Monday, December 26, 2016





We are so happy to announce the upcoming release of "How Values Are Practical"!  Ten core values are brought to life through the words and experiences of hugely successful individuals from all walks of life.  Look for it the Spring of 2017!


For now we will revisit key content from "It IS Your Attitude" over the following weeks.

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Chapter 3:

Becoming the YOU you are to be.


After you have accepted yourself and your beliefs have become your own, through the integration of value judgements, find the courage to act on them.  I realize this is easer said than done, and some people require professional assistance  to overcome dramatic events in their lives that weight down their potential.  You can't erase these events from your memory, but you do not need to carry them on your shoulders as evidence that you are flawed.  

You are NOT flawed!  You simply had a negative experience, more likely as the victim than the perpetrator.  Left untreated, the memory can rear it ugly head and undermine your interactions with others.  Once it is recognized and accepted, you can manage the feelings you get when your button gets pushed and react in the proper manner." 


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Sunday, December 18, 2016

Be Who You Are!




We are so happy to announce the upcoming release of "How Values Are Practical"!  Ten core values are brought to life through the words and experiences of hugely successful individuals from all walks of life.  Look for it the Spring of 2017!


For now we will revisit key content from "It IS Your Attitude" over the following weeks.

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Chapter 2

"BE WHO YOU ARE!"


.....However, I had to overcome a sense of inadequacy seeded long ago by feedback that I was not good overall.  When you have never played a school sport, you feel foolish trying to fit in with schoolmates who already have an understanding of the game.  Add mockery, schoolyard teasing and insults to the mix  and the result is either a child who quickly improves through natural ability and fits in, or one who retreats and avoids the pressure.  I decided to retreat.  ...

I have never been a cold and calculating person.  However, I have never waited long for an opportunity to manifest itself, and I created opportunities as I went along.  The fuel that drove me to earn two under-graduate degrees, an MBA, an honors degree from a national banking school, and certificates in other post-graduate work was partially driven by the belief that I was not good enough.


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Sunday, December 11, 2016

WHY do people fail?




We are so happy to announce the upcoming release of "How Values Are Practical"!  Ten core values are brought to life through the words and experiences of hugely successful individuals from all walks of life.  Look for it the Spring of 2017!

Luis Lobo

For now we will revisit key content from "It IS Your Attitude" over the following weeks.

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From Chapter 1


WHY DO PEOPLE FAIL?



"But primarily, I think people fail because of a fear of failing.  YOU have heard this before, but let me qualify the phrase "fear of failure."  People driven by this fear are so focused on doing everything possible to avoid a setback that they loose balance with their personal, familial and spiritual lives.  I know this type of person well.  I have seen him in the mirror for 40 years.  Some people will tell you, "you have to have balance".  The problem is that they can't tell you how to obtain balance, and more than likely, they have their own struggles with the scales of life.

Success is an ongoing series of steps towards a desired goal that, in time, allows us to look back and gain confidence for future steps.  I often tell team members who are anxious about off-target results, "If the the past has been a glorious path, why would the future be any different?"  This is something I also have to self-coach on when my anxiety builds around some less-than-miserable result or a new challenge".



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Sunday, December 04, 2016

What this book in NOT about.....



We are so happy to announce the upcoming release of "How Values Are Practical"!  Ten core values are brought to life through the words and experiences of hugely successful individuals from all walks of life.  Look for it the Spring of 2017!

Luis Lobo


For now we will revisit key content from "It IS Your Attitude" over the following weeks.



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From the introduction

What this book in NOT about...

* A magic potion to make everything alright.  Our lives will never be completely right.

* A multistep program leading to some dramatic change or understanding that aligns the stars and planets.  Some people can change through these programs, but many loose heart when results are not what they think they ought to be.

* A trait on Pollyanna attitudes focusing on feel-good behaviors.  There are times when you'll feel bad and you should - until you change the outcome.  


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Sunday, November 27, 2016



We are so happy to announce the upcoming release of "How Values Are Practical"!  Ten core values are brought to life through the words and experiences of hugely successful individuals from all walks of life.  Look for it the Spring of 2017!

Luis Lobo


For now we will revisit key content from "It IS Your Attitude" over the following weeks.


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FOREWORD 

by

Kelly S. King, 
Chief Executive Officer 
BB&T Corporation

"Leaders accept personal accountability and responsibility, as well as themselves and their actions.  Successful people adapt the philosophy, "If it is to be, it is up to me",  which is a statement of commitment to do the best we can with what we have and not blame someone or something else.  

Combining and enthusiastic, positive attitude with a strong sense of personal ownership makes life meaningful, successful and enjoyable.  Having the responsibility to lead others is a wonderful opportunity the should be executed with a commitment to help your team be the best it can be while enjoying your path to success!"





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Sunday, October 02, 2016

Luis G. Lobo: An America for today and tomorrow.



Luis G. Lobo: An America for today and tomorrow



Posted: Friday, September 30, 2016 8:30 pm

There is no making America great again. Since World War II, and, notably, the Soviet collapse, nearly every U.S. born citizen has benefited from the highest standard of living in the world. The United States has been the undisputed leader and innovator in the sciences, commerce and military power. The most motivated individuals from across the globe wish to make this country their home by establishing businesses, sending their best and brightest to American universities or by simply changing the reality of their daily lives. Our 229-year-old constitutional version of freedom is what has propelled us and the rest of the world, through The Pax Americana conceptualized at the Bretton Woods conference of 1944 to the America of today.
The Great Recession of 2008, and its slow worldwide recovery, has been described as a national stumble. An interconnected world that was crafted over 70 years ago, as well as regional economic alliances such as the European Union, will ebb and flow according to economic and political realities. Therefore, an isolationist future is neither viable nor desirable. We only need to study the example of Japan, the country that was supposed to be the economic giant when I came out of college in 1983. In Japan, growth is stagnant, there is a comparative scarcity of cultural diversity and the country has been in a 20-year recession driven by a birth rate lower than the death rate. Japan’s homogeneity deeply impacts its restrictive immigration policies, where only 2 percent of its population is non-Japanese, currently with little hope of being “great again.
My parents were immigrants from Costa Rica in the early 1960's, finally settling in Lincolnton, NC, where my brother Carlos and I were the first Latino children to enter the
Lincoln County Public Schools, just a few years after the integration of white and black students. I am not sure what being “post-racial” means, but to me it does not mean ambivalence about or denial of being Latino. My family and I all celebrate it, make fun of it at times, and relish the outcomes of my parents realizing their American Dream, which, in turn, led to so many others being accomplished.


In many places of our country, people continue to live apart from others who are culturally, racially and religiously different from them. It is a free country; you can live where you can. Today, 46 percent of K-12 age students, 38 percent of millennials and a full 1/3 of the nation as a whole are of African, Latino and Asian heritage. With a 51-percent minority birthrate going forward, this country’s demographic reality is permanently changing.
“Making America great again” cannot mean going back to a disintegrated society. Our children have grown up together and their reality is not ours. I know the great destroyers of mankind such as poverty, oppression, hopelessness and ignorance are alive and well in our nation. Yet when my wife and I visit our grown children and witness their interactions with their diverse group of colleagues and friends, it adds to my optimism for our America, the America of today.
Americans are a people who wish to improve their lives, regardless of whether they were born here or came here as immigrants. We seek to earn our way, foster our own self-worth and take pride in ourselves as Americans.
We have much work to do, but our precious democracy allows us — no, expects us — to work together for the America of tomorrow.
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Saturday, July 30, 2016

LINCOLN: "We have among us immigrants who are not descendants at all of these men. . ."




FROM:  My great friend from Belmont  Abbey College and SPE brother John Maguire:

I ran across this piece that was part of a speech Lincoln gave in 1858.
He was talking to the senate.

Luis I think it's got some great quotes for you (I am your speech writer don't forget) but I also think that it it's completely absent in many people's thinking today.

maybe not.



It happens that we meet together once every year, sometime about the 4th of July. . . . We run our memory back over the pages of history [to 1776]. We find a race of men living in that day whom we claim as our fathers and grandfathers. They were iron men. They fought for the principle that they were contending for; and we understand that by what they then did, it has followed that the degree of prosperity that we now enjoy has come to us. We hold this annual celebration to remind ourselves of all the good done, of how it was done and who did it, and how we are historically connected with it. . . .


We have [among us immigrants] who are not descendants at all of these men. . . If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none. . . . But when they look through that old Declaration of Independence, they find that those old men say that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” And then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration. And so they are. That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world.





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Saturday, July 02, 2016

AMERICA!


America 


by Rev. Samuel F. Smith - 1832


My country, 'tis of Thee,
Sweet Land of Liberty
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountain side
Let Freedom ring.


My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills,
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above.


Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees
Sweet Freedom's song;
Let mortal tongues awake;
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.


Our fathers' God to Thee,
Author of Liberty,
To thee we sing,
Long may our land be bright
With Freedom's holy light,
Protect us by thy might
Great God, our King.


Our glorious Land to-day,
'Neath Education's sway,
Soars upward still.
Its hills of learning fair,
Whose bounties all may share,
Behold them everywhere
On vale and hill!


Thy safeguard, Liberty,
The school shall ever be,
Our Nation's pride!
No tyrant hand shall smite,
While with encircling might
All here are taught the Right
With Truth allied.


Beneath Heaven's gracious will
The stars of progress still
Our course do sway;
In unity sublime
To broader heights we climb,
Triumphant over Time,
God speeds our way!


Grand birthright of our sires,
Our altars and our fires
Keep we still pure!
Our starry flag unfurled,
The hope of all the world,
In peace and light impearled,
God hold secure!


In the final analysis, your attitude determines your effectiveness in everything, every time! LGL www.LuisLobo.Biz