Inspirational Quotes About Having Confidence In Yourself

Confidence is definitely an important factor in having success.  If we don't have confidence in ourselves, then we can't expect others to have confidence in us.  If you know you can achieve your goals and have the desire to do so, then confidence in yourself will allow you to overcome all obstacles and achieve the success that you deserve.

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Memorizing the First 20 Elements of the Periodic Table!

The Periodic Table is definitely a hard-to-forget memory from high school chemistry class.  Trying to learn the elements in order involved some rote learning with the occasional trick or two.  However, it's to memorize the first 20 elements in order, backward and forward, as well as knowing which element belongs to which number.  Impress your friends and train your brain with this fun exercise.  You may even impress Sheldon Cooper!

Follow along:

Here are the links to every number to which you will associate with the periodic elements.

They are:

1. sun
2. shoe
3. tree
4. door
5. hive
6. stick
7. heaven
8. skate
9. wine
10. pen

From 10 to 20, it's a bit different but still easy.

11. Imagine football uprights
12. (A dozen) eggs
13. A witch
14. Valentine's Day item (Feb. 14 - a box of chocolates, for example)
15. Tax returns (April 15)
16. Sweet 16 - candies or other sweets
17. 'Seventeen' Magazine
18. Voting Booth (legal age to vote)
19. Golf Club (19th Hole)
20. Pack of Cigarettes  (smoking not recommended!)


Now, we'll take a look at  the Top 20  Periodic Elements.

They are:

1. Hydrogen
2. Helium
3. Lithium
4. Beryllium
5. Boron
6. Carbon
7. Nitrogen
8. Oxygen
9. Fluorine
10. Neon
11. Sodium
12. Magnesium
13. Aluminum
14. Silicon
15. Phosphorus
16. Sulfur
17. Chlorine
18. Argon
19. Potassium
20. Calcium

Now, let's link the element with the memory aid for each number.

1. Hydrogen/sun - The sun is mostly composed of hydrogen!

2. Helium/shoe - Imagine floating on shoes made of helium

3. Lithium/tree - Imagine a lithium battery tree

4. Beryllium/door - Imagine opening the fridge to get some berries

5. Boron/hive - Imagine boring into a bee hive (not recommended in real life!)

6. Carbon/stick - Imagine a carbon hockey stick

7. Nitrogen/heaven - Imagine liquid nitrogen ice cream heaven!

8. Oxygen/skate - Imagine a skater with an oxygen mask

9. Fluorine/wine - Imagine wine with added fluoride!

10. Neon/pen - Imagine a neon pen!

11. Sodium/football goalpost - Imagine kicking a field goal with a salt shaker!

12. Magnesium/dozen eggs - Imagine getting your daily magnesium requirement with eggs

13. Aluminum/witch - Imagine a witch on an  aluminum pop can!

14. Silicon/Valentine's  - Imagine Silicon Valley king Mark Zuckerberg as someone's Valentine!

15. Phosphorus/tax return - Imagine igniting your tax return with phosphorus (not recommended in real life!)

16. Sulfur/ Sweet 16 (candies) - Imagine chocolate candies stinking like sulfur

17. Chlorine/'Seventeen magazine - Imagine reading Seventeen magazine by the pool and smelling the chlorine

18. Argon/voting booth - Imagine looking at the choices in a voting booth and saying "Aaaaaargh!!"

19. Potassium/golf - Imagine playing golf with a banana (they're rich in potassium!)

20. Calcium/pack of cigarettes - Imagine a cow smoking a cigarette

After you create these images, you'll find it very easy to recite the list from the top or bottom and to instantly recall any number. Quick, what's number 10?  Pen = Neon!

With the links, you can substitute other words for the numbers, such as one-gun or eight-gate but any word will do.  Have fun with the exercise and use it for any top 10 list that you can find useful!

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Inspirational Quotes on Creativity

Creativity has been the source of many innovations throughout our history.  Whether in art, science, business, education or so many other fields, creative minds have been the source of many breakthroughs in the way we see and understand our world.  The wonderful aspect of this is that we can all be creative and there is no limit to your imagination, no matter who you are!

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Which Will Be The First Trillion Dollar Company?

August 2, 2018:

"Apple Inc. became the first $1 trillion publicly listed U.S. company on Thursday, crowning a decade-long rise powered by its ubiquitous iPhone that transformed it from a niche player in personal computers into a global powerhouse spanning entertainment and communications. The tech company's stock jumped 2.9 per cent to end the day at $207.39 US, giving it a market capitalization of $1.002 trillion US. During the session, Apple's stock market value reached as much as $1.006 trillion US."

(www.cbc.ca/news/business/apple-trillion-stock-market-valuation-1.4771428)

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Update:  After posting a strong earnings report for the second quarter of 2018, Apple is withing striking distance of the $1 Trillion figure.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/01/apple-1-trillion-share-price-threshold.html

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To be sure, a trillion dollars is a lot of money.  

If you Google '1 trillion', the response is 'A trillion is 1,000,000,000,000, also know as 10 to the 12th power, or one million million. It's such a large number it's hard to get your head around it, so sometimes trillion just means “wow, a lot.”.'

One graphic has an interesting illustration of $1 trillion:

At present, there are four companies which are in striking distance of the $1 trillion valuation (as of July 26
, 2018).  They are:

Apple - $945.7 Billion

Google - $876.9 Billion

Amazon - $861.1 Billion

Microsoft - $818.1 Billion

What's amazing is that the four companies were all started in a garage in only the last few decades.  You can read more at my earlier blog 'From Humble Beginnings: Six Companies That Began In A Garage' which covers three of these companies.  

If you go back five years to early 2013, the top four companies were Apple, Exxon Mobil, Berkshire Hathaway, PetroChina and Wal-Mart, with an average valuation of $315 Billion.  

Going back to 2009 (after the market crash), the top 4 companies were Exxon Mobil, PetroChina, Wal-Mart and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China with an average valuation of $253 Billion.

With an average valuation of $872 Billion, the four current leaders may have an average themselves of $1 trillion if current trends continue.  With the NASDAQ index at a value of almost 8,000 and rising, the outlook is very certain that the trend will continue according to the chart:

The question is, which company will reach the $1 Trillion value the first?  Microsoft has been around many years and was previously known for Windows and DOS software but has made major recent strides with cloud computing.  In 2018, Microsoft's revenue came in at more than $100 Billion for the first time.  

“Our early investments in the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge are paying off, and we will continue to expand our reach in large and growing markets with differentiated innovation,” said the chief executive officer Satya Nadella.  Wal-Mart even just  signed a cloud computing deal with Microsoft as they are both competing with Amazon.  Microsoft Azure competes Amazon Web Services while Wal-Mart's retail sales have been affected by Amazon's e-commerce success.

Google has had an unprecedented surge after posting remarkable results for the 2nd Quarter of 2018 (see my article).   Apple is within $50 Billion of the $1 Trillion mark as its products continue to sell very well at high margins (who needs the iPod anymore?).

Which company will be the first to reach one followed by twelve (12!) digits in dollar value.  Apple looks poised and within reach but Google and Amazon are giving the company a run for its money!



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