Awhile ago I had dinner with a group of friends and we were talking about life, and how we handle or deal with things. One friend was talking about how grateful she is that she doesn't usually stay "down" when things don't go as she had hoped. She said that whatever happens,...
"Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure that you derive from what you do." Michael Korda By all objective standards, he was good at his job. He was able to fulfill the job description without incident. He had been a solid, stable employee...
"Waiting always seems longer when you are relying on someone to do something you can do for yourself." Enzo D'Alimonte A lot of us are waiting. We are waiting for people at home to notice how much we do, and how much we give. We are waiting for people at work to...
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." Harriet Tubman I was asked what I think made some people so successful, and what my advice would be to those...
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." Ambrose Redmoon When you're driving, you can't always see what's coming on the road, can you? But yet you keep moving forward. You drive, and you trust that even when you can't see...
"Little by little, one travels far." J.R.R. Tolkien She said that she didn't feel like she was making progress. She swore that nothing had changed, and she had been doing nothing...
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." Zig Ziglar She had a disclaimer for every goal she had reached...
"The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it." Peter Drucker What if there is no magic potion to success? What if there is no secret society, where the successful gather to revel in the...
"I'd rather be a failure at something I love, than a success at something I hate." George Burns One day a break at a training turned in to an interesting conversation...
"If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed." David Viscott She wanted that promotion. She knew she could do it, and she was qualified for it, but she thought there were other people from the team going for it. She...