On paper?

"You can't read about push ups. You gotta do them." 

-Gary Vaynerchuk

Major weaknesses..

"High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre."

 -Guy Kawasaki

Greatness is

"Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character." 

-William Arthur Ward

Focus on answers

"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses." 

-William Arthur Ward

Because of...

"Will someone else's life be brighter tomorrow, because of what you have done today?"

 -William Arthur Ward

Dream while...

Study while others are sleeping; 

work while others are loafing; 

prepare while others are playing; 

and dream while others are wishing. 

-William Arthur Ward

Turn OFF & ON

Better by making...

"If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better."

- Will Smith

Plan and Planning

It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.

~ Graeme Edwards  

By History...

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Change

Give with jOy

"There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward."

- Khalil Gibran  

Conviction

"Self-confidence carries conviction; it makes other people believe in us." 

-Orison Swett Marden

"The successful people of today are people of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, people of single and intense purpose." 

-Orison Swett Marden

Do it now!

"Success is achieved and maintained by those who try, and keep trying, for there is nothing to lose by trying and a great deal to gain if successful. By all means TRY! Do it NOW!!!"

 -W. Clement Stone

More success

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

– Johnny Carson

For every minute, lose SIXTY...

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Real connection!

Time for real connection! Keep your cell phone out of site when you're out with friends or family. Let's focus on being present.

Good Deeds

"Good words alone do not make a person good, but good deeds make a person great." - Gift Gugu Mona

Set Goals Vs. Set Behaviour

Resolutions: So many will fail; NOT because they didn't set goals, but because they didn't set behaviors. 

-Steve Maraboli

New Year - New Soul

The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. 

-G.K. Chesterton

Win by....

"You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist." 

-Seth Godin  

Around...

"You go from room to room searching for the diamond necklace that is around your neck." 
– Rumi  

Forever & Fatal

"Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal." 

~ Don Shula  

Life that is...

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

- E.M. Forster

So kind...

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. 

-Douglas William Jerrold, playwright and humorist  

Slumbering Powers

"Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action."

 -Orison Swett Marden

Season's Greetings!