Kickstarter and The Way of Aloha

I am writing to give you an opportunity for a free signed copy of one of my books and an update on the projects I am working on. I am working on a new book called The Way of Aloha set on the island of Lanai in Hawaii. A short excerpt from the books is below. I hope to have The Way of Aloha completed this summer.

I am also helping with the launch of an exciting new company and Kickstarter campaign. As a thank you for help with the campaign, I will send you a free signed copy of any one of my books (listed below) if you either back our Kickstarter project and/or share the link to our Kickstarter page on Facebook. Simply send me an email with your mailing address, stating whether you backed the project and/or shared the project on Facebook as well as which book you would like me to send.

A portion of all proceeds to Sun Tail Mermaid will be donated to the Phil and Pem Farnsworth Foundation for Innovation - a foundation I created last year that is dedicated to the development of inventions, innovations, and technologies. Our hope for the foundation is to bring to fruition some of the unfinished ideas of Philo T. Farnsworth that he hoped would contribute to the betterment of society. I believe the Foundation will play a part in working with young people to bring forth advancements that will even transcend the impact of Phil and Pem's development of the television. The foundation has adopted as its motto the motto which Farnsworth used in his labs, "The difficult we do right away; the impossible takes slightly longer."

I really appreciate your help. Godspeed my friend.

Aloha! Cameron C. Taylor, philanthropists, author, speaker, entrepreneur

Link to Our Kickstarter Page to Share

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/verymom/sun-tail-mermaid-a-better-monofin-swim-flipper

List of Free Books to Choose From

8 Attributes of Great Achievers (International Bestseller)

8 Attributes of Great Achievers, Volume 2 (International Bestseller)

8 Steps to Lasting Excellence

Preserve, Protect & Defend

Does Your Bag Have Holes? 24 Truths That Lead to Financial and Spiritual Freedom

Twelve Paradoxes of the Gospel 

Except from The Way of Aloha (Statement by Kahuna Manu Napela)

“The islands of Hawaii are filled with natural wonders and great beauty. Even greater beauty is found in the Hawaiian way of life. In my extensive study of modern and ancient civilizations, the happiest place on earth is found in the villages of ancient Hawaii. Paradise is not a location. It is a way of life. The spirit of Aloha and the joy of living are not dependent on where you live, but on how you live. A life of Aloha can be experienced by anyone, anytime, and anywhere by adhering to the beliefs, attitudes, and actions that make it so. The inner journey to Aloha is much more powerful and profound than a physical trip to Hawaii. There is an island paradise inside each of us. You just have to find it. Wherever you go can be paradise. People are drawn to the Hawaiian Islands to experience the way of Aloha—a life of peace, joy, and family.”

Criticism

"I have learned that the only way to avoid criticism is to do nothing, but the consequence of doing nothing is much worse than any criticism."

Cameron C Taylor

How Do We Achieve Success?

I was asked to do an interview which was just released. The link is below. I was asked many questions I am not typically asked in a interview. These questions made it one of the most meaningful interviews I have done. I was asked about life balance, family, and what is really important. One of the questions was what do you want your children to learn from their dad? The answer to that question is at 31:10 of the interview.

http://patternsofsuccess.com/4

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." 

Philippians 4:13

Farmer Washington

The following is an excerpt from my new book 8 Attributes of Great Achievers, Volume 2

“I was but the humble agent of favoring Heaven. . . . My first wish is . . . to see the whole world in peace, and the inhabitants of it as one band of brothers, striving who should contribute most to the happiness of mankind.”

-George Washington

“Time after time [Washington] gave up the comfortable security of his personal life in order to serve his country. On three separate occasions he retired from public life, fully expecting to live out his days in the quiet of his plantation. And on three separate occasions he answered the call to return the service of his country sacrificing his own desires for the peace and safety of America.”1

After his eight years of service as the first president of the United States, he returned to his life as a farmer. His granddaughter Nelly Custis wrote of his return to the farm, “Grandpa is very well and much pleased with being once more Farmer Washington.”2 When a person came to the farm looking for General Washington, his grandson Parke Custis gave these directions, “You will meet, sir, with an old gentleman, riding alone, in plain drab clothes, a broad-brimmed white hat, a hickory switch in his hand, and carrying an umbrella with a long staff, which is attached to his saddlebow: that person, sir, is General Washington.”3

Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, wrote of Washington, “No man ever lived, more deservedly beloved and respected. . . . [He] maintained a modest diffidence of his own talents. . . . Possesst of power, possesst of an extensive influence, he never used it but for the benefit of his Country.”4

Long live the memory of George Washington, the great servant leader!

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References

1. Jay A. Parry and Andrew M. Allison, The Real George Washington (National Center for Constitutional Studies, 1991), 605.

2. Stanislaus Vincent Henkels, An Extraordinary Collection of Washington's Letters, Washington Relics, Revolutionary Documents and the Rarest Works on American History (Times Printing House, 1891), 5.

3. Horatio Hastings Weld, Pictorial Life of George Washington (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1846), 182.

4. Michael and Jana Novak, Washington’s God (New York: Basic Books, 2006), 4-5.

Doing Your Personal Best

The following is an excerpt from my new book 8 Attributes of Great Achievers, Volume 2.

Humble leaders focus on doing their personal best and are not worried about how they are doing in relation to others. The legendary UCLA Coach John Wooden provides a powerful example of this principle. He wrote, “I never talked about winning or beating an opponent. In fact, I rarely mentioned the opponent’s name. One player joked that just before games our manager would go to the lobby and buy a program in order to know who the team was playing that day. ‘Let them worry about us,’ was my philosophy. My job, and the team’s job, was to get us as close to being as good as we could get.”

“In 1962, UCLA reached the Final Four for the first time ever. We did it with a group of young men Sports Illustrated described as having ‘no height, no center, no muscle, no poise, no experience, no substitutes, and no chance.’” UCLA lost seven of their first eleven games that year, but everyone “kept working hard and improving. . . . Their effort produced dramatic results as the season progressed, and UCLA won 14 of the final 18 games, became Pac-8 champions, and went to the NCAA tournament. In the regionals at Provo, Utah, the Bruins outscored Utah State and then Oregon State to advance to the Final Four. . . . This was quite a surprise to most basketball fans around the country. Our 72-70 loss in the last seconds of the Final Four semifinals to the defending and eventual champion, Cincinnati, provided great evidence of how one can ‘lose’ and still win. . . . Cincinnati’s best was slightly better than ours. . . . The final score can never make you a loser when you’ve done your best. . . . What is success? For many it’s trophies or blue ribbons. . . . But I don’t measure it like that. The highest success is in your effort—giving it your personal best.”

One of John Wooden’s most influential teachers was his dad. His dad taught him early and often, “Johnny, don’t try to be better than somebody else, but never cease trying to be the best you can be.”

References

(John Wooden with Steve Jamison, My Personal Best (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004), 4, 114-115, 119, 120-123, 195)

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George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation

By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation

Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and—Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me “to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:”

Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favor, able interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other trangressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.

George Washington

DO THE IMPOSSIBLE!

“Our success on the track was only a very small part of our lives, but we hoped it had taught us a disciple that was transferable to other spheres.” – Roger Bannister

In 1952, Roger Bannister set the goal to be the first man to run a mile under four minutes and intensified his training. The record for the mile run remained at 4:01.4 seconds for nine years. “For years, the four-minute mile was considered not merely unreachable but, according to physiologists of the time, dangerous to the health of any athlete who attempted to reach it.” (Bruce Lowitt, “Bannister Stuns World with 4-Minute Mile” St. Petersburg Times, December 17, 1999) On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister ran the mile in 3:59.4, setting a new world record and breaking the proclaimed “impossible” barrier. In an interview, Bannister said, “There was a mystique, a belief that it couldn’t be done, but I think it was more of a psychological barrier than a physical barrier.” (David M. Ewalt and Lacey Rose, “The Greatest Individual Athletic Achievements,” Forbes, January 29, 2008)

                                                 

Once Roger Bannister removed this psychological barrier, the door was opened for others to achieve this feat. On June 21, 1954, just forty six days after Bannister had set this record, John Landy broke Bannister’s record in Turku, Finland, and today there are hundreds of people who have run a mile in under four minutes.

Many people have been conditioned with thoughts of what can’t be done. Studies have shown that within the first eighteen years of our lives, the average person is told “no” more than 148,000 times. (Shad Helmstetter, What to Say When You Talk to Your Self (New York: Pocket Books, 1986), 20) We are constantly being told by parents, friends, teachers, television, and co-workers what we cannot do.

To achieve the impossible, we must strive to find solutions instead of excuses. Instead of saying, “I can’t do it,” we should ask, “How can I do it?” Instead of saying “I can’t afford it,” or “It’s impossible,” begin asking the questions, “How can I afford it?” and “How is it possible?” This small change in our approach to life will produce great outcomes. Elbert Hubbard wrote, “The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”

Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television, the baby incubator, the electron microscope, radar technology, gastroscope technology, astronomical telescope technology, and the fusion reaction tubes, had a simple motto for his laboratory, “The difficult we do right away; the impossible takes slightly longer.”

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”

Philippians 4:13, NKJV

“All things are possible to him who believes.”

Mark 9:23, NKJV

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