Here we are at the end of another year. How did those New Year’s resolutions you made last January 1st work out? Oh, yeah . . . THOSE resolutions! Were those the ones you forgot on January 7th, or maybe even on January 2nd? In the past, I’ve tried making New Year’s resolutions, but they [...]
I learned another lesson myself last Friday. The day before I started feeling very frustrated that my business wasn’t growing as quickly as I wanted it to. I knew I had been working hard to improve things, but it wasn’t moving quickly enough. I found myself getting frustrated, depressed even. Then Friday morning, I looked [...]
Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. –John Wooden
Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the [...]
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. –Jim Rohn
All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers. –Henry David Thoreau
When you’ve got lots of things you’re trying to accomplish it’s easy to forget the things that you actually get done. There are lots of days where I feel like I haven’t gotten anything done, and my wife will kindly list the things that I accomplished. It makes me realize that I really did get [...]
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you. –Jim Rohn
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations. –Zig Ziglar
Lose this day loitering, Twill be the same story Tomorrow — and the next more dilatory. Then indecision brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting over days! Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or dream you can –begin it! Courage has genius, power, and magic in it. [...]
