“La nostra paura più profonda non è di essere inadeguati. La nostra paura più profonda è di essere potenti oltre ogni limite. È la nostra luce, non la nostra ombra, a spaventarci di più. Ci domandiamo: “chi sono io per essere brillante, pieno di talento, favoloso?” In realtà chi sei tu per NON esserlo? Siamo figli di Dio. Il nostro giocare nel piccolo, non serve al mondo. Non c’è nulla di illuminato nello sminuire se stessi cosichè gli altri non si sentano insicuri attorno a noi. Siamo tutti nati per risplendere, come fanno i bambini. Siamo nati per rendere manifesta la gloria di Dio che è dentro di noi. Non solo in alcuni di noi: è in ognuno di noi. E quando permettiamo alla nostra luce a risplendere, inconsapevolmente diamo agli altri la possibilità di fare lo stesso. E quando ci liberiamo dalle nostre paure, la nostra presenza automaticamente libera gli altri.”

Per favore mandate questo messaggio a tutti i vostri cari amici e familiari per dare loro un regalo special di speranza e gioia quest’autunno.

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You have the power to make a huge impact on the success of this project by simply carving out a few minutes of your day to help share this powerful message via your online networks. Here are some great ideas to make it easy for you to get involved and share this message. Please implement as many of the strategies below as possible. Together we will make this project a success.

Ideas for sharing via Facebook

• Identify key friends on your personal profile and add the following post to their wall. You may choose to customize it for your friends. Here is the possible message…”Today I was touched by a powerful video that reminded me just how powerful I am. I was so inspired and moved that I had to share it with you. Please take just a few moments to view this video. I promise it will positively add to your life today. You can view the video here – http://budurl.com/10D10MFF. Enjoy and have a wonderful season of Thanksgiving!”
• Share the video with people in the groups for which you are a member.
• Send a message to your Facebook friends, groups and fans and share the above message with them.
• Add a Post on your Facebook personal profile and fan page wall.

Ideas for sharing via Twitter

• Forward one of the sample tweets below to at least 20 of your favorite Twitter followers.
• You likely have influence with people who recommend you during #followfriday. Share one of the sample tweets with these individuals.
• Setup scheduled tweets to go out with one of the sample tweets every 3 to 6 hours. You’ll want to rotate the tweets to mix it up a bit.
• Identify the 10 or more of the most powerful Twitterers in your network and ask them to share the video with their network.
• For each new follower you obtain, send out a welcome/thank you message that promotes the video. You can use SocialOomph.com or your tool of choice to setup an auto response for new followers.
• Here are several suggested tweets you can use to spread the word. Feel free to adapt these to suite your own taste. If you choose to write your own custom message, PLEASE include the #10million hashtag at the end so we can track our progress.
• [Enter the person’s Twitter handle] You are powerful beyond measure – inspiring video – http://budurl.com/10D10M – Pls share with someone U appreciate. #10million
• [Enter the person’s Twitter handle] You are powerful beyond measure – inspiring video – http://budurl.com/10D10M – Pls share with someone U appreciate. #10million
• [Enter the person’s Twitter handle] Would you please share this powerful video with 10 of your friends? – http://budurl.com/10D10M #10million
• [Enter the person’s Twitter handle] Claim your power and shine! – http://budurl.com/10D10M #10million
• [Enter the person’s Twitter handle] Great Video – Amazing scenes – It will inspire you – Pass it on please! – http://budurl.com/10D10M #10million

Ideas for sharing via LinkedIn

• Update your status to “Currently watching a powerful video that everyone should watch. http://budurl.com/10D10ML. Please check it out and then share it with people you want to encourage.”
• Share the video with people in the groups for which you are a member.

Ideas for sharing via email – Visit http://www.wisdomfilms.com/viral-inviter.php

Ideas for sharing via a blog

• If you have your own blog, please add a short post encouraging your readers to visit http://budurl.com/10D10B to view the video.
• If you know influential bloggers, send them an email asking them to add a short post encouraging their readers to visit http://budurl.com/10D10B to view the video.
• Consider adding an add to your blog featuring the video.
• Post comments on relevant blogs encouraging the blogger and their readers to visit the http://budurl.com/10D10B to view the video. Be sure not to spam blogs. Only post on blogs where the video is highly relevant to a recent blog post.

Ideas for sharing via Ning or other social networks

• http://budurl.com/10D10M. Please check it out and then share it with people you want to encourage.”
• Share the video with people in the groups for which you are a member.
• Select 20+ of your top friends and add a message on their wall. For example you might post something that says, “Hello there. I wanted to stop by and remind you that you are bigger, more powerful and more valuable than you have ever been taught to believe. Take a moment an watch this inspiring video – http://budurl.com/10D10M – Please share this amazing video with the people you care about.”

And may God bless you for the generosity and dedication of your time towards doing this now!

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Example message you could send to your mailing list.

Subject: Inspirational film (Thanksgiving)

Body:

Hi –name–,

Here is a short inspirational video I think you will like: http://www.WisdomFilms.com

With 1 in 3 people experiencing some kind of depression, loneliness, or fear at this time of year – we want to do something to reach out with this message – “your life matters!”
Can you help join us to get this short film out to 10 Million people before Thanksgiving?

1. – post it on FaceBook
2. – talk about it on Twitter (#10Million)
3. – share it with your contacts using this cool tool (http://www.WisdomFilms.com/viral-inviter.php)

Thanks!
–yourname–

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You’ll soon receive an email with download instructions for the meaningful, free stuff we want to share with you! Meanwhile, make this feeling last – your challenge, if you choose to accept, is to use the next 10 Minutes to do at least one of the following…

• reconnect with an old friend
• tell a loved one how much you love them
• do something kind for your neighbors
• read a book to a child
• play a game with your kids
• do the dishes for you wife
• send this video to a few friends

You can make this moment count — So START NOW!

Thank you so much for joining us on this journey. We want to know about your experience! Please visit our Guest Book to tell us about them!

Sincerely,

Gary Malkin & the 10 Days Dream Team

I had the pleasure of meeting Nelson Mandela, and I love the man.

“Our Deepest Fear” is a great quote that I’m sure he enjoys, but it is often incorrectly credited to Nelson Mandela, and did not come from his Inauguration Speech, 1994.

Check it out for yourself if you would like – here are links to two official African government sites with Nelson Mandela’s 1994 Inauguration Speech:

• Mandela: Inauguration Address – Cape Town, 09 May 1994, via South Africa Government Online Official Web site.
• Statement Of The President Of The African National Congress Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela At His Inauguration As President Of The Democratic Republic Of South Africa Union Buildings – Pretoria, 10 May 1994, via ANC’s (African National Congress) Official Web site.

Quotes from Nelson Mandela

Here are some other quotes from Nelson Mandela, however, that I think you will enjoy:

• “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
  
• “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.“
  
• “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.“
  
• “After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.“
  
• “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.“
  
• “In my country we go to prison first and then become President.“
• “It always seems impossible until its done.“
• “Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?“
• “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.“
• “It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.“
• “There is no such thing as part freedom.“
• “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.“
• “We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.“

Are there any other quotes from him that you like?