For this Day:

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Fail to win

"If I fail more than you do, I win." 

-Seth Godin

Determined soul

"What stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul." 

-Orison Swett Marden

Light of Love

"Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most." 
-Ruth Carter Stapleton

Just a tax...

"Failure is just a tax on the way to success." 

-Michael Hyatt

Change is...

"Change isn't made by asking permission. 

Change is made by asking forgiveness, later." 

-Seth Godin

Meaningful contribution

"You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life." 

-Stephen Covey

Courageous break

"Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking." 

-Stephen Covey

Time = Life



"Time = Life. Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life." ~ Alan Lakein

Risks are by-products

We don't take risks just for the sake of taking risks. Risks are not the point. They're just by-products of doing stuff that matters!  

Changing ourselves

"We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us." 
-Stephen Covey    

Virtue - highest

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington

Continuous improvement

"Unless you're continually improving your skills, you're quickly becoming irrelevant." 

-Stephen Covey

Managing change

"The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it." 

-Peter Drucker

Link to potential

"Link yourself to your potential, not to your past." 

-Stephen Covey

Something New Vs. Old

"If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old." 

-Peter Drucker

Happiness Vs. Profitable

"In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable." 
Seth Godin  

Truth and Facts

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. 
Facts can obscure the truth.
- Maya Angelou

Play as an unit

You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Most perishable

"Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions."
 ~ John Randolph

Show your dream

It takes courage to show your dreams to someone else.
– Erma Bombeck

Help yourself

"God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them."
- Franz Kafka

Remarkable get remarked

"By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon" 

-Seth Godin

Confront or fate

"That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate." 

-Carl Jung

Thank Life

"The more you thank life, the more life gives you to be thankful for."

Tidier & put together

"Some seasons (of your life) will be tidier than others. Some may even feel downright put together. And then some will look like your smoothie-splattered kitchen after you forget to put the lid on the blender!"
- Sari Harlow

NO Hard Work... NO Results



Cost of....

"The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying." 

-Seth Godin

On the path...

"One finds one's destiny on the path one takes to avoid it." 

-Carl Jung

Live Life...

I Want to live my life, not record it.
- Jackie Kennedy

One step at a time...

"If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone." 
~ Donny Osmond  

Change is...

"Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later." 

-Seth Godin

Normal..?

"To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful." 

-Carl Jung

Goals & Life

When goals go, meaning goes. 
When meaning goes, purpose goes. 
When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.
-Carl Jung

Be grateful

Today I am grateful. I appreciate who people are more than what they do for me.

Sincere Thanks

Sincerely say thank you to the cashier at a store. Even though it's their job, this simple gesture can replace a negative interaction they may have had and give them reason to keep smiling.

Do the thing...

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

Small in a great...

"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Stand out

"Criticism comes to those who stand out." 

-Seth Godin

What we can do

I choose to focus on not what has happened but what we can do.
– Ellen Pompeo

Take it for granted?

Today I appreciate life. I don't take anything for granted.

Appreciate around

Take a minute to appreciate all that is around you. Nothing is promised and appreciating each moment is a great way to ensure you don't miss a thing life has to offer.

Choose your words

"Words can inspire and words can destroy. Choose yours well."
- Robin Sharma

Pause before


Soil of appreciation

"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness."
- Dalai Lama

Thrive...

"We can either choose to sit on the sidelines and watch life pass us by, or get out of our comfort zones and thrive!"
- Victoria Cummings

I'm possible

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm possible"."
- Audrey Hepbur

Stop doing something Old

"If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old."

 -Peter Drucker

By Chance...?

No man was ever wise by chance.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Who you are

"The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you." 

-Carl Jung  

Change the way

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
- Wayne Dyer

Infidel & Traitor

Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor" -- infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
 -Wendell Phillips, human rights activist and attorney (1811-1884)