Determine Your Altitude
March 31st 2006
“It is your attitude more than your aptitude that will determine your altitude.” – Dr. Gary V. Carter
Be Happy
March 30th 2006
“People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
Compete Against Yourself
March 29th 2006
“The principle [excellence] is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.” – Steve Young
Try and Succeed
March 28th 2006
“The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.” – Lloyd Jones
Dare to Succeed
March 27th 2006
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” – Anon
God’s Wise Design
March 26th 2006
“God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs, nor kick ourselves too easily.” – Author Unknown
You Can Not Fail
March 25th 2006
“You can not fail, if you resolutely determine that you will not.” – Abraham Lincoln
Think You Can
March 24th 2006
“There isn’t a person anywhere that isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can.” – Henry Ford
Your Preferred Tomorrow
March 23rd 2006
“Load up your mind with pictures capturing your preferred tomorrow. Put the remembrances of the past in a place where they won’t block your view.” – Gary Carter
Work Your Plan
March 22nd 2006
“Plan your work, then work your plan.” – Jay Virgil Mayhugh
Resolution to Succeed
March 21st 2006
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” – Abraham Lincoln
Develop YES! Attitude
March 20th 2006
“Develop a YES! attitude. Everyone wants to hear ‘yes’ and if you think of yourself as a ‘yes’ person, not only will you be in a positive frame of mind, but you will also have positive expectations.” – Jeffrey Gitomer
Keep Your Head
March 19th 2006
“Keep your head in all situations, endure hardship.” – 2 Timothy 4:5
Road to Happiness
March 18th 2006
“The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it – every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.” – John D. Rockefeller III
Doors of Opportunity
March 17th 2006
“We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
Greater the Glory
March 16th 2006
“The greater the challenge, the greater the glory.” – Lorrin L. Lee
Create Your Luck
March 15th 2006
“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
Take Action
March 14th 2006
“The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.” – Confucius
Plan to Win
March 13th 2006
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Consult The Book
March 12th 2006
“On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.” – Dag Hammarskjold
Work Towards Success
March 11th 2006
“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.” – Arthur Brisbane
Be Extraordinary
March 10th 2006
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” – Elbert Hubbard
Become An Encourager
March 9th 2006
“The people who are lifting the world onward and upward are those who encourage more than they criticize.” – Elizabeth Harrison
Do What You Say
March 8th 2006
“Well done is better than well said.” – Benjamin Franklin
Stop and Listen
March 7th 2006
“There are very few people who don’t become more interesting when they stop talking.” – Mary Lowry
Expect the Best
March 6th 2006
“Treat a man as he is; he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be; and he will become as he can and should be.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It Came to Pass
March 5th 2006
An old man surprised everyone with his continual cheerfulness since he seemed to have an unusual amount of trouble and relatively few pleasures. When asked the secret of his cheery disposition, he replied, “Well, you see, it’s like this. The Bible says often ‘And it came to pass,” but never says, ‘It came to stay.’”
Risk and Expect More
March 4th 2006
“Excellence can be achieved if you risk more than others think is safe, love more than others think is wise, dream more than others think is practical, and expect more than others think is possible.” – Anon
Wise versus Clever
March 3rd 2006
“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.” – Naguib Mahfouz
Be Surprised
March 2nd 2006
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” – George S. Patton
Manage Decisions Daily
March 1st 2006
“Successful people make the major decisions in their life early and manage them daily.” – John Maxwell