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"Remember it is profoundly significant that the only thing over which you have complete control is your own mental attitude!"
~ Napoleon Hill

"Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive."
~ Rev. Robert H. Schuller

"We eat our own cooking."
~ Warren Buffet, the Oracle of Omaha

When you find you're spinning your wheels, change the terrain.

"If 'A' equals success, then A = X + Y + Z where 'X' is work; 'Y' is play; 'Z' is keeping your mouth shut."
~ Albert Einstein

"The most power force in the universe is compound interest."
~ Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."
~ Albert Einstein

Imagination is everything. Its the preview of life's coming attractions.
~ Albert-Einstein

"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves."
~ Tryon Edwards

"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb; that is where the fruit is."

"Every failure is a step to success."

"Just by listening deeply, we alleviate pain and suffering." (Buddhist saying)

What can we do to promote world peace? "Go home and love your family."
~ Mother Teresa, Nobel Prize

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?"
~ Robert Schuller

"Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working on the engines."
~ Gary Sinise

"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
~ John Adams

Vision without action is a daydream;
Action without vision is a nightmare.
~ Japanese Proverb

One of the things my father told me and my brothers and sisters at a fairly young age was that he wanted us to learn where our bread was buttered. So we would go to business functions not just to hang around, but we were expected to know who was there and why they were there. And you learn at an early age that success doesn't just happen; you have to work at it, and I think that is what you try to give your kids. If they have the right attitudes, the right disciplines and the right outlook, they will make it in the world. Even if they get dealt some bad cards, they will find a way to get around it. Again, it's about hard work, a sense of discipline and a sense of direction and you can do something in the world.
~ Steve Forbes
CEO of Forbes Inc.

"Good is the enemy of great."

"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life."
~ Lee Iacocca

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
~ Abraham Lincoln

"My best friend is the one that brings out the best in me."
~ Henry Ford

Whether you think you can or can't. Either way your right.
~ Henry-Ford

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
~ Unknown

"Take good care of your future because that's where you're going to spend the rest of your life."
~ Charles F. Kettering

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own."

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
~ Mother Teresa 1910-1997

The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence.
The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life."
~ Martin E. P. Seligman

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."

~ John Homer Miller

"Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions."
~ Eric Butterworth

"The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves."
~ Bernard M. Baruch

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you, where there were only walls. ~ Joseph-Campbell

Take the first step into faith, you don't have to see the whole staircase just take the fisrt step!
~ Dr-Martin-Luther-King-Jr.

What ever the mind of met can conceive, it can achieve.
~ W-Clement-Stone

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
~ Goethe

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle."
~ Philo of Alexandria

"A ship in harbor is safe - but that's not what ships are for."
~ John A. Shedd

"The more you know, the better it gets."

In order to have longevity [in your career], whatever you do, you have to be able to remake yourself, instead of just playing the same thing over and over again.
~ Dennis Quaid
Actor - NPR, November 2005

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
~ Dale Carnegie

"We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going.... Concentrate on something useful."
~ Arnold Bennett

People only see what they are prepared to see.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games.
On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot... and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that's precisely why I succeed."
~ Michael Jordan

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
~ Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)

"Thou hast been reduced to a low estate, but as gold is refined in fire so brave men are born of adversity."
~ Seneca

"Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively."
~ Norman Allen

"The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates."
~ W. Alton Jones

"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got."
~ Lee Iacocca

All that we are is the result of what we have thought!
~ Budha

You create your own universe as you go along!
~ Winston-Churchill

Reach Your Goals with Emotional Competence

Head = Logic
Heart = Emotions

The separation of heart (emotions) from head (mind) is an unnatural division.
Neither the head nor the heart alone will give you everything you need.

Emotion, not logic, may be the real motivator for trying to change bad habits, research by U.S. doctors indicates. Without emotional arousal, you cannot be motivated and without motivation, you cannot perform. Without performing you cannot be successful!

First use logic to make the best decision to reach the goal, then use emotion to be motivated to reach the goal.

A number of recent studies also indicate that emotional competence is yet another key to success. Emotional competence is that area of human abilities, which plays a much bigger role than any other life skills, in making a person successful. It consists of simple things such as caring for others, managing your moods, loving your job, handling impulse or even, simply getting along with people.

These qualities are more important than being, say for example, a great mathematician or a top-class engineer. These traits on the "emotional plane" make top performers in any professional area.

Visual Inspiration

"Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don't merely dream -- but create!" ~ Robert Collier

The more your interests, needs and roles are fulfilled in your life, the more satisfied you'll feel at the end of every day.

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
~ Albert Schweitzer

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves."
~ Tryon Edwards

Embrace change, and learn to grow from new ideas and experiences.

In a Slump?

Seem to have lost enthusiasm and having trouble getting it back? What can you do to build momentum again?
We have all been there... this is not a terminal situation! I think there are two elements that cause "slumps" and two methods to eliminate "slumps."

We get into slumps because of two reasons.

Reason #1: We've lost the basics. We've stopped doing what made us successful. We have turned away from the fundamentals that made us successful. If this applies to you, you must think back to what activities have worked for you in the past. What prospecting, what marketing activities have put you in a position to be successful?

Reason #2: We've lost our passion for helping the clients. This is the tougher of the two to correct.
If this applies to you, you must think back to the reasons you got in. You may have to find a book, a Bible verse, a song, a quote, something that will give you the spark to get back into the game!

Here's the good news: you should not compare your current experiences to your abilities.
Remember, you and your skills are still strong and solid. Your circumstances may not be good right now, but you are!
~ From the Zig Ziglar Newsletter 10, July 2007