Wednesday, May 28, 2008

IT'S NEVER OVER UNTIL YOU SAY IT'S OVER

The power to hold on in spite of everything, to endure,

this is the quality of a winner.

Your greatest glory is not in never failing,

but in rising every time you fail.

It's your constant and determined effort

that will eventually break down all resistance

and sweep all the barriers before you.

Persistence means taking pains to overcome every obstacle,

to do all that's necessary to reach your goal.

All great achievements require time.

Endurance is the crowning quality of success.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE MAKE DECISIONS

To control the outcome of anything,

you control the action at the point of decision making.

If you let others make decisions for you, you give up control.

When you control the decisions, you control the actions.

It's your life. You decide what you're going to do with it.

If you don't run your own life, someone else will.

You're in control of your life to the degree that you make decisions.

Take charge of your life, so there is no longer a need to ask

permission of others.

When you ask permission, you are giving someone veto power

over your life.

Take control and start making those decisions.

Only you are responsible for your life.

Friday, May 30, 2008

FEAR IS OVERCOME WITH ACTION

One of the greatest surprises you'll experience,

is when you discover that you can do

what you were afraid you couldn't do.

Your obstacles will melt away,

if instead of cowering before them,

you make up your mind to walk boldly through them.

Do the thing you fear and fear disappears.

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them

and only then will you be able to put them aside

and move ahead.

When you face the things that scare you,

you open the door to freedom.

The only thing you have to fear, is fear itself.

Saturday, May 31, 2008

LOOK AT THINGS AS THEY CAN BE

Your range of available choices right now has no limits.

The only limits you have are in your mind.

You've got it in you to succeed.

Just make up your mind and stick with it.

You werent born with any limits on your powers

or any set limits to your capacity.

At any moment, you have more possibilities than you can act upon.

Imagine your possibilities and your vision expands.

Capture your dreams in your mind and your life becomes full.

Reach out and touch the limits of your being in your mind.

You can, because you think you can.

Monday, June 2 2008

LOVE IS ETERNAL

Once you have learned to love; who you are, what you do,

and those around you, you will have truly learned to live.

Search for love, for it is the most important ingredient of life.

Without it, your life will echo emptiness.

With it, your life will vibrate with warmth and meaning.

Even during any hardship, love will shine through.

To love abundantly is to live abundantly.

To love forever is to live forever.

Be thankful for what you have now,

and the opportunities for love and success that are before you.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

YOU MAKE YOUR OWN OPPORTUNITIES

Your destiny isn't a matter of chance, it's a matter of the choices

you'll make in the coming year.

Success isn't something you wait for, it's something you must pursue

in the months ahead.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities to be successful.

Seize common occasions and turn them into great ones.

Opportunities sometimes come disguised in the form of misfortune,

or temporary defeat.

Start where you are.

You're at this moment, standing right in the middle of opportunity.

If you act on your dreams you can live them.

You have a lot to look forward to.

Saturday, June 7, 2008

ALL KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

You build the power to accomplish your goals

when you educate yourself.

This power comes from knowing how to do something.

Power is the product of understanding.

The most successful people in life are the one's with the best information.

People with power are people who know how to get things done.

Knowing how to do something is sometimes virtually the same as having

done it.

Knowledge will come to you by having your eyes and mind always open.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.

Sunday, June 8, 2008

YOU CAN GO ANYWHERE WITH A GOAL

A life without purpose is like a ship without a rudder.

Goals are dreams that are written down.

The purpose of a goal is to focus your attention.

Your mind will reach toward achievement only

when it has a goal.

There is no achievement without goals.

Establish a goal worth working for.

Your goal will keep you going in tough times.

Always have something ahead of you.

Continuously visualize your next step.

Keep moving after you achieve your goal

and set another.

Momentum is maintained by always having

something to look forward to.

Constantly give yourself something to work for.

Do what you can do well, and do well whatever you can do

and you'll achieve any goal that you set for yourself.

You can plant your dream with a goal.

onday,June 9, 2008

SUCCESS DEPENDS ON USING NOT OPPOSING

The world is primarily constituted on the basis of harmony.

Everything works in cooperation with something else.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil

from which all advancement, all success,

all achievement in real life grows.

Put yourself in another's place.

Only then will you know why they think and do certain things.

Once you understand how quickly people will grant your requests

when those requests appeal to their self interest,

you can have practically anything you go after.

It's through cooperation not conflict,

that you'll achieve your greatest success.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

HAPPINESS IS A BYPRODUCT OF ACTIVITY

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement,

in the thrill of creative effort.

The human spirit needs to accomplish,

to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work.

but from the afterglow of satisfaction

that comes after the achievement

of a difficult task that demands your best.

Your personal growth itself contains the seed of happiness.

You cannot pursue happiness by itself.

There is no happiness except in the realization

that you have accomplished something.

Happiness thrives in activity.

Friday, June 13, 2008

LEADERSHIP IS ACTION NOT POSITION

All successful people became successful,

because they gave some talent or ability in the service of others.

You can contribute in some way to others,

no matter how small your talent.

You too, can become successful.

No one achieves success without being of service.

Successful people don't use others,

other people use the successful,

for above all success is of service.

Everyone has to be someone to someone to be anyone.

Service is the essence of success.

Saturday, June 14, 2008

FOCUS ON YOUR FUTURE NOT YOUR PAST

Your future is a big adventure.

Prepare for your future don't live in the past.

Savor your good memories,

use any bad ones as lessons in life.

Carve out a niche for yourself in your imagined future.

Think, feel and see yourself as successful.

To achieve any goal in life, you need to project your end result.

Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy you'll feel.

Carry these ecstatic feelings with you every day

and they'll bring your desired goals into view.

Sooner or later, you can win if you think you can.

The cards you are dealt in life

are less important than the way you play them.

Everyday you're offered a new deal and new cards.

Success is in your future if you're willing to work for it.

I love this one.  I wish I had written it myself.  I often use this as my personal mission statement.  I think I'll print this one out and post it on my motivation wall. 

~sooz

Sunday, June 15, 2008

MAKE CHANGE A POSITIVE PART OF YOUR LIFE

You must avoid breaking when things don't go your way.

You'll always be secure to the degree that you accept change.

True security comes from being able to bend your insecurities.

Recognize and accept that change will inevitably take place.

You'll become secure, not by standing still, but by growing,

moving, and staying energized.

Be secure in the knowledge that you can deal with anything

that happens to you.

Have the courage to bet on your ideas.

Take some calculated risks and act on your dreams.

There is no permanent security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

ALL PERSONAL GROWTH INVOLVES CHANGE

Personal growth is the process of responding positively to change.

It involves risk as you step from the known to the unknown.

All your growth will depend on your activity.

Your strength and growth will come only through continuous

effort and struggle.

There will be no development without effort.

Trouble is the common denominator of living.

It is the great equalizer of life.

Your trials, your sorrows and your griefs will develop you.

When good or bad fortune comes your way,

you must give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

What happens to you is not as important

as your reaction to what is happening.