Never give up on your dream... Perseverance is all important. If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying after you've been told you should quit, you'll never make it. -- Tawni O'Dell - Author of Back Roads, an Oprah Book Club pick
We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope that we get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams. -- Bob Proctor -- Self-made millionaire, radio and TV personality, and sucess trainer
I have insecurities. But whatever i'm insecure about, I don't dissect it, but I'll go after it and say, "What am i afraid of?" I bet the average sucessful person can tell you they've failed so much more than they've had sucess. I've had far more failures than I've had sucesses. With every commercial I've gotten, there were 200 I didn't get. You have to go after what you're afraid of. -- Kevin Sorbo -- Actor who starred in the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
It's easy to be negative and unmotivated, but it takes some work to be positive and motivated. While there's no off button for those relentless "tapes", there are things that you can do to turn down the volume and shift your focus from the negative to the positive. -- Donna Vardillo, R.N. -- Speaker, entrepreneur, humorist, and master motivator
25 ways to complete before moving forward:
1. Former business activities
2. Promises not kept, not acknowledged, or not renegotiated
3. Unpaid debts or financial commitments (money owed to others or to you)
4. Closets overflowing with clothing never worn
5. A disorganized garage crowded with old discards
6. Haphazard or disorganized tax records
7. Checkbook not balanced or accounts that should be closed
8. "Junk Drawers" full of unusable items
9. Missing or broken tools
10. An attic filled with unused items
11. A car trunk or backseat full of trash
12. Incomplete car maintanance
13. A disorganized basement filled with discarded items
14. Credenze packed with completed or unrealized projects
15. Filing left undone
16. Computer files not backed up or data needing to be converted for storage
17. Desk surface cluttered or disorganized
18. Family pictures never put into an album
19. Mending, ironing, or other piles or items to repair or discard
20. Deferred household maintenance
21. Personal relationships with unstated resentments or appreciations
22. People you need to forgive
23. Time not spent with people you've been meaning to spend time
with
24. Incomplete projects or projects delivered without closure or feedback
25. Acknowledgements that need to be given or asked for
Powerful Questions:
1. If we were meeting three years from today, what has to have happened during that three-year period for you to feel happy about your progress?
2. What are the biggest dangers you'll have to face and deal with in order to achieve that progress?
3. What are the biggest opportunities that you have that you would need to focus on and capture to achieve those things?
4. What strengths will you need to reinforce and maximize, and what skills and resources will you need to develop that you don't currently have in order to capture those oppotunities?
