“Success is a result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.”
~Colin Powell~
Perfection is not sustainable but it is attainable in spurts. You can do the next task you have on your agenda perfectly. And for those task that won’t get done perfectly, just making the attempt will create better results than if you started the process with a mediocre mind set. In all our actions we must work hard, learn from our mistakes and make sure we don’t give up. Taking this approach will lead to the types of outcomes that you typically only imagine. This mindset worked for Colin Powell and will work for you and I!
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“I’ll tell you something else that helps. That old saying, ‘Take life one day at a time,’ is mighty good advice. If I find myself becoming overwhelmed by it all, I focus on getting through the rest of the day, or maybe through dinner, or maybe just through the next hour.”
~Sarah Delany~,
Sarah Delany lived to be 110 years old. She was 107 when she said this and it is one of the many quotes she shared that we can all learn a lot from. In life we can’t always do something about tomorrow. In life we can’t always do something about the rest of today. What we can always do is focus in on what the best thing we can do right now is!
What can you do right this moment that will help your to grow and move you toward the achievement of something worthwhile?
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“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.”
~Orison Marden~
Hope, Faith & Belief are all words that should be large parts of our vocabulary. All words that have a lot of power behind them if we have the courage to follow them up with action.
What actions if taken this week with the strength of these words behind them will leave you better off on Sunday than you are today? What can you hope to accomplish if you just believe in yourself and have faith in your abilities?
Answer these questions for yourself purposefully, decide what you are going to do about the answers and then DO IT!!! If done a better tomorrow most surely awaits. Lets make this a wonderful week!!!
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“Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren’t, we should behave as though we are? Cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.”
~Maya Angelou
How would you live your life today if you knew you where being watched? If you knew someone was looking to you to set an example for what is possible in this world? Would you get up a little earlier? Stay at work a little later? Pick up a book instead of turning on the TV? Perhaps you’d eat a healthy lunch instead of McDonalds? I bet there are a lot of things you’d find that you would do a little differently. Well someone is always watching. Its the man or the women in the mirror. The person staring at you when you look in the mirror wants you to be your best self. And every right action strengthens your ability to perform another. So go out this week and be a role model for yourself and others. You will end your week feeling fantastic as a result! Make it a great one!
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“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
~Helen Keller~
I wanna fly! I know you feel it too! There is nothing stopping us but ourselves. Each and every one of us can sour to the heights of the good life! There’s nothing to it but to do it! LETS GO!!!
Have a great weekend everyone!
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“I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.”
~Nikki Giovanni~
You will find it tough to forgive yourself as well. 2015, 2020, 2025 are going to come. Where will you be in life when you get there? Will you be celebrating lots of amazing accomplishments or wondering what could have been? Those are two very different feelings and only one of them feels good.
If there is something you want in this world, there’s simply no good excuse for you not to try. And if you try, believe in yourself, give yourself enough time to achieve, and you don’t quit, you will get what you want!
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“If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.”
~Magic Johnson~
You see a lot of quotes from me related to attitude and the way we approach failure. I do this on purpose because I know that no matter who you are we are going to have our ups and our downs. I want to make sure everyone knows that when we have those downs it is unacceptable to stay there. We must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and look in the direction we want to go. In short, we must Arise!
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“The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.”
~Bill Cosby
Seize the Moment! Do something right now to move you toward a great day, a great week, a great month, a great year, a great life!!! It’s the choices we make in every moment of life that lead us to or lead us away from our dreams. What is the right choice for you right now? DECIDE & THEN DO!!!
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“You only live once, so If you have ideas that are sticking to long in your head, just execute them, you might be surprised where they may lead to… Life is too short to wonder about What-If’s, just DO.”
~Ouni~
We’re here now! July 1st 2010 and officially the start of the second half of the year.
Sports fans out there will recognize that a good team who has fallen behind in the first half generally comes out of halftime with a new fire in their eyes. Their coach has lit into them, and they get refocused on the objective of winning the game.
Our objective is on winning in the game of life and to do this we must take the ideas that we have in our heads and turn them into reality! Don’t be the guy who see’s a fantastic product or service doing really well in the market only to say that that was your idea. Don’t be the girl to say that you are now too old to do something you have been thinking about for decades. You snooze, you lose. A good friend of mine said recently that nothing comes to a sleeper but dreams…WAKE UP and LIVE!!!
Everything starts with an idea and there is no time like the 2nd half of 2010 for yours to become realities.
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“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
~Barack Obama~
We have been doing a countdown of sorts and today that countdown ends. This is officially the end of June and when we wake up tomorrow we will officially begin the 2nd half of 2010. You ready?
Whether you have kicked ass the 1st half of the year or you made a complete mess of things, there is still more to be done. My definition of success is getting better and better everyday in every way. If this definition sounds about right to you then you like everyone else has some work to do for the rest of 2010 and beyond!
Change is the only constant in life and we are always changing for the better or changing for the worse. As you walk into July what changes for the better will be made? What goals will be realized? What dreams that you have put of will be started? Will you start that business this year? Are you going to lose that 30 lbs this year? Are you going to end that dead end relationship that is holding back this year? Are you going to get debt free this year? Are you going to step into your best self this year? The time and place to begin to make anything you want for 2010 happen is right here, right now!!! WE ARE THE CHANGE WE SEEK!!!!
YES WE CAN!!! YES WE WILL!!!
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All Reach In Search of Excellence
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