On the occasion of this day, I wanted to share with you an interesting lesson I recently learned from a great book called “Ancient Secrets- using the stories of the Bible to improve our everyday lives” (By Rabbi Levi Meier).

Here he talks about what is the pre-requisit to loving another person and what needs to exist before we are able to properly achieve that kind of love. Here is the quote:

” It s possible to love another person completely, Only if you can first completely Love and Respect yourself. You must first acknowledge and respect the devine image that resides within you, Then you will be able to see it in every other human being [and to Love others]…

How do you come to love yourself? You must recognize all teh good things and all the bad things that are part of you, everything that makes you who you Are. The you must embrace them and accept them and you must respect yourself. ONLY Then you can embrace, accept and respect others in the Same Way.

It’s also important to like being with yourself. It’s good to have friends of course, but first of all you must like having yourself for company. If you don’t, Who will?”

If you are celebrating this day with your significant other, with firends, or with your “own company”, have fun and make a point to…

Live for Today…          Laugh Often…         and Love Much…

And Live with Passion

And not just for one day, but Every Day.

~Payam

Well… So it begins! I am talking about the Success Quest’s First Blog. I thought it would be appropriate to write the first blog, about a recent exciting event that happened for me, seeing that the network is about Success.

Like many entrepreneurs and inventors out there who are striving to create a success out of their businesses and ideas, I have been also working on a very useful and practical invention for the foodservice industry, which once out, can help reduce the labor and the rate of food poisoning in the restaurants, cruises, hospitals and many other places, significantly. The equipment called NapWrap, sanitized, wraps and bands the silverware for restaurants automatically, so that the servers won’t have to touch them anymore and as what I call a “Recovering Roll-a-Holic” who used to do this myself, I can truly appreciate that.

The development on this project has been taking several years and to say the least, has been a rollercoaster, like many other entrepreneurs and I have stock to it and continued moving forward. Many people come very close to their dreams that they have worked for, for many years and many times they stop 3 feet from gold and if they had dogged just a few more feet, they would have hit the jackpot and that is unfortunate. But there is a positive side to that too…

I have had the opportunity to ask some of the very successful entrepreneurs that I have met throughout the years and there are two key elements that they have shares that has been instrumental in them achieving their Success (however you define that term), and it was 1) Have a “No Matter What” attitude, have persistence and persevere at your dream and 2) Trust Your Gut Feeling and Instincts. Luckily, turned out I was doing those to a good degree as well and it helped me stay in the game and don’t give up, despite all the challenges.

This July, I saw another small stepping stone and some of the rewards of persevering; NapWrap was nominated and selected to present at the annual San Diego Inventors Forum Invention Contest and be among the 10 inventors presenting at that event and with great pleasure, we did end up on the top 3 awards there. In fact we got the 2nd prize on the SDIF Invention of the year award and this is just the beginning.

My intention is to help improve the quality of the dining experience for the average Joe who goes to a restaurant with their kids and family and overall improve the foodservice industry’s standard and if it weren’t for the Persevering and believing in my gut (having faith), I would not have even got to this point and still the journey continues.

So take those two qualities and apply them in every business endeavor you do as well and just Go For It.

You can learn more about NapWrap, if you’d like, at www.NapWrap.info 

“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure”. ~ Anon

 To your success

~ Payam