force that tears people apart
Love isn’t easy because if it was, the world would be at peace
Love isn’t to be celebrated on one day of the year but rather everyday, every hour, every minute
In everything you do and say, there is always a way to spread love
You must love others in order to experience love and you must love yourself in order to receive love.
Happy Valentines Day
Failure: The Secret to Success
| January 26, 2009 | Posted by Angela under Words of Inspiration & Motivation |
I had to share this video. It’s easy to get down on yourself if you fail yet harder to dust yourself off and learn from it.
1st post of 2009
| January 5, 2009 | Posted by Angela under Random, Words of Inspiration & Motivation |
My first post of the new year! What an exciting 2008 it was. I got married, completed my 2nd marathon and took on some exciting challenges at work.
As a new year comes rolling in, you might find yourself thinking about the world and where we are headed. I know I do. With headlines about war zones, dramatic weather changes, child abuse cases…it’s easy to believe that the world is falling apart. It can be depressing. You might hear your grandparent comment “the world is coming to an end.” How convenient. I still have a whole a life to live and hope to bring life into this world and the world is now coming to an end? Well, we all have different beliefs and we can debate on the subject infinitely and involve religious and scientific explanations.
Regardless, today we are living. Today, we have the ability to make a difference in the world. Whether you believe it’s going to end tomorrow, or 1000 years from today or never, the world still exists.
Bad news has always existed, the numerous ways of communicating the bad news has not. We are exposed. Like it or not, people are watching you. We are now informed on what is going on. I see this as an opportunity to do something about it.
I have been watching Planet in Peril and there are so many things going on all across the world that I had no idea was going on. If Lisa Ling, Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta didn’t travel across the world to research cases like the killings of elephants in Africa or sharks off the coast of Costa Rica, I would have never known.
The biggest challenge we all face is to do something about it. I think more people care in the world then don’t. For those that do care but haven’t done anything about it probably haven’t just because they don’t have time or just aren’t sure how to help.
I also just watched 7 pounds. Wow, what an awesome movie. I think this movie reveals the potential humans have to do good in the world, even if you are only touching 7 lives. It takes a lot to help one person but if you have the passion to do it, you can make the world of a difference. Our actions have a domino effect.
My commitment for this year is to help more people. I think I get so tied up in my job and doing things for myself that I forget to dedicate time to helping people.
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