Positive Affirmations & Positive Sayings

Dr. Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University professor who is dying of pancreatic cancer, gives a reprise of his last lecture at the Oprah show. He shares his childhood dreams-what they were and how he achieved most of them-and inspires people to go after theirs.

He also motivates people to live their lives with the correct principles so that when they look back, they will have no regrets. His testimony is made powerful by the fact that he is choosing to live life to the full despite his sickness and is changing people's perspectives while he's at it.

Key Points from this Inspirational Video:

• Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want
• Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things
• Have a sense of fun and wonder
• We need to value people over things
• Decide early on if you're a Tigger or an Eeyore
• Work and play well with others
• Show gratitude
• Don't complain; just work harder

Overall Rating (1-5): 5

Entertainment Rating (1-5): 5

Although he is a university professor doing a lecture, the video was never boring. He is a very engaging and interesting speaker.

Instructional Rating (1-5): 5

He used a simple slide show with pictures and points that deliver his message clearly.

Sincere thanks and appreciation goes out to Lailani Mendoza for this in-depth inspirational video review!

You can exist without truly living. But if you only live to exist, is this a life worth living?

Many people are tortured deep inside, because they have lost the fire that puts a smile on their faces and joy in their hearts. They are stuck in jobs or relationships that do not make them happy. This is a sure formula to suck the life out of anyone.

This video reminds viewers that finding true passion is so important. Without it, your quality of life is diminished. But when found, it brings back the glow that makes peoples' lives exciting and happy.

Key Points from this Inspirational Video:

• Without passion, you're not going to enjoy what you do in life
• It is important to find your passion
• Be open to everything around you

Overall Rating (1-5): 4

Entertainment Rating (1-5): 4
The speaker looks very amiable and excited about what she has to share.

Instructional Rating (1-5): 3
Not much instructional value. The speaker focuses on the importance of finding passion in your life to make its quality better.

Sincere thanks and appreciation goes out to Lailani Mendoza for this in-depth inspirational video review!

Take a glass of cranberry juice, a pitcher of water and a smart, eight-year-old girl and what do you get? The secret to happy thoughts!

In this simple yet profound presentation, a young girl shows that happy thoughts are ours for the taking when we follow her example. She used a glass of cranberry juice to represent bad thoughts in the mind. Then, she poured the pitcher of water (representing happy thoughts) into the glass, which made the cranberry juice (or what was left of it) as clear as water. Flood your mind with happy thoughts and make the negativity disappear!

Key Points from this Inspirational Video:

• Negative thoughts reside in the mind.
• Negative thoughts can be displaced by positive thoughts.
• We need to think happy thoughts in order for the transformation to happen.

Overall Rating (1-5): 5

Entertainment Rating (1-5): 5
Very simple and enlightening, especially coming from an eight-year-old girl.

Instructional Rating (1-5): 5

The "experiment" clearly illustrates her main point.

Sincere thanks and appreciation goes out to Lailani Mendoza for this in-depth inspirational video review!

Each person encounters a moment of enlightenment - that instant when something finally clicks and everything makes sense. And in that second of understanding, they utter words that resonate with the truth in many hearts and minds. This is the reason for having quotes.

A collection of beautiful and inspiring quotes, this video seeks to uplift the heart and mind of anyone with three minutes to spare. Neither saccharine nor trite, the quotes reverberate with simple but potent insights from famous and not-so-famous people.

Key Points from this Inspirational Video:

• Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can.
• Our greatest glory is in rising every time we fall.
• A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
• It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
• If you're going through hell, keep going.
• To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Overall Rating (1-5): 5

Entertainment Rating (1-5): 4.5

This video projects the quotes with a simple white background. The song "Imagine" by John Lennon reinforces the messages from the collection of quotes.

Instructional Rating (1-5): 3

Although not an outright instructional video, it has a subtle message of examining one's lives by the principles echoed in the quotes.

Sincere thanks and appreciation goes out to Lailani Mendoza for this in-depth inspirational video review!

This video is a strong collection of thoughts for meditation. The quotes all have powerful grains of truth that each person can incorporate in his or her thought pattern to live a successful and positive life.

Coupled with nice, mellow jazz music, this video is the perfect thing to watch to unwind and re-focus on the important things in life. It changes your perspective about daily situations when the truths are taken to heart.

Key Points from this Inspirational Video:

• Success is the outcome of thinking, visualizing, planning and taking action
• The image of yourself is responsible for the way people see and treat you
• When the mind thinks of success, the outside world mirrors these thoughts
• Peace comes from within; do not seek it without
• Rehearsing success in the mind produces it in the material world

Overall Rating (1-5):  4.5

Entertainment Rating (1-5): 4

Relaxing with this video and listening to the accompanying music can greatly enhance a person's sense of well-being.

Instructional Rating (1-5): 1

The video did not have much instructional value.

Sincere thanks and appreciation goes out to Lailani Mendoza for this in-depth inspirational video review!